Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Bradley

In this show we take a look back at our recent guests, Veronica Hanson, Andrew Bradley and Claire Butcher. Paul also brings a Nugget about honesty, and he and Jesse talks about sales and honesty. We also announce a Nuggeteer of the week, and have news for MentalTheft!https://mentaltheft.co.uk We also have merch on our brand new website! https://newtonsnuggets.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------- SponsorsBecome a sponsor of the show: https://newtonsnuggets.com/pages/sponsorship-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be a guest on nuggets, sign up here: https://newtonsnuggets.com/pages/be-our-guestBuy the MentalTheft book from here in the UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/MentalTheft-Your-mind-weakest-link/dp/1838254102 Anywhere else in the world, go to Amazon as usual and search MentalTheft (one word).Thanks as usual to Jesse for making the magic happen:https://www.jlawrence-photography.co.uk Check out Paul on: https://www.mentaltheft.co.uk#newtonsnuggets 

We talk to sleep expert Andrew Bradley about how important sleep is, but how making sure you get a good sleep is not a one size fits all solution. https://thesleep.pro/We also have merch on our brand new website! https://newtonsnuggets.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------- SponsorsBecome a sponsor of the show: https://newtonsnuggets.com/pages/sponsorship-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be a guest on nuggets, sign up here: https://newtonsnuggets.com/pages/be-our-guestBuy the MentalTheft book from here in the UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/MentalTheft-Your-mind-weakest-link/dp/1838254102 Anywhere else in the world, go to Amazon as usual and search MentalTheft (one word).Thanks as usual to Jesse for making the magic happen:https://www.jlawrence-photography.co.uk Check out Paul on: https://www.mentaltheft.co.uk#newtonsnuggets 

Season 4 Episode 20 is out with Andrew Bradley. Andrew recently graduated from Earlham college located in Richmond, IN. During the 2022 season, Andrew broke the Earlham College single season Homerun record after having zero career Homeruns and having nothing to show his first 3 seasons at Earlham College. Andrew also hit 5 Homeruns, 12 RBI'S, and 2 Doubles. At one point, Andrew was trending on Twitter for his amazing performance. During this episode, Andrew and I talk about his previous college offseasons compared to his senior season. Andrew had a crazy body transformation from his freshman year to his senior season. He gained 30 pounds his junior year and explained how it helped him to progress into his senior season. Andrew graduated Earlham College with a psychology degree and is huge on mental side of baseball. Andrew explains what it takes to truly have a positive mentality outlook and have a progression towards on the field performance. Please join me in listening to Andrew's story of his crazy 2022 season. Timestamps Recently named 1st team all region by ABCA Compare your previous year stats (1:300 Junior year (2:30)   Different outlook towards 2022 This off-season vs previous (lifting, hitting, nutrition, recovery) (5:10) Weight gain (8:10) 2021 lifts (13:00) 2022 lifts (18:50)   What did you do different within your swing Swing Progression (22:50) Hitting off season 2022/Progression (29:00) Using Video (33:00)   2022 season in your view Team environment difference (40:00) Coaching difference (44:00)   April 6th, 2022 (49:05) 5 Hrs, 12 RBI, 2 double   Close  

Today's podcast episode is part 2 of our interview with Andrew Bradley. Andrew currently works as Managing Director of Lending- Southern Region for IFF, a mission-driven lender, developer, and consultant that helps communities thrive. Across the Midwest, IFF works at the nexus of facilities and finance to help nonprofits and other service providers to create safe, inspiring spaces that enable them to achieve their missions and support their communities.

Andrew Bradley currently works as Managing Director of Lending- Southern Region for IFF, a mission-driven lender, developer, and consultant that helps communities thrive. Across the Midwest, IFF works at the nexus of facilities and finance to help nonprofits and other service providers to create safe, inspiring spaces that enable them to achieve their missions and support their communities. During part 1 of the interview, Andrew talks about his experiences navigating life in the St. Louis metropolitan region as an outsider and how serving in a mission based context within a foreign country shaped his views of life and service.

