Podcasts about Always There

Guests:* Rossana D'Antonio – Author of 26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash* Marty Ross-Dolen – Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for TruthTwo authors, Rossana D'Antonio and Marty Ross-Dolen, each faced the unimaginable loss of loved ones in separate plane crashes decades apart. Their grief led them to write powerful memoirs—Rossana's 26 Seconds and Marty's Always There, Always Gone—that explore truth, healing, and the lasting impact of tragedy. In an extraordinary coincidence, both books were released in the same week, a situation that could easily spark feelings of rivalry or jealousy between writers. Instead, their shared experience created a bond as they connected over loss, resilience, and the courage it takes to turn pain into story. This episode dives into that connection, exploring not only grief but also the unexpected solidarity found in telling similar stories side by side.Hey everyone, it's Jenny Nash. This episode happens to feature an Author Accelerator book coach. Author Accelerator is the company I founded more than 10 years ago to lead the emerging book coaching industry. If you've been curious about what it takes to become a successful book coach, which is to say, someone who makes money, meaning, and joy out of serving writers, I've just created a bunch of great content to help you learn more. You can access it all by going to bookcoaches.com/waitlist. We'll be enrolling a new cohort of students in our certification program in October, so now's a perfect time to learn more and start making plans for a whole new career.Transcript below!EPISODE 464 - TRANSCRIPTJennie NashHey everyone. It's Jennie Nash. This episode happens to feature an Author Accelerator book coach. Author Accelerator is the company I founded more than 10 years ago to lead the emerging book coaching industry. If you've been curious about what it takes to become a successful book coach, which is to say someone who makes money, meaning and joy out of serving writers. I've just created a bunch of great content to help you learn more. You can access it all by going to book bookcoaches.com/waitlist. That's bookcoaches.com/waitlist. We'll be enrolling a new cohort of students in our certification program in October, so now's a perfect time to learn more and start making plans for a whole new career.Multiple SpeakersIs it recording? Now it's recording, yay. Go ahead. This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone. I don't remember what I'm supposed to be doing. All right, let's start over. Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Okay, now—one, two, three.Jennie NashHey everyone. I'm Jennie Nash, and this is the Hashtag AmWriting Podcast, the place where we talk about writing all the things, short things, long things, fiction, nonfiction, pitches and proposals. Today I'm here to talk with two writers who I brought together because of a very interesting coincidence; each of these writers recently published a memoir about a plane crash. They each lost somebody that they love in a plane crash, and they wrote a story about their search for understanding and their search for healing and what it all means to their lives. These two books are really different stories, which I think is so interesting and says so much about the creative process. And what's remarkable is that these two books were published just one week apart, and these two writers became aware of each other's books and became friends. I happened to have a connection to each of these writers. At several points throughout her writing process, I coached Rossana D'Antonio including the very first time she came into a classroom to write about this story. Her book is called 26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash. Marty Ross-Dolen is the other author. Her book is called Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for Truth. Marty is a writer who came into my Author Accelerator book coach certification program to study how to become a book coach, and that's when I became aware of her and her story. In this conversation, Marty and Rossana come together with me to talk about grief, writing, jealousy and so many of the things that make memoir such a difficult and challenging genre to write and also such a satisfying one. I can't wait for you to listen. So let's get started. Welcome Rossana and Marty. I'm so excited to have you both here today to talk about this incredible topic. And before we get going, we are talking just days after there was a terrible plane crash in India in which a lot of people died and one man walked away, and there's a plane crash at the center of both of your books. And I just wanted to start by asking, how do you feel when this happens as it happens so many times, you know, are you okay as we sit here today? Or does this weigh on you? What is it? What is it like to sit here today? So maybe we'll start Rossana with you.Rossana D'AntonioOkay, well, thanks, Jennie, for inviting me on your podcast. It's really exciting to be here and to share, you know, this podcast with Marty. And, yeah, I mean, I, I agree with you. It's really, I mean, I think our memoirs—it's just so timely that they're out during this time because it's, you know, it's not just Air India. We've had several incidents within the last several years, actually, that have brought to light the strain in the aviation industry. It's been, it's been really interesting because, as it seems like there's not a day that goes by that there isn't something in the news with regards to plane crashes or plane incidents, near misses, whatever it may be. But as we experience each incident, and it becomes breaking news, and you know, we're witnessing it on live TV, it is, it is hard not to relive the experience. And I'm—I'll speak for myself—it is hard for me not to relive the experience. And in the book, I kind of talk about it because I say that it's kind of like we belong to this group that we never asked to be part of and this group is made of families of the victims of plane crashes. And, you know, the very first images that you see are of the grieving families and the pain and the grief that is stamped on their faces, the shock of it all. Plane crashes are so dramatic and so violent that it's hard not to get caught up in the whole story, and it's hard not to think of the families and want to comfort them, knowing that their hell is just starting, and all the things that they're going to have to go through, you know, with regards to the aftermath, the investigation, recovering their loved ones and their loved ones' belongings. So it is hard, but I try to, I try to focus on hoping that their recovery or their healing—the sooner they face the disaster, the tragedy—their healing can actually start.Jennie NashIt's got to be so hard. We'll, we'll return to all of these topics again. But Marty, you're... what are your thoughts?Marty Ross-DolenI echo what Rossana says about how—first, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here with you. I echo, and I love being here with Rossana, and I echo what she says as well. When I see some sort of headline or announcement that an airplane accident has taken place, my heart sinks. My stomach sinks. I know that I'm going to be in it for a couple of days, if not longer, and nowadays, with social media and the immediacy of information—and for the first time, with this devastating Air India crash, and part of it is because there was a survivor—we have information that we've never had before about the experience of it, and somehow, what came across my news feed on social media as well were videos of the inside of the cabin just before the crash. I don't even know how these were available. I don't even know if they're real because of AI—it's... but then I see that because I can't not see it, and I'm stuck with that in my brain until it goes into that little pocket that contains all those things that we see over our lifetimes that we try never to think about again. So it's hard, it's really hard, and it's really hard to get on an airplane. But that's true for everyone. That's true for everyone, but because, as Rossana describes, we're members of this group, this club that we didn't sign on for, it's probably extra hard.Jennie NashYeah, I want to come back to that "get on an airplane" thing, but just so our listeners can know about the stories that I'm referring to here, we know that you both wrote books, and they're both memoirs, and they're very, very different experiences for the reader—vibes, purposes, feelings, all of those things—and yet they share this plane crash at the center. So I wanted to ask if you would each just give a summary of what your book is about—the title, what it's about—so our readers can know, our listeners can know, what we're talking about. Your readers, our listeners. Rossana, we're kind of in a pattern here, so why don't you go first?Rossana D'AntonioSure. Thanks, Jennie. So my story, my book, is 26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash. And it's the story of—well, the title says it all, right? So on May 30, 2008, TACA Flight 390 departed from El Salvador International Airport en route to Miami, Florida, with an interim stop in Honduras at one of the most notoriously dangerous airports in the world, Toncontín International Airport. The area was buffeted by Tropical Storm Alma at the time. So there was a lot of wind, a lot of rain, a lot of fog, and when TACA Flight 390 attempted to land on the airport's very short runway, it overshot the runway, crashed into an embankment, and killed five people—three in the plane, including my brother, the pilot, and two in a car that were crushed when the plane landed on them. The book is my search for the truth as to what truly happened on that day. I suspected my brother would be made a scapegoat. Seventy percent of airplane accidents are blamed on the pilot, and so I just suspected that that would be our reality. And so this book is the story about me finding answers to the questions as to what happened that day..Jennie NashAnd in terms of the timeline of this story, when I first met you, you had just begun to write about it. I think it was 10 years. Oh, no, I've got that wrong. How long after the event? You came into a class of mine at UCLA—it was really close to the event.Rossana D'AntonioYeah. So it was February of 2009, so it was a little over six months. So it was still very, very raw.Jennie NashI know the 10 years part is you came back to me 10 years later, having finally wrapped your hands around how you wanted to approach it. So the story as you write it is 10–15 years after the event, looking back on it and all the work that you did to understand this crash and you are uniquely positioned. And I remember thinking about this way back when I first met you. You have a very unique perspective on disaster, and you have a very unique positioning or perspective from which to look at that. Do you want to explain what that is?Rossana D'AntonioSure. So I'm an engineer. I'm a civil engineer, and I worked for over three decades in the public sector at Los Angeles County Public Works. I was over—as I left county service, I was a deputy director over our emergency management business area, and so I was trained to respond to all sorts of different disasters. Our agency managed several pieces of infrastructure, including five different airports. So I was trained to not only plan, design, construct infrastructure, but also to respond to emergencies following not only natural disasters but, you know, human-made disasters. And following these disasters, I was the lead for preparing after-action reports, which essentially describe what happened, what went wrong, what went well, and what lessons learned can we actually take away from these disasters. So that was my background.Jennie NashYeah, it's an incredible connection to this tragic event. So we'll come back to that in a minute. So Marty, tell us about your book.Marty Ross-DolenSure. So my book is entitled Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for Truth. And in 1960, my grandparents were killed in an airplane accident that was a collision over New York Harbor. Their plane—they had left Columbus, Ohio. They were traveling to New York, and they were on a TWA Super Constellation, and then a United jet that had originated in Chicago was flying in. My grandparents' plane was set for landing in LaGuardia. The United flight was set for landing in Idlewild, which is now JFK Airport. The United plane got off course and collided with my grandparents' plane. My grandparents' plane landed in Staten Island in an empty airfield, and the United flight actually continued for a few miles and landed in Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing people on the ground. So on the planes, there were 128 people who lost their lives, and then six people on the ground in Brooklyn. And because of that horrific situation in Brooklyn, that's where most of the sort of media was focused. There was one survivor who survived for about 24 hours—a boy—but he didn't live. My grandparents were on their way from Columbus to New York to meet for a meeting to talk about their family business, their iconic family magazine Highlights for Children, and they were looking to place the magazine on the newsstands. So they were executives with the company, and this accident was actually the largest commercial jet airplane disaster up until that time in 1960, so it was a pretty well-known, famous accident.Jennie NashSo you two have a very unique connection to that accident, and where you stood when you wrote about it is much further in the future from the crash itself, because your mother, if I remember correctly, was 14 years old at the time.Marty Ross-DolenRight. So my mom was 14. It was six years before I was born, so obviously I didn't know my grandparents. My mom was the second oldest of five, and they moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Austin, Texas, to live with a paternal uncle and his family. And so my book is more about my experience of being raised by a mother who was in protracted mourning after having lost her parents and not had a way to process her grief as an adolescent, and as she got older. So my approach to my book is from that angle primarily, in addition to getting to know my grandmother through her letters, which was a significant goal through the writing process.Jennie NashRight. So you have this reverberation through time of this accident and your connection to the work your grandparents did. You're a writer, you're an editor, you're a person who deals with story, and they were—I mean, I was such a reader of Highlights back in the day—and that, you know, you use the word iconic, you know, probably launched the careers of so many writers and thinkers, and you have a connection through time with that, which is a very unique perspective to have on your story. So you each bring these very different ways of looking at this event. So before we kind of dig into the decisions you each made around how to structure your book, and the tone and shape and all of that, part of the reason we're all talking here today is this, what I think of as a very delightful outcome of these books, which is that you know each other. You've met each other after the books were written. And oftentimes we think, when we're writing something, that well, we think several things: nobody's ever written anything like this, and everybody else has already written this story. What do I have to say? You know, those sort of back-and-forth thoughts that writers often have—Is this unique? Do I have something to add? Do I have something to say? How am I going to serve my readers, or what experience am I going to give to my readers? And then, you know just those pinging back-and-forth thoughts. And it's not very often that we get to actually meet a writer who, at the same time, in the same phase here of publishing, you know, just the same year even, has written something that is similar-ish, you know, about a plane crash, but totally different books. But I just want to ask you each about the meeting of each other and the thinking of that book, and what that's like, because it's so unusual to get to have this kind of conversation. So, you know, I imagine there are lots of things going through your head when you heard about this other book or, you know, I don't know if I have a connection to both of you. I don't know if it came from me or what, but why don't we start this time with you, Marty.Marty Ross-DolenYeah, one of the great joys of this last year has been publishing with the same publisher as Rossana, and for us to get to know each other, because we both published our books with She Writes Press, and we just happened to be in the same cohort of summer 2025. We published in the same month, one week apart. Yeah, yeah. And I remember when we first were introducing ourselves as a group, and Rossana mentioned what her story was about. And my reaction was, is it really true? Is there really another airplane accident story amongst us? Because it is—it's not common. I mean, you don't very often come across people who have lost loved ones this way, and what became clear to me over time was that our books were very, very different. And by the nature of the fact that Rossana lost her beloved brother, who she was very close to, and I lost grandparents I had never met, our stories were just—and there's decades that separate these events—so by those natures, it was clear to me that our books were going to be different. I was excited to read Rossana's book. I was also apprehensive because, for the same reason that I described about when I'm reading about it in the news, it's just hard. But I will say, in reading Rossana's beautiful book, I immediately noticed just kindred spirits with her as a writer. It happened early in the chapters that I was reading. I had used the word lullaby to describe the sound of the engines getting going when you're sitting on a plane and it's about to take off, and sort of the sound of almost a lullaby that will put you to sleep. The person who was working with me as I was writing kept crossing that word out: “That doesn't make sense. Why would you call that a lullaby?” And I wanted it in there. It felt so right. And Rossana described that exact time, those sounds, as a lullaby. It was like; this is something that's just unique about people who have experienced what we've experienced.Jennie NashOh, wow, that's so interesting. Rossana, what about you? Your coming upon Marty's book.Rossana D'AntonioI know. What are the odds, right? I mean, I had never met anyone who had ever experienced a plane crash in their family. As a matter of fact, I'm going to get geeky here, but the U.S. Department of Transportation statistics indicate that one in 2 billion people will die in a plane crash. So what are the odds that, you know, life would bring Marty and I together, that had this connection, not only with the plane crash but also with you, Jennie? I mean some that came out later on. And so I thought, wow, you know, talk about serendipity and, you know, the mysterious ways of life. And although, you know, these are very different stories, I mean, they're connected at their core by a common theme, right? Very similar tragedies. And when I read Marty's book, like she says, there was—I was taken aback because there were many similar passages, you know, how we describe things or how we perceive things. There were a lot of commonalities, even though we came from it from different perspectives, which again reinforces my belief that we're part of this group that we never want to be a part of, and we'll always be connected in one way or another. I think one of the things, though, that was obvious when I read her book was that I connected, I understood, I related to her mom, obviously, right? Her mom was one that had experienced this plane crash, so it was kind of obvious the way it had impacted her, the tragedy, the aftermath, the bottling up of her feelings, PTSD, whatever—all of that I, like, clicked. But I think the most fascinating part of Marty's book was how that grief could be transferred from generation to generation. And I thought that was the fascinating thing that I learned that I really didn't know, and how these tragedies can be prolonged for, you know, generations.Jennie NashYeah, it's—well, first of all, thanks for geeking out because that is a good description of what your book is. You have a lot in your book that is kind of geeky in a—you know, you really get into the aviation industry, into the nuts and bolts of, literally, planes and how they function to the way that governments and reports about accidents function. So when reading your book, people get that layer, which is, you know, you bring to that work. So, geek out all you want. It's great. And Marty's book, by contrast, is this exploration of, you know, you drop a pebble in a pond, and how does it hit the shores? And that very emotional—you know, she had a mother immersed in grief. And what does that do to the child? And then the child's impulse to—I think it's the word search in both of your subtitles, I think it might be, or certainly the concept of it—but that idea of a quest or a journey or, you know, a need to understand. And in Rossana's case, it's what happened on that day. In Marty's case, what happened to my mom? You know, like, what was this thing that happened to my mom? And you're both seeking—that core of both of them. So I want to ask about, because I'm fascinated by this—you know, there's a raw material of a story, and how you make your choices about what the tone of that story is going to be, or the shape and structure of that story, what you want the reader to feel or to experience. Can you both go back to when you knew you were going to write about it? I think that's the first thing, is how did you catch this idea as, "This is a thing I'm going to write about"? Marty, do you want to start with that one?Marty Ross-DolenSure. I started writing after I attended a 50th anniversary memorial event for the airplane accident. And there's a sort of story that leads up to that memorial event and my attending it. But prior to that—which was, so that was 2010—prior to that, I wasn't necessarily inclined to write about it. So after attending this memorial event in 2010, a few months later, I just started telling the story of the memorial and putting some backstory into it, and that ended up being an essay that was about... I don't know, it was a long essay, like, say, 40 pages, but I was told the story was done. Because for those of us that like to use writing and words and language to try to process those things that are sitting—that we're obsessing about or sitting in our minds—I wanted to have done that and be done, because this thing was deeper than anything else that I could excavate in terms of pain in my life. So after I submitted this essay to a class that I was taking at Ohio State—writing, creative writing workshop—and at the end of the semester, the professor said to me that he thought that really what I was doing was writing a book, because there was too much material here and I hadn't done what needed to be done. My stomach sank because I didn't want to write a book. It wasn't—I wanted to be done with this topic. So I took his feedback and all of my workshop peers' feedback, and I stuck it all, the pile of papers, into a cabinet, and it stayed there for 14—well, 10—years.Jennie NashWow!Marty Ross-DolenYeah. And then, during that time, my mother had become the archivist for Highlights, for the family business, and was going through all of the saved artifacts and materials and papers related to the company and the family. And I had always wanted to know my grandmother better. My grandmother is the person I'm named for. I had always known a lot of stories about her, but I asked my mom if she had access to any letters that she might come across in the attics and basements that she was excavating—could I have them? So she started sending them to me. So while I had an essay in the cabinet, I had bins of letters from my grandmother in the basement. And that whole time, anybody who would ask me what I was working on, writing-wise, I'd say, "Well, you know I've got these letters in the basement..." but I never did anything with it. I just couldn't—it was too—everything was too overwhelming. And then what happened for me is that COVID—when the pandemic, you know, 2020, started—became part of our lives. I realized that it was an opportunity for me to pursue an MFA that I had wanted to do for a long time because it was going to be remote. And then I realized I've got time, and I could pull all of this out and see if it was something worth tackling. So that's the story of the decision to write. It was a slow one.Jennie NashWow. Oh, so interesting. And Rossana, well, we heard that you, six months after your brother died, you were in this class trying to learn how to write about it, which, at the time, I didn't quite put together that had been so recent. So when did you decide you were going to write about it? How did you know?Rossana D'AntonioYeah, so, I mean, I didn't set out to write a book. I just started to write. And as you know, as an engineer, I wasn't really trained to be like a memoir writer or writing essays of this type of nature. But I have to give you so much credit, because when I went to your class—and I went out of curiosity to see, well, is anything I'm scribbling down in these journals, is anything really good?