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Tadifi's legendBook 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Meanwhile, Elsa was quietly amused. It wasn't like I could request the SD to force my House Guard to not do something they had been told to do by someone in my hierarchy. That would lead to chaos, and it was unfair to Juanita."Fine," I decided. "Get us three some water. Elsa and I will be practicing."Now Juanita was stuck. I wasn't asking her to leave the room, just leave me alone. I was technically her leader, respect notwithstanding."It is good to see you have not become drunk with power," Elsa smirked once Juanita had left on her errand."Your mockery is unappreciated," I glared back. I was only kidding. "I haven't seen you around recently. It is good to see you.""It is good to see you too," Elsa said in a voice far softer and compassionate than I would have preferred. After all, she had me drugged, beaten, then beaten me up again in the not so distant past.Of course, I had also sexed her up, bringing her to orgasm with my fingers alone. We had also exchanged a burning French kiss in Katrina's office that Buffy was aware of. Then there was the Buffy-Elsa personal feud and the Elsa-Rhada family feud. Balancing that was Elsa's super-hot body and intriguing personality. Sex with her promised to be memorable, more memorable than normal."What have you been up to? I'd like to say I've been behaving myself, but I don't want to advance our relationship by lying (right now, about this).""You are largely responsible for what I've been up to the past two weeks," she stepped back. She tossed her spear aside and entered her fighting stance. How nice of her to warn me, and get rid of her weapon. How erotically odd of her to give me the illusion of a chance."I deny everything," I rocked back. She was blindingly fast. The fact that I was able to block most of the blow was a testament to how much I had learned in the past two and a half months."Watashi wa nihongo o hanashimasu', 'Wǒ shuō pǔtōnghu ', 'Wǒ shuō guǎngdōng hu ' and 'Aku isa basa jawa'," she lectured me as she maneuvered me into a corner with a series of kicks and feints. She spoke Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Javanese. That was nice to know."Wait," then she kicked me off the mat."Amazons don't have a 'time out'," she smiled. I cautiously worked my way back onto the practice area."What part did you play?" I readied myself. This time, I went on the offensive. I used my greater strength and reach to compensate (rather poorly) for her superior reflexes."Someone had to ride herd on those disparate forces. My status was respected by the Amazons, I had experience dealing with outsiders, plus your person Addison nominated me, and Katrina suggested that you and I were close. That was enough for the Khanate. Your embassy and earlier aid to the Seven Families brought the 9 Clans along.""And you stole the carrier?""It was an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to humiliate the Seven Pillars," she grinned. "Riding in a nuclear submarine was interesting, right up there with running around, spray painting translations next to all the markings onboard the captured vessel. Herding regular civilians wasn't nearly as much fun.""In the annals of the SD, that is going to be a victory hard to surpass," I got out right before my legs were swept out from under me. Before I could roll over, she landed on top of me. She didn't go for a pin. Elsa simply sat there, straddling my hips and looking down at me. We were both breathing heavily."I owe you for that," she patted me on my bare chest."Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?""I'll let you figure that out during the Great Hunt," she gave a sliver of a smile."Not you too," I groaned."Who else are you worried about?""You and twenty-nine other Amazons. By name, Rachel. She's pretty upbeat about her chances and believes she has a score to settle.""Rachel will be a tough one," Elsa acknowledged."Comfortable?" Juanita muttered."Yes, I am," Elsa grinned her way. "Thank you for asking." Juanita gave me a look that suggested I do something like protest, or actually try to fight her off."Why are you being nice to me?" I wondered."I've learned to appreciate your numerous qualities," Elsa enlightened me. "I am also honest enough to admit I was completely wrong about you. You make a good Amazon." That was huge praise indeed and more importantly, it was to a public audience. I was double fortunate that no one was close enough to see Elsa's camel toe resting against my lightly covered hard-on."Thank you. Is there anything I can do for you?""Aren't you engaged to someone?" Juanita reminded me. What she was really saying was 'don't you know you belong to the maidens of House Ishara?' Trust me, I know these things. Had she meant Hana, she would have said Hana."She has the patience of Job," I reasoned. "Oh, Elsa, Job is a figure in the Old Testament of the Bible." I doubted she knew."Oh. Is he a bloody-handed butcher, raging misogynist, or one of those pacifistic wimps?""He's a nice guy who gets swallowed by a whale.""That's Jonah," Juanita corrected me. "Job is the one who was tested by God. Job accepted God taking away all his family, wealth and health, only to be rewarded for his loyalty to God with more than he ever had before.""Wimp.""I would never turn away from Ishara," Juanita rumbled."Zorja would never feel the need to test my loyalty so," Elsa riposted."Oh look," I thrust my hips up. "I seem to need a shower." Elsa's expression was of superiority and lust combined into a lethal cocktail of my demise."Let's go. You can wash my back," she said as she rose over me. She even offered me a hand up. That was unexpected and accepted warily."Is there some battle wound that makes you incapable of bathing yourself?" Juanita got feisty. Holy Hell, she was my Caribbean Buffy-twin."None," Elsa smugly commented. "I like the feel of his hands on my body. He possesses non-threatening masculinity wed with sisterly solidarity. It is a unique experience that you seem woefully unaware of.""Yippee!" I whispered."You really are a man-whore," Juanita declared under her breath."Check," I gave her a thumbs-up. Sadly, Elsa gave me enough respect to walk at my side, not in front of me (so I could have been mesmerized by her buttocks.) As I was stripping down in the locker room, I noticed Juanita hovering close by. "Are you going to follow me into the shower?""Yes.""Why? I am not going to be in danger in the middle of Havenstone.""I'll be the judge of that," she insisted."You do realize I've had sex with an audience before, don't you?""I've been warned about that and know proper counter-measures.""What? What kind of measures?" I was now naked and, towel in hand, was making my way to the communal showers."Charlie horses, trips, stun-gun if applicable," she informed me with relish."You are threatening to damage my prestige," I enlightened her."Cáel, I was chosen for more than my martial skills. I was selected because I will not wilt before your childish ways.""Are you a lesbian?""No. Why would a woman have to be a lesbian to withstand your wiles?""You'll figure it out eventually," I chuckled. Actually, knowing what a playboy-cad I was turned out to be a counter-intuitive edge for me. Expecting me to be a letch just meant I totally ignored the woman. Then the doubt would set in. 'Why wasn't I hitting on her?' she would think. She'd go through the phase of her not being good enough for me to knowing that wasn't the case, definitely, and would come at me to prove herself right. Wham-bam, another one in the can. Oink.Step One: reduce the amount of time talking to her as a fellow human traveler of life. From here on out, I would address her by her name when I wanted something and otherwise treat her like furniture ~ furniture I was comfortable with. In this case, I treated her like a towel rack. She promptly dropped it. That was okay, I was planning to get dressed wet anyway.I rinsed off my hair quickly as Elsa settled underneath the showerhead beside me. As soon as I finished, she handled me a bottle of (scentless) body soap. It was probably one of those the jaguar will smell me coming ten miles away excuses Amazons used to avoid being girlie. I got my hands all sudsy and began working on her shoulders and neck from behind.Wordlessly, Elsa followed my physical directions, allowing me to wash her arms before working my way down her back in languid, amorous circles. Around the 10th thoracic vertebrae, Elsa gave me a deep, cleansing exhalation. I dug my fingers into her taut back muscles, racking them down to her buttocks, deftly ran them along the sides of her glutes and finished up caressing them along the line between her thighs and ass.I worked her buttocks apart, worked my fingers along her perineum, tickling the back of her labia then up, across her anus and back to her tailbone and the small of her back. A crazy idea came to me: maybe I could talk her into a tramp stamp; something like If you are reading this, know I'll kill you next. That would be so Elsa.I lathered her ass up for another half-minute before working my way down to her thighs, starting with the hip joints and then coaxing of her parted lips. I knelt down so that I was resting on the balls of my feet. Elsa obliged me by parting her legs, standing on her toes with her feet over a foot apart, then placing her hands against the shower stall while arching her back so that her hips were thrust back."Oh, come on," Juanita protested. "What kind of bath is this?""Did you hear something?" Elsa looked down at me."Nope. I was focusing all of my attention on you," I smiled up at her. I was really liking the way her muscles were stressed through her exertions. I couldn't seem to pay enough attention to her robust calves. I didn't pass up the opportunity to plant gentle kisses on each cheek either.Elsa's ankles and feet happened all too fast and the pretense of a bath was complete. She looked at me while she soaped up her breasts then let the water cascade all over her body."Thank you, Cáel," she gave me a regal nod of her damp head, turned and left. "Train harder for the Hunt. You are going to need every edge you can get.""I'm stalking oysters over the weekend. They are cunning and stealthy adversaries," I replied sagely. Elsa snorted, then started toweling off as she left, going toward her own locker. I walked past my soaked towel on the floor without a single glance. Juanita stalked behind me, clearly with a lot on her mind she was now waiting for the proper moment to share. I got dressed."Not going to dry off?" she grumbled."I never use towels," I lied. "I like the rain-washed feel." By ignoring her act of defiance, I really steamed her. I wasn't done. As we headed toward the elevator, I opened up with my next jibe. Buffy really shouldn't challenge me so. I'm a past-master of dealing with clingy, bossy women."Regretting you made that bet?" I mused while we waited."What bet?" she simmered."The bet where you assured Buffy and whomever else was in the room that you wouldn't break down and physically harm me ~ punishing me for my wicked ways?""What? How did," she groused then, "You are playing me.""Yep.""You really are full of yourself," she seared me with her gaze."No, but I know what I'm good at and I'm good at frustrating women. I've been working at it for the past four years and I've got over 200 women who would agree that I'm very good at doing it.""Why are you doing this to me? I'm on your side," she turned all pouty and hurtful."Because if I don't, I'll go mad, Juanita," I enlightened her. "You want to protect me, right?""Yes," she sensed a verbal trap. The elevator opened and we stepped in."See, I don't want to be protected," I started."That's,""Let me finish, please," I stopped her. She gave me the visual 'go-ahead'. "I don't want to live a life where I need to be protected. I don't want to worry that women I hang out with could be cornered by some unsavory types at an eatery because those women happen to know and like me.""I admire what you are doing, I really do. This is not the life I wanted, though. This is not what I wanted to be doing four months after leaving college. I wanted to be some corporate worm, barely scraping by on my work reviews and being, as you said, 'a man-whore'.""You don't have that luxury," she pointed out."Am I not doing my job?" I countered."I guess you are," she grudgingly admitted."Yet you feel you have the right to critique my personal life and how I approach it," I related. "I'm not beating you up by playing the I am Ishara bullshit. I certainly don't expect anyone to be grateful to me for the opportunity to be in a House. I don't because I believe that every member of House Ishara has already proven they belong here before I ever meet them. I believe in you. Sometimes I would appreciate it if my sisters would give me the same respect."She looked away because my harpoon had struck home."Unlike the rest of you, I inherited my place in this madhouse. Unlike every other Amazon here, I am only a part of House Ishara because I am the choice of a thousand ancestors to be our leader. Notice that no one asked me if I wanted to do this. And I don't think I ask too much of you because frankly, there are times when I feel unworthy to be in your company.""You are still Ishara and I must still be your guardian," she held her ground. I glared at her. She glared back. I coughed. She kept glaring."What's my name?""Oh," she shrugged. "Cáel Wakko Ishara.""That may sound silly you to, but I have chosen the designations for myself, my First Ancestor and the Goddess for a good reason."We rode in silence. When we got to the ground floor, we made our way to our bikes and got ready to head home."What is the reason?""To never take ourselves too seriously. The worst thing I can think to befall my House is we become as humorless as the rest of the bitches around here. 'Laugh at Death' should be our motto.""Isn't that a bit childish?""Of course it is," I groaned. "You clearly haven't been paying attention to a damn thing I've been saying. I swear I'm thinking about bringing back 'National Clown Nose Day'.""We had a 'National Clown Nose Day'?" she pedaled to keep up."God help me," I muttered.(Where is my Serge?)"You are not going to let me go through my door first?" I sighed in exasperation. Juanita insisted that she go through every door first, because today was so very different than yesterday, when I had Pamela, perhaps I protest too much."You have a gun," a somewhat familiar voice said from inside my/Timothy's apartment. Oh, fuck. Ya know, because Juanita was as pretty as she was lethal, which is to say 'too much for the given company'."Don't make any sudden moves unless you want to see it," Juanita cautioned her."Oh, it's okay," Odette intervened. "This is Anais Saint-Armour. She's a Mountie.""Oh, she's on the List too," Juanita grumbled. "What has he done wrong this time?""Why don't you tell me who you are first?" Anais growled at Juanita while I pushed my way into the room."I don't like your attitude," Juanita glared."Anais, this is Juanita Leya Antonio Garza; she's my latest bodyguard. Juanita, this is Anais, a good friend of mine who helped save my life in Hungary when the 'terrorists' were closing in," I somewhat exaggerated,, she had helped me catch up with the rest of the team when Pamela and I got sidetracked."Why did he chose you?" Anais fumed. Did I mention she's insanely jealous with an aching need to know why I was marrying anyone else, but her."What list?" Odette proved to be on the ball."He didn't chose me. I volunteered for the spot.""Buffy made an anti-girlfriend list. Elsa is on it too," I mumbled."I bet you did," Anais (responding to Juanita)."It is not like that," I moved to interpose myself between my Mountie and my non-mounted (for now) guardian. "I'm on the board of directors for Havenstone now and,""How did that happen?" Anais turned 'The Force' on me. (That's Canadian for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, really) "You insisted (reference back in the days we were seeing one another) you were impoverished.""I inherited it from my Father,""He's poor too. I ran a background check when we first started dating," Anais kept up the pressure."My Mother?""She's dead.""Okay, it was my Father through a convoluted meandering of genetics," I went back to attempting the truth (shame on me)."Which is it?" she glowered."My Father, but it's too complicated to get into now," I tried to touch her. She recoiled. She was still pissed with me."He's telling the truth this time," Odette rose to my defense."Why didn't you tell me this when you were in Hungary? For that matter, if you are rich, why didn't you use those resources to get yourself out of trouble instead of involving me?" She really was a great cop."I had to make a call to someone I trusted and who couldn't be traced back to me, or Havenstone, or the Irish Embassy," I fibbed."What have you gotten yourself into?" Anais thawed somewhat."I believe I promised you dinner," I reminded her."You did.""Where are we going?" Juanita stressed our lack of privacy."'We' aren't going anywhere. Ms. Anais Saint-Armour and I are going to a restaurant of her choosing. Don't worry about it. She carries a gun.""I'm not carrying a gun," Anais torpedoed my plan."Where are we going?" Juanita repeated herself. I had to switch mental gears quickly to take in the new looks I was getting from Anais. I shouldn't have ignored those cues."I can't get around my personal security service," I sighed. Why did I give in? Anais was all about gathering evidence and then drawing conclusions from the facts in available.I had been involved in some significant bad-assery in Europe that was way beyond anything she would have associated with the old me. Terrorist cells duking it out with me (and others) in a Budapest metro station? A rustic inn being reduced to ashes after a suspected firefight? Bomb threats? A full-scale military operation in Romania?I had been kidnapped with a resultant massive manhunt for me then returned under highly mysterious circumstances. There had been a young girl with me, we were close for reasons not really gone into and I had saved her despite all forms of parenthood had been anathema to me.I was a man who others deemed necessary to protect, thus a man making secretive phone calls, getting snippets of information and being involved in the deaths of way too many people to be the old, playboy me. Who had I become?I therefore might be a man who 'needed' to marry a billionairess due to some unspeakable political reasons, not out of any romantic/sexual desire of my own. Anais knew that I was a commitment-phobe, not a gold-digger. That meant she could be involved with me without it really being cheating. I needed her help, I had reached out to her when I was in crisis and she was in the people-helping business, right?There was clearly more evidence out there for her to discover and she had the good fortune to be able to have me in a spot where I could be interrogated."Where do you want to go?" I disengaged and went to my room. The door was only partially shut as I changed."Eleven Madison West," I was told."Oh," Odette cooed, "that place is expensive.""I know," Anais remarked."Why did you pick it?" Odette inquired."To remind Cáel that meals can be very expensive." That was my 'date' reminded me that I'd cheated with her over the course of a home-cooked meal, cooked not-by-her in someone else's home. I wondered how Maya was doing.Eleven Madison West meant I pulled out one of my Havenstone suits. They were tailored after all and I suspected that getting into this place at this time of night was going to take some charisma and finagling. Dressing as causal-me wouldn't do. When I stepped out, jaws dropped ~ I do look good all gussied up. Odette dispelled the shock by jumping into my arms."You look hot," she squealed. "Too bad I'm not going out with you.""You might want to remember that," Anais griped."We need to stop by Havenstone so I can attempt to dress up for this affair," Juanita stated."How about we call in a replacement? Give you the night off?" I suggested."Who?""Chaz?""You want that British SSR non-commissioned officer to be your personal bodyguard for tonight? You've got balls," Juanita coughed. I took out my phone and got ready to give him a call."Hey, Anais, why didn't you call me to tell me you were coming over?" I carefully avoided the word 'warned' as she would take that the wrong way."I don't have your personal phone number. I called your home phone and got the answering service, last night and again this morning," she narrowed her eyes."Odette, did Timothy get lucky last night?" I looked past the Mountie."No. A good friend of his rolled his motorcycle and he went to the hospital to help him out," Odette shook her head. Poor Timothy. My roomie/fuck-buddy misinterpreted Anais's pique. "Timothy is gay, not a sexual enabler.""Huh?" Juanita wondered."Wingman," I translated. "Sometimes the three of us go to gay clubs where I act as his wingman,""And they feed me to lesbians," Odette sounded enthusiastic. Thanks to me she was hardly a same-sex virgin."If there are three people living here and two bedrooms, who sleeps on the sofa?" Anais skewered Odette with her eyes."If Cáel has company and isn't sharing, I sleep with Timothy," Odette refused to wilt, or cut me some slack with Anais."Isn't sharing?" those ocular death orbs flicked my way."Hmm, if we are going to Elven Madison West, I had better make that call," I evaded. I rang Chaz."Nyilas," he answered. "How are you doing this evening?""I'm good. I have an ex-girlfriend from out of town visiting, she wants to go to a swanky place and Juanita isn't dressed for the detail so,""You want me to double date?""No, I need a bodyguard.""You are assuming I have something appropriate to wear.""You are British!" I protested. "Even your chicks have tuxedos.""Very well. Will this be a personal protection detail, or close support?""Aahhh,""Close support," said Anais."Personal Protection," countered Juanita."The one most likely to save me from being stabbed with a steak knife," I muttered."I am not going to physically attack you," Anais simmered. Yeah, right, I had heard that one before, and not just from her."Personal Protection it is," Chaz informed me."Oh, and she's a Mountie.""Is she armed?""No," I thanked the goddesses."Does she want to be?""Huh? Are you going to arm her?" I panicked."No. You have a NYPD liaison. Give Officer Kutuzov a call and make a formal request. If she is a law enforcement officer in good standing, it shouldn't be a problem.""Oh, I can do that?, I'm not sure that's the best idea," I prevaricated."Man up, Nyilas," he chided me. "You should work on making it so women don't want to shoot you instead of thinking of ways to disarm them.""Spoken like a man who wisely prefers the company of other men," I grumbled."Good use of the word 'wisely'. Next question: what are we using as a means of conveyance?""Umm,""I have my motorcycle," Anais was less than helpful."If you weren't one of the bravest human beings I'd ever met, I would determine at this moment that you are a dolt. Call Havenstone and arrange for one of those Mercedes Armored GL550s. Bring your license. I drive on the correct side of the road and I'm not keen on having a distraught paramour driving into a storefront at 80 kph.""Man, I like the way you speak," I joked."I took advantage of a proper English education.""I was joking with you.""I know.""Can I date your sister?" I didn't know if he had a sister, but he'd hinted there were multiple Tomorrow's out there. Anais' mood didn't improve."Yes. I like you. You are a good bloke.""Does your sister know how to kill people?""Yes. I'd say she's relatively proficient with a variety of small arms and hand-to-hand techniques," he enlightened me."Just checking.""Cáel, every woman you are interested knows how to kill people, or how to have people killed," Chaz reminded me."What about Odette? She's neither well connected nor lethal.""Odette is indeed an enigma. She counters that by being well liked by people who are capable of killing others who hurt her, except where you are concerned. You live a treasured life.""Have you made dinner reservations? If you need me for a black tie event it has to be, what is the American for it, swanky.""That's more of a Cael/Pamela thing," I corrected him. "American's say 'high class', expensive, or 'hot spot'.""Thanks for the update. Make those calls.""O-kay. Will do. I'll meet you at Havenstone in thirty minutes. Does that work for you?""Yes. Make those calls. I'll see you at, 7:52 pm, EDT. Mark.""Huh?""Goodbye Cáel," and he hung up."Who is this 'Chaz' character?" Anais questioned me."He is Color Sergeant Charles Tomorrow of the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment, he's a badass and he's delicious," Odette answered for me."How do you know him, either of you?" came next."He was with," Odette began blabbing 'National Security' stuff."Odette, don't. Anais, he is member of the Joint International Khanate Interim Taskforce along with me. Odette helps out in an auxiliary role," I answered."Cáel, how did you end up doing this kind of work?" she was perplexed. "You were devoid of anything approaching civic responsibility when we were last together. Quite frankly, I didn't think you cared for anyone but yourself.""Hey now," Odette got feisty. She was my friend after all."We can talk about that over dinner?" I suggested. She didn't like that answer, so I lied. "I grew up," which was what she wanted to hear. I was spared any more interrogation at the moment by the necessity of making those three phone calls. Nikita liked hearing from me again, though she was less pleased that it was official business. She did agree to contact the appropriate agency for me, despite me making it for a different female law enforcement agent.I'd wised up about Havenstone. I called Executive services to have the car delivered to my door step. I cautioned the operative that, in my neighborhood, they might be stopped on suspicion of purchasing guns, drugs, and/or a good time. I would have the car in fifteen minutes and agreed to take the delivery driver back to work afterwards. I'd have done it even if I wasn't meeting Chaz.At Eleven Madison West, I got a snooty 'exactly who do you think you are?' followed by 'you will be placed on the waiting list, a spot may open up around 9:50'. Was I going to inform Chaz and Anais of this? Of course not. I planned to beg like a big dog, suggest that while I was a nameless face, I actually knew people, a person, and we'd see how far that got me.While waiting for the S U V to arrive and on the drive back to Havenstone, this is pretty much what followed:"Do you know who was behind your father's murder yet?""Yes, but I can't talk about it.""Was that the reason people are trying to kill you?""Yes. That and other reasons.""What other reasons?""Things I can't talk about.""Why can't you talk about it?""Secret society stuff ~ decoder rings, secret handshakes, writing in cyphers, holding clandestine meetings in public places after dark, and various other things world governments don't want me talking about.""Are you pulling my leg?" I wished I was running my hands over her legs. This wasn't the time for that revelation."No. Most of what I am telling you is the truth.""Were you in a shootout at the Chicago Medical Examiner's morgue?""Yes. I was unarmed at the time.""Was your life in danger?""It depends on what you mean by 'danger'. My allies had guns and were expert shots. I was shot at, but they missed me, so I not sure how much my life was at risk.""Can you please be serious?""I'm trying. You scare me.""You don't need to be afraid of me. I only want to help." That was mostly true. She was a diligent, hard-working incorruptible public servant,well, as long as you overlooked her charging me with bestiality when she was truly pissed with me."I'm not afraid of you hurting me. I'm afraid for you. You are an excellent peace officer and I'm worried that you will learn too much. Then your life will be as screwed up as mine.""I can take care of myself.""The reality that you are going out with me unarmed speaks volumes about what you don't know, Anais.""Don't think this line of questioning is over, Cáel.""Don't worry. I know you are not done.""Very well. How is your aunt?" The crab-fisherwoman, not the Irish menagerie."Happy as a clam, working a real job and living life on her own terms.""Where did you go wrong?" That was a loaded question. I had to tread carefully."A girl humiliated me in high school. I decided to take control of my life and somehow, despite my best intentions to be an unreliable lothario, I've ended up with people closer to me than family,and this constant need for physical protection.""Why are you engaged?" Finally, the real reason she was here. Had she come by to pick up her accoutrements, she would have been gone by the time I came home. She wanted answers, answers that allowed her to be in charge of our relationship again. It was the double-barreled impact of exceptional sex and wondering why she wasn't 'the one'.(Me) "Are you seeing somebody?""You didn't answer my question.""I've answered plenty of your questions. Answer mine.""No. Men expect too much from a career woman." Translation: 'I'm a bitch that, regardless of my dynamite looks and raunchy sex drive, repels men because I'm a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.'"You do put your career first." Translation: 'I've totally forgotten that you are a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.' It was what she wanted to hear."Your turn.""Put on your tin-foil hat. I did it to save lives in Central Asia when the anthrax strikes were going on. I have this friend over there that people listen to.""Who? The Great Khan?"I didn't respond which wasn't the answer she was expecting."How?" as in how could I possibly be good friends with the master of arguably the third or fourth most powerful nation on the face of the Earth"That's one of those things I can't talk about.""Do you love her?""I don't know. I'm lousy at relationships. I get along with her daughter. Her father wants to bury me alive in the Nevada desert. The rest of the family seems to be coming around to the idea that I might be one of them.""That isn't a 'yes'.""No, it isn't.""Do you think you can ever love someone?" If you need translated, sigh, okay, 'why don't you love me?'"Do you mean 'when am I going to stop stumbling from botched relationship to botched relationship and make something constructive of my personal life?'""Yes.""Did I mention that I've discovered I have a grandfather?""No. That isn't answering my question.""It is in a way. Did I mention that Mom had ten sisters I wasn't aware of? I had an uncle, but he died in my arms.""No. My condolences on your uncle. What does this have to do with you becoming more of an adult and becoming accountable for your life?""Did I mention I have an adopted grandmother who is my spiritual twin?""No.""Don't worry about my uncle. He died trying to kill me. My aunts murdered him, though I can never prove it.""Oh.""My grandfather? He was the one who sent those terrorists to kill me. It was his litmus test to see if I was worthy of being in his family. I passed.""Are you serious?""Yes. My spiritual grandma? She's a retired professional assassin. Daily I interact with a half-dozen people who have killed multiple human beings in their lifetimes. You want to know why I'm not behaving responsibly? I am acting responsibly. I'm trying to not get the decent civilians around me killed."She took awhile digesting that. By that time, we had returned to Havenstone and picked up Chaz. I made introductions."So, are you really with the SRR?" she asked him."Yes.""Why are you with Cáel?""My mandate contains multiple answers. Suffice it to say, since my RAF contemporary will not be returning from the UK until tomorrow, I am presently chief liaison officer for Her Majesty's government with JIKIT.""Why are you coming along as Cáel's bodyguard? Don't you have something better to do with your Friday evenings?" Subtle and polite, Anais ain't. Why was I putting up with her? She was a sexual tornado who would try anything once. She was a real prize."First question: Cáel is a friend, his life is in perpetual danger and I consider it my duty to keep him alive. He would do the same for me. Second question: the nature of my present assignment doesn't leave much room for any meaningful romantic associations.""Hmm," I contemplated what wasn't being said. "Chaz, you are nailing one of my security chicks, aren't you?""Yes.""Which one?""A man of character doesn't brag about such things."Chaz was getting some Amazon nookie. I had to find a way to tell him how dangerous that was. She might decide he's make good father material, not a good thing where Amazons were concerned."Are all of his security personnel women?" Anais pressed."Miss Saint-Amour, Havenstone is a corporation that employs over ten thousand people. There are precisely five men currently on their payroll. All their security personnel are woman. Cáel has very limited, if any, input on the matter.""Are you sure about that?""Yes, Miss Saint-Amour. Who would trust a man of Cáel's dubious experience with his own security?" Chaz pointed out."Oh." She hadn't thought of that."Can you tell me why you think his life is in danger?""He is far more likely to be kidnapped than murdered. He possess certain sensitive data that powerful entities would like to access, thus I am his bodyguard tonight. Considering the quality of the women who normally guard him, I consider it an honor.""To guard Cáel, on a date?""He was kidnapped visiting a child at a playground. Yes, we believe his life is in constant peril. The training and experience of his security service is top flight and it has been a pleasure to serve among them.""Were you with him in Budapest and Romania?""The metro station?""Yes.""Yes.""Romania?""Do you mean the counterterrorism action south of Miercurea Ciuc?""Yes.""Yes."Wow, these two were lousy communicators. I could imagine Chaz propositioning one of my Amazons.Chaz: 'You have a superior feminine physique which I find appealing. Want to fuck?'Amazon: 'You look like you have the prerequisite stamina and battle scars to be part of the New Directive. Sure.'"Were you involved in the actual combat? The SRR is normally an intelligence gathering unit.""I was gathering battlefield intelligence, Miss. That required my close proximity to armed and actively hostile enemy aliens (as in they were in Romania illegally, not that they were all supernatural beings). My involvement resulted in two KIA's and one WIA.""Damn Chaz, you rock.""I am a professional.""How many did Pamela gak?""One KIA.""Just one? Whoa, that's so unlike her.""She kept trying to bracket the cell leader (aka Ajax). He had the Devil's Own Luck.""Cáel, why are you making light of all those deaths?" Anais chastised me. "How many terrorists did you wound, or kill?""I wounded one guy.""That is disingenuous," Chaz chided me. "You orchestrated the operation, showed tactical expertise in seizing the most critical terrain feature and engineered the death of the terrorist leader.""My Cáel did that? When I knew him, he was adverse to violence," Anais shook her head."Considering the considerable number of people he's killed, he's still adverse to physical confrontation where his own life is involved. But God help you if you threaten someone he is close to, though. He's the man who can get things done when the team is in a pinch.""Cáel, what happened to you?" she didn't sound upset at all."I learned to care for people beyond my immediate interest, you know, actual long-term relationships," with the unspoken 'as opposed to women I'm currently having sex with'."It took you long enough," she snipped. Reference her being a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.The interrogation was put on hold while we entered the restaurant and,"Mr. Nyilas?" the maytre dee greeted me."Yes.""We will get you a table right away," he nodded obsequiously. What the hell was up with that? Where was my two hour wait time? Oh yeah, I was a minor, fifteen seconds of fame celebrity."Will Ms. Sulkanen be joining you this evening?""No. She had to oversee a packaged Erythrosine-monosaccharides explosion in Boca Raton. Flaming plastic pink flamingo bits were raining down everywhere. I imagine it is taking an Everest-sized load of hush money to keep this out of the media," I replied. I was so eerily sincere, he bought it and a look of horror snuck over his face. I had become the public face of corporate malfeasance."Your table (gulp) is ready, Sir," he began to sweat. He took us to our table for four then beat a hasty retreat. Undoubtedly his civic-mindedness would have him calling up TMZ within a minute. After all, it was unlikely he owned any plastic pink flamingos, or invested in their construction. Once he was gone, Chaz let a thin smile break through his hard-earned military unfazed-ability."What exactly are packaged Erythrosine-monosaccharides?" he inquired."Packaged is self-explanatory. Erythrosine is pink food coloring and monosaccharides are,""Sugar," Anais frowned."Exploding pixie sticks, I have nieces and nephews. You are a genius at misdirection, Mr. Nyilas," he nodded."Thank you, Color Sergeant Tomorrow. It is nice to be appreciated for my bizarre and useless preoccupation," I grinned."You practice lying?" Anais' view of me dimmed."Miss, he excels at extraneous, outrageous utterances. No harm is intended.""Things like I was helping her find her contact lenses?" That had been my excuse when caught coming out of Maya's apartment. Sadly, Anais is highly perceptive and knew the lady didn't wear contacts. The copious female aroma wafting off me certainly hadn't helped."That's unfair," I countered. "Back then, I was a college nitwit suffering from undiagnosed nymphomania. I'd like to think I'm getting better."" tes-vous mieux?" she retorted in French."Je suis assez intelligent pour aller vers vous lorsque des vies  taient sur la ligne." That's right, Anais. When my life and the lives of others were on the line, she was the first one I thought to call. Letting a woman know that you admire her profession, professionalism and reliability never hurts."Are you really a nymphomaniac?" she returned to English. French is the language of sex, as is any derivative of Sanskrit, Farsi and Portuguese. Reference the multitude of Indians, the hotness of Persian women and the outpouring of lust that is Brazil."I had a magnetoencephalography recently. The neuroscientists didn't know what to make of my brain patterns. I appear to be somewhat unique in my madness."She didn't believe me. I didn't blame her. No one really likes hearing a truth they don't want to accept."Here," I leaned forward and pointed to the tiny divot in my forehead. "I was stabbed with a needle in the skull. That is why they looked at me, not because of my sexual malfunction."She touched it to makes sure. We were interrupted by the waiter stopping by to see if we were ready to order yet."We will have three of the most expensive appetizers, dinners, deserts and wines," Anais preempted us. Ugh. I was either a millionaire by the wonders of Havenstone accounting, or broke. I foolishly never looked into such things, never having had much money before. I needed a distraction."Hey Chaz, nice suit," was what came to mind. It was a swell masterpiece of the tailoring arts I hadn't expect from a ground-pounder from a family of ground-pounders serving Queen and Country for generations."Thank you. Pamela picked it out for me, suspecting an event such as this would transpire. She told me you paid for it," Chaz answered."I did?""I made the reasonable deduction that she forged your signature on whatever medium was used for payment," he shrugged, "in the same way she exhibits a criminal tendency toward every other aspect of her life.""What does Pamela look like?" Anais glowered."She's his grandmother," Chaz responded politely. "They make quite the pair. Normally we don't let them alone in the same room. Bad things happen.""Bad things?""Things like that scenic hostel being reduced to ruin," he enlightened her."This is the supposed assassin?""Retired assassin," Chaz corrected her. "So far she's only, what is the term you two use?" he looked at me."Sending a Get-Well card to their next of kin? Pumping up the volume? Making a critical attitude adjustment? Retroactively revoking their lease on life? We have a few.""Yes, those. Pamela has assured the team director that she no longer accepts assignments of a murderous nature. These days she only practices her skills on those we determine are a threat to the greater endeavor," he explained."She murders people? You all murder people?" Anais furrowed her brow. "Cáel, do you engage in these activities?""What? Who? Me? No!" I waved off any conspiratorial associations. "The vast majority of people I've killed was totally by accident.""How do you accidently kill people?" she pierced my soul with her voice."Okay, I let them kill themselves because warning them would have resulted in me and some friends meeting very immediate violent ends," I pleaded."Miss Saint-Amour, I've talked to trustworthy people who were on the scene when this happened. It was a paramilitary action with the lives of children on the line. Cáel acted to save the lives of innocents," Chaz defended me. That is what Anais wanted to believe; that I was basically a decent human being. I was a pig, but a courageous one. I had confronted her after my infidelity, on the other side of the US/Canadian border where her jurisdiction didn't apply.I knew my revelations were hideously hard to believe. In my favor, I had been in dangerous places doing dangerous things. The Metro firefight had been captured on the place's security system (which had been leaked to the public thus leading to some delusional admirers into thinking I would make a great new King of Hungary even though they hadn't had a monarch since 1918 nor was I from the right (Hapsburg) family. In case this whole Havenstone thing came crashing down in flames, I needed to keep my options open).There had been a bomb threat at Mindszent which I had reputable sources call in (and where I had admittedly hung out with a few of the women who saved me from an earlier disaster) and Miercurea Ciuc had made the international news. Well over 100 people had died and some of the terrorists were still at large. The Romanian government declared I had been 'instrumental' in the confrontation without saying what 'instrumental' meant.I was heroically vague, more mature than where we left off and clearly incited pussy-twitching memories. We'd once fucked so continuously hard and long one weekend that neither one of us could stand until an hour after we stopped. Anais was well worth the pain I was contemplating. Sex with her wasn't the pain I was worried about. It was dodging all her calls afterwards. Once again reference her being a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.Oh, how did I know she was reveling in our past coital moments? She hadn't walked out on me yet. She hadn't walked out when she found Odette in my domicile, when she met Juanita, or when she found out that I worked with highly experienced killers as part of my new daily routine.Normally Anais was smarter than this and had a career in law enforcement to contemplate. Lastly, she hadn't asked to be armed, despite getting permission from the NYPD. Had she decided to get a gun, Anais was sure in her hormonally-cascading mindset she would have shot me by now. I incite all kinds of passion in women. It is a curse.The rest of dinner was unremarkable. Anais continued to interrogate Chaz who proved that he was both skilled in counter-interrogation techniques and not willing to spill anymore secrets about what anyone at JIKIT did. However he had provided her with every logical reason to beat feet back across the Canadian border and she hadn't taken the hints about what a disaster sleeping with me could be.We drove Anais back to her motel, then Chaz and I headed home in silence. Despite his earlier declarations, he knew how to drive the 'right' way all along. As he was letting me out in front of my building, he gave me this pleasant warning."I'm not going to lecture you about not going back there, or avoiding the crazy ones. You already know better and are going back by her place anyway. I do advise that whatever you do, don't let her restrict your movements in any way. She's likely to make you pay double for your past indiscretions and take payment out on your cock. Good luck, Mate.""Wait," I stopped him. "Can you help me hotwire her bike? I can use that as an excuse to darken her doorway.""Dolt," he muttered. He helped me anyway because that's what really good friends do ~ assisting you in your self-destruction so we could joke about it later. At least that was what I hoped was going on. Chaz being a closet sadist was an unsettling idea. I didn't get to immediately pursue my plan because,(We work for you, don't we?)At 9 am, the President of the United States of America, after a late night briefing and a good night's sleep, decided that for the sake of world peace he had to intervene in Southeast Asia ~ Thailand to be specific, though he had some vague notion that a summit of regional leaders was in the offing and the US needed to establish some sort of game plan instead of looking impotent and disinterested.Based on carefully selected bits of information supplied to him by us (JIKIT), he ordered two carrier taskforces to move to the Gulf of Thailand to enforce an anticipated UN arms embargo and 'No-Fly Zone'. It would take four days (September 3rd) for Carrier Strike Group Nine (built around the USS Ronald Reagan) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (2,200 souls) to take up a position in the South China Sea close to the Gulf of Thailand. By fortuitous circumstance, 500 Marines and sailors were already deployed to Malaysia on a joint training mission with the Malaysian Marines.The second one, the USS Carl Vinson's Carrier Strike Group One wouldn't arrive until the 9th, six days later. What the US government wanted to know was what the Khanate and Vietnam would do in those long, lonely six days. The Khanate had as many modern, up-to-date combat aircraft on Woody Island as the Reagan could send up. The Vietnamese could add another 48 planes worth worrying about.There was the added complication that Thailand hadn't asked for help yet. His experts (us again) were suggesting that he was about to wake up one morning and find Khanate tanks rolling down the streets of Bangkok, which