BAE Hawk Chief Engineer, Andrew Bradley, explains how the aircraft developed from the turn of the millennium. He looks at the demands of foreign customers, such as those in India, South Africa and Australia, and explores the Hawk T.Mk.2 programme, which was brought into service with the RAF during 2008. He concludes by predicting how the Hawk story would continue into the 2010s. The paper finishes with a question-and-answer session, in which Andrew Bradley is joined by Harry Fraser-Mitchell FRAeS and Chris Roberts. Topics explored include the story behind the development of the SMURF and the secret of the aircraft's long-term success. Andrew Bradley gave the last paper in an evening dedicated to the Hawk Aircraft : A British Success Story. The evening was organised by the Royal Aeronautical Society's Historical Group on 20 October 2011. The session was introduced by Dr Kit Mitchell FRAeS and the recording was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.

Introduction: Dr Alister Scott is all about making big change happen. He has dedicated his career to this pursuit. He is the Co-founder of The One Leadership Project with his colleague Neil Scotton. The One Leadership Project is a strategy and leadership firm that supports those making big change happen. Alister and Neil have co-authored a book called The Little Book of Making Big Change Happen. Alister is also Co-founder and Director of the Knowledge Bridge LTD and Chair of the Cuckmeres Community Solar Project. Alister is a certified Coach and holds a doctorate in Science and Technology.  Podcast Episode Summary This episode explores the impetus for Alister's latest project, a passion to bring Compassion Practices to the world. His website Compassion Practices hosts 6 compassion practices and protocols for practicing compassion that anyone can download. In this episode we explore the meaning of compassion the principles that underpin the exercise of compassion practices and the impact of these practices on culture in organisations and on teams.  Points made over the episode The Pandemic had only just begun and Alister felt compelled to write material to support teams get support in times of enormous stress. He wanted his offerings to be accessible and timely.  His colleague and friend Andrew Bradley contacted him about his writing to think about combining his work on Compassion with that of others to build out a website www.compassionpractices.net The six practices, essentially an ecosystem of practices are pragmatic with dedicated protocols that anyone can follow. The practices are basically informed by the work of Nancy Kline and Alister and Andy along with a few other colleagues have pared down her work to offer six distinct principles  Essentially if a person equips themselves with the six principles espoused they will not go far wrong in conversation  Compassion is the ability to be with another as they suffer. It is kindness in action. It is not sympathy. It means you are providing a space for someone to be with their suffering without feeling alone.  Teams all too easily become task focused and forget to commune or connect with each other.  Nancy Kline's work is borne out of decades of research and writing to help people think better. She has written some brilliant books including Time to Think and More time to Think. By applying the principles housed in Nancy's work people disrupt their habitual communication practices -Listening without interrupting for example when practiced can be transformative for relationship and on teams.  The principles described on the website include the following;  -Identify the question that matters  -Give each person time to think on their own  -Listen without interruption  -Appreciate from the heart Appreciation and cultivating a culture of ERA (encouragement, recognition and appreciation) creates an environment where the experience of work is changed for the better  In order to practice the receipt of Appreciation you have to employ 3,As Acknowledge that the giver & what they have shared is true for them too. Allow the appreciation in -especially for those who have been emotionally starved and finally accept it.  Our ability to be compassionate is often forgotten. Indicators such as Global Poverty, Our Environmental Crisis, War and conflict all point to the lack of compassion. Our inability to feel and that as human beings, being the dominant species of the world, we are experiencing the worst form of extinction since the dinosaurs  Our practice of shutting down feelings, of indulging adrenaline induced activities, action addiction and our fear of others perspectives all contribute to a narrow vision where we are not able to be kind. The Practice involves the following steps Involve 2 people a host and facilitator  1st Round asking how are you arriving and name one thing that is going well outside of work? Name the question that matters such as “how are we doing as a team” Everyone prepares first alone and then speaks in a round going from left to right to provide some measure of predictability  Followed by Thinking pairs (with clear instruction) Finally a round where everyone reflects on their latest thinking and feeling on the same question  The mindset shift needed for teams to employ compassion practices is multifaceted. People need to matter. The idea of expert only where we do not ha`ve time for this sort of soft stuff.  We live in a society that indulges a conspiracy of silence about grief, failure and feelings that might be labelled as negative.  Alister shared the story of losing his wife five years ago and how few people, even his close friends could be with his grief.  The website is being officially launched on the 15th of September 2021 and people are invited to sign up on the website to access the practices and be involved in many facilitated community practices for professionals  Resources shared  www.compassionpractices.net Nancy Kline -Time to Think and More Time to Think  Francis Weller -The Wild Side of Sorrow 

