Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Newman

We meet the Minneapolis Musical Theatre crew, including executive director Andrew Newman, to talk about Triassic Parq at the Lush in March. aboutmmt.org facebook.com/badmouthtc instagram.com/badmouthtc twitter.com/badmouthtc Music credit: MusicbyAden - Mythology by MusicbyAden is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0CC Download: Musicbyaden – Mythology @musicbyaden

Unlock the secrets of bedtime storytelling with our special guest, Andrew Newman, an acclaimed author and founder of Conscious Stories. He sheds light on the remarkable influence of bedtime stories in nurturing the priceless bond between parents and children. Together, we explore how those precious last 20 minutes of the day can be transformed into a powerful tool for emotional and cognitive growth, setting the stage for a lifetime of strong connections.Dive into the fascinating realm where storytelling meets science, as we discuss the positive impacts of bedtime stories on children's emotional regulation and cognitive development. Discover how these narratives help children sequence events, expand vocabulary, and process emotions in a safe environment, while even assisting in calming their nervous systems for a restful sleep. Through engaging tales like "The Little Brain People," storytelling becomes a gateway to understanding brain functions and behavior, offering a playful yet profound approach to emotional intelligence and community building.More About Our GuestAndrew Newman is an internationally-renowned and award-winning author and founder of Conscious Stories, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. His early and profound longing for connection with all things spiritual later inspired a career in writing and communication in many forms. A recognized voice in the conscious parenting movement, Conscious Stories, is a culmination of his background, experiences, and humanitarian efforts, and is intended to bring parent and child into deeper connection with each other. Connect with AndrewGot a story to share or question you want us to answer? Send us a message!About the podcast:The KindlED Podcast explores the science of nurturing children's potential and creating empowering learning environments.Powered by Prenda Microschools, each episode offers actionable insights to help you ignite your child's love of learning. We'll dive into evidence-based tools and techniques that kindle young learners' curiosity, motivation, and well-being. Got a burning question?We're all ears! If you have a question or topic you'd love our hosts to tackle, please send it to podcast@prenda.com. Let's dive into the conversation together!Important links:• Connect with us on social • Subscribe to The Sunday Spark• Get our free literacy curriculum Interested in starting a microschool?Prenda provides all the tools and support you need to start and run an amazing microschool. Create a free Prenda World account to start designing your future microschool today. More info at ➡️ Prenda.com or if you're ready to get going ➡️ Start My Microschool

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Humans learn through story. It's been this way for thousands of years. For realz:).And when you're raising strong-willed kids, no script or tip has ever had the same impact as saying “Hey, remember in that story when...”I think we need to take a step back from memorizing the words of the latest social media parenting professional and get back to simpler times. Dare I say, indigenous times. This week I have the gifted and delightful Andrew Newman, author of the Conscious Bedtime series, on the pod. Andrew writes the kind of stories I wish I had had as a kid. Andrew helps kids and parents bond more deeply at bedtime. His conscious stories help kids learn how to regulate their emotions, by using relatable stories and beautiful illustrations that your kids will remember.On this episode, Andrew shares one of his amazing conscious bedtime stories, and we workshop together how to utilize a story like this to deepen your relationship with your kids. This is a teaching episode that I just think you're going to love love love! Here is the Youtube link if you'd like to see Andrew's screenshare as he reads his beautiful book to us. https://youtu.be/Ospq-HCA6R0 As always, thanks for listening. Head over to Facebook, where you can join my free group Mastermind Parenting Community. We post tips and tools and do pop-up Live conversations where I do extra teaching and coaching to support you in helping your strong-willed children so that they can FEEL better and DO better. If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!Get all the links, resources, and transcripts here: https://mastermindparenting.com/podcast-306About Randi RubensteinRandi Rubenstein coaches parents raising strong willed kids. Randi searched endlessly to find the magical resource that would help her own highly sensitive, strong-willed child. (He's now 26, healthy and happy-ish:). She's been passionate about helping other “cycle-breaker” parents like herself for almost two decades.Randi's Web and Social LinksWebsite: https://mastermindparenting.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mastermindparentingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mastermind_parenting/About Andrew Newman:Andrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of www.ConsciousStories.com, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day.Andrew's TEDx Why the last 20 minutes of the day matter, weaves trauma-informed awareness and attachment bonding into the wonders of storytelling, outlining the importance of quality connection before sleep for your child's ability to regulate, rest deeply, and awake confident.WEBSITE: www.consciousstories.comGet your kids started with Conscious Stories using Coupon Code : PODCAST for 20% discountINSTAGRAM @consciousbedtimestories https://www.instagram.com/consciousbedtimestories/FACEBOOK Consciousbedtimestories https://www.facebook.com/consciousstoriesResources Discussed/LinksOur 12-week Basics Bootcamp program is now available as a 100% online self-study course! https://mastermindparenting.com/minimasters/Live assessment:

