Combination of the Franklin and Brentwood Podcasts – Episode 1
www.FranklinPodcast.com and www.BrentwoodPodcast.com
Show Notes for the Week of 11/12/2017

CraigAStevens@FranklinPodcast.com

You can hear the audio of this podcast by going to – http://www.podcasts.com/brentwoodpodcast.com-28f2a7427/episode/E1-Introduction-to-the-FranklinPodcasts.com-and-the-BrentwoodPodcast.com-5632

Join our host Artist, Management Consultant, Author, and Speaker Craig A. Stevens as he shares his love for Tennessee and the Brentwood Tennessee Community. Our goal is to bring you interesting people, stories, business, places, and “things” from Brentwood Tennessee and the Middle Tennessee Area. Let’s build community, relationships, and a place where you can share your ideas and learn from others.

This is the first episode of both the FranklinPodcast.com and the BrentwoodPodcast.com. During this episode Craig explains the vision of these community podcasts as building and celebrating our community. 

You can hear the audio of this podcast by going to – http://www.podcasts.com/brentwoodpodcast.com-28f2a7427/episode/E1-Introduction-to-the-FranklinPodcasts.com-and-the-BrentwoodPodcast.com-5632

This Episode is Sponsored by:

• Westbrook Stevens, LLC: www.e-WBS.com – We focus on operational excellence, managing change, and training. Our one goal is to help make you look good to your clients, customers, and patients, your boss and upper leadership, and those you love.
• www.WBSPodcast.com
• www.BrentwoodPodcast.com
• Tennessee Artist: www.CraigAStevens.com – Find the art you love and help pay for this Podcast.

Outline Of the Next Five Podcast:

Episode 1: Building A Community

1. Introduction to the FranklinPodcast.com and the BrentwoodPodcast.com.
2. Introduction to Building Community.

Episode 2: Introduction to the FranklinPodcast.com

1. Introduction to Episode 2 for the FranklinPodcast.com
2. Introduction to the Local Franklin Events Calendar Links

Episode 3: Introduction to the BrentwoodPodcast.com

1. Introduction to Episode 3 for the BrentwoodPodcast.com
2. Introduction to the Local Brentwood Events Calendar Links

Episode 4: FranklinPodcast.com – Eastern Music in Middle Tennessee

1. Introduction to Episode 4 for the FranklinPodcast.com
2. Local Franklin Events Calendar
3. Interesting Local People, Places, and Things – Eastern Music in Middle Tennessee by A focus on Robin Barns (Robin Barns – RobinBarns2@gmail.com (615) 474-3678 and Massood Taj at http://www.massoodtaj.com/)

Episode 5: BrentwoodPodcast.com – Eastern Music in Middle Tennessee – Part 2

1. Introduction to Episode 5 for the BrentwoodPodcast.com
2. Local Brentwood Events Calendar
3. Interesting Local People, Places, and Things – Continuation of the Eastern Music in Middle Tennessee by A focus on Massood Taj (Robin Barns – RobinBarns2@gmail.com (615) 474-3678 and Massood Taj at http://www.massoodtaj.com/)

How to Build Community

Our mission is to help Franklin and Brentwood Tennessee to help build a sense of community. As we grow by leaps and bounds, let’s not forget what make this area unique and desirable. We dedicate these podcast to building community. Here is a list of suggestions from a poster I saw during one of the field recordings. Each episode will touch on one or more of these suggestions.

1. Turn off your TV (devices)
2. Leave your house (room)
3. Know your neighbors
4. Look up when you are walking
5. Greet people
6. Sit on your stoop
7. Plant flowers
8. Use your library
9. Play together
10. Buy from local merchants
11. Share what you have
12. Help a lost dog
13. Take children to the park
14. Garden together
15. Support neighborhood schools
16. Fix it even if you didn’t break it
17. Have pot lucks
18. Honor elders
19. Pick up litter
20. Read stories aloud
21. Dance in the street
22. Talk to the mail carrier
23. Listen to the birds
24. Put up a swing
25. Help carry something heavy
26. Organize a block party
27. Bake extra and share
28. Ask for help when you need it
29. Open your shades
30. Sing together
31. Share your skills
32. Take back the night
33. Turn up the music
34. Turn down the music
35. Listen before you react to anger
36. Mediate a conflict
37. Seek to understand
38. Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
39. Know that no one is silent through many are not heard – work to change that

40. Learn new things and share what you know.

This is a picture from Franklin Tennessee (Lynnwood Downs)