—and so your class brought me together with all these other students, and, you know, reading some of the material out loud, all of a sudden, it was a four-day—I don't know if you remember—it was a four-day, one of these four-day intensive classes, and at the end, we're reading our material, and all these strangers are suddenly referring to my brother like they know him, and I recognize that it was because I was somehow relaying his story to them, and I was somehow, maybe through my work or my words, keeping him alive in some way, and that was really transformational for me, because I thought, well, maybe I can do this. And you were very kind. You said that the work was actually pretty good, and then I had some teachers that, you know, added to that. So it started out like, you know, just like playing with words, and then it turned into a grief memoir. That's the… you know, it's evolved greatly. It turned into a grief memoir, which you—I went back to you and you said, “Well, this is great, congratulations, but it's really not marketable, and if you really want to get it out into the world, you're going to have to make some changes.” And so at that point, that's when I decided, all right, I'm going to go ahead and explore. I'm going to go deeper and try to explore the truth about what happened that day. Maybe make it more scientific, more technical; maybe bring in some of the elements that were missing from this memoir. And so along with working with you and working with my editor­— Jodi Fodor—both of you, like within the last few years—I thought I had written it, I thought I was fine, I thought it was done. But then I'd come back to all of you, and you would ask me these probing questions. Perhaps I hadn't developed a scene well enough, or maybe I needed to go deeper. You know, memoir is different than what I was trained to do, and that would send me down this rabbit hole in search of answers to, you know, the questions you were asking, which, by the way, was very annoying because obviously I did not want to come to terms with, you know, the questions that you were asking, because it would, like, get me down into the feeling part of the whole memoir writing. But I did the homework, I came back with answers, and then I realized that memoir is a different animal. And I really felt that your input, your feedback, your questions, your probing, really did make it a lot richer of a story. And even through those seeking answers to the questions that you had brought me to self-discoveries, epiphanies, that perhaps… things that I had bottled up, and that even at the tail end of writing the story, there was still so much more to discover with regards to grief and healing, and which was a lesson to me that I suppose this journey never really ends.Jennie NashOh, I want to defend myself when I said, “This is great, but it's not marketable.” There is such a danger with memoir, particularly memoir around big things, and you both are writing about a big thing, and also particularly around grief, where it's so big in your own head, it takes over your whole mind or life or heart or world, that you assume that everybody else gets it. Right? Like this thing happened, and it's tragic, and in Marty's case, it reverberates through my whole life, and it's so easy to skip over the work of making that story mean something to the reader, and of just sort of resting on the fact that this dramatic thing happened in your family and your life. And there are so many manuscripts like that that when they land on the desk of an agent or the hands of a reader, it's not enough, right? It's not enough. And so that was what I was responding to you. And I know because I got to work with you, and I know from Marty, because I see the result of her finished book, you both did that really hard work, and when I say it's really hard, you just named, Rossana, why it's hard. You have to look at yourself in a way… you know you have to dig in there to things you might not really want to think about. You certainly probably don't want to feel. Do you even want to share them? All of those decisions and choices and ideas. That's what's so hard. And you both put yourself through that process. So I want to ask you each about that—what was it like? So Marty, we'll start with you. In your case, you're digging into these letters, you start then digging into the news, the articles, the pictures, the—you know, all this stuff that your mother never spoke about, and here you're digging, digging, digging. What was that like for you on an emotional level?Marty Ross-DolenAh, it took over my life for a period of time. It was very time-consuming and overwhelming, and nothing about it was easy. I spent a lot of time and tears. I had a tough time sleeping. I did a lot of the work of writing in the middle of the night. In my head, I would wake up in the middle of the night reciting something I had written the day before. It had totally taken over my brain, and fortunately, my mother is very supportive of my work and has been very supportive of the book. And while I was reading the letters—and I read them all, and there are hundreds and hundreds of letters and thousands of pages of them—my mom was available to me to have very long conversations each day through it, because I would want to share something that I read with her, check with her about a story, or she would add and fill in some cracks. And she and I spent a lot of time on the phone crying. We also spent a lot of time laughing, because my grandmother was hilarious, which helped the situation. Her letters were a joy to read. But it really—it's a commitment. It's something that anybody who decides that they're going to take on a project that's going to just sort of open up the wound and create a rawness you're not even familiar with until you're there certainly needs to have established the support system. And I also had my husband, who was incredibly willing to talk about—I mean, he's been talking about this with me and listening for, at this point, for years, but certainly all the time back then, during those days. So it's not pretty, it was hard, but there's nothing about it that doesn't feel like the biggest gift I've ever given myself, because as much as I was trying to avoid it for all those years, there was a reason. I had to do it. I had to go through the process. And also, no question, there's a healing component to writing about something like this, and that reflective writing process, when you do the deep work and try to really dig and let yourself—as Rossana was saying—you know, the annoying stuff that was really like not where you wanted to go, but that is what really changed how it helped me heal in terms of grief, but it really also changed the way I thought about the story and imagined the story, and helped me not look at it through quite as much sadness and even anger, as much as I then was able to look through more of a lens of love at all of it. And I would venture to say that Rossana may have felt that too, because I read her book, and her book is all love. So…Jennie NashYeah, so Rossana, what was that experience of writing like for you?Rossana D'AntonioYeah, well, like Marty said, you know, it was, it did become all-consuming. I became obsessed. For me, though, it was the plane crash, right? The plane crash is the common thread throughout the whole book. And I would venture to say that the crash is a character itself. I like to think of it as the crash is the villain that I battle throughout the story. Everything revolves around it, and it was all-consuming. I analyzed it a million different ways. I deconstructed it. I peeled layer after layer, fact upon fact, trying to get to the core of what truly happened, right? And then I put everything back together, reconstructing it to try to make sense of it all in an effort to find out the truth, with a little bit of fear as to what I may actually find, right? There were no guarantees that I would like what I actually discovered. And as a matter of fact, you know, working with my editor—because I got so ingrained in it, because I got so weedy and geeky and just too technical—you know, she would actually slash dozens of pages, and she said, “I'm not even going to read this because this is not memoir appropriate. You need to do better.” And I think it was at that point where I had that conversation with Jody that the crash evolved from a thing to a character that I could eventually conquer. And like Marty said, there is a healing, and at the end, I actually make peace with this experience. You know, not that I'm all healed, but I make peace with it. There's really nothing I could do. My search was for the truth, and I got the truth, and then I was able to let it go and actually continue to live, because it was so consuming that I wasn't really living until I let it go.Marty Ross-DolenCan I ask, Rossana, do you think that all that writing that you did that got slashed out—do you, because I have writing also that had to be removed—do you feel that that had to be written in order to be removed, in order to get on the other side of it?Rossana D'AntonioOh, that's a good question. I never thought of it that way, but yeah, it could be. I mean, it's part of the quest. It wasn't appropriate for the work that I was working on, but it did highlight facts that I needed to know in order to, like you said, let it go.Marty Ross-DolenYeah, I just think that's interesting, because I have material that didn't end up in the book, but I know I couldn't have written the book if I hadn't written that material. It's just… yeah.Jennie NashSo you both talk about having arrived at a place of peace, or you use the word a “gift to yourself,” Marty. It sounds like during the writing of these books it didn't feel like that… it feels like that now. So why did you keep going when it was so hard? Marty, what would you say to that?Marty Ross-DolenI think because even though it was hard, I was sensing that it was necessary. I was sensing the value of it, and I had just decided that I was committed to it, and I wasn't going to give up. I just had a sense that once I found myself on the other side, I would be in a place that would have made it all worth it.Jennie NashWhat about you, Rossana?Rossana D'AntonioWell, I mean, for me, there are two things. I mean, people who know me know that once I say I'm going to do something, I cannot let it go. So that's one. But the whole purpose of going down this journey was I needed to know what happened. So not knowing what happened was just not an option. I mean, that was the outcome that I was looking for, and there was fear and pain that I knew I was going to take on. But in order to get there, I needed to go through it. So it was just something inevitable. I just knew what I was getting myself into. And I—you know—bring it on.Jennie NashYeah. So I want to ask about the shaping of the stories. You know, there are so many different shapes a story can take. And Rossana, we heard how you started with one type of book, moved into another. You cut this and that. And Marty, you had this incredible amount of primary source material. How did you make a decision? I mean, there are so many questions we could ask here, but I'm going to just focus on the plane crash as part of this discussion. How did you decide where in the story the crash would come—let's call it the scene of the crash—because it appears in very different places in your books, and in some ways, that colors the tone or form or experience for the reader of that book. So, Marty, how did you make that decision? Because the crash comes quite late in your book, where we actually see it. And it struck me when I was reading your book that that was exactly right for your story, because your mother never spoke about it. You didn't know about it. It wasn't a thing you were playing over in your head, and so the not feeling the crash or knowing about the crash was part of the story of it, in a way. So how did you make that decision??Marty Ross-DolenI will say that the essay that I wrote in 2010 that I described as the foundational essay for the book was largely what part five of my book is. So in many ways, I had written the end of the book. That was the first thing I wrote. And then figuring out where to put what was really the largest challenge. And I ultimately started to realize that I knew that I was coming to the book with the goal of not having the book be about my grandparents' death, but having it be about their life, particularly my grandmother's life. And so I wanted to downplay, even though the details of the accident and my discovering it were critical to the story, I wanted to downplay their death, because that's what I was trying to do for myself, because I had grown up my whole life only knowing their death, and that wasn't what I wanted people to know about myself, my mother, or my grandmother. So that was probably the biggest reason that I decided to put it at the end. And then also I put it at the end because I did want to have some buildup. I sensed some value in the reader getting to know the characters well before finding out what actually happened, and I also wanted it to correlate with my own—as you said—my own discovery of the story, which happened later in my life.Jennie NashWell, then there's this—yeah, there's this cool thing that I thought was really cool that happens in your book, which is your grandparents have this magazine, this business, and they make a decision: “Oh, maybe we should see if we could get this in—was it dentist's offices or, you know, doctors' offices waiting rooms?” And then, you know, they're on this plane to try to get it on newsstands. And we know the incredible success that those ideas went on to have in terms of a business. You know, the seeds that they planted bore incredible fruit. And so that part of the story, I thought, was really beautifully handled as well, because we all know what Highlights was and what it became. And then to find out those were their ideas, and then they died. They were not the ones that saw that through. There's something so powerful about that, that their ideas were so strong. They were so prescient. They were, you know, they created this thing that reverberated—there's that word again—through so many people's lives. I thought that was really a beautiful touch to how you placed that plane crash too.Marty Ross-DolenOh, thank you. That's interesting to think of it from that perspective because, in addition to my not wanting the story to be about my grandparents' deaths solely, it was also not meant to be the story of the history of Highlights. It was meant to be who they were. And, you know, it really is more of a focus on my grandmother in relation to the company, but they saved the company. And there were many times in the 1950s when they were struggling to keep it from bankruptcy and the decision—the sort of… actually, it was an epiphany of a salesperson who came up with the idea of selling through doctors' and dentists' offices. But their decision to implement that happened a couple of years before they died, and that's when they actually started to see the company thrive. So they died when the company was thriving, and they were, just as you said, pursuing more. Because the whole Highlights is a mission-driven company. Our whole goal is to have material that will help children become their best selves. So the more children that it touches, the more successful the mission. And so, yes, I mean, it is part of the story as much as maybe I see it as separate. It's just not separate. But making decisions about how much of one thing, you know, is this book supposed to have? I mean, there were people who wanted me to write the history of Highlights more than I did, for sure. There were people who wanted more airplane accident, for sure. And I wanted more of my grandmother, my mother, and me, so…Jennie NashRight.Marty Ross-DolenYeah, it was a balance.Jennie NashRight. Well, you pulled it off beautifully.Marty Ross-DolenThank you.Jennie NashAnd Rossana, in your book, the plane crash literally starts on page one—or even in the title. How did you…? And I feel like it was maybe always that way. Was it always that way? Was that one thing that never changed?Rossana D'AntonioYeah, I was just going to tell you, the book went through a ton of revisions, but the one thing that remained constant was the opening scene, which was the timeline of the 26 seconds that describe touchdown to impact. And I remember reading that in your class early on, and there was a sense of shock from the reception from the other folks in the class, and I knew that that's how I wanted to start the book. I mean, that's the premise that sets everything in motion. So that was the one constant, and I'm pretty proud of that.Jennie NashYeah. I mean, it's really interesting. So we know from the very beginning what happens. And then you circle back to talk about how you learned of the crash, which is a very dramatic story as well. So how did you hold the tension through the rest of the book? When the reader knows what happened, this is not a mystery, then you have to construct the story in such a way to hold the reader—you know, what else are we going to root for or learn or find out? How did you pull that off? Because you did.Rossana D'AntonioWell, the mystery is, you know, what happened? The mystery—I mean, I talk about how the industry had, continues to have, a tendency to blame one individual, which is the pilot, the last person that touches this very complex system that is the aviation industry. And so I kind of made the industry somewhat of a villain. And this quest for me to seek the truth and hopefully to—you know, I suppose the reader wanted me to be right that the industry was somehow to blame. And so that's how I thread the story, in addition to the fact that, you know, there were facts that kind of reinforced my whole premise, right? I mean, the accident report was never—so the accident happened outside of the country. And so here in the United States, the NTSB will always do an investigation and release the report as public information, as a public document. But outside of the country, the accident investigation—although the NTSB and the FAA participated in it—the lead was the Salvadoran Civil Aviation Authority, and they opted not to make that investigation report public. And so to me, that screamed of a conspiracy. So I thread that into the whole story. And, you know, my family gets the report through indirect means, and I'm able to dive into it, and lo and behold, I discover smoking guns in the report that indicate that the industry lied and covered up. And there were conspiracies, which are not—they're not unique to this one accident. And that's the other thing I do in the book, is I bring in parallel accidents here in the United States that reinforce that the industry is a global industry, and that corporate greed is alive and well in this industry as well.Jennie NashYeah, indeed, your book is revelatory that way. And that leads me to a question I want to ask you both, which I'll start with you, Rossana. Given how hard it was to write the story, and to be in it, and to think about it, and how this plane crash dominated your thinking for so long, what do you think about when you step on a plane? Is it hard for you?Rossana D'AntonioWell, there's a little trepidation. Yes, absolutely. Every time I have to fly, there's a thinking in the back of the mind, right? I think I had a conversation with you, Jennie, where we talked about when I crossed the threshold, whether we like it or not, we are relinquishing all sense of control to those people who are flying the plane and to everybody else in the industry who helps support that pilot and co-pilot, and we have to trust that everyone has done their job. And we've discovered with recent incidents that that isn't always true. So, I mean, there are things that I do. I mean, I try to sit in the exit row. From now on, I will be sitting on 11A, you know? And, you know, I do pay attention to the safety message that the flight attendants do before we depart. I think that's a common courtesy. And by the way, you know, a lot of us feel that we're professional flyers, but we've never been tested under the most dire of conditions in an accident, so we just assume we know what to do. But do we really? And hopefully we'll never be, you know, required to put that knowledge into use. I text my husband, “We're leaving now, taking off,” and then when we land, I tell him that we've landed safe and sound, because there's no guarantee, there's no guarantee that we will make it to our destination. I like to believe—you know, we've been conditioned to believe—that flying is the safest mode of travel, and I believe that, I really do. I don't want to dispel that. I don't want to cause fear. But I do also believe that the industry is under tremendous strain. Those two things can be true at the same time. We can't just say, “I'm not going to travel.” That's just not realistic. And so I choose to trust just like my brother trusted the system when he was alive. I choose to trust the system, and we'll leave it at that.Jennie NashI love that. Marty, what about you?Marty Ross-DolenI find, interestingly, I have a lot more anxiety leading up to flying than actually while I'm flying. In the days before, I can't really focus. Part of it is this feeling of needing to get every little thing in order. And it just sort of takes over in my mind. So the thing that I like the least about flying is the days before I actually do it. And then I have a tradition that I insist that anybody flying with me, that I know personally, also take part in, which is that I kiss the plane, kiss my hand, and place it on the outside of the plane. I think that that's super superstitiously protective. And then I actually feel some relief once I'm in my seat that it's going to move forward. And maybe, maybe part of that is that whatever control I've had up to that point, I can let go. But I do, you know, my husband always says it's safer to fly than drive. And I think that that's true. I'm not a great passenger in a car, for sure, but I'm with Rossana. You trust the system, and you have to live, and you can't choose not to travel or not use a mode of transportation. It's just the way our society and lives are. And I guess I feel grateful and fortunate that we have those options. So, yeah.Jennie NashI love that! Kiss the plane. I might start doing that. I cannot recommend both of these books more. They're so beautiful, they're so different. Reading them together would be incredibly powerful if that's something listeners are inclined to do. But just to remind folks, Marty's book is called Always There, Always Gone. Rossana's book is called 26 Seconds. Thank you both for coming on with each other to talk about this unique connection you have to each other and also your individual books. Can you tell folks where they can go to learn more other than the obvious, go-buy-the-book places? Marty, why don't you go first?Marty Ross-DolenSure. Thank you. All of my information—there's a lot to learn through my website, which is martyrossdolen.com. It's M-A-R-T-Y-R-O-S-S-D-O-L-E-N.com, where there's things to learn about Highlights, there's book club questions, there's Q&A's, just lots of things. There are links to things I've done and all places where you can find the book.Jennie NashWe'll link to that in the show notes. It's just a beautiful book about mothers and daughters and grandmothers and history and our place in it, and grief and life and all of it. It's a beautiful read. And Rossana, where can people find your geeky and soulful book about your beautiful brother, Caesar [Captain Cesare D'Antonio], and his love of flying and this tragedy that unfolded and how you made sense of it? Where can they learn more?Rossana D'AntonioYeah, thank you. So my website is rossanadantonio.com—that's R-O-S-S-A-N-A-D-A-N-T-O-N-I-O.com—and you can find all sorts of information there as well.Jennie NashWell, thank you both for talking to me today.Rossana D'AntonioThank you, Jennie. Thank you, Marty.Marty Ross-DolenThank you, Jennie. Thank you, Rossana. It's been a pleasure.Rossana D'AntonioIt's been fun.Jennie NashAnd for our listeners, keep your butt in the chair and your head in the game.NarratorThe Hashtag AmWriting Podcast is produced by Andrew Perella. Our intro music, aptly titled Unemployed Monday, was written and played by Max Cohen. Andrew and Max were paid for their time and their creative output, because everyone deserves to be paid for their work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