  In this heartfelt episode of Evolving Together, Christine L'Abbé sits down with Andrew Newman, the brilliant mind behind Conscious Stories, a collection of 24 children's books designed to foster deeper connections between parents and children. Together, they explore the power of storytelling in helping children, especially those who are neurodiverse or facing complex health challenges, find a sense of belonging and understand their emotions. Andrew shares the inspiration behind his beautifully crafted stories, such as The Hug Who Got Stuck and The Girl with Waterfall Eyes, and how these tales can serve as tools for emotional regulation and healing.   Christine also reflects on how these books have played a pivotal role in her journey with her own daughter, Gabi, emphasizing the importance of creating safe and loving environments for our children to thrive. The episode concludes with a special live reading of The Unicorn Who Found Her Magic, offering listeners a magical moment of connection and wisdom.   Tune in to discover how these enchanting stories can transform bedtime into a space of healing, growth, and unconditional love.

In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, so too do the methods by which cybercriminals exploit it for malicious purposes. As we edge closer to the 2024 general election, the digital landscape becomes a minefield of sophisticated cyber threats aimed at voters. To navigate this complex terrain, we've invited Andrew Newman, CTO and co-founder of ReasonLabs, to share his invaluable insights on the cybersecurity challenges looming over this pivotal event. Andrew, a seasoned cybersecurity professional with a wealth of experience and the guiding force behind ReasonLabs—a leading provider of enterprise-grade protection—brings a unique perspective to the table. His insights into emerging trends and digital pitfalls that voters may face are invaluable. Today, he will delve into the sophisticated tactics employed by cyber adversaries, including the use of AI to craft convincing phishing attacks and the creation of deepfakes designed to sow discord and manipulate public perception. The use of generative AI by scammers has significantly lowered the barriers to creating realistic fake content, posing a serious threat to election security. Andrew will break down how these advanced threats work and the implications for voters' privacy and the integrity of electoral processes. He will also stress the crucial role of public education in countering these threats despite the challenges posed by the realistic nature of AI-generated content. ReasonLabs, a pioneer in consumer cybersecurity, is at the forefront of implementing layered protections. These include anti-phishing measures and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems designed to counter these emerging threats. Through this conversation, Andrew aims to equip listeners with the knowledge and tools they need to protect themselves against the sophisticated scams that are expected to proliferate during the election season. Expect to uncover the nature of the cyber threats targeting voters, from the evolution of phishing attacks to the sinister use of deepfakes. Learn to discern between genuine and malicious communications, the importance of verifying information sources, and the best practices for ensuring digital security in an increasingly vulnerable online environment. As we delve into these critical issues, Andrew will also shed light on the expected increase in election-related scams compared to previous years, fueled by advancements in technology that enable scammers to craft more believable and, thus, more dangerous threats. From robocalls and SMiShing to phishing sites and deceptive donation requests, listeners will understand the scams to watch out for and the measures to avoid becoming a victim. This episode is not just about highlighting problems; it's about forging solutions and strategies to bolster our digital defenses against a significant democratic event. Join us as we explore the intersection of technology, security, and democracy with one of the industry's most seasoned experts. How prepared are we to defend the sanctity of our votes in the digital age? Share your thoughts and join the conversation.  

Andrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of www.ConsciousStories.com, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. His professional background includes deep training in therapeutic healing work and mindfulness. He brings a calm yet playful energy to speaking events and workshops, inviting and encouraging the creativity of his audiences, children K-5, parents, and teachers alike. Andrew has been an opening speaker for Deepak Chopra, a Tedx presenter in Findhorn, Scotland, keynote speaker at Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Conference and author-in-residence at the Bixby School in Boulder, Colorado. He is a graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, a Non-Dual Kabbalistic healer and has been actively involved in men's work through the Mankind Project since 2006. He counsels parents, helping them to return to their center, so they can be more deeply present with their kids.

Tonight, we serve T-E-A and evening tea together to make a difference. Teatime with Miss Liz March 7th, 7 pm EST Coming to the table to share his book series is Conscious Stories Andrew Newman bringing you bedtime stories for children. JOIN US FOR THE LIVE SHOW, WHERE YOU CAN BRING YOUR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND SUPPORT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TOGETHER. WITH A QUICK SUBSCRIPTION TO MISS LIZS YOUTUBE CHANNEL BELOW: https://youtube.com/@misslizsteatimes?si=5eu0--BgowGVVHKqConscious StoriesAndrew Newman from Consciousness Stories serving you a tea of: -Touch-Emotion-Attachment Andrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of www.ConsciousStories.com, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. Andrew's TEDx, Why the last 20 minutes of the Day Matter, weaves trauma-informed awareness and attachment bonding into the wonders of storytime, outlining the importance of quality connection before sleep for your child's ability to regulate, rest deeply and wake up confident. He graduated from The Barbara Brennan School of Healing as a Non-Dual Kabbalistic Healer. He has been actively involved in men's work since 2006, facilitating men's groups in the Mankind Project and Soul Games. Andrew is a featured expert on Mindvalley's Little Humans and has been the opening speaker for Deepak Chopra, keynote speaker at Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Conference and author-in-residence at the Bixby School in Boulder, Colorado. He brings a calm yet playful energy to speaking events and workshops, inviting and encouraging the creativity of his audiences, children, parents, and teachers alike.www.consciousstories.com#misslizsteatime#teatimewithmissliz#makingadifferencetogether#consciousness#consciousnessstories#bedtimestory#LikeFollowShare#joinus#livestreaming#podcastshow#awareness#connection

