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哈喽大家好，欢迎收听本期行走的背包，我是你们的老朋友主播大江，最近上海呢是已经来了几次高温黄色预警了，确实，这个夏天的味道真的是越来越浓了，天气已经开始往40度逼近了，所以呢，避暑就成为了续命的良药，有的小伙伴选择宅在家吹吹空调，大江这种闲不住的就想去一些天然避暑胜地，这次呢，咱们就去贵州安顺，就是著名的黄果树瀑布所在地避避暑。这里距离贵阳坐动车只需要半小时。气候以凉爽、湿润、清新、太阳辐射低和舒适期长，适宜居住、避暑和旅游为主要特点，全年舒适期长达9个月，夏季7月平均气温只有21℃，且多云多雨，紫外线也不强，是极佳的避暑度假胜地，获评“ 中国 最佳避暑旅游城市”。可能很多人对这里了解不多，其实安顺除了黄果树瀑布还有很多人少舒适的景点可以去，这次咱们就一起出发吧。有句话"天无三日晴，地无三尺平"概括了贵州的天气和地貌。出发前我查天气预报显示这几天是25度左右的阴雨天，虽然是来避暑的，想着连续下雨也不是很开心，结果走出 安顺 西站意外收获大晴天，心情有点好。我一直觉得手机自带的天气预报很准，但是到了 贵州 这就不成立了，经常遇到这个山头在下雨，穿过隧道就是艳 阳高 照的情况。来之前我对安顺的印象还停留在黄果树瀑布所在地，曾经路过但是并没有进入市区。这次安排在安顺停留半日住一晚，才好好的逛了逛市区。我们预订的酒店就在虹山公园对面，占据了安顺市区最黄金的地理位置。刚到酒店门口就被虹山公园吸引了，一个城市里有了山水整座城就有了如画的基础。今日天公作美，漂浮在半空云朵，秀美的山峰围绕在绿水两侧，我和闺蜜都忍不住感叹安顺人民的生活环境真不错。公园里有一些小花园，还有儿童游乐设施，感觉这里真的非常适合遛娃，公共游乐设备的风格能和环境完美的融为一体，很喜欢。随意选了一座小山拾阶而上，远处是虹山湖公园的标志景点———九孔桥，清风拂面，此情此景让我也想要在湖上泛舟，安顺之美，确实有点意料之外。朋友推荐我们一定要来儒林路，说这里是《致我们终将逝去的青春》的拍摄地，我之前也看过这部电影但是印象不深刻了，旅行结束后重新把电影看了一遍，整理照片的时候突然就有了感觉，好像我的青春也在儒林路上奔跑过似的。旅行有意思的地方，除了遇见风景，也有在某一天它与日常生活重叠的场景，一本书一部剧，那些文字图像的描绘都变得更立体，有了代入感。镜头语言下这条怀旧充满烟火气的儒林路，剧中女主角考上了大学在这里对着心仪的男生欢呼，当然最后两人也没有走到一起。“青春就是应该用来纪念”，这样那些“高甜"的时光才不会淹没在往后余生的漫漫琐碎里。儒林路和每一座城市的老街一样，都承载着无数人的青春、成长和记忆。儒林路是安顺保存最完整的一条老街，虽然我们去的时候主路在打围修复，但是也能从这些没被围住的歪歪斜斜的窗框、斑驳的墙壁上感受到上世纪六七十年代的时光印记。因为儒林路在修整，我们从旁边的小路离开，无意中来到了安顺文庙，本着“反正都路过了，还是去看看”的心态进去逛了逛。功课也是一边逛一边做的。原来这里是“ 中国 现存最精致的文庙”，主要是以它的石雕艺术而闻名。文庙里的600年历史的整石镂空雕 云龙 石柱 让人印象深刻，顶尖的技艺就是这样即使你对雕刻艺术不那么了解也能通过视觉感受出它的精妙来。走进文庙，大概是正午的原因，并没有什么游客，空气一下就从儒林路嘈杂的市井味儿变成了扑面而来的人文气在庙里小坐，清风拂面，非常凉爽舒适。女生如果一袭汉服在这里拍照会非常合适，我一身T恤牛仔就有些格格不入，干脆剥夺了自己上镜的权利。梁思成先生说“ 中国 建筑，其所最注重者，乃主要中线之成立。无论东方、西方、再没有一个民族对中轴对称线如此钟爱和恪守。” 安顺 文庙亦是如此，按规制沿中轴线对称布局建筑，典制齐备、布局严谨、捭阖有致。来安顺最重要的目的地黄果树瀑布自然不用多介绍了，这 安顺 一路走来，除了龙宫这里人是最多的，毕竟七月八月是黄果树瀑布水量最大，最气势磅礴的时候。不幸的是，我们选了周六，9点多到门口，已经排满了来旅游的车辆，逛完这里需要一整天的时间。因为我黄果树瀑布我以前来过，今天还安排了去高荡村看一看，所以这次在 黄果树瀑布景区 就只看了大瀑布这一个景点。黄果树瀑布的门票需要在网上提前定的，当然依然是外地人五折的优惠。之前也去过黄果树瀑布，不过不在丰水期，这个季节果然和上一次来的感觉是完全不同的。第一次还可以用的上“娟秀”来形容，这次完全是“狂放”，不是丰水期的季节水量，黄果树瀑布少了些澎湃的气势，但是却显得非常秀丽，不同季节各有各的美感。黄果树瀑布如果要好好玩，得安排一天的时间，黄果树并不单纯的只是一个瀑布，这也是一个很大的景区。黄果树风景名胜区，主要是以黄果树瀑布为中心，还有陡坡塘、天星桥、湿地公园、郎宫、滴水滩，以及旁边的神龙洞、石头寨等等，一般最精华的是大瀑布，天星桥，陡坡塘这三大景点,景区也为不想徒步的朋友设置了电梯等便利设施。如果去天星桥会走得久一些，但时间允许一定要去，被誉为“根笔藤墨绘制的千古绝画、风刀水剑刻就的万倾盆景”，名作家梁衡先生2003年游览天星桥之后，激情中留下“桥那边有个美丽的地方”经典散文之作。在查询景区网站了解到黄果树景区门票有效期为2天，为了避开旺季拥堵的人群保证游览舒适度，可选择在黄果树住一晚分2个上午游览景区。逛完黄果树我们下一个目的地是隐藏在黄果树瀑布的附近的高荡村，中间大概隔了一条高速，直线距离约10公里，车程也就10多分钟。高荡村因其古老的布依族民俗文化及美丽的风景，在2018年入评国家4A旅游景区。这个隐秘在山林里的古寨已有千年的历史，高荡村，由当地布依语翻译而来，意为群山峻岭中的一口锅。高荡村的古建筑群始建于明代，至清代渐成规模，是研究布依族历史的实物证据。 石门 、石桥、石房，连屋子上的瓦也是石头做的，这是 贵州 的八怪之一，石头当瓦盖。我很喜欢这种清幽没有大面积商业化的古村落，慢走其中，感受从未被世俗惊扰的世界。每一栋建筑都经历了百年风雨，很想听一听这里发生过的故事。龙宫风景区是 安顺 除了黄果树瀑布之外最著名的景点，有一次在朋友圈里看到这个龙字田，觉得还挺酷，就记住了这个景点。这次做功课才知道这里是国家AAAAA级旅游景区，是喀斯特地貌展现最齐全的景区。被誉为“天下喀斯特，尽在龙宫”现场看到“龙字田”的确很霸气。“龙字田”就在售票处的后面，大家去的时候不要错过了。说到售票处，想起一个好消息要跟大家分享， 安顺 很多景区省外人都是半价优惠，第一天到龙宫买票的时候，别说还有点小惊喜。7月雨水丰沛，伴着沁凉小雨，沿着明湖而上通往龙宫水溶洞的沿途就很壮观，一路关注着奔腾湖水，没有注意到前方有个厉害的瀑布在等待我们。到达 龙门 飞瀑的时候，真得被震撼了，一个超级大的洞穴，天池水从中间倾泻而下，50米的洞高，气势磅礴的洞穴瀑布，伴随着轰轰的声响，有一种要把人吞噬的感觉。在 龙门 飞瀑那里可以乘坐电梯直达前往水溶洞的天池，水溶洞分了两段，一段叫一进龙宫，另一段是二进龙宫，因为下雨水量过大，二进龙宫没有开放。天池是龙宫地下河的转折端，因河道加宽、地下河水不断溶蚀岩体，最终导致溶洞顶板塌陷形成天池。这里有 中国 最长、最美丽的水溶洞； 中国 最大的洞中瀑布；全世界最低的天然辐射剂量率的地方，这三个特点被称为龙宫“三最"。乘船穿行于溶洞暗河之中，头顶斑斓的洞中奇景若绚丽的夜空，与平静水面的倒影交相辉映，就想进入了另一个世界。说到 贵州 ，苗寨大家已不陌生，其实在 安顺 往东还藏着老汉人的“屯堡”。这里住着一群恍如桃花源记中“不知有汉，无论魏晋”的居民。据介绍，600多年前朱元璋大军征 南和 随后的调北填南。明朝军队征服南方过后，为了稳 定边 陲，命令大军就地屯田驻扎下来，有点类似现代的“ 新疆 建设兵团”。随着历史的变迁，他们在 贵州 的大山里繁衍生息，奇迹般地保留了600年前明代 江南 的文化生活习俗，与当地的文化结合，形成独特的“屯堡文化”。当然到屯堡之前，我对这些历史一点都不知晓，本来只是闲逛瞎逛。进而在网上了解了一些皮毛，“读万卷书、行万里路”的老话也算用上了。我们先到的是云峰屯堡的本寨，本寨整个村寨都是石头做的，用当地一句顺口溜来形容最合适了：“石头的街面石头的墙，石头的瓦盖石头的房，石头的碾子石头的磨，石头的碓窝石头的缸”。村子里居民不是太多，完全没有商业气息，当我们为现在很多古镇被商业化而惋惜的时候，来屯堡可以找到一种原始淳朴的美。距离本寨开车五分钟左右就到了云峰屯堡的另一个寨子——云山屯，这是目前保存最完好的屯堡文化村寨。我最喜欢这个坐落在半山腰的云山屯，有一种遗世独立的风韵。虽然最近在坐消防维修，寨子有些凌乱，但是透过那些凌乱的器材依然能感受到这里的静谧和古朴。继续往东，我们来到了 天龙屯堡 ，这里的规模比较大，屯堡村民流传着一句顺口溜：“本寨的房子，云山屯的门子，天龙的“模子”。所谓“模子”，指的就是天龙发展旅游的模式。天龙屯堡 发展的比较早，寨子里有本地人做讲解，也有客栈可以住。好了，不得不说，这几天在安顺待得真的是非常舒服，毕竟魔都的温度感觉都已经要融化一切了，而这里依旧凉风习习，仿佛处于天然的大空调之下，这里的自然风光、人文村寨也真的给人一种耳目一新的感觉，当你漫步其中，仿佛整个时间慢了下来，让你只想停留在这里，慢慢走，慢慢看。好了，本期节目到这里也就告一段落了，我是你们的老朋友主播大江，不知道听完本期节目，是不是已经对安顺心痒痒了呢，感谢收听本期节目，也欢迎大家关注我的微博谦大江，谦虚的谦，也欢迎大家关注我的抖音，搜索大江浪啊浪就可以找到了，我们下期节目再见咯，拜了个拜。
Memória é a capacidade de adquirir, armazenar e recuperar informações disponíveis. Essa capcidade hoje é natural ou digital (diria até artificial). Para o nosso cérebro essa é uma capacidade complexa, mas ainda assim inerente. Outra característica da nossa memória é se perder com o tempo. O tempo passa e a gente vai perdendo lastro e registro. Aconteceu isso com prazo de validade conforme falamos nesse baião. Esquecemos o propósito dessa indicação e acabamos desperdiçando muita comida. Vamos ter que trabalhar para relembrar as pessoas, com campanhas e novas práticas. Até aqui essa história de recuperar lembranças estava compreendida, mas o digital mudou esses contornos. Hoje, conseguirmos recuperar no ato da vontade de simplesmente navagar pelos nossos feeds de redes sociais, mensagens e arquivos. Imaginem que além de você, todo mundo pode fazer isso com a sua memória. E inclusive tomar atitudes drásticas mediante a recuperação dessa memória. Foi o que aconteceu no caso desse baião com a editora chefe contratada para a Teen Vogue. AAAAA pronto! Apaguem tudo então! Melhor não guardar minhas memórias digitais! EPAAAAAA menos as minhas 50 playlists muito bem curadas e atualizadas no Spotify. Complexo, né!? E para coroar esse Baião memorável (hã hã!?) precisamos falar de Wally Funk, nossa astronauta mais velha a ir para o espaço essa semanas. Não por falta de vontade, mas de oportunidade em uma sociedade estruturalmente sem memórias das discriminações que comete cotidianamente com mulheres, nesse caso. Notícias: #1 - https://brasil.elpais.com/estilo/2021-07-05/demitida-por-um-tuite-de-anos-atras-como-a-cultura-do-cancelamento-pode-afetar-seu-trabalho.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&ssm=TW_BR_CM#Echobox=1625585504-1 #2 - https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/spotify-streaming-music-library/619453/?utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2021-07-19T21%3A57%3A45&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic #3 - https://time.com/6080695/wally-funk-space-bezos/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=science_space&linkId=124749353 #4 - https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_content=voxdotcom
Ben Lee, head boys basketball coach at River Bluff High School in Lexington, SC, joins us for today's episode of The Greatest Games Podcast. Coach Lee takes us through his incredible journey of building River Bluff High School in eight years to a State Championship program at the AAAAA level of South Carolina. Click here to view The State Newspaper article about River Bluff's win over Dutch Fork. Click here to view The State Newspaper article about River Bluff's State Championship win over the 4-time defending State Champion Dorman. Before going any further, please make a donation here Tacauma Lettsome's GoFundMe page and help this former basketball coach in his fight against ALS: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tacauma-fight-als/donate You can learn more about ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease” here at ALS.org. Hear more about Lettsome's story in this link from WLTX TV in Columbia, SC. Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins. Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time. Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.
In the second episode of our Champions series we talk to Marquis Westbrook, Head Football Coach at Warner Robins (GA) whose team recently won the AAAAA state championship. He talks about his experiences over the last four years of making to the finals every year and what they did to get to the top.
AAAAA ga kerasa udh mau taun baru?!?! Kalo lagi mendekati akhir tahun gini nih jadinya bikin excited karena banyak festival musik di korea, salah satunya MAMA! Kalo kalian sendiri paling nungguin acara apa sih chings? Jadi pingin throwback ke eranya 2nd Generation pas perform di sana ~
TRICK OR TREAT! AAAAA pengen banget terbang ke Seoul sekarang biar bisa nikmatin suasana Halloween disana!! Selain Halloween masih banyak event seru di Korea yang wajib bgt di datengin lho kaya Seoul Fashion Week, Music festival dan masih banyak lagi! Kalo kamu pilih yang mana chings?!
Here we will combine two worlds - Yoga and Zen. Yoga educates to work on the Solar Plexus, the Manipura Chakra which is located in the navel region. Here we store all the negative energies of insecurity, anxiety, fear, trembling. Firstly you will release those energies by uttering the sound of ‘AAAAA...’ to clear your energy system and then move to the Zen - emptying oneself of all the experiences and the experiencer. This is a clip from full guided meditation session #3139, listen to it for free and meditate along: http://podcast.dhyanse.com/guided-meditation-overcome-anxiety-fear-insecurity-and-inner-trembling Your host, Dhyanse (www.dhyanse.com)
Wakacje się skończyły. Żarty też. Warlord Games wypuścił nowy podręcznik więc i my zrzucamy na Was prawie 4 godzinną bombę bajania, dyskusji, żartów i recenzji. Aaaaa i coś o Bolt Action też się znajdzie :) Ten odcinek wymaga od Was odpowiedniego przygotowania. Jeżeli malujecie przy podcaście to zaopatrzcie się w większą ilość figurek, Jeżeli słuchacie późno wieczorem to weźcie urlop na drugi dzień. Mamy też dla Was niespodziankę Jaką? Warto wysłuchać podcastu do samego końca ! Jak zawsze zapraszamy na nasz profil na Facebook'u, gdzie możecie zobaczyć galerię zdjęć z odcinka jak i zostawić nam cenne komentarze. ➡️http://bit.ly/LZDnaFB Najlepsze t-shirty dla fanów Bolt Action: ➡️https://totemsofwar.koszulkomat.eu Gdzi nas słychać?