A paranormal investigation begins..by Krosis. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.Ed finally gets Charisma alone. "Doctor Lintrell?"The brown-haired woman looked up from her desk and lowered her cats-eye glasses. "Yes? Do we have an appointment?"The short woman and tall man, both dressed in dark suits and also brown-haired, stepped into the office. The woman pulled out her identification. "You called us, Doctor. Agents Kelly and Smolder, Homeland Security.""Oh, yes, please close the door and have a seat. I wouldn't have called, but since the incident, I've been having nightmares -- flashbacks?"The agents sat. The man, Smolder, leaned forward, looking skeptical. "About a large blue penis?"The doctor flushed. "I thought it was nothing, but a week ago I missed my period, and I haven't had sex with anyone...well, anyone I remember, anyway. I tested myself and...I'm pregnant. The blue penis keeps popping up in my dreams, so I think someone hypnotized me, not that I used to believe in hypnosis, but..." She reached into her desk. "...then I found this." She held out a piece of paper.Kelly read it and then handed the paper to her partner. On it was the date from three weeks previous, some scribblings about a "John Smith", an unspecified problem with his penis, and the last thing written was, "Blue!""I don't remember writing that, agents, but it's definitely my handwriting."Smolder took a picture of the note with his phone and handed it back to the doctor. "John Smith, huh?"She looked nettled. "Obviously a fake name...I expect that he was embarrassed about his penis."Kelly nodded. "And you can't remember anything about this man, other than that?"Doctor Lintrell shook her head. "I'm sorry...my staff didn't even remember him. One thought that he might have had brown hair?"Smolder stood up. "Brown hair? We'll have this solved by lunch! Thanks, Doctor Lintrell." Then he turned on his heel and stomped out of the room."I'm sorry for my partner," Kelly said. "He's a bit of a skeptic."The doctor nodded. "You said you were Homeland Security? I called the local police."Kelly got to her feet. "We believe that this could be far bigger than a local issue." She drew closer and whispered, "Aliens."The doctor looked at her blankly. "You think 'John Smith' is Mexican?"Kelly frowned and sighed. "Something like that. We'll be in touch, Doctor."---Spring Break was over, and Ed was back in school. He was definitely not going to miss his chance at getting Charisma alone this time! When she asked the teacher if she could go to the washroom, Ed did the same a few minutes later.He caught the gorgeous blonde just as she was heading back to class. "Hey, Charisma! Can I talk to you?""You are talking to me," she replied dismissively, not stopping."I mean alone!"She paused and turned to him. "What for?""I...I have to show you something...you'll really love it!""I've heard That before..." Then she looked thoughtful, "though they were right. Okay, come on." She pulled Ed back into the women's washroom. "Well?""Just a sec," Ed said. He turned his back to her and let Perry out through his zipper before whirling back around. "Ta da!" he cried with a flourish."Oh," Charisma responded as she beheld his large blue alien penis.Ed paused. "Oh?"Charisma pulled her skirt up, surprising him. "Yeah, I already got one of those. Blue dick buddies!" She held out her fist.Ed was unable to tear his eyes away from the 4" blue penis hanging between her legs."Oh, c'mon! Don't leave me hangin'!"Ed slowly raised his arm and gave her the saddest fist bump ever."Okay, see ya!" Then she was gone, leaving Ed standing alone in the girls' washroom.*So...I guess we have something to discuss, Ed.* Perry said in his mind. *Sorry, buddy, one of my drones got into her over the holiday.*"Drones?"*Yeah...well, all that sex we've been having? It's been allowing me to 'spread my seed', so to speak. You know how you have one blue ball and one regular one? The blue one's mine, and it's been making drones; copies of me.*Ed's mind was overloading. Everyone he had sex with? "Muh...my Mom too?"*Oh, she's been great, just going to town on the locals, and then with her own sister...so hot!*"Aunt Erin?!"Just then the door opened and a pretty redheaded senior walked in. "Hey! What are you doing inn...here..." Her mind shut down as she saw Perry dancing in front of her, and she pulled her shirt off, revealing nice palm-sized breasts covered by a pink bra.*Time to have some fun, Ed!*"But...no..." Ed felt his body flush with desire for this young woman, Perry leading the way as he advanced on her.She pulled her skirt and pink panties down and then bent over the sink counter, presenting her puffy, rapidly moistening pussy to him."Perry...I don't wanna..." But Ed took a hold of the teenaged beauty's rounded hips and felt Perry slither inside her sultry vagina. "...oh..no..."*Hey, Ed, this one's fertile,* Perry advised him, noticing the telltale mucus as he slipped deeper inside. *You want me to let Pinky get all up in her?*Ed started to thrust. It was feeling really good. His mind seemed to be floating, strangely unconcerned about what was happening. "Pinky?"*That's what I named your remaining testicle. I can make my stuff shoot into her, or yours. Lemme know which when we get closer, huh?*"I...umm..." Ed unfastened the girl's bra, and her B-cups swung forward. His hands engulfed them, squeezing gently and making the mesmerized beauty gasp as he thrust into her."Uh-huhh..." she moaned as Ed started to tweak her wide nipples.He felt her pussy gripping him tightly. It was feeling really good now...*Time to choose, Ed! Pinky or Perry?*Ed continued to thrust. Why couldn't he think straight? he wondered.*Looks like I gave you a little too much happy juice, buddy. How about we give her both, and may the best man win?*"Uh! Ernh!" Ed was slamming into the girl now, and she was crying out with each hard thrust. He felt his load mustering in his loins, and then the pleasure rushed up his long shaft. He thrust hard and fast into the redhead until... "Ugh!" Ecstasy burst from the tip of his cock as he painted her unprotected pussy with a huge load of cum. "Ur!""Uck-ah!" she cried out as her own orgasm exploded from deep inside her pussy, where the combined load of Perry's blue and Ed's white sperm deluged her fertile depths. Perry pressed the tip of his head against her spasming cervix, and several spurts of their combined seed slipped straight through, invading her undiscovered country."Huh...huh..." Ed leaned down upon the girl, all of his energy gone."Umm...can'd breedh..." the girl groaned from under him.He pulled back, Perry slipping out from inside her and making them both gasp. "Oh, sorry," he offered.She looked down at all the sperm oozing out of her gaping pussy. "Oh shit, now I really really have to pee..." She ran into a stall and moaned as she let loose.Ed grabbed her clothes and handed them to her under the stall door."Thanks!""You're...welcome..." Ed shook his head, zipped up, and went back to class. Kelly and Smolder meet Ed.Ed was having trouble getting his head around it all. His new 10" blue penis, which was actually an alien parasite named Perry, was making copies of itself every time Ed had sex with someone! And then those copies had sex with others and made more copies! But whenever Ed tried to talk to Perry about it, he got distracted. He felt like Perry might be manipulating him, but then he got really tired and had to go take a nap.Homeland Security agents Kelly and Smolder were stumped trying to find the man with the blue penis that had allegedly hypnotized and impregnated a local doctor. "John Smith" was an obvious pseudonym, and the possibly brown-haired rapist had been so nondescript that it was futile to just canvass the area. The town wasn't large, but there were still several thousand residents, and there was also no guarantee that the mystery man hadn't visited the clinic from one of the neighboring suburbs."Hmm..." Kelly hummed as she consulted her phone."I know that 'hmm'," Smolder responded jokingly, "you found something.""A meteorite fell to Earth a few miles from here the night before 'John Smith' went to Doctor Lintrell's clinic," she revealed, holding her phone screen toward him.He didn't even look. "Oh God, aliens again? I keep telling you, there's no such thing, Kelly!""So you keep saying," she replied, "but do we have anything better to go on?"Ding dong!Ed woke up from his nap. "Mom?" he called out.Ding dong!Since his mother didn't seem to be home, Ed headed down and opened the front door, revealing a tall man and a short woman, dressed in dark suits."JOHN SMITH!" the man pointed a finger accusingly at Ed.Ed staggered back. That was the fake name that he had given at the clinic! How the hell had they found him?"Oh, enough, Smolder," the woman chastised him. "Are you going to yell that at every brown-haired male we come across?"The man smiled, chagrined. "You never know, right?"Ed tried to control his breathing. "Um...um...who are you? What do you want?"The woman showed him her ID. "Homeland Security agents Kelly and Smolder. May we come in?" Since Ed had already stepped back in shock, they stepped into the entryway without waiting for permission."Um, sure," Ed acquiesced as they closed the door behind them."Who are you, if not John Smith?" the man -- Smolder -- asked him, notebook in hand."Ed Doughtry, sir.""'Sir'...someone raised you right, Ed. Are your parents here?""Dad's delivering around town all day." Ed looked around. "I thought Mom was here, but she must have gone out." That was happening more and more often while his Dad was absent. He tried not to think of his mother fucking women all around town with her new blue penis, infecting them with more blue penises like Perry."We'd like to ask you about the meteorite that landed in your back forty, Mr. Doughtry," Agent Kelly asked."Meteorite? Sorry, I wasn't aware," Ed lied."It came down late at night a few weeks ago. You were probably asleep," she informed him. He nodded. "Can I have a look at the crash site?""Um, sure..."He watched the short woman head out the back door, leaving him alone with the imposingly tall Agent Smolder. Ed wished that she had stayed instead.Smolder gave him a disarming smile. "So, Ed...what's there to do for fun around here?"In the back of the town's only adult store, a fit dirty blonde sat in the blowjob booth as her latest customer blew his load down her throat. Lacey, 23 years old, hadn't been very effective at most of the jobs she'd had since barely graduating high school, but she was a born cocksucker. The man's average-sized cock retreated through the glory hole and she heard a muffled, "Thanks!" She put the two $20 bills that had preceded his cock into her purse.A minute or so later, another couple Jacksons were pushed through the hole, followed by a hard penis, and she paused to examine the schlong. The inside of the booth was dim so that the clientele couldn't identify her if they looked through the hole, but the 8" hard cock seemed...off, somehow. Still, it was a nice-sized member, so she took it into her mouth. A moan, of a higher pitch than expected, sounded from the other side of the wall. She continued to suck, and felt some precum slip into her mouth. She gulped it down.Lacey suddenly felt very hot. She had to get her clothes off and cool down! She quickly pulled off her tight jeans, and then let go of the cock to remove her t-shirt. Finally, shrugging, she doffed her panties and bra, freeing her B-cup breasts. That felt better, and the naked woman took the cock back in hand.Then she realized that her pussy was very wet. She didn't normally do this, but she felt hornier than she remembered being for a very long time. "Ooh, you're in for a treat, mister," she called out to her paramour as she turned, bent over, and backed herself onto that hard prong. The penis seemed to practically slither into her wanton depths, and she gasped in pleasure. She wondered if she had forgotten something important, but couldn't figure out what it was as it sat, unused, in its foil packet in her purse.She moaned as she pushed back, and that sizable member bottomed out inside her tight little body. Then she leaned forward as her lover pulled back, and they smashed their private parts back together on the downswing. That wonderful cock seemed to slide along her g-spot nicely as it went, and she was amazed at how well her lover was pleasuring her, as if that person somehow had intimate knowledge of a woman's inner workings. She was already close to orgasming.Then when they were fully joined again, the head of that wonderful cock rapping insistently at her cervix, she came. "Fuuuckk..." she moaned, shaking, her nipples incredibly hard.Her lover started to thrust faster and harder inside her, extending her orgasm. Her mind was trying to tell her that something important was about to happen. Well, of course it was, she told herself; the orgasm's the best part!"Ungh!"Lacey heard the high-pitched voice on the other side of the wall grunt, and felt that stupendous cock throb deep inside her. Then she felt a hot warmth suddenly permeate her core and came again, hard. "Huhh! Ohh wooow..." She pushed back onto the spurting cock, her co-opted instincts telling her to make sure that precious seed went as deep inside her as it could, and it did. A gush of blue-tinged semen splashed through her spasming cervix, where it began its journey of transformation deep inside the young woman.Eve Doughtry tucked her softening member back under her skirt and left through the glory hole room's door, surprising the shop owner as she went. She gave him a wink and headed home.Agent Kelly returned. "Unfortunately, there wasn't much left of the meteorite.""So, no aliens?" Smolder asked with a sardonic grin.Ed choked. "Uhh...aliens? Are you kidding?"*You rang?* Perry sounded in his head."Where the hell have you been?" Ed subvocalized."What was that?" Smolder asked."Just...wondering when my Mom's going to be home. She's been gone for a while."Kelly stepped forward and handed him a business card. "Please have her call me if she or your father were awake when the meteorite came down, or if they've seen anything...strange...okay, Mr. Doughtry?"*Oh, she's cute, Ed...kind of a hot nerd, don'tcha think?* Perry asked.Ed smiled at her and nodded, "Yep.""All right, we'll show ourselves out. Have a good day." Then they were gone."Perry, that was way too close!" Ed exclaimed.*Relax, Ed...if we can't beat 'em, she'll join us, and it looks like she's the smart one in that partnership. Problem solved.*Ed wondered. The teary ending.Agents Kelly and Smolder split up to interview the neighbors, with short, curvy Kelly trudging up the gravel path of a nearby farmhouse to knock on the front door.An attractive, shorter brunette woman opened it and gave the agent an assessing gaze. "Yes?"Kelly held up her ID. "Homeland Security, Agent Kelly, ma'am. I was wondering if you saw or heard the meteorite that came down a few weeks ago, or have you seen anything strange since?"The woman stood back and opened the door wide. "The meteorite? Why don't you come in and we can discuss it. I'm Darla, by the way.""Thank you." Kelly entered the house. "Oh, what a lovely home you have, Darl--"As the agent passed her, the housewife pushed her forward hard, causing Kelly to sprawl across the arm of the cushy couch with her butt in the air."--ahh!"In a flash, Darla was upon her, pushing up the agent's coat and pulling down her trousers. Darla's now 7" blue erection was ready.*Ha! Got her!* Perry announced in Ed's head."Got who?"*Agent Kelly! She went next door to Darla's, and...*"Aunt Darla too? Oh, Perry!"*Shit! What just happened?*"What?"*I lost contact with Darla...there's just nothing!*Ed had never heard Perry sound worried before. "Um..."*I'm calling in reinforcements.*"Coraaa...whyyy...?" Cora's mother moaned as her daughter ravaged her with her new 6" blue penis. The small retro grunge senior student had found her mother in bed, nursing a migraine, and insisted that she give her a massage to help. Once the older woman was relaxed, though, Cora had pounced. Once Perry's drone cock was inside her mother's pussy, there was no stopping her."I just gotta..." Cora responded, "...gotta...unhh..." She moved faster, slamming that blue cock harder into her Mom. "Gottaa...aaahhh!" she cried out as blue sperm blasted from the head of her cock, filling her mother's unprotected depths."Aahhh! Corrraaaa!!" her mother screamed as her own orgasm exploded from the hot, wet pressure filling her.Cora froze for a moment, pulled out quickly, and raced from the room, not even pausing to pull her baggy jeans back on.Around town, an assortment of women likewise stopped what they were doing and rushed to their vehicles, some carpooling with others, like Cora, who didn't drive. As one, they raced toward the Doughtry farm.A few minutes later, there was a banging on the front door.*Don't answer it, Ed!* Perry yelled in his head."That's not your reinforcements? What do I do?"*Out the back!*Ed rushed for the back door, but Agent Smolder kicked that in, gun drawn and pointed right at him."Ack!" Ed screeched, and automatically put his hands up."Open the front door, Ed," Smolder directed him, his pistol unwavering.He did, and Kelly walked in, holding a silver briefcase. She took Ed's arm. "Ed, I'm going to need you to take me to your bedroom.""Err, what's goin' on, Kelly?" Smolder asked as he put away his gun. "Is Ed here our guy?""That's what I'm going to find out. C'mon..." and she pulled Ed up the stairs to his room, Smolder following. She turned back to her partner. "Smolder, I'm going to need you to barricade the doors and windows. We might have unfriendly visitors soon. And don't shoot anyone!" Then she pulled Ed into his room and closed the door."Okay, I'll just be out here trying to unkick the back door, I guess?" Smolder called up cheekily.She dropped the silver briefcase onto his bed. "Pants off, Ed."*Stupid woman!* Perry exulted, *Now she's ours! Let's show her what we're made of, Ed.*Ed unzipped and Perry sprang out, dancing hypnotically before the short, sexy agent."There you are," Kelly said, her eyes turning entirely coal black.*No! What are they doing here?! Shit! Run, Ed!*Suddenly full of adrenaline, Ed dashed for the door, but Kelly was a step ahead of him, tripping him up and climbing astride him. She held his arms down as Perry battered at her trousers, trying to insert himself inside her.Her eyes were as black as pitch as she stared into his. "Ed, I need you to listen to me. I think you know, deep down, that this thing has been controlling you, but it won't let you realize it. I'm going to help with that, and you need to help me."There was the scrabbling sound of car tires on the driveway outside. "Uh, Kelly? I think we have company!" Smolder called out from downstairs."We don't have much time, Ed," Kelly advised him. "I need you to think about what was most important to you before this thing came into your life. Ack!" Perry had poked her right in her pussy through her trousers, so she grabbed the alien phallus with one hand while shifting a knee to keep Ed's arms immobile.Ed's mind felt odd, like he was waking up from a dream. Most important? Graduating school, meeting a woman, having sex with that woman, lots of sex...his cock throbbed in the agent's firm hand."Concentrate, Ed! Don't let it mess with your head. Think about your family," she urged him.Ed considered his Dad, the man that, despite how much he worked, had always made sure that he had time to talk to his son about whatever concerns the younger man had. His Mom had always been supportive as well, perhaps more indulgent than other mothers, but that was because she loved him. His mind flashed back to that morning weeks ago, when she had climbed into his lap and fucked his new alien cock, and felt ashamed."Ed! That wasn't you...it was the alien! He made you do that!" Kelly advised him.Ed despaired. He had had sex with so many women in the past few weeks, and before Perry, he had been a virgin! The alien had helped him, hadn't he? But he should never have had incestuous relations with his Mom, or his cousin Julie!There was a crash downstairs. They heard swearing, and then the thumping of Smolder's feet up the stairs. "Whatever you're going to do, Kelly, do it now! It's like Night of the Living Dead out here!"Kelly struggled to hold Perry still. "It has to go, Ed! There's too much at stake! You have to reject it. Think of something -- anything -- that you hate about all this!" She furrowed her brow in concentration.Ed's mind was whirling, and then he remembered Charisma, his dream woman. The one thing he had wanted, and he hadn't been able to fuck her because one of Perry's "drones" had gotten to her first. He...was angry...he was...Furious. He gritted his teeth. "Get...off...""Not until you agree...""Perry! Get off of me! Get off of my body, you fucker!"Kelly jumped to her feet. Ed grabbed the alien cock in both hands.*No, Ed! We can do amazing things together! Just let me be your penis!* Perry pleaded.Ed pulled and screamed. Perry shrieked in his head as the alien parasite slowly peeled away from between the young man's legs. The screaming continued as Ed's blood splashed to the floor between his legs, and then he finally ripped Perry free. He tottered for a moment, and then swooned and collapsed.Kelly grabbed Perry before he could slither away. "Gotcha!""Kelly! I'm gonna get killed by blue dickgirls!" Smolder yelled from the other side of the door. From the thumps, it sounded like he was being battered against it.She flipped open the silver briefcase, shoved Perry inside, and quickly closed the lid. There was a "shush" sound as the case sealed.There was immediate silence from the other side of the door. "Smolder?" Kelly called out.The door opened and her partner staggered in, beaten and bruised. "What the fuck just happened? They all collapsed." Then he took in the bloody mess on the floor. "Oh, shit...I'll call an ambulance." He pulled out his phone.---"Ed?""Five more minutes, Mom.""Ed Doughtry."Ed opened his eyes. Agent Kelly was there, pressing a towel to his crotch. "Oww FUCK!" he yelled in agony as he came back to reality."Sorry, Ed," she offered, her eyes still black. "I'm holding back the pain as best I can. I was really impressed with what you did with...Perry.""What...are you?""Think of me as an intergalactic policewoman, keeping the Earth safe from things like that parasite. Normally I'd have to take your memory of this event away, but I really need you to keep an eye out around here, in case we missed anything. Can you keep a secret, Ed?"Gritting his teeth, he nodded.She gave him a smile. "Good man. Perry's victims all passed out when I threw him into my shielded case, and the copies he made have disintegrated, too, without their master's direction. Their ex-hosts won't remember anything that happened after being infected, and I suspect Perry messed their memories of those encounters up enough so they won't recall what he made you do to them. Now I just have to adjust Smolder's memory so that he goes back to not believing in aliens, and..." She looked around. "Where is Smolder...?"Then she gasped. "...and the briefcase?"---"Ten inches! Woo!" Agent Smolder drove hard and fast away from town, his new penis settling in nicely between his legs.*I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Smolder,* Perry said. *Hey, do you smoke?*Epilogue:Over the next few weeks, several dozen women were surprised to miss their next period, with no recollection of how that really happened. Almost eight months later, a glut of births occurred in Ed's sleepy town. Of the ones that Ed and his mother personally had a hand in:Doctor Lintrell had a normal baby boy, though she never found out who "John Smith" was.Darla and her husband, the Doughtrys' next door neighbors, were very happy to finally be blessed with a little girl.Ed's Aunt Erin likewise birthed a little girl. Because Eve's alien testicle had been made from her own ovary, her sperm could only supply X chromosomes, not Y, so she only made girls.Cora, the retro grunge student, had a boy, and the unnamed redhead from the school's ladies' washroom had a girl.All of the babies except Doctor Lintrell's had a strange condition that caused their skin to have a slight blue tinge. Only time would tell what else would be different.The end? By Krosis for Literotica 