As more young people get connected online, attack surfaces greatly increase, and it's vital that these users establish a cybersecurity posture, according to a recent article by Andrew Newman, co-founder and CTO at ReasonLabs, published in Fast Company. In this episode, host Paul John Spaulding is joined by Steve Morgan, Founder of Cybersecurity Ventures and Editor-in-Chief at Cybercrime Magazine, to discuss. The Cybercrime Magazine Update airs weekly and covers the latest news, interviews, podcasts, reports, videos, and special productions from Cybercrime Magazine, published by Cybersecurity Ventures. For more on cybersecurity, visit us at https://cybersecurityventures.com

Episode 111: Not so long ago, many of our K-12 schools were hoping parents would pay more attention to what was going on in the classroom. Too often, it seemed, parent-teacher conferences were not well attended, PTA groups were struggling and school board elections were all but forgotten about. Recently, however, there has been a major shift in our nation, as the parental-rights movement has caused many adults to become much more involved in what's taught in our classrooms, has turned board meetings into long discussions about politics and culture, and has led to a record number of attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries. Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss how big of a role parents should have in making sure their children's education meets their own personal standards and beliefs. Links to stories discussed during the podcast: What should we be teaching our kids in a polarized world?, by Richard Kyte Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says, by Hillel Italie, The Associated Press Parents differ sharply by party over what their K-12 children should learn in school, by Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Pew Research Center Legislative tracker: 2023 parent-rights bills in the states, by Bella DiMarco, FutureEd Book bans aren't the only threat to literature in American classrooms, by Jonna Perrillo and Andrew Newman, Time magazine About the hosts: Scott Rada is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis. His forthcoming book, "Finding Your Third Place," will be published by Fulcrum Books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Using the end of the night to help a child unwind, make sense of the day, and prepare for what's to come tomorrow can be a valuable tool for shifting their brain and body into a state of rest.   Joining me to talk about how parents can use the last 20 minutes of the day to promote social and emotional learning is the author of the children's book series, Conscious Stories, Andrew Newman.   Helping our child to feel safe and connected to us just before it's time for them to drift off into sleep can have a huge impact on their ability to successfully fall asleep and stay asleep and on their overall mental wellbeing.     I want to hear from you! Send me a topic you want me to cover or a question you want answered on the show! ✨ DM me on Instagram at @securelyattachedpodcast or @drsarahbren ✨ Send an email to sarah@drsarahbren.com ✨ And check out drsarahbren.com for more parenting resources 

Andrew Newman loves all things spiritual and creative. He's written books for families - like ‘The Hug Who Got Stuck' or ‘The Great Love of Rose and Thorn' - to help parents connect on those hectic days of growing and learning. In this interview, we talk about “the web of sticky thoughts,” explaining complex ideas to children, characterizing “a hug,” the breathing meditations in the books, when to protect work from feedback, the importance of the last twenty minutes of the day, why he founded this independent book company, and the journey to selling 150,000 books. Want more? Steal my first book, Ink by the Barrel - Secrets From Prolific Writers right now for free. Simply head over to www.brockswinson.com to get your free digital download and audiobook. If you find value in the book, please share it with a friend as we're giving away 100,000 copies this year. It's based on over 400 interviews here at Creative Principles. Enjoy! If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It only takes about 60-seconds and it really helps convince some of the hard-to-get guests to sit down and have a chat (simply scroll to the bottom on your iTunes Podcast app and click “Write Review"). Enjoy the show!

Watch this episode to hear a children's book author discuss the importance of being present with our children at story-time. Andrew Newman is an award-winning author and founder of ConsciousStories.com, a series of bedtime stories crafted to support the parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. In this episode, Andrew discusses the importance of engaging in restorative practices with our kids to foster connection and empathy. He also walks us through a "snuggle breathing" meditation and reads from his book, The Little Brain People. 00:00 Introduction 00:26 About Andrew Newman 04:00 Why do the last 20 minutes of the day matter? 07:28 Andrew's "Snuggle Breathing Meditation" 12:25 Andrew reads The Little Brain People 16:47 Children's reactions to his book 20:04 The connection between empathy and story-time 24:00 The importance of staying present while reading and having conversations 25:43 Andrew asks Anita: How does story-time affect empathy? 30:57 The helpfulness of recognizing childrens' emotions  32:53 The benefits of "conscious discipline" 35:26 The connection between creativity and healing 40:24 Andrew Newman's Purposeful Empathy story CONNECT WITH ANDREW NEWMAN ✩Website: www.consciousstories.com  ✩Professional Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/consciousbedtimestories/  ✩Andrew's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewsamnewman/  ✩ Andrew's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_newman_why_the_last_20_minutes_of_the_day_matter CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com   ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com/   ✩ LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Twitter https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 ✩ Facebook Page https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyFacebook ✩ Facebook Group https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyCommunity ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast Video edited by David Tsvariani

