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In this week's bonus ep we recap the first part of Mikaela's Unsaid Podcast episode where she exposes her abusive experience living with Anna and Atis Paul. TL;DR Atis Paul needs to be incarcerated!CW: domestic violence, sexual assault, suicide, rape, minor abuse, child abuse and drug addiction. Let me know what you think!Instagram - @moodforfeud TikTok - @moodforfeud TimestampsPart 1 recap 09:45Mikaela's upbringing 09:46Anna and Atis didn't grow up poor 12:08Anna is fatphobic 14:10Paul family are too close 19:18How she met the Paul's 22:30Atis OF management 25:30Atis is abusive 30:00Alice's allegations 34:54Previous epsEx-fluencers #2: Atis Paul and Mikaela TestaMood for News: A$AP Rocky Trial, Anna Paul + Mikaela Testa feudAustralian Dramageddon: Mikaela Testa, Atis Paul and Anna Paul Intro/Outro MusicYarWritten by Ryan SkeltonProduced by Ras & Sakunera#atispaul #mikaelatesta #annapaul #tiktokdrama #australianinfluencers
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Read Online“Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?” Mark 8:17–18How would you answer these questions that Jesus posed to His disciples if He had posed them to you? It takes humility to admit that you do not yet understand or comprehend, that your heart is in fact hardened, and that you fail to see and hear all that God has revealed. Of course there are various levels to these struggles, so hopefully you do not struggle with them to a grave degree. But if you can humbly confess that you do struggle with these to a certain extent, then that humility and honesty will gain you much grace.Jesus posed these questions to His disciples within the larger context of a discussion about the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He knew that the “leaven” of these leaders was like a yeast that corrupted others. Their dishonesty, pride, desire for honors and the like had a seriously negative affect upon the faith of others. So by posing these questions above, Jesus challenged His disciples to see this evil leaven and to reject it.Seeds of doubt and confusion are all around us. It seems these days that almost everything the secular world promotes is in some way contrary to the Kingdom of God. And yet, just like the disciples' inability to see the evil leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, we also frequently fail to see the evil leaven within our society. Instead, we allow the many errors to confuse us and lead us down the path of secularism.One thing this should teach us is that just because someone has some form of authority or power within society does not mean that they are a truthful and holy leader. And though it's never our place to judge the heart of another, we absolutely must have “ears to hear” and “eyes to see” the many errors that are held up within our world as good. We must constantly seek to “understand and comprehend” the laws of God and use them as a guide against the lies within the world. One important way to make sure we do this well is to make sure that our hearts never become hardened to the truth. Reflect, today, upon these questions of our Lord and examine them especially within the broader context of society as a whole. Consider the false “leaven” taught by our world and by so many in positions of authority. Reject these errors and recommit yourself to the full embrace of the holy mysteries of Heaven so that those truths and those truths alone become your daily guide. My glorious Lord, I thank You for being the Lord of all Truth. Help me to daily turn my eyes and ears to that Truth so that I will be able to see the evil leaven all around me. Give me wisdom and the gift of discernment, dear Lord, so that I will be able to immerse myself into the mysteries of Your holy life. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2025 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.James Tissot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Since Christ died and rose again for us, our right motivation is to live for Him! 1. Right motivation: healthy fear of God, not fear of man. (v.11-13)2. Right motivation: the love of Christ for us. (v.14)3. Avoiding a wrong motivation (living for self), instead living for Christ. (v.15)Where do our motivations fit into the Christian viewpoint?What does the Bible say about good/bad fear? 1 John 4:18How can love co-exist alongside of fear? 1 John 4:18What did Paul write about the life he was living? Gal. 2:20
In this episode of The Best You Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Scott Kaufman, a psychologist, speaker, and best-selling author, to discuss how to shift from a victim mindset to an empowerment mindset and unlock your full potential.Dr. Kaufman shares key insights from his new book, Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential, and provides practical strategies to regulate emotions, overcome setbacks, and take control of your future.If you've ever struggled with self-doubt, comparison, or feeling stuck, this episode will help you break free and start living with purpose and confidence.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Emotional Regulation and Emotional Inhibition 5:04Overcoming a Victim Mindset 10:18How to Prioritize Your Life 18:54Rise Above Book 24:26Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube so you never miss an episode!Links:Rise Above Bookwww.scottbarrykaufman.com@ scottbarrykaufmanSchedule a Free Health Consultation with Nick today at www.nickcarrier.com
In Part 2 of this episode of the RE Social Podcast, host Vince Rodriguez of AnVi Invest and Zach Lemaster, CEO of Rent to Retirement continue their insightful discussion on innovative investment strategies, with a spotlight on new construction projects and high-potential asset classes across the Southeast U.S. They break down the importance of builder incentives, such as securing down payment reductions and cash back at closing, and highlight the power of leveraging tools like a wealth calculator to track and forecast property performance effectively. They also delve into maximizing tax benefits for high-income earners, navigating different financing options, including DSCR and conventional loans, and understanding the nuances of builder negotiations. Don't miss out, tune in now to learn how to build wealth with confidence! Key Takeaways 00:00:00Introduction to RE Social Podcast 00:00:40Investment Strategies and Market Insights 00:01:36Property Management Tips 00:02:16How to Use the Wealth Calculator 00:03:50Insurance and Property Risks 00:05:10Builder Incentives and Immediate Equity 00:07:53Loan Options and Tax Benefits 00:10:36Prime Properties and MTRs 00:15:37Preferred Lenders & Management Companies 00:22:18How to connect with Zach Resources and Links Wealth Calculator https://www.renttoretirement.com/resources-tools#wealth-calculator Rent to Retirement https://www.renttoretirement.com/
"As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.”~ John 17:18How do I share the gospel when others aren't open to it?Can I be an authentic Christian if my job doesn't allow me to express it openly?How do I love people who are hostile toward my faith?Our world is fallen and broken, and in many ways it seems to be growing more opposed to the Christian life. Pat is joined by licensed therapist Isaac Wicker for a profound conversation about this struggle. Whether you're in school, at work, or with friends & family, we all find ourselves in a position of witnessing our faith to those who don't seem to be open to it. They might even be openly hostile toward the faith. But the call of Jesus is not to return vitriol with vitriol or to run away from the world, but rather to engage others with love and a willingness to preach the gospel at all times, with words and actions. Isaac Wicker is a Catholic therapist, speaker, and content creator with a decade of mental health experience. Outside of his therapy work, he founded and runs two online Catholic programs for integrating faith and mental health: Whole Human Challenge, a 7-week Catholic challenge to uproot anxiety and enliven faith; and KNOWN: Embraced by the Heart of the Father, a 12-week online Catholic journey to heal wounded relationships with God the Father. You can follow his instagram @knownbythefather and find him on YouTube @wholehumanpsychology. Isaac lives in Minnesota with his wife and three children.Episode 61 Show NotesChapters:0:00: Introduction and Highs & Hards9:40: Living faith in a fallen world20:29: Being a living instance of a loving God28:10: A Catholic therapist in a secular mental health field37:30: The courage to go into the world47:11: Challenge By ChoiceReflection Questions:What is one specific thing that stuck with you from this conversation?What secular environments do you live or work in? What challenges and opportunities do you find there?When has someone helped you know God's love when you felt unlovable? When have you shown God's love to another?What is the value of acknowledging someone's good desires, even if they're being lived out in unhealthy or sinful ways?Who is one person who you have a hard time loving, but needs the love of God through your witness?Send us a text. We're excited to hear what's on your mind!Thank you for listening! Visit us online at thiswholelifepodcast.com, and send us an email with your thoughts, questions, or ideas.Follow us on Instagram & FacebookInterested in more faith-filled mental health resources? Check out the Martin Center for IntegrationMusic: "You're Not Alone" by Marie Miller. Used with permission.
Welcome to this week's episode of The Radical Health rebel podcast. On this week's episode, I have a very special guest. Michael Rubino is an air quality expert, environmental wellness advocate, podcaster and author. With a background in construction and remediation, Michael has become America's go-to source for information, services, and products to create healthier living through cleaner indoor air. Stay tuned as we learn more about how we can bridge the gap between our homes and our health with Michael's expertise. We discussed:2:04Michael's background and journey into air quality and human health10:18How the quality of air we breathe impacts our health and autoimmunity17:00Why indoor air quality is more important than outdoor air quality30:05Did air quality cause cancer after 9/11?45:15Symptoms and autoimmune conditions experienced in toxic air environments59:55Testing and improving air quality1:29:40Geoengineering & Air QualityYou can find Michael @:https://www.themichaelrubino.com/https://www.homecleanse.com/https://changetheairfoundation.org/Send us a Text Message.Support the Show.Don't forget to leave a Rating for the podcast!You can find Leigh @:Leigh website - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/Leigh's books - https://www.bodychek.co.uk/books/ Eliminate Adult Acne Programme - https://eliminateadultacne.com/Radical Health Rebel YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@radicalhealthrebelpodcast
So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,' and ‘Because I am going to the Father'?” So they said, “What is this ‘little while' of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” John 16:17–18How about you? Do you know what Jesus means? Or do you find that you are confused by what He said just like these disciples were? Though pride may tempt you to claim that you fully understand all that Jesus taught, the humble and honest truth is that you are probably very much like these disciples in their confusion. And that is not necessarily a bad place to be.First, the confusion of these disciples shows they took Jesus seriously. They were not indifferent. They cared, were interested, wanted to understand, and must have had some level of faith in Jesus. Otherwise, they would have ignored Him. But they didn't. They listened, tried to understand, discussed His teaching, thought about His words and humbly concluded that they didn't understand.Jesus is not critical of their confusion. He sees that they are trying and that they have some level of faith. And even though these disciples are confused, Jesus continues to speak to them in figures of speech rather than directly and clearly. One of the reasons that Jesus speaks in figurative language is because the message that He is teaching is profound and deep. It's not something that can be quickly and easily understood and mastered. The mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep, vast, profound and mystical that the only way to begin to understand them is to first have faith. Faith does not mean you fully understand everything. Faith is a supernatural gift by which you come to believe without fully seeing and understanding. The certainty comes for God, not from your own reasoning ability. But faith always leads to deeper understanding. Therefore, as these disciples professed their faith, they also came to understand. And even though Jesus speaks in this figurative way, these disciples ultimately made the choice to believe. Later in this chapter they conclude, “Now we realize that you know everything and that you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God” (John 16:30).If you find yourself confused about various matters of faith, God, morality, and the like, or if you find yourself confused about the various mysteries of life itself, or your life in particular, do not be afraid to admit to this confusion. Admitting confusion is the humble admittance of the truth, and this humility will be a helpful step toward the gift of faith. Reflect, today, upon whether you struggle at all with indifference toward the mysteries of life. If so, commit yourself to be more like these disciples who intentionally grappled with all that Jesus spoke. Do not be afraid to admit your confusion and to place that confusion before our Lord. Strive to have the gift of faith and allow that spark of faith to become the pathway for your deeper understanding of the many mysteries of life. My mysterious Lord, You and all the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep and profound that no one will ever fully comprehend their depth, breadth and beauty. Please open my mind, dear Lord, to a deeper understanding of You so that I may profess my faith in You and in all that You have chosen to reveal. I do believe, my God. Help my unbelief. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.Featured image above: Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples By Paolo Veronese, via Wikimedia Commons
“Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?” Mark 8:17–18How would you answer these questions that Jesus posed to His disciples if He had posed them to you? It takes humility to admit that you do not yet understand or comprehend, that your heart is in fact hardened, and that you fail to see and hear all that God has revealed. Of course there are various levels to these struggles, so hopefully you do not struggle with them to a grave degree. But if you can humbly confess that you do struggle with these to a certain extent, then that humility and honesty will gain you much grace.Jesus posed these questions to His disciples within the larger context of a discussion about the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He knew that the “leaven” of these leaders was like a yeast that corrupted others. Their dishonesty, pride, desire for honors and the like had a seriously negative affect upon the faith of others. So by posing these questions above, Jesus challenged His disciples to see this evil leaven and to reject it.Seeds of doubt and confusion are all around us. It seems these days that almost everything the secular world promotes is in some way contrary to the Kingdom of God. And yet, just like the disciples' inability to see the evil leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, we also frequently fail to see the evil leaven within our society. Instead, we allow the many errors to confuse us and lead us down the path of secularism.One thing this should teach us is that just because someone has some form of authority or power within society does not mean that they are a truthful and holy leader. And though it's never our place to judge the heart of another, we absolutely must have “ears to hear” and “eyes to see” the many errors that are held up within our world as good. We must constantly seek to “understand and comprehend” the laws of God and use them as a guide against the lies within the world. One important way to make sure we do this well is to make sure that our hearts never become hardened to the truth. Reflect, today, upon these questions of our Lord and examine them especially within the broader context of society as a whole. Consider the false “leaven” taught by our world and by so many in positions of authority. Reject these errors and recommit yourself to the full embrace of the holy mysteries of Heaven so that those truths and those truths alone become your daily guide. My glorious Lord, I thank You for being the Lord of all Truth. Help me to daily turn my eyes and ears to that Truth so that I will be able to see the evil leaven all around me. Give me wisdom and the gift of discernment, dear Lord, so that I will be able to immerse myself into the mysteries of Your holy life. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Dr. Gregory Williams, President of Odessa College, joins FYI host Gil Rogers to the importance of fostering a student's sense of belonging on campus and challenging the conventional educational system to create improved solutions. If you've ever wondered how to increase student persistence, retention, and success, this is an episode you can't afford to miss. Gregory explains the four principles he enacted at Odessa College, the positive impact eight-week courses have on faculty and students, and he and Gil discuss the art of being flexible in policy-making to keep students in mind.For Your Institution Podcast is a production of Mongoose Research. Intro | 0:00Gregory's Background and History | 0:49Why is Student Belonging so Important? | 2:37How Gregory got into Education | 6:48Principles for Successful Faculty | 10:10Flexible Policies | 13:33The Role of Technology | 20:18How to Use Resources Wisely | 26:21The Optimistic Perspective | 29:09Summary & Closing | 31:43 RELEVANT LINKS:Gregory Williams EmailGregory Williams Twitter ProfileGregory Williams LinkedIn ProfileOdessa College Welcome From the President
Ryan Wormeli, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Derek Brown take a deep look into each Week 9 matchup's most burning questions! Where do the fantasy studs on the Dolphins and Chiefs rank among each other? How will the Vikings' offense fare without Kirk Cousins? The Pros will tell you! Timestamps (Note that these may be off due to the ads):MIA @ KC - In what order would the KC/MIA players be drafted in right now? - 0:00:50DraftKings Sportsbook - 0:05:52MIN @ ATL - Expectations for MIN without Kirk Cousins? - 0:07:51Fantasy Over/Under Challenge - 0:10:25Bijan Robinson - 0:10:44SEA @ BAL - Is this a high-scoring or low-scoring game? - 0:11:36Gus Edwards player prop - 0:15:05My Playbook Auto-Pilot - 0:15:50ARI @ CLE - How does losing Josh Dobbs affect the ARI offense? - 0:16:21How will the CLE backfield split the touches? - 0:17:48LAR @ GB - Which offense has a better chance to bounce back for fantasy this week? - 0:19:45Copper Kupp and Puka Nacua rankings - 0:21:58AirMedCare - 0:22:43TB @ HOU - Are we concerned about the HOU offense? - 0:23:41Rachaad White player prop - 0:25:46WAS @ NE - Where are we ranking Sam Howell? - 0:26:40Will Jahan Dotson replicate last week's strong production moving forward? - 0:29:14Discount Tire - 0:31:07CHI @ NO - Is this Chris Olave's breakout game? - 0:31:55Rashid Shaheed - 0:34:41IND @ CAR - Josh Downs or MIchael Pittman? - 0:35:18How much longer will the IND backfield be split 50-50? - 0:36:57NYG @ LV - Do we expect an interim coach bump for the LV offense? - 0:41:09Rest of season RB rankings for Saquon Barkley - 0:43:12DAL @ PHI - Have the Cowboys figured out something with CeeDee Lamb? - 0:45:32Jalen Hurts - 0:48:07BUF @ CIN - Is Khalil Shakir primed to become a fantasy relevant WR? - 0:48:50Is it another tough week for Tee Higgins? - 0:52:00Joe Burrow player prop - 0:54:06LAC @ NYJ - Is Garrett Wilson going to stay hot against LAC? - 0:54:54Puka Nacua or Garrett Wilson in dynasty? - 0:56:35 Helpful Links: DraftKings Sportsbook - Football's more fun when you're in on the action! So download the app NOW and sign up with code FANTASYPROS. New customers can bet just FIVE DOLLARS to get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS INSTANTLY IN BONUS BETS. Only on DraftKings Sportsbook–an Official Sports Betting Partner of the NFL with code FANTASYPROS. The crown is yours.Gambling problem? Call 1-800-Gambler or visit www.1800gambler.net. In New York, call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369). In Connecticut, Help is available for problem gambling call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org. Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). Licensee partner Golden Nugget Lake Charles (LA). 21 + age varies by jurisdiction. Void in ONT. Bonus bets expire one hundred sixty eight hours after issuance. See sportsbook.draftkings.com/footballterms for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms, and responsible gaming resources. AirMedCare – AirMedCare Network providers operate state-of-the-art helicopters that can respond to critically ill or injured patients who need emergency medical transport. Our listeners get up to an eighty dollar Mastercard or Amazon eGift Card when they join and use offer code: FANTASYPROS. Make financial peace of mind part of your game plan. Visit airmedcarenetwork.com/fantasypros. Discount Tire – If you need new tires for your car, Discount Tire is your “go to.” They have exceptional service and you get a 20% shorter average wait time when you buy and book online at discounttire.com. Stop by one of their local stores for a free tire safety and air pressure check. My Playbook - Don't miss out on the revolutionary fantasy football software that over 1 million teams have already synced with: My Playbook. It's packed with custom advice, rankings, and analysis tailored just for your team. Discover your optimal lineup, find advantageous trades, and stay ahead with the latest player news. Join the league of winners today at fantasypros.com/myplaybook and let's secure that championship! Survey - We value your feedback and want to make the FantasyPros Fantasy Football Podcast even better for you. Please take a moment to fill out our quick survey at fantasypros.com/survey and provide your honest feedback on the show. Let your voice be heard and help shape the future of our podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Fall 2023 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 24, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2023Topics covered:Are you feeling like a rockstar with the changes you are doing, or are you struggling? @ IntroThe importance of getting in tune to your portions and hunger levels. @ 2:18Introducing new live segment - The Tweak This Week @ 3:22Weight loss on The Program is not slow and how it is different from other diets. @ 4:12Reasons for weight gain even when eating healthy before the Program. @ 5:16 The Four Sets of Mindful Eating Questions will be the base of the Program moving forward. @ 9:52This Program is a lesson in self love and learning to prioritize yourself. @ 11:40Recommendations on good scales. @ 15:18How to tell that your body is making changes. @ 17:25The standard of healthy weight loss and the time it takes to lose weight @ 18:28Making choices every day that fall in line with your goals even when indulging. @ 20:44Hormones and how this Program can help with the changes you are making. @ 21:50Taking a vacation and having an advantage if you are working behind the group. @ 24:48Reasons you can be sensitive to Collagen, including coffee. @ 25:55Not disregarding the feels associated with the scale not moving yet. @ 28:35Benefits of breakfast and having token bites of breakfast when not hungry for it. @ 30:58Feeling like you are addicted to sugar and craving sugar? @ 33:25Member share about trusting the process. @ 33:58The benefits of consistency while following The Program. @ 35:17Reading Atomic Habits by James Clear and The Psychology of Effort science post is a great complement to The Program. @ 38:16It's normal to not feel motivated every day and member shares provide inspiration. @ 41:02It's going to take as long as it takes to lose weight and what you can accomplish on the Program @ 44:27How to find the Question of the Day post to ask your questions. @ 46:14To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, Gina chats with Alanna McGinn, Sleep Expert and founder of Good Night Sleep Site. Along with her trusted team, Alanna has successfully helped thousands of families overcome their sleep challenges and establish healthy nighttime habits so they can get the sleep they need. Gina and Alanna discuss why sleep is important and how to get better quality sleep in your daily life.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2023Topics covered:Introducing Alanna McGinn, Sleep Expert @ IntroCan we drink coffee and still get a good sleep? @ 0:46What is the most important thing to know about sleep. @ 1:44Is there a noticeable uptake with people and sleep? @ 3:08How stress can impact our sleep. @ 4:06How to know if you are getting enough sleep. @ 11:01What to do if you stay awake longer than when you were tired earlier. @ 13:09The different stages of sleep. @ 15:48What a perfect night of sleep looks like. @ 17:55How to address being awake after waking in the night.@ 19:38Best way to track your sleep habits when waking at night, instead of using an App. @ 22:18How effective are sleep sounds? @ 24:04Using supplements such as melatonin, CBD, and magnesium. @ 25:39Melatonin use when you are a shift worker @ 28:45Using THC to help you fall asleep. @ 29:37What is sleep hygiene? @ 31:09How doing all the things can help with getting a good sleep. @ 34:33What Alanna offers when helping individuals improve their sleep quality and habits. @ 36:38Using blue light glasses later at night. @ 38:03Can you make up for the sleep you didn't get the night before? @ 40:07How to find and reach out to Alanna McGinn. @ 41:14To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our weaning topic isn't over yet, but this week, I wanted to answer some of your questions about weaning. You can find a list of the questions and when they come up below, and if you have a question that I haven't covered yet, do message me on Instagram @emmapickettibclc and I'll answer it in a later episode.Find out more about breastfeeding and chest feeding older babies and children in my book Supporting Breastfeeding Past the First Six Months and Beyond: A Guide for Professionals and ParentsFollow me on Twitter @MakesMilk and on Instagram @emmapickettibclc or find out more on my website www.emmapickettbreastfeedingsupport.comQuestions answered in this episode - 1:28 How do you drop that 5am feed, without them starting the day?4:57 Will my child sleep better when I wean?8:40 How do you night wean if cutting the bedtime feed doesn't feel right? And, If I want to stop feeding during the night, would it be best to also not feed to sleep initially at bedtime?10:18How do you help a toddler fall asleep at bedtime without the breast if it's all they've ever known?13:24 It will be helpful to know how much crying is okay. When it escalates and they can't be soothed other than the breast, does it mean they're not ready? Or is it just a change that they're fighting?17:59 Will my child eat more solid food when I wean?20:15 How do you gently wean a three and a half year old when they're always seeing you feed an eight month old?23:11 How to manage engorgement?24:57 How do you manage weaning blues? I'd like to know more about the hormonal changes I'm going through as my son stops breastfeeding.27:13 How do you grieve the end of nursing?28:40 How do you know when you are ready to wean?30:36 Is it better to wean at night first or during the day?31:17 How do you put boundaries in place, rather than stopping completely?32:21 How do you move away from feeding to sleep for naps?34:05 How do you get another parent to be accepted by a toddler?35:58 If you're not influenced by external factors to start weaning, but know that you want to sometime soon, are there ages and stages to avoid?37:37 I cut down to just morning and nighttime feeds, and then maybe one at night, and then it seems to pick up again. And I don't seem to be able to do anything about it - help!39:29 What's the timescale for weaning?41:19 What are the common myths about weaning? And can you bust them?This podcast is presented by Emma Pickett IBCLC, and produced by Emily Crosby Media.
