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The Certain Growth of Both True and False Christianity - Matthew 13:24-43The different branches of Christianity are like that air-conditioner unit – great when working biblically, but troubled by holes that arise in the unit. Some sin and false teaching problems are like bigger holes that reveal problems quicker, but even little problems cause eventual trouble. In today's parables Jesus warns us to expect this troublesome reality.Matthew 13:24-43In Matthew 13's parables of the Kingdom, Jesus reveals that His spiritual kingdom will grow between His first coming and His return to set up a physical kingdom. In the ‘church age' we are now in local churches become spiritual ‘embassies' of the coming Kingdom.Last week we studied the Parable of the Sower. The Parable of the Sower shows 4 different responses to the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the Parable Jesus urges us to make sure we truly understand repentance and faith as we crown Jesus the King of our life and go on to bear fruit as His subject.The Parable of the weeds in the field - V. 24-30, 36-43So far we have learned that God is actively working in the world to bring people to Himself, and Satan is actively working to keep people lost.Here we read that Satan has another strategy to keep people lost – outward forms of religion without the true new birth in Jesus experience. Verse 38 says the Devil is the one who sows the weeds among the wheat.The Greek word for weeds/tares is zizanium. Scholars believe Jesus was referring to darnel (lolium temulentum), a poisonous weed that bears a close resemblance to wheat right up until the ears of grain appear. It is actually called “false wheat” by those who have had to deal with it.The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. - John 10:10These verses do not mean there is not a place for church discipline – in Matthew 18 we will see that there is. But it should serve as a rebuke to the growing number of zealous Christians who spend more time ‘weed-eating' then they spend sowing, planting, and watering wheat.Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” - Matt. 19:28In the parable of the weeds, Jesus makes clear that outward forms of Christianity will include both true and false Christians. Make sure that Jesus really is your Lord and Savior. The Parables of the mustard seed & the leaven - V. 31-33Some take both parables to illustrate the phenomenal growth of true Christianity; Some take both parables to illustrate the phenomenal growth of false Christianity; And many, like me, take the first to illustrate the phenomenal growth of outward forms of Christianity in churches and denominations, and the second to illustrate the pervasive inward growth of false teaching in those churches and denominations.What Jesus said in the parable of the mustard seed has become true – the few dozen people gathered around him as He gave the great commission in Matthew 28 have grown to over 2.4 billion people on earth.In the parable of the leaven, Jesus is warning about how false teaching will also be a formidable problem as outward Christianity grows.Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” - Matthew 16:6Evangelical beliefs include those who testify of the new birth in Jesus and who believe the Bible is totally trustworthy and is our final authority.Jesus told us that false believers and false teaching would proliferate even as true Christianity grew. So don't be surprised and don't be Barney Fife as you interact with others. But do keep personally growing in grace and truth, and speak the truth in love to others.

Grateful for our Community - Ep 311Rock Solid Families • 00:28In this episode of the Rock Solid Families Podcast, hosts Linda and Merrill Hutchinson reflect on the second annual Rock Solid Families Partnership Banquet. They express gratitude towards attendees, sponsors, and the community while discussing the mission behind Rock Solid Families, which focuses on supporting and strengthening family units.Celebrating the Banquet•Event Overview: The banquet was a success with over 300 attendees, building upon the success of the previous year. The theme of the event was “Bloom Where You're Planted,” symbolizing growth and community resilience.•Community Participation: The event showcased a diverse group of individuals from various backgrounds, including business leaders, educators, and family support organizations. The mix of attendees highlighted the united effort in advocating for strong families.Key Takeaways from the Banquet1. Community Strength2. Collaborative Efforts3. The Role of Truth and Faith4. Acknowledgment of Challenges5. A Call to ActionFuture Expansion Plans•New Location: Rock Solid Families is expanding to include a new location at the Lawrenceburg Care Resource Center, slated to open in May. This facility will be a collaborative space with other non-profits, enhancing their ability to support families.•New Staff Additions: They are hiring a male coach, Andy Dalton, to help address the needs of young men and fathers in the community. This addition aims to strengthen their outreach and support services.Support the show#Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy, #marriagecounseling, #parenting, #faithbasedcounseling, #counseling, #Strongdads, #coaching, #lifecoach, #lifecoaching, #marriagecoaching, #marriageandfamily, #control, #security, #respect, #affection, #love, #purpose, #faith, #affairs, #infidelity

Passage(s): Genesis 25:7-8, 19-28In and over everything, in creation and redemption, God is sovereign.

Episode OverviewLeo Zacky's background and motivation to run for governor @ 3:39Leo Zacky comes from a family with a long history in California's agriculture and business. He grew up around the family's poultry company, Zacky Farms, and gained firsthand experience in business operations and lobbying government. This experience, combined with his concerns about the state's decline and the 2020 election, motivated him to run for governor of California.Challenges facing California businesses @ 9:54Leo discusses how increasing regulations, taxes, and costs in California made it difficult for his family's business to compete, ultimately leading to its closure. He cites issues like the ethanol mandate, minimum wage increases, and environmental regulations as major hindrances to businesses in the state.Regulatory changes to support businesses @ 12:23To support businesses, Leo proposes lowering taxes, easing environmental regulations, and reforming utility and transportation policies that have driven up costs. He believes these changes will allow businesses to grow and create more jobs, ultimately benefiting the state's economy.Addressing the exodus of residents and businesses from California @ 14:56Leo identifies crime, the high cost of living, and poor governance as the key drivers behind people and businesses leaving California. He plans to tackle these issues head-on through common-sense solutions to make the state safe, affordable, and well-functioning again.Leo's vision for California's future @ 24:28In the next decade, Leo envisions California becoming a thriving economic powerhouse, free of the current problems like drought, homelessness, and crime. He believes his leadership and solutions can restore California to its former glory as a desirable place to live, work, and do business.

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Centering Ourselves in the Coming Messiah| Advent IV Isaiah 61:1-4 & John 1:6-8, 19-28In our desperation for all that is broken to be restored, we are tempted to grasp for control and try to bring about this restoration ourselves. When we let go and center ourselves instead in Jesus our coming Messiah, we can experience the love and the safety we so desperately long for, even now as we wait.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

November 25, 2023Today's Reading: Introit for Pentecost 26: Psalm 39:4-5, 7-8, 12a; antiphon 2 Peter 3:13Daily Lectionary: Jeremiah 11:1-23, Matthew 24:1-28In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth,the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The end of the world is going to happen and Christian's and non-Christians believe it.  We love to stream shows depicting a zombie apocalypse.  The world hears warnings of financial collapse or global warming,- burning our world up.  It seems that we can all agree that this world will come to an end. But how? Peter assures us that the Day of the Lord will Come; in the Lord's time, with destruction for the ungodly, but salvation for the faithful.Do we have the same attitude toward the end as the rest of the world? No! Every week we get to say that Christ will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead (Nicene Creed) – it could be any moment.  The good news is that Peter says: “the Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” In Jesus and His forgiveness you are ready, you are prepared, let us pray come Lord Jesus, come quickly. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.Zion hears the watchmen singing,  And all her heart with joy is springing;  She wakes, she rises from her gloom.  For her Lord comes down all-glorious,  The strong in grace, in truth victorious;  Her star is ris'n, her light is come.  Now come, Thou Blessed One,  Lord Jesus, God's own Son,  Hail! Hosanna!  We enter all   The wedding hall  To eat the Supper at Thy call.  (LSB 516:2)- Pastor Kent Schaaf is pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, Little Rock. AR.Audio Reflections Speaker: Pastor Jonathan Lackey is the pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, Vine Grove, Ky.Study Christ's words on the cross to see how you can show more Christlike grace in your life. Perfect for group or individual study, each chapter has a Q&A at the end, and the back of the book includes a leader guide. Available now from Concordia Publishing House.

Podcast: TRAP: The Real Adviser Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 29 - Invest Like Norwegians WouldPub date: 2023-09-28In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discussTopical issues, including Rugby World Cup updates, Messrs Smith & Hart recap HUM Cape Town, AIM investing woes, Progressive Planners Conference, Future You (again), Nucleus buying Curtis BankMeat and Potatoes: What Norway Can Teach HNWs (and their advisers)Questions posted by our beloved TRAPists www.twitter.com/@jlaws4  https://twitter.com/principlespf Culture CornerLinks referred to in the show:Norway Sovereign Wealth fund: https://www.nbim.no/CW: Solar 21: The tale of 3000 clients, 300 brokers and €26 million in “fees and broker commission” https://thecurrency.news/articles/117655/risky-business-will-solar-21-investors-accept-a-hair-shirt-to-avoid-catastrophe/AH US Credit Card Debt breaks 1trillion https://www.carsongroup.com/insights/blog/why-1-trillion-in-credit-card-debt-isnt-a-bad-thing/NL Bank of England launches hunt for ‘unconscious bias' in finance industry https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/25/bank-england-launch-hunt-unconscious-bias-finance-industry/#:~:text=The%20Bank%20of%20England%20has,a%20diversity%20and%20inclusion%20push. Another reason why the UK stock market is declining, as we discussed in EP17 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2056762/12602273AH - Nick Murray Books - https://www.simplewealthbooks.co.uk/ AH - Downfall of the Crypto King - Extended Version - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gffn3y CW: Another (!!) High-Performance Podcast: David Smith: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/facing-death-taught-me-how-to-truly-live-with-david/id1500444735?i=1000628192924Take part in the conversation! We want YOU to suggest topics and questions you'd like the Trap Pack to answer. The best way to do this is to ask them here. Help us to help you! The more followers we have, the more we can do stuff going forward. So please: Subscribe and Like our YouTube Channel Leave a 6/5 star review on iTunes Share TRAP with your peers and colleagues 'Enjoy' the Twitter chat at @AdviserPodcast. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alan Smith; Andy Hart; Carl Widger; Nick Lincoln, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: TRAP: The Real Adviser Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 29 - Invest Like Norwegians WouldPub date: 2023-09-28In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discussTopical issues, including Rugby World Cup updates, Messrs Smith & Hart recap HUM Cape Town, AIM investing woes, Progressive Planners Conference, Future You (again), Nucleus buying Curtis BankMeat and Potatoes: What Norway Can Teach HNWs (and their advisers)Questions posted by our beloved TRAPists www.twitter.com/@jlaws4  https://twitter.com/principlespf Culture CornerLinks referred to in the show:Norway Sovereign Wealth fund: https://www.nbim.no/CW: Solar 21: The tale of 3000 clients, 300 brokers and €26 million in “fees and broker commission” https://thecurrency.news/articles/117655/risky-business-will-solar-21-investors-accept-a-hair-shirt-to-avoid-catastrophe/AH US Credit Card Debt breaks 1trillion https://www.carsongroup.com/insights/blog/why-1-trillion-in-credit-card-debt-isnt-a-bad-thing/NL Bank of England launches hunt for ‘unconscious bias' in finance industry https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/25/bank-england-launch-hunt-unconscious-bias-finance-industry/#:~:text=The%20Bank%20of%20England%20has,a%20diversity%20and%20inclusion%20push. Another reason why the UK stock market is declining, as we discussed in EP17 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2056762/12602273AH - Nick Murray Books - https://www.simplewealthbooks.co.uk/ AH - Downfall of the Crypto King - Extended Version - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gffn3y CW: Another (!!) High-Performance Podcast: David Smith: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/facing-death-taught-me-how-to-truly-live-with-david/id1500444735?i=1000628192924Take part in the conversation! We want YOU to suggest topics and questions you'd like the Trap Pack to answer. The best way to do this is to ask them here. Help us to help you! The more followers we have, the more we can do stuff going forward. So please: Subscribe and Like our YouTube Channel Leave a 6/5 star review on iTunes Share TRAP with your peers and colleagues 'Enjoy' the Twitter chat at @AdviserPodcast. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alan Smith; Andy Hart; Carl Widger; Nick Lincoln, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Gate 15 Podcast ChannelEpisode: The Gate 15 Interview EP 38: Jeff Troy, President, Aviation ISAC, on public service, cybersecurity, understanding threats (and… colonizing the ocean?)Pub date: 2023-08-28In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour visits with Jeff Troy, President, CEO at Aviation Information Sharing and Analysis Center (A-ISAC). Over the past five years, Jeff has led the Aviation ISAC, a trust-based community focused on the sharing of threat intelligence and best practices. He has developed the strategic plans, driven the team's expansion of services and overseen extensive growth in membership. He established relationships with global regulators, industry associations and private sector companies to drive cyber risk reduction across the aviation eco-system. He co-authored a white paper on Ransomware and continues to partner with international groups on the ransomware threat. Concurrently, Jeff is on the National Defense ISAC Board of Directors. Jeff spent 25 years as a Special Agent of the FBI. He served as Chief, Cyber Division, and retired as the Deputy Assistant Director for Cyber National Security and Cyber Criminal Investigations.  ·       Jeff on LinkedIn. ·       Email:  jtroy@a-isac.com ·       Web:  a-isac.com   In the discussion we address:  ·       Serving in the FBI and ideas for young people thinking about their futures ·       Transitioning from the public sector to the private sector ·       Key ideas on how to building a successful information sharing community ·       Understanding how to think about threats ·       Responsibly and thoughtfully reducing risk and building reslience ·       Blended Threats ·       The importance of patching and baking security into technology ·       The upcoming Aviation ISAC Summit in Ireland ·       The Ocean State ·       Deep ocean colonies ·       More!   Some links from our discussion include: ·       Aviation Cybersecurity Summit, 12-14 Sep 2023 in Dublin, Ireland ·       NBC News: FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed, 27 Jul 2010The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gate 15, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

[24 MAY 23] BCP: UNFILTERED! Season 3, Episode 40. Run time: 38:28In the episode:Rigged Arizona 2022 Election update A corrupt judge once again ignores blatant election fraud Kari Lake isn't giving up! Update on Abe Hamadeh's case: Let every vote count! Trump's attorneys letter to the very corrupt DOJ The Deep State openly interferes in the 2024 election Desantis makes it official today on Twitter Tucker Carlson is NOT running in 2024 (or ever!) Jayapal calls for people in the streets McCarthy and Biden impasse Trump News2024 Election NewsDebt Ceiling UpdatePLEASE SUPPORT OUR WORK AND PICK UP SOME MERCH: www.TheRealBCP.store ( https://bcp-merch.creator-spring.com )

Podcast: TRAP: The Real Adviser Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 18 - Critical Non-EssentialsPub date: 2023-04-28In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discussThree glowing reviews of the podcast, read by Andy in his inimitable styleTopical issues, including the possible return of annuities; Colin Lawson's fresh approach to realising business capital; resolution of the Neil Woodford fiasco; Irish Life causing ripplesMeat and Potatoes: Critical Non-Essentials: refining the client experienceQuestions posted by our beloved Anon (!) and David MilneCulture CornerLinks referred to in the show:Colin Lawson The Elegant ExitBuilt on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England's Money Hardcover – 4 Mar. 2021Critical Non-EssentialsAlex Hormozi book - $100m offers $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No: Amazon.co.ukPodcast The Bank of Dave Fighting Against the Elite - David Fishwick Tells His Story The Bank of Dave Fighting Against the Elite - David Fishwick Tells His StoryHow to Invest David M. Rubenstein How to Invest David M. Rubenstein UK RPI Charts: UK Retail Price Index (I:UKRPI)FT Adviser Podcast pushing annuities: https://pca.st/te9yp8ylNeil Woodford payout over suing: Taking Woodford payout ‘will mean you cannot sue'All In Pod featuring Space X launch https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e125-spacex-launch-fox-news-settlement-zombie-corn/id1502871393?i=1000610141959Irish Life launch Unio Irish Life owner launches new wealth management advisory firm - Independent.ieStephanie Bogan on delivering a Michelin Star client meeting https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deliver-michelin-star-client-experience-four-steps-stephanie-bogan/Horst Schulze on Twitter https://twitter.com/horstschulze?s=20Nick's Ten Minute Loom Tech Masterclass: Take part in the conversation! We want YOU to suggest topics and questions you'd like the Trap Pack to answer. The best way to do this is to ask them here. Help us to help you! The more followers we have, the more we can do stuff going forward. So please: Subscribe and Like our YouTube Channel Leave a 6/5 star review on iTunes Share TRAP with your peers and colleagues 'Enjoy' the Twitter chat at @AdviserPodcast. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alan Smith; Andy Hart; Carl Widger; Nick Lincoln, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: TRAP: The Real Adviser Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 18 - Critical Non-EssentialsPub date: 2023-04-28In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discussThree glowing reviews of the podcast, read by Andy in his inimitable styleTopical issues, including the possible return of annuities; Colin Lawson's fresh approach to realising business capital; resolution of the Neil Woodford fiasco; Irish Life causing ripplesMeat and Potatoes: Critical Non-Essentials: refining the client experienceQuestions posted by our beloved Anon (!) and David MilneCulture CornerLinks referred to in the show:Colin Lawson The Elegant ExitBuilt on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England's Money Hardcover – 4 Mar. 2021Critical Non-EssentialsAlex Hormozi book - $100m offers $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No: Amazon.co.ukPodcast The Bank of Dave Fighting Against the Elite - David Fishwick Tells His Story The Bank of Dave Fighting Against the Elite - David Fishwick Tells His StoryHow to Invest David M. Rubenstein How to Invest David M. Rubenstein UK RPI Charts: UK Retail Price Index (I:UKRPI)FT Adviser Podcast pushing annuities: https://pca.st/te9yp8ylNeil Woodford payout over suing: Taking Woodford payout ‘will mean you cannot sue'All In Pod featuring Space X launch https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e125-spacex-launch-fox-news-settlement-zombie-corn/id1502871393?i=1000610141959Irish Life launch Unio Irish Life owner launches new wealth management advisory firm - Independent.ieStephanie Bogan on delivering a Michelin Star client meeting https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deliver-michelin-star-client-experience-four-steps-stephanie-bogan/Horst Schulze on Twitter https://twitter.com/horstschulze?s=20Nick's Ten Minute Loom Tech Masterclass: Take part in the conversation! We want YOU to suggest topics and questions you'd like the Trap Pack to answer. The best way to do this is to ask them here. Help us to help you! The more followers we have, the more we can do stuff going forward. So please: Subscribe and Like our YouTube Channel Leave a 6/5 star review on iTunes Share TRAP with your peers and colleagues 'Enjoy' the Twitter chat at @AdviserPodcast. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alan Smith; Andy Hart; Carl Widger; Nick Lincoln, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Whether it's Sean Connery, Roger Moore or others portraying James Bond, or Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the "Mission: Impossible" film series, we find ourselves sucked into the world of espionage thanks to the spy genre of television shows and movies. In this week's episode of Streamed & Screened, hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz have a brief discussion of the genre to set up a conversation with Guy Pearce, the star of "Spy Among Friends," a limited series available now on MGM+. Read more: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis ponder betrayal with 'Spy Among Friends' About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was generated by Podium.page and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: 0:00:03Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened in an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and cohost of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, I I wanna pass you a note. I've got some secrets. Do you have any secrets? Can you share anything? Yeah. Send me a text. Okay? That might be the best. 0:00:28In the old days, you know, spies were so much different because they would sit on a park bench and they pass an envelope between each other. Right? Right? Now it's like we're hacking into systems and we're going to we always you notice how they always have that clock that counts down until the file is uploaded, and it's like, oh, is it gonna happen? Is it gonna happen? Well, there, all you had to worry about was did somebody grab the envelope or are you just letting it go? So it is a different world. 0:00:57And there's a new mini series or limited series, whatever you wanna call it, that has been airing in Great Britain already, and it got huge reviews. They loved it over there. It's called a spy among friends. And we're getting it now on MGM Plus. And it is the the sort of true story of Kim Philby. You probably have never heard of Kim Philby at all. But he was a traitor to Great Britain. He was a spy, but he was getting information from Russia. And when they found out that he was defecting to Russia, they sent his friend to try and talk to him about all of this. And, like, would you keep this information? I don't know how I could ever be a spy because I talk too much. And I think I I would tell too much. But that your your best friend could not guess that you were gonna be a traitor. And, you know, wouldn't you have dropped some kind of message about this? I find that just really hard to believe. Yeah. But but yeah. And that was a big scandal in the sixties. And people remember the name Kim Philby because he was this trader who went to Russia. And he was very well known. Today, it doesn't graze the radar. People really don't know who he is, or who his friends were. 0:02:17But the film, which kind of looks at the class system that's very popular in Great Britain, tries to explain all of that by that because there was a group of young man who thought that they were if you will, better than other people because they went to the right schools, they had the right majors, they had the right connections, their parents were probably somebody. And as Damian Lewis says, they dabbled in communism. And so they thought that this was kind of a cool thing that we could do, and they wouldn't be caught for anything like this. Well, Kim Philby, didn't just dabble. He was doing a little bit more with all of that. And I got a chance to talk to Guy Pierce who plays Kim and he was talking about acting acting and acting as a spy. How much acting is involved with all of that? Do you really Do you feel you need to pretend all the time? And he said this class system is something that kind of it didn't matter. You didn't have to do that because they just accepted whatever you were doing was just temporary, and they were allowed to do that. And he and the the creator of the series, Alexander Carey, talk about how this is kind of important again today. Because we're seeing a class system that's being created in just all parts of the world, where some people think they're above the law, and they don't have to worry about consequences. And then others who don't don't seem to be able to catch a break no matter what. That's fascinating. 0:04:00What's your general thought on on spy movies and TV shows in general? Do you do you enjoy them? Do you get sucked in? Oh, you know it. I I it's strange how something like James Bond has changed so drastically. Because in those early days, you know, with Sean Connery, maybe Roger Moore, who didn't they did a lot of things that was they they were just conversational. That's how they got their information. And then they started getting all those toys. And then they started having gadgets and, you know, I mean, come on. Where do you find all this stuff? And how would you be able to create all this? And then you have all these kind of inched people. How do you keep anything from somebody else that they wouldn't know? Today, it's so over the top. Look at how, you know, it takes several years for somebody like Tom Cruise to make one of his spy films. So it's a it's a different game. I think it's changed. But I think they suck you in all the time because you always wonder That was the bad guy. I'm not really sure I know who the bad guy is. 0:05:06Did you see the spy a couple years ago. That was the one. It starred Sasha Baron Cohen, you know, who everybody knows is Borr at, but he did a really serious take He played Eli Cohen, who's a Israeli, and he was spying in the nineteen sixties. And ultimately was caught, but it was the the true life story and it was a very serious role for him. But it was a real fascinating look into into espionage. 0:05:36Could you be a spy? I thought about it. I I think I could. Really? Yeah. I don't know how you do that in school, where you say, alright, I'd like to go on the spy track, please. Could I please take those classes that are necessary for that? I I couldn't. I know I couldn't. Because the I mean, I can keep a secret, but I don't think I could like the Americans, I don't know I could do what they did, where you just suddenly assume new identities and live among people for years, and then you're kind of trying to get a little bit of information out to the others. I don't know that I could do that. At some point, I would break. 0:06:12And I think where they always go wrong with these kinds of films is they have families. Right. And I think a true spy has no connections. That's why you see James Bond as such a good spy. Because he always seems to be a loner. Once they get him with somebody, then it becomes, uh-oh, I've got to worry about somebody killing this person. You know, to get to me. So if you're as bi, you should be a loner. It never worked out well for for James Bond in those movies because he would he would either meet someone and they would end up dead or they would end up turning on him. 0:06:51Well, could you imagine that this day if you were, like, googling pussy galore, I think it's a reminder. I think it's a reminder. You know, they in when that movie became out, they released trading cards for that movie. Did you say that? No. Because I I wasn't born back numbers, but but they changed the name of that character to Kitty Galore because we couldn't we couldn't go that. It's a little too dirty for the kids back in the sixties. So, yeah, that that was always kind of fun, Goldfinger. But, yeah, I I don't know if I could be a spy. 0:07:29Like, it it always sounds cool, but then you think about, well, you got all these crazy secrets. You can't settle down with the family. Somebody's gonna keep a secret in your own house. If you get kids, come on. They don't have work. They do. Right? 0:07:43I always wonder too when watching things like mission impossible. You know, that that that this recording will self destruct in ten seconds. But it it goes up in flames. Nobody notices that. Nobody sees this, like, flaming package that's sitting next to you on the train and and it does it not set off as smoke alarm? 0:08:02You know, for many years, studios would send out DVDs of their films. And they would disintegrate. I mean, after you had watched it once, you couldn't watch it again. And they always said, well, that's how they should have done that stuff. Because a tape recorder that's burning yeah. That's not gonna happen. Not a problem. That might that might raise a couple of red flags. 0:08:25Well, and you could never rerun. You know, you never could go back and look at a scene again. You saw once. It's on your computer. That's it. It's done. Now you can go back to screening lengths and go back and see things if you wanna look at the more than once. 0:08:39But yeah. So the spy world? No. The the best best thing about me is I couldn't remember anything because I think I've learned so much in my lifetime. There's so much crap in my head. That we have to we have to empty the trash at some point to try and remember these things. So if you put me under oath and had a lie detector and everything hooked up, I'd be good because I couldn't remember a darn thing that you'd told me. 0:09:04Does did Guy Pierce talk about at all? Like, how he how he researched for this. Yes. You're using. He did. And and that's that's in the interview. I want you to listen to the interview, you know, talk to some of the kind of research he did. And how it would kind of work for him? How he would be as a if he could be a spy? So there's a lot of interesting things there. I think you should unpack it. It's not that long. 0:09:29We have Guy Pierce and Alexander Carey talking about a spy among friends. Can a spy really have a friend? I think I think friendship is the main currency of of spies. I think that I think I think I mean, it's a good question because on one side of the relationship, yes, that question is pertinent. On the other one, it's pertinent in a different in completely the opposite way. Yeah. It it just it struck me as if I were a spy, I would not be friendly with anybody. I would just let it go. But there also is an element of acting that's involved. And Guy, would you make a good spy? Well, look, I I may make a good spy, you know, on the surface, but I mean, of course, I can work as an actor on screen but it's never a life or death situation. I don't know how I'd I don't know how if I've got the Hutzpa to to, you know, act as well when I know that there are lives or countries or at stake. So probably not, I think, is the answer. 0:10:40How does spies operate today when there's just so many ways that the truth could come out? Is it a a whole different world and what? Because the the sixties is kind of a a a real romantic period at at least for spies. Well, you're I think in the sixties, human intelligence, in other words, human to human getting information in sort of bars and on park benches and all the rest of it was a reality. And and was the the the the the main way of of getting and passing information these days. There's a lot more of sort of cyber espionage and all the rest of it. And I think you'll find that in various intelligence agencies. There are also still two factions. You know, there's the there's the one that goes, well, human intelligence is really the only the way that you're gonna get the definitive stuff or the stuff that's gonna be, you know, keep on giving. And then there are people who are gonna go, no. Let's just put a drone up. So so So, you know, they're very different these days. But Yeah. But that's the friendship thing. The friendship thing is important for a spy. Yeah. It doesn't seem as much fun, but maybe I'm wrong, never been a spy, can't can't weigh in. 0:11:52Guy, how much did you read about him before you actually started doing this? Did you know much about him or not? I didn't know a lot. No. I mean, I'd seen a couple of films that had been made and I'd seen a documentary once about the Cambridge five. So I didn't know a lot. I knew of Kim Filby, of course, but knew no detail about about him really and certainly knew nothing about this relation it between he and Nicholas Elliott. 0:12:17I read a number of books before we started and through the course of making the show. One in particular, I think, was a was a helpful piece, which was written by Eleanor, his third wife, his American wife, the wife that he was with in Beirut when he when he left. She wrote a book that that that looked at some of the letters between the two of them, you know, that published the letters between the two of them through that time. So there was something personal and human about the way she wrote. And so that was an interesting little way in for me into into Filby. But, yeah, I read I read bits and pieces of all sorts of things before we started. But of course, I always would would come back to the the script. 0:13:07And at a certain point, I find I have to sort of let the let the research material go. Were there things you could relate to? And did you like him at all or not? I never know the answer to the liking question because whilst making I'm so in I'm so embedded in into him that I lose myself in a way. So it's not necessarily that I have then have an opinion of him. I'm I'm I'm so sort of, yeah, lost in trying to just become and understand him. I think the bigger question is is is whether I understand him and and, you know, I'm that's what I'm searching to do through the process and and, you know, you can probably only understand any character, you know, this much at the best of times when you're dealing with someone like Philby, you can probably only understand him this this much because he's a mystery to everybody. So it was a complex and challenging process. Yeah. Well, thank you. Both it's been so exciting to watch this unfold. And I'm just playing dumb through the whole thing. I'm not I'm not looking ahead to find out anything. I don't wanna know anything, but it is fascinating. It's a a different world, a different time. So thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thanks, Bruce. Nice to meet you. Alright, Bruce. Thanks for that interview. A fascinating discussion there. 0:14:37Did you get to talk to anybody else from that Phils from that series. Who is who plays the friend that, you know, has to try and talk to this Kim Philsby. I did get to talk to him. And I do have a story Maybe you can add a link to this. And if you don't wanna read, you'll see some more stuff from him about this whole project. But it's a six part limited series on MGM plus. And, Eric, could you do anything this next week that I worry about? I'll know you're a spy. Sounds good, Bruce. So we'll have a link to that article in the show notes of this episode. And otherwise, we will see you next week with another episode of streamed and screamed. Have a great one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke 13:22-30 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.' 26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 27But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!' 28In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Sermon: Our ConfessionMark 8:22-28In this series ‘I Will Follow', we dive deep into what it truly means to follow Jesus, developed out of the gospel of Mark. It is meant to challenge The Remnant to broaden and deepen our culture of discipleship. And by answering the question, WHAT does it mean, and WHAT does it look like to "actually" follow Jesus? First, we identify and define the WHO we're following and the WHAT we're building.It's easy to respond to the question "Jesus" in a generic, moralistic sense. It's another thing to answer the question he asked the disciples in Mark 8:29; "But who do you say that I am?" Not with just with words but with all that you are.Are we following Jesus as Christ, as King, as Lord? Or is our discipleship, our seeking of him, generic, leading to a generic transformation? A transformation without any real depth, growth, or longevity?The language of discipleship is specific, and it's heavy; let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. To reference Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "there is a cost to discipleship."Throughout this series, we will discuss and discover the WHO, HOW, and WHY we give ourselves to the following of Jesus as KING (LORD).My definition of discipleship for this series is simply the daily practice of surrendering our WILL to the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST.The book of Mark is constructed like any good screenplay, separated into three acts. Acts 1 & 2 we'll cover in the first part of our series. The final act we'll cover in the second part of our series. Act 1 takes place in chapters 1-8 in the region of Galilee, and the overarching theme is introducing the characters and posing the question, WHO IS JESUS?The final act occurs in Jerusalem, where Jesus reveals the answer to the question asked in Act 1. He is the Christ, the Messiah. The promise of WHO HE IS is revealed; it's fulfilled. The second act takes place on the way to Jerusalem from Galilee, and its theme revolves around the disciples' struggle to understand WHO Jesus is.I hope that the clarity in which we see Jesus and the Kingdom he's established will lead to a more profound desire to build a way of life rooted in HIM. Will you follow?Mark 1:1-15 ESVThis is a continuation sermon of the series called I Will Follow: Part 1.This sermon was recorded on February 5, 2023.

