Podcasts about 'thanks

Anyone heard from Down with Webster latley? Hope they're doing okay, anyways we kick it off with some 'Of the Weeks' including 'Thanks? I guess? moment of the week and 'Worst chastity belt everrr moment of the week'. Then we get into this weeks Backpage News featuring headlines such as, " Woman Sues McDonalds, Saying Burger Ad Caused Her to Break Fast" (18:05), Donkey milk sells for Rs 10,000 per litre in Maharashtra's Umarga: Why it is popular and so expensive" (24:05), A loose venomous cobra is terrorizing this Texas suburb" (30:16), and "Trump appointed DOJ official claimed Chinese thermostats changed votes" (34:04). Lastly in Sports we discover the World Armwrestling League and how one of the greatest armwrestlers the world has ever seen is from right here in Ottawa, Mr. Devon Laratt. In honour of this we end the show off with a live arm wrestler, no spoilers will be given out on who got embarrassed.

This week has been all about systems and automations

On this week's 3 Count Question of the Week we discussed the worst thing(s) a company can do that 'exposes the business'Thanks for checking out the ‘Hot Tag’ podcast. Please be sure to subscribe to the full ‘3 Count Thursday’ podcast as well for our full-length weekly show & visit 3CountThursday.com for everything 3CT related. Stay connected at https://linktr.ee/3countthursday

Don't Let Social Media Possess You (Sermon Only) Season Two - Episode Five Please note that this is the SERMON ONLY version of this episode which gets straight to the sermon (+ a meditation and song). For the FULL SERVICE, which includes all the horror and comedy drama elements, click here.Peter who talks about possession of a different kind...from social media! He shares some of his own experiences with 'the socials' and how they can both add and subtract from life. Tune in to hear what happened when he tried something radical in this area at the start of this year.Peter then leads us in a time of prayer and meditation based on 'The Exorcist', before the band take to the stage to perform their impossibly catch ditty, 'There's a Demon In My Pocket.'Thanks for coming to our wonderful church on the peak!PSI'd be grateful if you could check out the Patreon program, to see who you can support the church (and gets loads of exclusive extras).Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/creepycove)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/creepycove)

We back bayyyybeeee! In today's episode:Recap of the 5 Love LanguagesWhat our results were in March vs nowHow have they changed?Why do we think they might have changed?Losing the ‘chase'Thanks for listening to another episode of Real Talks, Sis! If you want to re-listen to the episode we are referencing it is Season 1 Episode 2 'Toxicology' Don't forget to follow us on Twitter (@realtalkssispod). Rate, like, download, and review us! #SpreadLove #AlwaysVibrateHigherIntro song: Love Motion No. 9 - Reggie BectonOutro song: BMO - Ari LennoxHosts: Chanel (@chanelly.xo) and Jojo (@joanna.nassif) @realtalkssispodcast

Welcome to The Awareness Space Podcast and our first Panel Show where Owen sits down with trauma informed coach Dave Furness of the 'Lets talk mental podcast', Coach for humans John Eli and Psychologist, coach and host of Humble-U Media. Including a Q & A segment that features questions from our Instagram Community -- We deep dive into confidence, self-belief and self-love. Breaking down ideas, techniques and our viewpoints on living with more self compassion and motivation. We also answer 10 question from our instagram community -- Welcome everyone to The Awareness Space Podcast that explores human experience. When we become aware of what's going on for us in this moment and doing so with compassion, safety and non judgemental we can begin to heal. But guess what, awareness isn't enough. Daily practices, Wellbeing support from another and resources to grow within are needed. That's what I seek out to discover via this podcast. All we have is this moment and seek to know how can we best engage with it for a sense of peace within -- EPISODE 7 - Self-Belief and Confidence -- Owen and his guests talk about all things self-belief, confidence, self-love and how to improve it all. We share our struggles with confidence, how we overcame it, share our tips and techniques and deep dive into the power of awareness. The panel show also features our Q & A segment where we answer questions from our Instagram community. Thank you to all who sent them our way -- Time Stamps - Skip to the segments that interest you -- Intro and get to know guests - 01:35 -- 2020 Review - 08:25 -- Question 1 - 18:50 So today we are going to dive into your story and your work. Before we do that can I ask what does self-awareness mean to you and what do you do to keep a sense of present moment awareness in your life. So…… -- Question 2 - 29:25 What has been your experience personally with confidence, self esteem and self love? -- Question 3 - 45:25 What techniques have you used or support people with? -- Question 4 - 56:55 What part does trauma, the nervous system and the unconscious play on all this? -- Question 5 - 01:14:00 Do you feel an awareness of self, our experience and what is to be human can help us? What would be your message to the audience? -- QUESTION AND ANSWER INTRO - 01:22:40 -- 10 questions -- Question 1 - Nikki from the 'Thanks it's the trauma podcast' - also from Matthais Eriksson of 'Eriksson Unlimited' - Who features as my guest on episode 12. 01:23:09 "How do you keep confidence & humility in balance? -- Question 2 from Nikki (details above) 01:30:50 "Confidence can be fleeting. What are the ways to keep a good balance during hard moments" -- We say goodbye to John - How to find him - 01:38:35 -- Question 3 - Brodie Klotz, who is mental health warrior, coach a good friend of mine who features on episode 3 of the podcast. 01:39:55 "what does self belief mean to you and what does confidence mean to you? -- Question 4 - Craig King Cooper of the uplift kings podcast. An amazing guy doing amazing things. He featured on a previous podcast with man cove wellbeing. 01:45:55 "What advice would you give anyone who struggle with a self-confidence and daily routines -- Question 5 - 01:53:46 - from Craig - "When was the moment You realize your self-confidence is improving" -- Question 6 - "Nicholas of the TUV podcast, who is my guest on episode 6 and also features on Joseph's podcast" 01:59:25 - "Do you consider artificial confidence as bad? For example when its clothes making you confidence" -- Question 7 - Reilly Scott who is a singer song writer who is my guest on Episode 4. Two of her songs are the theme tunes to this very podcast. Thank you Reilly -- 02:07:30 - "How much do you think our early childhood experiences impact our belief systems about ourselves and the world/how do they impact our confidence and self esteem?" -- Question 8 - 02:14:15 - From Reilly... "How can we work with the difficult emotion of shame, where it comes from and how to move through it in working towards building self esteem in our lives?" -- Question 9 - 02:21:20 - from Reilly "what role do relationships play in regards to our self esteem/confidence? " -- Question 10 - from Zach from Into the dark blue - A fantastic podcast. He is an inspiring creative. 02:24:40 - "What are some of the things i can do to develop confidence as a character trait not just facade. -- Outro - 02:30:05 Our Guest Details -- Dave Furness - https://davefurness.com/  https://www.instagram.com/thedavefurness/ -- John Eli - https://john-eli.com/  https://www.instagram.com/the.john.eli/  -- Joseph of 'Humble U Media' - https://humbleumedia.com/ --https://www.instagram.com/humbleumedia/ -- More on The Awareness Space visit - https://www.theawarenessspace.com/ -- If you are in need of support regarding anything you have seen here today then please contact the support services listed below. You can also visit our directory of content providers who also offer a range health and wellness treatments, therapies and classes. 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Look after you and take a break from the podcast if you need too. The videos on this channel and it's content are not a substitute for the support and guidance of a qualified health professional. We are here to share information that may be useful to our viewers and we hope you enjoy. Links to organizations that can support you are in the description. The content taken from books, blogs and articles for this video are designed to showcase the information and does not mean the authors or writers are affiliates of The Awareness Space. The views, opinions and theories shared via this video, channel and TAS as a whole do not representative of the individual views, opinions and beliefs of the narrators, producers or creators and of this channel and movement as a whole. If you would like to take part or offer content to The Awareness Space please visit www.theawarenessspace.com

This time , no stories, no philosophy, no imagination, no expressions..and no song..just a hearty talk..to say a big 'THANKS' to you...for connecting with me and my conversations! On seventh sky!

Dana and her granddaughter Emma are spending Thanksgiving break reading some magical books. They have decided to share them with us all! Today's book is 'Thanks for Thanksgiving' by Julie Markes.

We're back at full strength! First off, Happy Thanksgiving to your family this week! Now, we're thankful that you allow us to BORE you to death each week with our nonsense! We talk Thanksgiving traditions, horrible stories, and overall things to be thankful for.We also engage in a "What's with Whitney" and a "Bad Libs with Brandon". Listen up....next weeks Family Fantasy Football Update AND Bad Libs have a TWIST....we can't wait!Take some time and enjoy your family this week! Tell a friend won't you? Like, share, subscribe! Visit bangenergy.com and use code "Whitney 25" to save 25% off your order! Help her out...c'mon! New Episodes Every Monday Wherever you get your favorite Podcasts!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TGCSODTwitter: https://twitter.com/TGCSODInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tgcsod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tgcsodhttps://www.thankgodcancersavedourdivorce.com

We conclude our sermon series, 'THANKS!' with Rev Jonathan's sermon based on Psalm 103.

8:45am Worship. We continue our 'Thanks!' series with Pastor Christine Matthews' sermon based on Psalm 50 (The Message)

11am Worship Service, 11/8/20 We continue in our sermon series 'THANKS!', focusing on Psalms of Thanksgiving to find how God has blessed and is blessing, and crafting our appropriate response.

All Saints Sunday 11/1/20. We begin our new series 'THANKS!', focusing on Psalms of Thanksgiving to find how God has blessed and is blessing, and to craft our appropriate response.

Our 2020 season award show is here... now what should we call it? Also, Scott won Tout Wars! ... Let's get this party started with the most important awards: most impactful player, most valuable hitter, and most valuable pitcher (5:08). ... Who are we looking at for most improved hitter and pitcher from 2020 (12:49)? Just how badly did Luis Robert fall off (19:01) and what does it mean for 2021? ... What are the Bobby Big Bat and Freddie Fleet Foot awards and who won them (23:30)? ... Who were our best and worst calls this season (31:44)? Will there ever be a worse call than Trevor Bauer? ... Next up we have the 'Thanks for making everybody look good' award plus the biggest hitter/pitcher fakeouts (38:38). ... And your best comeback pitcher and hitter are blank (43:29)! ... We wrap up with some rapid-fire awards (45:55). ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com. Subscribe to our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @CBSFantasyBB, @AdamAizer, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Download our printable Draft Kit from CBSSports.com/draftkit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

T-Hanks for listening this week as we take a look at the long forgotten Tom Hanks vehicle 'The Man In One Red Shoe'. History has paid about as much attention to this film as you are to this episode description. I mean come on, does anyone actually read this thing? I mean I don't when I'm not the one writing it. Yet still, I sit here every second episode and type something out. Some things just make no sense. Much like the movie this week. @DVDECLUTTER on all the socials Email us at dvdeclutter@gmail.com Music Credit: "Getting it Done" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/DVDE-CLUTTER/message

A Conversation with MJMiller, Reverse Entropy Engineer, about (among other things) the Ecliptic Plane Compass. Spirit Monkey is a Brand New Show coming to Patreon at the 'Thanks!' Tier ($1 a month) - Stay tuned to Patreon.com/MindWave for parts B-D of this conversation and much more. Enjoy the Theme Song? .. Snag a Free Download on BandCamp - https://mindwavemusic.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-monkey

It's the third installment of our Tom Hanks deep dive! In this 1988 comedy 13 year old Joshua wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a 30-something year old overnight. Some laughs, some heartfelt moments and definitely some questionable plot decisions... which way will 'Big' tip the scales of Paul's T-Hanks box set? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/DVDE-CLUTTER/message

Today we look at some changes to the church in the military and more 'rules for thee but not for me.'Thanks for listening, check us out on twitter and send in questions at www.churchpublic.com

Morning Mantra: "Don't listen to respond, listen to understand." Listening is one of the best ways to learn. When you’re doing all the talking, you are learning nothing. Just pretending to listen, when you’re actually trying to think of what you can say next, is not enough. You must really listen, with the goal of understanding.And there is another wonderful benefit to listening, it builds tremendous rapport. People love to talk about themselves, their work, their ideas, their opinions. When you listen, and are genuinely interested in what someone else is saying, they will come away from the encounter feeling positive and heard. Listen carefully, and ask questions that convey sincere interest, and if they say something you don't agree with, instead of getting defensive, say 'Thanks for letting me know your thoughts, I'll consider them.'#BeAGoodListener #BeHappy #BeHorsey #BeHippie #HorseHippie #MorningMantra #inspirationalQuotes

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Today is What's Working Wednesday What I want to talk about today is spreadsheets, in particular, Google Sheets We use this to keep track of leads So you have your free Facebook group and that has to be the end destination and main goal to get your new followers to So, say you get a new follower on Instagram - add their name, date and the first message you send to them to your sheet. For example, 'Thanks for the follow' and relate the rest of your message to their account e.g. 'I love your photo of...' - you should get a reply to something more personal like this Then, your second message could be like 'do you know we have a free Facebook group?' They should then hopefully join your free Fb Group This is when you move them from your Instagram sheet to your free Facebook group sheet In the FB group you then ask them to carry out 4 tasks before you make your offer For example, FitPro people are added into the Free FitPro Lead Gen with Dave Group, we then give them a Free 5 Day Course, a Free Ebook, we send them a link to sign up to our free FitPro Index - a directory for them to add their business to and finally, we send a sales message By keeping a spreadsheet of this we know how we're getting along with each conversation

Andrew Kuuse says 'Thanks' to Ballarat Mazda a sponsor of Ballarat & District Trotting Club

RSN's Andrew Kuuse says 'Thanks" to businesses supporting Country Harness Racing this week North East Fasteners Wangaratta HRC sponsor

RSN's Andrew Kuuse says 'Thanks' to businesses supporting Country Greyhound Racing including Tudor Electrical Ballarat Greyhound sponsor

