Podcasts about Myth

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In this episode we take a look at Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock digs through some treasures, Ron Longo has a report direct from Terrificon, Indiana Mic has a quick shoutout, Chris A shares some Indy travels and we have more of your listener emails!   

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In this episode, Scott Becker argues that universal coverage does not solve supply shortages and can lead wealthier patients to seek care through private providers.

Worried your age gap relationship will make you age too fast? It's a common question I get from clients and followers. Here's what really happens when younger and older partners build a relationship. Age gap relationships are surrounded by myths. One of the most persistent claims is that the younger partner will somehow "age too fast." While there's no scientific evidence to support that belief, there is a greater development of emotional and psychological maturity. This isn't ‘aging.' It's personal growth. Ultimately, the couple finds ‘balance' as they grow together. The Myth of Aging Too Fast Psychological Growth vs. Physical Aging Finding Your Own Relationship Balance “Why Reverse Age-Gap Relationships Are on the Rise”by Mark Travers Ph.D. Work with Me: Consultation: Books: Breakup Triage; The Cure for Heartache Audible Allowing Magnificence; Living the Expanded Version of Your Life - Book and Audiobook: Connect with Me! Website: susanwinter.net YouTube: YouTube Channel Instagram: Instagram Profile Twitter: Twitter Profile Facebook: Facebook Page LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile TikTok: TikTok Profile

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/holyhealth In this episode with Justin Roethlingshoefer, you'll hear from a former NHL performance coach turned health entrepreneur whose new book, Holy Health, is the one I chose for my father-son book club this month. This is not another eat-honey-and-drink-milk Bible health book. Justin is a genuine biohacker who works with pro athletes worldwide, and he has woven deep spiritual and physiological science into the same framework. You'll learn why the modern obsession with optimization can quietly become idolatry, how the drive to control your metrics keeps your nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight and lowers your HRV, and the five "hearts" that trap high performers in striving. You'll also get the practical side: his full morning and evening rhythms, why he starts his day at 6 p.m. rather than at sunrise, the breathwork he does midday in the grass, his exact zone two and zone five weekly targets, and how he folds three and a half hours of zone two into family walks with a weighted vest. It's a conversation about doing less frantic optimizing and more intentional stewardship, and it may reframe how you think about every biohack you own. Episode Sponsors: Tiny Health: An at-home microbiome test that uses metagenomic sequencing to analyze your full gut ecosystem and give personalized, evidence-based diet, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations. Get $50 off your first kit at TinyHealth.com/BEN. Timeline: Give your cells new life with Mitopure, which unlocks a precise dose of the rare Urolithin A molecule to promote healthy aging. Mitopure now starts at $79 when you go to timeline.com/BEN. JOYMODE: Spice things up in the bedroom and boost your sexual performance naturally, without prescription drugs. Visit tryjoymode.com/BEN or enter BEN at checkout for 20% off your first order. Supzential: More Than a Toothpaste: Created by biological dentist Dr. Dome, it combines bioavailable hydroxyapatite, a patented probiotic, xylitol, and lactoferrin to support enamel remineralization and a healthy oral microbiome, with no fluoride, SLS, or titanium dioxide. Visit Supzential.com and use code BEN20 for 20% off. BIOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough: Seven essential forms of magnesium in one full-spectrum serving to help you relax, unwind, and sleep deeply so you wake up refreshed. Go to bioptimizers.com/ben and use code ben15 for 15% off any order.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

View This Week's Show NotesJuliet and I are officially empty nesters. Both girls are launched, the bathroom is clean every morning, and we're figuring out what the next phase looks like. It rhymes with dusk bike rides, protein shakes for dinner, and a cereal bar in Marin we somehow didn't know existed until now.We also revisited one of our longest-running household debates: women's pain tolerance. An Instagram infographic claiming childbirth equals breaking 20 bones made the rounds and reignited everything. We cover what the McGill pain scale actually says, why medical research has failed women on pain, and the full story of my eardrum, which ends with blood in the ER and a pain scale I have never quite recovered from.From there we got into our book Outplay and the data shaping every youth sports conversation right now. The number everyone cites is that 70% of kids drop out of sport by age 13. A researcher on LinkedIn tried to find the primary source and came up empty. So did researchers at the Aspen Institute. So did everyone else. We unpack what the CDC data actually shows and why citation drift doesn't mean youth sports is fine.The biggest chunk of this episode is something I wanted to make sure we gave real time to: what two years of running the Starrett System has actually taught us. Most people coming into the program weren't working a coherent physical practice at all. They might have been doing some weight training or riding a Peloton, but nobody was hitting all three legs of the longevity triangle: strength, conditioning, and mobility. Nobody was sprinting. And a lot of people believed that the moment they felt discomfort, they should stop.Watching that shift has been one of the most rewarding things we've done. Member Lily gained 5.4 pounds of lean mass in eight months. Cole said he's craving training every day for the first time. The fall cohort starts September 8th. Early bird: $200 off at starrettsystem.com.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeWhy the "70% of kids drop out of sports by age 13" statistic cited by the American Academy of Pediatrics and major sports governing bodies may have no verifiable primary source, and what the CDC and Aspen Institute data actually showsWhy the claim that childbirth equals breaking 20 bones is a myth, and what the McGill pain scale says is actually more painfulWhy medical research has historically underserved women on pain, and how self-reporting skews the pictureWhat two years of running the Starrett System revealed about what most people were actually missing in their physical practiceWhy having a strength practice, a conditioning practice, and mobility work are three separate things, and why most people were only doing one of themWhat the "longevity triangle" is and why most wellness and longevity conferences have almost no conversation about itHow teaching people to train around injuries and physical limitations, rather than stop, has been one of the biggest shifts for Starrett System membersWhy the program's nutrition approach centers on abundance and eliminating nothing, and what happens when people who have been chronically underfueling start eating enoughKey Highlights(00:00) Welcome to RECESS / Kelly and Juliet go officially empty nest(00:31) The bathroom story and Byron Katie's towel wisdom via Gabby Reese(03:19) Life as empty nesters: bike rides at dusk, protein shakes, cereal for dessert(04:43) Listener ask: send your best recipes for two(05:18) Women vs. men pain tolerance: the debate renewed(06:44) Kelly's eardrum story(08:57) McGill pain scale and Juliet's finger(11:11) Outplay: preparing families for youth sports(13:32) Pay-to-play, private equity, and the Norwegian youth sports model(16:26) The 70% dropout stat and its missing primary source(19:12) Starrett System: origin story from the YPO conference(26:48) Starrett System: member results and the September 8th fall cohort(30:41) Cereal bar in Marin and the great Raisin Bran debate(34:07) Wrap and early bird CTA

In this episode, we bring back political science professor Dr. Bikrum Gil to discuss the myth that Iran is an evil imperialist regime. The analysis goes beyond loving or hating Iran; instead, we ground the conversation in a material approach to understanding what constitutes an imperialist nation and where Iran fits within it.  We also explore a recent open letter published in the Guardian titled 'To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors'. It was signed by several prominent academics and activists, including Angela Davis, Robyn Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, among others. It also had political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, but there is deep speculation whether he was aware his name would be used. The letter conflates the imperialist powers of the United States and Israel. Dr. Gill explains how this faulty logic is bigger than one letter but a consequence of Western knowledge production that fails for meet the moment. This leads to the broader discussion on what forms of knowledge help meet the moment, how we need to expand beyond our current canon, and what the resistance teaches us.  To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/aug/20/iran-political-prisoners Myth: "I Stand With the Iranian People…BUT" w/ Bikrum Gill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZB39oUID1M&t=2719s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/blackmyths

In this episode, we bring back political science professor Dr. Bikrum Gil to discuss the myth that Iran is an evil imperialist regime. The analysis goes beyond loving or hating Iran; instead, we ground the conversation in a material approach to understanding what constitutes an imperialist nation and where Iran fits within it.  We also explore a recent open letter published in the Guardian titled 'To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors'. It was signed by several prominent academics and activists, including Angela Davis, Robyn Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, among others. It also had political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, but there is deep speculation whether he was aware his name would be used. The letter conflates the imperialist powers of the United States and Israel. Dr. Gill explains how this faulty logic is bigger than one letter but a consequence of Western knowledge production that fails for meet the moment. This leads to the broader discussion on what forms of knowledge help meet the moment, how we need to expand beyond our current canon, and what the resistance teaches us.  To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/aug/20/iran-political-prisoners Myth: "I Stand With the Iranian People…BUT" w/ Bikrum Gill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZB39oUID1M&t=2719s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/blackmyths

In this episode, we bring back political science professor Dr. Bikrum Gil to discuss the myth that Iran is an evil imperialist regime. The analysis goes beyond loving or hating Iran; instead, we ground the conversation in a material approach to understanding what constitutes an imperialist nation and where Iran fits within it.  We also explore a recent open letter published in the Guardian titled 'To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors'. It was signed by several prominent academics and activists, including Angela Davis, Robyn Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, among others. It also had political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, but there is deep speculation whether he was aware his name would be used. The letter conflates the imperialist powers of the United States and Israel. Dr. Gill explains how this faulty logic is bigger than one letter but a consequence of Western knowledge production that fails for meet the moment. This leads to the broader discussion on what forms of knowledge help meet the moment, how we need to expand beyond our current canon, and what the resistance teaches us.  To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/aug/20/iran-political-prisoners Myth: "I Stand With the Iranian People…BUT" w/ Bikrum Gill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZB39oUID1M&t=2719s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/blackmyths

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 221 However weird you thought the Nazis were before, they're weirder than that. In fact, they were outright mystics, and the point of the Positive Christianity movement given in Point 24 of the Nazi Party platform can only be summarized as to take German Christians of all stripes, deconstruct their Christian faiths, and move them into this counterfeit mysticism and the Nazi "Myth of the Blood." Hitler's chief ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg, makes that case powerfully and undeniably in the third chapter of his very strange book, The Myth of the Twentieth Century (https://ia800405.us.archive.org/31/items/alfred-rosenberg-and-the-track-of-the-jew-through-the-ages/The%20Myth%20of%20the%2020th%20Century.pdf). In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay continues his series of readings from Rosenberg's strange tome with a fifth volume exploring the centrality of German Mysticism derived from the heresies of Johannes Eckhart from the 13th century. Join him for an alarming look at Nazi ideology like you've never seen before. Join us for the Preserving Liberty Conference at Sea!: https://ndcruise.com Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Mysticism

In this episode, Michael Meade explores how when the world seems to make no sense, myth can make the most sense. Stories of renewal of the Earth can help us see the world with different eyes and create new contexts for facing the threats of climate change and stopping ecological degradation. Myth has a redeeming function as stories become vessels of imagination and inspiration that can open new ways to see the world.     Imagination has a way of lighting on truths that reason cannot find. Imagination can reveal inner dimensions and hidden resources in our individual and collective lives and in the world. Mythic narratives can inspire greater imagination and creativity in all fields of endeavor while helping to heal the gaps between nature and culture.     Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can further support this podcast by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 730 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.   Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth     Along with these free weekly podcasts, you can now read free weekly essays and long form posts by Michael Meade on Substack. Learn more and subscribe at michaeljmeade.substack.com     If you enjoy this podcast, we appreciate you leaving a review wherever you listen and sharing it with your friends. On behalf of Michael Meade and the whole Mosaic staff, we wish you well and thank you for your support of our work.