Yellow, oameni buni! Gata m-am întors și de azi forjăm tare. Știu că v-am promis un episod întreg despre TikTok, dar m-am supărat pe aplicația asta. Până la urmă tot am vorbit puțin de ea, dar subiectul de azi este predicția mea despre următorul rapper care v-a zgudui boxele întregii țări. Dau și nume, nu-ți face griji. Aaaaa da, am și un cadou pentru tine. Hai că acu te bagi să asculți. Spor!
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David Staughton CSP is an Award-winning businessman & speaker who is an expert at growing Smaller businesses, Associations, and Groups of businesses.A walking library of “hands-on” business experiences, he inspires audiences with his funny & memorable stories, passion and enthusiasm for Smaller businesses.Background & Experience:David has over 30 years “Hands-on” experience in a broad range of industries including mining, retailing, hospitality, tourism, health and business consulting.He's been passionate about Small Businesses since starting work in the family-owned hardware store at age six.David originally qualified as a Scientist and worked for five of Australia's largest mining companies. Then he left to start his own hospitality business.In 15 years he grew a multi-business hospitality & tourism group in Victoria, Australia employing over 200 staff and doing more than 2000 weddings & events.In 2001, David successfully sold his businesses and has since been helping other businesses get better results.He has shown owners & managers how to energise their team, attract & delight more customers and significantly increase their sales results all year round.He is a talented workshop facilitator and experienced M.C. of meetings, conferences and strategic retreats. He presents and consults on small business improvement strategies with a focus on GROWTH and having a better lifestyle.Dave is famous for simple yet powerful business concepts including:Four Critical areas of Business Focus – G'DAY ModelServe, Sell and Satisfy (SSS) – Frontline Customer Service & Sales ProgramFocus on your VIPs & profitable customers (moving from AAAAA to TTTTT)Build a loyal “A Team” – (using the love goggles, love bucket & love languages)Dave has grown many SME businesses, coached business leaders & teams and has assisted many Associations & SME groups. He has been responsible for multi-million dollar sales turnarounds and helped several businesses grow big enough to get listed on the ASX.As a best-selling author and expert, David has contributed to books on Sales, Small Business and most recently The VIP Principle – about the long-term business benefits of systems and continuous improvement.Dave is a highly entertaining speaker and has been performing in front of an audience for over 20 years. As an experienced International Keynote Speaker he has presented to over 750 Audiences in 10 different Countries.In 2017 Dave was awarded the Nevin Award, the most prestigious award presented by Professional Speakers Australia – the peak association for Conference Speakers in Australia.Dave has significant expertise & experience growing businesses in the following industry sectors:Some of Dave's larger & longer-term regular clients have includedTyrepowerInenco – CBC/BSC BearingsRapidclean Fashionline Blinds & AwningsQBE Insurance Hard Rock Café AsiaGoldwell (Kao)many Associations & Venueswww.davidstaughton.com.au © David Staughton 2020 – All rights reservedSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/labanditchburn?fan_landing=true)
Aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaa suara elsa teriak2 dari rumah nyapa pepohonan. Rupanya elsa bosan dirumah, dia ga dengerin podcast kita soalnya. Makanya yg kepo neng ningsih bisa masukin corona ke badan atau kenapa WFH ga cocok buat beberapa orang? Langsung aja
Aaaaa, o carnaval. Feriado tão amado e aguardado por muitos, odiado por tantos outros, mas ninguém pode negar que a festa carnavalesca é marca registrado do Brasil. Há aquela velha história que o país só funciona depois do carnaval, que antes disso é só festa, férias, verãozão pegando forte em todo país, ninguém quer saber de muita coisa mesmo. Mas de onde surgiu o carnaval? Qual sua origem? Sua história? Seus costumes? Por que “paz, carnaval, futebol, não mata, não engorda e não faz mal”? Enquanto a ressaca não melhora, aproveita que é feriado nacional. Contato: podcastidentidades@hotmail.com Instagram: @podcast.identidades Twitter: @identidadespod Me siga nas redes sociais: Instagram: @joaomatheus_s Twitter: @joaomatheus_s
The Varsity Letters’ podcast is back, and ready to not only chat about football and basketball, but about the home for so many of our province’s top high school invitational and championship tournaments. First, in the spirit of this Saturday’s Subway Bowl Final Four weekend at B.C. Place Stadium, Vernon Panthers’ head coach Sean Smith chats about the Okanagan powerhouse which faces Parksville’s Ballenas Whalers in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 battle of undefeated teams. Al Tuchscherer, the head coach of the Abbotsford’s Fraser Valley Cascades women’s basketball team stops by to set up his team’s challenging weekend two-game homestand against the Canada West-leading Lethbridge Pronghorns Friday and Saturday at Envision Financial Athletic Centre. The 2019-20 Cascades are filled with an intrguing blend of youth and experience. And finally, we had to the Langley Events Centre to speak with longtime former newspaperman Gary Ahuja, the LEC’s manager of communications and media. Reminiscing about his near-15-years with the Langley Times paper, and speaking to the passion he feels in his new posting, Ahuja and the rest of the LEC staff are preparing to host the B.C. senior boys (AA and AAA) and girls (AAA, AAAAA) volleyball championships, plus the boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals, all over the next month. Varsity Letters — The Podcast, is Canada’s only weekly podcast dedicated solely to the coverage of provincial university and high school sports. You can find us at VarsityLetters.ca every Wednesday, or wherever you find your podcasts (Spotify, Apple Music (formerly iTunes) and Google Play Music.
Você acorda, toma um café, vai sair de casa e decide ver as correspondências... E lá está ela. A conta. Aaaaa as contas, para que tantas? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bancada: Juliano Feijão Edição : Juliano Feijão Produção, publicação e distribuição: Não Era Sorvete
Aaaaaaa, a infância. Essa época tão gostosa, tão livre, tão divertida. Sem nenhuma preocupação, nenhuma crise, nenhum boleto, nenhuma conta no negativo, nenhum ponto na carteira por excesso de velocidade porque você teve que ir correndo pro trabalho já que acordou tarde porque não dormiu a madrugada toda... Aaaaa a infância. ————————————————————————– Bancada: Juliano Feijão e Lepipows Edição : Juliano Feijão Produção, publicação e distribuição: Não Era Sorvete
Aaaaa!! There’s a ghost in our podcast! This week we’re tackling season 4 episode 5, Ghost Town. Steve’s back and mostly tolerable, Aidan is also back, and we’re upset that Sex and the City didn’t to go full on paranormal. It’s FINE I guess. In other news, Samantha is going off her pussy diet, and Stephanie and Alex pretend to know what the X-Files is about.
Donnie: Alright was this is going to be an amazing episodes we are going to sit down with mike Michalowicz, We didn’t spend whole lot of time on a back story, we just started jumping in a lot of the philosophy of business, entrepreneurism and there wasn’t any flop, it was a pretty cool conversation, I really enjoyed and I know a lot of you guys asked for me to get him on the show you could more of an intimate conversation with him so I think you are really going to enjoy this one. And this show has been for a quite few episodes now, is brought you by point blank safety services, so Stacy and Mike are doing awesome and amazing things for the freeways and highways and everything they do by protecting the constructions workers, drivers and just keeping everybody safe while helping police officers that we know aren’t just paid enough to do what they do and put their lives on the line every day for us, so they are really helping this police officers not only protecting us in the afterhours but protect their families financially by giving them additional jobs and work they can do on a regular basis, these guys are doing just tremendous work. And I love that they have taken their business success and turned it out over to the nonprofit they started which is called … family fund you know that organization is giving scholarships and is helping out the families of fallen officers, you know it’s really cool to see a company remember really where they came from and really giving back to the community as a whole, so do me a favor guys, go follow them on Facebook, go them out on Instagram, check out their website, send them messages and let them know Donnie sent you , you can find almost everything that they are at either at … family fund or point safety in almost all platforms, say hi to them, I couldn’t do this show without them. So I know a lot of you guys have been harassing me about get mike on the show, so I’m bringing on Mike Michalowicz and this going to be a lot of fun, we already smoke and joke about two Polish guys on a podcast, what could be wrong? But this is going to be interesting, I’m Donnie Boivin this is Donnie’s success champions, mike tell us your story brother, welcome to the show! Mike: Donnie thank you for having me, I’m an author, I’m excited to be here and I’m on a missing to eradicated entrepreneur poverty, there are so many elements I struggle with entrepreneurship and some many fellow entrepreneurs struggle with and my goal is to fix that for all of us. Donnie: I love the whole phrase, entrepreneur poverty, because that was my business for a long time you know. Mike: Well you know what it is, Donnie when you started your business I suspect is the same as I started mine and everyone listening, you star your business and his friends who never own a business, they look at you and they who “oh you started a business, you are millionaire and you sit in the beach and all you do is sit and all you do is drink margaritas” There is this perception as that if you are business owner, you are wealthy and you got all the time in the world, the reality is the opposite, so we have no time, we work our ass off, we sacrifice family, we don’t go on vacations anymore and we make no money! As the general population we are struggling financially, so there is this gap and I called entrepreneurial poverty and so my mission is to resolve that, to make us what we are envisioned to be and when you have wealth and you have time you can be of impact you can serve others, I mean we need to do this. Donnie: No I love this, because Ii think there is one more twist on that whole entrepreneurial jump, because if they don’t think are automatically super wealthy the other questions is, what the hell do you actually do for a living? Laugh Donnie: So you are not only battling how much money you are supposedly making and all this freedom that you have, you know my wife, people still ask her, what does Donnie do? And she’s like, he kind of does this podcast, speaking, I don’t know what he does. Mike: Is fine, so when I sold my first company I go proud, I came home to my dad and said “Dad I sold my business” and told them what happened, and he goes “congratulations, so you are gonna have a really job now” and I’m like what? And he’s “yeah because your security and all that” And I love my parents, they have been extraordinary to me, they love me, both of them tho are in trap in their perception of what success is, get a job, stick to a job for entirety of your life, and I think we are surrounded by that perception, spouse, have other perceptions, as entrepreneur the rule is to break the rules, to challenge industries, to bring in our concepts, is new to everyone, Everyone’s is like “what the F are you doing?” is not comprehensible. Donnie: You know is all interesting, I don’t about you, but when I launched my business, it took me a long time to realize that I spent so long as an employed so when I launched a business I kept constantly trying to almost create a job for myself vs a company and I get lost in the business because it was so hard to make that shift, that is why I tell people that entrepreneurs a made not born because you get punched in the face a lot by life to start figuring things out, was that kind of the same thing to you or you just stepped in gold and riches fell from the sky? Laugh Mike: Oh of course that was exactly my journey! I started the business and people where throwing money at me like what= Is this real? NO! No of course, my first business was in computers system, I was a computer guy and I open the door. Donnie: Where’s your pocket protector I don’t see it? Mike: Yeah well yeah, actually Donnie that’s what happens , I made a few phone calls and said I started a business and the money will flow in, I called a few people and they were “Oh congratulations, but I’m already taking care of” I said what? You know! I’m your friend! “No, I’m taking care of” and at the end of the day of and they didn’t mean, the holy crap moment kicked in, I think, in the beginning stages, and actual motivators for us entrepreneurs is fear, the first few years of my business I was terrified and what that terror does is kept me awake, I would wake up at 4 in the morning and get to work whatever it takes and I worked until midnight and repeat the process all over again because I was scared I was desperate as parent, the challenge tho is that fear in certain point becomes detrimental it gives you energy but it also gives you stress and start breaking you down, so illness kicks in or exhaustion so of course is a flip side, you don’t want to live in fear for the entirety of your life, use it as a spark and the over time you need to convert that idea was to confidence and when I started to get a bit of a routine I started to see some results, I said ok I’m gonna trying and repeat on that and I started to focus on what was working and doing more of what was working. Mike: But of course for none of us, you don’t start a business and the money falls in your laps and if it does, you are lottery winner but is actually a curse because then you believe that you don’t need and effort to make this money and so I think when you see on the cover of Ink Magazine “Oh started a business when she was 23 years old and by 24 is a billionaire” In many cases that becomes detrimental because they don’t understand the real journey of an entrepreneur, which is the struggle on the valley to get to the peaks. Donnie: Yeah Jim Ron when back to as far as motivational speakers go, he’s got a great phrase, he said, the first thing you done when you are handed a million dollars is you mentally have become a millionaire because most people will go through that ride and journey to whatever success they get through and is all those lessons that mold and prepared them for that success and I looked on people that entrepreneur is the new multilevel marketing thing because people go into multilevel marketing or neuro marketing and they are like “Oh Imma be a millionaire tomorrow you know, this I the greatest thing, I can sleep whenever I want t and do all that” so they launch businesses thinking along the same lines and I was just guilty of it, when I launched my business I thought the heaven was going to open up and everybody was going to be “Finally Donnie show up, let’s make a lot of money together” not knowing that you have to learn to run a business before you can try to find any sort of success but is a really interesting twist that how much you have to personally evolve along that journey to become a better version for yourself Mike: Holy F and true, and I love it you called the multilevel marketing but I sort of had a sentiment of it about a year ago kicked in, everything I talked about is entrepreneur and entrepreneurship and all the books I write, everything’s is of the entrepreneur, I’m sort started to becoming convinced that the word entrepreneur I a dastardly term now, I think is actually hurting us because entrepreneur has been equated to hustle and grind and I hate those terms, I hate them, so I understand the sentiment tho, I understand hustle and grind means you gotta make effort, like when I started my businesses fear was my motivator, I had to hustle and grind, here is the problem I think people are interpreting that entrepreneurship is perpetual hustle and grind and ten years into you belter be grinding out, in twenty years you better be grinding harder, you gotta carry this business on your back and this is the antithesis of what entrepreneurship is, the true definition is identifying n opportunity, taking a risk to make it happen and the choreographing all these resources, people, technology and even your clients to make that vision a reality, is not doing the work is the choreographing of other resources. I tell people, I was speaking yesterdays at an event and I’m on a room as an entrepreneur and I say yeah I got a challenge for you, when you are at a dinner party and someone ask you got you do, what do you say? And often is “I’m an entrepreneurs that does X” What about we don’t use the word entrepreneur anymore, and not even business owner because is the same thing, what if you call yourself a shareholder in a business, just by changing that label people are “what the what? Donnie: If somebody hit’s me that I would be like “what?” Mike: You know many people are shareholders, I own some stock, I’m in mutual funds, I’m a shareholder, no do I go to these companies and hustle to make successful? No, Do I do anything in the business? No! I do row when it comes to share holder boats and stuff, I do give I some directions as shareholder but I’m not actively participating in it, when we use the label entrepreneur we are saying that we actively work our asses of inside the business and I think we use the term shareholder is shocks ourselves back to reality, that our mission is to vote maybe through some action but. Donnie: Wait you should make a book out of this. Mike: How should I call it? Donnie: I don’t but something along the lines of start calling yourself a shareholder I think because is a cool philosophy. Mike: Is funny, so I may have a title now called “entrepewhore”. Laugh Mike: My publisher I told him and probably nah I don’t think so but maybe, because I think we bastardize ourselves so much we got to change our label if we change our label we change our behavior, is hard to change our behavior first still holding all labels Donnie: I agree with that, I got a funny book too, it’s called, “that’s not how you journal jackass”, so I got one of those too, is an eBook is free. Here is what I do, when I launched my business I had no idea how to call myself, I really didn’t think I was an entrepreneur because I think in true to my opinion, are the craziest sons of a bitch on the face of the earth because you got to be jut that shit crazy nuts to go launch a business, so I was warping my head around that I more this business owner that wanted to create this one business, this one company , this model and take it through, wasn’t it really worried about even a legacy type thing, I just wanted to get to that freedom state and I never been hung up on titles and such and people keep