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Marty Ross-Dolen joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation discovering the story while writing, inviting the speculative and magical elements into a narrative, rediscovering lost relatives, advocating for our vision and for our books, scaffolding fragmented forms, being raised by a mother in protracted mourning, incorporating letters, photographs, and erasure poetry, when people tell you what your book is supposed to be, living with an inherited sense of grief, unspoken family pacts, when structure is a surprise, and her new memoir Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for Truth.   Also in this episode:  --being raised in silence around a tragedy -telling 3 stories at once -memoir as erasure   Books mentioned in this episode: -Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas -Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn -Ghostbread by Sonja Livingston -Disconto for My Father by Harrison Kandelaria Fletcher -Fearless Confessions by Sue William SIlverman   Marty Ross-Dolen is a graduate of Wellesley College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a retired child and adolescent psychiatrist. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Prior to her time at VCFA, she participated in graduate-level workshops at The Ohio State University. Her essays have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Redivider, Lilith, Willow Review, and the Brevity Blog, among others. Her essay entitled “Diphtheria” was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays series. She teaches writing and lives in Columbus, Ohio. Connect with Marty: Website: www.martyrossdolen.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martyrossdolen Get the book: https://a.co/d/5HtWU4s https://www.thurberhouse.org/adult-writers-studio – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

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Hello, I'm R.E. Fort, and welcome back to my podcast, and this episode of my Featured Tracks playlist, for April 2025. In this episode or post I thought I would feature 4 new tracks from my newest release Stop Wait and Think. The tracks in this playlist are Stop Wait and Think, Love Won't Go Away, Phoebes Lullaby and Just Remember I'm Always There for You. As always, you can find links to this playlist for YouTube, YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora,Apple Music, or Amazon Music, in this post and on my website at refort.co/playlist. Let's get to the playlist.      As always,Without Music Life Has No Soul.

November 12 2024 Tuesday Week 29 / Your Place In Him He's Always There #findoutwhoyouare My Vision My vision is to teach the world Who They Are In Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior! To Teach them what the Bible says about them and who they have been made to be in the promises of God's Word. This changed my life years ago and completely transformed me from a person full of doubt, fear and unbelief to a strong confident Christian that knows I can do anything through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. And I'm determined to teach the world what God has taught and commissioned me to teach and that is His Word.  That commission takes me to jails and detention centers weekly along with other open doors at many churches and ministries that are wanting to teach these important truths to the world. My podcast goes out 6 days a week to help the people I am ministering to grow in the truths that God has taught me for many years now. This podcast is free to all that want to listen and grow strong in who God has made them to be in Christ Jesus their Lord and Savior. My Prayers For The World Ephesians 1:15-23 NLT  'Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God's people everywhere, I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms. 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On today's show, we chat with 2-time guest, Michael Sweet! Chart-topping rock band STRYPER has announced the upcoming release of their 12th studio album,  When We Were Kings, out September 13th!  The new album drops just as the band embarks on their 40th Anniversary Tour this fall.  Earlier this year, STRYPER released their first acoustic album, featuring stripped-down versions of their classic hits and a new rendition of "Amazing Grace.” The band is also working on a Kickstarter-funded documentary film directed by Chris Atkins, to be released in 2025.  With over 10 million albums sold worldwide, STRYPER is renowned for its distinctive brand of “heavenly metal” and extraordinary crossover success. The group ascended to prominence in the 1980s with Billboard Top 40 hits like “Calling on You,” “Honestly,” and “Always There for You,” and has maintained a global fanbase ever since. STRYPER is the first band to ever have two songs in MTV's Top 10 simultaneously with their hits “Free” and “Honestly.” STRYPER is comprised of original members Michael Sweet (lead vocals, guitar), Robert Sweet (drums), and Oz Fox (guitar), plus the addition of seasoned bassist Perry Richardson stryper.com @stryper @michaelsweetstryper christianmusicguys.com @christianmusicguys

In this episode of Healing & Human Potential, we explore the transformative power of intuition, decision-making, and balancing the energies within us all, integrating both the masculine + feminine. Join us in this powerful conversation about embracing the light and dark while entering each new phase of life and the gifts that come with hitting rock bottom.   Today's guest, Rebecca Campbell, is a bestselling author, podcast host, and spiritual teacher who's been featured in Vogue, Oprah.com, and Psychologies Magazine.   We're coming together to swap stories + unpack the divine feminine and how connecting with this energy can bring more flow and ease into our lives. So whether you're looking to strengthen your intuition, make more empowered decisions, or simply bring more balance into your life, this episode is a must-listen!   ===   EPISODE TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - How to Develop Trust in Your Intuition 7:29 - The Difference Between Fear + Intuition 10:26 - Learning to Follow Your Soul 17:20 - A More Empowered Way to Make Decisions 19:36 - Doing More of What Lights You Up 23:14 - Managing Your Energy 26:42 - The Power of Dance 32:04 - The Support That's Always There for You If You're Feeling Burnout 37:06 - Tapping Into More of Your Feminine Energy 43:25 - Finding More Balance In Your Life 46:39 - The Beauty in the Challenging Times   === Rebecca Campbell is a world renowned writer, teacher and oracle card creator. She is the bestselling author of Your Soul Had A Dream Your Life Is It, Rise Sister Rise and Light Is The New Black. She is a prolific creative and her beautiful oracle cards are adored by people all over the world.   http://www.rebeccacampbell.me and www.yoursoulhadadream.com Instagram: @rebeccacampbell_author YouTube: @rebeccacampbell FB: @rebeccacampbell_author     ===   Have you watched our previous episode with Byron Katie?   Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RIlGA3_LhNU?si=oivBCQu0vR-KOn9h   ====   Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved.   === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495

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In today's 10th episode, Jason welcomes Cass Sunstein, author of "LOOK AGAIN: The Power of Noticing What was Always There," They discuss the concept of habituation and its effects on our perception of stimuli, including the importance of gratitude and the need to dishabituate to maintain a balanced perspective. They also explored the evolutionary significance of the human brain's filtering mechanism and its role in lying, with Cass explaining how the brain becomes desensitized to repeated lying. Lastly, they used the midlife crisis as a metaphor for the loss of color in one's perception of life and suggested that taking breaks can help prevent this. #habituation #happinesshacks #dishabituation #brainhealth #attentiontraining #perception #cognitivebias #criticalthinking #fakenews #neuroplasticity #rewireyourbrain #cassunstein Key Takeaways: 2:24 Habituations, hedonic adjustments and gratitude 5:49 Keeping us grateful for what we have 8:29 Survival mechanism 10:01 Reticular activating system and the amygdala 13:46 Illusory truth effect 16:46  Midlife crisis  19:00 Seeing more "colors" in life 21:15 Vacation: 43 hours in is the high point   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com  

In today's 10th episode, Jason welcomes Cass Sunstein, author of "LOOK AGAIN: The Power of Noticing What was Always There," They discuss the concept of habituation and its effects on our perception of stimuli, including the importance of gratitude and the need to dishabituate to maintain a balanced perspective. They also explored the evolutionary significance of the human brain's filtering mechanism and its role in lying, with Cass explaining how the brain becomes desensitized to repeated lying. Lastly, they used the midlife crisis as a metaphor for the loss of color in one's perception of life and suggested that taking breaks can help prevent this. #habituation #happinesshacks #dishabituation #brainhealth #attentiontraining #perception #cognitivebias #criticalthinking #fakenews #neuroplasticity #rewireyourbrain #cassunstein Key Takeaways:  1:00 Habituations, hedonic adjustments and gratitude 4:41 Keeping us grateful for what we have 7:08  Survival mechanism 9:13 Reticular activating system and the amygdala 12:30 Illusory truth effect 15:24  Midlife crisis  18:12 Seeing more "colors" in life 20:00 Vacation: 43 hours in is the high point   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com  

God is Always There for You. Notes: 1. Everyone faces a time when you question God…and what you think He's not doing. o Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV) 2. No matter what we or the world goes through – the people of God have an awesome promise that God is ALWAYS THERE for us. o Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV) o Matthew 28:20 (AMP) o Matthew 3:11 (NKJV) o John 1:29 (NKJV) o Luke 4:18 (NKJV) o Matthew 11:2-5 (NKJV) 3. Jesus pointed to what HE was and is doing. o Matthew 11:6 (NKJV) Need Prayer? Send your prayer requests to: journeychurcheva.com/prayer To give to Journey: journeychurcheva.com/give