A paranormal investigation begins..by Krosis. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.Ed finally gets Charisma alone. "Doctor Lintrell?"The brown-haired woman looked up from her desk and lowered her cats-eye glasses. "Yes? Do we have an appointment?"The short woman and tall man, both dressed in dark suits and also brown-haired, stepped into the office. The woman pulled out her identification. "You called us, Doctor. Agents Kelly and Smolder, Homeland Security.""Oh, yes, please close the door and have a seat. I wouldn't have called, but since the incident, I've been having nightmares -- flashbacks?"The agents sat. The man, Smolder, leaned forward, looking skeptical. "About a large blue penis?"The doctor flushed. "I thought it was nothing, but a week ago I missed my period, and I haven't had sex with anyone...well, anyone I remember, anyway. I tested myself and...I'm pregnant. The blue penis keeps popping up in my dreams, so I think someone hypnotized me, not that I used to believe in hypnosis, but..." She reached into her desk. "...then I found this." She held out a piece of paper.Kelly read it and then handed the paper to her partner. On it was the date from three weeks previous, some scribblings about a "John Smith", an unspecified problem with his penis, and the last thing written was, "Blue!""I don't remember writing that, agents, but it's definitely my handwriting."Smolder took a picture of the note with his phone and handed it back to the doctor. "John Smith, huh?"She looked nettled. "Obviously a fake name...I expect that he was embarrassed about his penis."Kelly nodded. "And you can't remember anything about this man, other than that?"Doctor Lintrell shook her head. "I'm sorry...my staff didn't even remember him. One thought that he might have had brown hair?"Smolder stood up. "Brown hair? We'll have this solved by lunch! Thanks, Doctor Lintrell." Then he turned on his heel and stomped out of the room."I'm sorry for my partner," Kelly said. "He's a bit of a skeptic."The doctor nodded. "You said you were Homeland Security? I called the local police."Kelly got to her feet. "We believe that this could be far bigger than a local issue." She drew closer and whispered, "Aliens."The doctor looked at her blankly. "You think 'John Smith' is Mexican?"Kelly frowned and sighed. "Something like that. We'll be in touch, Doctor."---Spring Break was over, and Ed was back in school. He was definitely not going to miss his chance at getting Charisma alone this time! When she asked the teacher if she could go to the washroom, Ed did the same a few minutes later.He caught the gorgeous blonde just as she was heading back to class. "Hey, Charisma! Can I talk to you?""You are talking to me," she replied dismissively, not stopping."I mean alone!"She paused and turned to him. "What for?""I...I have to show you something...you'll really love it!""I've heard That before..." Then she looked thoughtful, "though they were right. Okay, come on." She pulled Ed back into the women's washroom. "Well?""Just a sec," Ed said. He turned his back to her and let Perry out through his zipper before whirling back around. "Ta da!" he cried with a flourish."Oh," Charisma responded as she beheld his large blue alien penis.Ed paused. "Oh?"Charisma pulled her skirt up, surprising him. "Yeah, I already got one of those. Blue dick buddies!" She held out her fist.Ed was unable to tear his eyes away from the 4" blue penis hanging between her legs."Oh, c'mon! Don't leave me hangin'!"Ed slowly raised his arm and gave her the saddest fist bump ever."Okay, see ya!" Then she was gone, leaving Ed standing alone in the girls' washroom.*So...I guess we have something to discuss, Ed.* Perry said in his mind. *Sorry, buddy, one of my drones got into her over the holiday.*"Drones?"*Yeah...well, all that sex we've been having? It's been allowing me to 'spread my seed', so to speak. You know how you have one blue ball and one regular one? The blue one's mine, and it's been making drones; copies of me.*Ed's mind was overloading. Everyone he had sex with? "Muh...my Mom too?"*Oh, she's been great, just going to town on the locals, and then with her own sister...so hot!*"Aunt Erin?!"Just then the door opened and a pretty redheaded senior walked in. "Hey! What are you doing inn...here..." Her mind shut down as she saw Perry dancing in front of her, and she pulled her shirt off, revealing nice palm-sized breasts covered by a pink bra.*Time to have some fun, Ed!*"But...no..." Ed felt his body flush with desire for this young woman, Perry leading the way as he advanced on her.She pulled her skirt and pink panties down and then bent over the sink counter, presenting her puffy, rapidly moistening pussy to him."Perry...I don't wanna..." But Ed took a hold of the teenaged beauty's rounded hips and felt Perry slither inside her sultry vagina. "...oh..no..."*Hey, Ed, this one's fertile,* Perry advised him, noticing the telltale mucus as he slipped deeper inside. *You want me to let Pinky get all up in her?*Ed started to thrust. It was feeling really good. His mind seemed to be floating, strangely unconcerned about what was happening. "Pinky?"*That's what I named your remaining testicle. I can make my stuff shoot into her, or yours. Lemme know which when we get closer, huh?*"I...umm..." Ed unfastened the girl's bra, and her B-cups swung forward. His hands engulfed them, squeezing gently and making the mesmerized beauty gasp as he thrust into her."Uh-huhh..." she moaned as Ed started to tweak her wide nipples.He felt her pussy gripping him tightly. It was feeling really good now...*Time to choose, Ed! Pinky or Perry?*Ed continued to thrust. Why couldn't he think straight? he wondered.*Looks like I gave you a little too much happy juice, buddy. How about we give her both, and may the best man win?*"Uh! Ernh!" Ed was slamming into the girl now, and she was crying out with each hard thrust. He felt his load mustering in his loins, and then the pleasure rushed up his long shaft. He thrust hard and fast into the redhead until... "Ugh!" Ecstasy burst from the tip of his cock as he painted her unprotected pussy with a huge load of cum. "Ur!""Uck-ah!" she cried out as her own orgasm exploded from deep inside her pussy, where the combined load of Perry's blue and Ed's white sperm deluged her fertile depths. Perry pressed the tip of his head against her spasming cervix, and several spurts of their combined seed slipped straight through, invading her undiscovered country."Huh...huh..." Ed leaned down upon the girl, all of his energy gone."Umm...can'd breedh..." the girl groaned from under him.He pulled back, Perry slipping out from inside her and making them both gasp. "Oh, sorry," he offered.She looked down at all the sperm oozing out of her gaping pussy. "Oh shit, now I really really have to pee..." She ran into a stall and moaned as she let loose.Ed grabbed her clothes and handed them to her under the stall door."Thanks!""You're...welcome..." Ed shook his head, zipped up, and went back to class. Kelly and Smolder meet Ed.Ed was having trouble getting his head around it all. His new 10" blue penis, which was actually an alien parasite named Perry, was making copies of itself every time Ed had sex with someone! And then those copies had sex with others and made more copies! But whenever Ed tried to talk to Perry about it, he got distracted. He felt like Perry might be manipulating him, but then he got really tired and had to go take a nap.Homeland Security agents Kelly and Smolder were stumped trying to find the man with the blue penis that had allegedly hypnotized and impregnated a local doctor. "John Smith" was an obvious pseudonym, and the possibly brown-haired rapist had been so nondescript that it was futile to just canvass the area. The town wasn't large, but there were still several thousand residents, and there was also no guarantee that the mystery man hadn't visited the clinic from one of the neighboring suburbs."Hmm..." Kelly hummed as she consulted her phone."I know that 'hmm'," Smolder responded jokingly, "you found something.""A meteorite fell to Earth a few miles from here the night before 'John Smith' went to Doctor Lintrell's clinic," she revealed, holding her phone screen toward him.He didn't even look. "Oh God, aliens again? I keep telling you, there's no such thing, Kelly!""So you keep saying," she replied, "but do we have anything better to go on?"Ding dong!Ed woke up from his nap. "Mom?" he called out.Ding dong!Since his mother didn't seem to be home, Ed headed down and opened the front door, revealing a tall man and a short woman, dressed in dark suits."JOHN SMITH!" the man pointed a finger accusingly at Ed.Ed staggered back. That was the fake name that he had given at the clinic! How the hell had they found him?"Oh, enough, Smolder," the woman chastised him. "Are you going to yell that at every brown-haired male we come across?"The man smiled, chagrined. "You never know, right?"Ed tried to control his breathing. "Um...um...who are you? What do you want?"The woman showed him her ID. "Homeland Security agents Kelly and Smolder. May we come in?" Since Ed had already stepped back in shock, they stepped into the entryway without waiting for permission."Um, sure," Ed acquiesced as they closed the door behind them."Who are you, if not John Smith?" the man -- Smolder -- asked him, notebook in hand."Ed Doughtry, sir.""'Sir'...someone raised you right, Ed. Are your parents here?""Dad's delivering around town all day." Ed looked around. "I thought Mom was here, but she must have gone out." That was happening more and more often while his Dad was absent. He tried not to think of his mother fucking women all around town with her new blue penis, infecting them with more blue penises like Perry."We'd like to ask you about the meteorite that landed in your back forty, Mr. Doughtry," Agent Kelly asked."Meteorite? Sorry, I wasn't aware," Ed lied."It came down late at night a few weeks ago. You were probably asleep," she informed him. He nodded. "Can I have a look at the crash site?""Um, sure..."He watched the short woman head out the back door, leaving him alone with the imposingly tall Agent Smolder. Ed wished that she had stayed instead.Smolder gave him a disarming smile. "So, Ed...what's there to do for fun around here?"In the back of the town's only adult store, a fit dirty blonde sat in the blowjob booth as her latest customer blew his load down her throat. Lacey, 23 years old, hadn't been very effective at most of the jobs she'd had since barely graduating high school, but she was a born cocksucker. The man's average-sized cock retreated through the glory hole and she heard a muffled, "Thanks!" She put the two $20 bills that had preceded his cock into her purse.A minute or so later, another couple Jacksons were pushed through the hole, followed by a hard penis, and she paused to examine the schlong. The inside of the booth was dim so that the clientele couldn't identify her if they looked through the hole, but the 8" hard cock seemed...off, somehow. Still, it was a nice-sized member, so she took it into her mouth. A moan, of a higher pitch than expected, sounded from the other side of the wall. She continued to suck, and felt some precum slip into her mouth. She gulped it down.Lacey suddenly felt very hot. She had to get her clothes off and cool down! She quickly pulled off her tight jeans, and then let go of the cock to remove her t-shirt. Finally, shrugging, she doffed her panties and bra, freeing her B-cup breasts. That felt better, and the naked woman took the cock back in hand.Then she realized that her pussy was very wet. She didn't normally do this, but she felt hornier than she remembered being for a very long time. "Ooh, you're in for a treat, mister," she called out to her paramour as she turned, bent over, and backed herself onto that hard prong. The penis seemed to practically slither into her wanton depths, and she gasped in pleasure. She wondered if she had forgotten something important, but couldn't figure out what it was as it sat, unused, in its foil packet in her purse.She moaned as she pushed back, and that sizable member bottomed out inside her tight little body. Then she leaned forward as her lover pulled back, and they smashed their private parts back together on the downswing. That wonderful cock seemed to slide along her g-spot nicely as it went, and she was amazed at how well her lover was pleasuring her, as if that person somehow had intimate knowledge of a woman's inner workings. She was already close to orgasming.Then when they were fully joined again, the head of that wonderful cock rapping insistently at her cervix, she came. "Fuuuckk..." she moaned, shaking, her nipples incredibly hard.Her lover started to thrust faster and harder inside her, extending her orgasm. Her mind was trying to tell her that something important was about to happen. Well, of course it was, she told herself; the orgasm's the best part!"Ungh!"Lacey heard the high-pitched voice on the other side of the wall grunt, and felt that stupendous cock throb deep inside her. Then she felt a hot warmth suddenly permeate her core and came again, hard. "Huhh! Ohh wooow..." She pushed back onto the spurting cock, her co-opted instincts telling her to make sure that precious seed went as deep inside her as it could, and it did. A gush of blue-tinged semen splashed through her spasming cervix, where it began its journey of transformation deep inside the young woman.Eve Doughtry tucked her softening member back under her skirt and left through the glory hole room's door, surprising the shop owner as she went. She gave him a wink and headed home.Agent Kelly returned. "Unfortunately, there wasn't much left of the meteorite.""So, no aliens?" Smolder asked with a sardonic grin.Ed choked. "Uhh...aliens? Are you kidding?"*You rang?* Perry sounded in his head."Where the hell have you been?" Ed subvocalized."What was that?" Smolder asked."Just...wondering when my Mom's going to be home. She's been gone for a while."Kelly stepped forward and handed him a business card. "Please have her call me if she or your father were awake when the meteorite came down, or if they've seen anything...strange...okay, Mr. Doughtry?"*Oh, she's cute, Ed...kind of a hot nerd, don'tcha think?* Perry asked.Ed smiled at her and nodded, "Yep.""All right, we'll show ourselves out. Have a good day." Then they were gone."Perry, that was way too close!" Ed exclaimed.*Relax, Ed...if we can't beat 'em, she'll join us, and it looks like she's the smart one in that partnership. Problem solved.*Ed wondered. The teary ending.Agents Kelly and Smolder split up to interview the neighbors, with short, curvy Kelly trudging up the gravel path of a nearby farmhouse to knock on the front door.An attractive, shorter brunette woman opened it and gave the agent an assessing gaze. "Yes?"Kelly held up her ID. "Homeland Security, Agent Kelly, ma'am. I was wondering if you saw or heard the meteorite that came down a few weeks ago, or have you seen anything strange since?"The woman stood back and opened the door wide. "The meteorite? Why don't you come in and we can discuss it. I'm Darla, by the way.""Thank you." Kelly entered the house. "Oh, what a lovely home you have, Darl--"As the agent passed her, the housewife pushed her forward hard, causing Kelly to sprawl across the arm of the cushy couch with her butt in the air."--ahh!"In a flash, Darla was upon her, pushing up the agent's coat and pulling down her trousers. Darla's now 7" blue erection was ready.*Ha! Got her!* Perry announced in Ed's head."Got who?"*Agent Kelly! She went next door to Darla's, and...*"Aunt Darla too? Oh, Perry!"*Shit! What just happened?*"What?"*I lost contact with Darla...there's just nothing!*Ed had never heard Perry sound worried before. "Um..."*I'm calling in reinforcements.*"Coraaa...whyyy...?" Cora's mother moaned as her daughter ravaged her with her new 6" blue penis. The small retro grunge senior student had found her mother in bed, nursing a migraine, and insisted that she give her a massage to help. Once the older woman was relaxed, though, Cora had pounced. Once Perry's drone cock was inside her mother's pussy, there was no stopping her."I just gotta..." Cora responded, "...gotta...unhh..." She moved faster, slamming that blue cock harder into her Mom. "Gottaa...aaahhh!" she cried out as blue sperm blasted from the head of her cock, filling her mother's unprotected depths."Aahhh! Corrraaaa!!" her mother screamed as her own orgasm exploded from the hot, wet pressure filling her.Cora froze for a moment, pulled out quickly, and raced from the room, not even pausing to pull her baggy jeans back on.Around town, an assortment of women likewise stopped what they were doing and rushed to their vehicles, some carpooling with others, like Cora, who didn't drive. As one, they raced toward the Doughtry farm.A few minutes later, there was a banging on the front door.*Don't answer it, Ed!* Perry yelled in his head."That's not your reinforcements? What do I do?"*Out the back!*Ed rushed for the back door, but Agent Smolder kicked that in, gun drawn and pointed right at him."Ack!" Ed screeched, and automatically put his hands up."Open the front door, Ed," Smolder directed him, his pistol unwavering.He did, and Kelly walked in, holding a silver briefcase. She took Ed's arm. "Ed, I'm going to need you to take me to your bedroom.""Err, what's goin' on, Kelly?" Smolder asked as he put away his gun. "Is Ed here our guy?""That's what I'm going to find out. C'mon..." and she pulled Ed up the stairs to his room, Smolder following. She turned back to her partner. "Smolder, I'm going to need you to barricade the doors and windows. We might have unfriendly visitors soon. And don't shoot anyone!" Then she pulled Ed into his room and closed the door."Okay, I'll just be out here trying to unkick the back door, I guess?" Smolder called up cheekily.She dropped the silver briefcase onto his bed. "Pants off, Ed."*Stupid woman!* Perry exulted, *Now she's ours! Let's show her what we're made of, Ed.*Ed unzipped and Perry sprang out, dancing hypnotically before the short, sexy agent."There you are," Kelly said, her eyes turning entirely coal black.*No! What are they doing here?! Shit! Run, Ed!*Suddenly full of adrenaline, Ed dashed for the door, but Kelly was a step ahead of him, tripping him up and climbing astride him. She held his arms down as Perry battered at her trousers, trying to insert himself inside her.Her eyes were as black as pitch as she stared into his. "Ed, I need you to listen to me. I think you know, deep down, that this thing has been controlling you, but it won't let you realize it. I'm going to help with that, and you need to help me."There was the scrabbling sound of car tires on the driveway outside. "Uh, Kelly? I think we have company!" Smolder called out from downstairs."We don't have much time, Ed," Kelly advised him. "I need you to think about what was most important to you before this thing came into your life. Ack!" Perry had poked her right in her pussy through her trousers, so she grabbed the alien phallus with one hand while shifting a knee to keep Ed's arms immobile.Ed's mind felt odd, like he was waking up from a dream. Most important? Graduating school, meeting a woman, having sex with that woman, lots of sex...his cock throbbed in the agent's firm hand."Concentrate, Ed! Don't let it mess with your head. Think about your family," she urged him.Ed considered his Dad, the man that, despite how much he worked, had always made sure that he had time to talk to his son about whatever concerns the younger man had. His Mom had always been supportive as well, perhaps more indulgent than other mothers, but that was because she loved him. His mind flashed back to that morning weeks ago, when she had climbed into his lap and fucked his new alien cock, and felt ashamed."Ed! That wasn't you...it was the alien! He made you do that!" Kelly advised him.Ed despaired. He had had sex with so many women in the past few weeks, and before Perry, he had been a virgin! The alien had helped him, hadn't he? But he should never have had incestuous relations with his Mom, or his cousin Julie!There was a crash downstairs. They heard swearing, and then the thumping of Smolder's feet up the stairs. "Whatever you're going to do, Kelly, do it now! It's like Night of the Living Dead out here!"Kelly struggled to hold Perry still. "It has to go, Ed! There's too much at stake! You have to reject it. Think of something -- anything -- that you hate about all this!" She furrowed her brow in concentration.Ed's mind was whirling, and then he remembered Charisma, his dream woman. The one thing he had wanted, and he hadn't been able to fuck her because one of Perry's "drones" had gotten to her first. He...was angry...he was...Furious. He gritted his teeth. "Get...off...""Not until you agree...""Perry! Get off of me! Get off of my body, you fucker!"Kelly jumped to her feet. Ed grabbed the alien cock in both hands.*No, Ed! We can do amazing things together! Just let me be your penis!* Perry pleaded.Ed pulled and screamed. Perry shrieked in his head as the alien parasite slowly peeled away from between the young man's legs. The screaming continued as Ed's blood splashed to the floor between his legs, and then he finally ripped Perry free. He tottered for a moment, and then swooned and collapsed.Kelly grabbed Perry before he could slither away. "Gotcha!""Kelly! I'm gonna get killed by blue dickgirls!" Smolder yelled from the other side of the door. From the thumps, it sounded like he was being battered against it.She flipped open the silver briefcase, shoved Perry inside, and quickly closed the lid. There was a "shush" sound as the case sealed.There was immediate silence from the other side of the door. "Smolder?" Kelly called out.The door opened and her partner staggered in, beaten and bruised. "What the fuck just happened? They all collapsed." Then he took in the bloody mess on the floor. "Oh, shit...I'll call an ambulance." He pulled out his phone.---"Ed?""Five more minutes, Mom.""Ed Doughtry."Ed opened his eyes. Agent Kelly was there, pressing a towel to his crotch. "Oww FUCK!" he yelled in agony as he came back to reality."Sorry, Ed," she offered, her eyes still black. "I'm holding back the pain as best I can. I was really impressed with what you did with...Perry.""What...are you?""Think of me as an intergalactic policewoman, keeping the Earth safe from things like that parasite. Normally I'd have to take your memory of this event away, but I really need you to keep an eye out around here, in case we missed anything. Can you keep a secret, Ed?"Gritting his teeth, he nodded.She gave him a smile. "Good man. Perry's victims all passed out when I threw him into my shielded case, and the copies he made have disintegrated, too, without their master's direction. Their ex-hosts won't remember anything that happened after being infected, and I suspect Perry messed their memories of those encounters up enough so they won't recall what he made you do to them. Now I just have to adjust Smolder's memory so that he goes back to not believing in aliens, and..." She looked around. "Where is Smolder...?"Then she gasped. "...and the briefcase?"---"Ten inches! Woo!" Agent Smolder drove hard and fast away from town, his new penis settling in nicely between his legs.*I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Smolder,* Perry said. *Hey, do you smoke?*Epilogue:Over the next few weeks, several dozen women were surprised to miss their next period, with no recollection of how that really happened. Almost eight months later, a glut of births occurred in Ed's sleepy town. Of the ones that Ed and his mother personally had a hand in:Doctor Lintrell had a normal baby boy, though she never found out who "John Smith" was.Darla and her husband, the Doughtrys' next door neighbors, were very happy to finally be blessed with a little girl.Ed's Aunt Erin likewise birthed a little girl. Because Eve's alien testicle had been made from her own ovary, her sperm could only supply X chromosomes, not Y, so she only made girls.Cora, the retro grunge student, had a boy, and the unnamed redhead from the school's ladies' washroom had a girl.All of the babies except Doctor Lintrell's had a strange condition that caused their skin to have a slight blue tinge. Only time would tell what else would be different.The end? By Krosis for Literotica 

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We talk with U.S. Ski Hall of Famer, Mike Hattrup, about his days as a competitive mogul skier; being featured in iconic ski films like ‘The Blizzard of AAHHH's'; his decades working in gear testing and development; and his latest role with Eleven Experience.RELATED LINKS:Get Yourself Covered: BLISTER+Eleven ExperienceTOPICS & TIMES:Sun Valley, Idaho (3:25)Mogul Skiing (7:41)Filming with Greg Stump (13:31)From Moguls to the Aiguille du Midi (16:45)Backcountry Safety Back Then (18:30)Mountain Guiding (21:21)Gear Nerdery (24:19)Mcconkey & the Pontoon (36:55)Mike's New Role w/ Eleven Experience (42:57)Remaining Bucket List Ski Destinations? (53:38)More on being the “Director Of Skiing” (55:22)CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Blister CinematicCRAFTED GEAR:30Bikes & Big IdeasOff The Couch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcripción: Hoy hablamos del análisis DAFO ¿FAFO? No, DAFO ¿FADO? No, DAFO ¿CAFO? ¡DAFO! Se dice ¡DAFO! Ahhh, vale. Solo tienes que decirlo.   ¡Hola! Soy Óscar. Bienvenido a un nuevo episodio del pódcast de unlimitedspanish.com. Te ayudo a hablar fluidamente en español. Consigue el texto en mi web: https://unlimitedspanish.com/371-analisis-dafo-swot/ Muy bien, vamos a por el tema de hoy. En el mundo de los negocios, se utiliza un tipo de análisis llamado DAFO. En inglés, este análisis se llama SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats). ¿Qué te parece mi acento británico de Alabama? Impecable. De acuerdo… Creo que es una buena idea dedicar este episodio a este tema, ya que hay vocabulario y expresiones que pueden ser muy útiles. ¡Así que hoy vamos a explorar este concepto! DAFO es un acrónimo. Vamos a ver qué significa cada letra. La D significa… ¿Dragones? ¡No! Significa Debilidades. La A significa Aventuras, obviamente. Perdón, me equivoqué… Significa Amenazas. La F, por supuesto quiere decir… Fiestas. ¿A quién no le gusta una fiesta? Aahhh, Un momento. No, no, disculpa. Significa Fortalezas. Por último, la O es… ¿Olimpiadas? No, no. ¡Qué confusión! Tengo las notas equivocadas. En realidad, significa Oportunidades. Vale, en esencia, el análisis DAFO es una cuadrícula en la cual se examinan las Debilidades, Amenazas, Fortalezas, y Oportunidades. En cada área se escriben aspectos relacionados y así, en teoría, puedes tener una visión general de la viabilidad de un proyecto. Vamos a ver cada elemento con más calma. Debilidades: Son los aspectos internos que te ponen en desventaja frente a otros. Imagina que tienes una cafetería. Una debilidad podría ser que no tienes servicio de entrega a domicilio, mientras que tus competidores sí lo ofrecen. Amenazas: Son factores externos que podrían causar problemas. Siguiendo con el ejemplo de la cafetería, una amenaza podría ser la apertura de una nueva cafetería con precios más bajos justo al lado de la tuya. Fortalezas: Son los aspectos internos que te dan una ventaja sobre otros. En el caso de tu cafetería, una fortaleza podría ser que tienes un café de especialidad de alta calidad que no se encuentra en otros lugares cercanos. Oportunidades: Son los factores externos que podrías aprovechar a tu favor. Por ejemplo, si en tu zona hay un creciente interés por productos orgánicos, y tú ofreces café orgánico, eso representa una oportunidad para atraer a más clientes. Un aspecto importante es que las debilidades y fortalezas se centran en elementos internos, cosas sobre las que tienes control. Las amenazas y oportunidades se enfocan en el entorno externo, factores que están fuera de tu control directo pero que debes considerar en tu planificación. Encuentro el análisis DAFO muy efectivo porque obliga a mirar tanto hacia adentro de la organización o proyecto como hacia afuera. Es una herramienta versátil que se puede aplicar en distintos contextos, desde la planificación de una empresa hasta el desarrollo personal. Por ejemplo, si estás planeando tu carrera, tu fortaleza podría ser tu experiencia, mientras que una amenaza podría ser la automatización en tu industria. ¿Qué te parece? ¿Crees que es una buena herramienta? A mí me gusta porque no es compleja de usar y te hace pensar en cuatro áreas diferentes, en vez de pensarlo todo a la vez. Antes de empezar la segunda parte, te recomiendo mis cursos completos, con horas de audio, diseñados específicamente a ayudarte con tu fluidez en español. Visita ahora mi página web: www.unlimitedspanish.com sección productos. Si tienes dudas sobre cuál es el mejor curso para ti, no dudes en contactarme. Puedes enviarme un mensaje en el formulario de contacto de la página web. Consigue el texto en mi web: https://unlimitedspanish.com/371-analisis-dafo-swot/

Due to a change in management due to chronic gambling issues, Dr.D had to let go of the show and give it to the notorious BIG Keef. He has decided to rebrand the podcast as Aahhhh Scorpions. They mock the previous owner of the show, Dr.D, due to him being a ninny. Then they cover the actual keys to improving your gaming skills.

Greg Stump, the legendary filmmaker behind ski classics like Blizzard of Aahhh's, The Maltese Flamingo, Groove Requiem in the Key of Ski, and Legend of Aahhh's, is back on the podcast. Stumpy is promoting his March Residence at the Isis Theatre in Aspen this March, where he is screening the incredible films mentioned above. On the podcast, we discuss stories from each movie and talk about many players, including Glen Plake, Scot Schmidt, Mike Hattrup, Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Laird Hamilton, Craig Kelly, Hunter S. Thompson, and more. On top of that, there's twice the number of Inappropriate Questions. Greg Stump Show Notes: 3:00:  Greg's health, his Aspen Residency, The Maltese Flamingo 22:00  Stanley:  Get up to 60% off at Stanley1913.com Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. 25:00:  The Maltese Flamingo cont…, Groove Requiem in the Key of Ski, and Blizzard of Aahhh's 41:00:  Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there.  Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 43:00:  Blizzard of Aahhh's cont… and Legend of Aahhh's 54:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Mike Hattrup and Cody Townsend (from 2015)

Next gen trash talk heats up, Nintendo and Sega trapped by strong yen & CDROM can't pay the rent   These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM   This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in November 1993. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.   Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book   Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine   And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM   Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com   Links:   7 Minutes in Heaven: Aladdin - Genesis Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-97263025 https://www.mobygames.com/game/2069/disneys-aladdin/   Corrections: October 1993 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-1993-95287239 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/402330/Press_X_to_Not_Die/ https://tokyo-joypolis.com/     1993: AMOA shows little promise for street ops Play Meter, Nov. 1993, pg. 3   EA beefs up coinop efforts Play Meter, Nov. 1993, pg. 5 https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File%3ACVG_UK_144.pdf&page=7   Nintendo returns to coinop Play Meter, Nov. 1993, pg. 18   FunExpo attracts burgeoning family fun center biz Play Meter, Nov. 1993, pg. 38   Operators and Manufacturers agree on violence in games RePlay Nov. 1993, pg. 78, 88   Operators and Manufacturers don't agree on revenue sharing RePlay Nov. 1993, pg. 78   The Moloney's are back! Replay Nov. 1993, pg. 32 , 33, 35 https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tap-a-tune&page=detail&id=4249   Virtuality goes public Replay Nov. 1993, pg. 34   James Clark disses 3DO Paula Parisi. (November 4, 1993, Thursday). SGI's Clark: 3DO doesn't add up. The Hollywood Reporter. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJF-CDB0-006P-R3MS-00000-00&context=1516831. https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n121/mode/1up?view=theater   Trip Hawkins gets defensive Edge, November 1993, pg. 6, 12, 19 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_112/page/n9/mode/2up   Where's the money in interactivity? BY CYNTHIA LITTLETON. (November 4, 1993, Thursday, BC cycle). Panel: Interactive tech ready, but viewers aren't. United Press International. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-J0R0-001S-60JY-00000-00&context=1516831. Paula Parisi. (November 5, 1993, Friday). Goodson: Lose interactive game shows. The Hollywood Reporter. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJF-CD90-006P-R3K8-00000-00&context=1516831. Paula Parisi. (November 8, 1993, Monday). CD-ROM players: next VCRs?; Multimedia format is poised for major growth in '90s, study finds. The Hollywood Reporter. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJF-CD90-006P-R3HS-00000-00&context=1516831.   King World invests in Crystal Dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_World_Productions https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater   VideoCD logo coming Edge November 1993, pg. 8   First look at CDi Zelda https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20052%20%28November%201993%29/page/n97/mode/1up?view=theater   Sony decides to go it alone BY STEVE McCLURE. (November 20, 1993). Sony Ventures Into Video Game Biz; With A New Integrated Hardware/Software System. Billboard. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJF-0NJ0-002S-H3KS-00000-00&context=1516831. BY SONOKO WATANABE Staff writer. (November 1, 1993). Sony to set up video-game unit Shelves plan to hook up with Nintendo, zooms in on low end of market. The Nikkei Weekly (Japan). https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-4N60-000H-H552-00000-00&context=1516831. (November 1, 1993). NEW SONY VIDEOGAME FACES UNCERTAIN PROSPECTS. Consumer Electronics. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SKP-XDT0-006B-64X1-00000-00&context=1516831.   Commodore preps US CD32 launch https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_112/page/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/CommodoreUserIssue1221993Nov/page/n17/mode/2up   Wall street bullish on Atari (November 4, 1993, Thursday, BC cycle). Wall Street impressed with Atari's propsects. United Press International. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-J0P0-001S-60HN-00000-00&context=1516831.   Generation transition concerns an issue for Sega https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20052%20%28November%201993%29/page/n65/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20052%20%28November%201993%29/page/n67/mode/1up?view=theater   Nintendo Extends Super Mario All Stars giveaway (November 1, 1993). Advertising Age. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-GYS0-000S-845B-00000-00&context=1516831.   Nintendo sales and profits down By MICHIYO NAKAMOTO. (November 19, 1993, Friday). Tough new players in video games - Michiyo Nakamoto watches Matsushita and Sony enter the field. Financial Times (London,England). https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SKR-MTT0-006F-W3FM-00000-00&context=1516831. Yomiuri Shimbun. (November 19, 1993, Friday). Nintendo sales, profits down. The Daily Yomiuri. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SC6-V290-001X-J39V-00000-00&context=1516831. (NOVEMBER 18, 1993, THURSDAY). Nintendo posts 23.9% pretax drop for fiscal half. Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-GS90-000F-P13B-00000-00&context=1516831.   Sega begins mnaufacturing in Wales MARY FAGAN, Industrial Correspondent. (November 1, 1993, Monday). Welsh factory to produce Sega video-game catridges; First contract outside Far East goes to AB Electronic. The Independent (London). https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3T47-89T0-0021-R536-00000-00&context=1516831.   Sega downgrades forecast GAIL COUNSELL. (November 10, 1993, Wednesday). Sega slashes profit forecast; Video game group says strength of yen will hit earnings. Gail Counsell reports. The Independent (London). https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3T47-88T0-0021-R2N1-00000-00&context=1516831.   EA suspends SNES lineup https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:CVG_UK_144.pdf&page=8 https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File%3ACVG_UK_144.pdf&page=33   EA resumes SNES lineup   Sega decides to crash Mario's big bash (November 4, 1993). Lancaster: Sega's big self-projection racket. Marketing. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:419K-5BV0-00X8-J51R-00000-00&context=1516831. Ad games on the rise By Kate Fitzgerald. (November 1, 1993). Videogames attract advertisers; McDonald's signs on as number of games tied to products grows. Advertising Age. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-GYR0-000S-844B-00000-00&context=1516831. By David Kilburn. (November 1, 1993). Dentsu already deep into interactive; Japanese agency links with 3DO, creates videogames for clients. Advertising Age. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-GYR0-000S-8446-00000-00&context=1516831.   Nitendo wins big in South African court (November 8, 1993, Monday). SOUTH AFRICAN SUPREME COURT RULES FOR NINTENDO IN MAJOR VICTORY AGAINST VIDEO GAME PIRATES. PR Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJJ-3CT0-007J-72FH-00000-00&context=1516831.   Console game pirates start to train https://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_joker/magscans/aj_1993_11/040.jpg&c=92625   Pad computing more of an Uh? than an Aahhh! https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/science/personal-computers-zoomers-newtons-real-life-so-far-promise-exceeds-usefulness.html   Big Blues chronicles fall of IBM https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1993-11_OCR/page/n86/mode/1up?view=theater   AI puts help desks on disk https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1993-11_OCR/page/n47/mode/1up?view=theater   Smartec bets on dual scan https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1993-11_OCR/page/n54/mode/1up?view=theater   Broderbund announces Living Books https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater   Shakespeare does Karaoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?a&v=CpHnp9JKgcY&feature=youtu.be Minute 1:30 https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1993-11_OCR/page/n69/mode/1up?view=theater   Komisar becomes CEO of Lucasarts https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/02/business/company-news-chief-executive-named-at-lucas-s-software-unit.html (November 1, 1993, Monday). LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT NAMES RANDY KOMISAR PRESIDENT; LUCASARTS TOPS BEST YEAR IN ITS HISTORY WITH NEW LEADER. PR Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJJ-3G30-007J-7008-00000-00&context=1516831.   Logitech goes 3D with the Cyberman https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater   Larry Probst sees software download future STUART VARNEY. (November 2, 1993). Exec Explains Interactive Lane of Electronic Highway. CNN. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3TD9-1JJ0-0029-50P8-00000-00&context=1516831.   Wireless Email taking off https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1993-11_OCR/page/n31/mode/2up   Free lunches on the internet may be coming to an end https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/business/business-technology-jams-already-on-data-highway.html By KATE MADDOX, Staff reporter. (November 8, 1993). The big picture; Visions of a new TV begin to emerge. Electronic Media. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJD-X370-002S-52YW-00000-00&context=1516831.   Renegade ports to Interactive TV Edge November 1993, pg. 75   Sex sells Edge November 1993, pg. 63   Cable News fuels tech stock rollercoaster https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/07/business/market-watch-watch-what-they-pay-not-what-they-say.html   Video Games move into museum https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/07/style/token-art.html   Tom Quinn, RIP https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n15/mode/1up?view=theater   Man!ac launches http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=TUFOIUFDLzE5OTM=     Recommended Links:   The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/     Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play.     Copyright Karl Kuras

Aahhh man, what an honour! Sober Soldiers, we got another one. You might have seen on the news that we're hosting Tyson Sybateli's new mixtape. It was only right that we headed out to Braam to host the listening session, a beautiful afternoon going into evening filled with Hip Hop to close of the 50th Anniversary celebrations. In this episode we go through the whole mixtape with some guest features on the tape also hopping on the mic. Let's not hold you any further, press play and enjoy. Guest  @TysonSybateli  Hosts @Big_Warra @Fratpacker @Ke_Kitso_Bafethu Follow The Sobering on the socials IG: TheSobering Tw: TheSoberingPod FB: The Sobering Podcast Recorded at The Artivist, Braamfontein. Produced by The Sobering Engineer: Kitso Moremi

Aahhh... the dog days of summer! When thinking of the hot summer months and the fond nostalgia it fosters in the making of refreshing memories in the realm & opportunity of recreation time—almost no better time was to be had than hanging out at county/ state fairs and major theme parks with friends & family! Join The Caramel Apples this week at the sweet spot, as they dive into some of those very memories! Subscribe, rate and leave us a shining review/ feedback if you liked what you heard this week! If you have any suggestions, requests or experiences you'd like to have featured in future episodes, please let us know & send us a message at Spotify for Podcasters--> https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/retro-trek-the-caramel-apples or email us at stickycaramelapples@gmail.com We're now on social media! If you would like to reach out, stop by and say hi! Tell us how we're doing! Leave a comment & share with us some of your favorite retro topics. Twitter: @CaramelApples16 Instagram: @retrotrekthecaramelapples TikTok: @retrotrekcaramelapples YouTube: @thestickycaramelapples --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/retro-trek-caramel-apples/message

There is an enormous difference between ownership and availability. Have you ever tried to purchase something only to have your debit card denied? AAHHH. You have the money in your account to cover the expense but the bank has placed a temporary hold on your account because of suspected fraudulent activity. The money is there but it's unavailable to you.As we approach the end of Jesus' sermon, He wants to ensure all of His followers that everything you need for kingdom living in this world is made completely available to you. However, you need to know how to access it. 

