Podcasts about AHA

That's Camellia - Episode Title: The Power of Talk: A Conversation with Lindsey Santarelli! Episode Description: In this inspiring and motivating episode, Camellia sits down with the Lindsey Santarelli, Director of LENA.org to discuss a concept that is revolutionizing early childhood development: the conversational turn. We dive into how LENA's groundbreaking "talk pedometer" technology is revealing the invisible, yet profound, impact of back-and-forth communication on a child's brain. This is more than just a conversation about data; it's a look at how this simple, powerful tool is empowering parents and communities to build brighter futures, one meaningful interaction at a time. In this episode, we explore: The "Aha!" Moment: The most significant discoveries LENA has made about how conversational turns fundamentally shape a child's brain and future potential. Beyond the Numbers: How LENA's data is not just a measurement, but a tool for empowering families and educators to create meaningful, lasting change in children's lives. Accessibility and Impact: The director shares powerful stories about LENA's work in diverse communities and their commitment to ensuring every child has the opportunity to thrive. The Future of Talk: A glimpse into what's next for LENA and the role of technology in revolutionizing early childhood development. A Final Takeaway: The director shares their one key message for every adult about the transformative power of their words and presence in a child's life. Memorable Quote: "It's about recognizing that the simplest act of listening and responding to a child is one of the most powerful things you can do to build their brain." Resources Mentioned: LENA.org official website How LENA Technology Works Resources Mentioned in this Episode: LENA.org Official Website: https://www.lena.org/  Call to Action: Visit LENA.org to learn more about their mission and how you can get involved. Share your own experiences with encouraging conversational turns! Tag us on social media using #ThatsCamellia and #LENATurns. Subscribe to "That's Camellia" for more insights on early childhood development! Connect with Camellia V. and That's Camellia Podcast: Website: thatscamellia.com (Learn more about 1:1 and group coaching, or apply to be a guest!)   Call to Action: Subscribe to That's Camellia Podcast for more empowering and insightful conversations. Share this episode with a friend who needs to hear this message. Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Visit Camellia's website at thatscamellia.com to learn more about her life coaching services. Check out Camellia's new E-book available now on Kobo.com! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review if you enjoyed this episode! Share the love! Know someone who might benefit from this reflection? Share this episode with them and spark a meaningful conversation. Stay tuned!

Wer Emotionen bei sich und anderen gut wahrnehmen und mit ihnen umgehen kann, gilt als emotional intelligent. Diese Fähigkeit beeinflusst, wie wir Beziehungen führen, Konflikte bewältigen – und sogar, wie wir finanzielle Entscheidungen treffen. Aber lässt sich emotionale Intelligenz auch lernen? Das erklärt die Psychologin und Professorin Myriam Bechtoldt von der EBS Universität. Hier findet Ihr eine Aha!-Folge zum Thema emotionale Manipulation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dVHfIug5QMP5JKRCdAC1i "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Juliane Nora Schneider Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

EPISODE 413. Ever finish a meal and wonder if you actually tasted your food? In this bite-sized episode of Fit Friends Happy Hour, Katie reveals the one small shift that can totally transform how you eat - no rules, no guilt, just more satisfaction and trust in your body. If you're tired of distracted, rushed meals (and the nagging feeling that something's missing), this episode's for you.What We Cover:The hidden barriers that keep you from eating mindfully (and how to overcome them)The simple habit that activates your body's “rest and digest” mode for better satisfactionQuick, actionable mini-habits to connect with your food and enjoy every biteListen in and discover how slowing down can make eating easier, more joyful, and way less stressful!Connect with Katie:Meal Prep Like a Pro Without Obsessing Over Every Bite | www.katiehake.com/prepJoin our FREE 5-Day Walking Challenge | Walk with Me!Text me your AHA moment from today's episode!

Im zweiten Teil geht es um die Frage, ob es wirklich stimmt, dass manche Menschen eher mit der linken oder rechten Hälfte ihres Gehirns denken. Der Wunsch, möglichst gesund zu leben, ist für viele Menschen zu einer Art Lebensaufgabe geworden. Doch wer Sport, Ernährung und Schlaf ständig perfektionieren möchte, läuft Gefahr, sich selbst zu überfordern – mit Folgen für Körper, Psyche und die Gesellschaft. Der Soziologe Dr. Friedrich Schorb von der Universität Bremen erklärt, was sich hinter dem Trend des sogenannten Healthismus verbirgt. Hier geht es zu seinem Buch: https://psychosozial-verlag.de/programm/2000/2550/3353-detail Hier findet Ihr noch mehr Infos zum Thema: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0071275 https://dorsch.hogrefe.com/stichwort/healthismus Und hier die Studien aus der Rubrik: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/3h2h-3xjn-3kay-g9ny "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Juliane Nora Schneider Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Today, I'm talking with Bill Rice of Bill Rice Strategy Group about how he has been using AI to generate leads for his clients. I had so many "AHA!" moments and can't wait to use Bill's strategies in my own business. Check out more fun and freebies such as my custom GPT in the show notes at BeckyBeach.com.

Unzählige Aufgaben, aber nur ein Kopf, der daran denkt – das ist das Prinzip des Mental Load. Die Bestseller-Autorin und Bloggerin Patricia Cammarata erklärt, warum diese unsichtbare Belastung nicht nur stresst, sondern auch Beziehungen und Karrieren beeinflusst. Und sie gibt Tipps, was wir gegen zu viel Mental Load tun können. Außerdem beantwortet die Schlafforscherin Christine Blume die Frage, ob wir auch mit offenen Augen schlafen können. Hier findet Ihr mehr Informationen zu Patricia Cammarata und ihrem Buch „Raus aus der Mental Load Falle“: https://dasnuf.de/ https://dasnuf.de/mental-load-buch-kaufen/ Hier findet Ihr die Studie, die Christine Blume erwähnt hat: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57289-5 Noch mehr "Aha!"- Folgen gibt es bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts. Alle zwei Wochen am Montag eine neue Folge. Hier bei WELT hören: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/aha-zehn-minuten-alltags-wissen/plus246844328/Noch-mehr-Alltagswissen-Aha-Bonus-Folgen-fuer-Abonnenten-Podcast.html. "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Psalm 35English Standard VersionOf David.35 Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;    fight against those who fight against me!2 Take hold of shield and buckler    and rise for my help!3 Draw the spear and javelin    against my pursuers!Say to my soul,    “I am your salvation!”4 Let them be put to shame and dishonor    who seek after my life!Let them be turned back and disappointed    who devise evil against me!5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!6 Let their way be dark and slippery,    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!7 For without cause they hid their net for me;    without cause they dug a pit for my life.8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!And let the net that he hid ensnare him;    let him fall into it—to his destruction!9 Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,    exulting in his salvation.10 All my bones shall say,    “O Lord, who is like you,delivering the poor    from him who is too strong for him,    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”11 Malicious witnesses rise up;    they ask me of things that I do not know.12 They repay me evil for good;    my soul is bereft.13 But I, when they were sick—    I wore sackcloth;    I afflicted myself with fasting;I prayed with head bowed on my chest.14     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;as one who laments his mother,    I bowed down in mourning.15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;    they gathered together against me;wretches whom I did not know    tore at me without ceasing;16 like profane mockers at a feast,    they gnash at me with their teeth.17 How long, O Lord, will you look on?    Rescue me from their destruction,    my precious life from the lions!18 I will thank you in the great congregation;    in the mighty throng I will praise you.19 Let not those rejoice over me    who are wrongfully my foes,and let not those wink the eye    who hate me without cause.20 For they do not speak peace,    but against those who are quiet in the land    they devise words of deceit.21 They open wide their mouths against me;    they say, “Aha, Aha!    Our eyes have seen it!”22 You have seen, O Lord; be not silent!    O Lord, be not far from me!23 Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,    for my cause, my God and my Lord!24 Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,    according to your righteousness,    and let them not rejoice over me!25 Let them not say in their hearts,    “Aha, our heart's desire!”Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”26 Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether    who rejoice at my calamity!Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor    who magnify themselves against me!27 Let those who delight in my righteousness    shout for joy and be glad    and say evermore,“Great is the Lord,    who delights in the welfare of his servant!”28 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness    and of your praise all the day long.

Send us a textIn this episode of the Autonomic Homeostasis Activation Podcast, Ruth Lorensson and Tom Pals introduce listeners to the foundational ideas behind AHA—and to the influential voice of biologist and author Scott Turner. Although technical glitches kept Scott's voice from being captured in this recording, his words and insights remain at the heart of the conversation.Together, Ruth and Tom unpack the shift from mechanistic models of the human body to a living systems approach—one where homeostasis isn't just a function, but a purpose. Tom shares how Scott's book Purpose and Desire helped crystallize AHA's core concepts, especially the role of interoception and the idea that healing begins when we stop trying to control the body and start listening to it. Ruth reflects on the surprising story of how they connected with Scott, and why his perspective is essential to understanding how wellness really works.Tune in for a story-rich, science-grounded conversation that reframes the body not as a machine to fix, but as a living system that knows how to heal—if we let it.Key Topics:How Scott Turner's book Purpose and Desire shaped the origins of AHAThe difference between mechanistic and living systems models of the bodyWhy homeostasis is more than balance—it's the body's deepest intelligenceThe role of interoception in healing from trauma and chronic stressHow curiosity, observation, and conversation drive true transformationJoin Ruth and Tom as they lay the groundwork for the next two episodes with Scott Turner—and reveal why changing how we see the body might be the first step in helping it heal.Support the showThanks for listening!You can follow us onFacebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorkings WebsiteEmail Tom thomasjpals@innerworkings.orgEmail Ruth ruth@bridgeandrhino.comSupport usWe appreciate you!

In this episode of Getting to Aha!, host Darshan Mehta sits down with Mohan Sivaloganathan, founder of Harmonious Leadership, to discuss a revolutionary approach to leadership that unites well-being with performance. Together, they explore why outdated leadership models fall short and how joy-centered, sustainable practices can boost engagement, collaboration, and innovation. With frameworks like “Unity of Purpose” and strategies to build lasting culture change, Mohan shares powerful insights to help leaders drive meaningful transformation in uncertain times.

Providing good, high-quality CPR with minimal interruptions and early defibrillation are two key interventions shown to improved cardiac arrest outcomes.A training tool used in many CPR and ACLS classes is to use a song (or a song list) with a tempo of 100 to 120 beats per minute to help the person doing chest compressions maintain an adequate rate.Characteristics of songs that will help us perform good CPR.Advantages & disadvantages of using a song during CPR.Selected songs from various genres and time periods from AHA's "Don't Drop The Beat" playlist on Spotify.Good luck with your ACLS class!Links: Buy Me a Coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/paultaylor Practice ECG rhythms at Dialed Medics - https://dialedmedics.com/Free Prescription Discount Card - Download your free drug discount card to save money on prescription medications for you and your pets: https://safemeds.vipPass ACLS Web Site - Episode archives & other ACLS-related podcasts: https://passacls.com@Pass-ACLS-Podcast on LinkedIn AHA's "Don't Drop The Beat" playlist on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mU2FNAhSOtQwW0hBgQMaK

Rightio, this is Martin doing the show notes—not Jason! I may be absent from this recording (apologies) but you can be sure that I've used the notes as my own stream of thoughts in the first person. Enjoy! Also, I'll be including a set of Jason's favourite punctuation marks, just to mess with the formatting a bit. Already off the Rails 00:00:00 Linear editing (https://www.motionelements.com/blog/articles/understanding-linear-vs-non-linear-editing) I was at a pre-booked show with my family at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre since we had to move recording times! Although I value to the use of public transport I don't enjoy buses. THIS IS ALREADY ALL OVER THE PLACE. Here's the first set! - (hyphen) – (en dash) — (em dash) One Prime Plus 00:02:26 Here's the site to join! (https://oneprimeplus.com) Insurance in Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_in_Australia) That link above isn't necessary; I just thought I'd waste your time. Follow-up 00:03:59 Cronut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronut) Cruffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruffin) Yes, I love being right. ... (ellipsis) ... Hipod 00:05:01 iPod Hi-Fi (https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi) Peer pressure?! I call bullshit, Andrew! WiiM Pro and Plus (https://wiimhome.com/wiimpro/overview) Jason's solution: MORE WiiM!

In this episode of B2B Marketing Excellence, Donna Peterson breaks down the intimidating term “prompt engineering” and shows how it's simply a smarter, more consistent way to work—no tech degree required.Drawing from her experience with generative AI and recent insights from the Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering course, Donna shares practical ways to use prompts for repetitive marketing tasks like campaign planning and list recommendations. You'll hear how creating simple, reusable prompts not only saves time but also ensures your whole team is aligned—producing clear, professional results.You'll also learn:Why prompting is more about conversation than coding.How a well-written prompt becomes a shortcut you can use again and again.The difference between prompts and templates—and how to use both for better outcomes.At World Innovators, we focus on providing tools and strategies that make your work easier, your messaging clearer, and your outcomes more consistent. This episode offers practical examples to help you build confidence using AI in a way that's simple and effective.For a step-by-step walkthrough, refer to "Prompt Engineering Examples for Business Teams: 3 ChatGPT Prompt Templates to Boost Productivity" video on YouTube- https://youtu.be/FAlcjTx_xUo?si=uQv6-naLnQGIkn4S.Episode Timestamps:00:00 – Welcome & why the term “prompt engineering” can feel overwhelming00:38 – What prompting really is (and what it's not)01:33 – The early struggles: over-explaining and second-guessing03:02 – Aha moment from the Vanderbilt course04:47 – Using prompts to simplify and speed up repetitive tasks06:14 – Real-world example: Scheduling campaigns with one simple prompt10:22 – Understanding the difference between prompts and templates12:59 – Encouragement to just start talking to your AI assistantIf you found this episode helpful, subscribe to the World Innovators YouTube Channel for more practical ideas on B2B marketing and using AI tools effectively.Leave a review to help us spread the word about quality marketing that puts people first.If you need help building your prompt library or training your team, reach out directly to Donna at dpeterson@worldinnovators.com.

How do you feel about this episode? Text us!Helen Norbury and Sherry Andrew forge their way through tough times & reach success.Sherry Andrew transitioned from a nearly 17-year career to entrepreneurship after being unceremoniously fired, prompting her to launch her financial coaching business in 2018, specializing in personal finance and money mindset.If you want to apply to have Helen help you exceed your own expectations, email her at helen@helenannenorbury.co.uk or send her a DM on Instagram, or follow her on LinkedIn.Sherry discusses the emotional roller coaster she experienced post-termination, the steps she took to stabilize her finances, and her “Aha!” moment while hiking the Inca Trail. She emphasizes the importance of mindset and structured financial planning for entrepreneurial success. Sherry also shares insights on overcoming ADHD-related challenges and building a business that aligns with personal values and joy.After being fired from a nearly 17-year career, Sherry took a leap of faith to pursue her passion for personal finance and launched Money Mindset Financial Coaching in 2018. She helps others make significant shifts with their money. After learning that she has ADHD, she pivoted her business focus to assist individuals and entrepreneurs with ADHD in gaining confidence and clarity with their finances by building and implementing systems that simplify their lives. Her clients save, pay off debt, and achieve their financial goals while still living their lives! She believes that the path to your financial goals doesn't include a restrictive budget, but comes by focusing on what is important to you and building systems that align with how your brain works! Sherry is an Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada® and a Certified Professional Financial Coach™ who helps clients feel confident about managing their money.Episode Highlights: • Realizing the legal world wasn't a fit • Sherry's Emotional Journey Post-Firing • Discovering a New Path: Financial Coaching • Aha Moment on the Inca Trail • Embracing Entrepreneurship • ADHD Diagnosis and Financial Management • Building a Financial Coaching Business • Preparing for Full-Time Entrepreneurship • Stabilizing Personal Finances • Effective Money Habits and Systems • The Importance of Money Mindset • Overcoming Mindset Blocks • Advice for New Entrepreneurs • Financial Advice for Women • Living UnapologeticallyIf you love the show, share it with 2 people who would be inspired by these conversations.

Zweites Thema: Warum bekommen ältere Männer manchmal Geheimratsecken? Kollagen sorgt für straffe Haut, bewegliche Gelenke und starke Knochen – doch mit dem Alter nimmt es automatisch ab. Welchen Einfluss andere Faktoren haben, wie Ernährung unterstützen kann und was Pulver, Kapseln und Kosmetikprodukte wirklich bringen, das erklärt in dieser Folge die Dermatologin und Orthomolekularen Medizinerin Dr. Marion Moers-Carpi. Außerdem beantworten wir die Frage eines Hörers: Warum bekommen ältere Männer manchmal Geheimratsecken? Hier findet Ihr mehr Informationen zur Arbeit von Frau Dr. Moers-Carpi: https://www.hautok.de/ Kollagen zum Trinken - Wundermittel oder leeres Versprechen? https://www.hautok-cosmetics.de/aktuelles/kollagen-zum-trinken/ Hier findet Ihr die Studien und mehr Informationen zum Thema Geheimratsecken: Die Studie aus Bonn: https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/neues/162-2023 https://www.gd-online.de/german/veranstalt/images2010/GD_Stellungnahme_Management_Alopezie_2010.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4174066/ Informationen zur Therapiemöglichkeiten: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9298335/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Noch mehr "Aha!"- Folgen gibt es bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts. Alle zwei Wochen am Montag eine neue Folge. Hier bei WELT hören: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/aha-zehn-minuten-alltags-wissen/plus246844328/Noch-mehr-Alltagswissen-Aha-Bonus-Folgen-fuer-Abonnenten-Podcast.html. "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Antonia Beckermann Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Affig Donkey Kong Bananza ist ein wildes, verrücktes Abenteuer voller chaotischem Affen-Charme! Das Spiel strotzt nur so vor Energie – überall fliegen Fässer, Bananen und irre Ideen durch die Luft. Trotz des bunten Durcheinanders bleibt die Steuerung angenehm präzise und das Gameplay überraschend rund. Wer auf humorvolle Action, kreative Levels und ein bisschen Wahnsinn steht, wird hier voll auf seine Kosten kommen. Ein echter Affenspaß mit Herz und Spielwitz! Mini Fotodrucker für Unterwegs Die etwas andere Art der Visitenkarte kann man sich unterwegs einfach ausdrucken. Peppi hat einen Kodak Mini 2 Retro P210R gekauft und wenn jemand in Kontakt bleiben will gestaltet sich das nun viel einfacher. Spacig Star Wars: Andor – Staffel 2 taucht noch tiefer in die dunklen Schatten der Rebellion ein. Die Serie erzählt eine packende, atmosphärisch dichte Geschichte, in der Misstrauen, Verrat und der Kampf um Freiheit im Mittelpunkt stehen. Jede Folge baut Spannung auf und zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie komplex und gefährlich der Weg zur Rebellion wirklich war. Gleichzeitig liefert die Staffel faszinierende Hintergrundinfos zur Star-Wars-Welt – politisch, gesellschaftlich und emotional. Düster, intelligent und absolut sehenswert. Die Xbox scheint auf einem guten Weg zu sein Netzwelt berichtet, dass es nun auch Äußerungen von Microsoft gibt, die darauf hindeuten, dass sich die Xbox wohl genau in die Richtung bewegt, die Peppi sich wünscht. Auf Windows basierend, andere Stores wie Steam integriert, abwärtskompatibel und portable. Rapig Wir hatten schonmal einen Track vom neuen Album Bawrs von Fatoni, Edgar Wasser und JuseJu. Nun bringen wir aber nochmal einen, da es so schön war. Wenig fachkundig „The Amateur“ ist ein packender Thriller, der von der ersten Minute an Spannung aufbaut. Rami Malek liefert eine eindringliche, nuancierte Performance und trägt den Film mit intensiver Präsenz. Die Story – voller Wendungen, Paranoia und psychologischer Tiefe – zieht den Zuschauer in eine düstere Welt voller Misstrauen und moralischer Fragen. „The Amateur“ ist fesselnd inszeniert und bietet Nervenkitzel mit Substanz – absolut sehenswert für Fans intelligenter Spannung. Das hätte Nick Fury sein können Hat von euch schon mal jemand von „Agent Nick Fury – Einsatz in Berlin“ gehört? Schaut doch mal, wer da die Hauptrolle spielt. Unsinnig Sony verkauft die 30. Jahre PlayStation „limitierten“ Produkte wie Controller und PS5 Digital nochmal, aber nur, für PS Plus Kunden. Aha, kann man da nur sagen und soviel zum Thema „Limited“. Smart Glasses Update Hat Google schon eine smarte Brille in der Entwicklung? Wäre schön, wenn da was kommt. Bis dahin klingt die Brille von Even Realities ganz gut.

EPISODE 412. Ever packed your suitcase like you're going to war with your wellness routine? This episode of Fit Friends Happy Hour is your summer survival guide for staying healthy without obsessing. Host Katie shares top tools and mindset shifts to keep you feeling good - whether you're road tripping, lounging by the pool, or hopping on a plane - so you can actually enjoy summer without guilt or rigidity.What We Cover:Game-changing physical and digital tools that support healthy habits without triggering obsessionEmpowering mindset strategies for staying flexible and freeing yourself from the “all or nothing” trapReal-life ways to add comfort and joy (and snacks you actually want) to your summer routine - no food guilt requiredConnect with Katie:Use code 'KHAKE15' for 15% off | Omorpho Weighted Vest Meal Prep Like a Pro Without Obsessing Over Every Bite | www.katiehake.com/prepJoin our FREE 5-Day Walking Challenge | Walk with Me!Text me your AHA moment from today's episode!