Episode Notes We're back in Palm Springs and bringing you Deven Green! She tells us all about working with her partner Ned Douglas to keep people connected and entertained bringing live streaming shows to the public during the pandemic. Deven and Ned are high-end smartypants funny-people and they have a TV show on Revery called “Versus: The Gameshow”  - a lighthearted but hilarious show that pits two celebrity contestants against one another in a series of mini-games as they square off on trivia skills, memory, and knowledge of their own social media content. We find out all about their Supper Club Music show coming up on July 30th at Wilma & Frieda's in Palm Springs, CA. Deven gets us up to date on her new comedy music show with Handsome Ned, “WATCH THIN PEOPLE EAT - Tasty Songs of Food and Drink” which you can catch on August 6th and 7th at the Art House Theater in Provincetown, MA. Marc has to find out...what's going on with Deven Green and Andrew Bradley's “Mrs. Betty Bowers” and it turns out the Tr*mp years have been kind of intense for ‘America's Best Christian'. Heklina and Deven theorize about how the pandemic has changed our wants, needs, and focus… and what kind of new revelations the future has in store for us after what has frankly been a really weird time! You can find out all about how to see Deven and Ned by visiting DevenGreen.com! Don't miss this episode of Drag Time! Support Drag Time with Heklina by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/drag-time-with-heklina

Today: two conversations about affordable housing: first, with Jamie Palmer, the lead researcher on a project with the Indiana University Public Policy Institute which is examining challenges facing Indiana communities, including affordable housing – internet connectivity and drug abuse. "Prosperity Indiana" policy director Andrew Bradley will later talk about a recent report from the organization and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, on where Indiana really ranks in being an affordable place to live. And we have a conversation with Mike Mussallem, a Gary native and Irvine, California business executive who, along with his wife, set up a big scholarship fund to support NWI students to attend Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute.

Andrew Bradley, CEO of fiscal.co.za

Andrew Bradley, CEO at www.Fiscal.co.za

Nick Kunze of Sanlam Private Wealth on the week ahead for markets. Spot Money CEO Andre Hugo talks about the company's new shared accounts. Andrew Bradley, CEO of Fiscal, on the implications of a broken social contract.

Andrew Bradley of Fiscal outlines how many countries are increasingly losing the tax income they need to be able to provide necessary services.

Sanlam Private Wealth's Nick Kunze on markets ending higher last week. Anchor Capital's Seleho Tsatsi on the investment case for Exxaro. Andrew Bradley, CEO of Fiscal, talks the post-crisis market rebound.