Show Summary: "After I finished my second liver cleanse, my eczema and acne were completely gone. My hair started growing, and my energy was back. I could get out of bed in the morning and wasn't falling asleep at one o'clock anymore. At last, I could see many significant shifts happening.”Motherhood can be a lonely and difficult journey, especially if societal expectations bombard women about how they should look and feel. After each childbirth, one may experience extreme fatigue, postpartum depression, chronic yeast infections, thyroid dysfunction, weight gain as well as other ailments.The harsh reality is that when most mothers seek answers for various symptoms, doctors often dismiss their health issues as normal, and worse, they are not trying hard enough to lose weight. This experience can leave desperate mamas feeling isolated and frustrated, not knowing where to seek help.Today, our guest is Sarah Williams, one of the pioneer Gutsy Health members. She shares her life-changing journey after committing herself to the initial process of liver cleanse. Giving birth to her third child has caused her to suffer from disruptive changes to her mind and body. And after a heart-wrenching doctor's appointment, she became determined to take charge of her health. In this episode, you'll learn how she became an expert on her body by studying how it works and paying attention to its signals. Hence, it is also essential for other moms to realize how knowing their post-birth bodies can be empowering.Discover how you can love your body for healing. Tune in to Episode 55 of the Gutsy Health Podcast!Exceptional Highlights:A decrease of 1.5 points in the Hemoglobin A1C marker is considered significant as it indicates a substantial improvement in blood sugar control.Parasites can change brain function, sex hormone production, and thyroid function, reducing testosterone levels in men and impairing fertility in women.Show Highlights: The liver plays a role in regulating blood glucose levels and processing sugar, as well as controlling the immune system.Sarah Williams 07:40A liver detox helps reduce symptoms such as eczema, autoimmune issues, spikes in blood glucose, and changes in eye size.Ketamine therapy has drastically improved her relationship with her body, her perspective on weight, and overall wellness.Sarah Williams 15:22Ketamine alters neurotransmitters in the brain, which may cause visual hallucinations that can help overcome negative thoughts and internalize positive changes.Aside from improving digestion and elimination, parasite cleansing has other powerful benefits.Sarah Williams 27:28In addition to producing energy, mitochondria play an essential role in parasite cleansing. Brain fog, anxiety, and menstrual cycles are regulated and become less painful.The body possesses incredible intelligence that resulted from a billion years of evolution.Juanique Roney 43:06Hasten your healing by quieting your mind and listening to your body's message.Get 20% off your first order of Resist Nutrition Bars, a powerhouse snack for hormone and blood sugar regulation. Order yours at www.resistnutrition.comSponsor Link:www.resistnutrition.comImportant Links: Gutsy Health Liver ResetThis is Your Brain on Parasites

Disciple Up #280 Stewardship, Pt 4, Marriage By Louie Marsh, 10-19-2022   LESSON #4 - Disciple Up #280   Marriage   “21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” (Ephesians 5:21, ESV)   “22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.    25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” (Ephesians 5:22–28, ESV)   “29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” (Ephesians 5:29–33, ESV)   The word submit isn't in verse 22. Most scholars say it's implied. But is it or is there an alterative way to see these verses? The church is supposed to be a place a mutual submission. The Greek is in the middle voice, which means you do this to yourself. It's reflexive not something done to you by others. The husband has an impossible command to live up too. No room for your ego!   Wives are called to submit (?) to their husband's loving them like Christ. They must serve their mate in love. Husbands are called to love their wives in self-sacrificial ways like Jesus did. Nothing about ego, power or pride here – it's all about serving your mate in love. THIS is Biblical stewardship – caring for the mate God has given you.      

18And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives and Husbands 22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a] 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body.31Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children and Parents 6Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. 4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants and Masters 5Bondservants,[b] obey your earthly masters[c] with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. 9Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master[d] and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Ephesians 5:21-28In this episode we discuss some "recent" news stories and what we can learn from them. Lesson #1-Read Your BIBLES!!!! 

Matthew 23:13-39 13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to." [14]15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are." 16"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.' 17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.' 19You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it." 23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel." 25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean." 27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." 29"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!" 33"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagoguesand pursue from town to town. 35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation." 37"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Podcast: The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: SBA 319: How to Secure Your BAS Part 1Pub date: 2022-02-28In this episode, we begin our discussion on how to secure your building automation. We will explore, potential threats to a building automation system, how to assess risk, and common cyber security controlsThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Phil Zito Building Automation and Systems Integration Expert, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Luke 13:18-30 (ESV) The Mustard Seed and the Leaven 18He said therefore,What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?19It is likea grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches. 20And again he said,To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?21It is like leaven that a woman took and hid inthree measures of flour, until it wasall leavened. The Narrow Door 22He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching andjourneying toward Jerusalem.23And someone said to him, Lord,will those who are saved be few? And he said to them,24Striveto enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.25When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying,Lord, open to us, then he will answer you,I do not know where you come from.26Then you will begin to say,We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.27But he will say, I tell you,I do not know where you come from.Depart from me, all you workers of evil!28In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you seeAbraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God butyou yourselves cast out.29Andpeople will come from east and west, and from north and south, andrecline at table in the kingdom of God.30And behold,some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.

#28In this episode Vicky Wang joins me to address the effect of anti-Asian sentiment on Asian ( particularly Chinese) teachers in their schools and classroom.  Vicky Wang began an initiative, along with several colleagues, called Courageous Dialogues with Chinese Educators.  Vicky Wang is a Chinese Language and Culture Teacher in Maryland.  She helps us understand how anti-Asian language, actions and microaggressions have increased throughout the Covid Pandemic.  Vicky provides actionable suggestions for Asian (particularly Chinese) educators to confront these issues and for allies to support Asian colleagues and student.Vicky speaks specifically about:the inspiration to create a space for courageous dialoguesmicroaggressions and how are they damaging, particularly regarding Covid-19 and Chinese teacherssupport and resources are available through Courageous Dialogues With Chinese EducatorsVincent Jen Chin and why 1955 is included in the CDCE social media handleempowering Chinese educators, and essentially any teacher, that is marginalized or targeted by microaggressions or disrespectful languageConnect with Vicky Wang and Courageous Dialogues with Chinese EducatorsTwitter: @cdce1955, @VickyAndiWang"From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement"  by Paula Yoo.Connect with Joshua and the World Language Classroom CommunityWork with Joshua either in person or remotely.Sign up for Talking Points, my weekly newsletter with tips, tools and resources for language teachers.wlclassrom.comTwitter:  @wlclassroomInstagram:  @wlclassroomFacebook:  /wlclassroomWLClassroom Facebook Group

And Disneyland is Hosting a Super Bowl Party as Well!Lunar New Year Celebration is Back at Disney California Adventure Park, Now Through Feb. 13, 2022Ring in the Year of the Tiger during the Lunar New Year celebration at Disney California Adventure Park.This event runs through February 13, 2022. It's a tribute to Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean cultures with a touch of Disney magic, featuring Asian-inspired food and drinks, vibrant décor, keepsake merchandise and exciting entertainment!This year, “Mulan's Lunar New Year Procession” introduces a new float that Mulan and Mushu arrive upon, accompanied by traditional Chinese drummers with powerful rhythms and performers bringing cultural artistry and dance to life. The Paradise Garden Bandstand has daily live performances featuring traditional musical instruments, along with Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese folk dancers. Keep an eye out for Disney characters at the Paradise Gardens Gazebo, where you may see Tigger, Mulan and Mushu, Mickey and Minnie, and the Three Little Pigs – all dressed in their festive best.Raya, from Disney's “Raya and the Last Dragon,” is making her official debut at the Disneyland during the Lunar New Year celebration. Raya is greeting new friends under a forest canopy deep in the heart of Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. You can also stroll beneath strings of ornamental lanterns at the Lucky Wishes Wall to share your own wishes of hope, health and happiness for the Year of the Tiger. Plus, enjoy complimentary arts and crafts, such as coloring a “Dragon's Pearl” and Chinese calligraphy with local artisans.Of course, special Lunar New Year merch is available while supplies last, including an adorable Mickey Mouse plush, Spirit Jersey, tees and tumbler.And to go along with that, festive Lunar New Year Marketplaces offer a wide array of Asian-inspired dishes with a Disney twist. Here's the Foodie Guide to Lunar New Year 2022 at DisneylandIf you want to dine, then you may want to consider buying a Sip and Savor Pass, which gives you six coupons, redeemable for select food and non-alcoholic drinks at participating Lunar New Year Marketplace kiosks and dining locations.Longevity Noodle Co. (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; Sip and Savor Pass available)Food Items: Garlic Noodles: Long noodles tossed in a zesty garlic butter with Parmesan cheese *Spicy Pork Dandan Noodles: Pan-fried noodles with ground pork and spicy tri-chile sauce Beverages: Salted Pistachio Cold Brew featuring Joffrey's Coffee & Tea Co. French Bistro Blend Coffee Pale Ale with mandarin and bergamot zest Novelty: Lotus Flower Glow Cube (Sip and Savor Pass not accepted) Lucky 8 Lantern (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; Sip and Savor Pass available)Food Items: Shrimp Fried Rice with garlic bacon edamame *Beef Bulgogi Short Rib on rice with green onion salad Beverages: Peach Yuja-Ade: Peach syrup, yuja, dragonfruit, lemon, and butterfly pea flower tea Soju Peach Yuja-Ade: Soju, peach syrup, yuja, dragonfruit, lemon, and butterfly pea flower tea Lager Novelty: Lotus Flower Glow Cube (Sip and Savor Pass not accepted) Prosperity Bao & Buns (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; Sip and Savor Pass available)Food Items: *Char Siu BBQ Pork Bao: Pickled red onions and jalapeño Mickey Chinese Hot Dog Bun: Brioche-style Mickey-shaped buns stuffed with hot dog and finished with sesame seeds and scallions Beverages: Prosperous Tiger: Vodka, cream of coconut, bitters, triple sec, mandarin purée, vanilla bean Lychee Celebration: Gin, prosecco, lychee purée, lychee syrup, grapefruit juice, and yuja Bamboo Lager Novelty: Lotus Flower Glow Cube (Sip and Savor Pass not accepted) Red Dragon Spice Traders (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; Sip and Savor Pass available)Food Items:  *Spicy Three-Cup Chicken served on a bed of jasmine rice Impossible™ Lion's Head Meatballs: Mini plant-based pork meatballs served with cabbage and Shaoxing wine reduction Mickey Purple Sweet Potato Macaron: Red macaron filled with purple sweet potato buttercream and crème fraîche center Beverages: Dancing Firecracker: Pineapple juice, guava purée, spicy honey syrup, hibiscus syrup, and lime juice Jasmine Tea Lager Novelty: Lotus Flower Glow Cube (Sip and Savor Pass not accepted) Seasonal Cart (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; Sip and Savor Pass available)Food Items:Mango-Pineapple PieBeverages:Mulan Sipper with assorted Coca-Cola bottled beverage or DASANI bottled waterSeasonal Cart in Redwood Creek Challenge Trail (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13)Food Item:Brown Sugar Steam Bun: Brown sugar steam bun topped with blue cream cheese icing (New) Beverages: White Hot Chocolate: Blue white chocolate topped with toasted marshmallow whipped cream and purple sugar (non-alcoholic) (New) Warm Apple Cider Cocktail: Hot apple cider, spices, and cinnamon whiskey garnished with a cinnamon stick and a caramel rim (New) Studio Catering Truck (available Jan. 10 through Mar. 01)Food Item:Hoisin Pork Sliders: Marinated pulled pork on Hawaiian rolls with apple slaw (New)  Beverages: Green Tea Slush: Almond milk, green tea, and vanilla (non-alcoholic) (New) Lemongrass-Ginger Lemonade: Lemongrass, lemon juice, ginger, and mint (non-alcoholic) (New) Lucky Fortune Cookery (available Jan. 21 through Feb. 13; 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Podcast: Control System Cyber Security Association International: CS2AIEpisode: 06: The Continuous Adaptability and Improvement of Cybersecurity with Professor Harry WingoPub date: 2021-09-28In today's episode of (CS)²AI Podcast, Derek Harp is joined by Professor Harry Wingo, a full-time faculty member at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., U.S., where he serves as Chair of the Cyber Studies Department within NDU's College of Information and Cyberspace. He has more than 25 years of government and corporate leadership experience, including 15 years focused on information and communications technology law and policy. Harry has served as President and CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, Senior Policy Counsel at Google, Counsel to the Senate Committee on Science, Commerce & Transportation, Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and an Associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Before his career in law and technology, he served for more than six years as a Navy SEAL officer. Harry will share the incredible journey of how he got into cybersecurity and his insights and views regarding the talent shortage in the industry, the importance of diversity and inclusion for the future workforce, national cybersecurity defense in an ever-changing environment, and the overall challenges the industry continually faces. If you're really interested in cybersecurity like Derek and Harry are, this is one episode you won't wanna miss.Show Highlights:Starting out as a Navy SEAL and transitioning into law and technology which led him towards specializing in cybersecurity (01:20)Growing up as a nerd with an interest in some of the earliest computers that were there (05:10)The boxing coach who facilitated his exposure to the SEALS as a possible career route (08:30)How being in the SEALS enabled him to pursue his consistent interest in information and communications (11:00)Working for the Federal Communications Commission as a special counsel to the general counsel, and being involved in the development of policy and legal frameworks around spyware and other cybersecurity issues (16:22)Why and how the cognitive side of cybersecurity came crashing into the forefront (22:04)Diving into how to protect networks, make sure they're defended and how to conduct cyber warfare in consistency with international law (28:00)The importance of finding champions/mentors who take an interest in us and never letting go (32:42)Getting guidance on what your life purpose is through the Ikigai concept (35:05)Automation and AI: Up-to-date advice for anyone who's looking to get into cybersecurity as a career (42:47)Links and Resources:More about (CS)²AIRebooting AI By Gary Marcus and Ernest DavisArtificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans By Melanie MitchellThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Derek Harp, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Strong connection between baptism, your life, and your marriage. Daniel and Danielle were also baptized today. Ephesians 5:21-31 (Evangelical Heritage Version) 21 …and by submitting to one another in reverence for Christ. 22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he himself is the Savior. 24Moreover, as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, by cleansing her with the washing of water in connection with the Word. 27He did this so that he could present her to himself as a glorious church, having no stain or wrinkle or any such thing, but so that she would be holy and blameless. 28In the same way, husbands have an obligation to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29To be sure, no one has ever hated his own body, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be one flesh.”