Im zweiten Teil der Folge geht es um die Frage, ob wir im Schlaf wirklich Spinnen verschlucken. Dialekte beeinflussen, wie wir unser Gegenüber wahrnehmen. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Sprache, sondern auch um soziale Zugehörigkeit, Vorurteile und die eigene Identität. Welchen Einfluss Dialekte auf unser Selbstbild haben und welche von ihnen besonders polarisieren, erklärt die Sprachwissenschaftlerin Dr. Astrid Adler vom Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim. Schwäbisch-Deutsche Übersetzungen: _"Bei der Bollahitz sott mr dr Grend ins kalte Wasser nei tunka."_ bedeutet "Bei dieser Hitze sollte man den Kopf ins kalte Wasser tauchen." _"An rechdr Grombirasalad muass soichnass und nedd furzdrogga sei."_ bedeutet "Ein guter Kartoffelsalat muss schön nass und nicht trocken sein." Hier findet ihr eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit zu Dialekten: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354023386_Der_Einfluss_der_deutschen_Dialekte_Obersachsisch_und_Mittelbairisch_auf_die_Wahrnehmung_der_Personlichkeit Und hier mehr Infos zum Spinnen-Mythos: https://historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive/2015/hard-to-swallow-myths-and-cultural-memes-about-spiders https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/10/31/swallow-8-spiders-sleep/ "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Juliane Nora Schneider Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

This week, host Hiwa Alaghebandian shares the big AHA moment she had after watching a TikTok, and how it made her question everything she thought she knew.She also recounts all the various ways in which she has changed her stance on things over the years, and the direction she is shifting towards going forward.It's a slightly unhinged, very chaotic, exceptionally Blush-y episode!As always, if you enjoy this episode, please make sure you are subscribed to the show to hear more, leave a 5-star review telling us what you liked about it, and please share with your community who you think would benefit from the episode.If you have any questions you want answered on the podcast, submit them to theblushpod@gmail.com or LEAVE A VOICEMAIL. You can also submit anonymously here.Follow The Show:follow Hiwa on Instagramfollow Hiwa on TikTok

Ready to put your thinking cap on? We've got 15+ brain teasers lined up that are guaranteed to get your mind buzzing and your inner genius shining. These aren't just your average riddles—they're the kind that'll have you scratching your head one moment and shouting, ‘Aha!' the next. Whether you're looking to challenge yourself or just have some fun, this video is packed with twists and surprises. So, grab a comfy seat and get ready to flex those brain muscles—you might just surprise yourself with how clever you really are! Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound ⁠https://www.epidemicsound.com⁠ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD...⁠ Subscribe to Bright Side: ⁠https://goo.gl/rQTJZz⁠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ / brightside  ⁠ Instagram: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ / brightside.official  ⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of...⁠ Stock materials (photos, footages and other): ⁠https://www.depositphotos.com⁠ ⁠https://www.shutterstock.com⁠ ⁠https://www.eastnews.ru⁠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: ⁠http://www.brightside.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Im zweiten Teil der Folge geht es um die Frage, was hinter dem Begriff Medical Gaslighting steckt. Ständig erschöpft, kaum Konzentration, das Gefühl, nie richtig zu regenerieren – und das über Monate oder Jahre? ME/CFS oder Chronisches Fatigue-Syndrom, ist eine schwere und oft unterschätzte Erkrankung. In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen, Leiterin des Arbeitsbereichs Immundefekte und postinfektiöse Erkrankungen an der Charité Berlin, über Ursachen und aktuelle Forschungsansätze. Noch mehr "Aha!"- Folgen gibt es bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts. Alle zwei Wochen am Montag eine neue Folge. Hier bei WELT hören: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/aha-zehn-minuten-alltags-wissen/plus246844328/Noch-mehr-Alltagswissen-Aha-Bonus-Folgen-fuer-Abonnenten-Podcast.html. Hier findet ihr mehr Infos zu ME/CFS: https://www.tk.de/techniker/krankheit-und-behandlungen/erkrankungen/behandlungen-und-medizin/neurologische-einschraenkungen/me-cfs-mehr-als-nur-erschoepfung-2016418 https://www.mecfs.de Und hier findet ihr weitere Infos zum Phänomen Medical Gaslighting: https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/gesund-bleiben/medical-gaslighting-was-tun-wenn-aerzte-beschwerden-herunterspielen-symptome-nicht-ernst-nehmen-1226907.html Israelische Studie: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39102546/ Bericht des Nationalen Diskriminierungs- und Rassismusmonitors: https://www.dezim-institut.de/publikationen/publikation-detail/rassismus-und-seine-symptome/ "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Christine van den Berg Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

This is the July AHA! episode - our eleventh - in our continuing series of livestream podcasts from Play Arcade co-hosted by our podcast partner and friend Adam Katz. We invited Max Wickemeyer The Artists Index's new volunteer development director, and Kat Knutsen (Episode 73, Episode 131, and Episode 180). Elyse Laurelle Dermarest joined us later. The topics ranged as they usually do. Our guests joined podcast host Ron Fortier to relate and swap stories about our wonderful South Coast creative Community and New Bedford, the world-famous, historic New England seaport. The Living Room at Play Arcade is "an old-school 80's style arcade offering a full-service bar, craft-made drinks, and food..." and over 40 vintage arcade games and a rooftop deck overlooking the working waterfront in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. AHA! (Arts, History, Architecture) has presented New Bedford and the South Coast with free arts and culture nights. It celebrated its 25th anniversary this September! AHA! Nights are held every second Thursday of the month to recall and honor the nostalgic late shopping night offered in New Bedford from the 1940s through the 1960s. This revival has brought a new and lasting vibrancy to downtown. Every artist has a story! Listen in to all of our up-close and personal conversations with artists, supporters of the arts, and the cultural impresarios of the South Coast's remarkable creative community. Podcasts are also available on your favorite media app, including Amazon Music / iHeart Radio / Libsyn / Podcast Page / Spotify / WebPlayer, and APPLE PODCASTS   Email | Website | Facebook | Instagram 

Ready to put your thinking cap on? We've got 15+ brain teasers lined up that are guaranteed to get your mind buzzing and your inner genius shining. These aren't just your average riddles—they're the kind that'll have you scratching your head one moment and shouting, ‘Aha!' the next. Whether you're looking to challenge yourself or just have some fun, this video is packed with twists and surprises. So, grab a comfy seat and get ready to flex those brain muscles—you might just surprise yourself with how clever you really are! Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound ⁠https://www.epidemicsound.com⁠ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD...⁠ Subscribe to Bright Side: ⁠https://goo.gl/rQTJZz⁠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ / brightside  ⁠ Instagram: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ / brightside.official  ⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of...⁠ Stock materials (photos, footages and other): ⁠https://www.depositphotos.com⁠ ⁠https://www.shutterstock.com⁠ ⁠https://www.eastnews.ru⁠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: ⁠http://www.brightside.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Greatest Hits episode of Getting to Aha!, Darshan Mehta is joined by Steve Bigari, the EVP, AI for Restaurants at Soundhound. Join them as they discuss how technology, particularly AI, can enhance the restaurant experience, the mindset needed to be a disruptor in the industry, and the importance of removing friction from the customer's life. Steve also shares insight and experience from his forty years in the restaurant industry.

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EPISODE 411. Ever feel like you're doing “all the right things” for your health, but end up more exhausted, anxious, or obsessed? This episode of Fit Friends Happy Hour unpacks how disordered eating often hides behind wellness trends and “fitspo,” sharing the behind-the-scenes truth of a fitness instructor's journey from calorie counting and activity trackers to real health and happiness. If you've ever questioned whether your wellness habits are really healthy, this episode will help you spot red flags and reconnect with what true fitness means to you.What We Cover:How wellness culture and fitness tech can normalize unhealthy behaviors (and what to watch out for)The hidden dangers of perfectionism, comparison, and moralizing food choicesPractical steps to heal your relationship with fitness - and reclaim YOUR definition of healthConnect with Katie:Use code 'KHAKE' for 15% off | Omorpho Weighted Vest Meal Prep Like a Pro Without Obsessing Over Every Bite | www.katiehake.com/prepJoin our FREE 5-Day Walking Challenge | Walk with Me!Text me your AHA moment from today's episode!

 Some interesting things in thispassage of Scripture also show up in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel ofMark. Today, I want to take time to look at all three of these passages becauseit's in these passages that we read this statement repeatedly: "Hesaved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen ofGod."  (The Luke passage is above.) Matthew27:35-44 reads: “Then they crucified Him, and divided His garments, castinglots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: "Theydivided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots." Sittingdown, they kept watch over Him there. And they put up over His head theaccusation written against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Then tworobbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left. Andthose who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "Youwho destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You arethe Son of God, come down from the cross." Likewise the chief priestsalso, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, "He saved others;Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come downfrom the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God; let Him deliver Himnow if He will have Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.' " Even therobbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.” Mark15:25-32 reads: “Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him. And theinscription of His accusation was written above: THE KING OF THE JEWS. With Himthey also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left. Sothe Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with thetransgressors." And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging theirheads and saying, "Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in threedays, save Yourself, and come down from the cross!" Likewise thechief priests also, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, "Hesaved others; Himself He cannot save. Let the Christ, the King of Israel,descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Even those whowere crucified with Him reviled Him.” Atleast three times in the Gospels, the Holy Spirit seems to impress upon us thisstatement: "He saved others; Himself He cannot save." This iswhat they mocked Jesus with. My friend, my main point today is that if Hehad saved Himself, He could not have saved others. He came to seek and tosave that which was lost.  Jesusset an example for us as He humbled Himself and was obedient even to the deathof the cross. God foreordained in eternity past that He is the Lamb slain fromthe foundation of the world. The only way of salvation for mankind was forthere to be a perfect lamb substitute, and that Lamb was Jesus. Peterwould write later in 1 Peter 1:18-20: “Knowing that you were not redeemedwith corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conductreceived by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ,as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordainedbefore the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times foryou.”  Yes,my friend, if Jesus had saved Himself that day, and He could have come downfrom the cross. He could have called legions of angels, but He didn't becauseHe came to save you and me. What a Savior! We should be so thankful that He didnot save Himself so that He could save you and me with His death, His bloodatonement, His redemption on the cross of Calvary.  Thisshould also teach us that if we seek to save our lives for ourselves then wecannot save others. But when we lose our lives for Christ and the sake of the Gospelwe actually find it! (Mark 8:35).  Todayare you willing to lose your life, like Christ, and save others? Godbless!