Andrew Bradley, co – owner, director and CEO of Fiscal Private Client Services

On this episode of ScaleUp Radio we’ll hear from Andrew Bradley from Bradley Haynes Law.   Andrew Bradley has a story that we’ve heard from a lot of other guests; he was working at a large company and wasn’t enjoying it - the culture, the workload, the expectations - so he decided to go out on his own.   That’s when his business partner Andy Haynes came to him and asked him to open a law firm - even though Andy Hayes isn’t a lawyer!   The business was started in 2014 and has quickly grown in size and turnover into a very successful law firm.   As you’ll hear in the conversation, Andrew is keen on innovation with the business, and this is something that has come to the fore during the pandemic too.   Amongst many other things that was discussed, we also touched upon:    - How you can still have a large amount of growth in your business, without taking too many risks  - Trying to avoid the temptation of moving outside of your business plan, just to bring money into the company with something that is really just a distraction  - The thought process of running a professional services business, and making sure that there are opportunities for people wanting to work within that business  - How to deal with the increasing matter of mental health in the workplace, which has come to the fore so much more in 2020.   The business that Andrew and Andy have created is a great model, that could easily transfer to any kind of business - not just a law firm.   Resources   Andrew can be found here:   andrew@bradleyhayneslaw.co.uk   https://www.bradleyhaynessolicitors.co.uk/   linkedin.com/in/andrew-bradley-solicitor-761b5715   The Puzzle Pieces of Life with Jim Rohn - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-puzzle-pieces-of-life/id1460783206   Jim Rohn - https://www.jimrohn.com/   Zoom - https://zoom.us/   Teams - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software?icid=SSM_AS_Promo_Apps_MicrosoftTeams   Scaling up your business isn't easy, and can be a little daunting. Let ScaleUp Radio make it a little easier for you.   With guests who have been where you are now, and can offer their thoughts and advice on several aspects of business.   ScaleUp Radio is the business podcast you've been waiting for.   You can get in touch with Kevin here: kevin@biz-smart.co.uk

Andrew Bradley, co-owner and CEO of Fiscal Private Client Services

Classic 1027 — As the saying goes change is the only constant unless you’re standing in front of a vending machine. And the one thing that Covid has taught us is that change is inevitable and it’s also exposed how ill equipped many of us are for change on the one hand, perhaps not having an emergency fund, or how adaptable and resilient we can be on the other as we’ve all grown accustomed to working from home in our business on the top party on the bottom work wear. A quick look around will remind us that life can change fast – as we are experiencing in this coronavirus era. Nothing lasts forever, hopefully not even the virus. We certainly don’t, nor do businesses, or leaders, movements or political parties. It is important to remember this in every aspect of life. We get into trouble when our solutions are designed for yesterday’s problems. We need to have a value system that is meaningful and looks to the future. Then we need to live our lives based on the future we desire. Andrew Bradley, former CEO of Old Mutual Wealth, the co-owner, Director and CEO of Fiscal Private Client Services, speaks to Michael Avery about how we should use the pandemic experience to reframe the questions we are asking about our financial wellbeing.

Glenelg's Andrew Bradley chats about his 150th game by Zac Milbank

In our latest GCP Short, Richard is joined by Friends of the Podcast from Zurich to discuss the evolution of captive programmes and what the future may look like for risk financing structures. The three guests for this episode are: Andrew Bradley, formerly Head of Group Risk Services at Nestlé, where he spent 40 years, including 10 years as CEO of their Swiss-domiciled captive Intercona Re. Sierra Signorelli, Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Insurance, Zurich Paul Woehrmann, Head of Captive Services for Zurich in Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information on Zurich's captive services and the Global Captive Podcast, visit: https://www.globalcaptivepodcast.com/zurich You can subscribe to the Global Captive Podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, CastBox or any other podcast app. Contact Richard: richard@globalcaptivepodcast.com Visit the website: www.globalcaptivepodcast.com Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/global-captive-podcast/ Twitter & Instagram: @captivepodcast