asking me, what do you put on a business card, my name? I didn’t know what to actually put in there, but it evolved, now is says business owner, I think I out CEO in one point but I’m like, Am I a CEO? I got virtual assistants but I don’t really have employees so am I a really a CEO? You know, but you dance with all this thought processes and I really love this whole idea of your shareholder because it really makes you shock your own system to reinvent how you position yourself in the market place. Mike: You know this plays out to employees too, my company is tiny we have 13 employees, I am number 14, we were a micro business and I used to give my colleagues big titles, so I bring someone on and maybe call them the CFO or the office manager and what I found is this that they just like me started believing the title as like who they are, so I had a person who has not even a degree in accounting, she was part time, but she was handling our number so instead of calling her the internal booking person I said we are going to call you the CFO, she went online and found that instead of paying $30.000 that’s what we were paying for that a typical CFO makes a $125.000 so she came back to me literally and said Mike I’m being so freaking underpay I’m being a CFO for this organization I’m not on 125.000 you are ripping me off, and I’m look whoa is just a title and she is no all CFO’s make that and my response was, you can’t got to Ford or GE and say I want to be your CFO and 125, is just a title , didn’t matter she quit, she couldn’t comprehend that, what I realize is that once we star owning a title that becomes who we are, is not just true for us the entrepreneurs, it’s true for all the humanity, if we call ourselves stupid then you become stupid if you say I’m lazy you will become lazy, if you say I’m driven you will become driven, but you have to keep on repeating enough times until you actually believe it to comply with that title otherwise we can’t own that title. So be very judicious in how you use titles is kind of the lesson here. Donnie: Yeah I love it, so Kevin is known to build all the automation to backing up my stuff, he put under the title of my first email campaign “founding badass of success champions “ and I’m like ok I take that, so if you are going yourself a tittle that you want to step into , you know that you want to own, like “founding badass” or something else along those lines, but is interesting I can see that, going through my career there was part that wanted to be a sales manager and I got sales manager and I’m said “fuck, I don’t want to be a sales manager” so there is a lot to be said in those roles, in corporate America structure formality, there’s a lot of responsibility in owning certain titles. Mike: Totally is, I think as a small business owner I aspired, not anymore, I aspired to be the big company, I wanted to have a billion dollar corporation, I wanted to be the CEO of Amazon after Jeff retire I wanted to take over, so I wanted to make my own version so I said if I want be that I have to act as if, that’s a popular term, act as if, so I’m gonna start using those tittle right now, but in the outside world that’s kinda of a shame, if I call myself the CEO and I walk in with my little company, people are like, who many people report to you? But none is only a couple of virtual people, are you really a CEO? O are you an entrepreneur that’s is starting in bootstrapping, so there is a risk there too, theirs is this disconnect and if we package ourselves in the wrong way is dangerous in fact our business … no titles whatsoever, because I do know that I go into a sales situation, sometimes it helps to say that I’m the owner and sometimes it helps to say that I’m the sales guy and being the owner is actually a detriment so I think a title is just a thing of conversation in what e aspire to have but also have to see the outside perception around titles. Donnie: I got other question because I know my followers have been counting on me and I got a lot of people that followed your book First, it was the first book that I read of yours and horrible book by the way. Laugh Mike: Worst book of all the time, hey at least I got a ranking somehow. Donnie: Hey you put profit in there; at least it has to sell one book. Mike: Right! I should have put an F bomb because that seems to be the popular books now, the subtle art of F’ing and I should put like F profit or something. Donnie: You know I’ve been getting a lot of the guys out of the UK right no on the podcast because they are really trying to make a push, they are calling it “the UK invasion” where a lot of the UK speakers are trying to come to the US and is so funny when they come to the podcast because I cursed a lot but those dudes say cursing to a whole other level. Mike: The brits do? Donnie: Oh my god yeah! And I have to forward warning because there a couple words they throw around like candy and I’m like, ok look, this is a US based primary show, I mean it plays in almost a 100 countries now but you got to be careful with the certain couple of words, the F bomb fine, but there are some other words they can’t just bring to the table! But profit first, that and pumpkin plan I think two of the two books of yours that get thrown around the most, at least on my circles, is profit first the first book out of the collection. Mike: So I’ve written 5 books, technically 6 as profit first has been re-released as revising expanded so that counts too, so I wrote this book of toilet paper entrepreneur. Donnie: Oh I remember that! Mike: Kind of a spit on the face of traditional authorship and it was my angry teenage years but it worked, it worked to put me on the map, at least with the publisher and it built a small … The pumpkin plan was my first kind of mainstream book and profit first was the break through. Donnie: That’s the one that really put you on the map, I’m in forward Texas, you know my hometown and I know there is a little workshop group to get together and discussed that book- Mike: Oh that’s awesome I love to hear- Donnie: And the content and everything is out of that, but I’m curious, when you wrote that book was that philosophy for your business? Or something you were attempting to do and you thought it would be the breakthrough for other people if you took on the same thing. Mike: No, it was purely for me, here’s interesting when you hear the resume of an entrepreneur like me I share the highlights, got a company, sold it, the thick of the story for most entrepreneurs is the struggle, the entrepreneur poverty and I have evaporated all the wealth I’d accumulated in some priors businesses that were dealing with debt, I was able to sell them pay off the debt and make money and never really understood profit, I started this 3rd business that … my resume I evaporated everything I had, lost my house over it, lost possessions, did not loss my family, that’s one thing, they stood by me, went through depression for a couple years, from 2008 to 2010, the highest level was called functional depression, you are a drinker and stuff and during that phase I realized that I fundamentally didn’t know the most basic elements of entrepreneurship, profits is one, I realized all the things I was doing was misunderstood, and profit what I realized is that we have been told profit is the bottom line or were you rent, every book I read is profit comes last, and I realized omg I’ve been putting profit last, I didn’t consider it until once a year I looked at profit and I’m like “Dammit, maybe next year”. Donnie: Wait so your business is supposed to profit? I’m confused by that. Laugh Mike: That’s what my old accountant said,” you don’t want to profit, hey congratulations you got nothing left” And I’m like “what?” Donnie: Hey that’s the whole reason I’m in business. Mike: And that made no sense, and entrepreneurship is not a parent child relationship, I call it BS on that, we often say hey I started a business I gave life to it is my child and one day I will nurture it and it will come back and feed me, no, is more of conjoint twins, as the business goes we go and as we go the business goes so if I’m struggling at home my business is going to struggle and if I’m going struggling on business my home is going to struggle, especially the finances, pour finances are in so last step, so I say I really gotta resolve this and I realize that is human nature when something comes last is insignificant , so profit can’t be last, profit has to be first, and the exclusion of course says, make profit to have it, every time you sell take a predetermined percentage of that money, is profit, hide it away in your business, repeat day in and day out and you will assure profitability. Donnie: Is awesome, is one of those book, at least it was for me when I read through it, it just made sense, because same thing, school hard … somebody could tell me the stove is hot three times and still touch twice to just to make sure. Laugh Donnie: But it’s one of those book that when you read you are like “ok that make sense to me why I don’t do it”? So I started to employing some of the principals of the company and the being typical growing up financially foolish, “oh we are hitting a down turn, let’s just pull form the profit pile we have already put into the business” and you are like ok that’s not the whole principles of the book but it was a fun read, what did the success of that book do for your business, you company, what evolved or changed for you? Mike: That’s an interesting question, there’s a couple of realizations, when the book hit, so it came out 4 years ago and 2 years ago I did the re-release and it hit right away, is funny how ego is, I got like omg all this main stages, Seth Golden move here comes Mike “Polish” Michalowicz. Donnie: Because you got that name that belongs in light. Mike: Right, exactly, when you hit the movie theatre and my name is two lines.. Donnie: Or is turned down on the edged Mike: I think the better one is a limp penis of an A, So first my ego is move over Seth Golden, here comes the new main stager and it was like deadly silence, I’m like for how long? The book is so popular and went on for a year like this and my agent who I spoke to me was “get ready for the pumped up fees” nothing, and so I was like I guess it takes more than just a popular book, and yea about a year ago also did … is not move over Seth Golden but is oh you are speaking Seth Godin is coming after you. So that happened, so I realize is when a book hits it takes time for it to start playing out in other facets which is speaking but I think that satisfies my ego and I love public speaking and is a joy. Donnie: Look, nobody writes a book without waiting a little bit of that ego. Mike: I call it C list celebrity. Donnie: So if there’s another alphabet out there I am in that I alphabet. Mike: I put myself in position C , what’s funny that means that if I walk through an airport none knows who I am, except one person every like 3 or 4 airport checks will say “AAAAA” and you get one fan that comes and say “ARE YOU MIE MICHALOWICZ?” actually one person came up and said “ARE YOU TONY HAWK?” And I’m like fuck no, but somebody will say that, and I’ll be like who is this guy, is very weird. Donnie: You next book you just gotta put your picture on the cover that is all. Mike: I will put a Tony Hawk picture, be my strange brother tony hawk. Is this kind of weirs moments when none knows who I am but one person who just happens and lose their shit but everyone else is confused by and everyone’s like why? Who’s this guy? Is he a doctor? Did he save your life? But the bigger thing is I’m on my mission to eradicated entrepreneurial poverty now we get the metrics in place, and I get emails actually I can see we get two since we started the interview, I get emails in 3-4 5-6 hour now of people saying, because I actually ask people to email me on the book, I say emails if you commit to this and they are coming constantly now and I can see I can measure the changes having in business and that is the greatest joy of my life, If I am ever down, for me is just log in the email now and sit there for an hour and everything is ok Mike, you are not looser. Donnie: I wanted people to hear that last phrase you said, everybody’s chasing something you know and I had a lot of coming even this morning with the couple guys I was talking to, they were liken men I could just have this happen to my life, life would be X, and I keep telling life is never X, life is right now, is that time you need to embrace you don’t need some sort of trigger mechanism to be catapulted to the next version of your life and I love the fact that you were humble enough to say that there are days like, this day sucks, this day is horrible and you gotta go look in the email to make sure life is on the same path and track, because is good for people who aren’t even in the first level on the alphabet list, you know you got the C list rockstar status to hear those kind of things because they are a lot of people, I know fans of the show I know were like “holy cow is Mike Michalowicz, he’s got “Profit First” and this and the other and they put you into rockstar status and often times when people put people on that rockstar status they gave them like the super power feed of strength and everything else, like nothing ever happens to them they are always killing it and crushing it and I really appreciate that humility you speak through. Mike: I want to speak that because I think is so important, I believe when we see someone as in a better position we put them on a pedestal, we look up to them, really that is a form of envy and I think is really damaging to ourselves, if you say “oh this guy is better than me, I wish I liked him” but in the same we are saying “I’m less than” and when we see ourselves as less then we want to disassociate, we actually one to pull someone down, as human nature say, well that person is not observing, Michalowicz they guy that probably got myself in driving, you pull in down, pity is just as damaging, pity is where you see yourself here and then there’s this homeless person in the street and “Thank god is not me” that causes a voidance when we move around them, both are form of dissociation an so I think they are very damaging. I don’t think we should ever use the term look up towards someone or look down to someone, I think we should always say look over, as cheesy as it is I’m big on like totems and this things you can see as the infinity circle and is my reminder that all of us are on the exact same path, no one is front or behind each other, we are on different positions of the path and we have just much to learn from someone who’s in the deepest struggles as someone that we perceived is having the greatest successes, all of them are learning experiences and we can call from each other but if we look up or look down we disassociate, I think we need to say Donnie I look over to you I want to learn from you, tell me your secrets, Mike I look over to you, so I say never look up, never look down. Donnie: I love that, I never heard it put in that perspective but you know Richard Branson when he takes people out to his private island , one of the first things he asked to everybody out there is, teach me something and I’ve always been fascinated by it because you got Richard Branson, one of the wealthiest man in the world , one of the most cool CEO, at least that is the brand he puts in the market place, a whole part of that is true but the fact that everybody comes back from me to the island going “Richard Branson asked me to teach him something” and I’m always curious to say, what could you teach as Richard Branson and I think a lot of those pull some random shit out their ass but “I taught Richard Branson” Really? Really!? Mike: I never heard that story I love it and I think it speaks therefore to great intelligence because I bet you, we all got something to teach as much as he teaches us, I don’t think he is more successful than a brand new startup entrepreneur, by certain definitions, the wealthy accumulated, the exposure he’s gotten, I don’t know and this is no judgment, I don’t know what his family is like , I don’t know what is balance is like, I don’t know his contribution to society is like, I don’t know, I also think that we hold people to a higher celebrity ship when they have broader impact as oppose to deep impact and I think most of us are designed for deep impact, Let me use doctor Oz because that example come to mine, Initially he was a cardiovascular surgeon with very deep impact, he saved some people’s life forever, he gave people not 6 more hours of life but 60 more year of life because of his work, he then made a choice to go broad meaning he went on Oprah he started to talking about health and then the guys is Impacting many people, the difference is , Doctor Oz now has a very broad impact but is very shallow you see him on tv shows and eat your vegetables is the lessons, when we worked as a cardiovascular surgeon, now he’s got a very deep impact, I think is a choice and I don’t think is one is better than the other, the shame is we hold up to celebrity ship people with only broad impact, it’s the famous football player, the famous movie start or the famous author like Malcom Gladwell, someone I exalt but never met Malcom Gladwell he just had an impact in some many people and is a name other people recognize I think is equal regardless of what we do of significance and people that are going for deep impact, I guess the lesson here is don’t aspire to be broad, aspire to be who you are call to be, if it’s deep go deep, if it’s broad is broad if it’s something else do it, just speak truly to yourself, they are all significant. Donnie: Man I love that, is such a powerful message because most people in my belief that have hit a celebrity status they are really good at one thing. It comes down to … marketing, I tell people all the time Tony Robbins, one of the biggest motivational speaker of the world and I ask people all the time and they are like omg is Tony Robins, Tony Robins, he’s done amazing things I’m not knocking down for anything but I ask people all the time, What’s Tony’s job? “Oh he is the CEO of the company blah blah blah” and I mean no he is not, and they look at me like “ what do you mean?” He is the face of the company, Garyvee, he is the face of the company and even Mike Michalowicz a C list celebrity is the face of the company, now all that to say is not meaning they are not making decisions, they are not having vision but they are the PR machine their job is to build brand new awareness for the company is the broad stroke. Mike: Is like a band, the front man is the one who everyone knows and is constantly with the groupies but the drummer and the bassist and the keyboardist who’s behind the curtains sometimes they are the ones collectively that need to make the music and I think that is what this organizations have, I think we can positon ourselves as the spokesperson and we will get all the accolades, I think the day I sort believe in that, over. Donnie: Have you seen bohemian rhapsody yet? The movie? Mike: Yeah. Donnie: I love the whole scene where the lead singer of Queen, can’t remember his name. Mike: Freddie Mercury. Donnie: Yes Freddie Mercury, thank you, that he hits all the fame and he goes out of his own and launches his own band and he’s trying to create the music and it all fails and