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Episode 204: This week on Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, I'm joined by Amy How to explore primary mathematics and how teachers can build their confidence in delivering impactful lessons. We discuss the essential areas of mathematics that help pupils develop a deep understanding, and Amy shares insights into how the Rekenrek can be used as a powerful tool to support mathematical thinking. In this episode, we cover: Why mathematics education is critical for pupils' long-term success. Key mathematical concepts that form the foundation of strong understanding. How the Rekenrek can enhance pupils' mathematical sense-making. Practical advice for teachers new to using the Rekenrek, including resources and starting points. Whether you're new to teaching mathematics or looking to strengthen your confidence, this episode is packed with insights to help you and your pupils succeed. If you enjoy this episode, please support us by subscribing on YouTube, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, or making a donation at www.ko-fi.com/tdape. Join our Discord community to continue the conversation! Join Amy live at TDaPELondon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinking-deeply-about-primary-education-conference-tickets-1033614898987?aff=oddtdtcreator

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In this episode of The Antidote, Amy and Grace connect with actress, podcaster, and beauty maven Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins about how we all can benefit from a ‘hot girl walk', the act of surrendering, and falling in love with New York City again. Amy and Grace share their bummer news of the week –  racist backlash over The Lord of The Rings series on Amazon, and the state of Texas sending students home with DNA kits so their bodies can be identified “in case of emergency.” They also share their antidote: an overnight mask and showering at night.  This week's Creative Tap-In:  “A creative life is an amplified life.” -Elizabeth Gilbert Do you have a favorite antidote, or need an antidote suggestion? A question for Grace and Amy, or something you loved that Amy, Grace or one of their guests has said on the podcast? Share a message with The Antidote team: https://mpr.tfaforms.net/111 or tag us on Instagram with the hashtag #ThatsMyAntidote, or leave us a message on our hotline at 833-684-3683. Sponsors: BetterHelp Online Therapy -  betterhelp.com/ANTIDOTE FULL TRANSCRIPT Amy The world is a dumpster fire. I'm Amy. Grace And I'm Grace. Amy And we want to f---in help. Grace We're comedy writers in Los Angeles. And as a reflex to the madness on the news, we're keeping it positive, but opinionated. Amy We talk about cultural moments we love. Grace Talk to people we adore. Amy Crushes we have. Grace And self-care we stan. Amy During these trying times we all need to show that focuses on joy. Grace This is The Antidote. Hey, everybody. You're back for another week. Amy Ooh, I love. Wow. Grace given us Broadway. Give it up. Musical theater. Grace Give you some vocal stylings, I guess. I don't know what that was. But thank you for coming to The Antidote for yet another week, friends. Amy Yeah, and thank you guys for attending our live show in New York. Grace Oh, it's so great to see you. Amy The listeners who were able to make it. It was so awesome. For those who weren't able to attend. Stay tuned to our live show. We're going to be putting out a recording as a future episode. You can kind of experience it. You know, it won't be the same, but it'll be similar. Grace Yeah, but we'd love to do more live shows in 2023, so stay tuned and see when our next one is. Amy Yeah. Anyway, I know this is kind of old, but I guess I was just like going back. There are old texts or something. Grace and I saw the video of Maxwell breaking it down on stage with his niece. Grace Yes. I was like is Uncle season now here? Okay. He came to make the aunties first and Auntie Junior is like myself. Because I was like, ok Maxwell. And the funniest tweet that I thought about it was. Like when he was like. Doing his little Meghan thee stallion knees move Like they're like there's literally no song Maxwell has that justifies this cause, because somebody put it over this woman's work. So it's like. Amy And I just want to be like n---- stand up. Grace But like he, you know, we got all our jokes off our Black Twitter and Instagram. And so he responded, he's just like, Y'all could never and so he made it the Maxwell Challenge, I believe. Amy Oh, I love it because I love the Maxwell Challenge. I need to see some more men doing that. Well, need is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but I would not mind saying, but it really is a good season. Like you said. Grace I'm just really happy that Maxwell is getting his flowers. You know, new people are discovering Maxwell, those of us who are around the first time around, they're just like, Oh, Maxwell, I'm glad you still doing it. And I'm glad your knees are still good. Amy I actually really love that Maxwell is getting his flowers and all of the Zaddy's. I mean Ginuwine he out here. Grace Oh yeah. Same ol G. Amy And also Usher singing to Issa Rae on stage. Grace Oh she deserves all the songs right to her face. Amy I mean, I do love all these nineties men turn it up and also through dance, like dancing is a source of joy. We love to dance. And I know that our guest, you guys stay around for our guest, Ashley Blaine Feathers. And she actually talks about the joy of dance and our interview with her. So it'll be really fun to revisit this topic. Grace And beautiful, funny and profound. Queen. Yes. I can't wait for you to hear this interview. But honestly, Amy, we wouldn't need the antidotes if we didn't have something to get an antidote from. Amy Starting now, top with our bummer news of the week. First of all, this is an ongoing bummer news issue. Oh, gosh. But I feel like we just kind of got to talk about it a little bit. There's been so much racist backlash over the new Lord of the Rings series on Amazon. There have been all these trolls or like Middle-Earth, it has elves and hobbits and wizards, you know, fictional things. But people are having problems with the color skin of some of the actors being cast in the show. Much like people having problems with the fictional mermaid Ariel being a different color than they wanted to be. So there's an actor named Cynthia Robinson who portrays the Queen region of New Manaugh, I think is how it's pronounced. Cynthia Robinson portrays the Queen region of this fictional city, and people are mad at her in response to the backlash, she said. My focus, especially as more of the show has aired, has been the more joyful aspects of what this story means to people, end quote. And I love that she's turning it into a little bit more positive of a message. She's basically saying, block the haters and the real fans who like the work that they're doing, which I really appreciate. It can be really hard to be brought down by sh-- like this. But I do have to say, for a bunch of people who are like full nerds watching this stuff and I'm a nerd about a lot of things, but fantasy ain't my sh--, but it is fantasy. And so it always kind of rocks me a little weird when people are like, Oh, but this thing that is fantasy isn't what I find. Like Harry Potter, like Hermoine with her kinky hair. And I'm like, her name's Hermoine she might be Black, you know, like, doesn't really bother me. But I think it's because as Black people, we're used to imagining different types of worlds, and white people don't really have to. Grace Yeah. And I'm just sad. Like, when I hear that quote from her. Oh, it makes me think about is like all the many times as Black women that were expected to rise above that, we're expected to make a positive. We're expected to, like, not show if we are upset about racism. You know, I'm sure, you know, maybe in her quiet moments, she's not bothered by it. But in my quiet moments, I'm continuously bothered by it because I was just like, What do you want? Like, do you want do you want worlds where we don't exist? And I'm sorry, but we exist, you know, and because we exist on a lot of amazing things exists because Black people exist. Yeah. And I'm sorry that you want to be in a world where we don't exist, but you're not going to get that. Sorry. In 2022 and 2023. You're just not going to get it. Amy And not in the future and not in fantasy. Grace Exactly. And so my question is always like, are we still doing this? Like every single time, y'all do not look good. Whoever is making these racist statements, it doesn't make you look good. It doesn't make you look good to your friends. It doesn't make you look good. Your family members, maybe they all races too. But like all the justification about why. He's like, well, this would have been in Europe. Or whatever. No, it wouldn't have been in Europe because it is not real. And guess what? We were in Europe, too, back then. You know what I'm saying? Like that this whole, like, fantasy that we weren't in Europe or where we were in any of these places is a fantasy because we were there the entire time. Like. Amy I was Black. Grace You know what I'm saying? Even like Shakespeare wrote about the Moors, like you wrote Othello. We were there. We were there. So, like, this whole thing, like, you're just racist. Just stand ten toes down and say, I'm a racist piece of sh-- so we can know which way to categorize you and keep it moving. Like, it's just sad that these actors who are getting an amazing opportunity, like a lot of these times, like these actors, this is their first, like, big thing and they have to f---ing be subjected to all this backlash that doesn't have to do with them. They didn't cast themselves. Amy Yeah, they didn't cast themselves. Exactly. What you just said makes me think of people who are mad at Ariel and they're like, well, technically, the Little Mermaid was written by Danish Man and it's from Denmark, so shouldn't she be blind? And I'm just like, y'all are so weird. Like, I'm like, it's fictional. Grace She's a mermaid. I saw this tweet about how they didn't believe that Ariel would be black. And literally it was. So after all the Africans y'all threw in the ocean, y'all surprised the mermaid is Black. Amy Yeah, that's real. By that. Grace And that's by thatwitchbitch. Fair point, girl. Amy Fair point. Think we didn't learn how to live down there yet? And that's my issue is like they're using, like, nerd logic to try and justify their racism. And you're absolutely right. Like, just say you're racist. Like you're saying all these technically is an actual these and well, if you really think about it and it's like, no, no, now you're just not creative enough to imagine a world that could look different from you. So just admit that that's not the only bit of bummer news this week. There's also this coming out of my home state. Apparently, Texas parents have been given DNA kits to help identify their children. In case of an emergency.   Grace Damn.   Amy And I'm like, How f---ed up is this? The state of Texas is sending students home with DNA kits so their bodies can be identified in case of an emergency. Today has stated that, quote, The threefold pamphlets allow caregivers to store their children's DNA and fingerprints at home, which could then be turned over to law enforcement agencies and, quote, presumably in order to identify their bodies. It sends a clear message that the government of Texas is not going to do anything to stop these types of shootings from happening.   Grace I know Texas is such a red, red, red state, as blue as California, New York are is this red as Texas is? So here's the thing about this country, and I don't know how else to say it is. I just don't understand how some people think. Yeah. I really don't understand. So y'all would rather do this, then? Gun control. Mm hmm. Y'all would rather send your kids home with DNA kits, then be like, Hey, how about we don't let regular people have weapons of war? That's what you would rather have.   Amy When I think about this sh--, I get so, so frustrated. How do you feel, Grace?   Grace Yeah, terrible. I mean, that DNA kid thing is super, super, super, super sad. And then. Okay. Like, racism exists. We all know it, but every time it hits, it's still like a terrible moment in your day. How about you?   Amy Yeah, very much the same.   Grace Okay, let's get into the antidote.   Amy So this is the segment where we tell you about the culture we consumed and things we did this week that made us feel better about the bummer news, which we need. What was your antidote this week, Grace?   Grace Okay, so, you know, I'm away from home, which is great in many ways, but also sad anyways. And so, you know, when you're you're away from home, you pack your essentials and sometimes you don't you forget something back at home or whatever. And so what I've been enjoying as part of my self-care routine is an overnight mask. Ooh. So the one I have in L.A. is called Drunk Elephant. I like, you know, just smear that on is the last part of my evening skincare routine. But I left it in L.A. So I was telling my showrunner this this is the type of small talk that I subject my showrunner to. Bougie complaints. Like, Oh, I left my overnight meal and yeah.   Amy In my other abode.   Grace My God. So she's like, Oh, I actually have a recommendation for one that I really, really love. And she's a very beautiful lady and she has lovely skin. So I was just like, Oh, okay, let me tell Danielle, please tell me which one you like. And so she recommended this one buy fresh and it's the fresh black tea firming over night mask. And so all right, let's try it out. And it is so good.   Amy Really. Is it like a mask? Like a physical mask or like a cream or a gel?   Grace It's a cream.   Amy How it's go on?   Grace So basically every night I smear on some lactic acid, which is very hard about keeping your skin cheap. And then I do some like a retinol cream or whatever, and then I put on some hydration, but my skin is very, very dry, especially in the winter. And I'm in New York now, which means I'm in heating. So it's a very dry air. So I decided to try this out and oh, it goes on. It's like very thick. You know, I'm working on a show called Survival of the Fittest, so we like it thick. And so I smeared it on and oh my God, I woke up in the morning and my skin felt so buttery and they want you to rinse it off in the morning. So I was just like, okay, whatever feels buttery now, but when I get in the shower and I run there, it's going to feel like my normal ass dry skin again. But no, I rinsed it off and my skin still felt very hydrated, very soft, and yeah, it was just a really lovely thing. So now instead of being fat that I left my favorite overnight mask in L.A., I discovered this brand new one, which is really, really lovely, smells great, very hydrating. So, you know, I took a negative situation. I turned it into a positive.   Amy I agree with that. You definitely did. And, yeah, we need to be luxuriating in our skin. Yeah, why not? It sounds great.   Grace And so what is your antidote this week, Amy?   Amy Well, this is hilarious. It's actually kind of tied to yours. You know, I've been coming through with the real basic antidotes, but it's like when I'm thinking of, like, a choice that I make as opposed to a thing that I just do by routine or like that's in my schedule or that I wrote down on my to do list. But I'm like, This is a choice I'm making. This actually has become an antidote for me during production. I shower at night. I'm mostly like a morning shower. I like to shower to start my day to wake me up. But during production, our days start very early. So like my pick up on Monday is at 5:45 a.m.. So that means I got to wake up before that. So my antidote during production is that I shower at night and it kind of has like a twofold thing for me is that I get to kind of wash the day away like you're moving around. I sweat no matter what. Like, you're just, like, walking around really quickly, all day long, you're running back and forth. But by the end of the day, I feel like a little weird. Like, you know, it's just like, physically, I'm like I'm kind of, like murky, let's say, all over. And so showering at night is such like, I always think of a shower as something that wakes me up. But I will say that during production, I'm so damn tired, nothing is going to like, Oh, I can't sleep now. So I'm like, I shower at night and then I get to go to bed feeling really fresh and I'm not climbing in my bed all grimy. I'm like getting bad, feeling really, really good. And because it's winter, it's like cool sheets on my warm skin. I'm just like, Ooh, I love this. And then I haven't done an overnight mask. I've been washing my face in the shower, then I wash it in the morning, but now I'm like, Oh, maybe I should do an overnight mask and then just wash my face in the morning. And that'll still be like a refreshing little me moment before I start my day. But yeah, I love both are antidotes. Great, because they're both so simple and doable, but they are about like kind of like snatch and a little bit of self-care back from a busy day. And I just love that they're both about taking care of our bodies, which are the vessels through which we do all our work.   Grace And literally, you're teaching me something to I mean, I sometimes shower at night, but yeah, we have to get up bad early, bitch. Man, I'm not showering at night right now because, yeah, what I'm doing is like waking myself up like an extra 20 minutes early so I can have in the shower before work. Because even though I don't feel like it at that hour in the morning, I'm not going to penalize anybody else for that.   Amy Yeah.   Grace And no. But yeah, I'm going to start showering at night too.   Amy Yeah. Nice. Well, listeners, if you guys tried any of our antidotes at home, share them with us using the hashtag. That's my antidote. Or leave us a voicemail at 8336843683. And we'll be back after the break.   Grace Welcome back to The Antidote. We have a special guest today. Who is it, Amy?   Amy Our guest today is an actress, podcaster and beauty maven. You know her luscious bass from Netflix's Dear White People, NBC's Grand Crew and the movie Bad Hair. And she just debuted the first original podcast from the Oprah Winfrey Network called Trials Two Triumphs. She is still basking in newlywed bliss, the picks on idea. She loves therapy, documentaries and being an inspiration in every way she can get cozy. Take your plastic off the sofa and please welcome the Multi-hyphenate talent. Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, yes. I mean, I. I mean, you guys have another career in life. I mean, you guys are going to be hosting the Oscars.   Amy From your lips to God's ears.   Grace From your lips to God's ears. Okay. You know.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I mean. That was fantastic. I don't know if I've ever been intro'd any better.   Amy Well, you are easy to intro because that's how fantastic you are.   Grace I mean, everything we said was true.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Y'all got me feeling like Beyoncé.   Amy That's why I had to sprinkle some references in there. Because you's a queen.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, thank you my sisters. Yes. Oh, I'm so excited to be here.   Grace Thank you. We're excited to have you. Well, she's very, very impressive, isn't she, Amy? But we aren't here to talk about your many, many, many accomplishments. We are here to get deep.   Amy Yeah, yeah. Let's check in first. How are you feeling today? Like, for real? Not small talk. Is there anything weighing on you? Making you feel good?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Here's the tea. I am feeling amazing.   Amy Yes.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins It is. No, I really am. And I'm really happy that I. You know, last week I didn't feel amazing. Yesterday I did not feel amazing. I legit had like I was like kind of moping around, but I'm sad. I kind of start like, yeah, dragging my feet and like, you know, honestly, a lot of it's unconscious, but my husband Darryl will notice he was like, What's wrong? And I was like, I don't know what's wrong. And, and I, you know, I, I'm getting better at doing like. America has a problem, everyone. oh, yes. I mean, you know, here's the thing. I think it's all of the things, but I think I was just feeling really overwhelmed. And I'm one of those people that, like, I don't I'm trying to get better at feeling the hard stuff in the moment rather than letting it kind of seep in more and more. And so I didn't. So I let it out. I had a good cry and I feel fantastic. Today is the first of the month. Yeah. You know, bills are paid. You know, I look good. I smell good. Yeah.   Grace Okay, we can confirm she looks good as f---. Okay.   Amy Yeah, and she looks like she smells good. You know, we haven't gotten into smellavision yet, but. Yeah, I buy it.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins But, you know, I really this month, it's kind of taken me eight months of the year to do it. But this month I really have that feeling of like I feel extremely motivated to really feel build this month up with good death. I feel deeply inspired by I love that.   Amy I mean, I do think there's, you know, maybe it's the Renaissance, the fact we are in a period of like a bad like a black bitch renaissance. We are literally in that period right now.   Grace I just wanted to say I really love what you said, because I do think that every day that we wake up, we do kind of have a choice. Like, I love how you are already like framing your entire mom to be like, I'm going to fill this month up with goodness. And I bet because you have declared that you definitely will.   