This week, the How to Launch a Book series continues with everyone’s favorite: book launching on social media. Twitter. Instagram. Canva. PicMonkey. Crello. Pinterest. Linked In. Head blowing up yet? We talk about planning your launch social media, how to use social media and image-creating apps to share and promote and why you shouldn’t feel one bit like you’re talking about your book too much when you’re launching it into the world.We also fall apart a bit, here and there, because these are falling apart times, and we feel it.#AmReadingKJ: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensJess: The Secret History by Donna TarttHow to Be an AntiRacist by Ibram X KendiMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesSarina: Pale Rider Laura SpinneyDon’t forget to check in with our sponsor, Author Accelerator. They’ve got a special book coaching class happening in June on coaching historical fiction, which I would love to be a fly on the wall for—as well as introductory and master classes on book coaching, and, as always, the ability to match you with just the right book coach to help you move your work forward.As for us—we send out a MiniSode or a Writer Top Five every Monday to our supporters. Your support pays for the production and transcription of the podcast, and is the reason why, this week, you don’t also hear my conversation with the child who walked in while we’re recording. Also why there’s music and a fun opening. Because we hired a professional, because it’s good to do these things right. So thanks for chipping in—and if you’d like to join us, click the button.KJ Dell'Antonia 0:01 Hey writers, it's KJ. This week we are continuing our book launch series and Sarina is schooling me on getting all my social media ready for a fiction launch. At our sponsor, Author Accelerator, they're offering some different schooling this month, June of 2020 with classes in book coaching. There are introductory classes, master classes, and (this fascinates me) a special class this month on coaching historical fiction. I love that they're getting so specific, and I would love to listen in on that one. If you're intrigued find out more at authoraccelerator.com. Is it recording?Jess Lahey 0:40 Now it's recording. KJ Dell'Antonia 0:43 This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone and try to remember what I'm supposed to be doing.Jess Lahey 0:47 Alright, let's start over.KJ Dell'Antonia 0:48 Awkward pause. I'm gonna rustle some papers. Okay, now one, two, three. Hi, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia and this is #AmWriting, the podcast about writing all the things, short things, long things, fiction, nonfiction, essays, book proposals, pitches. In short, this is, as I say every week, the podcast about settling down and getting your writing work done.Jess Lahey 1:18 This is Jess Lahey I am the author of The Gift of Failure and the forthcoming The Addiction Inoculation. And you can find my work at the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and various other spots.Sarina Bowen 1:29 I'm Sarina Bowen, the author of 35 romance novels and the most recent one is called Sure Shot.KJ Dell'Antonia 1:35 I am KJ Dell'Antonia, author of the novel The Chickens Sisters coming out July of 2020 and the book How to Be a Happier Parent out in paperback now, as well as the former editor of the Motherlode blog and column at the New York Times where I am still a contributor. That's who we are. And this week, we're continuing our how to launch a book series, in which we sort of try to cover all the different arenas of things that you can get ready for before your book launches. We've done Amazon, Bookbub, and Goodreads. We've done websites. And now we're going to turn our attention to social media.Sarina Bowen 2:22 That beast called social media.Jess Lahey 2:24 Such a powerful tool sometimes. Well, and I know for a fact that when I talk to authors who are sort of contemplating the social media sort of for the first time in a professional context, they're just so overwhelmed. They're like, do I have to do all of it? So Sarina, do we have to do all of it? Do we have to do Pinterest, and Instagram, and Facebook, and do we have to be good at all of it? Because that's the thing that seems to overwhelm authors.Sarina Bowen 2:52 Absolutely. You will find it overwhelming because it is overwhelming and you don't have to do it all. You absolutely have my permission not to do all of it. So, of course, everybody has their favorites. So you really need to ask yourself two questions. And Jess, you've been super articulate about this, too. Like, the two questions really are, which platform is your favorite or which platform makes you hate it the least? And the corollary question, which is almost as important, which platform is your people?Jess Lahey 3:45 Yeah, where's your audience?Sarina Bowen 3:47 Yeah. And you and I have discovered that our answers to this question are like 180 degrees different, whereas you talk to educators all the time on Twitter, and my audience is really on Facebook and Instagram.Jess Lahey 4:04 Yep. How did you figure that out? I mean, for me, it was fairly obvious from the get go because I think I started learning about personal learning networks and realizing, oh, that's where all the teachers were. And I was using it for teaching. But then, of course, when I started writing something that was about teaching, it was sort of a natural fit for me. But did you have to go looking and sort of figuring out where all those people were for you?Sarina Bowen 4:28 I really did have to pay attention because there are a lot of authors on Twitter. But at one point, somebody said to me, Twitter is where I go to talk to other authors. But I reached my readers on Facebook and I thought, okay, well, that feels a little bit familiar. But I'm a really analytical person and I like data. So of course, I've been using all of these sites, at least partly, for kind of a long time. And I realized that my Squarespace website (and every website does this in some capacity, you just have to find it, but it has really good data about this) it's called traffic sources is the page that I look at. And under social media in the last 30 days, you can see, or maybe I'm at seven days here. But over some period of recent time, I have gotten 816 clicks from Facebook, 158 clicks from Goodreads, and 78 clicks from Twitter, and 18 clicks from Pinterest. So that tells a really clear story immediately about what's working. And of course, we post fewer links on Instagram and my Instagram shows up on this other page because I use a program for this and I'm getting like 200 off Instagram.Jess Lahey 5:54 Wait, what do you mean when you say that your Instagram is showing up on another page and use an app for that?Sarina Bowen 6:01 Well, let's let's just dive right into Instagram because lots of authors love it. So anyway, what I was trying to say is that you, you can be given permission to cut one of these out if you can see in hard numbers where people are finding you. And of course, a lot of the links that I post on social media do not lead back to my website. So this is just a little subset. But I still find it quite telling and it gave me permission to walk away from Twitter without really looking back and I actually changed my account there. It says now that it's a Sarina Bowen update account infrequently monitored, because I'm not part of the conversation. And it basically says, this is a promo account, you know, do with that what you will, I don't expect to have a grand, wonderful following there, because I have chosen not to pursue it.Jess Lahey 6:57 You know, it's really interesting. I have a column up in TweetDeck - one for you and one for KJ, because I like to keep tabs on what people are saying about my peeps. And occasionally I'll find stuff before you guys see it. But what I often see are cross posts from Goodreads with a tweet saying what percentage they are through him via Goodreads. And it's really clear that people are letting Goodreads cross post to Twitter for them. And that's the majority of what I see from readers regarding your books, which was a really interesting realization to me that it's sort of not that the readers are necessarily there, but that they're letting Goodreads cross post for them.Sarina Bowen 7:39 Yeah. And can we just back up to the part where you said you have a column on TweetDeck, but that column is a special thing. That's a search column, right?Jess Lahey 7:48 Right, right. Meaning I have a search column with quotes around your full name and a column for you on @SarinaBowenUpdates or whatever your handle is. Just because I like to just know what's happening with my people. Sarina Bowen 8:05 That's amazing. Jess Lahey 8:08 It's fun, I like to see what people are reading of your stuff. And you know, it's always fun to report back that when people are saying nice things.Sarina Bowen 8:15 You know what, at one point I had a column like that. But I found that I didn't always want to know all the things that were showing up there. Jess Lahey 8:26 That's probably true. I've seen some things that I didn't necessarily want to see. But that's also how I found out about that thing where I was my one of my essays was on the SAT, because people weren't tagging my handle on Twitter, they were just saying mean things, and making memes about me using my name and sometimes misspelling it, but either way, that's how I found out that I was on the SAT and that all the high schoolers in the country hated me that year.Sarina Bowen 9:05 We're still on Twitter, so let's let's finish Twitter because I want to know something that I'm not good at on Twitter because like I said, I don't use it that much. But how do you use hashtags to find your audience?Jess Lahey 9:19 Well, it depends. I use hashtags on Twitter for education stuff, simply because they're chats that happen, like more chats than I can even tell you. If you do a Google search on education hashtag Twitter chats you will get this table that has hundreds of Twitter chats. So occasionally, I'll use them for things like you know, I need a particular book for kid a particular age and then I'll hashtag a couple of reading or teaching literacy hashtags, but I actually don't use hashtags very often on Twitter. It's not so much my jam.KJ Dell'Antonia 10:03 It's not like Instagram, there's not a lot of room for them. You just use a hashtag, unless you're joking.Jess Lahey 10:10 There are exceptions, though. I mean, like if a big education conference is going on, I'll throw up a column for that education conference and follow people at that conference so that I can see what's going on, and find out what people are talking about, and things like that. But for the most part, yeah, I don't really use hashtags. I don't use hashtags the way people use hashtags in Instagram. It seems to be a bigger deal in Instagram than it is on Twitter, at least for me, that may not be the case for everyone. But definitely for me, hashtags are not as much a thing on Twitter.KJ Dell'Antonia 10:42 I think that the reason to use them on Twitter tends to be because your being part of a conversation is around a hashtag. So it's often political, but not always. I mean, that's why. Whereas on Instagram, because people rarely reshare because Instagram makes it hard, I will follow certain hashtags. And then from those hashtags, I might find new accounts to follow. Because for example, I'm actively looking to follow people who write about the kinds of books that I write. So I follow a hashtag for that. I don't do that in Twitter for a lot of reasons. One of which is that I just don't go on Twitter anymore.Jess Lahey 11:30 I absolutely just misspoke though. Because in looking for this new audience for the new book, I actually do have a list around people in recovery and then I also do have a column for hashtag recovery or hashtag sobriety or hashtag sober so that I misspoke. Because I don't know the audience as well in the recovery world as I do in the education world, I do occasionally go mining and looking around just to see who's who, who's talking about what, who's reputable, who's not, sort of who's in the conversation, and those hashtags can occasionally help me access that.KJ Dell'Antonia 12:09 And I think the thing for Twitter is that if you're a nonfiction author, especially, but it probably works in fiction as well, is that you can end up in a conversation with an expert that you might want to reach or a fellow author that you might want to reach because if they're putting out a tweet, and you reply to it, it's just different, then they might tweet back. And because they're actually actively on there, well depending on whether or not they've scheduled their tweets, but usually the kind of thing you'd reply to isn't that, so there's an opportunity for connection there that's a little bit different, but I don't know. It's sort of more general. It's not a lot to do with launching your book. Jess Lahey 12:57 Well, for me though, the one thing I do though is if I find someone who's in my demographic squarely, someone who I really am interested in following on Twitter, and who I think really follow some interesting people, whether it's recovery or education, I will go through who they follow and sort of say, oh, look, there's some people I don't follow and follow those people. So that can be really useful too, if you're new to a field. Going and looking. For example, if you were really interested in like COVID stuff, and PPE, there's this woman, Dr. Megan Ranney, who's out there in the media a lot and Megan would be a great person to go follow and then look at who she follows because she probably follows a really reputable group of people within that field. So that's a really great thing to do, too. For example, if you were writing your first novel, and it happened to be a women's fiction novel, go look to see who like Jennifer Wiener or KJ Dell'Antonia or Jodi Picoult, who do they follow? And obviously, there might be some interesting people for you to follow in there as well. So that's been really useful for me.KJ Dell'Antonia 14:05 But to specifically bring us back to book launches, I will say one thing that I did on Twitter with my nonfiction book launch, and I think Jess may have done some of the same thing, is to tweet everyone I quote in the book. So when I was launching my nonfiction, I prepared in advance a bunch of tweets that were like, 'Thanks for your help with How to Be a Happier Parent, Jessica Lahey, it's out now.' They were a little better than that and I had those all revved up and ready to go and either scheduled or not, so that's a way to let people that were helpful to you know, so that hopefully they will share. So that's one way to use Twitter. And another way is to ask other people to tweet for you.Jess Lahey 14:50 Right. And, you know, our groups of friends can be relied on to really boost us if we need them. But it's been really fun watching for a friend. Like when Catherine Newman's book was first up on Amazon, and you know, it'll be out by the time this podcast goes up. She did that. She said, I want to thank @JessLahey for supporting me in this book by blurbing it and blah, blah, blah. And that sort of reminds me, oh, yeah, I really support this book I want to help. So you're right, that's a really good way to do it as well.KJ Dell'Antonia 15:25 Right. And so then another thing that you can do within Twitter is to create tweets about the book that people that are on your email list could send out. And if you go to share link generator, you can write a tweet that then you can create a link and you can put it in an email, you can put it in a blog post, you can put it on almost anywhere and say click to tweet. And if someone clicks that, then their tweet pops up, it's editable. So what I do with that, is I send it out to a bunch of people that I know, but maybe my email list, maybe my launch team, maybe just 20 people that I have collected, and I say, it would be awesome for me if you would tweet about the book. Here, I've made it easy. Click here, and you get an editable tweet about the book with all the links. And the person clicks. And it says, 'Hey, I'm so excited to welcome KJ's new book, The Chicken Sisters into the world.', and they can change that too. You know, 'I've read this and I love it' or 'I hated this I never want to hear from this author ever again'. You know, they can change it to anything that they want. But it's already there. And it has the links and it makes life so much easier. And I always kind of boggle at people who don't. People who just send me an email and say would you mind tweeting about the book? To do that I have to go find the link, and then I have to think of something to say, and I have to go on Twitter, I mean, there's like four steps in there. Whereas with share link generator, you can make it a one click deal. It also works for Facebook, but we're not on Facebook yet.Jess Lahey 17:09 All right, are we done with Twitter?Sarina Bowen 17:11 I would like to propose one last thought on Twitter that's actually applicable to all of the platforms we're discussing today. Which is that by the time any author gets to her launch day, she feels as though she has been talking about nothing except her book since the beginning of time. And she is a little bit sick of herself and the whole topic. But I would just like to say that Twitter specifically has a sort of short half life of each tweet. And even if you feel you've been discussing your book way too much, launch day is not the moment to change your behavior. Like it's the one day when everyone will forgive you for talking about your book launch a whole lot. So you know, hang tight and put out yet another tweet about your book on that launch day because that is your moment. And not that many people will see that tweet, even if you are sick of yourself.KJ Dell'Antonia 18:14 And to save yourself the agony of spending your launch day writing 10 different tweets about your book. Write him ahead of time. I mean, then you've got them. I've got a Google spreadsheet going in which I'm just dumping possible posts or make the images that you're going to use have them all ready and just know what you're going to put out there so that you don't have to generate it while you're sort of feeling that 'Oh my God, I've been talking about this forever.'Jess Lahey 18:54 This week coming I believe is my copy edited manuscript and I have scheduled for when that has to go back in and then I'll have another date coming when I'll hopefully get my galley proofs. And my plan is to go to those looking at my copy edits with a highlighter so that I can highlight a few tweetable, Instagram-able, quotable things that I can make Canva cards for from the get go. Because I'm probably not gonna want to go through the manuscript to the fine tooth comb again, after I do it for all these edit things. So why not do both at the same time?KJ Dell'Antonia 19:30 I did that with the novel as well.Jess Lahey 19:34 So smart...KJ Dell'Antonia 19:35 Sarina, you do something a little different. You do sort of the 'Here's what you can expect to find', which I always think is really fun, which I am also doing now.Sarina Bowen 19:49 Well, Jess mentioned Canva cards, and let's just spend a minute on Canva, because it's a really useful tool of mine. Canva is a graphic design program at least that's what it calls itself. And there are many there's one called Crello there's several versions of this beast, PicMonkey, lots of places where you can use templates and make cute designs fairly easily even if you're not a Photoshop human. But what I love about Canva specifically, and I actually have the paid version of it, is not only is it good at designing stuff, but it will save it for you for later. So when I'm feeling it in terms of promoting my book, and I'm not sick of myself on a particular day, I can go into Canva and mess around with things like quotes from the book, or thank you for your support, or anything that has to do with that design. And you can actually make pages each Canva document, you can just duplicate the thing you made, and delete the quote and put in a new one. So it's really good at sort of holding your design brain in one spot.KJ Dell'Antonia 21:10 And you can resize it for something else. So you can duplicate it and then resize it into Twitter size, or Facebook size, or LinkedIn size, or Instagram story size, instead of Instagram post size.Sarina Bowen 21:25 Right. I think the resizing is part of the paid portion, or at least it used to be, but that was definitely something that I enjoyed getting after I became a whatever it's called pro member. It's not very expensive either. It's like, the whole year costs $200 or something like that. So Canva is definitely a great tool for when you're switching from Twitter to Facebook or you want to play around with a checklist. Those checklists you were just talking about that I make are also wonderful in Canva. And another thing I do if you have chapters in the book that you're launching, and those chapters have titles, I like to make countdown chapter titles because as you hurtle through that month towards your book launch, it's great to be newsy. And so I will make let's say, chapter eight of my book is called, 'Is that really a duck?' I will make a Canva card that says in eight days I will bring you chapter eight, 'Is that really a duck?' And then the next day, I'll have one to post that says, in seven days, I can bring you chapter seven, 'The duck went fishing', and on and on because I've taken the trouble to give my chapters funny titles or informational ones, and it just gives you something newsy to put out into the world as you count down to your terrifying book launch.KJ Dell'Antonia 23:04 I did that with nonfiction, too. I did it with How To Be a Happier Parent and it was fun and it was helpful and it was just it just felt like something to say. And I made little cards, and it kept me busy, and gave me something to say. Jess Lahey 23:25 I just want to underline this whole planning ahead thing, because if you are waiting until the very end to think about doing these things, you're going to just be so overwhelmed. So the clear message here is be thinking about text, tidbits, strategies, things you want to do ahead of time so that you're not overwhelming yourself the week of pub date.Sarina Bowen 23:45 Definitely.Jess Lahey 23:46 Because that would be insane.KJ Dell'Antonia 23:48 And let's talk a little about the goal of all of this. It's not going to sell millions of books, you're only probably reaching... So when you ask other people to share on social media, you're reaching their followers and when you're sharing you're mostly reaching your own followers and some retweets. But I think something important to remember is that people need to see the book more than once, usually before they head over and click and buy. And sometimes they don't even remember where they saw it or how they saw it, it just becomes familiar because you've posted a lot of imagery around it. But you haven't made it annoying, you've made it fun, you've made it entertaining. So when people see that title, when they're surfing a book site, or hopefully in a bookstore, it makes them go 'Oh yeah, I've been thinking about that one.' Jess Lahey 24:44 I definitely hear that a lot that you know, we've talked about this before, that it's the repetition and sometimes it's the second, third, or fourth time that someone says 'Oh yeah, that book that I meant to buy the first time I heard about it, but didn't.' KJ Dell'Antonia 24:57 So to some extent, that all means that if you don't do it during launch week is just an excuse to do it. If you don't do it during launch week, fine, the next week do something different, create a bunch of things, and start putting your book out there. We don't need to panic if we don't get it all out there on launch day.Jess Lahey 25:24 You know, what's so interesting about the social media thing too, is that there have been all kinds of attempts, there was that thunderclap thing that was a couple years ago where you'd ask people a favor to all tweet and post something to social media the same exact time and I don't think that that had any kind of effect and it was a huge amount of effort. And it sounded like you were getting something done, but I don't know that it actually had any major effect. So when we talk about these things that you're supposed to do on social media or that you could do on social media, we're not saying that you have to do all of these things and they're going to have a major impact on book sales. But every little bit, you know, can help. And as we always like to say, we don't want to get six months out from book release and say to ourselves, 'Oh, I could have done that other thing. I wanted to be able to say, we did all the things that were under our control that we could do to help our book do well on launch day. But that thunderclap thing was very weird, I think anyway.Sarina Bowen 26:26 It was an attempt to make virality happen where it wasn't destined to.Jess Lahey 26:33 Exactly, to force a lot of noise all at the same time in the hopes that it would catch fire. And I don't know, I just mixed metaphors. But I don't know that that was a particularly effective thing to do. And I like to be sparing and what I ask other people to do to help me out and being a part of something like that wasn't something I was particularly interested in.Sarina Bowen 26:54 Right. I don't think I once participated, but it was an interesting experiment.Jess Lahey 27:00 Alright, anything else that you want to add to this discussion about Twitter or Instagram?KJ Dell'Antonia 27:07 We didn't do Instagram...Sarina Bowen 27:09 We should do Instagram, which is growing faster than the other services that we've been talking about. Jess Lahey 27:17 Sorry, in my head I kind of thought we had sort of done Instagram because in my head I associate Canva with Instagram, so mentally I had gone there. So my apologies. Sarina, Instagram. Sarina Bowen 27:59 Instagram is a platform where sharing doesn't really happen very often. So you kind of have this one moment to put something visual and beautiful in front of people and hope that it sticks with them. But discovery on Instagram also works a little differently than it does on other platforms, which is that hashtags really matter on Instagram. So, before you are launching your book, you want to figure out what hashtags people are using who are looking at books like yours and I have a little collection of these I keep it handy.Jess Lahey 28:42 There's a lot of them for authors and writers and books on Instagram. There's a ton of them, so good for you having a list.Sarina Bowen 28:50 Well, I have several lists, honestly. So if I'm talking about my own book that's coming, I will use bookaddict, booknerd, bookworm, booklove, booklover, contemporaryromance, romancereads, IGreads, oneclick, alwaysreading, you get the idea. There's a lot of these.KJ Dell'Antonia 29:08 And let me guess that you have a list that is pastable. Sarina Bowen 29:11 Oh, yes.KJ Dell'Antonia 29:12 So where do you keep that? Sarina Bowen 29:14 I happen to keep it in notes, that little yellow app on all things Apple that is just really handy. But you could use Google Keep for this, you could use any program that you keep handy. KJ Dell'Antonia 29:26 I use Evernote and I have thought about using Keystrokes. Because since Instagram really requires that you use the phone. You know, you can't post to Instagram except on a phone. So if you go (in an iPhone, at least) into general, and you go to keyboard, you go to text replacement. You can make a series of letters and put them all in there and then when you type that series of letters they will all pop up. Sarina Bowen 31:00 KJ taught me this nifty trick because actually I use it on Instagram too, which is that I have thank you and some longer phrases for thank you spelled out in German, French, Italian, and Portuguese, because Instagram is a really international platform. And at least half the tags that people are using for me on Instagram are in German, honestly. God bless German instagramers. So I have three different German phrases saved in those Keystrokes that I apply when somebody takes some beautiful picture of my German book and tags me in the post so that I can be thankful without writing danka, danka, danka, danka all day long.Jess Lahey 31:50 Yeah, that's really brilliant. And I'm actually going to need your help because I got tagged in a couple of things that I needed a Portuguese thank you for and I didn't have it. So that's really smart and really thoughtful. Sarina Bowen 32:06 So, that whole keystroke thing and being made to create stuff on your phone is kind of a drag. Thanks, Instagram, you can actually hack your way around this by installing a Chrome plug-in that fools your Instagram into thinking you're on a mobile device when you're not...But my current setup is that I probably have the picture on my phone anyway because I use an iPad to create a lot of imagery, and then I type whatever I want onto my notes on a laptop, and then I just open it on my phone, and copy and paste, or I rely on Bluetooth to copy from one device and paste into another. Because I am never, ever composing an Instagram caption on my phone, my thumb's are not that good at typing, it's just not happening. So there are several ways to keep your Instagram feed looking good. And you don't need to do that. Like you don't need to become obsessive about the beauty of your Instagram feed. But, there are moments when I want to kind of work hard on this. So I have an app called Preview that I use to look at what the grid will look like before I post and some people use one called Planoly. And there's also Later which is a posting to Instagram app. And if you change your Instagram to a business account, you will be allowed to schedule via some of these third party things so that it could post automatically. I don't actually do that, I don't need to post Instagram so often that scheduling is super helpful for me. But I know that a lot of people like to do it that way.Jess Lahey 34:13 But if you want to see a beautiful Instagram account, go check out Sarina Bowen's Instagram account. The gold standard seems to be what some book bloggers and some romance readers in particular seem to do for the authors that they love, and the people who create these gorgeous Instagram posts for you just blow me away. I'm amazed by the kind of artful creations that your readers create, and that you create for your books. They're really beautiful.Sarina Bowen 34:45 They blow me away, too. KJ Dell'Antonia 34:47 Well, you can use those when someone else makes a beautiful image of your book or just makes an image of your book because my goodness, thank you very much. You can do a couple of things. You can post it to your story, which is only polite I think and quite common, but you can also use an app that will allow you to repost and in this case I use Repost. And if you're using an app like that, then when somebody else posts about the book, you can take their post and use it in your feed. Thus, you know, adding to your number of images that you have without you're having to create an image which is really cool. And there's the opportunity to sort of say, you know, thanks bookstagrammar for writing this lovely thing about my book, and then you can share the lovely thing.Jess Lahey 35:38 What's always weird is when someone thanks me for posting something beautiful they made about my book to my story, and I'm always like, 'Oh my gosh, thank you. This is the most beautiful thing ever. And it's such an incredible honor to be able to repost that.' So it's a wonderful, it's also just a great way to sort of connect with readers. I love it.Sarina Bowen 35:56 Repost and those apps also will copy the entire caption that the other person wrote...KJ Dell'Antonia 36:04 Including the hashtags.Sarina Bowen 36:07 Yeah, exactly. So that not only are you assured an easy way of giving credit to the person who created that thing, but it's very easy to share. So because we never want to get into trouble and have any creator think that we've stolen their work for our own. KJ Dell'Antonia 36:28 Yeah, that's the nice thing about using the app instead of screenshotting it, is that it makes it very clear where you got it. And it's just socially acceptable.Sarina Bowen 36:38 Yep. My other trick for working ahead on Instagram is that I don't commonly have more than a small handful of paperback arcs to give away ahead of the launch. So I went to Moo and I made a bunch of these beautiful five by seven postcards. Like I'll do like 150 five by seven postcards of the book cover. And I will mail them all over the world because like I said, Instagramers are very international. And then I will see those postcards pop up all over Instagram during launch as well. And they cost a lot less than a paperback arc and it's honestly really about the shipping, I can put $1.15 stamp on one of these cards and send it all the way to Australia, whereas shipping a book to Australia costs $25. KJ Dell'Antonia 37:38 And that sort of gets around you know, if you want to be sharing arcs, they can be digital, but there is something that people can take a picture of, which is really nice. People love having something to take a picture. I love having something to take a picture of. I don't do LinkedIn, but I have some friends that do it really well. And so I'm just gonna ask them when my book comes out will you post this on LinkedIn, please? But if you are a business writer, you probably should be.Sarina Bowen 38:22 Definitely.Jess Lahey 38:24 Absolutely. The business world is very much about LinkedIn. And you know, I will post things there but I actually don't see a ton of interaction with the stuff that I post there. So it's often an afterthought for me. Alright. Can we talk about what we've been reading? Pretty pretty, please. Sarina Bowen 38:53 Absolutely. Has anyone been able to read?KJ Dell'Antonia 39:00 I will note before we talk about what we've been reading that we didn't talk about Facebook.Jess Lahey 39:05 I think that's a whole long discussion in itself. I mean, that's just me, mainly because I hear Sarina talking about the stuff that she does there. And she's on a whole other level with Facebook and I sort of have the feeling that that's its own episode in and of itself.KJ Dell'Antonia 39:23 Okey dokey. There we go. Stay tuned. We got one more book launch thing to go. Jess Lahey 39:34 KJ you have been doing a beautiful, beautiful job, by the way, speaking of Instagram of talking about what you've been reading, and you've really done a great job of doing these capsule reviews of books, and you've sort of set a standard, I think, for me anyway for understanding how to do a really quick review of a book. So I just wanted to tell you that I have been appreciating those a lot.KJ Dell'Antonia 39:56 Why thank you, I'm actually planning to up that game. So, I've been creating a whole list of books that I want to make sure get shared. This is partly just the the whole let's help make book book launches still work. So I've got a whole great list of books that I want to share with people that are either books that I recommend and here's why, or books that I have had an arc of, or books that I'm super anxious to read. And I've been putting together ways to do that. So yeah, I've been having fun. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