For so many women, diet culture never looked like a diet. It looked like discipline, like being "the healthy one," like a body image built around control. You made food rules without ever writing them down, and the food guilt that followed felt normal. In this episode we unpack diet mentality: what it is, the hidden ways it shows up, and how it keeps running in the background even when you've never technically been on a diet. Elizabeth shares her own years as a vegetarian who told everyone it was about health, the rush back to the gym within days of each of her babies, and the pride of being the disciplined one. Tara and Maria bring the versions they've lived and the ones they see in the women they work with. We also get into why diet mentality intensifies for women in perimenopause and midlife women navigating a changing body, and why intuitive eating works as an antidote to years of restriction, plus: Why body control feels like being healthy and disciplined from the inside What food rules sound like when they're dressed up as virtue Why food guilt shows up even when you're eating exactly what you planned to eat The question that tells you what diet mentality is actually costing you What changes during perimenopause and midlife that make old patterns louder How the wellness rabbit hole leads to disordered eating without weight ever being the goal The write-it-down exercise Elizabeth gives clients to surface every hidden food rule Why intuitive eating gives you a real way to challenge those rules and let them go Letting go of diet mentality doesn't require an overnight transformation, and this episode shows exactly where to start. Let's rebrand wellness together!  Elizabeth, Tara & Maria   Experience Wellness Rebranded in real life! Join Elizabeth, Maria, and Tara on October 3rd for Inhale, a one-day fall retreat with movement, nature walks, nourishing food, and conversations that go deeper. Reserve your spot here.    The Ultimate Self Care Planner: https://elizabethharrisnutrition.ck.page/9e817ab37e   Connect with us! Elizabeth Harris, MS, RDN, LDN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ElizabethHarrisNutrition Take the free quiz, What Type of Eater Are You?: https://elizabethharrisnutrition.com/quiz Join The Nourished Table, Elizabeth's monthly recipe club, for $20 a month: https://elizabethharrisnutrition.com/recipe-club   Tara De Leon, Master Personal Trainer Email: FitnessTrainer19@hotmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tara_de_leon_fitness Join Tara's Newsletter: www.taradeleonfitness.com/connect   Maria Winters, LCPC, NCC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coaching_therapist/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/MWcoachingtherapy Website: www.thecoachingtherapist.com   Episodes Mentioned If this episode resonated, go back and listen to Episode 105: The Myth of Short-Term Diet Success: The False Promises of Diet Culture, where we dig into the false promises of diet culture.   If you want to start a podcast or grow your existing one, visit julianabarbati.com and let them know we sent you!

Enroll here: acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses. Use code 3FOR2FALL2026 at checkout for three courses at the price of two.Were the philosophers of the Kyoto School fascist collaborators, or were they meeting in secret with the Imperial Navy to try to stop a war? Fernando Wirtz and Takeshi Morisato join Craig for a primer on Japan's most influential and most contested philosophical tradition, from Nishida and Tanabe through Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun. The conversation covers what "nothingness" actually means in Japanese thought and why it isn't Heidegger's, how Miki tried to collapse reason and unreason into a logic of imagination, and what tenkō, or forced ideological conversion, did to a generation of Marxist intellectuals. It closes on the newly surfaced Ōshima Memo and the question of what it costs to think under fascism.Books mentioned in this episodeMiki Kiyoshi, The Logic of Imagination, translated by John W. M. Krummel (Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies)Itabashi Yūjin, Nishitani's Philosophy of the Body (Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies)Nishida Kitarō, An Inquiry into the Good (Zen no Kenkyū)By our guestsŌhashi Ryōsuke, The Kyoto School and the Japanese Navy, translated by Takeshi Morisato (Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies, forthcoming)Fernando Wirtz, Myth and Ideology: An Essay on Philosophy of Political Action in Japan (2023)Support the showSupport the podcast:AHRCCurrent classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.comAHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archivesSubmit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.comMore LinksWebsite: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastBoycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

How can leaders use data to make better decisions and drive real change? In this episode, Kevin talks with Sebastian Wernicke about why so many organizations invest heavily in data and AI yet still struggle to achieve breakthrough results. Sebastian explains the difference between being data-driven, data-frustrated, and data-inspired. He believes that data should not only confirm and optimize what organizations already do but also challenge assumptions, reveal unexpected possibilities, and inspire new directions. They explore common myths about data, including the belief that it is always objective, that deeper analysis will automatically reveal the right answer, and that complex decisions can be reduced to a simple yes or no. Sebastian also shares why leaders must balance depth with decisiveness and become more comfortable with uncertainty and probability. They also discuss the opportunities and risks of AI, particularly its tendency to fill in gaps and generate appealing answers based on hidden assumptions. About Sebastian Wernicke Sebastian Wernicke, Ph.D., is the author of Data Inspired: Building an Organizational Culture of Inquiry for Lasting Transformation. He is a partner at Oxera Consulting, one of Europe's oldest economics and finance consultancies, where he leads the data science and AI practice. Sebastian is a leading expert in data and AI strategy and a former Chief Data Scientist. For two decades, he has guided organizations around the world to achieve breakthrough transformation through the power of data. His ability to make complex topics around data accessible, engaging, and actionable has made Sebastian a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator. His three acclaimed TED Talks have reached over 5 million viewers. For more information, follow Sebastian Wernicke on LinkedIn or visit www.datainspired.org. Resources Mentioned Data Inspired: Building an Organizational Culture of Inquiry for Lasting Transformation by Sebastian Wernicke Flexible Leadership: Navigate Uncertainty and Lead with Confidence by Kevin Eikenberry  The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby Timestamps 0:00 Introduction — why "data driven" isn't the whole story 1:55 Meet Sebastian Wernicke & his book, Data Inspired 3:13 Why Sebastian wrote the book 6:02 Data driven vs. data frustrated vs. data inspired 10:33 The 3 myths about data — setting the stage 11:48 Myth #1: Data isn't objective truth 13:18 Myth #2: The three TV shows example 17:15 Myth #3: Data won't give you a clean yes-or-no 18:37 Embracing complexity (and getting comfortable with discomfort) 20:04 Why this is really a culture problem, not a tech problem 23:08 Balancing depth and decisiveness in decision-making 26:09 Machine learning vs. today's AI — what's actually different 30:29 Resisting the "AI will make it easy" temptation 32:09 Purpose first, data second 34:14 What Sebastian's reading & where to find him 36:19 Closing: what are you going to do about it? ---

When people ask for your opinions about UFOs, are the little green men from The X-Files the first things that pop in your head?Michael Jawer, author of the upcoming book What UFOs Really Are, believes we should be less focused on aliens flying in the sky and directing our attention on our inner selves and downward to living things anchored on the ground like plants, trees and fungi. Join Paul and Michael on a wide-ranging conversation that could make you look at reality in a brand-new way this week on Spirit Gym.Learn more about Michael's work on his website and Linkedin.Timestamps2:20 Michael's next book, What UFOs Really Are, coming out in December.3:39 “My myth begins with emotion.”13:51 Abnormalities like UFOs/UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) are where enigmas often meet stigmas.17:17 UAPs are forms of sentience, but not here to take over our planet.26:59 Is lucid dreaming connected to remote viewing?39:06 “The dimension that I'm most interested in is what's under the surface, or what we don't see within our own unconsciousness.”45:45 Is the unconscious poorly understood, incorrectly named or both?58:00 Does an electron or atom feel like anything?1:08:37 Michael is directing his attention inward and downward, rather than toward the skies.1:13:50 C.H. Waddington's concept of creodes.1:21:27 UFOs and UAPs shake up our perceptions and invite us to consider viewing reality in different ways.1:28:16 Paul's question, What is on the sun?, is answered.1:36:16 The ancient origins of AI.1:46:06 “Humanity is in peril because we have archaic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.”1:48:56 John Lennon's UFO sighting.ResourcesMichael's recent appearance on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove on YouTubeThe Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body and the Sixth Sense by Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc MicozziYour Emotional Type: Key to the Therapies That Will Work For You by Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc MicozziSensitive Soul: The Unseen Role of Emotion in Extraordinary States by Michael JawerPlanta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo and Natalie LawrenceAwe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher KeltnerThe 2017 New York Times article about the Pentagon's UFO programA British military defense unit report on acquiring UFO tech from the Jerusalem PostThe Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals by Peter WohllebenThe Future of Life by Edward O. WilsonDisclosure Day (movie)Arrival (movie)The Soul of an Octopus by Sy MontgomeryAfter by Dr. Bruce GreysonRupert Sheldrake's paper, Is the Sun Conscious?Rupert Sheldrake's banned TED talk on YouTubeThe Trickster and the Paranormal by George HansenThe Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul by Jill PurceFlying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by Carl JungCompendium of the Emerald Tablets by Billy CarsonThe work of Ingo Swann, Barbara Hand Clow, Dr. Michael Levin, Steven Greer, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Jenny Randles and Jacques ValléeYour Body is Your Subconscious Mind by Candace PertThe Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher BirdThe Secret Life of Nature: Living in Harmony With The Hidden World of Nature Spirits From Fairies to Quarks by Peter TompkinsThe Unknown Spirit by Jean-Emile CharonFind more resources for this episode on our website.Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear MusicThanks to our awesome sponsors:PaleovalleyBIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL15Organifi CHEK20CHEK InstituteWe may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