Amy Let's keep the good vibes going, y'all. We need that right now. This show is called The Antidote because life is hard and we all need different antidotes to deal with the bullsh--. So tell us, Ashley, what is your antidote? In other words, what is something non-work-related that's bringing you joy this week or this month?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I am committing to doing Hot Girl Walks every day.   Amy I need more info about.   Grace What's a hot girl walk?   Amy What's a hot girl walk?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh my goodness. So actually my friend JP Jennifer Pauline, who's just one of the most wonderful human beings in the world. She. So she invited me on a hot girl walk. Right. This is such an L.A. story. So she invited she was like, girl, we got to go for a walk. And I was like, yes. And I thought she was just like coining it that herself. You know? And I was like, that's what's up. But then she was like, No, it's a thing. So then, of course, I went to, you know where. Tiktok.   Amy Yes.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Of course.   Grace Where the children tell us what's cool. Yes.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Because I don't know what's going on. I'd be like, okay, let me go to Texas. And it's a whole trend that's going on where it's for anybody. But I you know, this this girl, I forgot her name, but she started this thing called a hot girl walks where you walk. Well, for her, it was four miles a day.   Amy Four miles? Oh, it's physically hot. I see.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Yea, I don't think I can do four miles a day because that seems like a lot like I think, you know, if you live somewhere like New York, you can easily do that day in two days, whatever. But the point is, it's not about how far you go, how long you go. It's just about committing to going on a walk. That is not. The goal is not to change anything physically about yourself. The goal is really just to spend time with yourself and to think about yourself as being sexy and confident and strong and all of the good things you can think about yourself. And she suggests while doing so, listen to a podcast she actually has. That is like the thing you should do. And I, you know, I did it today and I get why the kids are doing it. I mean, I feel I mean, I feel lifted. Yeah, I am together. I'm gathered. I feel so great. I feel so great. And I think a lot of times, you know, I'm always, like, working out for, like, the physical part of it, you know, and not just because. I want to feel good or just spend time with myself, but it doesn't always have to be like strenuous exercise. Like I work out. It can just be I took a walk, 4.8, nine mile, you know. You know what I mean? Like it doesn't have to be a whole thing.   Amy You know, the best part about it, like the coining of it, of a hot girl. What? To me, I was like, Oh, I want to feel hot like my beautiful hot while I'm walking, as opposed to feeling like I'm working, if you will. Yeah, because I do a lot of walking, like you said, for exercise, but just to like be with myself and like look around, take in my surroundings, like enjoy my body's movement. I'll do a lot of that. And now I want to.   Grace That is so cool because you know what? I stopped walking as much because during like the early days of the pandemic, we still in this pandemonium, and now we got monkeypox. Okay? But we're about to talk about that right now.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I cannot with the monkeypox.   Grace But during that time, I remember, you know, I was working at Insecure with this queen. And I remember we would have our our break for lunch. And I would always I would eat first and then I would go for a walk just to get out of the house for a bit. But I have stopped doing that so much. I mean, I love walking. I lived in New York for 15 years and I moved to this part of L.A. in particular so I could walk to the grocery store, walk to target, whatever. Right, right. But I stopped taking walks for pleasure. And I think this is a lovely reminder that I did enjoy it. Like sometimes I'll be walking down the street. I was like, one of those crazy people you would know was in my headphones because I would be either singing it loud or I would stop for a moment for a little dance break. Yeah, I didn't give a f---. I was just like. You can look at me if you want to.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I love it. I love it. But that's the goal. Like, get back to that, you back to that. Like that's what I'm on. And.   Amy We're going to do.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins That's my antidote.   Amy I love that. Like Grace. We're going to go for a hot girl walk.   Grace Let's go for our girl walk. I mean, I won't make you hike because I know you don't like that, but you can go.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins No, it's a walk not a hike. It's not a hot girl hike.   Amy Well, now, since we're talking a little just a little bit, we'll get off the pandemic a little bit. But you got married in the pandemic. And I want to know, like the pandemic was like a testing ground. Yes, it was a testing ground for relations. Some somehow got further apart and some got closer together. Are there any lessons or things you've learned about sharing space with your partner during this crazy time?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, my goodness, I. I think the biggest like lesson is to be grateful for the time. You know, like Daryl and I had the perspective of, like. I remember early on in the pandemic, I remember he said to me, We better cherish this because we're probably never going to have it again. And he's right. You know, I don't know. You know, another time, hopefully we are not stuck in the house again in the same way during a pandemic. Right.   Amy Hold my collar y'all, I'm like, oh, my God, give me out this house.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins You all. She started hyperventilating. Okay. No. And but but I'm grateful that I had a partner who rather had been lamenting and was like, This is great. We get to spend time and, you know, just do things like we would dance around the house or, you know, like, I don't know, just binge watch things all day that we just don't have the time to do anymore, you know, stay up late. Yeah. You know, until the wee hours of morning into the wee hours of the morning. Just so many things that we look back on now and are like, that was a really crazy but beautiful time for us. And I think that it really so much good came out of it. You know, in the pandemic, we bought our first home, we got married, we honeymooned. We, you know, we've done so many, so many amazing things. And I think it taught us to like. What's for you? Even a pandemic can't stop humans. You know, like this ship is going to keep sailing, this ball is going to keep rolling. And it really is just about how you choose to receive it.   Grace What was your favorite thing like from that time, spending time in the house with each other? What was your favorite thing that you guys did together during that time?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins My husband Darryl's from Detroit, MI.   Grace Me too. Do you know where he's from in Detroit? Like which part?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Yeah, he's from the east side of Detroit. Okay, cool. He grew up off of Hannah. Yeah, he went to Cass.   Grace Oh, he went to Cass Tech, okay.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Okay, so he's like a real. He's a michigan guy. Okay, I went to Howard, and, you know, a lot of my a lot of my friends at Howard were from the Midwest and, you know, Detroit or Chicago. And so early on in Howard, I learned how to like hustle and all that type of stuff. So I found out in the pandemic, which I've known Daryl for almost 13 years, so I don't know how this went over my head. He didn't know how to hustle. And so I taught him, Oh.   Amy That's incredible.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Sorry, Daryl, I'm exposing you to all the Detroit people. But I taught him how to hustle. Yes in our at the time, we were in, like, a little cute, but like a little non air conditioning apartment in Beverly Hills at the time. And so we were just hustling up in that one bedroom apartment and it was it was just like and I recorded us like I got my phone up in a row, like I have my hair wrapped, but I just was like, this is a memory we'll look back on and be like, Oh. What this is insane.   Grace You taught him how to hustle, that's so cute.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins That was a fun night. Yeah, yeah, that was a fun night.   Grace I mean, he should take you to the car show, like the auto show sometime, cause that's the big Detroit thing. Yes.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I got to do that. So many things.   Amy I feel like that period in your life, like, obviously I don't I don't want to forget that the pandemic, a lot of people experience a lot of loss, but all of this like is about surrender. And you talk about that so much about how to surrender. And sometimes you don't have control. I mean, none of us had control over what was happening. Those of us who lost a lot and those of us who had the luxury to get introspective and like really sit with ourselves and you really got to surrender and have a partner through it, which is really beautiful. Yeah. And as we're, like growing now, are there ways that you find surrender in your day to day, even like the processing of emotions that you talked about, like having a rough month and having to cry it out? Is that a form of surrender for you? Like sitting in it.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins For sure. I think, you know, as you were talking, I was thinking about surrender. And like you said, it's a if you know me, if you listen to anything I say, I'm always saying I'm trying to get better at the art of surrender. But what I'm realizing is that, like, there's the step after surrender, right? So like, surrendering is giving it up and saying, okay, you know, Jesus, take the money, but. On the other side of the step after surrender, I think, is acceptance. And you have to accept whatever may come from the surrender. You can't surrender and then lack acceptance. Yeah. Because then you're kind of in the same between. Right. You're still not where you need to be. And so that's that's what I'm trying to work on. Tubas, like both of them. It's like surrendering and then being confident about the acceptance of whatever may come. And I do that in sometimes it's crying it out, sometimes it's talking it out. Sometimes it's actually saying it out loud, like. This is too much for me. You got it. Wow. Look, I can't. I can't do this or. You know what? I trust you more than I trust myself. So please, you know, order my steps. Sometimes it's bad, but I just, you know, honestly, surrender is a muscle. It's a muscle muscle that we all have to work.   Grace And the process of surrender, I really think, like in our work, in our business, I think it's so important to have that kind of perspective because there's so much that we cannot control. You know, you cannot control like who greenlights your stuff or you can't control like when you go into an audition whether you're going to get it or not. But like that act of surrendering, knowing that you're going to be okay or like that you're giving it over to a higher power to help you deal with it like that. I think it's so important rather than trying to control everything, because we in our human powers cannot we cannot control it.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins We just can't can't do it. No.   Amy Have you taken any good trips recently now that we get back outside?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, my gosh. So I just got back from Austin, Texas.   Amy Oh, I love Austin.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Do you? It's not, you know, I don't know.   Amy Okay, well, here's what I'll say. Here's what I say. I'm from Texas, I'm from Dallas. And Austin is like the to me, it's the best parts of Dallas and with a little bit of California sprinkled in. So that's why I like Austin. But I'm curious, what's your take on it? I mean, I don't want you to, like, slammed the city.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Well, no. no, no. I'm not going to slam the city. I my first time going was in, oh, 2017. We actually premiered Dear White People. There was my first time there at South by Southwest. And then I went I just went this past weekend on a my 15 and my 15 year anniversary trip with my line sisters. Yes. And my sister. So so it was amazing because I was with some of my favorite people on the face of the planet and we just had a good time. We're always going to make a good time wherever we go. So I did that. I've actually been traveling a time this year. I was in New York and May in like New York. I just.   Amy That's Grace's city.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins New York makes me feel I could cry thinking about New York. Something about New York.   Grace Thank you Ashley.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I love that city. New York. If I literally would wake up like, good morning, New York.Like, I just I was skipping down the street, it was raining, and I was just like I was like that that video of Drew Barrymore in the rain.   Amy Yes.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins That's what I look like. And I wonder everyone's like clowning her for it. But I'm like, no, I understand why she felt like that. So I was in New York and then yeah, but I mean, I've been to New York many times, but something about this last trip, I was there for work, but I kind of made into like play and I just fell in love with New York all over again.   Grace New York is kind of like one of those places where, like, I lived there for 15 years before I moved to L.A. and New York was kind of one of those places. Like, I would still like ten, 12, 13, 14, 15 years, and I would just be walking down the street and I would like look up and see, like the Chrysler Building all lit, lit up. And I was like, Wow, I'm here. You know, I did it. I made it here. You know, it's like there's there's always just. Such a special energy that's there. So I completely get it in New York in the room.   Amy You mean, you don't do that on the 405?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Question. Do you ever feel like that in LA?   Amy You don't do it on the 405? When you in traffic?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Have you had the feeling of like, I'm here, I've made it like do you have that here.   Grace I mean, it's just a different feeling. I mean, like New York just has, like, things that you can look at. Whereas L.A., sometimes when I am like, you know, it's a pretty sunny day out and I'm driving down like a row of palm trees and I can see the Hollywood sign in the distance. I'm just like, okay, you cue L.A., like, Yeah, I'm here. I made it. You know, I used to always dream about Los Angeles as a little girl, so 100% I do have those moments. But yeah, right now I'm in a missing New York moment. So that really spoke to me.   Amy Wow, Ashley, I feel so much better now that we've talked to you.   Grace Yes, she's right.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Ditto.   Grace It's still 2022, and it's due in 2022 things. But we feel so much better now that we've chatted with you today.   Amy Yes. Yes. Do you have anything coming up you want to tell us about anything you'd like to plug? You can even be something you just love, not something you've created.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, my goodness. Well, obviously, I have my podcast new episodes every Monday. Anywhere you listen to podcast trials to triumphs.   Amy And last but not least, where can people find you on the Internets?   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins Oh, yes, you can find me at Ashley Blaine, B-L-A-I-N-E. Ashley spelled the original way. On Instagram and Twitter. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.   Amy Well, thank you so much, Ashley. This has been great talk.   Grace Thank you so much, Ashley.   Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins I adore you two. Thank you.   Grace Thank you. Bye. Okay to close us out. We're doing our creative tap in, which is our segment about creativity. Amy, are you ready for this week's quote?   Amy As ready as I'll ever be.   Grace Okay. Here we go. A creative life is an amplified life. That is by Elizabeth Gilbert. Say one more time. A creative life is an amplified life. Elizabeth Gilbert.   Amy Okay. I love Elizabeth Gilbert. She's the author of Big Magic. Right. We both know that. Yeah. Yeah, we both love that book. You told me about it. That's why I read it as you recommended it to me. So I'm a I'm a Liz Gill fan because of you. And I'm going to get a little literal on the quote amplified is like to increase the volume of turn something up. Mm hmm. So a creative life is a life that's been turned up a notch. And I agree with that. And I don't think it means having a creative career like you don't have to have a creative career to have a creative life. It's just how you creatively put things in your life, like what you do to express yourself creatively and to live creatively and to switch up your routine every now and then is going to like change, you know, raise the volume, raise the vibration on your life. So I think that is a very simple like, simply put quotes. But being creative raises your vibration is sort of how I am reading it. And I believe that is true. I strive to be creative, even beyond writing, however I can, even if not every day weekly, to try and just, like, keep my vibration high. And so I'm going to remember that. Liz. What about you, Grace? What does it make you think?   Grace Well, it makes me think about how often as writers, what we do is notice and amplify, you know? Oh, so we so we notice things that are going on in front of our eyes, in front of the world, you know? So I might walk down the street and just see, like, a guy or a girl like me dancing by herself. So I get to be I say down the street, and I make a character out of that. I'm just like, Oh, why is she dancing? Who is she? Where is she from? Is she happy, as she said? Is she dancing it out because, you know, something that happened in her life or is she just so joyously happy that she's dancing down the street like? So I think our job as artists at times is to take the things that happen in our lives, the things that we see, the things that we experience, and we amplify them to make art. So it makes me think of that, but it also makes me think of how blessed I feel to have creativity in my life. Yeah, because I feel like because I have creativity in my life, there are so many things that I can process, good or bad, through the lens of my creativity. Like even if I have a really bad experience, if I have a bad date, which I often did in New York, I was always on some bad dates, some man was ruining my day. But at the even in the midst of it, I would be like. You know, what is this, a character? You know what? I'm going to put this in something I write someday. So even though even when the bad things happen to me, I have the gift of being able to process it through my art. So when I hear creativity, a creative life is an amplified life. It just makes me think of all the ways that I can use what happens to me, good or bad, to to amplify, to create something that people can find some sort of relate ability in. Because, you know, we always say in writing that the specific is universal. So the things that happen in our everyday lives, if we can get specific, there's often people who can relate to it on some level, even if it's not exactly so. So, yeah, that's it kind of makes me think about, about the gift of being able to process trauma and joy through the lens of creativity.   Amy It was a simple quote, but I really love both our interpretations of it.   Grace Uh. Me too. Thanks for listening to the antidote. We hope this injected a little bit of joy into your week. I know it did mine. How about you, Amy?   Amy I feel good, girl. We should do this again sometime. Oh, we'll be here next week.   Grace And in the meantime, if you'd like to follow us on social, follow me. Grace. At Gracyact. That's G-R-A-C-Y-A-C-T.   Amy And follow me. Amy at AmyAniobi. That's A-M-Y-A-N-I-O-B-I and follow the show at theeantidotepod.   Grace That's thee with two E's.   Amy If you like, feeling good about yourself. Please subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.   Grace Goodbye.   Amy And next time you're out for a walk, twerk it out a little bit. And the antidote is hosted by us, Amy Ameobi and Grace Edwards. The show's production team includes senior producer Se'era Spragley Ricks and associate producer Jess Penzetta.   Grace Our executive producer is Erica Kraus, and our editor is Erika Janik. Sound Mixing by Alex Samson.   Amy Digital Production by Mijoe Sahiouni. Talent Booking by Marianne Ways. Our theme music was composed and produced by TT the artist and Cosmo The Truth.   Grace APM Studio executives in charge are Chandra Kavati, Alex Schaffert and Joanne Griffith. Concept created by Amy Aniobi and Grace Edwards.   Amy Send us your antidotes at AntidoteShow.org and remember to follow us on social media at theeantidotepod. That's thee with two E's.   Grace The Antidote is a production of American Public Media.   Amy What, what!

