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Dez and Melissa discuss nosy Karens making a comeback with new Covid-restrictions. Would you call someone out for staring at your chest? Dez shares a story of realization. Later, we discuss 'A Teacher' on Hulu and what these kinds of storylines do for society. Melissa plays 'This or That' and Dez hosts 'On The Map!' Recess wants to inspire you to be your most productive self! Enjoy 15% off all beverages, apparel and subscriptions when you use the code 'IFEELTRIED' at checkout. Visit TakeARecess.com to learn more!  

Featuring new music from Humanity's Last breath, Fuming Mouth, Coffin Apartment, Clifford and Knoll. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Apologies for the crackly mic, think we got it sorted now.  Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Big Cartel - https://machogrande.bigcartel.com Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - info@machograndepodcast.co.uk Twitter - @machograndepod merch - http://www.machogrande.bigcartel.com/ 'This (non profit) podcast is intended for promotional purposes only' Macho Grande Podcast' does not claim to own copyright etc, all copyright is respected to the artists and labels.  

We had the pleasure of interviewing Kylie Trout over Zoom video! Like many of her fellow graduating seniors, Trout has a bright future on the horizon. But perhaps unlike many of her peers, she is carving a path to stardom. "Everybody that I meet always tells me 'you're not 17, you're an old soul," she laughs. "And I love that." After experiencing abuse from her biological mother at a young age, Trout spent the first eight years of her life being raised by a single dad and her grandparents in Southern California. “Music was my saving grace because I feel like I had to mature very quickly when I was little because there was a lot of things going on that other kids might not understand with my mom."Throughout her childhood, Trout continued to discover her love of music in new ways. After having a bout of stage fright during a vocal lesson that led her to run out of the room in tears when it was her turn to sing, Trout's loved ones were surprised when this same shy girl commanded the stage at her fourth-grade talent show singing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." There's a distinct element that connects generations of Country music that Trout is drawn to. "Country's all about telling a story, and that's why I run to it so much," she shares. "I think that's where the older country comes in with, the newer country… I like to mix that modern pop sound, but with a story." As naturally as she can master a clever lyric, Trout also knows how to craft a compelling story. Trout turned her own struggles into music, penning a song about her mother that allowed her to channel all of her pain, longing, and "what if?" questions. "Everything just flowed out, and I got everything I wanted to say off my chest, and it just felt so good." Initially, the singer deemed it too personal to share with the world. But after some motivation from her father, the singer had a change of heart. "People from literally all over the world messaged me saying 'This is my story, this is what happened to me and your song saved me,'" Trout recalls of fans' overwhelming reactions. "That right there was just the best feeling in the world.It's this kind of versatility that fans can expect from Trout's upcoming debut EP, where some songs are focused on relationships, one intriguingly offers a "broad look on the younger generation," and others are simply "fun" and "upbeat." "I think all of my songs hold a different story," she narrates. "I want to mix everything around and tell completely different stories for my first EP because I feel like that's me." As Trout's platform continues to rise, some of her biggest aspirations include performing at the Grand Ole Opry and Stagecoach Festival. But her ultimate goal is to offer fans "three minutes of happiness," sharing the life lessons instilled in her through her music. "Things happen in life, and we may not like them, and bad things happen to good people, but at the end of the day, there's a reason for everything, and I like to convey that in my songs. I hope that gets across to people who listen to the music." We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com.www.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod  #foryou #foryoupage #stayhome #togetherathome #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetworkListen & Subscribe to BiBFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! 

Jo Fox is a first time author and mum of a type 1 diabetic son. In just four weeks she has collected several inspiring stories of people with type 1 diabetes overcoming their condition and achieving their goals. The book is out TODAY, #WorldDiabetesDay2020, and Jo hopes it help people see a more positive future following diagnosis. Here's what Jo had to say 'This is the book I wish existed when my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Positive and inspiring stories of people who achieved great things, despite leaping over the hurdles type 1 puts in the way. Profits to diabetes charities www.typeawesome.co.uk/buy-the-book/ Listen to my podcast: www.anchor.fm/all4one Twitter: @jamielowetv Insta: @jamielowetv Snap.Chat: jamie.lowe Email: hello@jamielowe.co For everything else check out my website www.jamielowe.co

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 10, 2020 is: bailiwick • \BAY-lih-wik\ • noun 1 law enforcement : the office or jurisdiction of a bailiff 2 : the sphere in which one has superior knowledge or authority : a special domain Examples: "Until his death in 1764, at 67, [William Hogarth's] soul resided in Drury Lane and Grub Street, the bailiwick of actors, tradesmen and engravers like himself." — Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, 30 Nov. 1997 "Staging theater in unusual but thematically appropriate locations is nothing new to Seghers, who once … seated theatergoers in a barn to watch a young man's obsession with horses play out in 'Equus.' 'This is right in his bailiwick,' said John DiDonna, who chairs the theater department at Valencia College. 'Jeremy lives to do shows that are site-specific or environmental.'" — Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020 Did you know? The first half of the word bailiwick comes from the Middle English word for "bailiff"—in this case, a term referring to a sheriff or chief officer of a town in medieval England, not the officer who assists today in U.S. courtrooms. Bailiff derives, via Anglo-French, from Latin bajulare, meaning "to carry a burden." The second half of bailiwick comes from wik, a Middle English word for "dwelling place" or "village," which ultimately derives from Latin vicus, meaning "village." (This root also gave us -wich and -wick, suffixes used in place names like Norwich and Warwick.) Although bailiwick dates from the 15th century, the "special domain" sense did not appear in English until the middle of the 19th century.