In this live segment, Gina chats about supplements with Dr. Paul Hrkal, ND. Gina and Dr. Paul discuss the supplements that can help support you in your weight loss journey and help level up your health.If you are in the Fall 2023 Support Group, you can check out the full video here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2023Topics covered:Dr Paul Hrkal introduction @ 1:19Where does distrust in supplements come from @ 2:30Why take supplements, the benefits @ 5:19Is there a benefit to take supplements @ 7:40Benefits of supplements when on The Livy Method @ 11:35How to decide which supplements to take @ 15:22Vitamin D, not just for bone health @ 19:05What type of vitamin D to take, fortification in food @ 21:18How to know a supplement is quality @ 22:49Supplements can be costly, how to choose @ 25:04Time needed to notice a difference @ 28:05Magnesium @ 30:45Magnesium - no dependency, using too much @ 34:53Doses of supplements @ 35:34 Gummies as supplements @ 37:37Omega 3 - fish oil, vegan @ 40:09Digestive Bitter - enzymes, bitters, apple cider vinegar @ 44:04Reasons for adding supplements @ 47:13Prebiotic, Probiotic @ 49:15Digestive Health @ 52:06Collagen @ 54:10Collagen and digestive health @ 56:52Take away regarding supplements @ 59:39Where to find Dr. Paul @ 1:00:34To learn more about the Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this guest expert episode, Gina discusses working with your health care provider with Dr. Kerri Best. Dr. Best is a Family & Lifestyle Medicine Physician. She is also extensively trained in a holistic approach to medicine through Integrative, Functional & Lifestyle Medicine.You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2023Topics covered:Dr Kerri Best introduced @ IntroHow to get your Dr on board with naturopathic doctor @ 1:56How to build relationship with your Doctor, biases @ 7:56Be prepared for appt, why are you waiting for appt? @ 15:04Bring a prioritized list, updates,forms, bring data @ 18:32Bias of Dr. when losing weight - bringing data @ 19:58Dr. Best describes her experience in 1st Program @ 23:46What to bring when visiting Dr. - Communication @ 25:42Walk in clinics - tips still apply - prioritize @ 27:35Options - Physicians,.walk-in, alternative medicine, ER @ 31:09Conversation about doctors causing stress @ 35:07Ozempic and this Program @ 39:11Tests - why Dr. won't do some, over testing, guidelines @ 43:57Age determines test, no regular Doctor, how to know @ 48:18How to be an advocate for your health care @ 49:58Mapping your health history @ 52:20To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode is sponsored by Alma. Alma is on a mission to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care by giving providers the tools they need to build thriving in-network private practices. When providers join Alma, they gain access to insurance support, teletherapy software, client referrals, automated billing and scheduling tools, and a vibrant community of clinicians who come together for education, training, and events.Sign up today at https://helloalma.comWhat are the Akashic Records? Can accessing this repository of universal knowledge and insight help your clients heal?MEET Heather IvanyHeather Ivany is a renowned spiritual mentor and Akashic guide with over twenty years of experience leading innovative courses, private training, immersive retreats, and more. Harnessing a radiant warmth and decades-long immersion in spirituality, Heather facilitates life-altering transformation and growth for those who seek guidance or feel resistance aligning with their purpose. Heather's intuitive and enveloping approach awakens those who work with her to release what is limiting them and expand into the higher version of themselves. Heather's teachings have left an imprint on thousands of students, granting them the practical skills to unconditionally embrace the fullness of the human experience. With the gentle wisdom and compassion of one who understands the nuances of spiritual practice, she opens students to the joy of exploring the deep and mysterious inner landscape of the heart, mind, and body. Her acclaimed Akashic readings and training have opened the records to an entire generation of new students who are expanding the tradition of awakening consciousness. When she is not teaching, Heather can be found in nature, in the loving company of her husband and kids, or absorbing the wisdom teachings from her teachers. If you'd like to experience Heather's soothing presence in your life, learn how to build a magnetic, soul-led business of your own, or invite Heather on your podcast, reach out and book with us. Find out more at Heather Ivany and connect with Heather on Instagram IN THIS PODCAST:What are Akashic Records? 3:18How can mental health therapists utilize Akashic Records? 11:00How do you access the Akashic Records? 21:49What are the ethical considerations with this practice? 28:23What Are Akashic Records?What can you pull from Akashic Records?Akashic vs. AkashaWhat and who has Akashic Records?What is the origin of the Akashic Records?How Can Mental Health Therapists Utilize Akashic Records?Understanding vibrational frequencies when using different modalitiesAccessing the origin of a client's trauma when accessing the Akashic RecordsHow to know if accessing your client's Akashic Records is benefiting themClairvoyant vs. claircognizanceHow Do You Access The Akashic Records?The importance of trusting your downloadsWorking with client's clairabilitiesAssisting your clients in receiving messages from within their fieldWorking with your client's strengths when accessing their Akashic RecordsWhat Are The Ethical Considerations With This Practice?Can you access other people's Akashic Records?The importance of permission when accessing others' recordsWhat is an energetic check-in?How to utilize...
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Vintage City Church // Teaching Series: The Invitation to Love // Daniel Sokolowski // Romans 16:16-18How do we love one another? Paul addresses the Roman Church in Romans 16:16-18 to look for divisions and false teachings. Historically, we know that what likely drove division was disagreement as to whether or not circumcision was required and whether or not ritual acts of the law (sabbath observance and holidays of Judaism) were to be practiced. We understand this tension and can probably relate. But Jesus commanded us to love one another amid disagreements. Why? Because He first loved us (1 John 4:19-20). Looking at modern translations of the word "love" as a verb, we see that it means to hold dear: cherish, to feel passion, devotion or tenderness for, to like, or desire actively. To love means to be fully present, requiring intentionality and sacrifice. We must show up and invest time to encourage and provide spiritual guidance. It starts with our neighbors.
Hello! We are back with another exciting episode. Today, Chris teases a topic he wants to discuss on our upcoming episode. We go over cold water exposure, why smaller people have better cardio, should black belt have a minimum time requirement, and if stripes are good or bad? We hope you enjoy!Introduction 0:00Is cold water therapy worth it? 9:06Why do smaller people have better cardio? 24:40Why do legs/arms feel like cement sometimes when training? 33:18How bad is erythitol for you? 43:20Should black belt have a minimum time requirement? 50:45Thoughts on promotional stripes? 1:13:09 Hey, if you have any questions for Dr. Chris or Bill and Olivia. Just email GrapplingWithPodcast@gmail.com or message the social media pages. Check us out on our social and YouTube where we have full episodes. Instagram: @GrapplingWithPodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrapplingWithPodcast YouTube: /grapplingwithpodcast Dr. Hardy is a licensed physician and BJJ practitioner, but the contents of the podcast are meant for educational purposes only, and should not be taken as medical advice. Please seek out personalized care from your own medical provider prior to implementing any medical treatment or intervention.
Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter! Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch PatreonAmazon StoreThis episode was recorded live at the Sew Black Affinity Space hosted by Black Women Stitch at the MQG Quiltcon in Atlanta, Georgia in February 2023. Click here to see warm memories of a wonderful time. Guest: Janine Lecour is an Atlanta-based digital pattern designer who loves to design vibrantly colored, exuberant patterns. Mixing bold pattern motifs with eye-catching color palettes, she strives to create a whimsical art experience. Something that gives the viewer a sense of joy and optimism.Host: Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville, Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.Produced by Latrice Sampson Richards. Insights from this episode:How Janine got into fashion design. 4:37Growing up in a family of artists.Going to Savannah college of art and design.Taking on a job for a company in Italy.Saying "yes" before you know for sure. 9:00Saying yes before knowing for sure.Finding a space where she fits into design.Janine's favorite approach to design: Is design a verb or a noun?Design as a category of expression.A room with 110 yards of Janine Lecour fabric. 15:05The jumbo jumbo and small jumbo pieces.What the studio audience sees in the jumbo shape.How to get out of the creative block. 17:18How she started designing the design.How she got started on spoonflower.The power of hearing what others think.How to overcome creative block.The freedom of not having to design for others' taste. 21:11Designing for someone else's taste vs her own.Conversational printmaking and pattern design.Taking a contract from a company or organization.The pressure to create every day.How to create a modern design. 25:57One of her favorite pieces, a modern print.A calming color palette.The power of affirmations in daily life.How to center yourself.The slogan of the stitch please podcast. 30:06
More than half of all Google searches end without a click.Millennials and Gen-Z are using TikTok to search instead of a big search engine. And these trends were happening long before the mass adoption of AI. Couple that with the extreme popularity of ChatGPT, which has been the fastest company to hit 100 million users in our history, and Google has been brought kicking and screaming into the AI arms race with their new Generative Search product. This is just one of the many ways the attention economy is evolving, and in this episode, I'm breaking down what creators can do to evolve with it. LINKS:Watch the YouTube version of this episodeFull newsletter about this episode with referenced linksTIMESTAMPS:The attention economy in today's media landscape.What's going on in legacy media at this time. 6:57Why are we still talking about influencer culture like it's 2019? 15:18How social media has changed how we spend our time online and how it impacts the types of content that resonates with people. 17:43The shift from Instagram influencers to other platforms. 22:11If you don't have an end game in mind, then you need to be thinking about it. 28:05How Google's new search engine is changing the game. 31:06Google's new search engine result page. 37:36How to use keyword research to find out what is resonating enough volume wise that it is going to be listed in Google's autof 42:43The attention economy is going to change and it's up to you to be able to see where the attention is evolving online, and then 45:26Why it's never been a better time to be a content creator. 51:55---------------------------------------------THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!At SPI Logistics they have industry-leading technology, systems, and back-office support to help you succeed. Learn more about SPI's freight agent program here. Make sure to let them know we sent you!Digital Dispatch helps you speak confidently about ROI with a website built for your customers, prospects, and employees. With plans starting as low as $90/month, learn how you can take your website from good to great by visiting Digital Dispatch. ---------------------------------------------ABOUT THE PODCAST: Everything is Logistics is a podcast for the thinkers in freight. Follow the podcast to never miss an episode. Follow EIL host Blythe Brumleve on social: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube
So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,' and ‘Because I am going to the Father'?” So they said, “What is this ‘little while' of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” John 16:17–18How about you? Do you know what Jesus means? Or do you find that you are confused by what He said just like these disciples were? Though pride may tempt you to claim that you fully understand all that Jesus taught, the humble and honest truth is that you are probably very much like these disciples in their confusion. And that is not necessarily a bad place to be.First, the confusion of these disciples shows they took Jesus seriously. They were not indifferent. They cared, were interested, wanted to understand, and must have had some level of faith in Jesus. Otherwise, they would have ignored Him. But they didn't. They listened, tried to understand, discussed His teaching, thought about His words and humbly concluded that they didn't understand.Jesus is not critical of their confusion. He sees that they are trying and that they have some level of faith. And even though these disciples are confused, Jesus continues to speak to them in figures of speech rather than directly and clearly. One of the reasons that Jesus speaks in figurative language is because the message that He is teaching is profound and deep. It's not something that can be quickly and easily understood and mastered. The mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep, vast, profound and mystical that the only way to begin to understand them is to first have faith. Faith does not mean you fully understand everything. Faith is a supernatural gift by which you come to believe without fully seeing and understanding. The certainty comes for God, not from your own reasoning ability. But faith always leads to deeper understanding. Therefore, as these disciples professed their faith, they also came to understand. And even though Jesus speaks in this figurative way, these disciples ultimately made the choice to believe. Later in this chapter they conclude, “Now we realize that you know everything and that you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God” (John 16:30).If you find yourself confused about various matters of faith, God, morality, and the like, or if you find yourself confused about the various mysteries of life itself, or your life in particular, do not be afraid to admit to this confusion. Admitting confusion is the humble admittance of the truth, and this humility will be a helpful step toward the gift of faith. Reflect, today, upon whether you struggle at all with indifference toward the mysteries of life. If so, commit yourself to be more like these disciples who intentionally grappled with all that Jesus spoke. Do not be afraid to admit your confusion and to place that confusion before our Lord. Strive to have the gift of faith and allow that spark of faith to become the pathway for your deeper understanding of the many mysteries of life. My mysterious Lord, You and all the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep and profound that no one will ever fully comprehend their depth, breadth and beauty. Please open my mind, dear Lord, to a deeper understanding of You so that I may profess my faith in You and in all that You have chosen to reveal. I do believe, my God. Help my unbelief. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2023 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Navigating the unforgiving hours and ethical challenges of medical training while holding onto humanism; the medical and cultural history of the human heart; the moving journey of a doctor as he wrestles with his duties as a son and caregiver for a father with dementia. These are just some of the diverse subject matters our guest in this episode, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, has written about. Dr. Jauhar is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a multiple-time bestselling author whose writings have also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. In the first half of our conversation, Dr. Jauhar shares his journey in medicine and struggles with burnout; while in the second half, we discuss his poignant experiences caring for his father, the subject of his most recent book, My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's. In this episode, you will hear about:How Dr. Jauhar's immigrant parents influenced his choice to pursue a career in medicine - 2:02Dr. Jauhar's reflections on the role of indecisiveness in shaping his path to cardiology - 4:49A discussion of a doctor's struggle against a corporate medical system that inflicts moral injury on physicians - 12:51Dr. Jauhar's advice to physicians on ameliorating moral injury - 18:54Reflections on how Alzheimer's disease affects the patient's family, and an overview of Dr. Jauhar's recent book My Father's Brain - 25:10A discussion of therapeutic deception, also known as validation therapy, in which caregivers and loved ones are encouraged to “play along” with the distorted reality of a patient with dementia - 36:43The conflicts between Dr. Jauhar and his siblings concerning end-of-life care for his father - 43:18How the medical system needs to changed so that more support is given to dementia patients and their families - 49:05Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is the author of several best-selling nonfiction books: Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Doctor, Heart, A History, and My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer'sDr. Jauhar also responds to medical students and residents on his blog Advice on Your First Year.You can follow Dr. Jauhar on Twitter @SJauhar.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2023
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Want to tell your body how and when to make milk? My guest today will be a familiar name because she's on the Breezy Babies team. Holly Hill is a Registered Nurse and IBCLC Lactation Consultant who's spilling the tea on how to have a rocking milk supply, from the beginning. This episode appeared first on the Breezy Babies website.Intro to the episode.0:00Google Review of the day.2:20Lactation Conference Details.4:09Introduction to Holly's topic.6:33Hormone control and lactation.10:44Feedback Inhibitor of lactation.13:18How to use this information?15:18Please share this podcast with your friends.18:12Support the showFollow along @breezy__babies on Insta for more tips and tricks.Check to see if your insurance will cover FREE consults with Breezy BabiesJoin Bri's crew so we can stay in touch.This podcast is not "medical advice". Please consult with your Healthcare Provider about your specific situation.Podcast song credit: Stock Media provided by juqboxmusic / Pond5
In this episode, David and Lucas sit down with Eric Merchant, the diesel performance legend behind Merchant Automotive LLC in Zeeland, Michigan. Eric has been in the diesel industry for over two decades and has become a go-to resource for anyone looking to upgrade or repair their Duramax diesel vehicle.During their candid conversation, Eric shares insights as he looks to transform the repair side of his business.Taking a picture of the gram. 0:00How to get out of the grocery store for less. 4:42What's the younger generation doing on Facebook? 8:59The Discord server is like a giant chat group. 14:06The headliner was the breaking point. 18:57Duramax parts are becoming more and more obsolete. 23:07What are some of the problems with the companies that make a living off of these chips? 26:37Is there an advantage to releasing older trucks? 28:18How did your name go out in front of everybody else's? 33:45Why you need to pay someone to help you with your business. 39:44Don't hire someone to mow your lawn. 40:42The importance of having a succession plan for your business. 44:10Letting go and letting someone else do it. 45:55Why it's so hard for him to unload a project. 47:55If you don't back up and understand, you'll always be the bottleneck. 52:00Charging what you're worth. 57:40How you guys are going off a book time? 1:04:46Selling to the right clients. 1:10:28Managing Expectations. 1:14:01How do you know if you're undercharging? 1:16:09Why the service department should be the most profitable part of the company. 1:21:21The challenges of outsourcing and dealing with outside lead times. 1:27:21 Don't get to the end of this year wishing you had taken action to change your business and your life.Click here to schedule a free discovery call: https://geni.us/IFORABEShop-Ware gives you the tools to provide your customer with a unique and immersive buying experience.Click here to schedule a free demo: https://geni.us/Shop-WareUtilize the fastest and easiest way to look up and order parts and tires with PartsTech absolutely free.Click here to get started: https://geni.us/PartsTech
In this episode, we interview guest Justin Brown of The Dig Bible Podcast. Growing up in Tennessee, Justin was a regular churchgoer and had a deep fascination with the Bible. This guest speaker is a former rebel who had been leading a cool crowd of drug users in his early years. He recounts several experiences in which his friends had overdosed, become quadriplegic, or died in car wrecks, and wonders why he himself was able to walk away without a scratch every time. He wonders if it was due to divine protection, and reflects on how God must have been looking out for him despite his rebellious lifestyle. Justin was able to get his life straightened out and met a godly woman who helped him become a better person. He discovered Trey Smith's videos on YouTube and Mike Heiser's books which reignited his love for the Word of God. He also unveils his lucid dreams and encounters with the demonic. Dive in to this “restricted” episode and discover more.https://thedigbiblepodcast.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheDig423https://unrefinedpodcast.comUnrefined Podcast on FacebookTimestamps0:00:05Interview with Justin Brown: Exploring Drug Use, Pharmacy, and Seeing in the Spirit World0:03:11Reflection on Divine Protection in the Face of Rebellion and Tragedy0:05:18How a Small Group Meeting Led to a Podcast0:07:20Conversation on Planting Kingdom Communities and Podcasting Career0:09:47Exploring the Use of Medicine in Mental Health Treatment0:15:10Conversation on Drug Use and ADHD: A Personal Account0:17:11Conversation on Denying the Existence of God and Lucid Dreaming0:23:57Encountering Lilith in a Lucid Dream0:26:04Conversation on Supernatural Experiences and the Effects of Medication0:28:28Exploring the Multi-Dimensional Realm: A Conversation on the Effects of Drugs and the Paranormal0:30:47Conversation on Dimensions, Adam and Eve, and Occultic Rituals0:32:44Exploring the Supernatural Realm Through Drug Abuse and Occult Knowledge0:37:44Conversation About Paranormal Activity Experienced by Wife0:40:05Possibility of Seeing into Other Dimensions with Drug Use0:42:22Conversation on the Dangers of Drug Use and the Power of a Firm Foundation0:49:07Conversation on the Supernatural and Miraculous: Exploring the Difference0:54:23Conversation on Miraculous and Supernatural Experiences
“Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?” Mark 8:17–18How would you answer these questions that Jesus posed to His disciples if He had posed them to you? It takes humility to admit that you do not yet understand or comprehend, that your heart is in fact hardened, and that you fail to see and hear all that God has revealed. Of course there are various levels to these struggles, so hopefully you do not struggle with them to a grave degree. But if you can humbly confess that you do struggle with these to a certain extent, then that humility and honesty will gain you much grace.Jesus posed these questions to His disciples within the larger context of a discussion about the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He knew that the “leaven” of these leaders was like a yeast that corrupted others. Their dishonesty, pride, desire for honors and the like had a seriously negative affect upon the faith of others. So by posing these questions above, Jesus challenged His disciples to see this evil leaven and to reject it.Seeds of doubt and confusion are all around us. It seems these days that almost everything the secular world promotes is in some way contrary to the Kingdom of God. And yet, just like the disciples' inability to see the evil leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, we also frequently fail to see the evil leaven within our society. Instead, we allow the many errors to confuse us and lead us down the path of secularism.One thing this should teach us is that just because someone has some form of authority or power within society does not mean that they are a truthful and holy leader. And though it's never our place to judge the heart of another, we absolutely must have “ears to hear” and “eyes to see” the many errors that are held up within our world as good. We must constantly seek to “understand and comprehend” the laws of God and use them as a guide against the lies within the world. One important way to make sure we do this well is to make sure that our hearts never become hardened to the truth.Reflect, today, upon these questions of our Lord and examine them especially within the broader context of society as a whole. Consider the false “leaven” taught by our world and by so many in positions of authority. Reject these errors and recommit yourself to the full embrace of the holy mysteries of Heaven so that those truths and those truths alone become your daily guide.My glorious Lord, I thank You for being the Lord of all Truth. Help me to daily turn my eyes and ears to that Truth so that I will be able to see the evil leaven all around me. Give me wisdom and the gift of discernment, dear Lord, so that I will be able to immerse myself into the mysteries of Your holy life. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2023 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Amy Finkelstein is Professor of Economics at MIT. Amy's research focuses on market failures and government intervention in insurance markets and she has won numerous awards include a MacArthur Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal. Amy is co-author with Liran Einav and Ray Fisman of the forthcoming book: “Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to do about it”.Buy the bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Risky-Business-Insurance-Markets-About/dp/0300253435/Amy on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Finkelsteinepisode on youtube: https://youtu.be/nvVlNSolE3sshow notes: https://notunreasonable.com/?p=7706When is government compelled insurance a good idea? 0:02How the public option or the mandate can create two different equilibria in the market. 8:53Dental insurance isn't really an insurance product. 13:27The subsidy is not an objective, it's a problem. 19:18How do we choose whether to pay attention to some of these issues or not? 25:47Why do we feel compelled to act when people are suffering from chronic conditions? 29:53What are the benefits of giving people cash instead of insurance? 33:44The problem of moral hazard in insurance. 39:51The concept of affinity and intermediation. 45:28Insurance can be learned the hard way. 51:02What happens when the price of insurance gets too high in compulsory markets. 54:46Why nobody ever wants to buy insurance. 1:01:06Some of the studies that contradict what you think you know. 1:05:23Twitter: @davecwrightSurprise, It's Insurance mailing listLinkedin Social Science of Insurance Essays
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Week 16 in the NFL is over, so this week we look back at the fantasy playoff heroes or dream killers from that previous week, as well as discussing the rams humiliation of the broncos, and if Zach Wilson's time in New York is over. And with plenty of people's fantasy football playoff finals happening this week, we look forward to our all important waiver pickups and starts for week 17.Intro - 00:00Week 16 Recap - 03:20Fantasy Playoff Heroes - 19:18Fantasy Playoff Dream Killers - 25:17Injuries - 32:18How our Week 16 Player Picks Performed - 34:17Waiver Pickups - 37:18Fuggedaboutit! - 40:51Week 17 Starters - 41:40Quaterbacks - 41:50BREAKING NEWS - 43:58Running Backs - 46:15Wide Receivers - 51:14Tight Ends - 55:45Week 17 Preview - 58:02Closing Thoughts - 01:02:36Theme Song by tommyfreakintee - https://www.fiverr.com/tommyfreakinteeCover Art by Lucy Hunt - https://www.instagram.com/_quotesbylucy/?hl=enThank you for Listening!