Coach Alina and Coach Alina answer questions from our community, the Natto nation. Time stamps 00:00 Intro 07:11 Rahul: How can I get deep sleep? 10:52 Peace: What if someone proves that short sleep causes a health issue? 14:45 Amy: How can we get through coming off sleeping pills? 26:15 Marcus: How can we sleep more than 90 minutes? 27:21 Brandon: Is it normal to have a sensation in the chest as night falls? Would you like a roadmap from Insomnia to immunity? Download using below link.  https://www.thesleepcoachschool.com/have-questions-1 — Would you like to work with a sleep coach? Awesome! Here are some great options: The Insomnia Immunity Group Coaching Program. BedTyme, a sleep coaching app for iOS and Android offering 1:1 text based coaching.  Zoom based 1:1 coaching with Coach Michelle or Coach Daniel. The Insomnia Immunity program is perfect if you like learning through video and want to join a group on your journey towards sleeping well. BedTyme is ideal if you like to learn via text and have a sleep coach in your pocket.  The 1:1 Zoom based program is for you if you like to connect one on one with someone who has been where you are now. For more about these programs here: www.thesleepcoachschool.com — Do you like learning by reading? If so, here are two books that offer breakthroughs! Tales of Courage by Daniel Erichsen  https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Courage-Twenty-six-accounts-insomnia/dp/B09YDKJ3KX Set it & Forget it by Daniel Erichsen  https://www.amazon.com/Set-Forget-ready-transform-sleep/dp/B08BW8KWDJ — Would you like to become a Sleep Hero by supporting the Natto movement on Patreon? If so, that's incredibly nice of you . And here's the link to do just that: https://www.patreon.com/thesleepcoachschool

In this episode, we get into the WHY behind why using our own personal unique inner authority system and type strategy IS SO POWERFULLY IMPORTANT. We discuss this, as always, through our lived experiences. This includes talking a lot about our journey here with Love Human Be Spirit and how every step has been led by our designs, and the ease that has invited into our flow. Let's dig in! Memorable mentions and moments: Amy:

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Yiddish copies of Christian Bible distributed in Rockland County, NY Rose - What do you think about adding another prayer to the Hail Mary? Travis - If the priest finishes giving communion and the extraordinary minister is the only one left, is it ok to not receive and go back to my pew? Can I give blessings to my family? Amy - How do I approach a good family friend about attending RCIA? Steven - I need help balancing presumption with confidence. Karl - I am an extraordinary minister and was bringing the Eucharist to someone and the plans fell through. What do I do with the host? Maggie – Question about using the grace God gives us.