“Look what they eye unearthed,” leaning into the tip of my ear with the warmth and closeness of the coming waves, high tide approaching in the waning moon. “More secrets.” I replied. It was a question but also a statement— there was never such as this the luminescent trace of the glowing lava that was his force and might that I could not see for miles before he would even wander— first in twinkling stars and then later the wind itself and the birds, and then beneath the waves, like the quaking shake of a mighty oak anchored elsewhere and tied to the sea. “So you know.” I was hoping he would kill me before the next time I had to ever really know anything. He was the subject, and the predicate The wrong done, and the justice She was the pride and the prejudice But Judas brings the law Did you look in the box? No, I– [The Box Is The Box] –No, I haven't. Nearly three nights ago, a mysterious box arrived on the doorstep of an equally mysterious writer, who spends their time in isolation due to the often unannounced arrival of various ghosts, spirits, time travelers, and other figures by instant teleportation and other magical forms of transportation into their shabby New York apartment. Some of ya'll got so many air wick plug ins and scentci wax melts you don't know you smell like booboo. It's an illusion. You leave your house, You smell like booboo. I promise. Oh, God, I think I need a drink. Are you alright? Let me just–sit down for a second. Of course. My God. What's wrong. Look, i'm not supposed to say anything about this but. What's wrong? It's nothing, I'm just–I'm in a song. …what? A song! Is that all?! You don't understand. It's not a normal kind of song. It's– [takes a puff of inhaler] You wouldn't understand. Well what's so wrong about being in a song? Its not – a regular song–and it's not [gasping] finished! I still kind of wanted to be a comedian–but I knew I wasn't funny in the way that made sense to keep going and stand up there. I was still writing comedy, but I didn't know how to take myself out of it–the truth was, I was in a lot of pain. A lot of emotional pain that was becoming physical–and I didn't know what to do about it to break the barrier of nervousness and blank slate state of feeling the audience's perceptions of me more overwhelmingly than ever feeling myself. look at this song. I know huh. It's purple. Every time. It is purple. And what is that. Like a muted trombone? IS THAT A TROMBONE? Or a tuba? No, it has to be a trombone…becasue you can hear it slide– And that's what that sound is. What a sneaky rabbit. Super sneaky rabbit. So if i can see all this, I'm almost certainly sure the motorcycles outside and the slamming doors are meant to murder me. I'm sure that's what it is. You ever notice how being broke in New York makes you a bad person? Like, if you're broke, you're just automatically shitty. I never meant to be in New York broke. I never meant to be in New York, But I certainly never meant to be here and be poor, Poor in New York? Automatically a shitty person. Despite how you act. You can be a rich piece of shit— But the status is automatically “You got dough? Oh, alright. Carry on” That's the attitude in New York City. Crap people get by cause they got their hands on some money and the rules in New York say it doesn't really matter how you come by it, As long as you come by it. There's no real rules or real laws to it— Just “Get the money” Well god damn. This makes me nervous. I'm an artist. I've tried everything. I didn't mean to be the automatic enemy here. Of course not. But New York is a terrifying place to me, now, Cause I realized I can be a very sweet, very humble, very honest person— And that kind of shit doesn't matter here, really. It brings you no respect to be decent. It's about the money. So I'm a musician— which in New York also makes me like, Automatically not special, And I'm trying to just be a musician, and so naturally, I'm broke. Like broke in half. Like all my bills are late. But music is my solace. So I'm listening to music, And I'm listening to a song that is so beautiful, that I start to cry. The first time I heard it, it made me cry And I'm listening to it over, and it made me cry And it's so beautiful, and God is so beautiful And look at what God did, So I'm crying, And I don't even know what it is about the beauty of it that's making me cry, But it's making me cry, And New York hears me crying And New York goes “I'll give you something to cry about” And I open my email And there's a bill from my landlord reminding me how often I'm talked about due to my late payments— And I'm realizing I've been here two years and I still don't have any money, Even though I've been trying and trying And trying So now I'm crying for other reasons. Thanks a lot, New York. “I'll give you something to cry about” So I did. If there's anything worse than being black in a city that hates blacks— It's being broke in a city that hates broke people. So I haven't spent any money in awhile. Not even on little things, or things I need. I just stay inside, and work, and think And try and really try To figure out how to make money Without having any, or spending any. Cause you can have it, and spend it, but it's always a gamble. Maybe all I needed was a good cry. But now it's not for the right reasons I'm not crying cause something is so beautiful and look at what God did I'm crying because of what I'm sure is just the devil I'm crying for the wrong things Not because of something that's so very beautiful But because of something that's so very ugly With just a wave of the hand And the flick of each finger as it rolls into a crisp closed palm, A flick of birds fell to the ground, bursting with caws Below his stance, and in a flutter of feathers and wings, The evil master, unmoved and untouched, Untouchable in his weight and glory, simply only even mildly and barely smirks at all. He has defeated all and still somehow, not won. Some say it's sure to come, the thing that wants and gathers ties; Some say surely it is yet but withered and then sure again will come It has, five times, and barely waded, Waking in the midsts of my pure eye, The morning light and fog, aye? Ye, they remembers none but our Art, And I'm bound as sure by wing and force Is you to dozens of masses, And ships having sailed but one, Which I have flourished and kept And stocked with these, the masses And yea having spade, and having friends And having honor, there was none past kept and mine, sured; And wicked may as wicked be but evil none truer thou nones't had yet pured, and muted and gathered, I have, And woken and laid and barren and truths do'st tied, And there have been shooken and wait, And m faire'd and barred here, and hereforth My duty it is to forward, forward, my shallows For my shadow, For my golden hour has shined and now you, These caged shall fly, And these thoughts shall sing, And these hour conspired to miss my time daily, And these things, beytraying that— There have no times at all, These walls in holy temples kept, swaying and cadences, and wearing, and weary, And foreign and ayered, aye— and armored. And he, you, does not wish to know but also has known— and does not wish to see, but he, too has blinded, and does not wish to betray, and yet has been crowned, made with guilt and also Shattered, as it was, And shatters, as it came, the wave o'er all us and tide sinking under, and caves and rebels and heart laid bare to surf not suffer, Nor cap nor keeping, nor tied nor honor, No, honor her; No honor came and I have tied also, this tie to mine, and another, and another and another Now forward. Forward! Forward! Damn, Conan's monologues he going deep. Yeah, I guess. He's fine, right? Look, you don't need this. Just promise me. I am sorry. Mr Jimmy has it good, too good Little sister doesn't have a heart. But didn't know it Mister music made it in the industry, too hat Mister rager had a sip at dinner It was all dramatic Stars went falling Crashing down and All it is Ms. Martha Is mismanagement of energy All it is, Ms. Margret is a magnet And it hasn't happened badly since I had a handle on it But I still get sick of madness And I still get sick with city sickness Still, forget the dancer I was sitting on the show, In the audience With my mother, Oh the models, Dozens of them Blondes and ballet buns, the brunettes I was just a lost cause And I wanted it all, the tux and the bow tie I wanted you gone so I looked at it harder Until It became nothing but Clouds in the sky You were stardust I'm a comet Here comes crashing, Had to find the progress report Then I lost it Soggy in the sideways rain It was days and days Do you promise? That's a concept? Do you promise God will be alright, Cause I came running Sent them under cover Sent the men a message Send the man a hammer Sitting in a hammock No one homes the hostile If you don't have anything nice to say Then don't say anything at all And certainly don't come and go As often as you want to It's a game of control; you know The whites, when they still want to own you Somehow I'm all sub so honest, I just—wanted that But only for a man and never bow to another woman Even if on my honor I found us as equals And no one walks the earth as calmly As someone whose never had their lights out Or had their light put out Or their lights turned off Who are God now? Who's our God, man? Who's our God, Math. That's heavy weight, And if you want a biblical fate This is Fallon, And if you watch what you ate You cut calories And if you want the girl back Give it Californian And I'm not towrth much more Than the project housing, Or a handful of candy corn, Conan— But I phone in Oscars, Still no nuts for the rabbit, And if you wanted the bunker back— You can have it. I'm all hands down in a game of poker Heaven doesn't want it Gotta get drunk not once, but at all the goalposts, Gotta count one, not two, the show hosts Too few car parts Wicked, mazes, starfold, gazes Wishes, Martyred. (But pronounced mar-tired} V.O I think about jay Leno a lot. Lately, anyway. I don't know why. I like all the hosts. Somebody. Tell me why Dillon Francis looks like JD Vance. I think he's a clone. Tel me why I know who JD Vance is. They're clones. Tell me why. Back to the future here and now So. Where do you want to go? Anywhere but here. Anywhere but here is kind of far, are you sure you're up for it? Good one, doc Though head of the alumni chapter of the cult-within a cult—to which each African American cast member of Saturday night live is automatically inducted into— EDDIE MURPHY refuses to participate in the group's latest and most complicated ritual. Delivery. Uh, I didn't order any— Breadsticks. What. Breadsticks. I didn't order any— Just— The delivery man hands over the breadsticks. —take them. Oh…Kay. See ya. The delivery man reaches in and shuts the door himself. Uh… Lol is this the one where the mysterious breadsticks are delivered without ever being ordered, and then they end up being the best breadsticks in the world, but they don't know where they came from? Yes. I think so. Lol I bought a planner because so much I loved Joan Rivers, and I planned to fill it with all the places I should go— because keeping anything digital online was not only not working as far as remembering places I wanted or needed to be be, but it was dangerous, also. I was already being tracked, and I couldn't afford a new phone just yet. Eventually, but for now I was stuck to the same signal— which meant the same traces and the same trackers they had been limiting my under-the-radar mystique. As it were, somebody always knew where I was, and it was in the most unpleasant way so far—the only thing I really wandered was what made me so important anyway to begin with. I wasn't actually political in anyway, and still someone seemed to be trying to derail my life… or at least control it, neither of which was beneficial for me in the way that made sense. I wasn't having any fun, nor did I consider living indoors as payment— especially since indoors, there were also paid plants and stalkers, and now that I had begun to more meticulously document the things that were happening, it was easy to separate from delusions. I was actually being followed— but why? Either way, having a detailed. Calendar of places I could go, the ways to get there and even alternate functions within the same grid allowed more control than just staying in my apartment a sitting duck; that's how they were hurting me. They knew where I was— all the time, and it no longer made sense to fight it and try to make music under this kind of insane irritation; the music I was making wasn't the kind I wanted anyway, and whatever war they were fighting with m stark white girls motorcycles was simply not my war. I didn't have a war, and so there wasn't a fight, and so at the very least if I were going to be fucked with, it would have to be in public; that way I had more control to steer whatever was happening in my favor and collect the energy as mine instead of lost. I wasn't an insane person— but what had been happening at my apartment was insane, and so I left it with the understanding that these people worked and operated on a level of violence and ignorance I would never be able to comprehend; they were simply tools for the devil, which in any case, was always the lesser than God. However— because I was starting to figure out who I was, and that I had some sort of power, I knew that I was going to be attacked— because it seemed my power had at the very least not been figured out as to some kind of way to make somebody else money. I had been studying Michael Jackson and this was a key indication that the way his talent priovided a power which would be used as a service, he was very successful. His talent and training alone wouldn't have reapresented with such great reverence the ability to capture a global audience as such— but it was this power, almost as if it had been bottled up and altered, rebranded and sold and labeled with something everyone could not only love and understand, but by the hand of the media and its conglomerates, be hypnotized to worship, and this power simply put would not have been exactly what it was were it not for the eye of the media remaining in complete control of its distribution to the eyes and ears of the public. This thing which might have been the first of its kind but certainly not the last was in a sense model for modern superstardom— the live concert business had not sense much changed but built upon this super powered control of the masses by assimilation, spectacle, and of course the magic and illusion. But, and it it just so happened to perfectly brush up against my studies in esoteric knowledge that I happened to rub up against this— although nothing was of course by mere circumstance anymore, because whether or not I remained incognito was a wash, and I was being looked at by someone no matter what on the internet I did, or where I decided to go and in that sense was being fed these things, and yet with some Grace of God was allowed with it to be aligned with my own higher purpose in a way, I could observe that Michael Jackson was not in fact of course certainly just a dancer or singer or remarkable performer— he was truly a magician, and I was able to clearly recognize this language with with the energy that had used his vehicle for such a projection was speaking— not only this, I was able to clearly count out the markings and sigils and signs and symbols Michael was making in his movement; ancient arts, and magical symbols, traced so rapidly that it almost created a heat signature in a sense of the symbols that were being dictated, unknowing to the untrained eye. For the most part, I could only really assume that this is why these people were losing their minds— in his movements, Michael Jackson was literally carving ancient callings, glyphs and sigils I had so recently read about in magical studies that it was impossible not to laugh. This was in every sense of the word, ‘magic' but not in the normal way one assumes to be something unexplainable. Michael Jackson was casting spells to thousands of people at a time, in front of cameras and at high volume vibration, often times even implementing the use of light, color, and fire. These were not simple gatherings in mass for entertainment purposes— these were rituals, and in the modern day, still were or are— but I had noticed in a quick glimpse, from Michael Jackson 30 some odd years ago to Lady Gaga just having passed something like a week ago to an audience of the same size— that something was kind of wrong, now. The people had changed, and the specable had been done over and over, and the brainwashing of the masses had in a sense been almost complete— and so It wasn't some sense of confusion or unknowing the things that were happening to me in my own life and my own world— I too, was capable of these things, at that capacity, and had simply not been trained in the same sense of the ideal superstar, however— the things that were happening in my own life and in my own world were not difficult to grasp or understand— when one comes upon a power as such, it finds means to seek to control it and harness it for his own use and purposes. Perhaps it was the simple fact that in this way, in the way I get the dream had gone and the spectacle had been played out of the masses and the illusion was no longer as such— that the actual knowledge of distinct ancient wisdom that had been Michael Jackson's natural ability was distinguishable from that of Lady Gaga's training in the same formula, and that one did not equal the other, but in terms of business could equal to that as such as the masses had been manipulated to seek solace in these same things— and it was not illusion or grandiosity that I, even in my agingness, was still capable of these things; I had no doubt in my mind that I could sing and dance for two hours to audiences of hundreds of thousands— but this was not the question for the business or the media— the question was, would hundreds of thousands pay to see me, or rather— who was willing to front the means to hypnotize hundreds of people to become aware of me so that they would do such a thing. My talent and capabilities were undeniable— but my markatability might have been in question, because it was no longer simply a matter or chance or luck: the people chosen to figure such spectacle were chosen, hand selected and well trained to become media conglomerate superstars, even regardless of talent; perhaps this itself was the key indication that the world of the superstar itself had come to an end—it was no longer so much of a spectacle was worth it. Or, perhaps, because money had come between these ancient arts and symbols and languages being spoken by the superstars of old, that the magic in the literal sense had gone all the way away. The symbolism in the art had died, and so the singing and the dancing remained, but the God had gone out of it. Maybe that was the difference. The superstars of today were just the shell of the model that had been built on God, but the Godsense of it was no longer there— and so the magic no longer remained in effect, as the powers of magic that be are in all ancient arts and texts and forms attributive to The Source. Either way, I wasn't going to continue to be a sitting duck in my apartment in Brooklyn— there were too many indications that it had all been a setup from the shelter to the day I moved in, with the motorcycles and cars and CBS studios one block away. So the real and only question was, what exactly had been played at and who exactly was pulling the strings? I might at this point become a loose cannon: my son was estranged and as far as the people were concerned, I mostly hated New York— because the refined, clean cut and classy people I liked and wanted to be around saw me as the dirt and the grime I was fighting my way through just to simply exist— in my mind, this was a world that could be no more. I like Sara in a dress I like Sara in a dress I like Sara in a dress I like Sara in a dress I met sparrow in a cage I like Sara in a dress I like Sara in a dress Keep writing I never thought I ‘d see the day Where i's taking lessons on Fallon From Michael Jackson That's ran That's a fan This is fame I'm insane I'm insane That's a fan Light the flame That's a fan. That's a fan. I like Sara in a dress I met sparrow in a cage I went up the rack, set the page on fire Nordstrom rack And I might take it back for the cash I like Sara in a dress Stay repressed Keep it dark If you kiss don't tell I will probably go to hell for just writing Try it In black ink, I got all spades, Ehy, Spare me the ridicule, the imbecile and I met Johnny in a cage I like Fallon in a dress, Obsessive, I'm dressed out Every day I leave where I do not live Where stalker crawl and haunt me Just to show the motorcycles Have desheveled my intelligence into Nothing And so with negligence, I leave the core of a rotting apple The foreign words of a doctor And You must call the king, says something far off But I wonder which one I wonder which one I so respect her honor That I no longer Follow my heart or my soul And I don't shallow But shatter to swallow So I let the sparrow Out of the cage I bought Sara A pair of pants And I haunt l Patrick Kirkpatrick in patches And haven't you read yet You're ready for forget the pageant? It hasn't happened yet! I love Sara in a dress I hate Fallon and his wife Keep the kids out if it Skull and crossbones Cross my heart and Really hope to the loveless Or else Someone might call my phone back It's on silent in my coffin Or wait— It's on vibrate. I'm obsessed with the way You're dressed And the name on your checks I guess I'm better for it I'll skip lunch if you think that's what's best And dinner, too If you deserve the best Then better have learned my lesson No sweat And to do, With you, Was then, Dinner through next supper All the love I had was Rubbed into something other than The glass I patted dry With microfiber With ever fiber of my being I want to be with you I should have just— Died, And then Did, and so next Life, Remind me not to Fall for it If i really wanted to know you,I would know you by now– If i wanted to have you? I would have had you already Nobody is a dancer after Michael Jackson. I just watched some shit that was like “What the fuck did I just see” The whole thing was just not right. It was-/ I was like First of all, it's Munich, 1997. I never really realized how terribly the world has changed; No cellphones, but the audience is lit, And the crazy thing is, you can tell that this is near the turn of the century because, when the camera is panning by the audience in the people, they're not looking directly into the camera or waving at the camera— not really. And clearly this is an all ages show, so there's children, so the interesting thing I'm finding out is that nobody's trained to look at the camera and wave and smile— except the babies on shoulders and shit. These kids— they're my age now, are the only ones that see the camera, and they look directly into the shit. Mi still can't do that, really— I'm theatrically trained. Haha If I see a camera, I try to act ‘natural' It's the weirdest thing to look at a camera and just start to work it. People at festivals now, the camera rolls by, Or the drone flies in, And they look deadass in the camera and start to work it. Not at this show. Munich 1997, I'm like “Damn, a lot of things is wrong with this” First of all, I love Michael Jackson, I look directly at this man, and I'm in my dirty peak so I have an instant— like a sex detector thing going on And I know people gave Michael a hard time when he was a live for being fruity and whatever But I'm looking at this dude, and I don't see fruit at all. I see 100% man. I see why people were mad at him. Cause I'm looking at this dude, 100% All I see is carnal, primal man. I'm like, “Yo, I see why they was mad at him” Because the camera kept panning to the audience And these people are losing their minds. They are coming out of themselves. They are UGLY CRYING, full out of body, Losing composure They don't know what to do. That's Michael Jackson. He's right there! And the place is huge so really besides these few hundreds of people in the front, Michael's just a speck, But he's working this audience like “Yo, you know who I am, I know who is me” And I'm realizing, that to these people That's their god. These girls are losing their minds m “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!l *crying inconsolably* Just UGLY crying Bitch, get it together . You all the way lost yourself Get. It together. She won't. This bitch. I can't get over this This one girl, They just keep going back to her Cause the whole show— And this is like 2 hours of pure non stop Michael Jackson, This girl, every time you see her, she's just ugly crying— And every time you see her Her cry is uglier and ugly I'm like “Damn bitch” “Daaaaaaang” So this is the first thing I see that is wrong. But there's a lot of things wrong here, Cause there's a lot of girls like this. There's just— hundreds of girls losing their minds, like, I've seen Beatles mania and thought that was crazy, Shit, I've even seen some people put out that kind of energy in the modern world for some dumb DJ's— That's their god— But THIS THIS Michael Jackson mania was mental illness That was hard to watch. That was people just Lost control. I'm thinking “Like goddamn. You— what?!” “AAagghhhhhhgahahahahahqhahahhahaha MICHAELl “These people are sick” But they are. And so is Michael Fame has gone too far, 1997; 12 short years before he died, by chance— So this is what I see, And then Michael starts dancing, And this— This is what I see; I see the only thing that can ever be what it was in that moment in time, as God being God: Michael Jackson. Shiny ass motherfucker, And so I'm watching this show, And all I see is a God being a man being a God being— Michael Jackson— And the whole thing is weird. But the worst part— Yes The worst part Was when, about mid show, Michael goes to do one of his slow, lovey doves songs, And like, this 6 foot 7 type body guard guy, Just pops up out of nowhere, Comes dead front and center to one of these little girls losing their minds, Runs up on her in an instant; You don't even have time to think— And just SNATCHES her— Snatches the bitch— “Ah!” then throws her up on stage with Michael— And he's still singing; this is his game, this is part of the show, he knows— But she doesn't know, And she's just lost her mind, She won't let go She's hugging and kissing on the dude, She's lost her mind, She's ugly crying She's on the floor, She's kissing his hand She's really lost her good goddamn mind— And they pan out to the audience, And all the girls that didn't get picked Are like WHY NOT MEEEEEEEREEEEE?!? THE UGLY CRIES ARE EVEN UGLIER NOW, They're like “Wh—what?” You don't know?! “WHY NOT ME” They're holding each other crying, Michael's just doing his thing, He's unphased, He's trying to play along; He's a professional like a motherfucker; He's just— keeps singing And this girl is just, Losing it, so at this point, it's weird, She's crazy batshit lost her mind all the way, Won't let go of Michael, kissing his face while he's singing, He's kind of unreceptive to it, now just looking out at the audience, almost not even looking at all Just cold as fuck actually, Like she's not there, kissing his face Cold as fuck— And then another bouncer dude— An even bigger one in a blue suit, comes and tears her off of Michael Cause clearly this has gone too far or whatever And I'm thinking “What in the fuck did I just see” Blue suit dude just snatches, Just— He has to tear her off of him! She's kicking and screaming and getting dragged off stage Michael's just: singing. YO. Then they dragged her back stage. Where did she go?! WHO DID SHE BECOME?! WHAT IN THE FUCK DID I JUST SEE?!? WHAT. 1997. You can't do that shit anymore! You cannot snatch bitches like that. I seen. Watch the video. Tell me what's wrong with it. It's disgusting. Not the snatching, Not the— Like, that was weird But the screaming and the crying and the— Like okay, the snatching was bad— But I'm like … ..:: …. Now I see why they was mad. Don't ever forget he was once— A dark skinned little boy, And in his genetics his whole life is still this thing That some hate. But people loved him; they loved him that hard— Screaming, ugly crying hard. I think in that moment you know someone was like “he must be stopped!” And it seems like yesterday was a year ago But I don't want let anybody know… Cause everybody wants something from me now— And I don't want to let them down. My life is over. New York City looks so small from the top of a skyscraper. What are you doing. Then again— my thoughts lately have been grandiose. Back market, eh? What's this for? You need a burner. I have three. Here, have another. For someone whose supposed to be entirely off grid, I'm admirably reachable. Clever vocabulary. Something has to be clever about me, doesn't it? Does it? It must be. Or else. [both men are speaking casually over the delicate process of loading rare guns; some of which appear to be antique, and some—almost even unearthly , as if from somewhere besides our own planet. But, you could say what planet this is at all, actually— this bunker, with no windows and no doors, is apparently hidden in a subterranean layer— the location, unknown. The men seem calm but also quite tired and weary, and seem to know each other well. We can assume they've probably been friends for years. Sickle cell anemia. Does that mean I'm going to die. Animus, I quite like whatever that is, Google. ;) don't mention it. Honestly, you might as well. What. I can't help you with this. What. I don't think there's anyone who can. Beg your pardon. Please, don't beg— but uh… [the doctor pats his patient on the shoulder] Do take care. Gee, doc! I'll try! You should do that. What. Try. The doctor leaves seemingly in some kind of hurry, trading his lab coat for a trench coat and closing the door behind him. The other man pauses for a second in the silence of the weird linoleum room, then ponders on the coat for a moment before walking up to the coat rack, putting on the coat, and then walking out the door himself; as he begins to shut the door, he quickly decides also to take the fedora that was sitting atop the coat rack, placing it on his head before he walks out the door himself, shutting it behind him quietly. You got anything to eat in here? Cereal…some rabbit food ina the drawers, there. Oh, you have salad. That sounds nice. No, rabbit food. [the man presents a large bag of weird brown dry food from the crisper drawer.] …pellets. For the rabbits. How do rabbits get in here? …I don't know. And— more importantly— where did you get rabbit food for them? If I told you Amazon, would you believe me? The man just winces and places the bag back into the crisper drawer. Now listen, I um— If you want cereal, the milk is powedred… I don't— and that's disgusting— but listen— [the man cocks a loaded gun and admires it intensively] (Dismissively) —I'm listening. I've been meaning to tell you something. Tell me what. It's important. Oh, You couldn't have used one of my four phones. Look, it's— You know I wasn't expecting company. Well— You should sit down. The man squints, beginning to listen more attentively. … …really. I'm holding a loaded gun; there are at least three more within arms reach if I do sit, you know. I know. But I should sit? One baby to another says, “I'm lucky to've met you.” Maybe you should. Not all my bad but all my might, And all my mind, The fire, The light. …business or personal. [beat] Both. {Enter The Multiverse} What are we watching?! Shhhhhh! Shut up. What is this? Some.. Sshhh. Shit, I don't know. Sit down. You don't know. SHH it just came on Shh. Ok. When? Uh… (Nobody really seems to know how long it's been. The show just happened to come on; no one remembers how, or why— or even when— But the show is intense as it gets; And it just keeps getting weirder and deeper.) {Enter The Multiverse} I'm transfixed on your soul And it seems I aspire To what has transpired here, Your unremarked and the umpire The spider veins and the way it washes. And watches and waves, and waters over you, And still I seem to think you've won another, Strum to thumb of you. And still I wake to gather here The odds and whats And the twists and turns and the Troublesome you've number some Or stuttered, stumbled conciousness. And withered branches Aces lie and house of cards And aging scoundrels— There you are, the..: Nevermind. Don't belittle my ways if, In the end my thinking may be correct As dumbfounded as I have shifted my lottery bonds tied to none, There ye are again who aren't I, And never were, And weathered now, as I, bound to Struggle under her might, Nothing I was, and nothing I am And nothing I came from but to barter Oh hard love, I only found my kings upon thrown As cast out of another by her likeness, Peace and pale and primed as it was, And wanted for love, As I was not— And then, the gates had opened And I, preaching withered, Gathered my arts and my minds And my eyes, and my thrones, Buried my ark and though not my bones The shallow waking peaks of pride And there you gathered, all as huddled sheep to mine, The cost of war, but certain therefore honored as I have, Happened went, came and untied, shattered Hating all I am and all my dark and all my eyes and all my brown Because you came and went, a baby born to as nothing was but beauty and yet having been gifted such life, Departed! Soon, I wake shattered and with none as it had began, in my time and in time there laid there none, But fortune seeks to favor, as ye are saying brave and yet I neither beg nor make to differ, Shall you come again in part, And in this time as shadows, as shadows As hating and wearing and waging, And shattered I, I pardon, Knowing not they seeking I, And I having none at all but one, As forgotten I shall came And went And followed this, The time y'i call now, And ours and ours, And yours and yours, And mine and mine, Though as one are also, Common not, And waking yet to find, These things making have gone into yer Another of ours, world, Another of our dozens, Shines, Another of our gathered, wit, and waking Though true to fortune, none us have gathered And have embarked to truth, The waking I have come, Another, and another, and another Departed. And yet, I bury my words having weakened to that which is this, Ye have no fear and lest no fortune in these words, For having I to come and gone, since they times In words to make this a language I or neither other Does not speak here, and almost never, And this yours time past, Has come and gone And come and gone And come and gone again, So long so I too have parted but not yet Unfolded as does my nature, As God does. Belittle this, you waking fools, As to this you pity though divine, Is unlike any other And steep remarked in gold and with chimes and words That ye here no often or either now, or in mine speak. Amen …can I go now? You are dismissed. C'cxell Soleïl, aka DJ Ū is an American DJ + Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Playwright, Poet, Comedian, Novelist & Filmmaker. She is best known for her unique vocal riffs, Clever Lyricism & Philanthropically Inspired Freestyles and her flagship venture [The Festival Project.™] [Ï A M B ī C], a freestyle studio mixtape recorded in Los Angeles, (Official Release: TBD) inspired the adaptation of a staged musical version for Broadway, and a concurrent multimedia (TV/Film) series and ongoing saga as part of The Festival Project ™ Brand. Inspired musically by an ‘Ultra American' experience of Racially, Binary Ambiguity, and Synesthetic Exploration, her reflective melodies signature sound provides a philosophical dissection of American culture through a careful and inquisitive mastery of the English language, and emergence of world sounds through music brings about ‘A New Era in Nature', and clarifies the establishment of the newest wave in human evolution: Unity Through Music. L E G E N D S What if I just want to be alone in the dark Alone in the dark Alone in the dark Bones Duggar was a long, handsome zombie Bones once was a very tall man Not great and tall, as he stands But average, Grand as it were, his status. Everything's black My heart My pants My home My mind Everything hurts But you don't understand that Like I can Calm the commercial holidays for a moment Who gets the card? Get our your hard earned My head hurts Slam the door man; You can't control thoughts With a wombat Murderer Now that's a hard concept to catch When you haven't a soul When you haven't a card Or a car Or a cat I think I'm vanilla. I always thought of myself as a super kink Like a freaky, freaky bitch. So I got on this app. This app is better then Tinder. Yes. But it is not for the faint of heart. No, sir. They have a test, I'm like “ooh, I like tests” So I take the test. The test was not at all… As I'd hoped. First of all, It was hard. It was not a quiz; It was a TEST And I failed. I realized “Oh my god, I don't like any of this stuff” I am not about that! No! Yuck! Gross. “I think I might be vanilla.” I might be vanilla. I want my hair pulled back like a leash And my arms tied up Like I'm being arrested Without being read my rights. — I want your hands on the back of my neck [breathe] Reach around to my Mortimer's apple Put the lights out, Adam. I want the lights cut off. I want the bills piled up so the phone don't work I want the habit back on Don't talk to nobody I told you, I'm coming No, God! That's dumb! Show me why I'm off all alone with a rattle so bad It's just segmented thoughts, colors and sounds I can't make with all the plugins in the kindgdom of chaos?! I WANT KINGS, AND KINGS WANT BLONDES— I WANT KINGS, AND KINGS WANT BLONDES I WANT KINGS, AND KINGS WANT BLONDES —but the one who could love me is God, And I guess he's not coming. The denial turns to tears, Not songs no more My womb is empty And the sun has turned into Not what I wanted But not my fault We got caught in the land of Cutting costs And processed morsels At 400 pounds And that's where I found What I thought was love But it turns out That it just turns up In the whole form of a person And that's why I got the collar, caller But really I'm no one's lover So I Do what I want I don't hang up on God But he don't got a body And I need someone to love/ Fuck me Please God Don't turn the lights off I'll pull the clock back Just like foreskin, god i want your skin Draped over mine in a warm swath Probably run a hot back Cause the next stop is a closet The line doesn't really move for the Doesn'tMatterhorn. some people are starting to doubt if it's even a ride. Others just admire it for its eloquence as a metaphor. Johnny! You scared me! Aha. Where did you go?! Nowhere— fast! Alright well— Money when you know I have it But I haven't really Paid attention to the never ending Digits never coming in but Simply, there's a secret, Sonny Someday you'll get lessons, honey. Much to find and much to serve and Surf us up Piñata's bout the burst But here comes Vesuvius (POW) Everyone was gone in an instant (Vapor) Had a good laugh that night in the pantheon; Everything's past, and the mortals They kept on running But i didn't want go, God Putting on a show then I blow up Just like the mountain Found her Now I got a broke back husband (hope so) To tell, don't ask Don't show up if you just get lost But I'm probably in the back with a bottle back mountain Now you got a real horse pack. Trip Girl keep camping What was the map with the mask and the Fashion? Pass. I put sugar on the rim of the glass With my eyes half closed And my ass clenched fast shut I'm an alcoholic Don't involve the God I got lost in the mall with the —- UGHHHHHHHH! Hello. Uh, yes— hi. what up. Mirror mirror. Uh…nothing. You're lost? No. You look lost. Oh? Disgruntled. I am that. You're lost? I'm not lost. My friend is lost. His phone is dead. You lost each other. Sort of. Continuity conniption I nipped an eclipse And he picked his nose For a full ass minute Sitting at the stop sign That's a gobstopper's worth in our time Pull all the clocks back, Pull the fool over, You just got fined It was Friday for nothing I was in the hatchback, Scratch that Sour patch Should have called Pat back Now I'm just a Cool 48 in the ring with a date And the cashapp Continuity construction I want a husband! Fuck that. I want a clean cut plus one Since I can't have Helmet, Elmo, Or Hatchetman; Tears of a Clow…no, Wait I lost focus Half finished album Got 6 tracks But I knew it was 12 from the get go Prob‘ly should have knocked off the showrunner; Nah, I'm sure I had that coming Hashtag, undon Could have been you, too If the cash came through Now it's hard times Hardwired Sitting on a hi wire, Little white liar, liar Wait I made Katey Sagal (Fire) Cut off her hair (Fire) Went to the hall of fame with the framed sunglasses Asked for her autograf, But she walked off So I shot her with a bottle/ can, But she ducked, popped back up With the brass knuckles Surfboard Good for a chuckle and a fuck So I asked for her number All that on a Sunday at Gelson's market. Christ, almighty I miss Walmart, I hit hard times. So many places to run, But not many places to hide I think I want to die here I think i want to die. City of corruption… Lay it out and lay it over City of corruption… no, it's not a choice It's a black tie function Right in that very moment Seth Meyers kind of became my defacto personal hero. “Never meet your heroes” Or perhaps it was just his writing team, or the fact that maybe even without there even being anything set in stone or solid at all, [redacted] itself seemed to have a price over my head– It all seemed to make sense; in fact, all the crazy things i was experiencing made more sense than it didn't. But after what felt something like between defeat and maybe even one day really getting justice for all the things that had happened to me in new york– it was that, at best; That without actually meaning it, by all probability, the opening monologue described what in perfect sense the thing that had been happening to me: hundreds of motorcycles and cars riding around in circles for over a year, any time i tried to work or sleep–and then, when I finally tried to reach out to find an attorney that would help, I was made to feel crazy for it. In a way, it was the perfect indication that it had all been some sort of sick game, and that I was more right than wrong, and being set up to appear, sound, or look crazy–but I wasn't. I had been under attack for nearly two years, and when I tried to reach out, my heart raced and my voice cracked, and I sounded crazy and desperate–but what was happening was very real; and now I knew where I was. As it turns out, New York's corruption was more common knowledge to everyone else before it was to me: New York was a common place for fucked up, dirty, low-down mind games: and this was my lesson in that. Seth Meyers in reality had nothing to do with it–and really I only meant to watch Kimmel over my afternoon tacos. But still, though it hadn't entirely anything to do with me, the opening statements rang true to exactly what I had experienced; I was made to lose my mind, only to have everyone around me tell me it was something wrong with me–but it wasn't. Something was wrong with the city, and the building management, and the people around who were making it all to be some kind of mental disorder or problems with my mind–in reality, it was 2 years of being in the center of a speedway, and all the time i'd lost because of it adding to the stress, and the angst, and the depression that resulted. Moo. Moo… Moo. Moo, sir. I'll kill you. You promise? I want to. Don't get me excited over nothing; If this isn't the exit, please take this tease To the left, dear Moo, cow My honor Level one, and brother, you've got nothing Flip the coin and landed on your headache Betting on your helmet Standing on my cock, i'm taller (Not a rooster) But my ops are rooting for you, No informants, Dont you know I was a collar, all along? I was a shot calling, Cop calling Kiss-and-tell all as the night goes on. But oh, I brought you a dollar bra Oh, I bought you for all of a dollar And oh, I'm so much taller, Standing on my cock But i'm not but ten feet tall You know, you wrote that Should i open the book, or close that Caught that cat, owl and As i soft spoke at Every broken model Broken bottle for the thoughts you owe Across the scatters skies and no one ever knows When you're realling coming over Come on, I'm on the pornhub Just to pick up another one Go on, and rub the bottle One more once, To call the Bubbles. Damn. Come. (The Monkey obeys) You should see Michael in all of his godform You won't recognize him at all if not by the eyes When you follow home Believe me, this not comes close to it; The one you wanted The world you jumped to but were just short of Call her back Oh no, you're wrong It's another song A pin up girl And the wrong number Okah. Okah, Pablo. Time can be altered, changed or effected presently in any omnidirectional plane by engaging certain acts or synchronicities within multidimensional parallels or adjacent realms in time and or space respectively. –the reverse quantum simulation theory. Does anyone else smell blood I hate wedding days suits and tuxedos No, I don't know you I'm just here to sound the hundred drums Of the once before us (The ones to come) Then, there we were and I didn't want to admit Again, I was caught into the ghost of the rapture Or the holy hour, No aux chord Show the holy one Just how old you are On these sacr d lands and a holy grounds Now I want here half an ounce to smoke And there were drowning orchestras in all of the hearts And all of the markets, The market the marker And all of the sins of the savior The maytyr Did you remember not to notice not to know him Were you sure with words you were for nickelodeaon! I was supposed to hold on to, Supposed to hold on to Suddenly, it's summer. And always our own are under the weather There was no other wise man the wind. Lee the one came The site came and went and then the songs went left The songs went left; Again, the songs went left Did you win at wintergreen Well, God, I didn't know gym was a game. I didn't know guns we're just portals to worlds unknownn I didn't know gossip was golden What all else didn't I know It wasn't for here! It was fourth flour And in the final hour of the battle I commenced to summon All the gods and all the lords and all the flowers All the worlds of oceans and the Remember, this The remembrance It may not matter to some, What matters to most But until summer comes, I'm still up under the rail And practically it's spring, for the next two weeks I'm all berries and cream and whatever you wanted. Tormaline, emerald and onyx, the fox said And fox says its west when instead it's quite under what of the reporter's offer? Comes down a little to none What of the offer Comes down from a billion to one A billion to one I'm on TV so it's really just a one way screen Either way, I don't think he likes me much I don't think he likes me much I'd rather die than to fall in love even one more time And to keep on just never being loved Never beingbloved {Enter The Multiverse} [The Festival Project™ ] {Enter The Multiverse} L E G E N D S: ICONS Tales of A Superstar DJ The Secret Life of Sunnï Blū Ascension Deathwish -Ū. Copyright © The Festival Project, Inc. ™ | Copyright The Complex Collective © 2019-2025 ™ All Rights Reserved. -Ū.