Our only practice is keeping Loving-Silence, the presence of God, in the foreground of our experience. Hearing This first.Seeing This first.Noticing This first.Being This first,then being human,then being a mom, sister, friend, a husband.Being Love first, because It makes you a better mom, sister, friend or husband.Silence is not hiding from you.You can't find It.You can't earn It.you don't have to understand It.You just have to STOP,and listen to It...listen for It...just like you're listening now...just like you're relaxing your shoulders now...just like you're smiling now :) Don't talk to God today.Just listen. Feel It (the Silence). Hear It (the Silence).Trust It (the Silence).Then, watch It :)I Love you,Niknikki@curlynikki.comPlease help me keep the show ad free + Get Merch!▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings________________________________Today's Quotes:  "Any attempt to find peace is throwing  a stone into a calm lake.  Peace is already here. You just disturb it by running outside. When you don't make any attempt there is no mind, but when you try to make any attempt, there rises the mind which is going to disturb you."-Papaji"Silence is not a thing to find-- It is a place inside me.I can go there and visit whenever and wherever I want."-'The Boy Who Searched for Silence' by Andrew Newman"Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside.  If you're truly silent, then no natter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."-Thich Nhat Hanh  Support the show

Hartley & Reel sit down with renowned children’s author Andrew Newman to discuss his series “Conscious Stories” Each book seeks to help children grasp the practice of meditation, helping them begin to comprehend complex emotions, exercises to regulating one’s feelings, and helping them develop tools on the way to healthy adulthood. RESOURCES: Andrews Author Profile… Read More »Almost Awakened: 128: Conscious Stories With Andrew Newman The post Almost Awakened: 128: Conscious Stories With Andrew Newman appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Andrew Newman is a Children's Book author and Creativity Coach who, once upon a time, didn't think he was creative at all. Today Andrew teaches us all about the “creative cycle” where he helps to untangle the struggles of creatives, entrepreneurs, and anyone trying new things and making big changes! This special episode is a must listen for anyone creating anything ever at any age, which is literally everyone all the time. A rarity on a show for people over 40.Andrew's children's books, Conscious Stories, is a line of 20 books and can be found online at https://consciousstories.com/ along with his Creative Coaching program. Follow our show on instagram @iamthisage_podcast!Email for transciption info@jellyfishindustries.comBuy me a coffee! (AKA donate to the show)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IAmThisAge

Time to uncloset our creativity and consciousness. From wee ones to adults, author, speaker, and coach, Andrew Newman is inviting everyone to wake up, be creative and make the last 20 minutes of each and every day matter. About Andrew Andrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of http://www.consciousstories.com/ (www.ConsciousStories.com), a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. His emerging work on The Creative Cycle heals ‘the dark aloneness of the unexpressed spirit' by encouraging clients to stay connected to their creative spark and express their hearts fully. He is a graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, a Non-Dual Kabbalistic Healer and has been actively involved in the Mankind Project and Soul-Games men's work for over 15 years. Connect With Sam https://consciousstories.com/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousBedtimeStories/ (Facebook) https://www.instagram.com/consciousbedtimestories/ (Instagram) https://twitter.com/storyclubbooks (Twitter) You can also listen to the podcast on… https://apple.co/2RBmUxZ ()https://bit.ly/2UxP9zN ()   https://spoti.fi/2JpvCfg ()https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/rick-clemons/the-coming-out-lounge ()   http://tun.in/pjtKR ()https://bit.ly/30kT4kL ()   https://bit.ly/2FVH55j ()  

This sermon was preached on June 26, 2022 at Antioch Presbyterian Church, a mission work of Calvary Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America located in Woodruff, South Carolina. Pastor Andrew Newman of Fellowship Presbyterian Church (PCA) preached this sermon entitled "The Gates of Heaven" on Genesis 28:10-22. For more information about Antioch Presbyterian Church, please visit antiochpca.com or contact us at info@antiochpca.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antiochpca/message

Central Pennsylvania has many fun events throughout the summer – each one different in it's own way. The Fort Loudoun Market Fair in Franklin County scheduled for this weekend may be one of the most unique. On Thursday's Smart Talk, we're joined by Andrew Newman, who coordinates the Market Fair, to talk about the event and the rich history of Fort Loudoun. The Fort Loudoun Market Fair will be held Friday through Sunday at 1720 N Brooklyn Rd, Fort Loudon. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Newman an internationally acclaimed conscious story writer for children, who's trained and worked in healing and community building. This is a beautiful story 'The Home For Sensitive Butterflies', where Andrew reads his exciting new tale. His creative passion ties into how spirituality and story time can profoundly impact children's lives. He inspires families to connect, grow, and learn together. Find out more about Andrew here: www.Consciousstories.Com Insta: @consciousbedtimestories   I make these podcasts with love and joy, and they are my gift. You can find out more about my latest film on the sacred sites in Southern Africa on the link below. About connecting our human spiritual awakening to sacred geometry in nature, and light paths that awaken our deepest knowing. Watch the teaser trailer: https://fundrazr.com/61lWg4?ref=ab_b9u5od  Insta: @nickyfelbert Twitter: @NickyRFelbert You can join my occasional newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/freedomwithnicky