How do we know when too much technology is “too much” for our kids?   How do we as parents help them learn to set boundaries with technology, without power struggles and fighting.   In this week's episode, I sit down with Amy McCready, the Founder of Positive Parenting Solutions and the creator of the 7-Step Parenting Success System online course.   We talk about the importance of technology and how to limit it effectively. I know you will learn so much about how to navigate technology with your kids, because I certainly learned a lot! Listen in as we talk about: How to know when technology is a problem for kids Amy's thoughts on technology in the bedroom and why it isn't always a bad thing The impacts of technology on kids of different ages Tips to set limits around technology in your family The negative effects of punishments or consequences involving taking away technology Amy is the author of two best-selling parenting books: If I Have to Tell You ONE MORE TIME and The "Me, Me, Me" Epidemic.   She is a TODAY Show contributor and has been featured on CBS This Morning, CNN, Fox & Friends, MSNBC, Rachael Ray, Steve Harvey, The Doctors & others. Her greatest joy is helping moms and dads become the parents they've always wanted to be. Resources mentioned in the episode  Purchase Amy's Course  Sign up for Amy's free online class GABB: Safe cell phones for kids Listen to Episode 22 with Amy: How to Set and Maintain Effective Routines   Sign Up for Natalie's Newsletter    Connect with Amy On Instagram On Twitter Facebook https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/    Connect with Natalie Tysdal On Instagram On YouTube On Facebook Website

Studfit, FrenzyFans, KnightRoso, Herooftheskies, Phillish and GamerAmy discuss Mario Kart Tour mobile game Some questions include:ICEBREAKERWhat was one of the most most memorable/unique “first 12 High End items” you received in the game?Hydra's app has highlighted some of the first items you received in the game. What is your most memorable or unique?ThisBeChris Which course is improved the most by its R version in terms of fun factor?ThisBeChris What's your least favorite 3 item combination to get from an item box?GR★Jonboy88{TRZ} In the last Rundown I speculated that a New Donk City Tour would be a cool New Years celebration along with a new Kong alt. So if Nintendo started representing other series in MKT what other Nintendo franchises or games would you like see represented. Can be Mario or non Mario. And what would the spotlights and courses be like for those respective Tours me personally I want a Hyrule Tour Featuring Link from Zelda the Master Cycle and Paraglider from BOTW. And the track could be a remake of the Hyrule Castle course in MK8D.Studfit rephrase: we've seen Mario crossovers like Cat Peach/Cat Toad (Super Mario 3D World/Bowser's Fury) and Builder Mario/Builder Luigi (Mario Makers), what Nintendo crossover would you want to see? What would you envision the new items and tracks to be?KnightRoso Do you guys have any nicknames or shortened names for certain drivers? For example, a popular one is Holidaisy for Daisy (Holiday Cheer)Studfit rephrase: We've heard AussieKart's Bouce (Kangaroo Yoshi) take off, FrenzyFans use the term Hallowaluigi for Vampire Waluigi and I have desperately been trying to get names like Toilet Paper Mario catch on, what nicknames have you had for drivers (for K/G for that matter) that you enjoy using and the community needs to hear?Geeves2424 (TRZ) Would love to know if any of you have a superstitious “pre-pull” routine.Studfit rephrase: we've seen some reset four times before pulling (FrenzyFans) or wear a gold hat and try to become one with the marioverse (Sammy D of Kart Life) or be as close to the home plumbing as possible with the trademark CTP (Geeves2424), do you have any superstitions when pulling on pipes?MULTIPLAYERIn MP, I see people fly around in random circles. I believe it is obvious they are trying not to be hit, but does it not slow them down? I try this from time to time and I hit something, is there an easy way to do these maneuvers? Let's say I get a lightning or blue shell, when is the best time to release? If I get in lap 1, should I hold until certain position in lap 2?Items are crucial, especially towards mid-way through lap 2, how are you going through the last two item boxes to make sure you win?ACRStudfit and Herooftheskies are pushing themselves in ACR to get a new badge (Top 10 and Top 100 respectively) so we've brought onto the episode a true ACR champion, GamerAmy who has nearly every top 10 badge out there. Studfit interviewed GamerAmy in the spring for the ACR tutorial but below are ACR questions we ask Amy:How do you plan resources (level tickets, cap tickets, item tickets, etc) for a tour? How do you leverage rubies and the pipes in a tour to help with coverage/account?How do you plan your two weeks? Do you like to complete coinbox tracks first or save for last? You were using paper to track progress back in the spring, but lately been using DKR's sheet. What do you find the most helpful? What could be improved? What information do you rely on the most to help you (Action Count, Gain column, etc)?Coinbox is king so how do you approach coinbox tracks specifically? Do you like to start at the first block? Pass through the first item box in 1st, 3rd or 4th position? Where do you like reset? Where do you use your item ticket?

It's Friday, my friends! And that means it's time for another fabulous Q+A! What came up this time? A lot of pragmatic topics that many of us can relate to, like protein, calorie ranges, caffeine consumption and more! Let's dig⛏️ in! Find the latest episode of Q+A Friday on SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Q+A Friday, Ep. 069 The link to the video version is here. If you're not already a member of The Killer B Hive Facebook group, you'll need to request access first: https://www.facebook.com/pahla.bowers/videos/287522436710597 00:02:33 - Amy - What is the calorie range to be on target? Link: The 5-0 Method: Weight Loss for Women over 50 https://pahlabfitness.com/weight-loss-over-50/ 00:04:50 - Cindy - Have you thought about starting a group on Discord as an alternative to Facebook? 00:11:42 - Christina - I'm planning to pause my weight loss journey because I'm going to train for a 200-mile bike ride. Should I increase my calorie intake because of this increased activity? Link: Body Shaping for Women over 50 https://pahlabfitness.com/body-shaping-over-50/ 00:16:40 - Amy - How important is it to get a certain amount of protein in your diet if you're losing weight? 00:25:16 - Christine - Is there an alternative to triangles? I can't seem to do them properly. 00:26:16 - Tanya - Regarding labeling my feelings when I journal, I often get the thought that I'm not labeling the feeling correctly. Do you think it would be a good idea to journal about what my thoughts are when I have a certain feeling? Link: Ep. 039: FEELINGS (suggested by moderator) https://pahlabfitness.com/feelings/ 00:34:01 - Jacqui - What is a good way for me to discover and recognize why, even though I know I'll feel better if I eat healthy foods, I keep sabotaging myself by making bad food choices? 00:47:04 - Karen - How much pain is enough to take a break from your workouts? I understand that you can't speak to a specific person's “moderate.” 00:55:08 - Alison - Is there any reason why we shouldn't go over the recommended amount of water in the 5-0 Method? 00:57:36 - Natalie - You have mentioned in the past that you've done away with many things in your diet such as caffeine. What brought you to this decision, and what has it changed for you? I've noticed that I've slowly gained weight over the years after starting to drink coffee with cream. Thanks for listening to the Friday Q+A! If you're new around here (or even if you're “old,” LOL), these are some helpful resources to get you going: Join my FREE and PRIVATE Facebook group, The Killer B Hive: https://goo.gl/fqtMXU Watch FREE workouts and informational videos on the Pahla B, Fitness + Life Coach YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/PahlaBowers Check out videos, podcasts, coaching and more on my website: https://pahlabfitness.com/ Wanna lose weight? The 5-0 Method (my FREE eBook) is the best place to start: https://pahlabfitness.com/weight-loss-over-50/ For hands-on coaching in a supportive group environment, the Get Your GOAL Coaching + Accountability group is the place to be: https://pahlabfitness.com/get-your-goal/ Cheers to your good health and fitness.

Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy! I'm Amy McPhie Allebest. Today we will be discussing an article called “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII,” by Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood. This article was published by the George Washington University Law Review in 1965, in response to the Civil Rights Act, which had been passed the year before, in 1964, and it asks “the extent to which the Constitution may protect women against discrimination, and the interpretation of the sex discrimination provisions of the equal employment opportunity title of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” This article was read, and the argument later used, by a rising star at the A.C.L.U.— Ruth Bader Ginsburg - to convince the Supreme Court that the Equal Protection Clause does indeed apply to women.  This is an exciting moment for this history project as the podcast enters the Civil Rights era and we start to hear from authors who have new and more expansive, inclusive conceptions of women's experiences within patriarchal systems. This is a landmark article, written by brilliant and groundbreaking lawyers. And I am so lucky to have a brilliant lawyer as my reading partner to discuss this work with me today, Rochelle Briscoe. Hi, Rochelle! Rochelle: Hi, Amy! Amy:[How we know each other] So could we start by having you introduce yourself to listeners? Tell a bit about where you're from and what perspective you bring to the text today. Rochelle: I'm the youngest child, born into a  family of 8 born into a Southern Baptist family-- both of my parents were part of the Great migration.  Im ‘ ados & neither parent had even high schools educ..  In fact my Mothers mom-- my MaSue (who I named my daughter after-- was my idol… ) parent raised us in Small rural town in the agricultural part of So cal -- somehow I  developed an interest in law & politics at a disturbingly young age. Reading about JFK & MLK in the 2nd grade set me on a path that no 7-year-old should ever determine. I volunteered for neighborhood and local government initiatives, served as student body president (middle and high school), as a Congressional Page in DC AND FELL deeply IN LOVE WITH THE LAW AND POLITICS there, and then decided to apply only to colleges in Washington DC -- (much to parent chagrin, etc… ) attend Georgetown's School of Foreign Service,  ...  After studying abroad in Japan, Kenya and Nicaragua, andreturn to the US &  enrolled in law school at U.C. Davis (where she was elected president of the Law Student Association-). After law school, I had Federal Clerkship in Sacramento - then moved into an  International BigLaw firm. (Add … context role of glass ceiling and Inclusion work on Hiring Councils…) CAL..  NY back to DC  Role of 2008/9 recession... new mom ... I then  began using my legal background to conduct targeted searches for Fortune 50 companies and leading law firms, and later joined President Obama's White House Office of Presidential Personnel.  I initially led the recruitment and retention of senior presidential appointments, in GC offices, DOJ and fed Inspec gen'l and when the president of the United States calls you his "People Person", you just roll with it. Moved into Tech with USDS --- Obama plan for partnership with SV to bring fed gov't into the 21st century with technology (stories re HHS/VA.. Fires etc…)    then Google,  Created YouTube team for  Candidate Development Programs now in multiple roles YT including RJ work across our platform and as the People Officer with coaching & developing tech execs… The hardest role I continue in is that of wife & mother -- strong willed teen son,  Compassionate and wildly confident Lia is 13… two dogs (met daren - very similar backgrounds, lucky to find partner who wants to break the mold with you) … . living the struggle with grace and fun and...