As the economy swan-dives into a deep recession due to the coronavirus crisis, many of the people who live in apartments or rented homes find themselves in a frightening bind. Unemployment has surged in the working-class sectors, making it difficult for tens of thousands of tenants in Indiana to make their monthly rent payments. According to industry estimates, about 8% to 10% of renters were delinquent on their April rents, both in Indiana and nationwide. Tenants in Indiana have been shielded from eviction since mid-March thanks to a moratorium issued by Gov. Eric Holcomb. But that doesn’t make their past-due rents go away. Advocates for both low-income residents and for landlords say more must be done to aid renters. Both sides are working their political connections to establish an emergency rental assistance program, that would help tenants cover the rent and keep revenue flowing for apartment owners. For this week’s edition of The IBJ Podcast, host Mason King interviews Lynne Peterson, president of the Indiana Apartment Association, and Andrew Bradley, policy director for Prosperity Indiana, about the need for assistance and the fix that both tenants and landlords find themselves in. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by the law firm Krieg DeVault.

And you're giving Georgia Clark her job back? Suck it Texas. • Andrew & Bradley go to White Castle (aka wasn't this a Beastie Boys' lyric?). • Lemur gone... • Snake ladies are still better than cat ladies. • Facts 1000.

Stand-up comic Leighann Lord gives us "Six things to argue about at Thanksgiving other than politics." Aline Pham, 18, tells us about her winning high-school student essay. "Mrs. Betty Bowers" (Deven Green) recites her Thanksgiving prayer. Then we hear from Andrew Bradley, the co-creator and writer of the satirical series, "Mrs. Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian," who reminds us that the evangelical Christian nationalists are no joke.

Over the past 6 months, Kevin Brent has interviewed numerous business owners about their own scale up journey, hearing about the challenges that they have faced - and the lessons that they have learned. Within almost all of those interviews, the question ‘What advice would you give…?’ has come up, so we thought that it would be nice to compile all of those little nuggets of great business advice into one episode. We’ll hear from:- Debbie Farr from ISO Quality Services - you can hear her full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Debbie_Farr.mp3 Breda Hadley from Citrus Computing - you can hear her full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Breda_Hadley.mp3 John Pooley from Pooley Consultancy - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_John_Pooley.mp3 Andy Phillips from AP Insurance - you hear hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Andy_Phillips.mp3 Tim Pearce from Haines Watts Chartered Accountants - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Tim_Pearce.mp3 Nick Bradley from Quantum Construction Consultants - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Nick_Bradley.mp3 Robin La Fontaine from DeltaXML - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Robin_La_Fontaine.mp3 Andy Harper from Set & Match - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/Andy_Harper_1-2-1.mp3 Debbie Mann from Parallel Lines - you can hear here full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Debbie_Mann.mp3 Andrew Bradley from Bradley Hayes Law - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Andrew_Bradley.mp3 Clare Vale from Sign Solutions - you can hear her full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Clare_Vale.mp3 Mark Nash from Nash Business Systems - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Mark_Nash_EDIT.mp3 Nigel Busby from InControl Marketing - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Nigel_Busby.mp3 Matt Parsons from Surf Tech IT - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/Matt_Parsons_1-2-1.mp3 Ian Priest from the Independent Banking Consultancy - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Ian_Priest.mp3 Ian Burnett from eeze Web Design - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Ian_Burnett.mp3 Ania Naughton from Magic Tractor - you can hear her full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Ania_Naughton.mp3 Karen Lowen from Turl & Co Accountants - you can hear her full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_Karen_Lowen.mp3 Vanessa Anderson and Anita Marles from Herlig Marles - you can hear their full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/Herlig_Marles_1-2-1.mp3 Paul Rhodes from Green Gorilla Software - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/Paul_Rhodes_1-2-1.mp3 David Lynes from Unique IQ - you can hear his full episode here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/scaleupradio/1-2-1_with_David_Lynes.mp3  