In this moment, neuroscientist, Professor Tali Sharot, discusses why happiness is not the most important thing in life, and actually it is just 1 of 3 critical factors for a complete life. Most people think that the meaning of life for humans is to try and find the maximum amount of happiness, however this just factor one. Tali says that the second factor is meaning. Often in your life you do a task not because it will give you happiness but because it gives you a sense of completeness that comes from meaning. Finally, Tali says that we need what is called a ‘psychological rich life', which is basically a varied life. She says that this diversity in life is absolutely crucial as humans have evolved to have a desire to explore and face uncertainty. Listen to the full episode here - Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link/UxbjZ8pxAHb Spotify - https://g2ul0.app.link/gfyuxwlxAHb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Tali: https://affectivebrain.com/?page_id=161 You can pre-order Dr. Sharot's new book, ‘Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There', here: https://amzn.to/3SEbVp5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We had the pleasure of interviewing Hunter Metts over Zoom video!Hunter recently released his new single, "Somehow You're Always There", via Position Music. It will be featured on his upcoming album, out this year.Hunter says on the track, "I was able to pour my heart into ‘Somehow You're Always There', finding therapy in crafting a tribute to my best friend's mom lost to the Covid 19 pandemic. The song became a canvas for my grief, and tells the journey of losing a loved one through memories and emotions. Each note and lyric carried the weight of loss, yet the act of creating offered solace, allowing me to navigate the pain and cherish the enduring connection in the midst of loss."Growing up in a musical family, Hunter Metts began playing the piano at a young age, and eventually started playing guitar and writing his own songs. He produces solely out of a spare room and has a close circle of creators that help with the projects. Hunter's music is characterized by his soulful and emotive vocals, heartfelt lyrics, and acoustic guitar-driven melodies. He cites artists such as Paper Kites, Bon Iver, and Novo Amor as key musical inspirations.Hunter has released several songs independently, including “Nothing to Lose” and “Paper Moon,” which showcase his ability to blend personal storytelling with catchy melodies. Some of his notable collaborations include Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Henry Brill, Tristan Bushman, Chandler Leighton, Dave Thomas Jr, Caleb Hearn, Cody Lovaas, Luke Niccoli, Jonah Kagen, and more.We want to hear from you! Please email Hello@BringinitBackwards.comwww.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #HunterMetts #NewMusic #ZoomListen & Subscribe to BiBhttps://www.bringinitbackwards.com/followFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringinbackpod

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CLAN OF XYMOX "7th Time" from Clan Of Xymox 1985THE FACT "Into Your Heart" from Always There 12" 1986KILLING JOKE "Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)" from Fire Dances 1983PINK TURNS BLUE "When the Hammer Comes Down" from If Two Worlds Kiss 1987WIRE "It's a Boy" from A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck 1988NEW ORDER "Procession" from Singles 1981DEPARTMENT S "Is Vic There?" from Substance 1981HUMAN LEAGUE "I'm Coming Back" from Hysteria 1984YAZ "Too Pieces" from Upstairs at Eric's 1982ALTERED IMAGES "Another Lost Look" from Bite 1983INDUSTRY "State of the Nation" from Stranger to Stranger 1983A DROP IN THE GRAY "All the Same" from Certain Sculptures 1984ICEHOUSE "Stay Close Tonight" from Sidewalk 1984BLANCMANGE "Lose Your Love" from Believe You Me 1985DOUBTS EVEN HERE "Like The Wind" from Single 1989THE CONNELLS "Darker Days" from Darker Days 1985TOAD THE WET SPROCKET "Way Away" from Bread and Circus 1989R.E.M. "Fireplace" from Document 1987DRIVIN N CRYIN "Honeysuckle Blue" from Mystery Road 1989THE WINDEBREAKERS "Run" from Run 1986FIRE TOWN "Where the Shadows Fall" from The Good Life 1989THE WINTER HOURS "Say The Word" from 12" Single 1988SOMETHING HAPPENS "Burn Clear" from Been There, Seen That, Done That 1988RHYTHM CORPS "I Surrender" from Common Ground 1988MIDNIGHT OIL "Sell My Soul" from Diesel and Dust 1987HUNTERS & COLLECTORS "Dog" from Human Frailty 1986SPLIT ENZ "Six Months In a Leaky Boat" from Time and Tide 1982