Andrew Newman shares his deep insights into creating success in a creative vocation. He's an internationally acclaimed conscious story writer for children, who's trained and worked in healing and community building. His passion and impact tie into how spirituality and story time can impact children's lives, with some surprising insights into human spirituality and creativity. He inspires families to connect, grow, and learn together. Find out more about Andrew here: www.Consciousstories.Com Insta @consciousbedtimestories   I make these podcasts with love and joy, and they are my gift. You can find out more about my latest film on the sacred sites in Southern Africa on the link below. About connecting our human spiritual awakening to sacred geometry in nature, and light paths that awaken our deepest knowing. Watch the teaser trailer: https://fundrazr.com/61lWg4?ref=ab_b9u5od  You can join my occasional newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/freedomwithnicky

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A great episode with author Andrew Newman, writer of Conscious Stories for children. This is a wonderful conversation about the importance of connecting with our children on a deeper level and becoming more aware as parents of our own triggers. Andrew is an author of 18 conscious story books for children that are a wonderful opportunity to connect with your kids on a deeper level at bedtime. Andrew has spent many years in mens groups around the world and is very aware of the struggles of both men and fathers. He has also been on his own healing journey and understands the importance of connecting with children from a young age. These stories are a gateway to raising more mindful and connected children. "Conscious Stories are a collection of stories with wise and lovable characters who teach core life values to your children. Each of the books invites its readers to engage in mindfulness practices, beginning with Snuggle Breathing, which helps parents and children alike to share an experience of relaxation, presence and connection to each other and to the story. Each story ends with reflective activities and exercises to help children assimilate the lessons the stories have presented. Because the last 20 minutes of each day are precious, these books use this important time to help children and parents grow consciously together in mind, body and spirit." For more information go to https://consciousstories.com/ Please enjoy! LIKE, SHARE and FOLLOW these pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadwithoutborders/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dad-Without-Borders-104442641427419 Website: https://dad-without-borders-e10084dc.simplecast.com/

Andrew Newman, photographer and Educator at the John Burroughs School, stopped by to speak with Nancy about his exhibition, Plastic Ocean, at the Bonsack Gallery. About Andrew Newman: Andrew Newman '87 joined the Burroughs faculty in 1992. He teachers photography and is the school photographer. Newman is also the faculty coordinator of Student Activities; faculty sponsor of the Student Congress; and a faculty co-sponsor of The Hague International Model United Nations. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Vanderbilt University and a masters of education degree from Washington University. About Plastic Ocean: Andrew Newman spent part of his sabbatical year from John Burroughs School out on the ocean studying and photographing the "Great Garbage Patch," an enormous area in the ocean littered with the refuse of humanity, especially plastics. ------ Researchers from The Ocean Cleanup project claimed that the patch covers 1.6 million square kilometres (620 thousand square miles).[4] Some of the plastic in the patch is over 50 years old, and includes items (and fragments of items) such as "plastic lighters, toothbrushes, water bottles, pens, baby bottles, cell phones, plastic bags, and nurdles." The small fibers of wood pulp found throughout the patch are "believed to originate from the thousands of tons of toilet paper flushed into the oceans daily." ------  JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL 755 South Price Road St. Louis, MO 63124    

Our only practice is keeping Loving-Silence, the presence of God, in the foreground of our experience. Hearing This first.Seeing This first.Noticing This first. Being This first,then being human, then being a mom, sister, friend, a husband.Being Love first, because It makes you a better mom, sister, friend or husband. Silence is not hiding from you.You can't find It. You can't earn It. you don't have to understand It.You just have to STOP,and listen to It...listen for It...just like you're listening now... just like you're relaxing your shoulders now...just like you're smiling now :)  Don't talk to God today. Just listen.  Feel It (the Silence).  Hear It (the Silence).Trust It (the Silence). Then, watch It :) I Love you, Niknikki@curlynikki.com▶▶ BONUS EPISODES  + Go(o)d merch:https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Join the ongoing Go(o)d Mornings Challenge:https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFT5R2JtYN/________________________________Today's Quotes: "Any attempt to find peace is throwing  a stone into a calm lake.  Peace is already here. You just disturb it by running outside. When you don't make any attempt there is no mind, but when you try to make any attempt, there rises the mind which is going to disturb you."-Papaji"Silence is not a thing to find-- It is a place inside me.I can go there and visit whenever and wherever I want." -'The Boy Who Searched for Silence' by Andrew Newman"Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside.  If you're truly silent, then no natter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."-Thich Nhat Hanh  Support the show (https://cash.app/$NikWalton)