Stories in this episode: Armed with yeast and flour, Ben jumps in to make a difference for his community after his involvement in two tragedies; Lecia grapples with three-in-the-morning anxiety until one simple practice brings peace; Chris finds himself stuck in the mud and snow with no way home—except to follow the nudges he gets from the Spirit. NOTE: Ben's story has a brief mention of suicide. If you or someone you love is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please reach out to someone you trust. You can text 741741 from anywhere in the U.S. Or, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 SHOW NOTES To see pictures and more from this episode, go to LDSLiving.com/thisisthegospel to view the shownotes. TRANSCRIPT KaRyn Lay  0:04  Welcome to This Is the Gospel, an LDS Living podcast where we feature real stories from real people who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host KaRyn Lay. You know, there are a lot of things about the gospel of Jesus Christ that can feel pretty abstract sometimes. For example, have you ever wondered what it actually means to apply the Atonement to our lives? We throw that phrase around, like it's just a thing we come into the world knowing how to do. But if I'm being totally honest with you, I'm not exactly sure all the time what that looks like in practice. What about receiving forgiveness, or more importantly, giving forgiveness to someone else? And don't even get me started on the concept of receiving revelation or accessing and using the power of the Priesthood? There are so many, "But how?!"– moments in my life. I'll never forget in the October General Conference of 2019, when it felt like President Nelson was speaking directly to me and my questioning heart. He had just gotten done inviting the women of the Church to explore and integrate the covenant power of God in our lives through the priesthood when he said, quote, "Now, you might be saying to yourself, 'This sounds wonderful, but how do I do it? How do I draw the Savior's power into my life?'" end quote. And you know that scene in movies where the main character looks around to see if someone is in the room with them reading their diary? That was me in that moment. It's possible that I had even written that specific question down. "But how?" He continued, quote, "You won't find this process spelled out in any manual. The Holy Ghost will be your personal tutor as you seek to understand what the Lord would have you know, and do. This process is neither quick nor easy, but it is spiritually invigorating." End quote, and . . . mic drop. As someone who can sometimes get caught up in that desire to do everything right, the fact that there is no checklist for how to apply some of these gospel principles in my life? Well, I guess I needed a prophet of God to remind me that the work of discipleship is all about the process, and that the process is spiritually invigorating. So even though we are necessarily on our own personal journey to understand how to "do" the Atonement, and all those other wonderful parts of the gospel – the good news is that we can still learn from one another in our practice. And on today's episode, each one of our storytellers is going to share their experience of taking a principle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, from theoretical to practical in their lives. Our first story comes from Chris who fine tuned his ability to follow and trust the promptings of the Spirit, long before he would need it. Here's Chris. Chris  2:47  I got a call from my mother one evening, and she said, "Chris, I heard dad's truck drive by my window, just making sure it's you, because your dad is in the TV room watching TV." And I said, "No, I wasn't me. It must have been somebody else." My mom and dad moved on my 20 acre property about 24 years ago. They live just about as close as, you know, hitting a golf ball to their home. I borrow his truck occasionally, but I usually ask. So she found that this was a little unusual that I didn't ask. Dad had a habit of leaving his keys in the ignition in his truck, because he often misplaces them. And he uses it for everything. Being on 20 acres, he uses it continually. So he just leaves the keys in the truck, and when he needs it, it's always there. So somebody had definitely stolen his truck. We called the police and the police kind of looked over the country a little bit, but they didn't find a thing.   My mom and dad were devastated that the truck was gone. Simply because dad uses it all the time. And mom works and she uses the car, so dad is left without a truck. The next day, I was getting ready for work. I had a strong impression that I needed to go find the truck. And this feeling I had gave me the confidence that I could find it if I just go look for it. That feeling continued to be with me through the whole day, and so when I got home from work, I quickly put my jeans and T-shirt on climbed in the truck, said a prayer in my heart that I would be led to the missing truck.   The area that I live in is out in the country. Our acreage is mostly desert, as well as all the property and countryside. Not a lot of trees. Just a lot of open space. I remember going to the end of the driveway, and I was faced with my first dilemma. Do I go left? Do I go straight? Or do I go right? I tried really hard to listen to the enticement of the Spirit. Basically giving up the steering wheel – so to speak – to the power greater than me.   I've learned through my life that the Spirit talks to me through impressions. And basically speaking to my mind, not in an audible voice per se, but thoughts that are not normally mine or my way of thinking. I think about this experience where I really found this to be true.   A few years previous, I decided to go hunting one Thanksgiving before the Thanksgiving feast that evening. So I took off to the hills with my gun, and very unprepared for anything. All I cared about is just having my gun and my truck and taking off. I went to the mountains and found a road that went for miles. The further I went, the deeper the snow became. And I knew that I could get into trouble. But I thought I was safe. Because my truck has four wheel drive. The snow was getting deeper and deeper. As I came around a corner, I slid off the side of the road. And I definitely got stuck. So I threw in four wheel drive. And it did not seem to help at all, the tires just spun.   It got deeper in the snow and deeper in the mud, and before long I was high centered, there was no way I was getting out of the situation. My only option here was to start walking back to the road. I had been on this road for a long time, and walking it was going to take a long time. So, knowing this, and given that it was Thanksgiving Day, there weren't gonna probably be a lot of people out. And I didn't tell my wife where I was going because I didn't know exactly where I was going. So really, nobody knew where my location was. That was perhaps maybe one of the scariest feelings. Just knowing nobody knew I was there – to help me. I started my journey. And I noticed up on the side of the hill, there was some construction going on. Some removal of brush and some trees and things like that. I thought maybe if I go up there, there will be some tools like a shovel or some things that may just help me to get out. As I walked up the hill, I found really nothing that would help me. But to my right I noticed this huge machine, it was a huge earthmover. I thought man, if I could just drive that down the road and pull myself out, that would be great. It didn't take me long to think, yeah, I think maybe I could do this. I'm gonna go see if I can somehow get this down the road. So I jumped inside, look for the key, as I put my hand down to the side of the seat, I noticed a little pocket on the side and reached in there, and lo and behold, there was a key, and it actually fit the ignition. I tried turning it over. And it started right up – to my amazement. I figured out how to put it in gear, and I stepped on the accelerator. The engine revved a little bit, but it wouldn't move. And I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get this thing to move.   I kept stepping on the accelerator and nothing. Time is starting to get short, I need to do something. Since I couldn't move the machine, I turned it off, put the key back and started walking down the road again. As I was walking, I had an impression in my mind that said turn around and go back and try again. I knew that this wasn't coming from me because I was so set in walking. I knew that that was my only choice. But as that impression came to my mind, I knew that maybe I had another choice, and I was going to give it a shot. So I hopped back in put the key in started it up, hit the accelerator, and still, nothing happened. So I gave up, turned it off, put the key back and started walking again. As I walked, I had that same impression come to my mind. I turned back around, got back in this machine and started it up again. This was the third time and I thought okay, third time, it's got to be the charm. I stepped on the accelerator. Still nothing happened. I was getting frustrated and just wondering what in the heck am I gonna do? And I sat there with the engine running, just contemplating what other choices do I have? I tried one last time – I stepped on the accelerator. And I thought I felt the machine move just a little bit. And that gave me some hope and some courage. The longer I let the machine sit there and run, the more this machine was starting to move. And it suddenly dawned on me that we're dealing with a machine that that works with hydraulics. Perhaps this thing just needs to get warmed up. So I let it warm up a little Bit more stepped on the accelerator, and before long I was moving down the road. And was able to get to my truck and pull it out.   I've learned to trust my impressions since that Thanksgiving experience and realized that is how the Lord speaks to me. By giving me the impressions and gentle enticements, to do something. And now here I am at a crossroad listening to that enticement and being nudged, to take a left. So I turn left and continue down the country road a while when a feeling came over me to turn left on the next road. I slowed down and took a road that veered off through the desert, which was full of potholes, mud, and wondered why I'm going down this road. I drove for 20 more minutes until I came to a canal bank. On one side of the canal was just water. And the other side was probably about 20 – 30 acres of just trees and heavy brush. Then the impressing came to me stop and just get out.   So I got out of my truck and walked down the other side of the canal bank into a thicket of bushes, which emptied into a large field. And I could see the tree line on the left of me going up the field. I got about 500 yards, and the adversary really started to work on me. Putting thoughts into my mind saying, "What in the heck are you doing? Why are you going this way? There's no really possibility of anybody coming down here in a vehicle? There's no roads, there's nothing. This is a waste of time." So as these thoughts hit my mind, I convinced myself that it was probably true.   So I turned back and headed back to the truck, and as I was walking back, I got that same Thanksgiving Day impression, "Turn back around and keep walking." So I made a deal with myself that I would walk to the end of the tree line enough to look around on the back end of the trees. but that was it. That's as far as I was gonna go. As I started to look around the back–end of it, I saw a little red truck, tucked back in some trees. It was my dad's truck. And I stood there with an amazed look on my face, and was humbled to know, I was led by my Heavenly Father, to find this needle in this huge haystack.   I started walking to the truck. And as I got closer, I noticed the perpetrator was still in the vehicle. When I got to the hood, I noticed him passed out, or sleeping. And my thoughts immediately went to: I have no idea what to do now. The blessing of being led by the Spirit though, through this whole ordeal gave me a sense of calmness. Which still applied here. No thoughts of being in danger, but just being aware of the whole situation.   In my attempt to wake this person up, I started banging on the hood really hard. And he didn't wake up. So I started hitting the hood some more and this time, he woke up to me looking at him gazing into the window. This startled him a little bit, and long story short – we had a conversation. For reasons beyond my understanding, I wasn't angry at him. For some reason I had compassion on him and let him walk away without consequences. I even offered him a ride back home, but he rejected the offer.   So, when he left, I went ahead and got back into my truck and went back home and told my mom and dad that I had found the truck. They were in awe, and asked, "How did you find it?" The only thing I could tell them was that I was led and directed by the Spirit.   The way the Holy Ghost speaks to us is different for each person. For me, these promptings come as thoughts. And they're usually followed by a feeling in my heart or my chest that confirms the message is right.   I haven't told very many people this story, just those who are closest to me. But I have had a couple of people ask me, "How do you know that the Spirit actually directed you to the truck?" And what I tell them is that I've learned in life, that when I get impressions, that are righteous impressions, that I need to follow my Heavenly Father's guidance. And I've learned that when I do listen and do exactly what the Lord wants me to do, I always benefit from the results.   Because of this experience, I have had the ability to pay more attention to what the Lord is telling me, especially as the Church is going into the ministering. I've had many experiences now where I'm just driving down the road, and I get the impression that I need to call somebody or go visit them. And I've been amazed each time when I follow through and go visit somebody just out of a whim, that they needed somebody to talk to, or they needed help with something. That is the spirit. That is revelation. Just the ability to recognize when He speaks to me.   KaRyn  15:56  That was Chris. You know, my favorite part of Chris's story, besides that moment when his mom called him, is the way that both his experience on Thanksgiving Day and his experience with finding the truck in the impossible field, transformed the way he ministers.   I heard someone say once that our God is an efficient God. I can't remember who said it. But I think Chris's story proves that. None of our practice sessions with the gospel are wasted on God. It might have taken Chris three times to trust himself with the message from the Spirit and get that earthmover moving, but it only took him one time to trust the message from the Spirit in the field when he got out of the truck. And now as he ministers, it takes him no time to heed the message, when he feels that nudge to check on a neighbor.   It's a beautiful illustration of that eternal principle that we get better and better when we show up to practice. Unless you're me on the JV soccer team in 10th grade. No amount of practice is improving that game. While our next two stories seem to have similar elements at the beginning, with each storyteller making a pretty difficult discovery, they find their own unique path of practical gospel application.   A quick note to our listeners, even though they are told carefully, these next two stories include references to emergency medical events, and a brief mention of suicide. First up, we'll hear from Leica.   Leica  17:20  My husband Jay had a major medical event when he was 42, but that's not the story I want to tell today. But in order to understand my story, you are going to need to hear a little bit of his.   It was a Saturday morning when my seven year old daughter and I found my husband slumped on the bathroom floor. He was not breathing, and his face was a horrible purple gray kind of color that I will never forget. I was a little bit  – not a little bit, I was panicked in that moment. I hollered at my daughter to go call 911. I'm gonna be honest, My hands were trembling so much that I wasn't totally sure if he had a pulse or not. But I assumed he didn't, and so I just started doing CPR, and the people in the 911 phone call agreed with me that that was the best course of action.   And the paramedics arrived, and then they were able to shock him with their defibrillator paddles and got his heart back into a normal rhythm. So they had to defibrillate his heart again in the ambulance, and again, when he first got to the hospital. They had put him in a medically induced coma to prevent brain damage from the oxygen he had missed out on. So they had intended for him to be in this coma for maybe a day or so, but he stayed in for three days. He wouldn't wake up like they had wanted him to or expected him to.   His neurologist came in at one point and said to me kind of harshly, "Quit saying 'when he wakes up' and start saying 'if.'" And that really threw me. I, I couldn't go home for a while when I left the hospital that day because I was upset and I didn't want my kids to see how scared I was. I did think he was going to die. His mother always thought he would live and come out of it, but I did not feel that. And I was scared. And the hospital chaplain came and visited with me and to prepare me for the worst like they do, and that didn't help.   I had four kids at home who I needed to care for and be strong for and I had a son on a mission who was due to come home in less than a month. I was really worried about him. I was worried about him not being there and not seeing his dad. And I spoke about my fears to one of the ICU nurses and she said, "Yeah, if you want your son to see his dad one more time, you should bring him home immediately." So I called the mission President and I talked to them and I talked to my son, and he he felt like he could stay. He felt like he could stay until his release date and so I honored that. And I guess I'm kind of embarrassed that both my mother-in-law and my son had more faith in, you know, a positive outcome. But I just, I think I was just scared.   So eventually, miraculously, and that's a whole other story, but my husband did recover from this event, he came home and he recovered completely. But I almost did not recover.   I have always considered myself to be capable and independent woman. I mean, I get things done, right. That's who I am. But after Jay's incident, I started to come unglued. Things that normally were really easy for me were suddenly very overwhelming. I specifically remember one of my kids coming home from school with a flat tire on their bike, and I just burst into tears. Like the thought of having to change that tire was just too much for me, even though I've literally changed dozens of flat tires for my kids over the years. This one just felt way bigger than the rest.   Everything that happened felt like too much. You know, sometimes when you're having a lot going on, and then you get that one more thing, and it's the last straw? Everything was the last straw. And it's so unlike me, but it just – I don't know – I don't like changing tires anyway, but I can do it, I've had lots of practice with it, but this one, I was just like, "No, I cannot do this." Everything felt like that. Everything made me want to cry, I was just on edge a lot.   I began having panic attacks, I had this weird sense of my own physical vulnerability. So something small would happen, like I would get heartburn or something, and I would be convinced that I was going to stop breathing. That my heart was going to stop, that something really bad was happening in my own body. And it was going to be really scary, the way Jay's had been. And so my heart would start racing, and I would have just a full on panic attack, based on these thoughts and feelings that I couldn't seem to control. I had never had panic attacks before, and they are scary in how real they feel. You, you really feel like something is majorly wrong with your body, and you're gonna die.   I had terrible night anxiety, which robbed me of many hours of sleep. So one night I woke up maybe a few weeks after my husband had come home, and it was the middle of the night and I was gripped by all the usual fear and worry and anxiety that had been bothering me for these few weeks. And, and I started to think about a primary selling that my children were learning at the time. And it describes some of the miracles that Christ performed when he was on the earth.   