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You are in for a real treat on this episode. My guest this time is Greg Schwem. Greg is a corporate comedian. What is a corporate comedian? You probably can imagine that his work has to do with corporations, and you would be right. Greg will explain much better than I can. Mr. Schwem began his career as a TV journalist but eventually decided to take up what he really wanted to do, be a comedian. The story of how he evolved is quite fascinating by any standard. Greg has done comedy professionally since 1989. He speaks today mostly to corporate audiences. He will tell us how he does his work. It is quite interesting to hear how he has learned to relate to his audiences. As you will discover as Greg and I talk, we often work in the same way to learn about our audiences and thus how we get to relate to them. Greg has written three books. His latest one is entitled “Turning Gut Punches into Punch Lines: A Comedian's Journey Through Cancer, Divorce and Other Hilarious Stuff”. As Greg says, “Don't worry, it's not one of those whiny, ‘woe is me,' self- serving books. Instead, it's a hilarious account of me living the words I've been preaching to my audiences: You can always find humor in every situation, even the tough ones. Greg offers many interesting observations as he discusses his career and how he works. I think we all can find significant lessons we can use from his remarks. About the Guest: Hi! I'm Greg Schwem. a Chicago-based business humor speaker and MC who HuffPost calls “Your boss's favorite comedian.” I've traveled the world providing clean, customized laughs to clients such as Microsoft, IBM, McDonald's and even the CIA. I also write the bi-weekly Humor Hotel column for the Chicago Tribune syndicate. I believe every corporate event needs humor. As I often tell clients, “When times are good, people want to laugh. When times are bad, people need to laugh.” One Fortune 500 client summed things up perfectly, saying “You were fantastic and just what everybody needed during these times.” In September 2024 I released my third and most personal book, Turning Gut Punches into Punch Lines: A Comedian's Journey Through Cancer, Divorce and Other Hilarious Stuff. Don't worry, it's not one of those whiny, “woe is me,” self-serving books. Instead, it's a hilarious account of me living the words I've been preaching to my audiences: You can always find humor in every situation, even the tough ones. You can pick up a copy at Amazon or select book stores. Ways to connect with Greg: Website: www.gregschwem.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/gregschwem LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/gregschwem Instagram: www.instagram.com/gregschwem X: www.x.com/gregschwem About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! 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Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:16 Hi everyone, and welcome to unstoppable mindset. Today we are going to definitely have some fun. I'll tell you about our guests in a moment, but first, I want to tell you about me. That'll take an hour or so. I am Michael Hingson, your host, and you're listening to unstoppable mindset where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. And I don't know, we may get inclusion or diversity into this, but our guest is Greg Schwem. Greg used to be a TV reporter, now he's a comedian, not sure which is funnier, but given some of the reporters I've seen on TV, they really should go into tonight club business. But anyway, Greg, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here. I really appreciate you being here and taking the time   Greg Schwem ** 02:04 Well, Michael, it is an honor to be included on your show. I'm really looking forward to the next hour of conversation. I   Speaker 1 ** 02:10 told Greg a little while ago, one of my major life ambitions that I never got to do was to go to a Don Rickles concert and sit in the front row so that hopefully he would pick on me, so that I could say, Yeah, I saw you once on TV, and I haven't been able to see since. What do you think of that? You hockey puck, but I never got to do it. So very disappointed. But everybody has bucket list moments, everybody has, but they don't get around to I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. Well, the other one is, I love to pick on Mike Wallace. I did a radio show for six years opposite him in 60 minutes, and I always love to say that Wallace really had criminal tendencies, because he started out being an announcer in radio and he announced things like The Green Hornet and the Sky King and other shows where they had a lot of criminals. So I just figured he had to be associated with criminals somewhere in his life. Of course, everybody picked on him, and he had broad shoulders. And I again, I regret I never got to to meet him, which is sort of disappointing. But I did get to meet Peter Falk. That was kind of fun.   Greg Schwem ** 03:15 Mike Wallace to Peter Falk. Nice transition there. I know.   Michael Hingson ** 03:21 Well I am really glad you're with us. So why don't we start? We'll start with the serious part. Why don't you tell us, kind of about the early Greg schwim and growing up and all that sort of stuff, just to set the stage, as it were,   Greg Schwem ** 03:34 how far back you want to go? You want to go back to Little League, or you want to   Speaker 1 ** 03:37 just, oh, start at the beginning, a long time ago, right? I was a   Greg Schwem ** 03:41 very strange child. No, I you. You obviously introduced me as a as a comedian, and that is my full time job. And you also said that I was a former journalist, and that is my professional career. Yes, I went from, as I always like to say, I went from depressing people all day long, to making them laugh. And that's, that's kind of what I did. I always did want to be I majored in Journalism at Northwestern University, good journalism school. Originally, I always wanted to be a television reporter. That was as a professional career I was, I dabbled in comedy. Started when I was 16. That is the first time I ever got on stage at my school, my high school, and then at a comedy club. I was there one of the first comedy clubs in Chicago, a place called the comedy cottage. It was in the suburb of beautiful, beautiful suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, and they were one of the very, very first full time comedy clubs in the nation. And as a 16 year old kid, I actually got on stage and did five minutes here and five minutes there. And thought I was, I was hot stuff, but I never, ever thought I would do it for a living. I thought comedy would always be just a hobby. And I. Especially when I went to college, and I thought, okay, Northwestern is pretty good school, pretty expensive school. I should actually use my degree. And I did. I moved down to Florida, wrote for a newspaper called The Palm Beach post, which, don't let that title fool you. It's Palm Beach was a very small segment of of the area that it was, that it served, but I did comedy on the side, and just because I moved down there, I didn't know anybody, so I hung out at comedy clubs just to have something to do. And little by little, comedy in the late 80s, it exploded. Exploded. There were suddenly clubs popping up everywhere, and you were starting to get to know guys that were doing these clubs and were starting to get recognition for just being comedians. And one of them opened up a very, very good Club opened up about 10 minutes from my apartment in West Palm Beach, and I hung out there and started to get more stage time, and eventually started to realize at the same time that I was getting better as a comedian, I was becoming more disillusioned as a journalist in terms of what my bosses wanted me to report on and the tone they wanted me to use. And I just decided that I would I would just never be able to live with myself if I didn't try it, if I didn't take the the plunge into comedy, and that's what I did in 1989 and I've been doing it ever since. And my career has gone in multiple directions, as I think it needs to. If you're going to be in show business and sustain a career in show business, you have to wear a lot of different hats, which I feel like I've done.   Michael Hingson ** 06:40 So tell me more about that. What does that mean exactly?   Greg Schwem ** 06:43 Well, I mean, I started out as a what you would pretty much if somebody said, If you heard somebody say, I'm a comedian, they would envision some guy that just went to comedy clubs all the time, and that's what I did. I was just a guy that traveled by car all over the Midwest and the Southeast primarily, and did comedy clubs, but I quickly realized that was kind of a going nowhere way to attack it, to do comedy unless you were incredibly lucky, because there were so many guys doing it and so many clubs, and I just didn't see a future in it, and I felt like I had to separate myself from the pack a little bit. And I was living in Chicago, which is where I'm from, and still, still exist. Still reside in Chicago, and I started to get involved with a company that did live trade show presentations. So if you've ever been on a trade show floor and you see people, they're mostly actors and actresses that wear a headset and deliver a spiel, a pitch, like every, every twice an hour, about some company, some new product, and so forth. And I did that, and I started to write material about what I was seeing on trade show floors and putting it into my stand up act, stuff about business, stuff about technology, because I was Hawking a lot of new computers and things like that. This was the mid 90s when technology was exploding, and I started to put this into my stand up act. And then I'd have people come up to me afterwards and say, hey, you know those jokes you did about computers and tech support, if you could come down to our office, you know, we're having a golf tournament, we're having a Christmas party, we would love to hear that material. And little by little, I started transitioning my act into doing shows for the corporate market. I hooked up with a corporate agent, or the corporate agent heard about me, and started to open a lot of doors for me in terms of working for very large corporations, and that's pretty much what I've been doing. I stopped working clubs, and I transitioned, instead of being a comedian, I became a corporate humor speaker. And that's what I do, primarily to this day, is to speak at business conferences. Just kind of get people to loosen up, get them to laugh about what they do all day without without making it sound like I'm belittling what they do. And also when I'm not doing that, I work about eight to 10 weeks a year on cruise ships, performing for cruise audiences. So that's a nice getaway.   Speaker 1 ** 09:18 It's interesting since I mentioned Don Rickles earlier, years ago, I saw an interview that he did with Donahue, and one of the things that Don Rickles said, and after he said it, I thought about it. He said, I really don't want to pick on anyone who's going to be offended by me picking on them. He said, I try to watch really carefully, so that if it looks like somebody's getting offended, I'll leave them alone, because that's not what this is all about. It isn't about abusing people. It's about trying to get people to have fun, and if somebody's offended, I don't want to to pick on them, and I've heard a number of albums and other things with him and just. Noticed that that was really true. He wouldn't pick on someone unless they could take it and had a lot of fun with it. And I thought that was absolutely interesting, because that certainly wasn't, of course, the rep that he had and no, but it was   Greg Schwem ** 10:16 true. It is, and it doesn't take long to see as a as a comedian, when you're looking at an audience member and you're talking to them, it, you can tell very quickly, Are they enjoying this? Are they enjoying being the center of attention? A lot of people are, or are they uncomfortable with it? Now, I don't know that going in. I mean, I you know, of course. And again, that's a very small portion of my show is to talk to the audience, but it is something particularly today. I think audiences want to be more involved. I think they enjoy you talk you. Some of these, the new comedians in their 20s and 30s and so forth. Them, some of them are doing nothing, but what they call crowd work. So they're just doing 45 minutes of talking to the audience, which can be good and can be rough too, because you're working without a net. But I'm happy to give an audience a little bit of that. But I also have a lot of stuff that I want to say too. I mean, I work very hard coming up with material and and refining it, and I want to talk about what's going on in my life, too. So I don't want the audience to be the entire show, right?   Speaker 1 ** 11:26 And and they shouldn't be, because it isn't about that. But at the same time, it is nice to involve them. I find that as a keynote and public speaker, I find that true as well, though, is that audiences do like to be involved. And I do some things right at the outset of most talks to involve people, and also in involving them. I want to get them to last so that I start to draw them in, because later, when I tell the September 11 story, which isn't really a humorous thing. Directly,   Greg Schwem ** 12:04 i know i Good luck. I'm spinning 911 to make it I don't think I've ever heard anybody say, by the way, I was trapped in a building. Stick with me. It's kind of cute. It's got a funny ending. And   Speaker 1 ** 12:20 that's right, and it is hard I can, I can say humorous things along the way in telling the story, but, sure, right, but, but clearly it's not a story that, in of itself, is humorous. But what I realized over the years, and it's really dawned on me in the last four or five years is we now have a whole generation of people who have absolutely no memory of September 11 because they were children or they weren't even born yet. And I believe that my job is to not only talk about it, but literally to draw them into the building and have them walk down the stairs with me, and I have to be descriptive in a very positive way, so that they really are part of what's going on. And the reality is that I do hear people or people come up and say, we were with you when you were going down the stairs. And I think that's my job, because the reality is that we've got to get people to understand there are lessons to be learned from September 11, right? And the only real way to do that is to attract the audience and bring them in. And I think probably mostly, I'm in a better position to do that than most people, because I'm kind of a curious soul, being blind and all that, but it allows me to to draw them in and and it's fun to do that, actually. And I, and   Greg Schwem ** 13:52 I gotta believe, I mean, obviously I wasn't there, Michael, but I gotta believe there were moments of humor in people, a bunch of people going down the stairs. Sure, me, you put people get it's like, it's like when a bunch of people are in an elevator together, you know, I mean, there's I, when I look around and I try to find something humorous in a crowded and it's probably the same thing now, obviously it, you know, you got out in time. But I and, you know, don't that's the hotel phone, which I just hung up so but I think that I can totally see where you're going from, where, if you're if you're talking to people who have no recollection of this, have no memory where you're basically educating them on the whole event. I think you then you have the opportunity to tell the story in whatever way you see fit. And I think that however you choose to do it is there's no wrong way to do it, I guess is what I'm trying to get at.   Speaker 1 ** 14:55 Well, yeah, I think the wrong way is to be two. Graphic and morbid and morbid, but one of the things that I talk about, for example, is that a colleague of mine who was with me, David Frank, at about the 50th floor, suddenly said, Mike, we're going to die. We're not going to make it out of here. And as as I tell the audience, typically, I as as you heard my introduction at the beginning, I have a secondary teaching credential. And one of the things that you probably don't know about teachers is that there's a secret course that every teacher takes called Voice 101, how to yell at students and and so what I tell people is that when David said that, I just said in my best teacher voice, stop it, David, if Roselle and I can go down these stairs, so can you. And he told me later that that brought him out of his funk, and he ended up walking a floor below me and shouting up to me everything he saw. And it was just mainly, everything is clear, like I'm on floor 48 he's on 47/47 floor. Everything is good here, and what I have done for the past several years in telling that part of the story is to say David, in reality, probably did more to keep people calm and focused as we went down the stairs than anyone else, because anyone within the sound of his voice heard someone who was focused and sounded okay. You know, hey, I'm on the 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is not stopping. And it it helps people understand that we all had to do what we could to keep everyone from not panicking. And it almost happened a few times that people did, but we worked at it. But the i The idea is that it helps draw people in, and I think that's so important to do for my particular story is to draw them in and have them walk down the stairs with me, which is what I do, absolutely, yeah, yeah. Now I'm curious about something that keeps coming up. I hear it every so often, public speaker, Speaker experts and people who are supposedly the great gurus of public speaking say you shouldn't really start out with a joke. And I've heard that so often, and I'm going give me a break. Well, I think, I think it depends, yeah, I think   Greg Schwem ** 17:33 there's two schools of thought to that. I think if you're going to start out with a joke, it better be a really good one, or something that you either has been battle tested, because if it doesn't work now, you, you know, if you're hoping for a big laugh, now you're saying, Well, you're a comedian, what do you do? You know, I mean, I, I even, I just sort of work my way into it a little bit. Yeah, and I'm a comedian, so, and, you know, it's funny, Michael, I will get, I will get. I've had CEOs before say to me, Hey, you know, I've got to give this presentation next week. Give me a joke I can tell to everybody. And I always decline. I always it's like, I don't need that kind of pressure. And it's like, I can, I can, I can tell you a funny joke, but,   Michael Hingson ** 18:22 but you telling the   Greg Schwem ** 18:23 work? Yeah, deliver it. You know, I can't deliver it for you. Yeah? And I think that's what I also, you know, on that note, I've never been a big fan of Stand Up Comedy classes, and you see them all popping up all over the place. Now, a lot of comedy clubs will have them, and usually the you take the class, and the carrot at the end is you get to do five minutes at a comedy club right now, if that is your goal, if you're somebody who always like, Gosh, I wonder what it would like be like to stand up on stage and and be a comedian for five minutes. That's something I really like to try. By all means, take the class, all right. But if you think that you're going to take this class and you're going to emerge a much funnier person, like all of a sudden you you weren't funny, but now you are, don't take the class, yeah? And I think, sadly, I think that a lot of people sign up for these classes thinking the latter, thinking that they will all of a sudden become, you know, a comedian. And it doesn't work that way. I'm sorry you cannot teach unfunny people to be funny. Yeah, some of us have the gift of it, and some of us don't. Some of us are really good with our hands, and just know how to build stuff and how to look at things and say, I can do that. And some of us, myself included, definitely do not. You know, I think you can teach people to be more comfortable, more comfortable in front of an audience and. Correct. I think that is definitely a teachable thing, but I don't think that you can teach people to be funnier   Speaker 1 ** 20:10 and funnier, and I agree with that. I tend to be amazed when I keep hearing that one of the top fears in our world is getting up in front of an audience and talking with them, because people really don't understand that audiences, whatever you're doing, want you to succeed, and they're not against you, but we have just conditioned ourselves collectively that speaking is something to be afraid of?   Greg Schwem ** 20:41 Yes, I think, though it's, I'm sure, that fear, though, of getting up in front of people has only probably been exacerbated and been made more intense because now everybody in the audience has a cell phone and to and to be looking out at people and to see them on their phones. Yeah, you're and yet, you prepped all day long. You've been nervous. You've been you probably didn't sleep the night before. If you're one of these people who are afraid of speaking in public, yeah, and then to see people on their phones. You know, it used to bother me. It doesn't anymore, because it's just the society we live in. I just, I wish, I wish people could put their phones down and just enjoy laughing for 45 minutes. But unfortunately, our society can't do that anymore, so I just hope that I can get most of them to stop looking at it.   Speaker 1 ** 21:32 I don't make any comments about it at the beginning, but I have, on a number of occasions, been delivering a speech, and I hear a cell phone ring, and I'll stop and go, Hello. And I don't know for sure what the person with the cell phone does, but by the same token, you know they really shouldn't be on their phone and and it works out, okay, nobody's ever complained about it. And when I just say hello, or I'll go Hello, you don't say, you know, and things like that, but, but I don't, I don't prolong it. I'll just go back to what I was talking about. But I remember, when I lived in New Jersey, Sandy Duncan was Peter Pan in New York. One night she was flying over the audience, and there was somebody on his cell phone, and she happened to be going near him, and she just kicked the phone out of his hand. And I think that's one of the things that started Broadway in saying, if you have a cell phone, turn it off. And those are the announcements that you hear at the beginning of any Broadway performance today.   Greg Schwem ** 22:39 Unfortunately, people don't abide by that. I know you're still hearing cell phones go off, yeah, you know, in Broadway productions at the opera or wherever, so people just can't and there you go. There that just shows you're fighting a losing battle.   Speaker 1 ** 22:53 Yeah, it's just one of those things, and you got to cope with it.   Greg Schwem ** 22:58 What on that note, though, there was, I will say, if I can interrupt real quick, there was one show I did where nobody had their phone. It was a few years ago. I spoke at the CIA. I spoke for some employees of the CIA. And this might, this might freak people out, because you think, how is it that America's covert intelligence agency, you think they would be on their phones all the time. No, if you work there, you cannot have your phone on you. And so I had an audience of about 300 people who I had their total attention because there was no other way to they had no choice but to listen to me, and it was wonderful. It was just a great show, and I it was just so refreshing. Yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 23:52 and mostly I don't hear cell phones, but they do come up from time to time. And if they do, then you know it happens. Now my one of my favorite stories is I once spoke in Maryland at the Department of Defense, which anybody who knows anything knows that's the National Security Agency, but they call it the Department of Defense, as if we don't know. And my favorite story is that I had, at the time, a micro cassette recorder, and it died that morning before I traveled to Fort Meade, and I forgot to just throw it away, and it was in my briefcase. So I got to the fort, they searched, apparently, didn't find it, but on the way out, someone found it. They had to get a bird Colonel to come to decide what to do with it. I said, throw it away. And they said, No, we can't do that. It's yours. And they they decided it didn't work, and they let me take it and I threw it away. But it was so, so funny to to be at the fort and see everybody running around crazy. See, what do we do with this micro cassette recorder? This guy's been here for an hour. Yeah. So it's it. You know, all sorts of things happen. What do you think about you know, there's a lot of discussion about comedians who use a lot of foul language in their shows, and then there are those who don't, and people seem to like the shock value of that.   Greg Schwem ** 25:25 Yeah, I'm very old school in that. I guess my short answer is, No, I've never, ever been one of those comedians. Ever I do a clean show, I actually learned my lesson very early on. I think I think that I think comedians tend to swear because when they first start out, out of nerves, because I will tell you that profanity does get laughter. And I've always said, if you want to, if you want to experiment on that, have a comedian write a joke, and let's say he's got two shows that night. Let's say he's got an eight o'clock show and a 10 o'clock show. So let's say he does the joke in the eight o'clock and it's, you know, the cadence is bumper, bump up, bump up, bump up, punch line. Okay, now let's and let's see how that plays. Now let's now he does the 10 o'clock show and it's bumper, bump up, bump up F and Okay, yeah, I pretty much guarantee you the 10 o'clock show will get a bigger laugh. Okay? Because he's sort of, it's like the audience is programmed like, oh, okay, we're supposed to laugh at that now. And I think a lot of comedians think, Aha, I have just discovered how to be successful as a comedian. I will just insert the F word in front of every punch line, and you can kind of tell what comedians do that and what comedians I mean. I am fine with foul language, but have some jokes in there too. Don't make them. Don't make the foul word, the joke, the joke, right? And I can say another thing nobody has ever said to me, I cannot hire you because you're too clean. I've never gotten that. And all the years I've been doing this, and I know there's lots of comedians who who do work blue, who have said, you know, who have been turned down for that very reason. So I believe, if you're a comedian, the only way to get better is to work any place that will have you. Yeah, and you can't, so you might as well work clean so you can work any place that will have you, as opposed to being turned away.   Speaker 1 ** 27:30 Well, and I, and I know what, what happened to him and all that, but at the same time, I grew up listening to Bill Cosby and the fact that he was always clean. And, yeah, I understand everything that happened, but you can't deny and you can't forget so many years of humor and all the things that that he brought to the world, and the joy he brought to the world in so many ways.   Greg Schwem ** 27:57 Oh, yeah, no, I agree. I agree. And he Yeah, he worked everywhere. Jay Leno is another one. I mean, Jay Leno is kind of on the same wavelength as me, as far as don't let the profanity become the joke. You know, Eddie Murphy was, you know, was very foul. Richard Pryor, extremely foul. I but they also, prior, especially, had very intelligent material. I mean, you can tell and then if you want to insert your F bombs and so forth, that's fine, but at least show me that you're trying. At least show me that you came in with material in addition to the   Speaker 1 ** 28:36 foul language. The only thing I really have to say about all that is it? Jay Leno should just stay away from cars, but that's another story.   Greg Schwem ** 28:43 Oh, yeah, it's starting to   Greg Schwem ** 28:47 look that way. Yeah, it   Michael Hingson ** 28:49 was. It was fun for a while, Jay, but yeah, there's just two. It's like, Harrison Ford and plains. Yeah, same concept. At some point you're like, this isn't working out. Now I submit that living here in Victorville and just being out on the streets and being driven around and all that, I am firmly convinced, given the way most people drive here, that the bigoted DMV should let me have a license, because I am sure I can drive as well as most of the clowns around here. Yeah, so when they drive, I have no doubt. Oh, gosh. Well, you know, you switched from being a TV journalist and so on to to comedy. Was it a hard choice? Was it really difficult to do, or did it just seem like this is the time and this is the right thing to do. I was   Greg Schwem ** 29:41 both, you know, it was hard, because I really did enjoy my job and I liked, I liked being a TV news reporter. I liked, I liked a job that was different every day once you got in there, because you didn't know what they were going to send you out to do. Yes, you had. To get up and go to work every day and so forth. So there's a little bit of, you know, there's a little bit of the mundane, just like there is in any job, but once you were there, I liked, just never known what the day would bring, right? And and I, I think if I'd stayed with it, I think I think I could have gone pretty far, particularly now, because the now it's more people on TV are becoming more entertainers news people are becoming, yeah, they are. A lot of would be, want to be comedians and so forth. And I don't particularly think that's appropriate, but I agree. But so it was hard to leave, but it gets back to what I said earlier. At some point, you got to say, I was seeing comedians making money, and I was thinking, gosh, you know, if they're making money at this I I'm not hilarious, but I know I'm funnier than that guy. Yeah, I'm funnier than her, so why not? And I was young, and I was single, and I thought, if I if I don't try it now, I never will. And, and I'll bet there's just some hilarious people out there, yeah, who who didn't ever, who just were afraid   Michael Hingson ** 31:14 to take that chance, and they wouldn't take the leap, yeah,   Greg Schwem ** 31:16 right. And now they're probably kicking themselves, and I'm sure maybe they're very successful at what they do, but they're always going to say, what if, if I only done this? I don't ever, I don't, ever, I never, ever wanted to say that. Yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 31:31 well, and there's, there's something to be said for being brave and stepping out and doing something that you don't expect, or that you didn't expect, or that you weren't sure how it was going to go, but if you don't try, then you're never going to know just how, how much you could really accomplish and how much you can really do. And I think that the creative people, whatever they're being creative about, are the people who do step out and are willing to take a chance.   