On the nineteenth entry of our See It to Be It podcast series, Amy C. Waninger speaks with Sha'Ron James, an insurance professional with nearly two decades of experience providing forward thinking, strategic and regulatory advice to clients on a number of business and economic development matters. Sha'Ron talks a bit about her unique role as an insurance regulator, her career journey up to this point, and offers some advice for people who are interested in making the jump into the insurance industry.Click here to sign up for The Access Point! Our first live interactive weekly webinar takes place September 15th at 7pm CST.Connect with Sha'Ron on LinkedIn and Twitter.Donate to the Justice for Breonna Taylor GoFundMe by clicking here.Find out how the CDC suggests you wash your hands by clicking here.Help food banks respond to COVID-19. Learn more at FeedingAmerica.org.Check out our website.TRANSCRIPTAmy: Sha'Ron, thank you so much for joining me today. How are you?Sha'Ron: I'm great. Thank you for having me.Amy: I am so excited to talk to you today because you have a job that most people don't even know exists. So just, yeah, tell us about what it is, your role in the insurance industry.Sha'Ron: Well, Amy, my role in the insurance industry I think is somewhat unique in that I spent the past decade or so as an insurance regulator. And so as an insurance regulator, I was responsible for ensuring that insurance companies maintain the promise that they make to policy holders. And I did that in two different roles that I can share a little bit more about. But just again, in its most basic form as a regulator, I was responsible for ensuring that insurance companies maintain their promise to policy holders.Amy: And that means a couple of different things, right? Because it means on the one hand that they're not denying claims that they should be paying. Absolutely. But on the other hand, it also means that you have a hand in making thing, making sure that these companies are holding enough money back in reserve so that they're going to be around long enough to pay the claims. So can you talk a little bit about what that means?Sha'Ron: Yes. So during my time in state government in the state of Florida was with the Department of Financial Services. In other parts of the country it's different offices of insurance regulation. So I held two roles. Both of them were somewhat unique, but played a really important role in ensuring, again, that that promise was kept. So I spent about six years as the director of the division of rehabilitation and liquidation, which is the division within state government that takes over insurance companies that become financially insolvent. So when our insurance commissioner determines that an insurance company doesn't have the financial wherewithal to pay the claims as they become due, that referral was then made to my division, and I led a team of about 120 people that would oversee the takeover of an insurance carrier. We would run off the claims and transition policy holders to more vibrant financially solvent insurance companies. And then we would also sue to recover assets so that those claims could be paid. That was a pretty fascinating role. Really exciting at times, but also somewhat disheartening because there are times when insurance companies aren't able to make good on their promise, and so policy holders are sometimes left holding the bag with unpaid claims and unfulfilled promises. And so it was a very delicate balance to be able to take care of the policy holder while at the same time essentially shut down an active insurance company.Amy: And so for people not in the industry, not in the insurance industry, I think it's important to understand, you know, the, the, the insurance companies make a promise to pay at some point in the future, but they take your premiums up front, right? So you are paying for that promise and it's up to regulators like yourself to make sure that, you know, if you have a long-tail policy, like I think, you know, probably the most common example is, you know, asbestos claims, right? This right, we have people going into buildings, you know, tearing down buildings. We have policies around, you know, their health and safety working for us. And 20 years from now those employees develop lung cancer because they were working with asbestos. Those employees then go to the insurer to collect for medical bills, for pain and suffering. And it's not just that the employer needs to be there to help handle that, but their insurance company is really the backstop for those lawsuits. So if they've invested with an insurance company that's not around 20 years down the road, these folks, these workers then have, are going to struggle to pay their hospital bills. They're going to struggle to be compensated for the damage that their employers caused them. Is that a good summary?Sha'Ron: That's a great summary. And another example that we have run into is in long-term care insurance where again as you mentioned, policyholders are paying premiums for years. And even in the basic, you know, life context, you're paying policy premiums for years in the hope that when there's a trigger, when something happens in life, the life context, if you pass away or are in a long-term care situation, if you have you know, something, a health episode that triggered you using your long-term care insurance, the hope is that that carrier is going to be there and will make good on that. There's also a hope that over time your premiums will not significantly swing, meaning that you may be paying $20 a month and you're told you'll be paying $20 a month for, you know, the next 20 years. But then 10 years in you find out, "Oh, the insurance company needs more money." Now you have to pay $120. And so in other role as a regulator I served as the state insurance consumer advocate. And Florida has a pretty unique position in that--and other states don't have this, but the state insurance consumer advocate represents the insurance buying public in rate cases and in rate hearings. So if a company is looking to increase their rates or introduce new products into the marketplace, I was responsible for weighing in on whether or not that was a good product or a good rate for consumers. And so again, that also was a really interesting perspective given the landscape of the industry, which you and I know, Amy, is really vast and really complex, and so I was grateful to be able to see the industry from both contexts.Amy: And I think that's an interesting perspective too because there's a balancing act there for people who are unfamiliar with this is you want the insurers to get enough of a rate, right? Enough premium to remain solvent, to pay all of their claims to do all of the work that they need to do. Right? So they have to have enough money coming in, but on the flip of that coin, you don't want them to have rates that are so high that they're gouging their policyholders.Sha'Ron: Absolutely. Rates cannot be excessive. And they have to be justified and they can't be discriminatory. And so those terms to a lay person seem pretty simple, excessive, you know, fair. Non-discriminatory, but all of those terms that make up how a regulator evaluates a rate- in reality, it's really complicated. And again, there are a lot of people, in terms of the team, that really participate in that analysis. So you have an actuary, you have lawyers, you have analysts. And there are so many factors that go into whether or not the rate can be justified. And so again, like you said, you want to make sure that the rate is adequate so that insurance companies have enough money to pay the claims, but you want to make sure that policy holders aren't being treated unfairly, being charged too much, or, in the context of issues about discriminatory rates, you want to make sure that insurance companies aren't taking certain risk factors and kind of extrapolating that risk factor across a broad swath of people. So when you look at zip coding, you look at, you know, race, ethnicity, geography, age, you want to make sure again, that large groups of policy holders aren't being treated unfairly based upon certain certain rating factors, Amy: Right. Because insurance is all about discrimination, right? In the purest sense of the word, right? Higher risk individuals, companies should pay higher premiums because they're more likely to have a claim or to cause a claim. But then, you know, again, there's this balancing act, because in the United States we know that, you know, you can pretty much use zip code as a proxy for race. So, you know, when an insurer says, "Where's the zip code where your car is parked at night," right? You have to make sure that that's really relevant to the property risk of the car and not "We're charging black customers more."Sha'Ron: Absolutely. Absolutely, and similar conversations take place around data and insurance companies' use of, you know, what we call big data and how they capture data and use data for policy holders. So again, all of this is just really to me, very fascinating and very impactful. So again, as you look at the broadness of the industry, the role of a regulator is very important, and it's sometimes often missed when we talk about insurance professionals. Amy: Absolutely. And so that leads me to my next question, which is how did you get into this role? Because I'm guessing this wasn't something that you thought about, you know, when you were in high school or college and said, "Oh, someday I'm going to regulate insurance in Florida," which might be the most complicated job in the world by the way, because Florida has the most regulations of any state.Sha'Ron: Absolutely, and the most risk.Amy: How did you find yourself in that role?Sha'Ron: It was an interesting path, and I think, like most of my fellow insurance professionals that I have relationships with and I've talked with, it wasn't a direct path. It wasn't something that I dreamed about. So I am a lawyer by trade and training, and so I was practicing law with a firm and my practice was primarily--it started as primarily a real estate transactional practice during the height of the real estate market. So I was doing real estate closings and litigation, and my practice shifted away from real estate transactional practice to more of a bankruptcy practice. Because a lot of developers, contractors, banks were--people, you know, just in general were being hit hard when the bubble burst. So my practice in law shifted to bankruptcy, and an opportunity became available in state government to become a part of the division I mentioned, the division of rehab and liquidation, which really is akin to bankruptcy. Essentially it is placing an insurance company into quote-unquote bankruptcy, and because of how companies are regulated--they're regulated at the state level versus the federal level, and so the state oversees that, the takedown, and the unwinding of an insurance company. So my bankruptcy background and my legal background I think was very important in me landing this new role. And also, you know, frankly it was good for me in terms of work-life balance because at that time I had a new child. My daughter's 12 now. It was a good fit to move from the pressure cooker environment of being in litigation to what I consider a more balanced environment for my family.Amy: I think that's such a great story. And you know, like you said, so many people end up in the insurance industry just by happenstance. What surprised you about the industry or about the role that you were in that you did not expect coming into it? Sha'Ron: I really didn't expect to fall in love with insurance like I have. Amy: I understand. [laughs]Sha'Ron: You know, it's kinda like, I just didn't know enough about it and what I knew about it just didn't seem or sound as we say it, you know, it didn't sound sexy. It didn't sound like something that I would want to be involved in for ever. So I was really surprised by that, and once I got involved--and one of the reasons why I didn't think I would enjoy it as much is I really didn't understand the fact that insurance as an industry is a people-oriented industry. It touches people. And so one of the things outside of, you know, my practice of law is that I'm really passionate about being impactful, really passionate about people, and so I always thought that I can only impact people in the social kind of policy context. So education, criminal justice, you know, I had no idea that this industry was out here that is regulated business, but also impactful towards people. So that's surprised me. And once I really realized and found my niche it's been, you know, me in the industry ever since and I'm really committed to making it the best possible industry it can be, not just for policyholders but for insurance professionals as well.Amy: And you raise such an awesome point, because so many people have this call, right? They want to follow their heart and do something good for their communities, good for the world, and they think in their minds--and I know I felt like this too--that to do something good for the world you have to live on, you know, a very paltry salary. You have to have very little means, right? You know, I know so many people that go into social work because that's where their heart is, and there's nothing at all wrong with that, but by the time you've got a master's degree and now you're making just above minimum wage, right, and you're paying off student loan debt, like, that's a big financial hit. I think it's so important for people to realize you can do a lot of good in the insurance industry but also have a middle class income that's sustainable for your entire career.Sha'Ron: Absolutely. And I'll give you an example, and it really kind of I think illustrates--as you mentioned earlier, the role that Florida plays in insurance, Florida is a high-risk state because of our prevalence for catastrophic hurricanes. And so a couple of years ago in my role as insurance consumer advocate, I had the opportunity unfortunately to be involved in the post-hurricane climate that we were in as a state. And so one day I got a call from a woman who said that her parents who were in their 90s were in their home when one of the hurricanes came through and a tree fell on their house. The great thing was they were not harmed, but the insurance company did not want to total loss the home, although the house had actually moved. And you know, this can get real technical and geeky, but the point is that, you know, I was able to weigh in in my role as insurance consumer advocate and assist them and kind of mediate between them and then the insurance company, educate the policy holder on, you know, things in their policy, but at the same time weigh in with the carrier that, you know, these folks are in their 90s. These are factors that aren't in the policy. They're in their 90s, and, you know, they're good people and it will be a great thing to do. And so I was able to help. And so that's an example of, because of my knowledge of insurance, my knowledge of insurance policies, my relationships in the industry, how something--what I thought was technical and boring term turned into an opportunity to help and to serve. And I think that's really important.

Key Takeaways:3:37 Robyn talks about the plan and challenges she had rescheduling her clients after being closed for almost 2 months7:05 Doug asks Robyn and Amy “What were the emotions you felt when you’re back in and opened and live to the public again?”10:22 Doug asks Robyn and Amy “How did you prepare your staff?”18:25 Jason asks how they are handling the social distance order while the business is open24:40 Amy and Robyn weigh in on question from the chat, “If you could re do your soft opening, what would it look like”?”