And I began to silently sing the lyrics to that song in my mind, and as I did, I tried to picture the events that went with them. So things like Christ walking on the water, or calming the storm, or healing the leper. And I found that centering my thoughts on Christ was a lot more effective at calming my night terror than anything else had been. I had tried things like, you know, thinking about something that was fun or exciting coming up in my life, or a good memory that I just had, or you know, some of those Christmas memories that we had just gone through. And it helped a little but not very much.   But, but these thoughts calmed me and I went back to sleep. So it was way better than anything else I had tried. So as I remembered him in those scary nights, as I thought about the words to the song, the miracles he had performed, the way that he loved and cared for people and still does – I felt myself unlocking really powerful blessings. Blessings of having his spirit with me, like he had promised. And the fruit of that spirit, which is peace. And that peace is what allowed me to calm down and go back to sleep.   I still feel anxiety sometimes, although it's not as strong as it was in the month right after my husband's incident, but it is something that I continue to struggle with, that I take medication for and that I often still wake up in the night because of. So, my Christ centered thoughts didn't cure my anxiety, I don't think that there is a cure for anxiety, it's something we all have sometimes, but it did help. It did give me something that gave me relief in the worst moments of it. But I also have a lot of other tools that I use including, meditation and medication and different things like that.   I went for many years not understanding what it meant to access the power of our covenants, and I still don't think I have a handle on it, but I love that he gave me a little bit of it as I went through this experience. The how for me in this situation was always remembering him by thinking about him in moments when I was not strong. In moments when I was weak, I could lean on him for his strength by just thinking about him. Thinking through his life, things he had done for other people, things he has done for me in the past. That was a really practical "how" for me to know that this, this big concept of leaning on the Savior for his strength could be affected by thinking about Him. By always remembering Him.   It wouldn't make any sense to tell everybody, "Hey, to keep your sacramental covenant, you should wake up at three in the morning and think about Jesus Christ while you battle your anxiety." That's just not a useful application for everybody, but it's useful for me.   I love that my Heavenly Parents believe that I can figure it out. That they also see me as a strong and capable woman who, through the Spirit can learn everything that I need to know to live a life that is as practical as it is powerful.   KaRyn  26:21  That was Leica. Talk about calling down the powers of heaven. I am a huge fan of visualization, but I'd never thought about using it to keep Christ continually in my heart, or to dispel chaotic thoughts. I really appreciate Leica's example of allowing Heavenly Father to guide her toward the practical application of the Atonement that would work for her. It makes me think of what President Nelson said about the process. There's no manual because the truth is that the "how" of the gospel is different for each of us. It's deeply dependent upon our needs, our current situation, and our unique spiritual gifts. And what works for Leica might work for me, but it might not. So the trick is to offer my heart to my Father in Heaven, and then wait. Wait for inspiration about what's going to work for me. I actually think it's beautiful that there's no one fits all solution, because that also means that I can let go of comparison and judgment and fear about getting it wrong, and focus instead on getting it right.  figuring out what the practical application of the gospel looks like for me in my life, in my circumstances, and make it happen. Our final story about putting our spiritual theories into action comes from Ben.   Ben  27:39  Last May, I had been asked to speak at a Relief Society function, and I went up to get in my car and realized that my neighbor's car was blocking my driveway. I recognized the car because it was an odd color of green that had a couple of dents in it, and then I realized that it was still running. And I went to the window and the driver was still in there, looked like she was looking in her glove box, I kind of knocked on the window and realized that she wasn't looking in her glove box at all, but was passed out or something was very wrong. I knew it was my neighbor, I'd met her a few times before. I, you know, opened the door and was shaking her leg and was saying, "Wake up, wake up what's going on?" And you know, I don't even know remember what I was saying, but just really, you know, freaked out.   She, she wasn't responsive. I call 911 as quick as I could, and they said you need to get her out and you need to begin CPR. And so I ran into the house, and just you know, yelled at the door, "I need help now!" And you know, my family was still sitting at dinner. My son who was 18 at the time, helped me lift this woman out of the car. We laid her on the grass, it's starting to rain, and I know CPR, but I knew – also knew that she was gone, you know, completely gone. And the fire truck pulled up about a minute and a half after we had her out on the lawn, and they took one look at her and said, you know, "We're not even going to try CPR. She's obviously gone."   The 911 operators is with us the whole time and you know, "Tell me her name. Tell me – How can we . . ." and I couldn't remember this lady's name. I had nothing. And so it's raining, you know, I have to leave I have no way of contacting the people. The paramedics are there and, and basically no they have to wait for the crime scene investigator to come and check everything out. By this point I'm, you know, 20 minutes late already and my son's car was parked out on the street, so I took his car and, and went.   And I think probably one of the most traumatic parts of the story for me is the fact that, you know, I'd known this woman for years, she's, she's been my neighbor for, for 10 years, and I guess I shouldn't say that I really knew her because we wave to each other as we came and went, you know, I knew that she had a partner, they would often sit and smoke cigarettes on the wall, you know, three doors down from me, and I'd wave and say hi, but I had forgotten her name. And, you know, three doors down. I felt like I failed. And I felt like a really, really bad neighbor. And that, that really hurt.   I, you know, promised myself that I would get to know my neighbors better and, and spend more time understanding who they were and a little bit of their story. So, you know, heaven forbid, if anything ever happened like this, again, I'd be able to give it a good answer. So in some ways, I definitely tried to follow through with that, that promise to myself and got to know the guys next door, their names and a little bit of their stories, what they were studying in school. In some ways, I feel, you know, proud that I was able to connect with more of my neighbors after this experience, and recognizing, you know, learning names and, and figuring out a little bit more about their stories, but it really wasn't until another tragedy took place that I realized something much more needed to be done.   A 19 year old neighbor, chose to end her own life. And I was involved with going out and searching for her and reading the note that she had left for her mom's. And ultimately, finding her gone. And in her letter, she talked a lot about feeling hopeless. You know, she had been dealing with some depression for a while, but was getting help and seemed to be doing really well. You know, a sophomore in college and really making good progress – we thought – and then to see this note, and just to see what she, that she just had gotten to the point where she had no hope left in her. And I, and I felt absolutely overwhelmed with the sense that something needed to be done.   My wife and I were on a humanitarian trip in India shortly after this, and spent a lot of time putting together some thoughts and doing some journaling, really feeling like there were some answers that were coming to me about what needed to be done. And one of those came in the form of, I guess, a memory of President Uchtdorf's talk from 2010 that says, "You are my hands." This is the story of Christ, a statue of Christ being bombed during World War Two, and the the villagers as they put their village back together, wanted to repair the statue of Christ. And his hands were badly broken, and they were able to make the repairs on most of the statue, but they decided not to repair his hands and instead hung a sign from the statue that says, "You are my hands."   I felt a need to share some hope and optimism with others. Several months before all this I had been baking bread and taking it and sharing it with my neighbors getting to know neighbors, you know, nobody is ever upset with you when you show up on their doorstep with a loaf of fresh bread. And so, sourdough Sunday had begun with that. So I would start on Saturday nights and and bake on Sunday, and go out and visit people on Sunday afternoons.   Right after we got home from from India, we began a crazy experiment. And that was to move Sourdough Sunday indoors and to begin inviting people, random people, whoever wanted to come, to come and eat a slice of bread and share a story. And so every Sunday until COVID started, we threw open our doors and invited people to come in and just talk. And there was laughter and there were tears and there were strangers that showed up on my door that I'd never met before that saw my post on Instagram or Facebook and wanted to come in and wanted to talk and it was such a crazy experiment, but so much fun. And my kids thought I was completely bonkers. But they joined in. And, you know, I, I baked sourdough, I baked yeast bread, I always had some extra dough sitting around in the fridge waiting to be baked, if more people showed up, you know, sometimes the people would stick around for an hour or two. And sometimes they stuck around for five or six hours. And we had to say, you know, it's time for bed now.   But it created a sense of community and a sense of hope, and a sense of connection, that, that we absolutely needed – that I didn't know that I needed. Many of them came back multiple times, and especially the younger kids that we just returned home from India with, you know, there were, there were kind of a core group of three or four of them that came every week, but it was a different different group every week. And like I said, many of these were strangers, and to see people that weren't members of my faith, but felt a desire to connect to humanity on a Sunday afternoon. To break bread. And you know, maybe that's what pure religion is, right? To learn to love and connect with people. And I felt I felt that connection, so, so strongly during that time.   And when COVID began, we kind of fudged and kept, kept it going for a couple of weeks after COVID was going because I thought, you know, this, this is probably going to go on for a long time, and I don't want to, I don't want to go into hibernation with this for too long. So since since COVID, started, we've continued on with the sourdough Sunday, I bake eight small loaves of bread every Sunday, and it's been really fun to go and deliver these to people at – usually at the end of, especially in the beginning, we delivered at the end of  an 18 foot telescoping paint rod. So, so people would come to their front door, and they just start laughing at this bread that was dangling in front of their faces. And, and, you know, there's some people that we've visited, over and over again, that are a little bit more vulnerable or susceptible to feeling isolated. And just feeling like we got to do something to help people know that we see them.   There's a, there's a great quote that I love from Mother Teresa that says, "If we have no peace, it's because we forgotten that we belong to each other." And I, and I think about that frequently. Especially right now with everything that's going on. We, we have to find ways to connect. We have to find ways to see each other and to recognize the pain and the suffering that we're all enduring.   The idea of, you know, mourning with those that mourn and comforting those that stand in need of comfort is, is a huge part of not only my baptismal covenant, but my my role as a Christian, you know, that we, we absolutely have to see each other. And I've found this to be the case now, as I have always, you know, whenever you go out and visit somebody, your problems disappear, because someone else's issues and struggles and problems. You recognize the pain that they're suffering, and your pains are gone, as you focus more on them, and help them to get through whatever they're going through. And sometimes you can't help them get through it. But just having someone to share that burden with you know, "A burden shared is a burden lightened." And I really believe that's what my religion is all about.   And really, we're probably not living our religion until we, we are getting our hands dirty in the act of loving people.   You know, one woman showed up with her husband, and after spending a couple of hours with us said, "You know, I haven't been active in the Church for 25 years. And this is the closest thing to church that I've had in that amount of time. I think if this is what church is about, I think I need to go back." I don't know what her story is or where it will end, but she knew that I was a member of the Church. It really felt like there was a lot of healing that took place as I listened to her talk about her reasons for leaving the Church and, and as you know, she listened to me testify of the love of God. And I suppose that's really the, the best thing I can share is that there's so many things that I don't know about the gospel for sure, but I do know that God loves me and that he loves all of his children. And if I can, I can help share that with other people, I don't know if there's anything that's more hopeful in this world than that we have a Father in heaven who loves us, and He wants us to be happy. And if we will remember those things, life makes so much more sense and, you know, the problems that we deal with and the challenges that we face, there, there will always be an eternal perspective on those things.   KaRyn Lay  40:53  That was Ben. I'm grateful for his willingness to share these experiences that have shaped his desire to practice charity and share hope. If you or someone you love is struggling with depression or thoughts of suicide, please, please reach out to someone for help. You can text: 741741 anonymously from anywhere in the US, or you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. I promise you, you are not alone. I first came across part of Ben's story on an Instagram account that I started to follow this past summer during the Coronavirus times. I was feeling really disconnected and helpless, even though I was trying hard to serve my neighbors and my family the best way that I could. Reading the news, watching things start to disintegrate as we got closer to the election – I guess I was just longing to feel some sort of connection and control. I found this account called Protopians United which was sharing stories of people who needed kindness, and offering ways to actually do something kind for them. So I jumped in and started to participate. And then I realized that the person behind the account was actually the artist Ben Behunin, who makes this really beautiful pottery I had admired at the Deseret Book downtown stores for a long time. Now that I've heard the whole of Ben's story, I realized that that Instagram account that I first started following, it's just an extension of those sourdough Sundays. Everyone's invited to jump in and learn each other's names, and love our neighbor in word and in deed. I have always had a thing for vintage dishes and cookware, my collection of jadeite, and milk glass and Mikasa plates from the 1960's started when I was just a wee baby freshman in college. And even though I literally have nowhere to put one more dish in this tiny house, I still can't help myself from checking the glassware section of any thrift store that I ever visit. I do have one rule for myself with these treasures, though. I won't buy it if I can't actually put it to use. I'm not interested in it if it's too precious to slap some potato salad in for the ward picnic – back when those still happened. And that also means that sometimes, sometimes I drop the jadeite cake stand carrying it to the Relief Society social, or a stray ball from an illicit indoor game of catch shatters the rare, milk glass pedestal dish that was holding the mail. The loss of these pieces is sometimes really, really, really painful for a hot minute. But I've decided that I actually get more joy out of the everyday use of them than pain from the loss of one. I guess I like my religion like I like my glassware. I need it to be as beautiful as it is functional. And the good news is that as followers of Jesus Christ in these latter days, we are part of a truly practical faith. President Brigham Young once said this, quote, "The religion of Jesus Christ as a matter of fact, religion, and taketh hold of the everyday duties and realities of this life. The principles of eternity and eternal exaltation are of no use to us, unless they are brought down to our capacities so that we practice them in our lives." What this means is that we can't keep the beautiful concepts of priesthood and revelation, forgiveness, repentance, Atonement, charity, and faith – we can't keep those hidden in some cabinet or high on some shelf with the intention to use them for special occasions, or only when we really, really need them. We have to bring them down to where we are and figure out our personal "how–to," right now. Every day. We have to walk back to the earthmover even though we know the light is waning. And we have to close our eyes and visualize those miracles of Christ while our chest tightens and our breathing grows ragged. We have to swing the doors wide open, or hang bread from a pole to reach one another in these days of distance and anonymity. And while we're bringing these sacred treasures of eternity closer to the ground, we'll probably drop a few vases along the way. Maybe even that one that you inherited from your great grandmother, and that will hurt. But this promise from President Nelson can bring us comfort. He said that as our understanding increases and we exercise our faith, our ability to find and draw upon the spiritual treasures will increase. We will find the next practical piece of our treasure anytime we go looking for it. That's it for this episode of "This Is the Gospel." Thank you to our storytellers, Chris Leica and Ben. We will have more information about our storytellers including pictures of some of Ben's artwork, as well as links to President Nelson's talk and more, in our show notes at LDS living.com/thisisthegospel. You can also get more good stuff by following us on Instagram or Facebook at @thisisthegospel_podcast. All of the stories in this episode are true and accurate, as affirmed by our storytellers. And of course, if you have a story to share about living the Gospel of Jesus Christ, please call our pitch line and leave us a story pitch. The best pitches will be short and sweet and have a clear sense of the focus of your story. You can call 515-519-6179.  To leave us a message. If today's stories have touched you or made you think about your practical discipleship a little bit more deeply, please tell us all about it. You can leave a review of the podcast on Apple, Stitcher, or whatever platform you listen on. Leaving us a review really does make it easier for people to find this podcast when they're just browsing around looking for something to lighten their day. And if you can't figure out how to leave a review – which I totally get – check out the highlights on our Instagram page for some tips. This episode was produced by me KaRyn Lay, with story production and editing from Erika Free and Kelli Campbell. It was scored, mixed and mastered by Mix at Six Studios, and our executive producer is Erin Hallstrom. You can find past episodes of this podcast and other LDS Living podcasts at LDSliving.com slash pad . . . slash podcasts.   Show Notes + Transcripts: http://ldsliving.com/thisisthegospel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, "If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, 'This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.' Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple."

