Ep. 755 – Words Whispered in Water with Sandy Rosenthal (@LeveesOrg)

Always beware when you hear mayhem and catastrophe being blamed on wind and water because human beings are almost always hiding behind those words.

Today’s featured award-winning bookcaster is a wife, grandmother, community organizer, disaster resilience leader, and founder of levees.org, Sandy Rosenthal. Sandy and I chatted about her book, “Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina”, her campaign to change engineering education, lessons learned from starting a podcast, and more!

Key Things You’ll Learn:

What inspired Sandy’s book and the process of writing it

How Sandy started her organization, Levees.org, with her son after Hurricane Katrina

The importance of teaching engineering failures in schools

Three major lessons learned from starting her podcast

Sandy’s Site: www.sandyrosenthal.net

Sandy’s Book: https://a.co/d/jevcnnV

Sandy’s Podcast, “Beat the Big Guys”: https://open.spotify.com/show/5oCEr7XdkBVIFOs0WjEqTY?si=4e0c5fee96a64af3

The opening track is titled "Money Trees" by the magnanimous chill-hop master, Marcus D (@marcusd). Be sure to visit his site and support his craft. https://marcusd.net/

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