Les destinations coup de cœur d'une hôtesse de l'air "ceinture noire" de Dolce Vita  ✈️ Quels voyages peuvent faire rêver une hôtesse Air France sur vols longs courriers ? Marjorie Montagner est une professionnelle du tourisme depuis plus de 20 ans. Affectée à une clientèle haut de gamme dans les avions de la compagnie aérienne Française, Marjorie accumule les miles et s'envole chaque mois vers les plus belles destinations du monde.  Très humaine et empathique, "Marjo" donne l'illusion de nager dans la dolce vita, bonheur qu'elle partage au quotidien sur ses réseaux sociaux.  Mais la grande voyageuse n'en demeure pas moins lucide sur son statut privilégié. D'ailleurs, dans son narratif, l'hôtesse de l'air utilise souvent l'expression "j'ai la chance de...". Oui, Marjorie Montagner est toujours dans la gratitude !  Dans ce podcast, la PNC Air France évoque ses retours d'expériences à propos de destinations idylliques comme la baie de Rio ou encore les Maldives.  Nostalgique, elle raconte aussi son aventure de rêve dans l'archipel polynésien avec Marie Gauguin, arrière petite fille de Paul Gauguin. Aahhh, Tahiti et les Iles Marquises, l'un de ses plus beaux souvenirs de globe trotteuse

“Das wäre so toll!!! Aber was, wenn es schiefgeht...? Ich hätte es gerne anders, … aber ich traue mich nicht – Aahhh … und jetzt?!”  Kennst du diese Gedanken? Wie geht es dir mit Veränderungen?  In der heutigen Folge nehme ich dich mit, wie es mir in der Vergangenheit mit Entscheidungen, Veränderungen und Herausforderungen gegangen ist.  Manchmal wissen wir unterbewusst, welches der richtige Weg ist. Ist es immer der leichtere? Gaaanz bestimmt nicht. Schieben wir diese Entscheidung dann auf, schwups - bekommen wir so oft immer wieder die gleiche Themen, Situationen, Herausforderungen auf dem Silbertablett serviert. Wir wechseln Jobs, Beziehungen usw. Und dennoch kommen wir an den gleichen Punkt. Bis wir die Veränderung akzeptieren...  Mir hilft dieser positive Glaubenssatz: Ich bin die Veränderung. Das Leben ist Veränderung.  Finde mit mir heraus, ...  ✨warum viele Menschen lieber den gewohnten Weg gehen, obwohl sie Veränderung wollen,   ✨ warum dein Bauchgefühl meistens die Antwort weiß,   ✨ was der innere Widerstand ist, der uns ausbremst und warum das oft so ist,   ✨ warum dir echte Sicherheit auch nicht hilft und Freude der bessere Ratgeber ist,   ✨ warum Herausforderungen dich immer wieder anstupsen und was das mit Pferden zu tun hat,   ✨ welche Übungen dir helfen, deinen Weg und deine Qualitäten besser zu erkennen.  Diese Folge zeigt dir, dass du mit Angst vor Veränderung nicht allein bist und ich möchte dich ermutigen, auf deine Intuition und auf dich zu vertrauen! Das Leben ist immer für dich, auch wenn es manchmal auf den ersten Blick anders aussieht.  Alles Liebe,   deine Maja  LINKS ZU DIESER EPISODE:  MÖCHTEST DU SELBST REIKI ERLEBEN? 

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On this episode of Designed By Tradition, we sit down with Mike Hattrup of Black Diamond. Having spent his entire career in skiing, in both hardgoods and softgoods categories. Mike was the US Alpine Product Marketing Manager for Fischer Sports, where he led the development of its award winning freeride collection. Previously, he was International Sales Director and the Global Backside Director for K2 Skis. He spent ten years on Marmot's Design Board Team and another four years spearheading the development of Outdoor Research's freeride collection.Prior to his business career, Hattrup was a mogul competitor eventually earning him a spot on the US Freestyle Ski Team. He starred in over a dozen ski films including the influential “Blizzard of Aahhh's.” While filming in Chamonix, he became captivated by the terrain beyond the resort boundaries. This led to him becoming one of the first certified AMGA Ski Mountaineering Guides. He's guided clients in the US, Canada, South America, Norway and the European Alps.Listen here only of Designed By Tradition!

Mike Hattrup will forever be remembered for his role alongside Scot Schmidt and Glen Plake in Greg Stump's Blizzard of Aahhh's, but that's not why he will soon be inducted into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame. As rightfully renowned as he is for his filmed exploits, it's his various roles behind the scenes that are being duly recognized by the Hall. In this week's episode of Realskiers with Jackson Hogen, Hattrup and I take a deep dive into his lifelong devotion to improving the ski experience for us all.

There's a whole lot to unpack on this week's episode of Kill By Kill as we unlock vol. 4 of CREEPSHOW and discuss The Crate with Scored To Death author and documentarian J. Blake Fichera! Along the way, we consider the coding of Henry and Dexter's relationship, expound upon the actual nature of boxed Yeti powers, pour ourselves some Booze Milk, then consider who qualifies as a “sack of wet,” and debate whether The Crate Creature is actually the second half of a Strangers On A Train-like murder swap! All this, plus a fantasy-infused edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and Billie introduces the world to the Pittsburg Laverne! Open up and say AAHHH!!! with us today!! Never fear - new episodes of Kill By Kill are made available every other Friday! Dish By Dish: A Hannibal Rewatch on the Fridays in-between.  Our linker.ee Our TeePublic shop for killer merch is right here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/kill-by-kill-podcast?utm_campaign=18042&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Kill%2BBy%2BKill%2Bpodcast%2B      Have something to say? Find us on Twitter @KillByKillPod Join the conversation about any episode on the Facebook Group! Follow us on IG @killbykillpodcast  Check out the films we've covered & what might come soon on Letterboxd! Get even more episodes exclusively on Patreon!   Follow our station on vurbl: https://vurbl.com/station/2bdTISeI3X/ Artwork by Josh Hollis: joshhollis.com Kill By Kill theme by Revenge Body. For the full-length version and more great music, head to revengebodymemphis.bandcamp.com today!

She-hulk gets it on with DD, Werewolf by Night and talking about some stand out Horror film classics and Blerds Eyeview After Dark making a comeback? And, Why is Roger The GOAT of Horror films? https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/podcastlife/ (#podcastlife) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/podcaster/ (#podcaster) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/livestream/ (#livestream) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/horrormovie/ (#horrormovie) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/review/ (#review) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/comicbook/ (#comicbook) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/gamer/ (#gamer) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/movie/ (#movie) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/comedy/ (#comedy) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/superhero/ (#superhero) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/werewolfbynight/ (#werewolfbynight) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/shehulk/ (#shehulk) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fyp/ (#fyp) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bizboost/ (#bizboost) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ultimatewireless/ (#ultimatewireless) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/blerdcommunity/ (#blerdcommunity) https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/blerdseyeview/ (#blerdseyeview)

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In ihrer 25. Jubiläumsausgabe haben Ingo und Alex prominente Begleitung: Doris Reichenauer vom Comedy Duo „Dui do on de Sell“ begleitet die beiden durch den Karlsruher Einkaufsbahnhof. Von ihr bekommen sie kleine Einblicke in die Geheimnisse eines guten Gags. Ingo hatte viel mitzuschreiben ;-). Dann haben sie sich zu dritt beim neueröffneten dean&david genüsslich durch die leckeren Salat-Bowls gegabelt. Doris Reichenauer verrät beim Bahnhofsbummel vorbei am „stillen Örtchen“, wie viele Sanifair-Gutscheine sich in ihrem Auto stapeln. Mit DB Radfix lernen sie das neueste Angebot für Fahrradpendler am Karlsruher Bahnhof kennen: morgens das Rad abstellen und abends fertig repariert wieder abholen. Warum der Bahnsteig 101 „Pfälzer Bahnhof“ genannt wird und wie die Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe perfekte Shows für traumhafte Aahhh- und Oohhh-Momente bieten – hören Sie rein in die 25. Episode!Links:https://www.duidoondesell.dehttps://www.einkaufsbahnhof.de/karlsruhe-hauptbahnhof/store/dean-davidhttps://www.einkaufsbahnhof.de/karlsruhe-hauptbahnhof/store/sanifairhttps://radfix.bahnhof.de/de/https://www.deutschebahn.com/pr-stuttgart-de/aktuell/presseinformationen/089-pm_karlsruhe_modernisierung_pfaelzer_bahnhof-7760126https://www.schlosslichtspiele.infohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFRdL-V400

AAhhh yes, those stories that always end with " I will never be drinking again" just to turn around and be drinking again! A guy in Florida was arrested for being wasted in a Walmart and riding around on a scooter, what is your best/worst drunk story?? 

Heute geht es um Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance und Paramore…achso, was? Es geht nicht um Indie-Bands sondern um Indie-BRANDS? Aahhh…nun gut, dass sich da Journalistin Jannah bestens auskennt - und Beautygutu Susanne schon mit ihrer Nischen-Schwärmerei angesteckt hat. Was macht Indie-Make-up so besonders? Ist Nische auch immer gleich besser? Und was für Marken sind aus den Schminktischschubladen nicht mehr wegzudenken? All das - und noch viel mehr - gibt's auf die Ohren!

Es ist Anfang März, was beutetet: Es ist wieder Zeit für die LEITWOLF Learnings des Monats. „Oh nein! Meine eigene Initiative riskiert im schlimmsten Fall, Menschen zu gefährden und sie riskiert, unsere Ziele als Team im nächsten Jahr komplett zu verfehlen. Und ich bin schuld! Aahhh..." Ungefähr so lief Stefans Kopfkino ab, als er vor über 30 Jahren in einem globalen Unternehmen eine multifunktionale Initiative für das nächste Geschäftsjahr entwickelte. In Wirklichkeit war das große Problem nur ein kleines Risiko und leicht zu beherrschen. Was hätte Stefan besser machen können? Klären statt aufregen! Denn sich aufregen wegen jeder Unklarheit kostet Zeit und Nerven. Und damit herzlich willkommen zu den LEITWOLF Learnings Februar 2022. Wir freuen uns auf Dein Feedback, Deine Antworten zur LEITWOLF-Frage des Monats und wünsche Dir einen guten Start in den März. __________ Gefällt Dir dieser LEITWOLF Leadership Podcast? Dann lass gerne eine Abonnement da und beurteile ihn bitte mit einer Sternebewertung und Rezension bei iTunes. Das hilft uns, diesen LEITWOLF-Podcast weiter zu verbessern. Außerdem wird er dadurch für Menschen aus Deinem Freundeskreis oder Kollegium sichtbarer: http://bit.ly/SH-review ––– Buche Dir JETZT Deinen Zugang zur Leitwolf Academy: https://www.digistore24.com/product/345065 Möchtest Du konkrete Tipps oder Unterstützung, wie gutes Führen in Deinem Unternehmen definiert und umgesetzt werden kann, dann melde Dich für ein kostenloses Beratungsgespräch bei mir: homeister@stefan-homeister-leadership.com ODER Vereinbare hier direkt ein kostenloses Beratungsgespräch mit mir: https://calendly.com/stefan-homeister/leitwolf-meeting // LINKEDIN » bit.ly/leitwolf-linkedin« // WEBSITE » stefan-homeister-leadership.com«   ® 2017 STEFAN HOMEISTER LEITWOLF ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Does food, dieting, working out, or hitting a certain weight captivate your thoughts? Lesley Logan and Kim Barnes Jefferson discuss how to overcome the negative dieting thoughts and trends to create real action towards a healthy mindset and body. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Over dieting & yo-yo dietingFinding three things that are challenging but doableWhat's your “carrot?”Acknowledging the season your in - and the effort and goals that can be accomplished in the seasonAdult friendships and putting in the effort Your three non negotiable's Episode References/Links:Kim's resourcesIG @kimjeffersoncoachPodcast: Fit Girl Magic | Healthy Living for Women over 40 Guest Bio:A overcomer of the cycles of yo-yo dieting and the toxic dieting culture, Kim Barnes Jefferson is an enthusiastic, spunky master coach and founder of Fit Girl Magic Society. She now dedicates her life to helping women over 40 understand why their bodies decided to give them the middle-finger and find confidence in their bodies.   OPC Flashcards:OPC Flashcards are on AmazonOPC Flashcards are on our site  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.  ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Social MediaInstagramFacebookTik TokLinkedIn Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Hey you, welcome back to Be It Till You See It. I'm so happy you're here. I'm so excited for you to hear this conversation between my friend, Kim Barnes Jefferson. She's the podcast host of Fit Girl Magic. And oh, she is amazing. She's so special. And I think she'll have you laughing but I loved our vulnerable, honest conversation. And too often I see people, I see women specifically, not going after what they're here on this planet to do not, not seeing their incredible amazingness because they're so focused on losing 10 pounds, losing 20 pounds, not being an "X- size", you know. And they're like outsourcing their confidence, to a number on a scale, outsourcing their worth and their value. Right? And so what I hope you gather from today's conversation, is that the focus of trying to be something else is, is actually keeping you from sho... shining your amazing light. And there are options. And there are other ways, and there is possibility out there for you. And, and so I hope you enjoy this conversation, I hope that you see, you know, that there that that focusing on and outsourcing your worth to a number on a scale is actually keeping you from being it till you see it. And, and there isn't a magic number. There's no glow moment, as we talked about. That happens when you reach some sort of number. And so anyways, I just believe in you so much. I think you're amazing. I think you have so much value and so much to give this planet. And I don't want you outsourcing that to some random number that you're waiting to be. And then you'll do all those things. And so I've truly can't wait for you to hear Kim's story and Kim's words. And I hope she inspires you the way she inspires me. I hope she makes you laugh, how she makes me laugh. And and let us know how this podcasts have landed with you. Let us know what your takeaways are. I can't wait for you to hear her BE IT options. They're amazing. And I'm just gonna stop yammering right on because you got to hear her words. So thank you for being here. And here's Kim.Lesley Logan 2:21  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 3:07  Hello, BE IT listener what's up, babe? Okay, I got get ready, this conversation is gonna just go off because Kim and I, really it's really random. She actually asked four people to like just send audio messages and a group I'm in about something (can't even tell you what it was.) And I was like, okay, as a stranger, I recorded myself with a tip and sent it to her and end up on her podcast, Fit Girl Magic. (Lesley and Kim laughs) And like that's one way to meet someone. And then we're in the same group but because of travel and times we actually first met in real life in Los Angeles and fast friends from that moment, like just looked at her. I'm like, we just have so much in common and there's so much that we align with so, Kim Barnes Jefferson is here with... I mean, I can't wait. So tell us who you are, Kim. What you're, what you're all about? What you're excited about right now?Kim Barnes Jefferson 4:00  So, um, my name is Kim Barnes Jefferson, and I work with women over 40 who feel like their bodies gave them the finger. You know, (Lesley laughs) I, I it happened to me. And I know many women out there, your doctor tells you, "Oh, you know, you're just 40. Like, it's just what..." And I'm like, "No, I'm not going to accept it." So that's really my like, passion, my drive is that I really hate when medical doctors tell you that you just have to accept something. I don't care what it is, like you don't have to accept anything. Always ask more questions.Lesley Logan 4:31  Oh my gosh, can you see? I mean already right there. As soon as I heard your tagline, "I help women over 40 who feel like their body's gave them the middle finger." We love bad words around here. (Lesley and Kim laughs) But also, like, I just think that's so amazing. Like, we are taught for some reason to just accept things. (Kim: Hmm) We should just accept things. Oh, well, you know, like, I don't know, I said something ... like, "Well, you're close to 40" and I was like, "I'm not that... I mean, yes I am but I'm also not that close yet." Like, it's not a (Kim: Right) countdown. (Lesley laughs) And then also, aren't we living till 105 now? (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 5:09  I don't get it. Like, I don't know who this person was that says like, "At 40 like your body's supposed to be this way. So like, you just have to accept." And I'm like, "Why?" Like, like you said, you know, my Grandma is a hundred years old. Like, we're living longer. She's got her memory. You got to tell her to not mow her lawn. (Lesley and Kim laughs) She's still really active. And I'm like ...Lesley Logan 5:32  Okay, I want to picture of your grandmother mowing her lawn. I really do. I'll frame it.Kim Barnes Jefferson 5:37  It's a ser... and she lives in South Carolina. So it's hot as balls there. (Lesley laughs) And she'll be out like at noon mowing her lawn and my my aunt's like, "The love of God. Could you stop."Lesley Logan 5:47  Okay, so tell us go back a second. When did you feel like your body gave you the middle finger? And what prompted you to be like, "I'm not accepting this word. I'm taking women with me." So, because I think that a lot... I know that the listeners here a lot of them, late 30s but a lot of in their 40s. And, you know, I think that they're accepting where they're at in their life (Kim: Hmm) or when they're at in their jobs. And you're like, "Nope, that's you don't have to accept anything." So what happened to you? (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 6:17  So I, I was a fitness competitor. And I I yo, I yo, yo-yodieted. I dieted my way into this. And, you know, I lived in a world of restriction, my world was this big with food. And I was always... I was either up 30 pounds or down 30 pounds. And finally my body was like, "Girl, we ain't doing this no more." And so I got to the point, I couldn't diet anymore. I couldn't do any more workouts. I was like, my body is not responding. It's just like, "No girl, we are not doing anything for you anymore." And I was putting on 10 pounds a year for like three years. (Lesley: Wow) And I remember I went to my doctor, and like my doctors, been my doctor since I was 25. And for my whole time with her, she's always like, "You know, you're one of my few patients that like your weight is just, you know, perfect." So I was like, "Perfect. Yay."Lesley Logan 7:06  Thank you for my Goldstar. (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 7:09  Right. Exactly. And then I couldn't lose weight. So I went like the first year is like, "Alright, let's just, you know, winter weight." And then the next year, the next year and finally, and I was like ... "You know, Doctor, I'm like, I'm putting on 30 pounds this ain't right?" But like, I'm like, "Is there anything medically wrong with me? Like, is there something I could do?" And she just like, "You know, Kim, you're just over 40 now, and you should just stop eating sandwiches." And I was like, "Bitch ... (Lesley: Oh my God) I'll eat sandwiches ...Lesley Logan 7:33  Oh my God. That sandwiches are not the enemy. It's not the sandwich.Kim Barnes Jefferson 7:39  ... She never even asked me what I eat. Like, if I told her I'm like you know, like hanging out at Dunkin Donuts or eating McDonald's. Then she said, Kim cut out McDonald's, she said cut out sandwiches and I was like, "Okay." I'm like, "Let me just put sit on my hands because I know my husband will not bail me out if I kill this woman today." (Lesley laughs) And that was literally it. I drove home. And I was like, "There's a, there's an answer. I don't know what the answer is but there's an answer." Like, I know that, I know I did this to myself, like I over... overtrained and under dieted. I know that, I know that about myself. But I'm like, "I know there's a way out of it." And so for anyone who's listening, there is a way out of it. One, you gotta be ready. And it ain't gonna be overnight.Lesley Logan 8:21  What are some signs though, because in case people are not aware, I think a lot of people just assume diets are the way you do things. And we all just put you on a diet all the time. (Kim: Yeah) And for the record, like, just in case you don't know. And diet doesn't mean bad things doesn't mean you're like restricted eating. It's (Kim: Right) like the regiment of what you eat food, like what you're (Kim: Exactly) eating, what your menu is, right? So because I was, I told my grandpa I was on a gluten and dairy free diet. And he's like, "You're too skinny to be on a diet" and I was like, "Thank you Paps. We're not restricted (Kim: Right) on on the calories we're consuming, but we are restricted on those two items." So how to like, what does, what does it look like when you are when you are over dieting? Like what are the signs and symptoms of that just in case people don't know?Kim Barnes Jefferson 9:11  So over dieting is that you know, we all grew up thinking that in order to lose weight, maintain weight, I have to eat less and move more. And so many of us I don't know where this number came from, like I've been researching it, just of like to be able to find the source that if we eat 1200 calories. Right? So we get stuck in I need to eat a certain number of calories because that's gonna keep me safe. (Lesley: Yeah) Or we always feel like I have to be hungry that you know, I have to like sac... sacrifice, suffer in order to lose the weight or maintain my weight. Or you know, like you said, give up gluten, soy, dairy, carbs, like give up, give up, give up, give up. And like you if chose to because it's like for you that makes your body feel good. That's different. (Lesley: Yeah. There's a big difference.) I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw that some influencer that I don't even know. No... you know, no more whatever.Lesley Logan 10:06  Yeah, no, it's true. I lived in LA. And so these women would go on this one particular trainers plan who was endorsed by a certain celebrity. And they're like, "Yeah, I'm on this diet, and I do 600 calories a day." And I'm like, "So that actually scares the hell out of me." (Kim: Yeah) And I'm just gonna let you know that as soon as you're not doing 600 calories a day, you're gonna gain so much weight. And you're just like, your body is not because it's used to only having six... like, it's gonna, I don't know, I don't know the science of it, because I don't study that. But like, as women, we were advertised to do this to ourselves. Many of us have been on many restrictive diets. And then we do this for ourselves. And then what happens is, yes, 40 happens and things happen ... But a lot of those things that are happening, right, because we... our body says, "F you, you (Kim: Right) like did damage to me." So what were the signs and symptoms of the damage from restricted dieting, like what does that look like?Kim Barnes Jefferson 11:07  Well, you know, it's funny, it's, you know, hindsight is always 20 20. You know, when you're in the thick of it, you're like, "This is awesome." (Lesley laughs) Like, you know, because I was just getting all... I was I was a trainer at the time. So I was getting all the accolades, like, "Oh, you look so good. You look amazing." (Lesley: Yeah) Like, I'm just getting clients because of how I looked. Now, I'm like, "No, I want a client to come to me, because they have reached that point where like, "I don't like how I look anymore."" So what was happening me was like, I was just neurotic. (Kim laughs) I was neurotic about what I ate. I was neurotic about, you know, how many times I went to the gym like my life revolved around my food and my workouts.Lesley Logan 11:42  Yeah, I know that. (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 11:45  You know, I, you know, it's funny because I was on another podcast a couple days ago. And I was talking about like, I hate to make this like analogy. But it's the only one that I've found that really works. Is that like, you know how an alcoholic just reaches their rock bottom their point where they're just like, "I cannot take another drink. I just can't." (Lesley: Right) And that was me, I was like, "I can't spend too much more time thinking about eating and exercise. I can't do it anymore." And I'm on the StairMaster and I'm crying. I'm crying on the StairMaster. It's my birthday. And my husband texts me he's like, "Ah, I found a place that can make bland fish and greens for you for for dinner. So you know, get home by 7:30 and we can go out to dinner." And I'm like, "Seriously." My husband had to call a restaurant and tell them how to make my food. And I was like, I at that point, I burst into tears. I was like, "Is this my life?"Lesley Logan 12:38  Yeah. (Kim: And ...) I've been there. I understand that I, Oh, my God, I want to cry for you.Kim Barnes Jefferson 12:43  Yeah. And I was like, on the number one bus coming home and I'm like, crying and like, "Yes, everyone cries in a public transportation. It's fine." (Lesley and Kim laughs)Lesley Logan 12:54  Y'all, she still lives in Boston. So if you're like what my Californians and (Kim: Right) you know other suburbans, like, you ride the bus in Boston, you ride the train like, yeah, so I ...Kim Barnes Jefferson 13:03  East coasters. Yeah, we take public transportation. So yeah, I was ... (Lesley: Oh, my God) I was riding the public transportation while I was crying.Lesley Logan 13:10  Ah, and so you know, Kim, thank you for sharing this. So I think like, what when I hear stories like that, though, again, I have also been there. We're like, food is like food and exercise are like the number one priority. But we tell ourselves, "Oh, we're being healthy." (Kim: Yeah) "Oh, look at us taking care of ourselves. Look at this self care." But really, if we ask ourselves looking back, because you are your own boss, I am my own boss. How much, how much should we move the needle forward in our business? How much should we reach our dreams?Kim Barnes Jefferson 13:38  Well, it's funny, because that was like the beginning of my business. So of course, like, I was like, "Oh, I was like, I gotta like, do this because it's my money. Like, if I don't look like this, then I won't get clients. If I don't get clients and I won't have you know, the luxuries of lights."Lesley Logan 13:53  Oh, that's an that's an oh great way to like just really wrap it up with a bow of neuroses. (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 13:58  Oh, my God. I like, I like, I look back and I'm just like, "Why wasn't I institutionalized?" Like all the crazy thoughts that I had in my head. They were wrapped around food and exercise.Lesley Logan 14:10  So yeah, so you know, and I mean, I hear that because as a Pilates instructor, I definitely felt like, oh my gosh, especially once we figured out what was wrong with my health, I started gaining weight. I was like, "My clients are going to leave me because I'm gaining weight." And, and the compliments stopped but the truth is, is like, "I look way better now. 20 pounds heavier. My Pilates is so much stronger." There's all these stories we tell ourselves that are (Kim: Right) actually holding us all back. So, so okay, so you had this like rock bottom moment crying on your birthday. What birthday was this? What number?Kim Barnes Jefferson 14:45  You know, honestly, I don't even remember what the birthday it was. I just remember it was my birthday. And I just remember like, "Oh my God, like my husband just can't take me out to freakin' dinner.Lesley Logan 14:52  Yeah, because I won't because I've made so many rules around what I can eat. (Kim: Yeah and I'm like ...) Yeah, so um, so after that moment, and, you know, like, fast forward, you stop restrictive eating, and you give yourself some freedom. What was that like? It's not, I imagine that's not easy to do. And your body, like has some freak outs with that. So what does that look like?Kim Barnes Jefferson 15:15  Yeah, it was scary. It was like, it was literally like diving off. Like, you know, you see this, like, people dive off like a high cliff. Like, that's what it felt like for me. So my first thing was, like, I was like to say to my husband like, "You know, what, we're going anywhere you want for dinner, and I don't care what's on the plate, I'm just gonna eat." And I was like," I'm just gonna eat," and I'm like, "I'm not gonna, I'm gonna do my best to not overeat." And the next morning is like, "I'm not going to the gym tomorrow." And I was like, "I did that." And it was like, I just started doing like, these little experiments, like so many people, even myself included, always think that, like, you have to, like the light switches on or the light switches off. (Lesley: Right. But it's a dimmer) It's a total dimmer, and I'm like, I was like, "Alright, I need to figure out what dim looks like for me." And so I would like play with these little things like, "Okay, can I go out to dinner and tell myself that I'm only going to have two glasses of wine?" Versus it being like, "Ah, just keep the drinks coming and then keep the food coming." Like, could I just go out and like make a decision, like, "This is how the night's gonna happen for me." And like, I'd say, 80% of the time, that's all worked out. I was like, "What? I could decide?" like, I'm not like driven by like, you know, the night like, so many of us get caught up in like, the moment.Lesley Logan 16:28  Yeah. And well, what you're saying is what I'm hearing is like, instead of going... you restrict yourself to having none of those things. (Kim: Right) And then there's the other side where it's like, zero control whatsoever. And some people might hear that and go, Well, you only have two that's isn't that restrictive, but you're like, "No, I'm making a decision (Kim: Right) that I'm allowed to have two drinks, should I want them. And that's enough." And like, and then you're like, "Oh, look, I could do that." Like I think ... it's especially people have never been super restrictive. Like they don't realize that like giving yourself permission but with a limit is not restrictive. It's like it's actually like really helpful to making those changes in your (Kim: Right) life happened.Kim Barnes Jefferson 17:08  Cuz I was like, you know, I was like a frickin' you know, sailor out on leave. If I told my... if I was like, "Oh, I'm not dieting tonight." And I was just like, "Bring it that on"Lesley Logan 17:17  Sailor on leave. (Lesley laughs) On the East Coast, don't y'all have that thing I saw on Sex in the City. When the ... (Kim: Oh, yeah. Fleet week) What they call that? (Kim: Fleet Week) Fleet Week. So you (Kim: Yes) were like, so you either like super restrictive bland fish, they're, you know, calling around (Kim: Or Fleet Week) to fancy restaurants in Boston, or it's Fleet Week. (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 17:39  Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's how I was. And I one ... one of our really good friends. He ran a restaurant here in Boston. And we would I would go there and I'd walk in the door. And he'd be like, "Are you on the wagon, Kim or off the wagon, Kim?" And I would go in there at the door, my craziness. They would like I would literally go to the window and be like, "Alright, this is what I need." And they would make it for me. (Lesley: Wow) And I was like, I don't know if that's like, great. Or the fact that I'm like, so like, I literally used to go there, like, three days a week so ... everyone in the place knew us. So I would be like, "Hey, this is what I'm having for my salad today. Bla bla bla bla bla," and they will make it.Lesley Logan 18:19  They were your personal chefs. (Kim: Pretty much) I mean they're, I mean they're providing a service and they want to make you happy because they like you. And I think like what's very interesting, though, is that like, somehow you still had people who loved you around all the (Kim: Yeah) neuroses, but I want to know, like, when you like, figured out your damn switch? What freedoms did you experience in your business and your relationships and your life? Like, what what does that look like? Because now you, you're living with, like, you know, your dim, like, and you can move the needle up and down. So what is how did that happen? Like, what happ... what did you feel? How that happened? What did it let you, what did it allow you to do? Because if your focus is always on, "What I'm eating, and when I'm working out." (Kim: Yeah) like you can't do a lot of other things.Kim Barnes Jefferson 19:04  No, I really couldn't. I was barely like, you know, I felt looked back. I was like, "God, how did I like get clients?" Like, my whole ... my whole world is about me. Like how ... like, how did I care about any of my clients. (Lesley: Yeah) Um one of the biggest like, I say, like, my kind of point that I knew I reached my like, like, top of my mountain was I went on vacation for 30 days. Never done that ever. And usually vacations were like, "Woooo." Right? It was like Girls Gone Wild (Lesley laughs) when I'm in vacation. Mine is like the wet t-shirt contest. And I went on vacation and I said, "Okay, I..." and I was going to Australia and I was like, "I don't want to be the ugly American. I'm gonna what can I do so that not always thinking about getting in my workout, food, so forth." So, I gave myself non negotiables and I said, "What feels easy? What can I do but still not feel like "wasn't enough, Kim, you didn't do enough?" And I was like, "Okay, I know I could sleep, sleeps amazing. I know I can get in steps because we're not getting a car, we're walking everywhere we're taking public transportation. And I know that I can eat a big ass salad." Because every place on this planet, you can get a salad, (Lesley: Yeah) and I'm like so... I do those three things every single day, I will feel like I am like, at least not laying down and just like letting the world come out at me. And that was like, the most freeing thing. So I was like, I stepped on the scale one before we left. And then I stepped on the scale, the day we got back. And I only put on two pounds in 30 days. And I (Lesley: On a vacation) was like ... on a vacation (Lesley: without your things) that I didn't, I didn't weigh or measure a damn thing, I just ate by how I felt that I wanted to eat that day. Some days, there were a couple more drinks than I then I had the next day. Some day were no drinks, but I was like, "These are the three things I'm just going to focus on and everything else is just going to fall in to place." And that was like the that was like, my like, "Oh my God, like I can decide. I can choose." And the two pounds was probably, I was on a plane for 15 freakin' hours.Lesley Logan 21:10  Right? Right. Right. Right. Right. We don't give ourselves that, "We're so hard on ourselves." So that's incredible. So now, you this is... did you just keep that mindset going? Is that how (Kim: Yeah) live your life?Kim Barnes Jefferson 21:22  So now is like, you know, those three non negotiables? Like, that's just like, what it's like, I don't even think about anymore. It's like a habit. It's like, you know, I don't think about that everyday, "I have a salad." I don't think about every day, "I get usually 20,000 steps." And I sleep, you know, minimum seven hours a night. And now of like, "Okay, Kim you've done it for so long." Now it's time for me to like, find another three non negotiable. So it's like, you know, always trying to find three things that are challenging, but doable, right. (Lesley: Yeah) You know, all of us think like, "Oh, I gotta do these 50 hard things." Well, and then you keep failing and then you get pissed at yourself. Like right now, like, my biggest thing is I might my biggest pet peave is that 75 hard thing. It's just like, if you try to do something for 75 days, and you miss one day, you have to go back to the beginning. Like that's not empowering.Lesley Logan 22:09  Yeah, I know, I have friends who do that. And I look at it and there's like something that's like, "Wow, that's amazing." But also like, I study habits. (Kim: Right) I study how these things work. I study, studied with the behavioral science, founder of Stanford, who wrote the book, "Tiny Habits." He's the person who trained, James Clear who everyone reads "Atomic Habits." I study with the guy. (Kim: Right) And he says, "We make habits around how things make us feel good." (Kim: Yes.) And, and we we have to stop the perfectionism, we have to stop with the shame and the blame and the things (Kim: Yeah) because as you mentioned earlier, if y'all caught this when she was so obsessed with herself, in her bland fish, and on and off the wagon, and then so she's off the wagon, so she shames exercises, and she shame, what all the things. She's like, "I don't even know how I got clients." And so your a dream, here you are. Now you're the woman, you're the trainer, and you're the speaker who helps women over 40, help their body, like help, how they feel about their body that just gave the middle finger? You, you're like, how did I even do anything before that, because I was so obsessed with this. And so like, I think this is really important to talk about, because we cannot be it till we see it, we cannot do the thing we are here (Kim: No) on this planet to do if we are 100% obsessed with controlling something that actually has nothing to do with it. (Kim: No) Not like, like your what what I, what I just love about all the people I know in the fitness industry is like all of us have different bodies, and all of us have different shapes. And if all of us were in bikinis right now, you may or may not go those are a group of trainers right over there. (Lesley laughs) (Kim: Right. Right) That isn't, that's actually not a reflection of our talent and skill. It's like we're this is our body that we're confidently wearing. And all bodies look different. And when you're obsessed with what you eat, and how much, how many hours and how many calories you burn, you cannot show up for people. So giving yourself this dim switch, giving yourself these non negotiables that are easy for you to accept and do. (Kim: Right) They're challenging, but possible. Tell us about the women whose lives you've been working on? Like what are your... what are your goals on like, how do you help them? What do they come to you for?Kim Barnes Jefferson 24:21  So a lot of women but you know, they come to me, and they are in that, they're caught up in the diet culture, you know, they want to lose 10 pounds, or they want to, you know, eat better, healthier. And one of the things I'm always telling them, it's like, "Let's get really clear about what that means for you." (Lesley: Yeah) "Let's get, let's get clear about what season you're in." You know, I have a client, she's an accountant. And from pretty much February through May, like she's heads down like doing people's taxes. And I was like, "Katie, is this a season for you to even think about weight loss or is this the season for you to be like, "What can I do to maintain what I have?" like so that I'm not eating cold pizza out of in the kitchen because they always bring them in food." And I'm like, "What can you do? Like, what can you focus on?" So it's for me, it's a lot of like, having my clients lift their heads up from like all the malarkey that's been, like, thrown at them to be like, "What works for you?" Because like, Lesley, see what works for you, ain't gonna work for me, (Lesley: Right) what works for me, isn't going to work for you. So my my, when I work with clients, it's like, you're an individual. So like, what feels easy? Like, what do you think that one thing right now, if you started doing it, that's going to really open up the door for you. (Lesley: Right) And for many people, you know, like, one of my clients, Laura, she's like, "I know, if my sleep," she's like, "If I got more sleep, I would be up earlier." And she was like, "If I woke up earlier, I would exercise more if I exercise more, I would lose the weight." And she's like, and you know, "If I stopped more, I wouldn't have more cravings." So it's like us kind of unpacking, what's your three non negotiables? And it's not like, I can't give them to you. Well, I can, but I don't want to ...Lesley Logan 25:52  Right. You can you can give suggestions. And you can be honest, like if someone's like, "Okay, I can run 10 miles every day. And I can do this," so you can be like, "Okay, so let's actually talk about this, you're in tax season? Do you have an hour and a half everyday to run?" (Kim: Right) No. "So can you go for a walk for 10 minutes every day?" (Kim: Right) "Can you drink X amount of water a day? Can you commit to seven hours of sleep?" Like those like you're saying you're so as a coach, or like, "Let me just call you out because that's a little too much." (Kim: Right) But like, also, you can it they have to be, they have to create them otherwise, it's just another (Kim: Right) thing that they're doing for someone else, really.Kim Barnes Jefferson 26:29  Exactly. You know, I think about it, like when I worked in corporate ... you worked, you had a corporate job too. So like, the, you know, head of the company set the goal, then it trickled down to your boss, and then your boss told you what you needed to do in order to help the company hit their goal. (Lesley: Yeah) What do you invested? Did you give a shit about that said "goal" that you were supposed to, like help the company with?Lesley Logan 26:51  Only with the commission was good and achievable. And as soon as the goals came in, and they were not possible, I was not invested. I was like, "Nope." (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 27:01  Right. Right. If there was, if there's no money in it for if there's like, I'll be on first person to be hon, to be honest with you. Like, I like money I do. (Lesley laughs) (Lesley: I love money) And in corporate, like if I wasn't getting a bonus attached to it, like, "What's the incentive? I need a carrot." And so I always tell my clients like, "You need that carrot, like what is your why?" And you know, one of my clients, Mandy, her "why" she's like, "My kid is four years old, and I have no frickin' energy." (Lesley: Yeah) So that she's like, "That's my, that's my carrot to keep going."Lesley Logan 27:32  I love that. I love that. So you're you you work with them on their seasons. So (Kim: Right) y'all, there are seasons there are and we've had different guests on who've talked about even like, like a season of our cycle, right? There are weeks of a month that you're gonna feel like, "I got this" and there are weeks of the month that you're like, "Please bring a blanket, shade, sunglasses, turn the music down." I don't (Kim: Right) like whatever. But then there's also just seasons every single one of us has a season that we're in not just like that it's you know, fall or summer but it's like actually like this is your busy season like Kim and I we're just talking... And before I start hit record is like we're in very busy season as we record this right now. (Kim: Right) I'm wrapping up three companies for the year in four and a half weeks, and every minute counts. And so is this the season for me to start something new that is hard? No. But can I have ideas and think about things and I kind of make choices on on some things that are doable, but challenging? And then I can like maybe in December, I'm like, you know what I really have been wanting to learn pickleball because everybody here plays pickleball. I can learn that something new on my vacation. (Kim: Right) And then you know, so it's I that's what I hear you saying anyway, soKim Barnes Jefferson 28:46  You... You're 100% right, because it's like so I laugh because like so many people that try to like cram all this stuff into their life and then you feel like a failure because you can't get it all done. But it's like, you know what, but right now with the month of November, it's not the time for me to take on anything new. It's not you, it's not me. It's like this is just I have to honor that I I'm done with being busy. And you know ...Lesley Logan 29:09  Oh my God, I love that. I need a shirt, "I'm done with being busy." (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 29:14  Right. Cuz like think about it. You ask anyone the people listening like think about anyone you ask. You're like, "Hi Lesley, how you doing?" Ah, so busy. (Lesley: Yeah) That is like the first response not like, "I'm doing great today like it's a fa... it's sunny out or whatever. Oh, I'm so busy." Like that's become our like, cultural icon like ...Lesley Logan 29:32  ... badge of honor. It's a badge of honor, "Look how busy I am." (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 29:36  Right. I mean you know, no one's giving you a merit badge. You know, it's kind of like when I finally, I saw my clients and they're like, "I you know, I just I need to go hard." And I'm like, "No one's giving you a merit badge if you dieted hard." I wish there's no Mercedes because if there was a Mercedes for dieting hard, I would have like 10 ...Lesley Logan 29:53  Yeah ... You're like, "I did that already. 10 times over. I have yet, do you want my car lot." (Kim: Right) You know what I don't want to just say like, oh my tombstone, "Lesley Logan, she was busy." (Kim: Yeah) Right? Like I am and that's like, you know, one of the reasons why we hire as many people as we have on our team because like, I really am, like, I after we're done talking today, I have my lunch break. It's in the calendar because I do not eat through my lunches anymore. You know, (Kim: Right) because like, that is not serving me. And I think like, what's really cool is that you've lived this, you know what these women have done because you did it to yourself. And (Kim: Yeah) you're like, "Okay, ladies, here we go. This is what we're stopping doing." So, Kim, like, what are what are you, what are you excited about right now? Like, what are you working on being it till you see it right now?Kim Barnes Jefferson 30:45  Right now, what I'm really excited about is that, you know, here we are, we spent, I don't know, almost two years in like lockdown, right? You know, many of us have been, you know, kind of restricted in our movement. And so, right now, I'm working on this big retreat that I'm going to be hosting in next April. And it's just, I really want women to like know what it's like to just get together, like you have all of your Pilates retreats, and you know, that like, yes, the ladies come to the Zooms, and it's great. It's fabulous. It's wonderful. But like, there's a different energy when you're in the room, and everyone's like, "Oh, my God, you're so and so. Oh, you're so and so." And it's just like, you've been on this journey for so long together, and you finally get to be meet that person in person. And this this, like, the energy is so different, and the relationships that you build. And so I know, I've missed that during Rona. You know that?Lesley Logan 31:32  Oh my God ... I like, I can't even wait as the time of recording this, y'all. Some countries have opened their borders. And I'm just like, I'm like watching like I've had people go, "Hey, can you commit to this? Can you commit to this?" And I'm like, "Nope, I am saving space, because the country I do my retreats in is going to open it's borders. And as soon as it does, like I'm going and like that's my Be It right now." It's like, I'm holding space, (Kim: Right) for these because I miss them. And I know that when people especially when women get together, there is it's unstoppable energy that happens because, (Kim: Yeah) you know, I think, I mean, obviously, there's still energy on Zoom. I was just on a Zoom (Kim: Right) call with 130 people and people were in tears about things are being said, the chat was hot, like the whole, like, we have figured out a way to have that encouragement and energy on a Zoom call, but nothing will ever replace it in person. And (Kim: No) I love that you're like, ma... not just manifesting this, but you're planning it, you're putting it out there and you're telling people like, we got to be together. I think that is just really cool.Kim Barnes Jefferson 32:34  Yeah, it's I was having a conversation with a friend. And she's just like, you know, as adults, and we've talked... and Lesley and I've talked about this, like, as adults, like "How many people do we have is like friends?" Right. You know, if you have kids, you might be friendly with their parents of your kids. But like, "Are you like friends?" (Lesley: Right) And you know, as adults, it's just challenging. Like, we all move around. It's really hard to meet people that you just like hook in and you connect with. And so, you know, I've been fortunate that like, you know, Lesley and I met through a mastermind. I've had other women that have met through mastermind and then I'm like, "They're my friends." Like they might not be next door but there are people who I'm like, I could call up and, "Hey, I'm like Bali's opened up, we should all go." And they're like, "You think? What time?" Like ... Lesley Logan 33:16  Yeah. Hold on when are we doing this? (Kim: Right) I know. It's so true. I had this summer, because I made this be it thing that I was like, "I'm going to make myself more available to time with friends." And like sometimes y'all that means like the ... we're recording this the day after I was up till midnight, two nights in a row. Because I had a girlfriend in town that I we get to talk to like once a month, generally. She's also a business owner. I've had her on the pod and and I honestly wanted to go to bed but I was like, "Nope, I make time to be in relationship with my friends." When that's possible. Doesn't mean I could have said "no." But like I said, "I am the woman who makes time for her friends when they come to town." And I had this other friend who, Kareen who's been on the podcast. She's like, "Hey, I'm gonna be in LA on this date. Are you on these dates? Are you gonna be in LA that day?" And I was like, "Oh, I fly to Maui, the next day." Yeah, I'll fly into LA for the day. I literally flew in (Kim: Right) I found it but I went online. The plane tickets were cheap. Y'all, doesn't mean you have to say "yes," but I was like, let me just see if I can afford the plane ticket(Kim: Right) ticket to fly in and out on the same day. And I did because it is so important when you you may not live in the same place as your friends but if you want to have friends you have to, you have to put (Kim: Make the effort) yourself in this even make the effort, it's doesn't just happen. Yeah, yeah. (Kim: Right) Oh my gosh, Kim, I mean, well, obviously could just keep talking. You're really amazing. But I think there's a lot of women who are listening as well like their body's giving middle finger and they want to know more about how you help them. Okay, Kim, how do all these women get to follow you, find you, stalk you, work with you?Kim Barnes Jefferson 33:52  I love stalkers. I love stalkers for sure. So you can find me on the socials. I'm Kim Jefferson Coach. So find me there @kimjeffersoncoach on the Gram, as well as on Facebook.Lesley Logan 35:03  Amazing! You're amazing. This is so fun. Thank you for having an honest conversation about sharing your life because I think I just think so often like our diets and our way of exercising the way we see ourselves keeps us from Being It Till we See It in so many ways. (Kim: Yeah) It just really does. And we really have to stop thinking that our bodies are the reason we're going to have anything happen for us in this life. Now, they are the vessel that gets us there, but they're not the ticket that opens your door.Kim Barnes Jefferson 35:32  Oh, I love that. Because you right, because it's like so many people, like, "When I do X, when this happens?" And then you get to that point. And then you realize, like, you know, I like to use example of Pulp Fiction, you know, that like shiny glow box that like, you know, when you lose 20 pounds, this glow box is gonna happen, you're gonna be like, "Aahhh it's not." Like that ... Lesley Logan 35:51  You're gonna step on the scale and the lights gonna stream down. It's like, "aaahhh" (Kim: Right) (Lesley laughs)Kim Barnes Jefferson 35:57  ... It's like, angels are gonna fly ... you're gonna lose ...Lesley Logan 36:01  And that one's gonna give you the promotion, they're gonna get the keys to your Mercedes. And then all of a sudden, your house is clean. And the food like no, none of that freakin' happens.Kim Barnes Jefferson 36:10  ... Your kids are behaving like, (Lesley laughs) People have to realize like, "I gotta I gotta be happy now." Like what are the things I could do to be happy now so that what I do lose 20 pounds, "Hey, 20 pounds. Awesome." I can celebrate it. But it's not going to be this. Like you said, "This key is going to open up some magic kingdom."Lesley Logan 36:27  Well, and also you'll get to decide if you really need the ... to lose 20 pounds. Like you're just gonna be (Kim: Right) like figure that out. Okay, so before before I forget out of my pure joy and excitement for removing this glow box theory from people's minds. BE IT action items, bold, executable, targeted, intrinsic steps people can take to prioritize themselves and be it till they see it. What do you got for us?Kim Barnes Jefferson 36:49  So the biggest thing I always find three things that you can easily do every single day that makes you feel like you're honoring your health. They don't have to be hard. They don't have to be you know, crazy. It could be really something like, "I'm gonna drink a glass of water first thing in the morning." Like it could be something really simple. Second thing is just really ask yourself to find what does success mean like for you? Like don't listen to all the other malarkey BS out there. What does success actually mean for you? And stop collecting information and just start doing shit. Just start getting shit done.Lesley Logan 37:21  Yeah. Oh, I love it. I love it. I love you. (Kim: I love you, too) We'll definitely have to have you back my dear friend. And we have to figure out how we can hang out and get our our coffee, travel, loving, husbands, partners in crime, together (Kim: Yes) as well. So we will work that out. Y'all, how are you gonna use these BE IT action items? How do you use this inspiration what Kim has said in your life? Screenshot this episode, tag Kim... @kimjeffersoncoach (Kim: Yep) on Instagram and the @be_it_pod and let us know. And until next time, Be It Till You See It.Lesley Logan 37:58That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till Yous See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. Have an awesome day!Lesley Logan 38:26'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell 38:31  It's written produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Our Associate Producer is Amanda Frattarelli.Lesley Logan 38:42  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing.Brad Crowell 38:46Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 38:55Special thanks to our designer Jaira Mandal for creating all of our visuals (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all video each week so you can.Brad Crowell 39:07  And to Angelina Herico for transcribing each of our episodes so you can find them on our website. And, finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aahhh - you thought you could get rid of me - didn't you - thought you could just ignore me… well no way - I'm bloody well back again! You can't keep a big mouth away from the microphone. Your biggest fears have been realized… season three of Radio Owlsnest is upon you; nowhere to hide - nowhere to run; so just curl up in a fetal position and pathetically surrender to the inevitable - resign your poor self to yet another season of PAGEY'S SONIC TORTURE. In today's show I'll be spinning yet another hidden demo written with Bernie Taupin during our era of frenetic collaboration. I'll also be revealing a long lost demo I wrote with another lyricist legend - the unmatchable Hal David. And the fine renowned studio session singer, Tommy Funderburk, demonstrates his considerable ‘chops' on a couple of my ancient, scarce demos. During the second half of the show, a definite Celtic/romantic atmosphere tints the proceedings, when I play you a fascinating hybrid of a song - a mongrel of a tune I was really intrigued to rediscover. You'll learn where my song “Man in the Moon” - from my album, “In the Temple of the Muse” - gained its initial inspiration, birth and concept. I think songwriters will find this particular demonstration highly captivating. So my trusted OWLHEADS - we're back in the saddle again for season 3 - 2022. I'm thrilled to be able to bring you some more hidden gems from the archives, and to relate the stories behind the songs. Please join me for the launch of season 3!