he goes back to his guys and he goes “they did everything I told them to do” and I’m like that’s it! And he goes “They weren’t pushing back they did everything and the problem is I don’t know how to do all the stuff that you are great that” Mike: I think a great leader recognizes that , as a spokes persons you gotta be careful about being inauthentically humble, I see that too, and is like “oh is not me is not me” and declining as is actually discrediting the people who are fans of you, you can’t do that, the same thing you can’t say “this is all me” because you discrediting the people collectively making the product or the service that you do, so is a fine balance, I also think for the rest of the band, like Freddie mercury was the recognize brand and you have Brian May and then two guys like what was their names? That’s an ego check for them too but they are just as important. Donnie: Even if Freddie would have made it in a solo type carrier thing, even then he still has a band behind him. Mike: Even that is true. Donnie: The craziest thing about this whole ride and journey, I know the good things I’m good at, I’m really good on podcast, really good on interviews, well talking on stages but here is the thing I suck at the accounting side of things, I should read you book again “profit first” maybe probably help me out a little bit, but it’s a lot for entrepreneurs, business owners, whatever screwing tittle you want to give yourself, founding badass, is knowing your lane and knowing what you are good at and finding the right people that geek out on the stuff you suck at, is like I’ve got people that do some video editing for me, they freaking love that stuff, I’ve got people that do automated email for me, the gal who does some of the writing for me I call her a magician every Tim, I don’t know how she takes all the crap I put together spins it up and turns it into a master piece, she’s just got gift and a talent for it, but a lot of that is a humbleness for an individual to go “ok this is my lane, this is what I’m good at, how do I get other people to come along for that ride to pick up the slacks for me”. Mike: There is this thing I call the super hero syndrome when we first start a business we have to do everything, you have to do the accounting, you have to do marketing, there is no one else there, you have to, and we start believing wow I can do anything and then we start superheroing in swiping in when there’s problem oh I will fix this I will fix that, and the trap is, when we bring on employees we actually interning with their progress, they start doing something and we swop in we fix it we resolve, disabling them from doing the work themselves, plus we leave often awaken destruction behind us, entrepreneur like myself are known to fix the 5% of the problem, the big part that is noticeable and 95% like we can skip that and there is this shattered destruction behind us that needs to be swooped and cleaned up, I found that I can’t change my ego, I can’t tell “I’m just going to be mister Mike humble and everything is fine” what I did find is that I can rechannel my ego, I used to be very proud of being the superhero, the savior of my business, and now I use the term supervisionary and what that means to me is that I’m clear of where I want to take this organization but I am also as importantly clear about where my individual colleagues want to go with their lives and then my job is ok “how can I help Amy and Mike and Ron and Kelsey to achieve what their vision is personally and have that aligned the business” and I put more significance on that than being a super hero, now my ego is being filled, hey! I’m doing what I meant to do and the interesting is what I revert to being a super hero because I revert to that often and I say oh I fix this and I swipe in again, I realize that is a step down in where I see myself and put negative context around and I’m less likely to do it, before I thought if I had to remove myself form the business and no longer be the super hero I saw that as a step down so when I reverted back to this super hero role I was stepping up and therefore be stuck in it, so the goal is to put more significant to something else and it will naturally pull us put of doing the stuff that is actually not helping our business. Donnie: Yeah that’s a really interesting thought, I don’t have kids but I will say the next statement with that in front me, but often times, people that went through a rougher childhood, maybe didn’t have all the things they wanted as a kid and by the time they have kids they spoil they hell out of them because then have become success and the kids don’t learn the grind and drive that they learned to get and find the success, they hit the workplace and everything else and they will be a bit lost, entrepreneurs do the same thing with the employees, when you are taking care of the problem you are taking out he learning they need to evolve, I ran into this all the time in the creative side of things and Think this is probably the biggest screw that entrepreneur s have is they have a creative vision of their brand, their image, their everything else and when they try to explain to somebody else that other person doesn’t grasp their visions of what those color schemes or whatever else side of the businesses so they are like “Oh I screw up I will do this myself” Mike: I was talking to this guy Scott Alfred, I actually put him in one of my books, he said an entrepreneur would tell to an employee “hey we need to cook food here, get something that will cook food here” and they come back with sticks and rocks to spark a f ire and we are pissed of Like” Don’t you understand? I wanted a Viking?” and the employee is like “Oh I’m so sorry” but the reality is that we didn’t communicate what we wanted, they did the job, In other times they want the Viking and we just wanted sticks and rocks. So I think first of empowering them to make decision but also giving them the freedom that if they don’t comply to our vision to realize that maybe is not their fault, maybe we didn’t communicated well or maybe their vision for that thing is actually better than ours, maybe sticks and rocks is better, is this clinginess we have to what we have a personal vision or mission, how we see things in our mind and we can get upset when people don’t see what we see but we are often to communicating well at all. Donnie: Well and I would also add in there that I think, I want to speak for myself, there were a lot of times along this journey so far that I wanted somebody to swop in and take care of that problem for me, If this was an issue or problem and I wanted to go like “hey this is now yours” and take it completely of my plate and when it comes back and not what I had in vision and I am like “What the hell -” Mike: “ - Are you an idiot” Donnie: Right! Mike: That is called abdication; so many people think you are doing delegation when they are doing abdication. Donnie: Thank you I just added a whole new word today. Mike: Big word, I wanted to drop it, sort of finding where to use it. Laugh Donnie: You have been waiting the whole episode just to use that one. Mike: So I just thought of blurring it out if you didn’t have a question, but abdication is simply point someone and say you take care of this and that is the entire instruction said, and entrepreneurs are notorious for to scenarios, either micromanagement where is total control, here’s step 1, step 1.a - 1.b, or abdication which is the polar opposite and both of them are extremely ineffective, both of them prohibit growth to the organization. Donnie: So how does an individual doesn’t go to the extreme of both of those and actually find that happy medium combination because I’m guilty of both, Because sometimes I’m like “ok I have to tell them what to do or they are not going to figure it out so let’s roll out the power point and walk you through the 500 steps because I need it to get done” but other times I’m just off it, so how do I find the happy medium between those two? Mike: Is simply, you ask the employee, you say listen I want you to achieve certain results in the organization, I know you want to achieve these results, I will give you information, I need to know form you exactly what is enough information to give you direction or when am I going to the field that is too much, where’s actually hurting your creativity, I need the reverse too, if I’m giving just giving you way too little and you can’t achieve the visions that Ii have I need to know them too, is communication, is asking, shockingly we don’t do that often, is that you sit down the first day of the job and say “your job is to tell me when I’m not telling you what you need to know about me” that doesn’t make sense, is constant communication. Our little company we are going to a company retreat to Nashville Tennessee, literally next week and the whole thing is about communication, we are just going to sit there, have a talk, build a report, we have half day to set and learn from each other’s stories, because I know to grease the wheels of this organization is the communication and trust among each other is the ability of my colleague who I write her paycheck out to come back at me and say Mike you’re being an ass about so and so and not feeling threaten or in risk, that will only happen if we have a true connection beyond functional connection, if we have a human connection, I think there is where the answer comes. Donnie: And I love that, I think some people when they go into business they are looking for the pedestal, they are looking for people to look up to them and be that guy and I think that was a hard lessons for me because I know that was a part of my struggle as well is that I wanted people to seem me in a certain way which put me in this weird situation on how I was dealing with vendors and stuff until one of my mentors and coaches said dude, knock it off, but the whole thing is realizing that you are not superman, you are not creating something that hasn’t been created before, you are just repackaging somebody else’s shit up into a better more usable consumable product and format Donnie: I love the fact you are taking your employees in things like retreats and stuff, is that something you did out of the gate with your company or is that something you evolved into. Mike: Well we got it out the gate but is also something you have evolved into, well we had it out the gate but we’ve also evolved into, like going into Nashville is because we’ve had quarter after quarter of profitability that’s grown and we actually set an account called the retreat account so the firs retreat we went to Starbucks because we couldn’t afford lunch, me and my partner we jut said hey let’s just hang out before we get back to go back to work is something evolves, but what I did, recently I did the 4 week vacation, is something I wrote about in one of my book, so if you are going extract yourself from your business for 4 weeks, full disconnect and the business can grow or operate in your absence, you’ve proven the business can likely run into perpetuity in your absence. Donnie: I think that across the world every entrepreneur that just go and take this big gasp because they know way their business functions if they are gone. Mike: Which is a major problem, if you’re carrying the business on your back, and everyone will take the 4 week vacation or over, when get sick or die, so it’s going to happen, we are going to make it delivered so we are prepared for. The funny thing is that I’ve been presenting this concept around the world, when I was in Europe talking about this, we did this, literally yesterday, I flew back form BMW as there yesterday, all august, Germany shuts down and BMW ain’t going out of business, we need to do this for small businesses and so I went for 4 week vacation last year and when I did is not that business was perfect, I put a lot of structure in place to make it happen but there were some problems, one of the problems I realized is internal communication, I’ve become this choke point, when people have questions they come to me a group of come to me to see what’s Mike’s decision but they weren’t making laterally and internally, well I’m absence they were forced to, but there were some uncomfortable things like this person doesn’t really know the other person should approach them? Even if they went only 14 people, so that’s why we are doing this retreat, is all about just building report, we are going to do some cooking sessions together, we are going to have some wine together, we are just going to talk about our lives together, we are going to talk about our struggles and challenges, just to have that human connection, I really believe it greases the wheels. Donnie: Love it, I don’t why this popped to my head but I have strange question for you, what is your actual business? Mike: I don’t freaking know, laugh, I am a full time author, I write books, that’s what I do, so people think you can’t make any money out it, which is total bull, you can become very wealthy as an author if you do it right, the lessons here is I interviewed Tim Ferris on how to be an author a long time ago, he isn’t talking to me now, and he said of course you can make money, before that I was talking to people about being an author, and they said you make no money is horrible, and I said what has been your experience? I’ve never written a book, I don’t know, don’t trust people that haven’t done it, trust people who’ve done it, people that have failed learn why the fail and then learn and then I have talked to people who have been successful and find out the difference and go for the ones who are successful, I have a license: profit first, the pumpkin plan, clockwork, I have a new book coming out, to other companies and they pay me override of revenue so I have a constant revenue stream from all these different companies. Donnie: What do you mean by license, like program? Mike: Yes the program is called run like clockwork that teaches the clockwork system, they pay me a license in fee in front and 15% override … processionals for accountants. Donnie: You have accountants around the world. Mike: Yes over 350 and now and I license this organization but also in the case In that case I took an equity interest but the other two companies I don’t have any equity just the license in fee they pay me. So one of those things as people run their journey, one of the things I had to do was to turn to the people that has done it before , and realize somebody else had cut the trail, go learn from them and get advice from them along the way. Donnie: I gotta tell you man, this has been one hell of a ride I had no Idea about what you and I we were going to get into tonight and actually it has been kind of fun. Mike: Yeah on the recap my head says oh we talk about entreprewhore, you learned a new word abdicated. Donnie: Dude, don’t do the spelling bee on me, if you ask me to spell abdicate. Mike: I don’t know how to spell it I think it starts with an A Donnie: We talked about C level celebrities in there somewhere I am sure. Laugh Donnie: So that’s awesome, but dude I really appreciate the job done here, here’s how I like to wrap up every show and I do stump some people over this so get ready… Mike: 17 INCHES. Laugh Mike: Take it right? What’s the question? Laugh Donnie: I don’t want ask what 17 inches is! Now if you were going to leave the champions who listen to this show, people from all over the world, business owners, entrepreneurs, people who are trying to make the next movement in their life, if you were going to leave them with a quote a phrase a mantra or a saying, something they can take with them on their journey, especially when they are stack up against it and goring through what would be that quote or phrase you would say? Mike: So, I have it above my desk, Oscar Wilde says: Be yourself, everybody else is already taken. Donnie: Oh I love it is one of my favorite quotes from all time, didn’t know it came from Oscar Wilde, I saw it on a meme on Instagram and I thought “Oooh is brilliant”. Mike: Actually I went to Ireland, not specifically for this, but visited statue from him, visited his own home. Donnie: Where ahead in Ireland? because we were just there last year. Mike: Outside Dublin Donnie: Oh no kidding, Dublin was my least favorite city. Mike: Did you see the “Stiletto in the ghetto” the big spike in the middle of the city? Donnie: No we didn’t see that. Mike: I would say it was my least favorite too because is like any other metropolis. Donnie: That’s what my wife and I kept saying, is that if you go to Ireland go to Dublin and I would not knock in Ireland would no knock in Dublin by any means. Mike: No Omg. Donnie: Is like any other big city. Mike: The people in Ireland I would argue are the nicest people, India is number 2 but Ireland is number 1. Donnie: Did you do the breakfast thing? Mike: Yeah! Donnie: Dude I wanna tell you the nicest people, they were so genuine, and the breakfasts were insane. Mike: Insane, blood pudding. Donnie: And the two different styles and all that, so awesome, but look man I really appreciate what you doing, thanks for joining out and looking forward to many big things coming. Mike: Thank you! 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Donnie: Alright was this is going to be an amazing episodes we are going to sit down with mike Michalowicz, We didn’t spend whole lot of time on a back story, we just started jumping in a lot of the philosophy of business, entrepreneurism and there wasn’t any flop, it was a pretty cool conversation, I really enjoyed and I know a lot of you guys asked for me to get him on the show you could more of an intimate conversation with him so I think you are really going to enjoy this one. 