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His Grace shares with us words from St. Dorotheos of Gaza and St. Macarius of Egypt about seeking guidance. St. Dorotheos of Gaza said: "In the Book of Proverbs it says, 'Those who have no guidance fall like leaves but there is safety in much counsel.'Take a good look at this saying, brothers. Look at what Scripture is teaching us. It assures us that we should not set ourselves up as guide posts, that we should not consider ourselves sagacious, that we should not believe we can direct ourselves. We need assistance, we need guidance in addition to God's grace. No one is more wretched, no one is more easily caught unawares, than a man who has no one to guide him along the road to God. It says, 'Those who have no guidance fall like leaves'. Leaves are always green in the beginning, they grow vigorously and are pleasing to look at. Then after a short time they dry up and fall off, and in the end they are blown about by the wind and trodden under foot. So is the man who is not guided by someone. At first he has great fervor about fasting, keeping vigil, keeping silence, and obedience and other good customs. Then after a short time the fire is extinguished and, not having anyone to guide him and strengthen him and kindle his fire again, he shrivels up and so, becoming disobedient, he falls and finally becomes a tool in the hand of his enemies, who do what they like with him." St. Macarius of Egypt said: "When Abba Macarius dwelt in the great desert, he was the only one living as an anchorite, but lower down there was another desert where several brothers dwelt. The old man was surveying the road when he saw Satan drawing near in the likeness of a man and he passed by his dwelling...The old man said to him, 'Where are you off to? 'He said, 'I am going to stir up the memories of the brethren.’..With these words he departed...The old man said, 'Ah, you did not find any friends down there?’ He replied, 'Yes, I have a monk who is a friend down there. He at least obeys me and when he sees me he changes like the wind.’ The old man asked him the name of this monk. 'Theopemtus,’ he replied. With these words he went away. Then Abba Macarius got up and went to the desert below his own...he inquired which was the one on the mountain called Theopemptus, and when he had found out he went to his cell. Theopemptus received him with joy. When he was alone with him the old man asked him, 'How are you getting on?’ Theopemptus replied, 'Thanks to your prayers, all goes well.’ The old man asked: 'Do not your thoughts war against you?’ He replied: 'Up to now, it is all right,’ for he was afraid to admit anything. The old man said to him, 'See how many years I have lived as an ascetic, and am praised by all, and though I am old, the spirit of fornication troubles me.’ Theopemptus said, 'Believe me, Abba, it is the same with me.’ The old man went on admitting that other thoughts still warred against him, until he had brought him to admit them about himself... He was watching the road once more when he saw the devil, to whom he said, 'Where are you going this time?’ He replied, 'To arouse the memories of the brothers,’ and he went away. When he came back the saint asked him, 'How are the brothers? 'He replied that it had gone badly. The old man asked him why. He replied, 'They are all obdurate, and the worst is the one friend I had who used to obey me. I do not know what has changed him, but not only does he not obey me anymore, but he has become the most obdurate of them all. So I have promised myself not to go down there again at least not for a long time from now.’ When he had said this, he went away leaving the old man, and the saint returned to his cell."