Do you think Florida is weird? Most everyone does. Why? Gary is the man to answer this question. Gary is Professor Emeritus of the University of South Florida and has dedicated his career to studying the social history of Florida. Here is Gary on wikipedia Here is Gary on Amazon Quote of the show: "Do crazy people immigrate to Florida or do perfectly normal people come here, and then be a little goofy and go crazy."What is the most unusual social characteristic of Florida? 0:00What are some of the most distinctive features of Florida? 9:37Florida's “Florida Man” reputation. 15:49California and Florida are neck and neck in population density growth in last 100 years. 24:51Florida is running out of options for reinsuring barrier islands. 35:55What it costs to live on the coast in Florida. 40:18How is Florida a Ponzi State? 42:28What's the real alternative? 46:55What are the similarities and differences between Florida and other states in terms of immigration? 53:49How the Cuban vote has been a solid republican vote since 1961show notes: https://notunreasonable.com/?p=7659youtube: https://youtu.be/WT0iS-sDa54More on Florida: Dave DeMott's Stories About Florida Insurance: https://www.buzzsprout.com/126848/episodes/11840226 Mark Friedlander on Problems with Insurance in Florida: https://www.buzzsprout.com/126848/episodes/11582094Joe Petrelli on Rating Florida Insurance Companies: https://www.buzzsprout.com/126848/episodes/11547382Twitter: @davecwrightLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-wright-73661214/Social Science of Insurance Essays: https://notunreasonable.com/the-social-science-of-insurance/
In this episode Michele Davis and I are having a conversation about "Da Boss Within"Michele Davis is host of Da Boss Experience Podcast and a Business Strategist specializing in helping professionals launch their first signature coaching program. Prior to making a leap into entrepreneurship in 2016, Michele spent 20+ years developing coaching and counseling programs in the nonprofit sector. Since leaving the nonprofit life behind, Michele has helped entrepreneurs start, systematize, and build out their professional service business through her Phenomenal Boss Academy and CEO Blueprint Academy coaching programs. When Michele is not hanging out with her clients, she spends her time raising her teen daughter in New York City.Here is an outline of our conversation:Introduction to today's episode. 0:05Laquita's Introduction. 2:49Why it's important to know what is keeping you from getting started -. 7:25Michelle's advice for those who are starting a business. 12:44How to identify the boss within you. 16:59Identifying and accepting every gift within you. 22:18How do you do the research? 26:46Why you have to be ready for a coach before you need one. 31:28There is no cookie-cutter approach to success. 34:39You can't teach leadership if you've never been a leader. Contact Michele:Phone: (718) 971-9670Email: contactus@marketinggemsolutions.comWebsite: https://micheledavisnyc.comAddress: P.O. Box 141048, Staten Island, NY 10314Support the show:For the cost of a cup of coffee by clicking the link belowhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/laquitastoolboxClick the link below for La'Quita's Toolbox Podcasthttps://podfollow.com/laquitas-toolboxClick the link below to Rate & Review Podcasthttps://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/laquitas-toolbox-1727407✅LISTEN✅SUBSCRIBE✅DOWNLOAD✅RATE 5 STARS ⭐️✅ WRITE ✍
Too often, modern medicine focuses on life-extending interventions for those nearing the end of life at the expense of quality of life. Our guest today, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, argues we urgently need to rethink the emphasis of end-of-life care. She's the founder of the End Well Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks to improve how doctors and patients approach issues of mortality, as well as an executive producer of the 2018 film End Game and a major funder of the 2016 film Extremis, two Academy Award-nominated short documentaries on end-of-life care. As a health communicator. Dr. Ungerleider is the host of the TED Health Podcast and has been featured as a medical expert on CNN, CBS, PBS, Fox News, and other news networks. In this episode, she discusses her journey in health care and shares her mission to transform the end of life experience of patients everywhere and make dying well a part of living well.In this episode, you will hear about:How Dr. Ungerleider found her way to a career in health care and how she pushed through imposter syndrome while in medical school - 2:23Dr. Ungerleider's formative experiences working with elderly patients in the ICU, leading her question the practices of modern medicine when dealing with seriously ill patients - 10:18How the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted public consciousness around death and dying - 15:30The origins of End Well, the conference and organization founded by Dr. Ungerleider and her colleagues in 2017 - 23:51What it would look like for there to be a shift in the cultural conversation around death and dying - 30:31A reflection on the risks of romanticizing the dying process - 36:54The recent cancer diagnosis in Dr. Ungerleider's family and how this has propelled her to proactively manage her own risks - 43:49Advice for new clinicians on dealing with patient deaths - 48:49Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is the author of “My Dad's Terminal Cancer Diagnosis May Have Saved My Life” for Newsweek.You can follow Dr. Ungerleider on Twitter @ShoshUMDIn this episode, we discussed The Good Place, an award-winning sitcom series about philosophy and the afterlife.We discussed several articles and studies about whether physicians are more likely to choose to die at home than the general public. These articles include “How Doctors Die” by Ken Murray, “Association of Occupation as a Physician With Likelihood of Dying in a Hospital” by Blecker, Johnson, Altekruse, et al. and “Patients, and Doctors, Aren't Dying at Home” by Dr. Danielle Ofri (our guest on episode 35).Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022
OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESWhat is the pandora virus? How does it combine the two MacGuffins of pandemic and climate?2:17Are we moving to the Artilect War? San Francisco begins the move to robo-cops authorized for lethal force9:44Biden is upsizing the IRS. The increase in tax agents will be greater than the entire British army. What does that tell you about who they're going to war against?20:21Black Friday is NOTHING like they predicted26:39What shopping circumstances looked like from city to city on Christmas Eve.30:22Even as the World Government Summit openly discusses how to implement World Governance, YouTube puts a disclaimer on their video saying its just a conspiracy THEORY32:43Kanye West storms out of interview because interviewer won't say who "THEY" are.35:39The remnants of main street, middle class service businesses that Trump declared "non-essential" are now going under as the stimulus bill and Biden-flation hit44:19Kevin Sorbo talks about the powerful animated film, "The Procedure", for which he did the voice over53:18What if instead of focusing on politicians and focusing on political parties, we focused our money and our effort on issues?56:49Eric Peters, EPautos.com, joins. Cities are being condoned off into allowed travel zones as the noose tightens on mobility1:00:25Sadiq Khan wants Singapore-style toll roads.1:07:18How the green agenda has changed from fighting pollution to controlling people's lives.1:11:37What's going on in the world of taxes and tolls.1:15:14Tesla has a test run of the EV Semi. What's going to happen to the grid if we ban all diesel trucks?1:29:02Looking back at the good old days of GM, a company that is abandoning cars while waxing nostalgic1:33:04Eric's take on the Toyota Tacoma?1:42:44Silly sound effects being added to EV's. Dodge did it first with the electric HellCat, now Fiat in Europe is doing it with the Abarth1:47:22Eric's review of the Honda Ridgeline?1:54:41The artist behind Balenciaga ads has a history of disturbing, occult, violent ads2:00:45Father of child in Balenciaga ad campaign speaks out2:07:08Disney jokes about loving Satan as women is murdered in a Satanic ritual in Texas. 2:07:17American entertainment is pushing cannibalism, pedophilia, incest.2:15:11California pedophiles are getting less than a year of prison time despite the sentencing guidelines.2:17:52A play portrays pedophiles as sympathetic victims, and the victim as a Weiner.2:25:46The playwright wants us to sympathize with the child molester and see the victim as indulging in self-pity.2:28:50Sam, the cross-dressing SM bureaucrat Biden put in charge of nuclear waste, is now accused of felony luggage theft (a women's luggage) at Minneapolis St. Paul airport.2:31:33This is a new heresy for our age — Jesus as man/woman2:38:31Pharmakeia keeps coming after children at younger and younger ages. The plan to vaccinate unborn children for RSV2:42:46Pfizer CEO found to have given out false information about his vaccine, the same guy who wanted misinformation to be treated as criminal. What about his malicious disinformation?2:53:14Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver
OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESWhat is the pandora virus? How does it combine the two MacGuffins of pandemic and climate?2:17Are we moving to the Artilect War? San Francisco begins the move to robo-cops authorized for lethal force9:44Biden is upsizing the IRS. The increase in tax agents will be greater than the entire British army. What does that tell you about who they're going to war against?20:21Black Friday is NOTHING like they predicted26:39What shopping circumstances looked like from city to city on Christmas Eve.30:22Even as the World Government Summit openly discusses how to implement World Governance, YouTube puts a disclaimer on their video saying its just a conspiracy THEORY32:43Kanye West storms out of interview because interviewer won't say who "THEY" are.35:39The remnants of main street, middle class service businesses that Trump declared "non-essential" are now going under as the stimulus bill and Biden-flation hit44:19Kevin Sorbo talks about the powerful animated film, "The Procedure", for which he did the voice over53:18What if instead of focusing on politicians and focusing on political parties, we focused our money and our effort on issues?56:49Eric Peters, EPautos.com, joins. Cities are being condoned off into allowed travel zones as the noose tightens on mobility1:00:25Sadiq Khan wants Singapore-style toll roads.1:07:18How the green agenda has changed from fighting pollution to controlling people's lives.1:11:37What's going on in the world of taxes and tolls.1:15:14Tesla has a test run of the EV Semi. What's going to happen to the grid if we ban all diesel trucks?1:29:02Looking back at the good old days of GM, a company that is abandoning cars while waxing nostalgic1:33:04Eric's take on the Toyota Tacoma?1:42:44Silly sound effects being added to EV's. Dodge did it first with the electric HellCat, now Fiat in Europe is doing it with the Abarth1:47:22Eric's review of the Honda Ridgeline?1:54:41The artist behind Balenciaga ads has a history of disturbing, occult, violent ads2:00:45Father of child in Balenciaga ad campaign speaks out2:07:08Disney jokes about loving Satan as women is murdered in a Satanic ritual in Texas. 2:07:17American entertainment is pushing cannibalism, pedophilia, incest.2:15:11California pedophiles are getting less than a year of prison time despite the sentencing guidelines.2:17:52A play portrays pedophiles as sympathetic victims, and the victim as a Weiner.2:25:46The playwright wants us to sympathize with the child molester and see the victim as indulging in self-pity.2:28:50Sam, the cross-dressing SM bureaucrat Biden put in charge of nuclear waste, is now accused of felony luggage theft (a women's luggage) at Minneapolis St. Paul airport.2:31:33This is a new heresy for our age — Jesus as man/woman2:38:31Pharmakeia keeps coming after children at younger and younger ages. The plan to vaccinate unborn children for RSV2:42:46Pfizer CEO found to have given out false information about his vaccine, the same guy who wanted misinformation to be treated as criminal. What about his malicious disinformation?2:53:14Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver
Today we've got Adam, Jess's husband on the podcast who will be interviewing her, which we have been wanting to do for a while, but haven't been able to until now because Sue just had a baby and will be away for a bit. Adam has a very good understanding of construction and the quality of how and why things are made a certain way, and Jess has a great eye for design, so blending them together is always entertaining and some of the secret sauce to everything. What it was like when they started 5:21Some of the roles played when starting 9:26Do you recommend working with your spouse? 16:13The first market they went to 19:00Who Jess likes to surround herself with 23:51 How the vision has changed 31:09The hardest part of running this business over the years 36:15Getting Jess to be the face 38:38Quick questions 42:18How has this business affected our family? 48:02“Something that you really, really latch onto, and maybe the question is ‘where did this come from?' but it's your communication skills. Like when you're working with a client, when you're with a friend, or whatever, I'm always so impressed by how it goes beyond the surface and you really want to understand their needs and their wants, and how this piece is going to function within their home and not that it just looks pretty. I think a lot of people can build off a lot of pretty things, but will it last over time? And will it continue to be pretty and functional, and serve people's needs.” 27:52https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5
Season 2, Episode 9 of a View from the Left Side focuses on our country's epidemic of gun violence. My opening commentary, recorded on June 1, 2022, refers to the mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York grocery store and at the Uvalde, Texas elementary school. There have been more since then, most notably the Highland Park. Illinois Fourth of July Parade mass shooting. There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the US in 2022, according to the Washington Post. Mass shootings are when four or more people -- besides the shooter -- are killed or injured in the same incident. Mass shootings are averaging one per day in 2022, and there have been no weeks in 2022 without a mass shooting, according to the Post. This is not a well-regulated militia. This is a country more privately owned weapons than people. Following my commentary outlining common sense gun violence prevention legislation proposed by Arizona Democrats is the March for Our Lives Press Conference in the Rose Garden at the Arizona Capitol.On June 1, 2022, March for Our Lives Phoenix hosted a press conference calling for Governor Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature to take action on common sense gun violence prevention legislation.Jacob Martinez, March for Our Lives Phoenix organizer, gave opening remarks and introduced Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, Democratic House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding, and Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios. Hoffman talked about her School Safety Task Force, which she funded with $21 million in COVID funds; the Legislature has still not acted on this March for Our Lives request from 2019. Bolding discussed Red Flag laws and other popular Democratic proposals to stop senseless gun violence. Unfortunately, the Legislative "majority", which represents minority of Arizona voters, is loyal to the gun lobby and their campaign donations. Time StampsSeason 2, Episode 9 Introduction | 0:50Rep. PPH Commentary on Gun Violence in the US | 2:19March for Our Lives Press Conterence at the Capitol | 6:04Jacob Martinez, March for Our Lives, Phoenix | 6:20Kathy Hoffman, Superintendent of Public Instruction | 9:32Unnecessarily noisy delivery guys trying to disrupt press conference | 12:18How many times does the same delivery guy have to rev his engine in the parking lot? | 13:31Rep. Reginold Bolding, House Democratic Minority Leader | 14:51Bolding responds to reporter question about Legislative inaction on gun violence prevention | 19:00Bolding responds to reporter question about forcing a vote on gun reform in the House | 20:23Senator Rebecca Rios, Senate Democratic Minority Leader, responds to reporter question | 21:01
If you would like clarity on these concepts in your own life or would like to book a reading, reach out to Zach on IG @justzachkaufmanAsk Us A Question and we'll answer on air - TAP HERE TO ASKEpisode HighlightsDon't sacrifice yourself to fit an identity that's sold to you 4:53Let the information you're consuming be a tool used in context 7:58Questions to ask yourself for discernment 10:18How do we come back to ourselves and figure out our authentic needs 15:51Mindfulness is your buffer for information overload 19:24Checking your intuition against somebody else's 22:39Check Us OutZach @justzachkaufmanzelikaufman125@gmail.comContactHeartsoulhuman@gmail.comCreditsMusic-Max Van Soest @ max_fly5
Dr. Pamela Kunz is the Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at Yale Medicine. For 19 years, she was at Stanford University, most recently serving as Director of the Stanford Neuroendocrine Tumor Program. But in 2020, Dr. Kunz announced her departure, citing years of gender discrimination, microaggressions, and harassment. In this episode, Dr. Kunz opens up about the challenges she faced, how she overcame them, and how she now taps into a clear-eyed awareness of her values to lead health care settings that empower underrepresented individuals and to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic medicine.In this episode, you will hear about: How Dr. Kunz's science-filled childhood led her to a career in medicine, and why she took on the daunting task of treating cancer patients - 2:21What it is like to build relationships with patients who have life-limiting cancer diagnoses - 7:25Dr. Kunz's past struggles working in a toxic environment due to constant disrespect and denigration based on her gender - 12:18How leadership coach Rebecca Merrill (our guest on Episode 7) helped Dr. Kunz realize why she was so unhappy in her work and what she could do about it - 16:15The development of Dr. Kunz as an advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic medicine - 18:48Dr. Kunz's advice for women and other underrepresented individuals going into medicine on preparing against potential hostility in their chosen careers, and how to create a “tapestry” of mentors - 22:01How Dr. Kunz addresses her own burnout, and how seeing oneself as an advocate can be a tool to self-empowerment - 32:25 The advice Dr. Kunz would give to her past self if she could go back in time - 41:02Dr. Kunz mentions the book “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown as being especially transformational in her journey to overcome challenges in the workplace.Follow Dr. Kunz on Twitter @PamelaKunzMDVisit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2022
In this week's episode Jo and Caroline discuss the power of minding your own business. They dive into the importance of staying in your own lane while also being a good cheerleader for others. Tune in to have a listen!!Topics:Life is full of peaks and valleys: 5:06Always looking for the next good thing: 6:45Staying in your own lane: 11:30You can be two things at once: 15:05Consuming media: 16:18How to be a better friend: 21:01Stop taking things personal: 26:05People don't think like you do: 27:53Our Website and Merch: https://www.middlegroundpodcast.co/Follow us on Instagram:Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/middlegroundpodcast/Jo: https://www.instagram.com/jojohnsonoverby/Caroline: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestelte/Follow us on TikTok: Podcast: https://www.tiktok.com/@middlegroundpodcastJo: https://www.tiktok.com/@jojohnsonoverby?lang=enCaroline: https://www.tiktok.com/@carolinestelte?lang=en
Timestamps & Summary 2:00Dr. Lapierre, could you expand perhaps for the audience on how you arrived at looking at nitrogen and amino acid requirements of dairy cows?Dr. Hélène LapierreWell, it has been a long road. And I did my bachelor's degree at Laval University. Then I went for a master but I was still not decided. I went to work in finance for a while and got attracted back into research. I did a PhD at Sherbrooke University in animal physiology, and then get the opportunity to work with Henry Tyrrell and Chris Reynolds at the USDA in Beltsville, Maryland. Then I got a job at the Research and Development Center. 04:35You said 30 years in amino acid research has come a long way. And as you mentioned, learning techniques and discovering the techniques were probably a key part of that.Dr. Hélène LapierreAbsolutely. That was a combination of different techniques. The purpose was to look at what was going on within the animal. So we had different techniques, we could use nutrients that were labeled with stable isotopes, which are different from the radioactive isotopes. That allowed us to follow the fate of this amino acid that the cow was eating. Was it going towards milk? Was it going to be oxidized? Was it going to the muscle? What was the trade between the different amino acids in terms of nitrogen shifts? So, yeah, I can talk for the whole afternoon if you want!05:52If a nutritionist asks you, what are the key points that they need to think about? What would you relay to them from that?Dr. Hélène LapierreWe really wanted to start with what we thought were the biological concepts that should be underlying all those estimations. So the supply of protein was being revised. To be more specific, the protein that the cows are digesting, more than half are from microbial protein, the other 35% will be from the dietary proteins that are not degraded within the rumen. And about 15% of what's arriving at the entrance of the small intestine will be just what we call endogenous proteins, that are being secreted by the animal within the gut lumen. There was a computer vision of each of those different factions. So microbial crude protein, that was defined based on the nutrient that we digested across the whole tract in the previous system, which is not truly biology because it's occurring within the rumen. We don't want to look at what's occurring across the whole track. So now it's really focused on how much starch is being degraded into the rumen, how much NDF and nitrogen is degraded. 10:18How well these models are predicting the needs of high producing cows that we see more and more abundantly in the industry? Are we predicting those requirements well? And is there anything different that the new model does to adjust for that?Dr. Hélène LapierreWell, the prediction of nicotine yield is totally different from what it has been. And in addition, when we develop those models, actually, we do use published values in the literature. But these are cows that have been there before, they are not cows that we want to feed now in the future. So to adjust for that, what we did is that we included what we call the rolling herd average, which is basically the average meal protein yield for a 305 day of production. So we have to input that number into the model. And that changes, just through maths, the different coefficients predicting meal protein yield, so that way, it's being taking into account the fact that the model has been built with cows that have been there, but we focus on the cows that we want to feed in the future. So this is quite a new approach for this model.11:57Could you give us an update on your thoughts with that particular amino acid?Dr. Hélène Lapierre We began to be interested in that amino acid maybe 15 years ago. And when we looked at the literature, at that time, we could find a requirement, that was as a proportion of metalloprotein. But this number varied a lot among the different studies that had been conducted, and we wondered why. So then we conducted other works with cows that were fed with corn silage. And we found the consumers ask for animal production that does have a lower footprint on the environment, they really want to see the producers and nutritionists to decrease the pollution that we do have with animal production, including the dairy sector. And actually, what we realized is that, when you want to decrease the protein concentration of a diet, what happens is that the proportion of what is coming from the microbial protein is increasing. About 50% of the protein digested by the cows are of microbial origin. But if you want to decrease the crude protein that you feed the animal, then this proportion might increase to 60–65%. Although we have learned in our classes that microbial protein has a very good profile of amino acid, if you really look at the numbers, histidine in the microbial protein is lower than in the feed ingredients. So when you decrease the total amount of protein that you feed, you increase the proportion of microbial, so you decrease the quantity of histidine at the higher rate, then you decrease what is being fed for the other amino acid. […]16:04What would be your take-home recommendations related to amino acid balancing?Dr. Hélène LapierreI would say to really balance their ration for amino acid. It has been working for poultry, it has been working for pigs, there is no reason why it wouldn't be working for the ruminants. Obviously, the challenge is larger because we need to determine what's being supplied through the microbes to what's not being degraded within the rumen. But I think we have made really huge progress over the last two decades to develop rumen submodels. So really, to focus and forget a little bit about protein metabolizable protein, and look for essential amino acids. And please do not balance diet for crude protein. It is like so outdated.
Are you feeling like you are ready for the next step in your marketing career? Or maybe you are ready to shift and take on a different role but you just aren't sure how to do that. You see others have made these shifts and you want to work with them, figure out how they did it. Maybe it's time you needed a champion on your side. In this episode, I am interviewing Erika Booker who talks about how to identify what you want, find a champion and make the mentor/mentee relationship work for both of you. It's not just about the next steps in your career but about the inner discovery of yourself. Taking care of yourself means you have the time and energy to put the best creativity into your work. There are lots of great tips here on how to achieve your next personal and professional goals.Here are a few highlights:How do you figure out what it is you want? 5:31Gathering Your Discovery: 6:42Eating the Frog: 11:40Networking – Flex that muscle: 11:49Keep your creativity level up: 14:09How do you discover what is important to your firm and leadership:15:24Your leaders aren't all alike: 19:40Make your own path: 21:25Identify your firms' champions: 24:30What's a Mentor: 24:21What's an advocate: 24:49Is your champion at your firm? 28:18How to find a mentor working at a small firm: 29:42How do you make the “ask” (from a prospective mentor): 31:46Set your expectations as a mentee: 35:19 Learn more about Erika and get all the links mentioned over on the show notes page.Get Yourself a MentorAre you looking for a mentor? Someone to go alongside you AND who gets what it's like to be an AEC marketing professional? For as little as $5/month you'll get bonus podcast content, early and discounted access to training, and individualized support from me. Go to marketerstakeflight.com/mentor to learn more and join today.