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And I love that they have taken their business success and turned it out over to the nonprofit they started which is called … family fund you know that organization is giving scholarships and is helping out the families of fallen officers, you know it’s really cool to see a company remember really where they came from and really giving back to the community as a whole, so do me a favor guys, go follow them on Facebook, go them out on Instagram, check out their website, send them messages and let them know Donnie sent you , you can find almost everything that they are at either at … family fund or point safety in almost all platforms, say hi to them, I couldn’t do this show without them. So I know a lot of you guys have been harassing me about get mike on the show, so I’m bringing on Mike Michalowicz and this going to be a lot of fun, we already smoke and joke about two Polish guys on a podcast, what could be wrong? But this is going to be interesting, I’m Donnie Boivin this is Donnie’s success champions, mike tell us your story brother, welcome to the show! Mike: Donnie thank you for having me, I’m an author, I’m excited to be here and I’m on a missing to eradicated entrepreneur poverty, there are so many elements I struggle with entrepreneurship and some many fellow entrepreneurs struggle with and my goal is to fix that for all of us. Donnie: I love the whole phrase, entrepreneur poverty, because that was my business for a long time you know. Mike: Well you know what it is, Donnie when you started your business I suspect is the same as I started mine and everyone listening, you star your business and his friends who never own a business, they look at you and they who “oh you started a business, you are millionaire and you sit in the beach and all you do is sit and all you do is drink margaritas” There is this perception as that if you are business owner, you are wealthy and you got all the time in the world, the reality is the opposite, so we have no time, we work our ass off, we sacrifice family, we don’t go on vacations anymore and we make no money! As the general population we are struggling financially, so there is this gap and I called entrepreneurial poverty and so my mission is to resolve that, to make us what we are envisioned to be and when you have wealth and you have time you can be of impact you can serve others, I mean we need to do this. Donnie: No I love this, because Ii think there is one more twist on that whole entrepreneurial jump, because if they don’t think are automatically super wealthy the other questions is, what the hell do you actually do for a living? Laugh Donnie: So you are not only battling how much money you are supposedly making and all this freedom that you have, you know my wife, people still ask her, what does Donnie do? And she’s like, he kind of does this podcast, speaking, I don’t know what he does. Mike: Is fine, so when I sold my first company I go proud, I came home to my dad and said “Dad I sold my business” and told them what happened, and he goes “congratulations, so you are gonna have a really job now” and I’m like what? And he’s “yeah because your security and all that” And I love my parents, they have been extraordinary to me, they love me, both of them tho are in trap in their perception of what success is, get a job, stick to a job for entirety of your life, and I think we are surrounded by that perception, spouse, have other perceptions, as entrepreneur the rule is to break the rules, to challenge industries, to bring in our concepts, is new to everyone, Everyone’s is like “what the F are you doing?” is not comprehensible. Donnie: You know is all interesting, I don’t about you, but when I launched my business, it took me a long time to realize that I spent so long as an employed so when I launched a business I kept constantly trying to almost create a job for myself vs a company and I get lost in the business because it was so hard to make that shift, that is why I tell people that entrepreneurs a made not born because you get punched in the face a lot by life to start figuring things out, was that kind of the same thing to you or you just stepped in gold and riches fell from the sky? Laugh Mike: Oh of course that was exactly my journey! I started the business and people where throwing money at me like what= Is this real? NO! No of course, my first business was in computers system, I was a computer guy and I open the door. Donnie: Where’s your pocket protector I don’t see it? Mike: Yeah well yeah, actually Donnie that’s what happens , I made a few phone calls and said I started a business and the money will flow in, I called a few people and they were “Oh congratulations, but I’m already taking care of” I said what? You know! I’m your friend! “No, I’m taking care of” and at the end of the day of and they didn’t mean, the holy crap moment kicked in, I think, in the beginning stages, and actual motivators for us entrepreneurs is fear, the first few years of my business I was terrified and what that terror does is kept me awake, I would wake up at 4 in the morning and get to work whatever it takes and I worked until midnight and repeat the process all over again because I was scared I was desperate as parent, the challenge tho is that fear in certain point becomes detrimental it gives you energy but it also gives you stress and start breaking you down, so illness kicks in or exhaustion so of course is a flip side, you don’t want to live in fear for the entirety of your life, use it as a spark and the over time you need to convert that idea was to confidence and when I started to get a bit of a routine I started to see some results, I said ok I’m gonna trying and repeat on that and I started to focus on what was working and doing more of what was working. Mike: But of course for none of us, you don’t start a business and the money falls in your laps and if it does, you are lottery winner but is actually a curse because then you believe that you don’t need and effort to make this money and so I think when you see on the cover of Ink Magazine “Oh started a business when she was 23 years old and by 24 is a billionaire” In many cases that becomes detrimental because they don’t understand the real journey of an entrepreneur, which is the struggle on the valley to get to the peaks. Donnie: Yeah Jim Ron when back to as far as motivational speakers go, he’s got a great phrase, he said, the first thing you done when you are handed a million dollars is you mentally have become a millionaire because most people will go through that ride and journey to whatever success they get through and is all those lessons that mold and prepared them for that success and I looked on people that entrepreneur is the new multilevel marketing thing because people go into multilevel marketing or neuro marketing and they are like “Oh Imma be a millionaire tomorrow you know, this I the greatest thing, I can sleep whenever I want t and do all that” so they launch businesses thinking along the same lines and I was just guilty of it, when I launched my business I thought the heaven was going to open up and everybody was going to be “Finally Donnie show up, let’s make a lot of money together” not knowing that you have to learn to run a business before you can try to find any sort of success but is a really interesting twist that how much you have to personally evolve along that journey to become a better version for yourself Mike: Holy F and true, and I love it you called the multilevel marketing but I sort of had a sentiment of it about a year ago kicked in, everything I talked about is entrepreneur and entrepreneurship and all the books I write, everything’s is of the entrepreneur, I’m sort started to becoming convinced that the word entrepreneur I a dastardly term now, I think is actually hurting us because entrepreneur has been equated to hustle and grind and I hate those terms, I hate them, so I understand the sentiment tho, I understand hustle and grind means you gotta make effort, like when I started my businesses fear was my motivator, I had to hustle and grind, here is the problem I think people are interpreting that entrepreneurship is perpetual hustle and grind and ten years into you belter be grinding out, in twenty years you better be grinding harder, you gotta carry this business on your back and this is the antithesis of what entrepreneurship is, the true definition is identifying n opportunity, taking a risk to make it happen and the choreographing all these resources, people, technology and even your clients to make that vision a reality, is not doing the work is the choreographing of other resources. I tell people, I was speaking yesterdays at an event and I’m on a room as an entrepreneur and I say yeah I got a challenge for you, when you are at a dinner party and someone ask you got you do, what do you say? And often is “I’m an entrepreneurs that does X” What about we don’t use the word entrepreneur anymore, and not even business owner because is the same thing, what if you call yourself a shareholder in a business, just by changing that label people are “what the what? Donnie: If somebody hit’s me that I would be like “what?” Mike: You know many people are shareholders, I own some stock, I’m in mutual funds, I’m a shareholder, no do I go to these companies and hustle to make successful? No, Do I do anything in the business? No! I do row when it comes to share holder boats and stuff, I do give I some directions as shareholder but I’m not actively participating in it, when we use the label entrepreneur we are saying that we actively work our asses of inside the business and I think we use the term shareholder is shocks ourselves back to reality, that our mission is to vote maybe through some action but. Donnie: Wait you should make a book out of this. Mike: How should I call it? Donnie: I don’t but something along the lines of start calling yourself a shareholder I think because is a cool philosophy. Mike: Is funny, so I may have a title now called “entrepewhore”. Laugh Mike: My publisher I told him and probably nah I don’t think so but maybe, because I think we bastardize ourselves so much we got to change our label if we change our label we change our behavior, is hard to change our behavior first still holding all labels Donnie: I agree with that, I got a funny book too, it’s called, “that’s not how you journal jackass”, so I got one of those too, is an eBook is free. Here is what I do, when I launched my business I had no idea how to call myself, I really didn’t think I was an entrepreneur because I think in true to my opinion, are the craziest sons of a bitch on the face of the earth because you got to be jut that shit crazy nuts to go launch a business, so I was warping my head around that I more this business owner that wanted to create this one business, this one company , this model and take it through, wasn’t it really worried about even a legacy type thing, I just wanted to get to that freedom state and I never been hung up on titles and such and people keep asking me, what do you put on a business card, my name? I didn’t know what to actually put in there, but it evolved, now is says business owner, I think I out CEO in one point but I’m like, Am I a CEO? I got virtual assistants but I don’t really have employees so am I a really a CEO? You know, but you dance with all this thought processes and I really love this whole idea of your shareholder because it really makes you shock your own system to reinvent how you position yourself in the market place. Mike: You know this plays out to employees too, my company is tiny we have 13 employees, I am number 14, we were a micro business and I used to give my colleagues big titles, so I bring someone on and maybe call them the CFO or the office manager and what I found is this that they just like me started believing the title as like who they are, so I had a person who has not even a degree in accounting, she was part time, but she was handling our number so instead of calling her the internal booking person I said we are going to call you the CFO, she went online and found that instead of paying $30.000 that’s what we were paying for that a typical CFO makes a $125.000 so she came back to me literally and said Mike I’m being so freaking underpay I’m being a CFO for this organization I’m not on 125.000 you are ripping me off, and I’m look whoa is just a title and she is no all CFO’s make that and my response was, you can’t got to Ford or GE and say I want to be your CFO and 125, is just a title , didn’t matter she quit, she couldn’t comprehend that, what I realize is that once we star owning a title that becomes who we are, is not just true for us the entrepreneurs, it’s true for all the humanity, if we call ourselves stupid then you become stupid if you say I’m lazy you will become lazy, if you say I’m driven you will become driven, but you have to keep on repeating enough times until you actually believe it to comply with that title otherwise we can’t own that title. So be very judicious in how you use titles is kind of the lesson here. Donnie: Yeah I love it, so Kevin is known to build all the automation to backing up my stuff, he put under the title of my first email campaign “founding badass of success champions “ and I’m like ok I take that, so if you are going yourself a tittle that you want to step into , you know that you want to own, like “founding badass” or something else along those lines, but is interesting I can see that, going through my career there was part that wanted to be a sales manager and I got sales manager and I’m said “fuck, I don’t want to be a sales manager” so there is a lot to be said in those roles, in corporate America structure formality, there’s a lot of responsibility in owning certain titles. Mike: Totally is, I think as a small business owner I aspired, not anymore, I aspired to be the big company, I wanted to have a billion dollar corporation, I wanted to be the CEO of Amazon after Jeff retire I wanted to take over, so I wanted to make my own version so I said if I want be that I have to act as if, that’s a popular term, act as if, so I’m gonna start using those tittle right now, but in the outside world that’s kinda of a shame, if I call myself the CEO and I walk in with my little company, people are like, who many people report to you? But none is only a couple of virtual people, are you really a CEO? O are you an entrepreneur that’s is starting in bootstrapping, so there is a risk there too, theirs is this disconnect and if we package ourselves in the wrong way is dangerous in fact our business … no titles whatsoever, because I do know that I go into a sales situation, sometimes it helps to say that I’m the owner and sometimes it helps to say that I’m the sales guy and being the owner is actually a detriment so I think a title is just a thing of conversation in what e aspire to have but also have to see the outside perception around titles. Donnie: I got other question because I know my followers have been counting on me and I got a lot of people that followed your book First, it was the first book that I read of yours and horrible book by the way. Laugh Mike: Worst book of all the time, hey at least I got a ranking somehow. Donnie: Hey you put profit in there; at least it has to sell one book. Mike: Right! I should have put an F bomb because that seems to be the popular books now, the subtle art of F’ing and I should put like F profit or something. Donnie: You know I’ve been getting a lot of the guys out of the UK right no on the podcast because they are really trying to make a push, they are calling it “the UK invasion” where a lot of the UK speakers are trying to come to the US and is so funny when they come to the podcast because I cursed a lot but those dudes say cursing to a whole other level. Mike: The brits do? Donnie: Oh my god yeah! And I have to forward warning because there a couple words they throw around like candy and I’m like, ok look, this is a US based primary show, I mean it plays in almost a 100 countries now but you got to be careful with the certain couple of words, the F bomb fine, but there are some other words they can’t just bring to the table! But profit first, that and pumpkin plan I think two of the two books of yours that get thrown around the most, at least on my circles, is profit first the first book out of the collection. Mike: So I’ve written 5 books, technically 6 as profit first has been re-released as revising expanded so that counts too, so I wrote this book of toilet paper entrepreneur. Donnie: Oh I remember that! Mike: Kind of a spit on the face of traditional authorship and it was my angry teenage years but it worked, it worked to put me on the map, at least with the publisher and it built a small … The pumpkin plan was my first kind of mainstream book and profit first was the break through. Donnie: That’s the one that really put you on the map, I’m in forward Texas, you know my hometown and I know there is a little workshop group to get together and discussed that book- Mike: Oh that’s awesome I love to hear- Donnie: And the content and everything is out of that, but I’m curious, when you wrote that book was that philosophy for your business? Or something you were attempting to do and you thought it would be the breakthrough for other people if you took on the same thing. Mike: No, it was purely for me, here’s interesting when you hear the resume of an entrepreneur like me I share the highlights, got a company, sold it, the thick of the story for most entrepreneurs is the struggle, the entrepreneur poverty and I have evaporated all the wealth I’d accumulated in some priors businesses that were dealing with debt, I was able to sell them pay off the debt and make money and never really understood profit, I started this 3rd business that … my resume I evaporated everything I had, lost my house over it, lost possessions, did not loss my family, that’s one thing, they stood by me, went through depression for a couple years, from 2008 to 2010, the highest level was called functional depression, you are a drinker and stuff and during that phase I realized that I fundamentally didn’t know the most basic elements of entrepreneurship, profits is one, I realized all the things I was doing was misunderstood, and profit what I realized is that we have been told profit is the bottom line or were you rent, every book I read is profit comes last, and I realized omg I’ve been putting profit last, I didn’t consider it until once a year I looked at profit and I’m like “Dammit, maybe next year”. Donnie: Wait so your business is supposed to profit? I’m confused by that. Laugh Mike: That’s what my old accountant said,” you don’t want to profit, hey congratulations you got nothing left” And I’m like “what?” Donnie: Hey that’s the whole reason I’m in business. Mike: And that made no sense, and entrepreneurship is not a parent child relationship, I call it BS on that, we often say hey I started a business I gave life to it is my child and one day I will nurture it and it will come back and feed me, no, is more of conjoint twins, as the business goes we go and as we go the business goes so if I’m struggling at home my business is going to struggle and if I’m going struggling on business my home is going to struggle, especially the finances, pour finances are in so last step, so I say I really gotta resolve this and I realize that is human nature when something comes last is insignificant , so profit can’t be last, profit has to be first, and the exclusion of course says, make profit to have it, every time you sell take a predetermined percentage of that money, is profit, hide it away in your business, repeat day in and day out and you will assure profitability. Donnie: Is awesome, is one of those book, at least it was for me when I read through it, it just made sense, because same thing, school hard … somebody could tell me the stove is hot three times and still touch twice to just to make sure. Laugh Donnie: But it’s one of those book that when you read you are like “ok that make sense to me why I don’t do it”? So I started to employing some of the principals of the company and the being typical growing up financially foolish, “oh we are hitting a down turn, let’s just pull form the profit pile we have already put into the business” and you are like ok that’s not the whole principles of the book but it was a fun read, what did the success of that book do for your business, you company, what evolved or changed for you? Mike: That’s an interesting question, there’s a couple of realizations, when the book hit, so it came out 4 years ago and 2 years ago I did the re-release and it hit right away, is funny how ego is, I got like omg all this main stages, Seth Golden move here comes Mike “Polish” Michalowicz. Donnie: Because you got that name that belongs in light. Mike: Right, exactly, when you hit the movie theatre and my name is two lines.. Donnie: Or is turned down on the edged Mike: I think the better one is a limp penis of an A, So first my ego is move over