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Andrew Newman, humanitarian, author, poet, and entrepreneurial creative comes to the podcast to discuss the inception of his collection of conscious children stories. He shares how his intention is to give children (and parents) the language and skills they need to navigate their life experiences, the big questions, and our emotions. Each book conveys a core lesson, breathing meditation, and an entry point to help the reader connect more deeply to themselves and the world around them. Creating additional support at the end of the day, to start the next day aligned and balanced. To learn more about Andrew and purchase his books head over to Conscious Bedtime Stories and follow him on Instagram @consciousbedtimestories. Listen to his compelling Tedx Talk here.  Podcast Sponsors: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Andrea Firpo: Join Andrea in Sedona, Arizona from April 15th through April 18th, 2021 for her 3-Day Phoenix Immersion Retreat™ and an invitation to heal your unresolved trauma, drop limiting thought patterns and beliefs, connect to your true self, and awaken into a more powerful you.  You will gather with a group of soul-driven women for a few nourishing days of deeply reconnecting to yourself, while also achieving energetic balance, and full body integration of body + mind + spirit. Visit www.andreafirpo.com to sign up for the 3 day retreat. To schedule a free 30-Minute breakthrough session with Andrea, by clicking here. Andrea, is a Psychic Cheerleader, author, healer and podcaster who is focused on soul liberation and embodiment. Combining her psychic and intuitive abilities with her educational background of trauma psychology, she connects women to their own inner wisdom and self-love. By bringing awareness in the body, mind, and spirit around the deep conditioning of emotional trauma, Andrea identifies underlying patterns that undermine her clients’ self-worth. Through simple yet powerful healing tools, Andrea empowers her clients to achieve energetic balance through healthy boundaries, promoting incredible paradigm shifts in their lives. Follow her on Instagram @psychiccheerleader Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Podcast Network Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

My top 3 takeaways from Monday's Episode with Andrew Newman. www.consciousstories.com

Today, we will have an insightful conversation with Andrew Newman, a brilliant children's storytime book author, about mindful practices with your children, including meditation and creativity.  He will talk about teaching your children mindfulness, core life values, and much more.    3 Key Points: Sitting as a parent is an immense mixture of responsibility and power. Show our kids what we want them to learn.  Teach children mindfulness at an early stage, use bedtime stories to be with them fully in the last 20 minutes of their day to help them discharge their daily struggles as they transition to sleep.  Meditation practices help children to slow down as they transition to sleep. Make it as a spiritual practice, give as much of that loving presence as you can.    Episode Highlights:  06:08- The last 20 minutes of the night creates an impact on what's going on in our brain. 07:24- Use the transition points of sleep and wake in the first 30 minutes of the day to sit us up.  08:38- Teach kids mindfulness early so that they don't have to unlearn a bunch of stuff like adults.   16:12- In the moment of surrender, something magical happens.    17:21- Problem can't be solved from the same level of consciousness that we created a problem with. Have a space for a new level of consciousness.  19:00- The therapeutic relationship is learning one's triggers and learning how to be non-reactive when activated.    20:30- Therapeutic relationship is the same aspect as the parent-child relationship. 23:21- The our breathing practice- I breathe for me, I breathe for you, I breathe for us, I breathe for all that surrounds us.   29:26-  Andrew's morning practice helps the stream of consciousness come out for him to go into the space of openness.  31:32- Andrew's struggles from the business standpoint relates to the period of surrender.  40:50-The power of a story shifts us from a perspective where we hate to hate, thereby creating a safe place.  43:50- Anticipate challenges in time and translational speed of kids,  be encouraging of slowing down.   45:00- Use the breathing technique to slow kids' systems down.  45:21- Model to our kids what we want them to learn.  45:25- Kids are designed to seek love, and the fastest way to get love is to mimic the person who gives them love.  49:10- Andrew gave his message to his  18 y/o self, who needed encouragement.    Tweetable Quotes: “The power of the story is that it shifts us from this perspective where we hate to hate. That shift is one of those mechanisms of creating safety.. “- Andrew Newman “We don't have to fight until we reach the point of surrender. We can choose to surrender earlier and ask for help because, in the moment of surrender, something magical happens. “- Andrew Newman “If we think the same way we have always been thinking, we will get the same result. We need something new to influence ourselves and change the course of our lives.“- Andrew Newman   Resources Mentioned: Justin Francisco: LinkedIn | Website Andrew Newman: Conscious Bedtime Stories | LinkedIn | Instagram

January 24, 2021 - Rev Andrew Newman expounds on Matthew 27:1-31

Dr. Jeff interviews Dr. Andrew Newman, a young entrepreneur and chiropractor. Tune in for a genuine morsel of business acumen!For more information on Dr. Jeff's coaching, visit www.mybigfishenterprises.com or email mybigfishinfo@gmail.com!For more about Dr. Andrew Newman and his clinic Lifestyle Chiropractic, visit www.lifestylechirocenter.com