Originally published in 2021, this conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté explores self-doubt, stress, anxiety, addiction, and the pressures that can come with pursuing ambitious academic and professional goals.Mike Spivey speaks with Dr. Maté, world-renowned physician and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, and The Myth of Normal, about how these challenges can affect prospective law students and others navigating high-pressure environments.One of Dr. Maté's insights for prospective and incoming law students:“You're going to look at all your confident classmates, and you're going to go in there with all manner of self-doubt. You're making the big mistake of comparing their outside with your inside. You have no idea what their inside is like. And believe me, you're not the only one.”This episode is a re-release of our 2021 conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté.You can listen and subscribe to Status Check with Spivey on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube: https://lnkfi.re/D5f5vv

THE MAN, THE MYTH THE LEGEND JON LOVITZ TODAY At 12:30 one of my all time FAVORITES is joining us. Jon Lovitz is incredibly well known for the characters he created back when SNL was good. I loved him the most as The Critic, a highly underrated animated show by the folks who did the Simpsons. He is at Comedy Works South in the Landmark this weekend so go see him and buy your tickets here!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Chris Cochrane guest-hosts for his brother Ray and devotes the whole show to one event: Disney’s D23 2026 fan convention in Anaheim. Friday night delivered Marvel’s new X-Men cast, Adam Driver as Mister Sinister, a fresh Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and a release date for Frozen 3. Saturday turned to the parks, with Villains Land, an Indiana Jones dark ride, the long-awaited Expedition Everest yeti repair, and a Monsters Inc land opening in 2027. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Chris if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Chris Cochrane opens the show and explains why this episode breaks the usual format. Instead of six or eight unrelated stories, the entire episode covers Disney’s D23 convention, which he compares to Apple’s WWDC. For newcomers, he notes that D23 is Disney’s official fan club, named for the company’s founding year of 1923. This year’s event ran two nights at the Honda Center: Friday for movies and television, Saturday for the theme parks. Marvel Finally Casts the X-Men Friday’s headline was the X-Men. The Associated Press put the crowd near 12,000, and Marvel Studios used that stage to name its rebooted team. Christopher Abbott plays Professor Charles Xavier, Inde Navarrette plays Rogue, and Maya Boyd plays Storm. Adam Driver rounds out the group as the villain Mister Sinister. Meanwhile, Samara Weaving, Kit Connor, and Sadie Sink were already known as Emma Frost, Cyclops, and Jean Grey. Jake Schreier directs, and the film arrives May 5, 2028. Chris calls the lineup spot-on casting. He singles out Weaving as a perfect match for the comics, and he points out that Sink already appeared as Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Navarrette is the least established name, coming off a breakout role in an indie horror film. Boyd, meanwhile, was the name he knew least, with what he believes is a Broadway background. Above all, Chris hopes Marvel does the team justice, and he recommends the animated revival X-Men ’97 on Disney+ as the best place to start. Frozen 3 Gets a Date and a Chaotic Reveal Frozen 3 lands November 24, 2027. That is the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, the same slot the first two films used. The story centers on Anna and Kristoff’s wedding, which a new villain, an evil Ice Queen, disrupts. Jennifer Lee returns to direct with Trent Correy, and the full voice cast is back. However, the reveal itself fell apart. Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel performed a darker arrangement of “Frozen Heart.” Meanwhile, the audio failed, the video failed, and a set of doors never opened. Menzel asked the crowd whether they should try it again, and Bell simply narrated everything that was supposed to happen. Afterward, Josh Gad sang “Oooh, Samantha,” a new love song for Olaf. Chris is here for it, since Olaf is one of the franchise’s best comic characters. Pixar, Disney Animation, and the Rest of Friday Night Pixar chief Pete Docter laid out a packed slate. Incredibles 3 hits summer 2028 and follows Violet and Dash sneaking out at night to fight crime. Chris hopes that finally shows a grown-up Jack-Jack. Coco 2 follows in November 2029 with Benjamin Bratt returning as Ernesto de la Cruz. That has fans puzzling over how a villain already in the Land of the Dead comes back. Additionally, Pixar showed an original called Ghost Market and a Venice-set cat film called Gatto. On the Disney Animation side, Zootopia 3 is confirmed. The live-action Tangled arrives March 31, 2028 with Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel. Chris considers that casting perfect after her turn in Agatha All Along. A live-action Lilo & Stitch sequel, a new Simpsons movie, a Bluey movie, and a Kingdom Hearts anime series round out the list. For Star Wars fans, Ahsoka returns January 20, 2027. Chris also offers a hot take: he prefers Rogue One to the entire sequel trilogy. Consequently, he welcomes original stories like Ryan Gosling’s upcoming Starfighter. Adam Driver Is Mister Sinister Driver appeared by video rather than in person. He told the crowd that he and Kevin Feige had talked for years about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then he announced he would play Magneto. After a long pause, he corrected himself to Nathaniel Milbury, which is Mister Sinister’s human alias. The gag landed because fans had floated Driver for Magneto for years. For anyone new to the comics, Chris explains that Mister Sinister is a geneticist obsessed with mutant DNA, a manipulator rather than a brawler. The cast met backstage only minutes earlier, so Chris is curious how their chemistry develops. Notably, Christopher Abbott previously worked with Driver on HBO’s Girls. The script comes from Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo, two prestige-television names that have Chris excited. Why the X-Men Took Thirty Years to Reach the MCU A business story underlies the casting. In the 1990s, a financially struggling Marvel sold film rights to raise cash. Fox ended up with the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and Sony took Spider-Man. As a result, Marvel Studios built its connected universe from 2008 onward without some of its most famous characters. The Hugh Jackman era of X-Men films belonged to Fox, with a separate continuity and no crossovers. That changed in 2019, when Disney closed its $71 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox’s film and television studio. Most coverage framed the deal as a streaming play, but it also brought the X-Men home. Chris sums it up neatly: Disney signed the paperwork in 2019, cast the film in 2026, and audiences see it in 2028. Ryan Gosling’s Starfighter, Ghost Rider, and VisionQuest Lucasfilm dated Star Wars: Starfighter for May 28, 2027. Gosling plays Kade Auberon, a pilot from the wrong side of the galaxy tied to the fastest starfighter ever built. Before he walked out, Disney played clips of him as a kid on The Mickey Mouse Club. Gosling said the company changed his life then and is changing it again now. He is also playing Ghost Rider in the Marvel universe. That thrills Chris, since Nicolas Cage last carried the character on the big screen. Meanwhile, the Disney+ series VisionQuest arrives October 14. Paul Bettany returns as Vision and James Spader as Ultron, and the trailer drops the two androids into oddly mundane human situations. Bettany joked that Vision has “rather inconveniently died several times.” Chris agrees the character has been through the wringer since WandaVision. The Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Avengers: Doomsday opens December 18, with Joe and Anthony Russo directing. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Hayley Atwell introduced the new footage. It offers the clearest look yet at Downey as Doctor Doom, who fights off Thor and takes his hammer. Evans appears as Captain America holding a baby, and Ian McKellen shows up as a haggard, long-haired Magneto. One quieter shot has Doom staring at a portrait of a lost wife and child. That frames him as a grieving avenger rather than a world-ender. He also commands an army of comic-accurate Sentinels. The cast pulls from the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the legacy Fox X-Men, including Patrick Stewart. Hugh Jackman also appeared on screen to say he is willing to return as Wolverine, though that was not a confirmation. Chris, a self-described Marvel nerd, closes with a theory. He suspects the MCU’s Tony Stark was actually Victor von Doom, adopted by the Starks, which would explain the Downey casting. He also predicts the Fox-era X-Men die off in this film and that Thor may be the major casualty. If it happens, he wants credit for calling it. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Disney Parks Around the World Saturday’s Disney Experiences showcase covered parks, resorts, and cruise ships, with Neil Patrick Harris hosting. Hong Kong Disneyland gets an Avengers pavilion that reshapes its Stark Expo skyline. Shanghai Disneyland is building the first land devoted entirely to Spider-Man, complete with a new coaster. Since Spider-Man is his favorite hero, Chris hopes to visit once it opens. Closer to home, Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure is doubling in size with two rides opening in 2028. Avengers: Infinity Defense brings back Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Chris Hemsworth, and Downey, while Stark Flight Lab adds Brie Larson. A Coco boat ride into the Land of the Dead is also coming, with no height requirement. Chris admits he prefers California Adventure to Disneyland because the rides are better. Overseas, Disneyland Paris will retire its Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain overlay at the end of 2027 and restore the original Jules Verne theme. Paris also gets the first ride ever based on The Lion King. Tokyo Disneyland adds Sugar Rush: Sweet Rescue, the first Wreck-It Ralph ride, plus a Space Mountain launch sequence designed with YouTuber Mark Rober. Finally, Disney Cruise Line announced three more ships, including the Disney Believe in 2027 and an entirely new class in 2029. Back in Anaheim, Tomorrowland is getting reimagined, which Chris welcomes because the land badly needs an update. The Magic Happens parade and the Remember Dreams Come True fireworks are both returning. For the tech crowd, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run now has a Fortnite crossover, where in-game missions unlock content on the real ride. Every New Walt Disney World Ride and Land Chris ranks the Florida parks Hollywood Studios first, then Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom leads the announcements with Villains Land, now the official name. It features a Maleficent coaster through an enchanted briar and a boat ride through the Evil Queen’s catacombs. Reporting puts its scale near Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and Glenn Close appeared in character as Cruella to announce it. Piston Peak, the Cars area replacing Tom Sawyer Island, adds two more rides, though their exact names remain unsettled. Additionally, the Carousel of Progress gets new scenes and a recast. Jamie Lee Curtis and Bryan Cranston will voice Mom and Dad starting late spring 2027. Chris, invoking Heisenberg, calls Cranston the GOAT. At Animal Kingdom, the Indiana Jones ride now has a name: Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent. It tells an original 1950 story inside a Maya temple, and Harrison Ford personally served as the physical model for the animatronic. Nearby, the Tropical Americas land brings Antonio’s Fiesta de Encanto, with more than fifty animal animatronics and no height requirement. Then comes the fix park regulars have wanted for years. The Expedition Everest yeti broke soon after the ride opened. Rather than fix it, Disney lit it with a strobe for over a decade, earning the nickname disco yeti. Now it is being repaired and returned to full motion. Chris rates Everest among his top five rides anywhere, and he suggests riding it before the fix so you can compare. Over at Epcot, Spaceship Earth gets its first major story rewrite in nearly twenty years, shifting from communication history to human connection. Dreamfinder also returns to Journey Into Imagination, and Disney Experiences chairman Thomas Mazloum introduced that news with two words: “we heard you.” Mazloum added that Disney has more projects underway than at any point in its history. After this rundown, Chris believes him. Monsters Inc Land Opens in 2027 Monstropolis begins opening at Hollywood Studios in early 2027, but in stages. The headline door coaster will not be ready on day one. It is the first suspended coaster in any Disney park. It also uses Disney’s first vertical lift, hauling riders about forty feet straight up before launching them into the door vault. Instead, the land opens with the Glob Theater’s “Welcome to Monstropolis” show and Harryhausen’s, a working sushi restaurant lifted from the first film. The stage show features an original song by Randy Newman, his first ever written for a theme park attraction. Chris also notes that the restaurant name honors stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen. Wrapping up, Chris names the X-Men casting and the Doomsday trailer as his favorite moments of the weekend. He hopes to cover more movie news on future shows, and he plugs Dune: Part Three, which also opens December 18. Chris signs off with the usual mentions: GNC Insider at geeknewscentral.com/insider, email at geeknews@gmail.com, the newsletter, and modern podcast apps at podcastapps.com. He also thanks GoDaddy for over twenty years of support. The post Huge Announcements From D23!! #1873 appeared first on Geek News Central.