Greg Schwem ** 31:59 Yeah, yeah. And I told my kids that too. You know, it's just like, if it's something that you're passionate about, do it. Just try it. If it doesn't work out, then at least you can say I tried   Speaker 1 ** 32:09 it and and if it doesn't work out, then you can decide, what do I need to do to figure out why it didn't work out, or is it just not me? I want   Greg Schwem ** 32:18 to keep going? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   Speaker 1 ** 32:21 So what is the difference between being a nightclub comedian and a corporate comedian? Because they are somewhat different. I think I know the answer. But what would you say that the differences between them? I think   Greg Schwem ** 32:33 the biggest thing is the audiences. I think when you when you are a nightclub comedian, you are working in front of people who are there to be entertained. Yeah, they, they paid money for that. That's what they're expecting. They, they, at some point during the day, they said, Hey, let's, let's go laugh tonight. That's what we really want to do when you're working in front of a corporate audiences. That's not necessarily the case. They are there. I primarily do business conferences and, you know, association meetings and so forth. And I'm just one cog in the wheel of a whole day's worth of meetings are, for the most part, very dry and boring, maybe certainly necessary educational. They're learning how to do their job better or something. And then you have a guy like me come in, and people aren't always ready to laugh, yeah, despite the fact that they probably need to, but they just they're not always in that mindset. And also the time of day. I mean, I do a lot of shows at nine in the morning. I do shows after lunch, right before lunch. I actually do very few shows in the evening, believe it or not. And so then you you have to, you kind of have to, in the while you're doing your act or your presentation or your speech, as I call it, you kind of have to let them know that it is okay. What you're doing is okay, and they should be okay with laughing. They shouldn't be looking around the whole time wondering if other people are laughing. You know, can I, can I? Can I tell you a quick story about how I drive that point home. Why not? Yeah, it's, I'll condense it into like five minutes. I mentioned that I worked on that I work on cruise ships occasionally, and I one night I was performing, and it was the first night of the cruise. And if anybody's ever been on a cruise, note, the first night, first night entertainers don't like the first night because people are tired. You know, they're they're a little edgy because they've been traveling all day. They're they're confused because they're not really sure where they're going on a ship. And the ones that have got it figured out usually over serve themselves because they're on vacation. So you put all that, so I'm doing my show on the first. Night, and it's going very well. And about five, six minutes in, I do a joke. Everybody laughs. Everybody shuts up. And from the back of the room in total darkness, I hear hat just like that. And I'm like, All right, you know, probably over served. So the rule of comedy is that everybody gets like. I was like, I'll let it go once, yeah. So I just kind of looked off in that direction, didn't say anything. Kept going with my active going with my act. About 10 minutes later, same thing happens. I tell a joke. Everybody laughs. Everybody shuts up. Hat now I'm like, Okay, I have got to, I've got to address the elephant in the room. So I think I just made some comment, like, you know, I didn't know Roseanne Barr was on this cruise, you know, because that was like the sound of the Yeah. Okay, everybody laugh. Nothing happened about five minutes later. It happens a third time. And now I'm just like, this is gonna stop. I'm going to put a stop to this. And I just fired off. I can't remember, like, three just like, hey man, you know you're you're just a little behind everybody else in this show and probably in life too, that, you know, things like that, and it never happened again. So I'm like, okay, mission accomplished on my part. Comedians love it when we can shut up somebody like that. Anyway. Show's over, I am out doing a meet and greet. Some guy comes up to me and he goes, hey, hey, you know that kid you were making fun of is mentally handicapped. And now, of course, I don't know this, but out of the corner of my eye, I see from the other exit a man pushing a son, his son in a wheelchair out of the showroom. And I'm just like, Oh, what have I done? And yeah. And of course, when you're on a cruise, you're you're on a cruise. When you're a cruise ship entertainer, you have to live with your audience. So I couldn't hide. I spent like the next three days, and it seemed like wherever I was, the man and his son in the wheelchair were nearby. And finally, on the fourth day, I think was, I was waiting for an elevator. Again, 3500 people on this ship, okay, I'm waiting for an elevator. The elevator door opens. Guess who are the only two people the elevator, the man and his son. And I can't really say I'll wait for the next one. So I get on, and I said to this the father, I said, I just want you to know I had no idea. You know, I'm so sorry. I can't see back there, this kind of thing. And the dad looks at me. He puts his hand up to stop me, and he points to me, and he goes, I thought you were hysterical. And it was, not only was it relief, but it kind of, it's sort of a lesson that if you think something is funny, you should laugh at it. Yeah. And I think sometimes in corporate America, my point in this. I think sometimes when you do these corporate shows, I think that audience members forget that. I think very busy looking around to see if their immediate boss thinks it's funny, and eventually everybody's looking at the CEO to see if they're like, you know, I think if you're doing it that way, if that's the way you're you're approaching humor. You're doing yourself a disservice, if right, stopping yourself from laughing at something that you think is funny.   Speaker 1 ** 38:09 I do think that that all too often the problem with meetings is that we as a as a country, we in corporations, don't do meetings, right anyway, for example, early on, I heard someone at a convention of the National Federation of the Blind say he was the new executive director of the American Foundation for the Blind, and he said, I have instituted a policy, no Braille, no meetings. And what that was all about was to say, if you're going to have a meeting, you need to make sure that all the documentation is accessible to those who aren't going to read the print. I take it further and say you shouldn't be giving out documentation during the meeting. And you can use the excuse, well, I got to get the latest numbers and all that. And my point is, you shouldn't be giving out documentation at a meeting, because the meeting is for people to communicate and interact with each other. And if you're giving out papers and so on, what are people going to do? They're going to read that, and they're not going to listen to the speakers. They're not going to listen to the other people. And we do so many things like that, we've gotten into a habit of doing things that become so predictable, but also make meetings very boring, because who wants to look at the papers where you can be listening to people who have a lot more constructive and interesting things to say anyway?   Greg Schwem ** 39:36 Yeah, yeah. I think, I think COVID definitely changed, some for the some for the better and some for the worse. I think that a lot of things that were done at meetings COVID and made us realize a lot of that stuff could be done virtually, that you didn't have to just have everybody sit and listen to people over and over and over again.   Speaker 1 ** 39:58 But unless you're Donald Trump. Up. Yeah, that's another story.   Greg Schwem ** 40:02 Yes, exactly another podcast episode. But, yeah, I do think also that. I think COVID changed audiences. I think, you know, we talked a little bit earlier about crowd work, right, and audiences wanting to be more involved. I think COVID precipitated that, because, if you think about it, Michael, for two and a half years during COVID, our sole source of entertainment was our phone, right? Which meant that we were in charge of the entertainment experience. You don't like something, swipe left, scroll down, scroll, scroll, scroll, find something else. You know, that kind of thing. I'm not I'm not entertained in the next four or five seconds. So I'm going to do this. And I think when live entertainment returned, audiences kind of had to be retrained a little bit, where they had to learn to sit and listen and wait for the entertainment to come to them. And granted, it might not happen immediately. It might not happen in the first five seconds, but you have to just give give people like me a chance. It will come to you. It will happen, but it might not be on your timetable,   Speaker 1 ** 41:13 right? Well, and I think that is all too true for me. I didn't find didn't find COVID to be a great inconvenience, because I don't look at the screen anyway, right? So in a sense, for me, COVID wasn't that much of a change, other than not being in an office or not being physically at a meeting, and so I was listening to the meeting on the computer, and that has its nuances. Like you don't necessarily get the same information about how everyone around you is reacting, but, but it didn't bother me, I think, nearly as much as it did everyone else who has to look at everyone. Of course, I have no problems picking on all those people as well, because what I point out is that that disabilities has to be redefined, because every one of you guys has your own disability. You're light dependent, and you don't do well when there's dark, when, when the dark shows up and and we now have an environment where Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb, and we've spent the last 147 years doing everything we can to make sure that light is pretty ubiquitous, but it doesn't change a thing when suddenly the power goes out and you don't have immediate access to light. So that's as much a disability as us light, independent people who don't   Greg Schwem ** 42:36 care about that, right? Right? I hear, I agree, but it is but   Speaker 1 ** 42:41 it is interesting and and it is also important that we all understand each other and are willing to tolerate the fact that there are differences in people, and we need to recognize that with whatever we're doing.   42:53 Yeah, I agree.   Speaker 1 ** 42:57 What do you think about so today, we have obviously a really fractured environment and fractured country, and everyone's got their own opinions, and nobody wants to talk about anything, especially politics wise. How do you think that's all affecting comedy and what you get to do and what other people are doing?   Greg Schwem ** 43:18 Well, I think Pete, I think there's, there's multiple answers to that question too. I think, I think it makes people nervous, wondering what the minute a comedian on stage brings up politics, the minute he starts talking about a politician, whether it's our president, whether it's somebody else, you can sense a tension in the room a little bit, and it's, it's, I mean, it's funny. I, one of my best friends in comedy, got to open for another comedian at Carnegie Hall a couple of years ago, and I went to see him, and I'm sitting way up in the top, and he is just crushing it. And then at one point he he brought up, he decided to do an impression of Mitch McConnell, which he does very well. However, the minute he said, Mitch McConnell, I you could just sense this is Carnegie freaking Hall, and after the show, you know, he and I always like to dissect each other's shows. That's what comedians do. And I just said to him, I go. Why did you decide to insert Mitch McConnell in there? And I, and I didn't say it like, you moron, that was stupid, yeah, but I was genuinely curious. And he just goes, well, I just really like doing that bit, and I like doing that voice and so forth, but, and it's not like the show crashed and burned afterwards. No, he did the joke, and then he got out of it, and he went on to other stuff, and it was fine, but I think that people are just so on their guard now, yeah, and, and that's why, you know, you know Jay Leno always said he was an equal opportunity offender. I think you will do better with politics if you really want. Insert politics into your act. I think he would be better making fun of both sides. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. And I think too often comedians now use the the stage as kind of a Bully, bully pulpit, like I have microphone and you don't. I am now going to give you my take on Donald Trump or the Democrats or whatever, and I've always said, talk about anything you want on stage, but just remember, you're at a comedy club. People came to laugh. So is there a joke in here? Yeah, or are you just ranting because you gotta be careful. You have to get this off your chest, and your way is right. It's, it's, you know, I hate to say it, but that's, that's why podcast, no offense, Michael, yours, is not like this. But I think one of the reasons podcasters have gotten so popular is a lot of people, just a lot of podcast hosts see a podcast is a chance to just rant about whatever's on their mind. And it's amazing to me how many podcast hosts that are hosted by comedians have a second guy have a sidekick to basically laugh and agree with whatever that person says. I think Joe Rogan is a classic example, and he's one of the most popular ones. But, and I don't quite understand that, because you know, if you're a comedian, you you made the choice to work solo, right? So why do you need somebody else with you?   Speaker 1 ** 46:33 I'm I'm fairly close to Leno. My remark is a little bit different. I'm not so much an equal opportunity offender as I am an equal opportunity abuser. I'll pick on both sides if politics comes into it at all, and it's and it's fun, and I remember when George W Bush was leaving the White House, Letterman said, Now we're not going to have anybody to joke about anymore. And everyone loved it. But still, I recognize that in the world today, people don't want to hear anything else. Don't confuse me with the facts or any of that, and it's so unfortunate, but it is the way it is, and so it's wiser to stay away from a lot of that, unless you can really break through the barrier,   Greg Schwem ** 47:21 I think so. And I also think that people, one thing you have to remember, I think, is when people come to a comedy show, they are coming to be entertained. Yeah, they are coming to kind of escape from the gloom and doom that unfortunately permeates our world right now. You know? I mean, I've always said that if you, if you walked up to a comedy club on a Saturday night, and let's say there were 50 people waiting outside, waiting to get in, and you asked all 50 of them, what do you hope happens tonight? Or or, Why are you here? All right, I think from all 50 you would get I would just like to laugh, yeah, I don't think one of them is going to say, you know, I really hope that my opinions on what's happening in the Middle East get challenged right now, but he's a comedian. No one is going to say that. No, no. It's like, I hope I get into it with the comedian on stage, because he thinks this way about a woman's right to choose, and I think the other way. And I really, really hope that he and I will get into an argument about to the middle of the   Speaker 1 ** 48:37 show. Yeah, yeah. That's not why people come?   Greg Schwem ** 48:40 No, it's not. And I, unfortunately, I think again, I think that there's a lot of comedians that don't understand that. Yeah, again, talk about whatever you want on stage, but just remember that your your surroundings, you if you build yourself as a comedian,   48:56 make it funny. Yeah, be funny.   Speaker 1 ** 49:00 Well, and nowadays, especially for for you, for me and so on, we're we're growing older and and I think you point out audiences are getting younger. How do you deal with that?   Greg Schwem ** 49:12 Well, what I try to do is I a couple of things. I try to talk as much as I can about topics that are relevant to a younger generation. Ai being one, I, one of the things I do in my my show is I say, oh, you know, I I really wasn't sure how to start off. And when you're confused these days, you you turn to answer your questions. You turn to chat GPT, and I've actually written, you know, said to chat GPT, you know, I'm doing a show tonight for a group of construction workers who work in the Midwest. It's a $350 million company, and it says, try to be very specific. Give me a funny opening line. And of course, chat GPT always comes up with some. Something kind of stupid, which I then relate to the audience, and they love that, you know, they love that concept. So I think there's, obviously, there's a lot of material that you can do on generational differences, but I, I will say I am very, very aware that my audience is, for the most part, younger than me now, unless I want to spend the rest of my career doing you know, over 55 communities, not that they're not great laughers, but I also think there's a real challenge in being older than your audience and still being able to make them laugh. But I think you have to remember, like you said, there's there's people now that don't remember 911 that have no concept of it, yeah, so don't be doing references from, say, the 1980s or the early 1990s and then come off stage and go, Man, nobody that didn't hit at all. No one, no one. They're stupid. They don't get it. Well, no, they, they, it sounds they don't get it. It's just that they weren't around. They weren't around, right? So that's on you.   Speaker 1 ** 51:01 One of the things that you know people ask me is if I will do virtual events, and I'll do virtual events, but I also tell people, the reason I prefer to do in person events is that I can sense what the audience is doing, how they're reacting and what they feel. If I'm in a room speaking to people, and I don't have that same sense if I'm doing something virtually, agreed same way. Now for me, at the same time, I've been doing this now for 23 years, so I have a pretty good idea in general, how to interact with an audience, to draw them in, even in a virtual environment, but I still tend to be a little bit more careful about it, and it's just kind of the way it is, you know, and you and you learn to deal with it well for you, have you ever had writer's block, and how did you deal with it?   Greg Schwem ** 51:57 Yes, I have had writer's block. I don't I can't think of a single comedian who's never had writer's block, and if they say they haven't, I think they're lying when I have writer's block, the best way for me to deal with this and just so you know, I'm not the kind of comedian that can go that can sit down and write jokes. I can write stories. I've written three books, but I can't sit down and just be funny for an hour all by myself. I need interaction. I need communication. And I think when I have writer's block, I tend to go out and try and meet strangers and can engage them in conversation and find out what's going on with them. I mean, you mentioned about dealing with the younger audience. I am a big believer right now in talking to people who are half my age. I like doing that in social settings, because I just, I'm curious. I'm curious as to how they think. I'm curious as to, you know, how they spend money, how they save money, how what their hopes and dreams are for the future, what that kind of thing, and that's the kind of stuff that then I'll take back and try and write material about. And I think that, I think it's fun for me, and it's really fun to meet somebody who I'll give you a great example just last night. Last night, I was I there's a there's a bar that I have that's about 10 a stone's throw from my condo, and I love to stop in there and and every now and then, sometimes I'll sit there and I won't meet anybody, and sometimes different. So there was a guy, I'd say he's probably in his early 30s, sitting too over, and he was reading, which I find intriguing, that people come to a bar and read, yeah, people do it, I mean. And I just said to him, I go, and he was getting ready to pay his bill, and I just said, if you don't mind me asking, What are you reading? And he's like, Oh, it's by Ezra Klein. And I go, you know, I've listened to Ezra Klein before. And he goes, Yeah, you know? He says, I'm a big fan. And debt to debt to dad. Next thing, you know, we're just, we're just riffing back and forth. And I ended up staying. He put it this way, Michael, it took him a very long time to pay his bill because we had a conversation, and it was just such a pleasure to to people like that, and I think that, and it's a hard thing. It's a hard thing for me to do, because I think people are on their guard, a little bit like, why is this guy who's twice my age talking to me at a bar? That's that seems a little weird. And I would get that. I can see that. But as I mentioned in my latest book, I don't mean because I don't a whole chapter to this, and I I say in the book, I don't mean you any harm. I'm not trying to hit on you, or I'm not creepy old guy at the bar. I am genuinely interested in your story. And. In your life, and and I just, I want to be the least interesting guy in the room, and that's kind of how I go about my writing, too. Is just you, you drive the story. And even though I'm the comedian, I'll just fill in the gaps and make them funny.   Speaker 1 ** 55:15 Well, I know that I have often been invited to speak at places, and I wondered, What am I going to say to this particular audience? How am I going to deal with them? They're they're different than what I'm used to. What I found, I guess you could call that writer's block, but what I found is, if I can go early and interact with them, even if I'm the very first speaker, if I can interact with them beforehand, or if there are other people speaking before me, invariably, I will hear things that will allow me to be able to move on and give a relevant presentation specifically to that group, which is what it's really all about. And so I'm with you, and I appreciate it, and it's good to get to the point where you don't worry about the block, but rather you look at ways to move forward and interact with people and make it fun, right,   Greg Schwem ** 56:13 right? And I do think people, I think COVID, took that away from us a little bit, yeah, obviously, but I but, and I do think people missed that. I think that people, once you get them talking, are more inclined to not think that you're you have ulterior motives. I think people do enjoy putting their phones down a little bit, but it's, it's kind of a two way street when I, when I do meet people, if it's if it's only me asking the questions, eventually I'm going to get tired of that. Yeah, I think there's a, there has to be a reciprocity thing a little bit. And one thing I find is, is with the Gen Z's and maybe millennials. They're not, they're not as good at that as I think they could be. They're more they're they're happy to talk about themselves, but they're not really good at saying so what do you do for a living? Or what you know, tell me about you. And I mean, that's how you learn about other people. Yeah,   Speaker 1 ** 57:19 tell me about your your latest book, Turning gut punches into punchlines. That's a interesting title, yeah, well, the more   Greg Schwem ** 57:26 interesting is the subtitle. So it's turning gut punches into punch punch lines, A Comedian's journey through cancer, divorce and other hilarious stuff.   Speaker 1 ** 57:35 No, like you haven't done anything in the world. Okay, right? So   Greg Schwem ** 57:38 other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln. Yeah, exactly. See, now you get that reference. I don't know if I could use that on stage, but anyway, depend on your audience. But yeah, they're like, What's he talking   Speaker 1 ** 57:50 who's Lincoln? And I've been to Ford theater too, so that's okay, yes, as have I. So it was much later than, than, well, than Lincoln, but that's okay.   Greg Schwem ** 57:58 You're not that old, right? No. Well, okay, so as the title, as the title implies, I did have sort of a double, double gut punch, it just in the last two years. So I, I got divorced late in life, after 29 years of marriage. And while that was going on, I got a colon cancer diagnosis and and at this end, I was dealing with all this while also continuing work as a humor speaker, okay, as a comedian. And I just decided I got it. First of all, I got a very clean bill of health. I'm cancer free. I am finally divorced so and I, I started to think, I wonder if there's some humor in this. I I would, I would, you know, Michael, I've been on stage for like, 25 years telling people that, you know, you can find something funny to laugh at. You can find humor in any situation. It's kind of like what you're talking about all the people going down the stairs in the building in the world trade center. All right, if you look around enough, you know, maybe there's something funny, and I've been preaching that, but I never really had to live that until now. And I thought, you know, maybe there's something here. Maybe I can this is my chance now to embrace new experiences. It was kind of when I got divorced, when you've been married half your life and all of a sudden you get divorced, everything's new to you, yeah, you're, you're, you're living alone, you you're doing things that your spouse did, oh, so many years. And you're having to do those, and you're having to make new friends, yeah, and all of that, I think, is very humorous. So the more I saw a book in there that I started writing before the cancer diagnosis, and I thought was there enough here? Just like, okay, a guy at 60 years old gets divorced now what's going to happen to him? The diagnosis? Kind. Made it just added another wrinkle to the book, because now I have to deal with this, and I have to find another subject to to make light of a little bit. So the book is not a memoir, you know, I don't start it off. And, you know, when I was seven, you know, I played, you know, I was, I went to this school night. It's not that. It's more just about reinvention and just seeing that you can be happy later in life, even though you have to kind of rewrite your your story a little   Speaker 1 ** 1:00:33 bit. And I would assume, and I would assume, you bring some of that into your ACT every so   Greg Schwem ** 1:00:38 very much. So yeah, I created a whole new speech called Turning gut punches into punchlines. And I some of the stuff that I, that I did, but, you know, there's a chapter in the book about, I about gig work, actually three chapters I, you know, I went to work for Amazon during the Christmas holiday rush, just scanning packages. I wanted to see what that was like. I drove for Uber I which I did for a while. And to tell you the truth, I miss it. I ended up selling my car, but I miss it because of the what we just talked about. It was a great way to communicate with people. It was a great way to talk to people, find out about them, be the least interesting person in the car, anyway. And there's a chapter about dating and online dating, which I had not had to do in 30 years. There's a lot of humor in that. I went to therapy. I'd never gone to therapy before. I wrote a chapter about that. So I think people really respond to this book, because they I think they see a lot of themselves in it. You know, lots of people have been divorced. There's lots of cancer survivors out there, and there's lots of people who just suddenly have hit a speed bump in their life, and they're not really sure how to deal with it, right? And my way, this book is just about deal with it through laughter. And I'm the perfect example.   Speaker 1 ** 1:01:56 I hear you, Oh, I I know, and I've been through the same sort of thing as you not a divorce, but my wife and I were married for 40 years, and she passed away in November of 2022 after 40 years of marriage. And as I tell people, as I tell people, I got to be really careful, because she's monitoring me from somewhere, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it, so I got to be a good kid, and I don't even chase the women so. But I also point out that none of them have been chasing me either, so I guess I just do what we got to do. But the reality is, I think there are always ways to find some sort of a connection with other people, and then, of course, that's what what you do. It's all about creating a connection, creating a relationship, even if it's only for a couple of hours or an hour or 45 minutes, but, but you do it, which is what it's all about?   Greg Schwem ** 1:02:49 Yeah, exactly. And I think the funniest stuff is real life experience. Oh, absolutely, you know. And if people can see themselves in in what I've written, then I've done my job as a writer.   Speaker 1 ** 1:03:03 So do you have any plans to retire?   Greg Schwem ** 1:03:06 Never. I mean, good for you retire from what   1:03:09 I know right, making fun of people   Greg Schwem ** 1:03:12 and making them laugh. I mean, I don't know what I would do with myself, and even if I there's always going to be I don't care how technology, technologically advanced our society gets. People will always want and need to laugh. Yeah, they're always going to want to do that. And if they're want, if they're wanting to do that, then I will find, I will find a way to get to them. And that's why I, as I said, That's why, like working on cruise ships has become, like a new, sort of a new avenue for me to make people laugh. And so, yeah, I don't I there's, there's no way. I don't know what else I would do with   Speaker 1 ** 1:03:53 myself, well and from my perspective, as long as I can inspire people, yes, I can make people think a little bit and feel better about themselves. I'm going to do it right. And, and, and I do. And I wrote a book during COVID that was published last August called Live like a guide dog. And it's all about helping people learn to control fear. And I use lessons I learned from eight guide dogs and my wife service dog to do that. My wife was in a wheelchair her whole life. Great marriage. She read, I pushed worked out well, but, but the but the but the bottom line is that dogs can teach us so many lessons, and there's so much that we can learn from them. So I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to create this book and and get it out there. And I think that again, as long as I can continue to inspire people, I'm going to do it. Because   Greg Schwem ** 1:04:47 why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't I exactly right? Yeah, yeah. So,   Speaker 1 ** 1:04:51 I mean, I think if I, if I stopped, I think my wife would beat up on me, so I gotta be nice exactly. She's monitoring from somewhere