After 300 podcast episodes Rob and Pernell finally say those 3 special words to each other: DAY. TONE. AAHHH!!!! On the show we reflect back on our favorite episodes past with new music for those topics. And we have our favorite VGM podcast friends popping by to say hello to help us celebrate! Will Rob complete Persona 5 before episode 400? (I hope so) Will Pernell become trapped in an avalanche of boardgames? (Doubtful) Will we have to bleep out swear-words with Yoshi sound effects? (okay just one more time). Join us for an R&P celebration for the holidays! Find more of the show! https://rhythmandpixels.com Support the podcast! https://patreon.com/rhythmandpixels Cool VGM T-Shirts! https://rhythmandpixels.com/merch

Are you stuck in that dieting cycle, jumping from one to the next? Is your relationship with food constantly something you are obsessing over? Meet Amber Shaw, a health and wellness expert. She and Lesley dig through finding food freedom, skipping the dieting vortex, creating consistency, moderation and satisfaction in your food choices.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co .And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Finding food freedomSkip the dieting vortexNot eating enough caloriesTurning 40You are at the right place at the right timeTherapyPutting yourself firstStop looking at food as calories in and calories outConstantly dieting Episode References/Links:Amber on TikTokAmber on IGAmber's websiteAmber's podcast, The Wellness RevolutionGuest Bio:Amber is a Body Transformation Expert and Founder of The Wellness Revolution, a leading global movement for thousands of women to empower them to rediscover their confidence and create a body that looks as good as it feels (inside and out)!She has extensively coached thousands of women 40+ from all across the world to get off the crazy train of dieting and find true food freedom so they can feel empowered, confident and sexy.As a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a Certified Personal Trainer, Amber is committed to overhauling the diet culture. Her mission is to help millions of women worldwide heal their relationship with food and themselves while empowering them to transform their lives, love their bodies and create lasting results.If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookTik TokLinkedIn Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Hey you, welcome back to Be It Till You See It. Aahhh. I can't get over that I get to do this as par... as like part of my living. I love talking to you, I truly do. I also am obsessed with the takeaways that you are sharing with me on all the things, whether it is on Instagram and tagging @be_it_pod or it is on our YouTube channel, or it's on Facebook. And you know, however you want to get a hold of me to share with me your takeaways, I will take it because I want to make it easy for you. And, I also believe that when we write things down that it sticks with us, and so thank you for being a listener first and foremost. And if this is your first podcast, you're listening to us. Well hello, and welcome to Be It Till You See It. Today's guest is an epic woman and I cannot wait for you to hear her strategies for you to Be It Till You See It. Oh my gosh. I literally, I literally hung up with her and I went and did one of them. And so you'll have to guess which one I did. I'd love to hear it. But her name is Amber Shaw and she is someone that I think so many of you will resonate with. She was in corporate sales for 16 years. She is a mom and she went through divorce right before her 40th birthday. And she used all of that to propel her on this journey and this mission on this planet. And it is so filled with purpose and she is such an awesome human being so I can't wait for you to dive into this episode. Please do us a huge favor and after you listen to it, share us your takeaways. I know it will not only make Amber's day, it'll totally make mine and you never know who's going to see that post you do and it's going to light a fire under them and it's going to be the sign that they needed to do the thing which is Be It Till You See It. So here comes the amazing interview with Amber Shaw right after this message.Lesley Logan 1:53  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 2:36  Alright. Welcome to Be It Till You See It. I'm so thrilled to have Amber Shaw here. Y'all, she is someone I don't even know if we would ever met had I not been like, "What's this thing? Who's this person? Okay, I love her. I'm going to sign up for this mastermind," and then got my booty down to Austin, Texas and got to meet her and definitely left her on a night on the town with my husband and some other people that go karaoke, but that's who she is. She's so much fun. She's full of life and I can't even wait for you to know her. Amber, welcome to the podcast.Amber Shaw 3:10  Oh my gosh, I am so fired up to be here. Yes, that infamous night in Austin. It was a blast, you I think you got out in the nick of time. (Lesley: I did. I'm really good at that.) Well like you did like yeah, I woke up the next day. I was like, "Damn, I should have gone home when Lesley went home." (Amber laughs)Lesley Logan 3:26  I'm like the queen of Irish goodbyes. I started my 20s and I mean, I guess now I do say, "Bye. I'm going." (Lesley laughs) (Amber: Yeah, yeah) I'm definitely known for we've been out at karaoke and I just call an Uber and I'm like, "Gotta go, my driver's here." (Lesley laughs) Amber Shaw 3:42  Yeah. Like that that's not me. Like I'm like, "Where's the next party?" Like, "I gotta I gotta get this going." Hahaha ..."Lesley Logan 3:47  Well, Amber. So tell us aside from like being amazing life lover and a party queen. Who are you? What do you do? How what are you up to right now?Amber Shaw 3:58  Yeah, love thank you. So yes, I am a nationally board certified health and wellness coach. I'm also a certified certified personal trainer, and I'm a body transformation expert for women over 40. Really my mission in life is to help women really get off the crazy train of dieting and heal their relationship with food and themselves so that they can really be the most competent and sexy version that they can. So, it's my life's work.Lesley Logan 4:28  Obsessed with that as someone who grew up with family members who dieted constantly (Lesley laughs) (Amber: Yes) and so my relationship with food was not super awesome. Again, you know, I had to like really rework that and rework how I thought about food with my body, how it was, became fuel, and it's definitely difficult and I think that it's really one of those things that stops women from doing things in life is this constant obsession of like, "What I can eat? What I can't eat? What is the scale say?" Like that constant whirlwind in the brain is taking up space that allows them to show up on this planet and do what they're here for.Amber Shaw 5:08  Oh, my God, I mean, absolutely, you know, I talk so much about this with my platforms my different platforms. And then when I coach women about really finding food freedom, and if you are somebody that's been in that dieting vortex for most of your life, when I say food freedom, you understand what that means. Because I think so many of us have been a slave to food and just our body image issues and a slave to the scale. And it's yeah, it's definitely, it absolutely stifles your growth that absolutely, like you said, prevents you from being who you're meant to be. And I can tell you that it wasn't until I really took that bull by the horns and tried to heal that piece of me - because of you know, years of having eating disorders and being on every diet on the plan and all of that - it really wasn't until I was able to heal that part of me that I was able to fully step into my power as a woman, as a coach, as a mentor, as all of these things. So yeah, absolutely.Lesley Logan 6:11  So how, so tell me how you got into like, even wanting to be on that journey and how you got into doing it for others? Like what was what was the impetus? What got you to go, "I'm really over this right now."Amber Shaw 6:23  Yeah, you know, so how do you say like, my story, I think, like my, how I got here is really kind of it started when I was a kid, it's kind of like a, it was like kind of the whole journey since I was a kid. And then there was an event that happened later in life that really kind of triggered it and sent it over the edge. And I will say that, you know, I know you mentioned growing up you had like family members that, you know, always were talking about dieting, and I had a very similar situation, no fault of their own. I think there's a lot of, you know, not as much awareness now about talking about that sort of thing in front of little girls. But so from the age of 10 years old, I was a lot bigger than a lot of the other girls not overweight, but just I mean, my 13 I always say I was like 5'7", I had boobs. Like, I looked like I was 18, right? And so, I just, I always felt, I just... I felt not very comfortable in my skin. And this really, really progressed, you know, to when I was 15 being on my first calorie restricted diet that I didn't even know I was doing. I just I knew that like the foods I was eating were very low in calories and apparently that's what I thought I had to do.Lesley Logan 7:24  Oh, when I was a teenager, it was when like the 100 calorie snack packs. Were really like the Snack Wells. You know, that was the whole thing. Yeah, I was like, "Ooh."Amber Shaw 7:31  Yeah, totally. Yeah, like going to like, you know, Subway and getting like a veggie sub only because that was the smallest amount of calories on the thing, like, and it just really continued to progress for me until I got into my 20s. And I started, you know, with bulimia and I always say like, I was very fortunate that I could, I had access to the resources, professional resources to really get, you know, stop the physical act of the binging and purging. But I never really healed I think that the mental piece of that. And I by that point, I was just very, very unhappy in my skin, and just really always bouncing from one diet to the next. (Lesley: Yeah) And always searching to be something a body other than my own, like whether it was I was chasing five pounds, whether it was chasing 10 pounds, whether I was wanting to be, you know, this, whatever it was, right. And so this really progressed even more so, even all the way through to where I had kids and I gained a pretty good amount of weight with both kids about 65 pounds with both. And I got the weight off, but I was just really, really unhealthy in my body. And just really just not just unhappy, very unhappy.Lesley Logan 8:47  Yeah, I resonate with that, because I definitely did not feel comfortable in my skin most of the time. Like, I just, I exercised as my way of like, because I didn't want to be on a diet, so I exercised. (Amber: Yeah) And I thought that was healthy. And it is like but I also, you know, I think I was using exercise and athleticism in a different, like different way, you know. And so even though it wasn't hours at the gym, or hours working out, it was definitely like, this is my reward or this is what I do, you know, as opposed to that's not how I work out now. I work out now because it fuels me, gives me energy, it like ... I love the dopamine, here I'm like, my brain is like, "Wooo," you know, I'm and I don't see it that way. But I feel like, I look back and I go wow, I just really was not comfortable in my body and I grew... So, I was so tall and I think that's part of it. I was like 5'9" as a 14 year old. (Amber: Even I) And so you just don't feel like you're like, "I don't even know what this body is. It's so uncomfortable." And like, you know, bless my family, but like one of them's like, "Oh, you got boobs" and it's like, "I don't actually want you to see that." (Amber: Yeah, yeah) Like I, "Who said that's okay to say?" (Lesley laughs)Amber Shaw 9:56  Right, right. Yeah, I mean exactly. I mean, I think at that age you want so badly just to fit in. And so, you know, you don't want to be bigger than the boys or bigger than the girls and so yeah, it starts to mess with you for sure. So, you know, for me, right around that time in my 30s, I got married. And, and, and I was, you know, things were I had two children, had a great marriage, and right about 2018 my marriage completely fell apart. And I was at that time, I was 39 and so right around the corner was my 40th birthday. And so I found myself in this period of my life where I, and I didn't realize at the time how unhappy, I also was... unhappy with myself. But I knew I but I was in this this, this time, where I'm in this very tumultuous time in my marriage, I'm getting ready to turn 40. And I'd also at this time, been in a very successful career as a salesperson and in corporate America, an inmate for 16 years at that point and it's been a great career, but I just did not feel fulfilled at all. I mean, it just, I could do it in my sleep. I mean, yeah, I mean, as an entrepreneur, now, some of those just tell one friend of yours, I was like, "God, sometimes I just ... wish I could go back to work in two hours a day," like and I was making lots of money, and I work two hours a day and, like, now I bust my ass and I feel like my hourly rate is $2, I'm like ... (Amber and Lesley laughs)Lesley Logan 11:22  I know, I know there's something there's but you know, it's right. Except for that you weren't fulfilled and that's why you're not there.Amber Shaw 11:29  Exactly! I mean, exactly. So, I say that jokingly but yeah, so so, I started really just going inward, I started really started reflecting, you know, "My God, I'm getting ready to turn 40. I'm in this position with my life," and I was in so much pain from just the my marriage and everything that I just was really trying to find some like light at the end of the tunnel. I'm such a believer that you're just you are in the right place at the right time. And so I just wanted to, I was just so desperately seeking what was the lesson like, you know, what, what was the lesson here? And so,Lesley Logan 12:07  I love that. I love that. So basically, like, here you are in this like daily onslaught of like, "This isn't working, and I'm getting older, and this isn't working and I'm not fulfilled." And you were seeking out the lessons for that. How do you do that?Amber Shaw 12:22  Well, it's a lot of therapy... (Lesley and Amber laughs)Lesley Logan 12:25  We're big fans of therapy around here. I'm like, "You should get therapist ... needs a therapist," you know, we have to rebrand therapy is what I think we have to do. (Lesley laughs)Amber Shaw 12:32  Oh my God, are you kidding me? Like I'm like such a believer that anybody if you have access to a therapist, like everybody needs them on their roster, just like as preventative like, I think the problem is, is we go to therapists after the shit's broken. And I will say that it's really we need to, like, it's before - that's what needs to happen. So yeah, I will say it is. Yeah, a lot of therapy, a lot of self help books, but it would also required a lot of me just going inward and literally spending time with myself. Where no, I was just shutting out everybody else, whether that was through some breathwork, whether that was through a little bit of like meditation, whatever that looked like, you know, I think as women as busy women, especially the moms out there, we spend so much time just, you know, doing for others and and taking in, you know, all the noise from everybody else. We just forget what the hell we want. We forget our own voice.Lesley Logan 13:29  Boom! That is, I've chills. That is exactly why this podcast exists. It is all about like, "How do I get women to prioritize themselves?" (Amber: Yeah) Because for whatever reason, we think if we don't do things for others, then we're a bad person. And it's like actually, if you are not taking care of you first, (Amber: Yeah) you can't do anything for anyone fully. And then you're upset at yourself for not being fully there. You feel guilty and then you're resentful that that thing that you said yes to is taking me away from like doing anything for yourself.Amber Shaw 14:02  Yes, yes, absolutely. I mean, and so that kind of that journey of that really like introspection and really just trying to figure out like, "What what is my voice here? What What is this going to look like long term?" I decided to take a trip to Costa Rica for my 40th birthday. It was a yoga retreat. And I wanted, it was so funny like I was telling a story the other day that my my original plan to go for my 40th was to like get this whole group of people, we're going to go to Cabo, we're going to get a house, you're doing all the friggin' things. (Lesley: You're gonna party like it was Austin) ... (Lesley laughs) It was happening. And you know as I got closer and closer to it and in the middle of everything that was going on in my life, I was just like that's not that's not what I need right now. I need to just figure some stuff out and so I ended up going to, yeah, I ended up going to Costa Rica and I really wanted to use this time as like just some time to just really think and so I I'll never forget and I was tell the story because it was really just a, you know, I'll say I think that there are pivotal times in our life that we look back and we're like, boom, like that mess... that was like divine intervention. That was a message that I heard loud and clear, if you're open to receiving (Lesley: Yeah) that message. (Lesley: Yeah) And so, on this trip, I was sitting on the beach, and I was meditating and I was just journaling. And I was brain dumping and I was thinking of like, just all the things that you know... and I was really centered around like, also with my career, like, what did I want to do for my career, and I'm just writing down all the things that I was good at, and that I loved and that, and all of a sudden, it sounds like such a simple word. But it was so loud and so clear, I couldn't deny it, all of a sudden, the word "coach" just hit me. I was like, "Coach," I was like, "Coach of what? Like, what the f..., what am I going to coach? I gotta..." You know? And I just sat with it for a while and the rest of the trip. And I decided when I got back that I'm so fascinated by integrative nutrition, because I'd lost my father several years back to cancer. And so I really became very fascinated with holistic treatment, Eastern medicine and all of that. And so I was like, "You know, what, I don't know what this looks like, but I'm gonna get back, I'm gonna enroll in this program." And, and I also true for me, I think it gave me a little bit of relief, because I needed something that I could start focusing my attention on as well, because I was so consumed on like, what was going on with my marriage. (Lesley: Yeah) And really, like things, just the things just evolved with the, you know, reopened my personal training certification and the nutrition and all of that. And then one came TikTok, and then that then that was the end of it. (Amber laughs) Because my I got on TikTok, when the pandemic hit after I launched my business. And that's really how things got going for me, I just started, like, really putting out content that talked about my struggles and really identity like, you know, related to women over 40. And the things we go through and like random stray hairs on her chin and hormones. And you know how hard it is to keep the weight off. And all these things, and women just started resonating with it. And it just, yeah, kind of started building a community.Lesley Logan 17:02  This is so cool. I actually, I completely agree that there are moments in our life that like are really transformative. They're very pivotable, pivotable, pivotal... I don't know, whatever (Lesley: You got it) that's a great word. Anyway, no one's here for the English lesson. Um ...Amber Shaw 17:16  I'm a queen of that by the way, I make up words all the time. And like my ex husband is like in he's like the master of English. And I'm like, he's like that, you know, it's not a word, right ...Lesley Logan 17:23  Oh, oh, Brad, I I'm the queen of double negatives, really and Brad hates that. But if y'all want to see blooper reels, my team secretly edits out, you know, all of my YouTube videos where I do things, and I'm like, "Da, da, da, da" (Lesley and Amber laughs) and they did put a compilation. I'm like, "Eww" (Lesley laughs) (Amber: Say what...) Anyway, people love it. But going back to that, I think we, I think it's so easy to go, "Why is this happening to me? How did I let this happen?" We end up taking like this, like we're supposed to have seen this train coming. And, and really like, those are the moments that really transform us and put us on the path we're supposed to be on. And actually those those rock bottoms or obstacles are what people relate to us as. Like people, you are able to share those struggles with people people go, "Yeah, I feel that way too. I went through that too." And so I think sometimes we're like, "Let me bury that, let me not think about that. I want to go as far away from that as possible." And really like those are the things that build us up for what's to come and who we're going to be and like what we're supposed to do here. So thank you for sharing that. And I hope that like if you're listening to this, and you can think back, like, at a moment where you heard something so clearly, and it changed something like, I I am doing what I'm doing today, because people asked a question I just happened to go, "Huh! That's an interesting question. I just, I just suggest that that's" so you know what I mean? So I'm with you. Lesley Logan 18:51  When it comes to, let's talk a little bit about health nutrition for a second because I, we're here about being until we see it. And I definitely want to get more into your story on that. But I feel that there are things that we eat, do, or don't do, or don't eat, that are actually keeping us from, from being that person. Like I actually feel that sometimes we are could be the most confident person in the morning and by the end of the day, we're not... and it's not as because we're like talking negatively to ourselves. Sometimes it's like sugar or something else. Is there are there things that we are eating or not eating that are actually causing us to not be able to be that confident, strong person, we're all trying to be in this world?Amber Shaw 19:33  Man, there's so many there's so many like different ways I could take this one. So like on a physiological level, like and I think this is something that definitely plagues a lot of women. And then I want to get to kind of the mental level on that. But like on the physiological level, like one of the biggest things I see is women that under eat and you just have no idea when you are starving your body eating less than 1200 calories a day. Um, because you think that that is what's going to help you to lose weight which in actuality, it's actually the thing that's preventing you from losing weight because you're starving your body. But yeah, I mean, that's absolutely just gonna affect your energy a lot, you know, you're usually not your best self, when you're in, you don't even realize what your baseline is. Because you've been in, you don't even realize where you're at, because that's been your baseline for so long. So, you know, definitely, I'm just like a physical level, I think that yeah, like, definitely under eating, I also think just even getting too much sugar in your diet, I think definitely affects you, you know, by having, you know, crashes, sugar crashes, where you again, lose your energy, you know, increases your brain fog, I mean, there's just lots of things when you are mistreating your body and not eating a lot of whole foods, you know, I always talk about the power of I'm using food as medicine, that's one of the things that I talk about, especially for my, my ladies and even the 30s, 40s and up is that, you know, we really do have the opportunity to heal our bodies so much, so much with food. And so one of the most important things you can do for your body is stop looking at food as calories in and calories out, you know, like, really start to pay attention to the power of food. So, I would say that. And then you know, what I would say too, is at least from a mental game, and you asked, like, are there things that we're, you know, eating or not eating or whatever, that really affects us from being our best self - is that kind of what you're... yeah... (Lesley: Yeah), you know, I think the that constantly being on a restrictive diet absolutely affects your mental game and the way that you feel about yourself and because so much of what, you know, goes hand in hand with constantly being on a diet and constantly looking for that quick fix. You know, to shed the weight is, you know, the the cycle of restriction and bingeing right, and, and what happens, anybody that's ever been on a diet or restrictive diet, where, which you can't stick to because nobody can, because it's not real life, then what happens you either binge, or you kind of like, go off the program and you feel terrible about yourself. (Lesley: Right) And you feel terrible about how the way you look at yourself in the mirror. Now, you don't want to go to the pool, because you don't want to you know, you feel terrible, you're by yourself and not confident in your clothes. I mean, so I just definitely think that yes, I mean, so much of food and our relationships, our relationship to food dictates our ability to be our best selves on so many different levels.Lesley Logan 22:24  Couldn't... I agree so much because I, you said, well, I still have stomach issues. They're pretty much on the mend. But when I was trying to go and figure out what my stomach issues were, I was put on all these different diets. I had an elimination diet, which went on way too long. Someone let me be on that for 90 days. It was terrible, it's ... it was awful. And you just like I was so consumed with like, "Can I eat that? Can I eat this? Can I eat that," that I wasn't able to work on the things that I was really wanting to work on? I wasn't able to work on my book. I wasn't able to work on my courses. I just because you're just so much like you only have so ... many decision. Right!Amber Shaw 23:02  And it's decision fatigue. (Lesley: Correct) ... Jill you know, Jill Coleman talks a lot about this in her you know, Moderation 365 which teaches a more sustainable lifestyle. But there really is such a thing like decision fatigue and it's like if you you don't even realize that but you when you are putting so much of your brainpower into like, "Can I eat this? Can I eat that? How many macros are in that? How many calories are in that?" You don't even know, you don't even know how much it is really detract you know, taking away from your living, your life, your joy. I mean, it's until you get out of it. (Lesley: Yeah) You get out and you're like, "Damn, that was a lot."Lesley Logan 23:36  Yeah, I agree. So how, so... How have you helped women get out of this? Because I feel like they're like, "Great, ladies. Okay, how do I get out of this?" Like, how do what is your like, what what do you suggest people do? Because it's not easy to do on your own. Like if you you know, because it's a pattern ... it is a it's a habit almost, you know,Amber Shaw 23:54  No, I mean absolutely. And I think why it's it is so hard is because there's so much information out there. There's so much misinformation out there and then you couple it with the fact that people want results now, because we're up against you know, body manipulative diets like keto and you know, all these other things where you're cutting out whole food groups, and all of that is that so yeah, it's hard to stay consistent. But I have to say that really, consistency really is the name of the game. Like if you are somebody that is like tired of dieting, you are wanting to you know, create a lifestyle where you have food freedom, where you can go on vacation and not worry about every morsel you put in your mouth, all these things. It really does start with a more consistent lifestyle. So when I teach women, women come to me and they're ready to raise up the dieting like they want, they want to eat more food, they just want to be happy. You know, I do educate women, I'm more of a clean eating lifestyle, which is basically just eliminating a lot of the processed and packaged foods, not cutting them out completely... that would be restriction and that is not possible, right? But for the most part, really relying more on a whole food diet eating foods again, less process less people. Paying attention to the sugar in your diet, getting more vegetables, more good fats like, what I would say is the way that I teach nutrition is not really rocket science, it makes sense. It's things you learned when you were in like the fifth grade. But it is like it is really more about learning that. But then learning how to couple it with moderation and satisfaction, because the two of them like that those two together clean eating and like moderation, satisfaction in like what you're eating and not doing the bingeing and doing this all the time with being on a diet on Monday and then gorging on the weekend and all that, that is really when you can develop a lifestyle where you're going to keep the weight off for good. So, I really, because if you don't, if you don't teach yourself, how to trust yourself around food, again, how to be able to go out in a Friday night and have pizza and beer and all the things you like, and then just, you know, kind of get back, you know, your to your normal routine on Saturday. Like if you don't learn that, then you just do clean eating. It's just another diet, (Lesley: Yeah) like that's just another day. (Lesley: Yeah) So the secret sauce, I think is really learning, again, how to kind of that moderation satisfaction factor so that you can stay consistent because you know, Jill always says, and Jill Coleman is a mentor of both ours and Jill (Lesley: Yeah) and always says, "That a little less perfect, makes you a lot more consistent." And I'm like, ...Lesley Logan 26:24  Oh, I love that because our big thing around (Amber: Right?) here is, "Perfect is boring."Amber Shaw 26:27  So okay, so see, like, ... and it's so true. We focus so much on being consistent. I mean, perfect all the time. That not totally jacks up our ability to be consistent. So yeah for sure.Lesley Logan 26:39  Oh, you're 100%. So okay, I love that. And I just want to quickly get back to something because I'm sure a lot of people like okay, so you are a mom, you have two kids, right? (Amber: Two kids. Yeah) Two kids and you switched careers. (Amber: Yeah) And you went through divorce. So (Amber: Yeah) all this happens. So they're wondering, how did you do this? Like, how did you how because that's a lot of change. And that's a lot of I feel like that'd be a lot of pressure. I don't have children but like, I feel like going through all of that with two kiddos is probably like extra. So what what what were you telling yourself each day? How did you do that?Amber Shaw 27:15  You know, I think and I'll give the overall answer and then I'll kind of go back and kind of break it down a little bit. But I think that the universe or God or spirit or whatever, if you believe in a higher power, what you believe at that. But I think the message from God was so loud to me that I couldn't deny it anymore. And to deny this path would be to deny myself and so I couldn't, He had