Colabora Con Biblioteca Del Metal: En Twitter - https://twitter.com/Anarkometal72 Y Donanos Unas Propinas En BAT. Para Seguir Con El Proyecto De la Biblioteca Mas Grande Del Metal. Muchisimas Gracias. La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Stryper es una banda estadounidense de heavy metal basado en una temática cristiana, originaria del Condado de Orange (California), Estados Unidos. Los miembros Originales son: Michael Sweet (vocalista y guitarrista, 4 de julio de 1963, Whittier, California), su hermano Robert Sweet (baterista, 21 de marzo de 1960, Lynwood, California), Oz Fox (Richard Alfonso Martínez, guitarrista, 18 de junio de 1961, Whittier, California) y Timothy "Tim" Gaines (bajista, 15 de diciembre de 1962. Portland, Oregon). Durante el año 2017 Timothy fue expulsado de la banda, siendo reemplazado por el reconocido exbajista de la banda de Hard Rock Firehouse, Perry Richardson. En 2004, Gaines (el miembro más inconsistente de los cuatro) abandonó temporalmente el grupo y fue reemplazado por Tracy Ferrie, hasta su regreso en 2009. Formada en 1983 como Roxx Regime, pronto cambiarían su mensaje y nombre a Stryper para convertirse en la primera banda de rock cristiana en ser reconocida en los listados de mainstream,​ siendo con mucho, la más exitosa del género musical conocido como "metal cristiano". En 1983 firmaron un contrato con Enigma Records y lanzaron su primer EP, titulado The Yellow And Black Attack, en una clara referencia a los colores que los identificaron durante los 80´s. A mediados de esa década. Stryper vivió su período más exitoso, particularmente con el aclamado disco To Hell with the Devil (el clímax de la popularidad de la banda), el cual alcanzó la certificación de Disco de Platino de acuerdo a sus elevadas ventas. Stryper lograría dos álbumes más con el estatus de disco de oro antes de su ruptura en 1992. En 2003 Stryper regresó de su retiro para una gira de reunión y subsecuentemente firmó un contrato de varios álbumes con la etiqueta Big3 Records en 2005. Los tres discos publicados con esta productora tuvieron un éxito muy discreto. El nombre de "Stryper" deriva de una versión de la Biblia del Rey Jacobo.​ que dice textualmente "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (“Pero él fue herido por nuestras transgresiones, él fue herido por nuestras iniquidades; el castigo de nuestra paz fue sobre él; y con sus llagas fuimos curados”)​ De esto se deduce que la palabra “stripe” (“llaga”) fue convertida en “strype” (“raya”), en un juego de palabras en inglés como una mención a sus dos típicos colores en rayas en su logo y vestimenta. Para hacer aún más significativo el nombre, el baterista Robert Sweet también creó un retroacrónimo por el nombre de Stryper: "Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness" ("Salvación a Través de la Redención Cosechando Paz, Aliento y Rectitud").​ La referencia Isaiah 53:5 (Isaías 53:5), es frecuentemente incluida como parte de su logo. Ambos tocaron en una banda llamada Parliament y Kirkadelic, las cuales recibieron elogios de la crítica de la comunidad roquera del sur de California, hasta que su cantante Clayton Kirk disolvió la agrupación. Los hermanos regresaron a su iglesia bautista después de que su amigo Kenny Metcalf (quien más tarde sería el tecladista original no acreditado de Stryper) los persuadió de hacerlo.​​Inspirados en bandas como Van Halen, pero angustiados con su mensaje, ellos trataron de formar una que exaltara su visión del mundo y creencias.​ Stryper originalmente fue conocida como Roxx Regime, con Michael Sweet en las voces y guitarra rítmica, Robert Sweet en la batería, así como Richard Alfonso Martínez (conocido como Oz Fox, un amigo en común) en la guitarra principal.​ Antes de Fox una buena cantidad de guitarristas acompañaron a la agrupación, entre los que se cuentan C.C. DeVille de Poison. El nombre definitivo de "Stryper" fue adoptado cuando el bajista Tim Gaines se les unió, y fue tomado del pasaje bíblico de Isaías 53:5 "by his stripes we are healed." (“por sus llagas fuimos curados”). Por lo tanto, es un juego de palabras en inglés, al utilizar “stripe” (“llaga”) con “strype” (“raya”) en referencia a sus típicos colores en el logo y vestimenta. En un corto plazo, lanzaron su EP debut titulado EP The Yellow and Black Attack, el 21 de julio de 1984. Durante este período, Stryper abrió conciertos de Ratt y Bon Jovi, lo que ocasionó que algunos fanes y críticos señalaran que en realidad la banda no era verdaderamente cristiana. El primer disco LP fue llamado Soldiers Under Command, lanzado el 15 de mayo de 1985, y se convirtió en el primer disco de oro para Stryper, vendiendo más de medio millón de copias, algo insólito para una agrupación con un mensaje abiertamente cristiano. Aprovechando este éxito inesperado y en atención a la extremadamente limitada distribución de su EP debut (menos de 20 000 copias) su sello discográfico, Enigma Records, relanzó The Yellow and Black Attack el 10 de agosto de 1986 con dos nuevas canciones y una nueva cubierta. Sin embargo, el mayor éxito llegó con su tercer álbum, To Hell with the Devil, el cual vio la luz el 24 de octubre de 1986 y fue su único disco de platino después de permanecer tres meses en las listas de Billboard.​ Eventualmente, vendió más de dos millones de copias, cifra abrumadoramente superior a la de sus dos trabajos previos. En adición a su trabajo más reconocido, fue la primera vez en música cristiana y en un álbum de metal cristiano en lograr esta hazaña.​ "Calling on You", "Free" y "Honestly" fueron muy populares como hits de MTV en 1987, a pesar de ser vídeos sumamente sencillos e incluso similares. Incluso, "Free" y "Honestly" fueron las más solicitadas en ese canal, este hecho los convirtió en la primera banda cristiana en tener cualquier tipo de difusión en MTV.​ "Honestly" es la canción más conocida del grupo y alcanzó un notable nº23 en los listados de Top 40 de Billboard.​ El álbum fue nominado a los Premios Grammy en 1987. In 2010, HM Magazine colocó a To Hell with the Devil en el puesto n.º 3 en su Top 100 de los Álbumes de Rock Cristiano de Todos los Tiempos, y afirmó "cuando este álbum irrumpió, fue multi-platino, y marcó para siempre la ampliación del límite de lo que la música "heavy" cristiana podría hacer”.."​ Heaven's Metal fanzine la ubicó en el n.º 6 en su Top 100 de álbumes de Metal Cristiano de todos los tiempos en su lista.​ A pesar del éxito y el reconocimiento internacional previo, el bajista Tim Gaines decidió no participar en la grabación de este álbum, y por un período de tiempo fue reemplazado por otro bajista, Matt Hurich. Hurich no permaneció más que un mes, a pesar de que estaba equipado con su instrumento y una vestimenta personal apropiada, la cual fue desechada por el propio Gaines por ser demasiado pequeña. Finalmente, Brad Cobb tocó el bajo en este aclamado disco aunque no le causó mayor éxito en su carrera profesional ni fue debidamente acreditado.​ Esto fue motivado porque Gaines decidió reincorporarse cuando se realizaron las fotos promocionales justo cuando el álbum estaba listo para salir, y participó en la exitosa gira que siguió entre 1986-1987. En 1987, en la cúspide de su fama, Stryper participó como espectáculo principal en el Dynamo Open Air Festival en los Países Bajos.​ En ese lugar se tomó una foto promocional en la que se aprecia Matt Hurich. Luego de su breve paso, Matt formó parte de la banda Leatherwolf. En 1989 él participó con el grupo Divine Right quienes presentaban a Kevin Brandow (Petra) como vocalista y guitarrista. En 1986 Brent Jeffers reemplazó a Kenny Metcalf en los teclados y fue incluido en la gira de conciertos de Stryper hasta 1990. El siguiente álbum, In God We Trust, fue publicado el 28 de junio de 1988, y buscó seguir el mismo camino de sucesor al usar una fórmula de sonido algo similar. A pesar de que no fue recibido con el mismo entusiasmo, se convirtió en su segundo disco de oro y la canción "Always There for You", brevemente entró en los nivelas más bajos de los listados de pop al alcanzar el #71, a pesar de que fue otro éxito masivo en MTV. Sin embargo, el disco tuvo una orientación aún más pop que la de sus trabajos anteriores.​ y un buen número de críticos, incluyendo los propios fanes, criticaron las canciones por ser demasiado comerciales y sobreproducidas. En consecuencia, la imagen del grupo se movió más de cerca al estilo glam metal de la época, dando a sus fanes más motivos para criticarlos. Estos factores se tradujeron en ventas comparativamente más bajas, y el álbum solo estuvo 5 semanas en los listados de Billboard.​ El segundo sencillo y vídeo "I Believe in You" alcanzó un discreto nº88 y el tercer sencillo "Keep the Fire Burning" falló en la lista del todo. Al igual que el álbum anterior, Tim Gaines no participó en la grabación y una vez más Brad Cobb tocó el bajo. Gaines regresó para otra gira mundial de conciertos. In God We Trust también ganó dos Gospel Music Association Dove Awards por "Hard Music Album" y "Hard Music Song" por la canción que da título.​ El 21 de agosto de 1990, Stryper lanzó su controversial álbum Against the Law, el cual marcó un cambio radical y drástico en la imagen del grupo y en su mensaje lírico.​ Mientras sus anteriores discos utilizaron los característicos colores amarillo y negro en las portadas y las letras invocaban a Dios y la salvación, en este material se presentó a la banda con ropa de cuero negro y sin siquiera una mención a la palabra "Dios" del todo.​ El sonido que presentaron fue también más pesado y más cercano al metal clásico.​ El baterista Robert Sweet dijo que el cambio de imagen y sonido fue en respuesta a las críticas a su álbum previo y en atención a dejar atrás su imagen glam metal, que para entonces se estaba volviendo poco vigente. Sin embargo, los fanes originales clamaron que volvieran a sus raíces y el álbum se vendió pobremente. Esto fue parcialmente debido a rumores en la prensa (tanto de tipo mainstream como cristiana) que la música de Stryper fue tendiendo hacia un sonido más convencional debido a que su fe cristiana se fue debilitando.​​Entre sus aparentes inconsistencias, los fanes se preguntaron porqué hicieron una versión de la canción de 1975 "Shining Star", un hit #1 de Earth Wind & Fire. El vídeo fue previsto para convertirse en otro éxito en MTV, pero fue el primero para el grupo que no lo logró. Los siguientes vídeos y sencillos fueron "Two Time Woman" y "Lady" (ambos con un concepto visual muy similar), los cuales generaron una difusión mínima. Sin embargo, muchos críticos todavía consideran a Against the Law como su mejor producción musical a la fecha. El 20 de julio de 1991, después de firmar para Hollywood Records, Stryper lanzó su primera colección de grandes éxitos llamada Can't Stop the Rock, la cual presentaba dos nuevas canciones. Una de ellas fue inspirada en la Guerra del Golfo que se desarrollaba en esa época, "Believe". La banda continuó con un tour hasta febrero de 1992, cuando su líder y cantante Michael Sweet se marchó aludiendo diferencias artísticas y con la finalidad de empezar una carrera en solitario.​ Stryper continuó como un trío por algunas fechas en su tour europeo, con Oz Fox como su cantante. Algunas de sus presentaciones fueron con la banda cristiana Bride donde se encontraba Dale Thompson como su cantante. Durante uno de esos conciertos Robert Sweet inesperadamente anunció que Thompson sería su nuevo vocalista en Stryper. Sin embargo, esto fue desmentido más tarde por el propio cantante. Una vez que terminaron el tour y regresaron a Estados Unidos, los tres miembros restantes decidieron que cada uno debía seguir caminos separados. Sin lugar a dudas, y como un efecto adicional, el estilo glam metal que representaba el grupo estaba en franca decadencia y la disposición musical iba hacia agrupaciones de rock alternativo y grunge. Muchas agrupaciones del género debieron evolucionar y otras desaparecieron, entre ellas Stryper. Oz Fox y Tim Gaines formaron su propia banda SinDizzy, y lanzaron el álbum He's Not Dead en 1998. Durante los 90´s, Michael Sweet lanzó un total de cuatro discos en solitario que fueron grandes éxitos en el Mercado de la música cristiana. Robert Sweet tocó en algunas bandas, una de ellas Blissed, quienes publicaron un álbum en 2002. Otras agrupaciones incluyeron King James, dbeality, Final Axe, y The Seventh Power. Los miembros originales de Stryper se reunieron por primera vez en 1999, cuando Michael Sweet y SinDizzy fueron invitados a tocar en un festival de rock veraniego en Puerto Rico. Como una participación adicional, Michael Sweet invitó a sus antiguos compañeros Oz Fox y Tim Gaines al escenario y tocaron algunas canciones de Stryper. Más tarde en 2000, se realiza la primera "Stryper Expo" que tuvo lugar en New Jersey, y fue la primera vez en ocho años que estuvieron juntos el equipo completo de Stryper en un escenario . Una segunda "Stryper Expo" se llevó a cabo en Los Angeles en el 2001.[5] Como parte de su regreso paulatino a los escenarios, la banda actuó por primera vez en Centroamérica, con un único concierto ofrecido en Costa Rica en diciembre de 2000. El concierto para sus seguidores fue histórico, pues se trató de la primera presentación del cuarteto original tras casi nueve años de separación.​ Posteriormente, se efectuó un segundo "Stryper Expo" en Los Ángeles en 2001.​Hollywood Records sugirió a los miembros del grupo que grabaran las pistas para un nuevo álbum recopilatorio de éxitos en 2003, el cual vio la luz con el nombre de 7: The Best of Stryper que también tenía dos nuevas canciones, "Something" y "For You". Un tour lo siguió como promoción, con 36 shows en Estados Unidos y finalizó en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Un álbum en vivo, titulado 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003, fue lanzado al siguiente año, y el concierto en Puerto Rico fue filmado en formado de DVD, producido y dirigido por Jack Edward Sawyers. No obstante, el show en esa ciudad fue el último con la alineación original de Stryper por algunos años. Gaines se marchó una vez más en 2004 antes de que actuaran en el Night of Joy de Disney, en Orlando. El bajista de gira durante la carrera de Michael en solitario, Tracy Ferrie, lo reemplazó por algunos años. Después del show de "Night of Joy" y con nuevas energías, Stryper decidió retornar al estudio con la grabación de un nuevo CD, Reborn y una gira subsiguiente en el otoño de 2004. Reborn fue lanzado el 16 de agosto de 2005, y fue la primera grabación con material original y nuevo tras largos 15 años. El nuevo álbum recibió una respuesta positiva de fanes y críticos, y algunos de ellos lo calificaron como uno de los mejores de ese año.​ Con un sonido decididamente más moderno incorporó aspectos del rock alternativo y grunge, con pocos solos de guitarra, lo que le dio a la banda el estilo e identidad que trataron de buscar. Algunos temas se hacen familiares al sonido de las grabaciones en solitario de Michael. En efecto, él originalmente concibió a Reborn como un proyecto para relanzar su carrera en solitario.​ Las letras marcan un retorno a la lírica clásica del grupo que habla de Dios y la salvación. En general, el sonido de este disco es más contemporáneo comparado con sus anteriores trabajos y más pesado, con algunas influencias de nu metal.​ También se ha citado como más maduro que su material previo, “menos glam y más sentimiento” de acuerdo a algunas publicaciones. Este fue el primero y el único trabajo con el nuevo bajista Tracy Ferrie. Reborn también fue único por la curiosa variedad del arte de su cubierta, que variaba de acuerdo al formato y región donde se distribuyó. Esta alternancia con respesto a la original de Estados Unidos fue creada por algunos puntos de distribución (como tiendas cristianas) donde se consideró que su cubierta original había sido percibida como muy perturbadora y ofensiva. En 2006. Stryper lanzó el DVD Greatest Hits: Live in Puerto Rico con Music Video Distributors. En noviembre de 2006, anunciaron una nueva dirección administrativa. También anunciaron que el siguiente material a Reborn estaría listo entre la primera/verano de 2007. Sin embargo, en febrero se indicó que Michael Sweet retrasaría la producción de un nuevo álbum por dos años antes de que comenzaran la grabación por motivos personales. La esposa del cantante Kyle fue diagnosticada con una estadificación avanzada de un cáncer de ovarios, y decidió permanecer con ella y apoyarla en su enfermedad. Kyle se sometió a una cirugía y tratamientos el 14 de febrero al 14 de julio de ese año. A pesar de resultados inicialmente satisfactorios, en abril de 2008, anunció que su cáncer había regresado. A pesar de estos problemas familiares, la mezcla para el nuevo álbum de Stryper empezó en enero de 2008, y Sweet dijo que debería estar listo entre julio o agosto.​ Durante este periodo, Michael Sweet fue consultado para participar como un miembro de gira del grupo Boston en 2007 como vocalista y guitarrista, a lo que accedió. Estuvo con ellos durante el tour en 2008, junto con Styx como el acto de apertura. El 5 de marzo de 2009, la esposa de Michael Sweet finalmente murió de cáncer.​ Murder by Pride fue lanzado el 21 de julio de 2009, con el sencillo principal "Peace of Mind" (una versión de Boston), precediéndolo. El álbum alcanzó un relativamente aceptable #73 en el Billboard 200, el #32 en los Rock Albums y el #2 entre los álbumes cristianos. Estilísticamente, Michael Sweet ha comentado, que "después de años de hablar con los fans y escuchar los comentarios como 'más guitarras´, `más solos´y `más gritos he decidido mantener estas sugerencias en mente y así escribí cada canción. Fue importante para mí para tratar de volver al sonido de principios de Stryper pero al mismo tiempo, permanecer relevante en la actualidad. Es cierto que no es una cosa fácil de hacer, pero cuando escucho `Murder by Pride´, creo que se logró”.​​ En adición a que todavía tocaba con Stryper, Oz Fox también fue parte de la banda de metal cristiano Bloodgood, quien también fue uno de los favoritos a inicios de los 80´s en la escena de su género. Desde finales de 2008, Tim Gaines tocó el bajo en un concierto con Tourniquet. Este grupo agregó el tema "To Hell With The Devil" en su repertorio gracias a la sugerencia de Tim. Recientemente, Oz Fox también se unió a Tourniquet en el escenario en una presentación en Alemania para interpretar la misma canción. En setiembre de 2009, Stryper anunció que saldrían de gira con la banda del hijo de Michael Sweet Flight Patterns y el grupo canadiense Manic Drive. El 13 de julio de 2010, anunciaron que el noveno disco de Stryper se llamó The Covering. Aunque tentativamente se lanzaría el 13 de octubre, su fecha final de salida fue el 15 de febrero de 2011 bajo la etiqueta Big3 Records/Sony. Contrario a lo que había publicado anteriormente la agrupación, este álbum no tuvo material completamente original e inusualmente tampoco es de corte cristiano. Es una colección de doce versiones de canciones de bandas que inspiraron a Stryper y la ayudaron a definir su identidad musical, incluyendo a Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Kansas y muchos otros. The Covering también incluyó "God", una grabación inédia y original. Sobre el concepto de este trabajo musical, el productor y líder de la banda Michael Sweet dio sus razones: "A pesar de que este ha sido un disco para causar controversia y unos pocos se harán la pregunta sobre nuestros motivos y razones para hacer covers de las canciones que grabamos, nuestra fe y las creencias nunca se han confirmado más y nuestro mensaje es el mismo que siempre ha sido. Vamos a ir a la tumba con una postura valiente ante Cristo y nunca lo vamos a negar. Al mismo tiempo, queríamos mostrar un lado diferente de la banda...".​El 14 de septiembre de 2010, se lanzó el primer sencillo del álbum, una versión de Black Sabbath, el éxito "Heaven and Hell" (1980), disponible para descargar por iTunes. Para el 14 de diciembre de 2010, el segundo sencillo lanzado es una versión de Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son" (1976), de igual forma disponible en el mismo sitio. Luego de lanzar The Covering y su posterior gira, Stryper entró a los estudios para grabar un nuevo disco con la etiqueta italiana Frontiers Records, el cual se llamó Second Coming​(en referencia a la segunda venida del Señor) y que salió a la venta el 22 de marzo de 2013 en Europa y el 16 de marzo en América. El disco contiene 16 canciones, de las cuales 14 son clásicos extraídos de The Yellow and Black Attack, Soldiers Under Command y To Hell with the Devil y solo 2 son canciones nuevas, tituladas "Bleeding From Inside Out" y "Blackened". También hay una versión alterrntica de "Together As One" como bonus track para Japón. En forma simultánea, Stryper también trabajó en un álbum compuesto por completo con material inédito. En mayo de 2013, se reveló que el nombre de su siguiente álbum se llama No More Hell to Pay, lanzado el 5 de noviembre del mismo año a través de Frontiers Records, junto con un vídeo de la canción del mismo nombre.​ Michael Sweet, por su lado, terminó su autobiografía "HONESTLY" y la lanzará junto con su nuevo disco este año. Durante el año 2015 lanzan el álbum Fallen, el cual sería el último album con la formación original, ya que a finales del 2017 se oficializa que Tim Gaines deja la banda, siendo reemplazado por el reconocido bajista norteamericano Perry Richardson. El año 2018 lanzan el álbum "God Damn Evil" el cual ha recibido muy buenas críticas debido a su sonido bastante "heavy" y acercandose incluso en algunos temas al Thrash metal. Durante los 80´s Stryper representó el popular estilo glam metal con el que caracterizaron ampliamente sus interpretaciones visuales, solos de dos guitarras consecutivas, con una gran presencia de Michael Sweet y sus fuertes y agudos gritos y el cabello largo de los cuatro miembros. Una marca registrada (y única) es la ubicación del baterista Robert Sweet con su enorme conjunto de instrumentos en posición de lado durante los conciertos, con la finalidad de los espectadores lo puedan apreciar mejor. Este hecho ha propiciado que a Robert se le llame a menudo como un “cronometrador visual” más que un baterista,​ en alusión a que sus compañeros lo pueden observar previamente para coordinar la interpretación. Un elemento característico fue que todos sus instrumentos, logos y trajes fueron pintados con unas rayas amarillas y negras. El número de rayas en los escenarios y trajes variaban y se incrementaban durante el show. Es notable que durante la gira In God We Trust, Robert Sweet también cambiaba hasta su batería pintada en amarillo y negro. La banda explicó cierto simbolismo con respecto a las rayas, una directa referencia al latigazo cervical dado por Poncio Pilato a Jesús, derivado de la versión de la Biblia del Rey Jacobo, tomado de su versículo Isaías 53:5.​ Aparte de sus ubicuas rayas amarillas y negras, Stryper tuvo otras marcas registradas. Durante sus conciertos, lanzaba Biblias al auditorio – específicamente ediciones del Nuevo Testamento con el logo de la banda impreso en ellos. Como una protesta contra el popular símbolo del “666” del que se hacían uso muchos fanes del heavy metal, Robert propuso una alternativa numerológica. En consecuencia, el grupo empezó a utilizar el símbolo “777” que es actualmente referenciado por la Biblia (en oposición al 666, famosamente mencionado en Libro de las Revelaciones como el Número de la Bestia). El número 7 es tradicionalmente (en el simbolismo bíblico) asociado con la perfección divina. Algunos de los actos de Stryper incluyeron cruces tachadas como símbolo del “diablo” y “666” Los Angeles Times reportó en 1985 que “la banda obtuvo ovaciones entusiastas de fans de Twisted Sister gritando y levantando sólo uno de sus dedos al cielo, - una refutación del dedo doble de los `cuernos del diablo´, saludo de los muchos grupos de metal”. ".​ Stryper es reconocida como la primera banda de heavy metal abiertamente cristiana en ganar reconocimiento en el mundo de la música mainstream.​ Sin embargo, no ha estado libre de controversia. Muchos críticos cristianos no aprobaron la asociación del grupo con la subcultura heavy metal, lo cual es a menudo visto asociado con la imaginería satánica.​ Otros detractores cristianos vieron sus llamativas vestimentas como incongruente con la modestia en el vestir asociadas con los sinceros practicantes de la devota cristiandad.​ El tele evangelista Jimmy Swaggart fue un prominente crítico de Stryper, al aludir su práctica de arrojar biblias con el Nuevo Testamento al público, una práctica similar a “arrojar perlas a los cerdos”.​ En 1990, la revista Rolling Stone comentó que la banda empezó a desilusionarse con la música cristiana,​ y de ahí el rumbo algo errático en su dirección musical que siguió en lo sucesivo. Esto, combinado con un notable cambio en las letras de sus canciones en Against the Law, hizo que este material fuera prohibido en muchos establecimientos cristianos. Mientras tanto, The Benson Company, un mercado de artículos cristianos, retiró este disco de la distribución.​ La condena de Swaggart podría haber sido una sorpresa, no obstante, Stryper fue patrocinado por el ministerio de su rival Jim Bakker, quien estuvo agradecido con algunos álbumes de la banda. Stryper ha vendido más de 10 millones de copias alrededor del mundo,​ y se estima que dos tercios de sus discos fueron comprados por no cristianos.​ Ian Christe, autor del libro de historia Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, menciona que el álbum To Hell with the Devil en su libro como uno de los puntos de referencia del movimiento glam metal.​La canción To Hell with the Devil aparece en el lanzamiento de Rhino Records The Heavy Metal Box, una compilación de los mayores clásicos de metal secular con bandas como Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, y Metallica, así como otras menos influyentes como Twisted Sister y Poison. Pagina Oficial: https://stryper.com/