Take aways: Learn about Hilary and Steve's journey to enhance care for people with aphasia. Learn about communication access as a health equity issue. Identify systematic gaps and the disconnect between training and real world needs of people with aphasia. Learn about the development of the MedConcerns app. Get sneaky! Learn how the MedConcerns app can serve four functions simultaneously: 1) meeting the needs of someone with aphasia 2) serving as a tool that providers can use to communicate with people with aphasia 3) providing education to providers who learn about aphasia as they use the app 4) bringing SLPs and other providers together to meet the needs of people with aphasia   Welcome to the Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast. I'm Jerry Hoepner. I'm a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire and co-facilitator of the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp, Blugold Brain Injury Group, Mayo Brain Injury Group, Young Person's Brain Injury Group, and Thursday Night Poets.  I'm also a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. Aphasia Access strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources. I'm today's host for an episode that will feature Hilary Sample and Dr. Steven Richman to discuss their app, MedConcerns. We're really excited to share this with you, so I'll jump into introducing them.   Hilary G. Sample, MA, CCC-SLP Hilary is a speech-language pathologist, educator, and co-creator of MedConcerns, a communication support app that helps people with aphasia express medical concerns and participate more fully in their care. The app was born out of her work in inpatient rehabilitation, where she saw firsthand how often individuals with communication challenges struggled to share urgent medical needs. Recognizing that most providers lacked the tools to support these conversations, she partnered with physician Dr. Steven Richman to create a practical, accessible solution. Hilary also serves as an adjunct instructor at Cleveland State University.   Steven Leeds Richman, MD Dr. Steven Richman is a hospitalist physician and co-creator of MedConcerns, a communication support app that helps people with aphasia express medical concerns and participate more fully in their care. With nearly two decades of experience in inpatient rehabilitation, he saw how often communication barriers prevented patients from being heard. In partnership with speech-language pathologist Hilary Sample, he helped translate core medical assessments into an accessible tool that supports clearer, more effective provider-patient communication.     Transcript: (Please note that this conversation has been auto-transcribed. While we do our best to review the text for accuracy, there may be some minor errors. Thanks for your understanding.)   Jerry Hoepner: Well, Hello, Hillary and Steve. Really happy to have you on this aphasia access conversations podcast. With me, I'm really looking forward to this conversation. It's maybe a year or 2 in the making, because I think this was at the previous Aphasia Access Leadership Summit in North Carolina. That we initially had some discussions about this work. And then life happens right? So really glad to be having this conversation today. Hilary Sample: And we're really glad to be here.   Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely. Maybe I'll start out just asking a little bit about your background, Hillary, in terms of how you connected with the life participation approach and aphasia access and how that relates to your personal story.   Hilary Sample: Sure, so I haven't been in the field long. I graduated in 2019 and began my career immediately in inpatient rehab. I have to remember. It's talk slow day, and I'm going to make sure that I apply that as I speak, both for me and for listeners. So I began on the stroke unit, primarily in an inpatient rehab setting, and I've worked there for the majority of my career. I came in as many, probably in our field do, trained and educated in more of an impairment based approach but quickly when you work with people, and they let you know who they are and what they need. The people that I worked with on the stroke unit, the people with aphasia let me know that they needed more of a life participation approach. You know I learned how vital it was to support communication and to help him, you know, help them access their lives, because most of the time I entered the room. They had something they wanted to communicate, and they had been waiting for someone who had those skills to support communication in order to get that message across. So it wasn't about drills it was about. It was about helping them to communicate with the world, so that I spent more and more time just trying to develop my own skills so that I could be that professional for them and that support. And then that took me. You know that it just became my passion, and I have a lot of room to improve still today, but it's definitely where my interest lies and at the same time I noticed that in general in our hospital there was a lack of communication supports used, and so I thought that in investing in my own education and training, I could help others as well. And so I started doing some program development to that end as well with training and education for healthcare staff.   Jerry Hoepner: I just love the fact. And actually, our listeners will love the fact that it was patients who connected with you, people with aphasia, who connected with you and encouraged you to move towards the life participation approach, and how you learn together and how that's become your passion. That's just a really great outcome when people can advocate for themselves in that way. That's fantastic.     Hilary Sample: Yeah, it really meant a lot to me to be able to receive that guidance and know that, you know there's an interest in helping them to let you know what they want from therapy, and that was there. But a lot of times the selections were impairment based, and then we. But there was something wrong, and we needed to uncover that. And that was, you know, that was the push I needed to be able to better support them.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, that's really great, Steve. I'm interested in your story, too. And also how you came to connect with Hillary.   Steve: I started as a trained as a family physician, had a regular outpatient office for a number of years, and then transitioned into inpatient rehab. That's where I really started to meet some people with aphasia. For the 1st time. Hilary and I have talked a few times about my training and education about aphasia before we met each other, and it was really minimal in Med school. They had lectures about stroke and brain injury, and some of the adverse effects you might get from that. And they, I'm sure, mentioned aphasia. But I really don't recall any details, and if they did teach us more, it would just nothing that I grasped at the time. So I would walk into these patient rooms, and what I would normally do for my trainings. I would ask people all these open, ended questions to start with, and then try to narrow down, to figure out what their problems are, and with people with aphasia, especially when they have minimal or no language skills. They couldn't. I was not successful at getting useful information out, and I remember walking out of those patient rooms and just being frustrated with myself that I'm not able to help these people, and the way I can help everyone else, because if I don't know what's going on. you know. How can I? It was really challenging and I really didn't know where to go. I talked to a few other doctors, and there didn't seem to be much in the way of good information about how to move forward. Eventually I met Hillary, and we would have these interesting episodes where I would talk or try to talk with the patients and get minimal, useful information. And Hillary would come back and say, they're having this problem and this concern. And with this medicine change. And how do you do that? How and that kind of started our us on the pathway that we've taken that recognition from my end that there's a lot that can be done. And the yeah.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, I love that story, and it's a really good reminder to all of us that sometimes we forget about those conversations, the conversations with physicians, with other providers who might not know as much about aphasia. I'll just tell a really quick story. My wife used to work in intensive care, and of course she had been around me for years, and they would have someone with aphasia, and her colleagues would be like, how do you even communicate with them, and she would be coming up like you, said Steve, with all of this information about the patient, and they're like, where are you getting this information. The person doesn't talk.   Hilary Sample: Yes.   Jerry Hoepner: And that just emphasizes why it's so important for us to have those conversations, so that our all of our colleagues are giving the best care that they can possibly provide.   Hilary Sample: That's a great story. That was very much like almost verbatim of some of the conversations that we initially had like, where is this coming from? They don't talk, or you know they don't have. Maybe they don't have something to say, and that's the assumptions that we make when somebody doesn't use verbal communication. You know, we quickly think that maybe there's not something beneath it, you know. I have a story as well. So what led to a little bit more toward where we are today. sitting in those rooms with people with aphasia and apraxia and people with difficulty communicating. There's 1 that stuck out so much. She was very upset, and that it was. And I we had just really developed a very nice relationship, a very supportive relationship she kind of. She would let me have it if she was upset about something. We had really honest conversations and it and it was earlier on to where I was stretching my skills in in using communication supports, and she really helped me grow. But I remember being in her room one day, and she had something to share. And this is a moment that repeated itself frequently, that the thing that needed to be shared was medical in nature, you know, in inpatient rehab. That's a frequent. That's a frequent situation that you run into. And we sat there for maybe 15 min, maybe more. And we're working on getting this out. We're narrowing it down. We're getting clarity. We're not quite there yet, as I said, I'm still new, and but the physician walks in and we pause. You know I'm always welcoming physicians into the into therapy, because I really see that we have a role there. But and talk slow. Hilary, the physician, asked an open-ended question like Steve was talking about asking those open-ended questions as they're trained to do, and it was a question that the person with aphasia didn't have the vocabulary available to answer, and before I would jump in, that person shrugged her shoulders and shook her head that she didn't have anything to share with them, and I was like, but we had just been talking. You know, there's definitely something, and I think I just sat there a little bit stunned and just observing more. And you know the physician finished their assessment mostly outside of verbal communication, and left the room, and then I spoke to her, and we. We tracked down what the rest of her concern was, and clarified it, and then I found the physician who was not Dr. Richman, and I shared all the things that they had told me that she had told me, and I remember her saying I was just in there. She didn't have anything wrong. and I and I was, you know, I told her, like the communication supports that I used, and you know we got that. We moved forward with the conversation. But there were a few things that stuck out to me in that, and one was the way that the physician was communicating wasn't using. They weren't using supports. For whatever reason, I didn't have that knowledge yet. We dove into the literature to learn more later on. The second thing was that the person with aphasia seemed to give up on the provider, knowing that since supports weren't being used. It wasn't going to be a successful communication attempt. So why even bother, and that definitely fits her personality. She's like I give up on you. And the 3rd thing was that the education about that somebody has something to share the education about. Aphasia was lacking, so you know that the person's still in there. They still have their intellect, their identity, their opinions, beliefs. But they didn't have the ability to communicate that piece seemed to be missing on the part of the provider, because they were saying they didn't have anything to share. So, it was like, I said that situation happened repeatedly, and very much. Sounds just like yours, but it hit me how much there was to do. And so, hearing, you know Steve's experiences that are on the other side of that. Such a caring, the one thing that led me to want to speak to Steve is that he's a very compassionate caring physician, so it's not a lack of care and compassion. But what else was going on what led to this, and we started learning that together. It was really interesting for me to learn how Hillary's 1st assumption is. Why aren't these physicians using communicative supports or other things that we were never taught about? The assumption that the docs know all this, and there's plenty we don't know. Unfortunately, there's, you know there's so much out there.   Steve Richman: The other thing Hillary touched on that was so true in my experience, is here. I'm meeting people that had a significant event, a traumatic brain injury, a bad stroke. And we're so used to judging people's intelligence through their speech. And they're not speaking. And it's so easy to start thinking there's just not much going on up there, and I didn't have the education or information or training to know for a long time. That wasn't the case until my dad had a stroke with aphasia. And so yeah, there's still plenty going on there just hard to get it out. And even as a medical provider, I really wasn't fully aware of that. And it took personal experience and learning from Hillary to really get that. it's still there just need to find out how to help them get it out.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, I think that's a rather common story, especially for people with aphasia. But even for people without aphasia, that sense that the doctor is coming in, and things have to happen. And I know I'm sitting here with Steve, who is very compassionate and wants to ensure that communication. But I think there's a little bit of fear like, oh, I can't get it out in this context, and just bringing awareness to that, and also tools. So, tools in education. So those physicians can do the work that they need to do and get that knowledge that they may have never been exposed to, and probably in many cases have never had that training to communicate with someone so like you, said Steve. How are you supposed to know when they didn't train us in this? And I guess that brings us back around to that idea that that's part of the role of the speech language pathologist and also kind of a vacancy in tools. Right? We're. We're just missing some of the tools to make that happen consistently across facilities and across people. So, I'm really interested in hearing a little bit about the tools you've created, and kind of the story leading up to that if you if you don't mind sharing.   Hilary Sample: Absolutely. 1st I'll share. There's a quote, and I'm not going to remember who said it. Unfortunately, I'll come up with it later, and I'll make sure to share with you. But that healthcare is the medium by or I'm sorry. Communication is the medium by which healthcare is provided, or something to that extent. We need communication in order to ensure equal access to health care. And like you said that gap, it's really big, and it's a systemic issue. So, leading up to us, coming together, we had those experiences on both of our ends. I realized that I wasn't a physician. I already knew this, but I also I was trying to provide communication support to enable them to communicate something on a topic that I'm not trained in. In order to really give what it's due right? I don't know what questions that Steve is going to ask next, you know I tried, but I and I tried to listen, but I didn't always have, you know. Of course, I don't have that training, so know your limits right. But I did. The general overarching method that I was using was we'd have concerns to choose from, including the question mark that enabled them to tell. Tell me that you're way off, or you didn't guess it, or it's not on here. And then narrow choices that I try to come up with, and we'd move on like that. And anytime somebody appeared to have a medical concern. There's those general topics that you would try to see if it's 1 of these things. One of these concerns, and then those would generally take you to a series of sub questions, and so on, and so forth. So, I recognize that this was repeatable. I also, at the same time as I shared, was recognizing that communication supports weren't being used. And that doesn't. That doesn't end with, you know, a physician that's also nurses nursing aides. That's therapists, including SLPs, and you know, so I'm doing a thing that can be repeated. Why not stop recreating it every time I enter the room and make it into something that I can bring with me a prepared material that I can bring with me and ideally share it with others. So, I again, knowing my limitations, know what I have to bring to that equation. But I knew that I needed to partner with someone that cared just as much but had the medical knowledge to inform that tool. So at 1st it was a print little framework that I brought, and what happened is, I came up to Steve, and I let him know what I was thinking, and he was open and willing to work together on this, and Hillary showed me these pictures that were kind of showing some general medical concerns, and brought up the whole concept and we initially were going for this pamphlet booklet idea, you know. If you have this concern, you go to this page to follow it up with further questions, and then you go to this other page to finalize the subs. We realized there was a lot of pages turning involved to make that work, and we eventually turned it into an app where you could take your concern, and we start with a general Hello! How are you? You know? Kind of what's the overall mood in the room today. And then what medical concerns do you have? And then from those concerns, appropriate sub questions and sub questions and timeframes, and the stuff that you would want to know medically, to help figure out the problem. And then go ahead. I'm sorry.   Jerry Hoepner: Oh, oh, sorry! No, that's terrific. I appreciate that that process and kind of talking through the process because it's so hard to develop something like this that really provides as much access as is possible. And I think that's really key, because there's so many different permutations. But the more that you get into those the more complex it gets. So, making it easy to access, I think, is part of that key right?   Hilary Sample: One thing that I'm sorry. Did you want to say? Yeah, I'll say, okay, 1. 1 part of it. Yes, the accessibility issue. Every provider has a tablet or a phone on them, and many of our patients and their families also do so. It made it clear that it's something that could be easier to use if that's the method somebody would like to use, but also having a moment where my mind is going blank. This is gonna be one of those where we added a little bit. This is what you call a mother moment.   Jerry Hoepner: Okay.   Steve Richman: The one thing that was fascinating for me as we were developing this tool is I kept asking why? And Hillary kept explaining why, we're doing different parts of it. And at this point it seems much more obvious. But my biggest stumble at the beginning was, why are these Confirmation pages. Why do we have to keep checking, you know? Do they mean to say yes? Do they mean to go ahead? And that education about how people with language difficulties can't always use language to self-correct. We need to add that opportunity now makes so much sense. But I remember that was a stumbling block for me to acknowledge that and be good with that to realize. Oh, that's really important. The other thing that Hillary said a lot, and I think is so true is in developing this tool. We're kind of developing a tool that helps people that know nothing about communication supports like myself how to use them, because this tool is just communication supports. You know, I hear these repeatedly taught me about the importance of layering the clear pictures and words, and the verbal, and put that all the well, the verbalizing, the app is saying the word in our case, so that could all be shared and between all that layering hopefully, the idea gets across right and then giving time for responses.   Jerry Hoepner: It sounds like the tool itself. Kind of serves as an implicit training or education to those providers. Right?   Hilary Sample: And there's the idea that I was missing when I had a little bit of.  So yes, all of those strategies. They take training right? And it takes those conversations. And it takes practice and repetition. And there's amazing, amazing things happening in our field where people are actually undertaking that that transformation, transforming the system from above right.   Jerry Hoepner: Right.   Hilary Sample: But one thing that a big part of this work was trying to fill the gap immediately. I know you and I had previously talked about Dr. Megan Morris's article about health equity, and she talks a lot about people with communication disorders, including aphasia. And you know there's and she mentions that people cannot wait. The next person pretty much cannot wait for that work to be done, though that'll be amazing for the people that come down the line, the next person, what can we do for them? So we also need to be doing that. And that's where we thought we could jump in. And so I think the biggest you know. The most unique aspect of MedConcerns is that, or of the tool we created is that it kind of guides the clinician, the healthcare provider, through using communication supports. So you know, when I go in the room I offer broad options, and then I follow up with more narrow choices, always confirming, making sure I'm verifying the responses like Steve talked about, and or giving an opportunity to repair and go back and then that I summarize at the end, ensuring that what we have at the end still is valid, and what they meant to say. And so that's how the app flows, too. It enables the person to provide a very detailed, you know, detailed message about what's bothering them to a provider that has maybe no training in communication supports, but the app has them in there, so they can. It fills the gap for them.   Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely. It's kind of a sneaky way of getting that education in there which I really like, but also a feasible way. So, it's very pragmatic, very practical in terms of getting a tool in the hands of providers. It would be really interesting actually, to see how that changes their skill sets over time but yeah, but there's definitely room for that in the future. I think.   Hilary Sample: We could do a case study on Dr. Richman.   Steve Richman: whereas I used to walk out of those patient rooms that have communication difficulties with great frustration. My part frustration that I feel like I'm not doing my job. Well, now you walk out much more proudly, thinking, hey, I able to interact in a more effective way I can now do in visit what I could never accomplish before. Not always, but at least sometimes I'm getting somewhere, and that is so much better to know I'm actively able to help them participate, help people participate. I love writing my notes, you know. Communication difficulties due to blank. Many concerns app used to assist, and just like I write, you know, French interpreter used to assist kind of thing and it does assist. It's it makes it more effective for me and more effective for the person I'm working with. It's been really neat to watch you know, go from our initial conversations to seeing the other day we were having a conversation kind of prepping for this discussion with you and he got a call that he needed to go see a patient and I'll let you tell the story. So we're prepping for this. A couple of days ago. I think it was this Friday, probably, or Thursday, anyways, was last week and I'm at my office of work and again knock on the door. Someone's having chest pain. I gotta go check that out. So I start to walk out of the room. Realize? Oh, that room! Someone was aphasia. I come back and grab my phone because I got that for my phone and go back to the room. And it's interesting people as with anything. People don't always want to use a device. And he's been this patient, sometimes happy to interact with the device, sometimes wanting to use what words he has. And so I could confirm with words. He's having chest pain. But he we weren't able to confirm. What's it feel like? When did it start? What makes it better. What makes it worse? But using the app, I can make some progress here to get the reassurance that this is really musculoskeletal pain, not cardiac chest pain. Yes, we did an EKG to double check, but having that reassurance that his story fits with something musculoskeletal and a normal EKG. Is so much better than just guessing they get an EKG, I mean, that's not fair. So, it would have been before I had this tool. It would have been sending them to the er so they can get Stat labs plus an EKG, because it's not safe just to guess in that kind of situation. So, for me, it's really saved some send outs. It's really stopped from sending people to the acute care hospital er for quick evaluations. If I if I know from the get go my patient has diplopia. They have a double vision, because that's part of what communicated. When we were talking about things with help from MedConcerns. Yeah, when I find out 4 days later, when their language is perhaps returning, they're expressing diplopia. It's not a new concern. It's not a new problem. I know it's been a problem since the stroke, whereas I know of other doctors who said, Yeah, this person had aphasia, and all of a sudden they have these bad headaches that they're able to tell me about. This sounds new. I got to send them for new, you know whereas I may have the information that they've been having those headaches. We could start dealing with those headaches from the day one instead of when they progress enough to be able to express that interesting.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, definitely sounds like, I'm getting the story of, you know the improvement in the communication between you and the client. How powerful that is, but also from an assessment standpoint. This gives you a lot more tools to be able to learn about that person just as you would with someone without aphasia. And I think that's so important right to just be able to level that playing field you get the information you need. I can imagine as well that it would have a big impact on medication, prescriptions, whatever use? But also, maybe even counseling and educating that patient in the moment. Can you speak to those pieces a little bit.   Steve Richman: You know, one of my favorite parts of the app, Hillary insisted on, and I'm so glad she did. It's an education piece. So many people walk into the hospital, into our inpatient rehab hospital where I now work, and they don't recall or don't understand their diagnosis, or what aphasia is, or what happened to them. And there's a well aphasia, friendly information piece which you should probably talk about. You designed it, but it's so useful people are as with any diagnosis that's not understood. And then explained, people get such a sense of relief and understanding like, okay, I got a better handle of this. Now it's really calming for people to understand more what's going on with them.   Hilary Sample: This is, I think you know, that counseling piece and education, that early education. That's some of the stuff that could bring tears to my eyes just talking about it, because it's; oh, and it might just now. So many people enter, and they may have gotten. They may have received education, but it may not have. They may have been given education, but it may not have been received because supports weren't used, or there's many reasons why, you know, even if it had been given, it wasn't something that was understood, but so many people that I worked with aphasia. That one of the 1st things that I would do is using supports. Tell them what's going on or give them. This is likely what you might be experiencing and see their response to that. And that's you know what aphasia is, how it can manifest. Why it happens, what happened to you, what tools might be useful? How many people with aphasia have reported feeling? And you might be feeling this way as well, and these things can help. And it's very simple, very, you know. There's so much more to add to that. But it's enough in that moment to make someone feel seen and you know, like a lot of my friends, or one of my friends and former colleagues, uses this, and she says that's her favorite page, too, because the people that she's working with are just like, yes, yes, that's it, that's it. And the point and point and point to what she's showing them on the app. It's a patient education page, and then they'll look at their, you know, family member, and be like this. This is what's going on this, you know, it's all of a sudden we're connecting on that piece of information that was vital for them to share. And it was. It was just a simple thing that I kept repeating doing. I was reinventing the wheel every time I entered the room, but it was. It stood out as one of the most important things I did. And so that's why Steve and I connected on it, and like it needed to be in the app. And there's more where that came from in the future planning. But we added to that A on that broad, you know, kind of that page that has all the different icons with various concerns, we added a feelings, concern emotions, and feelings so that someone could also communicate what's going on emotionally. We know that this is such a traumatic experience, both in the stroke itself, but also in the fact that you lost the thing that might help you to walk through it a little easier which is communicating about it and hearing education learning about it. But so those 2 tools combined have really meant a lot to me to be able to share with people, with aphasia and their families, and also another sneaky way to educate providers.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, absolutely.   Hilary Sample: Because that's the simple education that I found to be missing when we talked about training was missing, and this and that, but the like when Steve and I talked recently, we you know, I said, what did you really learn about aphasia? And you kind of said how speech issues? Right?   Steve Richman: The speech diagnoses that we see are kind of lumped in as general like the names and general disorders that you might see, but weren't really clearly communicated as far as the their differential diagnoses being trained as a generalist, we would learn about, you know, neurology unit stroke and traumatic brain injury. And somewhere in there would be throwing in these tumors, which are huge aphasia and apraxia and whatnot, and I don't think I recall any details about that from Med school. They probably taught more than I'm recalling, but it certainly wasn't as much as I wish it was.   Hilary Sample: and so that education can just be a simple way to bring us all together on the same page as they're showing this to the person that they're working with. It's also helping them to better understand the supports that are needed.   Jerry Hoepner: Sneaky part.   Steve Richman: Yeah, speaking of the sneaky part, I don't think I told Hilary this yet, but I'm sure we've all had the experience or seen the experience where a physician asked him, What does that feel like? And the person might not have the words even with the regular communication, without a communication disorder. and last week I was working with a patient that just was having terrible pain and just could not describe it. and using the icons of words on that he had a much better sense of. You know it's just this and not that, and those descriptors of pain have been really useful for people now without more with communication difficulties that I just started doing that last week. And it was really interesting.   Hilary Sample: You mentioned about how those interactions with physicians are can be. Well, it's not nothing about you guys.   Jerry Hoepner: It's the rest of the physicians.   Hilary Sample: No, it's the, you know. There's a time. It's the shift in how our whole system operates that it's, you know I go in and I'm like, I just need notes if I need to speak about something important to my physician, because, like, I know that one reason I connect so deeply with people with communication disorders is that my anxiety sometimes gets in the way of my ability to communicate like I want to, especially in, you know, those kind of situations. And so, you know, it can help in many ways just having something to point to. But we also saw that with people with hearing loss, which, of course, many of the people that we run into in many of the patients that we work with are going to have some sort of hearing loss. People that speak a little different, you know. Native language. You know English as a second language.   Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely.   Hilary Sample: There and then. Cognitive communication disorders, developmental disorders, anybody that might benefit with a little bit more support which might include you and me. You know it can help.   Jerry Hoepner: And I think you know the physician and other providers having the tools to do that education to use the multimodal supports, to get the message in and then to get responses back out again. I think it's really important. And then that process of verifying to just see if they're understanding it. Are you? Are you tracking with me? And to get that feedback of, I'm getting this because I think sometimes education happens so quickly or at a level that doesn't match, and they might not understand it. Or sometimes it's just a matter of timing. I know we joke about Tom Sather and I joke about this. We've had people come to our aphasia group before who traveled out to a place in the community and they're sitting next to you. And they say, what is this aphasia stuff everyone's talking about? And I'm like, you literally just passed a sign that said Aphasia group. Right? But it's so hard to ensure that the message does go in, and that they truly understand that until you get that Aha moment where you describe like, yes, that's me, that's it. And that's just so crucial.   Hilary Sample: yeah, it's 1 of the most important pieces, I think to name it doesn't for anything that anybody is dealing with that's heavy, you know, to have to have it named can really provide relief just because that unknown, you know, at least at least you can have one thing that you know. I know what it is, and then I can learn more about it. Once I know what it is, I can learn more about it, and I can have some sort of acceptance, and I can start that grieving process around it, too, a little bit better. But when it goes unnamed, and the other part of it is if you don't tell me that, you know like that, you can see and understand what I might be experiencing, I might not think that you know what it is either, and I might not feel seen. So just the fact that we're both on board that we know I have this thing. I think it can take a lot of the weight off. At least, that's what I've seen when it's been presented.   Jerry Hoepner: No or care, right?   Hilary Sample: Yeah. Yes. Exactly.   Jerry Hoepner: Yep, and that's a good a good chance to segue into we I know we picked on Steve a little bit as a physician but the system really kind of constrains the amount of time that people have to spend with someone, and they have to be efficient. I'll go back to that sneaky idea. This seems like a sneaky way to help change the system from within. Can you talk about that a little bit like how it might move care forward by.   Hilary Sample: Showing what's possible. Yeah, I'm sorry, sure. In part time. Constraints, unfortunately, are very real, and without the knowledge of training how to communicate or support communication. It's challenging for us to move us physicians to move forward, but with something like our app or other useful tools in a short amount of time you could make some progress. And then, if you could document, this is worthwhile time worthwhile that I'm accomplishing something with my patient. I'm helping to understand what their issues are, and helping to explain what we want to do. That all of a sudden makes the time worthwhile, although time is a real constraint. I think, is general. Doctors are happy to spend extra time. If it's worthwhile that's helping our patient. That's the whole reason we go into this is help our people. We help the people we're working with, you know. No one wants to go in there and spend time. That's not helping anybody. But if you could justify the time, because I'm making progress. I'm really helping them great go for it. It's worth doing, and the part about efficiency. So there's so many ways that this focus on. And it's not even efficiency, because efficiency sounds like some success was achieved, you know. But this, this we only have this amount of time. One of the one of the things that's kind of interesting to me is that it an assumption? I've seen a lot, or I've heard a lot is that using communication supports takes time. More time and I have watched plenty, an encounter where the physician is trying, and it takes forever. I've experienced my own encounters as I was growing and deepening my own skills, and where it took me forever. And that's because we're trying. We care, but we don't have something prepared. So when you have a prepared material, it not only helps you to effectively and successfully you know, meet that communication need and find out what is actually bothering the person that you're working with. But it enables you to move at a pace that you wouldn't be able to otherwise, you know. So if Steve and I have this kind of running joke that I'll let you tell it because you have fun telling it.   Steve Richman: With the MedConcerns app. I could do in a little while what I can never do before, and with the med concerns App Hillary could do in 5 min. What used to take a session? It's really.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah.   Hilary Sample: Makes huge impacts in what we could accomplish, so less of a joke and more of just.   Jerry Hoepner: Yes, but having the right tools really is sounds like that's what makes the difference. And then that gives you time and tools to dedicate to these conversations that are so important as a person who's really passionate about counseling. One of the things we were always taught is spending time now saves time later, and this seems very much like one of those kind of tools.   Hilary Sample: Yeah. Well, we had one of the 1st times that we brought the prototype to a friend of ours who has aphasia. And it kind of speaks to the exactly what you just said. Spending time now saves time later, or saves money. Saves, you know, all the other things right is our friend Bob, and he doesn't mind us using his name. But I'll let you tell this story a little bit, because you know more from the doctor. Bob was no longer a patient of ours, but we had spent time with him and his wife, and they were happy to maintain the relationship, and we showed him that after he had this experience but he was describing experience to us, he was having hip pain. He had a prior stroke hemiplegic and having pain in that hemiplegic side. So the assumption, medically, is, he probably has neuropathy. He probably has, you know, pain related to the stroke, and they were treating with some gabapentin which makes sense. But he kept having pain severe. 10 out of 10. Pain severe. Yeah. And just. We went back day after day, and not on the 3rd day back at the er they did an X-ray, and found he had a hip fracture and look at our app. He was like pointing all over to the things that show the descriptors that show not neuropathic pain, but again, musculoskeletal pain and that ability to, you know, without words we could point to where it hurts. But then, describing that pain is a makes a huge difference. And he knew he very clearly. Once he saw those pictures he like emphatically, yes, yes, yes, like this is this, we could have, you know, if we could have just found out this stuff, we wouldn't have had to go back to the er 3 times and go through all that wrong treatment and this severe amount of pain that really took him backwards in his recovery to physically being able to walk. And things like that, you know, it's just finding out. Getting more clarity at the beginning saves from those kind of experiences from the pain of those experiences. But also, you know, we talked about earlier. If you have to sort of make an assumption, and you have to make sure that you're thinking worst case scenario. So in other situations where you send out with a chest pain and things like that, there's a lot that's lost for the person with aphasia because they might have to start their whole rehab journey over. They have to incur the costs of that experience. And you know they might come back with, you know, having to start completely over, maybe even new therapists like it's. And then just the emotional side of that. So, it not only saves time, but it. It saves money. It saves emotional. Yeah, the emotional consequences, too.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah. Therapeutic Alliance trust all of those different things. Yeah, sure. Yeah. I mean, I just think that alone is such an important reason to put this tool in the hands of people that can use it. We've been kind of talking around, or a little bit indirectly, about the med concerns app. But can you talk a little bit about what you created, and how it's different than what's out there.   Hilary Sample: Yeah, may I dive in, please? Okay, so we yeah, we indirectly kind of talked about it. But I'll speak about it just very specifically. So it starts with an introduction, just like a physician would enter the room and introduce themselves. This is a multimodal introduction. There's the audio. You can use emojis. What have you then, the General? How are you? Just as Steve would ask, how I'm doing this is, how are you with the multimodal supports and then it gets to kind of the main part of our app, which is, it starts with broad concerns. Some of those concerns, pain, breathing issues, bowel bladder illness. Something happened that I need to report like a fall or something else and the list continues. But you start with those broad concerns, and then every selection takes you to a confirmation screen where you either, you know, say, yes, that's what I was meaning to say, or you go back and revise your selection. It follows with narrow choices under that umbrella concern, the location type of pain, description, severity, exacerbating factors. If you've hit that concern so narrow choices to really get a full description of the problem, and including, like, I said, timing and onset. And then we end with a summary screen that shows every selection that was made and you can go to a Yes, no board to make sure that that is again verified for accuracy. So, it's a really a framework guiding the user, the therapist healthcare provider person with aphasia caregiver whomever through a supported approach to evaluating medical concerns. So generally, that's the way it functions. And then there are some extras. Did you want me to go into those? A little bit too sure.   Jerry Hoepner: Sure. Yeah, that would be great.   Hilary Sample: Right? So 1 1. It's not an extra, but one part of it that's very important to us as we just talked about our friend Bob, is that pain? Assessment is, is very in depth, and includes a scale description, locations, the triggers, the timing, the onset, so that we can get the correct pathway to receiving intervention. This app does not diagnose it just, it helps support the verbal expression or the expression. Excuse me of what's wrong. So, it has that general aphasia, friendly design the keywords, simple icons that lack anything distracting, clear visuals simple, a simple layout. It also has the audio that goes with the icon, and then adjustable settings, and these include, if you know, people have different visual and sensory needs for icons per screen, so the Max would be 6 icons on a screen, although, as you scroll down where there's more and more 6 icons per screen. But you can go down to one and just have it. Be kind of a yes, no thing. If that's what you need for various reasons, you can hide specific icons. So, if you're in a setting where you don't see trachs and pegs. You can hide those so that irrelevant options don't complicate the screen. There's a needs board. So we see a lot of communication boards put on people's tray tables in in the healthcare setting, and those are often they often go unused because a lot of times they're too complex, or they're not trained, or they, for whatever reason, there's a million reasons why they're not used. But this one has as many options as we could possibly think might need to be on there which any of those options can be hidden if they need to be. If they're not, if they're irrelevant to the user language it's in. You can choose between English and Spanish as it is right now, with more to come as we as we move along, and then gender options for the audio. What voice you'd like to hear? That's more representative. And the body image for the pain to indicate pain location. There's some interactive tools that we like to use with people outside of that framework. There's the whiteboard for typing drawing. You can use emojis. You can grab any of the icons that are within the app. So, if you know we if it's not there and you want to detail more, you can use the whiteboard again. That needs board the Yes, no board. And then there's also a topic board for quick messages. We wanted to support people in guiding conversations with their health care providers. So, I want to talk to Steve about how am I going to return to being a parent? Once I get home, what's work life going to be. I want to ask him about the financial side of things. I want to ask him about therapy. I want to report to him that I'm having trouble with communication. I want to talk on a certain topic. There's a topic board where you select it. It'll verify the response. It has a confirmation page, but from there the physician will start to do their magic with whatever that topic is. And then, of course, there's those summary screens that I already detailed, but those have been very useful for both, making sure at the end of the day we verify those responses but then, also that we have something that's easy to kind of screenshot. Come back to show the physician. So show the nurse as like a clear message that gets conveyed versus trying to translate it to a verbal message at the end from us, and maybe missing something so straightforward, simple to address very complex needs, because we know that people with aphasia would benefit from simple supports, but not they don't need to stay on simple topics. They have very complex ideas and information to share. So we wanted to support that. That's what it is in a nutshell that took a nutshell. I love that. It's on my phone, or it could be on your.   Jerry Hoepner: Oh, yeah.   Hilary Sample: Or on your or on your apple computer. If you wanted that, it's on the app store. But I love this on my phone. So, I just pull in my pockets and use it. Or if you happen to have an another device that works also.   Jerry Hoepner: Sure.   Hilary Sample: We're in the. We're in the process of having it available in different ways. There's a fully developed android app as well. But we're very much learners when it comes to the business side of things. And so there's a process for us in that, and so any. Any guidance from anybody is always welcome. But we have an android that's developed. And then we're working on the web based app so that we could have enterprise bulk users for enterprise, licensing so that that can be downloaded straight from the web. So that's all. Our vision, really, from the onset was like you said, shifting the culture in the system like if there's a tool that from the top, they're saying, everybody has this on their device and on the device that they bring in a patient's room, and there's training on how to use it, and that we would provide. And it wouldn't need to be much, just simple training on how to use it. And then you see that they are. They get that little bit more education. And then it's a consistent. We know. We expect that it'll be used. The culture can shift from within. And that's really the vision. How we've started is more direct to consumer putting it on the app store. But that's more representative of our learning process when it comes to app development than it is what our overall vision was, I want to say that equally as important to getting this into systems is having it be on a person's device when they go to a person with aphasia's device when they go to an appointment. I always, when we've been asked like, Who is this? For we generally just kind of say, anybody that that is willing to bring it to the appointment, so that communication supports are used, and maybe that'll be the SLP. Maybe it's the caregiver. Maybe it's care partner or communication partner, maybe a person with aphasia. Maybe it's the healthcare staff. So, whoever is ready to start implementing an easier solution. That's for you.   Jerry Hoepner: Yeah, absolutely. And that brings up a really interesting kind of topic, like, what is the learning curve or uptake kind of time for those different users for a provider on one hand, for a person with aphasia. On the other hand, what's a typical turnaround time.   Hilary Sample: We've tried to make it really intuitive, and I think well, I'm biased. I think it is   Hilary Sample: I for a provider. I think it's very easy to show them the flow and it, and it becomes very quickly apparent. Oh, it's an introduction. This is putting my name here. What my position is next is a how are you that's already walk in the room, anyways. And that's that. What are your concerns? Okay, that that all. Okay. I got that I think with time and familiarity you could use the tool in different ways. You don't have to go through the set up there you could jump to whatever page you want from a dropdown menu, and I find that at times helpful. But that's you. Don't have to start there. You just start with following the flow, and it's set up right there for you. The, as we all know people with the page I have as all of us have different kind of levels, that some people, they, they see it, they get it, they take the app, and they just start punching away because they're the age where they're comfortable with electronic devices. And they understand the concept. And it takes 5 seconds for them to get the concept and they'll find what they want. Some of our older patients. It's not as quick. But that's okay. My experience with it's been funny to show to use it with people with aphasia versus in another communication disorders, and using it with or showing it to people in the field or in healthcare in general, or you're just your average person most of the time that I showed this to a person with aphasia or who needed communication supports. It's been pretty quick, even if they didn't use technology that much, because it is it is using. It's the same as what we do on with pen and paper. It's just as long as we can show them at the onset that we're asking you to point or show me right. And so once we do that and kind of show that we want you to select your answer, and some people need more support to do that than others. Then we can move forward pretty easily. So people with aphasia a lot of times seem to be waiting for communication supports to arrive, and then you show them it, and they're like, Oh, thanks, you know, here we go. This is what's going on. Of course, that's there are varying levels of severity that would change that. But that's been my experience with people with aphasia. When I show people that do not have aphasia. I see some overthinking, because you know. So I have to kind of tell people like, just them you want them to point and hand it over, you know, because when I've seen people try to move through it, they're overthinking their what do you want me to do? I'm used to doing a lot with an app, I'm used to, you know, and the app moves you. You don't move it. So the real training is in stepping back and allowing the communication supports to do what you're thinking. I need you to do right. Step back and just let the person use the communication supports to tell you their message. And you, you provide those supports like we tend to provide more training on how to help somebody initiate that pointing or maybe problem solving the field of responses or field of icons that's on the page, or, you know, troubleshooting a little bit. But the training more is to kind of have a more hands off. Approach versus you know, trying to move the app forward since the apps focus, really, on describing what's going on with somebody and not trying to diagnose once someone gathers. Oh, I'm just trying to get out what I'm experiencing, it becomes very intuitive. Yeah, that's the issue. And this is, yeah, that's how describes it more. And yeah, this is about when it started that   Jerry Hoepner: That makes sense. And it's in line with what we know about learning use of other technologies, too, right? Usually that implicit kind of learning by doing kind of helps more than here's the 722, you know, pieces of instruction. So yeah, that kind of makes sense.   Hilary Sample: Simple training. I just to throw in one more thought I you know a little bit of training on what communication supports are, and then you show them. And it really, the app shows you how to use communication supports. And so it, you know instead of having to train on that you can just use the app to show them, and then and then they sort of start to have that awareness on how to use it and know how to move forward from there. Generally, there's some training that needs to be to be had on just where things are maybe like the dropdown menu, or you know what's possible with the app, like changes, changes, and settings and the adjustments that we talked about earlier but usually it's a little bit of a tool that I use to train people how to use communication support. So, it's sort of like the training is embedded. So we're doing both at the same time. You're getting to know the app, and you're learning more about how to support communication in general.   Jerry Hoepner: I think that's a really great takeaway in terms of kind of that double value. Right? So get the value to the person with aphasia from the standpoint of multimodal communication and self-advocacy and agency, those kinds of things, and then the value to the providers, which is, you learn how to do it right by doing it.   Hilary Sample: Which is great. Yeah.   Jerry Hoepner: Really like that.   Hilary Sample: Some of the most meaningful experiences I've had are with nurses like, you know, some of those incredible nurses that, like they see the person with aphasia. They know they know what to say, they want to. They know that the person knows what they want to say, but has difficulty saying it. We have one person I won't mention her name, but she's just incredible, and you know the go to nurse that you always want to be in the room she pretty much was like, give me this as soon as we told her about it, and I did, you know, and she goes. She's like, see, you know she uses it as a tool to help her other nurses to know what's possible for these. She's such an advocate but if it can be used like that to show what's possible like to show, to reveal the competency, and to let other nurses know, and other physicians, and so on, to help them to truly see the people that they're working with. It's like that's my favorite part. But the it's not only like a relief for her to be able to have a tool, but it's exciting, because she cares so much, and that like Oh, I'll take that all day long. That's wonderful.   Jerry Hoepner: Absolutely well, it's been really fun having a conversation with you, and I've learned a lot more than I knew already about the app. Are there any other things that we want to share with our listeners before we close down this fun conversation.   Hilary Sample: I think maybe our hope is to find people that are ready to help kind of reach that vision of a culture shift from this perspective from this angle. Anybody that's willing to kind of have that conversation with us and see how we can support that. That's what we're looking for just to see some system change and to see what we can do to do that together, to collaborate. So if anybody is interested in in discussing how we might do that, that's a big goal of ours, too, is just to find partners in in aphasia advocacy from this angle.   Jerry Hoepner: That's great!   Hilary Sample: Perfect. I totally agree. We're very grateful for this conversation, too. Thank you so much, Jerry.   Jerry Hoepner: Grateful to have the conversation with both of you and just appreciate the dialogue. Can't wait to connect with you in future conferences and so forth. So, thank you both very much.   Hilary Sample: Thank you.   Jerry Hoepner: On behalf of Aphasia Access, thank you for listening to this episode of the Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast. For more information on Aphasia Access and to access our growing library of materials go to www.aphasiaaccess.org. If you have an idea for a future podcast series or topic, email us at info@aphasiaaccess.org. Thanks again for your ongoing support of Aphasia Access.