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The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake. Notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Bizet's opera Carmen. PODCAST NOTES: Bernie Kaminski is my guest (00:02), Bernie's amazing paper mache pop-cultural artwork (follow @berniekaminski for more) (2:00), Jason and Bernie's contrasting Little League experiences (7:00), Happy Days vs Media All Stars celebrity softball game excerpt (9:00), Matthau's incredible and heartbreaking dugout argument scene with Tatum O'Neal (10:30), Alternative casting: Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen (11:00), Walter Matthau 'quitting' scene (13:00), Matthau in 'The Taking of Pelham 123' (13:30), Bill Lancaster, screenwriter of 'Bad News Bears' and 'The Thing' (14:00), introduction of Kelly Leak scene 'Thanks, Mister' (17:00), Matthau's scene in the dugout where he's taking it too seriously (19:00), kids temperment as reflected in their jerky sideline parents at sporting events (22:00), Bernie's surprisingly impressive and underrated Little League career, including his score book from 1976 (24:00), Olgivie's baseball patch jacket in The Bad News Bears (27:30), 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' scene with Alfred Lutter as Tommy (28:00), 'Breaking Away' with Jackie Earle Haley (34:30), Jackie Earle Haley in 'Little Children' (37:30), William Devane in 'The Bad News Bears: Breaking Training' and the        uselessness of the sequels (39:00), great scene between Buttermaker and Ahmad Abdul Rahim in the tree after the loss to the Yankees (42:30), Beer can collecting in 1970s childhood (46:30), Bernie's Latch-Key TV selections.