Do great leaders actually matter? Or are they just being carried along by bigger forces – from timing to sheer dumb luck? It's the question that underpins almost every argument about politics, business and sport. And it's one that Jared Diamond, the UCLA professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has spent years trying to answer. He joins Emma Kennedy to reveal when leaders can – and cannot – bring about effective change. • Buy Jared's book Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter? from our affiliate bookshop and you'll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org's fees help support independent bookshops too.• Get tickets for Origin Story Live! at Islington's Union Chapel on Tuesday, September 1 • Back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercastWritten and presented by Emma Kennedy. Producer: James Liddell. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.www.podmasters.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can rejection actually make you more creative? In Part 3, Dr Alex George and research scientist Dr Kathryn Bates put some surprising claims about rejection to the test in Myth, Fact and It's Complicated including whether rejection can boost creativity, whether social media is making us more sensitive to it, and whether rejection sensitivity is really just another name for worrying.No lectures. No easy answers. Just two people trying their best to figure it out.We're not here to give medical advice, we're just two friends exploring the science and figuring out life together. If you have any concerns about your health, please speak to your doctor.Each episode arrives in three parts from Monday to Wednesday. Part One tackles the Big Question. Part Two answers a real dilemma sent in by a listener. Part Three puts the most common claims to the test in Myth, Fact and It's Complicated.Have a question or dilemma you'd like us to tackle in a future episode? We'd love to hear from you. Email us at hello@figuringitoutpod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After basically pirating Jesse Walker's ideas for several months now, Jonah Goldberg has decided it would be only fair to have Jesse aboard HMS Remnant to talk shop and swap yarns. In between sips of Captain Morgan and bites of the finest hardtack, Jonah and Jesse delve into the depths of the Remnant bingo card, pontificating on libertarianism, the myth of left and right, intellectual hyperlinks, conspiracy theories, populism, group pluralism, the rhetoric of unity, federalism, and the freedom to exit.  Show Notes: —Walker - The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory —Ron Bailey Remnant —The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism —Nash - The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 —Lewis Brothers - The Myth of Left and Right —Lewis brothers Remnant —Walker review - The Myth of Left and Right  —Walker in Reason: “The Anarchist and the Republican” The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah's twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you'd like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gaius and Germanicus: Germanicus attributes these failures to a psychological myth of omnipotence that has "suckled" every post-Cold War president: George H.W. Bush dipping a toe into Somalia, Bill Clinton's cruise missile war on Serbia, Barack Obama's targeted killings, Donald Trump mesmerized by unlimited power despite "mature" advisers, and Joe Biden's "feckless adventure" in Ukraine, sputtering that the US was the "greatest nation with the biggest military of all time." The failed campaign to defeat Russia should have been the alarm bell; instead the establishment stayed blind, and the current president—driven by instant gratification and poll rises, as in the first-term Miami meeting with Xi Jinping where he launched cruise missiles at a Syrian airport while serving chocolate cake—has proven American power "evanescent," "brittle," and "superficial." The hosts then catalog the petty feuds with "subkings" that Rome would have discouraged: the aggressive feud with Canada and Mark Carney despite a century of shared history; threats to invade Greenland, prompting the Danes to enlarge their army; disparaging loyal South Korea while courting Kim Jong-un, a "fratricidal cretin" whose flattery Germanicus calls "creepy"; threatening to throw steadfast Oman "into the ocean"; and destroying the bridge built by Giorgia Meloni, the EU's effective "Trump whisperer." Rather than championing an end to Europe's migration crisis, the president has backed the Sultan of Morocco over Ceuta and Melilla, inciting one of the continent's worst flashpoints—conduct Germanicus reads not as dementia but as narcissism grown into "incipient and growing megalomania," in sharp contrast with the implicit rules of the "divine Augustus," whose disregarding heirs Caligula and Nero did not last long. (2)

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1968DM An ER doctor told Anthony O'Neal something that stuck with him for good: Patients come in wanting to be fixed in an hour. That's not how it works. Her first priority is always to get them stable. Fixing comes after. That's the whole philosophy behind getting out of paycheck to paycheck living. Not a quick fix. Stability first. Anthony breaks down why the old "$1,000 emergency fund" advice won't even cover four new tires anymore, and why one month of net pay changes which side of your brain makes your decisions when life throws a curveball. If you've ever felt like you're one bad week away from falling apart financially, this is the mindset shift you need to hear. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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In episode three of our Marilyn Monroe Month, we're getting into the height of Marilyn's fame: the iconic movies, the scandals, and her marriages to two of the most famous men in America, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. While Hollywood wanted Marilyn Monroe the sex symbol, Marilyn wanted something more. We're talking about her fight with the studio system, her determination to become a serious actress, and how she eventually took on Hollywood itself. TW: This episodes contains discussions of physical abuse Created by Claire Donald and Tess Bellomo Follow us on social media, buy merch, and learn more about the show ⁠HERE⁠ Join our premium channel ⁠HERE ⁠ ⁠Get $28 off your first month of Nuuly with code RAM ⁠ Sources: ⁠Marilyn Monroe The Biography ⁠, ⁠Interview with Jane Russell⁠, ⁠Interview with Lauren Bacall ⁠, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever felt like one person was supposed to carry the weight of your entire world — your happiness, your moments, your everything?In this Monday Moment, broadcaster and author Anna Whitehouse, also known as Mother Pukka, shares the piece of relationship advice that completely changed how she sees love, family, and what a happy ending really looks like.Anna opens up about the reality of divorce. Why it's one of the hardest things she's ever been through and shares the powerful reframe that helped her stop seeing herself as someone who "broke" her family. Together, Zoe and Anna explore what it really means to build a community around you, why putting everything on one person is quietly exhausting us all, and the simple one-minute practice that works better than any spa day. Whether you're in a relationship, navigating big changes, or just feeling the weight of trying to make one person your everything, there is so much wisdom in this moment.

Diane Malaspina is a psychologist, performance coach, and longtime yoga teacher who specializes in stress and burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and optimal performance. She coaches frontline medical professionals, military human performance psychologists, executives, and athletes, and has worked extensively with medical students and residents through Arena Labs.In this conversation with Dan Dworkis, Diane makes the case for a strengths-based approach to burnout: instead of asking what's broken in the 65% of people who report burnout, look at what the 35% who don't are doing right. They cover reframing stress as a challenge rather than a threat, plus two of the fastest levers for shifting your nervous system in real time—sleep and breath.This conversation was released in partnership with The Emergency Mind Podcast and originally aired on April 27, 2026.If this conversation was useful, subscribe and leave a quick rating or review — it helps us reach the teams that need to hear these conversations most.