How many of you listening right now can point to veteran actor Peter Falk as a business inspiration? That was certainly the childhood hero of Andrew Bradley, our guest on this episode of the ScaleUp Radio podcast. Andrew’s journey into law may have started with Columbo, but there’s nothing childish about where he’s ended up. It was whilst working at various law firms that Andrew saw a gap in the market, for a new business model for a law firm that let go of the traditions that firms had been working with for decades, and to scale up to a modern business structure that caters for individuals, landlords and limited companies both locally and nationally. That’s where Bradley Hayes Law is now. Andrew is clearly keen to approach the law in a very different way, and that comes across in our conversation. He talks about:  - How the structure of your business can be the thing that separates you from your competition  - Why teamwork is essential, and the challenges that can come about from keeping with those teams  - How training and development of your staff benefits everyone - including the business  - The importance of keeping an eye on the cashflow through the business, even if your focus is on another area.  Don’t think that this interview with Andrew will only be of interest to those thinking of starting their own law firm, or those currently working at a law firm. The lessons and challenges that Andrew has gone through on his scale up journey are transferable to almost any type of business. Andrew can be contacted on andrew@bradleyhayeslaw.co.uk or on 01905 900 919

When you’re scaling up a business, one of the main things that you need to make a decision on, is who does what - and who is responsible for them doing those tasks. Isn’t it? In this episode, Kevin Brent talks to three specially selected business owners to discuss the matter of roles and accountability in their respective businesses. On the panel are: Andrew Bradley from Bradley Haynes Law Clare Vale from Sign Solutions & Robin La Fontaine from Delta XML Now, whilst you can hear their own stories in other episodes of the ScaleUp Radio podcast, here they will be giving their own take on Roles & Accountability, using their own unique experiences and challenges of owning and running a business. They will cover:  - Just what does accountability mean?  - How do you measure accountability?  - Knowing when it’s the right time to relinquish a role in the company  - Whether a businesses needs accountability to succeed  - How big should your company be, before you need to start thinking about roles and accountability? As always, there is plenty to take away from this lively discussion, no matter where you are in your ScaleUp journey. So - if you’re a brand new startup, or an established CEO, make yourself comfortable and listen to this fascinating conversation.