Episode 123: Fruation! The cast recap their Covid Halloweens, Ivan's past playing GTA, Mike saw Jay & Silent Bob at the drive-in, Jeff vs more oatmeal, TV show pilots that never aired, Jeff's thoughts on 'This is Us', RIP Sean Connery, and more! Thanks for listening! Available on YouTube, Spotify and the Apple & Google Podcast apps! Anchor: https://anchor.fm/sotrt Email us at sotrtpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sotrtpodcast/

Sa-Roc - "The Black Renaissance (feat. Black Thought)" from the 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter on Rhymesayers. The first time Sa-Roc met Black Thought of The Roots, he was pulling her up on stage at the 2014 A3C Hip Hop Festival in front of tens of thousands of people.  “We had a mutual friend who’s close to him and had been sharing music or whatever," the Atlanta-based MC remembered toHipHopDX. "He was anticipating meeting us there and Thought, being the Hip Hop icon who went through the fire and came up doing cyphers and freestyles, he completely believed in making sure an MC is up to par with going through that cold trial-by-fire thing. The impromptu performance set the stage for the collaboration on today's Song of the Day. She told ABC Australia: "I knew as soon as I started writing this album, I wanted Black Thought to feature and when [producer] Sol Messiah showed me this track, I was like, 'This is the one.' I have such high regard for Black Thought as an MC and how he elevates lyricism to an extent that's really not seen within the mainstream industry. So, we got on the track, we recorded in the studio, and just went crazy: back and forth bar for bar. So, this is lyricism at its finest." Read the full post on KEXP.org Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Show notes can be found at tashcorbin.com/238 This is not really a marketing topic per se, but running a group of 33,000 women online, I see some things, and this is a conversation that I'd love for us to continue over in the Heart-Centred Soul Driven Entrepreneurs group. It is a pattern and trend that I see happening in lots of different ways and I wanted us to open up this conversation. The conversation is about dripping with disdain. A big shout out to Vampire Weekend and their song Oxford Comma for that gorgeous description - dripping with disdain. It's such a powerful and emotive phrase, and I just love it. It's three words put together so perfectly. Dripping with disdain can be about your industry or your audience, and I thought that this particular podcast episode could be about how by shining a light on some of that disdain that we might have for our industry or our audience, we can start to detox ourselves from the judgement that we might feel towards others. Let's jump into this episode, it's going to be a bit of a meandering conversation, but I've got eight really powerful examples for you where it might be so helpful to shine a light on where this behaviour - even if it's not outwardly facing, it's just inward thoughts - can show up and how it is actually stopping you from growth in your business. As you might have picked up from my introduction to this episode, it's not necessarily about fixing something so that your business will grow, or doing a certain thing so that you can get more clients. I do think it's really important for us to pay attention to our thoughts and feelings, especially as they relate to our industry, our audience and potential clients. For me, that's where the biggest personal development and growth journeys have happened. I know for myself, there are still areas where I can have some pop-up thoughts that aren't necessarily helpful, but I don't ignore them, I pay attention to them. They show me where I need to be changing my behaviour, showing up more authentically, or sometimes it's highlighting something in my industry or something for my audience that I need to step up, talk about and change. By ignoring those things, I end up keeping myself small, or just judging quietly and not necessarily having the conversation. Whereas if I bring those things to the fore, I can address them. I'm going to start with my points about industry, and then I'm going to talk about audience. Here are some examples of places, and conversations that I've heard, where people have disdain for their industry. 1. "This entire online business world is a giant pyramid scheme" Have you: Heard it? Thought it? Said it out loud? Talked about that as a worry with your coach or mentor? I know that this conversation pops up again and again in the Heart-Centred community and in the Take Off program, and I totally understand where it's coming from, and that some of those concerns that people have are very valid. I know of coaches who charge $15,000 to teach people how to charge $15,000 to teach people how to charge $15,000... That is totally a model of business that I've seen. Has there been any material training or development or mentoring in actually changing people's lives for that $15,000? Or is it just finding more people to charge $15,000 to learn how to charge $15,000? Who knows... I understand that we can see some of these examples and feel quite judgmental about how that's what the whole industry is in a nutshell and that we're not doing anything different (I've had someone say that to me in a VIP call). I totally understand why it can be a frustration and a fear. If it is a giant pyramid scheme, we just can't see it and we're contributing to it, then aren't we culpable in this entire scheme and shouldn't we opt out of it? The first thing I want to say to that is: It's not all of the industry. I have worked with so many amazing people who have completely changed my life, not just in the way that I grow my business, but also in the way that I serve my clients and in my life outside of my business. I absolutely love and adore the training, support and development that I have received from most of the people that I've worked with. A great way to unhook yourself from this thought, if it's something that keeps popping up for you, is to: a. Realise that it's not all of it. b. Look at the ways where you have been helped outside of the way that you make money. Are there things that you have learned? Are there changes that you have made? Do you show up differently as a result of being in this industry, and therefore, could that change be something beyond being part of the cycle of paying a certain amount to charge a certain amount to teach how to charge that amount? c. See this as an opportunity. I know for myself that when people want to work with me, they are working with me because they see that I am not just in that pyramid-type model. They see that a lot of my clients don't teach people how to make money. My clients teach people how to look after their health and wellbeing, how to dial up their intuition, how to fengshui their home to improve their relationships, or how to attract their soulmate. One of the big things for me when I am working with a mentor or coach is to look at whether their clients do exactly what they do, or if their clients work and impact people's lives in other ways. There is an opportunity for you to differentiate yourself, simply by the fact that you're not part of that pyramid scheme. You can express your value proposition beyond teaching people exactly what you learned about how to sell something that doesn't actually change people's lives. You can absolutely opt-out of that. Whenever I am feeling that it's a giant pyramid scheme and I am judging people for it, in most cases, what it's doing is highlighting for me my fear that maybe I'm in that. It is just this beautiful reminder to me that I need to be conscious of how I show up online, I need to be conscious of the contribution I'm making to the world, and I want to be 100% confident that my business isn't contributing to a giant pyramid scheme. I ask myself what I need to change, adjust or focus on in order for that to be true. That's how I deal with it. 2. "The leaders of my industry are horrid" This one has particularly come up a lot this year with Black Lives Matter, white privilege, a lot of justification of white privilege, white fragility, and all of those things that have really come to the fore, particularly this year, and seeing industry leaders topple. I've seen many people who I would have seen as leaders in my industry have a very hard and fast fall because they were unwilling to stop, listen, do the self-reflection, pay attention and acknowledge their own internalised racism, systemic racism, white privilege, and white supremacy. It could be very easy to look at those leaders and think about how they are horrible, or they didn't deal with it so you should opt-out altogether. I think that that's a really big mistake. What I have also seen, especially this year, is the lifting of amazing voices and the demand at the client level for this to be addressed. People are voting with their wallets. I have been able to hear from and see so many more amazing black women who run brilliant multimillion-dollar businesses. I have moved from working with someone who had some problematic responses to Black Lives Matter, and I immediately cancelled my membership in their program and went and joined a different one. A great example of this and a different way to look at it would if you wanted to sell swimwear and be in the swimwear industry. The leading brands in your industry do not: Include body diverse models Include racially diverse people Have inclusive sizing, styling or inclusive anything The leaders in the swimwear industry have mostly white, mostly skinny, mostly very tanned and problematic-from-a-sun-safe-perspective models. So you wanted to sell swimwear, but looking at the leaders in your industry, it would be easy to think that to succeed in that industry you have to do that, and you're not willing to so instead you're going to opt-out. But that's not actually the case. You wouldn't opt-out of that industry, you would stand up for what you want to see in that industry and you would have that inclusivity and that diversity as part of your business model. That would be a point of difference for you, and that would ultimately end up being an advantage for you. Especially as more and more people are no longer willing to tolerate silence on: Black Lives Matter White supremacy White fragility Racism It's not just in that one space, it's in many, many spaces. I myself saw that all of the leaders that I could see in my industry were talking about the 4am club. They were talking about hustling, wanting it harder and dialling up people's pain and fear in the sales process, because 'you can totally fix them later when they buy from you'. I didn't want to do any of that. But if I had completely opted out of the entire industry because the people that I saw who were leading in that industry had problematic behaviours and beliefs that I didn't agree with, then all of the thousands of women that I've now supported to grow their businesses and market in a way that is completely aligned with their values and doesn't cause the triggering of trauma or dialling up people's pain points in the sales process, all of those thousands of women would have missed out and they'd probably be following the industry leaders and feeling the same as I did seven years ago. When it comes to looking at your industry, notice where you're feeling that disdain for the leadership, and judgement of the way that other people are behaving. Instead of just expressing that disdain and judgement and doing nothing about it, turn it into something that's actually helpful and useful for your audience. You will notice that when I talk about the problematic behaviours in terms of sales processes in my business, I don't just throw out disdain and judgement. I instead break it down to 'This specific strategy is not aligned with my values because of this, and this is what it does to people. I'm not willing to do that. So if you aren't willing to do that either, here's what I do. You might like to try to do this way as well'. I'm not just throwing out criticism and judgement of the leaders in my industry, I am instead focusing on: What behaviours specifically am I not happy with? Why am I not happy with them? What am I doing instead? How could you do that too? Instead of throwing out the judgement, I'm actually being part of the solution. You have the opportunity to do that as well. 3. Copycats I've had many conversations, in particular in the last couple of months, where people are saying that they're not going to put anything out online anymore because every time they do, a couple of days later they see someone else putting the same thing up. They don't think it's fair that someone else is having free content written for them so they just won't create any anymore. I had someone who I was talking to who had created a program that they'd given a specific name to, and then someone else who they saw as a peer came out with an unbuilt program that she started selling with the exact same name - she'd clearly just copied the name and wanted to get in with it first. There's a lot of that. On a Facebook Live earlier this year, I talked about a particular product that I was thinking about doing and a URL that I was thinking about buying, and three days after that, someone else bought that URL and put it instantly up for sale for $5,000. The URL was something very specific to something that I talked about very clearly. It seems like it could be very likely that someone watched that video and went and bought that domain name, but does that mean I'm not going to do anything? Does that mean I just give up and that the entire industry is full of copycats? What are you focusing on? Where are you putting your attention if you're constantly looking to find who is copying you? What I ended up doing was just completely moving in a different direction with a different name for the same concept. I felt like it ended up being better anyway, so it's no drama. I could spend my time and attention getting really upset and angry about that, or I could spend my time and attention on building this program. You can spend your time and attention looking for people who have copied you, or you can block those people and get on with your life. You can accept that there's a lot of coincidence and we all kind of end up sounding the same when we're talking to the same audiences, or you can just focus on your audience instead of focusing on your peers. I also think whenever the copycat issue comes up, the judgement stuff comes out huge. It feels as though it's an affront to you, it's an insult, and you make it mean so many different things. At the end of the day, I have so much compassion for someone who feels that they need to copy my things and my work, because to me it says that that person is really low in self-esteem, and is really struggling to feel confident in their own content, in coming up with their own concepts and in coming up with their own way of talking about things. If they're constantly resharing or modelling my work in their work, then sure it's not necessarily an insult and it's very flattering, but also it says more about that person than it does about me. If I put all my energy and attention on stopping that person, what is the opportunity cost of that? I don't judge someone who copies me, and I don't judge someone who copies someone else. I understand what it feels like to feel like you desperately need to create something and you have no idea what to say, and how stuck that can feel. If the thing that gets that person unstuck is regurgitating something that you've done, then power to them, let's all help each other. A rising tide lifts all ships. When you live in a world where you see that resources are finite, clients are finite, and success is finite, it can be really easy to be upset by that. I'm not saying that you should let everyone copy everyone and that we should all just all regurgitate the same information. There are legal protections, there are ways that you can address it, but at the end of the day, is it even worth doing some of those things? I had a conversation with someone who said that she has a girl who follows her, who likes every one of her posts, and then a few days later she does a very similar post on her own page. And I just said to block her. If something upsets you that much, all you need to do is block that person. But this person didn't want to block her, and every practical solution that I gave her, she made excuses for why she didn't want to that. Eventually I just got to the point where I told her that the other option is to stop focusing on this copycat and stop checking whether they're copying her. I think sometimes we prefer to stay in the space of feeling superior or feeling like we're better than someone than actually addressing the challenge that we think we're facing. That's all I'll say on that one for now, but I do have a whole episode about copycats that you can find here: tashcorbin.com/185-how-to-deal-with-copycats 4. "The internet's already too noisy and I'm just contributing to this noise" I think this one can be particularly difficult for people who are new to social media or who struggle with social media. They say that they don't want to be a part of the noise. To that I would say, yes, everyone is trying to share their content. We all want to speak to our audiences, but at the end of the day, your audience is going to resonate with your message. Just because you might feel like it's a busy space to be speaking into, doesn't mean that people aren't sitting there waiting to hear from you. I know for myself, there have been several times where I felt like no one was talking about the thing I needed people to be talking about on social media. Even when I googled it, I couldn't find anything. Then when I finally found someone who was having that conversation, I was so excited because I really wanted to learn that stuff. The noise of the internet didn't get in the way, it was just that no one was having that conversation as far as I could find. I understand the fear that you're just contributing to the noise of the internet, but think about your content and your posts as an oasis for your ideal client. You don't need to participate in trying to yell over each other. I've got a great example, of when I went to this amazing market over the weekend and there were all of these stalls (it's been a bit quiet on the market's front because of COVID). I love just browsing when I go to markets, and I don't need to have conversations with every single person. But in this row of market stalls, many of the stallholders were standing in front of their market stall, and as I walked through this section, I was assaulted by noise and people talking at me trying to get me to come to their stall. There was this beautiful lady who would have been at least in her sixties, and she had these beautiful handcrafted beads, buttons, jewellery and decorative things, and she was just sitting there quietly behind her stall, and I just naturally made a beeline to her stall. I didn't want to deal with the noise, so I was so drawn to her. I was looking at her things while she just sat there quietly and eventually we started talking about why she started creating these things, and we had this amazing conversation. And she wasn't loud. You don't need to yell over everyone else to be successful online. You can just be this beautiful oasis of really useful information for your audience - you can be an oasis of calm confidence. It was the calmly and quietly confident people at that market that I spent the most time engaged with because I didn't want to be yelled at by mostly dudes. I didn't want to know that his beef jerky was the best beef jerky in all of Southland, I didn't need to know how many different flavours of bath bombs that other guy had. Honestly, I didn't need them yelling at me. It was the quiet, calm, confident stallholders that didn't need to get out and pitch to me in desperation that I was really drawn to. You can show up on the internet in that way as well, but you still need to show up. Instead of being worried or judgmental about everyone yelling over everyone and the internet being really noisy, work out how you can show up in a way that reflects what you want to show up as, how you want to be seen, and how you want to contribute to what's on the internet. You don't have to contribute noise, you can contribute calm. They are the four big judgments I see of the industries that we might belong to. 1. It's a pyramid scheme 2. Leadership 3. Copycats 4. The internet's already too noisy The other side of this conversation is where I see disdain for people's audience... 1. Getting frustrated with your audience and missing opportunities This one I really don't get, but I see it come up often. I have an example from the Heart-Centred community, and this was many, many moons ago. I don't want to get into who it was or anything like that, but it was such a great example for me of not seeing the opportunity with your audience. Every three or four months, I used to do a post on in the Heart-Centred group asking people what their astrology sign was and what their favourite thing was about being that sign. There was someone who was a very experienced astrologer who saw this post as being particularly problematic. There was one time where 700 people had commented on this post, and all the Leo's were teaming up with each other and bonding over being the same sign and sharing what they love about it. All these people were having these amazing conversations - it was one of the most beautiful posts that I've ever done in the group. One time it really took off and there were all of these comments, and this very experienced astrologer saw people making assumptions about their sign or talking about their astrology in ways that she, as an experienced astrologer for multiple decades, could see were wrong. Not only did she comment on the post saying that the post was a complete sham, a waste of time, no one knew what they were talking about and that I had posed the question wrong, she also reached out to me and told me to take the post down because it was so problematic and people shouldn't be talking about their astrological signs if they weren't actually informed about what it meant. Then she went and replied to the comments of people who had talked about their sign and she told them why they were wrong. Some astrologers had put comments up saying that if someone didn't know what their sign was about then they would happily explain it to them. We had some astrologers adding extra things and adding statements - the astrologers were having a field day and everyone was having a great conversation. I loved it. Then this person went through and commented and told everyone why they were wrong. You could choose to see that this conversation about astrology was an affront - which is how she chose to see it - or you could see that this conversation about astrology was an opportunity. The only difference as to whether you see it as an affront or whether you see it as an opportunity is your perspective. Your perspective is the only difference. Not only did I not take that post down (because I loved the conversation that was happening), but whenever that post came up again as a suggestion in my content planning for the group, I haven't done it. I haven't put that post up there the last three times it was suggested. If this person had seen it as an opportunity and engaged in a really beautiful way without the disdain and without the judgement for their audience (because 90% of people on that post were their ideal client - they were semi-informed about astrology but loved talking about it), then that would have been an amazing opportunity. Instead of seeing it as an opportunity, they saw it as an affront, shut the conversation down, upset a lot of people in the comments, and now hasn't had the opportunity for that conversation to be reinvigorated in the group since. That person could have simply seen it as an opportunity, given some clarification about how there's more to it than that and that if anyone wanted to know what it meant for them and their busines, she would love for them to get in touch. Instead of doing that she just chose to treat the audience with disdain, contempt and judgement. It is such a shame that that was a missed opportunity. I know that this is a really extreme example, but I see it pop up all the time, where someone asks a question and they're basically screaming at you that they are your ideal client because they don't quite understand how to ask the question properly, and instead of being met with love and compassion and understanding, they are met with judgement and disdain, and completely put off the whole idea. This happened to me many years ago when I joined a vegan group. I asked a few questions about veganism, and I was basically told that by asking that question, I was telling them that I'm not a proper vegan and so they wanted me to go away. They didn't say it in a nice tone at all, and it was so bizarre to me because it was full of vegan entrepreneurs who could have helped me with understanding some things about veganism. Instead I got completely pooped on in asking that question. I see this come up over and over again, people judging and having disdain for their audience asking questions that indicate they're probably ripe to have a conversation with you about this. They might actually either be really ready to work with you, or just before the tipping point of being ready to work with you. I just wanted to bring that one up because I think that it can be easiest for us to jump to conclusions about why someone's asked a question or what they're saying or why they're saying it. But at the end of the day, are you looking at that audience conversation as an affront or as an opportunity? 2. "My audience will waste money on A, B and C when all they need is just a few sessions with me" There are so many people complaining that their ideal clients won't invest in sessions with them but they will happily throw money down the toilet for the outcome from someone else. It is so interesting to me that that is met with frustration, because that says to you all that you need to know for your messaging and marketing. There is something about the other thing that makes it look like it's the right answer for those people. They're willing to invest in that, and when you share your product or service which you think solves the problem even better, they don't buy it. That's a messaging issue. The key to resolving that messaging issue is in paying attention to and getting curious about where people are investing their money instead. If you are getting frustrated or judgmental of your audience because they're spending money in the wrong spaces, again, instead of seeing that as insulting, see it as an opportunity for you to really nail your value proposition and address the messaging issue that means they're putting their money into something else other than the work that you are offering. 3. "How dare they" This one's a really interesting one because I see it pop up in a range of different ways. I had a friend in a mastermind who ran a free challenge. There were all these people in her pop up group for her free challenge, and when the challenge finished, people were saying that since the group was closing, they should all make their own group and continue to support and help each other. This person was like "How very dare they". "How dare they think that they can go off and work on this without me when I have put all of my time and energy into doing this with them in this free challenge. If they wanted extra support and community, they could just buy my program and they would get everything that they need. But instead, they're going to go off and create their own splinter cell of people working on this together for free. How dare they." It pops up with people who are working with someone, talking to each other, and forming networks with each other. I actually did a program once where we weren't allowed to talk to the other participants, and when a couple of people got busted who knew each other outside of the work that they've done together, it was like a "how dare you" and they got booted out. Again, that judgement or that disdain for them was an opportunity. Clearly people want to keep working with each other, and they want to keep talking to each other. They want to keep working on this thing, they feel like there's more for them to do but the group program or whatever is on offer is not the thing for them - they want something else. People are allowed to get their needs met. It's totally okay if you want to set the boundaries and say that there can't be any splinter groups - that's your group, your rules, your program, your rules, your business, your rules - but don't judge people simply because they want to keep having that conversation. If you can facilitate that conversation and keep them in your community to have that conversation then great. But if you're not interested in facilitating that conversation, then they're going to go and have that conversation elsewhere. That's totally legit of them to want to do that. That's a really interesting one, and for me, it always creates this sense of asking myself how I can meet those needs without changing my boundaries. There's always a creative solution that I can find. If you find yourself feeling like "how dare they" about your audience or your clients as well, just pay attention to that one. 4. "If they can't see what they're doing then that's their fault" "If they can't see how valuable my work is, then I'm not there for them." Or "If they can't prioritise investing in working with me, then I'm not interested in working with them, I don't want to help these people." I see this particularly in sales conversations: "If they're not a quick decision maker and they're not willing to pay even the deposit straight away, then I don't want to work with them because they're not a quick decision maker." "If they aren't willing to invest $6,000 in my program without talking to their partner, then they're not the kind of person that I want to work with because they're not independent." To this I always say that you just don't know what's going on for other people. How can you know? And is that really how you want to show up in the world? I don't see this as much in the Heart-Centred community, but I do see this in the online business world and particularly in places where those hardcore pressure sales tactics are used. "I don't even want them to be in my audience". This one I see a lot with email marketing, "If they're not willing to put up with 17 emails for me in a week when I'm launching something, then they can just F right off" - I see that a lot. I think that this is a really big one in just paying attention to where you are shirking your responsibility in the process. If someone doesn't want to receive 17 emails from you in a week and that makes them want to unsubscribe from your list, is it actually a they-have-to-put-up-with-it-or-else kind of scenario? Someone that I see who does this really well is Denise Duffield-Thomas when she's doing an affiliate launch for a particular program. At the start of that affiliate launch, and in every other email that she sends about that affiliate launch, there's an option of unsubscribing from that launch if they don't want to hear about that program. That's a really beautiful thing to be able to do without telling someone that they have to receive 17 emails about a launch or else they can just go away and that it's their problem. It's almost like a combative approach to email marketing and a combative approach to business. For your audience as well, sometimes they can't see the value of what you are offering. It's not their job to find it - it is not their job to go on a treasure hunt and try and work out whether your product is the right fit for them or not. You have a shared responsibility. They need to show up and read some emails, or they need to show up and watch some videos, but you also need to make sure you're taking responsibility for providing enough information in that process that they can make that decision without having to jump through a bunch of hoops in order to find the information that they need. Similarly, with the if-they-can't-decide-in-24-hours type thing, you don't know what other people are going through. Even I don't invest in things more than $500 without talking about it with David. The reason why I do that is because we are saving for a house right now, and we have some big priorities for our money. We have some really big financial goals that we're going for. The process of talking it out with him is really helpful for me as an extrovert, to get really clear on: What is it that I'm looking for? What is the outcome that I think I'll get from it? Will I actually put the time and energy in to get that result from it? It's really helpful to me to have that conversation. I also know I'm very susceptible to NLP in the sales process, and all of the trickery and tactics that make me end up having really big buyer's remorse, so I have a rule with myself that if I'm going to invest in anything in my business, I have to sleep on it for 48 hours. That's just the rule. To say, "Well I don't care if you have that rule, if you don't buy from me immediately, then you're not my kind of person", that is dripping with disdain. It's full of judgement. You don't know what is going on for that other person. Just because they have a different process of assessing whether something is the right fit for them, doesn't mean that they don't deserve to be helped. That's a really big one for me. I think that in the online business world, there can be a tendency to be very dismissive of people who aren't excited and quick to jump in and willing to take everything that you say at face value and immediately trusting of you. To me, that's actually a really great quality that I love in my audience. I love that people take time to consider whether they're going to work with me. I love that people want to talk about it with their partners first because they're going to go fully into it if they do join. And I love giving people time and space to sleep on it, because I love getting time and space to sleep on it myself. That's one where I've seen a tendency for this judgement and this disdain to creep in. If that's coming up for you, it's something to consider. They are the four big judgments that I see of our audience. 1. Getting frustrated with your audience and missing opportunities 2. "My audience will waste money on A, B and C when all they need is just a few sessions with me" 3. "How dare they" 4. "If they can't see what they're doing then that's their fault" With all of these things that we've talked about in this very long episode of the podcast (and thank you for sticking with me if you're still here), my goal is not to tell you not to feel them, think them or say them (some of them please don't say), but that's not the goal of this podcast episode. For me, the biggest shifts that happen are when I pay attention to my thoughts, and I pay attention to the way that I'm contributing to the conversation in my industry. I wanted to do this episode through that lens. Think about all of these things we've talked about today: Your judgments about your industry The disdain that you might have for parts of your industry or certain aspects of how your industry behaves Your disdain and judgement for your clients, potential clients, your audience, people who decide not to buy from you, and people who decide that they're going to look for support in other ways than the way that you have prescribed When you pay attention to how you think about these things and your contribution to your industry in this space and to the conversations about these things, that can shine a light on why we feel this way. We get to make a conscious decision about whether we want to continue thinking that way, whether we want to continue behaving that way, and whether we want to continue showing up and contributing to the conversation in that way. In summary, I hope that you have found this interesting and insightful. I hope that you found it valuable, and as I said at the start of the episode, I want this to be a conversation. Please come on over to the Heart-Centred, Soul-Driven Entrepreneurs Facebook group, use #podcastaha, and tell me that you've been reading episode number 238. I'd love to know: Where have you felt that you are dripping with disdain? Is it about your audience? Is it about your industry? I Do you have some judgement you want to detox from the way that you show up online, or the way that you feel about your business, your industry or your audience? I would love for this to be a group conversation because I think there's so much that we can learn from these experiences, as well as so much that we can change about what we see online that we don't agree with. I know that the Heart-Centred community is a beautiful incubator of new types of thinking for online business. It is a community with new ways of showing up much more feminine, connected, vulnerable, open, and implementing integrity-driven practises in the online business world. I am so grateful that I get to be part of that conversation - not just lead it but also learn from it. Come on over to Heart-Centred group and let's continue the conversation. Until next time, I cannot WAIT to see you SHINE.

En este episodio os hablo de las Brujas de Salem y de uno de los peores episodios registrados en la historia de la Justicia. En el apartado musical conoceremos la figura de Danny Elfman, compositor de temas como 'This is Halloween' de la película de Tim Burton 'Pesadilla antes de Navidad'. Nos despedimos, como siempre, con un espacio dedicado a la reflexión y el coaching y, esta vez, lo haremos contando un cuento. La fábula del tallador de lápidas. Sígueme en mi Instagram: @vistetecomopuedas