opened up us here to open up so many doors for me with this coaching in such a short amount of time. Because you're right, I was at that time I was in at that point. I started the coaching it really is like a side hustle because I was like, "Okay, I'm going through a divorce. I need something that will take my attention. This will also be extra income for me," because I mean, I was making multiple six figures at my sales job, very cush shell sales job. (Lesley: Yeah) Okay, to do it in my sleep. (Lesley: Yeah.) But I had a very, and it was actually just that just probably about eight months ago, I had a very good conversation with my brother. And you know, because I was like, because for most of last year, I was doing both (Lesley: Okay) I was doing coaching and my sale... and I was dying. (Lesley: Yeah) I was literally dying. I was like, I can't, I'm working unbelievable amount of hours. And but you know, like I said, my... this conversation with my brother. And also a lot of time going inward and really, you know, thinking on this, but, you know, we had just decided that again, I had had so many just things that have just happened that I did not feel were coincidence that it was like "Okay, I'm gonna trust this" like, I can always this is scary as hell, this is scary as hell. But I can always go back to being a salesperson, right? Even if I'm like, sell, you know, no, even ... sell and making the a $30,000. I don't care. Like I can always go back. I know that I can do that. But I feel like I if I walk away from this now, I will always wonder if this could have been my thing. And again, like I said, I mean to at that point, it was like to deny myself of this was to just really deny, I think, my soul's work. I really feel that.Lesley Logan 29:16  Oh, that's amazing. Thank you for sharing that because I do know that there are someone listening to this going. They're wondering, you know, like, it's hard. Like I had a job that was salaried, vacation, health insurance, all the things and I could I just was struggling so much because I knew that I wanted to do other things. I wanted to get my retreats going consistently. I wanted to coach people. I wanted to have more freedom in my decisions without having... it felt like such a hard thing because of the safe job that made me really good money (Lesley laughs) (Amber: Yes) and all these perks and benefits. But I remember someone said, you know, it was not even having to do with me, she said it around something that had to do with how it was a Pilates classes, she even know that she was saying something. But she said, "You can't have one foot an island and one foot on a canoe." Like you just can't. Doesn't work. (Amber: Right. Right. Absolutely) And I was like, "Oh my God, I have one foot on an island and one foot in a canoe," (Amber: Yeah) and like, I don't have the ability to do the splits, like, I'm just, that's not how I'm built. (Lesley laughs) Okay, Amber, how do people follow you? Obviously, TikTok is one of them. Where are you there? What's your favorite places to hang out?Amber Shaw 30:28  Yeah, so definitely on TikTok. That platform is my jam. Yes, I'm Ms Amber Shaw. I'm Ms Amber Shaw on TikTok, also the same on Instagram, I'm ever on Instagram. And I also have a podcast. (Lesley: Yes, she does.) Yeah, The Wellness Revolution. I'm so excited about it. So um, you can find that on Apple or Spotify. And then of course, my website, ambershaw.com.Lesley Logan 30:51  Amazing. Okay. Y'all, make sure you follow her, check out her podcast. I'm also on it. So you know, (Amber: Yeah.) (Lesley laughs) (Amber: Thank you) So, here's what I love to do. All this is really great. I know, we got so much inspo going on. But I really I'm an actionable strategy person. I like people to be able to take action because I know action brings clarity. It's the antidote to fear, it also helps us remain too perfect. I don't like to plan too much. You got to just try things on. So what, what do you have for us? What are some ways that people can be it till they see it?Amber Shaw 31:23  You know, I think the first thing is that when you are going through something, I think it's okay to ask yourself, "Why, why am I going through this?" But I think the most important thing is to not stop there. I think then it's to flip the script and say now, "How can I turn this into something good?" Or or what ask the question, "What is the purpose in this? What kind of what lesson can I learn here?" And I think that really is where your growth is going to happen. So I think that's that's one thing. And then I think the second thing is, and it is actually you know, goes along with that. And when you're asking yourself these questions is take some damn time to yourself. I don't care if it is not everybody has to go to a beach in Costa Rica. I don't care if it's going in your closet and putting some earplugs in for five minutes - all you moms - you just do it, give yourself permission to be with your own thoughts. I can tell you that I have worked out some of my biggest decisions of my life during those quiet moments. So don't deny yourself of those.Lesley Logan 32:27  Oh my God, I'm in love. I'm in love. All of ... those are so great. These are so great. I can't wait to hear what which ones y'all do, so do us a massive favor, screenshot this podcast, tag @msambershaw, and @be_it_pod with which takeaway you have from this podcast and share it because not only does it tell Amber and I what you loved about this, but it's going to change people's lives. I know that if all of us are be it till we see it, we change this world. So thank you, Amber for being here. (Amber: Thank you) Thank you for listening everyone and until next time, Be It Till You See It.Lesley Logan 33:01  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And, follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day!Lesley Logan 33:29  'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell 33:33  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 33:41  Kevin and Bel at Disenyo handle all of our audio editing and some social media content.Brad Crowell 33:47  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. 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Be It Till You See It does not mean overthink it, micromanage it, debate whether or not you're able of doing it and then taking action... Today Brad & Lesley recap the last episode's convo with Renee Dick. They cover acting now, thinking later, the pink hallway, and much more.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co .And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:Brad's cactus obsessionAct now, think laterLiving vs not living in your purposeFinding your purposeIt may be easier to know what your purpose is NOTOpen all the doors in the hallway and then decideEpisode References/Links:• The Third Door by Alex BanayanIf you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookTik TokLinkedIn Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co hosts in life, Brad and I are going to dig into the hilarious convo I had with Renee Dick in our last episode.Brad Crowell  It was hilarious. (Lesley: It was...) I literally laughed out loud.Lesley Logan  She's so funny. If you haven't yet listened to interview, feel free to pause this now, go back and listen to that one and then come back and join us. So you know, because it was so funny I'm going to say definitely do that this time.Brad Crowell  Oh, yeah, (Lesley: But then...) you should listen to it, (Lesley: Yeah) if you haven't.Lesley Logan  Oh, yeah, I think I think everything will make a lot more sense. She's just had so many gems. So anyways, that happened on Monday, Renee's episode came out, but this whole week has been week one of the #100withme challenge and I'm so freakin' stoked. It is fire. I mean, every time we do this challenge, it's always a lot of fun. But this particular one we have over 200 and I think it's like 215 people who've signed up, and they're epic. And they're all focusing so much on them, because the theme is "Me, Myself and I" and on habits and you know, we hit the day one on Sunday with like, "Aahhh" just like so much goodness. (Brad: Wait, what?) "Aahhh" (Brad and Lesley laughs) And it was so fun. It was our anniversary and some people who were also celebrating our anniversary, were there, people who were visiting Italy joined us on their vacation. (Brad: Yeah) It was just really cool ...Brad Crowell  Love that that's even an option!Lesley Logan  I know, I know me too. So you know we had so many but it's been it's week one and this is the fun week this is where there's a lot of excitement and motivation but this is also where I'm I'm working on troubleshooting with them what may or may not be working and how they create habits and so (Brad: Totally) this is my favorite part. And then, you know, it's what we, it's all the stuff that we're really proud of at OPC, the community and the support. So anyways, I just had to share that's what I'm excited about right now.Brad Crowell  Right now...Lesley Logan  Right now. (Brad laughs) Anyways ...Brad Crowell  Well, it is really it's a fun group. We have obviously we have more people in the challenge this time than we ever have which meant we had more people live in class than we've ever had and that was also really fun. Lots of dogs and you know babies and people in the background and all the things because I watch it while I'm you know making sure everything's happening right. And some fun questions at the end and great conversations during the hang so and then we have a, the Facebook group where everybody is on fire. It's like really cool. People (Lesley: Even though...) excited introducing themselves and meeting other people.Lesley Logan  Oh yeah, they're supporting each other, which is exactly what the group is for. Even though day day two, they didn't have access to that group it was (Brad laughs) but I you know, it was so crazy because like, of course people thought this is this who are our audiences. I'm sure this is you. If Facebook wasn't working, and we'd always people email us going, "My Facebook was hacked. I'm so sorry. I'm trying to figure it out, so I can't get back in" and we're like, "Nope, nope, not your problem. Not your fault." (Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell  Yeah, (Lesley: So...) everybody was down.Lesley Logan  I know. So anyways, even with that little hiccup, it's still a fiery group, and it is just so freakin' awesome. (Brad: Yeah) Anyways, um, Brad, did anyone send us a question?Brad Crowell  We did? Somebody apparently wanted me to talk more about cactuses because I'm so excited about them. (Brad laughs)Lesley Logan  Yeah. So, what is your favorite cactus?Brad Crowell  Well, okay, so I just wanted to say we moved here with no cactuses. (Lesley: Correct) I think, I think maybe we had one fake cactus that you brought that was sitting on the shelf forever. (Lesley laughs) Yeah, that was the only cactus we moved here with and today I ...Lesley Logan  ... a fake cactus. (Brad: Yeah. It was a fake) I put it in a pot. (Brad and Lesley laughs)Brad Crowell  Today, I think that between cactus and succulents. I don't know we have like 50 or 75 of them now, I'm like, clearly, I found something that that I should stop spending money on. (Brad laughs) But I really am excited we have ... I'm making the cactus garden that would never happen in real life, because it's cactuses from all over the world and in different climates and environments that need different types of watering and all the things ...Lesley Logan  He likes to make things difficult.Brad Crowell  I do not. (Lesley: Okay ...) I like to make things beautiful.Lesley Logan  But also, we have now been to many cactus gardens that around here.Brad Crowell  Yeah, we've been visiting cactus garden.Lesley Logan  And I think we may be in over our head. I'm just gonna say it here. I haven't said this to Brad. Some of these cactuses are really huge and they have lots of babies and they're not years old and our agave is having so many babies. We're about to like just spread the babies around the garden. And ...Brad Crowell  Well, that's why we have 50 or 75 because the agave have multiplied like like pumpkins, like it's hilarious.Lesley Logan  So, the ones it looks like boobs, what are those ones called, the booby one? (Brad: The barrel cactus.) Yes (Brad: Yeah) Yes, we have these barrel cactuses and I have been loving them since he moved to Las Vegas. But they come very small at the store like depressingly small and but all the small ones I've seen around the neighborhood seem like they're dying. And but the big ones are just so big and they're ... they're they're like frickin' fortunes. Right? In a cactus, and we had this opportunity to like, say yes to four. And he mentioned he's like, "Oh, yeah, it's like a barrel cactus like little babies on it." And I said, "Okay, that sounds so great." And then I came home after house shopping with my dad and (Brad laughs) these barrels are the size of boulders.Brad Crowell  They come up to your knees. (Lesley: Yeah) So like, and and I mean, probably 30 or 40 years old and our our guy brought us four of them. They're huge. It's amazing. I definitely love those. I think to be honest, my favorite, is the coral cactus. (Lesley: Really?) I love it. I just think it's crazy. I think it looks like it belongs underwater. And I want it to be 16 inches wide because that's what it apparently can grow to. There has been some debate on if you are allowed to say "cactuses" or if you're supposed to say "cacti." So for me, I looked it up, I just want to put this out there that apparently both are okay. Now, we can have that argument, slash conversations slash I'm just gonna say cactuses anyway...Lesley Logan  So you say cactuses or you say cacti.Brad Crowell   I kind of use them interchangeably but it ... cactuses seems to roll off the tongue a little easier.Lesley Logan  I agree. I think cacti feels like it feels like I should be in the lab. But you know what's really funny is we had a massive debate in our own company because I had Be It Till You See It with the apostrophe and one l. And it is not an apostrophe and one LBrad Crowell  It's not until (Lesley: it's not...) it's it's with the apostrophe t i l. It's actually t i l l is actually a word.Lesley Logan  If the own word (Brad: Who knew) and it's not a shortened. It's not like y'all, it's just, it's just it's own thing. So (Brad: It's just "Till") here we are in this podcast, (Brad laughs) helping you figure out words, the English language.Brad Crowell  Like we do. Anyway, thanks for that listener question. Any chance I get to talk about cacti - Oh, shoot, I went there - I'm in on that. And if you're ever in in the neighborhood, make sure we know it and I'm happy to show off our garden.Lesley Logan  If any of you know Emily's Garden Show. (Brad sings: Emily's Garden Show) I feel like Brad just has a hijacked a segment of my own podcast. (Brad and Lesley laughs) I'm calling ...Brad Crowell  It's Brad's cactus show.Lesley Logan  All right, so onto Renee Dick.Brad Crowell  Yes. All right. Let's talk about Renee. Renee Dick is the person that you want on your team. She is willing to be the first to try it, break it, build it, be it, paving the way for others. She ...Lesley Logan  That was a good song. Try it, break it, build it, print it, da na na na. Faster, Stronger, na na na na.Brad Crowell  Yeah, that's my favorite band. (Lesley: Oh) (Lesley laughs) That's Daft Punk. (Lesley: Oh) Ah, paving the way for others. She is a mom who has changed her path for being unhappy hairstylist to being a charismatic entrepreneur, helping others with repurposing content and social media marketing. You will literally laugh out loud at things she says and you will totally fell in love with her. And I'm sure that anybody out there who is looking for social media help, you know, contacting her would be really fun. Anyway, I'm not kidding. I listened to the episode twice and I was just laughing so hard. It's lovely.Lesley Logan  Yeah, it was I ... I re-listened to it and I laughed out loud because I had done some interviews so far from when they were actually like, played till like... Because you launch a podcast, you do all these things. And I was like, "Who said that? Was I talking to you? Who I was talking to?" And when Brad was listening to this, to produce it, he's like, "You were talking to Kareen," I was like, "Oh, that's right." (Lesley laughs) So anyways ...Brad Crowell  Yeah, when you when you said the ... habit or hustle versus hassle that was (Lesley: Yeah) that was the convo you had with Kareen ...Lesley Logan  ... Kareen in another podcast. Anyways, it's you can find that episode it's titled, "Don't let your hustle be a hassle." Brad Crowell  Yes, that was Episode 27.Lesley Logan  Yeah, we love her. Okay, so I had there's so many things I love that she said but I really I had to go with the "Act now think later" because y'all, Be It Till You See It does not mean overthink it, micromanage it, debate whether or not you're able of doing it and then taking action. No, it is Be It Till You See It is like, kiss... go just take some go for it. And then you'll have all this clarity and then you can decide what you want to do with what you just did. So, I loved that. What about you?Brad Crowell  The the thing that, it was interesting to listen to her talk about, she kind of skimmed over not not living in your purpose at the beginning of the episode. And she said like, "We can we can get into all that." But the reality is, "I just wasn't, and I wasn't happy." And she talked ... she the way she described herself. I found very relatable, because she was talking about how she couldn't be happy for other people, she was very negative all the time. Right? And she was just in this really this funk and ... the idea of living in your purpose, I thought ... I don't know, like, here's the here's the thing. She is clearly charismatic, right? So when you're ... when you're negative about everything, and you're charismatic, you will be in a position to inadvertently bring others down just by being you. Right? Because you have that same power to bring others up by being you and I'm so happy to have met Renee today, now when she's clearly living her purpose because she's just exuding joy and excitement about life then then before you know so (Lesley laughs) I'm just saying because it could she could ... I she has the I'm very similar, I have the propensity to be very dark, I have the propensity to affect the room, right? Really change the vibe and and so I know that for me when here's the thing I used to say, "I don't care what I do as long as it gets me paid," I literally used to say, "I would shovel shit from one corner of the room to another if it's going to pay my bills so I can go do the things that I want to do and and and I'll do it, I will I will make that happen" and I lived with that philosophy for the majority of my life and so consequently I was you know metaphorically shoveling shit from one corner to another for a very long time and now that I'm doing something that I actually want to be doing that I am enjoying doing that I know is affecting people in the way that I see is positive. Right? It makes me so much happier. So, I just wanted to say I think that the idea of living in your purpose like it's hard to ... if you don't know what your purpose is which is a big fat question mark you know was up for a long time for me as well, you know, if you're just going through the motions if you're just doing life, you know or your job or your gig or whatever it might be, you know it's okay to go explore something else and begin to identify what you might want to be doing instead.Lesley Logan  Yeah and then sometimes it's easier to not know, like to know what your purpose is not. So, like sorry ...Brad Crowell  Oh yeah, I see ... (Lesley: So if you ... ) Yeah, (Lesley: if you're like ...) Say that again, say that again.Lesley Logan  Yeah, I said it out I was like, "That's not it." (Brad laughs) So that definitely didn't work and so if you are like, "Ah guys I still, I get you, I want to live my purpose. How do I do that?" If you don't know yet what your purpose is, which I think deep down you might (it scares the fuck out of you.) Or you're just not sure you can see the big picture or how it's going to pay your bills or whatever. You can it's easy to know what your purpose is not. (Brad: Right) So, if you like have been selling houses and you're like, "This is, is (Brad: Is not lighting my fire) like shoveling shit from one to another." (Brad: Right) (Brad laughs) Then you can you can like go through all the things you do in a day and you can go, "Do I like any part of this? Oh, I really like talking to people." Cool. Now start signing yourself up for things where you talk to people and then you can start to go on the scale of like shoveling shit to this feels like a flow, you know ...Brad Crowell  Maybe maybe you shift to ice cream, instead.Lesley Logan  Yeah, yeah. (Brad laughs) So anyways, that's just the help the people who like are not sure I kind of fell into my purpose. I'm gonna be really honest. Like, I did not even know I could become a Pilates instructor. I have that limiting belief. And then the reason I coach people on business or they have an online classes, just because people ask me a question. They're like, "Hey, how do you get so many new clients? Hey, do you think you could have online classes?" And I got curious to go back to Tina Tang. And so maybe also now that I'm a verbal processor, maybe you look at the questions, people are asking you do for them and see if any of those light your fire.Brad Crowell  Yeah. (Lesley: All right) Episode 31. What? (Lesley: Yeah. What?) What?Lesley Logan  Okay!Brad Crowell  All right, so let's talk about all those BE IT action items. What bold, executable and trinsic or targeted action items, can we take away from your conversation with Renee Dick? She said something that I, I wanted to, I agree with her and I also have gone down this path. And so I want to kind of put a boundary on it. (Lesley: And asterisk) Yeah, she said, "Say yes to all opportunities." And I, I think that that's great when you are getting the ball rolling and you're trying to figure out your purpose maybe, or find something new that you want to do or grow your business or whatever. But I want to I want to say, comma "Quit things fast when you see that they're not doing it or they're not serving you or they're not you know, lighting your fire," (Lesley: Yeah) because what ends up happening is I feel obligated to follow through with things that I have, you know, committed to whatever it might be but maybe I shouldn't have actually committed to it in the first place. Right? So, I think actually maybe a better way of saying this is, "Say yes to the opportunity, but don't necessarily commit yet," until you decide if that's like you know, really the thing that you should be committing to because otherwise you'll end up juggling 75 plates, stressing yourself out, not being effective at all. Believe you me, I've done this, I've lost friends because of this, like this is a real possible thing where you just (Lesley: Oh) get so busy.Lesley Logan  That's definitely like it happens when you say, "Yes" and then you get down the path and you aren't honest early on that it's a "No" (Brad: Right) then yeah friendships are like, "Oh my God you've been doing this for two years with me. Why are you lying to me for two years but how much want to do it?" So, I agree with that. I definitely love to say in the very beginning I said yes to everything and I totally agree when you are new when you are she does the you know chapter one through five business owner, yes because you don't actually know what's going to work or not work for you and what you're gonna like and not like so just say yes to all that. But once you're past that chapter five you know something I do as I say, "Yes but can you send me the logistics so I just double check with my calendar and my team because I 100% double booked myself I don't wanna do that." And that is (Brad: Sure) really fun. It doesn't mean I'm gonna say no later on, so if you're listening to so I say this to you it's not like code for it's going to be a no it's just (Brad laughs) it's a buffer, it's a buffer for me just to make sure (A) the next day when I see those logistics it's still a yes and (B) it aligns with everything and then if I doesn't I have like, "Hey, you know what I'm so sorry I really want to say yes this but the day of it doesn't work for me or the timing of it doesn't work for me you know I got asked to do something recently," I was like, "Oh my God that sounds amazing." And I got the logistics back I was like, "Oh, I pictured something completely different" that's not their fault, that's my brain went like 10 steps ahead, 'cause I'm an ideas machine, and so thankfully, I was able to say, "You know what? This is actually not in alignment right now but let's circle back if you ever do it like this," therefore if people don't mind, people don't mind. Okay, well we just had our own BE IT action item on that one. That was like a little ... if you're talking about cactuses. It's like one of the babies. (Brad: Yeah, right.) ... Barrel cactus. I wish they had a visual for them. Okay, my biggest takeaway is, "Open all the doors in the hallway and then decide." I (Brad: Oh) really love the ...Brad Crowell  I think, I hijack yours. (Lesley: No) Well, I know but what I was talking about is very similar. (Brad laughs)Lesley Logan  That's so funny. She and the others guys, if you ...Brad Crowell  This is an amazing visual, though. I'll tell you.Lesley Logan  She, she, you have to listen to us because she really did explain like, "You get into the hallway and you ... there's all these doors and you're looking for the master suite. You're looking for this" and I was picturing like, big windows that look over an Italian, like I don't even know, winery, I don't drink wine, but just like views, right? And, I was just I was just going down the hallway and I have these tools. And it's true, like, I think we we talked about this in the podcast where it's like, "If the doors locked, it's because it's for a reason." There's ... amazing (Brad: Sure) of this book called "The Third Door" which I would love to get that author on here. If any of you know him, grab his, grab him. I want him. So, but he has a book called "The Third Door." And it's all about like, you know, Lady Gaga, all these different people how they made it. They didn't they didn't walk ... (Brad: Alex Banayan) Yeah, yeah. So like the idea is that, there's the line to get into the club that everyone stands in. And then there's the people who are VIP who walk up to the front line and they get in, and people are in the line or like waiting to get in. But then there's other people who like go in through the window, or go in through the alley or like ...Brad Crowell  Yeah, they come in with the owner in the back.Lesley Logan  Yeah, or they or they got a job there. And they were just singing at the bar, right, like so there's a third door and a lot of these people that we admire, they didn't go through the first two doors. They went the third door and so if a door is locked, it doesn't mean it's a no, it just means that that's not the door you go through. And so when she was doing this whole hallway thing, I was remembering that guy, and I was just saying this whole thing it's just like, ah, definitely open all the doors but what I love that she said is, "Open all the doors." She didn't say, "Move into the room with the bunk beds." (Brad: Right) Try it on for size!Brad Crowell  Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, like, say yes to all opportunities is like peek your head into the room, the door and be like, "Is this the right room?" (Lesley: Yeah) And then if it's not, you can be like, "Just kidding." Close ... (Lesley: Yeah) the next door, right? I was in the way that I was envisioning it when she was describing it was ... everything was pink, the hallway is pink, the doors are pink. There's just numbers on the doors. And like the it's like you're behind the set, like you're behind the scene, like the hallway itself isn't dressed up in fancy at all. And you're like, "They're just a bunch of doors that all look the same." And you're like, open, you're like, "Oh, that's not the master suite. That's the jungle," close. (Lesley laughs) Open the next one, "Oh, that's not the master suite. That's..." (Lesley: ... Jumanji) Yeah, we're in Jumanji now. (Brad laughs) But seriously, I loved the way she described that. Because it's it really is a, it's a great way to understand like, "Is this for me? Maybe not," close. Next.Lesley Logan  Yeah, I think that there's an overall, arching theme in her in her episode, which is just like, just like, "Just do the thing." Like, "Just get, just get to the place, just do ... just open the door. Just say yes." And all of that is because we get in our own way, when we're like, "Let me just stop and think about it." Like we start to think about the different failures we've had in the past. And the different times we haven't fallen through with things that different times that people said something not nice to us or whatever. And it's like none of those things are actually happening in this thing. And so the faster you act, and the faster you go through these things, the quicker you're able to get to the master suite, the quicker you're able to get to the place that where your purpose is because you're not overthinking it and clouding it with stuff that didn't even happen in that situation. So anyway, I don't know. Maybe that's not her purpose ...Brad Crowell  No. I think that's a that's a great way to to to describe it. (Lesley: Summing it up) Oh, yeah, it's a great way to wrap it up. We're gonna leave it there.Lesley Logan  All right. I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell  And I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan  Thank you so much for joining us today. We're so grateful you're here. How are you going to use these tips in your life? Let us know by sending a DM on Instagram at the @be_it_pod and we'll catch you on the next episode.Brad Crowell  Bye now.Lesley Logan  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review, and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. Have an awesome day!Lesley Logan  'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan  Kevin and Bel at Disenyo handle all of our audio editing and some social media content.Brad Crowell  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan  Special thanks to our designer Jaira Mandal for creating all of our visuals (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all the video each week so you can.Brad Crowell  And the Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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In this episode, Stump and I finally get around to unearthing the details surrounding the creation of The Blizzard of Aahhh's, arguably the most influential ski movie of all time. (Both the founders of TGR and MSP acknowledge as much in Stump's Legend of Aahhh's.) Stump and I had so much fun doing these interviews that we may continue with this series. There's much to chat about still, including stories of Stump's relationships with Tony Hawk - with whom he shot a Super Bowl commercial - Trevor Horn, Willie Nelson, Seal and Lukas Nelson. But for now, we'll have to make do with this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Blizzard of Aahhh's.