In this episode, David and I discuss the dreaded conspiracy theory about the Earth being flat! Apparently I am an "in the closet" flat earther... For the record, I do not believe the Earth is flat. I hope you enjoy and thanks for tuning in!  Check out David's work: Flat Earth Sun & Moon Clock app: https://qrco.de/bbizVA 102 year old Ruth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wt5qSwinIs&list=PLEzivhxtxgbv2hEBOrfkjHnRnpbH9hlXR&index   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6s_ScG0PZThdwhKsUFSRw/videos   Please shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome to another episode of the 101 podcast today. I'm your host one. And today we have a special guest, David Weiss. I said it. Right. Right. You did. You got it. Awesome. We're going to be talking about something today that I visited before and it always seems to trigger people for some odd reason when you can the whole thing and in the dog mall around this subject, we're going to talk about a little bit. We might get into religion when I get into conspiracies. And obviously we talked about a conspiracy, but this conspiracy want you talk to people. 00:01:13They lose their ship, but you can come out and say, hey, 9/11 was an inside job with people. Yeah. That is an inside job. The Earth is flat. And God isn't real. It's almost the same. I think so. Where did can you share your your social media or anything that you want to share for the people where they can find your work? And I can post that in the description as well before we dive into it cuz I really want to talk to you about. This is my YouTube is the initials for deep inside the rabbit hole. It's just ditrh the initials for deep inside the rabbit hole and my podcast is the Flat Earth podcast. And I also have an app which will help you understand what the Flat Earth is. Because the people that are upset at what they think it is, don't really, they have a misconception of what it is and they really don't even know what the globe model is. So we're driving to that as we go along and see what 00:02:13And soda kick off the show. This is a question. I asked everybody. 00:02:19First-time guest who is David Weiss? 00:02:23Who is David Weiss? I am, I am a guy at a successful? Businessman. I was in Corporate America. I started my own company about 7 years ago, ran that for Yale five, or six years and the flat-earth kind of got a hold of me. And I and I realized that I got to leave. I walked away from a great company, still a great company. I'm just no longer there and I'm doing this full-time, trying to spread the light of the true Earth to people because as we go along, for those of you that are new to this, you going to throw up your hands and what is the matter after week debunk point? After point after point that you think proves the globe? Is it? What difference does it make? And I'm going to tell you what difference it makes. 00:03:09So, can you give us before we get into all the nitty-gritty stuff. Can you give us obviously Flat Earth. It's in the name, but can you give us the gist and and just a simple breakdown before you get any more deeper into it? What Flat Earth is? What is the Flat Earth model? So 00:03:29Sure, let me get. Let me share my screen here. I'm going to show you a little model of how it works, what it is and it'll take about two minutes. I'll go through it. You can stop me at any time. I'm, can you see that? I cannot get the I bet it up. You got to just activate it. 00:03:49You double check is yes. In the Flat, Earth by Googling it. You ended up with the Flat Earth Society and that showed you a disc floating in space, and a whole bunch of other bullshit. And none of that is what any of us believe. So, that's a gatekeeping government-controlled site to control your mind and make you laugh and flatter. The Flat Earth is like a big lake in Kansas. Imagine a lake ten miles across a circular Lake and inside that Lake. You have all of these islands and all these islands are the continents in the center of the lake. You have a North Pole. Just imagine a big tall magnetic mountain in the center of that Lake and 00:04:39You can Circle the lake. If I turn on this Compass, hear you, can you can Circle the lake East and West. Those are circles like, I'm here in America. And if I want to go west 270°, I'm following my compass. I think I'm going straight, but I'm turning. I'm going to hundred and seventy degrees, West, West, West, West, West West West. I'm back to where I went at circumnavigated. That does not prove that the Earth is flat cuz that works the same on a globe, I can go. You see see see see all the way around back to where I was. I can't even go from you know, the United States in a straight line. I'm going north, north north north north, bypass the center. I'm now going south, even though I'm going in the straight line. I'm over in Japan, Indonesia, and I just crossed over the North Pole. That's not circumnavigation either. That's not proving either. You can do that my ball and I'll Flat Earth. What you can't do on a flat Earth is go sell from let's say I go from Santiago Chile. I go south and Papa. 00:05:39Brand New Zealand, or I go from Johannesburg, and I go south which is anyway, away from the center and pop up over New Zealand. You can't do that on the Flat Earth. And the funny thing is nobody's ever done it. 00:05:52Nobody's ever gone, South circumnavigation, Antarctica, is the highest land on Earth. So it's holding its Shoreline of this world Lake. Here. It is the shoreline of Antarctica that hold in the world, the Waters of the world, and they put some people call it, the ice walls, not the ice wall. Like like the ice wall on Game of Thrones. It's the shoreline and it's higher than all of the other land on Earth. You get there. There's a 200 High foot ice wall and then you get up and there's this ice plane that goes on for hundreds of miles. And then there is a mountain range that's taller than Everest. Okay? That surrounds the whole thing. So what's beyond their? We don't know it's off limits and we can talk about that if you want a little bit. But so you have this, this Salt Lake water lays flat. What is the other at the 70% water? What large bodies of water arrest? Lay flat? 00:06:48So the sun let's meet up circles around once every 24 hours. There's your 24 hour time zone and it lapse the moon. You can see it's getting a little ahead of the Moon there at last the moon, once every 28 days. Okay, and that sets up all of that sets up all of the phases of the moon. But slow it down. And I turn on the Stars, the stars are going at almost the same speed as the Sun, but those fixed stars, all the constellations. They're going slightly faster. So they laughed the sun once a year that way, the sun will move into the the sign. That's right behind it or move into each constellation about once a month cuz it's going slightly faster. So that's why the sun is in a sign for about a month out of the 12 signs throughout the year. So the Stars keep track of the seasons, the moon keeps track of the months that the Sun. 00:07:48Keep track of the hours that the sky is a perfect clock. And if we lived in this crazy nonsensical, beehive heliocentric mess, none of that will work. I will get into that in a minute. So on this app, I can turn on. I could turn on the world time, and this will show you this ring. I'll show you right now. It's 9 a.m. In Eastern Australia and it's 5 a.m. In South Africa, and I'm right here in United States, its 6 p.m. For me and I'll be right beside right? It is my app is called The Flat Earth Sun Moon, zodiac clock app. And the reason I'm pushing this app is because this app will teach you about the Flat Earth cuz Google will not teach you about a date 5 years ago used to build a search and see all the great Flat Earth information out there. But now it's all hidden and you'll get just propaganda. You get Flat Earth Society, you get, none Center get hit pieces. You get National Geographic. 00:08:48Light pieces were there it was where they're clearly lying, but I'm in the app. I have the frequently Asked question page. And you know, you can say you know, hey, where is The Edge or are, you know, what about ships over the rise? And that proves that the Earth is flat or you know, you are all the pilots in on it or if you know why the lie that's going to be? That's the big one. Did you click any one of these? Not up,, not only one video but a whole playlist of videos that answer those questions. So all of your questions are answered their it also has no other other platter show. Other shows that will give you good information on the top right corner. We got Crow Triple 7 radio better than any college University. If you want to learn the ways of the world you have globebusters 24/7 and the last area that stuff about mud floods biblical Flat Earth for people that want to know like how does this relate to the Bible? It's truly amazing. Different playlist for different languages. 00:09:48I'm for your non-english-speaking friends and the store real quick. Let me just show you how The Season's work. And then I'll, I'll stop screen sharing the right now. We're heading to the Isle of the winter. Solstice. The sun will be at its farthest point. Not its lowest point, but its farthest point from us. In the inner North it's going over this outer yellow line on December 21st, and that's the Tropic of Capricorn. We've all heard that but it's not a circle at the bottom of the ball. It's a circle on the Outer Edge, you know, of the tropical Zone. And then six months later. If I jump the sun 6 months in addition to the Future. It'll be over the Tropic of Capricorn, on June 21st, right now, it's June 15th to go to the desk, and it's right over the Tropic of Cancer. I'm sorry. The Tropic of Cancer and it's the inner Northern summer cuz the sun is closer and because it's closer, it looks higher in the sky. We have longer days, just jump back out. 00:10:48To today's date. We're having our winter now because the Sun is far from us. And the outer Southern lands are having their summer. Is very simple. It has nothing to do with despite little tilt of the earth. If you want to talk about that more, the tilt of the earth doesn't, cause he's in. So, here's the last thing on this, on the bottom left. It says, every day. There's a new future video. Yo, you click the video. I just short ones during the week longer ones in the weekend. I say, take the Flat Earth, app challenge, watch a video a day for two weeks and you will know you don't live on a spinning ball flying through an infinite universe and your whole life will change. What happens. What is, I'll get emails from people saying, hey, I watched you on the the, the one on one podcast and I bought your stupid app, and I took the challenge, but I didn't want to wait till I hit that little red button next to the Future video, to go into the archives. And up comes all of all of the videos that were as it loads all of the 00:11:48Videos over the last month and you hit that little hamburger at the top, all of the other months. I haven't slept in two days. My partner thinks I'm insane. I hate you. You know, what do I do now? And I say, welcome to flat and this is the beginning of more. I'm blasting is. If you click the weather up top here, bring to the dark sky. Everybody needs a weather app, all sorts of stuff. You can do with customizable, backgrounds, you going to settings, I can pick a different background. You could also go down and you can share it with a friend. You can check out the T-shirt shop. I got great stuff, including this covid-19 t-shirt, and then I have to pick one of those of us for you do and there's all sorts of ways to customize. I can hide the countdown timer and you just customized, you can customize the way it looks and what it does. It's $2.99. 00:12:47And you get everything. And that's, that's it. And I recommend for those of you that have it, share it with a friend, cuz there's nothing better than turning into a loved one, or a good friend into a flat earther. Would you agree with that? So, that's a lot that I want to ask you about that. Let's, let's talk about this as far as cuz my whole take on this is, obviously it's history. It's his story. So the To the victor, the spoils, and it seems that everybody throughout all of history that has had something else to say, as far as the main narrative is either been killed or pretty much, that's it. Right. So some people over to take others excetera excetera, but the point is, they always try to silence the people who say otherwise from the from the, the main 00:13:47You think so? 00:13:50My issue with the globe. Then again. I have a big ass telescope behind me and I have a picture of a nebula. Cuz I've I've personally I've seen the celestial bodies for 10, right? I've done after he talked to me and and it's just hard for me. And I mean, I said I didn't get episode with with Mark and to begin with. So, 00:14:15What it what are the celestial bodies as far as from the Flat Earth model perspective? Good question. And the answer is because we can't get up there. We don't know how big their, how far they are or what they're made of. We don't know anything. The only thing that you could honestly truthfully say, is that there lights. I don't mean like a lightbulb. I mean their lights because there's light coming off a time. That's all we can say. No, if you think about it, you know, they tell us Mars is Dusty dirty, you know, planet is reflecting sunlight in the Mars's, way farther from the Sun than the Earth are. So the sun is way smaller. So it gets a lot less like the weekend, but somehow that light is able to reflect off the dusty 30 surface and come back and shine down on Earth where Mars looks brighter than any star in the sky. Think about that. It makes zero sense. I'm with you on that because the problem with these conglomerates of of companies in these entities write these governmental entities. And all these corporations is that we're only here. 00:15:15What? From One Source, I can't go up into space and confirm for you that the world is Round, right? I'm only being fed, and I just find it hard to believe that in two weeks. You can undo this whole indoctrination of a full. Let. You know what I mean? So in for the night, the two weeks out here where I where I drove into is that we was talking about the challenge and challenge. Another 2 weeks will tell you, there's something wrong with the ball. I took two weeks and I tried to prove the globe. That's how I became a flat earther. If you take it seriously and try to prove the globe, you're done your toes. You're flat out. What do you want to be your not? I'm a lot of people will just, you know, they can't handle the emotional strain of that. But let's just look at the people that tell us the Earth is a globe. These people right here, these guys, I went to this Dusty dirty ball, the moon. Okay. Well, when we have a full moon, it's this bright. Okay, this bright bright moon, is 00:16:15Did we buy it in the middle of, you know, what away from the city lights at bright? When you light up a, a, a ball with a single-source light, the sun ball, a moon. It has a hotspot, and then it should fade out. But that's not what we see. This moon is lit, edge-to-edge. Almost like there's a light inside of it and it's like a light bulb, but I'm not saying that's what it is. I'm saying, the Moon is not reflecting sunlight. It is its own light. Okay, it is, it is producing a cold light to the whole nother topic. But if you learn about the inverse Square law of light, if you go half the distance to the moon, it's four times as bright. If you go half that distance to the moon, it's 16 times as bright. If you go half that distance, it's 64 * 2 quadruple. Every time you have the distance. Okay, let's call the inverse Square law. Light in the same thing is when you go away, it cuts down by by four times. 00:17:15So, if you look at the moon at the brightness, it is, if it was one Lumen, which is this is this moon is way brighter than one Lumen and you went all the way up to a hundred miles to the Moon. It would be like 10 million lumens, which makes your eyeballs and cook, you okay. Know your argument is, they wouldn't have been able to take that picture on there because they would be at the light source is it would be well, know, if it was reflecting sunlight, whatever. I'm not saying what it is. I'm saying for us to see the moon, the brightness that we see it. It would have to almost be the, it would have to be 10 million lumens ever, get the 20 million lumens, whatever it is. It's ridiculous number and right here, you know, if he's in a Dusty dirty ball, so that shows deception right there. Okay. 00:18:03Here's two photos of from Pluto. Write the number of Jupiter. I'm sorry. Thank you for correcting me. So, so, the first one is NASA took this in 2016. At the book. We saw these amazing Aurora's. Look at this Aurora, we talk. I mean, you have to laugh. Even if you don't know how to use, Photoshop on what a crappy job. That is what the problem is. The one, the picture that the NASA, these are both NASA photos from 2 years earlier. If you ladies over each other, every single little crinkle storm. Cloud is exactly the same and that's the telling us that those bands are spending a different directions. Those storms are moving that. It's a cash is liquid crazy planet and nothing changed in two years. It would change in 2 minutes guy, that tells you NASA is lying. Did you know that? 00:19:01Pluto, the planet it was discovered the same near Pluto. The dog was created right now. I don't have the the Pluto picture but handy but I'll do it. This is the picture that was on everyone's iPhone was called the Blue Marble and everybody thought it was a photo of the Earth. But if you look at all of these clouds are stepping repeat that, now, those are the same clouds the same clouds. Okay, the same clouds in there. They're these are just some of them and the guy the NASA visual artist that made it Robert Simmons said in an interview that he made it from strips of day that he created any hidden commands. Do you a lot? So they admit they have no photos of our Earth. 00:19:47Okay, they admit they they lie about those, the photos of other planets. What else do you need to know that everything? The NASA tells you is a lie. I can get behind that. I'm a hundred percent behind that. I've talked about the the government being, it's not out of the norm. We we've caught the government line before we've caught the government doing fuckedupshit to its people. Before we leave. That's been proven MK Ultra. You have the tuskeegee experiment. You have the government trying to insinuate Wars with the Bay of Pigs. You have the 2003 Baghdad the weapons of mass destruction. That's a whole another conspiracy theory on its own. 00:20:28But why would, what is, what is it about the round earth? And this is what I always think about, just to go deeper into what is it about the rounder that they will? Why would they hide that? Why would they? They keep the glass and intentionally hide the, the the, you know, the the Earth? Why would they mislead us to think that the Earth is round vs. A flat model? What is the the reasoning behind that? We have to go there right now we have to cuz when I think about all this everything you're saying I'm 100% on board with you. I guess. This is what I talk about all the time on the show. I want to go deeper and I want understand on a deeper level for this is the latest picture of Pluto. This one I'm pointing to okay, the Cassini spacecraft. I think it was that doesn't matter cuz they're all fake. I was going at 60 thousand miles an hour way out at Jupiter, where we're at that distance to the Sun looks like a star and it was well enough lit at 60 thousand miles an hour to take that photo, which happens to have this little outline on it, which kind of resembles Pluto more than just 00:21:28Okay, this is an official photo from NASA. Right? I believe that that NASA the whole reason up their name masses because they couldn't name themselves. The Nazis right. Date-date. They could intentionally say Nazis. They had a wall. I mean, what's the closest agency at the Hollywood studio? They don't want anything in the space except little model rockets and blimps that's a whole nother show. But, you know, they feed us cartoons. They, they admit, they don't have any photographs. They never use of the word, the name, the word photograph. They use the word picture and image, because those are photographs and they hate lying, but they're, they're deceiving us. So we can jump into. Why, why would they lie? And the answer is because they want you to feel insignificant. They want you to think that you are a random accident. 00:22:28In a infinite Universe spinning out of control on a speck of dust with billions of others of specks just like yours where an asteroid could take you out any second where we sources are low, where there's no out, no other place to go and you are powerless, accident, freak of nature versus knowing that you are at the center of creation that you are special, that you are powerful and that we are here. Having a Soul's Journey where there is more, there's probably more land. There's more continents. There's other worlds across the Earth, plane know, extraterrestrials are people from the extra Terra across the land Beyond Antarctica. 00:23:20Yeah. Yeah, I can get behind. It's like what's that movie? The Truman Show that I was going to say that there's nothing else to discover Truman. It's all been discovered. No hands a quote that he says that he doesn't look at the very end. It's a you only believe whatever you're giving are you, are you believe the world is presented to you. 00:23:44Let me find that Cobra. I love that much, a really good movie. And so you talked about the, the spaceships and the satellites. So what is it bad? That they're launching up into? Is it still considered the atmosphere? Can we call it the atmosphere? Or I do believe there's a dome, and I think there's some sort of do more roxies. You can count that. You can say atmosphere. I don't need to change that word. Some people call it the atmos plane, but there's you know, how they tell us. Space is a vacuum. Okay, and that if there's a hole in the spaceship you all the air gets sucked out and you got home, okay, but 00:24:29It breaks the second law of Thermodynamics. The second law of Thermodynamics says, you can't have high pressure next to low pressure. Let alone a vacuum without a physical barrier. Okay, you can't do it. So we live in a high-pressure world then and there next to a infinite, most powerful vacuum that we can't even recreate on Earth without the NASA. Vacuum chamber adult has 11 foot thick walls, of lead, you know, so it doesn't impact implode on itself and they still can't get it to the vacuum that they say space is why doesn't the vacuum of space? Just sucked all the air off the earth. And the only after the globe Believers have is gravity, gravity is holding down the air, you know, when it gets thinner and thinner until there's no, where it's bullshit because that any 00:25:15Altitude, I can get a straw, I can point it down. I can just live the week, vacuum of my lungs, sucking some air or even suck up some water, which is heavier than air and pull it up and away from Gravity effortlessly. Okay. So the gravity is not holding the air down, we are in. Now, the way I look at it is you will see a bubble on the bottom like you do if your pot of water and you got a bubble on the bottom, like when you're boiling water through the bubbles on the bottom live in that bubble, you know, we we I think that's space is liquid of some sort. At least that's what it appears to be. That's what, y'all many things point to the Bible on the first place of the page of the Bible. Not that I'm a Bible guy. But it says that the god separated the waters from The Waters. At with the firmament. There's lots of evidence of it. I don't believe space is a vacuum though. So do we actually need a physical barrier? I don't know. I don't know. 00:26:14Yeah, and that, that quote was we accept the reality of the world with which were presented. It's as simple as that and that stuff from The Truman Show also movie. And so yeah, there's also the plasma universe theory, which should I just hang of it? It's almost like when you said then when you when you separate water and oil, it doesn't make. So you've got that barrier. Almost. Is that what you trying to get out like that? If you look at the, the bubble on the bottom of a pot of water, there's really no physical barrier there. It's just the water separating from the water below, you know, from the bottom of the pan, Which is the Earth and it's holding up the water. The pressure is holding up the, what I think about this, When does the, when does it rain it rains? When we have a low pressure, a hurricane is really low pressure and then the water really play it. Well, that's measurable. When there's low pressure. There's a lot of rain comes in. So maybe that water is coming from the cloud. I mean, you've been in a real heavy rain storm. That's a lot of 00:27:14Get a bucket of water 5 gallon bucket of water. That's heavy is fuck. Okay. Well those clouds that planes can fly right through. You know, any of the pounds of water. Are you fucking kidding, you know, how much, how much a cloud weighs millions and millions and millions of tons. Yeah, and it's like, I didn't fucking floating above you. I was, I was out fishing with a friend of mine. So, you know how much like always? I was like, I don't know, we Google, it was like why you said millions of tons or something like that on my next time you fly through a pile. Cloud watch the windows on the plane. They barely get. Damn. Yeah. Okay, you're not flying through water. You know, that it's it's nonsense. So there is a transition up there between the waters above and the reality blow again. I don't know how it works. But when there's low pressure these, these these rivers of water come out of the sky, and then they hit those high winds and they get scattered. And you have the Gardens Denver. 00:28:14Hurricane, it comes down and sheets and rivers. It's crazy,. Florida, man. So it's not just floating above your head willy-nilly. So again, and they're lying about everything. They're lying about the water looking to tell us that the water started soon. There's not a water shorted, you know, the clouds that the evaporation condensation and precipitation is secondary water. Primary water is below us and above has its infinite in nature yoga. Be discovered primary water and was pumping it all over Africa until we blew it up. That's why he's dead, you know about the river. I didn't know about that because it gets Island somewhere another yet. So this is what wars are all about. Wars are about stopping people from knowing our true Origins. I'm going to be for 2 minutes. 00:29:14So good after he was in his search for oil and is always company country. Discovered an infinite Christine ancient Waters deep underneath the desert until he started, the largest aquifer project in the history of the known history of mankind, and he was building these. These Aquaphor pipes, you know, that you can literally drive trucks through. You have dug into the desert and he was pumping water all across Africa. He was any family that wanted to start a farm, he would give them, you know, tractors seeds, land, water, show everything you need everything you need to grow organic farm and is organic farms are popping up all over Africa. He was going to feed all of Africa, it took him forty years to complete this and then Hillary Clinton and gang went in and blew it up with the pleated uranium bombs the guy. 00:30:06It's on my channel ditrh. There's a video called just look up. Khadafi. Great man-made. River 5-minute video. You'll get, it'll, it'll tear you apart when you see what? What really happened and that is being wiped from the Internet. It's so hard to find the information about these farm. So happy we were all shown a, I'm a little older than you just. He was a horrible man, and he spoke in the UN and you I don't understand whatever language is Biggs livian and and that he's got that angry. Look on his face. He's able dictator were called and everyone just thought he was horrible stories about him. Raping girls. All nonsense. Khadafi walk through his treats and people hug him, not for fear of death because they love him. He was the great brought in my mind, the greatest leader of all time and his his speech that the news put off as just as horrible Decatur basically was saying that the new 00:31:06Call daughter is going to take over the world with a virus in the shell, in the, in the 20th, and 19th century by Century. Whatever yard, where is that? What is it? Just check out my channel. I have a Khadafi playlist, the, and if you can, also check out, I think it's on stoplookthink.com, and under a moammar Kadafi page. Nothing. Wild. It's on fucking real, but what an awesome guy and he was pissed. And so he's the first one that broke away from the petrodollar, you know, because we had a deal that all oil had to be traded through the u.s. Dollars and he's like, fuck that and he was doing it for Golden are so that along with, you know, discovering primary watering and feeding the world. They they couldn't have that because if people could sustain themselves, they wouldn't need the government. Well, that's why I again Nikola Tesla was onto something maybe. 00:32:06Add some tartarian knowledge of some sort. He was able to tap into the other The Ether, right? And that's why JP Morgan cut off his funding and Addison took all the credit for his work. You know, I'm familiar with that. But a question because I like when when conspiracy theories and our arguments conspiracy arguments, when they when they connect is Hollow Earth and flat related. Can they be so holler? Or if you thinking of a hollow ball with the world inside a ball again? That's ball thinking you have to clear that out of your head. What makes more sense is? Is there an underworld? Very possibly, I believe that there is I mean, there's definitely mud flooded underworld. What's that? So, you know, how do you know everybody in their science books and says the, you know, the world? And the there's a cross-section of the Earth where it shows all the different layers in the molten mantle, and your magnetic core. 00:33:06Bullshit, it's all made-up nonsense because the deepest hole ever dug on a flat Earth or bullet. Doesn't matter the deepest hole ever dug. And what is that? What happened at 8 Miles? They hit an impenetrable barrier, an impenetrable barrier. So, maybe that's the firmament of the underworld. Okay, and there's some crazy stories of like screaming noises like them. Hell coming out of there again. It wasn't there, don't know. But I I've heard a recording of it and it is really well done. Bakery of something. Or if it's real. It's sounds just like what he'll would be. But 00:33:47Maybe that's where the other one was. If you think about the Flat Earth build mock-up, it makes more sense that there is layers underneath us in layers. Above us, the highest rocket that was ever shot up was the go-fast rocket went. 73 miles is going super fast spinning and all of a sudden when kerplunk into a thicker medium, I don't say is water but it's thicker biscuits medium, it had. And then while it was floating and turning from Arizona, by the way, was shot in Arizona. It's all the moon. Well, the problem is, the moon was directly over Australia. What happened? Okay. 00:34:26How quickly did they turn that off? People didn't notice it, and it's out. It's still on the internet, but that wasn't done by an amateur rocket. So, you know, I don't know what they put out there on purpose. What? What flips out there. I think that honestly was a slip, but again, I'm not there. So I don't know. 00:34:50so, 00:34:52And that you'd know more about this than me. Cuz again, I've I've drove into Fighters before but not nothing too crazy. Just enough to just it just I know I just enough to be dangerous, right? Because I'm I'm up to par with with religion and there's different depictions and there's all these priests 1600 map 1600 the year 6. Inner maps that show different parts of the world that aren't around anymore and they just they attribute that to two errors. We have obviously the tartarian argument where there was this big Empire, but then after that Sequoia was dirt, they all committed errors that they did. They really? Or that all these wars that were happening all at the same with it. All happening, all at the same time because the whole thing with, with the government and we can we can get into that as far as as and again, it gets kind of controversial cuz you start talking about the Jesuits and all that shit, but at the end of the day time itself, Joseph Gallagher, which created 00:35:51Gallagher and chronology literally created the AD and BC system. That was a Jesuit priest, but I'm saying it was a man. You know what I mean? It was one guy who created and is able to keep it cuz how would, you know, like I saw this this article yesterday said that there's a computer that can compute 2.6 billion years and four minutes. What do you know, what 2.6 billion years is? How do you know that in one light year? There's 7 trillion miles. How is it that the Palladium star system is the closest system to the Earth by two hundred light-years away. But then it all looks all the same. You can have a map of the Galaxy. They literally came out with a map of the Galaxy but you can't figure out covid on Earth. Get it. So it's all nonsense. If you look at it, cartoon series equations, and lies it. It's not that you said you had a picture, you know, of the stolen. So Galaxy know you have a picture of some light up in the sky with in the earth system everything we see. 00:36:50In the sky is within the Earth system, you know, they say that that we've known for 500 years ago. They figured it out with sticks and Shadow as well. Guess what? Aristophanes is a made-up story inserted into Rockefeller textbooks in the 1980s. That story didn't exist before the 1980s. Okay. It's it's all nonsense. I interviewed a woman in January of this year hundred and two years old. I was interviewing her about the World Fair's. What's that? No, she went to it and she remembered it only should yeah. Yeah, so I was talking to her and she also was telling me about her 5th birthday party with Susie was upset about the coconut cake or whatever and Susie had a pink dress on. And I'm like, wow, I don't remember my fifth birthday and I was like, wow, she was around back, weird, weird interviewed a woman from Croatia who said that she was taught that the Earth was flat in the 1930s. 00:37:47Anna in school, so I said, where I have to where she went to school. She told me the name of the school, her teacher kindergarten teacher, who was in her class. She remembered all of this shit. And I said, what did they teach you in? Science class about the Earth? And I had never mentioned, but I think she goes. They taught me. The Earth was flat, but then they changed it a couple years later in the 1920s in America, in Connecticut in public schools. They were teaching flatter everyone in the world. Knew the Earth was flat in the 1920s and it wasn't until World War 1 World War 2 and all the other nonsense has put out there that they destroyed history. The world's fairs were I believe were built by tataryan. Okay, and it was the, it was the then then they destroyed those amazing incredible building Acres of this, beautiful architecture, destroyed. And there's there's so much proof out there. Still that will teach you about the Toria in the in the app on that second page on the more resources page. 00:38:47I'm right corner. There's a tutorial button, amazing stuff in there and it it changes all the time. So anybody that gets that check it out here and I got some maps different ideas of what the flat earth looks like you owe this blue one, right? Here, shows an outer ring outside of our world with more confidence. Okay, and perhaps the Sun and the Moon out there, some speculate, as Mars and Venus, Mars is a son in the outer realm, okay. 00:39:18So again, but the reason I asked you about if Hollow earther or flattered that they were late because obviously Antarctica, I always found it. Interesting that they would limit us to write this. This place that nobody owns. Nobody can ever own because of this treaty that they signed nobody's ever done. You can't go out there unguided why you can't venture out and, and there's even talks about pyramids and all this craziness out there and it's like, why would they, why would they do that? Like, why would they, you know what, I mean? Yeah, so and Antarctica, they don't want you to go there because if you go there you will understand that you don't live in a ball. The answers are not entirely. So the people that that are are having cognitive dissonance right now. I'm screaming every 1,000 people to go there 15 different companies where you can Charter a yacht charter you can go on a 00:40:18For of Antarctica, what was 15 companies are owned by the same guy. So there's really only one company while posing as 15 different companies. It would cost you ten to twenty thousand dollars to go for just a couple of days. You go there they'll bring you right to the edge of the shoreline will just bring you to the Shoreline and then we'll show you some penguins will bring you a couple miles out South to show you a pole in the ground will tell you it's a ball but you can't verify it. Cause compasses don't work in GPS, doesn't work and and that's it. There's no independent travel. The Antarctic treaty was made in 1957 and all the countries in the world. With all the bullshit going on in the world signed on and say we must protect the ice and the Penguin. We can't drop a cigarette butt down here. It has to stay pristine, right? That's insane, because environmentalism wasn't even a thing. And, you know, to this very day we can cut down the Amazon forest and plant palm oil trees. It's it's absolute insanity. This treaty is stays in. 00:41:18Play and cannot be questioned by any individual or any Corporation until the year 2041, right? You can't even in the treaty. It says, you can't question the treaty, OK? Google, you can't just go to Antarctica. Eat logistically is almost, it's impossible. But if you want to plan a exploration and then. You got to fill out a ton of paperwork. If I see about $200,000 in applications, and then when they deny you, they keep your money. Okay. So it is we have a video on the app under the 21 questions on there. What about Antarctica? It's called. Sorry, Antarctica is closed and one of our researchers was a lawyer. He did all the research to all of documents and showed you why it's impossible to go to Antarctica and explore independently. 00:42:12Send another question. So that's the South Pole or Antarctica. Obviously, we can't go there. 00:42:19What what's the reasoning? A 10in? What's the reason behind the north pole? Shifting? And then supposedly they have to adjust that every so often. What's up with that? Have you ever have you ever seen the North Pole? She has been told that the people that have Tonya Colvin to think they're the ones that told you. Okay? 00:42:40Wow. Yeah, the thing I posted on my Instagram was like the same people that want you. I want you to believe the elections weren't rigged are the same people that want you to believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself to the same, but the reptilian ask people that that that rule everything and they just sit there and is is the United Nations Flag. Is that Flat Earth? Is that right there? I mean the in-your-face don't go check out this this map. I'm trying right here. This is the world record Guinness Book of World Record for circumnavigation. If you follow that trail there you basically just goes down into into Antarctica and then turns around and comes back. This is let me see what it looks like on a real map. Okay. So this is this is the the the trip that they went. So well. It's coming up. So they went from, they went from the North Pole, you know, they went all the way down south. They went down to Antarctica. 00:43:40I went out a couple hundred miles or whatever that distance is a turned around came back, then they went cuz it backwards so it's hard to make. It went all over all the way over here to New Zealand and then went back to United States. I came early Point not to do this and then up and around. And that counts is circumnavigation. That's the world record for circumnavigation. That's the actual path that they took. Who was that person? That did that? I'm, I forget the name. I had you could look it up and I think it's called the pilot or something. It was paid for by the elite. It's all bulshit said, nobody crosses over Antarctica, you know, if if you want to fly from New Zealand. And if I was going from from south from the tip of Santiago South America, and go over to Australia, which is right behind me here. So, Australia 00:44:35I am, I can see the name all the way up on all the way back down. That's on a ball. That makes absolutely no sense. When the truth is, this is the, the real path. This is the same flight. Pass on that y'all converted on a flat Earth Map. It's a straight line. That's how you go to those places. There's also another route that they take, they do sometimes go around the outside around the around the long way because there is super high-speed winds out there, a mail to 200 miles an hour plus that they can get a Tailwind on. And then they have these special planes that can fly you home at 6, 700 miles an hour. Now that bread that brings you up to around 3 to 9 or 2 miles an hour and all of that make sense, you know, with these flight times. So, so I don't know if you answer my question. What are they launching up into the 00:45:35The flattest, fear, whatever it is, you really want to trigger your audience. Right? I mean this is what this shows all about triggering people. Yeah, so I can say I'm a big Elon Musk fan, I have stocks in Tesla. I love, I love who I don't like to think that he is. I don't like to think that they're using project starting to initiate Project Blue beam and to use it as a, a projection system that they already have. So maybe is NASA and all the space agency's because they talked about needing a space force is all this for the, for the government to launder money. Or what the fuck is all? I can tell you. What was the question you asked me months ago that we're going to look into those rockets work at? We're going to get there in a second. So this is official picture of Earth from Mass. 00:46:35Okay, and you can see we got the United States here and I represented what we're seeing on the face of this globe with this circle here on this map. OK, Google and is on the other side of that ball. 00:46:52Okay, and and and Elon Musk is involved in that seal. Unless he's the CEO of Tesla cost of a Tesla automotive. He's the CEO of the largest tunneling. Companies, the CEO of the one of the most successful solar power companies. Easy was the CEO of PayPal. He's the CEO of 00:47:1208 took over fucking NASA. Okay, he's building rockets that are going to. There's no way a team of 20 people could handle what he supposedly handling. It's all bulshit. He's a, he's a puppet. He's are an idol to worship. He's a moron. You heard what he said? When he lost his stupid, fake are in the space, right? If that looks fake as fuck, but I don't know. What did he say? He said, you can tell it's real because it looks so fake. We would have better CGI, right? So I have mixed feelings about when it comes to Elon Musk because I feel that I feel that cuz he's, he's come on. He said a lot of weird things as far as I quit covid and the simulation that you behind him. Again, let it's like the Flat Earth Society. They throw out a little little piece like all know. He's a good guy. Throws out some bullshit. You know, it it's it's not that 00:48:08Wow, I mean, I love you. I love you mama. And then how about the other guys? You got ya Virgin. Galactic you have also Amazon with Jeff and we break down these rocket launches. They do their it's so it's it's so bad that love the CGI. It's so fucking horrible. It's so horrible. It's unbelievable. These burnikel Landings Landings. On the Drone ships. They cut out, you know, before it landed ten stories tall and weighs like 20, tons, or forty tons empty and a little bit of fire and a little milk. Crates are moving around, you know, are going to are going to steer it on to the tilting and this drone ship. That's Heating in the waves and it's going to land, upright. Are you kidding me? You couldn't. Cuz I'm in Florida. We have plenty of space in. Or what am I looking at? 00:49:08I'm seeing this thing fly in the air and go up towards because I have a video that I can pull up when I'm talking so. 00:49:20I'm going to get into that in a second, but I'm just going to bring up this picture first. Okay, this is we're all traumatize where every kid in the country was wheeled to television into their classroom, when the Challenger what took off and the teacher on there and everything and it blew up and every kid was traumatized and it could kick the can down the road because you have work. And I will tell them space by eating all the year 2000 and in 2010, and in 2014, and 2024, now, and whatever. So, all of these guys died, except we kind of found their twins that have the same name. They all were the universe him. Okay, they say they have an idea that they're not, the person that there is a identical twin. Okay, this guy, Richard Scobee, he's got a company where the logo on his company is a flying cow with smoke coming out of his ass. That does the same Loop Dee Loop that the smoke Trail of the Challenger did. Okay. 00:50:20I mean he's trying to tell you something there but here's the thing. All right, so maybe not to like hiring. Astronauts that have twins that they could study like bone density of the one that went to space in the one that didn't post yet, but I'll give him that none of the twins showed up at any of their twins funeral. 00:50:40None of them so they felt Krista Macaulay at a funeral and her identical twin did not show up at the funeral. Wait till they had that it's proven. They have identical twins. Well, you can deny it but that y'all do it with those videos. Again. We have the videos, this this woman right here. She is a law professor at Yale. Okay, bonds, and this is her when she went up, and there's a video of both of them doing speeches. Yo, her, when she was going to get into space and her at the as a lot better. If they have the same dimple, the same twerking their tongue, the same teeth, the same voice, the same hand Jesters, the same everything. Okay, there's zero chance. It's not the same person. Right? But these people are scamming, you. So what goes out? Let's go back to, you know, what goes up. This is hurting. My this is hurting my head David because I bet if 00:51:39You're talking about kids and this is just NASA. Okay, we got to keep in mind that all these other countries has space programs. What that mean? Why are all in bed together? Is this all just a live-action role-playing game and they're just they're just fucking with us and all these wars and all this shit is is just it's how many battles were? How many people died in an in the battle of the Cold War? 00:52:08I don't got a clue. There's no battles. Nobody died. There was no clothes washed. There is nothing. It's all, they're all in on it together. If you look, now, the Chinese just landed a one-man Craft on the moon, the other day just recently, and they got dust and it came back. Did you watch it? It it what looks worse than the original? Atari space invader. Okay. It's a dumbest crap ever and people just buy it. People hear about it. They don't go and look at it. And when they look at it, I don't know what happens to their brains. They melt because it's the worst crap ever. It's worth South Park. Could do better animation. All right, it was it the Chinese, the Chinese landed, landed on the moon, just the other day and it if you watch the video, it's it's the most pathetic crap ever. So. So let's talk about, let's talk about what what goes up in. 00:53:08Space. All right, so 00:53:14They're launching something because you were seeing these things. Lots. But if you watch the, the one you if you see something completely different than when you see on television and when you watch on television, watch just go look up, any launch, there's three or four or five cuts before the thing basically, you know, clears the power. They never show you one clip. It's a movie, right? They throw your clothes out that far that is up in the air and zoom in on it. They never show you a One-Shot from the ground all the way up. Okay, and you can make excuses all you want but they never show you that this and they also go up. They care about the go out over the Bermuda, Triangle, restricted Waters and they either crash them or they blow him up in the sky. I don't know what they do, but they're out of you very quickly within a minute. You're watching CGI. On the computer is on the television. It's nonsense. 00:54:08The space shuttle. Never had any people on it. The space shuttle. This is this is the one that's going to freaking kill people and this is where they're going to, they're going to short-circuit, but I have videos coming already ready, you know the external tank on the space. Shuttle the Big Orange tank. Yeah. 00:54:27You know, when the space shuttle takes off at rolls over on its back. So the tanks on the top side and the space shuttles on the bottom side,. Why I rolled over? I don't know because that external tank is a blimp. 00:54:41Get the fuck out of here is the largest user of helium in the world. Okay. It's a blimp ever. See how slow it takes off. Okay. Yeah. 00:54:52It's a rocket assisted blimp at that. Sometimes they yell, they launched. They don't want anything. Sometimes they lost a miniature. You're too far away to tell the size that you really don't know. But those are blimps and if you watch the tank, when it disconnects, it's floating in the sky like a Macy's day parade, balloon, right? I have videos that will show you all of it. Your I can pull up a video right now. If you want you want me to do, I'm just trying to process it. So so love you. Let's talk about this. Talk about this. I was going to say that when Joe Rogan had this business, like I have this astronaut on the bald guy. Forgot his name. Mark Kelly on Earth. He said he's married to Gabby Gifford the one that got big shot in the head. 00:55:52He said he said, would you ask him? He said cuz one time he's like, I went up there one time, and there wasn't this window and then I came back the next time and that the window was there, and Joe Rogan said, who, put who put the window up there. He was like, he like freaked out and 00:56:12He just change the subject and there is also I talked to Mark about it. There was a this this I forgot the story that they wrote that there was a hole in the space station, but then if there was the vacuum where what would happen with the whole? What caused the whole? You know what I mean? Maybe there isn't a vacuum because it's not real. All right, and if you really think about it, when they have they shipped up, parts for the space station, what year? Was it? Even built? And I don't even know that shit. There was a hole that that hit hit the space station just like last year. A couple years ago. I forget how far out long ago was and Mark Kelly. I know I forget which astronaut tweeted a picture of it. Okay. 00:56:56It was whatever there was a picture. So he tweeted a picture of it and they fix it with duct tape and gum, right? Guess what? That hole is the album cover of a band that was about 10 years earlier. Okay. It's that one of them is the one Mark Kelly tweeted. 00:57:20And the other one is an album cover from 10 years earlier. 00:57:24Wait, so it cuz it says they're 24th released 2014 years ago. 00:57:34That's the thing. I mean, it looks the same, but here's a thought. The same rephrase that sends it is the same. Okay, it's the same picture. It's the same picture, NASA is lying, again. They lie about everything. But are there so sophisticated. What were they fuck up with that? I needed. This is what David I talked about the poor. Not that bright. Check this out. They fucked up like that. What I'm thinking that they did it on purpose because they're laughing, because guess what? They put this out dishes. This alone should destroy not to 100% biggest 65 million dollars a day spell. Even though, Elon Musk took over with SpaceX. They still get 65 million dollars a day. I don't know what the hell they're doing. This. Should the joint after, but people don't care. Tesla, put his fucking car into space. That pretty cool. That's pretty cool, right? 00:58:34Homes in the world. 00:58:36Of course, there's the wall over the place. That's what's the worldwide company. Don't you think they'd have a freaking poster of that in the showroom. Hey, this car went into space freaking ad campaign, ever the cover of omni magazine Time, Magazine Newsweek fail, Popular Science, National Geographic. It's not in any magazine. It's not in any car dealership. It's know where they want to bury those pictures so fast because it's all bulshit. You don't send that car up and I'm not use that. That's an impossibility. 00:59:10I thought I saw it on a magazine cover. I was like, the time I can be no possible that it was on one magazine cover, but it wasn't on the big boys. Right? And then nobody covered it because it was such crap, you know, people say, you know, what, what about the space station there? Their, they're floating there playing with stuff and augmented reality. No luck luck. Check this out. I'm on the space station. I'm floating on the space station. Okay, and then, they have things all demented reality of contact lenses and sometimes just monitors and they can manipulate things in space. Right? It's not a theory, they do that. We even have caught them passing something, and the guy was passing his hat and the guy missed it, and he thought he had it and he put it on the Shelf, but he missed ya. Ya, ya. Ya is this is astronaut to get so butt hurt, when people call him out on it. Who was it? Lance Armstrong or something that Armstrong? 01:00:11It was just a sore throat. Punch somebody in the face, Neil Neil Armstrong email and he's guys won't do that. Cuz they know the about the by putting their hand. On the Bible says that I'll give you $5,000 cash right now. We had the money that and just where he walked on the moon and then you can give it to a charity. How nice? Is that? Would not do it. I have David David Nunez Rodriguez, David Rodriguez. I was interviewing and he's he is a professional boxer and he met a Buzz Buzz, Aldrin. And he knew that the moon landing was faked. And he goes, he, he got buzzed look like semi alone for me to go to a buzz because I know you never went to the moon. I know you're at the moment and Buzz smiled at him, patting him on the back because you're smart kid and he walked away. 01:01:06Yeah, but how much credibility do these stories have? It's like Alex Jones talking about Buzz Aldrin. How he told him about the monolith, you know, I get it, you know, you can tell stories all day, but it's, you know, if you went to the Moon. 01:01:27You're the first guy on the moon and not only, did you go to the Moon, you bought a fucking dune buggy and a set of golf clubs. You played golf. You wrote a dune buggy. You had a great time. You're hopping all around you came back there. Or would you recite? Yeah. I mean, I've seen the pictures where they're just like, you know, they would you be so men. 01:01:53I want to get into into. Imma see, you said that these Venus might be a a a star from another system outside of the, the ring. The nordics also have a Had A peculiar system of what they interpreted the world to be almost sort of a flat Earth model, really of. You can't deal with the disc and then you have the different worlds up above that. Where do you stand when it comes to the Multiverse and different dimensions and all this stuff, and Aliens, the greys Bigfoot. What where do they play a role in? 01:02:31And flattened in the Flat Earth model. So, you know, aliens, y'all people say, those are demons, whatever. Aliens are extraterrestrials two different things extraterrestrials come from the extra pair of Beyond Antarctica. That makes perfect sense to me. They could be from the Lands Beyond Antarctica. That's probably speak English. They can get here in a date rap, you know, it's not it's not a big thing. 01:03:02L is Bigfoot, I haven't seen anybody that yellow one of our fellow researchers who lives in The Boondocks of South Carolina. She said, she's has experienced some things and she did a great video, exposing me all possible Bigfoot or whatever his help again. Probably believe it. I have no proof. It's not something I can really speak to with any solid information. And then sorry, if the, if the round earth model is fake. 01:03:34What else is fake as far as cuz I mean this can drive a person insane. I mean I can see why you would say 1 1. What is that one video a day or two a week isn't a video day? One video day and and it'll, it'll wake you up to this reality. Here's the problem me again. People don't like change, you know, and then let her rip the entire floor out from underneath you. But once you get over the being pissed, when people say, you know, there's nothing I can show you. Dave, that would convince you, you never willing to change your mind, but that's what I changed my mind. I used to believe in the freaking Globe, right? I made the biggest change in history, you know, because I realized I didn't know anything about the globe. So, you know people that defended low birthday, think about her. If there's a disk in space with other circular plan is global young spiracle planets, that's not sent nothing like what we think. They think that the Earth is rising to cause the gravity. That's not true. That's Flat Earth Society nonsense. 01:04:33They they they don't know how big the Earth is. They don't know how fast it's spinning. They don't know all the Motions of the earth. Do you know the Motions of the Earth? 01:04:43No, do the Motions of the Earth are crazy on the, on the spinning ball or a jumped past here at the spinning. A crazy amount of miles per hour is 1000 miles per hour. So that means, when you're watching the sunset, you have to believe that you're falling over backwards faster than the speed of sound and that's making the sun appear to go down. Okay, that's the slowest motion, what? I'm going to tell you while you're spinning faster than sound your orbiting, the Sun at 66600 miles per hour, how fast that isn't the answer is absolutely, do not do any of the fathom. That's because I can't comprehend why nobody can while you're orbiting and Spinning, You Are Chasing the Sun like a comet, and the sun's going at a half a million miles per hour and all of the other planets are keeping up orbiting the Sun while it's shooting through the sky. And that entire system is moving. 01:05:43Highways at 1 to 2 million miles per hour. It's a klusterfuk and everything Remains the Same everything. If you go out tonight and look at the stars in the sky. The fixed star is not the wandering stars and you mark where they are at like midnight or whatever time and then go out next year at this exact same time or any year. 01:06:11In the future or the past, those Stars will be in the exact same position. 01:06:17That wouldn't happen night tonight in this beehive spiraling out of control. Insane heliocentric system that they tell us we live in it. Here's the problem. It's called the two by the three-body problem. NASA has what's called the three-body problem. You have the sun which is this Giant Gas ball to somehow coalesced and created this infinite amount of gravity and then to 93 million miles away is the earth. That's like if the sun was a one of those yoga ball. The Earth is a marble like a mile away. Okay? That it's insane. 01:07:01Somehow the Earth is falling around the sun because the Sun's gravity is holding it, but it's falling around the sun because obviously, it's a gravity so that's gravity's holding on. And now that's a good. Make. A model of the computer hair. Got this ball here. I got that says, it's much better. This one does this much gravity and the model works perfectly. Then you add a third body, any size body that has any gravity in the system and the entire system falls apart. So, while we're orbiting the Sun, the Earth grabbed onto this Moon and this moon is falling in the opposite direction around the earth and it's holding it. What happens when the moon gets in between the Sun and the Earth? The sun's magical gravity ignores the moon and just holding on to the Earth and the Earth. Hold on to the Moon. 01:07:51That's ridiculous. Bullshit. And you couldn't sell that as a B rated movie. Right? Why doesn't the sun rip the Moon away. Why does it even just tug on the moon a little bit? We got all these other giant planets in our solar system, when they all line up. How come that gravity doesn't just tuck them in a little bit out of position and change. What's going on. The sky is a perfect clock. Okay, clock is in a beehive. We all were bees are flying and every different direction. A clock is a precise mechanism. Did you know that eclipses, go on an 18 year and I think, 11 day cycle, and then they repeat again and again and again, no, I didn't know that they are on a cycle. Like the wheels are clock. Okay, they Mark, they Mark time. 01:08:38So we are, we're on the the sky clock is is a precise marking of Seasons X ages ugly. On December 21st. We're going into a new age of other Age of Aquarius. What is at the age of Aquarius? Is that what they talked about? You know, again, these things don't happen like that. You know, nothing I say nothing is going to happen that day, but it's the clicking over. It's like when you wake up in the morning cuz I got you have to get up at 6, whatever. Then you're allowing this month, the 21st of December to 2020. This is the Chain lyrics. This is a once-in-a-lifetime wait longer than a lifetime. So 01:09:24What's going on? You know, what are the lead of the elite hiding? Maybe it's a time where we know our brains are going to awaken Amor and they're trying to keep us in fear, and they're limiting or oxygen with these masks and they're giving us back scenes that could stop us being from being able to think properly who the freak knows what's going on, but this is all about control. 01:09:52This is why they're hiding Flat Earth because they don't want people to know that we are. We are literally spiritual Souls, having a journey at in this realm. And they want us to believe that we're in significant, you know, accidents that happened in the middle of a Godless are distant God, the universe. Well, I name my last episode covid-19 the new religion because, yeah, I feel it is, I mean, it, it, it's what we all think about 100% of the time that we were, it's in Golf Tour live for the last Almost year and maybe, perhaps maybe they've kept it inside, so they can do maintenance on this whole system of projection, right? NATO. 01:10:40What? I have a question for you, what would it take for you to? Let's say that. Okay. Let's say that they got the math wrong. 01:10:48What they have the model, correct? I'm talking about the round earth model broad, doesn't prove. The Earth is flat. It just shows you the NASA fraud and they're they're the main portrayers of the globe. There is no curvature. Okay, we can we are Optics have outrun their lies. We can leave use lasers mirror flashes with the sun. We've used microwave just visual zooming in on stuff. We can see too far we can see where one foot above the water, water the rising to be 1.9 miles away so we can see what are Beyond known distances like an oil rig. Wind turbine of 15 miles away where there should be two hundred feet of curvature. Okay, you shouldn't be able to the water but not only we can see the water Beyond them, the surface of the water. Be on them. 01:11:48Right stuff, like this picture behind me. Convinces people. That there's a space station. Okay, but this was taken in a swimming pool, right? This was taking in a swimming pool and they just dropping backgrounds. Okay, it's nonsense. 01:12:06Yeah, here's the thing. People don't want to believe, you know, they they're like, oh what about? You know, Felix Baumgartner space jump right here, jealous. Baumgarten. This is what they are. But, you know, he did another jump to other tests jo