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Harleighblu & Bluestaeb - "Queeen Dem (feat. Janne Robinson)" from the 2019 self-released album She. British R&B vocalist Harleighblu teams up with German producer Bluestaeb on the collaborative album She. On today's Song of the Day, the duo find inspiration in the poetry of Janne Robinson. Harleighblu toldHighsnobiety in an email: I wrote the track Queeen Dem (pronounced like ManDem), after being inspired by a poem called 'This is for the women that don’t give a fuck' by Janne Robinson. The poem reads ‘this is for the women who drink too much whisky, stay up too late and have sex like they mean it — it really spoke to me. I tried to capture the strength of the poem, with a nod to Janne and then elaborate with my own take on completely owning your own womanhood. Within writing the first few lines, I entitled the piece 'Queeen Dem.' Queeen gets 3 E’s to accentuate the fact you are a queen. Read the full post on KEXP.org Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends March 31st 2021. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:www.linkedin.com/in/williamkallawaywww.kallaway.comwww.kallaway.com/blogwww.kallaway.com/blog/post/id/113 Transcription:Kelly Molson:Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. These chats are fun, informative, and hopefully always interesting.In today's episode, I speak with Will Kallaway, MD of PR and Sponsorship Consultancy Kallaway. Will leads a team of experts, creating smart, imaginative campaigns for clients across the culture, travel, property and retail sectors. We discuss why PR and communication is so important to attractions right now, and what they should be focusing on. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Kelly Molson:Will. William Kallaway:Kelly.Kelly Molson:Welcome to the Skip the Queue podcast, it's really good to have you on today. William Kallaway:I can't tell you how excited I am. Kelly Molson:That sounded quite genuine. William Kallaway:I'm also slightly nervous about the questions you're going to ask me. These questions, you wouldn't tell me what you were going to ask me. Kelly Molson:Don't be nervous. Everyone says this. They're nervous about the ice breaker questions. Come on. William Kallaway:Yeah. Kelly Molson:Right, first one. What are you not very good at? William Kallaway:Oh, how long have you got? I mean, I thought this podcast was about 50 minutes. What am I not very good at? I'm terrible at lists, absolutely terrible at lists. Kelly Molson:Oh, okay. William Kallaway:Writing lists, and I'm not very good at seeing them through. I'm lucky I'm surrounded by brilliant people who hold my feet to the fire. Kelly Molson:I like that. It's all about delegation. William Kallaway:All these things get delegated back to me, but at least I have someone else telling me that I'm delayed, and I'm behind. So yeah, I'm good at ideas and big picture and strategy and things like that. But my new shortlist always escapes me. Kelly Molson:Right. Noted. Okay, if you were a wrestler, so imagine WWF wrestling, what would be your entrance theme song? William Kallaway:I think, probably, I will survive. Kelly Molson:That would be the weirdest wrestler walk-on I've ever seen in my life. But an honest answer. Okay, brilliant. Kelly Molson:All right, a third one. If you had to delete all but two apps from your smartphone, what two would you keep? Oh, this is really tough.William Kallaway:Two apps. I would keep Podcast because I just listen to podcasts all the time. And I love that.Kelly Molson:Good answer. William Kallaway:Particularly ones on attractions. Cool, Skip the Queue. I'm just looking now to see actually which ones I would actually keep. My photos, there you go. I'll keep those because lots of memories in there. Kelly Molson:Yeah, that's good. That's the biggest thing about losing your phone, isn't it? The idea that you might lose all your photos from it.William Kallaway:Yeah, I always keep losing my phone. It sometimes crops up, sometimes I have to get another one. That and my [inaudible 00:03:02], which I've lost for a week and I don't know where they are. Kelly Molson:Oh, God. Okay, so something else Will's not very good at, keeping things, not losing stuff. William Kallaway:You got quite enough about what Will's not very good at. I'm sure of that as we go through.Kelly Molson:Okay, all right. Last one, and then we'll move on to the good stuff. Okay. So everyone gets asked this question. So I think that you've probably prepared this one. But I want to know what your unpopular opinion is. William Kallaway:Daniel Craig is not a very good James Bond. Kelly Molson:In what way? And who would be? Who is your favorite Bond?William Kallaway:Well, it has to be Sean Connery, obviously, because to suggest otherwise is just simply wrong. I just think it's overblown now and overinflated. And actually, I think the way it was approached in the early years, it was a far stronger product, there you go.Kelly Molson:Okay. I'm with you on Sean Connery. I definitely feel like he's the best Bond, but Daniel Craig would be my number two. Because handsome.William Kallaway:Ah, there we go.Kelly Molson:Let's move on. Thank you for answering those questions, Will. So I want to know about your background today. And we're going to talk a lot about what you do as MD of Kallaway, but how did you... What's your background? How did you become the MD of Kallaway? William Kallaway:Well, so it's a family business, was founded by my father in 1972. So we've been going for just over 40 years, and gosh, getting up to about 50 now, and I never intended to do this. I always intended to be a farmer. So I have a degree in agriculture. It was either that or the army. So I had an army scholarship when I was about 16 and then decided that tractors were far more appealing than tanks, which is something I've never really sort of squared the circle, I ended up joining the reserve forces until later in life.William Kallaway:But so yeah, I was a farm manager for a little while, I used to write for Farmer's Weekly and Country Living and all those sorts of other titles. And actually, I sort of moved away from that, because I just found it quite lonely as in, you would be on the back of a tractor for hours and hours sometimes, or you'll be off with the animals and I love working with livestock, absolutely, cows and sheep are my favorite things. But after a while, you just kind of feel, "Actually, I really need a human contact." And I really enjoyed being around people, sharing ideas, and coming up with innovative solutions for problems, with brown problems.William Kallaway:So anyway, that was a long time ago. And from there, I actually ended up working for an agribusiness, PR company, dealing with all sorts of interesting issues, everything from GM modified crops, through to fertilizer rates on farmland and sort of illness in cattle, all this sort of good stuff, which was great. Then I went into corporate public relations, and I did some really interesting work there. I mean, I think the thing I was most proud of was lobbying for the release of Briton on death row in Florida, which was a really interesting project. I mean, it's still ongoing, actually, the wheels of the legal system turn slowly, but that just was really a powerful thing to be involved with. William Kallaway:And from there, I ended up then joining the family firm. And I was interested in the work that we were doing at the time, around purpose, and linking brand activity through to really helping people through sponsorship, but also citizenship, and also placemaking, as well. So when Kallaway started out in 1970, we were the first organization in the UK to really apply the commercial aspects of sponsorship to the arts. So we created some of the biggest sorts of cultural prizes at the time. So the Costa prize was originally the Whitbread Book of the Year, which we created way back when. Choir of the year, which some of your listeners may know it was created by us. And it's still running 20 years later on BBC Four now, the sort of big amateur singing competition. Those sorts of initiatives.William Kallaway:But we also work with Barclays to introduce citizenship into the classroom, developing those sorts of initiatives really interesting. And then from there, we moved into placemaking, and destinations, and then our work with museums in particular, and cultural attractions was growing. And that's sort of where we've been focused. But we do more and more work now around F&B and general tourism as well. So the company's been on that sort of journey. And I have too, I suppose.Kelly Molson:A couple of questions on that. One, which is slightly off-topic, but did you work alongside your father? And how was that joining the business with him as your boss, I'm assuming? William Kallaway:Yeah, that's a really interesting question. I think it's really hard. And I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for people who don't want to blur the lines between being an employee and being a son if you see what I mean.Kelly Molson:I can imagine it was really, really difficult. William Kallaway:Yeah, it is difficult. But you sort of learn fairly early the boundaries and how you're going to cope with it, and then you take it from there, really.Kelly Molson:And what about the specialist? So as an organization specialize in destinations, arts, culture, travel. Where did that originate from? Was it something that was always there? Or you won a client in that sector, loved it, decided to focus on it? How did that come about? William Kallaway:It's always been there. So really, why we existed as an organization was to help brands harness the transformative power of culture. So that could be a large insurance firm that wants to a sponsor theater, to help it reach new people, or to genuinely do some philanthropic good by creating an entirely new program. So culture is such an interesting word because essentially, it's the culture of an organization. So for a theme park or for a destination, it's not only the experience you get but the engagement you get with being in the place with the people and the culture of the place. William Kallaway:So harnessing the power of culture, helping brands tap into contemporary culture, or amplify their own culture. We've recently been working with Hard Rock Cafe and now that organization has a really interesting brand culture and a really powerful and effective way of marketing itself because of that, and it retains its staff far more than the industry average. And it's something that can be a really powerful force for effective marketing. But essentially, really, if you strip that away, we help ambitious brands grow. And that's either brand who tend to be in the cultural space just simply because of our heritage.William Kallaway:But more through now into destinations and places. I mean, at the moment, we're working with Imperial College, and Glen and Charl Caps, which is the UK's largest adventure builder. On a new space they've created on White City, which is called Scale-Space, it's going to become a physical home and an online home for ambitious scaling companies. And we're helping them communicate that and unpack it to engage as many audiences as possible of tech organizations that want to locate there. William Kallaway:So our work is very varied, from F&B brands, culture brands, tech brands. And actually, what's interesting about this is it gives a diversity of thinking to brand problems, or brand challenges. It helps give a richness, I hope, to our clients in the way that we're able to respond to particular... I will help them overcome particular challenges that they might be facing. Kelly Molson:Yeah, absolutely. Can we talk a little bit about the last six months? Because I think it would be wrong not to mention the fact that we've been in a global pandemic, it would be wrong not to mention the fact that both your organization and, we've spoken about this offline, our own organization works very closely with the attraction sector and tourism. How has it been for you as an organization? And how has it been for yourself and for your team through this? Because I'm guessing it's been quite challenging as it has been for us.William Kallaway:Yes, it has been challenging. I would just like to say a big thank you to my team, they've been absolutely fantastic. Each and every one of them, they've all played a part. And I'm grateful and lucky to have them. So thank you guys, if you happen to be listening to this. Kelly Molson:I hope you are, that's lovely. William Kallaway:It has been challenging. Our guiding ethos as a business is to solve for the client, to help our client succeed. So we always need to have the right number of people in the organization to deliver whatever the client may want at one time. So we're not an option where, as an organization, you can simply pull down the shutters, you could do I guess, but that wouldn't really solve for our clients. So we helped our clients by working alongside them to find solutions to help them stay present and contribute to their audiences in new ways. William Kallaway:Just two examples of that, so when lockdown first happened, one of our classes are Royal Academy of Dance. And we created a program that helped them engage people online for the first time called RAD@Home. And we segmented the message to different audiences. So what one of the bigger concerns was actually helping old members of society stay connected, and stay really sort of moving, keep moving. And because they were the people most risk being isolated and also sedentary. And so we took one of the RAD's programs for older people called Silver Swans, took it online, but one of the messages for family audiences was "Get granny grooving."Kelly Molson:Great message.William Kallaway:Yeah, it was phenomenally successful. We had media coverage all over the place, the RAD's website traffic zoomed up, it got mentioned, completely unprompted, on Today program, Radio 4, as sort of a leading example of how brands are engaging. Things like that we've done, through to working just most recently with Japan House London, helping them open a new exhibition. So our work has varied during this time. But how's it been? I think it's difficult and for everybody, I think, as you've identified, people have their own personal challenges as well. People working remotely, some people love it, some people hate it. Some people have very different working environments than you or me. And so one has to be mindful about the fact that they might actually want to escape the home but go somewhere else. So yeah, it has been difficult. But we're sort of moving forward, as it were.Kelly Molson:Yeah, aren't we all? What lovely positive stories from the campaigns that you've had going on throughout the lockdown. No, that's really lovely. I'm not going to forget that, get granny grooving, that's brilliant. William Kallaway:We've also tried to contribute to the wider sector by running regular webinars. We've been doing quite a bit with the UK, bound on that, and others. And bringing sort of experts who we work with as well in a bit from placemaking experts through to experts in communicating with the Chinese consumer, through to help not only for clients but everybody in the industry, learn a little bit more and hopefully come out the other end of this a little bit stronger. So, and all that information is on our website, including actually, I'm just looking at the website now, we ran a webinar with Chris Earlie, the head of Tower Bridge, which is another one of our [inaudible 00:15:36] and one of our clients. And he's in the webinar there, he shared some really great insights about what they're doing as a brand to segment the audience in thinking about how they're essentially getting back to work. So there's some good stuff in there as well, if you want.Kelly Molson:Oh brilliant. Well, all of these things we'll link to in the show notes. So you'll be able to log onto the website and find links to all of the things that we'll mention today. But actually, it's some of those things that I want to talk about in a little bit more detail. So like you say, you have been running webinars throughout, and they've been incredibly valuable. I want to ask a few questions about them, if that's okay, because I think that some of the information that's in them would be really, really valuable to our listeners right now. So I guess my first question is, why is PR and communications so important to attractions right now and the tourism sector? And what should they be focusing on?William Kallaway:Right. Well, I think the first thing is, it all depends on where you want to be in the future, and then working back from there. So if you want to be front-of-mind when your audiences can start to travel again, when your consumers can start to travel again, if you want to have secured a certain level of footfall, or you want to have secured a certain level of brand value in how people think about you, you need to communicate, ultimately. You have to communicate. Going dark is not necessarily the best option, there may be an option for some organizations who simply just can't do it.William Kallaway:But for those that can, they should continue to communicate and add value in a way that helps set their brand apart. Because public relations, ultimately, it's the professional maintenance of a favorable public image, to give it its proper term. But actually, it's so much more nuanced now. I mean, I think sometimes the industry and other industries tend to think about PR as a sort of promotional stuff. But actually, it's far more nuanced than that. And where we come from particularly, is from a very strategic communications perspective, and thinking about all aspects of what the brand's doing, how it's behaving, how it's training its people, how to invest in the local community. Even from what sort of sponsorships has it got in train at the moment? What are its key messages? And put all that together into a coherent plan that enables the brand to reassure its customers, engage new customers, and reignite interest and engagement about what it is doing now, in a manner that hopefully builds footfall into the future. William Kallaway:So it's also about reacting, I think, to how customers are perceiving brands at the moment and where they're getting information from. So I think there's an opportunity to reassess your target customer at the moment. And by that, I mean it's not only just looking at the demographics, but I was very interested in one of your earlier podcasts, I think it was the marketing lead from Continuum talking about actually, doesn't really look about demographics at the moment, it's all about almost tribes, people being different ages, being interested in different things and similar connections. William Kallaway:So I think reevaluating your audiences about what their interests are, and then how you can engage and connect to those audiences in new and meaningful ways. So there's been an acceleration in how consumers are using social media and how they're using digital equipment. Lots of older people are getting online for the first time, there's been a massive growth in the older population getting on Facebook, there's been a boom in people using Zoom who are older. So how can you, as a brand, actually harness some of that technical innovation by the consumer so you are being present in a new and interesting way, either in their social media feeds, online, or even in the home.William Kallaway:I was looking online recently, there was a brand, a spa brand that was enabling you to sort of relax and take a virtual spa at home. These sorts of things. And Amazon has launched the opportunity to do a guided tour of a city, you pay for that and the guide takes you around the city and takes you into shops. So how can a brand react to that? But more importantly, I think, particularly for many brands that are located in different parts of the UK, how can they be seen to be contributing positively to the local community and giving back? Because purpose is going to be one of the biggest things that comes out of this pandemic. It's not necessarily... Sorry, localism, I think. And when I say local, I mean regionalism, really.William Kallaway:But YouGov's got some really interesting tracking on this around how people think about multinational brands now, and actually, they are steering towards the local side of things, when people start to travel again, they're more likely to go locally rather than internationally. So either staycation, been a huge increase in that, but actually traveling locally rather than going nationally, so there's an opportunity to not only demonstrate your value for money but to use a bit of a cliche phrase, your values for money. And I think that's something that should be really powerful into the future. So demonstrating what a brand is doing, to train its people, to give back to the local community, to support local schools, so on and so forth. William Kallaway:And I think that that will need to be done in a distinct way that's relevant for that particular brand, rather than just doing what everyone else is doing. And I think also then goes back into a, "Why are we here as an organization, what is our promise to our customers?" A promise needs to be deeper than we're just going to give them time, it needs to be multi-layered. And then this goes... once brands think about that, and understand that to a great deal of detail, it will help them communicate effectively, both through their actions and what they say, which then folds back into professional maintenance of a favorable public image. Because it's not something that is necessarily forced, it's something that just comes from within the organization itself. Kelly Molson:Some incredibly powerful advice there, Will. Thank you for sharing that. Just want to touch back on, because my second question relates a little bit to what you're talking about, about consumer behaviors, and how there is now that focus on localism. And we've had our own conversations with attractions where we're seeing new visitors come to new attractions that didn't even know that they were on their doorstep, but they've lived 10 or 15 minutes away from this certain place for years, but just never engaged with it before. Kelly Molson:So I kind of want to ask you, and this is one of the webinars that you had out during lockdown. So I want to ask you about the new emerging consumer behavioral needs, what is it that attractions need to know about? And how do they kind of tap into that now?William Kallaway:Well, I think they need to tap into it in a way which is relevant for them and authentic to them as a brand. Authenticity is, I think, going to be so much more powerful now. Because authenticity and the quality of what you do, rather than just the price, the quality of what you do, the quality, the richness of experience, is going to be so much more powerful and relevant now, when people's disposable income is going to be squeezed as well. That said, there are some clear consumer themes. First up is super connectivity, which I mentioned earlier, which is people want to have an engagement online first before they choose to buy in physical form. That's not to say they're more likely to book you months out, because actually, people don't know what's going to happen in a couple of months. But they do want to be able to experience it, so think about how you're projecting yourself online, super connectivity. William Kallaway:Then also think about how you're tapping into... Some themes have come through from this around wellness, self-development, mental fitness, physical fitness, and also quality of life. You've seen people actually thinking during lockdown, "You know what, I do want to spend more time with my friends and my family. I want to spend more time investing in myself. I want to spend more time reading or doing the things that I like." So for an attraction, it's about thinking about how it can reflect some of those themes in some of its messaging. William Kallaway:So I was interested with the podcast you had on with the Chap from the National Parks. The National Parks naturally lends itself to be able to communicate issues around wellness, physical, mental well-being, spending quality time with families. There might be a slightly more challenging task there for roller coaster-based rides, attractions, but one can think about that in a different way to build those connections in the right sort of way.William Kallaway:So yeah, wellness and self-development are sort of one