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In this episode it is my pleasure to speak with and introduce to you Joe Cohen. Joe provides human capital consulting and leadership coaching. He has worked with leaders at various companies, including Microsoft, Boeing, Navy Seals, AT&T, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, All State, Ulta Beauty, Paul Weiss LLP, Fidelity and Google. As a leadership coach, Joe draws upon over a decade of training in various leadership development and personal growth strategies, including seminars with Tony Robbins and Landmark as well as coursework in Internal Family Systems and Conflict Resolution and Mediation. Joe received his coaching certification from the International Coaching Federation and a J.D. from Hofstra School of Law. He has spoken on emotional intelligence and leadership development in a variety of forums, including as an instructor for the World Coaching Institute and as a guest lecturer at Touro University. Joe had a rough childhood and talks about how he was able to deal with the pain that came with that rough upbringing, and then shares a story of when things began to turn around for him, taking the things he had learned from his past and building upon them instead of blaming his failures on those experiences and excusing himself from coming out on top. Some context into Joe’s life 4:18How he dealt with his pain 11:17The situation that changed Joe’s life 21:38Some wisdom and life tools to navigate through tough times 28:38You have to have a vision 37:57What keeps him going 39:52Story of doing the right thing 50:57Sharing hope 58:54“One of the things I learned when I was in Beit T'Shuvah was, I read a phrase by King Solomon, and it said, ‘This too shall pass.’ Also the idea that ‘Gam zu L’tova,’ this too is for the best. So I looked at all these situations as I made meaning out of it.” 29:11You can get in touch with Joe at his website:https://www.40pillars.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode Stephanie Shelton talks with Kiara Summerville, Erica Campbell, Krystal Flantroy, and Ashley Prowell about their experiences collaborating and co-authoring an article on Black Feminist thought in the field of Qualitative Inquiry. The episode raises important questions about representation, experience, and process in the doing and teaching of qualitative research. A transcript of the conversation follows. Stephanie Shelton 00:10Right. Hello everyone and welcome to qualitative conversations Podcast Series hosted by the qualitative research special interest group, the American Educational Research Association. I'm Stephanie Shelton, a guest host for this episode on collaboration and co-authorship. And I'm excited to be joined today by my brilliant co-authors of a wonderful article. Krystal Flantroy, Kiara Summerville, Erica Campbell and Ashley Nicole Prowell. And so Kiara, if we could just introduce yourselves maybe an author order. So Kiara, then Erica, then Krystal, then Ashley, and then we'll get started.Kiara Summerville 00:47Hi, everyone. I'm Kiara Summervile. Dr. Kiara Somerville, a recent graduate of the higher education administration program at the University of Alabama. I currently work in the Division of Student Life at the University of Alabama. And so certainly, a scholar practitioner in every sense of the word, and I am excited to be here with you all. Erica Campbell 01:08Hello, everybody. My name is Erica Campbell, and I am a PhD candidate in the higher education administration program at the University of Alabama. And I'm excited because I will be graduating in May, and I will be defending my dissertation this January. So I'm excited to be on the job market looking for faculty positions. And I here I am a scholar practitioners affairs professional, but I want to take that to the faculty route. So I'm excited to be here with you all today.Krystal Flantroy 01:38My name is Krystal Flantroy and I'm currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that I graduate in July. I too, am a scholar practitioner who has found her way back to a classroom teaching position. And so I'm back to teaching high school science, which is something I love and love to do. But we'll see how it all works out in the end.Ashley Prowell 02:02My name is Ashley Prowell, or Dr. Ashley Prowell. And I am also a recent graduate of the social work department, PhD program. I'm also on the job market hoping to enter the professoriate and continue to do research and teaching. So yeah, I'm glad we didn't have to, like run down our research topic, because I'm so tired of writing about it, talking about it with everybody. So Stephanie Shelton 02:37We're here today to talk about your article that was published in the qualitative research journal. And it is titled, Finding ourselves as Black Women in Euro-centric theory: Collaborative biography on learning qualitative inquiry. And so I wanted to start by asking if you could share how this project got started, what, what initiated the ideas that ultimately led to this article.Krystal Flantroy 02:59And as it turns out, this project got started in, it feels like a group chat, right? We were, we would have class and then we would all leave class and talk in the parking lot before we all went to our cars, that led to a group chat of where we got to talk about things that we didn't understand things that we just didn't relate to things that were confusing in the readings of the theory that we were reading in qual three, and it kind of flourished from there.Kiara Summerville 03:28Right? We, as Krystal mentioned, were, you know, talking about frustrations and confusion that went along with it, this qualitative course that we were taking. And, and we thought about it one day, I think we were actually in the classroom after class one day, and had this thought like, well, maybe we should write about this, right? We all have a lot of thoughts about this. And, um, you know about our experience in that classroom and understanding the material and working together to make the make the material make sense to each other, we leaned on each other heavily for that. So we told ourselves, Well, how about we just write about this? Right. And I know, we'll probably get to this in a little bit, but we thought, you know, Dr. Shelton, would be a wonderful person to talk to about these thoughts, and to see if we can get something going.Stephanie Shelton 04:19So that's a perfect transition. Um, so could you talk through how you started the process of co authoring this paper? What did that process look like? Ashley Prowell 04:27I mean, I want to say, I want to say it was just, you know, just it just happened pretty naturally. I mean, like Krystaltal said, it started out in a group chat. And we all had these same, you know, same thoughts about what was going on in the classroom. So, I mean, I don't know if you're talking about like the ordering of authorship and how that happened. But I think just in terms of us all, you know, being engaged in this topic and wanting to instead of just kind of, I guess, complaining about it or griping about it wanting to be productive and, and turn it into something creative and productive for academia. And I feel like, since we've written this paper, like, if you just scroll through academic Twitter, you'll see like, you know, a lot of people are talking about this similar ideas these days, and kind of this incorporation of black thought, or black, you know, ideas into, you know, our readings in the classroom and, and just being more inclusive overall and responsive to other cultures. So I feel like we were definitely at the forefront. I feel like we were at the forefront, maybe we weren't, but, but it definitely feels good. That, you know, we're seeing more people talk about this issue in doctoral programs, and just overall in higher education,Erica Campbell 06:01Right. And I will also add that one of the things that we did, too, because we knew that we had material to write about or to share our personal narratives, and what that looked like in the classroom, also believe that we went to you, Dr. Shelton, to be honest. And we said, you know, we have this idea, just to kind of really just dive in about what our, you know, black feminist thought is, and then also to really think about how we use that with qualitative research and qualitative, philosophical, philosophical understandings. And so you gave us the idea, in terms of the methodology to really just think about how we could use that as an opportunity to kind of collaborate when it comes to our narrative. And I know we'll get to that in a little bit a little bit later, I'm sure. But that's where kind of the idea got the wheels to kind of keep moving, that you know, what this this is qualitative research, what are narratives are, what our experiences are in that classroom, and you kind of gave us a wheel with the methodology with that.Ashley Prowell 07:07And I guess, you know, earlier on, I think we also had the conversation of, you know, or at least I know, I brought this up and shared it with the group, just this idea of choosing a white professor to to, to being engaged with our scholarship or this manuscript that we were writing. And I know, while Dr. Shelton tends to be very open, and, or is very open, and often probably even can relate to a lot of the issues that we we talked about in our paper, are some of them. I think we chose Dr. Shelton, because because of that, that openness. But I do think, you know, we did think about like, what would the paper: How would things look different if we engage with a, an African American or a black? Professor? And I do think there are implications for that? I think it could, would she have been involved in our group chat? Or, you know, how would that have changed things in terms of our findings, and how we engage with the content throughout the course semester? So I think that is something that, you know, we should, I don't know, if you want to talk, share your own thoughts about that. But I know that's something that we brought up earlier on.Krystal Flantroy 08:27But I also think that we were, we were a bit treading lightly as we began, because we also were still in a class with a professor, whose course we were really critiquing for something that we thought was missing, that was something essential. And so it felt like, Are we really gonna write about this? Because the truly enough mean, we've all been taught by her are sitting in her course. And it's like, how do we know Levy, this, this heavy critique of the course that we've been in without feeling weird about it? So that was another thing. Stephanie Shelton 09:03So you've brought up some of these? The next question is really looking at like some of the challenges. And and so I think that these are definitely some that are really important. And I'm glad that, Ashley, you initiated some of these concerns, because very important, and thinking about like collaboratively writing, and then trying to go through this publication process, because I feel like a lot of times for graduate students publication seems like more of like an abstract concept. That's sort of reality. And so what were some of the challenges of the collaborative writing and the publication process when you're working through this article?Kiara Summerville 09:34I don't know that the when we actually started writing together and in sharing our mirrors with each other, that wasn't necessarily tough for me. I think on the front end, we had to learn the methodology. And that was something that we had to kind of sit with because I think even with the methodology and you know, the philosophers and we were attributing citing in our methodology for themselves, white men, right. And so we talked about how, you know, we were critiquing this use of using white philosophers in these courses. But we are in fact using them for this type of work, we talked about how we are turning it on its head, right? To make it work for us, which is really the the nature of the whole paper, the theme of the whole paper making, making, what we were learning in that class, make it make sense to us. So I think learning the methodology at first was something that we had to had to understand, but the actual writing of the narrative seems to come quite naturally. For me, um, ladies, I'm not sure how you all felt about that. Erica Campbell 10:43And I will say that it actually became natural for me, because we had been in that class and really was in that space of really sitting with our thoughts about those white philosophers. In that course, I really felt like, you know, this was my opportunity to really get that off my chest in a writing format, right. But then also, because we were doing it in a collaborative matter, I think what really helped me to was that, okay, I'm not the only person that's talking about this, right. So, you know, often as a black woman, you know, you we feel good in numbers, we feel good having that sisterhood support. And I think knowing that we were collaborating, and right, but also writing our own narratives, at the same time made me feel empowered to just say what I needed to say, and just express myself, because I knew there were other women who would be doing the same thing. And so that really empowered me, it felt very natural for myself.Ashley Prowell 11:39And I think we brought this up in the paper, too, is just this idea of like, earlier on, like, hold on, are we missing something like just trying to think back through before, you know, before you, you know, you write about something or talk about something you want to make sure you have, I think that naturally, like have the facts. Right. So, so just thinking through the course, and, and I guess, also in a way of not to be offensive towards towards the qualitative program that we were taking these courses in, and just just really thinking about, you know, you know, if we, if if there was something that we didn't grasp, or something that we miss throughout the course. And I think like Erica was saying, like other people are, you know, once we realized, collectively that we have these shared thoughts and that other people are also talking about this, I think that helped us feel better about moving forward with with writing about it.Krystal Flantroy 12:41I just wanted to add, when we went to our first like, we we put up conference paper, like, I can't remember which one it is. And, ICQI, right? And so we go and we do our presentation, and we're sitting in this room of people, and like people were enlightened and move by it, and it was like, wait, y'all, I think we got we got some, and like, we left there. We we knew we felt better, like people came up and talk to us after our presentation. I was like, oh, okay, this is it. Alright. So it that I think that part of it, like putting in conference presentations, I think ICQI and AERA, um, you know, made a world of difference, because what it said was, is that scholars in Rome want to hear what we had to say about this particular topic, which may moving the work forward a little bit easier. You weren't as the trepidation wasn't there anymore. It was like, Okay, this is something we can talk about that we need to talk about. Stephanie Shelton 13:48So Erica,and Krystal kind of alluded to this, but I wanted to ask if you had anything else you wanted to add? What were some of the high points are the advantages of collaboratively writing, collaborative collaboratively writing, and a collaborative publishing process? Ashley Prowell 14:03I think, I guess just piggybacking off of what we just talked about was just this idea of, okay. This is something, you know, kind of new for us and that we're, you know, this is our first time writing about something like this, but being able to kind of figure it out through our collaborative narrative and responding to each other and going back and forth. With that process. I think that was something interesting and just kind of kind of figuring it out as we went, you know, I thought that was cool.Krystal Flantroy 14:39I think here said this earlier, and it there's power in numbers, right? And having people to work with and having people to bounce ideas off of and having people that have maybe more experiences or publishing because we were all in different parts of our journey at that point, and so We are, you know, it was it made the experience a lot easier. But it also made it tougher, right? Because you're working with four different people with four or five, five different people with five different schedules,Stephanie Shelton 15:12I think it might be worth you you talking a little bit going back a little bit to the to some of the challenges. If I recall correctly, some of the ways that you all wrote the paper was you initially, you divvied up sections you did the you did the narratives collaboratively throughout, but then you divvied up other sections, but then there had to be a process where the paper became unified. And so I don't know if you want to talk about that or not. But I think that that was definitely a very interesting part of the process, that it can be used for other people to hear about.Erica Campbell 15:44So that's a good point. Um, one thing that we did, so after, like, Kiara, I mentioned earlier, we had to really learn, and, and really understand this methodology, right. So that's always key and important before you, you know, put yourself out there to try and do it. And of course, you know, you either learn through the process, and of course, you learn after the process. I mean, that's part of qualitative research, and what we are, you know, tasked to do, and good researchers. But one thing that we did first is we decided that we would divvy up our narratives. And so one person will write their own personal narratives, each person wrote a personal narrative, right? But then we decided that we would go back, and then respond to each person's narratives. And so in each person's there, there's a might be a thought that Ashley said or thought they crossed or keyed, or said, and then I might interrupt with my communication or a thought of like, yes, like we you said, you were in class. And maybe you didn't understand this, this philosopher, I will respond by saying something like, You know what, I didn't understand that either, right. And so it kind of created not just only our own narratives to be able to get that narrative on paper, but it allowed us to, for lack of a better word, to interrupt each other, and kind of have a conversation back and forth through our written narrative. And so we did that using a Google Drive. And from there is where we use that just to move forward in our analysis. Kiara Summerville 17:22And I think when it came time to piece the paper together, it's not really a challenge, it wasn't a challenge, I don't think we leaned on each other's strengths, to kind of understand, you know, kind of what sections of the paper so for instance, I had had some previous experience with the conceptual framework, right? So it was, you know, easy for me to feel like I could step up and say, Okay, y'all, I feel like I can write this conceptual framework. I, you know, Eric knows, I joke about this a lot, I feel like I do really well with time things with a bow and concluding. So I'm happy to conclude as well. And then, you know, we talked about who was focused on the literature review, and who would focus on, um, you know, our data and creating themes from our narratives. And so that part, you know, it's really nice to lean on each other's strengths. And that way to piece the paper together.Ashley Prowell 18:15Yeah. And I think we were all at different points in our, you know, of course, in our PhD journey, so, you know, especially when it came to authorship, you know, I knew for myself, at least, that I was kind of in the bulk of my dissertation, and then I wouldn't have a ton of time to commit to the final pieces of the manuscripts. So, of course, second to last author. And I think other people may have, you know, chosen their authorship similarly, so, yeah. But, you know, in terms of we tried to be fair, there were there were multiple opportunities that came out of that paper, like, we were saying, conference presentations. So, we, I think we each had opportunities to kind of lead those projects along the way while we were at different points. So for ICQI I was at a easier time in my, in my PhD journey. So I I did get a chance to lead that a little bit. In terms of like, submitting the proposal for ICQI and everything Stephanie Shelton 19:28And I think Krystal did a she did it. You did AERA, you led that proposal. Krystal Flantroy 19:34Yea but it was canceled, thanks to COVID. So there was a lot of work for I won't say for no reason. But yeah, for no reason. Erica Campbell 19:46And I think that speaks to us feeling like you know, we can take this on the road and we can really make this a worthwhile project. So you know, even though AERA was cancelled because the COVID and it was 2020 when we got except it is still helped us to make us feel like you know what this project is worth while. And this is something that we should definitely even though, you know, hell was breaking loose in the country in the world, we feel felt like this. This research still needed to go forward. And I'm glad that we continue to push towards wrapping this paper.Stephanie Shelton 20:24So many grad students are likely to listen to this podcast. And so in channeling a graduate student perspective, which for some of you is current for others of you, it's in the rearview mirror, but not too long ago. And channeling a graduate student perspective, what was the publishing process like? And what do you wish that you known beforehand that you know, now,Krystal Flantroy 20:42I wish I had known that those jokes about reviewer number two, are actually really serious, not just imagined. There's such extremes on what reviewers want out of your paper. And oh, I do remember what I wanted to say the unifying part of the paper, Dr. Shelton really helped with our language, that was whatever I want to say, and helping it all pull together. So it was concise and consistent, even though we all have different words and different styles of writing. But yes, reviewer number two, that is exactly the truth. I, when I looked at our reviews for the paper, it was like one person was like, Okay, here's these few things and somebody else, like, I think you should look at this, this and this from these people, I think you guys missed it. Kiara Summerville 21:28And then not even being able to find some of their suggestions. Like it was really hard because maybe our institution didn't have access to it, and then having to figure out if we were going to include it or not. And if we didn't include it, how to word that in the letter back to the editors, or their reviewers. How to say, you know, thank you, but nothing.Stephanie Shelton 21:53Yeah, my advice for that is just in overall publishing experiences, just like trying to respond to everything and making it seem like, you know, I'm, I'm so grateful for this feedback. And but or however, you know, that's the way to approach it. But you know, trying your best to still address each and every comment as much as possible. But if it's not in line with what you're you're trying to do, or your goal or aims for the for your work, then, you know, saying that, and being honest, honest about that,Erica Campbell 22:32honestly, I think we were really blessed. We had Dr. Shelton, the great Dr. Shelton, on our team. And so because you were on our team, as we thank you all the time, it really helped us walk through that publication process. So I've been a part of some publications in my past experience prior to this research, but really have an understanding of how everything breaks down how you respond to the journal, how you respond to each of their, you know, suggested edits, that was something that was really eye opening for me, because now because we did that, and because she walked us through that process, so that we can understand that I feel more confident. Just just putting in other other manuscripts that other journals, you know, it just made me really see the process from start to finish, and not just kind of a small portion of the process. And so I'm thankful for that. But also it really, if we had to tell graduate students what to do, find a coach, find a mentor, find someone who will help you walk through that process, because that kind of takes a lot of strain and stress off of the manuscript writing and journal process. And so that was very helpful for me, and I'm sure my colleagues will say the same.Ashley Prowell 23:46And I would say to just being on the job market, right now, you I'm starting to realize what a valuable experience this was. And not that either of us were, you know, being aggressive about you know, collaboration, we have to collaborate, I think this for us, thankfully, it happened very, very naturally. And I think that is something to cherish, whether it happens in your PhD Career or later on in your, your, your later on in your career. But you'll find, I think when applying to jobs and kind of thinking through your entire journey, that experiences like this are really are really useful because you will be required to collaborate interdisciplinary. And for me, I'm in the Social Work program, and I think most of my these co authors are these gals here are in education. So I think that's that's a that was a great experience. And I think it's something that just shared Being honest and sharing your thoughts about course experience or things that are going on in your own research, or your own research area of interest, sharing that with others, Dr. Shelton, sharing that with others, and just kind of seeing where that where that takes you rather than, you know, making it a point to, you know, collaborate just just kind of surrounding yourself with people who have shared interests. And I think it'll just happen naturally. Stephanie Shelton 25:31I do want to accentuate because of some of the things that you all have said, I want to make it really clear to anyone who would listen to the podcast that you all did the work, you all respond as the reviewers, you will do the revisions. Because I don't want to give anyone the misguided impression that like I was in charge of anything, or I took over y'all did the work. And so I want to make sure that relative to Eric has note about, you know, find yourself a mentor, I think that's a really great piece of advice for any graduate students, or even early career faculty, but making sure that you find someone who helps you to understand how to do it and helps a highlight you not someone who jumps in and takes credit for what it is that you're planning on doing. Because that, that's that's not what happened. These women, these brilliant scholars did, did this work. This article is theirs,Kiara Summerville 26:24Dr. Shelton, I'm thinking about how you helped us kind of understand the landscape of qualitative research journals and where this might fit best, and timelines. And, you know, I'm thinking along those lines when Erica said, you know, coach and mentor to help us understand, you know, the scope of what we were working with in terms of submitting to a journal, and what that looked like, and keeping us on a timeline or schedule or, you know, if we fell off encouraging us to hop back on that timeline, that was very, very helpful for us.Krystal Flantroy 27:05I do want to speak to the publishing process, and here brought this up, I think that there are a multitude of journals in which you can publish and being able to select a journal that is interested in your topic, and will find your topic relevant, I think that will be a struggle for every graduate student, like cuz, you know, you're supposed to try to shoot for like, top tier journals. But as a graduate student, you're like, Okay, I'm not really sure which journals I should shoot for. And having Dr. Shelton help us with that. And a realistic timeline, right? Like, we wanted to turn our paper around in, you know, six months to a year, not 18 months, depending on the journal as we go back and forth, and back and forth. And so that was something I didn't realize, in the process of writing and publishing, that, like where you publish can determine how often your published, you know, the turn around the editors, what they like, if you're you fit like all of those things matter. And so like the mentoring on that was amazing.Stephanie Shelton 28:11Well, because you're all gifted and talented. You've answered multiple questions that I haven't asked yet. So thanks for being amazing in that way. If you could, if you could rewind time, and do this entire process all over again, what might you do differently?Erica Campbell 28:26You know, I'm one of those people that's like, I have no regrets. And the reason why I have no regrets right now, when it comes to this project is because was my first time doing a collaborative article with majority of my peers and colleagues, and of course, was your assistant, Dr. Shelton, but then also, just because I feel like you don't learn until you just do something. Right. So that's kind of how you learn the good things. Like we were saying, you know, the good things of how to pick a journal article How to really dive into a methodology that you have never done before, how to, you know, just just collaborate and really share the work and and just do that effectively and share your part. I think those are areas that I would have not learned if we didn't do this project overall. So I will say, No regrets. I don't have anything that I would change. I know, we were in the midst of COVID. If we can change the world, we would change COVID happening, because that did affect us finishing our paper, like we wanted to finish it earlier. But because of COVID I think that kind of just shook up our timeline a lot. And so I think that was something that I will say, if we had control over the world, I will make a change to other than that. I really enjoyed this process afterwards. Kiara Summerville 29:47Yeah, I think the pause that we all took when you ask that question, Dr. Shelton is a testament to you know, I don't know that I have any regrets either. You know about the process. And I learned a lot. And even, you know, I wrote another book chapter after this one and Erica's a co author on that book chapter with me. And we use the same method, right. And so to be able to go to our co authors on on this call and just say, you know, we've done this, this is what we learned from this paper that we did, you know, prior to this was helpful, very, very helpful.Ashley Prowell 30:26Yeah, I think it's, I think going into it just knowing like, it's not, it's not going to always be perfect. And, and I know, whether you're working with a group or by yourself and publishing, you know, putting your work out there, it's, it's pretty scary. And as soon as, you know, you get that email saying that your, your paper has been published, you know, for me, I get this, like, deep sense of fear, like, oh, my gosh, people are gonna be reading now. Like, they're gonna think I'm so stupid, but just know, going into it. And knowing that, you can always return to the same issue and improve upon it and build upon it and continue doing the work in that way. I think that's something that graduate students should definitely keep in mind. And it's qualitative research, you know, you it's so flexible, you can, you can do that. SoKrystal Flantroy 31:19I think, um, with Erica, if I were to rewind time, I would probably just change the circumstances under which like our publication kind of happen, but you can't like change worldwide. I mean, she can't really predict a pandemic. But I also think that like, the things that I walk away learning from this is like, you can work with different people in different fields. Because when you're doing that, like you are using all of the knowledge, like all of us are in different fields, right? I'm in education, like for like secondary curriculum and instruction. And then we got Erica here, when higher education actually was in social work. Like, we collectively all felt the same way about the course that we were in. And so it was interdisciplinary. And it wasn't really about one person or another. It's like, this is the project that I would have never thought that I would have that we would have stumbled upon just from a group chat. Right. And so I think the rewind is, is like, if we could just rewind back in time, I probably would love to go back and be actually able to capture some of those conversations that we were having in a parking lot. Remember how you're having these conversations, you're going back and forth, you're talking about these particular articles. And like, I do remember one day I read are going three times I have no idea what's going on. Like, I came because like Y'all, I read it three times I've got it's like words on paper, it didn't make sense. But it's like, for me, the rewind would be to look at that as like data, right? Like if we could go back and just collect, like capture some of those, like intimate moments that were just what we thought were just conversations. And if we could capture that, though, probably the only thing that I would change, like, I want those, that raw interaction that we had, initially.Stephanie Shelton 33:11y'all have answered tons of questions that I've asked, and so what questions might you have for me?Erica Campbell 33:18How did you enjoy this process working with us Dr Shelter? How did you enjoy working with students of yours who, you know, really appreciate and are thankful for your mentorship and coaching in this process. Ashley Prowell 33:32And to sorry, could to piggyback on that to add to that, like, how, like being in in it and kind of disrupting it. So you are a part of the professor within the qualitative department. So being in it, and also kind of helping to disrupt at the same time, if you can talk a little bit about that. Stephanie Shelton 33:52Yeah, I think that's those are both really good questions. So I mean, for me, it was, it was it this is gonna sound really cliche, but I don't mean it that way. It was genuinely an honor. It was very touching to me, that you came to me and asked if I would help you support to help support you and moving forward? The answer was, of course, I will, you know, let's, let's figure out how to do it. But it also was scary. Because to go back to Ashley's point, I'm very aware of the fact that like, I'm a white person, um, and I do not have the perspective that you are describing, I do not, I do not know, the experiences, that that needed to be a core part of this paper. And so, working to be very deliberate about making sure that you were always in charge. That, you know, my role was never to take over, because that was already the problem, right? Like that was already wrong. That that white people were silencing black women that white people were, you know, a pervasive voice in qualitative research and so to not duplicate the very problem that was being critiqued. And then in terms of like your right, the article was Typically about the program that I teach in this article changed the way that I teach and a lot of different ways I became much more deliberate about making sure that the experience is the experiences that you describe, like didn't happen again, if I could help it. Um, and and I use your article in the class, students the semester read your article. But we also we, we've implemented like specific pedagogical frameworks that the students are aware of the students read with me, that are specifically targeted at rejecting the status quo rejecting these these Eurocentric white centric norms. And really taking the field of qualitative research to task about the ways that it's duplicated, the very oppressions that it sometimes pretends to critique. And so this process, it was helpful for me, just because I felt like there was an ordinate amount of trust in me helping to guide this process and mentor you. But it was also it was important for me professionally and scholastically, as well, because it's changed a lot of the way that I think about things because it's, I'm never so arrogant as to believe that I know everything. But it was a very explicit moment where the process that you were going through forced me to also actively interrogate the ways that I was potentially contributing to the very things that were being described. And so making sure that I was disrupting that as much as I was able to as well.Kiara Summerville 36:31And I appreciate Dr. Shelton, you amplifying our voices in your class, you know, I had multiple folks in that class you taught reach out afterwards, we read your paper in class. We even vote in tweeted about it, you know, as being hands on, and he read our paper. So I appreciate you, you including that in in your course, this paper in your course. And I'm using it as a tool to help your your students learn or think critically about the pedagogy in qualitative research and really, you know, any field that those students will will go on to, to work with.Stephanie Shelton 37:16I appreciate you all producing scholarship that that to be something that can make supposedly addressed.Krystal Flantroy 37:23I do you have a question. So you worked with us because we basically, were like, hey, we want to write this paper. Do you think in the future that you could see yourself collaborating with students more like maybe a project if, like how you've included us into your curriculum and to your pedagogy in your course, like maybe having a group project where they do something collaborative, and then they see something coming out of it doing this again, with another set of students possibly.Stephanie Shelton 37:53So I write the students a lot. Anybody who looks at my CV, there's there's a little symbol that I use to designate whenever the students I wrote soon as a lot. But the answer your question is, yes, I actually because this is an AERA Qualitative, Sig podcast. Boden and I are actually involved in an AERA grant project right now, that is a group of qualitative students. And we anticipate there being multiple collaborative writing projects that come out of that. And it's not that I've never done what you all propose doing ever before. But I do think that the process with us helped to refine and reflect on that process, to continue to make sure that what's happening is useful and helpful to graduate students. Because it's really easy, the stakes are different for y'all than they are for faculty, right? Like, I mean, like, Ashley, you talked about the very beginning when you introduce yourself, like I'm on the job market. And, and so the stakes are different, the calculus is different. And so making sure that what's happening is useful to y'all. And not just you being a means to an end for a faculty member. All right, to wind up my my favorite question, as you all know, what else would you like to share with graduate students, faculty or other listeners,Kiara Summerville 39:10I would say, go forward. If you have a project in mind, may use group in mind or just have been pondering on some things, when you're in the classroom or in your graduate student experience or even as a faculty, right? Go forward, you know, try to put it out there, think about how that can really influence higher education and push our field forward. Don't Don't be afraid to step out and try it. Don't be afraid to ask your colleagues if this is something that you think is worthwhile, and to go for it. And then also, like we said earlier, definitely seek out mentorship, seek out coaching, if you don't know how to kind of make those steps. In terms of manuscript writing, don't feel free to ask someone I know. It's like a fear that many of us kind of can, you know can overcome us as we're graduate students and kind of feel like we don't want to bother our faculty members. And we don't really want to ask questions, but feel free to do that, you know, get out of your comfort zone, ask those questions, you know, ask for coaching, ask for mentorship, but you never know what beautiful piece may come from that. So that's some of the advice that I would give. I think,Ashley Prowell 40:19I think in terms of collaboration, just also, you know, I think people tend to be afraid to work in groups, sometimes it just depends on your personality. Some people like would rather work alone, and some people actually enjoy working with groups. But if you're, you know, afraid of that, just being I think for us, it was a little bit easier because we were all friends and but just so being honest about kind of where we were at in our journey and what we had time for and okay, I can take on this and I can't you know, just so just being honest and upfront about that. And I think that tends to help the the process go smoother. Kiara Summerville 41:02In our paper we talk about we side Patricia Hill Collins in one of her 1986 essays, and we talked about how we use our marginality as an excitement to creativity. And so my thoughts for anyone, students, faculty, other listeners is, you know, what the four of us we could have just continued on about our way and maybe continue to complain, maybe, I don't know what we would have done if we wouldn't have done this paper. But we could have just went on finish that class that semester just kept going in our journeys, but we decided, like Ashley said earlier to use our thoughts in a scholarly way and that helped us write get a publication, but it helped us to you know, streamline our thoughts and, and even thinking about this conversation is helping us to give back to qualitative research in the field of education and, um, you know, really, academia, you know, all the things giving back by nature of sharing our experience and feeling like we were not getting in that class and having to use, you know, our marginality as an excitement to creativity to this creative work that we've put out into the world. So that would be my advice to listeners is to think about what he'll Collins said, and I'm using that marginality to, for to be creative with it, and help yourself to also helping others which in a lot of ways is kind of the foundation of black feminist epistemology in the first place, creating a gateway to entryway for all for all folks by nature of you know, our own position as black women.Krystal Flantroy 42:44And I just want to challenge graduate students, faculty, and other people who are listening to be the changemakers, right? Be the people that disrupt the normal pedagogical policies that we see in qualitative inquiry, right? You don't have to cover the people in the book, you can go out and research and dig deep, and try to diversify what it is that you have been doing. And what it is you have been learning about. If you have a thought in your head, it might be a theorist that already said it thought it up and go research that person, go follow that person, go use that person, scholarships and hope propel yourself forward. And so I just want to challenge people to think outside the box and dig deep and help your students to dig deep beyond what's on the surface or beyond what's Eurocentric and what's been normalized for us. SoAshley Prowell 43:44Yeah, I think it's a testament to Collins theory is like disrupting and kind of her outside or within theory, just disrupting and beat navigating the system, but also being able to disrupt it at the same time. So I feel like that's what we did with our paper. I feel like that's what Dr. Shelton was doing by helping us. So. Yeah. Stephanie Shelton 44:10Alright, so Dr. Kiara Somerville, and the future Dr. Erica Campbell, and the future of Dr. Kystal Flantroy and Dr. Ashley Prowell. Thank you very much for joining us today for qualitative conversations.