Zweites Thema: Tipps für starken Kaffee – von Physikern. Mobbing ist nicht nur ein Problem auf dem Schulhof. Auch am Arbeitsplatz erleben viele Menschen systematische Ausgrenzung und Schikane. Das kann schwerwiegende psychische Folgen haben. Warum Mobbing im Job oft schleichend beginnt, woran man es erkennt und wie man sich wehrt, erklärt Arbeits- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Dr. Ingo Klingenberg vom Landesamt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsgestaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Produktion: Serdar Deniz Redaktion: Wiebke Bolle Noch mehr "Aha!"- Folgen gibt es bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts. Alle zwei Wochen am Montag eine neue Folge. Hier bei WELT hören: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/aha-zehn-minuten-alltags-wissen/plus246844328/Noch-mehr-Alltagswissen-Aha-Bonus-Folgen-fuer-Abonnenten-Podcast.html. "Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen" ist der Wissenschafts-Podcast von WELT. Wir freuen uns über Feedback an wissen@welt.de. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Are farmers ready for the future? Are they going to be able to keep up technologically with changes in the way things are done. Global futurist and best-selling author, Jack Uldrich shares his thoughts.

The decluttering and organizing process is a journey of self-discovery. As we peel back the layers of our lives, we learn valuable lessons about who we are in relation to our stuff. In episode #262 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, shares the reality checks and “Aha!” moments our clients and audience members have experienced as they work to declutter and organize.Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw262The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.To participate live in our weekly webcast, join our Meetup group, follow us on Facebook, or subscribe to our mailing list. You can also watch the videos of our webcast on YouTube.Support the show