in the same, really, but those are the top three. And then underneath that you've mentioned, is virtual engagement. So super connectivity might be one thing but virtual engagement is going to be something else. And you've already seen brands already doing things like this. So you can engage on a brand on anything from Minecraft to Animal Crossing, lots of attractions moving into that space. And it's been right for some, it's not right for everybody. William Kallaway:And then doing the right thing is the CSR aspects of it. But doing the right thing is now going to be absolutely what customers expect. There was some polling that was on YouGov before I came on this call today. And it was saying that about 85% upwards of individuals, this is across all Generation X, Y, Zed, Boomers, etc., would move away from brands that they felt didn't hold the same worldview as them, and were seen to be polluting or seen to be not treating their staff correctly, or seems to be underpaying their staff, they actively avoid that. And really, there's an opportunity here to demonstrate leadership because, again, some polling from YouGov shows that customers really want to live a more sustainable life. 92% of people say that, but only 16% of people follow it through. William Kallaway:So actually, brands have got a really interesting leadership role to play here. They've got an opportunity to talk about how they are embedded in the local community, the local economy, importantly, and sustainability is not just environmentalism, it's about the local networks that support us all. And this element of localism, this element of, "Actually, I might commute 100 miles to go to work every day. But actually, this is my neighborhood here." And I think that these changes are going to stay very much great ingrained, become ingrained because we're likely to be in the state for the next six months. We've almost been a year in this situation by the time we come out the other end. And I think that will just naturally force people to make new habits, to see the world differently. William Kallaway:So it's all about the stories that we can tell, it's all about the stories and it comes back to that promise. What promise do you making your customers? And as a marketeer, what change do you want to make in the world? And what change do you want to bring to those customers? And that goes beyond just having a good time whizzing around in a rollercoaster or seeing some artifacts. It needs to be a far richer and multi-layered promise and change you're trying to make. Which is one of the reasons why I love working with attractions, museums, because they genuinely impact all ages, every member of the family. And they just have some astonishing stories there. And I love that. I love that. But I love talking about it, writing about it and taking people on the journey. Can I just tell you a story?Kelly Molson:Yeah, please do.William Kallaway:So almost 13 years ago, I introduced a woman to her own heart. The only reason I remembered this is because the lady concerned dropped me an email just to say it was 13 years ago when this happened. And there was a picture of her holding her heart, surrounded by the world's media. And she held it there.Kelly Molson:What? William Kallaway:And it's just-Kelly Molson:Hang on. This needs more explanation, you introduced her to her own heart. William Kallaway:So I launched the Wellcome Collection for the Wellcome Trust. And it is an amazing building that brings together arts and science and culture to help us understand what it is to be human. As it says, "A place for the incurably curious." But one of the first exhibitions was the heart exhibition, and there on the wall was going to be a space for human hearts that had to have to be removed from a sick individual. And I just happened to be looking at the space in the pre-briefing and I said, "Is the lady still alive?" And there were some people who weren't entirely sure, and we had to go through some networks and stuff to find out. But yes, she was. And so we got in touch with her and said, "Would you like to come and see this and talk about it?" Talk about what it is, talk about meeting the heart, talk about it as from a sort of personal and emotional thing. But also talk about it and give the opportunity to talk about the importance of organ donation." And it was just incredibly powerful because there she was, she was connected with her own heart, the World's press went absolutely mad for the story, as you can probably imagine. It provided us with an opportunity to communicate the power of medicine, life and art, that's what the catch was.William Kallaway:Then, through the World's Media, through the Red Top Media reaching an entirely different section of society with these sorts of stories. And yeah, it literally went global and that was just such a really visceral reminder about how powerful stories can be within museums and within that sort of setting. And that's also one of the things that I like to bring to these organizations. Because you can ask, as someone coming in, from the outside, you can ask sort of questions which haven't necessarily been asked before, like, "Is that person still alive? Can we get her to meet her heart?"Kelly Molson:Gosh, that is incredible. What a story. I'm so glad that you shared that. It's phenomenal, isn't it? What an incredible, powerful story. But what an incredible way to sum up what that organization is all about.William Kallaway:Yeah, if you haven't been to Wellcome Collection, do go. And I think also, look at that organization as a really interesting attraction based brand that just has astonishingly rich outreach and engagement. As a Radio 4 series at the moment running about Touch, which is sponsored by them, or isn't sponsored by them, is run in partnership with them. But I've been very fortunate to launch all sorts of different museums with William Morris Gallery, Mary Rose Museum, National Museum for the Royal Navy, The View from The Shard, there are loads of things and each and every one of them is fantastically interesting.Kelly Molson:It's really lovely watching your face there while you were talking about it, so completely lit up.William Kallaway:Well, there's something completely different when we launched The View from The Shard, we'd been contacted by someone who wanted to be the first person to propose up there. So it was all fine and we'd got this person upstairs and we had the then London Mayor, Boris, etc. And the World's Media were all there ready to... The ribbon was being cut for the grand opening of the top of the Shard, and there was this very nervous-looking man in the corner, get out of one knee, and we had some flowers off stage as it were to do the right thing, assuming his partner's going to say yes. And anywhere else, somebody else jumped in and did it first.Kelly Molson:No. Oh, that's awful.William Kallaway:Just another member of the public just went off and did it and that was...Kelly Molson:Oh, no. All that build-up.William Kallaway:[inaudible 00:32:16] was crushed, he became the second person. Kelly Molson:I hope his partner said yes. William Kallaway:Yeah, he did.Kelly Molson:Oh, God. Thank God for that. Because it could've been worse, couldn't it?William Kallaway:Yeah, [inaudible 00:32:26], they're always good things to find.Kelly Molson:Brilliant stories. Right. Thank you. I have got one more question for you. We talked a lot earlier about your own team. And people working from home and it being dispersed. And it's just everything has been really, really different for people. And I guess what I wanted to ask you was around PR planning tools. So I think one of the questions is what are the best PR planning tools to help remote teams gather the information and then run communications with clarity and real, measurable impact? How do people do that when they're so dispersed at the moment? William Kallaway:Okay, so that's an interesting question, in terms of remote tools to bring teams together to help them plan on things. So we use one, which is called Monday, we also have our own database system called Daylight, which that's all really techie boring stuff, frankly. But it is essentially glorified to-do list. Kelly Molson:I'm just thinking, someone needs to help you with those to-do lists, Will. William Kallaway:It always comes back down to what am I trying to achieve? And how can I measure success? So one of the things that we always set for our clients, and the reason why we won so many awards, is because we work to very clear and measurable goals. And what I mean by that is, if you're going to value something, you need to measure it. And one of the things I think, particularly, with PR, sort of straightforward PR, it gets very much shoved into the promotions bracket, "Get the press release out." Actually, let's take a step back and put a far more nuanced and effective communications campaign that links tightly into marketing and advertising and helps raise a brand profile.William Kallaway:So if we're going to do that, "Okay, how are we going to measure it?" Footfall. What are smart goals, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely, sorry, relevant, and timely? Those, just being really crystal clear about what we're trying to do, actually unifies minds towards that central purpose, and then everything else should follow. So I don't think it's necessarily about what sort of tools you have. But it's about how you are working towards that common name. William Kallaway:And we do have some grids that we use. In fact, I shared it on one of the webinars where we talked about you want to look at your different audiences, so you map out your audience. You say, "Okay, this is the audience I'm looking to communicate to, how do I want my audiences to think and act now about me as a brand? And how do I want them to think and act about my brand in the future?" Once you understand that, you should have two less, and it's got a gap in the middle. So essentially, if you have your audience and the way they think about you now, and the way you want them to think about you in the future, what do you need to do? And what do you need to say, to take people on that journey? William Kallaway:And then you need to think about what are the best channels for me to show that I'm walking the talk? There'll be some channels that are more relevant to others for different elements of your audience. The older audiences or the parenting audiences might have very different channels to the Millennials, the Generation Zeds. But ultimately, what buying that, what should all band together is some clear, consistent messaging, that comes back to that central promise about why you exist as an organization. And that promise that you're looking to communicate. William Kallaway:And then you need to measure. And this isn't just about clicks on websites, it's not just about footfall. Of course, all of those are absolutely relevant, and absolutely what we should do. And if you look on our website, on case studies, everything we do is set out like that. But actually, it goes deeper than that, which is, "How am I going to measure meaning and difference?" So meaningful is, "Can I look at the type of coverage that I'm securing or the way people are talking about my brand that talks about, 'This is making me happy.' Or, 'I see the quality of what you're doing.'" Words that reflect that qualitative status that you're looking to achieve if you're wanting people to pay to come walk through the door.William Kallaway:And then the other element to look at is your difference. Are they excited about visiting X or Y attraction? How are they describing it? So essentially, there are two ways to look at these things, qualitatively or quantitatively. And I think lots of people tend to focus, because it's easier, on the numbers, "We secured X number of website traffic." Which is all great, but that's a short-term thing. And actually, the longer-term build of consistent growth over time, is based on something that's far more powerful, and t's that thing that people want to sign up to about a brand, the guiding star that is going to orientate all your communication, and that will compel people to sign up, because they're really interested to learn more. Or they're going to not just be a visitor who's going to visit once, they're going to keep coming back, or they're going to turn into an active ambassador about your brand, and get others to come.William Kallaway:And that sort of response is multifaceted. It goes down to, particularly in this time of COVID, "How are you going to handle ticket refunds? How are you going to be easy to deal with if people can't come? What's your customer service, like?" All of that feeds into the overall brand perception, right way through to what you're talking about doing locally, how you're investing in people, if you're going to get announcing, exciting new sponsorship with a confectionery brand to sponsor your roller coaster or something. All of that, every element along there really, really matters. But if you've got a strong core, based around a clear set of values, then it will help you communicate far more strongly.Kelly Molson:Absolutely. William Kallaway:Far more strongly? Is that right?Kelly Molson:Yeah, that's right. Brilliant advice, Will, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. Kelly Molson:I think that our listeners will get a lot from that. I'm taking a lot from it myself, I'm thinking about our core mission and how that comes across in our communications. William Kallaway:Well, I think you do that really well.Kelly Molson:Oh, well thanks.William Kallaway:I looked about that, there it is, it's just simply put. Mission, purpose... I think people kind of... yeah, there it is. Kelly Molson:Very kind. William Kallaway:It is interesting. It's one of the things I really enjoy about this work, is helping brands find that way forward and then doing really interesting things with it.Kelly Molson:It's really interesting because I think that listening to you... And we have spoken before, at length about storytelling really, essentially. And I think people do pigeonhole PR and comms agencies into a press release, just pushing stuff out and not really thinking about it in a holistic way. And I love how you've talked about it today from it has to start from that core message, that core kind of story and vision for your organization. William Kallaway:Absolutely. I think if you draw three rings on the traditional Venn diagram, it's like, "What is your purpose? What am I doing to establish my reputation and build trust?" Those three sort of rings, and in the middle is then what you're going to do. So reputation might be based on the excitement of what you're doing, underpinned by first-class, customer service. And then the customer trust would be built out of the way that experiences the brand, but the purpose then comes through about what you're doing with the company profits, how those are being shared, whether or not you're investing back into local people, all that. So yeah, that's really interesting to look at that. William Kallaway:Then the tactical stuff, about, "Should I be engaged with influencers? Should I be on this channel? TikTok? Should I be on regional media?" All of that sort of follows naturally after. I think there's a temptation to get straight into the tactical weeds, rather than actually take a step back and say, "What are we trying to do? And how do we get there?" And that's one of the reasons why we always create a named-and-framed campaign for our clients. So our brand essentially is Smart Imagination. So that's creativity focused towards solving business problems. And we will always create a named solution for a client. So for Japan House London, the campaign to launch that, this new cultural presence for Japan in the UK to stimulate understanding and trade with Japan, ultimately, the campaign name was Your Gateway to Contemporary Japan. So it was your gateway, so it was a personalized campaign that was specifically focused at one type of person, who that attraction's very keen to get in.William Kallaway:And it's that approach that actually... So rather than just doing stuff, leave all that over there, it's actually being really clear about what the campaign is going to be called, and how it's going to be moved forward and then how it's going to be measured. That's cool. Okay, so here's a good example, right? So when we launched the Mary Rose Museum, this is several years ago now, we created a campaign that was called The Journey of The Ship's Bell. And to do that, we worked with the museum, and we took the bell of the Mary Rose from the museum out into the Solent. And it was rung to mark the ship and those that had perished with her.William Kallaway:But then we dressed it up, and we took it in... we partnered with the Royal Navy, and we worked with HMS Duncan, which is the sister ship of the Mary Rose, and we found the youngest sailor on board, who was then going to ring the bell, we invited a flotilla of ships and boats from across the local ports to come and join this. So we were creating this story about linking this wooden structure that many people, young people were slightly alien to. I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Blue Peter, when the Mary Rose was coming up, and it-Kelly Molson:Yep, same.William Kallaway:... just [inaudible 00:42:43]. But to many younger people, there wasn't that connection. And what is this thing? So actually, The Journey of The Ship's Bell enabled the brand to tell the story visually, and we timed everything to happen on various parts of the news bulletin through the day. So we started in breakfast television, lunch-time television, and there was a big ceremony in the evening, all of which was broadcast nationally. But it was that story that actually turned the museum opening into something that was far more rich, and engaging for the World's Media. And we did other stuff, like we got interesting talks about wrestlers. We got people who might be linked, or could say things about the Mary Rose involved. So we got a bridge wrestler called William Regal, I think his name was. He was sharing stuff out of LinkedIn... Sorry, not on LinkedIn, on Twitter. It was actually, this was many years ago now, but it trended in numbers, trended number two in the UK, I think.Kelly Molson:Oh, lovely. I see, I knew that my stupid icebreaker questions would somehow be related at some point in a podcast interview. William Kallaway:But I think it's about telling that story. So always naming-and-framing your campaigns in a really effective way. So it's tempting to say, "We're going to run a Christmas campaign." Well, let's talk. Well, let's do something more exciting with that. If we can excite ourselves about what Christmas might be on the attraction, then we'll be better able to excite our customers rather than just being a Christmas campaign.Kelly Molson:Love it. Perfect. It's a perfect way to bring us towards the end of the podcast interview. I've got one last question for you, which we ask all of our guests, and it's a book that you recommend that's helped shape your career in some way, or just a book that you really love that you would recommend to our listeners? William Kallaway:That's a really good question. So I have several books that I try and read. I sound pretty terrible at this, as in, I lug them round in my bag. They're just in there and they get more and more buggered. But there are a couple of books that I think people who are interested in communication should read. And the first one is called Influence by Robert Cialdini, and he's the sort of guy... He's a behavioral psychologist and he wrote this almost defining book on influence, really. It's really, really interesting. And there's another book, which I would also recommend is written by James Carville, who was one of the Clinton's campaign experts really. And the name of the book is called Buck Up, Suck Up... and Come Back When You Foul Up, I think. And I've often returned to that book because it's just got some brilliant truths in there about the learn from the war room of political campaigning. It's really effective. So definitely recommend that book.William Kallaway:For relaxation stuff, I love the work by Neil Gaiman. I just love that, I love reading those books. And I also think it's important to sort of challenge yourself philosophically as well. So for a couple of years, I've been reading books on stoicism, which I think is a really interesting philosophy. Particularly, there's one book called The Daily Stoic, which is by a guy called Ryan Holiday, which provides meditations from Marcus Aurelius, another where you can dip into on a daily basis. He's also got one at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy, and also Obstacle Is the Way, which I think is a really, really interesting, stoic way of looking at the world, which is, if there is an obstacle in the way, it becomes the way. You just have to deal with that and how you react to it actually defines who you are, and how you're going to move forward, generally.William Kallaway:I'm not really doing this justice. I've not read the book, but I listen to a lot of his podcasts, but I definitely recommend you that. And I also try and reread The Screwtape Letters, because they really deal with some really interesting issues around to do with self, soul, temptation, staying on the straight and narrow. Because I go to church, I'm Christian, I'm trying to live my life with Christian values, and the dichotomy between stoicism and what's in The Screwtape Letters is really interesting. So those four books are sort of ones that I would always recommend. And they're all challenging for different reasons.Kelly Molson:Great book choices. Another thing that Will is maybe not good at is following instruction, because that's four books and not one book.William Kallaway:Oh, sorry. Kelly Molson:But that's fine. So everyone that comes on, blows my marketing budget out of the window. However-William Kallaway:If you have to give one book, a one readership book... Sorry, a book to professional basis, I think Buck Up and Suck Up is just such a great book, because it's just boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's all about how these guys helped win the White House-Kelly Molson:All right, well, that's the one then. That's the one. William Kallaway:And I found that really [inaudible 00:47:45]... Yeah, that one. There's also one I'm reading at the moment called How to Argue with a Cat, which is brilliant. And it's all about how to persuade and how to use... Which is just really interesting when you're thinking about how you use that to communicate as a brand, brand and all that sort of stuff.Kelly Molson:That sounds like a great book. All right, but now that's five books. So if you don't stop-William Kallaway:[crosstalk 00:48:07].Kelly Molson:... recommending books, you'll be arguing with a podcast host soon. Anyway, as ever, if you'd like to win a copy of this book, and I think... What's the one we're going to go with? The Buck Up...William Kallaway:Buck Up and Suck Up, is a good one. How to Argue with a Cat is great. Influence one...Kelly Molson:Oh, gosh.William Kallaway:We'll come to pick one-Kelly Molson:We'll pick one at random. Okay, so if you want to win one of Will's books, if you head over to our Twitter account, which is skip_the_queue, and you retweet this episode's announcement with a comment, "I want Will's book," then you'll be in with a chance of winning it. And we'll pick what book it is at random. Will, thank you so much for coming on today. It has been an absolute pleasure. And thank you for sharing so much insight with us. It's really, really appreciated. William Kallaway:My absolute pleasure. And if anyone wants to find out any more, then it's all on our website as well. We put quite a lot of information about what we're doing for clients and the type of things, the way we're working to deliver those sorts of results. So people can apply that in their own brand situation as well. And if anyone wants to a hand with anything, then I'm always free to have a conversation, always happy to help and to have a chat and help people find a way through things. So just give me a call.Kelly Molson:That is really kind offer, Will. And we will put all of Will's contact details in the show notes. So if you want to take him up on that offer, then go for it. I'd highly recommend a chat with Will, he's fab. Thank you, and we'll speak to you soon. William Kallaway:Thank you. Kelly Molson:Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. 