Thomas Pheasant is internationally recognized for his 30 years of creating interiors. His diverse accomplishments have been widely published in the most prestigious architectural and interior design magazines around the world. In 2005, he was honored by Architectural Digest US with the distinction "Dean of American Design". Based in Washington, D.C. he continues to work on residential and commercial projects throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. We listen to Thomas Pheasant's story as he went from being an architect to doing both architecture and interior design and how he finds his inspiration in developing his unique style that you can find in The New Collection for example. How Thomas got started 3:01Interior architecture 11:17Blair House 14:07About the New Collection 24:07His process 36:00His time in Paris 41:18How he defines luxury 52:26“Try to find your voice as soon as you can. There are a lot of creative people who do really well. They'll do anything, they can do modern, they'll do art deco, they'll do Williamsburg, or whatever and they make a lot of money. You can be successful, but I think if you wanna have a career and have that personal power inside yourself, that energy, you gotta find your voice and allow the people who recognize it come to you and they will propel you.” 21:12https://www.thomaspheasant.com/@thomaspheasanthttps://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5
The Dedication to Theophilus 1Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us. 3So it also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus, 4so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.[b] Gabriel Predicts Johns Birth 5In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijahs divisionnamed Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6Both were righteous in Gods sight, living without blameaccording to all the commands and requirements of the Lord. 7But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years. 8When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, 9it happened that he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense. 10At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside. 11An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.12When Zechariah saw him, he was terrified and overcome with fear. 13But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. 14There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer.He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mothers womb. 16He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people. 18How can I know this? Zechariah asked the angel. For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years. 19The angel answered him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God,and I was sent to speak to you and tell you this good news. 20Now listen. You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time. 21Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary. 22When he did come out, he could not speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He was making signs to them and remained speechless. 23When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home. 24After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said, 25The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.
The founder and creative director of House and Creative Parties, a full service event and interior design collective in Savannah and New York City. She's been named a top event designer by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and her design work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Milieu, Town and Country, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. She established her design firm in 2010 and launched her online shop during 2020 called house and parties, which is a mix of private labels, artist commissions, and vintage pieces. “If your goal in hosting a party is to impress people, you have lost from the very beginning.” 24:36Transitioning interiors to parties 4:18How it begins with the clients 8:23The headwear 12:46The hostess 15:33What to include in an intro 19:08Inspiration 19:54How is design a part of party planning? 22:21The essentials of throwing a great party 24:45A party trick 27:25Dressing for a party 32:50Rebecca's dream party 34:04The party favor 35:55Music 38:11“To me, the smaller parties that are like 60 tops are really where the magic happens because you have that time to stand back and pinch your chin, and move the little ditties around and step back, and play with the lighting. The bigger parties are fun because the scale is exciting and you have a major adrenaline rush, but you don't get to split hairs and move around plastic snails under crystal goblets quite as much.” 9:37https://housesandparties.com/@housesandpartieshttps://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5
After discussing leech-themed cocktails (1:30) and another round of Leech Anatomy 101 (4:07), Aaron, Banks and Evan dive into Pan's Labyrinth's leechiest themes (11:28), scenes (22:00), and characters (28:10). To get some relief, the guys head into their first Leech on a Beach segment (35:17). They conclude by considering the film's medicinal qualities (38:49) and giving an overall rating -- from 1 to 4 -- of the film's leechiness (44:10).We're always looking to expand our pond -- please reach out!Series URL: www.theleechpodcast.comPublic email contact: theleechpodcast@gmail.comSocial Media:@leechpodcast on Twittertheleechpodcast on InstagramExternal Links:"Leeches" Cocktail: https://www.ayearofcocktails.com/2012/05/leeches.htmlCredits:Hosted by Evan Cate, Banks Clark, and Aaron JonesEditing by Evan CateGraphic design by Banks ClarkOriginal music by Justin Klump of Podcast Sound and MusicProduction help by Lisa Gray of Sound Mind ProductionsEquipment help from Topher ThomasTranscript:Evan 00:05Hello everyone, welcome back to the Leech Podcast, the most visceral podcast. I'm your host, Evan Cate. And I'm joined by two leechy gentlemen, Aaron Jones and BanksClark.00:16Hey guys. 00:18How's it going?Evan 00:21The Leech Podcast has a show about movies that suck the life out of you. They also stick with you. They may even be good for you. Like a leech. If you're wondering what this means, think of a movie that you saw that you knew was amazing. And it also took so much out of you that you thought I don't think I can watch this movie ever again. And somehow, some way. Later on, you watch the movie again. And it is the best thing you've ever seen. That is a leech movie. Some of our listeners are wondering, how did y'all discover leech movies? Well, the three of us discovered our shared love of leech films. When we used to teach together at a school. We found quickly that the three of us are bleeding hearts, who love films. And we all know that blood attracts leeches. So we used to teach together, but now we leech together.Banks 01:27That's a good one.Evan 01:29Thank you. Thank you, I wrote that myself. We would love for others to join us in this leechy endeavor. So if you're interested in talking to us sharing ideas, please hit us up @LeechPodcast on Twitter, and theLeechPodcast on Instagram. We've already heard from some listeners who got some great ideas. Last week we asked about leech cocktails, what would be great drinks that have a leech theme and very grateful for the listeners who shared a cocktail called leeches. Here's the recipe guys. I'd love to get your feedback on what you think about this cocktail. So the recipe for leeches: -three shots lemonade-half shot vodka-half shot peach schnapps-a quarter shot of Canadian whiskey. Preferably black velvetOkay, guys, what do you think?Banks 02:20A bit sweet for my taste. I don't know. Do I do leeches like high blood sugar? That's my question.Aaron 02:28Hey, I was thinking the appropriate lee ch cocktail might be a little stankier--like a little bit like a bleeding armpit.Banks 02:44How does one make a bleeding armpit, Aaron?Aaron 02:42I'm waiting for the listeners to figure it out.Evan 02:45It's quite the challenge that Aaron has posed to our listeners. And I do think that that was a worthy effort, but we will take more suggestions on the leech cocktail. I believe Banks has a concoction in mind. They don't want to Oh, sorry. Was that too soon to spoil that?Banks 03:00Hey, this is what I'll say..beet juice is included. So that's all I'm gonna say at this point.Aaron 03:07 Mmmmm, snaps and clapsBanks 03:09I heard the pandemic ends. You know, we will get together and we will fine tune what this is we want to hear from you guys about what your ideas are. We'll try them all.Evan 03:21Okay, nothing beats a leech cocktail. Probably a great segue into something new this week, we're gonna have a new segment called “leech on a beach.” This is a segment dedicated to fun or humorous parts of the movies because we realize many of these movies are very serious and very grueling. And sometimes some levity is needed. Beyond our puns, we thought we wanted to really highlight leechy fun parts of movies. So stay tuned.Aaron 03:50Yeah, a little vacation, little vacation.Evan 03:52You can sip on your leech cocktailAaron 04:00for the leech on the beach segment. Evan 4:01 All right, so without further ado, Aaron, please teach us about some leeches with “leech anatomy 101”Aaron 04:08Leech Anatomy 101. This week and I'd like to talk to us about leeches teeth. leeches teeth. Couple years ago, 2019 they discovered a new leech. I'm looking at the News & Observer, Smithsonian researchers who discovered a new leech that had a three jaws each containing 56 to 59 teet--56 to 59--this is a leech that bites and bleeds humans. And so intriguing to me. You look imagine this you're looking like at a straw--this is like the leeches mouth--like three rows of teeth going down into like a little cave. Oh my goodness! This is the thing that's sucking on you! And as I was reading this article, the researcher said the way they discovered this leech was simply by walking into a swamp, just south of DC and Maryland. Walking into the swamp in shorts and flip flops, and seeing what would come up when they walked out? By golly, this little critter with 56 to 59 teeth per each three rows came up attached, greenish brown with some little orange speckles. And that's a leech with some teeth.Evan 05:26Wow. Thank you for that.Banks 05:28Thank you, question mark?05:48Those were some leech teeth. Wow. Okay.05:33teach us about leech-us.05:36So let's, let's all keep this in mind as we dive into this episode of the Leech Podcast. Our movie today, of course, is Pan's Labyrinth, a wonderful film directed by Guillermo Del Toro. And to give us a synopsis of this film, Banks, take it away.05:55Happy to! Obviously about to give a synopsis. So spoiler alert! If you haven't seen the movie, this would be a good time to pause it, go watch it, come back, the recording will still be here. It'll be well worth your time. But find the right time for this movie, that's for sure. It's not, not the one that you want to have to lighten the mood. But it's a wonderful film. Another quick thing is just a quick trigger warning. This is a film that has some pretty serious, just very heavy themes, especially around childbirth, but also it has some really nasty gore scene. Nothing absurd. This isn't a slasher film by any means. But you know, there are some things involving a razor blade that is, that'll stick with you a little bit like a leech. So just wanted to cover that, my guess is we might be talking about it. So just wanted to make sure those are out of the way. And make sure that y'all know about that before we listen to that. So this is a film that bridges between just some really brutal realities of the Spanish Civil War that really holds no punches at all. And then is also paired with some just wonderful wimzie of fantasy throughout. And so it's a film that goes back and forth. And the movie just sort of layers these in, almost like a very strange leechy layered cake of realism and fantasy. One after the other. The lead character is a little girl named Ophelia. And Ophelia is the daughter of Carmen, who is sort of pregnant with her younger brother. And the younger brother's father is named Vidal who is a captain of sort of the like, what is the faction called? I think that they're called the...Aaron 07:58Falangism? Yeah.Banks 08:00Is it the Falangist movement?Evan 08:01Yeah. So it's like fascist Spain. Right. Banks 08:02Yeah, you know, a very authoritarian regime. And so we're sort of thrown into the film and when they're sort of driving out to go meet the captain. And as they arrive Ophelia finds a labyrinth. And after doing that we're sort of then introduced from into this sort of fantasy realm where she meets a fawn, who then gives her a series of trials where she has to, you know, get a key from a toad and then she has to go and you know, get a dagger from a pale man at a feast, and then finally has to then take her younger brother into the labyrinth. And while all this is happening, at the same time, we have, you know, the mother struggling with sickness and childbirth and having traveled too soon. We're seeing the rebels battle in the Spanish Civil War into this gruesome detail, as hostages are detained and tortured. And it sort of escalates further and further as Ophelia progresses more and more in these different trials. And it's both happening as if these two stories are intertwined, but also, the contrast between the fantasy and the reality is incredibly stark, and the movie does a masterful job of balancing these two motifs, and playing them off of one another. And then finally at the end, the last trial Ophelia must take her younger brother into the labyrinth, where she then refuses to spill his her brother's blood. But then she is followed by Vidal, by her at this point stepfather, who then shoots her. And Ophelia dies in the final scene, because she refused to spill the blood of her innocent brother. And as she dies, we also get this sort of fantastic…. We're sort of swept up and taken to her then becoming a princess, the princess Moana of the underworld in a very positive sense. And then she is shown to be like, these have been what all the trials have been building towards, both in reality and out of reality, both at the same time. And so that's how this movie ends. It is an incredibly difficult movie, but also an incredibly powerful one. That I don't know about you guys, but I was left exhausted at the end of it.Evan 10:25Indeed, thank you. Thanks. So we're gonna move into our categories. Our first one is leechy themes. So Aaron, what was the theme? That was Leechy for you in this movie?Aaron 10:37I want him to talk about the theme of fatherhood in the film. I think I told you both that I watched this film for the first time many years ago. And actually before I was myself a father, and I had one reaction to it, then I think, I thought, you know, I, first of all, I never want to watch this movie again. And here I am having watched it a second time with you all. So it's stuck with me though it's stuck with me. But I have to say that being a father now my daughter is seven years old, beloved to me, and watching this movie about a young girl just a couple years older than my daughter go through a lot of suffering I... and without a father in her life to protect her ….or without it just she's an incredible danger so many times, and I think I had this experience of helplessness. As a father watching the film, like there's nothing I can do to help her protect this girl. And I mean, she's perfectly capable a lot of times of protecting herself. But I was intrigued by the ways in which like her in the absence of her father, becomes crucial to the film. And also the way in which fatherhood becomes one of the fantasy elements of the film. What do I mean? What do I mean? I was intrigued by the moment early in the film before Ophelia has met Vidal, who will become her who's her stepfather figure. Her mother says, “I want you to call him your father.” And Ophelia resists this notion so many times throughout the movie when Mercedes says, Oh, you know, your father wants you to call him. “He's not my father. He's not, he's not my father,” she resisted so heavily. And her mother says to her, “it's just a word. Say it. It's just a word.” “Pretend” is what her mother is saying. And that's one fantasy. She won't pretend like there's this deep allegiance to this missing father. And the last thing I'll say, is that Vidal also seems to have this obsession with fatherhood, he desperately wants to be a father--but only to a son. To the point that he...he almost seems cold and lifeless, totally uncaring, unfeeling when his wife dies, so long as the sun is preserved. And we know that's part of his character the whole time that he he only cares about the coming of the Son and his own becoming a father. And I'm intrigued both by, I'll be brief here the, the fixation on his watch. The broken watch, which his father without his father broke at the time of his own death, so his son would know when he died. And then, with Vidal, he sees the rebels with their guns, pointing at him he wants to break his watch. He wants to be remembered to have that same masculinist legacy. And Mercedes says, Your son will never know who you are, you will be erased. And there's something so painful about that, but it feels entirely deserved, like this kind of fatherhood is a reality that should be embraced.Evan 13:40Yeah, thanks. And I think to pick up on that. He's such an extreme version er has such an extreme understanding of fatherhood. And it fits a lot of other parts of his personality, right? He's the most brutal of anybody in the film. He shows no mercy to people who disagree. with him. And he is part of an ideology that is itself. So extreme. It's extreme nationalism. And, and he's not the only extreme character in the film. And I think that's why it's extremity or going to extremes is is my theme for the movie. There's revolutionaries, who will go to extreme measures to overthrow the fascists. Fantasy is woven throughout this film, which shows these extreme versions of reality, these extreme creatures, these extreme trials and quests, all that Ophelia has to undertake with these bloated toads, or this very, extremely pale man. And the film itself even kills a young girl, it's willing to take that step, this extreme step. And so I'm just struck by the extremes of this film, on a thematic level, on a personal level. But also the extremes of beauty in this film. It's funny, you guys had to convince me to watch it, because I thought it looked really scary. And I was so struck by how many scenes took my breath away, because they were so beautiful. And I left the film with a lot more questions. Just wondering, how do you hold together these extremes? And it seems like, somehow for Ophelia these extremes that she she is thrust into, due to choices made by her mom and her stepdad. Her answer is to go to her own kind of extreme, this extreme fantasy world, which is itself painful and scary at times. And yet, it's also beautiful. And it's this way in which she deals with the extreme situation she's in with an even deeper commitment to extreme beauty.Banks 15:30Yeah, it's, I think that Guillermo Del Toro's ability to create a beauty that is odd in some senses. But even when I watch it, you know, I also like Aaron said, I watched this back in high school, and I thought that, “This is such a cool movie. It's great.” And then I watched it again now and I'm like, Hey, this is an amazing movie and be Oof. Like, I was, I remember, you know, we all watched this together, and we were all speechless. For a minute. We were on a zoom call silent, together, just not knowing what to do with it. Partially because of the difficulty, but also because of the beauty of it, how it's masterful and putting that in terms of extremes just make so much sense. I don't know if Aaron, you had anything to say before I jump into mine?Aaron 16:29 No, please go aheadBanks 16:32I think that I just sent around the question of, it's about imagination and the question is this about imagination? Ophelia is fantasy world, something that is simply an escape from the traumatic reality that she's in. This interplay between trauma and imagination, for me, is incredibly powerful. You know, I was an art teacher for eight years. And as a result of that, just ended up being utterly inspired by students facing down incredible difficulty through art and imagination, to the point where I left and now I work in mental health. And so when I watch this movie, all I can, I'm asking, “Well, is this just about imagination as an escape? Or is this about something more than that?” I love that the film just creates this dynamic interplay between those two and we are just left to wonder left to be thoughtful with a bit of a mess at the end. You know, so much of the film is, you know, I think about the opening scene where she, Ophelia walks into the woods because her mother is experiencing morning sickness. And she finds this odd winged bug. And this, and she immediately knows that this is a fairy. And then in sort of in the seclusion and darkness as her mother sleeps back in the house, this transforms into an actual fairy that anybody could recognize, you know, with human form, and dragonfly wings. And it's that slippage. Is this happening? Is it not? Does she actually go into the door that she carves into a wall and face down the world's most frightening monster with eyes in his hands? Or is this simply a flight of fancy? And if it is, why does she fly to such frightening spaces? Why does she go to spaces that are not an escape that you'd want to go to? And I just think that that interplay is so powerful. And the power because it speaks to the power of stories and the power of imagination and the power of why we want to watch movies even to begin with. It's not because just escapism, it's because they speak to us for some reason in the midst of all of it. And that theme I have no resolution for. But man, it is stuck to me like a leech. I'll tell you what.Aaron 19:14Yea, Banks you just put a thought in my head that it's like. It's like in the world of reality she faces trauma and horror, and she has no no power, no quests, no influence. But she translates her trauma and horror into the language and symbology of myth. And then there she has agency in the myths, she has agency and influence and empowerment. And even though it's terrifying. And I just there's something about the creative space that is an empowering space, the fantasy space.Evan 19:47It's like the issue isn't the danger. The issue is agency. Yes. She's not afraid of danger. She's a brave girl. The issue is that with the doll, she's, she has no agency.Banks 20:03And with her mother's failing health. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what can you do? Right.Aaron 20:07Rather than put a Mandrake root in a bowl of milk. Banks 20:11Don't forget the blood. Aaron 20:13Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. More on that. Yes.Evan 20:19So indeed, more to come. So with those themes, the fatherhood extremes and imagination and trauma, let's think about some really specific things about this film. There are a number of leechy scenes that suck something out of you, but stick with you. I thought I would start. Mine in nothing very profound, I don't think but it is the scene where her first trial, where she goes down to find that key. And she meets this gigantic Toad, and she's in the muck underground. And it's just this large, bloated Toad, with bumps and weird colors and sounds. And it basically just, like explodes and belches out this key. And I don't think I'll ever forget it. And it's, it's stuck with me. So that's my scene.Banks 21:15Man. And I believe that there are things sticking on her and that seem to mean she's covered in. I remember, you're like texting to each other like, Oh, my gosh, she's covered in leeches! Evan 21:30It was very on brand for the Leech Podcast.Banks 21:35But like, she emerges from that, like from the stump covered in muck, right. And even then, right, she has been returned to the dinner party. Right, it's a moment of sort of the world, the extremes colliding, right. A powerful moment. You know, so for me, it's another one of the trial scenes, and oh my gosh, you know, I was alluding to it before but the scene with “the pale man” as it's called, right, with the feast of all the red foods, the murals of this devourer of infants sort of reminds me of Saturn Devouring his Children, this old like painting. Good heavens. It's frightening as anything. And here's this personification of all of that. with Hannah, the scene is literally it not only is very much just about the devouring of, you know, blood, and even the food is all red. All the foods are red. And blood is itself I think, a theme and a visual motif throughout the movie. But when I think of Pan's Labyrinth, unfortunately--I wish it wasn'--the image that comes to my mind is, you know, that pale man walking with his eyes in his hands next to his forehead. You know, full credit. I believe Doug Jones, the person who did sort of the body acting for that, and it's masterful work out amazing work and sort of practical special effects throughout this. That moment sticks with me and I think about it. And I don't want to be necessarily and I in the same way, I don't want that leech on me. Like when I think of the leeches scene, that's it. And it's an overflowing of imaginative imagery. It's full of these ripe themes. That also, it makes my skin crawl. So for me, that wins out. Aaron 24:03Yeah, it doesn't get much leecheir. I have to say, for me, I've scene that sticks with me and take something out of me is this scene of conflict, where I think it's one of the first times that I really remember in the film of Ophelia, and Vidal, her stepfather colliding. And it's the scene at her mother's bedside where Ophelia has been under the bed, tending to the Mandrake with the milk and the blood that she thinks is this healing agent that the Father has given her to help her mother's health and pregnancy. And Vidal finds the bowl and hurls the Mandrake root into the fire, and Ophelia turns and watches the child burn. And good lord, it's this moment of just incredible violence like talk about he who devours infants, he who destroys and is enemy to children, it has to be down. And then that moment, right, he again takes away all her agency, destroys that thing, where she's tried to take control of her mother's health. And you can just see all the foreshadowing in that moment that whatever fatherhood means to him, it's just gonna burn, it's gonna burn it's that moment is terrible.Banks 25:26Good heavens. Think about how that pulls together. I mean, talk about a moment where the extremes collide, the moment where it goes into the fire and you're wondering, is it just a weird root? They are, and then… it starts I can hear right now…Aaron 25:25[Shudders]Banks 25:26...the scream of that root. Oh, are those screams just in her head? Where are they? Are they real? It pulls together all the themes into this just melting pot of just discomfort. Oh, that scene, Aaron...I might have to change my vote.Evan 26:11I mean, these are very Leechy scenes and I guess I mean, Vidal is central in that last one. I mean, next you have a leechy, leechiest character because I feel like he would be in the running, perhaps. Banks 26:30Oh good heavens, I think he's a front runner. I mean, here's, here's the only thing. The reason why I actually don't have the doll as the front runner. Or as the leeches character in this case, is a leech is not the host. If nothing else Vidal is a person of conviction. He is a host... of evil in my opinion. I mean, he is the worst, but he is authentic. He believes and he has drunk the Kool Aid and he is all behind everything making no qualms about it.Aaron 27:12I mean, I think he has three rows of 56 or 59 teeth each Good lord.Banks 27:17I mean, but here's the thing I wonder if the leeches are the ones who are not even taking aside at all. And so I think of, if you look at the banquet, not the banquet that happens with the pale man, but of you know, you see a priest, you see all these people who are there, they're not the rebels. They're there just let me hold on to my wealth and I'm gonna say “Okay” to whatever. And to me that speaks a lot to politics right now. I I think that it's a that that might get a little too real but...Evan 27:49The priest, man….Banks 27:56So if I had to put my finger on an actual character though there, though it's Garces. He's the lieutenant under the Vidal. He's the one who's always uncertain. He [Vidal] always speaks to him. Like, “you know, do you know how a man dies? You know, go into battle. Don't be fair. Don't be afraid, you know, does that and then he just sort of learns that he dies and he just sort of has been. He's a character who was just leeching onto the host who is Vidal? Evil host that he is. He is he had he was spineless. And I'm gonna have to ask our anatomy expert. I'm gonna say Vidall has spine. But do leeches have spines?28:40I'm gonna hold that off until next episode, so those who want to get listening, we're gonna learn about leech spines on the next episode. Do they have spines? Stay tuned.28:51Good plug. Good plug. Aaron, do you have a leaky character?Aaron 28:57All right, let me think. I think I'm reading leechiness in a little bit of a different way. I'm, you know, Ophelia is always gonna be the character in this film, who sticks with me and take something out of me. And watching this watching her struggle, watching her overcome, and even like, stare down, stare down an armed man who wants to kill her? That's always gonna stick with me. Watching her refuse on the very cusp of achieving this mythic salvation that she's been hoping for watching her refuse to hurt the child in her arms. I'm not going to forget that. And that's, that's leads for me. So he does it hurts. take something out of me. But it's medicine. It's it's medicine too. That's what I have.Evan 29:50I think I'm interpreting my character similarly to you, Aaron. I first toyed with the idea of Vidal, which maybe we all did. Because he definitely sucks the life out of me. And kind of out of the film. I mean, every scene he's in, you're just like,”Ehhh” it's like fascism is exhausting. But like to quote Lebowski, thanks to your point Banks, “Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism? You know, it's an ethos.” He's terrible. Yeah, he has a spine, but it's in the worst ways, right? So I don't see some great lesson or there's no therapy for me in his life. And, and so the character that will stick with me, who I found myself drawn to again and again was Mercedes. I think she holds together these extremes of realism and fantasy in her own way. It is really beautiful. She is the most practical, the most inside the fascist place, knows everything, knows what's going on, has so much trust. And yet she's directing all of that towards this very idealistic thing, revolution, which is, and the bravery, the brilliance, the courage. It's so powerful, and I won't forget her character. And I mean, she has so many unforgettable, unforgettable scenes. And I think, to me... it I think it's fitting that she's the one