Seventh Edition Marquis Who’s Who INSIGHT 9 SANDY FROST Investigative Journalist, Owner Frost Files LLC, NewsHooks 2 NewsBooks Frazeysburg, OH https://tinyurl.com/58uy9ed2 How have you navigated disruptions in your industry to remain a top professional? At first, I navigated them poorly. What gets me through the tough times is gratitude and my spirituality. I’m up against some of the toughest and scariest who have come after me and threatened my life. After my surgery, I was reborn; I was not the bloodthirsty, cold-blooded and ruthless investigative journalist. The operation left me with 60% of my cognition, and I was reborn. Now, I'm a completely different person. If people want to come after me, instead of me fearing them, they should fear me. What are two key behaviors/personality traits that allow you to be effective in your role? As an investigative journalist, I'm a one-woman newsroom. I don't need anybody else to work with me. As far as personality traits are concerned, I'm independent; I’m my own boss. Nobody has helped me with all the research. How do you feel your industry has changed/evolved? I think there’s a romanticized version of what’s called “the journalist out there.” I’m an old-fashioned journalist – I started 52 years ago in high school, and I learned the hard way. If people want to be journalists today, they should write their stories on a typewriter rather than a computer. I also see artificial intelligence (AI) as a huge benefit. The old-fashioned way needs to be available to the new journalists. These new journalists might have degrees and a good job, but they don’t know how to do what I do. I want to help them through AI. SALLY GABRIEL, PHD Owner, Certified End-of-Life Doula Epilogue End of Life Care Sarasota, FL https://www.epiloguecare.com/ How have you navigated disruptions in your industry to remain a top professional? I'm in a relatively new profession. The first formal end-of-life doula training opened its doors in 2015. I'm on the ground floor of this new field, so what end-of-life doulas must navigate is people not knowing who we are and what we do. We have a big job ahead of us: educating potential clients and those working in the death care field about our existence and what we do so they will make referrals to people who need us. What are two key behaviors/personality traits that make you effective in your role? I can list three traits that are very important for my role as an end-of-life doulbeing a good listener, being curious and having a compassionate heart. We call it a “doula heart.” What innovations or technologies do you feel will shape the future of your industry? This is a field where human contact is needed – robots cannot do our job. We provide a human touch at the end of life. We are expected to know a little about everything, like general practitioners, so doulas are starting to specialize in various aspects of doula care. For example, I may specialize in grief education and advance care planning. I would say another wave of the future in the death doula field is the formation of alliances and collectives like the birth doulas have. A backup is important for us because when somebody is in the process of actively dying, one doula can't always be there 24/7. One last important innovation will be insurance coverage or employee benefits for end-of-life doulas.
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