On this episode of "Pot Smoking Moms" we follow up on the story of a Veteran with a medical marijuana card getting arrested in an illegal state for possession, we go through a list of states that have marijuana on the ballot and what is being voted on, and we discuss how one measure on the local Florida ballot can prohibit MJ from being recreationally legalized. Our special interview is with the 'Pot Moms Podcast.' We chat with the hosts Kate and Eunice about starting our podcasts, the 1st time smoking weed, consuming cannabis while pregnant, music, movies, and a very fun Halloween edition of 'This or That.' Full Interview available for patrons. PotSmokingMoms.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/esa-tipa/support

Welcome to the Doing Design podcast on This is HCD. Hosted by all the worlds best live design and innovation trainers at ThisisDoing.com -  The Doing Design podcast focusses on all the behind the scenes things related to actually DOING Innovation and Design, such as Design Research, Facilitation, Prototyping, Visualisation - and a great sounding board for industries like Service Design, UX, Content Design and Product Management -  In this episode, you’ll hear from myself and Marc Stickdorn author of 'This is Service Design Thinking' and 'This is Service Design Doing' and trainer at This is Doing - We chat about how almost all projects in an organisation impact cx and ex. We speak about how to get an overview of all projects going on across the different teams and departments that impact those experiences. We dive into the back story of Journey Map Operations, Marc's new approach using journey maps as a visual management tool - something that I believe is an amazing framework that can really really help organisations and teams ‘move the dial’ I love chatting with Marc, and as we mention at the top of the episode, has been on This is HCD, now 4-times! But the good news is with Doing Design, you’ll hear much more from Marc in an on-going basis, chatting more around the complexities of Doing Design. Let’s get into it. View Marc's upcoming courses Learn more about This is Doing Become a Premium Member: https://thisishcdnetwork.supercast.tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

""And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left." Isaiah 30:21 God is saying, "if you will listen to me, my voice is there." If we listen to His voice, you will defile your idols. Do not derive your identity from your government or any other thing or you will be disappointed. God is there with you. * How do we speak to those who are preaching a false Gospel? How do we submit to the authority of the Bible? * Joseph asks, did Jesus pay for our sins at the Garden of Gethsemane or on the cross? * Kelly is struggling with anger. Specifically road rage. How can she overcome this anger?

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!" But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."

The siblings discuss their reading of 'The Denial of Death' by Ernest Becker; how it contradicts their old Mormon understanding of an eternal self and how it informs the realistic understanding of the immediate, natural, fearful, fascinating, transient life in a human body. 'This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression -- and with all this yet to die. What kind of deity would create such a complex and fancy worm food?' --- Website: siblingsinzion.com Facebook: facebook.com/siblingsinzion Instagram: instagram.com/siblingsinzion Twitter: twitter.com/siblingsinzion YouTube: tiny.cc/SIZYouTube Theme Music: 'The Falls' by Umbrellaman - http://umbrellamanband.com

Apologies for the sound quality on one of the mics, there was a crackle that we only discovered after the recording. This week we play new music from 156/Silence, Landmvrks, Everything In Slow Motion, Aisles and Final Stair. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world.  Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Big Cartel - https://machogrande.bigcartel.com Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - info@machograndepodcast.co.uk Twitter - @machograndepod merch - http://www.machogrande.bigcartel.com/ 'This (non profit) podcast is intended for promotional purposes only' Macho Grande Podcast' does not claim to own copyright etc, all copyright is respected to the artists and labels.  

How does someone live a life of wonder, and what kind of world can we create today?Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brad Meltzer - Superhero Nerd, Mystery Debunker, High School Sweetheart.Timestamps1:30 - Our paths crossed many times, from high school to the White House.3:22 - Tell me the story of Bill Clinton and Eli Segal.3:40 - "I made the first bootleg Simpson's T-shirts."5:50 - "He said, 'Don't go to law school.'"6:34 - "This guy name Bill Clinton calls up one day and says, 'Will you run my campaign?'"8:45 - "I thought I wrecked my life."18:35 - "You appreciate what that means when that person that you look up to so much is thinking of you and shows you that kindness."22:30 - "For life, so many things, it takes one person to say yes sometimes. And our job in life is to find that person."25:30 - "There's one name on the cover of every book, but only a fool thinks it's a one person show."31:04 - The TODAY Show was our first interviews.37:15 - "The opening line review opens with, 'This show would be good if Brad Meltzer wasn't in it.'"41:30 - Brad Meltzer's reading time with Barbara Bush: Re-creating the chocolate conveyor belt scene from I Love Lucy.46:40 - "My 18-year old, with his eyes closed, feeling braille in the book and was like, 'Dad this one's actually good!'"47:18 - "I love the fact that people now use our books to fight back against what they see in America today."

#019: Laruga Glaser Scott talks to Laruga Glaser on her life as a yoga student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She also shares her experience as a woman of colour in the yoga industry.     On 3rd June Laruga shared a 52:39 face to camera Instagram post on her experience as a POC in Ashtanga yoga. The majority of her conversation (with Scott) references Laruga's post. It would be highly beneficial to watch this whole share. It is beautiful, powerful and raw.... Laruga Glaser was first drawn to yoga in 1996, and after coming across Ashtanga in 1998 she fully immersed herself in the method and now has over 20 years of dedicated Ashtanga yoga practise. She made her first trip to Mysore to study at KPJAYI in 2007 and has returned every year ever since. A committed student, an advanced practitioner and a Certified teacher, Laruga endeavours to pass on the tradition of Ashtanga yoga. Laruga shares the teachings of Ashtanga yoga as an act of deep love with which she aspires to create an open, challenging and inspiring space in which each individual who comes to her can realise their full potential.  Laruga leads the Ashtanga Yoga program at Yogayama in Stockholm, Sweden and teaches workshops and retreats around the world. You can find out more about Laruga's teaching schedule here.   Leaning in to Vulnerability - Laruga Glaser.  Scott and Laruga have a beautifully open conversation on Laruga's life as a student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She shares how she left a corporate life to become one of the most recognised faces in Ashtanga Yoga. She also shares how she has had to struggle as a woman of colour in the world of yoga and push hard to get to where she is. Scott and Laruga also talk about how to make yoga spaces more diverse.  In this inspiring conversation Laruga shares: The ways that yoga has landed for her many times in her life, right from the very first time -  a series of ‘aha’ moments, of finding inner stillness. How she began practising by following Iyengar-inspired videos by Patricia Walden and Rodney Yi, which helped her to release back pain and encouraged her to carry on practising.  How she started learning Ashtanga from David Swenson’s videos and books, which she considers to be her first virtual teacher  That despite ‘doing things wrong’, like not holding the drishti or poses for long enough, she still felt a shift, another ‘aha’ moment How Ashtanga felt ‘complete’ to her Her sense of finally feeling at home when she found yoga, that she was in her space, where she’s supposed to be. That while she was at university in Ohio she found an ad in the student paper for 90 days of yoga for $90 - she went every single day. That she found Laurel Howdry, her first Ashtanga yoga teacher, in her last year of university,  How her dedicated Ashtanga practise kept her sane and grounded while she was on a corporate career path. That when she found herself at a crossroads between her career and yoga, she decided to follow yoga. When she made her first trip to Mysore in 2007 it was to be a student, to go and study at the source. How she began teaching internationally after that first trip to Mysore, when a fellow student invited her to teach in Taiwan.  About her 14 trips to Mysore and how the energy in the new shala still remains the same The importance of being a student. The strong energetic pull she felt that led her to share in depth on about the lack of diversity in Ashtanga yoga, and how it was a vulnerable thing for her to do. About how it finally felt like people were collectively willing to listen to her experience, despite having been speaking out on individual level for years That she spoke out for the people who didn't feel they fit in  About having to deal with microaggressions from within the yoga community, and how she’s been the one who’s had to do the work unpacking these. That these uncomfortable moments have pushed her to a place of confidence, having transformed toxicity into something positive. That she’s nurtured a culture of diversity in her Mysore room, making all people feel welcome and comfortable. About feeling overwhelmed by the response to her video, with many people of colour sharing their experience that yoga spaces don't feel conducive to people from diverse backgrounds, and that the practise feels elitist in a socio-economic sense. How she challenges organisers when she teaches in countries where people of colour are the majority but not represented in her workshop.  Her experience of resistance within the Ashtanga yoga community to discuss uncomfortable things. How she’s experienced dismissiveness from her peers, a sense of being ‘put in her place’  About her relationship with her father, a white European, who’s done the work and who sees diversity as a beautiful thing That she’s learned more from her dad through seeing example than the yoga teachers she used to look up to  That we don’t need to look so far outside ourselves for these lessons.  What it means to her to live a contemplative life.     ‘'This conversation with Laruga was so valuable to have. She shares so openly about how she has had to navigate the yoga world as a woman of colour and how she has created a diverse and mindful yoga space in her home of Stockholm. Her courage and strength in speaking out is so inspiring. We are left with how we can find ways to navigate open conversations that matter. To listen... Scott Johnson - September 2020  If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Wambui Njuguna Räisänen, Deepika Mehta and Ann Weston.    

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Homily for Matthew 21:33-43Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near,he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’ They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times." Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes? Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit."If you would like to receive these reflections to your email, sign up: usml.edu/rector-reflections/Audio courtesy of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Libertyville, Ill.Support the seminary: usml.edu/giving/Submit prayer intentions: usml.edu/prayers/

Reading 1 IS 5:1-7 Let me now sing of my friend, my friend's song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes. Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard: What more was there to do for my vineyard that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? Now, I will let you know what I mean to do with my vineyard: take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to send rain upon it. The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished plant; he looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry! Reading 2 PHIL 4:6-9 Brothers and sisters: Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you. Gospel MT 21:33-43 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’ They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times." Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes? Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit."

Sophie Hinchcliffe, aka Mrs Hinch, is the hugely popular cleaning guru who has attracted millions of followers on Instagram with her cleaning tips and tricks. She joined Ryan on the line to tell him all about fame, followers and her new book 'This is Me'.

In this episode, Johnathan Arnold and Michael Avery discuss holiness, spiritual formation, and the deeper life.Highlights:"Spiritual formation is very simply a process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others." (Avery)"Behavior modification basically rests on your own human energy–what you can put into it or what someone else can threaten you to put into it. But spiritual formation comes from a very different approach. It is Spirit-enabled. We can only be formed into the image of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit as we partner with the grace of God." (Avery)"Justification is by faith and faith alone. It's not performance-based, it's not what we can do or can't do. It is strictly by faith." (Avery)"Sanctification is a process. We engage it. Paul said, 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.' We are partnering with God's grace, but we are truly partnering. We are initiating effort on behalf of being conformed into the image of Christ." (Avery)"Even in the ways that we initiative growth in sanctification, that itself is a response to what God has already initiated by saving us." (Arnold)"We pursue holiness because of what God has done for us. It's a responsive love, not a burden." (Arnold)"Justification is not an isolated work alone. It is coupled with adoption and regeneration or initial sanctification. Born into the heart of every truly justified believer is a desire to be thoroughly good. They don't even know what to call it, maybe, but planted in our hearts through faith is this desire to be all that God wants us to be." (Avery)"Growing out the new appetite that God has given us in the new birth is the quest and hunger and pursuit to live a holy life." (Avery)"Union with Christ includes communion with Christ: that intimate relationship we have with Christ when we have experienced the new birth." (Avery)"All of the spiritual energy that I have flows from him and through him and by him as I am united with him." (Avery)"Spiritual formation is the natural outworking and outflowing of Christ in us. We can hinder or help the growth by getting involved and cooperating with the Holy Spirit." (Arnold)"Ceasing from sin is not a matter of me screwing up my courage and saying, 'This is gonna stop' in my own energy, because it won't happen. The only way to break deep, sinful habits in our life is through the power of the Holy Spirit." (Avery)"Through the power of the Holy Spirit in me, he can help me to be victorious over anything he doesn't want in my life." (Avery)"Because our context is increasingly similar to the one in which Paul wrote, we need to be increasingly sensitive to the way Paul frames moral issues." (Arnold)"If we jump from Romans 1 to Romans 12 and don't understand the 'therefore,' we're calling people to present their bodies a living sacrifice and to be transformed without a foundation." (Arnold)"Paul brings his converts to a deep understanding of who Jesus is and what it means to be united to him, and then there's a big therefore." (Arnold)"We want people to obey out of a motive of love for what God has had and what he's doing in my life." (Avery)"The concept of the 'higher life' or the 'deeper life'—those are old terms that have been tossed around for a long time, they are just broad terms used to describe those who actively embrace an aggressive sanctification process." (Avery)"Ultimately everything is of grace and by grace. But I also believe, as Dallas Willard coined the phrase, 'Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.'" (Avery)"We can either cooperate with the grace of God or we can resist it. And I believe cooperating's the best way to go." (Avery)

esus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.' They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times." Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'? Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.

To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 21: 33-46 - 'This is the landlord's heir: come, let us kill him.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 755-756 (in 'Symbols of the Church') - "The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness to the branches, that is, to us, who through the Church remain in Christ, without whom we can do nothing. "Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. the Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the comer-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God in the Spirit; the dwelling-place of God among men; and, especially, the holy temple. This temple, symbolized in places of worship built out of stone, is praised by the Fathers and, not without reason, is compared in the liturgy to the Holy City, the New Jerusalem. As living stones we here on earth are built into it. It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband." - 443 (in 'The Only Son of God') - Peter could recognize the transcendent character of the Messiah's divine sonship because Jesus had clearly allowed it to be so understood. To his accusers' question before the Sanhedrin, "Are you the Son of God, then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am." Well before this, Jesus referred to himself as "the Son" who knows the Father, as distinct from the "servants" God had earlier sent to his people; he is superior even to the angels (abbreviated). Got a Bible question? Send an email to logicalbiblestudy@gmail.com, and it will be answered in an upcoming episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daily-gospel-exegesis/message

'But the fact that really stuck in my mind was the fact that they recorded that he had three missing teeth...'This is the story of the moment when Pawel learnt his grandfather had been a prisoner in a concentration camp. One of the most peculiar details of the registration form was that it specified three missing teeth.THE STORY OF THE THREE MISSING TEETHToday's story is a personal one. You will hear Pawel tell about the the hidden parts of his family history he discovered in 2020.DISCUSSIONThis story comes after a very difficult previous episode. You can listen to it here. Recording it was our way to offer a conclusion and a response to the previous episode and the volume of responses we had after its publication.Following Pawel's elaboration on his Grandfather's three missing teeth and the concentration camp's interest in them, I launch into a tirade about the necessity to remember to tell our stories, the good ones and the bad ones too. I argue that we need to remember and learn to be comfortable with telling the trauma, in order to avoid the danger in forgetting and thus creating a protective and appeasing film over those memories at the risk of moving on.RECOMMENDATIONWhere the Crawdads sing is a book about family secrets revealed. I enjoyed reading it and immersing myself in its story so much. Recommended.N. B. I always add new recommendations depending on my own personal journey in books and art, so if you'd like to keep in touch in that way, subscribe and you can receive them all. FOR MORE INFORMATION, head over to storisse.comSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/alexcuncev)

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Phillip Grant Wilson was a neo-Nazi and a killer. He recruited a gang and according to one police report, ''This group undertook intense physical fitness training for the purpose of establishing a physical and mental advantage over police, especially the Special Operations Group, against whom they fully expected to come up against at some time in the future.'' Detective Sergeant John Morrish of the armed robbery squad was one of the key investigators who worked on Wilson. Morrish was known to have an intense dislike of people who used guns to terrorise members of the public. He wasn't too fond of Nazis either. On August 4, 1987, the Iceman was shot dead in an ambush outside a South Yarra chiropractic clinic. The murder remains unsolved. Silvester has a recorded interview with Wilson, and we hear John Morrish’s recollections, including that he was initially considered a suspect in Wilson’s murder. Thanks for listening. Please take the time to rate & review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. We love to hear your thoughts and it makes it easier for the rest of the podcast world to find us. Become a subscriber: our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustainability of news coverage. Becoming a subscriber also gets you exclusive behind-the-scenes content and invitations to special events. Click on the links to subscribe https://subscribe.theage.com.au/ or https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner talks with former Illinois QB Reilly O'Toole about the 2020 Illini quarterback room. The guys break down what starter Brandon Peters has brought to the program and how the Michigan transfer can take his game to another level in his second season in Champaign. Then the guys break down what they saw from Matt Robinson last season and what he can do to keep the backup job, before chatting about Isaiah Williams' potential role and his long-term possibilities. Extra reading 2020 Illini Position Primer: Quarterbacks Get hype? 'This team believes in Brandon Peters' 'Really excited about Isaiah': Williams continues QB growth Illini OC Rod Smith: 'I feel good about our quarterback room' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a phrase that has been repeated a LOT over the last two weeks and that is 'This is the declaration of the Lord' and variations of it. We will look in this recap at that phrase and what it means.