who cuts Vidal. And she's the one who physically defeats him. She is, I think, the strongest character in the film. Yeah. I mean, many characters are strong, but to me, she, she seems to match Vidal in a certain kind of strength, a kind of political strength. And yet, even there, she does him because she cuts him but she doesn't kill him. She defeats him, but doesn't take his humanity from him. And so I just, I was so taken with her and she will stick with me. And I was so terrified the whole movie that she was going to die. And so in that sense, watching her journey and struggle, sucked the life out of me. Even though she ended up living at the end of the film. So Mercedes for me, is the Leechy character.Aaron 32:07There's something really fitting about her being, in a way she is, she is a mother figure to Ophelia. And many times she provides in ways that Ophelia's mother just can't. Because her life is being sucked out of her at least away from her by the child inside of her So Mercedes, also in a way becomes the recipient, I would say, of afilias sacrifice. Uh huh. She becomes the beneficiary. She won't ever forget a philia and therefore is a different person, I think, at the end of the film.Evan 32:44Okay, so listeners, we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna pause now for our newest segment, “Leech on a Beach.”Evan 35:32I'll start us off. This is a scene that is, I wouldn't say necessarily light. It is very violent. But after Captain Vidal, gets his mouth sliced by Mercedes, he sews it back up himself with a mirror. Very painful, it looks terrible. And then, too, I guess, disinfected, he takes a sip of whiskey. And it comes out of the wound that he's just sewn up, and he spits it out because it's so painful. And maybe it says a lot about the state of my soul, but I laughed out loud at that moment. And that was my leechy scene, or not my Leechy scene my leech on a beach, in part because it also then made me think of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight, and the Joker. And all I could think was “Why so serious?”Aaron 33:54Oh, I was gonna say, Evan, this is not what my experience of vacation looks like. Normally when I'm going to the beach, I'm hoping for a better vacation than you just gave me. But I'll uh, I'll answer that I'm gonna try and be a little more lighthearted. And that for me, like when How do I go on vacation in this movie, and this hard movie? I'm still getting the live site data man. I'm at the beach is still leech at the beach. For me, it's for me the character in the film. Who does that, for me is the character of the light. The sunlight in the film for me is its own character. Just like when I'm at the beach, you know? And if you watch scene by scene, the way that the light presents itself in the film, as as a golden light, or is this light clear as water at different moments in the forest? For me, that's when I find myself receiving ease and going on vacation in the middle of a hard film.Banks 34:56I think that Ophelia the actress is Ivana Bachero. She has one of the world's most authentic smiles. And you see it every time something fantastic occurs, she gives this smile. It's the smile that says there is good still, and there is joy still. And yet something can be well. And in spite of all the heaviness that happens, man, that's like a summer breeze on a sunny day. I will enjoy that every time. And it like there's this weird thing right? When she meets a fairy, she finds a rock and like, shoves it into like a statue as its eye and then like a little bug shoots out of his mouth. Everyone else in their sasne mind would freak out, she smiles.Evan 36:05So I think that's a good segue to our next category which is “Hirudo Therapy.” The fancy way of saying the medicinal value of leeches. And I think maybe I'll start us off. I think for me, the idea in this film, or the thing that sticks with me, that makes the film, not just painful, but also instructive, is kind of this idea that when you're in pain, you should dive deeper into what is beautiful. And yet also, as you do so, you become aware that beauty itself brings its own kind of pain. I'm just struck by the ways Ophelia in the midst of all the suffering that she's in, she she dies, she moves toward beauty, but even that beauty is scary and hard, but it's also what she needs, it seems. And so, I guess my lesson is that the opposite of pain isn't happiness or the absence of pain. It's beauty. Only beauty can re-narrate, or redirect, or bring a new kind of order to pain and loss.Banks 37:21And it's not because it's the opposite of it, right? It's just the next step. Right? It's the answer as you put it.Evan 37:30And I thought about, there's a quote attributed to Dostoevsky, which is “Only beauty can save the world.” And I think it's a great quote, I think it's true in many ways. And I looked into it a little bit. It comes from a passage in the novel The idiot. And it's in a scene where this Prince is looking at a painting of a woman. And he says, “So you appreciate that kind of beauty.” This woman asked the prince, he says, “Yes, that kind.” The prince replies with an effort. “Why?” She asks. “In that face, there is much suffering,” he says, as though involuntarily, as though he is talking to himself. “Beauty like that is strength.” One of the other women in the room declares, “One could turn the world upside down with beauty like that.”Aaron 38:20I think for me, I'd say elaborate on that. what I wanted to talk about, you said strength, but for me, it was courage, watching the different kinds of courage that made themselves felt and the film. I'm thinking of Dr. Ferrero, the physician who helps the ailing mother, he helps wounded soldiers on both sides. He doesn't have a side other than the side of life; life prevailing, life being protected. And watching him watching Mercedes, watching Ophelia, this watching these people in the most, these awful circumstances, have courage. Its both inexplicable it's deeply moral, it's, but it's one of the most real things in the film, and it's moving to me, and it's inspiring to me, and its Hirudotherapy.Banks 39:26At least in movie form. When I think of the medicinal quality of this movie it is the love of story of narrative. It's the fact that if you want to tell a story, you can put any two things your imagination wants together, and there's a way to tell that story in a way that will captivate and move. All you have to do is see a path between the two. And somehow in Guillermo Del Toro's mind--which I have want to be able to think like in half don't want, I don't know--he saw a way to narrate the sort of fantasy world, right? That would make JK Rowling envious, and combine that with the brutality of the Spanish Civil War, and he charted a path right through the both of them. And it worked.Aaron 40:27I'm coming back to that. Coming back to the idea of courage. I think that one of the things that Ophelia embodies in the heart of this film is that she decides to value and treasure stories. Against all odds and against constant contradiction from the adults around her are saying, “Get out of your fairytale books stop fleeing into fantasy, stop imagining.” And you're right, like, her resistance is an act of courage and it's, it's enshrining the value of story at the heart of the film.Evan 41:02How many leeches do we give this film?Aaron 41:06How many leeches?Banks 41:09One is the lowest four is the highest, if I'm not mistaken?Aaron 41:12Specifically because four leeches would take your life. Just kidding. That's not actually true. I'll tell you how many leeches it would take to take a life on a future segment. Keep listening.Evan 41:26It's a four point scale still, I know Aaron wanted to cut a leech in half and call that five leeches. Yeah, four leeches. I think is still the criteriaBanks 41:39I'm going to give it fourAaron 41:11Say more, say more.Banks 41:42When I think of movies that, you know, is that, as Evan said in the intro, the movies that you watch that stick with you, then you watch them again and they floor ya. That's what happened when I watched this movie again with you guys. And it's not because I didn't know this movie. Well, I think I'd seen it multiple times, it just had been five or 10 years. And it did for me. And it stuck with me ever since it stuck with me before then. It ain't pleasant. I think it's utterly medicinal. And here's the thing the medicinal part about it has changed for me. As I've grown, as I've moved into mental health, this movie has opened up new layers. And maybe I'm biased because I got this mental health side that I'm really focused in on and this movie clearly has a huge psychological element. But it speaks to me, I'm going to give it four leeches, and I don't care who knows it,Aaron 42:42Damn? Evan 42:43Bolt, I love it.Aaron 42:44I was gonna say I mean, come back to the idea of fatherhood. Let me also come back to the idea of people walking into swamps in shorts and flip flops. Oftentimes, when leech hunters would go into the swamps, and actually oftentimes collecting leeches on their own body for medicinal purposes that they could then take off put into a basket, give to a medical practitioner, they would have to wait at least, oftentimes 20 minutes, like leave a leech on for that long because it's so much easier to take a leech off. Once it's already full it lets go easier. And for me, this movie just kept taking it, I'm giving it three leeches because it for me, as a father watching the end in this film, it took too much. It took too much. And that's why I'm gonna give it three.Evan 43:48So I think I was in a slightly different position, because it's just the first time I saw it. And I'll admit it, I was speechless at the end of it. And yet, I had, I felt it was hard connect for me in certain ways. And yet, as time has gone on, since we've watched it, and I think especially through this conversation, I'm at three leeches as well. I was, I was at two for a little while, just because I felt like I didn't connect to it for some reason. But the more I sat with it, and kind of like what you were saying thanks about story and about the power of narrative and art to work through or work into trauma and pain. I do think this film is profound for that. So I'm a three leecher for this one.Banks 44:39These are high marks. I think that is a, we are holding out at a 3.25/4.Evan 44:49All right. Well that. That brings us to the end of another episode of The leech. Thanks to all our listeners, for tuning in. We would love to hear what you thought about this episode. Again. You can find us on Twitter @LeechPodcast and on Instagram at theLeechPodcast, please. Yes, suggestions, ideas. If there are leechy scenes that we missed, please send us clips, send us summaries, send us videos of you reenacting them! We want to see it all.Aaron 45:23Not all of us are going to watch that.45:29Please keep them appropriate. Please, yeah, talk to us. Tell us what you think about the pod. And we would love to hear from you. Thanks for tuning in. On behalf of Banks and Aaron, I'm Evan Cate. This is the Leech Podcast.
Zoe Davenport is a multi dimensional channel, author, energy expert, coach and the founder of The Haven Collective - a high-frequency container for creators of the New Earth Paradigm. Light leaders who are coming together to amply the field through the potency of collective group consciousness. She is here to activate leaders to their full potential through her online DNA Activation containers, online courses & private mentorship for deeper quantum acceleration. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamzoedavenport/Website: http://www.zoedavenport.co.uk/~Topic Timestamps:How does one become a multidimensional channel? - 0:50 Seeing into our multidimensional selves - 6:18How do you explain source or spirit? - 9:00Is a rock or pillow really conscious? -13:40Why Quantum physics & science are key in understanding spirituality - 19:20How do you differentiate aliens, pleiadians and our guides? - 28:00How to protect yourself from negative energy - 39:30Using dream states to uplevel our consciousness - 46:20(Recorded live at Dominical, Costa Rica – July 2021) ~ For more info on our International Artist Residencies visit https://www.momentomcollective.com For more on our Podcast host, John Early visit https://www.johnearly.ca or on Instagram @johntearly ~ For the full playlist of our Video Podcasts on Youtube visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfv9P0yDraLxTtiJx6-vo_2hohOE1uu_For the Momentom Collective Podcast on Spotify visit: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Q9g39tyehzZWT75DZHo29?si=72YlmJNxSKuCO59yuX2S6g&nd=1Past episodes include: *Poranguí - The Medicine of Now & The Role Humanity Plays * Bodhi Samuel - Understanding Sexual Alchemy* Hannah Mermaid ~ Ocean Activism & The Truth of Being a Mermaid
What was Jesus about? Was he trying to start an exclusive club or was he trying to create a new world of inclusivity? These questions have dogged Christianity for millennia. Some Christians insist that God's love is exclusive, so that only certain types of believers are saved. Scriptures such as John 14.6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” are often used as a tribalist form of salvation. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus mission and ministry is depicted differently. Jesus doesn't see himself as an inclusive club leader, instead he interprets his work as liberating and prophetic. At the very beginning of his preaching career, Jesus declares:“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free.” -Luke 4:18How has the elevation of one exclusivist Bible passage (John 14.6) distorted the way we perceive Christianity and even Jesus himself? How would our faith change if Jesus' message of liberation (Luke 4:18-19) was plastered on billboards instead? Join The Progressive Sacred for a conversation about Jesus and the church, about universalism and tribalism, and how we can reclaim Jesus' radical love.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theprogressivesacred)
So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” John 16:17–18How about you? Do you know what Jesus means? Or do you find that you are confused by what He said just like these disciples were? Though pride may tempt you to claim that you fully understand all that Jesus taught, the humble and honest truth is that you are probably very much like these disciples in their confusion. And that is not necessarily a bad place to be.First, the confusion of these disciples shows they took Jesus seriously. They were not indifferent. They cared, were interested, wanted to understand, and must have had some level of faith in Jesus. Otherwise, they would have ignored Him. But they didn’t. They listened, tried to understand, discussed His teaching, thought about His words and humbly concluded that they didn’t understand.Jesus is not critical of their confusion. He sees that they are trying and that they have some level of faith. And even though these disciples are confused, Jesus continues to speak to them in figures of speech rather than directly and clearly. One of the reasons that Jesus speaks in figurative language is because the message that He is teaching is profound and deep. It’s not something that can be quickly and easily understood and mastered. The mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep, vast, profound and mystical that the only way to begin to understand them is to first have faith. Faith does not mean you fully understand everything. Faith is a supernatural gift by which you come to believe without fully seeing and understanding. The certainty comes for God, not from your own reasoning ability. But faith always leads to deeper understanding. Therefore, as these disciples professed their faith, they also came to understand. And even though Jesus speaks in this figurative way, these disciples ultimately made the choice to believe. Later in this chapter they conclude, “Now we realize that you know everything and that you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God” (John 16:30).If you find yourself confused about various matters of faith, God, morality, and the like, or if you find yourself confused about the various mysteries of life itself, or your life in particular, do not be afraid to admit to this confusion. Admitting confusion is the humble admittance of the truth, and this humility will be a helpful step toward the gift of faith.Reflect, today, upon whether you struggle at all with indifference toward the mysteries of life. If so, commit yourself to be more like these disciples who intentionally grappled with all that Jesus spoke. Do not be afraid to admit your confusion and to place that confusion before our Lord. Strive to have the gift of faith and allow that spark of faith to become the pathway for your deeper understanding of the many mysteries of life.My mysterious Lord, You and all the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven are so deep and profound that no one will ever fully comprehend their depth, breadth and beauty. Please open my mind, dear Lord, to a deeper understanding of You so that I may profess my faith in You and in all that You have chosen to reveal. I do believe, my God. Help my unbelief. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2021 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Is apologetics a part of disciple making? If yes, how should we do apologetics? We will answer these and other questions about apologetics in youth ministry. So grab a cup of coffee and put your feet up as we have some fun.Time Stamps:Intro - 2:00What is Apologetics? - 5:18How is Apologetics Harmful/Helpful? - 13:08Role of Apologetics in our Ministries - 23:08Practical Application of Apologetics - 26:53Books we mentioned:The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask: (With Answers) by Mark MittlebergExpository Apologetics: Answering Objections with the Power of the Word by Voddie Baucham Jr.How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture by Dan KimballEvidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World by Josh MDowellContact us:email: disciplemakingym@gmail.comInsta: @Disciple_making_ymJeremy's info:Insta: @jeremydavidcollinsYoutube: Genuine_jcJoel's Info:Youtube: Word With FriendInsta: @jpfriend17Music:Bensound Music: Creative Minds https://www.bensound.comIntro and Outro-Just Smile by LiQWYD https://soundcloud.com/liqwydCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/-just-smileMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lMGw8bTCBww
This episode we sat down with our two Friends Jennifer Farrison and Shawna Clack to discuss some common struggles of being a mom. Dont be fooled by the title there are so many great nuggets in this episode! It's really for anyone thats looking to overcome the pressures from society to be perfect as a women, set better boundaries, and have better time management Topics of discussion:- Post Partum anxiety/ depression - Overcoming mom guilt- Finding your tribe- Setting appropriate boundaries, hint if its not a hell yes, its a no!- Maximizing your time - Asking for help- Where can you delegate?Books reference : Glennon Doyle -Untamed
In episode 20, we are joined by Joel Hermanns - Co-Founder & CIO at gridX, to talk all things renewable energy! Audio linked in comments
In this episode, we discuss: Why are blood tests important in Diabetes? 2:10What tests are done to check blood sugar? 2:47How do you diagnose diabetes? 4:13How do you diagnose prediabetes? 5:32How often do you screen for diabetes? 6:03Why do I need more blood work if I have already been diagnosed with diabetes? 6:47How can I manage my blood sugars at home? 7:18How do I know if my diabetes is well-controlled? 8:08What should my blood sugars be at home? 9:16What are the problems with low blood sugar? 9:32How do I decrease my risk of developing eye and kidney problems? 10:35What else does my doctor check if I have diabetes? 11:19What other resources do you recommend? 12:01Diabetes Canada: https://www.diabetes.caAmerican Diabetes Association: https://www.diabetes.orgEmail: thedoctordictionary@gmail.comTwitter: @TheDrDictionaryPeer reviewed by Dr. Rob Silver, Endocrinologist at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, CanadaOriginal music by Nicholas and John BragagnoloDISCLAIMER: This podcast isnt meant to be a replacement for a traditional doctor's appointment, nor is it meant to be providing medical advice. Rather, it is meant to supplement your doctor's visit and explain why your doctor asked what they asked, and help explain the diagnosis and common treatment plans.Doctors often have very different styles and approaches to a patient and their diagnosis. If we discuss a question or treatment plan that your doctor didnt mention, that doesn't mean that they are a bad doctor. This could represent a difference in practice style, or the fact that your doctor knows you better than we do, and has created a treatment plan that better fits your lifestyle. In case of emergency, please go to your local emergency department.
“Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?” Mark 8:17–18How would you answer these questions that Jesus posed to His disciples if He had posed them to you? It takes humility to admit that you do not yet understand or comprehend, that your heart is in fact hardened, and that you fail to see and hear all that God has revealed. Of course there are various levels to these struggles, so hopefully you do not struggle with them to a grave degree. But if you can humbly confess that you do struggle with these to a certain extent, then that humility and honesty will gain you much grace.Jesus posed these questions to His disciples within the larger context of a discussion about the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He knew that the “leaven” of these leaders was like a yeast that corrupted others. Their dishonesty, pride, desire for honors and the like had a seriously negative affect upon the faith of others. So by posing these questions above, Jesus challenged His disciples to see this evil leaven and to reject it.Seeds of doubt and confusion are all around us. It seems these days that almost everything the secular world promotes is in some way contrary to the Kingdom of God. And yet, just like the disciples’ inability to see the evil leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, we also frequently fail to see the evil leaven within our society. Instead, we allow the many errors to confuse us and lead us down the path of secularism.One thing this should teach us is that just because someone has some form of authority or power within society does not mean that they are a truthful and holy leader. And though it’s never our place to judge the heart of another, we absolutely must have “ears to hear” and “eyes to see” the many errors that are held up within our world as good. We must constantly seek to “understand and comprehend” the laws of God and use them as a guide against the lies within the world. One important way to make sure we do this well is to make sure that our hearts never become hardened to the truth.Reflect, today, upon these questions of our Lord and examine them especially within the broader context of society as a whole. Consider the false “leaven” taught by our world and by so many in positions of authority. Reject these errors and recommit yourself to the full embrace of the holy mysteries of Heaven so that those truths and those truths alone become your daily guide.My glorious Lord, I thank You for being the Lord of all Truth. Help me to daily turn my eyes and ears to that Truth so that I will be able to see the evil leaven all around me. Give me wisdom and the gift of discernment, dear Lord, so that I will be able to immerse myself into the mysteries of Your holy life. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2021 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.
Santa Cruz Bicycles’ Keegan Swenson joins us to discuss what type of training best raises FTP, what pro athletes eat on and off the bike, the world’s most aspirational Strava segments and much more in Episode 296 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! Find mentioned studies and products from this episode: https://www.TrainerRoad.com/forum ------------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT TRAINERROAD — CYCLING’S MOST EFFECTIVE TRAINING SYSTEM TrainerRoad makes cyclists faster. Athletes get structured indoor workouts, science-backed training plans, and easy-to-use performance analysis tools to reach their goals. Build Your Custom Plan: https://bit.ly/33cAtM1Train Together with Group Workouts: https://bit.ly/3i7niAdGet Started: https://bit.ly/3mZTetS ------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE - Intro 0:11 - 3Nate and Keegan’s 370 for 30 challenge 10:22 - Is Sofia getting too fast for Nate at Cape Epic? 17:10 - 4-7Avoiding hand and arm fatigue while descending 19:55 - 8What raises FTP better: threshold or suprathreshold? 52:35 - 9-18How to avoid GI Distress during running 1:16:05 - Favorite ride food options of Keegan Swenson 1:42:52 - What are the best Strava segments in the world? 1:53:04 - Does “road feel” even matter with trainers anymore? 1:57:44 - The hosts’ go-to grocery shopping lists 1:58:46 - The hosts’ favorite cycling glasses 2:03:22 - What to do if dogs are chasing you on your bike 2:07:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUCCESSFUL ATHLETES PODCAST iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/successful-athletes-podcast-presented-by-trainerroad/id1516326667 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdWNjZXNzZnVsYXRobGV0ZXMubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M?hl=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrKJ0zeMQrI4ViIjWs8xnCiBCYoay5U0B ------------------------------------------------------------------ RESOURCES AND STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE 1. Software Engineer Job Posting 2. Successful Athletes Podcast 3. Keegan’s 370w for 30min Ride File 4. Fat Gripz for strength training 5. Rogue Axle / Stubby Axle 6. Rogue Wrist Roller 7. Wolf Tooth Fat Paws 8. Blog Post: What Is Lactate Threshold and How To Train It 9. Carbohydrate intake during exercise and performance 10. Fructose–Glucose Composite Carbohydrates and Endurance Performance: Critical Review and Future Perspectives 11. Carbohydrate feeding during exercise 12. CHO Oxidation from a CHO Gel Compared with a Drink during Exercise 13. A Step Towards Personalized Sports Nutrition: Carbohydrate Intake During Exercise 14. Comparable Exogenous Carbohydrate Oxidation from Lactose or Sucrose during Exercise 15. Addition of sodium alginate and pectin to a carbohydrate-electrolyte solution does not influence substrate oxidation, gastrointestinal comfort, or cycling performance 16. Addition of an Alginate Hydrogel to a Carbohydrate Beverage Enhances Gastric Emptying 17. A Hydrogel Drink With High Fructose Content Generates Higher Exogenous Carbohydrate Oxidation and a Reduced Drop in Dental Biofilm pH Compared to Two Other, Commercially Available, Carbohydrate Sports Drinks 18. Carbohydrate Hydrogel Products Do Not Improve Performance or Gastrointestinal Distress During Moderate-Intensity Endurance Exercise ------------------------------------------------------------------ STAY IN TOUCH Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrainerRd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trainerroad/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrainerRoad Strava Club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/trainerroad
The Angles of Lattitude Podcast: Learn from the Successes of the Creatively Self Employed
Self sabotaging behavior is a common theme when it comes to personal and business development (or the lack thereof). Whether it's the lack of willpower to get healthier, the determination it takes to go through college, or the focus it takes to build one's business, there's one thing that is certain when it comes to accomplishment: setting a goal is one thing - but actually achieving that goal is something completely different.In this session of the show, Ya'el Johnson and I get to talk to two completely different kinds of individuals who have made it their passion to help others figure out how to achieve goals like this.Through their app called the Consistency Chain, they're helping tons of people build good habits in place of the ones that have lead them to where they are now.In their recent book built on the same premise, The Consistency Chain for Network Marketing, authors George Campbell & Jim Packard suggest that the main reason that people don't do well with network marketing is that they simply haven't built the right habits to actually grow their business. Interestingly, George goes on to say that he was only successful when he realized he was the common denominator between all these opportunities.In this conversion, we explore how they came to that conclusion and some of the concepts one should consider when trying to achieve anything in this world - let alone building a network marketing business!Enjoy! SPECIFICALLY, YOU'LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT: As enthusiasts of the industry, how did George and Jim get into Network Marketing initially? 12:55How do you know when you're working with the right business when it comes to network marketing? 21:18How did Jim & George realize they were on to something when they felt the 80/20 rule applies to those who are successful in network marketing? 26:24How do they give themselves milestones on a regular basis to keep them going in their journey? 30:17What are some of the ways that people are using the Consistency Chain app in their daily lives? 37:17What are some of the things George and Jim are looking forward to moving forward in 2021? 42:10Who are Jim and George's personal influencers and teachers? 45:23What's the biggest plot twist they've seen in their day to day life? 48:43Is there a particular gift they like giving others? 50:31What is something they've become good at saying no to? 52:33How does someone realize they're living their own personal mission? 53:59 ITEMS and PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: George and Jim Online: Website, Facebook, LinkedInCohost: Ya'el JohnsonPowered By: Groove Funnels - Join Us in Exploring the power of this awesome new tool! (Get started free today!) Marshmallow TestSeinfeldJay Abraham - Getting Everything You Can Out of All You Got (Amazon Link)Jim RohnDale Carnegie Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. SHOW NOTE EXTRAS: Joe Malarkey at the United States Bowling Congress' Event Joe Malarkey on Customer Service Tom Chenault interviews Jim and George (MLM Application) Margo Lovett and Deborah Thorn interview Jim and George (Traditional Business Application) Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for The AoL Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them. If you have any questions feel free to email them over via the email mentioned in the show or by our contact form. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on Castbox, iTunes, Stitcher, PodBean, and/or Google Play Music. It's absolutely free to do so. A huge thank-you to you guys for joining us! Cheers!