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Colabora Con Biblioteca Del Metal: En Twitter - https://twitter.com/Anarkometal72 Y Donanos Unas Propinas En BAT. Para Seguir Con El Proyecto De la Biblioteca Mas Grande Del Metal. Muchisimas Gracias. La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Stryper es una banda estadounidense de heavy metal basado en una temática cristiana, originaria del Condado de Orange (California), Estados Unidos. Los miembros Originales son: Michael Sweet (vocalista y guitarrista, 4 de julio de 1963, Whittier, California), su hermano Robert Sweet (baterista, 21 de marzo de 1960, Lynwood, California), Oz Fox (Richard Alfonso Martínez, guitarrista, 18 de junio de 1961, Whittier, California) y Timothy "Tim" Gaines (bajista, 15 de diciembre de 1962. Portland, Oregon). Durante el año 2017 Timothy fue expulsado de la banda, siendo reemplazado por el reconocido exbajista de la banda de Hard Rock Firehouse, Perry Richardson. En 2004, Gaines (el miembro más inconsistente de los cuatro) abandonó temporalmente el grupo y fue reemplazado por Tracy Ferrie, hasta su regreso en 2009. Formada en 1983 como Roxx Regime, pronto cambiarían su mensaje y nombre a Stryper para convertirse en la primera banda de rock cristiana en ser reconocida en los listados de mainstream,​ siendo con mucho, la más exitosa del género musical conocido como "metal cristiano". En 1983 firmaron un contrato con Enigma Records y lanzaron su primer EP, titulado The Yellow And Black Attack, en una clara referencia a los colores que los identificaron durante los 80´s. A mediados de esa década. Stryper vivió su período más exitoso, particularmente con el aclamado disco To Hell with the Devil (el clímax de la popularidad de la banda), el cual alcanzó la certificación de Disco de Platino de acuerdo a sus elevadas ventas. Stryper lograría dos álbumes más con el estatus de disco de oro antes de su ruptura en 1992. En 2003 Stryper regresó de su retiro para una gira de reunión y subsecuentemente firmó un contrato de varios álbumes con la etiqueta Big3 Records en 2005. Los tres discos publicados con esta productora tuvieron un éxito muy discreto. El nombre de "Stryper" deriva de una versión de la Biblia del Rey Jacobo.​ que dice textualmente "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (“Pero él fue herido por nuestras transgresiones, él fue herido por nuestras iniquidades; el castigo de nuestra paz fue sobre él; y con sus llagas fuimos curados”)​ De esto se deduce que la palabra “stripe” (“llaga”) fue convertida en “strype” (“raya”), en un juego de palabras en inglés como una mención a sus dos típicos colores en rayas en su logo y vestimenta. Para hacer aún más significativo el nombre, el baterista Robert Sweet también creó un retroacrónimo por el nombre de Stryper: "Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness" ("Salvación a Través de la Redención Cosechando Paz, Aliento y Rectitud").​ La referencia Isaiah 53:5 (Isaías 53:5), es frecuentemente incluida como parte de su logo. Ambos tocaron en una banda llamada Parliament y Kirkadelic, las cuales recibieron elogios de la crítica de la comunidad roquera del sur de California, hasta que su cantante Clayton Kirk disolvió la agrupación. Los hermanos regresaron a su iglesia bautista después de que su amigo Kenny Metcalf (quien más tarde sería el tecladista original no acreditado de Stryper) los persuadió de hacerlo.​​Inspirados en bandas como Van Halen, pero angustiados con su mensaje, ellos trataron de formar una que exaltara su visión del mundo y creencias.​ Stryper originalmente fue conocida como Roxx Regime, con Michael Sweet en las voces y guitarra rítmica, Robert Sweet en la batería, así como Richard Alfonso Martínez (conocido como Oz Fox, un amigo en común) en la guitarra principal.​ Antes de Fox una buena cantidad de guitarristas acompañaron a la agrupación, entre los que se cuentan C.C. DeVille de Poison. El nombre definitivo de "Stryper" fue adoptado cuando el bajista Tim Gaines se les unió, y fue tomado del pasaje bíblico de Isaías 53:5 "by his stripes we are healed." (“por sus llagas fuimos curados”). Por lo tanto, es un juego de palabras en inglés, al utilizar “stripe” (“llaga”) con “strype” (“raya”) en referencia a sus típicos colores en el logo y vestimenta. En un corto plazo, lanzaron su EP debut titulado EP The Yellow and Black Attack, el 21 de julio de 1984. Durante este período, Stryper abrió conciertos de Ratt y Bon Jovi, lo que ocasionó que algunos fanes y críticos señalaran que en realidad la banda no era verdaderamente cristiana. El primer disco LP fue llamado Soldiers Under Command, lanzado el 15 de mayo de 1985, y se convirtió en el primer disco de oro para Stryper, vendiendo más de medio millón de copias, algo insólito para una agrupación con un mensaje abiertamente cristiano. Aprovechando este éxito inesperado y en atención a la extremadamente limitada distribución de su EP debut (menos de 20 000 copias) su sello discográfico, Enigma Records, relanzó The Yellow and Black Attack el 10 de agosto de 1986 con dos nuevas canciones y una nueva cubierta. Sin embargo, el mayor éxito llegó con su tercer álbum, To Hell with the Devil, el cual vio la luz el 24 de octubre de 1986 y fue su único disco de platino después de permanecer tres meses en las listas de Billboard.​ Eventualmente, vendió más de dos millones de copias, cifra abrumadoramente superior a la de sus dos trabajos previos. En adición a su trabajo más reconocido, fue la primera vez en música cristiana y en un álbum de metal cristiano en lograr esta hazaña.​ "Calling on You", "Free" y "Honestly" fueron muy populares como hits de MTV en 1987, a pesar de ser vídeos sumamente sencillos e incluso similares. Incluso, "Free" y "Honestly" fueron las más solicitadas en ese canal, este hecho los convirtió en la primera banda cristiana en tener cualquier tipo de difusión en MTV.​ "Honestly" es la canción más conocida del grupo y alcanzó un notable nº23 en los listados de Top 40 de Billboard.​ El álbum fue nominado a los Premios Grammy en 1987. In 2010, HM Magazine colocó a To Hell with the Devil en el puesto n.º 3 en su Top 100 de los Álbumes de Rock Cristiano de Todos los Tiempos, y afirmó "cuando este álbum irrumpió, fue multi-platino, y marcó para siempre la ampliación del límite de lo que la música "heavy" cristiana podría hacer”.."​ Heaven's Metal fanzine la ubicó en el n.º 6 en su Top 100 de álbumes de Metal Cristiano de todos los tiempos en su lista.​ A pesar del éxito y el reconocimiento internacional previo, el bajista Tim Gaines decidió no participar en la grabación de este álbum, y por un período de tiempo fue reemplazado por otro bajista, Matt Hurich. Hurich no permaneció más que un mes, a pesar de que estaba equipado con su instrumento y una vestimenta personal apropiada, la cual fue desechada por el propio Gaines por ser demasiado pequeña. Finalmente, Brad Cobb tocó el bajo en este aclamado disco aunque no le causó mayor éxito en su carrera profesional ni fue debidamente acreditado.​ Esto fue motivado porque Gaines decidió reincorporarse cuando se realizaron las fotos promocionales justo cuando el álbum estaba listo para salir, y participó en la exitosa gira que siguió entre 1986-1987. En 1987, en la cúspide de su fama, Stryper participó como espectáculo principal en el Dynamo Open Air Festival en los Países Bajos.​ En ese lugar se tomó una foto promocional en la que se aprecia Matt Hurich. Luego de su breve paso, Matt formó parte de la banda Leatherwolf. En 1989 él participó con el grupo Divine Right quienes presentaban a Kevin Brandow (Petra) como vocalista y guitarrista. En 1986 Brent Jeffers reemplazó a Kenny Metcalf en los teclados y fue incluido en la gira de conciertos de Stryper hasta 1990. El siguiente álbum, In God We Trust, fue publicado el 28 de junio de 1988, y buscó seguir el mismo camino de sucesor al usar una fórmula de sonido algo similar. A pesar de que no fue recibido con el mismo entusiasmo, se convirtió en su segundo disco de oro y la canción "Always There for You", brevemente entró en los nivelas más bajos de los listados de pop al alcanzar el #71, a pesar de que fue otro éxito masivo en MTV. Sin embargo, el disco tuvo una orientación aún más pop que la de sus trabajos anteriores.​ y un buen número de críticos, incluyendo los propios fanes, criticaron las canciones por ser demasiado comerciales y sobreproducidas. En consecuencia, la imagen del grupo se movió más de cerca al estilo glam metal de la época, dando a sus fanes más motivos para criticarlos. Estos factores se tradujeron en ventas comparativamente más bajas, y el álbum solo estuvo 5 semanas en los listados de Billboard.​ El segundo sencillo y vídeo "I Believe in You" alcanzó un discreto nº88 y el tercer sencillo "Keep the Fire Burning" falló en la lista del todo. Al igual que el álbum anterior, Tim Gaines no participó en la grabación y una vez más Brad Cobb tocó el bajo. Gaines regresó para otra gira mundial de conciertos. In God We Trust también ganó dos Gospel Music Association Dove Awards por "Hard Music Album" y "Hard Music Song" por la canción que da título.​ El 21 de agosto de 1990, Stryper lanzó su controversial álbum Against the Law, el cual marcó un cambio radical y drástico en la imagen del grupo y en su mensaje lírico.​ Mientras sus anteriores discos utilizaron los característicos colores amarillo y negro en las portadas y las letras invocaban a Dios y la salvación, en este material se presentó a la banda con ropa de cuero negro y sin siquiera una mención a la palabra "Dios" del todo.​ El sonido que presentaron fue también más pesado y más cercano al metal clásico.​ El baterista Robert Sweet dijo que el cambio de imagen y sonido fue en respuesta a las críticas a su álbum previo y en atención a dejar atrás su imagen glam metal, que para entonces se estaba volviendo poco vigente. Sin embargo, los fanes originales clamaron que volvieran a sus raíces y el álbum se vendió pobremente. Esto fue parcialmente debido a rumores en la prensa (tanto de tipo mainstream como cristiana) que la música de Stryper fue tendiendo hacia un sonido más convencional debido a que su fe cristiana se fue debilitando.​​Entre sus aparentes inconsistencias, los fanes se preguntaron porqué hicieron una versión de la canción de 1975 "Shining Star", un hit #1 de Earth Wind & Fire. El vídeo fue previsto para convertirse en otro éxito en MTV, pero fue el primero para el grupo que no lo logró. Los siguientes vídeos y sencillos fueron "Two Time Woman" y "Lady" (ambos con un concepto visual muy similar), los cuales generaron una difusión mínima. Sin embargo, muchos críticos todavía consideran a Against the Law como su mejor producción musical a la fecha. El 20 de julio de 1991, después de firmar para Hollywood Records, Stryper lanzó su primera colección de grandes éxitos llamada Can't Stop the Rock, la cual presentaba dos nuevas canciones. Una de ellas fue inspirada en la Guerra del Golfo que se desarrollaba en esa época, "Believe". La banda continuó con un tour hasta febrero de 1992, cuando su líder y cantante Michael Sweet se marchó aludiendo diferencias artísticas y con la finalidad de empezar una carrera en solitario.​ Stryper continuó como un trío por algunas fechas en su tour europeo, con Oz Fox como su cantante. Algunas de sus presentaciones fueron con la banda cristiana Bride donde se encontraba Dale Thompson como su cantante. Durante uno de esos conciertos Robert Sweet inesperadamente anunció que Thompson sería su nuevo vocalista en Stryper. Sin embargo, esto fue desmentido más tarde por el propio cantante. Una vez que terminaron el tour y regresaron a Estados Unidos, los tres miembros restantes decidieron que cada uno debía seguir caminos separados. Sin lugar a dudas, y como un efecto adicional, el estilo glam metal que representaba el grupo estaba en franca decadencia y la disposición musical iba hacia agrupaciones de rock alternativo y grunge. Muchas agrupaciones del género debieron evolucionar y otras desaparecieron, entre ellas Stryper. Oz Fox y Tim Gaines formaron su propia banda SinDizzy, y lanzaron el álbum He's Not Dead en 1998. Durante los 90´s, Michael Sweet lanzó un total de cuatro discos en solitario que fueron grandes éxitos en el Mercado de la música cristiana. Robert Sweet tocó en algunas bandas, una de ellas Blissed, quienes publicaron un álbum en 2002. Otras agrupaciones incluyeron King James, dbeality, Final Axe, y The Seventh Power. Los miembros originales de Stryper se reunieron por primera vez en 1999, cuando Michael Sweet y SinDizzy fueron invitados a tocar en un festival de rock veraniego en Puerto Rico. Como una participación adicional, Michael Sweet invitó a sus antiguos compañeros Oz Fox y Tim Gaines al escenario y tocaron algunas canciones de Stryper. Más tarde en 2000, se realiza la primera "Stryper Expo" que tuvo lugar en New Jersey, y fue la primera vez en ocho años que estuvieron juntos el equipo completo de Stryper en un escenario . Una segunda "Stryper Expo" se llevó a cabo en Los Angeles en el 2001.[5] Como parte de su regreso paulatino a los escenarios, la banda actuó por primera vez en Centroamérica, con un único concierto ofrecido en Costa Rica en diciembre de 2000. El concierto para sus seguidores fue histórico, pues se trató de la primera presentación del cuarteto original tras casi nueve años de separación.​ Posteriormente, se efectuó un segundo "Stryper Expo" en Los Ángeles en 2001.​Hollywood Records sugirió a los miembros del grupo que grabaran las pistas para un nuevo álbum recopilatorio de éxitos en 2003, el cual vio la luz con el nombre de 7: The Best of Stryper que también tenía dos nuevas canciones, "Something" y "For You". Un tour lo siguió como promoción, con 36 shows en Estados Unidos y finalizó en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Un álbum en vivo, titulado 7 Weeks: Live in America, 2003, fue lanzado al siguiente año, y el concierto en Puerto Rico fue filmado en formado de DVD, producido y dirigido por Jack Edward Sawyers. No obstante, el show en esa ciudad fue el último con la alineación original de Stryper por algunos años. Gaines se marchó una vez más en 2004 antes de que actuaran en el Night of Joy de Disney, en Orlando. El bajista de gira durante la carrera de Michael en solitario, Tracy Ferrie, lo reemplazó por algunos años. Después del show de "Night of Joy" y con nuevas energías, Stryper decidió retornar al estudio con la grabación de un nuevo CD, Reborn y una gira subsiguiente en el otoño de 2004. Reborn fue lanzado el 16 de agosto de 2005, y fue la primera grabación con material original y nuevo tras largos 15 años. El nuevo álbum recibió una respuesta positiva de fanes y críticos, y algunos de ellos lo calificaron como uno de los mejores de ese año.​ Con un sonido decididamente más moderno incorporó aspectos del rock alternativo y grunge, con pocos solos de guitarra, lo que le dio a la banda el estilo e identidad que trataron de buscar. Algunos temas se hacen familiares al sonido de las grabaciones en solitario de Michael. En efecto, él originalmente concibió a Reborn como un proyecto para relanzar su carrera en solitario.​ Las letras marcan un retorno a la lírica clásica del grupo que habla de Dios y la salvación. En general, el sonido de este disco es más contemporáneo comparado con sus anteriores trabajos y más pesado, con algunas influencias de nu metal.​ También se ha citado como más maduro que su material previo, “menos glam y más sentimiento” de acuerdo a algunas publicaciones. Este fue el primero y el único trabajo con el nuevo bajista Tracy Ferrie. Reborn también fue único por la curiosa variedad del arte de su cubierta, que variaba de acuerdo al formato y región donde se distribuyó. Esta alternancia con respesto a la original de Estados Unidos fue creada por algunos puntos de distribución (como tiendas cristianas) donde se consideró que su cubierta original había sido percibida como muy perturbadora y ofensiva. En 2006. Stryper lanzó el DVD Greatest Hits: Live in Puerto Rico con Music Video Distributors. En noviembre de 2006, anunciaron una nueva dirección administrativa. También anunciaron que el siguiente material a Reborn estaría listo entre la primera/verano de 2007. Sin embargo, en febrero se indicó que Michael Sweet retrasaría la producción de un nuevo álbum por dos años antes de que comenzaran la grabación por motivos personales. La esposa del cantante Kyle fue diagnosticada con una estadificación avanzada de un cáncer de ovarios, y decidió permanecer con ella y apoyarla en su enfermedad. Kyle se sometió a una cirugía y tratamientos el 14 de febrero al 14 de julio de ese año. A pesar de resultados inicialmente satisfactorios, en abril de 2008, anunció que su cáncer había regresado. A pesar de estos problemas familiares, la mezcla para el nuevo álbum de Stryper empezó en enero de 2008, y Sweet dijo que debería estar listo entre julio o agosto.​ Durante este periodo, Michael Sweet fue consultado para participar como un miembro de gira del grupo Boston en 2007 como vocalista y guitarrista, a lo que accedió. Estuvo con ellos durante el tour en 2008, junto con Styx como el acto de apertura. El 5 de marzo de 2009, la esposa de Michael Sweet finalmente murió de cáncer.​ Murder by Pride fue lanzado el 21 de julio de 2009, con el sencillo principal "Peace of Mind" (una versión de Boston), precediéndolo. El álbum alcanzó un relativamente aceptable #73 en el Billboard 200, el #32 en los Rock Albums y el #2 entre los álbumes cristianos. Estilísticamente, Michael Sweet ha comentado, que "después de años de hablar con los fans y escuchar los comentarios como 'más guitarras´, `más solos´y `más gritos he decidido mantener estas sugerencias en mente y así escribí cada canción. Fue importante para mí para tratar de volver al sonido de principios de Stryper pero al mismo tiempo, permanecer relevante en la actualidad. Es cierto que no es una cosa fácil de hacer, pero cuando escucho `Murder by Pride´, creo que se logró”.​​ En adición a que todavía tocaba con Stryper, Oz Fox también fue parte de la banda de metal cristiano Bloodgood, quien también fue uno de los favoritos a inicios de los 80´s en la escena de su género. Desde finales de 2008, Tim Gaines tocó el bajo en un concierto con Tourniquet. Este grupo agregó el tema "To Hell With The Devil" en su repertorio gracias a la sugerencia de Tim. Recientemente, Oz Fox también se unió a Tourniquet en el escenario en una presentación en Alemania para interpretar la misma canción. En setiembre de 2009, Stryper anunció que saldrían de gira con la banda del hijo de Michael Sweet Flight Patterns y el grupo canadiense Manic Drive. El 13 de julio de 2010, anunciaron que el noveno disco de Stryper se llamó The Covering. Aunque tentativamente se lanzaría el 13 de octubre, su fecha final de salida fue el 15 de febrero de 2011 bajo la etiqueta Big3 Records/Sony. Contrario a lo que había publicado anteriormente la agrupación, este álbum no tuvo material completamente original e inusualmente tampoco es de corte cristiano. Es una colección de doce versiones de canciones de bandas que inspiraron a Stryper y la ayudaron a definir su identidad musical, incluyendo a Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Kansas y muchos otros. The Covering también incluyó "God", una grabación inédia y original. Sobre el concepto de este trabajo musical, el productor y líder de la banda Michael Sweet dio sus razones: "A pesar de que este ha sido un disco para causar controversia y unos pocos se harán la pregunta sobre nuestros motivos y razones para hacer covers de las canciones que grabamos, nuestra fe y las creencias nunca se han confirmado más y nuestro mensaje es el mismo que siempre ha sido. Vamos a ir a la tumba con una postura valiente ante Cristo y nunca lo vamos a negar. Al mismo tiempo, queríamos mostrar un lado diferente de la banda...".​El 14 de septiembre de 2010, se lanzó el primer sencillo del álbum, una versión de Black Sabbath, el éxito "Heaven and Hell" (1980), disponible para descargar por iTunes. Para el 14 de diciembre de 2010, el segundo sencillo lanzado es una versión de Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son" (1976), de igual forma disponible en el mismo sitio. Luego de lanzar The Covering y su posterior gira, Stryper entró a los estudios para grabar un nuevo disco con la etiqueta italiana Frontiers Records, el cual se llamó Second Coming​(en referencia a la segunda venida del Señor) y que salió a la venta el 22 de marzo de 2013 en Europa y el 16 de marzo en América. El disco contiene 16 canciones, de las cuales 14 son clásicos extraídos de The Yellow and Black Attack, Soldiers Under Command y To Hell with the Devil y solo 2 son canciones nuevas, tituladas "Bleeding From Inside Out" y "Blackened". También hay una versión alterrntica de "Together As One" como bonus track para Japón. En forma simultánea, Stryper también trabajó en un álbum compuesto por completo con material inédito. En mayo de 2013, se reveló que el nombre de su siguiente álbum se llama No More Hell to Pay, lanzado el 5 de noviembre del mismo año a través de Frontiers Records, junto con un vídeo de la canción del mismo nombre.​ Michael Sweet, por su lado, terminó su autobiografía "HONESTLY" y la lanzará junto con su nuevo disco este año. Durante el año 2015 lanzan el álbum Fallen, el cual sería el último album con la formación original, ya que a finales del 2017 se oficializa que Tim Gaines deja la banda, siendo reemplazado por el reconocido bajista norteamericano Perry Richardson. El año 2018 lanzan el álbum "God Damn Evil" el cual ha recibido muy buenas críticas debido a su sonido bastante "heavy" y acercandose incluso en algunos temas al Thrash metal. Durante los 80´s Stryper representó el popular estilo glam metal con el que caracterizaron ampliamente sus interpretaciones visuales, solos de dos guitarras consecutivas, con una gran presencia de Michael Sweet y sus fuertes y agudos gritos y el cabello largo de los cuatro miembros. Una marca registrada (y única) es la ubicación del baterista Robert Sweet con su enorme conjunto de instrumentos en posición de lado durante los conciertos, con la finalidad de los espectadores lo puedan apreciar mejor. Este hecho ha propiciado que a Robert se le llame a menudo como un “cronometrador visual” más que un baterista,​ en alusión a que sus compañeros lo pueden observar previamente para coordinar la interpretación. Un elemento característico fue que todos sus instrumentos, logos y trajes fueron pintados con unas rayas amarillas y negras. El número de rayas en los escenarios y trajes variaban y se incrementaban durante el show. Es notable que durante la gira In God We Trust, Robert Sweet también cambiaba hasta su batería pintada en amarillo y negro. La banda explicó cierto simbolismo con respecto a las rayas, una directa referencia al latigazo cervical dado por Poncio Pilato a Jesús, derivado de la versión de la Biblia del Rey Jacobo, tomado de su versículo Isaías 53:5.​ Aparte de sus ubicuas rayas amarillas y negras, Stryper tuvo otras marcas registradas. Durante sus conciertos, lanzaba Biblias al auditorio – específicamente ediciones del Nuevo Testamento con el logo de la banda impreso en ellos. Como una protesta contra el popular símbolo del “666” del que se hacían uso muchos fanes del heavy metal, Robert propuso una alternativa numerológica. En consecuencia, el grupo empezó a utilizar el símbolo “777” que es actualmente referenciado por la Biblia (en oposición al 666, famosamente mencionado en Libro de las Revelaciones como el Número de la Bestia). El número 7 es tradicionalmente (en el simbolismo bíblico) asociado con la perfección divina. Algunos de los actos de Stryper incluyeron cruces tachadas como símbolo del “diablo” y “666” Los Angeles Times reportó en 1985 que “la banda obtuvo ovaciones entusiastas de fans de Twisted Sister gritando y levantando sólo uno de sus dedos al cielo, - una refutación del dedo doble de los `cuernos del diablo´, saludo de los muchos grupos de metal”. ".​ Stryper es reconocida como la primera banda de heavy metal abiertamente cristiana en ganar reconocimiento en el mundo de la música mainstream.​ Sin embargo, no ha estado libre de controversia. Muchos críticos cristianos no aprobaron la asociación del grupo con la subcultura heavy metal, lo cual es a menudo visto asociado con la imaginería satánica.​ Otros detractores cristianos vieron sus llamativas vestimentas como incongruente con la modestia en el vestir asociadas con los sinceros practicantes de la devota cristiandad.​ El tele evangelista Jimmy Swaggart fue un prominente crítico de Stryper, al aludir su práctica de arrojar biblias con el Nuevo Testamento al público, una práctica similar a “arrojar perlas a los cerdos”.​ En 1990, la revista Rolling Stone comentó que la banda empezó a desilusionarse con la música cristiana,​ y de ahí el rumbo algo errático en su dirección musical que siguió en lo sucesivo. Esto, combinado con un notable cambio en las letras de sus canciones en Against the Law, hizo que este material fuera prohibido en muchos establecimientos cristianos. Mientras tanto, The Benson Company, un mercado de artículos cristianos, retiró este disco de la distribución.​ La condena de Swaggart podría haber sido una sorpresa, no obstante, Stryper fue patrocinado por el ministerio de su rival Jim Bakker, quien estuvo agradecido con algunos álbumes de la banda. Stryper ha vendido más de 10 millones de copias alrededor del mundo,​ y se estima que dos tercios de sus discos fueron comprados por no cristianos.​ Ian Christe, autor del libro de historia Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, menciona que el álbum To Hell with the Devil en su libro como uno de los puntos de referencia del movimiento glam metal.​La canción To Hell with the Devil aparece en el lanzamiento de Rhino Records The Heavy Metal Box, una compilación de los mayores clásicos de metal secular con bandas como Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, y Metallica, así como otras menos influyentes como Twisted Sister y Poison. Pagina Oficial: https://stryper.com/