We all love that coworker who is filled with positive energy that spills over to everyone they touch. Certain people have a knack for celebrating the wins of others, and even though we all might want to be that person, it takes a specific mindset that most of us lack. It’s an incredible benefit when this person ends up in the field of education, where they can spend their days impacting the lives of students in positive ways. Amy Campbell is a friend and colleague in my school district. As the 2020 Washington State Teacher of the Year, she is clearly gifted and intense, but she has now become a public figure who is a fierce advocate for her special education students. Show Highlights: How Amy is intensely passionate about celebrating human success with her special education students who are moderately to profoundly impacted by their disabilities Amy’s personal brand of intensity involves profound anxiety around celebrations and wanting others to enjoy life to the fullest How her intensity made her feel different Culturally speaking, Amy had a lot of privilege as a white, middle-class woman who was uninhibited How she’s had to tone down her energy level that is more than most people, and how she “feels like the wrong person” at many times How we feel too intense in many leadership and gender roles How Amy uses her fire for good in having a positive presupposition about things and seeing her students with disabilities as assets and cause for celebration How Amy is a fierce advocate for inclusion How Amy harnesses the power of her intensity by understanding herself and having time for reflection How personal habits of organization and running help Amy How distance learning has affected Amy and the importance of her need for celebrations The best advice for Amy came from her principal, who told her that she should lead adults in the same ways she leads kids A recommended book: Fostering Resilient Learners by Kristin Souers Why Amy’s favorite part of her job is the way she believes that every person needs space for voice and choice’ How Amy loves helping students learn to communicate their needs and wants Parting advice from Amy: “You are enough. You are amazing. You are great. Look for the joy in this world and have a positive disposition. If you can share that joy, then you’re doing good in the world.” Resources: Find Amy on Facebook or Twitter (@the_mrscampbell) Check Amy out on YouTube Fostering Resilient Learners by Kristin Souers    

VIBES! This week we work on raising our vibrations and what that means from an energetic standpoint and how we can go about doing so, from the practical everyday strategies to the deep work that lies in our subconscious. The podcast is in four segments, and here’s this week’s breakdown: 1: Rock Your Life with Amy: How are your vibrations this week? Mine were not on point, despite doing all the "right" things. So I dove deep to explore what we can learn from that and how we can embrace the lower vibe moments and use them to teach us and ultimately raise our vibration. I get into the vibrational power of honesty and how we can tap into that and use it to raise us up. 2: The Interview (12:12): Today we talk with Giselle Koy. Giselle is a powerful vibrational force, and the author of six books, her latest being "The Codes of Immortality." She is a certified epigenetic coach and a transformational coach centering on getting people into their full power and fulfilling their soul and destiny. She talks about how she is handling this time, talks practically about using a spiritual and vibrational checklist, which I love, and she takes this further into how vibrations affect our DNA and other things we can be doing to raise our frequency. She addresses that we have to lay the right foundation to raise our frequency, and what we can do to make that happen more optimally. And she mentions what she's working on now, and to get that, simply email her at gisellekoy@gmail.com. 3: Go Aff Yourself (31:43) with Jill Faulkner of stickwithit.co: Jill vows to work on her accents, and we determine that this can raise your vibration! How? Listen to find out. We talk about who we are inherently and what happens to our vibration in this experience. Resetting and expanding your vibration is our focus, and it enables us to be our true self in the world. Can we have high vibration without the “productivity” we are used to? And what about when no one is looking?. This week’s Aff is: I release my blocks. 4: BYOBBB(51:23) Build Your Own Brand, Biz + Brain with Bijou Finney: Neither of us were feeling high-vibe the day we recorded, so it was a great time to talk about what to do in those moments. We touched on work flow and the roller coaster of vibes even when you are doing al the “right” things, and self medicating when our vibe is really low. What do we do on low vibe days when we can’t do any more? And how pervasive is the collective vibe, and what does honesty bring to the table? Please rate, review, and subscribe! Go to amyedwards.com/blog for links and more, and to sign up for the newsletter!

Today's episode is my answer to a reader question I received, and I thought it was so timely, I moved it ahead of some other podcast/blog post topics I had planned. (If you have a question or topic you'd like me to tackle on the podcast, drop me a line at amy@afarmishkindoflife.com) "Amy - How do we deal with friends and family who disagree with us and are so polar opposite from us about this whole Covid thing? I feel like this is just pitting everyone against each other and I just want to turn everything off and to go sit out in my chicken coop. But is that the right answer? I have seen you post on social media about how important it is to continue to be positive and post positive things on social media. So explain to the class how it is that you aren’t just sitting all alone in your barn and drinking beer until this passes. -  Jeremy" In episode 88, I tackle: things to keep in mind when communicating with people who disagree with you understanding when stress, fear, and exhaustion are talking and listening knowing when it's time to step away for your own sanity how to continue communicating (on social media) without losing your mind why it's important to continue to be a light for others. Listen to the podcast episode by pressing the play button in the black bar near the top of this post, or find episode 88 of the Farmish Kind of Life podcast in your favorite podcast catcher. Subscribe to my Farmish Kind of Life podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, PlayerFM, or other popular podcast players. All episodes of the podcast will also be linked under the podcast tab that you can find way at the top of this post in my menu bar.  

I'm really pleased to welcome back to the podcast Amy Rowlinson who we interviewed in series 2 about how to invest in property. In this interview we're also welcoming Amy's business partner Dan Hulbert to talk with us about how and where to start if you're thinking of buying investment property. In this episode: What is the best type of property investing to start with What do you need to know before considering buy to let The 3 main people you need in your 'boat' Ways to raise a deposit What is property crowd funding Common myths busted Steps you can take today   Resources: Ready Steady Websites EXCLUSIVE podcast offer Join The Money Circle membership Join the next FREE Plug Your Money Leaks Challenge Book in a complimentary call to discuss how financial coaching can help you move from financial overwhelm to confidence and control.  Join Catherine's Facebook Page and FREE Facebook Group My Website  My Online Courses - Investing for beginners from £1 My YouTube Channel  Connect with me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook  Find Amy & Dan on their Website  Follow Amy & Dan on Facebook  Join Amy & Dan's Facebook group The Property Vault Podcast Read last year's interview with Amy - How to Invest in Property Check your credit score free with Credit Club from Martin Lewis