In this episode we speak with customer experience expert and Interim CFO at Macpherson’s, Michael O’Reilly. We go over various methods on how to improve your NPS, including how they use data to optimize their score. “Find the data that tells the truth, not the data that makes you feel good.” 7:22 We also go over technology and the benefits of using the right tools to increase your results and what Michael has experienced through tech.Michael’s background 0:33Understanding NPS 1:43How they have used data to optimize their NPS score 7:18How technology plays into the NPS score 9:03“Don’t stop when you feel good about the data. Really dig into the data and understand what’s telling you the true story, and that’s how you then drive NPS in a sustainable way. It’s also how you get credibility in the organization.” 8:09https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-o-reilly-tu/
With Desola Davis Today I am chatting with my new business bestie Desola Davis all about how to create an unforgettable client experience in your business. You might be delighted to discover that it doesn’t necessarily need to cost you anything extra. The customer journey can be described as the path a customer follows as they venture from being a complete stranger, to ideally, your biggest fan. From their first time hearing about your business, to the end of their relationship with you, and everything in between. As you can imagine, this might include social media, a blog post, a phone call, a visit to your store or scheduling a session to receive your services, right through to what happens after you walk away from each other. A customer journey includes each and every touchpoint from beginning to end and collectively makes up the customer experience. Really dialing into what your customers are experiencing at each and every stage can truly be very insightful and also your most effective path to business success. Here's the thing, mapping out your complete customer journey is a surefire way to identify shortfalls and therefore revenue loss in your business, and it is also VERY often overlooked. I mean, I'll bet you can already think of a handful of examples where as a customer, you had an amazing experience in some areas, and then other things fell flat, and you're left wondering if the business owner has ever taken a walk in their customer's shoes. Maybe you had a great experience all the way through, but then you never heard from the business owner again. It seems like a lot of ground to cover, but guess what? Understanding the customer journey (and overall customer experience) isn't as tricky as you might think it is once you get organized. This is exactly why Desola is here today to walk you through getting started with customer journey mapping in your business. So, if serving your customers to the very best of your ability is important to you, today's episode is one that you DEFINITELY don’t wanna miss! In this episode, Desola talks about: Helping online coaches and creates design a delightful online experience. 3:41Focusing on your best customers (80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your customers!). 4:15The relationship involved in sales and how to build trust to advance to a sales “marriage”. 5:13The difference between relationship building online and physical products, and what that looks like (hint, it involves feelings). 6:13The way you deliver the transformation of your product is the prop, how to sell the journey and convey these transformations to the world. 10:11How to get started gathering effective customer testimonials. 14:45Examples of the types of questions that potential customers (or prospects) have at the beginning of the journey. 17:49Strategically extracting valuable testimonial information from the people you work with. 20:18How to build testimonials into your system… before it is too late. 22:42The importance of timing in gathering the best testimonials and having a community to allow people to share, fostering this culture 24:49Where your testimonials should live. 27:13How everything you are doing in your products suite should align with your story that you want to tell. 31:42Timing is everything! 35:47 If you already have a product, identify what that quick win for your customer is… once you figure that out, you can share content with your audience and overcome objections for your prospects. Figure out what that quick win is, then you have a place to go.Desola Davis See? Desola is awesome. She has this all figured out – and I wish for all of us to have a little bit of her insight into our businesses. Getting to know the customer journey is about nurturing and refining the customer experience. Along the way, customers will interact with your various touchpoints, such as an ad or your website. Once you're in the customer mindset, you can map out your touchpoints, which likely include: social media reviews, your website, your customer service team if applicable, and the super important follow-up customer feedback surveys. So investing time into understanding your businesses customer journey and going through the process yourself will help you see where you can identify weak spots, make improvements and perfect your customer's experience so that they just keep coming back for more and more. If you really like this show, please consider recommending it to your business besties and leaving a review on iTunes. It really helps us to keep delivering this show as a free resource to you week after week. Until next week, workshop warrior, keep honing your wonderfully positive customer journey so they keep coming back for more. Bye for now. Connect with Desola https://www.desoladavis.com https://instagram.com/desoladavis A note from our sponsors: Do you ever think about starting your own podcast but you worry that the sound quality might hold you back? Well don't let that be the culprit. I wanna let you in on a little secret… lean in… East Coast Studio East Coast Studio is the reason that this podcast sounds so amazing and they will take care of all your sound editing needs so that you can focus on the fun stuff. 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Podcast: Post Reports (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The sensibility of Janet YellenPub date: 2020-12-18How president-elect Joe Biden has tapped Janet Yellen to be the first female treasury secretary. And the mall Santas making it work. Read more:Economist Janet L. Yellen has had many jobs, even in the White House. Now, she's going to be the secretary of the Treasury Department — if confirmed — in Biden's Cabinet. Economics correspondent Heather Long explains the significance of her nomination.And, this year, Santa performers are braving the pandemic with plexiglass, sanitation elves and snow globe bubbles.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offerThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Washington Post, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
Businesses of all sizes have taken a ROUGH hit in 2020, and unstable employment is a stressor for everyone right now. So today we’re talking about how to bounce back from a layoff and what to do if it happens to you, with the help of Latesha Byrd, a certified career coach, talent development consultant, Google Digital Coach, and CEO of Byrd Career Consulting. Whether you’ve been laid off due to COVID, industry shifts, or company restructuring, remember that you are not to blame, and you’re so much more than what you do from 9-5. The best way to bounce back is with a solid strategy: You can start by identifying your purpose, getting intentional about job applications, and as Latesha says, “staying ready so you don’t have to get ready.”Listen to our chat with Latesha to learn more about: Our experience with how to handle a layoff: 2:40Latesha’s journey to Byrd Career Consulting: 17:273 key things to do after you’ve been laid off: 19:00How to mentally bounce back from job loss: 21:59 How to gain your confidence back: 24:18Why you need a “Career Readiness Toolkit”: 26:36How to grow your network: 28:44How to address your layoff in an interview: 32:013 important traits that all top talent have: 34:37Important questions to ask in an interview: 37:18How to ask companies about their diversity & inclusivity policies: 40:14Using LinkedIn to build your personal brand: 41:11Teach Me How To Adult is a podcast that serves up expert interviews, candid experiences and actionable advice on everything you never learned growing up. Follow along as we figure it out together!For show notes and more adulting tips, visit:teachmehowtoadult.caFollow us on the ‘gram:instagram.com/teachmehowtoadultpodcast Follow Gillian:instagram.com/yunggillianaire/Follow Cailyn:instagram.com/cailynmichaan/Follow Latesha:https://www.instagram.com/latesha_byrdhttps://twitter.com/Latesha_Byrdhttps://www.lateshabyrd.com/Latesha’s Career Chasers Membership Clubwww.careerchasersclub.com/
“It’s not really hard. You just have to change your whole life”. We can all imagine how hard that must be. Nevertheless, that was the reality Judy Grisel faced, when she took the incredible journey from substance abuse to rehab to becoming an internationally recognized behavioural neuroscientist and a professor in psychology. She has authored the book, ‘Never Enough’ and given one of the best Tedx Talks, I have seen. In this episode we look at addiction. What it is. How it affects our brain. And how we break free from it. Why? Because breaking an addition is a major change. One we can learn a lot from. Addiction can be many things. It can be an addiction to your phone. Your coffee. Or your daily glass of wine. I have invited Judy to tell us about her personal story and to find out, how we can break addiction and make a change. JUDY WILL TALK ABOUTWhat is addiction and what does it do to our brainHow she broke her addiction and her criteria of success Why it is critical not to start taking abusive measures before the age of 18How finding new (healthy) ways to release dopamine can help you change ARE YOU TOO BUSY? HERE ARE THE KEY TAKEAWAYSAre you too busy? Don’t worry, I have collected three key takeaways from the podcast. I hope it inspires you to go listen. #1 Find new ways to release dopamineFinding new rewards is critical to breaking addiction. You need healthier ways to get your dopamine. Find new passions; it could be sport, entrepreneurship or an exciting project. #2 Denial is the first major barrierAs Judy says: “I thought my drug was the solution to my problems. Not the cause”. Denial is the biggest barrier to breaking addiction. Until you become aware of the need for change, chances are, you will never change. #3 Early is bad Our brains are plastic and amazing. But if we start drinking - or taking any other abusive measure – too early, it will impact our brains forever. By example, if you start drinking by the age of 14, you have 7x the chance of developing an alcohol problem than if you had waited until you were 21 or longer.
Today we talk about childhood trauma and the impact it has on children. Adam tells about an experience he had in high school, getting made fun of because of his weight and sort of nerdiness, and then the impact it had on his thinking. We talk about how much pain he went through and how this affected his desire to go to school. Eventually Adam felt he became the bully, or the very thing he loathed. We talk about the divorce of Adam's parents and how much that impacted his ability to even have conversations. Rosie tells about how Adam's desire to cook rather than have her cook stems from Adam's past and not because he thinks Rosie is bad at cooking. Adam's story and experience 2:18How it impacted his grades 4:34How bullying affected Adam later in life 7:40Adam's parents' divorce 11:55Rosie's take 15:48“So often we don't realize that adults are carrying childhood trauma into the now, and there might be nearly bipolar experiences happening. What one person is experiencing with someone could be completely different for someone else. And it could just be that they're triggering the old trauma.” 11:14https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/ https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/https://www.theirishmummy.comhttps://www.theirishmummy.com/ebook
The Nomad on FIRE Podcast | The Digital Nomad Lifestyle and Solo Female Travel with Christina DiSalvo | of Wanderlusting Hippie | Episode #34 ShownotesPlease note that is episode was recorded at the beginning of 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic.Guest BioChristina DiSalvo is a Travel Marketer and the Creator of Wanderlusting Hippie, a blog that focuses on traveling, self-awareness, energy, and understanding yourself. Christina and I talk about her experiences as a digital nomad, solo female travel, finding work/life balance, finding community and so much more!Links MentionedWanderlusting HippieChristina and I met at the Nomad Summit in January of 2020 in Chiang Mai, Thailand put on by Johnny FD F.I.R.E. for Digital Nomads, Financial Independence Retire Early: Johnny FD - Nomad Summit CM2020https://www.facebook.com/groups/GirlsLOVETravel/Front Loaded Work- Mad FientistHeadspaceInsightTimerShow NotesHow did Christina end up in Thailand? 01:12How did Christina get involved in traveling marketing? 01:45What is the mission behind Wanderlusting Hippie? 02:56What was Christina's plan when she got into the digital nomad life? 05:34What are her tips for solo female travelers? 06:42How has she gone about creating community when she is traveling and finding a consistent routine? 07:42Freedom is what Christina loves the most about the digital nomad life 10:12What does her work/life balance and financial balance look like? 11:23Take the steps that you can, where you are at now 18:18How did Wanderlusting Hippie get started and what does the future look like? 20:00What does a perfect day look like? 27:40What is a habit or routine that has helped Christina in her business or her life? 29:52What would Christina like people to get out of this podcast the most today? 33:03Connect with Christina 33:42 Wanderlusting Hippieinstagram.com/wanderlustinghippieSignificant Quotes “I did it to kind of encourage other people to let them know that it is ok to travel alone, because that is the biggest thing, especially as a female, that is difficult.” 03:12 “I do have my life down to two suitcases and a big bag right now. So, I think that is a lot compared to people that have homes, and cars, and storage units. I can say I have my life in a few bags.” 04:40“Don't be afraid, and take the first step.” 33:03 Connect with Eric and Nomad on FIRE!
Chris Chmura, PhD, CEO and Chief Economist of Chmura Economics, appears on the Mississippi Prospects Podcast. Introduction: 0:00How data can be used by economic developers: 2:40State of Mississippi's economy: 5:03Comparing different labor data: 7:25Resources for finding labor data: 11:18How economic developers currently use data: 12:12When data became a focal point: 14:12Is it possible to use too much data? 16:42Wrap-up: 18:15
Series: Faithfulness: A Deeper LookThe Power Source: HumilityPhilippians 2:1-18How does a Christ Follower become humble? 1. Humility is a Problematic Problem Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, … Philippians 2:1-3Letting go of your vanity.Letting go of your stubbornness. Letting go of the pride of exclusiveness.…not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. Philippians 2:4Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.Galatians 1:10Letting go of being a people pleaser!2. Jesus Christ is The Perfect Example.Philippians 2:5-11In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, to the glory of God the Father.Philippians 2:5-113. The Practical Application of Humility.Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, Philippians 2:12We are to … work with respect and reverence. … for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13Do everything without complaining or arguing. … for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:14 … so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of Godwithout fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. Philippians 2:15-16It will have a positive impact on the world for ChristIt will result in a Personal Joy But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. So, you too should be glad and rejoice with me. Philippians 2:17-18
In this week's episode of Growth Interviews, we invite you to join our podcast conversation with Blake Morgan, a leader in customer experience, a keynote speaker and customer experience futurist. Blake is the author of two books: the bestseller "The Customer Of The Future: 10 Guiding Principles For Winning Tomorrow's Business" and "More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder And Go Farther To Create Knock Your Socks Off Customer Experiences." She also contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and Hemispheres Magazine. Furthermore, she is the host of “The Modern Customer Podcast” and the “Be Your Own Boss Podcast”. The best takeaways: Reasons for not offering a great customer experience - 06:16Success vs failure in customer experience - 09:18How to measure customer experience - 20:37The painful truth behind what companies refuse to admit/don't know about their customers - 25:20 Podcast Notes: Blake Morgan: Customer experience. What else? All episode articles: Growth Interviews Follow Omniconvert on: FacebookTwitterLinkedinYouTube
On this episode… Financial Behaviorist, Jacquette M. Timmons. She focuses on the human side of money and is committed to getting you to see that you don't manage money - you manage your choices around money in life and business. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, Oprah.com, CNN, HLN, FOX, Black Enterprise, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. On this episode we talk about ... How to prepare and protect your business from the unexpected like the Coronavirus. 19:58How understanding your emotional relationship with money can improve your partnerships and business. 10:57What if you decided to love and respect your money? How would your life change? 11:15Why an incorrect pricing model cuts into your profit. 17:13 | 25:22Why it's critical that you build a business that takes care of your personal financial health. 16:18How do you know if you have a healthy business? 17:38What you should know about your relationship with money before you jump into entrepreneurship for the first time. 15:19MEMBERSHIP: BECOME A PATRONhttps://www.patreon.com/builtbyabossCONNECT WITH EVOLYN BROOKS @ BUILT BY A BOSS: GENERAL: builtbyaboss@gmail.comLINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/evolynbrooksWEBSITE: www.builtbyaboss.comINSTAGRAM: @builtbyabossFACEBOOK: @builtbyabossCONNECT WITH EVOLYN @ IN MY SOLITUDE LA: WEBSITE: https://www.inmysolitudela.com/about INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/inmysolitudela FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/inmysolitudeBOOK: Her Name Is Cranberry https://www.inmysolitudela.com/checkoutCOURSE: How To Turn Your Hobby Into A New And Profitable Stream Of Income! https://www.inmysolitudela.com/workshops/startabusinessCONNECT WITH JACQUETTE M. TIMMONSWEBSITE: https://www.jacquettetimmons.com/ INSTAGRAM: @jacquettemtimmons TWITTER: @jacqmtimmonsTRY THE FINANCIAL WHEEL EXERCISE: http://www.jacquettetimmons.com/wheel/ MUSIC:Call Me by LiQWYD https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/call-me-liqwyd Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/JUgEjnESJXI ABOUT EVOLYN BROOKS: Evolyn Brooks is an award-winning TV Showrunner, Digital and Experiential Events Executive Producer with major market and syndicated talk, news and reality show production credits from OWN, Telepictures, King World, Lifetime, BRAVO, WE Network, MTV, FOX, BET, CBS and NBC. As an Experiential Event and Content Producer, she has produced global experiential events and activations for companies such as Facebook, Instagram, west elm, beautycon, bumble bff and the BET Experience. Evolyn began her career on-air in television news as an anchor and general assignment reporter. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award, two Namic Vision Awards and is the recipient of aSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/builtbyaboss)
In this week's Esoteric Modulation we talk to Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer HAINBACH. We talk the beautiful world of test equipment and its creative flow, limitations and minimalism, we all lust after the Cocoquantus and we talk about HAINBACH's latest release Old Suns!Apologies to the few that heard the unedited version, this is the fully edited version. Also, this episode has a few pops and clicks in the audio, we had a bit of a battle with the audio this week! Show Note Timings Episode 006 The Art of ScannerShow Note Timings Into: 0.00Quick Artist Bio 1.10Interview start: 2.15 The Talk of Test Equipment: 2.54Creative Minimalism and limitations: 14.18How test equipment affects your creative flow 20.09The lust of the CoCoQuantus! :) 25.40HAINBACH's advice on one of my projects: 36.23 Band Camp album of the show 'Old Suns' 40.52Show NotesHAINBACH on Bandcamp: https://hainbach.bandcamp.comHAINBACH Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Hainbach101/HAINBACH website: https://www.hainbachmusik.comCiat Lonbarde Cocoquantus:http://ciat-lonbarde.net/cocoquantus/Bandcamp Album Old Suns:https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/old-sunsHAINBACH UK Gigs: ModCaf's 1st Birthday Partyhttps://www.facebook.com/events/540763066457200/Tickets for The Tin At The Coal Vaults UKhttps://www.ticketweb.uk/event/synthcurious-presents-hainbach-the-tin-at-the-coal-tickets/9737035?Shoutouts Velocity Seattle: https://www.facebook.com/events/substation/velocity-trade-show-synth-meet-workshops-performances/677401192712879/Tim’s podcast Pod Mod: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm/suzannecianipodmodWaveform Magazine: https://www.waveformmagazine.comKyle Swishers new ‘Source of Uncertainty’ podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/source-of-uncertainty-a-buchla-podcast-4u/id1467860041?ign-mpt=uo%3D4Our Pre-show special, check it out https://www.esotericmodulation.com/episodes/001-the-pre-show-specialHosts and Guests Ed Ball Website: https://www.edwardball.co.ukBen Wilson aka DivKid: https://www.youtube.com/user/DivKidVideoHAINBACH on Bandcamp: https://hainbach.bandcamp.comHAINBACH Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Hainbach101/HAINBACH website: https://www.hainbachmusik.com
In the inaugural episode of Beneath the Subsurface, we delve into the exciting realm of AI and Machine Learning as a blossoming new part of the energy industry. Arvind Sharma and Robert Gibson discuss and debate the impacts of disruptive technology, the importance of robust data libraries when building AI solutions, and the future of our industry with AI and ML solutions. With your host for the episode, Erica Conedera, we explore the factors that pushed our slow moving industry to this tipping point in technology and where it could be leading us. TABLE OF CONTENTS:0:00 - Intro1:03 - Factors that brought AI to O&G5:32 - Job creation with AI12:05 - Career paths and team compositions in the industry15:30 - Industry pain point solutions with AI and ML21:32 - Clouds, open source and democratization24:24 - Kaggle and crowdsourcing Salt Net30:51 - Kaggle challenges with Well Data33:58 - Catching up with silicon valley36:49 - Approaching solutions with AI44:18 - Disciplining data and metadata to get to the "good stuff"EPISODE TRANSCRIPTErica Conedera:00:00Hello and welcome to Beneath the Subsurface a podcast that investigates the intersection of geoscience and technology. And in our first episode, we'll be diving into the dynamic field of AI and machine learning as it relates to the oil and gas industry. We'll be discussing the impact of disruptive technology, the importance of robust data libraries when building AI solutions, and exciting possibilities for the future oil and gas. From the TGS software development team. My name is Erica Conedera. And with me today are Arvind Sharma, our VP of data and analytics, and Rob Gibson, our director of strategy, sales, data and analytics. Thank you gentlemen for being with us today for our first episode.Rob Gibson:00:48Glad to be here.Arvind Sharma:00:49Thank you Erica.Erica:00:51So let's start our discussion today by talking about the factors that brought the industry to AI and machine learning. Why now? Why not sooner? Why not later?Rob:01:03Well I'll start. Um, so thank you for the introduction, my name's Rob Gibson. I've been with TGS for almost 20 years now. And in that time, the thing that I have kind of seen over the 20 years in this company, , and probably another eight or nine in the industry, is that we've always been a little slow to adopt technology. And I come from the IT side of the world, software engineering, database design - so from my perspective, it's always been a little bit slow to bring in new technology.Rob:01:34And the things where I've seen the biggest change has been fundamental shifts in the industry, whether it's a crash in oil price, or, or some other kind of big disruptor in the industry as a whole, like the economy, not just our industry but the entire economy. But in middle of 2014 with the current downturn, that's really where I finally started to see the big shift toward AI, toward machine learning, towards IOT in particular.Rob:02:00But it seems like it took a big, big change in the industry where we lost hundreds of thousands of people across the industry and we really still needed a lot of work to get done. So technology has been able to kind of fill in the void. So, even as the downturn happened, we kind of started to level off at the bottom of the downturn and that's when companies started to see that we really needed to inject some more technology to get those decisions made. So generally speaking, I would say that this industry has been a little slow to move to adopt technology even though the industry has got a lot of money to invest in those kinds of things.Arvind:02:34Um, so thank you Erica for that question. And, I'm going to slightly disagree, more broadly, I agree with rob that um, oil and gas industry is historically a little slow in adopting technology, but, the reason I think is a slightly different, I think a oil and gas work in very difficult area where we need to have very robust proven up technologies to work. And in general, we wait a little bit for the technology to prove itself before adopting into, um, more difficult areas. So if we look at a little bit historical view, um, we have been on the leading edge of technology for a very long time. Um, some of the early semiconductors were built by your physical, um, companies. Um, then, as we moved to, PC revolution, we started actually PC, um, we started to actually pick up PCs into office very quickly, not as good as the silicon graphics people, but, soon afterwards, and then when the technology evolution started happening more in the silicon valley, then we started to regress a little bit. We continued on the part of what we were doing, whereas there was a divergence somewhere between mid nineties where silicon valley started to actually develop a little bit faster and we started to lag behind. And I think as Rob said, that, 2014 was a good time because at that time there was a need for us to adopt technology to increase our efficiency and, fill the gap that was created due to capital constraint. And as well as fleeing of, some of the knowledge base, employees - from our sector.Rob:04:39That's a good point on the technology side because you said that we kind of diverged away from where silicon valley really took off in the mid nineties. I entered into the industry in '94. So for me, my entire career has been that diverging process and just now it feels really good. Like we're finally catching up, not only catching up, but we've got customers, we've got employees who are sitting inside of the top tech companies in the world sitting at Google's facilities, even though they're an oil and gas company, sitting and working with Amazon, with Oracle, with IBM, with all these top names. And yet they're doing it in collaboration with the industry. Where in the past, it was almost like the two things were somewhat separated and now they are on a converging path. They've got the technology, we've got the data, at least in our space. And those two things coming together is kind of the critical mass we need to see some success.Erica:05:32So on that note, what kind of jobs do you think are going to be created in the future as the industries continue to convergence?Rob:05:40You know, that's a, that's a great prognostication. I mean, it's kind of interesting when you look back at like airbnb and Uber and those kinds of things. Nobody saw those coming and nobody knew what that was going to look like five years into their business, not to mention 10 or 15. I think that's what we're looking at in the oil and gas industry as well. We still have to find oil and gas. We still have to explore. We still have to be technologists, whether it's IT technology or G&G technology, we still have to operate in those spaces. But the roles may be very different. I'm hoping that a lot more of the busy legwork is a lot easier for us to work with and it has been historically, but we're still going to have to do those core G&G jobs. I just don't know what they're going to look like five years from now.Arvind:06:29I mean the way I see it is that it will be high-gradation to, like it will be more fulfilling jobs. The future jobs hopefully will be more fulfilling. So because a good portion of the grunt work, the work that everyone hated to do, but they had to do it to get to the final work, like final interesting work. Hopefully all those things will this machine learning and AI and broader digitization will help alleviate that part. And even whether you are technologist, whether you are a geologist, whether you're a geophysicist or whether you're a decision-maker. Like in all of those, um, you will start moving from the low value work to high value work. The technologist who was looking into log curve, they will actually start evaluating the log curve rather than just digitizing it. And that's, in my view, it's a more fulfilling job job compared to just doing the mundane work. And I, so that's the part first part is that what kind of job it, my hope is that it will be more fulfilling.Arvind:07:43Now the second is how many and what type of job, um, as Rob said that, the speed at which this is moving, we, it will be very difficult for us to do the prediction. Is that like if we sit here and say that they are, these are the type of job that will be created in five years, we'll be doing a disservice. We can actually make some guided prediction in which there will be need for geologist or geophysicist or petrophysicist and other people to do in what form will they be a pure geophysicist or a geophysicist who is a has a lot more broader expertise, a computer science and geophysicist working together. Those are the kinds of roles that will be needed in future because for a very long time we have operated in silos because it's not just technology is changing is the way we work is also changing is that we have operated in silos that we develop something, throw it over the fence. They, they catch it most of the time and then actually move into the next silo, and so on and so forth. Is that what-Rob:08:58You hope they do anyway.Arvind:08:59Yeah. I hope that they do anyway, but so that's the sequential process now. Some of them will be done by machines. Some of them will be done by human. And then you have to actually create a workflow which is like fulfilling as well as efficient for the capital investor.Erica:09:19Perhaps less siloed off?Arvind:09:21Less siloed off. So there will be team of teams and the team will actually move very frequently. So it will be almost like a self organization is that these are the four people needed to solve this problem. Let's take those four people and work on that problem. And then when that problem is solved or productionized, then they actually go solve the different problems.Arvind:09:43And so it will rather than back in the days or even today, hi- fully hierarchy of system, it will still be there, will be CEO (Laughter) and but there will be more, um, team of different group and different expertise, um, very quickly building and dismantling and those, that's the agile methodology that will be needed to take this technology and use it for, like basically doing things better.Erica:10:18So to kind of hone in on where you're saying, your background is in both geophysics and um, software engineering, correct?Arvind:10:26Okay. So sorry, I didn't actually talk about myself. (Laughter) So, um, I joined the TGS a little more than a year back, um, started as a chief geophysicist and then moved into this role. But before that, most of my career has been with BP and before that for a software company. So I have worked as a software engineer for some time and then got my PhD in geophysics and then worked for a little more than 10 years in BP all the way from writing imaging.Arvind:11:01So basically fundamental imaging, algorithm writing to drilling wells. So, in my short career I have seen a lot of things and what I do see is that, there has, there is a lot of silos in BP as well as in TGS. And BP is also working on it - breaking. I have a lot of friends there who are saying is that there is a significant effort in technology and modernization is happening in changing the culture rather than- it's not just about