Andrew is the Founder of By The People, a platform for democracy, and a podcast co-host for The Brink, a futurist playground. He graduated Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2018, then worked at Capital One for a couple years building web and Android applications. When not trying to fix democracy, he can be found working out or tucked in a nook reading a good book. By The People Lunchclub The Brink (Podcast) Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @worldxppodcast Spotify YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts

Andrew Newman is the MUN Director at the John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri. Today, he talks about his experiences with the "Century for the SDG's" campaign, where he and his co-Director of the John Burroughs MUN program biked for one hundred miles (about 160 km) to raise awareness for the SDGs and money for MUN Impact. The novelty of the campaign led to traction among powerful corporate partners, including Microsoft. Mr. Newman's charming personality and well-lived life experiences fill the episode with lively conversation and candor about what an educator's role in MUN has the potential of being.Join Erik Novak in interviewing Mr. Newman and listening to his fascinating experience!Don't forget to like, share, follow, and show this to your friends and colleagues.Support the show (http://bit.ly/comMUNique)

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman, Gareth Kingston and James Bonsall (blue team) take on John Martin, Karen Crofton and Michael Gunn (red team). All questions in the show relate to the letter G.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and James Conroy (blue team) take on Ed Coulson, Elaine Dobbyn and Mark Lynch (red team). All questions in the show relate to the letter F.

Andrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of www.ConsciousStories.com, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. His professional background includes deep training in therapeutic healing work and mindfulness. He brings a calm yet playful energy to speaking events and workshops, inviting and encouraging the creativity of his audiences, children K-5, parents, and teachers alike. Andrew is a featured expert on Mindvalleys’ Little Humans parenting channel, been an opening speaker for Deepak Chopra, a Tedx presenter in Findhorn, Scotland, keynote speaker at Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline Conference and author-in-residence at the Bixby School in Boulder, Colorado. He is a graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, a Non-Dual Kabbalistic healer and has been actively involved in men’s work through the Mankind Project since 2006. He counsels parents, helping them to return to their center, so they can be more deeply present with their kids. Visit: http://drlaurabrayton.com/podcasts/ for show notes and available downloads. © 2020 Dr. Laura Brayton

In this episode, I am joined by Arsenal fan Andrew Newman to discuss post match of Arsenal v Watford. We talk about how we became Arsenal fans, relegating poor poor Watford, discuss the match, highlight some players, grade our season, give our player of the season, and give our FA Cup final predictions. Thank you so much for listening! If you like the show make sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram @USArsenalPod, and make sure to subscribe & leave a 5 star review!

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman, Bernie Osgood and Gareth Kingston (blue team) take on Dave Finn, Linda Conway and Michael Gunn (red team). All questions in the show relate to the letter C.

Children's stories and children books are in the spotlight on People of Note this week. Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to author ANDREW NEWMAN whose books include breathing meditations, value rich stories and reflection pages meant to help parents and children to spend 20 minutes before bedtime reading. With titles such as The Elephant Who Tried To Tip Toe, The Hug Who Got Stuck and the Boy Who Searched For Silence, the books are truly magical with beautiful illustrations.

Fine Music Radio — Children’s stories and children books are in the spotlight on People of Note this week. Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to author ANDREW NEWMAN whose books include breathing meditations, value rich stories and reflection pages meant to help parents and children to spend 20 minutes before bedtime reading. With titles such as The Elephant Who Tried To Tip Toe, The Hug Who Got Stuck and the Boy Who Searched For Silence, the books are truly magical with beautiful illustrations.

This week we review - Star Stories (Series 1 Episode 2)Star Stories is a British television comedy programme that took a satirical look at celebrities and their lives.Star Stories is made by Objective Productions (the people behind Peep Show) commissioned for Channel 4 by Shane Allen and Andrew Newman with Lee Hupfield producing, Elliot Hegarty directing and Phil Clarke and Andrew O'Connor as executive producers.Spanning three series it featured episodes entitled - The Church Of Scientology Presents... Being Tom Cruise: How Scientology Is In No Way Mental, Simon Cowell: My Honesty, My Genius and Oops I Did It Again!: The Ballad Of Britney Jean SpearsWritten by Lee Hupfield, Bert Tyler-Moore and George JeffrieProduced by Lee Hupfield and Michael LivingstoneDirected by Elliot Hegarty and Ben PalmerAn Objective Production For Channel 4.Star Stories is available to here: https://bit.ly/2BMZFxhThe Comedy Slab Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Youtube.Subscribe for a new episode each Monday.Get in touch - we're @ComedySlab on Twitter and ComedySlab on Facebook.