September 17, 2020: Cleveland named poorest big city in the US based on new Census Bureau data, alarming study shows most Millennials and members of Gen Z don’t know key facts about the Holocaust, and what you need to know about tonight’s home opener between Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, on 3News Now with Stephanie Haney. Connect with Stephanie here: http://twitter.com/_StephanieHaney http://instagram.com/_StephanieHaney http://facebook.com/thestephaniehaney Read more here: (0:33) Mayor Frank Jackson on Cleveland being designated the poorest big city in America after new data was released from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/cleveland-poverty-mayor-frank-jackson/95-2fabb23c-0a6a-4325-9b2f-6888b1fcc177 (2:23) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says city looking at 'best use' plan for future of I-X Center https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/cleveland-mayor-frank-jackson-press-conference/95-9b0c1b99-13da-4359-b568-adba252fe1d5 (3:39) New survey finds that 64% of Ohio Millennials, Gen Z do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/history/new-survey-finds-that-64-of-ohio-millennials-gen-z-do-not-know-that-6-million-jews-were-killed-during-the-holocaust/95-5a06aa84-0360-461d-86c8-851e98f69f45 (7:02) 'This is a tremendous city': New Bishop of Cleveland Edward C. Malesic goes one-on-one with 3News' Russ Mitchell https://www.wkyc.com/article/life/faith/new-bishop-cleveland-edward-malesic-one-on-one-3news-russ-mitchell/95-c8525986-4d26-4f4d-b636-2f6be033def1 (8:48) Cleveland Browns vs. Cincinnati Bengals: 3 keys to victory https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/browns/browns-bengals-3-keys-victory/95-09961ca5-2d82-40c6-a594-697756d96cc6 (11:08) Cleveland Browns vs. Cincinnati Bengals: Preview, predictions, point spread, how to watch https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/browns/browns-bengals-preview-how-to-watch-2020/95-6da374c0-b0e3-4544-822d-7ac471c5554a

The leader of Cincinnati-based Ohio Innocence Project said in 2011 then-state Attorney General Mike DeWine rejected a request to do a statewide review of cases involving prisoners who claimed to be wrongfully convicted. But DeWine, now Ohio governor, didn't turn down the offer because he disagreed with the premise of helping people who are wrongfully convicted, his spokesman told The Enquirer. Local, state and federal government bureaucracies made such a review challenging, DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said. Ohio Innocence Project co-founder Mark Godsey recalled his meeting with then-AG DeWine during an interview with The Enquirer's That's So Cincinnati podcast.  Godsey's organization works to help free prisoners who were wrongfully convicted by using DNA evidence. Godsey, a former federal prosecutor in New York, said one of his biggest challenges is persuading government officials to have an open mind about revisiting old cases. "It's not the money. It's ... not wanting to be proven wrong," Godsey said. "The person who was DeWine's assistant in that meeting – I can't remember the person's name – was very much of the mentality like I was when I was a prosecutor. I remember him saying, 'This is ridiculous. There's not going to be any innocent people (based on DNA database information).' It's more like they were in that fog of denial like I used to be in." DeWine and his team have always had a good working relationship with the Ohio Innocence Project and support the group's mission, Tierney said. "This was not a policy disagreement. This was a logistical issue," said Tierney, who was also with DeWine in the AG's office. "There was concern that state and federal laws would prohibit the lab from (reviewing old cases). It certainly makes a lot of sense for the local municipalities like Cincinnati to do this on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. We understand attractiveness of one-stop shop. But in a home-rule state like Ohio, there is not a lot of one-stop shops. The governor is a longtime prosecutor. He certainly believes cases should go where the evidence shows." Godsey's comments come as the city of Cincinnati police has agreed to review certain homicide cases for the past nine years as part of a $100,000 settlement in a murder case where the department didn't share DNA evidence that pointed to someone else.  The Ohio Innocence Project, based at University of Cincinnati, has used DNA evidence to help free 30 wrongfully convicted people since Godsey and John Cranley founded the organization 17 years ago. Godsey, a UC law professor, detailed some of the Ohio Innocence Project's cases in his book, "Blind Injustice," released last year.  (https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/theater/2019/07/18/ohio-innocence-project-cincinnati-opera-team-up-blind-injustice/1755624001/) The Ohio Innocence Project has gained more momentum with political and government leaders as social justice advocates have gained more attention in recent years.  "There's still a way to go, but definitely the environment and the culture is different than it was when we started in 2003," Godsey said. In the past "when I said, 'We're looking at cases of someone who could be innocent,' I got looked at like I had two heads. Now it's accepted and understood."  Godsey has remained close with Cranley, now in his second term as Cincinnati mayor.  "People think of John as the mayor and a politician, but I got to see him as a young attorney in court," Godsey said. "He won some of our cases and freed innocent people. He could've had a heck of a career as a trial lawyer."

I watched Netflix's Social Dilemma Documenarty recently. It sincerely has me considering quitting social media or limiting my usage. It's scary to think how algorithms on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok keep us on their platforms. It's fun keeping up with friends and their feeds. I consume dance videos on these sites-learning new choreography and promotions on upcoming parties. Film, video game, pro wrestling; social media is my go-to for the latest news on these past times. But being in an echo chamber, fed only agreeable content based on the posts I'm engaging with, as an attempt to keep me on these networks longer feels wrong. I've been keeping track of my usage, and I spend more time on these networks than I do on my creative efforts, which I feel is my purpose in life. Also, news reporting, which has become more emotion-based in recent years, is dangerous. It can create anger, confusion, anxiety. I purposely stay off the news 4-5 days a week because it does the same to me. Some time ago, minimalism attracted me. I was a heavy user of most popular platforms, which had years of my photos and memories. But I deleted my accounts and kept using Instagram and YouTube as they both seem less invasive, little to my knowledge, they aren't. When the pandemic began, I'd listen to Gary Vee, and he discussed being on as many of these sites as possible. 'This is where people's attention is.' Particularly for a content producer such as myself. He's correct as I notice my behaviors and friends habitually logging hours on these apps on their phones. After watching this documentary, that night, I deactivated all my social media. I am guilty of being easily influenced by programming I watch on YouTube or TV and have acted reactionarily in the past. After a good night's sleep, I thought, I will keep most(not all)of my accounts. The specific ones where I engage most with others, I'll limit to two days a week. When it comes to sex, food, and TV, I can overindulge. I'm still actively working on disciplining my consumption in these areas. Social media will be included in this group. Find out more about the Social Dilemma documentary here The_Social_Dilemma Thoughts? Comments? Do so on the blog here https://bit.ly/3kBsH4f ...Or you can contact me by calling, texting or through WhatsApp 1-201-472-0429. If you leave a voicemail please be aware, you only have 3 minutes. This is a US number. Or Email me at improveandhavefun@gmail.com  Rate, like, leave a review! I will shout you out for sure! If you've enjoyed this, please support this podcast by doing any, all your shopping through my affiliate links:   my eBay link: EBAY http://ebay.to/2e5mvmj   or my AMAZON link: http://amzn.to/2dRu3IM   or DONATE here https://bit.ly/2LD1mwy     Shop my Teepublic store. Click here  https://www.teepublic.com/user/pvpfromnj    Thank you!

Now time for a mermaid and aquatic life-filled sequel that will truly make you exclaim...'This is Splash too?!?!' Featuring an all new cast, tune in to the continuing adventures of Not Tom Hanks and Not Daryl Hannah in television movie sequel Splash, Too! Black Lives Matter Donate Directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/msblmhomepage_2019 Center for Anti-Racist Research: https://www.bu.edu/antiracist-center/ Colorlines: https://www.colorlines.com/ Star ratings help us build our audience! Please rate/review/subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, and share us with your produce partner in crime! Email us at sequelrights@gmail.com with feedback or suggestions on future franchises!

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Professor Emma Smith (English Faculty) in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE (Royal Shakespeare Company). Both Emma and Erica have recently had their Shakespeare events cancelled; Erica’s production of The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and launch events for Emma’s book This Is Shakespeare. In this conversation, Erica and Emma discuss these events, their hopes for them, and what Shakespeare offers us both now and in the future. Biographies: Professor Emma Smith - Tutorial Fellow in English and Fellow Librarian, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford Professor Smith's research combines a range of approaches to Shakespeare and early modern drama. Her recent work has been about the reception of Shakespeare and about the scholarly and cultural investments in Shakespearean criticism. 'This is Shakespeare - How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright' is her latest publication (2020). 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' - Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' - Hilary Mantel Erica Whyman OBE (Deputy Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company - Royal Shakespeare Company). Erica joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in January 2013. She works closely with Artistic Director Gregory Doran on all aspects of artistic strategy, taking a particular lead on the development of new work, the contemporary relevance of the repertoire and the national ambitions of the company. Erica led the team which reopened The Other Place in March 2016, a creative hub dedicated to daring theatrical exploration. Erica takes a lead on extending access, equality and diversity across all RSC activities and is passionate about participation in theatre-making.

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Professor Emma Smith (English Faculty) in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE (Royal Shakespeare Company). Both Emma and Erica have recently had their Shakespeare events cancelled; Erica’s production of The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and launch events for Emma’s book This Is Shakespeare. In this conversation, Erica and Emma discuss these events, their hopes for them, and what Shakespeare offers us both now and in the future. Biographies: Professor Emma Smith - Tutorial Fellow in English and Fellow Librarian, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford Professor Smith's research combines a range of approaches to Shakespeare and early modern drama. Her recent work has been about the reception of Shakespeare and about the scholarly and cultural investments in Shakespearean criticism. 'This is Shakespeare - How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright' is her latest publication (2020). 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' - Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' - Hilary Mantel Erica Whyman OBE (Deputy Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company - Royal Shakespeare Company). Erica joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in January 2013. She works closely with Artistic Director Gregory Doran on all aspects of artistic strategy, taking a particular lead on the development of new work, the contemporary relevance of the repertoire and the national ambitions of the company. Erica led the team which reopened The Other Place in March 2016, a creative hub dedicated to daring theatrical exploration. Erica takes a lead on extending access, equality and diversity across all RSC activities and is passionate about participation in theatre-making.

Jennifer shares her story of reversing epilepsy, anxiety, and insomnia: going from decades of seizures to being seizure-free for over 3.5 years. For complete show notes, visit http://youcuredwhat.com/podcast/jennifer[1:35] Jennifer shares her health background, which includes seizures since the age of 12. Her seizures are partial seizures, not grand mal seizures. [3:00] Jennifer was actually diagnosed with epilepsy in her 20s. Jennifer was put on a slew of medications. [4:05] Jennifer was already taking the maximum dosage of Keppra for seizure control (it was not working; she was still having seizures) when her doctor recommended upping the dose. Also, she was on a bunch of other medications to control horrible side effects (anxiety, insomnia): she was even on SSRIs. [4:45] Jennifer had read about the ketogenic diet for epilepsy and had brought that idea up to her neurologist several times. Her neurologist always shot the idea down. [5:20] When her neurologist upped Jennifer's meds again (in 2017, at age 41), Jennifer researched the ketogenic diet for epilepsy further via The Charlie Foundation. She went out and got groceries which matched the macronutrient requirements (80% fat, 15% protein, 5% carbohydrate). She started eating that way. [6:50] Jennifer typically had 6-10 seizures per month. Since starting the ketogenic diet (over 3.5 years ago as of recording), she has not had another seizure. [9:40] Jennifer weighed almost 290 pounds when she started keto. [12:25] Jennifer lays out a lot of specific ways her life has gotten better since adopting a ketogenic diet. This even includes shedding aphasia and improved short-term memory. [15:15] Jennifer weighed 287 pounds prior to starting keto; now she typically weighs between 127 and 130 pounds. [16:15] Jennifer's doc not only recommended more and more meds, but she had also recommended a surgery to remove part of her brain!! Her medical care staff would have removed part of her brain before recommending a change in diet. [20:15] After never supporting keto, Jennifer even found out later that her care system even had a ketogenic nutrition specialist on staff. And still they did not support it. [22:15] What foods make up the bulk of Jennifer's ketogenic diet? [26:40] After 2 years of a largely traditional ketogenic diet (approximately 80% fat, 15% protein, 5% carbs), Jennifer tweaked her diet to increase protein. She now eats more of a Modified Atkins Diet approach (approximately 65% fat, 30% protein, 5% carbs). [32:30] How did Jennifer's anxiety and insomnia change after adopting a ketogenic diet? [35:00] Jennifer got into powerlifting. She turned her addiction to food into an addiction to endorphins. [36:05] "Between the lowered anxiety and the improved sleep, I'm like, 'This is my life now. I'm keeping this forever.'" [37:05] How did Jennifer's family and friends respond to her transformation? [38:50] Jennifer's best friend started keto two years ago and got rid of her migraines. (Notably, her friend had been taking Topamax, which Jennifer used to take for seizures.) [40:10] Jennifer's mom started keto in July 2019. She was able to come off hypertension and asthma medications (she had chronic asthma). Another of Jennifer's friends has adopted a ketogenic diet and gotten rid of PCOS symptoms. [42:40] On her journey to health, what have some of the challenges been? [45:50] Now that she has improved her health, what is one thing Jennifer enjoys doing that she couldn't do before? [48:35] Where can Jennifer be reached? She is active on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KetoHiking and via email at ketohiking@gmail.com [50:00] For learning more about a ketogenic approach to treating epilepsy, Jennifer recommends The Charlie Foundation, this Johns Hopkins website, and Matthew's Friends.

Pregnant, engaged and deceived, but not alone. Not ideal for your senior year of high school. Doris walks us through her tough years, to the unbelievable path she is now on. She is one fierce Mama, whose love is infectious. Her love and passion to help women has taken her to some dark places, places where many have been rescued. She is also a podcaster. You can find Fierce Calling Podcast with Doris Swift on her website. https://dorisswift.com/She has a free gift for you there, and would love to hear from you. Her podcast is in all of the usually places podcasts live. https://www.instagram.com/dorissusanswift/doris@dorisswift.comIsaiah 30:21-"And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left."------------------------------------------For more everyday extraordinary faith stories:https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/*FREE APP* Letters From Home Podcast has its own downloadable app., with all of our episodes in one easy place. Search our podcast name in the Apple APP store, and in the Google Play store. All free!To suggest a story that must be told, yours or someone else’s, let’s chat. Also, we would love to support you in prayer.lfhpodcast@gmail.comTo join our Facebook Group for bonus live stories and convos:https://www.facebook.com/groups/3475957805750898For one splashy bright monthly Letters From Home Newsletterhttps://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/newsletter/To check out our YouTube channel:https://youtube.com/channel/UC_SR3ltt5p1w-hzjvGX5vag?view_as=subscriber/Ways to help Letters From Home make better content & and reach more people: here are our prayer requests & a giving link:https://lettersfromhome.com/support/We r on Instagram, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, iHeartRadio and all of the places podcasts live :)... all you need to do is type in ‘Letters From Home Podcast’ and it should pop right up. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=32455563" data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button">Become a Patron!

The journey of blending a family is the search for where each one fits in. This journey has created, "'This is us." Today I share parts of this journey with varied experiences and stories. Please join me as we discuss this topic. You got this, hang in there. Blending a family or raising a family is a roller coaster of good times and challenging times.Until next Monday-HeatherShow Notes: Building LOVE together in Blended families by: Gary Chapman, PhD & Ron Deal, MMFT

Matthew 21:33-42 The Lord said this parable, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them, saying 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?'"

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Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. 'A triumph. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.' Alison Bell, The Letdown ''I just adored this book. It's timely and dark and poignant and funny. It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage; I couldn't get enough of it. I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down. Meg Mason is a searing talent.' Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn't want to have children. He said he didn't mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it. By the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn't really matter anymore. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing - if you can find something else to want. The book is set in London and Oxford. It is sad and funny. 'This is a romance, true, but a real one ... as devastating and sharply witty as Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag.' Books+Publishing