Ephesians 5-20-33 -ESV--20giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, -21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. -22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. -23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. -24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. -25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, -26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, -27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. -28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. -29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, -30because we are members of his body. -31-Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.- -32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. -33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5-20-33 -ESV--20giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, -21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. -22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. -23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. -24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. -25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, -26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, -27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. -28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. -29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, -30because we are members of his body. -31-Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.- -32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. -33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

THE WEEK OF TRINITY IX - SUNDAYLESSON: LUKE 16:1-9He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf. Proverbs 11:28In this Gospel, “mammon” means surplus sustenance, including money, with which one can help others without injury to oneself. It is called “unrighteous mammon” by our Lord because of its daily use for unrighteous purposes and because it incites men to all kinds of unrighteousness.“Mammon” is also God's creation, like wine and corn, and God's creatures are good. But men can misuse God's good creatures and can fall into much sin in acquiring them. St. Paul tells the Ephesians that they should make the most of the time “because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:16). The “time” or “the days” are not evil in themselves, but much evil occurs during these days or this time.Similarly, he speaks in Romans of “the day of wrath” (Romans 2:5), although the “day” in itself is quite good. But because God's “wrath” will be manifested on this day, it derives its name from this fact. So also, because “mammon” is used for all kinds of unrighteous ends, Christ here call it “unrighteous mammon.” It is surplus sustenance which we should use to relieve the needs of our neighbor and to help him. If we do not use it for this purpose, it becomes “unrighteous mammon” for us; we possess it unjustly, and it is stolen in God's sight.Before God we are in duty bound to give, to lend, and even to let men take what we have. According to the common proverb, the biggest moneybags are the greatest thieves. They have the biggest surplus and give away the least.SL 11:1447 (2-4)PRAYER: Heavenly Father, may the good gifts of Your creation never become a snare to us nor incite us to all sorts of acts of unrighteousness, either in sins of omission or sins of commission. Grant us grace to use these gifts for our own welfare and the sustenance of our neighbor, for Jesus' sake. Amen.Editor's note: No American Edition (AE) equivalent for today's sermon excerpt exists at the time of this publication. For an alternate English translation of this sermon, see Lenker, Church Postil—Gospels, 4:291-301.

