# #437 -Dr. Ben Carson & Candy Carson - our guests.

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Podcast: [Courageous Leadership with Virginia Prodan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/courageous-leadership-with-virginia-prodan-4436647)
Published: 2026-08-19T12:41:57+00:00
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Dr. Ben Carson & Candy Carson - are our guests at Courageous Leadership with Virginia Prodan #Podcast Dr. Ben Carson & Candy Carson - are sharing how they work to Protect our - #Faith - #Liberty - #Community - #Life. The U.S. News Media Group and Harvard's Center for Public Leadership named him among "America's Best Leaders" in 2008. Dr. Carson graduated from Yale University and earned his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School. For nearly 30 years, Dr. Carson served as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, a position he assumed when he was just 33 years old, becoming the youngest major division director in the hospital's history. In 1987, he successfully performed the first separation of craniopagus twins conjoined at the back of the head. He also performed the first fully successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa. Dr. Carson received dozens of honors and awards in recognition of his achievements including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Dr. Carson and his wife, Candy Carson, co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund, which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments. Dr. Carson is Founder and Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute - a new think tank / do tank whose mission is to promote the 4 founding principles which are cornerstones of our country: faith, liberty, community, and life as well as pursue common sense solutions that challenge conventional groupthink. You will be encouraged by this message. I am Virginia Prodan— international human rights attorney, keynote speaker, author of #SavingMyAssassin, and survivor of socialist Romania, and a passionate advocate for f…

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