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UX portfolio case studies don't need to walk through every single step of your process, and trying to do that is actually working against you. This is week three of a five part series on UX portfolio myths, and this episode tackles a big one, the belief that every case study needs to show the whole end to end process for a project.Sarah argues the opposite works better. Going deep into just one or two parts of a project beats trying to cram in everything you did, especially for projects that spanned six months, a year, or longer. Trying to show it all just skims the surface of everything and overwhelms the person reviewing it, which is the opposite of what you want.She backs this up with a clip from her interview with Alexander Zeh, former Head of Product Design at ManyChat, who said he's specifically listening for problem solving language, phrases like "I facilitated," "I unblocked," "I synthesized," because those signal maturity in how a candidate thinks, not just what they produced.The bulk of the episode is a screen share walkthrough where Sarah rebuilds a weak case study slide by slide, showing exactly what it looks like to go from a shallow "next, I made some wireframes" slide into one that explains the problem, the decision, the reasoning, and the impact. If your case studies currently read like a list of what you did, this episode shows you exactly what to change and why.Topics Discussed✅ Why cramming your entire UX process into one case study actually works against you✅ What Alexander Zeh, former Head of Product Design at ManyChat, said he's actually listening for in a portfolio walkthrough✅ A live screen share breakdown showing the difference between a shallow case study slide and one that goes deep✅ Why "next, I made some wireframes" is what Sarah calls a five alarm fire in a portfolio✅ How to handle a case study for a project that spanned six months, a year, or longer without trying to cram in everything✅ What questions your case study should actually be answering, beyond just what you did✅ Why you might choose to highlight different parts of the same long project depending on the specific role you're applying forLinks & Resources

Can you actually become less sensitive to rejection? In Part 2, Dr Alex George and research scientist Dr Kathryn Bates tackle a listener's dilemma about internalising failure and avoiding conflict, and explore what can help when rejection takes over, from breaking cycles of overthinking and reframing situations to self-compassion and acceptance.You can read about tips from a psychologist in this article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/what-the-wild-things-are/202506/the-deep-sting-of-rejection-0.No lectures. No easy answers. Just two people trying their best to figure it out.We're not here to give medical advice, we're just two friends exploring the science and figuring out life together. If you have any concerns about your health, please speak to your doctor.Each episode arrives in three parts from Monday to Wednesday. Part One tackles the Big Question. Part Two answers a real dilemma sent in by a listener. Part Three puts the most common claims to the test in Myth, Fact and It's Complicated.Have a question or dilemma you'd like us to tackle in a future episode? We'd love to hear from you. Email us at hello@figuringitoutpod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What trials and crosses shaped the man who would help millions wish upon a star? Journey through Walt Disney's childhood, and be set free from the toxic loop of victim mentality. 

August is National Breastfeeding Month, and to celebrate, we have a specialty episode just for you! Breastfeeding can be one of the more challenging parts of early motherhood, and one that many new moms don't think about until they're in the thick of it. It's supposed to come naturally after all, right?This week, Sarah brings together three moms from her inner circle to share their very different feeding journeys. From breastfeeding to pumping to formula feeding (or some combination of all three) we talk tips and tricks, mistakes made, lessons learned, expectations vs. reality, and ALL the things we wish we had known before we started!Big thank you to our guests this Week! Emily Evans @EmilykEvansAlyssa Duffy @AlistedCristina Murphy @XtinajMurphWant more from Sarah?Personal Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@SarahMerrill_Hall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Share some Laughs: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bigkidproblems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our new Show IG! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bottleserviceBKP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop my SHOPMY LinksShop Sarah's Pregnancy/ Postpartum Must Haves on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bottle Service MERCH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! As always, write in your questions, stories, anything you want discussed on the pod! Sarah@bigkidproblems.comBig Thank you to our Sponsor this week! Eufy Baby! The Eufy Breast Pump S2 Pro was designed with moms in mind, with features that make the pumping experience easier and more comfortable. Features like the VibraPump™ massage and HeatFlow™ with validated results of 35% more milk output and 30% faster pumping sessions. It also features 46dB quiet operation, a wireless charging case, and more! Eufy has generously offered Bottle Service listeners 15% off your purchase with code BKPEUFY at their website! OR you can shop on AmazonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why does rejection hurt so much, and why do some people feel it far more intensely than others? Paris Hilton has described Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria as “like a demon in your mind” but what actually is RSD, and why can it feel so physical? In Part 1, Dr Alex George and research scientist Dr Kathryn Bates explore the science behind rejection sensitivity, its links with ADHD and neurodivergence, and why our brains are wired to see social exclusion as a threat.No lectures. No easy answers. Just two people trying their best to figure it out.We're not here to give medical advice, we're just two friends exploring the science and figuring out life together. If you have any concerns about your health, please speak to your doctor.Each episode arrives in three parts from Monday to Wednesday. Part One tackles the Big Question. Part Two answers a real dilemma sent in by a listener. Part Three puts the most common claims to the test in Myth, Fact and It's Complicated.Have a question or dilemma you'd like us to tackle in a future episode? We'd love to hear from you. Email us at hello@figuringitoutpod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Annie Grace grew up in a cabin with no running water, no electricity, and a dad who never drank. A decade later, in a corporate job in New York City, she was pouring close to two bottles of wine a night, buying the boxed kind so nobody would notice when one ran out. In this episode, she sits down with Mike Marshall, CEO of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance, on his podcast The Shift, to talk about what the alcohol industry doesn't want you to know, and why “drink responsibly” was never really about you. Annie and Mike discuss: Annie's own story, from a childhood with no drinking in the house to two bottles of wine a night, and the moment that finally stopped her in her tracks Why “drink responsibly” sounds helpful but was never really written with the drinker in mind What a former alcohol industry executive admitted about targeting the heaviest drinkers, and building the alcopop to hook teenagers Why alcohol has carried a carcinogen label for decades, and why most of us never got the memo Annie's “grace first” approach to changing your relationship with alcohol, and why shame just isn't the answer And more on policy, parenting, and what real freedom from alcohol's grip actually feels like… Ready to take the next step on your journey? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious! Episode links: This Naked Mind: https://thisnakedmind.com Big Alcohol Wants Your Kids (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ubYky_zM More on this episode: [full show notes URL — add once this episode is live on thisnakedmind.com] Related Episodes: Does Alcohol Advertising Really Work? | Reader Question | EP 184 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-184-does-alcohol-advertising-really-work-2/ Is Drinking In Moderation Possible? | Reader Question | EP 08 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-08-reader-question-moderation-possible/ How to Break Free From Rules Around Drinking | Reader Question | EP 482 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-482-reader-question-how-to-break-free-from-rules-around-drinking/

92 MinutesPG-13Adam Smith is the host of the Myth of the 20th Century podcast, and Lance is the host of Lance's Legion. Adam and Lance join Pete to talk about the content of Kerry Bolton's latest book, "Generation '68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy." They discuss Bolton's assertion that the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the West was a top-down project by elites. This was episode 1043.Myth of the 20th Century website The American Sun SubstackLance's LinksDVX PublishingPete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

Today, I'm delighted to connect with Sara Hirsh Bordo, an autoimmune-diagnosed, 15-times award-winning documentary filmmaker, the founder and CEO of Women Rising, and the author of Autoimmunity and the Good Girls. I loved Sara's book, and I love her work! I believe her message will resonate deeply with listeners with concurrent autoimmune conditions, and those who have grown up as people pleasers or have subjugated themselves over the course of their lives. Autoimmune conditions often tend to flare or first present during major hormonal transitions like postpartum, perimenopause, or menopause. So it's important to understand the influence of chronic stress and how it intersects with our immune system function. In our conversation, Sara and I discuss how self-silencing makes us sick, and overgiving keeps us that way. We explore the influence of family and culture on our health and longevity, the effects of autoimmunity, people pleasing, good-girl conditioning, and authenticity versus dissociation. We also discuss Gabor Maté's book, The Myth of Normal, liberation, the fear of disappointment, Sara's research, her concept of the license to be sovereign, the act of receiving, the role of epigenetics and birth order, and Sara's framework of coherence, authenticity, epigenetics, and permission. Stay tuned for a wonderful conversation about autoimmunity, people-pleasing, authenticity, and permitting ourselves to be sovereign. Sarah's book, Autoimmunity and the Good Girls, will likely resonate deeply with many of you. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: How self-silencing, self-neglect, and self-betrayal can impact a woman's health The connection between chronic stress, suppressed feelings, good girl conditioning, and autoimmunity What it feels like to reclaim your authenticity and be more aligned with yourself How the fear of disappointing others can make it difficult for some women to claim their power What Sara discovered about adverse girlhood experiences, birth order, and the caretaker role when compiling the research for her book How becoming more sovereign can help women advocate for their own needs Why receiving can be difficult for women who are accustomed to giving How stillness and silence helped Sara identify her needs and wants How girlhood experiences, self-silencing, and self-compromise can become epigenetic inputs, and what women can do to create more supportive environments Why permission is a key part of Sara's framework for reclaiming authenticity Bio: Sara Hirsh Bordo Sara Hirsh Bordo (pronounced Bordeaux) is a 15-time award-winning filmmaker and Founder/CEO of Women Rising®, named "One of the Most Innovative, Interesting, and Purpose-Driven Women-Led Startups to Watch” by Inc. Magazine. Sara is currently directing short documentary films for Toyota and ESPN Women, and most recently, the executive producer of ConnectHer International Film Festival, consulting director for the Gates Foundation PitchFest Program, and the author and researcher behind the first proprietary quantitative survey at the intersection of female empowerment and health, Autoimmunity and the Good GirlsTM. Sara previously held positions in media and entertainment, including Executive Director of Interactive Marketing at Paramount Pictures, VP of Digital Marketing at MGM Studios, and CEO and Co-Founder of NowLive. Autoimmunity and the Good Girls is her first book. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow   Follow on X, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia's website. Submit your questions to support@cynthiathurlow.com  Join other like-minded women in a supportive, nurturing community: The Midlife Pause/Cynthia Thurlow.  Purchase Cynthia's book, The Menopause Gut. Cynthia's Intermittent Fasting Transformation Book The Midlife Pause Supplement Line Connect with Sara Hirsh Bordo  Website  Instagram Autoimmunity & The Good Girls Book

Eighty-two percent of pregnant women who got a COVID vaccine early in pregnancy miscarried — that's the claim now ricocheting across the internet, revived by newly released Fauci text messages and repeated to millions on Joe Rogan's podcast. In this bonus episode, Jeff walks through where that number actually came from, and why it doesn't mean what people think it means. What Fauci's private 2021 texts really say about vaccine timing and pregnancy risk How a preliminary CDC surveillance snapshot turned into a viral 82% statistic The statistical error (called censoring) that explains the whole thing What the completed research — meta-analyses of hundreds of thousands of pregnancies — actually shows Why the same skepticism people apply to the CDC should apply to a gym owner's arithmetic This episode is for anyone who's seen the 82% claim online, and anyone trying to think clearly about vaccine safety debates without picking a side first. This episode was made possible by: LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at ⁠drinklmnt.com/commune⁠. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 25% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠. Stripes: Visit ⁠stripesbeauty.com⁠ and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com