Seth Golden, here comes the new main stager and it was like deadly silence, I’m like for how long? The book is so popular and went on for a year like this and my agent who I spoke to me was “get ready for the pumped up fees” nothing, and so I was like I guess it takes more than just a popular book, and yea about a year ago also did … is not move over Seth Golden but is oh you are speaking Seth Godin is coming after you. So that happened, so I realize is when a book hits it takes time for it to start playing out in other facets which is speaking but I think that satisfies my ego and I love public speaking and is a joy. Donnie: Look, nobody writes a book without waiting a little bit of that ego. Mike: I call it C list celebrity. Donnie: So if there’s another alphabet out there I am in that I alphabet. Mike: I put myself in position C , what’s funny that means that if I walk through an airport none knows who I am, except one person every like 3 or 4 airport checks will say “AAAAA” and you get one fan that comes and say “ARE YOU MIE MICHALOWICZ?” actually one person came up and said “ARE YOU TONY HAWK?” And I’m like fuck no, but somebody will say that, and I’ll be like who is this guy, is very weird. Donnie: You next book you just gotta put your picture on the cover that is all. Mike: I will put a Tony Hawk picture, be my strange brother tony hawk. Is this kind of weirs moments when none knows who I am but one person who just happens and lose their shit but everyone else is confused by and everyone’s like why? Who’s this guy? Is he a doctor? Did he save your life? But the bigger thing is I’m on my mission to eradicated entrepreneurial poverty now we get the metrics in place, and I get emails actually I can see we get two since we started the interview, I get emails in 3-4 5-6 hour now of people saying, because I actually ask people to email me on the book, I say emails if you commit to this and they are coming constantly now and I can see I can measure the changes having in business and that is the greatest joy of my life, If I am ever down, for me is just log in the email now and sit there for an hour and everything is ok Mike, you are not looser. Donnie: I wanted people to hear that last phrase you said, everybody’s chasing something you know and I had a lot of coming even this morning with the couple guys I was talking to, they were liken men I could just have this happen to my life, life would be X, and I keep telling life is never X, life is right now, is that time you need to embrace you don’t need some sort of trigger mechanism to be catapulted to the next version of your life and I love the fact that you were humble enough to say that there are days like, this day sucks, this day is horrible and you gotta go look in the email to make sure life is on the same path and track, because is good for people who aren’t even in the first level on the alphabet list, you know you got the C list rockstar status to hear those kind of things because they are a lot of people, I know fans of the show I know were like “holy cow is Mike Michalowicz, he’s got “Profit First” and this and the other and they put you into rockstar status and often times when people put people on that rockstar status they gave them like the super power feed of strength and everything else, like nothing ever happens to them they are always killing it and crushing it and I really appreciate that humility you speak through. Mike: I want to speak that because I think is so important, I believe when we see someone as in a better position we put them on a pedestal, we look up to them, really that is a form of envy and I think is really damaging to ourselves, if you say “oh this guy is better than me, I wish I liked him” but in the same we are saying “I’m less than” and when we see ourselves as less then we want to disassociate, we actually one to pull someone down, as human nature say, well that person is not observing, Michalowicz they guy that probably got myself in driving, you pull in down, pity is just as damaging, pity is where you see yourself here and then there’s this homeless person in the street and “Thank god is not me” that causes a voidance when we move around them, both are form of dissociation an so I think they are very damaging. I don’t think we should ever use the term look up towards someone or look down to someone, I think we should always say look over, as cheesy as it is I’m big on like totems and this things you can see as the infinity circle and is my reminder that all of us are on the exact same path, no one is front or behind each other, we are on different positions of the path and we have just much to learn from someone who’s in the deepest struggles as someone that we perceived is having the greatest successes, all of them are learning experiences and we can call from each other but if we look up or look down we disassociate, I think we need to say Donnie I look over to you I want to learn from you, tell me your secrets, Mike I look over to you, so I say never look up, never look down. Donnie: I love that, I never heard it put in that perspective but you know Richard Branson when he takes people out to his private island , one of the first things he asked to everybody out there is, teach me something and I’ve always been fascinated by it because you got Richard Branson, one of the wealthiest man in the world , one of the most cool CEO, at least that is the brand he puts in the market place, a whole part of that is true but the fact that everybody comes back from me to the island going “Richard Branson asked me to teach him something” and I’m always curious to say, what could you teach as Richard Branson and I think a lot of those pull some random shit out their ass but “I taught Richard Branson” Really? Really!? Mike: I never heard that story I love it and I think it speaks therefore to great intelligence because I bet you, we all got something to teach as much as he teaches us, I don’t think he is more successful than a brand new startup entrepreneur, by certain definitions, the wealthy accumulated, the exposure he’s gotten, I don’t know and this is no judgment, I don’t know what his family is like , I don’t know what is balance is like, I don’t know his contribution to society is like, I don’t know, I also think that we hold people to a higher celebrity ship when they have broader impact as oppose to deep impact and I think most of us are designed for deep impact, Let me use doctor Oz because that example come to mine, Initially he was a cardiovascular surgeon with very deep impact, he saved some people’s life forever, he gave people not 6 more hours of life but 60 more year of life because of his work, he then made a choice to go broad meaning he went on Oprah he started to talking about health and then the guys is Impacting many people, the difference is , Doctor Oz now has a very broad impact but is very shallow you see him on tv shows and eat your vegetables is the lessons, when we worked as a cardiovascular surgeon, now he’s got a very deep impact, I think is a choice and I don’t think is one is better than the other, the shame is we hold up to celebrity ship people with only broad impact, it’s the famous football player, the famous movie start or the famous author like Malcom Gladwell, someone I exalt but never met Malcom Gladwell he just had an impact in some many people and is a name other people recognize I think is equal regardless of what we do of significance and people that are going for deep impact, I guess the lesson here is don’t aspire to be broad, aspire to be who you are call to be, if it’s deep go deep, if it’s broad is broad if it’s something else do it, just speak truly to yourself, they are all significant. Donnie: Man I love that, is such a powerful message because most people in my belief that have hit a celebrity status they are really good at one thing. It comes down to … marketing, I tell people all the time Tony Robbins, one of the biggest motivational speaker of the world and I ask people all the time and they are like omg is Tony Robins, Tony Robins, he’s done amazing things I’m not knocking down for anything but I ask people all the time, What’s Tony’s job? “Oh he is the CEO of the company blah blah blah” and I mean no he is not, and they look at me like “ what do you mean?” He is the face of the company, Garyvee, he is the face of the company and even Mike Michalowicz a C list celebrity is the face of the company, now all that to say is not meaning they are not making decisions, they are not having vision but they are the PR machine their job is to build brand new awareness for the company is the broad stroke. Mike: Is like a band, the front man is the one who everyone knows and is constantly with the groupies but the drummer and the bassist and the keyboardist who’s behind the curtains sometimes they are the ones collectively that need to make the music and I think that is what this organizations have, I think we can positon ourselves as the spokesperson and we will get all the accolades, I think the day I sort believe in that, over. Donnie: Have you seen bohemian rhapsody yet? The movie? Mike: Yeah. Donnie: I love the whole scene where the lead singer of Queen, can’t remember his name. Mike: Freddie Mercury. Donnie: Yes Freddie Mercury, thank you, that he hits all the fame and he goes out of his own and launches his own band and he’s trying to create the music and it all fails and he goes back to his guys and he goes “they did everything I told them to do” and I’m like that’s it! And he goes “They weren’t pushing back they did everything and the problem is I don’t know how to do all the stuff that you are great that” Mike: I think a great leader recognizes that , as a spokes persons you gotta be careful about being inauthentically humble, I see that too, and is like “oh is not me is not me” and declining as is actually discrediting the people who are fans of you, you can’t do that, the same thing you can’t say “this is all me” because you discrediting the people collectively making the product or the service that you do, so is a fine balance, I also think for the rest of the band, like Freddie mercury was the recognize brand and you have Brian May and then two guys like what was their names? That’s an ego check for them too but they are just as important. Donnie: Even if Freddie would have made it in a solo type carrier thing, even then he still has a band behind him. Mike: Even that is true. Donnie: The craziest thing about this whole ride and journey, I know the good things I’m good at, I’m really good on podcast, really good on interviews, well talking on stages but here is the thing I suck at the accounting side of things, I should read you book again “profit first” maybe probably help me out a little bit, but it’s a lot for entrepreneurs, business owners, whatever screwing tittle you want to give yourself, founding badass, is knowing your lane and knowing what you are good at and finding the right people that geek out on the stuff you suck at, is like I’ve got people that do some video editing for me, they freaking love that stuff, I’ve got people that do automated email for me, the gal who does some of the writing for me I call her a magician every Tim, I don’t know how she takes all the crap I put together spins it up and turns it into a master piece, she’s just got gift and a talent for it, but a lot of that is a humbleness for an individual to go “ok this is my lane, this is what I’m good at, how do I get other people to come along for that ride to pick up the slacks for me”. Mike: There is this thing I call the super hero syndrome when we first start a business we have to do everything, you have to do the accounting, you have to do marketing, there is no one else there, you have to, and we start believing wow I can do anything and then we start superheroing in swiping in when there’s problem oh I will fix this I will fix that, and the trap is, when we bring on employees we actually interning with their progress, they start doing something and we swop in we fix it we resolve, disabling them from doing the work themselves, plus we leave often awaken destruction behind us, entrepreneur like myself are known to fix the 5% of the problem, the big part that is noticeable and 95% like we can skip that and there is this shattered destruction behind us that needs to be swooped and cleaned up, I found that I can’t change my ego, I can’t tell “I’m just going to be mister Mike humble and everything is fine” what I did find is that I can rechannel my ego, I used to be very proud of being the superhero, the savior of my business, and now I use the term supervisionary and what that means to me is that I’m clear of where I want to take this organization but I am also as importantly clear about where my individual colleagues want to go with their lives and then my job is ok “how can I help Amy and Mike and Ron and Kelsey to achieve what their vision is personally and have that aligned the business” and I put more significance on that than being a super hero, now my ego is being filled, hey! I’m doing what I meant to do and the interesting is what I revert to being a super hero because I revert to that often and I say oh I fix this and I swipe in again, I realize that is a step down in where I see myself and put negative context around and I’m less likely to do it, before I thought if I had to remove myself form the business and no longer be the super hero I saw that as a step down so when I reverted back to this super hero role I was stepping up and therefore be stuck in it, so the goal is to put more significant to something else and it will naturally pull us put of doing the stuff that is actually not helping our business. Donnie: Yeah that’s a really interesting thought, I don’t have kids but I will say the next statement with that in front me, but often times, people that went through a rougher childhood, maybe didn’t have all the things they wanted as a kid and by the time they have kids they spoil they hell out of them because then have become success and the kids don’t learn the grind and drive that they learned to get and find the success, they hit the workplace and everything else and they will be a bit lost, entrepreneurs do the same thing with the employees, when you are taking care of the problem you are taking out he learning they need to evolve, I ran into this all the time in the creative side of things and Think this is probably the biggest screw that entrepreneur s have is they have a creative vision of their brand, their image, their everything else and when they try to explain to somebody else that other person doesn’t grasp their visions of what those color schemes or whatever else side of the businesses so they are like “Oh I screw up I will do this myself” Mike: I was talking to this guy Scott Alfred, I actually put him in one of my books, he said an entrepreneur would tell to an employee “hey we need to cook food here, get something that will cook food here” and they come back with sticks and rocks to spark a f ire and we are pissed of Like” Don’t you understand? I wanted a Viking?” and the employee is like “Oh I’m so sorry” but the reality is that we didn’t communicate what we wanted, they did the job, In other times they want the Viking and we just wanted sticks and rocks. So I think first of empowering them to make decision but also giving them the freedom that if they don’t comply to our vision to realize that maybe is not their fault, maybe we didn’t communicated well or maybe their vision for that thing is actually better than ours, maybe sticks and rocks is better, is this clinginess we have to what we have a personal vision or mission, how we see things in our mind and we can get upset when people don’t see what we see but we are often to communicating well at all. Donnie: Well and I would also add in there that I think, I want to speak for myself, there were a lot of times along this journey so far that I wanted somebody to swop in and take care of that problem for me, If this was an issue or problem and I wanted to go like “hey this is now yours” and take it completely of my plate and when it comes back and not what I had in vision and I am like “What the hell -” Mike: “ - Are you an idiot” Donnie: Right! Mike: That is called abdication; so many people think you are doing delegation when they are doing abdication. Donnie: Thank you I just added a whole new word today. Mike: Big word, I wanted to drop it, sort of finding where to use it. Laugh Donnie: You have been waiting the whole episode just to use that one. Mike: So I just thought of blurring it out if you didn’t have a question, but abdication is simply point someone and say you take care of this and that is the entire instruction said, and entrepreneurs are notorious for to scenarios, either micromanagement where is total control, here’s step 1, step 1.a - 1.b, or abdication which is the polar opposite and both of them are extremely ineffective, both of them prohibit growth to the organization. Donnie: So how does an individual doesn’t go to the extreme of both of those and actually find that happy medium combination because I’m guilty of both, Because sometimes I’m like “ok I have to tell them what to do or they are not going to figure it out so let’s roll out the power point and walk you through the 500 steps because I need it to get done” but other times I’m just off it, so how do I find the happy medium between those two? Mike: Is simply, you ask the employee, you say listen I want you to achieve certain results in the organization, I know you want to achieve these results, I will give you information, I need to know form you exactly what is enough information to give you direction or when am I going to the field that is too much, where’s actually hurting your creativity, I need the reverse too, if I’m giving just giving you way too little and you can’t achieve the visions that Ii have I need to know them too, is communication, is asking, shockingly we don’t do that often, is that you sit down the first day of the job and say “your job is to tell me when I’m not telling you what you need to know about me” that doesn’t make sense, is constant communication. Our little company we are going to a company retreat to Nashville Tennessee, literally next week and the whole thing is about communication, we are just going to sit there, have a talk, build a report, we have half day to set and learn from each other’s stories, because I know to grease the wheels of this organization is the communication and trust among each other is the ability of my colleague who I write her paycheck out to come back at me and say Mike you’re being an ass about so and so and not feeling threaten or in risk, that will only happen if we have a true connection beyond functional connection, if we have a human connection, I think there is where the answer comes. Donnie: And I love that, I think some people when they go into business they are looking for the pedestal, they are looking for people to look up to them and be that guy and I think that was a hard lessons for me because I know that was a part of my struggle as well is that I wanted people to seem me in a certain way which put me in this weird situation on how I was dealing with vendors and stuff until one of my mentors and coaches said dude, knock it off, but the whole thing is realizing that you are not superman, you are not creating something that hasn’t been created