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Listen and learn through Dr. Rhonda Shaw’s weekly radio show By Lucy Weber Spend time each Saturday to change your life. Dr. Rhonda Shaw shares insights on current topics with interesting guests at 2 p.m. live each Saturday during her show “Doctor2Doctor-In the Chatroom on WOJG-FM 94.7 to “promote change one talk at a time.” Listeners can also hear the show on Shaw’s webpage doc2doctchat.com. On the show that recently celebrated its first anniversary on the air in November, Shaw says she tries to cover everything that listeners may be interested in. “If I have a platform, I want to use it to be beneficial to everyone in every place.” Topics range from mental health to human trafficking, to the education system to dealing with the Covid pandemic. She doesn’t shy away from topics that might be considered taboo or difficult to talk about, like race relations. Shaw also uses guy panels and girl talk panels to delve into relationships. “We have those discussions panels and they’re a lot of fun to do,” she said. Shaw’s extensive background in health and education play a role in the topics and the help she offers to her listeners. She attended Memphis State University to pursue a career in nursing and later transitioned into the field of
education. Shaw received a master’s degree in education from Freed-Hardeman University, an Ed.S in education from Union University and a doctorate in education/leadership and professional practices from Trevecca University. She has won several awards for her teaching. Shaw has spent her career impacting the classroom, working in leadership and working with children who have been impacted by trauma and adverse childhood experiences. During the workweek is served as program director with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, working oneon-one with children who have been exposed to trauma. Shaw grew up around
radio, with her father being a DJ and now a station owner, but she said she had no urge to be on the air herself until she realized
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the positive ways her show could help people in so many ways. “I’m big on community mobilization,” she said. Shaw, a mother of two and a grandmother of three, does all her own research and preparation for her Saturday radio show after full work days helping those in need. “Thank God I’m a night owl. I spend a lot of time burning the midnight oil,” she said, to prepare for each guest and the weekly topic. “I bear the burden of how the conversation will go.” In her time on the air, Shaw has gone live every Saturday with a different topic of interest. “I haven’t done any reruns.” Shaw tries to have 10 weeks of the show planned out in advance. She decides on the topics she feels that will help or instruct her listeners, reaches out to guests and does the research on the subjects to be discussed. Shaw looks for experts on the topics she plans to discuss. “I’ve had so many great people and experts on,” she said. “I have asked people others never would have thought to ask,” like Jane Elliott, an internationally known teacher, recognized for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that exposed prejudice and bigotry as an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. With the internet offering the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to listen to the show, Shaw has earned fans all around the world who tune in and send fan mail. “I’ve had a blast,” she said.