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Before Brad & LL go back through the previous episode's interview with Alex Street, a storytelling coach for entrepreneurs, they answered the question of why they moved to Las Vegas. Then they dug into the gold that Alex talked about confidence, how to move through fear, merging two different worlds in your life, and much more.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co .And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:ConfidenceRipping off the Band-AidEducation vs ExperienceSupport from othersGetting a coach or mentorDoing "it" for youReferences/Links:Alex Street's Website Amy Cuddy's TED TalkIf you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Castbox.Lesley Logan ResourcesLesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesFollow Lesley on Social MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInTranscript:INTRODUCTION:Brad CrowellFor those of you who are fitness instructors, you know, it's, think back to when you were going through your program, you know where they required teaching hours, you remember the first time that you had to teach a body, and you were like...Like, a real body,Yeah, yeah, like, you know, all the things that I think I know that I don't really know now that I'm trying to call on them, you know, and, you know, you know, at the end of the session, the person was still okay, you know, they might have actually had a good workout. Who knows, you know, and for you, you know, now you're going away from it going, alright, here's what I'm gonna do next time.Lesley LoganWelcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.EPISODE:Lesley Logan 00:39Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co host in life, Brad, and I are going to dig into the profound conversation I have with Alex. In our last episode, it was freakin' profound (Brad: Alex Street) Alex Street. (Brad: Yes) Absolutely. And if you haven't yet listened to that interview, feel free to pause this now, go back and listen to that one and then come back and join us, or be like me, listen to this whole thing, love him so much that you have to go back and listen to all the other gems that we didn't bring up in this episode. So, okay. Several of you have been Instagram dm-ing me on the @be_it_pod because you've been seeing all this awesome stuff with the 100withme challenge happening, and I wanted to just tell you the 100withme challenge is awesome. It happens a couple times a year, we will do it again this year. So, no FOMO, just make sure that you are on the list, it is one of my favorite things to do. It is a 30-day consistency challenge. So you, it's one of the most funnest challenges out there because you decide how often you're going to do Pilates, you make a schedule, and every single week we do a live class together, a hangout session together, we give away prizes, people share how many times they're gonna do their workout and it's basically you deciding what your new routine is going to be, and then practicing it.Brad Crowell 01:59Yeah, and look, depending on when you're listening to this, you probably could still jump in, although it might because at the end, but like Lesley said, it's definitely something that happens, two, three times a year, and you can get on the list and join us for the next round, but it is, it is pretty awesome. And, and I do Pilates during the challenge too.Lesley Logan 02:21Yes, he does! He picks how often he's gonna do it. He makes a schedule, he posts when he does it, and it's, it's just really fun and the whole idea is just to help you have accountability and showing up for yourself. So, yeah, so that's the answer to that question, and I'm really excited about it. I love the 100withme, I can't wait till the next one.Brad Crowell 02:44Awesome. Well, I think we had an audience question. This week (Lesley: We did.) my dear,Lesley Logan 02:52I love audience questions, you can send us your questions at the @be_it_pod on Instagram,Brad Crowell 02:57Yes, you can just send us a DM,Lesley Logan 02:59Yeah, just any DM. Ask any question you want.Brad Crowell 03:02Questions can be about anythingLesley Logan 03:03Anything. You can ask us about our dog's (Brad: life), life (Brad: business) business, (Brad: sleeping). Oh, I have so many things on routine sleeping, water intake, I've got (Brad: water), Brad and I are on a three liter minimum take a day right now. Welcome to desert life, which brings us to...Brad Crowell 03:23Why did we move to Vegas?Lesley Logan 03:25This is such a good question, I think, and I hope we don't disappoint the person who's asking this only because we had...I remember coming to Vegas and going, I will never live in Vegas, it's...why would anyone live here? Do you remember why we're here? I don't know what year it was, maybe a year after we've been married, maybe two, and we came to see your friends perform. Both of Brad's friends were headliners on the strip in two different shows like badass couple.Brad Crowell 03:55Yeah, they're married, both the leads in shows here in town. (Lesley: Yeah), in Vegas and separate shows both the lead,Lesley Logan 04:02Both the lead. (Brad: Pretty amazing) And they had this their dream house everything and they were like, and their shows, they both found out were being cancelled at the same time.Brad Crowell 04:12Yeah. Well within weeks of within a week, two weeks of each other, they found out both shows were closing.Lesley Logan 04:16Yeah, so we, we wanted to see them so we came out to Vegas to see them both perform before the show's close, and I remember being, it was a Labor Day weekend and I remember it's like so hot and it's so smoky and like who lives here, right?Brad Crowell 04:32I do remember thinking it was oppressively hot.Lesley Logan 04:36Oppressively hot.Brad Crowell 04:37Right? But I also remember thinking that they had a really beautiful home.Lesley Logan 04:40They had a gorgeous home and we...like, living in LA, their home was multiple millions of dollars and I liked it because it had a pool and it had the view and it had a bungalow...Brad Crowell 04:53A garden with a water fountain in the middle of it, I mean...Lesley Logan 04:55Yes, and they had like this, it's like a guest house, like a carriage house or your mother-in-law suite or whatever, it's like a separate room that we stayed in with our own bathroom. (Brad: Oh yeah). And so, just coming from LA that exists in the multiple millions. It does not exist in the 1 million or under. And so anyways, it was 2019 at Christmas we were doing our Pop Up Tour for OPC so we were literally driving across the country to get home for the holidays and stopping in eight cities to teach Pilates which was so much fun. And our first stop was Vegas because my brother lives here. And I remember we're sitting on the strip having breakfast and we asked my brother, Do people live here and not work on the strip? (Brad: Right) Which is such a dumb question because we lived in LA, and people live in LA who are not in the industry. (Brad: Of course) But, like, you know, you just can't fathom it and he's like, of course, totally. And so we started doing some research. And we're like, well, we'll probably move here and like 2022.Brad Crowell 05:51Yeah, well I think also before we decided that we then went to teach at that workshop and when we found the arts district we were like, this is so cool!Lesley Logan 06:02This was true and it was so cool. We had this great coffee, it was amazing, they still are here and they have great coffee and. And so we were like yeah you know what, probably let's start looking 2021 2022 (Brad: Yeah) Because (Brad: We are not really in a hurry), no, our 2020 schedule was so packed. Every single month we're in a different country. And so we, well, we all know what happened in 2020. And we, y'all, we lived in a 500 square foot apartment with ourselves, and two dogs, and when you can't go sit at a bar and work and you can't go to your favorite gym and you can't go to your favorite Pilates...Brad Crowell 06:39Or a coffee shop or even a friend's house or my (Lesley: friend's house is like), like, like everything changed, and our entire world revolved around our 500 square foot apartment, (Lesley: and we) and made no sense.Lesley Logan 06:50And I was sitting on my meditation chair using suitcases to make a desk, and I was like, we're moving now. So we were, you know the reality is that Vegas is a four hour drive from LA, we could get so much space for what we were paying in LA, and it was such an easy decision because we still go to LA.Brad Crowell 07:14Well yeah, I mean, 100%. We, I miss LA, I love LA, it's my favorite place, but Vegas is not far, and Vegas also has an International Airport.Lesley Logan 07:25Yes, it was very...we had a couple decisions. Like, we did contemplate like Hollywood, Florida and then our friends who we love, flew from Hollywood, Florida, to our house in Cambodia and their route sounded tragic.Brad Crowell 07:38Yeah it was it was a bit much, I was like, wow, ours is so much better.Lesley Logan 07:42I was like, can't do that and, and you can fly from Vegas to Asia, in a stop, so that was pretty much the killer of Florida, being an option for us but, um, so yeah Vegas, we've moved here for space, we moved here because we could keep so much of our LA life. (Brad: Yeah), like, some of the best LA restaurants are here.Brad Crowell 08:04Oh yeah, there's tons of food here. There's you know the only thing that we didn't have here really was a community.Lesley Logan 08:11Oh I was going to say humidity, but..Brad Crowell 08:14Yeah, yeah, there's lots of differences but I think when you're, you know like, like we, there were all these positives for moving here, but the true negative of moving here was community. (Lesley: Yeah), We didn't really have friends here.Lesley Logan 08:30Yea, no. And LA is this interesting mirage of a community because you have a community but it is as transient as Vegas is, and people move all the time. And what we also realized within a lockdown was like how easy that community could just kind of go away to and so we're still buildingBrad Crowell 08:49Oh sure, even in LA our community reallyLesley Logan 08:52Had really dwindledBrad Crowell 08:54Yeah cuz we weren't the only ones moving away, (Lesley: no). Right? So, (Lesley: no). Yeah,Lesley Logan 08:58So I mean we're still working on the community here. I had a great coffee date the other day. I feel good about the community we're building, and our neighbors are awesome. So if they're listening, we love you.Brad Crowell 09:08I would say, I would say it's unique in that we have neighbors that we actually know. That wasn't something that we had in LA. Here, I mean, we know, almost all of our, we know all of our neighbors, so it's very interesting.Lesley Logan 09:22They bring us bread, they clearly don't know that I'm gluten and dairy free but,Brad Crowell 09:27But they're friendly, what a weird concept.Lesley Logan 09:29But they're so friendly and also, side note, when we are traveling last Christmas and there was like a water situation happening on our roof, our neighbors, like (Brad: Oh yeah) call us up, and they're like, hey, there's a water thing happening on your roof, we know you're not there and we're like, that is so cool. Do you know what no one would have done (Brad: Yeah) in LA? No one would have called.Brad Crowell 09:51The man, we would have gotten a call from the manager when the downstairs neighbor had a leak coming through their ceiling, (Lesley: Yes.)Lesley and Brad 09:56Okay. AnywayLesley Logan 09:56That's, thank you for that question. (Brad: Great question) You're awesome. That was so fun. We actually haven't talked about that with many people, no one really asks so thank you for that. Alright, send your questions into @be_it_pod on Instagram and we will talk about them in the next episode. (Brad: Yeah) Before we talk about Alex Street, I love him so much. I just want to remind you that it is important to prioritize yourself, and it is really hard to do that until you practice it, like prioritization of self is like anything - it's a muscle - especially if you're not used to doing it. And so I want to help you do it, and by that I mean, I want you to go to OnlinePilatesClasses.com/beit and sign up for a free class, it's 30 minutes, you can do 15 minutes if that's all you want to do, but the act of you logging in, pressing play and moving your body, it is not only connecting your mind to your body and helping you do life better, it is telling yourself that you come first. And so go to OnlinePilatesClasses.com/beit, that's OnlinePilatesClasses.com/b e i t to get that class and practice your prioritization.Brad Crowell 11:06Awesome. All right, time to talk about Alex Street. I really love this guy. He's so gentle. (Lesley: I know) His demeanor and everything about him is friendly and approachable.Lesley Logan 11:24I just, like, he's like a teddy bear, but he's not...he doesn't look like a teddy bear, but like, do you know what I mean? Like you just want to bring him with you. You just want to have him there, likeBrad Crowell 11:30He's, he's just a lovely human being, and we had a chance to meet him in 2019, and I must say, I wrote this bio myself, I did not take anything from any bio that he had given us,Lesley Logan 11:48Check out the show notes if you want the real one. But this is gonna be so good because Brad is the best edifier of peopleBrad Crowell 11:55Alex Street was born to be on stage, (Lesley: Totally) his acting career took him into the ministry where he became a youth pastor, teaching teenagers, which put him on stage every single week for more than 10 years, every single week, he was on stage for 10 years. He has since become a speaking coach, working with everyone from those working in sales, to those who are pitching products to executives leading teams, and he's so darn good at it. I'm not kidding, every time we talked to him, (Lesley: Can't believe you said it darn, he's damn good) he's damn good. Well, we have had him. Okay, first off, we've seen him speak, a couple times at that conference, we've had him two times as a webinar guest.Lesley Logan 12:41Yes, he has two courses on Profitable Pilates.Brad Crowell 12:44And then now, yes, two courses on ProfitablePilates.com and then now a podcast. (Lesley: Yeah) Okay, here is what blows my mind,Lesley Logan 12:51Tell me.Brad Crowell 12:55Each time, each time he is speaking. He's so amazing at starting with an idea, and then revisiting the idea, and then revisiting the idea and then revisiting the idea, and then closing his conversation. And the whole time he's not like, it's like, like for those tech nerds out there it's not keyword stuffing like you would with Google, and like just putting the same word on the page 50 times. He's very eloquent with how he does it. When I was listening to his interview between the two of you, I was laughing because he's like talking about, you know, how bold, you know, intrinsic, executable and targeted, he was bringing it back into the conversation without you, prompting him.Lesley Logan 13:39Oh I knowBrad Crowell 13:42And that's, but that's because of his skill, his talent of being on stage. He's just so good.Lesley Logan 13:48He's so good at it and we're gonna get we haven't gotten to our favorite parts yet but I just have to give him a little bit of a plug because he 100% deserves it. Many, many, many of my agency members, which is our coaching mastermind for fitness instructors, have hired him for one on one. They have joined his mastermind and they are going on the radio, and they are doing amazing posts on their social media, and he, he makes speaking... Well, he makes speaking magical which is his fucking thing so, somehow he made me say that without even knowing. Okay, so let me get into what I loved about the interview.Brad Crowell 14:27Yes.Lesley Logan 14:27You're not born with confidence, showing up creates confidence. I think I need to say one more time, you're not born with confidence, showing up creates confidence. So, this actually is a really interesting thing because I have so many people who asked me, How are you so confident? I wish I was as confident as you and I am scared to death most of the time, like, doing the interview with Alex, y'all, I had not been a podcaster before the interview. I was so scared, I was like, I literally was so grateful that Alex was the person because I knew okay he, he can carry a conversation if I totally freeze up, he can carry it, the act of doing it is what's made me confident. Right? (Brad: Sure) So what I think people see in other people that is confidence is probably just higher self esteem or a little bit of courage and bravery that you can have, it's the, you know I was, you can you can be confident on skis and not confident on a snowboard. Right? How do you get confidence on a snowboard? You show up and put your feet on a snowboard. I have not done that yet but this is how it works. So I really challenge all of you if you're seeking confidence in an area, it doesn't come from waiting. It doesn't come from thinking about it, it doesn't even come from plotting about it. At some point, you're gonna have to just fucking do it. And then when it's over and you realize you didn't die. You're gonna be so much more confident, the next time you do it. Brad, what is one thing that you love that he said?Brad Crowell 16:01I mean, I think it's, it's really incredible to just conceptualize the showing up part of it. (Lesley: Yeah), you know, because I, you know, I know that there's this idea of like education versus experience. (Lesley: Yeah), you know, and, and you can be, you can study and be completely, you know book smart and all the things, but until you actually go out and you do it, you know you're still going to have this fear. Alternatively, you can never study anything and just go do it, and like, you know, I mean you can still have fear there but like you can learn it on the job. Right? That's the kind of the way I think about it is like, I didn't go to college for it but I learned in my job right. (Lesley: Yeah), from a career perspective, (Lesley: yeah), that, that... going through and doing it actually being in it and doing it is going to create that confidence for you. And so it's so funny when we're contemplating, you know, talking to a stranger. How do you get over the fear of it? You got to just go talk to a stranger. (Lesley: Yeah) Right? And when you do that the first thing you're going to realize is, you don't know what to say, you know, and you, you sound silly and you, you know, you forget things and like nothing makes sense, but at the end of that conversation. They didn't punch you in the face. Like, your, your, you know, they slashed your tires, everything's fine, like, you know,Lesley Logan 17:32Who's dramatic today?Brad Crowell 17:36Basically, the world did not end, you're fine. Like, even though you might have made a fool out of yourself, even, you're still alive, you're still breathing, everything's gonna be alright. Probably if it's a stranger you never have to see that person again anyway. And it's no big deal but you walk away from that thinking, okay, I can do this again. Next time, I'm going to be prepared, but I can do this. (Lesley: Yeah), it wasn't the end of the world. (Lesley: Yeah) So I love that, you know that idea of showing up creates confidence. But one thing he talked about a bunch, which I thought was interesting, he kind of hit on it a few times during the interview. First, right out of the gate, he said he felt like he was living two different stories.Lesley Logan 18:19I know, this was so fascinating.Brad Crowell 18:21And I didn't really understand what he meant until later on in the pod where he started talking about his transition from being a youth pastor to being a speaking coach.Lesley Logan 18:34Such a great story, you'll definitely want to listen to this oneBrad Crowell 18:36And it may, I mean it made sense to me at that point was it. Oh, I totally got it, he, he was clearly confident being a pastor, being on stage, you know, teaching, leading, you know, whatever, all the things, and then when it came to selling himself as a speaking coach, he was not confident, and he, he was like it put me in a position where I felt out of sorts. You know, where I felt like I shouldn't be introducing myself, as you know, a speaking coach, I should be introducing myself as a youth pastor. Right? And so then, later on in it, he actually said, you know, I probably, like, since, since the great story that I'm not going to repeat, you got to go back to the other pod listen to it but he had this experience of telling everyone he was youth pastor, even though that wasn't his plan. And afterwards, he realized he should be marrying the two. I am a speaking coach, because I was a youth pastor. And suddenly, it validates, like it's the authority, you know like, like, you know when it comes to social triggers and proof and all the things like, why would he be a speaking coach? Oh, well, because I've been a youth pastor for 10 years, I've been on stage. More than 500 times. I have spoken to 10, groups of 10,000 like mind blown validation, all day long. (Lesley: Yeah), you know, so this idea of being in two different worlds I thought was really interesting.Lesley Logan 20:19I really, I totally resonated with that because when I was learning to become a Pilates instructor and I was managing a retail shop, and I had a really hard time telling people that I was becoming a Pilates instructor, (Brad: sure), and A) because I didn't, I didn't know if I could make as a Pilates instructor I did I just was like taking the classes and B) like, I just felt like, well, I just started so maybe I shouldn't be, uh, maybe I can't call myself that, and it was like such a weird thing and then one day, a client that I was teaching came to my shop. And she brought her friends up and here's all the girls that work for me. There's a couple customers there and, like, this is my Pilates instructor and like ‘cat was out of the bag', and then it was so funny.. It's like, You teach Pilates? And I'm like, I couldn't believe it because more people were so excited I don't know what I was thinking that people would think and I think that was fascinating but it's like you don't know what people are gonna say, so then you just think, assume the worst which is such a weird thing like,Brad Crowell 21:25Or we have this idea that we need to separate two worlds (Lesley: yeah) somehow. I'm never gonna tell anyone here about, you know that I, whatever, play, play sports or that I do this or that I am podcast host or whatever, you know, they get, you get stuck in this, this idea of lanes (Lesley: yeah), but, no, you're still you.Lesley Logan 21:44You're still you and people love you no matter what it is you do, and also people inherently want to support you. (Brad: yeah) Like this woman who I was teaching...she didn't think, Oh I'm blowing her cover. She thought, I love this girl and how she's taught me Pilates. And so and then everybody else is just like, I just, this is so..we love you and this is so cool that you're doing this. They didn't go, Oh she's gonna leave us and well my boss wasn't there, but the other people weren't like she's gonna leave us, you know, they were just like this is so cool. Good for you, like, I think we underestimate how much people want, you want us to be like in air quotes successful. I think it's happy. They want us to be happy. Alright, so,Lesley Logan 22:26Brad?Brad Crowell 22:26Tell meLesley Logan 22:28In the action items.Brad Crowell 22:29Yeah, let's talk about the BE IT, let's talk about bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items that we took away from your conversation with Alex. I was actually, this is not something that I guessed he was going to say.Lesley Logan 22:50No, but I love that you chose this as your thing because. Are you going to tell your story?Brad Crowell 22:57I can.Lesley Logan 22:57Okay.Brad Crowell 22:58I wasn't planning on it but I certainly can.Lesley Logan 23:01Tell the Blink, tell the Blinkist version.Brad Crowell 23:03I'll tell the Blinkist version. They're not sponsoring this but I'll still tell them. Well, first off, Alex said, straight up, get a coach. And he said if you can't get a coach, put yourself in a room where you can connect with people who maybe they could become a coach, right, and he said it was bold, and that he had to spend money to do it. Right? And executable was just simply getting there. I can't remember what he said about intrinsic and targeted, but he literally spelled out why getting a coach, (Lesley Logan: I know) was all four things (Lesley: He was so awesome) was amazing. (Lesley: Yeah), but I was surprised that that was what he chose, until I realized that I think that was for him and his experience, that was the point of change (Lesley: Yeah) for him where his belief, his confidence, everything about it, really shifted. And I agree with him, I mean, when you put yourself in a position to be coached. I mean we all went to college, we all you know high school college, we all, we've all been a student before, you know, and then we get past, we get out of that and we think like, alright, I guess I have to go figure it out on my own, you know or you learn on the job, or whatever. You know, maybe it's been 10-20 years since you've been in school, but when you put yourself in a position to be coached, it's this interesting mindset shift, you know, where you can suddenly change your life. And that coach could be, you know, dedicating yourself to a podcast, that coach could be actually getting a coach, maybe that coach is someone in your family, maybe you're hiring someone, you know, it could be a mentor, whatever,Lesley Logan 25:00It could be your Pilates instructor.Brad Crowell 25:02It could be your Pilates instructor. But whatever it is you're trying to do, having a mentor, having someone, someone who has been, where you're trying to go is so valuable. Because you're allowing them to be an authority. And obviously, hopefully, you trust them.Lesley Logan 25:23Yes, you should definitely pick someone who understands, like you've resonate with, that you vibe with. Don't pick someone that you don't, you know, but I think, like, I think that you have, I love that he said get a coach because I think so many people are like, I'm gonna do it on my own. And it's like, something that I, okay this is really funny. Somebody bought me a birth chart reader for my birthday back when I was like, just coming out of being homeless. And I was like really, that's what you want to do with 170 bucks? Like, I'll take it. But I did this, so I sent this guy a picture of me, my birthday, my birthplace and the time I was born. And then we did an hour long call where he basically told me all the stuff about myself. And he said, you've gone as far as you can on your own. Whatever, what ideas do you have that you can partner up with? And like, this is at a time I had, I had some friends but it's LA acquaintances, and I lost a lot of my air quotes close friends when I left my ex and so like I was building my friendship up and I was like, I don't know I'm blogging on dating with a friend, and there's this other thing, he's like, you need to say yes to anything that's in collaboration, you are, you can't go any further. And so that's when I started looking at some collaborations and I started looking at coaching and I couldn't afford coaching but I would listen to any podcast that had any coaching advice whatsoever. And I would just pretend like I'm in partnership, we're a duo, this person is my friend, is my coach. And I love that you pick this because it's so easy for us to say, oh I don't want to...I can't spend that money and I'm not saying go out and get yourself a $10,000 coach or hire us or like that. A coach can even be like setting yourself up for a membership of some kind that holds you accountable, it can be it can be it can be a mentor that is just someone you, you say can you be my mentor, my friend has a mentor. She doesn't pay him, she has dinner with him once every four to six weeks, and she can text them if there's a problem. Some people like to be mentors and she was a lawyer and he was a lawyer and so you know there's these different things and some people like to do that so I love that because it's basically, you don't have to do this alone. (Brad: Yeah 100%) Yeah.Brad Crowell 27:55So I mean, I think, I think there's so many, so many positives to getting a coach so it was great to hear him say that.Lesley Logan 28:01Yeah, I agree.Brad Crowell 28:03Okay.Lesley Logan 28:03Okay.Brad Crowell 28:04What about you?Lesley Logan 28:05Well, so I love that he said sometimes you have to do it for yourself to get you through it, and I. Okay, so this is Being It. Right? Um, one of my questions I ask myself whenever I'm scared to do something, or whenever I'm not really sure if I should do something is I really just asked myself, what's the worst thing that can happen. And when I realized that I'm not going to die...Brad Crowell 28:29I think we covered that. (Lesley: Yeah), no one's gonna slashed your tires.Lesley Logan 28:33No one's gonna. I know. I knowLesley Logan 28:36This is a competition of who can be more dark. When I realize I'm not going to die, that it makes it like, it almost kind of makes it less scary because...like fear is this funny thing in our brain. Everything sounds like the end of the world but when you put it out there, you're like, well, the worst thing that can happen is I embarrass myself, it doesn't work, blah, blah. But if you can't die, then, really, you're just gonna, like, like maybe you fall, but you don't like nothing actually structurally damaging forever is going to happen to you. It kind of takes the edge off and it makes it easier and, you know, it goes back to if you listen to one of our first episodes where I talked about Amy Cuddy and like Being It Till You See It and why this thing is here, it's like, you got to go do the thing and just get through that first one. (Brad: Yeah), because then you're on the other side you can look back and go, Oh, that wasn't so bad. (Brad: Yeah), it can get better and here's what I learned.Brad Crowell 29:38Yeah. I think it's like, I mean really it's like, it's not that practice makes perfect, but practice will put you in a position where you are gaining confidence. Right?Lesley Logan 29:48No, practice makes habit and habit makes more confidence for sure.Brad Crowell 29:52Yeah, so, so like sometimes, you know, even if you're not ready to, I just go back to selling because that's what I, you know, do, but you know sometimes you're not, you might not be ready and you know you flub it halfway through, but you did it for you. It's a big step in your own growth to go get out there and go do it. (Lesley: Yeah), I mean come on, I think I think for those of you who are fitness instructors, think back to when you were going through your program, you know where they required teaching hours. (Lesley: Yeah) Do you remember the first time that you had to teach a body? And you were like,Lesley Logan 30:34Like a real body? YeahBrad Crowell 30:35Yeah, like, you know, all the things that I think I know that I don't really know now that I'm trying to call on them, you know, and at the end of the session, the person was still okay, you know, they might have actually had a good workout. Who knows, and for you, now you're going away from it going, Alright, here's what I'm gonna do next time, right?Lesley Logan 31:00Oh, totally. And here's the other thing, it's like, if you're not a fitness instructor you're like okay how does this apply to me. Just think about if you're trying to start something that is a new routine. For example, just think back to the last time I tried a new routine that you have to go back to, like, if you've been running every day like, when did you start running. Yeah it was freaking hard to get up that first day and go for a run and you probably are panting more than you wanted, you might have even gotten lost, maybe I'm just speaking for me. Right. And you may have realized like, Okay, that didn't go the way I wanted, but I'm still here. And I kind of enjoyed it, so I'm gonna try get...Brad Crowell 31:36Remember where you got lost in St. Louis in like 30 degree weather with the dog?Lesley Logan 31:40Oh my god like I was running around in circles everyone. It was one of those developments and like every house looked the same, and I literally got lost and I had to go search through a text message. I did text you for the address like, Where are we staying? Whose house are we at? And then I had to google maps that thank God we were in the country and I wasn't in Cambodia with no Wi-Fi like out lost. (Brad: Yea) Anyways, the point is, the point is that you need to just do it for yourself to get you through it so that you can take the next step and whatever it is, rip the frickin band aid off the sting only hurts a little bit.Brad Crowell 32:17All right.Lesley Logan 32:18All right, that's, that's the name of this episode, rip off the band aid. Well, my dear. Thank you for listening. Thank you for joining us today. We are so grateful you're here, and please just a huge favor, screenshot this, share your takeaway, tag the be_it_pod, let us know what you loved about it. Send this to a friend who needs a little pick me up or a band aid rip off moment, and keep us posted on what you're doing and by sending a DM on Instagram, we will catch you on the next episode, until then, be it till you see it. 