BONUS: When Burnout Looks Like Productivity—The Hidden Risk to Your Team's Innovation Capacity In this BONUS episode, Alison Campbell shares the research that reframes burnout as a measurable threat to a team's ability to innovate. We learn why your most productive people may be your biggest innovation risk, how to spot capacity draining out of a team before the output drops, and where Scrum Masters have the leverage to protect the one thing that keeps teams building: the space to think. From the ER to the Research "I kept normalizing the stress, the exhaustion, eventually the stomach aches as, well, this is just the price of entry. This is part of being a busy, full-time executive and working mom."   Alison spent nearly twenty years in corporate roles—moving from finance to e-commerce to HR tech, with analytics as the through line and a love for the building phase inside companies. The pandemic was the turning point. With two young kids at home and a global team to hold together, she pushed through eighteen months of warning signs she had normalized, until severe stomach pain landed her in the emergency room needing surgery. That was the stop moment. What started as private shame—the feeling that she alone had failed while everyone else "had it all figured out"—became a research question the moment she started talking about it and heard the same story mirrored back from colleague after colleague. This wasn't one exhausted mom at a hard moment. It was a design and systems problem worth studying. When Burnout Looks Like Productivity "Even when that innovative work behavior was high, when burnout was high, that segment of our sample had the lowest innovation capacity of the entire group we surveyed."   The counterintuitive finding at the center of the research: activity, busyness, and visible output stayed high even when burnout was high. Burnout doesn't always look like withdrawal, disengagement, or someone who has already collapsed. Often it looks like the person still shipping, still moving fast, still showing up to every meeting—while the deeper capacity underneath quietly erodes. Alison's study measured this through two separate constructs, and the gap between them is the whole point:   Innovative work behaviors — the visible signs of innovation: coming to meetings, generating creative ideas, being present and active. Innovation capacity — the cognitive and strategic bandwidth to hold complexity, make hard decisions, collaborate well over time, and translate ideas into durable, long-term company value.   The people scoring high on visible activity while burned out were exactly the people whose capacity to do the deep work had already dropped the lowest. What Innovation Capacity Actually Is "Not just, am I coming to the meetings, am I visibly showing up—but do I have the ability to translate these ideas into durable, long-term company value?"   This isn't only about product features or new products. Innovation capacity shows up in every layer of the work: the micro decisions, the macro strategy, the processes, the willingness to try a new tool or approach at all. Innovation capacity is present when people have the mental space to be curious, to ask questions, to explore, to want to play with something new. When that space disappears—when the answer to every new idea is "we don't want to hear no, we don't want to hear that there's a problem"—the work turns tactical and reactive. People narrow their thinking and just chip away. That's the moment you stop getting the best from your team, even though they look every bit as busy as before. The Signals to Watch For "Can I name what is blocking progress? Do I feel safe enough to say, this is what's at risk? Or is this a culture where we don't talk about what's not going according to plan, and we just keep our heads down and keep going?"   The conditions most strongly correlated with high burnout and low innovation capacity clustered around a few themes: uncertainty—especially about the role of AI in someone's work—unclear meeting outcomes where a lot of meetings produce little clarity on the next action, and a general cluster of fear and ambiguity. The fix isn't to make everything finite and remove all agility—that's the wrong message in a genuinely uncertain world. It's to provide bounds. Communicate clearly about what you do know and why, so teams can operate confidently even through an uncertain pivot. For Scrum Masters, this maps directly onto AI adoption conversations: when curiosity turns into anger, frustration, or blanket anti-AI resistance, that's a signal worth investigating. Get at the why—both by taking a genuine pulse on the team, and by making sure the team understands the bigger-picture why the whole company is driving toward. As Alison put it, strip it all down and you land on good communication and psychological safety: the conditions where people can name what's blocking them and still do their best work. Fragmented Work and the Myth of the Finished List "It's about baking in periods of rest and reset, and being comfortable with this notion that the list is quite literally never going to be done."   Fragmented work—context switching, too many things in flight, the sprawl of tools and issue trackers—came up as a real innovation-capacity killer, and it's something agile teams can actually measure. The study asked about context switching, interruptions, and how many channels people move between; a deeper follow-up study is now underway focused specifically on AI-driven uncertainty and tool-switching. Alison's guidance isn't "do less and stop switching," because that reality isn't going away. It's to design rhythm into the work: periods of sprint followed by a deliberate pull-back—reflective work, postmortems, space to talk about what didn't go to plan. She didn't put a number on the right ratio of recovery to sprint; it's contextual to the industry, the stage of the business, the size of the team. The leadership move is to look at the actual rhythm of the business, and to proactively plan and openly name the recovery after a big push—instead of treating "recovery" like a bad word. Why Managers Are at Higher Risk "Managers were 1.7 times more likely to experience high burnout—and about three times more likely to say, yes, I delay complex problems or hard decisions."   When the data was split between managers and individual contributors, the extra management layer showed up as a measurable source of additional pressure. Managers reported high burnout at 1.7 times the rate of individual contributors, and were roughly three times as likely to strongly agree with the statement "I delay complex problems or hard decisions"—a direct marker of eroded innovation capacity. There's more to unpack there, and a second paper is coming in September that adds caregiving as a third dimension, building toward a "responsibility index" that looks at how obligations outside of work—an aging or sick family member, for example—compound the burnout picture. For a Scrum Master, the takeaway is that the pressures draining a team's capacity are often invisible from the outside, and they land hardest on the people carrying the most responsibility. One Thing to Start Tomorrow "Not another meeting—but a reflective question first. Rate your energy, rate your stress, and look at where your time actually got spent versus the goals you had."   Alison's concrete recommendation for anyone who suspects something is off: start a weekly check-in. First an individual reflection—rate your energy and stress for the week, and compare where your time actually went against the goals you set. Then bring that same question into a Friday stand-up or retrospective and ask the team to weigh in: what was the team's stress and energy, and were there major constraints nobody saw coming? The first few weeks people may be hesitant to answer honestly. But keep the practice going week over week, and you build a real data set on how the team is actually feeling—and start surfacing the systemic blockers getting in the way of good work.   About Alison Campbell   Alison Campbell is the founder and CEO of unBurnt® and Executive in Residence at Bentley University's Center for Health and Business. Her 2026 research — "When Burnout Looks Like Productivity: The New Risk to Innovation Capacity" — surveyed 544 professionals across 17 industries and reframes burnout as a measurable threat to an organization's capacity to innovate. unBurnt® · Research · LinkedIn   You can link with Alison Campbell on LinkedIn and read her research at getunburnt.com.  

How does one ride with the wrong passenger turn an ordinary driver into a Bitcoin entrepreneur in El Salvador? I sat down with Pierre Valiente to find out, and his car rentals, airport transfers, and 14-room Bitcoin Casa guest house in San Salvador all accept Bitcoin, which makes life awkward for every critic who keeps telling me locals don't use it. The passenger was Sandy Wade, headed to the Adopting Bitcoin conference back in 2023. She tried to pay him with a $20 bill he couldn't break, he told her to keep it, and she invited him to the conference instead. Two days later he walked out understanding self custody, cold wallets, and why holding your own keys beats trusting a bank.The backstory alone is worth the listen. Pierre was born in Santa Ana, spent 22 years in Los Angeles, and taught English to special forces at a military camp in Dubai for four years before coming home to open his school near Metrocentro. That entrepreneurial streak is exactly what Bitcoin rewarded once he found it.His transportation business started with a single car after he noticed Bitcoiners landing at the airport with no good way to get around. Today the fleet runs from a Jeep Compass at $45 a day up to a brand new 4x4 at $60 to $65, insurance included, no hidden fees, every rental payable in Bitcoin. Anyone spending less than six months a year in the country should hear our rent-versus-buy conversation before letting a car rot through a wet season, and I speak from moldy experience.Bitcoin Casa is the hospitality side of the equation, a 14-room guest house seven minutes from the historic center that he built with his German partner for Bitcoiners who arrive with two suitcases and a plan. Short-term rentals run $35 a night, monthly stays run $500, and the rooms come with standing desks, Starlink, and a Bitcoin ATM in the lobby for anyone who wants to stack on arrival. He's already scouting Antiguo Cuscatlán and San Benito for location number two.Pierre's take on the adoption question might be the most honest one I've heard from a Salvadoran entrepreneur. Older folks sold their Chivo wallet bitcoin for fiat because nobody taught them what they were holding, and the younger generation grew up watching that mistake, so they want control of their own money. He calls himself part of the first wave, and he's hiring locals so the opportunity stays in the country. If this episode makes you want to land here with two suitcases of your own, subscribe, share it with the friend who still calls it magic internet money, and tell us in the comments: would you take the ride or keep the $20?—Bitcoin Beach TeamLearn more about Pierre Valiente:WhatsApp: +503 7557 7261Web: https://www.bitcoincasasv.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoincasasvTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bitcoin.casaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584549045182Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACH: https://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:42 Who is Pierre Valiente from Bitcoin Casa El Salvador?02:45 What is it like growing up between El Salvador and Los Angeles?08:42 How do you start an English school in El Salvador?09:24 How do people in El Salvador get into Bitcoin?12:28 Do Salvadorans actually use Bitcoin?17:22 How much does it cost to rent a car in El Salvador?20:36 Should you rent or buy a car in El Salvador?28:02 Where do Bitcoiners stay in San Salvador?35:04 How do you book a Bitcoin friendly Airbnb in El Salvador?Live From Bitcoin Beach

This week on MYTH, awful things lurk in the bogs of Lincolnshire.  You'll learn that swamps are deathtraps in the dark, that even goddesses can die, and that sometimes you need to keep your mouth shut. Then, in Gods and Monsters, a hideous dragon will rampage across Northumbria. Source: English Folklore