In our fifth See It to Be It podcast interview, Amy C. Waninger chats with Barrington Salmon, an award-winning journalist and writer with over 30 years of experience in the newspaper journalism field. They talk a bit about how he got into journalism, and Barrington offers a few pieces of advice for aspiring professionals looking to break into this industry. These discussions highlight professional role models in a variety of industries, and our goal is to draw attention to the vast array of possibilities available to emerging and aspiring professionals, with particular attention paid to support black and brown professionals. Check out some of the SI2BI blogs we've posted while you wait for the next episode!Connect with Barrington on LinkedIn or Twitter!Read the blog post here!Visit our website!TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach Nunn. Now, listen here. Y'all know what we're trying to do. We're trying to build, inspire, encourage, empower, all on a platform that affirms black and brown experiences in corporate America. And it's interesting because as I came up just kind of coming into myself as a professional, I didn't see a lot of people that looked like me in consulting. I didn't see a lot of people that looked like me in human resources either. But when I would come across someone who looked like me doing something I wanted to do, it gave me encouragement. It gave me a stronger sense of hope that I could do it too, and so it's with that that we're really excited to talk to y'all about and bring you another entry, actually, into our See It to Be It series. So the next thing you're gonna hear is an interview between Amy C. Waninger, a guest on the show, a member of the team, and the author of Network Beyond Bias, and a leader who just happens to be an ethnic minority. In fact, yo, Sound Man, give me some air horns right HERE for my leaders. [he complies] Yo, and give me some more air horns right HERE [he complies again] for the See It to Be It series. So catch y'all next time. I know you're gonna enjoy this. Peace.Amy: So Barrington, thank you for joining me today. I am so glad to have you here. Barrington: Thank you. I'm glad to be here.Amy: And you are a journalist, and specifically a journalist within black media and black reporting, and so I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about how you got into journalism and what about it appealed to you.Barrington: I'd always [known] since I was, like, four years old, that I wanted [to write.] I was fascinated with words, fascinated with the concept of putting thought to paper, and so I knew that I wanted to write. I didn't know it was gonna be journalism. So I went to Miami-Dade Community College and Florida State. I did three years, like, three-and-a-half years of international relations, and then I was like, "Why am I even doing this?" So I said, "I need to find something that I'm gonna enjoy" and that I was hopefully gonna get paid for. So I went to a small newspaper that was in Tallahassee called the Florida Flambeau. Tallahassee had, like, the first hurricane in its history, like, recorded history, like, in... it was, like, in '84, and I had a friend who went out to the cape because he had never experienced a hurricane and he almost got blown away. So I wrote the story, and when I brought it back the guy said to me "I don't believe you wrote this." So I told him "I'll sit in the office, you give me a topic to write, I'll find people and do the research and do a story." And when I did that he was like, "Oh, well, I guess you really wrote it." [laughs] So I worked for them in the evenings, and public relations always paid more, so I've always gone back and forth between public relations and journalism. So I got a job with the Department of Labor, the Florida Department of Labor, as a writer. So I worked for them in the morning and worked for the newspaper in the evening. I finally got to a point where I got a job with the Tallahassee Democrat, which is the main paper in Tallahassee, and I've been doing that for 34 years. It's only been in the past maybe ten years that I've really begun to focus on--and it wasn't even intentional. I kept on pitching my stories and pitching ideas and trying to get a foot in, a leg in, somewhere, 'cause it really is about who you know. You have lots of talented people running around who nobody knows about who can't get a leg, a foot in the door, that type of thing, and so you have to first be persistent. You know, my sister said to me "I couldn't do your job because you always have people telling you no." "No, I'm not interested in talking to you. No, get out of my face. No, I don't like the media." And I said, "Rejection is a part of what I do." So you gotta have thick skin, and you gotta be persistent, and every now and then you have to find an angel, because I went to the Democrat--I sent in applications seven times, and they told me no seven times, and the eighth time I went in and I said to the managing editor, "I need for you to give me a chance, because I need--" I was getting ready to get kicked out of the job at the other [?] I was working for because I was really clashing with the guy who was my boss. And he said, "Give me some of your stories." He called me back and he said, "I believe I'm gonna give you a chance." And that's how I became a journalist.Amy: That's wonderful that you had somebody in your corner that believed in you.Barrington: Yeah, and I've been fortunate that way. I've met people who see something and who have--you know, they've gotten an opportunity and they're paying it forward. So yeah, and if you--you know, for the young people who might be thinking about doing this, you've gotta read. You've gotta read everything. You've gotta read every day. You've gotta read incessantly to keep up with what's going on, of course, you know, in this digital age. Watch the news. I don't like American news, because there are 204 countries in the world, and most times you don't hear anything about the ones--particularly, you know, countries in Africa, African countries or countries with people who aren't white unless it's a drought or a famine or a war. And there's so much more. Like, one of the things that has been news that isn't really news here is that ten of Africa's 54 countries have the fastest-growing economies in the world. Africa is the youngest continent in the world. The young people I think under 18 is the highest of any continent in the world, so they are the future, and these young people in a lot of cases are doing with much less than people do here, and they're doing fantastic things in technology. My job has always been really to let people know what's going in the world, why it's important, why they should care, especially black people. So I write--I used to write for seven newspapers. I'm now down to four, because the same type of [?] you see in--I don't know if you know, but last week more than 1,000 people got fired from Buzzfeed and Huffington Post and Gannett. And so journalism has been reeling since the internet really took off. Amy: I was gonna ask you about that. We went from a 24-hour news cycle to an on-demand news cycle, and I think journalism has seen a lot of disruption in the last 10, 20 years.Barrington: And I keep on thinking I'm crazy because "Why am I still doing this?" But it's what I love. I've been in several instances where I've been at a crossroads in my life, and I've always been like "I don't know what else I want to do." So I'm still [?]. And you find different ways. I write for--I do web content. I write speeches for non-profit CEOs. I got married a month ago, and my wife is a filmmaker, and she's into all of this other stuff. She has a radio show on WPFW. So we did our first co-hosting thing last week. It was pretty cool. I was scared to death. [laughs] But we're gonna do that. So, you know, you just gotta find ways to--you gotta adapt. Adapt or die. So I'm adapting, always looking for opportunities. The thing is is that when you put in the work and you're able to attain a certain level of excellence, if you want to call it that, and you show consistency in what you do, people are gonna see it. Now, I don't need to be, like, one of them dudes in New York, like, on NBC and that type of stuff. I don't like the limelight. I've always been content to kind of be in the background and do what I do. So that's what [?].Amy: That's wonderful. So can you tell me about a story or the impact of a story that you're particularly proud of in your career?Barrington: I got called by a lady who's a program coordinator for the College of Health, the Annenberg College of Health in health communications at USC in California, and she said, you know, "We're looking for some fellows. If you have a good idea, give us an idea, and if we like it we'll, you know, give you a stipend and bring you out for a week to talk to other fellows and learn some things, how to develop and push your story." So gentrification has been ravaging Washington, D.C. and its surrounding areas. We've seen people like me, who are medium-income people, middle-income people, we can't afford to live in D.C., you know? $5,000 rents, million-dollar houses, $800, 900, 1 million dollars for a house--a regular house. You know, nothing fancy [?]. And so it's a phenomenon that has raged across the U.S. San Francisco. Oakland is out of control. You know, wherever people are living in Silicon Valley, you have the techies making millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they can afford to live, and other people are living in their cars or living on the streets or having to find somewhere else to live. I've moved about four or five times in the Washington, D.C. metro area, because it's like a ripple. You know, I lived in a community called Hyattsville, and five years ago it was about maybe $600 or $700 a month for rent. When I left it was $1,300 a month. And so that's the type of stuff that we're dealing with. I have a friend in Indianapolis, and she's always like "Come on out. At least you can afford a house out here." Amy: Exactly. Exactly what I was thinking, yes, because I live in Indy. [laughs]Barrington: Yeah. So I did a three-part series on the health effects of gentrification on displaced D.C. residents, and it's gotten a lot of buzz. I went to a friend's play. The play was about gentrification, and the director asked me to come up and talk to and field questions from the audience about, you know, my stories, my research, and the effects. I was invited to Anacostia Smithsonian Museum to give a presentation about it. And, you know, it's just something that is on people's mind, and people are living through the experience. So I don't know if that--I think the greatest thing that reporters love is when you do a story and there's a policy change [and] the policy makers or the elected officials see it, and it hasn't gotten to that because there's so many moving parts and it's so complex, but it's one that I'm very proud of.Amy: That's wonderful.Barrington: It took me 18 months to do it, and I think I interviewed about 30 people. I read about 100 stories and research paper and everything. It took forever, but I'm very proud of what I did.Amy: That's wonderful. So would you liken the health effects or the--and pardon me if there's ignorance in this question, but it almost sounds like a refugee situation. Like, what we're seeing in other parts of--Barrington: Yeah, it is. It is, because D.C. has [lost] about 60,000 residents in the past maybe five years, long-time residents, native Washingtonians who have had to move because they couldn't afford it. I've talked to researchers and scientists, and they talk about the fact that the stress and the anxiety of trying to find somewhere to live, the stress of trying to find the money if you decide to stay there, the clash of cultures--because D.C. used to be 72% black. It's now 49%, and the folks who are coming in are mostly white, mostly young, and the biggest complaint that residents have is that these folks come in and they want to change the names of streets. They want to change the names of communities. They want to erase and whitewash the history that is D.C. So that has been problematic. For example--let me give you an example. It's a common thing in D.C. where black people live to sit on the stoop, especially in the summer time when it's hot. These guys are calling the police because they don't want them sitting on the stoop. On Sundays it's always been a wink and a nod that if people were going to church, you could double-park in front of the church instead of having to park down--you know, a mile down the road. They have been calling the police to move people's cars. So there's a disconnect and a lack of respect for the folks who have been there before. And economically, I mean, the D.C. government has a bunch of programs to help fire fighters, teachers, and other middle-income people to stay in D.C., because without, you know, things like [?], which is a housing program where you can get, like, $10,000 for a down payment and extra money if you live in D.C. So there are different things that they're trying to do to get people to stay, because you have folks who--there are cops and fire department people who live in West Virginia, who drive in New Jersey, who commute to work, which to me is crazy. Amy: That's ridiculous, yeah.Barrington: So think about the stress. Think about the wear and tear. It's just nuts. Amy: Well, and everybody--I mean, I think there's some consensus that if you want effective law enforcement in your communities, law enforcement needs to come from and reside in those communities, right? Not the kind of job you want to outsource.Barrington: Yeah, and that's been a big issue, because folks complain, you know? "These guys don't live here. These guys don't know who we are. These guys don't care who we are. They don't respect what we've done here. They just look at us as people, black people, more than not likely to have committed a crime." [laughs] And so that's where they're coming from. So it's a multi-faceted complex, crazy issue, and as long as money is the god of this country it will continue, because, you know--in the same way that we're looking at... like, I worry about automation. AI, automation, man versus machine. After a while, you know, people need to start trying to figure out "What are we gonna do when automation takes over?" Because it's much cheaper. So they hire the outsourcing jobs to China or overseas or in Mexico or it's AI. So folks who have been working their whole life and don't know any other paradigm are at a point where they don't have a job. And I read a piece last week that said that the corporate so-called brains of this country are saying that they only have enough money to pay for a quarter of the retraining that people are gonna need if they want a different type of job, and so it's gonna fall on who? The taxpayers. Amy: That's right. As it always does, right?Barrington: Yeah. So they have made choices and done things to make sure that they continue making money, and we're not benefiting from none of that, but we're gonna end up paying for them. And for me, the outrage of those types of issues are things that drive me to write certain stories. I did a story recently about the fact that most people can't live--most people have to have two, three, four jobs in order to make a living, in order to stay above water. What does that do for your family? What does that do for relationships? What does that do for you in terms of your health? It's crazy, you know? So those are the issues I explore.Amy: That's fascinating. So do your assignments come from the newspapers that you work for, or are you out there kind of figuring out what it is that interests you and what you want to write about?Barrington: It's a mixture.Amy: A mixture? Okay.Barrington: I'm always reading, talking to people, looking at stories and looking for unusual angles, and in several cases I have the type of relationships with editors who they'll call me and say, "Can you do this story? I want you to do this story." So it's a mixture.Amy: Excellent. So what's different about working for or pitching to black media outlets as opposed to kind of the big corporate, you know, white media outlets that most people see on TV?Barrington: I think that one of the problems that we have--I always criticize mainstream, what I call corporate, media, because they'll send a reporter to Amy and say, "Amy, you have a corporation with 10,000 people and you only have 3 black people in your entire organization, and woe is me, and how could you do that?" And blah blah blah, and the exact same thing that they're criticizing other people for are the exact same things going on in journalism. I see different figures--it might be 10%. I think it might be less than that. 80% of newsrooms do not have a person of color--a Native-American, an Asian, a black person, a Latino, at all. All white men. And the problem with that--Amy: How can they--how can they tell stories that they don't know exist or that they can't understand?Barrington: They're arrogant, because they think that they know, and I've been in--I'll give you an example. I worked for The Washington Times when I came to D.C. in '96, and I went out on an assignment and came back and I saw a group of guys laughing and joking, and so I walk over and there was a picture of a black man in handcuffs, and they were talking about what a fantastic picture it was and the quality of the picture and da-da-da, and I said to them, "Have you thought about the fact that you have a black man in handcuffs? Why isn't it a white boy? Why isn't it some other person?" I said, "All you're doing is perpetuating a negative stereotype, because all of us aren't criminals." And they were like, "[gasps]". They hadn't thought of that. So you need women, and you need people who don't have the same cultural experience to be in the room, you know? 'Cause usually in larger newsrooms you have meetings twice a day, news meetings twice a day, to figure out what stories you're gonna put in the paper next day. That process in itself blew my mind, because the arbitariness and the randomness of the way that they chose stories, I was like, "Whoa." It just--and it... [sighs] the thing is that they find stories and the angles of stories and the types of stories that they do are stories that they feel comfortable with. If they're not comfortable, they're not doing it. And my thing is that as a journalist, [I'm?] supposed to be uncomfortable every day, whether it's in the places that I go, whether it's the people I talk to. I went to Baltimore to do a story after Freddie Gray had gotten killed by the police, and my editor kept on telling me "You need to go on the street. You need to talk to people." It was the best thing I did. Now, I know people at all of the papers that I've worked who would not go into the quote-unquote ghetto or a rough neighborhood because they're afraid. I've been in situations with civil disturbances where people were throwing stones and bottles at the media. I've been in situations where they've sent me out for stories where people are shooting at people, and you don't know--you know, you're crouching down because you may get shot, you know? You talk to people who are like, "I don't like you. I think you guys are just like cops. Get out of my face." So you have to deal with a lot of stuff you don't necessarily want to deal with, but how else are you gonna get the story?Amy: Right. Well, it's much more fun to cover the new menu at the country club.Barrington: I guess...Amy: But it's not very interesting, is it?Barrington: No, yeah. And how many times are you gonna do that, you know? And everybody has a story. I believe that everybody has a story, and our responsibility is to give them an opportunity. So one of the things that some of my friends laugh at is that every time I do a story, I interview an equal number of men and women, because I believe that we are not the same as women, we don't think the way that women do, and to me they bring a special flavor and a sauce to any situation that men don't bring. I want to hear what they're saying, and to me it's a good balance when you have men and women, because men will look at something one way, and you talk to a woman and she has a completely different perspective, and you go, "Oh, I never thought of that." So it's a constantly evolving process. You know, you're constantly changing. I love that I'm always learning, because I'll talk to people and I'll think, "Well, I don't know where this interview is gonna go," and it just goes off a tangent and you go, "Oh." That may end up the tangent. It may end up being the story. So you've got to be flexible, because you get--some incident has occurred or something, you go to an event, and you may be talking to someone, and there's something that they say that you go, "Oh, that's the real story." So you have to put aside what you came for and just pursue, go wherever you need to go with that. So that's something that I've learned over my 34, 35 years as a journalist. [laughs]Amy: That's awesome. Thank you, Barrington, so much, for sharing this, all of this, with me. I really appreciate it. In the couple minutes that we have left, I'm hoping that you will finish a couple of sentences for me. The first is "I feel included when __________."Barrington: When I'm allowed to voice my opinion. When I am not ignored or overlooked.Amy: And the second question is "When I feel included, I ________."Barrington: I feel on top of the world. I feel like a human being. I feel like someone whose thoughts and ideas are valued.Amy: That's wonderful. Thank you so much.Barrington: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. This has been fun.