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Professor Aldred talks to Harriet Larrington-Spencer, a researcher at Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford. Harriet, or Harrie, developed an interest in active travel after experiencing cycling in Copenhagen and the Netherlands, and after losing the use of her left arm following a collision with a driver. Harrie discovered that while a tricycle was far easier for her to use, the physical barriers and chicanes in place on many of Britain's cycleways make the use of three wheels challenging. Harrie talks about the challenges such infrastructure poses for non-standard cycle users, about other barriers to wider uptake, such as cost, what inclusive active travel would look like, and what research she would conduct, if money were no object. And, of course, about cycling with her dog, Frida. Healthy Active Cities is a research group bringing together researchers from the University of Salford, as well as practitioners and policymakers to discuss issues in sustainable transport. You can find out more about their work here: https://blogs.salford.ac.uk/healthyactivecities/TRANSCRIPT00:00Hi and welcome back to the Active Travel Podcast, brought to you by the Active Travel Academy, and to season two. We had a little break over Autumn, and we've all been busy working on lots of different projects, but we're delighted to finally bring you the second episode – and we hope to have more in the weeks to come. But without further ado, let's hand over to Professor Rachel Aldred, Active Travel Academy founder, and our guest.So I'm really happy to be here for an episode of the active travel podcast with Harriet Larrington-Spencer, who is a researcher at Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford. So hi, Harrie, good to have you here. 00:11Hi, Rachel, thank you for having me.00:14Great. So one of the things I wanted to start with is really about how you got into this how you got into researching active travel, because one of the great things about active travel is that it's people from a whole range of different backgrounds in the field in terms of disciplinary backgrounds. So can you tell me how you got into it?00:32Yeah, it's so my academic background is originally not active travel, I come from a geography background. So my bachelor's is in geography. And then I moved to the Netherlands to do my master's, which was in water management and irrigation. So very different from active travel. And whilst I was there, and I did my Erasmus as part of my masters in Copenhagen, just I went from kind of cycling for, for recreation and, and a bit of sport to cycling every day, when you arrive at university as an international student in the Netherlands, they tell you no bike, no life. So you kind of the first thing, the first thing they give you is a list of all the secondhand places to buy a bike. And then from that moment, cycling just became my natural form of transportation. And when I saw then I started my PhD. Back in the UK, in Manchester, I was cycling everyday for transportation, and I got hit by a car. And then I had to start changing the type of cycling. So whilst I was cycling for transportation, I was also doing cycling for sport. But I had to kind of start working out how to cycle for transportation in a way that I could do, because the the car damaged my left arm, so it doesn't work, and my hand doesn't work anymore. So it became How could I use a two wheel bike. So I started doing doing that. And even on two wheels, I found quite a lot of barriers to cycling, and doing my everyday journeys that I just hadn't considered before. And then more recently, to make it a lot easier for myself, I have a trike, and so I can do my shopping and carry my dog more easily. And the barriers that were difficult to negotiate on a on a bike have become impossible to negotiate on a trike. And so it started from there really, and and thinking about active travelling that everybody has a has a right basically, it's kind of the right to the city is that everyone should be able to move actively around their local neighbourhood, and how to enable that. 02:43Wow,Wow, thank you now I am going to pick up on different bits of that. But just to go back to the Netherlands experience. So when you went to the Netherlands, had you been cycling much before in this country? Were you completely new to it?02:55No, so I wasn't completely new I grew up in the middle of in the kind of the middle of nowhere in the countryside. So to get to see friends it was always cycling. But also, it was cycling through farmland and fields and or very small country lanes. And it was never really it wasn't an everyday thing. So to actually get anywhere, we had no bus service, you had to learn to drive if you wanted to get anywhere independently and before kind of 17,18 cycling offered that but it wasn't particularly viable to get very far. 03:39Yeah, I know I that sounds kind of familiar. And when you came back to Manchester after the or you came to Manchester after the Netherlands, how was it suddenly cycling in Manchester after having cycled in the Netherlands?03:50It's just a complete world away. It's I think even if you remove the infrastructure from the UK from kind of that equation, the infrastructure makes a difference. But it's also that I think everyone in the Netherlands who drives is also a cyclist. So it's, it's Yeah, the infrastructure is not there. And then also cyclists are not in the minds of drivers, either. So when I got hit by a car it was because the driver overtook me and turned left because they didn't even and it was across the segregated cycle lane as well. So it's that they didn't even think that they had to kind of consider that there might be a cyclist on the cycle lane and yeah, completely different.04:39Yeah, it just highlights the need for the infrastructure but also the need for the cultural change behaviour change as well at the same time. And then you were talking about how you cycling as a disabled cyclist using a two wheeler and then using a trike was was different. Could you say a little bit more about that and about some of the barriers that you experienced there.05:00With, with two wheels, I can I can do it and I can I can cycle in, it's fine. But moving the handlebars is quite difficult picking up my bike is difficult. So the probably the biggest barrier is if you are using shared paths and then there's barriers on the shared path. So you've got, A frames are the worst, but there's also chicanes. So I think most of you probably know what chicanes are, but kind of small fences to slow you down. So it just started with the two wheels, you kind of you can negotiate it, but it takes time and it takes energy and I can't really lift my bike and it causes pain when I do it. And then when you get to three wheels, because the cycle is longer and it's wider, you literally cannot like you can't get it past A frames, and sometimes you can get it past chicanes but to do that, my husband has to kind of pick up the trike and negotiate it around. I can't do that at all by myself. So it just it means that that certain cycle, cycling routes are completely off limits to me. And they're often the cycle routes that are the nicest ones, because they're completely away from cars and roads.06:13And why why do you think this kind of this kind of thing exists? Why given that, you know, potentially it's not in line with equality legislation?06:21So the kind of technical reason that they're there is to prevent motorcycles and and anti-social behaviour on cycle routes. Often, it's part of the planning permission to get the route and the police have to if a route is going to be off road, then the police have to agree to it as well. And the police's kind of standard response is an A frame. And some residents also want A frames as well, because there's, I think there's often a fear of this kind of antisocial behaviour from motorcycles, not necessarily that it's going to happen. So, yeah, and it's and now, kind of, the more I get into it, the more I struggle, because I think kind of maybe a few years ago, it was that councils wouldn't know about the Equality Act and kind of the what, what their responsibilities are to disabled cyclists. But more and more, I'm seeing councils saying things like, Oh, we've looked at LTN 1/20 [Local Transport Note 1/20 – cycle infrastructure design guidance], which very specifically says, Don't use A frames, don't use chicanes, and the council's will recognise that, that they should not be using those and they shouldn't be implementing those. And that by implementing those, they're excluding disabled cyclists. But at the same time, they kind of say, we're doing it anyway. And we've got no other way to manage motorcyclists. So this is what we'll do.07:53Yeah, so that's, they'll just probably pick up on the LTN 1/20, the new cycle infrastructure design guidance. So that's seen some improvements, but obviously, isn't necessarily feeding through into practice. And does it highlight the extent to which things need to be aligned for things to change? If the police, you know, you don't necessarily just need transport just use to change in transport planning, but also the police and so on as well.08:15Yeah, it definitely needs to be a much more joined up approach. And even now, in in Stockport, we're seeing that there are routes that aren't accessible. So if you look at LTN 1/20, they say that the ideal route be at least spaced at 1.5 metres. And so in Stockport, they're taking cycle routes and walking routes that have this spacing already. And they're putting chicanes on them. And I've just saw a proposal yesterday where they're asking for an A frame barrier. So yeah, there's there needs to be working with police and with residents and with disabled people, as well. But to me, it shouldn't be the kind of the equality of access should be the centre point. And it's what should we be do? What can we do to achieve that rather, than kind of the restricting of motorcycles being being the point where where they start design?09:11Yeah, yeah. So it's kind of trying to restrict a minority of problematic users of one mode, that's maybe not even actually the case. It's something that's feared rather than trying to ensure inclusive access for for walking cycling, which is meant to be something that's being encouraged.09:25Yeah, exactly. And the more people you have using a route legitimately, the less attractive it will be to anyone on a motorcycle if, if you think that you're going to access that route, because it's kind of an empty space that you can whisper on your bike. It's much less attractive. If it's full of everybody on trikes bikes with push chairs walking, it's, it's very different.09:50Great, and that sort of brings up another topic, which is around inclusivity of active travel. So could you maybe sort of tell us a little bit about what active travel, how inclusive active travel is or what what needs to change.10:04I think active travel is getting much more inclusive, I see a lot of people who are non-disabled, recognising the barriers that disabled people have to active travel, I think at kind of a grassroots level, especially, it's happening more with sport than with active travel is that is kind of getting disabled people more involved, recognising the barriers that disabled people have. I think in active travel, it would really help if design centred disabled people, because anything designed for disabled people is is going to be good for everybody. So with cycling, there's so there is a lot of barriers for disabled people, anyone who wants to use a non standard cycle, there's not only the infrastructural barriers, and you, you know they're there. So it's kind of like why would you invest in something if the routes that you want to go on with your family or your friends, you can't get on. And then on top of that, you have the you have the cost of the equipment. So a non standard cycle is 1000s and 1000s of pounds. And then on top of that you have the insurance of it, you have to have the secure storage to meet the insurance requirements. And then you also need to know that when you cycle somewhere there will be a secure place to lock your site as well. So I found with my trike, I can't, I can't even use the Sheffield stand without taking up multiple spaces on the Sheffield stands. And I don't want to block other people from being able to be able to park their cycles. So there's kind of there's all these factors that have to be accounted for. And it's the same with with walking, with using a wheelchair that so much of the urban environment isn't isn't suitable for just independently using your wheelchair to get to your to your local area, whether there's no pavement drops, if there's pavement parking, parks that don't have accessible entrances to them. It's it when and when you start noticing it and I think this has happened a lot with non-disabled people as well when disabled people who who are working in active travel and are advocates within it have started pointing it out is that once you start seeing it, you can't stop seeing it and and it's just it defies belief really, that you would have a park that not everybody can connect thiswill be because of barriers at the gates because of steps.12:33Yes. So very similar things to cycle paths is that you have kind of the chicane entrances into the park, which make it quite difficult, especially if you're on something more recumbent. If you're on a hand cycle, for example. So you're lower down, and you'll have a longer base. Yeah, even wheelchairs, I think sometimes struggled to go through the these spaces unless it's a wide open gate.13:00And do you think that's starting to change in planning at all? I mean, if advocates are noticing it are planners noticing it, are things getting better.13:07I think that things are changing. So LTN 1/20 was an a massive win for inclusive cycling and that you can you read through that document and you see the advocacy work of Wheels for Wellbeing in there, and how powerfully and positively they've impacted the world of inclusive cycling, in terms of planning from councils. In Greater Manchester, I feel like there's much more awareness of it, but there's a real struggle to start making those changes for whatever reason. And I, I do think there needs to be a bit of bravery that I can understand that some of these are quite big changes. To say we're not going to restrict access is a big change to how kind of urban planning has been done. But I've also seen some really positive things. So Manchester highways has recently created an access group but that's because it's that has a lot of disabled people with a lot of different kind of experiences and skills. And they are hopefully going to listen to those views when when they're implementing active travel projects. But yeah, it's kind of a time will tell.14:23You were mentioning about Manchester highways and maybe it's time to say something about the Greater Manchester context because Greater Manchester is I think it's something like 2.7 million people across the urban area. So yeah, large urban area, metropolitan area, different authorities and so on different levels of planning. So how does that work in terms of active travel? How is it structured and you know, is it different authorities in charge of different bits and so on?14:50Yeah, so different authorities will be in charge of their own area. I think we then have the Bee networks for for walking and cycling with Chris Boardman who is the walking and cycling Commissioner. So this is trying to join those up a bit and have a more integrated approach to walking and cycling. It's a struggle because for different councils have different approaches and different histories, I mean, you can definitely see in Salford at the moment they've, they're really progressing with their walking and cycling, working to make things much more inclusive. So they've on one of the big walking and cycling trails, they've just been removing barriers and replacing them with bollards that are 1.5 metres apart and celebrating that as well on social media recognising that it's, it's a really positive thing to be doing, and showing that as a positive example to councils in Greater Manchester. And I think having that kind of the overall Bee network, having committed to having an inclusive approach, they have the the 12 year old cycling is the body around which the infrastructure has been built. Personally, I think the 12 year old should be on a trike. But but it's kind of getting there. And they've they've said no barriers, although you see that being put into practice quite differently, but there is pushback against it. And also, in Greater Manchester, we have Walk Ride, which is a community-based organisation. So there's the central body. And then there's all different smaller groups of people who are really interested in walking and cycling. And you see such fantastic work within those smaller groups that they have really good connections with their councils and the walking and cycling forums. And they're, they're putting a lot of pressure onto the councillors to make sure that everything done is thinking about everyone who who wants to use those, the walking and cycling infrastructure that's being built. And it's just really nice to see kind of everybody committed to making things inclusive, because often, there's a lot of what has to be done. And it often falls onto the shoulders of disabled people to do that labour. So it's nice to not always have to be the one that is pointing out the issues and following up with councillors and councils.17:15And do you think that's kind of important as well that you have? Because that's quite distinctive that you have the sort of walking and cycling advocates together in the same in the same advocacy group? Does that make a big difference?17:26Yeah, I think it's fantastic. I think the speed with which, with which Walk Ride GM and the smaller local groups have grown over the past couple of years, really demonstrates kind of the local appetite for walking and cycling. And the skills in those groups that has developed as well is amazing. So for some people, it's that they they work within walking and cycling design or infrastructure, behaviour change within local councils, and they have those skills from their jobs and from their training. But for some people there, they're kind of new to it, and learning and reading all of this all of the documents and policies that are being produced and it's just fantastic for people being able to hold the councillors to to their word basically. And to the point where people if something's installed, and it doesn't look right, or I pointed out something at the weekend, someone was there measuring it with a tape measure to check out whether the distance between the chicanes meets with the accessibility, design guidelines. Yeah, it's really cool.18:38Returning to the barriers side of things, we talked quite a bit about the physical barriers, but you talked earlier also about the sort of cost and linked with that the storage that you don't want to store something that's expensive, it might get, you know, if it's not secure, it might get stolen, do you think more needs to be done to improve access, you know, availability, affordability of adaptive cycles, ie bikes and trikes and so on?18:59Yeah, definitely. And there's, I think part of it is that if we are moving towards a modal shift, then having these products because they are quite a rare thing. So if you're having to import them, and there's very few being imported, then they're going to be higher cost. So there's kind of one aspect is the more people we have doing it then hopefully a reduction in cost, but they kind of, they are specialist, so they're going to be more expensive than a standard two wheel cycle. So there's some really great schemes going on. So Wheels for Wellbeing have one scheme in London, which is looking at loaning people non-standard cycles, and really helping people choose cycles that are appropriate for them. And and being able to do a loan scheme that can then turn into ownership if they're interested in it. And also, Cycling Projects has a similar thing in West Midlands and we're setting up a trike library in in Manchester and then hopefully that will if people will get a chance to experience trikes, because you, if if they're rare, and you don't get a chance to have a go on them, you're not going to splash out 2000 pounds if you don't, if you don't know how it's going to fit in your life that you really, you need to start doing those everyday journeys, you need to have a go at taking your trike to the, to the shop to get milk and to work. Yeah, and have that that space to build it up and build up over time and see whether it works. So I think with the trike library that we've raised money for, as part of Walk Ride in Manchester, we're going to hopefully loan out cycles for three months at a time maybe more and and help people with journey planning, with ride buddying, and all of those smaller parts to get people into it. The storage, the storage is is a real issue. And it also comes into into policing as well and, and monitoring. And if you I think bike crime is is very low on the police agenda at the moment, because there's not that much funding to police. So it's working out ways to do that. And there is this kind of on on road storage that we've seen in Waltham Forest, and you can get adapted versions of that. So there's options that we just need to keep pushing for and and ensuring that when we're thinking about those options, so in in Greater Manchester, there is there is some of I think in Salford there's some of these on streets cycle hangers, but for people to push for ones that can have non-standard cycles as well, when they're kind of being brought up in that local area.21:32Do you think there's potentially a role for a more universal scheme as well? Because one of the things, one of the criticisms that's been made of the cycle to work scheme is that, you know, certainly you have to have an employer that's opted in it excludes anybody who's not in employment. So a lot of older people, proportionally more disabled people and so on. Do you think we kind of need a more universal access to cycling scheme?21:53Yeah, we definitely do at the moment, it's kind of it falls on the the charity sector to be implementing it and their capacity to implement it is based upon their resources and always scraping the money together to be able to do it. And it's really frustrating when it's something that would help so many people. Yeah, I mean, a universal scheme would be amazing. I tried to you can, there's ways to do it through kind of access to work. But it's always there's always kind of caveats within it. And it's so that you just have to keep arguing for it. So most ability is the obvious way to do it. And there are mobility aids that you access through Motability, so to have that as as a way to do it. And also in the Netherlands, they have very similar schemes where disabled people can have access to active travel equipment. Yeah, and it's it's at a time when I think people are really recognising that disabled people want to be more active, the benefits the public health benefits of disabled people being more active are huge and organisations like great, like, Sport England, as we come out of the pandemic are centralising disable people within within their programmes, and they want to disproportionately invest in disabled people. So I think it is a really good time to start thinking about how to make these how to make access to to non-standard cycles and adaptive cycles, kind of a universal scheme.23:21Cool. And what would if you were thinking about, you know, the your priorities for getting most disabled people cycling, what would you What would you prioritise? What would you think would be the most important thing?23:36One would be the access to the cycles. Two would be working out connected routes within cities. So in Greater Manchester, we have the Bee networks, but we need to look at how the Bee networks connect and with the existing infrastructure that we already have, and how to make that infrastructure barrier free and accessible. Another one would be looking at cycles as mobility aids in in Greater Manchester, for example, people aren't allowed to take cycles onto the trams, which really inhibits multimodal journeys. So you can't you couldn't cycle from, I don't know Sale into Manchester City Centre as a disabled person to work and then think actually, I'm too tired to cycle home let me take my let me take my cycle on the tram. So because you can't do that, then you're, you're then making it a less viable option because you can't do those first and last, or you Yeah, you can't do those parts you need by public transport. So and also to be able to use the pedestrian areas if you need it to be able to put your shopping onto your bike or trike close to the shops and, and having the storage for it as well. And it doesn't I mean for shopping, it doesn't have to be the super-secure sheltered storage. It's just having storage solutions that are well spaced that can that you can use with a trike and have space to not only put your trike, but you have to think about how people are getting off and on. So you need to have that space between the stands.25:16Well, one question I was going to ask was on the research theme was getting obviously this is an under researched area if what would your sort of fantasy research project be if you had a 2 million pound research budget or whatever, you know, imagine? Imagine the zeros what what would your research programme be looking at inclusive cycling, eco inclusive active travel?25:37So for I think inclusive active travel, I think it would be fascinating to do a community mapping project where you work with disabled people's organisations, and you have disabled people map their, their everyday journeys that they do, either by whatever mode of transport they're doing, and then work with people to to look at how active travel can replace non active travel journeys basically. So and to work on the very close ones, so going to places for for small amounts of shopping, going to visit your children going to visit your parents going to the park, taking the kids to school, those journeys, but looking really specifically at the different types of challenges that people have with those. And working out how to then use that to, to create kind of more local regeneration. Because Yeah, because you're not going to get active travel if people physically can't use that their local environment. And and think about how to prioritise those. So that's one aspect. And another aspect I'm really interested in is shared space in in urban centres, because it is a really it's a very aesthetically pleasing thing to have, I think shared space. But obviously, there's a lot of challenges that it offers and conflicting challenges that it has for for different groups of people. So for visually impaired people in particular shared space is quite a challenging thing to have in it can create an environment that that whilst statistically, it's probably very unlikely that you're going to get hit by a bike, it doesn't stop the environment being hostile. So thinking about the types of behaviour within shared spaces and and how to kind of move cohesion both move cohesively and behave in cohesive ways of in the shared space. But also what type of infrastructures within the shared space, enable that that type of behaviour. So kind of a two way approach to that.27:39And actually just thinking about that in terms of the infrastructure and sharing infrastructures, are there good examples? We've talked quite a bit about the barriers and some of the problems, can you think of good examples of environments that work well for inclusive active travel and either in Greater Manchester or somewhere else, and why why it's good.27:59We have a couple of bits now in Greater Manchester, it's difficult, because actually one of the best places for kind of walking and cycling in Greater Manchester is Oxford Road. So and it is a really, really good piece of infrastructure, but the cycle track is just not quite wide enough. So I can't actually use it on the trike. But normally, I would say that there is a few bits of segregated cycle lanes that are kind of four metres wide, and have space for bi directional cycling flow. So I mean, these are perfect. But that's quite a short stretch, I'm trying to think of something. I think low traffic neighbourhoods, for example, have a real opportunity for for inclusive active travel, they don't have the segregated cycle lanes, obviously, but by reducing the cars using the roads, there is that space for any type of cycle. There's space for wheelchairs and mobility scooters. I think the the challenge with low traffic neighbourhoods is that it's not you don't automatically make them inclusive by filtering the cars from them and that the the existing infrastructures within them already can still pose challenges. So I think speed bumps is quite a good example that if you are non-disabled and walking or cycling, a speed bump isn't going to bother you. But if you're on a recumbent cycle, the speed bumps are not very pleasant at all. And the same with pavement drops as well.And there's a lot of the the issues around the built environment. So some of those things around narrow bike lanes or narrow footways and so on. 29:29So is a lot of that to do with accommodating motor traffic and then sort of people on foot, people on bikes that have had to fight it out for what's left.29:47Yeah, exactly. And you see a lot of space for cycling always seems to be reallocating space away from pedestrians. So the weekend I visited a new proposed walking and cycling route through Ancoats well from New Islington to Ancoats along a really really nice marina that's full of people walking, it's kind of there's a few different bakeries, it's a really nice space. And in this area there's not there's not that many open spaces. And instead of putting a segregated cycleway on the main road, which has five lanes of traffic, and has recently had 10 million pounds spent on its upgrade, they are trying to Manchester council is trying to put the walking and cycling route, which is a is a major league route. So it is specifically for commuting through this very pedestrian recreational, kind of sitting and being space, rather than then taking that space away from cars. And by doing that, you automatically kind of put pedestrians and cyclists at odds with each other both in terms of the space itself, but also within this wider space of kind of what a city is and who is in a city where people are supposed to be in the city. And it shouldn't be like that if we really want to have modal shift we need to start reallocating space away from cars and a lot of time if you do anything like that, then you get a lot of uproar from drivers. But there's there's very little discussion about kind of taking that space away from pedestrians and I think that's Yeah, it's often pedestrians who do suffer within that.31:28In terms of the the Greater Manchester context as well. What would you say in the next five years? Do you think things will be different in five years what hopefully what what might have changed around sort of inclusive active travel?31:42I would really like to see more people on non-standard cycles. I've definitely noticed that since I started getting since I have been cycling on a trike. I've had a lot more people on social media, for example, saying, I've never even considered a trike as an option. I thought trikes were for old people, and people saying that they're considering one as well now. And that's really nice, because it shows that you need to see people doing something for you to start considering that it's an option for yourself as well. So I think that's one aspect that if we get more people cycling, and more disabled people cycling, then hopefully it will be kind of it will build. So that's one aspect, I think another aspect is is the access to inclusive cycles. And that's something that needs to be worked on. Another one is with the Bee networks, is that we just need to keep the momentum and the energy of holding councils to account to to ensure that when things are being implemented, they're being implemented inclusively and to LTN 1/20. In it, it helps so much to have that design guidance, really, because you can just keep sending it and saying, you know, this is this is what this is what needs to happen. I think more widely, we need more than just kind of the Bee networks, we need to be looking at local journeys and how to enable those local journeys. And to maybe move I move a bit away from from focusing on commuting journeys is Yeah, and it's looking at the everyday and I think children's journeys as well as a really nice way to do that. Because they're going to school and back. That's two journeys a day. But then obviously, you need to start looking at the wider practices around that because it's hard sometimes for parents to be able to take their children to school. So we need to have the safe infrastructure for that. But it Yeah, to have this kind of joined up approach where there's the policy, there's the projects, there's the infrastructure.33:53So earlier you were mentioning cycling as well with with your dog, who's become something of a star on social media. Could you say something about your dog?34:00Yes, so we got Frida we got her very luckily at the start of the just before the start of the first lockdown. I just I had a bit of trouble at first after my accident. So kind of I'd always been doing cycling for for everyday cycling, cycling since living in the Netherlands, but also I used to do a lot of touring, cycling and sports cycling. And I was really struggling with not being able to do those anymore. And so it's just trying to find ways to enjoy a different type of everyday life. And I've always wanted a dog and we'd always be putting it off saying you know, we'll wait until we live in a house with a big garden and then just finally was really fed up and bought. Let's just do it and she'll be a good excuse to kind of go out the weekends and then because we don't have a car and Cycling is our primary form of transport from the second day we had her we started training, training her I'm not sure that's the right word, but we kind of put her in a backpack and put her on the bike and fed her lots of treats. And she just, she just loves it. She's, she's very attention seeking, which is amazing. So she'll be, she'll be like, sitting in in the bucket of the cargo trike and she'll be quite chilled out and she'll hear people in the distance and she'll suddenly pop up to give them a show, I think. And I think people really like it. They, I, I'm very, I'm very shy and I, I find it quite embarrassing, but it is really nice to cycle past people and see their really positive reaction. And I think it draws attention cycling as well because normally it's quite like a fast someone will just go past you but you can't really notice if and often I carry my husband as well in the front bucket of my of my cargo trike. So it's quite obvious when we get when we're going past and Frida's at the front. So, yeah, yes. And, well, funnily enough as well. I haven't had any close passes on the trike since cycling with Frida ever. So I think that's, I mean, there's something to say there about how people value dogs over over human beings as well. But yeah, really, she loves it, she just sits in the bucket with her goggles. And the goggles is because we started using the cargo trike because it's a bit lower down, I was worried about stones flicking up into her eyes. But she takes it all in her stride. And she she's always excited. I think it's because we are, we kind of started building in having trips, we will do our shopping. But it's about more than doing shopping. It's about going for a nice cycle along nice routes, and stopping at a park where we can throw tennis balls for her and, you know, come back via a nice way to have coffee. So it's kind of it's trying to make, because I've been I've just really loved cycling, so it's making cycling my hobby, but in a in a different way and a more everyday way. So Friday is a really important part of that. But yeah, I mean, I changed my I changed my Twitter handle to Tricycle Mayor. And then some someone said to me that actually it was Friday that was the Tricycle Mayor, and now I've realised that they they are correct. 37:32Everybody loves dogs on bikes, I think my popular tweet ever was just a picture of somebody with three dogs in her cargo bike.37:37Yeah, exactly. They're just they are a people pleaser.37:41Excellent. No, that does link back nicely into the question that I've just remembered. I was going to ask you, which was when you were talking about sort of local trips? So there's been a lot of talk recently about the well, it varies. Sometimes it's the 15 minutes city, sometimes it's the 20 minute neighbourhood, this kind of focus on things being local, do you think that that's useful? those concepts are kind of useful as well?38:01I do. I really like them, I think that we need to, I prefer the 20 minute neighbourhood just in terms of people's speeds. And I, I, I hope that kind of from people spending a lot more time in their local areas as well during COVID. And locked down that perhaps people see the value in that as well. And in my research at the moment, and just talking about people about what they've been doing during lockdown and how they've been using their local neighbourhoods, it's really nice to hear how people know their local neighbourhoods a lot better. And spending a lot more time and getting to know all of the different roads and using local shops and local places to go and get a coffee when they go and walk. And I yeah, I mean, for us it comes into the same kind of having, trying to make cycling and doing these everyday activities part of the hobby. So we're starting to use a local refill shop, for example, and cut that part off of off of supermarket shopping. And it does, it's having the time to do that as well. So there is a there's a time element that you have to have kind of that disposable time to be able to go there. So I'm we're looking at how to do all of our shopping locally, and what we can do plastic free.Thanks so much Harrie, that was a really great chat and I look forward to seeing what happens with you next with your research with Greater Manchester. You've been listening to the active travel podcast. 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Welcome to episode 4 of Living For Purpose podcast – a show that is about creating wellness and balance while working for purpose as a frontline fundraiser.Today’s guest is Tesha McCord Poe, Founder and CEO of Joy-Raising, a fundraising and diversity consultancy that is unafraid to have discussions about money and race in order to help organizations move forward and do great things.In this conversation, we touch on her process of building Joy-Raising, and talk the impact Tesha wants to have on the Joy-Raising journey and about the importance of making our fundraising practices more inclusive.Tune in and let’s unpack some practices on how your organization, and everyone in philanthropy, can create more inclusive philanthropy programs and make our work even better. The Birth of Joy-Raising1:34To give a brief background, Tesha has been involved in many diverse works – fundraising, development, consulting, equity inclusion etc. Tesha needed a name for her venture that could cover everything that she is passionate about. Tesha’s middle name is Joy. And in all that she does, it is rooted from doing things with joy. At the end of the day, all she wants to do is to help people to have more joy in their lives. And the “Raising” comes from fundraising. That’s how she coined her business’ name Joy-Raising.2:55According to Tesha, the dash in between joy and raising is intentional. It started with the simple fact that Joy-Raising without the dash was not available as a URL, but that with the dash, it reminded her of the poem, The Dash Poem. It talks about the importance of the “dash” that is written in between the date of a person’s birth and the date of their passing. The “dash” in the middle part is what we can actually control. It is the years in between those two significant dates that we need to focus on and that reminds us to live for today. 3:33Tesha’s Joy-Raising is a culmination of all the things that she is passionate about. She believes that we have a lot of choice in what we do every day. For Tesha, it's all about making the most of her dash. Goals of Joy-Raising 4:23Joy-Raising has two major goals. One is to have more people of color involved in philanthropy as professionals and as donors. Then the other is to have everyone who works in philanthropy to do that work more inclusively. Advice to a Development Department that is Getting Started with this Work 5:20It’s important to not think that your encompassing fundraising goals and working on inclusivity are at odds with each other. We can start by setting that thought aside. Being rooted in how we can live out our mission and values through the work that we do in philanthropy, and doing that inclusively, that's a really good start. 6:31Also, start thinking about how you would want to be treated if you are a beneficiary of this work. Would you want to be characterized or portrayed in the ways that you are doing as a fundraising shop? 7:19A communications audit might help you to build up those muscles so that you're using that lens more readily. Examining specific examples of things that you are doing. Use set of principles or values that you have and you can hold tight to in order to make choices are more aligned with your goals. Ongoing Projects of Joy-Raising and Their Plans in the Pipeline 8:54With the onset of the pandemic, being in a virtual space, Tesha realized that there was a lot that they could do. The world's response to George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter movement, helped to really give a bigger audience to the diversity work that they do. 9:28In the next few months, Joy-Raising continues to build a community focusing on bringing more people of color into the work as donors and as professionals. And at the end of June, Tesha will be hosting a conference that she calls The Summit, covering really interesting conversations around how people of color in particular are able to do this work effectively. 12:00In the meantime, Tesha is building an online community of people and organizations who would be able to post jobs, opportunities that they have, and have access to professional development that Joy-Raising is providing and other resources so that they really can help build that pipeline. Tesha’s Favorite Part of Joy-Raising 14:27Tesha’s most favorite part is when an idea starts with a little bit of a hint of something and then it grows and you bring people in and it gets better. And then ultimately people experiencing it. Thriving In This Difficult Time 16:47To continue to thrive in this very difficult time, Tesha has become more intentional in wanting to make sure that whatever she is doing, in life or work, she is moving things forward, and that she does not get stuck. Every day, Tesha practices the act of gratitude and consistently asks herself “How can I be a blessing today?” 18:59Shifting from a physical office to working virtually, Tesha commits to keep inspiring her team to remain connected and move forward with their real big fundraising goals. 19:25Tesha also allows herself to take breaks especially on days when she didn’t feel like being productive. What Living For Purpose means to Tesha 20:34Purpose is something that has been a part of Tesha’s development, so it doesn't come as something as an unimagined idea. It means having clarity about how you spend your days. Connect with Tesha McCord at Joy-Raising.comGo to https://www.joy-raising.com/ to know more about The Summit (6/23/2021), The Relaunch, a four-part series that will give you strategies to create more inclusive philanthropy programs in your organization, and more. You can also connect with Tesha on her socials:LinkedIn | Twitter | InstagramOr email her at tesha@joy-raising.com Resources mentioned:Poem: Linda Ellis - THE DASH Website: 1440 Multiversity Book: Mike Lewis – When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t The Life You Want Book: Isabel Wilkerson – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Psalm 32:1,5Mark 15:33–34,37–39Leviticus 23:28In the passages for today we see the very high cost and huge blessing of God’s forgiveness. As P.T. Forsyth (1848–1921) pointed out, first, you have to know the ‘despair of guilt’. Then you can appreciate ‘the breathless wonder of forgiveness’.