before, you are just repackaging somebody else’s shit up into a better more usable consumable product and format Donnie: I love the fact you are taking your employees in things like retreats and stuff, is that something you did out of the gate with your company or is that something you evolved into. Mike: Well we got it out the gate but is also something you have evolved into, well we had it out the gate but we’ve also evolved into, like going into Nashville is because we’ve had quarter after quarter of profitability that’s grown and we actually set an account called the retreat account so the firs retreat we went to Starbucks because we couldn’t afford lunch, me and my partner we jut said hey let’s just hang out before we get back to go back to work is something evolves, but what I did, recently I did the 4 week vacation, is something I wrote about in one of my book, so if you are going extract yourself from your business for 4 weeks, full disconnect and the business can grow or operate in your absence, you’ve proven the business can likely run into perpetuity in your absence. Donnie: I think that across the world every entrepreneur that just go and take this big gasp because they know way their business functions if they are gone. Mike: Which is a major problem, if you’re carrying the business on your back, and everyone will take the 4 week vacation or over, when get sick or die, so it’s going to happen, we are going to make it delivered so we are prepared for. The funny thing is that I’ve been presenting this concept around the world, when I was in Europe talking about this, we did this, literally yesterday, I flew back form BMW as there yesterday, all august, Germany shuts down and BMW ain’t going out of business, we need to do this for small businesses and so I went for 4 week vacation last year and when I did is not that business was perfect, I put a lot of structure in place to make it happen but there were some problems, one of the problems I realized is internal communication, I’ve become this choke point, when people have questions they come to me a group of come to me to see what’s Mike’s decision but they weren’t making laterally and internally, well I’m absence they were forced to, but there were some uncomfortable things like this person doesn’t really know the other person should approach them? Even if they went only 14 people, so that’s why we are doing this retreat, is all about just building report, we are going to do some cooking sessions together, we are going to have some wine together, we are just going to talk about our lives together, we are going to talk about our struggles and challenges, just to have that human connection, I really believe it greases the wheels. Donnie: Love it, I don’t why this popped to my head but I have strange question for you, what is your actual business? Mike: I don’t freaking know, laugh, I am a full time author, I write books, that’s what I do, so people think you can’t make any money out it, which is total bull, you can become very wealthy as an author if you do it right, the lessons here is I interviewed Tim Ferris on how to be an author a long time ago, he isn’t talking to me now, and he said of course you can make money, before that I was talking to people about being an author, and they said you make no money is horrible, and I said what has been your experience? I’ve never written a book, I don’t know, don’t trust people that haven’t done it, trust people who’ve done it, people that have failed learn why the fail and then learn and then I have talked to people who have been successful and find out the difference and go for the ones who are successful, I have a license: profit first, the pumpkin plan, clockwork, I have a new book coming out, to other companies and they pay me override of revenue so I have a constant revenue stream from all these different companies. Donnie: What do you mean by license, like program? Mike: Yes the program is called run like clockwork that teaches the clockwork system, they pay me a license in fee in front and 15% override … processionals for accountants. Donnie: You have accountants around the world. Mike: Yes over 350 and now and I license this organization but also in the case In that case I took an equity interest but the other two companies I don’t have any equity just the license in fee they pay me. So one of those things as people run their journey, one of the things I had to do was to turn to the people that has done it before , and realize somebody else had cut the trail, go learn from them and get advice from them along the way. Donnie: I gotta tell you man, this has been one hell of a ride I had no Idea about what you and I we were going to get into tonight and actually it has been kind of fun. Mike: Yeah on the recap my head says oh we talk about entreprewhore, you learned a new word abdicated. Donnie: Dude, don’t do the spelling bee on me, if you ask me to spell abdicate. Mike: I don’t know how to spell it I think it starts with an A Donnie: We talked about C level celebrities in there somewhere I am sure. Laugh Donnie: So that’s awesome, but dude I really appreciate the job done here, here’s how I like to wrap up every show and I do stump some people over this so get ready… Mike: 17 INCHES. Laugh Mike: Take it right? What’s the question? Laugh Donnie: I don’t want ask what 17 inches is! Now if you were going to leave the champions who listen to this show, people from all over the world, business owners, entrepreneurs, people who are trying to make the next movement in their life, if you were going to leave them with a quote a phrase a mantra or a saying, something they can take with them on their journey, especially when they are stack up against it and goring through what would be that quote or phrase you would say? Mike: So, I have it above my desk, Oscar Wilde says: Be yourself, everybody else is already taken. Donnie: Oh I love it is one of my favorite quotes from all time, didn’t know it came from Oscar Wilde, I saw it on a meme on Instagram and I thought “Oooh is brilliant”. Mike: Actually I went to Ireland, not specifically for this, but visited statue from him, visited his own home. Donnie: Where ahead in Ireland? because we were just there last year. Mike: Outside Dublin Donnie: Oh no kidding, Dublin was my least favorite city. Mike: Did you see the “Stiletto in the ghetto” the big spike in the middle of the city? Donnie: No we didn’t see that. Mike: I would say it was my least favorite too because is like any other metropolis. Donnie: That’s what my wife and I kept saying, is that if you go to Ireland go to Dublin and I would not knock in Ireland would no knock in Dublin by any means. Mike: No Omg. Donnie: Is like any other big city. Mike: The people in Ireland I would argue are the nicest people, India is number 2 but Ireland is number 1. Donnie: Did you do the breakfast thing? Mike: Yeah! Donnie: Dude I wanna tell you the nicest people, they were so genuine, and the breakfasts were insane. Mike: Insane, blood pudding. Donnie: And the two different styles and all that, so awesome, but look man I really appreciate what you doing, thanks for joining out and looking forward to many big things coming. Mike: Thank you! 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Before there is a D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) podcast, there was a conversation about who and what we are doing. Listen in. Get some insight. Early episode with rough audio. Music by Todd Ferguson, My Pet Machine on Facebook Logo by Julie at Elaborate Flight of Fancy Transcript: Music Nate: Hello, hello, hello. I am Nate, your dungeon master and welcome to episode 0 of carrots and suffering, a D&D odyssey. This is a 5th edition D&D campaign where we do custom mechanics in a custom setting. You should probably expect a whole lot of intrigue and roleplay from us and probably a lot less dice rolling than you are accustomed to, if you are a classic D&D style player. I want to do a quick special thank you to Todd Ferguson of My Pet Machine for our tunes and to Julie at Elaborate Flight of Fancy for our Logo. This is episode 0, which means we don't actually get into roleplay we just sort of talk about the characters that we are going to play and the campaign that we are going to run. Hang in there and we will catch you on the flipside. And if your not up for that maybe just jump forward to episode 1. One last note, our audio quality for the first couple of episodes is god awful. We learned a lot and it shows. So see you on the other side of this podcast. Music Nate: Hi, I am Nate, I will be your dungeon Master. Julie: I am Julie, I will be playing a Wizard named Sylpha Lunari. Mandy: I am Mandy, I will be playing a rogue, named Jaelan. Sandra: And I am Sandra. I am playing a Druid named Sable. Nate: This is a campaign, that I ran once before with a very different group of people who did a very different job with it. And so I am expecting it to be fundamentally different. That is the probably going to be the limit of it because they were way in left field. Julie: That is true. One of my hopes for this is to discover what plot ideas and intrigue Nate might have had in mind when he ran it first. Sandra: It was that bad (laughter). Julie: It wasn't bad probably was far off the mark from what Nate intended Sandra: Oh, ok. Nate: No, they were the most Chaotic Neutral team by definition that I have ever seen. Sandra: Very Ohh-shiney. Nate: Yeah, well, I would be like, "All right the nobility is all getting up in your face for intrigue." and they would be like, "Aaaaa... Screw em!" (Laughter) Julie: F- the man. Nate: We are not going to do what you want, we are going to do our own thing. Julie: F-the man, we want to get out of here. (Laughter) Sandra: Get out of here. Nate: We hit some of the major plot points, sort of. Sandra: kind of like, bumped them with your hip and then moved on. Nate: Yeah. yeah. They were like... (Laughter) there was some semblance of what I wanted to accomplish in there and then a lot of just fly by the seat of your pants. Music Nate: So, when our campaign starts, there are some politics going on. So there is a bunch of royal families and I sent you guys an email that has the like listed out. We are probably not going to use all of them, but they are there for you to like add to your character background. The Regent is about to marry off his two kids. So he is going to make a marriage contract with other nobles children and who whoever lands those two jobs. essentially marrying into that family becomes the next regent or becomes the major domo and is responsible for all the daily activities of the city. And so it is really the two most powerful positions for the next generation are open now. So let's talk about your characters and maybe a little bit of how they fit into the world. Let's start with Julie on my left. Julie: My Character is named Sylpha Lunari and she is a young. I imagine her to be 17-19 years old. She is an aspiring mage and courtier in the kingdom. So Sylpha is inspired by a moth and her family manifests really insect like traits. So, her current mut
Before there is a D&D podcast, there was a conversation about who and what we are doing. Listen in. Get some insight. Early episode with rough audio. Transcript: Music Nate: Welcome to Carrots and Suffering: A D&D Odyssey. I am Nate, and I am dungeon mastering as they say. This first campaign is fairy themed. The world is cursed and filled with thorny thorn bushes that are poisonous and bad in all ways. Everybody has curses, kind of like mutations that turn you into animals. We’re going to have a lot of intrigue, some adventure, some swashbuckling and we hope you're here to come along for the ride. This is episode 0 where we talk about making characters. One last programming note: At this point our podcasts are just recorded with a single microphone on a table. So, you'll notice some audio weirdness. We are working on that. Stick with us. Music Nate: Hi, I am Nate, I will be your dungeon Master. Julie: I am Julie, I will be playing a Wizard named Sylpha Lunari. Mandy: I am Mandy, I will be playing a rogue, named Jaelan. Sandra: And I am Sandra. I am playing a Druid named Sable. Nate: This is a campaign, that I ran once before with a very different group of people who did a very different job with it. And so I am expecting it to be fundamentally different. That is the probably going to be the limit of it because they were way in left field. Julie: That is true. One of my hopes for this is to discover what plot ideas and intrigue Nate might have had in mind when he ran it first. Sandra: It was that bad (laughter). Julie: It wasn't bad probably was far off the mark from what Nate intended Sandra: Oh, ok. Nate: No, they were the most Chaotic Neutral team by definition that I have ever seen. Sandra: Very Ohh-shiney. Nate: Yeah, well, I would be like, "All right the nobility is all getting up in your face for intrigue." and they would be like, "Aaaaa... Screw em!" (Laughter) Julie: F- the man. Nate: We are not going to do what you want, we are going to do our own thing. Julie: F-the man, we want to get out of here. (Laughter) Sandra: Get out of here. Nate: We hit some of the major plot points, sort of. Sandra: kind of like, bumped them with your hip and then moved on. Nate: Yeah. yeah. They were like... (Laughter) there was some semblance of what I wanted to accomplish in there and then a lot of just fly by the seat of your pants. Music Nate: So, when our campaign starts, there are some politics going on. So there is a bunch of royal families and I sent you guys an email that has the like listed out. We are probably not going to use all of them, but they are there for you to like add to your character background. The Regent is about to marry off his two kids. So he is going to make a marriage contract with other nobles children and who whoever lands those two jobs. essentially marrying into that family becomes the next regent or becomes the major domo and is responsible for all the daily activities of the city. And so it is really the two most powerful positions for the next generation are open now. So let's talk about your characters and maybe a little bit of how they fit into the world. Let's start with Julie on my left. Julie: My Character is named Sylpha Lunari and she is a young. I imagine her to be 17-19 years old. She is an aspiring mage and courtier in the kingdom. So Sylpha is inspired by a moth and her family manifests really insect like traits. So, her current mutation is she appears extremely slender very large dark eyes, very pale skin and covered in like a peach fuzz. Nate: Peach Fuzz. Julie: She is a... Sandra: Is it actually peach colored Peach Fuzz. Julie: No, I imagine, I imagine it is just a very fine hair like if you ever touched a moth and they are like... Sandra: Is it like human colored? Sandra: Like is she human colored? Julie: She's she is very pale. Sandra: Ok. Nate: So like a white. Moth. Julie: Maybe it has patchy colorations. She is very sensitive to light, when out doors she wears a proper large ladies hat. Sandra: like that is like a foot on either side Julie: well she needs to shade her eyes from the bright light.. Sandra: Ah, ok. Julie: of which she is adverse too, but she sees rather well in the dark and appreciates night life. I want to play this character in contrast to the last character I played in your campaign as someone who is instead of happy go lucky hippy someone who is a little more focused and aspiring and has some amount of concern for political dynamics and power hungry isn't the right word yet, but is invested in accumulating knowledge and yes ambitious and is a little naive. I am looking forward to that. Naive enough to make deals. Nate: OK. Sandra: I see what you did there. Nate: Julie is why into naming things, those are like from moth genie right? Like species genie? Julie: Well Sylpha is like an air spirit and moon moths are a thing. Sandra: Hence Lunari Nate: Ok, ok cool. Julie: I said that I imagined her to be like from like 17 to 19 so I will go with 18. let’s say she is 18. Mandy: She, she is human? Julie: She is human. Mandy: Is she affiliated with one of the houses? Julie: Oh, in my concept of her most recent life event is that she has experienced adolescent heart break so obviously, the world has ended, life is over. Mandy: Right, right. Julie: Just wants to shrink back into the shadows. Mandy: The pit of devastation. Julie: She was rejected in a rather public way and so some part of her motivation comes from wanting to show this person what they missed out on. And I imagine her to be sympathetic to lady Maeve in solving the problem of the cursed kingdom. Nate: Just for background Lady Maeve Is the last of her line one of the reasons for that, is that her mutation is a venomous bite. And the rumor is that cost her a husband and now she is kind of unmarriageable. (Laughter) So the hope for her is that she can land this marriage contract for herself but she is going to have to go big, like real big like maybe solving this curse big Sandra: oh wow. Nate: otherwise it is not going to happen. Mandy! Mandy: Alright, my character's name is Jaelan J.A.E.L.A.N. She is Jessica's age. Nate: Jessica is one of the NPCs from the Evans family. Who is known to be pretty ruthless but is just turning marring age, so what did you say, 16? 16, that is what I had. Nate: Ok, let's go with that. Mandy: Initially, but uhm ok. So Jaelan is an orphan and she was adopted into the Evans family and raised along with the children, but she is definitely not on a status with the kids, like she was raised as their playmate, especially as Jessica's play mate and she is also an assassin (laughter). They have raised her kind of to be, I guess a playmate to Jessica and a companion and you know, hopefully that she will be loyal to her as they grow into adult hood and... Nate: Every royal family needs an assassin. Mandy: Right! You know. Protect her to a certain extent and if need be to kill for her. Now Jessica is kind of ruthless and not above assassination in her own terms. I have to think about the nature of their relationship a little bit if it started off warm and fuzzy and has gotten strained or if they are closer than ever because they are kind of a lot a like. or I have to think about that a little bit her, Jaelan's mutation is that she is chameleon skinned. She is not green as a default but she can blend in. Nate: Is she scaled? Mandy: No. No, she has human skin. but she can take on... but it changes color to match a background. Nate: But it changes color based on what she is around. Mandy: uh.. there might be a lack of control if something is agitating her maybe she disappears when she needs to be seen. (Laughter) That was something I thought of. She is kind of low... She is high on intelligence but she is pretty low on wisdom Julie: That’s, that’s where my character is as well. Mandy: Yeah, so she she's uhm I thought maybe one of her flaws could be a certain compulsiveness Nate: ok, Mandy: uhm... I don't know. I don't know... Sandra: You all are going to make me be the grown up aren't you. Mandy: Yeah....