Our guest today, Dan Blank, sure seems like a man who loves his work. On his own podcast, the Creative Shift, he’s a warm and engaged interviewer. In his emails, he’s genuine and engaged. Is he selling his book and his services as an advisor to authors developing their platform and launching their work into the world? Sure, but it never feels like he’s selling. It feels like he’s sharing.Wouldn’t we all like to feel like that, and have our readers see us that way? We were hoping Dan would share his magic sauce and we’d all go skipping off towards easy street down a rainbow path, but it turns out there’s some work involved here. So instead, we talked about process, from the way you manage your personal trolls to the way you manage your emails, and then we talked—buzzword alert—authenticity, and finding the things you genuinely want to share with the people who are a match for your work. (You can download Dan’s free guide, 5 Ways to Immediately Connect with Readers, here.)Episode links and a transcript follow, and that’s it for shownotes, because man has it been a couple of weeks. It’s been February for at least a year, right? And I thought January felt long. A few things you can do to help us out or get more #AmWriting:Review us in your podcast app.Join the #AmWriting Facebook GroupSupport us with a little cash, and get periodic #SupporterMini episodes (next week: #OutlineShortcut) and weekly #WritersTopFives every Monday that isn’t an unexpected school holiday that kicks my ass. FanFaves include Top Five Details to Flag in Your Publishing Contract and Top Five Ways to Win at Newsletter Subject Lines. As always, this episode (and every episode) will appear for all subscribers in your usual podcast listening places, totally free as the #AmWriting Podcast has always been. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it with the shownotes and a transcript every time there’s a new episode. LINKS FROM THE PODCAST#AmReading (Watching, Listening)KJ: Such a Fun Age, Kiley ReidHow Could She: A Novel, Lauren MechlingRed, White, & Royal Blue: A Novel, Casey McQuistonSarina: The Starless Sea: A Novel, Erin MorgensternDan: Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew RobertsBonus: Clementine, The Life of Mrs. Winston ChurchillOur guest for this episode is Dan Blank, and you can find more about him at We Grow Media.This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template.Find more about Jess here, Sarina here and about KJ here.If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.Transcript (We use an AI service for transcription, and while we do clean it up a bit, some errors are the price of admission here. We hope it’s still helpful.)KJ (00:00):Hey listeners, KJ here, if you're in with us every week, you're what I like to call people of the book. And some of us book people discover somewhere along the way that not only are we writers, we're people with a gift for encouraging other writers. Maybe that comes out in small ways for you, but for some of you, it's a calling and an opportunity to build a career doing work you love. Our sponsor, Author Accelerator provides book coaching to authors (like me) but also needs and trains book coaches. And if that's got your ears perked up, head to authoraccelerator.com and click on become a book coach. Is it recording?Jess (00:41):Now it's recording.KJ (00:43):Yay.Jess (00:43):Go ahead.KJ (00:44):This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone like I don't remember what I was supposed to be doing.Jess (00:48):Alright, let's start over.KJ (00:48):Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Now, one, two, three. I'm KJ Dell'Antonia and this is #AmWriting. #AmWriting is our podcast about writing all the things - fiction, nonfiction, essays, book proposals, all the things that I list every week because this is the podcast about sitting down and getting your writing work, whatever that is, done.Sarina (01:20):And I'm Sarina Bowen. I'm the author of 30-odd romance novels and my new one is called Heartland. You can find more about me at sarinabowen.com.KJ (01:31):I'm excited for Heartland. I was just crawling all over your website today for no apparent reason. Anyway, I am KJ Dell'Antonia. I am the author of The Chicken Sisters, a novel coming out in June of 2020, as well as How To Be a Happier Parent, which is out in hardback now and in paperback this summer. And I am excited to say that we have a guest today. So let me just introduce him. Our guest is Dan Blank. He's so many things that I don't know what to put first, so don't judge me by how I rank these. But he is the host of The Creative Shift podcast, the author of Be the Gateway: A Practical Guide to Sharing Your Creative Work and Engaging an Audience, the creator and wunderkind behind the We Grow Media Organization, and a man with a true passion for what he likes to call a human centered approach to reaching your audience. And I would have to say that Dan has a human centered approach to everything. So, welcome Dan.Dan (02:32):Thank you for the lovely introduction. I appreciate that.KJ (02:36):You're welcome. A couple of weeks to go. We recorded an episode on what we do all day and you don't have to convince either of us that the most important thing that we do is create. But we both struggle to put that first sometimes because of all the other stuff that feels pressing. And all that other stuff is mostly about marketing, and promoting ourselves and our work, and getting it out in the world and communicating with our editors or agents or audio book recorders or cover designers - just so much stuff. So we are hoping to have kind of a two-part conversation with you: if getting the work out in the world is the second most important thing, how do we do that better and smarter instead of just chasing shiny new opportunities and how can we get it done? And full disclosure here, before I stop talking, I think that you love connecting your work with people or at least it feels that way to me. And Sarina and I both would like to feel that way. So I have dubbed this #HowToLovePromotingYourWork. And that's not a challenge or anything. I did not ask you a question. How can we start? What should be my first question?Dan (03:59):To me, it always starts with clarity. And I totally agree with you, that for a writer it begins with their craft. It begins with what they create, why they create it, and of course their ability to do so. And then from that, it's about the idea of connecting it with people. I find that a lot of people absolutely do what you say, they struggle to create because of all the other important things in life. And sometimes it is distracting. Like going on a co-host website for no reason and just spending time there, which I do all the time. But a lot of times it's critically important things like kids, and job, and to feeding your family, and that sort of thing. So when I think of the idea of productivity and getting writing done, a lot of what I think about is that battle for clarity. Of knowing what is the most important thing, and knowing it in your bones, and having made decisions around it. And I think if you don't have that first, then it's very difficult to start weighing things in your day. Of like, well I should volunteer for that, I should do this, maybe let me just check that out, and someone told me about that book let me check that out, or let me get back to email. So the place I like to start is talking about clarity, but I'm not sure if that's starting too far back for you.Sarina (05:23):I would love to jump in and tell you that you're already saying some things to me that really resonate. Because my relationship to productivity and to my clarity of purpose has changed so much over the last five years and not in a healthy way. And I'm sort of struggling to go back to where I was. Well, I started writing romance novels out of frustration about five years ago, because the things that I had been working on were not working, not finding a market. And so I wrote the first couple just out of joy and just for fun. And I accidentally became a romance novelist because the moment that my first romance came out, then I found success. So everything started to work for me. But the problem is now that my relationship to that work has changed so much because of reader expectations. And now my inbox is full of people who want things from me. Whereas, when I first started writing these stories, they were just for me. I mean, I had the hope that somebody would read them, but now I literally get messages every day from people who are demanding that I do a particular thing next. And it's really messed me up a little bit. You know, when I sit down in front of my computer in the morning now, I have all those voices in my head and they want certain things to happen in my fictional worlds and they want certain books next. But I'm on deadline on this other one. And you know, cry me a river, right? Because I have an engaged audience, but sometimes it's too loud.Dan (07:19):Yeah. I mean, KJ knows this about me. I work in a small studio here in New Jersey and on one of the walls is nothing but photos of artists, and writers, and musicians who inspire me. And I pick photos of them when they are either very young, before they've had success, or when they're sort of in that moment of risk. And I stare at them all day. And you talking about that thing that a lot of people have, which is I don't want to write to an audience, but I want to feel that my life is filled with an audience. And how to navigate that is a tricky thing. And as I look at that wall right now, I think of how all of these other creators had to deal with that, too. You come out with a successful album, or painting, or show, or performance, or book and you're immediately thrilled at the success and then saddled with that success. And you're also talking about not just in your head, you're talking about, it's like infiltrating your day through email, and probably through private messages, and things like that.Sarina (08:20):Yeah.Dan (08:24):Now we will get to the crying. I mean the first thing I think about that, is the ability to compartmentalize it. And sometimes that is a system you create. So you have a virtual assistant who is actually in your inbox and moves things to different places so that you're not always confronting them at a bad moment. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to sort of reframe feedback from readers almost in a community marketing role. So you're expecting this. And the way I like to think about that is to have a process. Because if we think about anyone, JK Rowling, anyone who has a big fan base, and all day long fans come up and tell them about their life there's a real emotional baggage to that. Let alone if they're saying, why don't you do this, why don't you do that? If it's reframed as this is a marketing role, this is a reader connection role, this is a me being there for people role. In a background way that might be a way to compartmentalize it in your mind, but then the service that you're doing of engaging with them, it's a whole different thing. You have a process by which to process that. And again, I think KJ knows this from from my work, but I have this little thing I call creativity cave trolls and it's basically anything that distracts you, takes you off of your clarity. And I imagine that this is one of those cave trolls for you. And the whole concept behind it is not that you want to kill the troll, the troll will always be there. It's sort of this dumb, lumbering thing that will always be a part of your life. And the way that you manage that is that you build a system to manage it. You're always going to get these emails so let's plan for those emails and let's find a way to process them. Again, it could be hiring someone, it could be flagging them in your inbox, and you deal with them only on Mondays from 4:00 to 8:00 PM. Or you have a script that you use, something where if you know they're going to come and take you off track, we find a way to process them. And then hopefully that would give you more mind space to create and then fewer things to take you way off the rails.KJ (10:40):And I think that we all struggle with that inbox full of demand. Whether it's reader demand, like Sarina gets, or editor demand, or school volunteer demand, or just all the things. My inbox right now is full of direct messages from social media and many of them there were, 'Yeah, I sure I would love to be on your podcast, actually.' But they all require sort of a processing time that is very real and that's so annoying. Why can I not just process them in the amount of time that it takes to read them? That's a little crazy, but it's just like, why does it take me 40 minutes to crank through three emails?Dan (11:35):Can I really dig into email? Is that okay? Cause I'm so passionate about this. Okay, so I know this is another thing KJ and I've talked about in the past, which is my philosophy that your inbox is not a to do list. And the problem I think a lot of people have with email is they ask for it to do too many things. And it's one channel. So a number of ways to even think about what you just said. And that's to: one, turn off the notifications. If they're going to go to Instagram, or going to go to Twitter, let them go to Instagram and Twitter. Don't also have them pop into email because then that's a bottleneck for everything. Another way to kind of lighten the load is to think about having different inboxes for different purposes. So one thing that I do is I have almost every newsletter that I get (and I get a ton of newsletters cause I kind of study them) I have an email inbox (a Gmail account) just for newsletters. So the email that I use every day gets almost no newsletters. And I unsubscribe from everything. You know, if I buy something from Guitar Center and they accidentally put me on their newsletter list, I actively unsubscribe from things, I actively route things to different inboxes. And the idea is the fewer things I have to even look at and sort through, the more clarity I have to manage the things that are there. So that's sort of the first thing I would say with email and the second thing is, again to sort of have a process to process the inbox. So I'm one of those really, really, really annoying people who's basically always at inbox zero. And that's because I'm always offloading things from email. So the super quick version of what I do is I don't consider my inbox my inbox. I use Apple mail and they have like a flag folder and Gmail has a star folder. So right then and there when I open up email and they all pop in in the morning, I don't really read them, I flag emails that I have to look at. So everything I don't flag just goes into the endless archive. I don't worry about deleting them, I don't move them into folders and pretend that I'm like a librarian of my inbox cause that takes a lot of time and decision making power. Then I just go to my flagged folder and there are just the 16 emails I flagged let's say that day. And from what I do then is I try to process what I can quickly. Like if I can just do a one word or a one line reply back, I do that. And for anything more, if it's client saying, 'Oh, can we do it out here and I'm gonna add this to our agenda', I move it out of email, I put it in the folder I have for that client. I move it into another working process, I don't keep it in the inbox. And for things I can't process right away either I leave it in there until later in the day or I email that person and say, 'Thanks, I'm going to get back to you within 48 hours on this.' So I always take action on it and where I can't take action, I at least set an expectation that I see you and you will hear back from me at a certain time. And that sort of has worked wonders for my inbox. It's been a very long time since I've ever worried about email because that system works for me. So I typically end the day with a totally empty flags folder.Sarina (15:05):Huh. I love how analytical that is because it seems like maybe I could manage that as I'm analytical about most everything, but I also hear you sort of saying that I should just get over my anger at some of the things that people email me.Dan (15:24):Yeah, I mean I think that there's such a power, there's such an energy that it takes and I like the idea of how do we flip that? How do we have a script that we can send to these people? How do we have a thing in your website that says how you deal with it?Sarina (15:39):Oh, I have the thing, it's just that people don't pay attention. It says in beautiful pink letters right above my contact form. Like, 'Due to the volume of questions Sarina cannot respond to questions about publication plans, audio plans, paperback dates, et cetera. Between the newsletter and upcoming releases we have you covered. Thank you for understanding.' And every day I get an email that just says, when is the audio book coming out? Or something like that. But it's partly this, I've had to cross this little personal rubicon where pretty much before last year I really believed that everyone who reached out to me with a question deserved an answer, and promptly. Because that person's about to throw down $15 for my audio book. And then I just had to come to a place of, 'Well, I won't ever produce another thing again if I'm always answering that question.'KJ (16:38):It's not a bad problem to have.Sarina (16:41):I saw it as a problem.KJ (16:42):I know you do.Sarina (16:44):Well, I actually don't respond anymore to that particular question and I definitely do not respond anymore to, 'Is there ever going to be another book about so-and-so?' Because, like I've said, I've reached this place where I can't actually reply to everything or I won't finish the writing goal of the day, but it feels bad not to tell that invested person that I can't answer your email. Except it says right over the contact form basically click here to see all the public plans. Like, if you're curious about a thing, here is the page for that. So yeah, I'm a little stuck.KJ (17:38):I know you have a virtual assistant, they could just weed those for you and have a canned response that says what the pink letters say, only friendly, not that pink letters aren't friendly. And then you would know like, okay those people all got an answer that basically said nothing, but I didn't have to do it. When I was getting my New York Times emails, I had somebody do that for some of the years, depending on the years, just, you know, volume of submissions, blah blah blah. Because I did feel like everyone deserved at least a basically automated response. It's hard, cause arguably everyone doesn't deserve a response. It's sort of like the social media direct messages for me. And that's an interesting one, Dan. Cause I don't actually ever go on this particular platform, but I have such a large following there that I don't want to shut it down. That's why the Twitter dm's come and my assistant handles most of them, but these were all things she couldn't handle. Somebody who was cleaning it out, but I don't know. I mean you've probably thought of that and there may be reasons that you haven't done it, or haven't done it yet.Sarina (18:55):Well, I have somebody on some of these platforms. But of course Facebook makes it difficult.KJ (19:04):Yeah, Facebook won't let you.Sarina (19:05):Yeah. Like if I share with my Canadian assistant, my login, then Facebook will flag me as not a real human.KJ (19:16):Really, Facebook messages are like the bane of my...that should have an audit. You should be able to have an automated response that basically says, 'I don't do Facebook messages.' or you should be able to turn it off.Sarina (19:28):Well, Instagram is actually even worse because they pile all of the actual messages in with so-and-so reacted to your story or whatever.KJ (19:38):Yes, that's a new thing that people can like make a little clapping sound under your story, which is fine. That's delightful, clap for my story. But now it's in my dm's and yeah.Sarina (19:49):Well, at the risk that I've just spent the last 10 minutes sounding like a horrible human who doesn't like having invested readers, I did listen to your podcast, Dan, when you were helping someone who was a nonfiction author, develop a more authentic relationship with her Facebook following and she was, I believe, a client of yours. And her topic was something very accessible, but also sort of serious, which was divorced, I believe. And you said the word authentic enough times when I was listening to it that I thought, 'Okay, okay.' So this is another lesson I need to take from you. And basically after I listened to that episode, I cut out a bunch of the things I was doing on social media that didn't feel authentic to me. And I basically came home and I wrote a list of when do I feel the most authentic in my social media communication. And then I just hammer that list lately. Like those are the things we're doing now because I feel the best about them. And I was left wanting to hear how that might change when you're dealing with people who write fiction though, because obviously somebody who counsels others who are going through a divorce has a very one-to-one relationship with helping that person. And since all marketing is sort of problem solving, but the problem I'm solving for you is just that you have something to read this weekend and you didn't before, so it's a more tenuous relationship with that follower. And I just wondered - you must have thought of this and I was curious about it.Dan (21:46):Yeah, I was thinking of this and I think it was maybe in Jennie Nash's newsletter this morning. She referenced like a Harry Potter podcast whose tagline was something like, 'We don't read for escape, we read to become more human or to more fully, you know, be a part of life.' And whenever I think of like a novelist, or even a memoir writer, I think of that. Which is, to me, it's not just about escape, it's about connecting to something within someone, a worldview, part of their identity, a theme, a possibility in life. And I think about how for a novelist that can be a part of what they share. And I also think a lot about the duality here, which is the author is not the work. You know, the work is the work and the person behind it is the person. Yet as a fan of a book, or a fan of a theme, or a story, or something like that, we can get engaged with the person behind it. And that's why we love seeing cat photos or dog photos of an author who doesn't write about cats or dogs. And we have little in jokes that aren't part of the book, they're a part of that. And I think about sometimes there's a crossover. There are things that novelists can share that is about the identity and about the worldview. So if you pick just big obvious themes about love, or friendship, or duality, or commitments, or whatever, you can think of lots of little things that one can share that they align with, the reader aligns with, and also kind of fits with stories. But I also think it is about being what you want to see in the world. The word authentic I think is a very challenging one, cause we like to think it's just what we want to do. It's like who we are. But authentic, you've got to be careful with that, too. Like what is authentic? If we were being authentic, we'd all be wearing pajamas right now. You know, we'd be in big comfy chairs, there'd be ice cream surrounding us, that's very authentic to how we'd like to be. But we're all probably wearing more regular clothing, we're sitting in a desk chair, we're sitting up cause we're on a podcast. And I think that we get to filter how we're authentic online. And I think that with this question or what you're sharing here and I'm thinking about, and even your other one, I think a lot about Bruce Springsteen. Partly because I'm from New Jersey and partly because the few times I've been actually right next to him, I'm surrounded by mobs of fans, and behind them are fans, behind them are fans, behind them are fans. And here's someone like you, who doesn't have enough time to get to everyone and he's had to find a way to be okay with that. And he is (to me) the great construct of an image of authenticity. He has an authenticity he's showing you that is true, but it's also a filter of what's authentic.Sarina (24:52):Yeah, well sometimes my readers help figure out these themes for me.Dan (24:59):Oh wow.Sarina (25:01):So well, yeah. So, of course I write in series and my series tend to have certain themes running through them. One of them is hockey, one of them is Vermont. So people will post in my Facebook group, news stories all the time that remind them of little things that have happened in those books. Like this past weekend, a goalie made a goal for his team by basically flipping the puck all the way down the entire length of the ice and scoring. So, when things happen that are newsy, those things will turn up in my reader group. And so people help me identify what are those external, internal. Like the blend of what people take away from fiction and put there. And for example, I had a book three books ago where a character's avatar was Lobster Shorts because of his picture. And he was known as Lobster Shorts for the entire book and people have been posting lobster printed clothing items since the day that book came out. So sometimes I get a leg up on what it is that people are charmed by or taking away from the stories, but sometimes it's mysterious to me and I have to sort of blunder my way through the conversation to figure out what's resonating and what's not.KJ (26:38):Well, I was looking at some notes from our interview with Marika Flatt a couple of weeks ago. And she had had this thing on her website about finding the theme of your work. Like the huge theme, not the individual theme for books. And I had was writing down sort of samples for me and samples for you. And I had written something like that your theme is romance can be hard but fun or something like that. Like, you know, it's complicated, but there's a joy in it and a humor in it. And to me, that's what comes across in your social media and that's what's authentic about your writing and your connection - is that there is always the humor. I mean, joy may not be the right word, cause sometimes it's kind of a snarky humor. But yeah, finding the funny in tough situations, to me, that's part of your brand.Sarina (27:38):Well that's the thing is it's great when people help you figure out what your brand is. But from where I sit, I'm looking at other romance authors and I see so much that's really not me. Like some romance authors, they're part of their brand or their family is part of their brand. And I'm more private than that, I don't share that much. It's possibly because I'm older and more circumspective, didn't grow up in a sharing culture, but I do struggle with that, too.KJ (28:13):What, with what you're not?Sarina (28:15):Well, just that I'm reluctant to share things that other people might share.Dan (28:19):One thing I look at a lot online is people that seem to be sharing so much as I really try to see, well where are their boundaries? And I'll notice things where someone has a big following and they're sharing their family, sharing their home, and their spouse, and their kids. And on that, well where are their boundaries? And if I look for them, I often see them where it's like, oh, they do share their kids, but it's never more than once a week. It's not always, but often a profile view, or it's at home and they never mention where they live, or the school, they mention them by nickname, they share their home, but it's only in a certain way. It's one thing I like to think a lot about is the agency that everyone needs to choose what and how they share online. Because I agree with you. Everyone needs to have their own boundary and it's a different place for everyone. And I like to think of it as an opportunity to define - you know, I'm going to share this interesting part of myself, whether people care about it or not, because who I am. And I'll share a little bit of this other thing, but only so far. And I think of that even in the offline world with polite conversation with how people talk and introduce themselves and how they're open and they're open to a certain degree so that they can get along and feel human, but then they protect the things that they feel should not be for public consumption either.KJ (29:43):So Dan, one of the things that I have done because of you and that I respect about you, is that you are really big on finding pretty much exactly what it is that we're talking about here. That authentic thing that we want to share or sort of the flip side of that is the audience that we want to reach. And by that you don't mean, you know women aged 18 to 35 living in big cities. You know, you mean who are we and who are we trying to reach? And you have some sort of ways to help people get at that. Can you talk about how we can figure out what our theme and our audience is if we're struggling with it?Dan (30:35):Yeah, there's a lot to take into there. I think in general, you wanna allow your audience to surprise you in a positive way. And I think sometimes we put up these rules about what we're not, and that closes us off to what we are or what we can be. So, one easy place to begin with this, and I'm not sure if this is too simple, but a lot of writers I speak to, they don't know where they fit in the marketplace. They don't know who their comparable books or comparable authors are. And they feel disconnected from social media because they feel they started too late. Is a conversation there a little too far back or is that okay?KJ (31:17):No, that's a good place to start. And let me just say that everyone feels like they started too late on social media.Sarina (31:25):That's true.Dan (31:25):Yeah. It's funny, this is something that I'm working into my next book and it was a part of the mastermind I run. Which is a couple of weeks in, I used to do a little video saying, 'Oh you're not behind.' And I noticed everyone loved that and I started moving it up and now I actually share that video the day before we start the mastermind. Because I found that even on day one, hour one, people now come in feeling behind from a lot of things in life and it already sort of makes their experience of things so much more difficult cause it's like showing up to a beautiful retreat and on day one you walk in and you already think everyone else knows what they're doing. They're dressed better than I am. They know where to go. Like it's sort of casts a shadow on the whole thing. So in terms of what you're about, I guess there's two main ways I think about it. One is internal and one is external. The internal way is I have a lot of different exercises I go through with people to get real clarity about what do you care about, what would you fight for, what would you rather spend time on more than anything else. So I have a process called clarity cards and it's really this idea of looking at not just what you create, but your whole life and thinking what matters to me. And some of that is task-driven. It's you know, your family, your health. But some of it is I've had so many people go through this and there's a lot on there that is about their fiction, and about their memoir, and about their nonfiction work. And what they're doing is getting really clear of this is who I am, this is what I believe, this is what I write about, but this is also why I spend my time there.KJ (33:02):Can you give us an example, without sort of calling out a person? Like what would be one of those themes that might pop up on these cards?Dan (33:12):I'll use myself as an example, cause it's the easiest thing to do with no preparation. You know, for myself, I am an introverted germaphobe who is scared of going out and doesn't travel cause I'm scared to fly. Yet I have this business where I work with writers and it's typically more in the marketing end of things. So, what that means when I look at that (and I tried to describe that really pathetically) so when you look at the themes that I care about, well because I genuinely care about people who create, it's writers and it's not just writers, it's people who create. Because I feel like if you're doing that, you are advancing our culture and you are taking a risk that other people are not. So you are my people. So one, I'm already defining it there. It's not just I help writers with marketing. It's the deeper why of why do I spend all my time? Why is my wife an artist? Why have all my friends growing up been artists and writers, photographers and performers all day now? I'm at 10 years of this company and all I do is talk to writers and creators. So it's that drive part of it. It's not just I help writers market things. It's the deeper why there. Then, I look at how you started this conversation, which is if we're not creating, nothing else can happen. So what I think a lot about is the creative process and like the photos on the wall here, I meditate on this idea of having clarity of what you create and embracing, of going all in. And when I look at stories of writers, or performers, or creators, I look at the ways where they did have to isolate themselves. They had to sacrifice, they had to have the world laugh at them, laugh at their idea, and persist anyway, and only later did they see what the genius was. Also because I believe in the creative process, I mean I'm working a few blocks from where I live. I have a very small life geographically and other things I kind of said tongue in cheek before (Oh, I don't like to fly. I don't like to go out.) well that's allowed me to embrace this idea of having a life that's dedicated to my family. I'm either with them or I'm here working with writers. So in a way that's a very small life. And what it means is that I've had to say no to a lot of things because I want to embrace those two things as fully as I can. So to summarize, if you look at my Instagram, or my newsletter, or my podcast, you see those themes coming up. It's who I am and that gives me a lot of latitude to not just say, 'This is the marketing for writers podcast where we teach you how to sell, sell, sell.' Which, sure, it's part of what I do, but it's maybe paper thin when you think about all the things holding that up and all the things that I love talking to writers about. And that's what I think gives me, you said this very generously earlier, which is like you seem to love what you do. And I do. And that's why I love what I do, because I've just explored - if I don't like to go out, and I don't like to fly, and I do this job marketing with writers, like how is that the thing that fuels me? And I wake up super excited to do this work.KJ (36:31):It is so hard to take the time to work through that thought process. But it's really, I think, important and rewarding and also a great thing to think about at the start of a new year and a new decade. Going back and revisiting if we feel like we've already done it, to go back and try to find those themes and find that clarity. I'm loving this as a general thought. So to bring it all back home to this question of, okay, how can we love marketing our work? I can answer that for you, but I want you to answer it.Dan (37:13):If you know why you create, if you make creating a priority in your life, which does mean a lot of decision making and turning down other potential obligations, and you believe that the work that you are creating has a purpose and that can be a lower case P, it can be an uppercase P for you, that this work can and will connect with someone, and you care about this for all whatever deep reasons you have, sharing that work is your ability to just communicate that, to just say, this is what I believe and why, and I'm sharing it with good intentions and not shoving it down your throat. As the idea of wanting to fill your life, not just with, I wrote these books and they're on a shelf at a store, but living the life of a writer is someone who fills their life with moments, and experiences, and other people who care about these themes, or these types of work, or the conversations you have. And I think that does look different for everyone. But in general, it's not just about how do we get it done. It's how do we build a life that feels fulfilling in what we create, how we share that with other people, how we connect with them, and how that comes back around. And I firmly believe that creative work is complete when someone else experiences it. Because half of that work is what you intended and half of that work is what the reader brings to it. And I think that that is utterly, totally, completely magical.KJ (38:50):I love that. And magic is my word of the year. So, now I'm especially delighted that we're sort of wrapping up on that note. So, to shift gears, I forgot to warn you, but I hope you remember that we ask everyone what they've been reading and loving of late and to give you a moment to regroup, Sarina will start. Ha ha, you're on the hotspot.Sarina (39:22):I am digging into The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.KJ (39:27):Oh, I have that! Is it good?Sarina (39:28):You know, the beginning is great.KJ (39:31):I just finished Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid and I am currently reading a book called How Could She and I forget who the author is. And I'm having this really interesting experience that maybe even gets down to what we've been talking about, which is that I don't like the people in either of these books. I don't think you're meant to, if I'm not enjoying a book on some level, if I'm not getting something out of it, and if it's not well done, if it's not fulfilling, I don't finish. And I 100% finished Such a Fun Age and I'm gonna finish the one that I'm reading right now, but in both of them, they both really center around people with what I would call kind of a sour view of life.KJ (40:40):And in a lot of cases, a sour view of pretty good lives. Now Such a Fun Age has a lot of characters that are hugely demographically different. It's got themes of race, and class, and money. So not every character is sour about their privilege, but none of the people in these books feel very hopeful. And so I'm not having very much fun with them, even though I'm reading them. And I don't quite know what to make of that. They are more challenging than reading, you know Red, White, and Royal Blue, which is so, so totally on my bedside table and I'm super looking forward to. So I guess there's that, there's different themes. But yeah, it is this question of do you spend more time reading about characters that you would actually like to spend time with or characters that you maybe have a different life outlook and maybe you want to know more about? Maybe that's where I am with those. It isn't that I don't recommend, I wouldn't mention the book if I didn't like it. It's just, it's a different kind of liking. It's a weird kind of liking. Your turn.Dan (41:57):My turn. I'm 200 pages into the thousand page biography on Churchill called Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts.KJ (42:08):And do we like this? Do we want to spend more time with Churchill?Dan (42:14):It's interesting really, for probably the reasons you just said, a very complex character, very complex era. And this is a newer biography and it seemed to be the one that balanced (by all the reviews I could read) a lot of different thoughts, recent things that have come out, new archives that were not available earlier. So it seemed to be a very recent, modern take on a very complex subject.KJ (42:46):I just heard about a book that was about Churchill's wife and it's new and I am trying to find it, but I am stymied by the fact that there are actual human beings named Anna Churchill, and I think her name was Ana. Just throwing that out there and I'll find it for the show notes that there's apparently an interesting - I actually don't even know if it's sort of a fictionalized version or if it's a biography, but that she was apparently a really, really interesting character. So you can follow up, if you need more Churchill. Alright. Well, this was great. We really appreciate it. Before we sign off, tell people where they can find you and what you've got going on right now.Dan (43:40):You can find me on my blog at wegrowmedia.com. The podcast is called The Creative Shift with Dan Blank. Social media @Danblank and I have a little Facebook group called The Reader Connection Project that I've been doing a lot of teachings recently on social media for writers. We have a thousand writers in there, you're welcome to join. And I do a lot of different programs on the idea of how to connect with your readers and all the different facets around that from marketing, to book launches, social media websites, and then even what we've talked about a lot here, which is productivity for writers. So you can check all that out. Thank you.KJ (44:26):I'm going to give a co-sign to the idea of signing up for your weekly email because it is really good, and really heartfelt, and an excellent example of the genre, which I guess wouldn't be surprising since you read a lot of them. Sarina, you want to take us out?Sarina (44:45):I will, right after I sign up for Dan Blank's weekly email. I would like to remind you all to keep your butt in the chair and your head in the game. This episode of #AmWriting with Jess and KJ was produced by Andrew Parilla. Our music, aptly titled unemployed Monday was written and performed by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their services because everyone, even creatives should be paid. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