In this episode, Stump discusses his early cinematic work that led up to the legendary Blizzard of Aahhh's.

Pain can be very debilitating and prevent us from enjoying life. I interviewed a special guest, Markeisha Hall, Parent Empowerment Partner and mother of five to gain some insight on how she manages to live a valued life and maintain her mental wellness while living with chronic pain.   

Mike Hattrup is another living legend. He was part of “The Good Squad”, on the US Freestyle Team, and a star Blizzard of Aahhh’s, and a longtime pro skier who turned telemark and backcountry badass.  On the podcast we talk about hurting himself again, all things Greg Stump, K2, stretching college out 7 years, the death of tele, and a lot of skiing.  It’s another DO NOT MISS episode. Mike Hattrup Show Notes: 3:00:  Getting hurt again, Pieps, growing up in Seattle 9:00:  Talented athletes, Crystal Freestyle Camp, and the extending college plan 16:00:  The Goon Squad, Tahoe, haircuts, fraternities, and Steamboat 21:30:  Stanley:  Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast 10 Barrel Brewery:  Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone Elan Skis:  75 Years of Good Times 24:00:  Meeting Stump, making the US Team, and hurting his knee 30:30:  Blizzard of Aahhh’s, remote rescue, and bringing on Plake 37:00:  K2 product manager, and getting laid off and then signing an athlete team 42:00: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off Peter Glenn Ski and Sports 43:30:  Clambin, K2 Tele, product, and pain 49:00:  K2 round 2 and Fischer 60:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Todd Bracher

Aahhh the Halloween Special. Join us this week as we discuss the origins of Halloween in Samhain, from games to old customs. We also explore the Púca, with a story recounting the deeds of one of Ireland's greatest heroes..... Music by Gareth Quinn Redmond Logo by AislingLarkinDesign

You don’t have to be a Real Genius to know that Weird Science can get out of control. Science was all over the place in August of 1985. If you want the fiction of it, just look in Starlog Magazine. We take a look at the classic Sci-Fi publication in a new segment called Magazine Rack.    Starlog Magazine, plus the sciencey movies Weird Science and Real Genius    In the NEWS Longtime character actor John Saxon passes away A Transformers/Back to the Future crossover? Could that really happen? We got our first look at the live action Tom and Jerry movie Coming soon: A Back to the Future 4K set, complete with tiny floating hoverboard Please consider helping to save Space Camp for future generations of young scientists by donating to savespacecamp.com   TechnoRetro Cereal - Tiger Paws Jay tries the new Kellogg’s snack and lets us know if it’s worth it. Well, if you like sweetness, it may be for you!   Magazine Rack - Starlog August 1980 In a new segment on TechnoRetro Dads, we take a look back at the classic sci-fi magazine Starlog. This month’s cover story is an interview with Harrison Ford, the star of the newly released Empire Strikes Back. There are also some great articles about how the 1980’s sci-fi genre entered the 80’s. Battlestar Galactica left TV, Buck Rogers was grasping for one last chance, and a little science fiction movie from Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford was on the horizon.   Let’s All Go to the Movies - Weird Science/Real Genius August 1985 was a rich time for science in the movies. Well, science may be a little generous when describing these films, but they certainly felt sciency. John Hughes’s Weird Science starred Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Lebrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. It tells the story of Gary and Wyatt trying to fit in with their High School peers by creating the beautiful, smart, and magical Lisa from thin air. Aahhh, remember when you did that in high school? Then, watch Val Kilmer at his finest in the classic smart people against the government story Real Genius. Chris Knight helps his roommate Mitch to build a super powerful laser, but must stop it when they realize how it’s going to be used. Both movies featured quotable lines and lots of laughs. And if you want a little science cherry on top, check out the third movie that month, My Science Project.    Vinyl Scratchback - Weird Science/Real Genius Soundtrack There may have only been a few memorable songs from these movies, but the 80’s vibe was very important to the flow of both. We break down which ones were important, such as Oingo Boingo’s hit Weird Science, and the Tears for Fears favorite Everybody Wants to Rule the World. 

Breaking News!!! Aahhh!!! The Oscars postpone until April 25th & push eligibility to Feb 28th. They went to 10 Best Pictures, elected new governors, & enacted diversity, inclusion, and equality initiatives. Plus, Tenet moved again, amongst other films. What does it all mean?! THE OSCARS OFFICIALLY MOVE TO APRIL 2021: Oscars Postponed to 4/25/21 - 1:05 Academy Moves First - 6:47 What If It’s an April Sensation? - 11:18 Potential Impact on Film Festivals - 12:53 What’s The Vibe To This Oscars? - 18:44 NEW ACADEMY INITIATIVES FOR EQUALITY/CHANGES: 10 Guaranteed Best Picture Noms Starting 2022 - 21:27 (But The Bigger Story May Be Under The Radar) Academy Apeture 2025 To Make New Oscars Eligibility Standards - 24:35 Oversight Office For Apeture - 26:01 Academy Dialogue Panels - 26:55 Academy Gold - 32:25 (+ Action - The Academy’s Women Initiative) International Inclusion Initiative - 34:20 Ava on the Board of Governors - 35:22 CONTENDER/BLOCKBUSTER NEWS: WB + Nolan May Be Clashing - 38:13 New Dates for WW84, Bond 25, Matrix 4, Soul + more - 42:55 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 49:20 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 50:48 Welp, we thought this news was gonna drop last week. But it’s just as well. We got the chance to review films like Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, and Shirley before all the madness erupted today on the trades. Because it’s now official - the Oscars have moved their date to April 25th from February 28th, and the latter is now the end of the eligibility for the film year of 2020. What are all the other key dates to look out for now? Do all the other awards shows & film festivals push back as well? Can they? What does this move do to the film year of 2020? We break it all down in this Oscar Race Checkpoint episode. The Academy also enacted initiatives towards diversity, inclusion, and equality, and we lay out how these rule changes could impact Oscar Races in our future and how the calendar shift may have averted a disaster in our present. They elected new governors & made a few other big changes to their streaming service and Best Picture category. Finally, the film release calendar changed like crazy over the past few weeks and will likely continue to change. We speculate on what may continue to happen and dissect the moves from WB with Tenet & Wonder Woman as well as the ominous exodus of films to 2021. If you’re enjoying our show, do please take a few moments to leave us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts. Those reviews & ratings go a long way to help support our show, and we thank you. Otherwise, and as always, we want to hear your takes on everything that went down today. We’re @MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.

Join me as I talk to the amazing Natasha about being my boss enjoying, living abroad, living alone during lockdown and using social media to help while avoiding the potential pit fallls

Saturday morning, I walked into a breakfast place here in Denver, and said "good morning" to the hostess at the front. She asked, "What?" I said..."I wished you a good morning," and smiled. She was a bit taken aback and slightly surprised saying that nobody ever says that. "Customers always come in and just instantly say how many are in their party," she explained to me. She said my "good morning" was nice to hear. Have we really lost that human to human connection that much? I hope not, but in this technological age, I think it's getting worse. However, not all hope is lost. On Sunday, I read a heartwarming story: An 18 year old server at a Waffle House took the time to cut an elderly customer's ham because he couldn't do it. Despite the reataurant being very busy, she took the time to do it. Someone snapped a picture, and it went viral. From that kind act, she won a college scholarship and had a day named after her in the town. All from doing what's right...which is so rare these days. Aahhh, good 'ole human to human connection. I love it! My wish for you - say "good morning" to someone. You never know when you'll make someone's day!

In our eighth and final episode, we sit down with skiing icon Glen Plake. As a pioneer of the extreme skiing movement, Plake is most well known for his seminal appearances in the classic Greg Stump films including Blizzard of Aahhh's, the Maltese Flamengo and License to Thrill. With his signature mohawk, Plake is arguably the most recognizable and most well known skier in the world. Over three decades he has maintained a love for all disciplines of the sport and a drive that has kept him timelessly relevant. It is safe to say, whether skiing 8-000 meter peaks, recording for Warren Miller Films, or traveling the country as part of his "Down Home" Tour, Plake has spread the love of skiing to millions across the globe. Many of Glen's physical accomplishments have been well documented. In our chat, I wanted to learn more about him as a person. Plake occupies the rare air of hero status for many skiers. In our conversation I quickly realized that he is a historian of skiing, someone who has seen three decades of the evolution of a sport. Glen is indeed one of the brightest shining lights we've ever had the chance to chat with, and our conversation does not disappoint.

Hemos de confesar que sólo nos reímos la mitad de la película porque la otra mitad nadamás nos estresamos de que alguien fuera a salir realmente lastimado. Es decir, ya somos unas señoras...

This week we're chatting with Cait Fraser, Co-founder + Chief Wellness Advisor of Wanderwell. Cait is the queen of wanderlusting with purpose. She has the self care game down pat, and launched Wanderwell to bring wellness experiences to those searching for their self care escape. During our podcast she shares about her travels, the importance of self-care and how this brand came to fruition. She is also hosting a retreat soon and if we weren't both SOOOO pregnant we would be there in a flash. But that doesn't mean you can't go! Get some mama and let us live through you. AAHHH we love hearing about the journeys that lead women to where they are today! We'd love to hear yours too. Connect with us on Insta @solspace.co or shoot us an email at heather@solpace.co and brooke@solspace.co. We'd love to chat with you! More about Cait Cait has over 15 years of experience in the luxury travel industry and has been running luxury retreats and experiences for the past 10 years. She has travelled to over 30 countries, worked internationally on luxurious private yachts, ran an exclusive guided tour company in South Africa, and develops unique luxury wellness travel journeys for her discerning clients.

The Stawars Celebration btrings good news and some trailers. Lionsgate, on the other hand, give us....Hellboy. Me and Luke aren't happy with it.

Miles de años de espera por fin todo mundo recibe lo que esperaba, el regreso de Alan con sus comentarios que no llegan a ningún lado. Aahhh, y por fin despues de 19 años llega al cine Alita: Battle Angel, el sueño humedo de James Cameron. Nos juntamos una vez más en el estudio del buen Virgil para grabar un nuevo episodio. RECOMENDACIONES: - Elite Squad, de José Padilha (Brazil 2007) - Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, de José Padilha (Brazil 2010) - RoboCop, de Paul Verhoeven (USA 1987) - The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (USA 1985) - Nocturnal Animals, de Tom Ford (USA 2016) - Stagecoach, de John Ford (USA 1939) -Fantasia, de varios compas (USA 1940 TEMA DE CLAUSURA: - No hay. Le tenemos miedo a Spotify y a Dios Google (aunque el OST de Roma esté plagado de copyright)

As we start book 6, we take a trip back in time before the gateway opens up to talk about the characters and what they do to prepare for what lies ahead of them.

Click Here to Watch on YouTube Genesis 1 - Story of creation      1 Sa sinugdan gibuhat sa Dios ang mga langit ug ang yuta.   2 Ug ang yuta awa-aw ug walay sulod; ug ang kangitngit diha sa ibabaw sa nawong sa kahiladman;ug ang Espiritu sa Dios naglihok sa ibabaw sa nawong sa mga tubig.1:2 - (the earth was without form and void) "Ug ang yuta awa-aw ug walay sulod" - formless? walay porma? unsaon man ni nato pag-imagine? Unya sa verse 2, "ug ang kangitngit diha sa ibabaw sa nawong sa kahiladman; ug ang Espiritu sa Dios naglihok sa ibabaw sa nawong sa mga tubig." Kung walay porma ang yuta, basin na mix sa tubig? Unsa lapok? Unya ang Espiritu sa Diyos naglihok sa ibabaw sa nawong sa mga tubig. So pag-mugna sa ginoo sa langit ug yuta, ang tubig bale ang iyang gibuhat ug una?      3 Ug miingon ang Dios: Mahimo ang kahayag: ug dina ang kahayag.   4 Ug nakita sa Dios ang kahayag nga kini maayo; ug gilain sa Dios ang kahayag gikan sa kangitngit.      5 Ug gihinganlan sa Dios ang kahayag nga Adlaw, ug ang kangitngit gihinganlan niya nga Gabii: ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, usa ka adlaw.So mao ni nahitabu sa unang adlaw sa creation. Gimugna sa ginoo ang kahayag. Kahayag? Unsa may pasabot ani? Sa atong makita karon, ang kahayag (light), gikan man ug butang nga nag-buga ug "photons" no ang element of light. Diin ang adlaw, ang Sun, ang pinakahayag nato nga makita. Pwede pud ang bombilya nato, makabuga pud ni ug kahayag. Ang mga bitoon, duna puy kahayag maskin man lang gamay.Gimugna sa ginoo ang kahayag, pero dili ni ang adlaw, o Sun, tungod kay mabasa nato sa unahan niining unang capitolo sa Genesis, nga naghimo siya ug adlaw o Sun sa ika-upat nga adlaw sa creation. So kung dili ni ang Sun, unsa may pasabot sa verse 4, "gilain sa Dios ang kahayag gikan sa kangitngit?" Unya verse 5: "Ug gihinganlan sa Dios ang kahayag nga Adlaw, ug ang kangitngit gihinganlan niya nga Gabii" Unya human ang sumpay ani kay "ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, usa ka adlaw."Usa ka adlaw? Kabalo man ta nga ang usa ka adlaw kay ang usa ka tuyok sa kalibutan sa iyahang axis. So ang usa ka parte sa kalibutan makatagamtam ug kahayag tungod kay ang maong parte mag-atubang man sa adlaw. Ug ang pikas side, ngitngit. Sa ngitngit nga side, mao na atong gitawag ug gabii.      6 Ug miingon ang Dios: Mahimo ang usa ka hawan sa taliwala sa mga tubig, ug pagabahinon niini ang mga tubig gikan sa mga tubig.      7 Ug gibuhat sa Dios ang hawan ug gilain ang mga tubig nga diha sa ilalum sa hawan gikan sa mga tubig nga diha sa ibabaw sa hawan; ug nahimo kini.      8 Ug gihinganlan sa Dios ang hawan nga Langit. Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaduha.Kung basahon nato sa KJV, "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." Ang pulong nga firmament, gikan sa Latin firmamentum, nga sa mas karaan pa nga panulat, sa Hebrew nga word nga Rakhiya. Tungod sa karaang panahon, bale sa panahon kung kanus-a most likely gisulat ning libro sa Genesis, mingtuo ang mga tawo nga ang kalangitan, gahi ni siya nga structure. Diin gi-patapot ang mga bituon. Gani dunay karaan nga mga larawan nga atong makita nga kani-adto, nagtuo sila nga ang kalibutan murag rectangular ug flat nga lugar, gipalibutan ug mga dagat sa upat ka sides, ug dunay mga bung-bung sa palibut kung diin nag-support o gipatungan sa Rakhiya o firmament.Karon pina-agi sa Science, nakabalo na ta nga dili ni mao. Ang kalibutan spherical, dili perfectly round pero dili gyud flat. Ug walay gahi nga structure sa ibabaw kung diin gipatapot ang mga bituon. Kung naa man galing, wala pa ta naka abot niining maong firmament.So ang translation sa binisaya nga "hawan" murag dili mo-sakar sa karaan nga translation sa bibliya.Unya gilain kuno sa ginoo ang mga tubig nga diha sa ilalum sa hawan gikan sa mga tubig nga diha sa ibabaw sa hawan. Sa akong sabot, ang nagsulat ani, iya ning gisulat aron tingali pag-explain kung nganong dunay tubig sa yuta, ang mga dagat ug suba, unya dunay tubig nga gikan sa kalangitan - ang ulan. I think aron ni pag-explain kung nganong mag-ulan. Tungod siguro sa panahon nga gisulat ni, wala pa man tingali sila nakasabot kung nganong dunay ulan, unsay mechanism aron mahitabo ang ulan.Unya human, "dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaduha." Remember, wala pay Sun nga gimugna ang ginoo. So kaning dapita, ambot sa langaw unsay gipasabot niini nga dunay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon??? Mao daw to ang ika-duha nga adlaw.      9 Ug miingon ang Dios: Matingub ang mga tubig nga anaa sa ilalum sa mga langit ngadto sa usa ka dapit ug tumungha ang yuta nga mamala: ug nahimo kini.      10 Ug ang mamala nga dapit gihinganlan sa Dios nga Yuta; ug ang katilingban sa mga tubig iyang gihinganlan nga mga Dagat: ug nakita sa Dios nga kini maayo.Sa ato pa ang mga tubig, nagtigum sa usa lang ka dapit. Mao kuno ni ang mga Dagat. Apan ang mga lakes (danaw, linaw) diay? Ang mga suba? Natingub ang mga tubig sa usa ka dapit. Imagina daw na.          11 Ug miingon ang Dios: Magpaturok ang yuta ug balili, talamnon nga magahatag ug binhi;ug himunga nga mga kahoy nga magahatag ug bunga ingon sa ilang matang diin anaa kaniyaang iyang binhi sa ibabaw sa yuta: ug nahimo kini.      12 Ug ang yuta nagpaturok ug balili, talamnon nga nagahatag ug binhi, ingon sa ilang matang;ug mga kahoy nga nagahatag ug bunga, nga maoy binhi niini, ingon sa ilang matang, ugnakita sa Dios nga kini maayo.      13 Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikatolo.So sa ika-tulo nga adlaw, gimugna sa ginoo ang mga talamnon, mga kahoy, mga sagbot. Importante ni kay ato man ning i-sangga sa ubang mga berso sa creation story dinhi sa Genesis. So timan-i, sa ika-tulo nga adlaw, gipaturok sa yuta ang mga tanom, sagbot ug mga kahoy. Unya "dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikatolo" -- kangilo gyud ani, kay dili gyud mo-make-sense ni -- unsa may gipasabot kaha ani?      14 Ug miingon ang Dios: Mahimo ang mga kahayag (???) sa hawan sa langit aron sa pagbulag sa adlaw gikan sa gabii; ug himoa sila nga alang sa mga ilhanan, ug alang sa mga panahon, ug alang sa mga adlaw ug sa mga katuigan;      15 Ug himoa sila nga mga kahayag sa hawan sa langit aron sa paghatag ug kahayag sa ibabaw sa yuta: ug nahimo kini.      16 Ug gibuhat sa Dios ang duruha ka dagkung mga kahayag: ang labing dakung kahayag sa paghari sa adlaw ug ang labing diyutay nga kahayag sa paghari sa gabii; gibuhat usab niya ang mga bitoon.      17 Ug gibutang sila sa Dios sa hawan sa langit, aron magaiwag sa ibabaw sa yuta,      18 Ug aron sa paghari sa adlaw ug sa gabii, ug aron sa pagbulag sa kahayag gikan sa kangitngit: ug nakita sa Dios nga kini maayo.      19 Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaupat. Kahayag??? Sa bersikolo 3 sa milabay: (unsa gani toy naa didto?)      3 Ug miingon ang Dios: Mahimo ang kahayag: ug dina ang kahayag.      4 Ug nakita sa Dios ang kahayag nga kini maayo; ug gilain sa Dios ang kahayag gikan sa kangitngit.      5 Ug gihinganlan sa Dios ang kahayag nga Adlaw, ug ang kangitngit gihinganlan niya nga Gabii      Bersikolo 4 versus 14, 18 - pagbulag sa kahayag ug kangitngit.      So duruha ka dagkong mga kahayag ang gimugna sa ginoo. Sa akong sabot, mao ni ang Sun ug ang Moon. "ang labing dakung kahayag sa paghari sa adlaw ug ang labing diyutay nga kahayag sa paghari sa gabii; gibuhat usab niya ang mga bitoon."      Hmm... Hmm... Isip-isip! Di ba?!      Unya pa gyud, sa bersikolo 14 - "ug himoa sila nga alang sa mga ilhanan, ug alang sa mga panahon, ug alang sa mga adlaw ug sa mga katuigan;" (let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:) Now, hinumdomi, nga sa kani nga mga panahon, sikat kaayo ang unsa man? Ang Astrology!! Di ba? Pagbansay-bansay nga mga bituon sa kalangitan (ug mga planeta) nga kuno maka-apektar sa pagpuyo sa mga tawo dinhi sa yuta.      Unsa man ning Astrology? Mga Zodiac signs! Horoscopes! Tarot reading ug mga psychic readings! Di ba? So sa bibliya mismo, gisulat dinhi "let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years".      Hmm... Hmm... Isip-isip!      19 Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaupat.       Aahhh, now karon, tungod duna nay adlaw, kani mo-make-sense na ni. dunay kahaponon, ug dunay kabuntagon. Apan, take note, walay hisgut dinhi nga gipatuyok ang kalibutan. Karon kabalo man ta nga ang earth, nag-rotate sa iyahang axis. Mao ni nag-hatag sa epekto nga dunay buntag ug dunay gabii. Apan dinhi sa Genesis, walay hisgut sa tuyok sa kalibutan. Dili ba kaha ni tungod kay walay alamag ang nagsulat niing maong texto sa rotation sa earth?? Hmm... Hmm... Hmm... Isip-isip!?      So mao tong mga namugna sa ika-upat nga adlaw. Ang Adlaw (Sun), ang Moon ug ang mga bituon (stars). So kung unsa man galing tong kahayag nga gihisgutan sa bersikolo 3, ambot sa langaw unsa to?!      20 Ug miingon ang Dios: Dumagsang sa mga tubig ang duot sa mga binuhat nga buhi,ug manglupad ang mga langgam sa ibabaw sa yuta diha sa hawan sa langit.      21 Ug gibuhat sa Dios ang dagkung mga mananap, ug ang tanang mga binuhat nga buhi nganagalihok nga mitungha sa mga tubig, ingon sa ilang matang ug ang tagsatagsa ka langgam nga pak-an, ingon sa iyang matang: ug nakita sa Dios nga kini maayo.      22 Ug gipanalanginan sila sa Dios, nga nagaingon: Sumanay ug dumaghan kamo, ug punon ninyo ang mga tubig sa mga dagat, ug padaghanon ang mga langgam sa yuta.      23 Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikalima.      Sa ikalima nga adlaw, mga living things nga nagpuyo sa kadagatan, mga isda gagmay ug dagko. Ug mga langgam nga pak-an. Mga birds. Iya silang gi-bendisyonan -- whatever that means -- "Sumanay ug dumaghan kamo" -- mao ni ang popular kaayo nga "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." Pero sa kani nga parte, ang mga isda ug mga langgam ang gi-sultihan sa ginoo.      Mao to ang ikalima nga adlaw.      Karon ang musunod, ang kulbahinam nga parte.      24 Ug miingon ang Dios: Magpatubo ang yuta ug mga binuhat nga buhi ingon sa ilang matang, mga kahayopan, ug mga butang nga nakagamang sa yuta , ug mga mananap sayuta ingon sa ilang matang: ug nahimo kini. (Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.)      25 Ug gibuhat sa Dios ang mga mananap sa yuta ingon sa ilang matang, ug ang kahayopaningon sa ilang matang, ug ngatanan nga mananap nga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta ingonsa ilang matang: ug nakita sa Dios nga kini maayo.      26 Ug miingon ang Dios: Buhaton nato ang tawo sumala sa atong dagway, ingon sa kasama nato; ug magabuot sila sa mga isda sa dagat, ug sa mga langgam sa kalangitan, ugsa mga kahayopan, ug sa tibook nga yuta, ug sa tanan nga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta.      27 Ug gibuhat sa Dios ang tawo sa iyang kaugalingong dagway, sa dagway sa Dios gibuhatniya sila, lalake ug babaye iyang gibuhat sila.      28 Ug gipanalanginan sila sa Dios, ug miingon ang Dios kanila: Sumanay ug dumaghan kamo, ug pun-on ninyo ang yuta, ug magagahum kamo niini, ug magbaton kamo sa pagbulotan sa ibabaw sa mga isda sa dagat, ug sa mga langgam sa kalangitan, ug ibabaw sa tanan nga binuhat nga buhi nga nagalihok sa ibabaw sa yuta. (Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.)      29 Ug miingon ang Dios: Tan-awa, gihatagan ko kamo sa tanan nga balili nga nagahatag ug binhi, nga anaa sa ibabaw sa nawong sa tibook nga yuta, ug sa tanan nga kahoy nga may bunga sa kahoy nga nagahatag ug binhi, aron alang kaninyo kini mahimong kalan-on;      30 Ug sa tanan nga mananap sa yuta, ug sa tanang langgam sa kalangitan, ug sa tanang butangnga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta, nga adunay kinabuhi, gihatag ko ang tanan nga balilinga lunhaw, aron ilang kan-on: ug nahimo kini.      31 Ug nakita sa Dios ang tanang butang nga iyang gibuhat, ug tan-awa, kini maayo kaayo. Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaunom.      So sa ika-unom nga adlaw... daghang nahitabo dinhi. Gimugna sa ginoo ang mga kahayopan sa yuta. Nakita sa ginoo nga kini maayo. Every creeping thing, apil ang mga spiders, ulhipan, bitin -- kabalo ba mo nga dunay daghang mga poisonous ani nila? Yes, makapatay ug tawo! Matud sa ginoo, kini maayo.      "Buhaton nato ang tawo sumala sa atong dagway, ingon sa kasama nato" -- (Let us make man in our image, after our likeness) -- Us? Nato? Daghan diay sila? Sa milabay nga mga berso, "ang ginoo" ra man ang nakasulat. Daghan diay ni sila?      Unya gimugna ang tawo sumala sa ilang dagway ug kasama (in our image and likeness). So humanoid ang ginoo? Anthromorphic? Meaning human like ang nawng? Ang kamay-on?      "ug magabuot sila sa mga isda sa dagat, ug sa mga langgam sa kalangitan, ugsa mga kahayopan, ug sa tibook nga yuta, ug sa tanan nga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta." -- kita ang pinaka-top sa food chain! But wait, there's more! Before ta mag-celebrate nga top ta sa food-chain.      "Tan-awa, gihatagan ko kamo sa tanan nga balili nga nagahatag ug binhi, nga anaa sa ibabaw sa nawong sa tibook nga yuta, ug sa tanan nga kahoy nga may bunga sa kahoy nga nagahatag ug binhi, aron alang kaninyo kini mahimong kalan-on" -- sa ato pa, walay labot ang mga kahayopan! Vegetarian dapat ang mga tawo. Matud pa diri, ang mga balili ug mga kahoy ra man. "aron alang kaninyo kini mahimong kalan-on" Uy hala, tigkaon biya kog isda. Labi nang buwad, hmmm, kalami biya ana. Tigkaon ko ug baka, kanding (hmmm kalderetas!), baboy (hmmm lechon!)... Sos dili diay ni pwede!? Mga tanom ra diay, mga balili ug mga kahoy o prutas tingali. Lisura pud kan-on ang kahoy.      Hmm... Hmm... Hmm... Isip-isip!?      "30 Ug sa tanan nga mananap sa yuta, ug sa tanang langgam sa kalangitan, ug sa tanang butangnga nagakamang sa ibabaw sa yuta, nga adunay kinabuhi, gihatag ko ang tanan nga balili nga lunhaw, aron ilang kan-on: ug nahimo kini." -- Haha, hasta pud diay ang mga mananap, "balili nga lunhaw" -- green herb -- ang ilang kalan-on. Butangi, sorry sa mga liyon, tigre, maskin iro ug iring, maskin mga langgam nga kinaon kay mga ulod, sorry, vegetarian pud diay sila dapat!            "31 Ug nakita sa Dios ang tanang butang nga iyang gibuhat, ug tan-awa, kini maayo kaayo. Ug dihay kahaponon ug dihay kabuntagon, adlaw nga ikaunom."      Unya molabang ta sa Genesis kapitolo dos.Genesis 2      1 Ug nahuman ang mga langit ug ang yuta ug ang tibook nga panon kanila.      2 Ug sa adlaw nga ikapito natapus sa Dios ang buhat nga iyang gihimo; ug mipahulay siya sa adlaw nga ikapito gikan sa tanan niyang mga buhat nga iyang nahimo.      3 Ug gipanalanginan sa Dios ang adlaw nga ikapito, ug nagbalaan niini; tungod kay niininagpahulay siya gikan sa tanan niyang buhat nga gibuhat ug nahimo sa Dios.      So gibalik-balik gyud dinhi no nga "diyos ang nagbuhat sa mga nahimo so far."      "2 Ug sa adlaw nga ikapito natapus sa Dios ang buhat nga iyang gihimo; ug mipahulay siya sa adlaw nga ikapito gikan sa tanan niyang mga buhat nga iyang nahimo."      3 Ug gipanalanginan sa Dios ang adlaw nga ikapito, ug nagbalaan niini; tungod kay niini nagpahulay siya gikan sa tanan niyang buhat nga gibuhat ug nahimo sa Dios."      Okay klaro, diyos ang nagbuhat, tanan nahimo sa diyos. Cge, walay contest.      Ang akong i-contest kay "ming pahulay????" Ang ginoo??? Ang ginoo, mingpahulay? Ang gamhanan sa tanan, nagmugna sa kalangitan, sa yuta, sa mga buhi sa tubig ug yuta, mingpahulay.      Dili ni gamay nga butang ha, tungod kay gibalaan niya ang ika-pitu nga adlaw tungod lagi kay mingpahuway siya.      Hmm... Hmm... Hmm...GENESIS 24 Kini mao ang mga sinugdan sa mga langit ug sa yuta, sa pagbuhat kanila, sa adlaw nga si Jehova nga Dios naghimo sa yuta ug sa langit. 5 Ug wala pay tanum sa kapatagan nga diha sa ibabaw sa yuta, ug wala pay tanum sa kapatagan nga misugod sa pagturok, kay si Jehova nga Dios wala pa magpaulan sa ibabaw sa yuta, ug wala pay tawo nga makauma sa yuta. 6 Apan dihay misaka nga gabon gikan sa yuta nga nagbubo sa tibook nga nawong sa yuta. 7 Ug giumol ni Jehova nga Dios ang tawo gikan sa abog sa yuta, ug gihuypan niya sa mga buho sa iyang ilong sa gininhawa sa kinabuhi, ug ang tawo nahimong kalag nga may kinabuhi. 8 Ug si Jehova nga Dios nagbuhat ng usa ka tanaman sa silangan sa Eden ug gibutang niya didto ang tawo nga iyang giumol.Now, sa sayon nga pagsabot niini, pasabot ba nga sa wala pay mga tanum ug mga kahoy, gibuhat na ginoo ang tawo? Pero ang explanation ani sa mga maayong laki sa mga simbahan, nga ang gi-focus dinhi kay ang garden of Eden man. Dili ang tibuok yuta.4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.Klaro man tingali sa bersikolo 4 ug 5 nga ang “earth” ang tibuok yuta ang gihisgutan dinhi. Unya kay dili man mo make-sense, mao nga ang lusot dinhi, kay ang garden ra daw ang gi-focus.So walay higut nga formless ug void ang kalibutan.Sa GENESIS kapitulo uno, naa didto nga gibuhat sa ginoo ang lalake ug babaye ug dungan. Sila ang dunay gahum sa tanang mga mananap sa yuta, tubig ug sa mga langgam -- in fact, sa tanang binuhat nga dunay kinabuhi.Pero dinhi sa ika duha nga estorya sa creation, gibuhat ang tawo una. Wala pay mga tanom ug mga mananap. Unya dunay gimugna ang ginoo nga garden, ang Eden o eastward sa Eden. Medyo libog ko ani. Ug didto gibutang ang tawo. “Planted a garden” -- so nagtanom ang ginoo ug mga tanom?9 Ug nagpaturok si Jehova nga Dios gikan sa yuta sa tanan nga kahoy nga makapahimuot sa igtatan-aw, ug maayo nga kalan-on: ug ang kahoy usab nga sa kinabuhi diha sa taliwala sa tanaman, ug ang kahoy sa pag-ila sa maayo ug sa dautan. 10 Ug migula gikan sa Eden ang usa ka suba sa pagtubig sa tanaman ug gikan didto nabahin kini ug nahimong upat ka mga sanga. 11 Ang ngalan sa usa Pison: Kini mao ang nagalikos sa tibook nga yuta sa Habila nga didto adunay bulawan. 12 Ug ang bulawan niadtong yutaa maayo: didto usab may bdelio ug onyx nga bato. 13 Ug ang ngalan sa ikaduha ka suba Gihon: kini mao ang nagalikos sa tibook nga yuta sa Etiopia. 14 Ug ang ngalan sa ikatolo ka suba Hidekel: kini mao ang nagapadulong ngadto sa atbang sa Asiria. Ug ang ikaupat ka suba mao ang Eufrates. 15 Ug gikuha ni jehova nga Dios ang tawo ug gibutang siya tanaman sa Eden, aron kini iyang atimanon ug bantayan.Ang gihisgutan dinhi kay nagpaturok ang ginoo ug mga kahoy ug maayo nga kalan-on. Kalan-on para kang kinsa? Sa ginoo? Sa tawo most likely dili ba? Human sa taliwala sa tanaman, dunay kahoy sa kinabuhi ug kahoy sa pag-ila sa maayo ug sa dautan. (the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.)Unya human naghisgut ug mga suba, aron tingali mapakita kung asa ni dapit ang Eden. Dili lang tani hisgutan sa pagkakaron. Pero sa bersikulo 15, kihuha sa diyos ang tawo ug gibutang sa tanaman. Abi ba nako sa bersikulo 8, gibutang na niya ang tawo sa tanaman. Murag wala man ni na-edit ug tarong uy. Kung ang ginoo ang nagdiktar ani sa tagsulat, balaa pud pagkadiktar. O nagtinanga lang ang tagsulat. Whichever noh, eitherway, murag wala nahapnig ug tarong, makakutaw sa atong libog.16 Ug si Jehova nga Dios nagsugo sa tawo nga nagaingon: Makakaon ka sa tanan nga kahoy sa tanaman: 17 Apan sa kahoy nga sa pag-ila sa maayo ug sa dautan, dili ka magkaon niini; kay sa adlaw nga mokaon ka niini, mamatay ka gayud.Ayaw, ani-a na, ang bantugan nga estorya sa unang tawo ug sa “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Pero ang tree of life, pwede ra diay makakaon ang tawo adto, kay ang kahoy ra man sa pag-ila sa maayo ug sa dautan ang dili. Unya timan-i, niingon ang ginoo, sa adlaw nga mokaon ka niini, mamatay gyud ka.18 Ug miingon si Jehova nga Dios: Dili maayo nga ang tawo mag-inusara; pagabuhatan ko siya ug katabang nga angay kaniya. 19 Ug giumol ni Jehova nga Dios gikan sa yuta ang tanang mga mananap sa kapatagan, ug ang tanan nga langgam sa kalangitan, ug sila gidala niya kang Adam aron makita niya kong unsaon niya paghingalan kanila: ug ang tanan nga gihinganlan ni Adam sa mga mananap nga buhi, kana mao ang ngalan niini. 20 Ug gihatagan ni Adam ug mga ngalan ang tanan nga kahayopan ug ang mga langgam sa kalangitan ug ang tanan nga mga mananap sa kapatagan; apan alang kang Adam walay hingkaplagan nga katabang nga angay kaniya.So di-a, gimugna sa ginoo ang tanang mga mananap sa kapatagan ug mga langgam sa kalangitan ug gidala niya kang Adam. “Adam?” Diin man ni gikan? Gi-hapak ra dayun nato nga Adam ang ngalan sa tawo nga naa sa tanaman!? Pagka-bati gyud pagkasuwat niining estoryaha.Gidala ngadto kang Adam ang tanang mga hayop kay para unta makapangita ug katabang. Katabang? Sa pinas pa ni kay “helper!?” Daghan sa atong mga kababayan ninglangyaw sa laing nasud, nanilbihan isip domestic helper. Mao ni ang gipangita sa ginoo?Nakabuhat ang ginoo aning tanan, langit, yuta, adlaw, tawo -- pero wala siya kabalo unsay angay nga katabang sa tawo? Unsa man kaha kadugay ni nahuman? Tanang mga kahayopan gidala ngadto kang Adam human iyang gihinganlan. Unya unsay iyang gibunyag nga ngalan, mao na kuno to ang nahimong ngalan sa mananap. Pananglit, ikaw orange nga poisonous nga baki, dili ka angayan nga mahimong katabang nako, ug ang imong ngalan kay “baki.” Unya ang green nga baki, baki gyapon, ayayay.21 Ug gipahinanok ni Jehova nga Dios si Adam ug nahakatulog siya; unya mikuha siya ug usa sa iyang mga gusok ug gitakpan niya ang unod sa dapit niini. 22 Ug ang gusok nga gikuha ni Jehova nga Dios gikan sa tawo gibuhat niya nga usa ka babaye, ug iyang gidala siya ngadto sa lalake.Sa ato pa kulangan na ug gusok ang lalake. Sa pila nako na tuig sa Cathechism sauna, mao gyud ni ang gitudlo, nga kuno, kulangan ug gusok ang lalake. Dunay “floating rib” or “empty rib” ba to ang tawag nila, kalimot na ko. Pero mao ni ang gitudlo gyud, nga ang lalake, kulangan ug gusok. Apan kabalo naman ta karon, pina-agi sa science, nga ang lalake ug babaye, parehas ra kadaghan ug gusok. Hmm… hmm…Ka-brutal ba sad ani uy, gusok gikan sa lalake, gi-remold aron mahimong babaye. Kanumdom lang kos estorya sa Goddess Athena sa mga Greeks. Gi-ablihan ni Hephaistos ang ulo ni Zeus, gamit ang atsa, ug migula si Athena nga duna nay taming.Anyway, mao ni ang duha ka estorya sa creation sa Genesis.Kinsa mag ga-una? Mga tanom, kahoy ug kahayopan? O ang tawo?Sa unang estorya, gi-ingnan ang mga tawo, “be fruitful and multiply”. Pero dinhi sa ika-duha, ang lalake una. Human nangita ug katabang ang ginoo para niya, hangtud naabot siya ug mugna ug babaye. Duh! Unya walay be fruitful and multiply. Kung padayunon nato nig basa, gikasab-an pa gani sila sa ginoo.Human naa ning kahoy sa kinabuhi ug kahoy sa pag-ila sa maayo ug dautan. Wala man ni sa una nga estorya. Human namugna sa ginoo ang tanan nga gi-saysay sa Genesis kapitulo una, mingpahulay ang ginoo sa ika-pito nga adlaw. Done.Pero sa ika-duha nga estorya, Genesis kapitulo 2 sugod bersikulo 4, duna pay mga detalye nga nadugang ug daghang detalye nga wala, ug ang detalye nga common, nagkasumpaki man.Sa kanunay ang akong panguta mao ni: Unsaon man nato pagsuta kung ang mga nakasulat dinhi, tinuod ba? Sa pila na ka libo ka mga tuig nga milabay, wala gyuy lig-on ug igo nga ebidensya o rason nga makapamatuod sa mga nakasulat dinhi. Mao hangtud karon, naglalis lang gihapon ta bahin ani. Ang problema lang, maskin tuod walay lig-on ug igo nga rason nga motuo ta aning mga estoryaha, duna gyuy daghang mga tawo nga hugot ug dili matandog nga pagtuo niining mga estoryaha. Mga tawo nga by definition, unreasonable. O kung duna may rason, mga bad reasons sa pagtuo, in that case, mga gullible.Hmm… Hmm… Hmm… Isip-isip!