(laughter) I don't know yet how she feels yet about the Evans family as a whole. I mean she is a teenager at this point. If she is feeling rebellious this would be the time. I don't know, I will have to think about that. Nate: And I think given our brief sentence or two that describes the Evans family their ummmm Shady folk. So if you wanted to rebel against them, you would be… Mandy: going straight laced. Nate: Yeah, you would be going straight laced. Mandy: Well, I wouldn't be totally opposed to her possible double dealing on them Nate; ok. Mandy: Like fishing for other loyalties or whatever, but she could potentially could be an inside person of one of the other families even. Nate: Great. Oh, and your class? You went with rogue Mandy: Yes. Nate: Ok. Mandy: I was thinking about multiclassing when we start leveling up with fighter Nate: Ok. And rogue powers, you get you get to be really good at like two things. What two things did you choose? Mandy: There were four it told me to pick proficiencies at, which was acrobatics deception, investigation and stealth Nate: ok. That just sort of paints a picture of what you're going to be good at. Alright. Sandra. Sandra: My character's name is Sable Mirkwood. She's also 16 years old and was raise with thee Matron Baroness Verathi, who is a druid and known to be a druid. So she has kind of dark straight hair in the bright light flashes colors, red/purple more than anything else, tries to keep it up and out of the way. Raised by the baroness so probably follows the druidic ways So she worships nature she always, anytime that she is seen is wearing the garb she always has the gloves on she always has the long sleeves, she always has the leggings on and the boots. She wears a tunic over that with a belt. And a very functional knife hanging off of it, a couple of pouches handing off of it. And has a hand carved walking stick that could clearly whack someone over the head pretty good If need be. She's also got really dark eyes. So obviously still has the whites of her eyes, but it’s hard to tell what color her eyes are. She’s thin and small, so maybe 5 feet tall. She is human. And thin but she doesn't look frail. I mean she carries herself pretty well. As far as her curse what you can see is... I mean she covers up so whatever that is. And I would think that her curse is pretty darned hidden. Nate: Ok. Sandra: She doesn't make it abundantly clear. So should I Tell people what it is. Should I... Nate: I think for our audience it would be better to know what it is. So she has poison skin. So, like frogs, like the tree frogs that older groups would use to, their skin secretions to tip the ends of their arrows. That kind of thing. So she has got poison skin and it killed her mom and was poisoning her dad so they literally just left her out in the forest. Nate: Woops. Sandra: Which is how she came to be the Baroness's Nate: Ok. Mandy: Is she pretty well known as the baroness's? Everybody knows who you are? Sandra: I would think the Baroness would say that she is her… Nate: Charge? Mandy: Ward? Sandra: Yeah, ward or charge. Nate: Ok. Mandy: Yeah. Nate: the druid can turn into animals and has other powers. Sandra: Yeah, can talk to them. Control them, things along those lines. Nate: Yeah. The rogue eventually gets extra mobile, their main power is usually stabbing things very well. (laughter) and then our wizard just gets progressively more powerful magic. Music Nate: Welcome to the midroll this is where normal podcasts have advertising, but we don't have advertising. Sandra: No. Nate: Not at the moment anywhere, which brings us to what we are going to do. Which is some cute animal facts Sandra: we found them on Mental Floss. Nate: Let's see. Let's only do the cute ones. Sandra: Yeah, let’s do the cute ones. There you go. The chevrotain, do you know what a chevrotain is? Nate: No, I have no idea. Sandra: it is an animal that looks like a tiny deer with fangs. (Squee) Nate: Oh.. I think I saw those once, that’s horrible. That’s horrifying. Dragonflies and Damsel flies form a heart with their tails while they mate. Sandra: Oh, that’s really cute. Nate: It is. I don't actually think like that isn't purposeful, I don't think they were going for a heart Sandra: I don't think they would know what a heart is. Nate: Oh, hear we go. Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart. Sandra: Prairie dogs say hello by kissing. oh.... Nate: Here we go, that is pretty good. Music Nate: So that brings us to my next question. Which is really directed toward all of you, which is how do you know each other, I mean, its a small town it is very hard to hide in this town. So, no matter what, you are probably aware of each other But I am assuming you want to have a more positive relationship than that. Sandra: I thought, the original idea wasn't it, that we like met at school in some way, like none of us are actually of the noble class, correct? But we are noble adjacent. Mandy: Right. Maybe we all went to finishing school. Julie: noble adjacent, yes. Sandra: ya. Nate: Ok. So you guys were all basically tutored together. Julie: or minor noble family. So you guys were basically tutored together, so you are not serfs in the sense that you guys are poor and uneducated you went to school and you all went to school together. Mandy: And I would think we all, I mean I say finishing school because I think we probably all know how to behave in noble social situations. Like we have probably all been to the parties and gatherings of Sandra: Though we would also have our own quirkiness, like I am raised by a druid who... Julie: all the etiquette classes. Sandra: Like you would probably be better... Mandy: like we know which fork is which at a 16 course dinner (Laughter) Nate: ok, you've got the skills. All of the important ones. Sandra: well to some degree, I mean Sylpha I would see as probably being best it. I mean your mom, literally is a social butterfly, right. Julie: Yeah Yes, and she wishes that I were more gregarious and interested in involving myself in politics where as I would rather, sit back, observe, and am kind of a book worm. (giggle) Sandra: Oh, my god! The puns in this are going to be terrible. Nate: they are, yeah, because Julie is here. Sandra: They really are. While they are going to be... with the moth yeah. Nate: But there is opportunity too. (Chuckle) Julie: Let me tell you about my Ant (laughter) Music Nate: The next question for you all Is there anything you would like to accomplish with your character over the course of the campaign and we will start with Sandra this time. Sandra: well honestly if she could find a cure, she would want to. Mandy: For the poison skin? Nate: OK. Sandra: Like staying wrapped up for the rest of her life is not exactly how she wants to live. I mean she is a teenager, it would be nice to hold hands with somebody. Nate: Without sticking to them and then killing them. Sandra: Yeah. Julie: perhaps you can find somebody equally deadly. Sandra: But then we would just kill each other. Nate: A porcupine lad? (Laugh) Sandra: that doesn't seem very workable. Nate: no no. Sandra: we just look longingly at each other from across the room. Mandy: I poison you I make you bleed. Nate: We touched once it was magical. Mandy: its like the x-men rogue problem. Sandra: Right, exactly. I have got the rogue problem. Nate: Alright, Mandy? Mandy: I, I hadn't really thought about goals in the game to the honest, I think she probably understands her role as Jessica's companion as probably about to get a little more intense, because they want this marriage contract and she is probably part of making sure it happens so that is probably an official goal for her (Laugh) but I haven't really thought about what she wants. Nate: Alright. Sandra: Maybe she hasn't even thought about it. Mandy: She hasn't really thought about she, I mean she raised in this particular capacity, so yeah, she may not have given that much thought. Nate: I think what we are going to focus on, what I would then take away from that to focus on as the dungeon master is the relationship that you have with this sister like character As sort of the back drop of what we are going to figure out. at least in the short term. Mandy: I see, based on what you have told us about Jessica, I see Jessica as being a bit over her. Probably, even, you know as in the relationship she has probably got a superiority thing going over her, over Jaelen. I mean that could be a thing. Nate: Ok. What do you think Julie? Julie: As far as character goals, I think the character is generally apathetic about the outcome of who marries who in this current drama that is all the buzz but she is sympathetic to lady Maeve and this character is naive but ambitious and so she does want to propel herself into some kind of permanent, perhaps court mage and establish that kind of opportunity, or solve the problem of the thorns and be able to explore opportunities elsewhere. But I think she is vested in creating some sort of opportunity for herself and advancement in the kingdom. Nate: Ok. Music Nate: Well that is the end of episode 0, where we created characters coming up next, we'll start an actual adventure, where all adventures start in a bar! We'll see you next time on Carrots and Suffering: A D&D Odyssey Music
西藏，全世界最美的地方，去西 藏是一场考验意志的勇气之旅，也线是一场洗涤心灵的震撼之旅。 不去西藏，你不会知道站在海拔5000米的土地上，云有多低，天有多近。 不去西藏，你不会知道面对千里茫茫雪山，万丈高峰有多巍峨，人有多渺小。 不去西 藏，你不会知道自驾苍茫的蜿蜒天路，沿途的风景有多妖艳，湖泊有多湛蓝。 不去西藏，你不知道你离天堂，原来可以如此之近。 这里是携程听见旅行，西藏专场。我们邀请到了产品经理—李春非，和大家聊一聊西藏。 西 藏以它的海拔高度被认为是世界上离天最近的地方，那里的天很蓝，空气很稀薄，阳光很强烈，那里有独特的高原自然风光，以及神秘的宗教文化。让无数人心生向往。 正值春暖花开的季节，今天就给大家讲讲春天的西藏有哪些好地方值得可去吧。 首先先解答下大多数人最关心的一个问题，在西 藏会不会有高原反应？能不能自由的呼吸？ 高原反应是人体急速从平原进入海拔3000米以上的高原，产生的各种不适。其实是身体各种机能自我调节来适应高原的过程出现的一些不舒适的感觉和症状。一般表现为头晕头痛、胸闷恶心、呕吐腹泻，感觉呼吸不畅等等。这一系列的症状就叫做高原反应，一般3-5天就逐渐消失了。如果加上医药的辅助，能更加缩短时间。也有一部分人是完全没有任何反应的。总之，高原反应是一种正常的身体反应，不必太害怕，当然也不能掉以轻心。只要进藏前能保证休息好，在藏期间注意不要太激动和运动量大，动作缓慢一点，一般都能平安过渡。 那么，不担心高原反应以后，接下来就是在西 藏怎么玩儿了。 在这里，建议大家春秋去林芝+拉萨。夏天去拉萨+日 喀 则+珠峰大本营，时间够的话呢也可以加上林芝。冬天就在拉萨晒晒太阳，看看朝佛的人群，放空心灵，感悟人生。当然也可以去林芝。但是林芝最美的季节是春季和秋季。不单是景点美，从拉萨到林芝这一路上的风景也很美。 给大家推荐一些具体的路线： 第一条：时间6天。林芝、鲁朗、波密、然乌。适合想去西 藏又特别害怕高反的朋友们。这条线路的特色就是全部行程都在高原的低海拔区域，并且走了川藏线风景最美的一段。 因为目前只有汽车和飞机两种交通方式可以到林芝。那么最节约时间的就是飞进去。飞林芝的航班只有上午才有，并且只有重庆/成都//西安这几个城市，所以需要提前一天飞到这几个中转城市之一，然后第2天一早的航班飞林芝。由于林芝的海拔不到3000，所以高原反应的发生率比较低。从机场出来后就前往鲁朗。 鲁朗的意思是“龙王谷”、“神仙居住的地方”，它有“天然氧吧”、“生物基因库”的美誉。整个景区处在茫茫的原始森林中，生态环境保护完好，生物品种多样独特，农牧民的村寨星落棋布、错落有致，就像是一幅恬静、优美的“山居图”。 在去鲁朗的路上会经过色季拉山口，色季拉山属念青唐古拉山脉，是林芝县东部与中西部的分界带，是尼洋河流域与帕隆藏布江的分水岭，色季拉最出名的是那满山的杜鹃花。色季拉山的杜鹃花面积大，品种多，盛开期间气势浩大，景色很壮观。全世界的杜鹃花约有850种，我国约有460种，其中西藏170种，占世界杜鹃花品种的五分之一。色季拉山区域里，海拔2900米至5300米范围内密布杜鹃花，以直线距离测算，面积达1000多平方公里，品种达25个之多。色季拉山的杜鹃花4月中旬到6月底，从山脚到山顶依次开放。尤其是进入6月份，整座山上的杜鹃花全部绽放，黄色、白色、紫色、大红、浅红、粉红等，形形色色，千姿百态，形成花的山，花的海，气势极为浩瀚壮观。 色季拉山口则是远眺南迦巴瓦峰的好地方。南迦巴瓦峰海拔7782米。她的与众不同在于总是藏在云中难以看见，巨大的三角形峰体终年积雪，云遮雾盖，很难看到他的真容，有缘分才能看到。2005年被《中国国家地理》评为中国最美的十大名山 ，位居榜首。传说山顶上有神宫和通天之路，所以居住在大峡谷地区的人们对南迦巴瓦峰都非常的推崇和敬畏。 经过这几个地方以后就到达了鲁朗镇。当晚就在鲁朗镇住宿。鲁朗镇最出名的美食就是鲁朗石锅 鸡，所以到这里一定要品尝下。最正宗的石锅 鸡就是在这里了。 第3天就从鲁朗出发去然乌。去然乌当然是看然乌湖。 然乌湖紧邻川藏公路，是200年前由山体滑坡和泥石流堵塞河道而形成的堰塞湖，也是雅鲁藏布江的支流帕隆藏布江的源头，根据季节的不同，湖水呈现出或碧蓝或青绿等多种颜色。欣赏然乌湖美景的最佳季节在深秋。那时湖水清澈碧蓝，湖畔山岳色彩斑斓； 六 月初仍然可以见到雪山倒映在然乌湖的秀美景色；夏天就逊色多了，湖水浑黄，周边山色单调。所以建议春秋两季去。 去然乌还能顺路去看米堆冰川，米堆冰川是西 藏最重要的海洋性冰川，也是我国境内海拔最低的冰川。米堆冰川由世界级的冰瀑布汇流而成，每条瀑布高800多米，宽1000多米，两条瀑布之间还分布着一片原始森林。在2005年被《中国国家地理》杂志评为“中国最美六大冰川之一”。当晚可以住在然乌。 第4天从然乌返程，途中去游览波密附近的岗云杉林。2005年被《中国国家地理杂志》评为“中国最美十大森林”之一。云烟深处有人家，这里如同桃花源记里的世外桃源。 接下来还可以去到波密桃花沟，波密桃花沟的桃花主要是在乡村公路的两旁生长的。它不仅与远方的蓝天、白云、雪山遥相呼应，更与周边的河流、农田、栅栏、牛马、藏式民居相互映衬，更富有田园牧歌式的风光。当晚返回林芝八一镇入住。 第5天可以游览雅鲁藏布大峡谷和南伊沟。南伊沟被称为“地球上最高的绿色密境”。是满含负离子的自然森林氧吧，这里有着最原始、最纯净的生态环境。沟内植被丰富、水草丰美、原始森林保存完好，景色绮丽，是珞巴民俗精华之所在。有“藏地药王谷”之称。群山环抱，云雾缭绕，春天满山的桃花杜鹃，秋天满山的红叶。 雅鲁藏布大峡谷是世界第一大峡谷。是地球上最深的峡谷，最深处6009米，全长504.6公里，河流穿过两座海拔6000多米的高山谷底，围绕南迦巴瓦峰形成一奇特的U字型大拐弯后流入印度，在印度它的名字就叫做布拉马普特拉河。当晚可以住在八一镇，也可以住在机场附近的希尔顿酒店，方便第二天乘坐航班。从林芝飞出去的航班也是在上午。 以上是林芝进林芝出的一条路线。适合害怕高反或者已经去过布达拉宫的朋友。接下来给大家介绍的路线就是比较常规的林芝+拉萨或者说拉萨+林芝的行程，适合初次到西 藏的朋友。第二条：8天时间 第1天也是飞到中转城市，第2天一早的航班进林芝。从机场出发去游览南伊沟，当晚住在索松村。 索松村位于雅鲁藏布大峡谷景区深处，距离景区大门8公里坐落在几百米高的山崖上，山下是激昂的雅鲁藏布江，抬头便是神山南迦巴瓦，每一个人到达此处，无不感叹大自然的鬼斧神工。 第3天上午游览雅鲁藏布大峡谷，午餐后去色季拉山俯看鲁朗林海景色。春天的时候还可以去到嘎拉桃花村。 这里有一大片密集的桃林。西藏从03年开始，每年春季在林芝地区举办桃花节。南伊沟、嘎拉沟等地点通常是最佳选择。嘎拉村距离八一镇仅13公里，位于美丽的尼洋河畔，是初春时节在林芝观赏桃花的最佳地点。 西 藏的桃树，树形高大，树干粗壮，气势很像繁茂的梧桐。密度很高，密密匝匝的有成千上万的感觉，就是规模非常大、非常壮观。特别是远处的雪山映衬，有一种别样的美。当晚入住林芝八一镇。 第4天：从林芝出发前往拉萨。一路上欣赏尼洋河风光，途中去参观红教神湖巴松措。 巴松措在1994年被评为国家风景名胜区，同时被世界旅游组织列入世界旅游景区。2017年8月，成为西藏首个也是目前唯一的自然风景类国家5A级旅游风景区。又叫措高湖，藏语中是“绿色的水”的意思。是红教（藏传佛教宁玛派）的一处著名神湖和圣地。湖心岛上有唐代的建筑“错宗工巴寺”，是西藏有名的红教宁玛派寺庙，建于唐代末年，距今已有1500多年的历史了，巴松措也有“小瑞士”美誉。当天抵达拉萨，住在拉萨。 第5天：布达拉宫、大昭寺。拉萨是西 藏 自治区的首府，藏语是圣地佛地的意思。距今已经有1300多年历史，海拔3658米。 最著名的就是布达拉宫，它修建在拉萨市中心的红山上。布达拉的意思是梵语普陀罗，普陀罗就是观世音菩萨居住的地方。最早是公元七世纪的时候，第三十三代藏王松赞干布为了迎娶唐朝的文成公主由修建的，当时的布达拉宫修建了999间殿堂，加上松赞干布自己的一个修行洞，也叫法王洞，一共是一千间。但是这一千间在吐蕃王朝灭亡的时期就毁于雷电和战火了，只剩下了法王洞和布达拉宫的主殿帕巴拉康。我们现在看到的布达拉宫是十七世纪重建的，经过历代的扩建，形成了现在的规模。 我们看图片布达拉宫的宫殿有两种主色调，红色和白色。红色的叫做红宫，红宫主要是从事佛事活动和存放灵塔的地方。白颜色的宫殿叫白宫，主要是从事政治活动和他居住的地方。布达拉宫是冬宫，就是说冬天他就住在布达拉宫，夏天他住在罗布林卡。 布达拉宫里面有非常多非常珍贵的各种珍宝，各种无价之宝。布达拉宫的镇宫之宝是一尊檀香木天然形成的观世音菩萨像，这尊观世音菩萨像是在尼泊尔和印度的交界处发现的，佛像天然形成，没有经过任何加工，只是涂了金身，她被认为是松赞干布的本尊神，供奉在布达拉宫的主殿帕巴拉康，也就是七世纪留下来的两处建筑之一。 这尊天然形成的观世音菩萨像在藏传佛教徒的心目中的地位非常殊胜，1994年12月，联合国教科文组织列为世界文化遗产；2013年1月，又列其为国家AAAAA级旅游景区。 大昭寺是最神圣的一座寺庙。因为里面供奉了一尊释伽牟尼佛在世的时候亲自开光的12岁释伽牟尼佛的等身佛像，就是和释迦牟尼佛12岁是身高体型面貌一模一样的塑像。释迦牟尼在世的时候，一共塑了三尊等身佛像，分别是八岁的，十二岁的，二十五岁的。这三尊佛像塑好以后由释伽牟尼佛亲自开光，所以非常非常神圣。那么八岁的等身佛像被尼泊尔的赤尊公主带到了西 藏，后来头部被破坏了，后来进行修复了，现在供奉在拉萨的小昭寺；二十五岁的等身佛像据佛经记载已经沉入了印度洋海底；现在世界上唯一的一尊释伽牟尼佛亲自开光的12岁的等身佛像，是在南北朝时期我们国家用了很多金银珠宝从印度换来的，在唐朝被文成公主带到西 藏，目前供奉在拉萨大昭寺。这尊佛像在佛教界的地位是至高无上的，寻访转世灵童其中一项 掣签就是在大昭寺的这尊佛像面前举行。所以大昭寺是非常非常神圣的地方。 在大昭寺门口，每天都有很多信 徒在五体投地的朝拜。我们作为游客或者是并没有宗教信仰的人，我本人是非常建议大家有机会去到拉萨一定要去大昭寺，要去看看这尊十二岁释伽牟尼佛像，您可以其他地方哪里都不去，但一定要去大昭寺。不管信不信佛教，来到拉萨这个佛地圣地，就是有佛缘，能够看到这尊佛像是非常幸运的。大昭寺是西 藏现存最辉煌的吐蕃时期的建筑，也是西 藏现存最古老的土木结构建筑。 围绕大昭寺一圈的街道叫做八廓街，它是一条转经道，要顺时针方向走。转经是藏传佛教的一种宗教活动，即围绕着某一特定路线行走、祈祷。转经是当地老百姓生活的一部分，很多人每天都要去八廓街转几圈，或是摇着转经筒，或是数着佛珠，边走边念诵着六字真言。 花了很多时间给大家介绍布达拉宫和大昭寺，因为这两个地方是我个人认为拉萨最最重要的两个地方，特别是大昭寺，没有去过大昭寺，您就是没有真正的来过拉萨。 第6天：羊卓雍措。距拉萨单程约100公里。西藏三大圣湖之一。意为“上部的碧玉湖”。也是“神女散落的绿松石耳坠”，湖面海拔4441米。不同时刻阳光的照射，她会显现出层次极其丰富的蓝色，好似梦幻一般。 第7天：纳木措。纳木措是“天湖”的意思，是世界上海拔最高的大湖，面积有1920平方公里，湖面的海拔是4771米。纳木措的色彩主要是蓝色，站在那根拉山口远远地望过去，纳木措就像是一颗巨大的蓝宝石，非常迷人。纳木措的夕阳、星空和日出都是非常美的，不过因为海拔高，即便是夏天都很冷。冬季会结冰，所以最佳时间是夏季。 第8天：从拉萨返程。
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[00:10] Introduction[4:32] Shake up in the middle of Class AAA (G)[7:45] Is the field still chasing Class AA No. 1 Laney? (G)[14:46] Terrell County drops 4 spots in hotly-contested Class A-Public (G)[16:57] Does Class AAAAAA have the most parity at the top across Georgia? (G)[19:34] Jenkins and Johnson-Savannah battle for the No. 2 spot in Class AAA[21:35] Is Grayson a contender or pretender amongst the well-touted Class AAAAAAA field?[25:55] Region 5-AAAAA fills the middle of the rankings behind Warner Robins and Buford[27:36] Tournament Preview: Tournament of Champions, Deep South Classic, Lake City Classic, Lanierland[35:50] Tournament Recaps: City of Palms, Peach State Classic
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The MittenOnce there was a boy named Nicki who wanted his new mittens made from wool as white as snow.At first, his grandmother, Baba, did not want to knit white mittens.“If you drop one in the snow,” she warned, “you’ll never find it.”But Nicki wanted snow-white mittens, and finally Baba made them.After she finished she said, “When you come home, first I will look to see if you are safe and sound, but then I will look to see if you still have your snow-white mittens.”So off Nicki went. And it wasn’t long until one of his new mittens dropped in the snow and was left behind.A mole, tired from tunneling along, discovered the mitten and burrowed inside. It was cozy and warm and just the right size, so he decided to stay.A snowshoe rabbit came hopping by. He stopped for a moment to admire his winter coat. It was then that he saw the mitten, and he wiggled in, feet first. The mole didn’t think there was room for both of them, but when he saw the rabbit’s big kickers he moved over.Next a hedgehog came snuffling along. Having spent the day looking under wet leaves for things to eat, he decided to move into the mitten and warm himself. The mole and the rabbit were bumped and jostled, but not being ones to argue with someone covered with prickles, they made room.As soon as the hedgehog disappeared into the mitten, a big owl, attracted by the commotion, swooped down. When he decided to move in also, the mole, the rabbit, and the hedgehog grumbled. But when they saw the owl’s glinty talons, they quickly let him in.Up through the snow appeared a badger. He eyed the mitten and began to climb in. The mole, the rabbit, the hedgehog, and the owl were not pleased. There was no room left, but when they saw his diggers, they gave him the thumb.It started snowing, but the animals were snug in the mitten. A waft of warm steam rose in the air, and a fox trotting by stopped to investigate. Just the sight of the cozy mitten made him feel drowsy. The fox poked his muzzle in. When the mole, the rabbit, the hedgehog, the owl, and the badger saw his shiny teeth, they gave the fox lots of room.A great bear lumbered by. He spied the mitten all plumped up. Not being one to be left out in the cold, he began to nose his way in. the animals were packed in as tightly as could be. But what animal would argue with a bear?The mitten swelled and stretched. It was pulled and bulged to many times its size. But Baba’s good knitting held fast.Along came a meadow mouse, no bigger than an acorn. She wriggled into the one space left, and made herself comfortable on top of the great bear’s nose.The bear, tickled by the mouse’s whiskers, gave an enormous sneeze.Aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-ca-chew!The force of the sneeze shot the mitten up into the sky, and scattered the animals in all directions.On his way home, Nicki saw a white shape in the distance. It was the lost mitten silhouetted against the blue sky.As he ran to catch his snow-white mitten, he saw Baba’s face in the window. First she looked to see if he was safe and sound, and then she saw that he still had his new mittens.
说人疯了 别直接说人 欧阳疯！ 你要多学点儿 地道的英文表达。有的时候 ，还特别的隐晦让人 AAAAA 恍然大悟！
This week, we discuss Jay-Z, lateness*, breast-testing, police corruption, our tales of crime, methods to prevent a mugging, Mad Men, Taylor Swift's upcoming Australian tour, medals, our sporting achievements and failures, bullying, Deadly Premonition, and games that make us feel like children.In SSFST: we talk about our pals Fun Machine, famous tennis players, twins, Gran Turismo 6, online plans for The Last of Us, Fassassin's Creed, and Nintendo, who have demonstrated yet again how out of touch they are.In Ask SSJ: I forget to read some excellent mail sent in by David Juan, and instead we talk about George Takei, Howard Stern, my Twitter handle, missed celebrations, my grandmother's birthday, my marriage with Tom's sister, belt politics, Meg Juan, the state of my facial hair, standup, miracles, communicating with our future selves, the cusp of Generation Y, the pros and cons of dating Taylor Swift, Tom's masturbatory preferences, the realities of early death and pregnancy, SSJ: The Next Generation, patriarchy, reliving past lives, our trip to PAX, and the possibility of merch. Ooh. Merch sounds like a dirty word.MUSIC USED:SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki NoonanCougar: Fun MachineAaaaa: Lithis / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Vocal Coach: Bomb The Music Industry!FEATURE TRACK: West End: Astrid & the AsteroidsCLICK HERE to download!Email Xavier or Tom or both!Check out the Mad Men Happy Hour Podcast!Add Sandsky on XBL and PSN: colourfastAdd Xavier on PSN and XBL: xavierrn*A glaring error on my part - it was David "Gustavo Almadovar" Juan who wrote in, not #GargoyleJuan.Hm. Kinda makes it look like he died.
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