This episode's structure is a little different than you're used to. First join us for 35 minutes as Cass chats with Bonnie from episode 162. They discuss painting murals in her hometown and ethical choices for living on earth, given this is the only one we have. Then eavesdrop on a conversation between Marie and Cass for an hour as they work through the dynamic of the podcast with Marie as the new co-host. Enjoy scintillating topics such as misogyny, tokenism, racism, sexism, intersectional feminism, and patriarchy.   Lastly we lament the loss of our recording with Mrs. Betty Bower's creator and writing: Andrew Bradley. Saying yes to what is doesn't always feel good. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast,  or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. Where to Find Us:  Email: everyonesagnostic at gmail dot com Website: everyonesagnostic.com Facebook: fb.me/everyonesagnostic Twitter: @evry1sagnostic  Instagram: @everyonesagnostic YouTube: tinyurl.com/sayyestowhatis Patreon: link   Consider this phrase: my perception is my reality.  First let me say that this is true. It's true to the individual. Maybe also to people groups or even nations. Disagreements, even wars, can be caused by different perceptions that create different realities. The parable of the blind men and an elephant places a group of blind men engaging an elephant for the first time. They each touch a different part of the elephant's body such as the ear, leg, trunk or tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their limited experience and upon insisting that they are right and the others are lying they come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective perception as they ignore other people's limited, subjective perception which may be equally true. So while YOUR perception is YOUR reality, it is not necessarily the whole picture. It doesn't mean you're wrong AND it doesn't mean that differing positions aren't also right. When perceptions become mutually exclusive, the opposing parties may be in denial and insist on the rightness of their narrow view. Convincing them otherwise can be extremely difficult if not impossible. We form a bias around a perception and often don't want to be bothered with the facts.  Humans once believed that the earth was flat. It must be, just look at it! We thought the sun and stars circled the earth because it looked that way. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. ... Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. One social research study examined a pool of people’s opinions about federal welfare programs. The researchers found that the majority of people were highly-misinformed about the nature and scope of these programs, and that the people who were the least-informed about them generally expressed the highest degree of confidence in their knowledge. Furthermore, the researchers found that presenting people with facts about these welfare programs did little to change people’s opinion about them. However, in a follow-up study, the researchers discovered that tweaking the way they presented the facts made people respond more positively to the new evidence. In this follow-up, people were first asked to estimate the percentage of the national budget that is allocated towards welfare. Then, they were also asked what percent of the budget they believed should be spent on welfare. Posing these questions back-to-back led participants to contrast their perception of reality with their preferred level of spending, before they were told what portion of the budget is spent on welfare in reality. This meant that most of them had to process the fact that not only is the federal-spending lower than they thought, but it is also lower than the portion of the budget that they believed should be allocated to welfare. Thus the value of agnosticism: It guards against certainty. Much blood has been shed based on certainties that were just not true. Since perceptions can seem like realities, we build narratives which become foundations on which we build assumption upon assumption. When we discover that the assumption upon which all the others were based, it falls like a house of cards. To the degree in which we were invested in that narrative is the degree to which we will be embarrassed and maybe even traumatized. We were living a lie. them that we then act on or even live by. My wife and I were at a music concert once that was general admission. I saw some empty seats and approached them but a guy had his left leg stretched across them.  We moved on thinking he was saving them. We noticed that no one ever came to sit there and he was just stretching out, hogging those seats, or so I thought. Turns out he had a full leg cast under his pants and couldn't straighten his leg. I had lunch this week with a friend who shared that she had a lucid dream when she was a young mother where she was visited by a messenger.  The message was that her toddler son was going to die before her but not until after her father died. Fast forward 40 years and the woman's father died. That message had haunted her her entire life and now that her father was dead, she was riddled with fear and anxiety that her son was going to die at any moment. She built a narrative on a nocturnal brain fart. Sometimes we give perceptions way too much power and unmerited influence over our lives.   My issue with this way of living is that a person is steered by external data. And the key problem there is "steered." Incoming data is unavoidable and amoral. The only person not interpreting events and circumstances is unconscious. However, if one does not have an inner core that is awake, aware and vibrant, they will likely live their life as one with no agency. They're childish. They are tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every conspiracy theory. What Jesus called, "a reed swayed by the wind." For lack of a better word, I'll call this thing the soul of a person. Souless people need to be told what to think, how to act, what to wear, who to be. They have no core. They are robotic, only able to do what their programmer coded. Computers that can adapt and think for themselves are called Artificial Intelligence. Perhaps this soul I'm talking about could also be called intelligence. Intelligence is one's ability to understand something. We're hearing more and more stories of people losing their parents or siblings to Fox News. Two years ago, on Episode 126, I interview Jen Senko who'd made a documentary film called "The Brainwashing of My Dad." If people are hollow inside, a vacuum is created that takes in counterfeit nourishment, pureed baby-food, served up by charlatans and conmen to the laziest, least intuitive minds over which they can easily overpower and influence for their causes--mainly the inflation of their wealth. The condition of soulessness--a person with no agency--fosters a type of insecurity that disables that person from bringing their person authentically into the room, precisely because they don't have one. No soul, no ownership of their ability to discern their world and make choices.  Due to non-use, the muscles that empower one to think for oneself are atrophied. And they are preyed on by the greedy. And here we find ourselves. Corporations spotted the credulity of Christians and the GOP and corralled them into their fold to think, propagate, and vote their agenda. Wanna know why a large majority of Christians support Trump? They have no soul. The filled their God-shaped void with God alright. Human's imaginary gods have the substance of cotton candy--they leave you hungry and wanting more, the steady diet of which will make you lazy and fat. I believe there is no void. We're not born with it at least. We create the void by believing that we're not good enough, not worthy, not powerful, insignificant without a higher power. Those of us who left that brainwashing, soul-stealing lie have set out to rediscover our soul, our inner core, that was there all the time. Not so we can get an identity or "find ourselves," but so that we can begin living from that core toward the world, not the other way around. There is no self to find. There's only you showing up in the moment as whatever your soul wants to do or say in real time. No one and nothing should tell you who to be; you already are.   I'll close with a prose by David Whyte posted by my friend Fiona. It's called   THE SUBVERSIVE SOUL We tend to focus on, and speak about the soul-life of an individual in terms of spiritual comfort and deep nourishment, qualities which are a central, and abiding dynamic of its presence, but the equally unsettling and disturbing quality about this strange, often wild and courageous faculty of belonging inside us we have come to name ‘the soul’ is its ruthless, and almost tidal wish to find its own way to a fuller union with the world. The soul is a planner’s nightmare, the career counselor’s central puzzle, the biographer’s conundrum, the saboteur of the puritanical and the unimaginative; an internal abiding spring that is both a source and a flow: an internal stranger at the door of our outer life about to break everything apart; a pilgrim often suddenly more in love with the horizon than its home; and most disturbingly, someone who would much rather fail spectacularly at their own life than succeed, imprisoned drably by the ordinary, at someone else’s.