Kari and Cameron look back at the 1998 bookish rom-com, You've Got Mail, with their reboot! Join us as we discuss Dave Franco, taking off your top and getting killed by Greg Kinnear, and old T-Hanks himself! Sadly, we do not touch on Kathleen Kelly's IMPECCABLY hip fashion sensibilties. Shout out to Film Crawl and Ltd Engagement!Follow us on Instagram and TwitterIntro and outro music courtesy of HookSounds.comLogo designed using Canva

We close out each year by sharing the stories of all God has done in the lives of people in our community. As each person shares, we respond: 'Thanks be to God!'

We close out each year by sharing the stories of all God has done in the lives of people in our community. As each person shares, we respond: 'Thanks be to God!'

“You don’t have to be intersex to be able to relate to my story. Everyone is going through something they don’t feel like they can share. This story is for them as well."Kendra LittleGrowing up in the late 1970's there was no conversation around gender identity. You were either male or female. Period, end of discussion.Times have changed. The way we currently think about gender has evolved. Each day brings greater mainstream awareness to its non-binary nature -- and the innate fluidity of gender roles and identity.Take a moment to imagine the experience of being intersex -- a condition in which an individual is born with genetic variations on conventional sex characteristics.Now imagine trying to navigate the world from this non-binary biological disposition.This is the story of Kendra Little.Raised as a girl, at age 12 Kendra learned that she was born with something called androgen insensitivity syndrome, a variation of intersex that affects between 2 to 5 out of 100,000 people. The news prompted Kendra to isolate. Adopting a hormone protocol on the advice of her doctors, she remained a ‘girl’, proceeded to never discuss her condition with anybody and dove headlong into sports -- a place where she excelled and felt at home.But eventually the emotional dissonance between her true self and that which she held out to the world became too much to bear, prompting her to walk away from a promising career as a professional golfer. But that disconnect ultimately catalyzed an amazing journey of self-discovery -- and eventually wholeness.Now able to fully embrace her own unique identity (very recently I might add), Kendra is publicly sharing her story -- with both courage and pride. The intention isn't self-serving, but motivated by a genuine desire to change the way we think about non-binary gender constructs. To bring comfort to those ashamed of how they were born. And to openly permit sharing the many forms of loneliness, pain and shame so many of us keep hidden.This past July, Kendra tweeted me a video entitled Becoming More -- her story in mini-doc form created by Uninterrupted, LeBron James’ production company.I click play. Instantly, I’m captivated by Kendra’s appearance. Her facial features present as simultaneously male and female. She's both, but also neither. Kendra is truly her own unique form of humanity. But her appearance is quickly eclipsed by her strength and vulnerability -- and the compelling narrative that unfolds.I knew immediately this was a special person I wanted to know better. A fascinating story I wanted to help tell. And quite honestly, a subject matter of social importance and cultural relevance I wanted to better understand.So here we are. Kendra, I honor you for your courage in trusting me with this conversation, a privilege I don't take lightly.You can watch it all go down on YouTube (seeing Kendra helps contextualize the exchange). And as always, the conversation streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.This one is special. May it be as enjoyable and enlightening as it was for me.Peace + Plants,Listen, Watch & Subscribe Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Spotify | Stitcher | Google PodcastsThanks to this week’s sponsorsAudible: With more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products, you’ll find what you’re looking for. Rich Roll listeners are entitled to a FREE audiobook and 30-day trial today by signing up at audible.com/richroll or text RICHROLL to 500-500Calm: The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep with 100+ guided meditations covering anxiety, focus, stress, sleep, relationships and more. Plus 7-day and 21-day programs for both beginner and advanced users. 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For a complete list of all RRP sponsors and their respective vanity url's and discount codes, visit my Resources page and click "Sponsors".SHOW NOTESConnect with Kendra: Website | Facebook | Twitter | InstagramUninterrupted: Becoming MoreUSA Today: Former pro golfer Kendra Little describes gender-identity struggle and why she left sportPortland Tribune: Kendra Little goes public as intersex athleteGolf Week: Former pro golfer shares her journey struggling with gender identity and why she left the sportVox: “I am a woman and I am fast”: what Caster Semenya’s story says about gender and race in sportsNY Times: Caster Semenya Barred From 800 Meters at World ChampionshipsGuardian: Semenya loses landmark legal case against IAAF over testosterone levelsGuardian: Caster Semenya is a victim of rules that are confusing and unfairWashington Post: What are the issues behind the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in Caster Semenya case?The Sun: Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya ‘does have advantage'Thanks to Jason Camiolo for production, audio engineering, interstitial music and show notes; Margo Lubin and Blake Curtis for video, editing and graphics. 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Check out our NEW Patreon page! Pick any tier to receive exclusive content! Patreon page link: https://found.ee/JessimaePeluso-PatreonThis week, we welcome, executive producer, semi professional dancer, stand up comedian, Heidi Heaslet to discuss the meaning of success, what to do with new money, growing up without parents, and we feature our new favorite segment "Carpe DMs". We get 'wet and reckless,'Thanks to our sponsors ABSOLUTE EXTRACTS for keeping us elevated. Use code "JESSIMAE" for 15% off your ENTIRE order of ANY Absolute Extracts products from www.EAZE.comFor all things Heidi Heaslet:www.instagram.com/TheRedHeadHeidi For all things Jessimae:www.Jessimae.com

Lagusta Yearwood founded Lagusta’s Luscious, an artisinal vegan chocolate company in 2003. Over the last 16 years, she has grown the chocolate business into 3 brick-and-mortars— a chocolate shop and a café in New Paltz, New York, and a sweets shop in Manhattan’s East Village. She also just came out with a brand new cookbook titled SWEET + SALTY: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels and More.Lagusta and Julia talk about Lagusta's businesses, her book, the complication of operating a business while also questioning capitalism, the power of listening to your employees and developing systems, knowing how and when and why to grow, and how to navigate working with friends.Follow-up links:Lagusta's podcast 'Thanks in Advance'Lagusta's LusciousLagusta's book Sweet + Saltythe Smoky Corn-on-the-Cob Chocolate Bar Lagusta mentionedHow to Not Always Be Working, the book Lagusta mentionedWoodstock Animal SanctuaryNow & Again, Julia's latest cookbook which includes her recipes for matzo ball soup and turkey meatloaf!Great Jones (remember to use the code 'CALM' for 15% off!!)

Ep 28 - 'Thanks mum for changing my life!' the incredible Nadine Moelleken chats with Sue & James about her weight loss success! From New Zealand to Germany, how a recommendation from your mum can change your life! Check Nadine Moelleken's amazing weight loss success photos on the Facebook support group. Click here for more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/376902025707531/ DOWNLOAD THE APP NOW! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/12-weeks-to-wow-fast-weight-loss-hypnosis/id1190413254?ls=1&mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.hantshypno.wow FIND OUT MORE HERE: https://www.hantshypno.co.uk/ https://www.portsmouthhypnotherapy.co.uk/ https://www.farehamcounsellingcentre.co.uk/ https://www.southamptonhypnotherapy.co.uk/

As long as texting has existed there have been accidental texts. McCall has said 'I love you.' to a boss and now AJ doesn't want to see Producer Butterz. Their conversation ended with 'Thanks babe. Love you!' Big time oopsie text. Ever sent an embarrassing text, who to? AJ & McCall have a text test, but the real question is what are your texting pet peeves?

As long as texting has existed there have been accidental texts. McCall has said 'I love you.' to a boss and now AJ doesn't want to see Producer Butterz. Their conversation ended with 'Thanks babe. Love you!' Big time oopsie text. Ever sent an embarrassing text, who to? AJ & McCall have a text test, but the real question is what are your texting pet peeves?

As long as texting has existed there have been accidental texts. McCall has said 'I love you.' to a boss and now AJ doesn't want to see Producer Butterz. Their conversation ended with 'Thanks babe. Love you!' Big time oopsie text. Ever sent an embarrassing text, who to? AJ & McCall have a text test, but the real question is what are your texting pet peeves?