What Are You Cleaning In Your Life? Are you Taking Care And More Concerned Of The Outside And How You Look, Neglecting The Inside? Matthew 23:25 - 28 25“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Genesis 4 - 1:02Genesis 5 - 5:58Genesis 6 - 10:20Genesis 7 - 14:16Psalm 2 - 18:28In our last episode, mankind was ejected from the garden of Eden for sinning against the Lord God. Today, we see sin and wickedness grow until finally the Lord decides wipe mankind from the face of the earth. Only Noah, his family, and an ark full of animals are saved from destruction. In many of our modern conceptions of Noah, we fashion a cartoonish old man surrounded by cute animals all smiling happily from their little boat; but the reality of the flood was far more grueling than the nursery murals suggest. :::Christian Standard Bible translation.All music written and produced by John Burgess Ross.Co-produced by the Christian Standard Bible.facebook.com/commuterbibleinstagram.com/commuter_bibletwitter.com/CommuterPodpatreon.com/commuterbibleadmin@commuterbible.org

Podcast: Rebel Wisdom (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Dialogue Across Divides, John Wood JrPub date: 2020-11-28In the wake of the US election, the political divisions are as deep as ever. How can we hope to build dialogue across those divides?   John Wood Jr is the ambassador for Braver Angels, a grassroots organisation that tries to mediate between the different warring tribes.   What techniques work, and what kind of narratives might unite us?   Check our Rebel Wisdom's upcoming sessions, and consider becoming a member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   John Wood, Jr. is a former nominee for congress whose written work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner and Quillette Magazine. A noted speaker on the subject of political and racial reconciliation, Wood is director of public outreach and national ambassador for Braver Angels. He lives in South Los Angeles with his wife and three children.   Braver Angels: https://braverangels.org/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from rebelwisdom, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: #222 — A Pandemic of IncompetencePub date: 2020-10-28In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss the breakdown of trust in institutions and experts, the corruption of science by politics, the ineptitude of the Trump administration in handling the pandemic, whether the gravity of Covid-19 has been exaggerated, preparing for future pandemics, whether Covid deaths are being over-reported, bad incentives in the medical system, tracking "excess death" statistics, the prospect that the novel coronavirus will evolve to become more benign, the efficacy of current treatments, safety concerns about a rushed vaccine, the importance of public health communication, when life might return to normal, the economic impact of the pandemic, long term social changes, the future of universities, Nicholas's personal habits during the pandemic, the importance of rapid testing, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast at samharris.org/subscribe.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sam Harris, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

#28In episode 3 of the Wake Up Series I dive into the exciting realm of being consistent in life. Life is like a garden. Planting, watering, being patient, and then ultimately cultivating that beautiful garden. The importance of showing up for your 50% and having spirit meet you with their 50%. Life is amazing when you are being consistent.What enthusiastically spiritual mini morsels are in this episode:

God does not live in shrines made by human hands... Indeed, God is not far from each one of us. For in God we live and move and have our being.- Acts 17:24, 27-28In times like the ones we are experiencing now, we find ourselves searching for God. Like we are fumbling around in the dark for the light switch, banging on the walls. In these moments, Saint Paul assures us: Indeed, God is not far from each of us, but on your very breath.May this be your reminder that God is every near to you, even in the moments when God feels far away. All is not lost and you are not alone.

Christmas365 presents: Music Podcast 2018.28In this new christmas music-podcast our guests are: Angelo Badalamenti - Christmas VacationBackstreet Boys - Christmas TimeDolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Christmas without youFay Lovsky - Christmas was a friend of mineKane - Christmas Time (Wont Be the Same Without You)Wendy and Lisa - Closing of the YearVoice-Over: Anjes.For more Christmas365 Music visit our website: https://christmas365music.blogspot.com or download the Spreaker-radio app (for all devices),** or the Google-Podcast App or Apple-Podcast App, Search for Christmas365 make it your favorite and join the club.**Frits365 Music podcast is available on Googlepodcast, Applepodcast,Podcastaddict, Soundcloud, Tunein and Castbox .https://www.facebook.com/frits365 https://www.twitter.com/frits365

Yesterday, I had the honor of speaking at the National Mentor Alliance monthly meeting. I had a speech prepared, but when I arrived, intuition guided me to give the audience a completely different experience.Thanks to Phil Warner for not being attached to the outcome. He allowed me to run with my intuition and I believe the outcome was more powerful for everyone than my prepared speech might have been.I have had several opportunities in the past couple of days to just allow the perfect outcome to unfold. In this way, I have been able to serve my clients and potential future clients in a way that couldn’t have been planned.I know this is part of my genius. Working closely with me is never static or predictable. I am guided on every Power Alignment Call, in every Seven Gateways group Q&A call, in creating content for the North Star Navigator Course, and in my personal life as well.My finite logical mind could create an A through Z plan that would have all 26 steps laid out perfectly. But every day, God gives me shortcuts so that only P, L, A and N are necessary when applied in that order. What I thought would take 26 steps is really only 4 steps in God’s timing.All of us are going to look different as we age. Accident or disease can cripple the body so that it is unrecognizable compared to the outcome we envision for ourselves. For the greatest sense of peace, contentment and joy we MUST be unattached to the outcome.It is an illusion that we can control the outcome. The outcome is a by-product of our thoughts, beliefs, words, actions, energy and choices. We do control all of those, but we can’t control how they all work together for our good.“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” -Romans 8:28In this scripture, the part we can control is loving God and accepting the call according to HIS purpose. Even that is a nuance we may not have considered. Working towards his purpose, not ours is when all things work together for good. Not our good, just for good.I am seeing a different take on this scripture than I have seen before. Having good be the result is definitely dependent on being unattached to the outcome.Today, I Give Myself Permission to Be An Obedient Servant for God’s PurposeI trust GodI trust my Inspired ShortcutsI finish and enjoy the sense of accomplishmentI finish wellI am a finisherI am grateful that God knows me exactly and what will bring me the most joyGod is good and I am grateful to be an instrument for good in His handsI follow divine guidance to the letter and expect a good outcomeI know God is only capable of producing GodI follow God’s Inspired Shortcuts and allow the perfect outcome to happen naturallyClick Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.Click Here to find out how to join the Gratitude Call live every weekday morning at 7 am Mountain Time.Click Here to join the “Breakthrough with Gratitude!” Facebook Group. To have a 15 minute conversation with Wylene Benson about a new perspective on an area of your life you desire to change, contact her directly at this link:

“Teach Me”Text: Psalm 25:5, Galatians 3:23-28In our second week looking at Psalm 25:5, Pastor Tim focuses on the words “teach me.” When we think of a teacher, we are likely to picture someone who gives lectures containing what we need to remember. However, the Biblical idea of a teacher also means to be one who…

主题：Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help startups get investment capital（点击收听演讲录音）内容简介：We&`&re living in a golden era of innovation, says entrepreneur Ashwini Anburajan -- but venture capital hasn&`&t evolved to keep up, and startups aren&`&t getting the funding they need to grow. In this quick talk, she shares the story of how her company became part of an entirely new way to raise capital, using the powers of cooperation and cryptocurrency.讲者简介:Ashwini Anburajan · Entrepreneur, writerAshwini Anburajan using blockchain to democratize access to capital.-----以下演讲英文稿-----00:01When I was raising investment for my startup, a venture capitalist said to me, "Ashwini, I think you&`&re going to raise a few million dollars. And your company -- it&`&s going to sell for 50 to 70 million. You&`&re going to be really excited. Your early investors are going to be really excited. And I&`&m going to be really upset. So I&`&m not going to invest in this deal."00:26I remember just being dumbstruck. Who would be unhappy with putting four or five million dollars into a company and having it sell for 50 to 70 million?00:41I was a first-time founder. I didn&`&t have a wealthy network of individuals to turn to for investment, so I went to venture capitalists the most common form of investor in a technology company. But I&`&d never taken the time to understand what was motivating that VC to invest.01:00I believe we&`&re living in a golden era of entrepreneurship. There is more opportunity to build companies than ever before. But the financial systems designed to fund that innovation, venture capital, they haven&`&t evolved in the past 20 to 30 years. Venture capital was designed to pour large sums of money into a small number of companies that can sell for over a billion dollars. It was not designed to sprinkle capital across many companies that have the potential to succeed but for less, like my own. That limits the number of ideas that get funded, the number of companies that are created and who can actually receive that funding to grow.01:49And I think it inspires a tough question: What&`&s our goal with entrepreneurship? If our goal is to create a tiny number of billion-dollar companies, let&`&s stick with venture capital, it&`&s working. But if our goal is to inspire innovation and empower more people to build companies of all sizes, we need a new way to fund those ideas. We need a more flexible system that doesn&`&t squeeze entrepreneurs and investors into one rigid financial outcome. We need to democratize access to capital.02:28In the summer of 2017, I went out to San Francisco, to join a tech accelerator with 30 other companies. The accelerator was supposed to teach us how to raise venture capital. But when I got out there, the startup community was buzzing about ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings. For the first time, ICOs had raised more money for young startups than venture capital had.02:55It was the first week of the program. Tequila Friday. And the founders couldn&`&t stop talking. "I&`&m going to raise an ICO." "I&`&m going to raise an ICO." Until one guy goes, "How cool if we did this all together? We should do an ICO that combines the value of all of our companies and raise money as a group." At that point, I had to ask the obvious question, "Guys, what&`&s an ICO?"03:19ICOs were a way for young companies to raise money by issuing a digital currency tied to the value and services that the company provides. The currency acts similar to shares in a company, like on the public stock market, increasing in value as it&`&s traded online. Most important, ICOs expanded the investor pool, from a few hundred venture capital firms to millions of everyday people, excited to invest. This market represented more money. It represented more investors. Which meant a greater likelihood to get funded. I was sold.04:02The idea, though, of doing it together still seemed a little crazy. Startups compete with each other for investment, it takes hundreds of meetings to get a check. That I would spend my precious 15 minutes in front of an investor talking not just about my own company, but all the companies in the batch, was unprecedented. But the idea caught on. And we decided to cooperate, rather than compete. Every company put 10 percent of their equity into a communal pool that we then split into tradable cryptocurrency that investors could buy and sell. Six months and four law firms later --04:46(Laughter)04:47in January 2018, we launched the very first ICO that represented the value of nearly 30 companies and an entirely new way to raise capital. We got a lot of press. My favorite headline about us read, "VCs, read this and weep."05:05(Laughter)05:08Our fund was naturally more diverse. Twenty percent of the founders were women. Fifty percent were international. The investors were more excited, too. They had a chance to get better returns, because we took out the middleman fees of venture capital. And they could take their money and reinvest it, potentially funding more new ideas faster.05:30I believe this creates a virtuous cycle of capital that allows many more entrepreneurs to succeed. Because access to capital is access to opportunity. And we have only just begun to imagine what democratizing access to capital will do. I would have never thought that my own search for funding would lead me to this stage, having helped nearly 30 companies get investment.05:59Imagine if other entrepreneurs tried to invent new ways to access capital rather than following the traditional route. It would change what gets built, who builds it and the long-term impact on the economy. And I believe that&`&s way more exciting than just trying to invest in the next billion-dollar startup.06:20Thank you.06:21(Applause)

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Pastor Zenzile Legend February 16, 2014 Judges 61The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. 3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. 4They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. 6Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help. 7When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.” 11The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” 13“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” 15“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” 16The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” 17Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. 18Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” 19Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. 20The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. 21Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. 22When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!” 23But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.” 24So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25That same night the Lord said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. 26Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.” 27So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime. 28In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar! 29They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.” 30The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.” 31But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.” 32So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.” 33Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel. 34Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. 35He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them. 36Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised— 37look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.” 38And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water. 39Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.” 40That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew. Judges 7 1Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ 3Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained. 4But the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” 5So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” 6Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink. 7The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.” 8So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. 9During that night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. 10If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah 11and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.” So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. 12The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore. 13Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.” 14His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.” 15When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands.” 16Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside. 17“Watch me,” he told them. “Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. 18When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’ ” 19Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. 20The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled. 22When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. 23Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. 24Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. 25They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.