Josh is joined by Van Phillips and coach Andrew Bradley for another coaching special on the podcast. As well as looking back on the events last week, they give some helpful advice on coaching, what to look for in a good coach and small tips to help your game.

Speaking on SANFL Radio, Bradley said the club was looking forward to playing in their South-East zone from 1.10pm on Sunday July 30.

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#71 – Matt Elliott and Andrew Bradley       Matt Elliot and Andrew Bradley are OG’s in the Whistler Skiing scene and have spent a lot of chairlift rides together and have taken even more photos.   Matt is currently the cover-boy for the latest Warren Miller flick, “Here there and Everywhere”.  Andrew, “loves skiing […] The post #71 – Matt Elliott and Andrew Bradley appeared first on Low Pressure Podcast.

Golf Channel's Jay Coffin, Ryan Lavner, and Andrew Bradley share their favorite golf memories of 2016.

We're thrilled to speak with the team behind YouTube sensation Mrs. Betty Bowers. Andrew Bradley is the creator and writer for BettyBowers.com. If you haven’t seen the videos, Betty is American’s Best Christian, and she has a lot to say about traditional marriage, abortion, the upcoming elections, and so much more. She’s a hilarious parody of right-wing extremists. Andrew was also one of the main writers for Landover Baptist Church, a parody of a fundamentalist Christian church that featured articles that people still believe are real. He’s also the author of Welcome to JesusLand. Deven Green plays Mrs. Betty Bowers. She’s a comedian, musician, and performer. She was also a comedy judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race. We spoke with Andrew and Deven about how they collaborate, the kind of hate mail they receive, and the origins of Landover Baptist Church. By the way, this is our first time trying to host four people on the same phone call, so the audio's not always ideal, but hopefully it's all still audible!

Inspired by the awesome storms that often rage through the Coast Mountains each January, dumping feet upon feet of perfect powder onto Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, the GORE-TEX Deep Winter Experience has stormed into town, January 9-18. The event features ski clinics, avalanche awareness tours and GORE-TEX discounts. The Deep Winter Photo Challenge, presented by Arc’Teryx is the signature event. This year, Jordan Manley, last season's King of Storms come back to defend his crown. Also on the roster are Dan Carr, Andrew Bradley, Crispin Cannon and Brian Hockenstein who are all some of the top ski and snowboard photographer's in North America. After three days of shooting in the elements, they will present their slideshows capturing epic powder days, dramatic skies, inspiring scenery, stormy conditions, deep tree skiing, and the lifestyles characterized at Whistler Blackcomb. The event takes place on January 9 at 7pm the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Tickets are available at Whistler Blackcomb Guest Relations. Visit whistlerblackcomb.com/deepwinter for more info. Meanwhile, learn some powder skiing and riding tips from Whistler Blackcomb’s ski and snowboard school.