changing PC from going from a laptop to iPad. That's a- that's a tool. But the fundamental change will happen in the thought process. And if we want to actually use machine learning and these kinds of digital technology then it needs to be very integrated and the silo mentality is not going to work. You have to look at the problem as a holistic to solve it.Erica:12:02Yeah.Arvind:12:02So, so that's the background. So that's my background.Erica:12:05Yeah. So I asked because I wondered if you think that your career path is going to be the future of the industry, do you think that there are going to be more people with a dual background in both computer science and geophysics?Arvind:12:19So that's a very polite way to say that. My, I am actually looking at that my career is the right career. So, no and yes and no both. I do think that people will become more generalist and they will have deep expertise. And it's counter intuitive - is that generalist and deep expertise is not the same. Like we are used to someone who has a very deep expertise and that are not generalists about other topicsErica:12:57Narrow and deep.Arvind:12:57So very narrow expertise. But very deep and they have shallow expertise, very broad. Those are back in the days I think we are moving towards a deep expertise in several different narrow fields. So you need like, so to truly get good collaboration and innovation, you have to have deep expertise in several different fields to integrate them together.Erica:13:27So Rob, it looks like you're chomping at the bit here. (laughter)Arvind:13:30Deep and broad. So like what we need is deep and broad.Rob:13:34Yeah. When, when Arvind was talking about, kind of the career and, and some of the other topics, two things came to mind on the technology side of things. If you look back at AT&T, they had a choice and they did investigation and some pretty deep research on whether or not they needed to move into mobile cell phone technology. And they made the choice. They did a big expensive study and spent hundreds of millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars to identify that they needed to be prepared for an industry of say, a million cell phone users by a certain year. And that number was, I don't know, 150 times wrong. It was way, way higher than that. And you could use the same thing with Kodak. They invented the digital camera and then lost the digital camera battle. And struggled in the industry. We want to make sure that we're looking broad enough to understand what's coming down the pipe and can adapt and change to that. Not just from the individual roles in the company, but the company direction as a whole.Arvind:14:34To give a concrete example is that , I have a background in geology or physics and computer science or Rob has background in geoscience and computer science and the data analytics team. It likes our TGS data analytics team. They have, we have people who have the um, physics backgrounds. They have PhD in physics and then they have worked in geophysics and then working on well logs. Then, the other one, Sathiya - he is a geophysicist who now is working on more of a deep learning problem. And a Sribarath is the team leader. He is a geophysicist. Who is it more of a computer scientist who is working on these two problems. So, our team composition itself, the TGS data analytics team composition itself is built in a multidisciplinary fashion.Erica15:30Yeah. So I'm glad that you brought up are our current team here cause I kind of wanted to pivot to the problems that we're using AI to solve for right now. You know, like what, what are the pain points in the industry and how are we using AI for that?Arvind:15:46So, so the pain point in the industry, are I'll talk about one, is it one which is very close to my heart. I was a, so in BP I did a lot of salt interpretation. So anything which requires a lot of human intervention is a big choke point because our data set is getting bigger, larger and larger with a lot more volumes to it are a lot more information to it and we have limited human resources and we want to actually take those human resources and mobilize them to do more high value work rather than doing a lot more um, grunt work. Salt model building is an example. And where we, we actually, our data analytics team started working there. So I'll, I'll work, I'll talk about that later. But that's an example where a lot of judgment call is made early, which don't require a lot of human judgment call early interpretation. Is the true place where automation and digital transformation can actually help.Erica:17:04Rob, what's your take on this?Rob:17:06Well, the Nice thing about what we're doing with salt picking is we're really helping us and our clients reduce the time it takes to get to the indecision. On my side of,of the house, my background with TGS has largely on the well data side of things. So it's not so much about reducing the amount of time of processing the data as it is getting a higher value data set in the hands of our clients. So historically, especially in the onshore U.S., there's a significant lack of data that's reported to the regulatory agencies. So we source that data as do a lot of other people. We source data from our, our, our customers, our partners operators. We process that data, but the most important thing that we can do with that is take that huge volume of data, the largest commercially available in the industry and add more to it so that the operators are able to get to that decision making process. So like Arvind said, if we can avoid the grunt work and get them to the point where they're actually making business decisions, that's what we're doing with our analytics ready LAS Dataset. We're in-filling the gaps in the curves because they either weren't run or weren't reported. We're predicting what the missing curves would look like, based on an immense volume of data. So it's not so much about getting the product created faster, although that is another goal that we've got. Of course, we're a commercial company. We're trying to get products to our customers and make money like anybody does. But the ultimate goal with our current analytics ready LAS product is to get the most complete dataset available so that the operators can make better decisions in the subsurface; drill less wells, drill more productive wells, drill wells faster. All of those things go into why we chose to go down that that path.Arvind:18:50So, looking at a higher level. The question that you asked was like what are the choke points and how we had actually using digital transformation in machine learning and AI to help that. Um, I think we published something like our CEO talked about that in the um, few months, a month back, Norwegian Energy day. There was a nice plot that, shows that most of the time we are acquiring data for a purpose. Like we are acquiring data to solve a geologic problem so that we can actually make a decision whether to drill somewhere, or not drill somewhere whether to buy acreage or not buy acreage by our clients. So when you take that data, you have to convert that into information, that information need to convert it into knowledge. And that knowledge is what enables our clients to make better, faster and cheaper decisions.Arvind:19:51And that cycle converting from data to knowledge to decision and enabling their decision is actually is the big choke point. If you want me to say one, this is that your point is that how to actually take data and convert to knowledge fastest way and cheapest way. And that's where most of our effort is. So salt, model building is an example where we right now it takes us somewhere between the nine months to a few years when we acquire data to provide the clients with the final image that they can do interpretation and make decision. This is too long of a time. In this day and age it needs to be compressed and a good portion of that compression can happen, by better compute. But some of them cannot happen without doing a deep learning where humans are involved in like for example, salt models building where like you can actually throw as much computer it as possible. But since the cycle time requires human to drill that model, it will be the limiting cases that, so there we want to actually enable the interpreters to take our salt net, which is our algorithm and accelerate the early part of it so that they have more time to do high quality work and build and build that model faster, reduce that cycle time so that our clients can make better, faster and cheaper decisions.Rob:21:32It's been interesting to watch the transition too with our industry and the technology at the same time we've moved to the cloud, right? All of our data's now sitting at a cloud provider and if you would have looked at the oil industry five years ago, there's a very security minded mindset around the industry that says, I need to keep that data because it's a very, very critical and I want to make sure the only, I've got access to it. So there was a lot of fear about putting data in the cloud several years ago. Now you look at the cloud providers and they're spending literally billions of dollars on things like security and bandwidth and access, things that didn't exist five, 10 years ago. So that transition to be able to go to the cloud, where all, where, all of our data sits today. More and more of our clients are going there as well. And the nice thing about that is you can ramp up your needs, on compute capacity, on disk capacity, on combining data sets across partners, vendors, other operators, and collaborate and work on that data set together to come up with solutions that you couldn't possibly have done before. So it's, it's fun actually to watch that transition happen.Arvind:22:43It is going a little tangent to the question that you asked her, but, because there's a very important point about the cloud services the the biggest cloud platform is Kubernetes by Google and that's actually open source. So Google developed that and made it open source available for anyone who wants to build a cloud infrastructure. They can have it. That's the, the most to use open source, platform that, available today. So that's changing the way people work. Like red hat or Linux, Unix, Sun, Sun, microsystem or Microsoft or apple. They are very, like, even in technology sector, they are very controlling of what they are providing to their consumers. They control that environment. Whereas now things are changing in which the open source systems like, which is publicly available is becoming one of the most dominant form of a software platform. Um, if you look at android for machine learning, it's tensorflow, Pi Torch. Those are open systems software that is a democratizing the technology so that anyone and everyone can, is able to take that next step and the solve complex problem because the base is available for them. They don't have to build the base. They can actually focus on solving the high value complex problem.Erica:24:24Speaking of both Google and open source and democratizing, problem solving. So TGS recently had a Kaggle challenge, correct, can you speak a little bit about that?Arvind:24:35So, yeah, that actually, so when I joined TGS, I had, one data scientist that we, we were working with, like we were still building the data science team and we started working on the salt net problem. We had an early, um, success. We were able to do some of those things and then we realized that there is like ocean of data scientists who are across the world. We don't have actually access to that Google actually open source and they have, they're working on their problem, they're working on Apple's problem, they're working on very interesting problems. So why they're not working on it at two different reason. One is that they don't have access to it in a second, the problem is not interesting enough for them. So Kaggle was our effort to make it accessible to everyone and make it interesting so that people will work on it.Arvind:25:30So just for the, um, description of Kaggle, Kaggle is the world's largest, data science crowdsourcing platforms. So crowdsourcing is a, um, where you put the problem and it's a platform or website where the, um, the problem description is given and data science scientists to work on their like on their spare time, nights and weekend or that's their hobby or that's their job. And they solved that problem. They submit to submit on that platform and they get instantaneous result that, how a good their solution was. So that's the Kaggle is the one of the largest world's largest platform for that recently acquired by Google. So we actually approached Kaggle that- can we actually put the one of the complex problem that we have on this website or this platform and they worked with us. And so we partnered together to host the oil and gas first serious problem for the automatically building salt model. And we actually, so to Rob's point, um, the hardest problem was getting the data rights that are convincing our management that it's okay to release a certain portion of data. We had to work really hard to create an interesting problem and that once we released that data, um, this competition was very successful in the sense that if they were around 80 plus thousand different solutions, just think of the scope of itRob:27:06From almost 3000 different teamsArvind:27:093,800. So close to 4,000 people. Oh yeah. 3000 team and comprise of almost 4,000 data scientists across the world work on this problem for three months and gave us more than 80,000 different solutions. We would have never got anything like this working day and night with whole TGS working on this problem.Rob:27:32I, I found it interesting because I like did a search on Google for our, TGS salt net.Arvind:27:39Yeah.Rob:27:40And if you look at the results just on Youtube, you'll find probably 20 different videos of PhD students, data scientists getting their master's degree who are using that problem that we posted out there as part of their thesis or as part of their Grad student work to show that, that the data science process that they went through as part of their education. And now that's out there for everybody to use.Erica:28:02So this is a major disruptor isn't it, to the industry because we have basically non geologists, non geophysicists solving problems for-Rob:28:12Yeah it's, it's definitely, we, there was a lot of teams, right? So there was some that had geoscience backgrounds, some that didn't, but most of them, they just come from a data science background, right? So they could have stats or math or computer science or anything. And when they applied this, it was interesting to see the collaboration on the Kaggle user interface where the teams were out there saying, hey, I tried this. What did you guys try? And the whole idea of crowdsourcing and, and the idea that we're kind of in somewhat of a unique position where we can do that. We can, we own the data. We don't license it from somebody else. Um, it's the data that we own that we can put out there. So we've got a huge volume that we can leverage and put it into a community like that where we can actually see some of those results come in.Erica:28:57So to kind of put you on the spot-Arvind:28:59Can I- one thing to say after that to is not just about data owning the data because there are several different companies who own data, even oil and gas company, they have their own data library. I honestly think that, it says volume about TGS, that TGS was willing to take a bet on this kind of futuristic idea and like go on a limb. But, and this is, I'm just giving credit to the senior management here, that they were, they're allowed us to actually go with this. That was one of the bigger hurdle than just to owning data, that management buy-inRob:29:39Second only to data preparation for the challenge itself.Arvind:29:42Second only to the data preparation, it took us a lot of time to build-Rob:29:45YeahArvind:29:45an interesting problem. It's not just about like you have to create an interesting problem to-Erica:29:51to attract the right talent.Arvind:29:52So the winner was a group from a Belarus and the Japan. They have never met. They have never seen each other other than the Facebook.Erica:30:02Wow.Arvind:30:03And did they actually met on this Kaggle platform? They were working on this problem. They found out that there they are approaching with the two different ways and they actually teamed up so that they can combine this to create a better solution. Combining both of their effort and that that's actually happens to be the winning combination. But a traditional method won't allow us to tap into this kind of resources or brain power. That to someone from Belarus and Japan working together whom we don't know solving our problem and that is going to be a disruptor and we have to be ready to capitalize on it rather than be afraid of it.Erica:30:51Right. And that's why I wanted to go to rob, not to put you on the spot here, but as someone coming from the well data side, do you see any potential future Kaggle challenges using well data?Rob:31:05Yeah, the, that could absolutely be in our future. I think at this point we're really trying to frame the problems that we're trying to solve for our customers. And if we decide that one of those problems deserves, some time in the public, like on Kaggle, then we can absolutely go that direction. Not a problem whatsoever. At the moment though, our real focus is trying to figure out where can we provide the most value to the clients and we're kind of letting them steer us in a, you know, a way we have got our own geology department internally so we know what we need to do with our internal well data in order to high grade it to the next level product. However, we're really taking direction from our clients to make sure that we're moving in that direction. So yeah, I could see us having a problem like that, especially if it's starting to get into a Dataset that, , needs to be merged with another data set that maybe, we need support from, somewhere else in the industry. We're in a different industry.Arvind:31:59Just a few minutes on that is,the next problem I think that Kaggle need from oil and gas is a more on the solution side. So the knowledge to- like information to knowledge site in which you are all taking very different type of data set. For example, success failure database for the basin. And building a, prospect level decision that requires a, as Rob said, that collaboration, that the TGS collaborating with one of the E&P company or someone else, like those two or three companies and now bringing their data together because at the end of the day, this integration is what everyone is looking for. Can we actually create an interesting integration problem and put it on the Kaggle competition. So, any listener, if they're in, they have a good problem, they can actually contact Rob, or me. That, because we are always looking for good partners to solve complex problems. We can't solve all the problem by ourselves, neither other people. It does require teams to build the right kind of Dataset, interesting problems in to, to get into the board.Erica:33:22Okay. So we've talked about how we got here to this point in the industry with AI machine learning and we've talked about what we're doing today with the, um, let's move on to the future where we think AI will take, um, the industry. So to follow up on something that Arvind had said earlier, so you had said that we sort of fell behind silicon valley at some point. How, how far behind do you think we are right now in terms of years if you can make that estimation?Arvind:33:58Oh, that's a tough question but I'll try to answer it in a roundabout way. Is it that when I say that we lag behind, we lag behind in the compute side of it, like the AI side of it and some of the visualization and web-based technology when it comes to high performance computing, we were still leading up to very- probably in some of the spaces we are still leading. So storage and high performance compute which is both, oil and gas defense and Silicon Valley. All three are working. Um, we are not that far behind actually we might be at the cutting edge of it. And that was one of the reason that we didn't actually focus on the AI side because we were solving the problem in more high compute way and we are using bigger and bigger machine solving, more complex problems more physics based complex physics based solutions.Arvind:35:04So when it comes to solving physics based solution, we are still, at the front of the pack. But when it comes to solving a heuristic auto machine learning or AI based solution, we are behind, we are behind in robotics and things like that and we are catching up. So when you think of a mid midstream and downstream where there's a lot of the internet of things, IOT instruments, so things are getting is like instrumentized and there are a lot of instruments which are connected to each other and real time monitoring, predictive maintenance. Those are happening and happening at a very rapid rate. And that will actually, we'll, we'll catch up in a few years in, in midstream and downstream side or mostly instrumentation side where we are truly lagging is subsurface because it's not the problem that Ian, and like, silicon valley was trying to solve.Arvind:36:05A subsurface problem are complex. They are very different type of problem; that someplace you have very dense data, someplace We have very sparse data. How to actually integrate that and humans are very good at integrating different scale of information in a cohesive way, whereas that problem is not the problem that silicon like, technology sector was trying to solve. And so we are trying to actually take the solutions that they are building to solve different problem and integrating it or adapting that to solve our problem. So that's where like I see like, so I think it's a non answer but that's what the best I have. (Laughter)Erica:36:49It was a very good answer. So how does this change the way that we're building our products then our approach to getting our products out there?Rob:36:58Well, one of the, one of the things I'll start with is we're actually seeing our clients adopt analytics teams, analytics approaches, machine learning. there's a lot of, there's a lot of growth in that part of the industry. and they've gotten past the point where they don't believe that a predictive solution is the right solution. You know, with our ARLAS product, we're creating an analytics ready LAS dataset where we're predicting what the curves would look like, where there's currently gaps in the curve coverage. The initial problem the customers had was, do they believe that the data's accurate? We're starting to get past those kinds of problems. We're starting to get to the point where they believe in the solutions and now they're trying to make sure that they've got the right solutions to fit within their workflows in their organization. So I think the fact that they've actually invested in building up their own analytics teams where they've injected software engineering, geology and geophysics, a data science and kind of group them all together and carved them off, or they can focus on maybe solving 20% of the problems that they actually, attempt. That's kind of where the industry has gotten to, which means we now have an opportunity to help them get to those levels.Arvind:38:10You see that a change in conferences, and, meetings and symposiums that, like for example SEG Society of exploration geophysicists and, that, conference three years back there was one session about machine learning and last year, machine learning has the largest number of sessions in that conference. So you're looking at a rapid adaptation of a machine learning as a core technology in oil and gas and at least in subsurface, but most of them is at the very early phases, people are trying to solve the easier problem, the problem they can solve rather than the problem that need to be solved. So that's where there's a differentiation happening that everyone wants to work on machine learning and most of the people are actually taking solution to your problem rather than taking problem finding solution for a problem which is relevant. So,Rob:39:21I think that's pretty fair because,you've got to get some sort of belief internally and if you can prove that you've got kind of a before and after, here's what I did to make this decision or the wells that are drilled in the production I've got and here's what I predicted was going to happen. And you can start to see those two things align. Then you start to get belief in something. If you just use something that's predictive only and you've got nothing to compare it to, it may be the right solution. But do you have the belief that your company is going to run with it? So that's why I think we're starting to see them solve problems that we know can be solved initially rather than the big problem of say, if I shoot seismic here, I can predict how much oil I'm going to produce. That's a big problem and it's at different resolutions and scales than we believe we can solve and, and be definitive about it today. but I think that, I think I agree with you that they're, they're really focused on, on proving that this technology, that analytics that AI/ML is going to work for the problems that they know about.Arvind:40:24Agreed only up to a point is that, the reason and why I think it ML/AI solutions are different is because, in physics, one of our basic assumption is that, if we solve a toy problem, you can scale the same way is the same solution will apply on a bigger problem. That's not the case for machine learning solutions. The solution that is applicable for a toy problem is not going to scale. You need to actually retrain the data and the solution becomes different as the scale of the problem increases. So although it's, interesting to see that a lot of a small problem are very easy problem people are taking to- people are solving a lot of easy problem using machine learning. To show that machine learning works, that's good. But to truly take advantage of machine learning, you have to actually solve, try to solve one of the complex problem because you already have a solution for those easy problems.Arvind:41:40Why do we need machine learning? So for example, ARLAS is a good example. Our analytic ready LAS in which we are predicting well logs from the available, well logs. Now if I have only one well, or a few wells then I actually want my petrophysicist to go through the physics based modeling and solve that problem. I don't need AI to solve that problem. I have actually solutions which works there. If the solution that I need is that how to solve this problem on a scale of Permian basin or a scale of U.S. So like what we have done for ARLAS that the first basin we started was Permian is where we took all the data that we have as a training data or actually a good portion of that data as a training data set. We build that model, which is actually based in scale model that can actually ingest all the like 320,000 wells we have. So we used thousands and thousands of well as a training build a very robust model to actually solve that problem and now that solution is available for the whole basin. That's the kind of solutions that are problem that AI is good at solving and has actually best potential not for solving few wells. Learning about AI by solving a few wells is great, but as a product or as a true application of AI, we need to actually look at tackling the big problems.Rob:43:11Yeah, I agree. There's been a lot of, shall we say analytics companies that come out with a claim of being able to perform some sort of machine learning basis and they've got a great interface and everything looks really good. And the story behind it is that it's been taught on five wells or 10 wells in our learning set was in the tens of thousands of wells, which is why I believe in the data set that we've built.Arvind:43:40At a very high level, machine learning is like teaching a kid, like someone has come out of graduate school and they want to actually learn something and you are showing them this is how we actually do. The more things they see, the better they will get, the more experience they will have and the better their capability or work will be. So it requires the, the whole concept of machine learning or AI is that you want to actually train with massive amount of very high quality data set and that actually solves more complex problems.Erica:44:18How do you discipline data?Arvind:44:22So you are saying that did- have you talked to our lead data scientist and he calls him to himself a data janitor, that most of the time he spent is cleaning of the data and organizing the data so that he can actually do the high quality like the machine learning AI work. So if he spends his time like out of a hundred hours, 60 or 70 hours- so he's actually organizing, categorizing data set so that he can do the fun stuff in the last 30 40 hours. I mean that's actually, that's better than a good, most of the places where people spend 90 hours doing the curation and 10 hours doing the fun stuff. And that was one of the reasons why we had to build the data lake because one of the thing is that we need all the data to be readily available in a kind of semi usable format that I don't need to spend time learning about the 2003 data is different than 2015 data versus 2018 data.Arvind:45:34I need to actually consume it as one big dataset. So last whole year we spend actually considerable, considerable amount of time and effort in building our data lake in which we actually took all of our commercial legacy, data set and moved it on cloud. The two things that we did is one we standardized the data set so that lead data scientists don't have to spend on doing janitorial of data janitorial work and a second is creating metadata. So what Metadata is that aggregate information.Arvind:46:06For example, Arvind Sharma what is the Meta data about Arvind Sharma um, that he is five feet 10, I don't have a lot of hair. (Laughter) He drives some car and he, he has gone to- he has a PhD like so some aggregate information like out of her, like rather than cell by cell information about Arvind, what is the minimum, set of aggregate information that you can use to define Arvind. So that's the metadata about any data set. So what we did when we are moving this a massive amount of data set into our data lake for each of these data set, we extracted this aggregate information that where it was recorded, when it was recorded, what are the basic things done to this data set? What is the maximum amplitude in this volume? What is the minimum amplitude in this volume? What does the average amplitude in this? So those things we actually use it because a lot of analytics is that some of the higher level analytics will be about integrating the information about data set, like Facebook uses information about people to make some of the decision. We are not that creepy as that Facebook, but (laughter) it's, it's like taking the information about the data set and actually learning creating knowledge about the basin.Rob:47:37It's interesting when you were talking about the data janitorial work and how we've kind to standardize our data set on the, on the cloud because it kind of brings it full circle back to something you said early on. And that was that we want our customers to be able to get to that decision making point sooner without having to do all that data, janitorial work. I've been going to data management conferences for 25 years and I hear the same thing every year for 25 years. I spend "fill in the blank" percentage of my time, 60 70, 80% of my time looking for data and the remainder are actually working with it. That's what an analytics ready data set it's going to allow us and our customers to be able to do is not have to do all that janitorial work, but actually get to the point where I can actually start interpreting what that data means to me to make decisions.Erica:48:30So looking towards the future of the industry, do you think we're going to continue to ramp up in terms of speed and getting to the good stuff, the fun part? Do you think that's going to continue to logarithmically increase?Rob:48:44Probably faster than we can ever imagine. I think the, I think the change that we saw with companies moving to the cloud companies going toward, service based solutions, companies moving toward high volume, normalized consistent datasets, all of these things have been moving at light-light speed compared to what they were, the, the past 25 years. Up until today, every day about probably about every three weeks. We basically, have got some new technology that's been released that we can start adopting and putting into our workflows that wasn't there three weeks, three weeks prior, open source. It comes back to that topic as well. More and more of these tech firms are putting the data out as open source means we could leverage it and get to solutions faster. So to answer the question, absolutely faster than we can possibly imagine.Erica:49:28Well, awesome. I cannot wait to get to this future, with both of you.Erica:49:41Well, thank you so much for talking with us today. Being part of our first episode of Beneath the Subsurface, it was an absolute pleasure. If our listeners want to learn more about what TGS is doing with AI, you can visit TGS.com You can visit our new TGS.ai platform and, we'll have some additional show notes on our website, to go along with this episode.Arvind:50:06Thank you Erica.Rob:50:07Yeah, thanks a lot. 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