Ask & Pray with Confidence Luke 11:1-4 1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” 2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (NKJV) 1. Adore Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. (NKJV) Galatians 3:26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, (NIV) 2. Confess A DORE C ONFESS Luke 11:4 (NKJV) And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (NIV) 3. Thanks A DORE C ONFESS T HANKS Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (NIV) 4. Supplication A DORE C ONFESS T HANKS S UPPLICATION Luke 11:2-3 2 Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. (NIV) Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (NIV) Mark 9:28–29 28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” (NKJV)

Ask & Pray with Confidence Luke 11:1-4 1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” 2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. 4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (NKJV) 1. Adore Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. (NKJV) Galatians 3:26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, (NIV) 2. Confess A DORE C ONFESS Luke 11:4 (NKJV) And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (NIV) 3. Thanks A DORE C ONFESS T HANKS Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (NIV) 4. Supplication A DORE C ONFESS T HANKS S UPPLICATION Luke 11:2-3 2 Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 3 Give us day by day our daily bread. (NIV) Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (NIV) Mark 9:28–29 28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” (NKJV)

LISTEN TO JIM DOLAN TALK WITH RADIO SPORT BREAKFAST ON ALL THINGS AUSTRALIAAustralian rugby is run by "goons" with an "ever smug chairman" according to the man leading the charge against embattled Wallabies coach Michael Cheika.Longtime Australian rugby writer Greg Growden has launched into the organisation after the Rugby Australia media conference to update Cheika's position.Growden, a fiery critic of Cheika's, said RA had treated the public with "complete disdain".Rugby Australia chairman Cameron Clyne spent just 50 seconds updating the media on Cheika, after taking a break from a long board meeting this week.On ESPNscrum, Growden wrote:"...you would expect something compelling from an organised media gathering when the Rugby Australia board has assembled to decide whether their national coach, support staff, plus important managerial figures should be sacked or not. It's a big, big day."Their ever smug chairman Cameron Clyne waltzed in, told the bleeding obvious that the board had heard a presentation from Michael Cheika, there had been some data gathered, and that they had 'all the information we need.'"So if they have all the information, clearly a competent board of directors would be able to make a decision."No, no, no. We forgot that we are dealing with the master muddlers. Instead it was the usual Clyne gobbledegook about 'going through a fairly thorough review process' and that it 'will be done by Christmas.'"Then within 45 seconds, no questions allowed, and with a smirk as he uttered 'Thanks very much guys', Clyne exited, no make that fled, saying he had important board business to attend to. Thanks for nothing."It was just another time wasting exercise by these procrastinators. No wonder Cheika has been able in his four flawed years in the job to completely play this board off a break, and do exactly what he wants."Twitter Ads info and privacyFormer Wallaby forward Brendan Cannon summed up the situation by tweeting a photo of a vehicle trapped in deep mud.  

Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr are joined by producer Shannon Sommers as they talk Ohio State Buckeyes. In this episode, the fellas talk about arrival day for the freshmen. Everybody is now on campus, so what should be expected from them in 2018? Another top Michigan prospect has said 'Thanks, but no thanks' to Michigan. Urban Meyer talks about the important of success over your rivals in front of his rivals. Who is the biggest threat to the Buckeyes this year? And much, much more.

"AndDirk actually gave it him, " said his wife indignantly."I wasso taken aback. I didn't like to refuse. He put the money in his pocket, justnodded, said 'Thanks, ' and walked out. "Dirk Stroeve,telling the story, had such a look of blank astonishment on his round, foolishface that it was almost impossible not to laugh."Ishouldn't have minded if he'd said my pictures were bad, but he said nothing --nothing. ""And youwill tell the story, Dirk, " Said his wife.It waslamentable that one was more amused by the ridiculous figure cut by theDutchman than outraged by Strickland's brutal treatment of him."I hopeI shall never see him again, " said Mrs. Stroeve.Stroevesmiled and shrugged his shoulders. He had already recovered his good-humour."Thefact remains that he's a great artist, a very great artist. ""Strickland?"I exclaimed. "It can't be the same man. ""A bigfellow with a red beard. Charles Strickland. An Englishman. ""He hadno beard when I knew him, but if he has grown one it might well be red. The manI'm thinking of only began painting five years ago. ""That'sit. He's a great artist. ""Impossible.""Have Iever been mistaken?" Dirk asked me. "I tell you he has genius. I'mconvinced of it. In a hundred years, if you and I are remembered at all, itwill be because we knew Charles Strickland. "I wasastonished, and at the same time I was very much excited. I remembered suddenlymy last talk with him."Wherecan one see his work?" I asked. "Is he having any success? Where ishe living?""No; hehas no success. I don't think he's ever sold a picture. When you speak to menabout him they only laugh. But I know he's a great artist. After all, theylaughed at Manet. Corot never sold a picture. I don't know where he lives, butI can take you to see him. He goes to a cafe in the Avenue de Clichy at seveno'clock every evening. If you like we'll go there to-morrow. ""I'm notsure if he'll wish to see me. I think I may remind him of a time he prefers toforget. But I'll come all the same. Is there any chance of seeing any of hispictures?""Notfrom him. He won't show you a thing. There's a little dealer I know who has twoor three. But you mustn't go without me; you wouldn't understand. I must showthem to you myself. ""Dirk,you make me impatient, " said Mrs. Stroeve. "How can you talk likethat about his pictures when he treated you as he did?" She turned to me."Do you know, when some Dutch people came here to buy Dirk's pictures hetried to persuade them to buy Strickland's? He insisted on bringing them hereto show. ""Whatdid you think of them?" I asked her, smiling."Theywere awful. ""Ah,sweetheart, you don't understand. ""Well,your Dutch people were furious with you. They thought you were having a joke withthem."Dirk Stroevetook off his spectacles and wiped them. His flushed face was shining withexcitement."Whyshould you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world,lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of thechaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it isnot given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure ofthe artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in yourown heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. ""Why didI always think your pictures beautiful, Dirk? I admired them the very firsttime I saw them. "Stroeve'slips trembled a little."Go tobed, my precious. I will walk a few steps with our friend, and then I will comeback. "“戴尔克居然把钱给他了，”他的妻子气愤地说。“我听了他这话吓了一跳。我不想拒绝他。他把钱放在口袋里，朝我点了点头，说了声‘谢谢'，扭头就走了。”说这个故事的时候，戴尔克·施特略夫的一张傻里傻气的胖脸蛋上流露着那么一种惊诧莫解的神情，不由得你看了不发笑。“如果他说我画得不好我一点也不在乎，可是他什么都没说——一句话也没说。”“你还挺得意地把这个故事讲给人家听，戴尔克，”他的妻子说。可悲的是，不论是谁听了这个故事，首先会被这位荷兰人扮演的滑稽角色逗得发笑，而并不感到思特里克兰德这种粗鲁行为生气。“我再也不想看到这个人了，”施特略夫太太说。施特略夫笑起来，耸了耸肩膀。他的好性子已经恢复了。“实际上，他是一个了不起的画家，非常了不起。”“思特里克兰德？”我喊起来。“咱们说的不是一个人。”“就是那个身材高大、生着一把红胡子的人。查理斯·思特里克兰德。一个英国人。”“我认识他的时候他没留胡子。但是如果留起胡子来，很可能是红色的。我说的这个人五年以前才开始学画。”“就是这个人。他是个伟大的画家。”“不可能。”“我哪一次看走过眼？”戴尔克问我。“我告诉你他有天才。我有绝对把握。一百年以后，如果还有人记得咱们两个人，那是因为我们沾了认识查理斯·思特里克兰德的光儿。”我非常吃惊，但与此同时我也非常兴奋。我忽然想起我最后一次同他谈话。“在什么地方可以看到他的作品？”我问，“他有了点儿名气没有？他现在住在什么地方？”“没有名气。我想他没有卖出过一幅画。你要是和人谈起他的画来，没有一个不笑他的。但是我知道他是个了不起的画家。他们还不是笑过马奈？柯罗也是一张画没有卖出去过。我不知道他住在什么地方，但是我可以带你去找到他。每天晚上七点钟他都到克利舍路一家咖啡馆去。你要是愿意的话，咱们明天就可以去。”“我不知道他是不是愿意看到我。我怕我会使他想起一段他宁愿忘掉的日子。但是我想我还是得去一趟。有没有可能看到他的什么作品？”“从他那里看不到。他什么也不给你看。我认识一个小画商，手里有两三张他的画。但是你要是去，一定得让我陪着你；你不会看懂的。我一定要亲自指点给你看。”“戴尔克，你简直叫我失去耐性了，”施特略夫太太说。“他那样对待你，你怎么还能这样谈论他的画？”她转过来对我说：“你知道，有一些人到这里来买戴尔克的画，他却劝他们买思特里克兰德的。他非让思特里克兰德把画拿到这里给他们看不可。”“你觉得思特里克兰德的画怎么样？”我笑着问她。“糟糕极了。”“啊，亲爱的，你不懂。”“哼，你的那些荷兰老乡简直气坏了。他们认为你是在同他们开玩笑。”戴尔克·施特略夫摘下眼镜来，擦了擦。他的一张通红的面孔因为兴奋而闪着亮光。“为什么你认为美——世界上最宝贵的财富——会同沙滩上的石头一样，一个漫不经心的过路人随随便便地就能够捡起来？美是一种美妙、奇异的东西，艺术家只有通过灵魂的痛苦折磨才能从宇宙的混沌中塑造出来。在美被创造出以后，它也不是为了叫每个人都能认出来的。要想认识它，一个人必须重复艺术家经历过的一番冒险。他唱给你的是一个美的旋律，要是想在自己心里重新听一遍就必须有知识、有敏锐的感觉和想象力。”“为什么我总觉得你的画很美呢，戴尔克？你的画我第一次看到就觉得好得了不得。”施特略夫的嘴唇颤抖了一会儿。“去睡觉吧，宝贝儿。我要陪我的朋友走几步路，一会儿就回来。”

Tom Hanks, or as we like to call him T-HANKS, knows the secret to a long-lasting love... and it's a pretty simple little detail that most of us overlook.

April 2018 | All your favourites of house, bass, urban, UK and this month we add a splash of tech house as requested. Got an Iphone or Ipad? Download the 'Podcast' app, search 'DJ Richie Don' and subscribe, to receive future episodes automatically from #Itunes. For links and more info visit: https://www.djrichiedon.com - turn it up and enjoy. Richie Don - Podcast Intro IDGAF - Country Club Martini Crew Remix ft Dua Lipa A Deeper Love - Damianito Cola Bootleg ft Aretha Franklin One Dance - DEAN-E-G Remix ft Drake, Wizkid + Kyla 99 Red Balloons - CID Remix ft Oliver Nelson, Tobtok Jumanji - Shift K3Y remix ft B Young My Lover - T Matthias Remix ft Not3s + Mabel Make A Move On Me - Craig Knight Remix ft Joey Negro Is It Really Love - Joe Stone + Cr3on I Know You - Nathan C Remix ft Craig David Lullaby - Alphalove Remix ft Sigala + Paloma Faith You Got Me Baby - Ben Rainey x Lee Morrison Remix ft Lushington Hearts Ain't Gonna Lie - Niko The Kid Remix ft Arlissa + Jonas Blue Call Me In The Morning - Litek Look Like Monayyy - Selekio Remix ft Indian Trap + Kreszenzia > UK * Urban * Party: 36:30 Magenta Riddim - Tall Boys ft DJ Snake Macarena - Billy The Kit Remix ft Los Del Rio BaDINGA! - JEKEY Moombahton Remix Mambo No. 5 - Groove Dealers Twerk Remix ft Lou Bega Jump Around - Safety First Fester Skank Bootleg vs House Of Pain Who's That Girl - Stavros Martina ft Eve What I Wanna - MoStack Check - Nathan Dawe Remix - Kojo Funds ft RAYE Mind On It - Yungen ft Jess Glynne Vroom - Yxng Bane Freaky Friday - Lil Dicky ft Chris Brown > BassBox: 54:45 17 - Haus Of Panda Remix vs MK Rattle - Felguk + Lowderz Remix ft Bingo Players Jungle Bae - Christian Marchi + Luis Rodriguez Calabria Bootleg Insomnia - Decay + Relay 2k18 Remix vs Faithless I Want It That Way - Yoshy Wizer Remix ft Backstreet Boys 1, 2 Step - Anthem Kingz Azukita Bootleg ft Ciara + Missy Elliott Party Up - Birthdayy Partyy vs GTA Edit - Destructo ft YG Wonderwall - Chunky Dip Turn It Around Bootleg ft Oasis Gammy Elbow - DJ Zinc + Chris Lorenzo Premonition - SBS + Proper Tings Mix vs FooR X Eddie Craig Eric Goes To Disco - Beltek Amergency - DJ Zinc Lick It - Valentino Khan > House & Tech: 73:00 Reach Out - Perfecto Allstarz + Freejak Check - Blonde Remix ft Kojo Funds The Weekend - Pink Panda Remix ft Michael Gray Right Here, Right Now - CamelPhat Remix ft Fatboy Slim The Scoop - Myles Club Edit ft Format B BHAP - Word of Mouth - Metroplane Whiskey and Cola - Apexape ft Carla Monroe Cause and Affect - Umek ft GrooveBox Music Is The Answer - K.K. Jam Master Jack - Klangkuenstler Be - Klangkuenstler Remix ft Greco NYC + Rowetta Outro.