What Happens When a Place Refuses to Leave Your Imagination? Sometimes a story begins with an idea. Sometimes it begins with a character. And sometimes it begins with a place. For author Myron Edwards, a journey to Aphrodite's Rock on the island of Cyprus became the creative spark behind Mistress of the Rock—a mythological novel bringing ancient legend into a modern story involving love, war, trauma, obsession, possession, and redemption. On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Show, CJ sits down with Myron to explore not simply the book, but the creative life that eventually produced it. Myron's journey has moved through television comedy, advertising, international travel, media, and publishing. His earlier writing includes work connected with the legendary BBC comedy program The Two Ronnies. Over time, his storytelling evolved from the economy and wit of comedy and advertising into longer, emotionally layered fiction. And then Cyprus gave him another story to tell. IN THIS EPISODE CJ and Myron explore: • Myron's evolution as a lifelong creative • His experience writing in television and advertising • The transition from comedy writing into fiction • How international travel influenced his storytelling • The experience that sparked Mistress of the Rock • Why Cyprus became more than simply a setting • The influence of Aphrodite and ancient Greek mythology • Bringing ancient mythology into a contemporary narrative • Writing about war trauma, obsession, love, and redemption • The discipline required to sustain a creative life • How writers transform experiences into stories • What Myron wants readers to experience through his work THE BIGGER MONEYWAY LESSON A creative life rarely moves in a perfectly straight line. The work you did ten years ago may prepare you for something you have not imagined yet. The place you visit today may become tomorrow's story. The experiences that appear disconnected can eventually reveal themselves as pieces of the same journey. That is one of the deeper principles behind this conversation: Nothing meaningful has to be wasted when you learn how to turn experience into purpose. Brick by Brick. ABOUT MYRON EDWARDS Myron Edwards is a writer and storyteller whose creative career has included television, advertising, travel, media, and fiction. His work evolved from comedy writing associated with BBC television and The Two Ronnies into long-form fiction influenced by history, mythology, place, and human experience. He is the author of Mistress of the Rock, a mythological novel inspired by Aphrodite's Rock and the island of Cyprus. CONNECT WITH MYRON EDWARDS Guest links were not supplied for this release package. Myron Edwards: @myronedwards Book: Mistress of the Rock CONNECT WITH CJ MONEYWAY Website: https://cjmoneyway.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneywayshow8493 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-c-j-moneyway-show/id1707761906 All Platforms: https://pod.link/1707761906 Book CJ: https://calendly.com/cj-cjmoneywayshow/60min Rate & Review The Show: https://ratethispodcast.com/cjmoneyway CJ MONEYWAY EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS Build Wealth — Protect Health You're building financial freedom. Don't neglect your physical foundation while doing it. ReadyRx provides accessible, modern treatment options designed for driven leaders who value long-term performance. Use the CJ Moneyway exclusive link below to receive a minimum of $40 off your order. Some products offer even greater savings. Access here: https://readyrx.com/treatments/se?coupon=cjmoney Minimum savings: $40 Some products include higher discounts. The Seidel Agency Referral: http://theseidelagency.com/Referral THE MONEYWAY MOVE Listen to Myron's story and then ask yourself: What experience, place, relationship, or unfinished idea from your own journey might still be waiting for you to turn it into something meaningful? Listen. Watch. Subscribe. Share. Rate and review. Then take one principle from the conversation and put it into action. One Conversation. Unlimited Assets. Create Once. Publish Everywhere. Build Forever. That's The CJ Moneyway. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Falling out of love isn't real, you've simply stopped making deposits into your relationship's treasury. Start investing in small, consistent acts of love and watch your marriage come alive again. _______________ We want your marriage to thrive! Learn more at http://xomarriage.com Dave and Ashley Willis spent thirteen years in full-time church ministry before devoting their work entirely toward the global mission of building stronger, Christ-centered marriages. Their marriage-related books, blogs, podcast, speaking events and media resources have reached millions of couples around the world making Dave and Ashley one of the most recognized and trusted couples in marriage ministry. Dave and Ashley partnered with XO Marriage in 2018. XO Marriage is the nation's largest marriage-focused ministry. The Willis family includes four sons and a rescue dog named "Chi Chi." When Dave and Ashley aren't writing and speaking, they love hanging out with their family, watching movies and going on long walks which is also where they develop many of their marriage ministry content ideas. Learn more about Dave & Ashley at daveandashley.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at info@remnantfinance.com or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEHans opens this episode with a correction to the original recording, the SECURE 2.0 Act dropped that penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent, and then makes the case that the only incentive that explains the rule at all is that they do not want you leaving it to your children.From there, a macro roundup on the three stories driving the tape right now: the 30-year Treasury clearing above 5.3 percent for the first time since 2007, oil sitting stubbornly in the eighties while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits its lowest level since 1982, and the Fed holding its range at 3.5 to 3.75 while the betting markets start pricing a hike rather than a cut. Then a replay of what was, for most of this show's run, its most popular episode. Hans and Brian take apart the conventional financial planning model, starting with the assumption buried underneath all of it: that anyone can predict the future. When you retire, what taxes will be, what inflation does, how long you live, how the market performs. Every one of those has to break your way for the plan to work. Only one has to break against you for it to fall apart.Chapters 00:00 – Opening segment 01:05 – Why part two of the interest rate breakdown is delayed a week 04:55 – Correction: SECURE 2.0 took the RMD penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent 06:45 – The one piece of the tax code Hans cannot steel man 07:00 – How the two gates work: 59 and a half, then 73 08:15 – Reducing the penalty to 10 percent, and why the barrier never really left 10:20 – Tax on the seed versus tax on the harvest 11:55 – Macro roundup: how a Treasury auction actually clears 14:05 – The 30-year breaks 5.3 percent, highest since 2007 14:55 – Heavy federal issuance and the approaching 40 trillion mark 15:50 – AI data center CapEx enters the rate story 16:35 – Three straight down sessions in the S&P 17:00 – Oil, Hormuz, and the lowest SPR level since 1982 20:20 – Why "cooling inflation" is still inflation 22:10 – Replay begins: the airline gig and stop being a passenger 25:50 – What the institutions want, and the four things they are optimizing for 26:40 – Pond money versus river money 27:45 – The blackjack cheat sheet the dealer hands you for free 28:50 – The conventional model in one paragraph 30:50 – Where did 65 come from, and why is it a goal at all 32:25 – The Social Security incentive trap 33:35 – The generation that struck gold on the timeline of history 36:10 – Asset price inflation is not value creation 37:10 – A proposal: let our generation take the hit 40:40 – On spending it all and leaving nothing behind 44:15 – The Waiting List, and what you would actually trade for your children 48:55 – Back to the model: predict the future 50:20 – What will tax rates be in thirty years 53:40 – If taxes double, does your plan survive 53:55 – The family budget slide and what it actually is 59:35 – 1988 prices and the case against linear inflation 1:02:50 – How long will you live, and the barrel of water on the island 1:05:35 – Market performance as a load-bearing assumption 1:06:45 – Closing segmentKey TakeawaysThe conventional plan is a stack of predictions dressed as a strategy. When you retire, what tax brackets look like decades out, what inflation does to the cost of a car or a house, how long you live, and what the market returns over the accumulation window.

If you're listening to this because you're experiencing extreme hunger right now or concerned when you allow yourself to eat more you will just not stop — take a deep breath, sis, and hear this special truth: you're not broken, you're probably not binging, and what you're experiencing is not only normal, it's necessary. This one comes straight from a conversation with a client who was terrified. She's doing all the right things in recovery — eating, honoring the process — but she's hungrier and hungrier and can't seem to get satisfied, and she's scared she's going to "blow up." If that's you, this episode is going to hold your hand through what's actually happening in your beautiful, wise body. (And if you're on the opposite end — no appetite at all after years of suppressing it — stay with me too. This episode still serves your journey forward.) What extreme hunger actually is Extreme hunger is your body's natural, intelligent response to any period of restriction or inadequate nourishment. That's it. It's not a malfunction. It's healing in action. And here's what surprises so many women: it can show up at any stage of recovery. Early on as you add foods back in — or, like my client, years later, when your body finally feels safe enough to ask for what it truly needs. Your body is deeply intelligent. You can't out-trick it. It waits until it trusts you enough to express its real needs. The 4 types of hunger you might feel Mechanical hunger — the physical growling, gnawing, bottomless-pit sensation that you just can't seem to fill. Mental hunger — when your brain is constantly obsessing about food, you can't concentrate on anything else, and you're having intense cravings for specific foods. (Mental hunger counts. It's real hunger.) Reactive hunger — eating large amounts quickly, especially of foods you previously feared or restricted. Primal hunger — that desperate, urgent, impossible-to-ignore need to eat. Like pregnancy hunger: fine one second, and the next, like you'll pass out if you don't eat now. In daily life it can look like: being hungry again right after a meal, waking hungry in the night, needing more snacks than before, or feeling unsatisfied even as you finish eating. What's happening in your body When you've restricted — through dieting, eating disorder behaviors, or simply not eating enough for your needs — your metabolism slows to conserve energy because your body believes it's in a famine. In recovery, it's suddenly doing many jobs at once: speeding your metabolism back up, repairing your organs, bones, hair, and skin, replenishing energy reserves, and — most importantly — learning to trust that food will be consistently available. Research on recovery from starvation (and yes, eating disorders involve starvation, even if you were never classified as underweight) shows people often need significantly more energy than "normal" for an extended time. Your hunger is your body doing exactly what it's designed to do. 4 myths keeping you stuck Myth 1: Everyone experiences extreme hunger in recovery. Not true — bodies and needs differ. If you do experience it, you're not wrong. If you don't, that's okay too. Myth 2: Extreme hunger is wrong or bad. It's your body's wisdom in action. It's the same category of healing as your period returning, or your hair getting shiny, or your glow coming back. Myth 3: Extreme hunger means you're binging. This is the big one. Extreme hunger is a biological necessity driven by your body's needs. Binge eating is often driven by restriction and psychological factors — a different thing entirely. When you're healing, your body genuinely needs large amounts of food. It can feel like a binge because you're so used to eating small amounts. It isn't. It's honoring. Myth 4: If you honor it, you'll blow up and gain a bunch of weight. The truth: your body settles at its natural point once it feels nourished and can trust you. It's the cycle — feed, restrict, over-exercise, restrict — that keeps your body from ever finding that place. Honoring hunger is what builds the trust. How to navigate it — strategies that actually work Honor your hunger. Eat when you're hungry, as much as you're hungry, for whatever you're hungry for. No arbitrary limits on portions, frequency, or "waiting an hour." You're not breaking a rule — you're breaking an eating disorder rule. Challenge her. When the voice says "that's too much" or "you're being greedy," answer: "My body is healing. This is temporary. My body knows what it needs. Honoring my hunger is my job right now." Don't compensate. No over-exercising, no skipping meals the next day, no returning to old patterns. You're not eating too much — you're eating what your body needs. (And if you're not feeling hungry, feed yourself regularly anyway. You can't expect hunger cues to return until your body trusts it has permission to eat. Your job is to grant the permission.) Include all kinds of foods. Your body craves dense, satisfying foods for a reason — nuts, nut butters, carbs, fats, proteins all serve real functions in healing. You can't fill extreme hunger with salads and veggies alone; your body will just keep upping the ante because it knows it's being tricked. Honor it with real satisfaction. Practice self-compassion. Remember your why. Speak to yourself with the gentleness you'd give someone you love. A few lines from the episode "You're not broken, you're probably not binging, and what you're experiencing is normal and necessary." "Extreme hunger is your body's way of healing. Honoring it is one of the bravest things you'll ever do." "Why am I upset that I'm hungry? Am I upset that my body needs air in my lungs?" "Your body is incredibly intelligent. You're not going to out-trick it." "It's not your job to judge. It's your job to honor." "This hunger is my body healing. This is temporary. My body knows what it needs." Your gentle reminder this week If extreme hunger hits, practice one phrase: "This is my body healing, and honoring it is my job right now." Keep easy, satisfying go-to foods within reach. Don't compensate. And notice — as your body learns it can trust you, the hunger settles into normal patterns. It won't spiral forever. It's asking for trust, not trying to harm you. You don't have to navigate this alone Honoring extreme hunger is scary, and doing it with someone in your corner makes all the difference. This is exactly the kind of thing I walk through with my one-on-one clients — challenging the voice, holding you accountable, and helping you honor your body in a way that's scalable and doesn't send you into a freak-out zone. 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Trauma and kink have been linked for decades, but does the research actually support the idea that trauma causes people to become kinky?In this episode, we follow the evidence. We look at where the trauma theory came from, why early psychology was so focused on childhood experiences, how researchers actually study a question this complicated, and what the research has found. We also dig into why finding trauma among kinky people doesn't prove that trauma caused their kink, what larger reviews of BDSM research tell us, and where trauma may fit into someone's individual experience.The answer isn't a simple yes or no, and that's exactly what makes the science interesting.Is kink caused by trauma? Let's find out what we actually know.