EPISODE 59 - Michael Sweet - Solo Tunes From Stryper's Lead Singer - Radio and Tomorrow plus Baby Doll External Version for listeners outside of Spotify SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF STRYPER EMBODIES ROLE AS HARDEST WORKING MUSICIAN IN THE BUSINESS On any given day, veteran musical artist Michael Sweet can be found practicing guitar riffs, laying down vocals, writing a song or giving an interview on a podcast. And that's just to name a few of his diverse and demanding priorities. “I'm fortunate to have so many opportunities with all sorts of projects on the table,” says the multifaceted singer/songwriter/guitarist from his Massachusetts home. “Sometimes I get overwhelmed, but as an overachiever I tend to work really well under pressure.” It would be extremely tough to find a more hardworking and accomplished musician in the business than Sweet. Need evidence? For starters, he continues to helm Grammy-nominated Christian hard-rock outfit Stryper, which he co-founded more than 35 years ago. With more than 10 million career album sales worldwide, the venerable band ascended to prominence in the 1980s with Billboard Top 40-charting singles like “Calling on You,” “Honestly” and “Always There for You.” Stryper's 1986 multi-platinum release To Hell with the Devil has been lauded by critics and fans alike as among the best Christian rock albums of all time. The group also made history when it scored two songs simultaneously in MTV's Top 10 with enduringly popular videos “Honestly” and “Free.” Along the way, Sweet also managed to churn out first-rate solo albums like his self-titled release in 1994, which yielded five No. 1 singles, Truth in 2000, the critically acclaimed 2015 project I'm Not Your Suicide (peaked at No. 10 in Billboard's Hard Rock albums), and 2019's Ten, which reached No. 4 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart. Sweet is no stranger to witnessing success all while maintaining positive spiritual themes in his prodigious catalog of work. What's more, he consistently takes on significant side projects like a provisional stint as co-lead singer and guitarist for legendary rock band BOSTON. Never mind cooperative endeavor Sweet & Lynch with guitarist George Lynch, best known as a former original member of metal quartet Dokken, and a metal project called Sunbomb with Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns.  Songs featured in this episode: ⁠Radio⁠ ⁠Tomorrow⁠ (Bonus) ⁠Baby Doll⁠ ⁠https://michaelsweet.com/⁠ ___ Podcast created by ⁠https://truemediasolutions.ca/add-to-my-playlist

House legend mark Picchiotti joins Trimtone on another 2 hour expedition of House music! PART 1 - TRIMTONE 01. Ce Ce Penniston - Im feelin U (T Makarkis remix) 02. Mousse T. Take it Back 03. Honey Dijon , Tedd Patterson - Feels so right 04. Saison - Be Yourself 05. Trimtone - Too much love 06. Waze - Bring it back PART 2 - MARK PICCHIOTTI 07. Riva Star “How It Feels” 08. Jaki Graham, Mark Picchiotti, Husky & Dutchican Soul “Ain't Nobody” (Mark Picchiotti Rmx) 09. Stereosoulz “Funkadelik” 10. Angelo Ferrari, Moon Rocket , LauMii “Running Out” (Angelo Ferrari ‘Glitter' Mox) 11. Drop Out Orchestra & Mishell Ivon “He's Always There “ 12. Sophie Lloyd, Dames Brown, Alan Dixon “Raise Me Up” (Alan Dixon 12” version) 13. David Penn, Ramona Renea “Stand Up” 14. Kiral “Bring It” (Mark Picchiotti Remix) 15. Micfreak & Dj Strobe “Happy Day” 16. Dames Brown ft Waajeed “Glory” (Floorplan Extended Rmx) 17. MF Productions “Don't Give Up” 18. Romy Black “Can't You See” ft Janine Dyer 19. Melsen, Abi Flynn “Hidden Signs” 20. Syke n Sugarstar “Ticket To Ride” (Phillip Z Extended Remix) 21. Superlover “Piano Pump” (NiCe7 Remix) 22. Paul Spencer “You Give Me Freedom” PART 3 - TRIMTONE 23. Roland Clarke & Ant Larok - Im not a plug in 24. Mochakk - Jealous - 25. Low Steppa & Crushy - This is The Sound 26. Alex Preston - Its not over 27. Cliq - Feel Like You Wanna 28. Luca Bissori - Deepest Desire 29. Kroose - Everything we want This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

House legend mark Picchiotti joins Trimtone on another 2 hour expedition of House music! PART 1 - TRIMTONE 01. Ce Ce Penniston - Im feelin U (T Makarkis remix) 02. Mousse T. Take it Back 03. Honey Dijon , Tedd Patterson - Feels so right 04. Saison - Be Yourself 05. Trimtone - Too much love 06. Waze - Bring it back PART 2 - MARK PICCHIOTTI 07. Riva Star “How It Feels” 08. Jaki Graham, Mark Picchiotti, Husky & Dutchican Soul “Ain't Nobody” (Mark Picchiotti Rmx) 09. Stereosoulz “Funkadelik” 10. Angelo Ferrari, Moon Rocket , LauMii “Running Out” (Angelo Ferrari ‘Glitter' Mox) 11. Drop Out Orchestra & Mishell Ivon “He's Always There “ 12. Sophie Lloyd, Dames Brown, Alan Dixon “Raise Me Up” (Alan Dixon 12” version) 13. David Penn, Ramona Renea “Stand Up” 14. Kiral “Bring It” (Mark Picchiotti Remix) 15. Micfreak & Dj Strobe “Happy Day” 16. Dames Brown ft Waajeed “Glory” (Floorplan Extended Rmx) 17. MF Productions “Don't Give Up” 18. Romy Black “Can't You See” ft Janine Dyer 19. Melsen, Abi Flynn “Hidden Signs” 20. Syke n Sugarstar “Ticket To Ride” (Phillip Z Extended Remix) 21. Superlover “Piano Pump” (NiCe7 Remix) 22. Paul Spencer “You Give Me Freedom” PART 3 - TRIMTONE 23. Roland Clarke & Ant Larok - Im not a plug in 24. Mochakk - Jealous - 25. Low Steppa & Crushy - This is The Sound 26. Alex Preston - Its not over 27. Cliq - Feel Like You Wanna 28. Luca Bissori - Deepest Desire 29. Kroose - Everything we want This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