March 2018 | All your favourites of house, bass, drum and bass, urban and UK. We open the bass box (a mash up special) and present the 5 biggest tunes for March, and much more. Got an Iphone or Ipad? Download the 'Podcast' app, search 'DJ Richie Don' and subscribe, to receive future episodes automatically from #Itunes. For links and more info visit: https://www.djrichiedon.com. Richie Don - Podcast 138 Intro Finesse - Country Club Martini Crew Remix ft Bruno Mars Set It Off - DAZZ ft Tube, Berger + Juliet Sikora This Girl - Ben Rainey Hands Up Edit ft Kungs Seven Nation Army - PBH + Jack Shizzle ft White Stripes Make Me Feel - Steff Da Campo + Siks 17 - Chris Ultranova + PANFR Remix ft MK + Carla Monroe >> March Top 5 Club Bangers: 5. Call Me - PBH + Jack Shizzle ft Michelle McKenna 4. Push Riddim - Vato Gonzalez 3. What We Started - Sammy Porter ft Jessica Agombar 2. Deja Vu - Kastra + Damien Anthony Remix ft Timmy Trumpet n Savage 1. Everywhere - DJ Zinc >> Urban: Check - Kojo Funds ft Raye Jumanji - B Young Game Changer - Mist Ain't Bothered - 23 Unofficial No Don - Lotto Boyzz Where The Party At - Jagged Edge ft Nelly Tip Toe - Jason Derulo ft French Montana My 9ine - Kojo Funds God's Plan - Drake >> Open The Bass Box Mash Up Special: After All - Habstrakt Remix ft Slander + YOOKiE Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana Just Like That - Tom + Jame Trump It - Gianluca Vacchi Ride On Time - Black Box Show Me Love - PBH + Jack Shizzle's ft Tchami vs Robin S House Works - Ben Rainey ft Jack + Danny Vs Jax Jones You Don't Know Me - Ben Rainey Warehouse Edit ft Jax Jones Girls Like Us - Dreem Teem vs Roska Dub ft B-15 Project Bitcoin - PBH + Jack Shizzle ft H Love Battle - Cause + Affect Remix ft Riddim Commission Need You VS Antidote - PBH + Jack Shizzle Mash Up Rhythm Of Devotion - Corona Vs Bingo Players Bring The Friends Back - Richie Don Edit ft Don Diablo, Justice n Watermat Bump + Grind - Vato Gonzalez ft Scrufizzer >> Drum + Bass: At Last - Dope Ammo + Marvellous Cain ft Amiah & Gigante Ready Or Not - Smash + Grab Reet Petite - Smash + Grab 17 - Gravit-E ft MK + Carla Monroe Outro

Ben Hodgson preaches a message on New Year's Eve titled, 'Thanks to the Past, Hello to the Future.'

Juliet Wakefield talks to PWQ Editor Jan Yoder about her article, co-authored with Nick Hopkins and Ronni M. Greenwood, 'Thanks, But No Thanks: Women’s Avoidance of Help-Seeking in the Context of a Dependency-Related Stereotype.'

3:50 Podcast Rodeo form radioyo.fm (you can be featured on iTune - not a typo) Dave likes abovecast.com for "radio streaming" 7:50 Using Linkedin on your podcast 10:10 Stitcher or Google Play? 11:20 Jim (and Dave) use bufferapp.com 12:30 Embed codes for players 13:10 It Takes 24 hours for your latest episode to show up in iTunes 16:30 Satchel App https://satchelplayer.com/ 19:20 What do you need to submit to iTunes? 21:20 Podcasts app are like shoes 22:45 Walk and talk interviews - environment makes a difference? 25:25 $100 a week what would you buy? 27:40 Spend part of your income from advertising on Facebook Ads. 32:20 Video Speed Control Chrome Extension is an awesome extension 33:30 How to get sponsors? See https://youtu.be/UgvjT6W31hM advertisecast.com or jkmagency.com check out www.schoolofpodcasting.com/glenn1 37:35 My podcasts intro (see Music Radio Creative) mentioned Podcast Rodeo Show 43:15 Jim's first impression of https://satchelplayer.com/ 43:55 Dave's Music Analogy of music and topics. 46:15 Most listeners don't leave feedback Thanks to our AWESOME supporters. If you'd like to help support the show, and say 'Thanks for the free consulting" go to www.askthepdocastcoach.com/awesome 47:10 Recording a roundtable 53:35 Zoom R16 record a ton of people at the same time. Mentioned podcastersroundtadle.com Check out Jim at www.theaverageguy.tv Check out Dave at www.schoolofpodcasting.com Join the School of Podcasting by going to www.schoolofpodcasting.com/start

We delve into the world of film and find the forgotten gems or otherwise unappreciated masterpieces of film and talk about them. This episode we discuss one of the best films of all time 'Bend It Like Beckham' (2002) which features such talent as Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, David Beckham? And Paul Giamatti returns in the most cunning of ways.  In this commentary we talk about the interesting questions that are brought from watching this brilliant film and we hope that we answer some of those questions. This episode features Ryan Sliwinski, Bartek Kasprzyszak and Grace Brown, press play at 7:33! Remember to respect your family when listening to this podcast and be careful when bending like Beckham, now enjoy the cinematic piece that is 'Bend It Like Beckham.'Thanks very much for the support, listening people.

'Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ' (1 Corinthians 15:57).The wonderful thing about the Bible is that it ends in victory! Victory is yours through Christ - He will always cause you to triumph! I've read the end of the Book and it ends with Jesus the victor! Whether you read the Old or the New Testaments, the Bible is full of miracles, and those miracles did not stop 2000 years ago; the Jesus of the Bible is alive today and the miracles go on and on. These miracles are the evidence of the reality of who Jesus is. 'Happy Song' & 'The Next Level' used by kind permission of www.vinesong.com

Jed & Daniela discuss the Red Dwarf episode from Season 2, 'Thanks for The Memory'. They speak to the object of Rimmer and Lister's affection, LISE YATES, played by Sabra Williams.

In this first series (of 5), I'll take you step-by-step through exactly what you need to do to create an "invisible" upsell funnel that helps you increase your back-end sales without pissing off your customers.In this first edition we'll focus on using surveys and buyers autoresponder sequences.   Transcript: Hey, this is Jeremy Reeves, from the Sales Funnel Mastery podcast and I want to welcome you back to another episode of the Sales Funnel Mastery podcast. This is actually going to part 1 of a series of 5 podcast right in a row. What we’re going to talk about is how to add upsells and how to add cross-sells and essentially how to increase your lifetime customer value and average order size and things like that, without pissing off your customers. Okay, so a lot of people that I’ve been talking to, having the typically upsell funnel, where you buy the first product and you went to a 'Thanks for your order. Here’s the second thing to buy.' A lot of people don’t even say, 'Thanks for your order.' They just send them to a page. And it really does nothing to confirm that they just got the first product. It does nothing to reassure them that they’ve just made a good decision, nothing like that. It’s so sales-y. They click the 'buy now' button and boom, they get another offer, okay? And I don’t really love to do stuff like that. It’s kind of just disingenuous. It takes people out of the flow that they’re in, out of the buying frenzy that they’re in and is a little bit too much. It’s a little bit too pushy for a lot of markets. Okay, so what we’re going to talk about in this series, again, it’s going to be a 5-part series, is how to add upsell without pissing off your customers. Because even though the typical upsell funnel works really, really well, everything has to be worded properly and if you’re not comfortable doing that or if you have a market that just doesn’t respond well to that, because some don’t, actually. Typically, in older audiences, sometimes they just don’t respond that well. You have to think of different ways that you can still get those same offers in front of your audience, okay? But without doing it in a way that seems sales-y, sleazy, that kind of thing. The first thing that we’re going to talk about, part number 1 of this, is doing it through surveys or buyers auto-responder sequence. The reason that this works so well is because what you’re doing is just bought product number 1, the original offer that you have. You’re taking them and segmenting your list, depending on what they want, specifically. Not only that, the big kind of ‘aha!' for all this, is that they’re actually telling you what they want, okay? You’re not segmenting them based on a click or something, which is awesome. Segmenting, based on what they’re clicking on or pages they visit, is great. I always recommend that to clients in both prospect and buyer auto-responder sequences. But in this case, it’s the difference between making a call to a client and having that client call you. Jay Abraham talks about doing that in a certain way of doing it that we’re actually going to talk about in part 2 or 3. I can’t remember off the top of my head. But having people call you versus them can increase the results you get by making outbound phone calls. I think it’s by about 3-5x. I’ve never actually personally tested that. I just know that its better getting people to call you but anyway. The point of this is when you get people to actually self-select. They’re telling you what to sell them. Your conversion rates can go way, way up because they’re already engaged. They’re telling you. It’s a completely different mindset, alright? So what you want to do to do is, you know the typical person has the upsell funnel. They have the, they buy the original product, they go to an upsell funnel page and again, maybe you have a little box that says, 'Thank you for your purchase.' You have a little thing confirming that they just bought the original product. Instead of doing that, instead of the typical upsell funnel, what you do is send them straight to a thank you page. I know this flies against everything you’ve heard about before and it’s something to test in your market, okay? This isn’t some kind of gospel that it’s going to work in every industry. Test it in your market versus a typical upsell funnel and see which one works better for you. What you do is on the thank you page, you have at the top 'Thank you for your purchase;' and then you have a video under that. The first thing you do is confirm what they just bought. 'Thanks for buying product X. You’ve just made a great decision.' You reaffirm the buying decision. 'We’ve already received X number of testimonials. Everybody says that it’s the best product that they’ve ever bought in this industry.' You go through all the different reasons that they just made a great purchase. And then what you do is say, 'While you’re here, I would really appreciate it if you could fill out this really short survey. We’re constantly doing market research and helping you to better solve problem X,' whatever that X is, whatever problem you’re solving with your product or service. Tell them that you’re going to use their results to help them, give them the better solutions, faster results, better results, that kind of thing, okay? And what you say is, 'We have a gift for filling out this survey.' You could even say it’s a surprise gift. 'We have a surprise gift. I’m not going to tell you what it is now. The survey is only going to take you 10 seconds to fill out anyway, so there’s really no point in not doing it.' Then you have the survey underneath that video. Then what you do, you get something like survey funnel. Survey funnel is a WordPress plugin, or what you do is have your developer custom code something where depending on what button they click, they go to a different upsell page. So for example, if you’re selling weight loss and you say, 'What are you most interested in: A strength training manual, a weight loss manual or a guide to the proper supplements.' You have three different options that you’re giving to people. And depending on what they click on, you send them to that upsell page. If you think about it, this really is kind of like a pre-sell page for your upsell. So instead of going, first order, immediate upsell number 1. You’d go first order, and then you could think of it as a survey customization page and then upsell number 1. So that’s how you do it with a survey. Another thing that you can do is do this through email. So if you just want to send them right to the 'thank you' page, which gives them access to the product and that kind of thing. What you can do is in the first email that you send them, and hopefully, you have a buyers auto-responder sequence in place, if you don’t, you need to get one in place now, what you do is in the first email, again, you say, 'Thank you. Here’s your link to go download your product;' or 'Here’s your link, we’ll be sending you,' if it’s a physical product, 'We’ll be shipping it out within 24 hours;' whatever your kind of confirmation email is. There’s too many examples to get into right now. What you do is just have them, 'Hey, just so we know, so we’re sending you the right emails, what are you most interested in? A, B, or C?' Whatever they click, you could think of that email as your survey; whatever link they click. If they click on supplements, well, boom, they go to a supplement upsell page. Again, that says, 'Thank you for letting us know what you’re choosing. I saw that you clicked that you’d like some more information on supplements. I don’t know if you already knew this, but we already have a guide to picking supplements for weight loss,' whatever the case maybe. That’s pretty much with surveys. Another thing that you want to do with surveys, actually, depending on, if you’re doing this manually, like a one-time promotion or if you’re doing an evergreen sequence, like an automated sequence. One thing you can do is share the result of surveys. You could even have this second video, so if people don’t buy the upsell after they click on the survey link, then you can actually send them to a second video. That says 'Hey, just in case you’re curious about the results of this survey, go here and you can see what you and what your fellow student or whatever you call your tribe, what you thought, what you’re most interested in, click here’. Then you can have another video that shows you the results and goes right back into that upsell number 1 video. So that’s it. That’s part number 1, how to add upsells without pissing off your customers. And again, it’s essentially either using surveys or buyers auto-responder sequence to send them to a customized upsell page. I hope that helps you. If you have any questions, just send them to jeremy@jeremyreeves.com and will talk to you soon!      

Hosts and are back talking about a variety of topics. We started out with feedback on . We mentioned some detailed instructions from listener on using the field notes from in ;"Instead of 'Uploading' directly to Geocaching.com (how I did it before GSAK v8), I select 'Export.' On the next screen, choose the 'Geocachingz.com/Garmin' format, and then I choose 'Email' on the next screen. I'm guessing you could also do the 'Save to Shared Files,' but I usually do this as soon as I'm done logging for the day to make sure I get them off the phone ASAP to protect me from a phone crash. I also mark a new waypoint at the cache site in my 60Csx, so if I need it, I have a backup that way as well.Once on my laptop, I open the FieldNotes.zip file and save the text file to a separate directory. I also download all the Pics for the day and put them there as well. In GSAK, select the 'Publish Logs' from the 'Geocaching.com Access' menu. On the Publish Logs screen, right-click and choose 'Fetch > From File.' Select the FieldNotes file. It will load all the caches into the window and then you can tweak the found text, add pictures, TB Drop/Visit/Retrieve logs, whatever. You can also setup templates (similiar Geosphere) to add stuff automatically. I only have a simple one that says 'Thanks for the Smiley.' If you don't have an automatic template set, it will automatically put in the text from your field notes. Since I record all the Puzzle/Earth/Virtual notes in there, I didn't want them to get accidently published. I don't put anything like found counts for the day or anything else, so the template is only to protect me from publishing spoiler information. The most we've done in a day is about 25 caches, so maybe when we hit more I'll play more with the templates.Once you've tweaked all the text and things, you just hit publish and away it goes. It is much quicker than anything else I've tried. I never like'd doing the real log in the field via the "official app". I will only use that if I need to log a dropped TB or a quick FTF message. Everything else waits until I get home.If I only have a couple caches to log, I usually do the upload directly to Geocaching.com instead, but I'm going more and more to GSAK even for those.I recently went down to Oregon for a week for a Star Party and up to Canada for a week to visit family. We cached on the way there and the way back. I got about 60 caches on the first trip and 30 on the second. Each day I sent a file to email and processed it at night. When I got back home again, I had all the logs in GSAK ready to publish and just hit go. I don't do any logging except TB drops while on vacation. (we're just paranoid about logging out of state caches while not home.)" "One thing I forgot... With Geosphere, since you are 'Exporting' and not 'Uploading' you need to clear the upload flag yourself after you export the field notes. It doesn't do it automatically. GSAK can freak if you try and import a field note a second time..." We also mentioned some of the new products announced in the smartphone and tablet space. Those were the , , , , , , , and the updated . The live video session from this Google+ Hangout On Air can be found on . Subscribe to the feed: Social Media:

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Richard Bash of the Clatsop tribe bids you 'Thanks and Safe Travels' and talks about how much has changed in the past 150 years. He talks about preserving these fragile lands for the enrichment of future generations.