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Welcome to Lancelot's Roundtable - Episode 23Career Re-evaluation with Shelby SmithShelby 00:00I learned about myself that like with education that... you just realized you have no more coffeecorrect was tea like looked into my mug and like yep, it's pure design on its faceLance Foulis 00:14true Hello everybody and welcome back to Lancelot's Roundtabe. It is getting very spring likeoutside we are early March and we're getting our first little taste of spring, which probablymeans that we're going to get a least one more bout of snow before we get into permanentspring time. So I hope everyone's having a good day. Hope everybody's enjoying the sunshine,wherever you are, if it's sun shining, when you listen to this, but thanks so much for listening.I'm happy to welcome to the podcast, a really good friend of mine, Shelby Smith. Shelby,welcome to the roundtable. Hi, thanks so much for having me. Absolutely, really thrilled thatyou could come on. So why don't you tell the people a little bit about yourself? Yeah, so I'm 33mom of one currently.Shelby 01:13Born and raised, Columbus went to o u in Athens and I have a Bachelors of Science incommunication studies, through right out of college went into HR and then marketing where Imet you. That's where are we met? That's where we met a couple years ago. Yeah, well, morethan a couple now. We'll go with a couple. And then when that really just wasn't the greatestfit, I left the corporate sector and decided that I was better fit for the education side. So I havebeen teaching for five years. It's my fifth year. So I'm about to end my fifth year and wild Godyears already. It's crazy. And I have my masters now in education, curriculum and instructionfrom Ashland University. I didn't know you went to Ashlyn. I mean, it was all online. But yeah,that's your mom. Right? Hey, everybody, Kim's here.SSKim Foulis 02:09Hi.Lance Foulis 02:11She's walking around taking pictures and video. She does that. Hey, hey, everybody. Hey, soum, yeah, so like we met at a company that I still work for you left? Correct. And you were oneof the people that was in the infamous row that we talked about on the episode with NatalieBaldwin, Episode 19. Go listen to it. Oh, I didn't realize it was episode 19. Bob, good plug,Marketing, Marketing and Communication Specialist right there runs through the just part ofthe blood you can't get rid of it can't. So let's talk a little bit about those days. I rememberwhen I first started. I was coming from local bank. And I was really excited about this jobbecause it was an actual, like, professional type job. And I remember meeting you, you were 90days, I believe, is that correct? I think so. Yeah, yeah, you're getting or you're getting close toyour 90th day because that was some type of a milestone. Yes. And I remember just being likea deer in the headlights,Shelby 03:09like get like 90 days, I was still a deer in the headlights. Let's be honest,Lance Foulis 03:12it wasn't easy. Which I remember Natalie and I got into that very much. But I mean, lookingback at those memories, it was, here's your clients, here's what you're doing. And when I sayhere's what you're doing, it's more like, here's where you'll be sitting in here's your computer.Here's how you log in random binder of things that oh, you know, the binders, we had a lot ofbinders,Shelby 03:33they did do a great job of pairing you up with a person who had your client before youunfortunately for me, all of my clients went came from a person who was leaving.Lance Foulis 03:46Yeah, and that's what that's that's like the worst situation that you could be in in that role is theperson that used to support it is gone. Because there's, there wasn't a good knowledge sharing,I guess that's the way I would put it. So like that person left with the knowledge of how to dothings. So lots of all of the nitty gritty details. For your day to day you just had to learn byShelby 04:09KSSSShelby 04:09identifier? Well, I think a lot of it for me was learned by not doing and then realize I didn't doand then having to do very, very quickly. Yeah. So that was a thing where like, vendors wouldreach out and say, Hey, we normally have, you know, a program coming through or informationcoming through for for this program are running, but we haven't seen it come through. Are westill running that for you? Yeah, that's the only thing.Lance Foulis 04:31Like, that's literally like a third party and they're basically coming to your rescue. And they'rebeing very nice about it. But it's like, oh, yeah, you know, we typically would expect to get thisform by now. And we haven't done it but we know that you need the this material over hereand it's going to take some days for it to get there.Shelby 04:48Yeah, I think in the beginning, I had to call in a lot of favors for people I didn't even know yet.Yeah. Can you run this for me in 24 hours? I promise you'll learn to love me.Lance Foulis 04:57Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's true, but you were really Good at your internal network. Oh, thankyou. Yeah, you were really good at that.Shelby 05:05I got the hang of it after a while. Yeah. And it just slowly after I kind of had the hang of it andhad been doing it for a while, started to realize it just was not what I was passionate about. Itwas not what was what made me happy. It was not a good fit, I lovedLance Foulis 05:20who I worked with, it's always the people, it's always theShelby 05:23people. And what I learned, and I did learn a ton from that position. Yep. And I'm very thankfulfor that. But the biggest thing, I think I learned was the 8020 lesson, and that in your role, and Itry and pass this on to my students all the time, because I am High School. And for the last fiveyears, the constant for me has been seniors in high school. So I've taught a little bit of nine, alittle bit of 11 some electives, but the constant all five years has been that I have had at leastone one course of English 12. So all seniors and so one thing I try and pass on to them asthey're moving into that next phase of life is that they need to look for the 8020 You're nevergonna find 100% It's just not out there. Right? You're always gonna have some little bit thatSSSSyou don't love to do. Yeah, I gave an example the other day, I could work with puppies all daylong. be fantastic. So much fun, just little puppies running around everywhere, but you're stillgonna have that like puppies have sharp teeth, or you know, they're not potty trained. Orthey're chewing on your shoelaces. And you know, your new Louis Vuitton bag is now coveredin slobber or did this happen to you? Know, this is just my own? Like, no, no, no. lifeexperience? Well, I mean, my dog did eat one of my purses. So that's cool.Lance Foulis 06:36Just not a Louis Vuitton. God loved Piper. Oh my gosh, I forgot about Piper.Shelby 06:40How's Piper She's good. She's getting gray.Lance Foulis 06:42How old is she? Oh,Shelby 06:45nine.Lance Foulis 06:45Cuz you you guys got her before you got married? Right?Shelby 06:50Yeah, I think she's eight or nine.Lance Foulis 06:51Okay, that's awesome. I'm glad to hear about Piper. I totally forgot about Piper. Yeah.Shelby 06:56Yeah, so I try and tell them they're still that that you know, a little bit that you don't love. Lovethe puppies hate the slobber and the sharp teeth. And, you know, and so if you have 80% ofthe job you absolutely love and 20% that you can deal with, then that's golden. If you can find9010 That's like the rainbow. Yeah. out there. Yeah. And so for me, it was when I was at theSSSSmarketing position that I was in with you. It was the opposite. It was the 2080. Yeah. And the20% were the people that I worked with. That was what I loved and what got me in every singleday. Yeah. But it was the 80% of the actual work I was doing was that 80% I hated? Yeah,couldn't do it. And so in education, luckily, I have found the good positive 8020 Where it's 80%of the job I love. And then there's 20%, where you have paperwork, and you know, gradingessays that maybe are not at the caliber, you would like them, or, you know, workLance Foulis 07:54in progress, right. And you don't have to write anybody up. That's, that's also cool. SoShelby 07:59yes, it's very nice. Yeah, I mean, aside from like, sending home email saying, Yeah, ILance Foulis 08:03literally thought about that, after I sent said that. And I'm like, Well, no, there's probably somedisciplinary issues. But high school, there's probably some discipline that needs to happen. Solet's talk a little bit about because I mean, from my perspective, you are so fresh out of college,that it's I feel like for you is probably at least somewhat hard to know and get your bearingsaround all that like now you can look back and be like, Yeah, I wasn't happy, I maybe I shouldhave made my move sooner. And maybe I didn't have to deal with all that stuff that I dealtwith. So do you think that's a consequence of Okay, everybody, thank you. Always fun when wehave these little like interesting cuts, but I had a phone call from my mechanic, and I needed totake it because I need you to see how much the bad news was. So life happens. Life happens.Exactly. Right. So what I was asking you Shelby was essentially, when you win, this was one ofyour first jobs that you started, right? Yes. So I wanted to find out from you what yourperspective was on. I'm trying to remember how many years you were there before you left?Was it like three, four? I was there like a little over four. So a little over four years. So you thinkabout I mean, that's when you're coming out of college things are just like in four year batches,because high school before your batch College is a four year batch. So do you think that maybeif you if it hadn't been your first job, you might have figured out quicker that it wasn't a goodfit?Shelby 09:27I think so. I think I had a lot of pressure on myself as well. Yes. Just to make it work. I had neverreally experienced true failure at something and not not succeeding. Yeah, you know, andLance Foulis 09:44that was hard every day was basically like on some level a struggle. Oh, to not lose my mind.Yeah, yes, it is. And to be successful what we were doing Yes, yeah. Every day was like a battlein that sense.SSShelby 09:57Yeah. And this was before like I was there about Before all of the reorg started, right that themultitude of reorg were at my tail end is when those reorg started happening. So, you know,we kind of had all of those different deliverables that we had to do that were eventually kind ofpushed off to other people. And we had just a core group of deliverables.Lance Foulis 10:21Yeah, so to kind of describe that to people. So in our role, we were like, we were managingmarketing projects, which that that's kind of a very loose definition to get more nitty gritty into,I think a better explanation is like, we were like the gatekeepers to a lot of different things. Andit was our job to work with so many different people across the organization to make surethings happen. So we had to be subject matter experts across across a very wide variety ofthings. So anyway, let's talk some more of just about like that experience for you. So everysingle I mean, we were all in that like, right, every single day coming in, the challenges arereally high, the pressure is really high, you have a date that you pretty much have to meet, youcan't miss any of these dates. When you do you get to have Crucial Conversations. So checkmail date, hashtag mail dates. So talk, talk, just talk a little bit about maybe your journey of,you know, four years you're doing this thing, the people are great. The job is the way that thejob is, how did you get to the point where you understood, this isn't for me, and to make thatcourageous decision to?Shelby 11:31Yeah, so I think it's also really important to understand that that point in my life was also a verybig turning point into adulthood, you know, coming right out of college. When I took that job, Iwas, you know, 23 Yeah. And so still, in retrospect, now, 10 years later. 23 is really young. Youknow, when I when I was in that spot, I was like, you know, I'm gonna know what's ups. I'mbrown. I know what I'm doing. I got this. And in reality, that was not the case at all. But I washanded a one I considered a good title with a good salary, you know, we were looking for Yeah,we were well compensated. And yeah. You know, I felt like if I couldn't make this work, then Iwas failing at life. Period. Yeah. Period. And because also, if you remember, a lot of the peoplethat I went to college with, also had jobs there. It was different department. It wasLance Foulis 12:27an Oh, you haven like people like we really came out. Oh, you and my Oh, my ammo of Ohio.Those were like the two big ones. I think. I don't think we recruit that in the same way anymore.But yes, back then. Yeah. No, you folks. Yes. Can you talk about the comparison factor? Whatdo you mean? So? You're see that's that's the thing. I don't I think that's really important tonotice. Or to note. You mean comparing yourself to the fact that yeah, you went to college andmost people now you're in the professional sector with a bunch of people and there's no endright? There's no spring breaks. There's no the quarters over. SoSSShelby 13:02glad that you brought that up. Because that I've I realized about myself is I am a person whoworks in increments in life in general. So I always knew that about myself in terms of likeworking out, right. If I was going for a run, not a runner. I hate to write terrible. I don't knowhow people do it or why you do it. Yeah, Harrison. Right. Eric, come on our friendLance Foulis 13:22Aaron that we used to work with her and her husband loved to run. Do they run in likeblizzards? Yeah. And we would always scratch her heads at that a little bit. Anyway,Shelby 13:30I mean, they love it. And that's good. Love that journey for them. Not mine. Not my journey. Butwhen I go for a run, I always have to tell myself, Okay, I just need to make it from here to thestop sign. Hmm. Right. And then I get to the stop sign like Okay, from here to the yellow car.Yeah. Or one more block around the track. Yep. So I have to give myself these increments toknow that I have reached my goal. Yeah. And if it is a very short term goal. Yeah. And therewas no end in sight. Like you said, there was no end. It was just everyday rolling over. And yourend in sight was retirement like 35 years down the road. And that was a very dark hole to lookdown for me.Lance Foulis 14:06Yeah, that oh, that's an abyss to look at. Yeah.Shelby 14:09So I learned about myself that, like with education that you just realized you have no morecoffee,Lance Foulis 14:16correct? Well, I was tea, like looked into my mug and like, Yep, it'sShelby 14:19peered on its face. True. So I realized that in education, you have those increments, you know, Ihave to make it from here until Christmas break and then I get you know, some time todecompress. And then I need to make it from here to spring break and then spring break to thesummer and then I get to start all over again. I get to look back and say okay, this didn't worklast year. What did I like that worked? What did I like that didn't work? You know, what can ISSSStweak and then move forward? fresh, new faces, new people? Yeah. You know, new minds tomold. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. So it is very increment driven in education. And that works forme. Yeah. So At that point in time, there was no end in sight. And that was really hard for me tokind of get through. And there was this constant comparison, which I also think is part of amaturity thing. Yeah, I was in that, in that age where everyone else is doing it, everyone else iswinning, I have to do it and when to and so, and these are people that I was close to in college,not just random people that went to the same university as me, but people that I spent timewith in college I was friends with. So there's that wanting to save face not wanting to, youknow, be the one who boughs out kind of situation,Lance Foulis 15:35which is really hard to your point at 23. Because you just you don't know what you don't know.And it just would be so hard. Like, I mean, I can just I can totally just picture that see that in myif that would if that had been my experience. Just Oh, everybody else seems to be doing great.What's why? Why can't I? Why can't I? Right? And that being just a question in your face, rightwould be exhausting? Yes.Shelby 16:01So I think also, like different teams were functioning differently 100% You know, depending onwho you had, in your upper levels, and who I had in my upper levels that were kind of helpingme manage really dictated my success. You know, Laura getting's was one of those people thatwas super inspirational to me and very supportive for me and supportive of me during a timethat it was really difficult for me and so with her support, and guidance, I kind of made itthrough a rough patch. Right. And that's when I was promoted to senior. Yep, at that point,which was kind of the next Yeah,Lance Foulis 16:40cuz remember, there was so funny, you bring that up, and that instantly brings back memoriesthat you just brought up like the, the pressure, there was like, an unwell I don't want to evensay unspoken, but there was definitely a pressure to get to senior. And there was like a, like,you kind of expected to be able to get there within a year, take a couple months. And if he haddidn't, it was kind of like whyShelby 17:05well and not to mention that when I first started everybody in program management had toldme and this was like a direct quote from multiple people. If you can make it in programmanagement for a year you can make it anywhereLance Foulis 17:15that was like well known across the company.SSShelby 17:17I mean in across other companies like they were basically like if you can make it at thiscompany here in this specific role, then you can do you know, you can conquer world peace.Yes. I mean, that's that was a well known fact. So it was to add that added pressure and then toknow that it was something of a feat in itself. Yes, it just conquer the role. But yes, it was youwant to make it to senior you want to get the laptop.Lance Foulis 17:44We talked about that with Natalie's like that way back, then having a laptop was a definitemark of success. For sure in there. Because there was there were a couple seniors I didn't evenremember that that did have laptops and basically meant that you were good to travel. Cuz youremember back then we did. We didn't do traveling. Yeah, on site audits and reissues. Wewould go to the processor and audit things. And that was a mark. Especially like the first timethat you did it. Like that was like, Oh, you've got your own merit badge now. Yep. Yeah.Shelby 18:18So yeah, with with some some good management in place, at that point in time, I was able tokind of make it through, learn what I was doing, get my bearings, people that came in and sawthat things. The way that we had been doing them weren't working, and kind of making someadjustments for us was huge. Yeah. Because I got one client, specifically. And Steve, do youreceive? Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. So Steve, was my manager at that point? That's right. For a veryshort period of time, but he handed me this plan. And he said, This is going to be just, youknow, collateral maintenance is what he said, no big deal. You're just going to send in acollateral order for new issues. Once a month, like no big deal. Yeah. And we had expected tohave 4000 new accounts that first month. And so we only bought enough collateral to issue youknow, four or 5000. Give or take, and we turned around the next month, and we had 40,000new accounts. Yep. 10 times what we were supposed to have, and we had no collateral. Yep.And it was like a four week turnaround for credit cards to be made, which is fast, right?Lance Foulis 19:28In today's terms, that's a very fast turnaround for was for it was usually like four to eightweeks. Okay, I was gonna say that was my point. It got up to like, 12 Yes, there was a supplychain issue and it got to like 12 to 14.Shelby 19:41Yeah, so that became a very stressful client. For me very, very quickly. And it was supposed tobe like my easy peasy.SSSLance Foulis 19:48Yeah. And then it just becomes this monster. And there's it's really hard to pivot. That's a fancyfancy buzzword. It's, it's it's really hard to pivot because you're saying This client? Well, you cantry saying this client is actually really, really, really difficult. And but there's this history. No, it'snot. No, it's all all you have to do is just this little bit. I'm telling you, it's drowning me. Oh, you'llbe okay. Yeah.Shelby 20:15Yeah. So I mean, there were a lot of things that I think not necessarily were like already againstme, but things that made it a little bit more difficult for me to acclimate to the position itself.When I first came in, you know, after about two years, I felt confident, okay, I know what I'mdoing. I can do this. And I think that's really when I started to find myself as a human being andan adult. And you know, what I wanted I liked and I didn't like, that was when my husband and Ireally started taking things a little bit further in our relationship. We got engaged. And it wasright before I decided to leave that role that we got married, right. And so God bless myhusband, he loves me so much. We got married. I locked it down. And then two days later, Iquit my job. I made sure I had that locked down.Lance Foulis 21:13Yeah. Yes, by the way, PS,Shelby 21:17I no longer have income. So I mean, that was a challenging time in life in itself. And I actuallystayed for three weeks after I give a you know, two weeks notice. But I stayed for three, threeweeks. And I really worked super, super hard during those three weeks. To pass Michael, thebinder.Lance Foulis 21:36Yeah, that was your book of business. Yeah, in a really good way, a really good way. You werereally, you were really focused on making sure that you set someone else up for success. Yes,that was a big deal.Shelby 21:48It was a huge deal for me, because I knew what it was like to just be past something that wasnothing when you first started. And the clients that I was passing on, were ones that wereactive every month with multiple programs, they were running, and very specific, intricate, youknow, idiosyncrasies that they wanted, specifically for that client. So I wanted to make sureSSSthat whoever was getting those clients was prepared in what they do every month. And so Iworked really hard in those three weeks. And I remember the day that I left, you all walked meout to my car, Natalie, you Erin, Jen, Ryan, all walked me out to my car, and I was sobbing.Lance Foulis 22:28Oh, it was it was hard. Because we were all so tight. As like we went makes me choke up nowthinking about it. You know, we went through like, because we all like struggled in all of ourways that we struggled with all the clients that we were supporting. And we all like wentthrough growing pains together. We went we did lunches together, we we vented together, wetalked about how we were struggling in our we were close with each other like we would goout, you know, you, myself and our significant others would all get together occasionally. Andlike have a good time. Like we'd go that do happy hours. So it wasn't just like coworkers. It waslike we were friends. We were besties we were work besties Yeah. And so like, yeah, Iremember walking you out and like it felt like a shot to the gut. To all of us.Shelby 23:12It felt like a real, goodbye. Yeah. And you know, going from every day, okay, we're in thistogether, at least I have these people to help me through to really be like, Okay, I'm on myown. And I have no idea what I'm going to do next. And all of these people are not going to beright there. Yeah, you know, a cubicle over.Lance Foulis 23:32So yeah, let's Well, I mean, let's talk about that. Because I don't even think I knew that youdidn't know that you were gonna go back to school at this point. Oh, no, it was like a cleanbreak. You just knew I knew this wasn't for me. Yeah. And you're in a huge life transition. Youjust got married.Shelby 23:46Let's mention that. The week that I got married. I also bought a home. Oh, that's right. I signedmy mortgage. You know, which I've never goneLance Foulis 23:55through a mortgage signing before. You don't you don't know the full extent to what you'redoing when you because it's a it's a giant book of things to sign.Shelby 24:06Oh, yeah. And you're signing your life away. I mean, it's basically saying we will take your life ifyou don't give us our mortgage payment. Yes, exactly. Right. It's really scary as the first timehomeowner you always feelhomeowner you always feelLance Foulis 24:16like I should have I should have like I should have secured myself a lawyer to go through thesedocuments with me.Shelby 24:22I am not smart enough to be looking at this by myself. So that's your first home buyingexperience buying experience. We signed on one Friday and moved in that weekend and thenwe got married on the following Friday. Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Which I don't recommendanyone doing buying a home and planning a wedding at the same time. It was the worst itLance Foulis 24:42self folks out there. Don't do that.Shelby 24:45Don't do it. Don't do it. JustLance Foulis 24:46two separate times are your guyses wedding was really beautiful. We got to go to your to yourwedding. Erin was at my wedding. That's right here it was in your wedding. And we had oursecond we were talking about this before we started recording Our second child, Connor. Boy,he he had just been born. So I was holding in less than a month. Yes. I was holding him duringthe whole ceremony. He was wearing a tuxedo onesie. Fair remember? Oh, wow, I never wouldbe able to remember that. That's, that's a mom memory. Yes, it is. Um, yeah. So that was fun.Like, we had that wonderful memory. And then yeah, so So you literally went from job to no jobhouse responsibility. Marriage. Tell me about the transition.Shelby 25:33So it was really hard for me, because it was the first time that I had ever been without a jobsince I was like 16 years old. And I grew up in a family where it was instilled in us Don't quityour job until you have another job to fall back on. And so it felt like a really big failure that Iwas leaving without anything to fall back on. Geez. And so it was really hard. And I admittedly, Ispent a couple of weeks, maybe months on my couch, just kind of wallowing. Yeah, mysorrows. Trying to figure out if I didn't like this, what would I like, and I applied for a lot of jobsthat were very similar to what I was doing beforehand. And I kept having these conversationsSSSwith my husband and with my sisters and my friends, like, why are you applying for jobs thatare the same as what you were doing before? If you didn't like that, then we need to findsomething different. SoLance Foulis 26:24how would you answer that question?Shelby 26:26So I couldn't answer that question. I don't know. That was my answer. I don't I don't know why Ikeep applying for these jobs. Yeah, you know, it's the exact same job I was doing before. Butthat's what I felt like I was qualified to do. Yeah, with a Communication Studies degree. Andthen this experience, this is what I felt I fit into cookie cutter wise. So I decided that in theinterim, when I was trying to figure out, okay, I'm not gonna apply for any more of these jobs,because clearly, I don't like it. And it's not a fit for me, but I need to figure out what I'm doing.And I need to make some money in the process. My mom, who has been in the education fieldfor now, 25 years, had said, you have a bachelor's degree, come and substitute teach, whileyou're trying to figure it out. It's a daily, you know, paycheck, your daily, you know, pay, it'seasy, you can, you know, you can do it. Yeah. And then you can have time to figure out whatyour what your what you want to do. And so, I started doing that. And honestly, when I wasgoing into college, I had thought, I really like education. And every aptitude test I took in highschool said, you know, teaching was one of those Yep. On the list. Yep. And I did JuniorAchievement. When I was working at our organization. Do you remember that at all? So it was abusiness class, essentially, that you went into different middle schools. And you taught once aweek, a class to like sixth and seventh grade, youLance Foulis 27:53did that while you were at the company? I didn't, I don't remember that.Shelby 27:56Yeah. And I loved it. I taught at New Albany Middle School. And one other one, and I could seeescaping me right now. But you taught them about credit. And you know, all these different,you know, economics, just basic and reporting for kids to learn about, they gave you acurriculum, it was the Junior Achievement curriculum. And you just went in and taught the preplanned lessons, but I loved it. And then I started substitute teaching, and I fell in love with it allover again. And I thought to myself, if I love being in a different classroom, that's not my own.With new kids, every day, then I would really love to have my own space with kids that I couldreally build a relationship with. Yeah. And that's what I loved about it, you know, was buildingthe relationship with the kids and joking around with them and, you know, all that kind of stuff.So I tried the elementary school. I subbed in elementary for like, a day. No, this is not for me.The Little People are not my forte. Did youSSLance Foulis 28:59substitute in in elementary, okay. Yeah, IShelby 29:03served a couple days in elementary and it was just not not where it was at for my kid. I wouldhave a hard time too. Yeah. Love my own little person. Mm hmm. And, you know, other people Ido love children, maybe in smaller Yes.Lance Foulis 29:18groupings. You know,Shelby 29:19I just don't do the whole like Tommy's touching me and snotty nose and, you know, hold handswhile we take a potty break. And that just was not where my Yeah, my groove was, yeah,you're Yes, my age. And then I tried middle school, and I was like, Okay, this is a little better. Ilike this, but they're very, like, emotional. You know, one kid had made fun of another kid andsaid that the other kid thought that I was cute. And embarrass him and he started crying. Andthen I felt like I don't know what to do. Because if I let go over and I console him that it justmakes it worse, right? Don't and I feel very cold hearted. So it's just very awkward situation forme. Yeah. And then I found high school and I was like, these are my people. Yeah, they got myhumor, I could tell them to just go away for a minute when I needed a second.Lance Foulis 30:07And this is still just you're substituting stuff, just figuringShelby 30:10it out. Wow. And so then I started looking into programs of how I could get my teaching license.And that's when I found Ashland University's bachelor Plus program. And they worked with mein the classes that I had for my undergrad. Because, again, while I was an undergrad, I took alot of education electives, because it was something that I was interested in interesting. And Ireally felt like, and I think I've told you this before. I feel like looking back when I was in thecorporate role, there were different points throughout. Where God kept saying to me, you're onthe wrong path. You're on the wrong road, you need to turn right. Mm hmm. And there weredifferent points, where it would be very, very clear, like you need to turn and I would just say,Nope, I got to make this work. I started on this road. This is the road we're taking. There are noalternates. Yeah. And then eventually it got to a point where he just put a dead end. Yeah. Andhe was like, Nope, you only go right. Yeah. And so then when I turned right, the road was a lotless bumpy and a lot more enjoyable. And it was really hard. Because when I started going toschool, back to school, I was substitute teaching full time, so five days a week. And then ISSSdecided I was going to coach cheerleading. Oh, that's right. I kind of remember that. Yeah. So Iwas coaching some of the kids that I was subbing because I was a long term sub. And I wasalso working at roosters at that time, I was waitressingLance Foulis 31:44back to do, because you had done that I asked life. Yeah.Shelby 31:48So I went back just because it was extra money. And you know, I had a new mortgage and allthat kind of stuff. So I was working effectively like three jobs. Yeah. And then going to schoolfull time for a year and a half. So it was a grind for sure.Lance Foulis 32:01When did you go to classes.Shelby 32:03So it was a lot of like, very self paced. But it was all online. And so I would kind of get thesyllabus and it would say these things are due, you know, this week, you need to read this. Andthen this paper is due on Sunday, and you have a discussion board post and two responseskind of thing. So nights, weekends when I wasn't at a game or at a at a practice. Yeah, that waswhen I was doing the work.Lance Foulis 32:32So what did it feel like? Did you feel like motivated? Did you just get into a little like a grooveand just head down?Shelby 32:38Yeah, I mean, I think I saw the end, I saw what I could have at the end. And that was reallyinspiring to me plus what I was learning, I really loved. Yeah. SoLance Foulis 32:48that was that was you were you were like really enjoying the content of the classes that youwere taking?Shelby 32:53SSSSShelby 32:53Yeah, because I didn't I had so many credit hours for my undergrad in English. Yeah, I didn'treally have to take a ton of English classes, more of it was, you know, my methods andinstructional, like the pedagogy type classes that I had to take. So I was really learning whatthat word mean. I was learning howLance Foulis 33:10to while you were talking, I was searching my brain. And then I realized nope, I'm not going tofind it rotary have Yeah.Shelby 33:16So basically, the the method of teaching, okay. I was, I was learning how to teach notnecessarily what to teach, but but how to go about it, different protocols, that we use activitiesthat you can do with the kids to get to a deeper level of learning, and you know, those types ofthings. So creating lesson plans, and what goes into that, and what is a 504 plan versus an IEPplan and, you know, different things that you need to know on the day to day when you're inthe classroom. Yeah, I will say the best preparation for having my own classroom was being inclassrooms as a substitute teacher that I couldn't get in a classroom on my own. It's just theexperience of being with kids. Yep. So I mean, learning classroom management was huge forme,Lance Foulis 34:08tell me more about classroom management,Shelby 34:11you know, creating an environment where you are the authority of the classroom, but then youalso are creating an environment where students can lead their own learning. Hmm. So I amkind of the facilitator. Yeah, but I'm also the authority of what happens in this classroom. So Iam responsible and liable for all of the 30 bodies in my classroom right now. And I have to beable to assert myself as that authority in that classroom. And so effectively managing thebehavior of my students Yeah, is something that some teachers struggle with. It's somethingthat some teachers come into naturally. And every year it changes and every class period thatchanges my methods for every class change, because it's a different set of students. Yeah, andit can change if a couple of students are absent that day, or you know, I Get students that Ihave to watch for another teacher who's out that day, right? I have to cover a class for anotherteacher. And so I get additional students in. So you have to be constantly willing to adjustbased on what's going on in your classroom. Got it. And not every day is me sitting in front ofstudents and lecturing to them. And they're just silently taking notes, right? It's you're doinggallery walks in your classroom, and you're doing interactive activities, where they're talking toeach other, or, you know, doing group work or reading aloud. And so being able to managetheir behavior along with instilling the content, and developing the content is its own separateskill,SSSLance Foulis 35:42no doubt, no doubt. So when you're substitute teaching, are you only doing certain subjects?Shelby 35:48No, I was in I was in every subject. Most of the time, though, it was they already knew whatthey were doing. Okay. And I was just kind of there to manage, collect everything they weredoing since you know, I wasn't really responsible for teaching content, especially in high school.More. So in elementary, you might be like going through specific activities with them. Yeah. Butit was kind of pass out a worksheet, you know, now when I'm out and I have a sub in myclassroom, everything's electronic. So I say check the agenda on Google Classroom, orwhatever platform we're using. And so for my notes for the substitute, you know, their agendasare on the virtual platform, have them check in and everything is hyperlinked to the documentsthat can turn it in electronically. So they just have to kind of like sit there and watch the kidsmake sure that they're not murdering each other.Lance Foulis 36:40So that's fair, when you were going to school, did you figure out what you wanted to teach?Shelby 36:45I always knew I wanted English. Okay, you alwaysLance Foulis 36:48knew from from day one, but I did have to decide whatShelby 36:51level and I chose seven through 12. Because that was where my niche was my niche, yourniche? was?Lance Foulis 37:00Was it? Well, we can get into that in a second. That's, that's a later question. I want to know. SoI'm, I'm just picturing you. You're newly married, which is his own challenge you have you stillhave responsibilities, house payments, and everything else. Tell me about how the relationshipstuff worked out? Like how did your new marriage? How was it during this time? HowSSSShelby 37:20did it survive? Yeah. A lot of grace, I will say, for my husband, a lot of understanding that, youknow, I Yes, had quit my job and put us in a financial, more of a financial burden situation. But Ithink he really saw and understood that I was trying my best to contribute as much as I could,to our financial goals and our financial situation. So he was very understanding provided a lot ofopportunity for me when he could to have kind of space to get my stuff done. And kind of hetook on a lot more than I was able to at that point in time. So I have to give a lot of credit to, tomy husband, I had amazing support from my family and my friends, whenever I kind of neededsomething. You know, but it was really just time management. And oh, yeah, it was just a grind.So he understood that was very supportive. Yeah, throughout that whole thing, but it was hard.I mean, we had to make some financial choices. And looking back, we both say that it was onlyby the grace of God that we were able, you know, to make it and for some reason, we never, itnever got to a point where we couldn't pay a bill, which was very strange, because, you know, Iwas making a good salary that ILance Foulis 38:42just left that you it's not a it's, it's the type of salary that's not easy to replace, right? It's not,Shelby 38:47it's not easy to walk away from. So, you know, I cut our income pretty much in half. Andsomehow, we got through, we got we got through the period, whether I mean, there were somethings that were divine in those in those months, like, you know, we would get a refund checkfor something that happened to be very similar to a random bill or an increase in our water billthat we weren't expecting. And oh, yeah, those things that we couldn't really account for. But,you know, my husband and I are Christians. And so we attribute that to, you know, just Godlooking out and yeah, and being a part of our lives and yeah, and that kind of stuff. So, it washard. Yep. But I think it actually helped us in our marriage. Major, stronger. We Yeah, we got alot closer. We learned how to manage things together.Lance Foulis 39:41Yeah. So Yeah. When did when did your daughter come? Come into the picture?Shelby 39:47So she came in, I got my job with my current district. And then at the end of that first year ofteaching, I found out I was pregnant with my daughter got it. And then I delivered her thebeginning of my second year teaching. So I always laugh and like joke with my colleaguesabout how I've never had a full actual, like normal year of teaching because my first year, I hadsome wonky stuff going on at the beginning. And then I had, I had gotten pregnant with mydaughter, and I was super sick all the time. You know, from February until May, which was thevery end of that year. And then the second year, I was out for 12 weeks on maternity leave, ISSSwas like waddling around like a penguin, you know, for the first couple of months of school. Andthen I was out for a while. So that wasn't really a normal year. And then my third year, inMarch, everything shut down.Lance Foulis 40:44Yeah. So shut down. COVID. Yeah,Shelby 40:48yeah. So my first year was the 1718. school year. My second year was the 18 19/3. year when Ihad come back from having my daughter was I was like a skinny, my first normal year, right. Igot it together. I know what I'm doing. I know what to expect. And then March happened, and itwas like, Okay, we're going on spring break. And then it was like, just kidding. We're getting anextra week of spring break, who? And then it was like, Can we come back in? Yeah, we have tostill have to be inside. Oh, God don't have to be inside. That sounds awful. And so then westarted teaching the rest of the year, virtually, yeah. From Home, which was hard in itself. Wewere living with my parents at that point, because we had decided to sell our home and build ahouse. And so, you know, teaching from home with my toddler and my parents all in one house.Yeah. And my mom is education as well. She was home all day every day.Lance Foulis 41:42Your mom's at the same school? No, no. What does she teach?Shelby 41:45She's actually the principal secretary. Oh, yeah. So like run stuff. Anybody who's educationknows that? Like the secretaries run stuff?Lance Foulis 41:54Okay. Got it. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. And she, she did that your whole life? Okay. Yeah. Soyou I mean, you had like a window into education during this whole time. So that makes sense.So, yeah, I mean, I'm just fascinated by well, okay, so I'm back up, we had a really hard year in2019. And it is miraculous that we made it out of that time. And then the aftermath of that,trying to pick up the pieces of that 2019 year, Kim's house got really bad. And during that year,and then, and then there was a lot of financial impact that happened on the back end of that.So it is really amazing. The support that we had, and however, we made it through that asdefinitely divine, because we shouldn't have made it through that. So it's really fascinating.When you think about the hard times that you walk through, that you go through, you reallyneed to look and see where you're being protected. And where. Yeah, that it could be it couldbe worse.SSShelby 43:00Yeah. Where that grace is being extended? Yes. Yeah.Lance Foulis 43:02Yeah. So tell me more about? Yeah, just the adjustment.Shelby 43:07So then my, my so my third year, we, you know, back half of that year, March to May was allvirtual, and then we started the year, you know, 2020, all virtual. So go, you know, started thatyear at my parents house, moved into our new house in November was still all virtual. When Iwas supposed to come back to school after kind of the work going back, hybrid learning, hybridlearning. My husband got COVID. And so I was home for 14 days, again, still working fromhome. So it was like, Yes, I get to go back to work. No, I don't. So that was a hard blow. Butthen that fourth year of teaching, so my last year of teaching was a hybrid. So I had a handfulor more of kids in my classroom. And then I had the rest of them virtually on Zoom. So I had myclassroom setup kind of flipped backwards, I had a big, what are called clever touch, or SmartTouch boards in the back. And I would have, it was like a giant computer screen essentially, iswhat it is. And so I would have my kids on Zoom, pulled up. And I had my desks for my studentsturn to the back of the room. And by camera at the very back of the room. So I could see mykids on Zoom and my kids in front of me at the same time. Oh my god. So having to manageworking with students virtually online, manage like a chat room that's going on on Zoom. Andthen Manage students in the classroom and trying to give one on one attention to thosestudents in both realms. was incredibly difficult. And there were a lot of districts that even wenton strike because they were like, This is not manageable.Lance Foulis 44:47Right. The teacher sounds like you're doing three jobs. At the same time.Shelby 44:50It was really really hard to do both and but we gave you know, we had to give the kids theoption. They have to get an education and a lot of people it's they still weren't comfortablecoming back into the building. Yeah. And then to do all of that fully masked right now. And itwas it was,Lance Foulis 45:09you guys have the most challenging conditions between peopleShelby 45:12SSSSShelby 45:12know, they had to be every other desk. Sure, at least. And, you know, maintaining six feet, allthat kind of stuff. So it was really, really difficult. It was hard, it was hard for the kids, it washard for usLance Foulis 45:27what's really gonna say what have you? What do you feel like you've noticed the psychologicalimpact on that age group going through COVID.Shelby 45:35It's significant, the psychological and educational. So part of it was that I taught to blackscreens 90% of the time, because they would not turn their camera on. It was hard. You know, Iwould just see their little name. So there were kids that came back to school this year. Andthey're like, Hey, Miss Smith.Lance Foulis 45:54You're like, I don't know who you are, who you are.Shelby 45:57I am so and so. And I'm like, oh, that's what you look like. Wow. So I mean, it was crazy. Themcoming back this year, and, and getting to see who they are. But I couldn't tell if they wereasleep. Yeah, you know, I would have to yell their name a couple of times before they mightrespond in the chat.Lance Foulis 46:13Yeah. But oh, in the chat, so not even in microphone very rarely.Shelby 46:18Very rarely would they?Lance Foulis 46:20Just that just sounds like morale in the gutter.Shelby 46:23Mm hmm. It was it was. It was really hard for them. Because it's a lot of a lot of selfSSSSSMm hmm. It was it was. It was really hard for them. Because it's a lot of a lot of selfmanagement and personal responsibility that they have to take and waking themselves up andgetting themselves to their zoom class and, you know, not having their favorite Netflix show or,you know, there would kids be kids that I could hear when they would unmute themselvesevery once in a while I would hear their video games and the clickety clack. No.Lance Foulis 46:52It actually hear the audio of the video game. Yeah. Would you would you hear the the thecontroller noises?Shelby 46:57Yep. Oh, wow. Yep. And then I would have kids that were really funny. And they would say, I'llbe right back. I'm gonna go cook some eggs.Lance Foulis 47:04Well, hot in the middle of class, middle class. No, I just I mean, like, I can't picture. It's been along time since I've been in high school. I can't. And I was homeschooled. So it was a you hadto do things like on your own, like self initiative and everything. But I, I can't imagine just beingtold Yeah, you're not allowed to come back to school, and then being home every day,especially if you're like in your room or something. So then you spend the whole night in yourroom, then you spend the whole day going to school in your room. And then,Shelby 47:35so I really tried tried to encourage my students to find a different place in their house. Thatwasn't their bed. Yeah. Because when I am in my bed, I want to nap. Yes. Like, my bed is forsleeping. Yes. So a lot of them have that same mentality. So they would wake up at eighto'clock in the morning and join my class, and then I would hear them snoring. Oh, my God, theyjust wouldn't be there. Yeah, at all. Yeah. Or it would come the end of class. And it would betime for them to switch and login to their next class. And they would still be lingering on myscreen because they were asleep and hadn't so then I would have to like, kick them off. Yeah.So it was really hard. It was hard for us to encourage the kids and to inspire the kids and tokeep, you know, on track with them. But there was this, like, social emotional drainage thathappened with them, it just they need to be with each other. They need that social aspect, thatinteraction, right, and they weren't getting it. And it was really, really hard. So we came in thisyear, knowing that we had a deficit of learning to fill, no doubt early on.Lance Foulis 48:37So like, what's the situation now in the schools? Are you still like is it still hybrid is it still masks.SSShelby 48:45So at the beginning of the year, we gave students an option to do a Virtual Academy, whichwas essentially they would be all online, but that would be managed by a separate group. So Iwas only responsible for the kids that were in my classroom got it. However, if there were kidswho weren't doing what they were supposed to and keeping up and you know, after the firstquarter, they were failing, that kind of stuff, then they were removed from the virtual optionand brought back into the building. Got it. So we don't have very many, if any, that are still inthat virtual option. I mean, it's a very small percentage, a lot smaller than it was at thebeginning of the year. Got it. And so we've had full class, full class sizes. And then just this pastweek, we removed the mask mandate, which I'm actually surprised. Yeah, I'm surprised thatthe number of kids who are still wearing masks, I'm also surprised at the number of kids whoare wearing masks like as a chin strap.Lance Foulis 49:42Yeah, right.Shelby 49:43It's like, like, what's the point of that? There's just no point. They're like, well, it's in casesomebody like starts coughing. It's already too late dude.Lance Foulis 49:49So is it is it is it a yes. Is it a situation where they're not mandated anymore? But the kids arestill concerned. And or maybe the family answer could be probably both. It just depends. Yeah.Shelby 50:04I think it's interesting. The ones who just like wear it, you know, as an accent, accessory now?Lance Foulis 50:11Well, I mean, I'm, I'm curious about that too, because at this point, you have people that havebeen doing it for two years at the age levels that they've been doing it and like it. How muchhas the mask? And things like the mask social distancing just become a part of right. Andbecause,Shelby 50:29well, I have found during the day, right or doing it when I went the first day that we wentwithout mask, which was I think, last Monday, kids started coming in my room, and Iimmediately thought, oh, my gosh, where's my mask? You know? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And thenSSSSI thought, Oh, I don't have to have it. Yeah. And so there, you know, it was it's mental. And still,I mean, a week later, I'm still like, like,Lance Foulis 50:51a type of conditioning that almost. Yeah, so even now, like a week later, like, it's still thoughtyou'll Oh, wait. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, gosh, yeah. I just said. I mean, I'm just I'm just picturing it. Ican't imagine being 17 years old and like,Shelby 51:09wearing a mask be what your learning experience has been for the last two years?Lance Foulis 51:13Or, I mean, I feel real bad. I think my niece was in this one of my nieces was in this boat senioryear is when it all went down. No graduation.Shelby 51:20Nope. No prom. No prom. Yeah, that means something. That class of 2020. Really, really took ithard. Yeah. And I had a lot of students that were, you know, crying to me on during classes.This isn't fair. Why did this have to happen to us?Lance Foulis 51:39Yeah, like that's, I mean, how could you not think that like every class before us has been ableto do everything in now my class doesn't? For some people, that's a really significant deal. Oh,yeah.Shelby 51:50Because we did have a virtual graduation that they could attend. It was like a drive thru. Sothere, you couldn't have anybody there. But you could show up. You grabbed your diploma. Youtook a picture and it was all live streamed. Yeah, your family could watch you walk across thefake stage.Lance Foulis 52:05You have this idea of what this event is going to be like, and you earned it. Like you spent fouryears doing work and there I can just picture like certain kids that I knew that did really good inschool, and that was like they worked at it. Oh, yeah. And they got good grades and everything.It's like I I did it I accomplished it. I'm going to go walk armor. I always homeschooled so I didn'tSSSdo this whole walking thing. But all my friends went to Dublin sewed or Kilburn. So I went to alltheir stuff. And I just remember like, good gracious Dublin site. I think it was like four hours oflistening the name calls to get through the whole class, something like that. But yeah, there'sjust this, this thing about i i conquered this thing. Yeah. It's a huge accomplishment. Yes.Making it through high school. And then and then No, you don't graduate, even parties, rightgraduation parties. That was a huge event back in the day when you go to all your friendsgraduateShelby 53:00that point. I mean, you it was mandated that you could have not have more than 10 people inthe same time. So noLance Foulis 53:06graduation party. It's so that's so I'm, I'm I've said this on a few different podcasts. We've beentalking about this kind of stuff. But I'm really curious because I don't think we know the totalsocial impact or anything like that, for the generation that went through this, whether it's highschool or college, like just younger people in general elementary school, like what is theimpact? Because two years is a long time very long time at that age. So. So anyway, how muchnow that the mask mandate is gone? Do you feel like what percentage normal does it feel toyou?Shelby 53:41It feels like we're on our way back to a normal. I feels like the whole year that we've beenslowly working our way back to what we used to consider normal. You know, there are newthings in place now that are the new normal. But even that, like the new normal was like backin school, but with masks, so the oddball out was the person that like didn't have their mask onin the hallway. And then I would be asking, Hey, do you have mask? Mm hmm. And they go,yeah, it's right here. And they like put it on lately. And me, I'm always, always the bearer of badnews. You have to be transcon. Yeah, it's terrible. You're gonna have to learn to say I have toplay math. Yeah. So even you know, that shift now has kind of thrown a wrench in things wherewe're just kind of like I tried. I'm catching myself not telling students. Do you have a mathcourse this right. It's crazy. Wild, but it is it's becoming a new normal. And, you know, gettingback to some semblance of what we were before and that's really refreshing. I think, for a lot ofour students. Oh, yeah.Lance Foulis 54:42When's graduation this year? This year? It's the end of May into May. Okay. All right. Yeah. SoShelby 54:47last year, we had it but it was outside. It was beautiful day. I think people felt a lot morecomfortable being outside versus being in a confined space. So that was really nice. YouSSScomfortable being outside versus being in a confined space. So that was really nice. YouLance Foulis 55:01Okay, last couple questions here. I would love to know if you could sit down with your 23 yearold self that's been working where we worked for a year, what advice would you give yourself?Because there's not gonna be you know, there's people in your position, or years to school fouror five years to school to study a thing, they got the job to realize it's not what they want to do.Yes. What would you say to yourself?Shelby 55:26I would say, first of all, I would tell myself, it's okay. Hmm. It's okay, that you're not, you're notgood at this thing. Or it's okay, that this isn't what's working out for you. That's okay. Because Ithink for me, it was really hard to get to that point to know that it was it was alright. And itwould be okay. Yeah. One, I would say that there is something out there that you are meantfor, you know, that is better suited for you. And it's not, there's no point in being miserable. Oh,gosh, you know, what I've learned is that life is supposed to be happy. And if it's not, then thereare things that can change to make it happier for you. And so it takes a lot of personalreflection, and taking a deep look inward to see what is the problem? Is it the job? Is it me? Is ityou know, who I'm with? romantically? Is it, you know, that I'm allowing toxic people to be apart of my life? What is the problem? And whatever that is, it can be fixed. You know, I think arefreshing thought for me when I was in that role was I had to remind myself, this isn't the endof the world. Yeah, you know, and a lot of times in those roles because there was a lot ofmoney riding on some of the programs we were working on and some of the clients that wewere working with, it felt like it was the end of the worldLance Foulis 56:54felt like you were executing brain surgery on some really make it and then you're like, nope,Shelby 57:00right. So what I will tell you, I mean, if you are a brain surgeon or a you know cardiothoracicsurgeon then yes, it is a life or death situation. In my role. It was not it was a making it out tobe and so I needed to realize that it's a job. Yeah. And life should be so much more than a job.Now as an educator, that's a huge part of my life, and a huge part of my life that I love.Because I love working with my kids. I love building relationships with them. I love having oneon one talks where they can come to me and and cry or laugh or joke around or you know, Iused to dance down the aisle ways that at our building and I dance in my classroom just aboutevery day I will put on 90s music and we will jam out why we're doing essay revision.Lance Foulis 57:47What's your favorite song to do this to? Oh,SSShelby 57:49I mean anything Whitney Houston 90s r&b? Can anybodyLance Foulis 57:56give me an example of 90s? r&b That's not my genre.Shelby 57:59Why? Oh, it's not what? I don't know. You guys metalLance Foulis 58:03was my John. Oh, dear.Shelby 58:06That's what eyes. Yeah, I mean, you have Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey.Lance Foulis 58:14Oh, Mariah Carey. Got it.Shelby 58:16You got Bell Biv DeVoe. You got color me badd? All for one? Boys to Men? Shout out to boys. Tome. It looks like you too. Oh, yeah. You know, I had a couple. But like 90s, early 2000s wasyeah, my general feeling. Yes. So my kids are always trying to get me like up on the latest law?Or does something. You know, they're like, Have you heard of the baby? And I'm like, Who?Lance Foulis 58:42Now? Is this on a compact disk to still have a CD collection?Shelby 58:45No, this is like Pandora or Spotify. So yeah, but all jam out my classroom to my kids and justcreating a space where we can have fun. And I like to take what I've learned in terms of how Iconsider what I that I didn't make it or couldn't make it work at my corporate job. Yeah, I like to,SSSSSI'm very open with my students about that. And that it's okay to fail as long as you try to failforward. Yeah, so that's a big buzzword in my classroom is that we try and fail forward, youmay have failed this essay. But let's look at how we can revise it to make it better. Or let's takewhat we've learned from this and move it to the next. The next thing, you're not always gonnaget a win at everything. Even those people who look like they're winning all the time, becausethey failed a lot. It's because they failed a lot. Yeah. Or they're failing and they're just nothighlighting that on Instagram. Yeah, absolutely. You know, this day and social media,everything is, you know, I get to pick and choose what I want people to see. And that can bevery deceiving. Yes, and dangerous and dangerous. So you know, making sure that theyunderstand that everyone has pitfalls. And it's what you do with that. That's most important.How do you fail forward? How do you move on from this to make yourself better?Lance Foulis 59:56And I love that. Yeah, I mean, the Falling failing forward. That's so key, I always such a, I can'tfail. I've got a, I've got to get this thing done. It's like what you're describing is a lot of like whatI went through when I was in aviation school at at OSU when it came to the point where I wasn'tgoing to do it anymore. And I knew it was incredibly devastating. And I did not go throughprobably the next 10 years very gracefully. Because I that was my identity up to that point.Yeah,Shelby 1:00:26I actually used you as an example in my class the other day, you did I did, we were talkingabout, you know, picking colleges and under, you know, figuring out what you wanted to do ifcollege was the right thing, or what major it was it you know, all that kind of stuff. And studentswere asking me questions like, well, if I go in as a business major, but I decide that's not what Iwant to do. Do I have to stick with that? No, right? We talked about all those things. This is yourtime to figure it out. And I said, that doesn't end after college. Right. So I said for me, you know,I worked five years in a genre or a thank you, industry that I wasn't cut out for. And it took mefive years to figure out this is not where I belong. And then I figured it out. And I'm so muchhappier. And you're okay. And I'm okay. And I said and you know, I have this friend that Iworked with in marketing, and he went to school for aviation. And yeah, I said, and then, youknow, I'm pretty sure right about the time you graduated, was 2000 1am i 911. Yeah, it wasLance Foulis 1:01:23that was so I 11 happened probably a year before I went into flight school. Okay, so I was alllike, I can still do this. I'll be fine. It'll be it'll be fine. We'll bounce back. I can go into debt foraviation. I'm going to be a pilot. Yeah, matter what,Shelby 1:01:39right? Oh, well, it'll all work out. Oh, I didn't know. And that's okay.SSLance Foulis 1:01:46And boy, did I need somebody like you to be like, it's okay. Here's how you can fail for x. I didn'treallyShelby 1:01:53well. And I said what we had people who were in our wasn't Starla like a English major orsomething. Did she? I didn't know what she did. I want to say somebody else in that row waslike English education or just like an English major. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And was working inmarketing, you know? Yeah. So I said, just because you picked a path. Right now, when you're2122 years old, and you have no idea what you want in life. Yeah. Doesn't mean that's whatyou have to stick towards. So you were one of my examples as well. That'sLance Foulis 1:02:22awesome. I'm glad I could be and we saw how successful you are. Oh, thank you. I kind of Yes, Imade it. Appr