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I really wanted to chat to today’s guest, Amy, because she does so much online with a blog, two podcasts and numerous creative projects, but she has a whole career outside of her online presence. I know that not everyone listening to this podcast will have their own business, so I’m sure you’ll be able to relate to Amy when she says that creativity is simply part of who she is. We also ended up talking about the topic of childcare, mum guilt and the need for more flexible working, which I am always interested in hearing people’s opinions on. I hope you enjoy the interview! We are, to a certain extent, on a new frontier as working mums - Amy Elizabeth Some of the things we talked about: How we both got started blogging 10+ years ago, and what sharing online means to Amy How blogging has changed her life and connected her with other people (including her husband!) The decision to start podcasting during maternity leave Stretching yourself by trying new things (and battling impostor syndrome) The importance of creativity for its own sake, especially since becoming a mother Knowing when you’re taking on too much Thoughts on letting go of mum guilt  We also ended up chatting about maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and flexible working   https://ruthpoundwhite.com/podcast/

I was convicted this weekend sitting at a conference, Jen Wilken is the speaker, and she spoke words that shot straight to the heart. Not in just one area but multiple, including our inner self-critic. Who it is we call ourselves and how we talk to that person that we've made yourself to be. It was a powerful message on standing true to your new name, who you are in Christ and positioning yourself to talk as any good parent would raise their child to talk to someone else and themselves. Like a ton of bricks, it all came rolling in, what makes me think that continually beating myself up and talking worse to myself than I would to any other thing was okay? I mean did these insults I daily flung inside my mind change me? Did they make me better? Did they bring results? No, none of it and believing that they would is a bunch of lies. These words weren't just sitting in my mind, they were being stored, they were being used, and they are the driving force creating my actions. What I preach to myself every day, and what you preach to yourself every day is ultimately what our brain perceives and therefore responds accordingly. So what are you thinking? What do you believe to be true and how is this driving your life. Thes questions are just a little glimmer of what we talk about on the podcast with guest expert Amy Van Slambrook. Amy Van Slambrook is a licensed psychotherapist working to help heal past trauma's, strengthen relationships and help you live up to who you were designed to be. On the show I'm asking Amy: How do your past trauma's affect your biology and beliefs? How we can heal from past trauma's The benefit of community and relationships in our mindset. And so much more.   Learn more: https://simplerootswellness.com/114

Jayesh Parmar. He’s a serial entrepreneur with two decades of event industry experience. Currently, he’s the CEO and co-founder of Picatic and is listed as one of the world’s top 10 tech entrepreneurs disrupting the event industry. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Amy How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “Failure is just a data point”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:44 – Nathan introduces Jayesh to the show 02:10 – Picatic brings people together and does things that are absolutely different from others 02:22 – Picatic has given away a product for free 02:55 – Picatic has changed the ballgame with their pro product 03:13 – Picatic offers Picatic Anywhere which is a new ticketing service 04:00 – The bigger stream for Picatic is the commission-based stream 05:00 – Average pay for Picatic varies 05:26 – Picatic has a basic product which is free and the pro product which is commission-based 05:33 – Base rate is a dollar and commission rate is 2.5% per ticket 05:46 – Stripe is on top of Picatic 06:18 – Enterprise API ranges from $5K to $100K depending on the API calls and ticket sales 06:58 – Event businesses are seasonal, but Picatic has partnered with different venues and organizations that aren’t seasonal 08:00 – Picatic was launched in 2008 as a side project 08:20 – Picatic went through Extreme Startup and got $250K with 10% equity 08:33 – Picatic has raised $1.5M as additional capital 09:22 – First year revenue is less than $10K 09:48 – 2015 revenue is less than a $100K 10:05 – As an event organizer, Jayesh wanted to de-risk events 10:31 – Picatic has pivoted from their previous model 11:40 – 2016 revenue 12:22 – The revenue is around $1.2M 12:40 – Team size is 15 based in Vancouver, Canada 13:55 – 2017 goal 14:05 – Picatic grows 100% year over year 14:25 – Jayesh has been going to different events to market his Picatic by being a doorman 16:40 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Don’t stick with your current business model just because—test other models that your company could benefit from. The online ticketing world is consistently improving. The best way to get your business out there is by marketing it yourself.   Resources Mentioned: Simplero – The easiest way to launch your own membership course like the big influencers do but at 1/10th the cost. The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

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Your life is completely different. Even than that person you thought was you. Amy Wright and The Drunk Mom She took a bunch of business courses, and nothing ever happened for her. She kept at it because she thought she was supposed to. "Hustle More!" She ran herself into the ground for 7 years trying to make it work. She is raising a teenager, and trying to be a perfect parent. Why isn't anything working out? She snapped 5-6 months ago, wasn't enjoying what she'd done in her life lost her mind. "You know what would be really cool? Cause I'm a genius!" - Amy She told her husband she wanted to make videos about all the things moms do but don't want to talk about. He was worried for the kids sake, but then she just went ahead and made the videos. She didn't tell her husband for months. "I don't want to die with any regrets" - Amy The videos were extremely well received, and she said her first step was to make a facebook page with videos she thought were totally hilarious. She hit 5000 likes within a few weeks, and her previous business page was torture. People loved this. She gets emails from people who were having a hard time with their kids and lives. The way I went viral, Share Ross, told her facebook live would grow her page fast. No regrets, let's do this! She locked herself in her bathroom, sitting on the toilet talking about real life. "The time I shit my pants and the story of imperfection." We are cautious about what we put online, sometimes its really scary. Did I just put very real stuff out there? 26000 followers in three months. It's crazy. People love that its real life, and it makes them feel normal. She shared how nasty her car was after driving the kids around for a few days. My husband had a barbie shoe stuck to his butt. The one that went viral: shit my pants drunk dancing gas station blocking diagram Not doing anything but creating, not marketing anymore. Amy had a baby when she was young. Invited on a talk show, not really what she wanted to be doing, but it was a step in the right direction. Now she just looks like s sad drunk mom on this show they ask her. People fall down, it's so much more entertaining. Where did we get the idea that we shouldn't show our imperfections? - Lisa "That shit has been communicated so long" Amy on expectations of moms to hide their imperfections. "We feel like it's our fault if everything's not perfect." - Amy "We live in this hidden society" - Lisa My boyfriend covering up his farts with the coffee grinder. "when you're not your true self, you just get depressed" - Lisa "I'm not a huge fan of rejection." - Amy How did your husband not find out? He's fairly busy and they have 5 collective kids. Once things got going, and she got comfortable stepping into the role of playing honestly. "I have this gut feeling, you can call it appalling or whatever, but I can't settle for a 9 to 5 job. I can't ignore the fact that I'm somewhat entertaining. I can't continue to push that down and ignore it, and not share my god given gift with the world." Raised by hippies. Bong on the coffee table, mirror and straw and razor. Successful parents, but very loving and accepting of people. It was just normal life for me. Trying to communicate two different worlds into one. "I've never been able to work for somebody" - Lisa on never being able to keep a job. There's more than going somewhere you hate every day. She doesn't know if it will ever make sense to her husband. Unless its raking in the dough. Just making something and putting it out there has just turned into something amazing! "If you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing it will be hard, if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing it will be easy." She will make several videos a day when she sets aside time. She comes up with these ideas in her shower and keeps the ideas in an app on her phone. She films in her laundry room. She edits her own videos still because she wants to make sure it comes out the way she means for it to. "Until I know my standards, I really can't delegate that out." - Amy Live streams as much as possible whenever she feels like it. She talked to her kids about what she was doing so they wouldn't be surprised or embarrassed. She started with her oldest. She explained to her kids how it will help people. "I want my kids to see my following a path that's something I want to do. I want them to see me being fucking brave!" - Amy Somebody let a man with a foot fetish into my show. He was groaning while I was barefoot on stage. Amy wants to hire someone to go through and delete all the horrible comments. That's the first thing she will delegate when she can hire someone else. People making shitty comments "you're a terrible excuse for a mother" nasty things, and stalking those mean people!  "You're not going to come in my living room and take a shit and leave. i'm gonna smear your face in it first, and then i'll escort you out the front door" - Amy Folding the fitted sheet- first video she ever published!  "I see other people's linen closets and i'm like, I don't get it" - Lisa Wanting to take control of all the things you should be doing, vs. doing what you do.  Share Ross- amazing, living as her real self.  "It was going to rock the boat too much, it was more change than i was willing to make at the moment." -Amy I never wanted to perform again after my boyfriend showed up at a show where I totally talked about him.    Dinner: Dead or Alive OPRAH!!!! Oprah came from some serious shit. More deplorable shit than any of us can imagine. She over came it as a black woman in the United States, struggled with her weight-- over and over and over again. "I love her resilience--it'd be Mama O!"  How do you imagine your death? It's part of life... I always thought I would die young, it's always been the driving factor in life. "perceived as untimely." I want a funeral that is packed full and I don't want it to be solemn. Rocking music, play the jack in the box over the casket. "I don't want to leave this world without making a huge impact, is the bottom line" Asshole grandparents. Dealing with the different generation and time in history. Amy asks, "When did your pubes start to turn grey?" Lisa replies: Skunk stripe early on. Then I died it. why. Then I vajazzled. Pube sisters!  Lazer your chin hairs while they're black! The white ones won't be lazered! full pubic growth - bob ross - Amy Orgasm loss around peri-menopause " I'm going to be a fucking bitch for a while" -Amy Verbal Rorschach horse - rider taco - vagina electricity - lightening peanut butter - silly jeans - really tight love - heart deer - in the headlights chinese food - cat brave - Merida clothespin - laundry open door - open door policy from corporate days What's your favorite bush? My bush!!!!!! BobRooohhhh    How to leave a love note on iTunes for my Podcast. From your computer: 1. Open the iTunes software on your desktop. (Not the web version.) 2. In the search bar (upper right-hand corner), type in “Honestly Lisa”. 3. Click on our album cover that pops up towards the bottom of the screen. 4. This will take you to the homepage for our show, but make sure you don’t accidentally select one of our individual episodes instead. 5. Right under the show description, you’ll see three tabs. “Ratings & Reviews” is the second one listed, and this is the one you want to click on. 6. On that page, there should be a button called “Write A Review” and if you click there, it will hopefully let you create a post with your thoughts! From your iPhone: 1. Open the “podcast” app that comes pre-installed on all current apple smartphone devices. 2. In the lower right-hand corner, you’ll click on the magnifying glass “search” button and type in “marriage is funny”. 3. Click on our album cover that pops up towards the bottom of the screen. This will take you to the homepage for our show, but make sure you don’t accidentally select one of our individual episodes instead. 4. Select the “reviews” tab toward the top of the screen, and you’ll see a purple “Write a Review” button on the next page. 5. It might ask you to log in to your iTunes account, but otherwise, this will open a form where you can enter your thoughts!

From the therapist's couch to the ice bath, Amy Morrison brings an incredibly well-rounded approach to mental and physical health. As an XPT Master Coach and a Licensed Professional Counselor, she uses breath, heat, and cold exposure as a gateway to the mind, body, and heart. In this episode, we discuss: * Why the term ‘sherpa' resonates with Amy * Carl Rogers' idea of Helping Relationships * How stress, worry, & anxiety differ * What the term ‘compassion' means to Amy * How anxiety, compassion, & boundaries intertwine * Connecting to the ‘why' of your anxiety * Family-focused family vs. kid-focused family * Using ice & heat therapy for self-regulation * Changing your perception around breathing * How tough decisions can make us feel safe Connect with Amy: * Instagram: @truecorehealth ( https://www.instagram.com/truecorehealth/?hl=en ) * Website: truecorehealth.com ( http://truecorehealth.com/ ) Resources: * YouTube Video: "Flipping Your Lid:" A Scientific Explanation ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0T_2NNoC68 ) * Recommended Books: Dr. Dan Siegel's ( https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-J-Siegel/e/B00459LSPI?qid=1583883903&ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&sr=8-3 ) ; When the Body Says No ( https://www.amazon.com/When-Body-Says-Understanding-Stress-Disease/dp/0470923350 ) ; The Body Keeps The Score ( https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0/135-7687527-2773720?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0143127748&pd_rd_r=4586d6b4-8b8f-4184-ac07-eda35626eabd&pd_rd_w=pSLfq&pd_rd_wg=GOadG&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=BV6BC649Q4PA8TEPFZ50&psc=1&refRID=BV6BC649Q4PA8TEPFZ50 ) * Referenced Article: The Difference Between Worry, Stress, and Anxiety ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/smarter-living/the-difference-between-worry-stress-and-anxiety.html ) --- Listen to Conner and Kelli's new podcast *OK, Babe.* ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ok-babe/id1497534094 ) --- Learn more about Conner's coaching programs at connerwanders.com/coaching ( https://connerwanders.com/coaching ) --- This show is a *Soulfire Production* ( http://soulfireproductionsco.com/ ) --- For extra content subscribe to Conner's Youtube channel here - *http://bit.ly/CMoYouTube* ( http://bit.ly/CMoYouTube )