If You Prefer To Download This Episode Click Here Welcome to this episode of Fit Has No Size with Coach Tulin. I am Coach Tulin. Today's topic is something that's very near and dear to my heart. It can be a source of massive struggle, and it can also be a source of massive celebration. It could be something that holds you back from moving forward. It could be something that, hey, I took that step the hardest day is done. So our topic today is day one, the hardest day. Why is day one so hard? Well if you've listened to previous episodes of Fit Has No Size, I touch on the struggles. The reasons why day one can be so complicated, and to give you an idea of how this can be such a source of anxiety, of self-doubt, of moving forward from a place of not self-love for sure. I have coaching communities. For example, my Fit Has No Size membership community or those that I personally coach or my own journey. I have personally coached a couple thousand women in this process. My coaching content is based off of my journey but also the journey of many I've coached. And day one is that day that they struggle with most. It's the hardest day. If it's so hard, what do I do in my coaching community? Well, I'll tell you this. I provide a week's worth of content going over all the things that I have known that have kept countless people before them from moving forward, and I touch on all those things. And I help create day one into a space of celebration. Something that you work up to. You're not worried about 30 days from now or two weeks from now or 60 days or that size or weight or whatever it is connected to some date or event. No, no, no. The first focus is just getting started. What's stopping you? What's scaring you? What are you afraid of? Are you afraid you're going to quit again? Are you afraid of failure? Are you afraid of judgements of other people and judgment of yourself? Those are really real things, and so here's what happens. A lot of times people getting really excited about started on something and then day one comes along, and they might show up at their local gym and they might sit outside that gym for a long, long time before they walk in those doors. They're not feeling super confident about themselves. They might be wearing their spouse's sweatpants and T-shirts trying to hide themselves. Knowing for sure that they are unsure of where to even start. Feel like they're going to be judged. They feel like somebody that everyone at the gym is going to notice them. They feel like they're going to be a laughing ... so many feelings that are involved. Now, I'll tell you. There are instances where those kinds of feelings do ring true, but I'll tell you most the time it's really these boulders that we put up in front of ourselves to stop us from doing what we need to do. It's a negative self-talk. I'm not going to say it doesn't happen in gyms. I'm not going to say it's never happened. Heck, I've had it happen to me, but for all the times that I've spent. I'm just using the gym as an example. It could be a yoga studio, it could be Cross Fit, it could be a workout DVD at home, it could be a personal trainer. Right? Some of those things you feel like you have something to follow, like a personal trainer, for example, but most cases, most people feel really lost, and they don't know where to start, but they have great intentions of getting going, but they're fitness is usually starting from a place that lacks self-love. It's usually this feeling of being deprived or coming from a place of punishment because of the weight they gained or that they used to be a former athlete or the body they had when they got married or when they're 16 years old and now they're 45. I mean, there's so many different things, but I hadn't met anybody prior to my coaching, as an example, that moved forward from a space of feeling good about themselves. I take a whole week to just prep mentally from the most positive uplifting place ever. From a place of understanding, because I do understand because I've been that plus-size woman, and I still am on a plus-size woman on a journey to fit, but I know those feelings. I know what it feels like. It can stop us. That day one sometimes you pull up to the front of the gym and you sit in your car, and just to walk through the two glass doors in the front. Just to be able to turn the car off, open the car door, take one foot out, then the other foot, and walk towards the gym doors can feel like the longest walk ever. The second longest walk is when you actually get in the door and you look at all this equipment, even if you used to lift. Even if you knew all that equipment, there's just something about this day one feeling that you just look around that you just feel very lost. I can't tell you how many people that I've known that have turned around and left. Now, some of them made it in the door. Some of them handed them their card. The beep goes off as they scan it. Maybe they signed up in that moment, and they move forward and they look at all the equipment. They look at all the classes. They're looking at the people in the classes. They're looking at the instructors. They're looking at these people who are using the machines who seem so confident in what they're doing like they know what they're doing, and we go well, I know how to work the treadmill. There's a quick start button. I'll just click quick start. Or the recumbent bike. And because we didn't know what to do and because we created these great expectations in our head, it's not uncommon to not go back. There's different phases in this idea of day one. It can be, like I said, it can be just the idea of getting started. You could never walk through the doors, and again, whatever those doors represent to you. Whether it's an actual physical gym or it's a yoga on the beach, or whatever those doors represent or popping in the DVD at home or playing something that's on YouTube or whatever. Those doors can represent a lot of different things, and I will tell you I've worked with people it's taken months and even years to get to day one or passed it. It was like that for me too. Day one was this constant source of pain. I guess that's the way I can say it. It just held up my mirror to my life and the self-talk just go more and more negative, and I found that I wasn't going to go do this movement from a place of self-love but from self-punishment for the weight that I have gained or how I've let myself go and all these negative things that I've said to myself. I'm like my goodness. This body has got me through some pretty amazing stuff. Some pretty tough stuff. Broke and homeless with two kids. A husband with multiple sclerosis who lost the ability to walk for two years. I watched him relearn his ability to walk. I've watched him reteach himself to swim. I think about all the struggles along the way when he nearly passed away two years ago at the time of this podcast, literally this month. Wild. Wow. I think we're right there and to have to pull through that, but those are only two examples. If I talked about thing that had happened in between. There's a lot that went on, and so the 180 pounds that I gained on this journey and the 100 pounds that my husband gained was our coping mechanism. My husband is a former athlete, quite the athlete by the way. Loved lifting all those things, and even he had his struggles, right? How is it any different because he's had maybe greater experience than I did. It's no different. It's absolutely no different. We can talk ourselves out of day one over and over and over again. We are a master at it, and because we're a master at it, the amazing part is to actually get yourself moving forward into day one is the exact same mechanism that you had in the negative space. It's just doing the same activities from a positive space, but how do you know how to do that? Listen, support communities are important. Like I said, my Fit Has No Size membership community, that's why the support is key. It's positive, uplifting, no negativity. My other coaching group, same thing. I have a negativity-free zone. When there's negative people around me, I can feel it in my gut, which is a long, long way from where I started because I actually looked for the negative people and the people who were unhappy because it made me feel better because there were other people who are unhappy and misery less company. Here's the deal you guys, day one. Because I take that whole week to do it, and I think we think it's a start of the rest of our life and it can be. Every new minute, every new day, every new month isn't that nice to feel like it's a fresh restart? It's something that we get to start with a clean slate. I like to think of it as another chapter in our book. Why? Because my body tells a story of what we've overcome. Of the things that we have figured out and gotten on the other side of. Over and over again those are just two large examples I gave you. The number of examples in my life and in your life are huge and if you don't show it on your body, everybody holds it in their cells, and in their joints, and in their muscles, and in their posture. We hold it in our bodies the struggle that we've been through, but if we've been through a struggle, we have found a way to get on the other side because we're still here. We're still fighting. We haven't given up on ourselves, and so I like to look at day one as another page in our book of life. It's just another page. It's just a day that's going to come up. It's a big deal day. It's a day of celebration. It's huge, preparation is everything. Coming from a place of understanding. Being able to relate to what they're going through and having somebody to feel they're not there alone. Believe me I get all that. I do all that. It's what's in my coaching groups, but day one doesn't have to be this monster. It's just working with people or coming from a place or reading a book or whatever. There's so many places of inspiration, whether it's my podcast or whatever, someone else. It's being able to not feel alone in this journey, and to put day one into perspective and to not blow it up into such a big deal, but then to celebrate the heck out it. It's kind of a balance, right? It's like a game that you're playing, but it all comes in the prep, and it all comes in the prep without shame or self-punishment, or self-hatred, or lack of self-love, and when you look at it as another page in the book of your life, then it's just like this is another day. This is another struggle that I'm learning to cut over. How do you know you're going to be able to do it? Because if you look at your previous chapters and your previous pages in your book of your life, you can find example, after example, after example of struggles you've had that you have overcome, and if you're plus size, I know you've been through some stuff and I know you've overcome some stuff. It's just somehow we think that that fits in one box and this is another. It's the same thing. Day one, is no more difficult than anything else you've been through. It's just a day. It's a fresh start. The preparation for day one. Why should you celebrate it? Because you freaking did it. You got it done. You busted through those doors and even if it was still walking into gym I'm sure, using that example again, and going and doing the treadmill or the recumbent bike and you got 20 minutes done or two minutes done. You guys, when I started on my journey, I started doing two to three minutes of exercise at the time. I did it to the workout DVDs. I did the Shaun T Insanity. They jumped, I swayed side to side. They were doing all those other stuff, I swayed side to side. It was the most I could move my body. I couldn't even get up and down on the floor at roughly was at 375 pounds they guessed they think that I weighed because the scale didn't go any higher than 350 and I knew I wasn't 350 because that scale slammed stop at 350, and for how quickly I gained weight is a pretty safe estimate. I knew I was sliding into 400 pounds. Now, we think we haven't done enough, but when I tell you that the start of your journey is your own. That this journey is your own. That what you choose to do right now may not be what you do six week from now, six months from now, six years from now. It's just a day one. It's a starting point and it is a commitment to going and getting it done, and celebrating that you did, and in all honesty, you really should be celebrating each and every time you go in to do something and you complete it. Celebrate it. Celebrate the fact that you were on the recumbent bike. Now, for me, the recumbent bike was tough because it took two measuring tapes to measure my middle. So it's over 60 inches in my waist. I've now lost over a foot. The recumbent bike was difficult because it's something that looks like oh, that'd be the easy place to start. Here's the reality, getting into the seat, lifting my leg over the recumbent bike to put it on the other side because my belly apron was so far down my thighs, so not only was it difficult to not have the strength in my muscles to do it, but I now have the extra resistance of my belly, and then to put the other one, and then trying to put my feet into the straps was complicated, but I did it, but I got it done, and I was only able to do a few minutes, but when I evaluate day one compared to where I was a week ago. Now, listen. I don't want you to go back to when you were an athlete or what you did in high school, or what you did in the Olympics, or what you did for fun, or you were like the jazzercise mama. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about in recent history getting to the gym, doing the two to three minutes, 15 minutes. For me it was tow to three minutes of Insanity at home, okay? Where were you a month before? Where were you just a week before? Did you do this? And if you haven't, celebrate that. It's a non-scale victory. It's enormous because when you compare the activity you've done today versus the week before, there is growth and that's why day one is so powerful because it becomes the first example in this new portion of your book that you can turn back to and go, I remember when day one was hard. I remember when I got it done. I remember where I started. I remember how good it felt to do what I did because I chose to celebrate the moment versus beat myself up. I chose to look at that as a moment in time where I've committed to myself to move forward, not perfectly, but just to celebrate the progress. Now, I'm going to have a podcast right after this one that's going to talk about the first 14 days and celebrating that progress, so I don't want to jump into that too much. I just want to talk about day one. Day one is when to be honored and celebrated. You did it. It doesn't matter what it look like. Did it align with how wanted to feel? Because here's the reality, regardless of how long we do a workout, it's not about quantity, it's about quality, and quality comes in many forms. When we actually get it done, it's freaking hard in the moment. The sweating, the difficulty moving your body if you're in that situation, all of a sudden soreness becomes compounded in terms of pain. We start sweating. We can feel our skins turning red. There's a lot of discomfort going on in our body, but we're fighting through it, right? But this two to three minutes turn to five minutes, and the continue to grow, but here's the reality. There is a brain chemical reaction to you moving your body. There's endorphins, there dopamine, there's serotonin. I'm not a scientist, I just know they're there, and that Google tells me. Anyway, obviously, check your resources, but the reality is they exist, and when we begin to move our body, those things begin to fire and here's the truth, once you complete your workout, and you take that breath, there's something that happens. At some point after workout where you have this deep cleansing breath. You might not have been breathing well. Maybe even been breathing shallowly at the top of your throat, but exercise makes you breath deeper, and there might be emotion attached to it. Nobody said, I regret that workout. Ever see that meme? Said no one ever. I regretted that workout said no one ever because there is a chemical change that occurs in our brain, and there's something about the breath. I was recently reminded of this as I have dived into yoga, and I'll talk about that in the next episode and I had the realization that I hadn't been breathing. Now, obviously, I was breathing enough to live, but really focus on breathing in the idea of cleansing, and don't be surprised if you get emotional because a lot of us haven't breathed to that degree. I took my breath in and they really talk about like when you breath in to really drag it up through your throat and I got that. I could feel it through the back of my neck. I was like, whoa it's cool, and I felt really, really energized on the breath in, and they wanted to us to do this exhale through the mouth with sound. Aahhh like that. It was even deeper. It was even more profound than that. That's my podcast version, and I would get emotional, and I would be on the verge of tears, and then I would take that breath in, the next one, and I felt cleansed. I felt good. I felt energized, and then I would exhale, and I was doing everything I possibly could to not cry. Now, should I hold my emotions back? No, but it is a shock to the system and I had to remind myself that I've been in this place before. When you take that cleansing breath and you might cry, and you might not understand what that is. It's a release. I told you we wear our stories in our body. We wear our struggles on our body. We wear our stories ever becoming in our body, in our joints, in our muscles, in our cells. When we begin to move our body from a place of self-love, there's a lot of feelings that come along with that. Another reason day one can be difficult is because well, it's hard. It was hard, but you did it, and that's what you have to look at and you can do it again if you've done it once. You can do it again, but when you move forward with it, and not worrying about the scale, and not worrying about the wedding, and not worrying about the vacation. Not worrying about summer coming up, but you just go in with the focus of coming from a place health gains, you'd be amazed at what begins to happen to your body because changes are going to start to happen. They happen. That's the reality of moving your body. Day one is also a day where you can really, really, really tap into what's possible. You can look around the gym, or look at the workout DVD, or look at the instruction in front of the class, or look at your friend that's maybe doing a little longer than you or the person next to you who's a complete stranger. It's a place that you can look and see all these examples around you of what's possible, because I can almost guarantee that every person that's surrounding you or even on the workout DVD, and having known people in workout DVDs, guess what they had? They had a day one. They had struggle to overcome, and just because they're one into the spectrum, the opposite of the spectrum maybe where my body is. They're struggles no less. They're challenges are no less. They're day one was no less difficult. Everybody has a day one. I'm going to get into a little bit more about what to do after day one, but first I want to tell you, just take the time to mentally prepare. Get pen to paper, figure out, and I do love the idea of pen to paper. I learned this from one of my business mentors, it really does work with a different part of your brain versus like typing in on the computer, but what's stopping you? And why are you really doing it? When you find yourself that you're coming from a place that's associated with a number on the scale, or size on your pants or dress, or whatever it is, take it back to how's it that you want to feel, and just take everything else away. Take away all the goals. Take away what the doctor said, what aunt Sally said on Thanksgiving. Just put it all away, and not worry about it, and prep your mind and spirit, and just commit to doing one of moving your body. Just one day. That's it. Not worrying about a 30-day program. If you're going to like the workout. If you're not, date it. Just date your workout. Just go and find a way to move your body even if it's cranking up the music at home and just dancing wildly in your house in your underwear when nobody else is around. Or finally doing it when the kids are around, and just cranking up the music and finding that they join in with you. They don't judge you. They join in with you. They want to dance with you. It's energy. It's an energy exchange, and focus on nothing else just that moment. That you're going to do this. What has held you back before? You have tons of data sets. You've had this day one before. You have had this experience before. How did you feel? What did you learn? Or what can you learn from how you felt and what can you do differently? Because here's something we're going to talk a lot about on Fit Has No Size podcast, is how to use your past. I wish you could see me doing air quotes, but "failures" for your future successes. They're valuable data sets. You can at the end of this podcast change your mind about how you approach day one purely based off of your previous experiences and giving yourself permission to move forward in your journey without any judgment, and without expectation except celebrating that you got it done. That's it, and watch the magic unfold. The minute that we start focusing on a timeline or what's supposed to happen, or what the "experts" tell us. There's a lot of experts out there that have a lot to tell us, okay. Let me just tell you, from one person to another, just commit to moving your body. Look at how handled it in the past. What you've learned from it, and how you can do it differently this time, and then celebrate the [inaudible 00:23:54] out of it. Celebrate it. Like I did it. Jump up and down. Celebrate it. Say really cool things to yourself just like I did it. Feel like an athlete. Feel like that you got that gold medal. Whatever it is that you need to feel, allow the emotions to happen if they happen. Day one's a big deal. Now, that I've gotten through day one and in the next podcast, I'm going to be talking to you about the first 14 days in a way that changed my life, and I teach this a lot, and I want to tell you how you can take the next 14 days ad completely change the way you look at fitness, and watch it seep in to every other part of your life. If you don't follow me on social media, please do. You can find me on Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest as Coach Tulin, and you can find me on Instagram @iamtulin, or you can simply go to the fithasnosize.com website and you can learn more about my Fit Has No Size membership community there. Please note it's not open at all times. We open it on occasion, but you're welcome to join the wait list. I would love to hear in the comments below how this podcast helped you. Did you change your mind about something? Did you go and apply it? I want to hear about your day one. So, don't forget to leave a rating in your comment. I can't wait to hear how your journey to day one went.

The whole game has changed in terms of the way people train today, especially in extreme sports. Legendary skier and erstwhile actor in Blizzard of Aahhh’s, Mike Hattrup can attest to that fact that everything seems to be much more organized at a much younger age. From weight training to all these other things that help lead towards being better at your particular craft. But despite all these modern men of steel, Mike remains unfazed. He understands that Sun Valley is not an easy place to work, but it's also made him valuable. Mike Hattrup is on the pulse; he's not sitting in an office in the city. This legendary skier prides himself with his direct connection to the community.

Glen Plake is the most famous skier ever, in my opinion.  While his skiing has always been top level, no matter what type of skiing he was doing at the time, he’ll always be remembered as the guy with the Mohhawk.   The guy who, along with Scot Schmidt, Mike Hattrup, and Greg Stump, created the overused word Extreme.  From arrests to celebrities to his thoughts on the state of skiing, here is the best of Glen Plake   2:00 Plakeisms:  Glen’s thoughts on global warming, the hotel (ski industry), going out into the back country, traditional skiing, and technique.  He keeps it real 9:10: Evo (listen for special offer) and Diecutstickers.com (Listen for 10% off your first order with DCS 15) 10:43”  Plakeisms:  Glen’s thoughts on global warming, the hotel (ski industry), going out into the back country, traditional skiing, and technique.  He keeps it real 32:57:   Patrol USA Use TPM10 at checkout on the site and get 10% off and RESQWATER 34:15:  Getting arrested with 40 pounds of Mushrooms and how Blizzard of AAhhh’s saved  him 38:00:  Being an innovator in Snowboarding in the early days with Shaun Palmer 41:00:  Hanging with Coolio, Carl Lewis, Shaun Palmer for a week 47:00:  Evander Holyfield 49:00:  Meeting Seal and realizing the connection between his music and Stumps films 55:00:  The Patrick Duffy Baja 500 story.   Photo Credit: The Glen Plake FB Page

On this episode of the "Sponsored" podcast, presented by Powder Radio, host Mike Powell interviews Greg Stump, who is among the most influential people in skiing ever. The man behind Maltese Flamingo, Blizzard of Aahhh's, and other classics, Stump changed the way ski movies look, feel, and sound. Stump talks about his growth as a skier and then as a filmmaker, shooting Scot Schmidt, Mike Hattrup, and Glen Plake, who was always pushing the boundaries of, well, everything. Show Notes 2:27: Getting into skiing 4:35: Hotdogging and winning competitions 5:44: Sponsors 6:54: Partying during the ski days 7:50: Skiing in for Barrymore and Miller 10:53: Why make your own movies? 13:04: Afraid of Plake 17:30: Blizzard and money 20:30: POV Camera’s 24:34: Lucas Nelson 25:39: Tony Hawk 28:12: What’s next

Aahhh!!! Real Monsters - The Switching Hour

Aahhh!!! Real Monsters - The Switching Hour

There's nothing like a bit of grave robbing, followed by identity fraud and religious intolerance but sometimes, that just isn't enough. Try poisoning your best mate or running out on your fiancé before the wedding. And if all else fails, you can always fall back on the old ‘destroying a man's faith' routine. That one gets ‘em every time. Obviously, this won't appeal to everyone, so for those of you who prefer a less hands-on approach you could simply dress like a leopard and wait for the Spaniards. Aahhh, those were the days.

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Aquí tenéis el Sunset boulevard 251, un programa normalito en el cual repasamos las últimas películas que hemos visto (Bueno, realmente solo Maxi), y hacemos un breve repaso a las novedades de las series de televisión… ¡¡AAHHH!!! Y os presentamos a dos nuevos colaboradores de Artegalia y posibles fichajes para el Sunset boulevard, ¿Se quedaran con nosotros o jamás volverán?

Aquí tenéis el Sunset boulevard 251, un programa normalito en el cual repasamos las últimas películas que hemos visto (Bueno, realmente solo Maxi), y hacemos un breve repaso a las novedades de las series de televisión… ¡¡AAHHH!!! Y os presentamos a dos nuevos colaboradores de Artegalia y posibles fichajes para el Sunset boulevard, ¿Se quedaran con nosotros o jamás volverán?

In this episode, Xan reviews the long running, ultraviolent, science fiction action series "Bio Booster Guyver" by Yoshiki Takaya While only covering a small fraction of the plot, Xan wets your appetite with his review of The Guyver. On another note, Xan should be getting his computer back soon, so recording should be a little bit more clear sounding as well as more in depth. Remember to check out Xan's antics on the Fightbait.com podcast. Also remember the create a new logo banner for the spiraken manga review contest ends April 23rd. Good Luck and Enjoy Music For Episode:Background Music -Chronos by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Intro Music -Waiting For... by Yo Reiri (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Theme of Guyver by Hayato Matsuo(Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Truth of Astonishment by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Puzzle That Turns The Strange Space by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Despair by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -The Guyver I Created by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Offensive and Defense by Hayato Matsuo(Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Complicating Expectations by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Puzzling Underground Organization by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Moment of Peace by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -The Invisible Enemy by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Background Music -Confrontation by Hayato Matsuo (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST),Ending Music -Cotton Candy by BONNIE PINK (Bio Booster Armor Guyver OST) Our Website http://spiraken.podbean.com Our Forum http://spiraken.rapidboards.com Our Email Spiraken@gmail.com My Email xan.spiraken@gmail.com Our Twitter Spiraken Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Our Voicemail 206-426-6665 (monk) Random Question of the Week:How many Guyvers are there currently and who are they?

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