Réecoutez le FG Chic Mix Discopia August 2023 avec Mark Picchiotti du samedi 26 août 2023  Tracklisting    1. Riva Star “How It Feels”  2. Jaki Graham, Mark Picchiotti, Husky & Dutchican Soul “Ain't Nobody” (Mark Picchiotti Rmx)  3. Stereosoulz “Funkadelik”  4. Angelo Ferrari, Moon Rocket , LauMii “Running Out” (Angelo Ferrari ‘Glitter' Mox)  5. Drop Out Orchestra & Mishell Ivon “He's Always There “  6. Sophie Lloyd, Dames Brown, Alan Dixon “Raise Me Up” (Alan Dixon 12” version)  7. David Penn, Ramona Renea “Stand Up”  8. Kiral “Bring It” (Mark Picchiotti Remix)  9. Micfreak & Dj Strobe “Happy Day”   10. Dames Brown ft Waajeed “Glory” (Floorplan Extended Rmx)  11. MF Productions “Don't Give Up”  12. Romy Black “Can't You See” ft Janine Dyer  13. Melsen, Abi Flynn “Hidden Signs”  14. Syke n Sugarstar “Ticket To Ride” (Phillip Z Extended Remix)  15. Superlover “Piano Pump” (NiCe7 Remix)  16. Paul Spencer “You Give Me Freedom”  

Personality disorders are mystifying to those unfamiliar with them, and even to some in the mental health profession, although with copious amounts of information online about them these days, everyone acts like an expert and the terminology is bandied about with authority. It's sticky and fascinating information. Unexplainable behaviors can quickly be explained away as narcissistic personality disorder or other personality disorder types. Once that thought happens, it's easy to develop confirmation bias, which we talked about in the last episode. But it can be dangerous information, information that must be treated with respect and caution. In this episode, Bill and Megan discuss: Are personality disorders a type of mental illness? What is different about them? How common are they? How do they appear in everyday life? Would I know if someone had one? Examples? What questions should be asked in relation to personality disorder and criminal behavior, including the current tragic case of the Idaho murders? Are all people with personality disorders high conflict people? If I think someone has a personality disorder should I tell them? If I want to explain to a friend or family member what a personality disorder is, what should I say? Links & Other Notes ARTICLEThe New Elephant in the Room: Why All Professionals Need to Learn About Personality Disorders BOOKS It's All Your Fault It's All Your Fault at Work: Managing Narcissists and Other High Conflict People The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder High Conflict People in Legal Disputes ARTICLESFull list of articles on personality disordershttps://www.highconflictinstitute.com/hci-articles?category=Personality%20Disorders Our website: https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/Submit a Question for Bill and MeganAll of our books can be found in our online store or anywhere books are sold, including as e-books.You can also find these show notes at our site as well.Note: We are not diagnosing anyone in our discussions, merely discussing patterns of behavior. (00:00) - Welcome to It's All Your Fault (01:47) - How to Understand Personality Disorders (03:13) - Are Personality Disorders a Type of Mental Illness? (06:43) - Higher Percentage? (08:49) - A Different Way to Find the Solution (12:12) - Careful Labelling (13:00) - How Would I Know? (15:13) - Idaho Murder Case Example (19:37) - Personality Disorder Does Not Equal HCP (21:54) - Blame and Charm (23:47) - Always There (24:35) - Lack of Self-Awareness (26:06) - Explaining Personality Disorders (30:08) - Last Thoughts (30:56) - Reminders & Coming Next Week: Getting It Backwards in Family Court Learn more about our exclusive Family Law Consultation Group right here and sign up to be part of the 2024 session today!

Instagram: @thedesiroyal In this episode, we go over the topic "Allah is Always There for You." We uncover the eternal companionship, guidance, and strength that Allah provides us in the midst of life's trials and triumphs. Through heartfelt reflections, we learn to embrace Allah's presence not only in difficult times but also in moments of joy and contentment. Witness the power of gratitude and supplication in strengthening our connection with the Divine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-jannah/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-jannah/support

Neil G's Ice Cream Sundae Show Replay On traxfm.org. This Week Neil Gave Us Soulful House/Nu Disco/Remixes From James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There (DJ ''S'' Remix) Papik Ft Wendy D. Lewis - Sunny (Francesco Cofano Remix) MFSB Ft The Three Degrees - T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)(Tracy Young Mix) Evelyn Champagne King - I'm In Love (Joey Negro Tribute To Kashif Mix) Block & Crown - We Keep Dancin' (Original Mix) Groovemasta - I Want U Imagination - Just An Illusion (Patch Safari Remix) Chaka Khan - Fate (Pete Le Freq Refreq) Adri Block & Corrado Rizza - I'm Always There 4 U (Original Mix) James Brown - Get Up Off That Thing (Featurecast Edit) The O'jays - Put Our Heads Together (Ken@Work Mix) Ashford & Simpson - Found A Cure (Barry Harris 2022 Remix) The Chocolate Fudge Band - Everything (DJ Fudge Extended Mix) Dr. Packer - Change Of Heart (Epic Voyage) Robert Palmer - Every Kind Of People (Ken Walker Remix) Chris Rea - Josephine Nuyorican Soul Ft India - Runaway (Jet Boot Jack Remix) Danny Tenaglia - The Brooklyn Gypsy Enzo - Smooth Operator Adri Block & Chris Marina x A Taste Of Honey - Get Down & Boogie (Block & Crown Remix) Serge Funk - Disco Hustle Paolo Bardelli - Hey Everybody (Nu Club Mix) Ministry Of Funk - Love Air (Summer Vibes Mix) Bronx Cheer - Love Affair Groove Junkies Ft B. Valentine - Lovin' You (Groo ve Junkies & Deep Soul Syndicate Mix) Chanson - Don't Hold Back (Eckk Edit) Adri Block & Paul Parsons - The Reason (Original Mix) Soul Avengerz - Love You Feel (Wh0 Classic Extended Remix) Catch Neil G's Ice Cream Sundae Show Every Sunday From 1PM UK Time Each & Every Sunday #traxfm #neilg #icecreamsundaeshow #discohouse #remixes #soulfulhouse #nudisco Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : facebook.com/original103.3 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm

Ronnie Laws is an award-winning tenor saxophonist and composer whose career has, since the early 1970s, straddled the worlds of jazz and R&B. Since 1975 he has placed seven albums in the Top 200 -- including his 1975 Blue Note debut Pressure Sensitive -- as well as tracks and albums in no less than six other categories. He has worked as an in-demand session man and live musician with a who's-who of jazz and R&B greats including Ramsey Lewis, Gregory Porter, B.B. King, George Duke, Quincy Jones, Stanley Jordan, and dozens more. Laws, the younger brother of flutist Hubert Laws, is the product of a musical family. Two of his sisters, Debra and Eloise, are also professional singers. Born in Houston, Texas, Laws began teaching himself to play the alto saxophone at the age of 11. While his first love was baseball, a serious eye injury ended those dreams early and he focused on music, which he studied in high school, at Stephen F. Austin State, and later at Texas Southern University, where he switched to tenor, earned a degree, and developed a progressive mastery and technique. In 1970 he moved to Los Angeles in pursuit of a musical career. He woodshedded with the Jazz Crusaders (Hubert had played with them in the '50s) and especially Hugh Masakela. His early gigs in the city were with pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., Doug Carn, and on his brother's CTI recordings. In 1972, he joined Earth, Wind & Fire for 18 months and was, in effect, its first saxophonist, playing both tenor and soprano; he played on the album Last Days and Time. In Los Angeles, he made the acquaintance of Donald Byrd. The two became friends and Byrd got Laws signed to Blue Note. His 1975 debut, Pressure Sensitive, got serious radio play despite landing at 73, and yielded the enduring jazz-funk classic "Always There." It has been covered and/or sampled by well over 100 artists. Laws was on his way. With his other '70s work -- 1976's Fever, Friends and Strangers, and Flame -- which boasted his first cross continental 12" hit "All for You," Laws established himself as a workhorse studio musician, playing on recordings by Ramsey Lewis, his sister Eloise, Arthur Adams, Gene McDaniels, and Wayne Henderson, to name a few. In the '80s, Laws was an international festival and club draw. Three singles from his first three albums all went gold, as did their respective long-players. Despite the fact that he is often characterized strictly as a "smooth jazz" artist, Laws might be the first instrumentalist to score hits in the emerging "quiet storm" subgenre of R&B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Personality disorders are mystifying to those unfamiliar with them, and even to some in the mental health profession, although with copious amounts of information online about them these days, everyone acts like an expert and the terminology is bandied about with authority. It's sticky and fascinating information. Unexplainable behaviors can quickly be explained away as narcissistic personality disorder or other personality disorder types. Once that thought happens, it's easy to develop confirmation bias, which we talked about in the last episode. But it can be dangerous information, information that must be treated with respect and caution. In this episode, Bill and Megan discuss: Are personality disorders a type of mental illness? What is different about them? How common are they? How do they appear in everyday life? Would I know if someone had one? Examples? What questions should be asked in relation to personality disorder and criminal behavior, including the current tragic case of the Idaho murders? Are all people with personality disorders high conflict people? If I think someone has a personality disorder should I tell them? If I want to explain to a friend or family member what a personality disorder is, what should I say? Links & Other Notes ARTICLEThe New Elephant in the Room: Why All Professionals Need to Learn About Personality Disorders BOOKS It's All Your Fault It's All Your Fault at Work: Managing Narcissists and Other High Conflict People The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder High Conflict People in Legal Disputes ARTICLESFull list of articles on personality disordershttps://www.highconflictinstitute.com/hci-articles?category=Personality%20Disorders Our website: https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/Submit a Question for Bill and MeganAll of our books can be found in our online store or anywhere books are sold, including as e-books.You can also find these show notes at our site as well.Note: We are not diagnosing anyone in our discussions, merely discussing patterns of behavior. (00:00) - Welcome to It's All Your Fault (01:47) - How to Understand Personality Disorders (03:13) - Are Personality Disorders a Type of Mental Illness? (06:43) - Higher Percentage? (08:49) - A Different Way to Find the Solution (12:12) - Careful Labelling (13:00) - How Would I Know? (15:13) - Idaho Murder Case Example (19:37) - Personality Disorder Does Not Equal HCP (21:54) - Blame and Charm (23:47) - Always There (24:35) - Lack of Self-Awareness (26:06) - Explaining Personality Disorders (30:08) - Last Thoughts (30:56) - Reminders & Coming Next Week: Getting It Backwards in Family Court Learn more about our exclusive Family Law Consultation Group right here and sign up to be part of the 2024 session today!

When metalhead Eric Harper was 15-years-old, his parents announced that the family would be moving to Portugal. Accustomed to his life in the U.S., Eric took the news harshly. But Eric's new experience abroad introduced him to a lifelong passion: classical guitar. “[There's] a pattern of God always having my back and moving me to places I don't want to go to,” he says. In this episode, Jack and Eric talk about the peculiar guidance of the divine throughout life's moments, and the communities we make along the way. Climb with us on this week's Soul Ladder Music! Learn more: https://ericharpermusic.com/ Songs: Eric Harper "Fechar De Olhos" Eric Harper "O Amigo" Vicente Amigo "Ciudad de las Ideas" Eric Harper "The Harvest of Reason" Stromae "Papaoutai" Eric Harper "Always There for Me" Michael W Smith "Awesome God" Eric Harper "Cura" Soul Ladder Music Playlist: spoti.fi/3VASImF +++ Leave a Review! bit.ly/interfaithish Social: www.instagram.com/interfaithish/ www.facebook.com/interfaithish/ www.twitter.com/interfaithish/ Email: interfaithish@gmail.com

Once again Nick Power gives you some fantastic new tracks in this weeks Soul Kandi Radio Show. Definitely one to keep & listen over again. Max Palmer ft Kaylu – “Always There” (Original) [King Street Sounds] DJ Romain – “Surrealistic” (Original) [Nu Faze Records] Honey Dijon ft Cor.Ece – “Stand” (Extended) [Classic Music Company] Michael […] The post Soul Kandi Radio Show 10th Dec 2022 appeared first on SSRadio.

Classic Jazz-Funk 1 : Definitive Jazz-Funk Luiggi Collection : Lonnie Liston Smith “Expansions” Ronnie Laws “Always There” Gil Scott-Heron “The Bottle” Donald Byrd “Change (Makes You Want To Hustle)” Wilton Felder “Inherit The Wind” Spyro Gyra “Shaker Song” Johnny Hammond “Los Conquistadores Chocolates” John Klemmer “Brasilia” Dizzy Gillespie “Unicorn” Escuchar audio

Hello Metalheads-We are excited to share this New Release Showcase Feature Interview Tonight. When it comes to groundbreaking bands in the metal genre, Stryper is renowned for their distinctive brand of “heavenly metal. The group ascended to prominence in the 1980s with Billboard Top 40 hits like “Calling on You,” “Honestly,” and “Always There for You” and had maintained a global fanbase since. Today, some 37+ years after emerging from the southern California nightclub scene, the foursome continues to record, tour and perform for loyal fans around the globe. Stryper returns with a brand new studio album, "The Final Battle" and sees the band growing heavier while also maintaining their trademark melodies, virtuoso guitar playing, and air tight rhythms.  Comprising of three original members including brothers Michael Sweet (lead vocals, guitar) and Robert Sweet (drums), Oz Fox (guitar) and newest bandmate, seasoned bassist Perry Richardson (formerly of Firehouse), the group finds itself creating their finest, most powerful music yet.   Michael Sweet joins The Vernomatic and Metal Walt tonight to discuss the New CD, The current Health situation of the band, The touring landscape that has STRYPER on the road well into  2023,2024 and beyond.  Vern and Walt share their critique of many of the stand out tracks from the new CD as well as fun History Of Metal topics.  A great unique conversation filled with in-depth antidotes and disclosures found only here at Metal Mayhem ROC. We welcome comments,good or bad on this discussion. Hit us up on Facebook, twitter or send a direct message at our website.  Social Media: http://www.stryper.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Stryper https://twitter.com/Stryper https://www.instagram.com/stryper/ https://www.youtube.com/user/stryperofficial https://metalmayhemroc.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/metalmayhemroc https://twitter.com/MetalmayhemR

Story: Woes to the Pharisees, withering of the fig tree, parable of the tenants, render to Cesar Passage: Matthew 21-22, Luke 19-20, Mark 11-12 Songs: "Wonderful Words of Life" "All That I Need is Jesus" "Come, Ye Sinners" "Jesus is Always There"

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God - His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God - His jurisdiction has no bounds.----Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God - His jurisdiction has no bounds.----Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God – His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God – His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God – His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God – His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God – His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

God is ALWAYS THERE. There is NO PLACE YOU CAN GO where God is not present. That's part of the job description of being God - His jurisdiction has no bounds. Join us for Week 3 of a three week series on God's attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

Blast from the past. Two of my favorite funk jazz songs of the 70s. Falling like Dominos by Donald Byrd and Always There by Ronnie Laws.

Y'all, tonight I picked 5 amazing stories to tell you from some really creative people. Below are the titles and user names for each story. Enjoy! A Package Marked “Return to Sender” - Reddit user manen_lyset My Wife Came Home Early - Reddit user deleted The Monster Under Your Bed Isn't Always There to Scare You - Reddit user lifeisstrangemetooI First Met My Brother When I Was Ten - Reddit user name ecrowe (visit edwincrowe.com for more!)Every Day Charlotte's Mother Forgot to Collect Her from School - Reddit user name newtotownJAM

“The God Who is Always There” – a lesson on not just knowing that God is with us and for us, but acting in light of that knowledge. Music: “Take Me Deeper” by the Ken Ferguson Band