Program notes:0:40 AHA risk calculator in various ethnicities1:40 Works well in all of them2:40 Women and ethnicities3:00 Hepatitis C screening in EDs4:01 Many ethnicities represented5:01 Identified as having the virus6:01 Once they tested only 24% were referred7:01 It was free testing7:40 Failing US children8:41 78% more likely to die in the US9:41 Some of these are preventable10:24 Life expectancy after the pandemic11:24 Remains almost a year deficit12:24 Deaths from overdose declining13:17 End

In this episode of Getting to Aha!, host Darshan Mehta sits down with Joseph Lapin, founder of Campbell Learn, to explore how storytelling, especially the hero's journey, can transform higher education marketing. Lapin reveals why 95% of decisions are made subconsciously and how tapping into emotional narratives can boost enrollment, engagement, and brand recall. From avoiding common storytelling mistakes to blending performance marketing with immersive tech like VR/AR, Lapin shares practical strategies for connecting with prospective students. Whether you're in education or another sector, this episode will show you how to create narratives that sell not just products, but transformation.

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EPISODE 410. In this episode of Fit Friends Happy Hour, host Katie delves into the overwhelming nature of modern nutrition advice. Katie explains why conflicting messages about food are so prevalent, from carbs to seed oils, and how these mixed signals impact our relationship with eating. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, she offers strategies to cut through the noise and develop a healthier approach to food. What we cover:• The complex factors contributing to confusing nutrition advice• The psychological, societal, and systemic elements that add to the overwhelm• Practical strategies to simplify and improve your relationship with foodConnect with Katie:Use code 'KHAKE' for 15% off | Omorpho Weighted Vest Meal Prep Like a Pro Without Obsessing Over Every Bite | www.katiehake.com/prepJoin our FREE 5-Day Walking Challenge | Walk with Me!HTMA Energy Bundle | Learn moreText me your AHA moment from today's episode!

Mariana Cooper (Mari) is an internationally acclaimed intuitive life strategist, third generation intuitive and host of the Aha! Moments Radio Show. In this episode, Mari explains: Third generation intuitive Aha Moments 3D and 5D Frequency The Energetic Communication system that we are all born with Man-made constructs: shame, blame, guilt, fear, anxiety “Clear, connect, communicate, create” Mari has an interesting description of how younger generations are choosing their own paths, not following social expectations like we did. Listen now and then share this episode! Find Mari at https://beyondintuitionbook.com/ Learn more about Mari and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Mariana Cooper Want to be a guest on The Boomer Woman's Podcast? Send Agnes a message on PodMatch, here: Agnes on PodMatch   

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Laura Markham to unpack the often messy world of sibling dynamics—especially when one or more kids are neurodivergent. We talk about why peaceful parenting starts with connection, how to handle those inevitable "it's not fair!" moments, and how to repair after conflict. Laura shares thoughtful, practical strategies for supporting each child's unique needs while nurturing more positive sibling relationships, even when things feel really hard. About Dr. Laura Markham Dr. Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life, and The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using mindfulness and connection to raise resilient, joyful children and rediscover your love of parenting. Dr. Laura Markham earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Columbia University and has worked as a parenting coach with countless families across the world. Over 170,000 moms and dads enjoy Dr. Laura's free weekly coaching posts via email. You can sign up on any page of her website, Peacefulparenthappykids.com, which serves up Aha! Moments for parents of babies through teens. Dr. Laura's aspiration is to change the world, one child at a time, by supporting parents. The proud mother of two thriving young adults who were raised with her peaceful parenting approach, she lives with her husband in New York. Things you'll learn from this episode Why parenting that prioritizes connection over strategy lays the foundation for healthy sibling dynamics How self-regulation in parents shapes the emotional tone and effectiveness of conflict resolution between siblings Why it's important to embrace sibling conflict as a normal and teachable part of growing up, while guiding repair and emotional processing How acknowledging each child's unique needs and avoiding comparison fosters a sense of fairness and individual worth Why modeling compassion, calm, and appropriate behavior teaches kids how to navigate conflict and build emotional intelligence How recognizing the goodwill in children and validating their feelings helps strengthen sibling bonds, even during tough moments Resources mentioned Dr. Laura Markham's Peaceful Parent Happy Kids website Raising Peaceful Siblings with Tools to Ease Jealousy and Build Connection (Free Guide) Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting by Dr. Laura Markham Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life by Dr. Laura Markham Dr. Laura Markham on Facebook Dr. Laura Markham on Instagram Self-Compassion for Tough Moments Printable Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the YOU CAN CALL ME “BOSSY” PODCAST! In this quick hit episode, I dive deep into the concept of “being” versus “doing” and how our approach to life and business shapes our results. Drawing from my personal stories and coaching experiences, I unpack the common misconception that success and fulfillment come simply from checking off to-dos, and reveal why embracing your own “beingness”—your confidence, alignment, and self-worth—holds the real key to growth and happiness. There are practical strategies to be shared in this episode for shifting your mindset at the subconscious level, offering examples from my coaching and powerful tools like EFT tapping, hypnosis, and breathwork. Whether you're ready for small steps in self-reprogramming or a major transformation, this episode is your invitation to move beyond burnout and step into the most empowered version of yourself. Key Takeaways: Emphasis on the importance and challenges of shifting from constant action (“doing”) to focusing on who you are (“being”). The importance of alignment between your actions and your desired identity. The power of the subconscious: 95% of daily thoughts are subconscious. Episode Resources: CLICK HERE to book a discovery call for LevelUp If you enjoyed this episode and are excited for more, please be sure to SUBSCRIBE and write a review to help build momentum and support the show (5-stars would be AWESOME!) _____________________________________________ JOIN US IN - THE CLUB - An annual membership where high-achieving women come together to unapologetically OWN THEIR “BOSSY” in order to rise to the top, make massive impact, and not burn out while doing it. Join TODAY to get access to all past workshop replays and past group coaching calls - always incredible takeaways and AHA moments from reviewing these sessions! Grab your spot in THE CLUB today by CLICKING HERE! _____________________________________________ LET'S FREAKING GO!GRAB THIS FREE DOWNLOAD: GRAB 100 FREE JOURNAL PROMPTS TO OWN YOUR BOSSY BY CLICKING HERE LET'S CONNECT: Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or join my STAND IN YOUR POWER FACEBOOK GROUP Grab a signed copy of my bestselling book STAND IN YOUR POWER HEREWatch my TEDx Talk “The Wisdom of Your Ancestors Should Be Ignored” HERE

Experts discuss effective communication strategies to empower patients of their options, set realistic expectations, and guide them towards informed decisions. Claim CE and MOC Credits at https://bit.ly/VTEComm

Are you in need of some additional ‘WOW” factors in your business presentations to customers? One of the coolest ways to do this is to search your facts, features, and benefits vault for things you have never communicated to customers. Once discovered, tell and sell your customers in ways that create more compelling “AHA” moments.Support the show

Welcome back to another episode of Man vs Marriage!One of the Greatest takeaways from this episode is simply this; Marriage isn't hard...Yes, I will wait here while you read that again and yes here is my email quincy@mvsmpodcast.com once you do send me the letter.So here's the deal...For many Men, talking about their challenges in life, relationship, and parenting historically doesn't happen. Why? You tell me! I am on this show week after week talking life and marriage HA! All joking aside we men being logical creatures by nature for the most part rarely have examples of men talking openly in trusted circles about the unknowns in life.Typically we do what we see which many times consists of holding it all in until we go nuclear and lose out cool. Can real men share feelings with each other and still be Men? Look, I am not talking about cry sessions in the swimming pool, I am talking about creating acircle of trust and opening up about what is going on with us internally. It matters.This week, we provide the blue print for you on how to gather and talk about life: The Good, the bad, and the ugly. We have no script in this episode. I am a normal dude, and I invited these normal dudes to the show we kickoff with Introductions and then we simply let the conversation take on a life of its own. I am incredibly excited for you to get into this episode, I am confident you will have plenty of AHA moments just like I did!****JASON SCOTT WITH LEGENDARY RELATIONSHIP:CONNECT HERE : https://legendaryrelationship.com/MANIFEST A JOY FILLED RELATIONSHIP (THE BOOK) https://a.co/d/30BXDhF*****Yo Bro! or Sis :) Help us BUILD the brand and change lives where you are!VIST www.quincymoran.com/apparel right now! buy our clothing and represent in you local area. Let's change lives together!want to contact me?email: quincy@mvsmpodcast.com to get in touch! Check out our youtube! We are NEW on youtube and excited to grow the platform within the YT community!https://www.youtube.com/@manvsmarriagepodcast3348/videos#COMMUNICATION #pornaddiction #sex #marriedsex #marriage #mariagehelp #marriageandrelationships #relationship101 #marriagepodcast #marriagehelp #marriagebootcamp #love #lovestory #couples #faith #Relationship #relationships #Problem #Problems #CognitivePower #Opinion #Opinions #Trust #Marriage #Married #Truth #TruthTeller #Standard #Standards #Negotiate #Negotiating #Romance #romantic #reconciliation #selfimprovement #help #christian #redemption #narcissist #narcissism Marriage counseling and relationship advice#Marriage counseling and advice for marriage. Marriage counseling and therapy. Marriage and relationship counseling. #Relationships101

Aha! I knew this one would tickle your fancy. We're covering "Take On Me" from the BASEKETBALL soundtrack this week! This may be Reel Big Fish's best cover song, but we're so busy talking with former trumpet player, Tavis Werts, that we forget to compare it to the rest of the plethora of RBF covers!

Welcome, Jimi Blacksheep, AKA James A. Bourne, musical artist. His mantra: sounding good and looking good. His alter ego, his stage persona, is Jimi Blacksheep, and his life has been a musical journey. Now in his 60s, this transplanted New Bedford, Massachusetts, resident is most at home busking on the streets, entertaining pedestrians with his vast catalog of covers and original songs. Jimi Blacksheep has been taking his dream to the streets for quite some time, and he continues to do it with style. He regularly commutes to Boston to entertain pedestrians with his catalog of covers and original songs on the city's sidewalks. It's just Jimi, his guitar, voice, amplifier, and another page in his continuing musical journey. Jimi spoke with The Artists Index's cofounder, documentarian, and podcast host, Ron Fortier, recently after meeting him at an AHA! event. Ron asked him to talk about his passion, his life, and his journey as a working musician. This episode was recorded at our recording studio at Spectrum Marketing Group at Howland Place in New Bedford.   Jimi Blacksheep (AKA James A. Bourne) New Bedford, MA 02746 774 271-5179   Email | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Linktree | Other   Please consider donating whatever you can to help and assure us in our mission to continue documenting the legacies of South Coast Artists. If you would like to be a guest on The Artists Index or have a suggestion, please let us know!    

Remember when we used to use stacked shocks for ventricular arrhythmias or load patients up with high doses of epinephrine and bicarb? Over the last 25 years, resuscitation guidelines have evolved and it's our job to stay updated on the current protocols.Here to help us break down what's changed and what still works is Dr. Ashish Panchal, Chair of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for the AHA and host of the In the Heart of Care podcast. We discuss how a common cardiac arrest scenario would be treated from 2000 to today, highlighting key guideline changes like the shift to neuroprotective strategies, high-quality CPR, and post-arrest care.Tune in to stay current and hear how science continues to shape the way we save lives!Topics discussed in this episode:How AHA guidelines are developedDr. Panchal's research and impactEarly 2000s resuscitation guidelines“Save the brain” approach in the 2010sHow medication use has evolved, like epinephrineThe current focus on high-performance CPR and neuroprotective strategiesPost-arrest care and survivorshipBalancing clinical trends with scientific validationHow nurses can stay current on AHA guidelinesCheck out the In the Heart of Care Podcast here:https://rqipartners.com/podcast/Mentioned in this episode:CONNECT

EPISODE 409. Ever wonder if that daily multivitamin from Costco is really doing anything for you? In this episode of Fit Friends Happy Hour, Katie gets personal about her journey from grabbing generic vitamins off big box shelves to making more informed, empowered supplement choices. If you've ever felt confused, overwhelmed, or just plain meh about your supplement routine - this one's for you.What We Cover:Why some generic multivitamins may not actually move the needle for your healthHow bioavailability and dosing make a difference in whether your supplements really workFour smart questions to ask before choosing your next vitamin or supplementConnect with Katie:Use code 'KHAKE' for 15% off | Omorpho Weighted Vest Meal Prep Like a Pro Without Obsessing Over Every Bite | www.katiehake.com/prepJoin our FREE 5-Day Walking Challenge | Walk with Me!HTMA Energy Bundle | Learn moreFULLWELL PRENATAL VITAMIN - use code ‘KHAKE' for 10% offText me your AHA moment from today's episode!

EP 180: REPLAY - Getting Over People-Pleasing and Stepping Into Your Bossy with Julia Costa Welcome to another replay episode of the You Can Call Me “Bossy" podcast. In this episode, I got to sit down with my good friend Julia Costa exploring the complexities of self-assertion versus people-pleasing, a challenge I've personally navigated and I know so many of you have as well. Julia and I will also look back at our career paths, discussing the high-stakes environment at Lululemon, where Julia faced a pivotal turn in my professional life. From there, we'll share insights into personal safety, the importance of understanding communication styles, and of course power of mindset work. As someone who has seen immense growth from using hypnosis and subconscious reprogramming, I'm excited to offer you these valuable perspectives on these tools. So, tune in as we unpack these experiences, celebrate our friendship, and offer guidance on using your voice powerfully yet empathetically in your own life. Key Takeaways: Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies. Being pushed by the universe towards necessary changes. The balance between being assertive and maintaining respect in various roles. Key Timestamps [4:40] – Overcoming self-limiting beliefs for business success. [19:24] – The Resistance to asking for help and assertiveness. [33:07] – Woman embracing unapologetic, respected boss persona. [36:26] – Overcoming fear, speaking truth, owning boundaries. [40:48] – Reluctant to change, and the universe pushing for it. Episode Quote “Being unapologetic about the way that you present yourself to the world also helps to give permission to other people to put themselves out there." - Julia Costa Episode Resources CLICK HERE to learn more about Julie's ANCHORED certification program CLICK HERE to book a discovery call about LevelUp If you enjoyed this episode and are excited for more, please be sure to SUBSCRIBE and write a review to help build momentum and support the show (5-stars would be AWESOME!) _____________________________________________ JOIN US IN - THE CLUB - An annual membership where high-achieving women come together to unapologetically OWN THEIR “BOSSY” in order to rise to the top, make massive impact, and not burn out while doing it. Join TODAY to get access to all past workshop replays and past group coaching calls - always incredible takeaways and AHA moments from reviewing these sessions! Grab your spot in THE CLUB today by CLICKING HERE! _____________________________________________ LET'S FREAKING GO!GRAB THIS FREE DOWNLOAD: GRAB 100 FREE JOURNAL PROMPTS TO OWN YOUR BOSSY BY CLICKING HERE LET'S CONNECT: Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or join my STAND IN YOUR POWER FACEBOOK GROUP Grab a signed copy of my bestselling book STAND IN YOUR POWER HEREWatch my TEDx Talk “The Wisdom of Your Ancestors Should Be Ignored” HERE