In this episode, Ben Felix and Dan Bortolotti take on 10 of the biggest myths in personal finance and investing. From the idea that young people should save every possible dollar to benefit from compounding, to assumptions about economic growth, dividends, index funds, valuation ratios, stock picking, bonds, gold, and homeownership, they examine the subtle details that can make  conventional wisdom misleading.   Ben and Dan explore why personal finance is often about balance rather than absolute rules, why spending decisions can be just as important as saving decisions, and how investors can confuse familiar stories with useful financial principles. Along the way, they discuss consumption smoothing, marginal utility, total returns, diversification, valuation, risk, inflation, and the trade-offs between renting and owning.   They also announce a new podcast initiative: future episodes featuring PWL clients discussing their experiences and the impact that financial planning has had on their lives.   Key Points From This Episode: (0:00:00) Highlights. (0:00:35) Ben and Dan return to the podcast and discuss recording from PWL's Montreal office. (0:01:09) A new podcast initiative: PWL clients will join future episodes to discuss their experiences with financial planning. (0:01:43) A new podcast initiative: PWL clients will join future episodes to discuss their experiences with financial planning. (0:02:18) How greater clarity about their finances can affect clients' important life decisions. (0:05:30) Introducing the main topic: 10 of the biggest myths in personal finance. (0:06:24) Myth #1: You should save as much as possible when you're young to maximize the benefits of compounding. (0:08:54) Why the marginal utility of consumption may be highest when income and living standards are comparatively low. (0:11:26) How health, skills, and experiences can also compound over time. (0:12:31) Why aggressive saving habits can sometimes lead to an inability to spend accumulated wealth. (0:13:37) Helping retirees identify what they actually enjoy spending money on. (0:15:35) Why spending and saving decisions can become emotionally charged and feel irreversible. (0:17:30) Saving as deferred consumption—and why the answer for most people is some balance between spending now and saving for later. (0:18:50) The life-cycle model and the idea of smoothing consumption across a lifetime. (0:20:23) Building a saving habit while also learning to spend thoughtfully. (0:21:09) Myth #2: Economic growth is good for stock returns. (0:21:30) Why economic headlines can influence investor psychology and investment decisions. (0:25:12) Why strong economic growth does not necessarily translate into strong stock returns. (0:25:12) Myth #3: Dividends explain a large percentage of historical stock market returns. (0:27:52) Why the source of a company's return does not make one component inherently more valuable than another. (0:30:57) Myth #4: Index funds only give investors average returns. (0:30:57) Why an index fund can outperform most active investors. (0:33:14) The difference between average performance and the performance of the average investor. (0:36:31) Myth #5: Future market returns are always low when the Shiller CAPE ratio is above 40. (0:36:31) What the Shiller cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio measures. (0:41:25) Why valuation can contain information about expected returns without providing certainty about what markets will do next. (0:43:24) Myth #6: Warren Buffett proves that investors can beat the stock market by picking stocks. (0:43:24) Buffett's extraordinary career, the importance of his early performance, and the difficulty of using exceptional outcomes as a general strategy. (0:46:17) Myth #7: Bonds and cash are safe investments. (0:46:17) Why reducing stock exposure does not eliminate investment risk. (0:50:03) The distinction between short-term volatility and other risks, including inflation and purchasing-power risk. (0:53:59) Myth #8: Gold is an inflation hedge. (0:53:59) Why gold's long-term preservation of purchasing power does not necessarily make it a reliable hedge over intermediate periods. (0:56:28) Myth #9: Gold is the one true currency. (0:56:28) The long-running debate over what money is and who should control it. (1:00:42) Myth #10: Renting a home is throwing money away. (1:00:42) Why paying rent provides housing while allowing renters to retain capital for other purposes. (1:08:04) Why simple rules of thumb can sometimes be useful even when they are not financially optimal in every situation. (1:09:52) Wrapping up the 10 myths in personal finance.   Links From Today's Episode: Meet with PWL Capital: https://calendly.com/d/3vm-t2j-h3p Rational Reminder on iTunes — https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-podcast/id1426530582. Rational Reminder on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/rationalreminder/ Rational Reminder on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/ Benjamin Felix — https://pwlcapital.com/our-team/ Benjamin on X — https://x.com/benjaminwfelix Benjamin on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminwfelix/   Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)

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IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers when deception may be righteous, continues his tour through the sins of the New Testament with morologia and foolish talking, and reviews Peter Kreeft's The Myth, the Mask, and the Masterpiece on C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

What if the stories that have captivated humanity for thousands of years are actually teaching us how to navigate our own lives?In this special episode of Your World of Creativity, host Mark Stinson tries out a new podcast format: Creative Book Reviews — exploring influential books that have shaped the way creative people think, lead, and make an impact.For this review, Mark turns to one of the most influential books on storytelling: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.Even more unique, the book discussion is presented as an audio overview created with NotebookLM, offering listeners both timeless ideas and a firsthand experience of an emerging AI learning tool.In this episode, you'll discover:Why myths continue to shape our thinking in the modern worldJoseph Campbell's groundbreaking concept of The Hero's JourneyHow George Lucas used Campbell's work to build the story architecture of Star WarsWhy the most memorable stories share universal psychological patternsHow myths provide a framework for navigating change, uncertainty, and personal transformationWhy your own career, business, and creative life may be following a hero's journey right nowHow shared cultural stories influence leadership, innovation, and even the future of societyWhat today's AI tools can teach us about learning, research, and communicating complex ideasKey ideas exploredThe Hero's JourneyCampbell's timeless framework reveals that great stories—and great lives—follow recognizable stages:The Call to AdventureLeaving the Ordinary WorldTrials and TransformationReturning with New WisdomThe conversation explores how this pattern appears not only in mythology and literature, but in entrepreneurship, career transitions, creative work, and personal growth.Myth as a Framework for LivingRather than viewing myths as ancient stories disconnected from modern life, Campbell argues they help us:Make sense of uncertaintyFind purpose during difficult seasonsBuild resilienceBetter understand ourselves and our place in the worldStar Wars Through Campbell's LensThe episode examines how George Lucas intentionally built Luke Skywalker's journey around Campbell's research, demonstrating why audiences instinctively connect with stories rooted in universal human experience.Creativity, Storytelling & AIListeners also experience NotebookLM's conversational audio format — an example of how AI can help synthesize ideas, review books, and support lifelong learning while preserving the richness of great source material.Mentioned in this episodeThe Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell & Bill MoyersThe Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph CampbellThe Masks of God — Joseph CampbellStar Wars and the influence of Campbell's Hero's JourneyNotebookLM as an AI-powered research and audio learning platformA Note from MarkThis episode complements our interviews with creative professionals from around the world. Alongside conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, designers, musicians, scientists, and innovators, we'll occasionally explore books whose ideas continue to inspire creative thinking across disciplines.I'd love your feedback.Did you enjoy this AI-generated book review format? Should we continue reviewing influential books alongside our guest interviews?Let me know on LinkedIn or through the podcast website.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review Your World of Creativity. Every review helps more creative thinkers discover the show.Until next time…Keep reading. Keep learning. Keep asking better questions.And together, we'll keep Unlocking Your World of Creativity.