In this wide-ranging debate we cover the the economic, asset-side, risk-side, pricing dynamics and psychological effects of Covid-19 on the reinsurance market, guided by  Willis Re's recent report. Andrew Newman, President, and Printhan Sothinathan, Co-Head of Global Analytics, at Willis Re are two very smart, very senior and very engaging figures. The report is the most comprehensive and far-sighted produced by any market participant to date and if you like this podcast (which I think you will) I recommend you take time to read its 70 pages for a rounder experience: https://www.willistowerswatson.com/en-GB/Insights/2020/04/covid-19-willis-re-impact-report  

Hi everyone. For anyone that wants to know how the colour called Banana looks like. This is the interview giving the answer. For this episode I got to interview Andrew Newman, Author and Founder of Conscious Bed Time Stories and healer. Andrew is known for: Writing Poems and books Being a healer, and For his work in mens groups His creative powers are writing and wood working but has not considered himself being creative until his late 20is. The books are designed to help parents and children to change gears and connect before going to sleep. To do so psychology and energy healing approaches are used. “These stories have wise, lovable characters who model real-life situations to your children, showing them how to resolve challenges before they arise. They also have easy breathing meditations and activity pages that help parents and children connect. “ So far he has published 13 Children Books and another 3 books are on the way. Born and raised into a Jewellery Family, in South Africa during the apartheid period. Andrew had his share of laking emotional training, hugs and love from his family and going in a men's only school did not help him perfecting his emotions and interaction with others. In his mid 20is he realised that there is more and started searching for healing himself. Books, weekend courses and even a university degree as healer from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in the US were some of the things he did. Andrew has been open and vulnerable in his storytelling and lets us in how he then got to write poems and started publishing them. We do not only learn about his path but also about how we can connect with each other using the snuggle-breath. An Advice took and recommends: - From Mike Dooley the author of “Notes from the universe”. If you don't know what to do, do the three least shitty things. You never know what door might open. For Andrew this was to move from Tennessee to California. On the road the Mindvalley Quest “Little Humans” was published and before he knew it he had a mail box full of emails and requests. Such as from “The Oliver Schirach Show”. Stay open. Call for Action: Write a poem and share it with someone or gift it. If you feel strong and courageous read it aloud to someone else. Ask for understanding. Inform that this poem is new and very precious to you. So that you won't be criticised for it. Links to Andrew: www.consciousstories.com www.facebook.com/ConsciousBedtimeStories/ https://www.instagram.com/consciousbedtimestories/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3cbjj2DtIBp7fp3xQjjGA www.poemcatcher.com andrew@consciousstories.com Links to people and courses mentioned during the show: Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Become a professional healer https://barbarabrennan.com/ Notes From the Universe with Mike Dooley, The Universe Talks, Thoughts Become Things https://www.tut.com/ Reach out to me: www.anchor.fm/schirach oschirach@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/schirach/message

What does this pandemic mean to you. We discuss prevention, caution, and how to peddle through this trying time.

December 29, 2019 - Reverend Andrew Newman expounds on Hebrews 12:18-24

Andrew Newman, South African Author and Founder of award-winning Conscious Bedtime Stories reviews a series of spiritual bedtime stories for conscious parents who seek a deeper connection with their children especially designed to help you connect more deeply with your children… because the last 20 minutes of every day are precious

Fine Music Radio — Beverley Roos-Muller waded into Booker controversy territory and read both The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, joint winners for 2019. Melvyn Minnaar devoured Furious Hours, Casey Cep’s literary true crime thriller about Harper Lee’s non-fiction novel that never saw the light of day. John Hanks strongly recommends Gary Goldman & Marieka Gryzenhout’s superbly illustrated Field Guide to Mushrooms & other Fungi of South Africa. Debut reviewer Chegofatso Modika explored what it means to be queer in South Africa in They Called Me Queer compiled by Kim Windvogel and Kelly-Eve Koopman. Lesley Beake could not resist master of language Philip Pullman’s latest, The Book of Dust volume 2. Beryl Eichenberger discovered a sensitive approach to grief in Melina Lewis’s After you Died. The novel, in which four young women go for an early run, and only three return is set in Fish Hoek. Vanessa Levenstein found much that was familiar in Finoula Dowling’s Okay, Okay, Okay. Penny Lorimer brings us her views on The Second Sleep by Robert Harris and A Walk at Midnight by Alex van Tonder. Fred Khumalo’s The Longest March, took Philip Todres back 120 years, when 7000 Zulu mine workers marched from the gold mines of Johannesburg to Natal covering a distance of five hundred kilometres over ten days, and Vanessa Levenstein spoke to Andrew Newman about his conscious bedtime stories for children.

Beverley Roos-Muller waded into Booker controversy territory and read both The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, joint winners for 2019. Melvyn Minnaar devoured Furious Hours, Casey Cep's literary true crime thriller about Harper Lee's non-fiction novel that never saw the light of day. John Hanks strongly recommends Gary Goldman & Marieka Gryzenhout's superbly illustrated Field Guide to Mushrooms & other Fungi of South Africa. Debut reviewer Chegofatso Modika explored what it means to be queer in South Africa in They Called Me Queer compiled by Kim Windvogel and Kelly-Eve Koopman. Lesley Beake could not resist master of language Philip Pullman's latest, The Book of Dust volume 2. Beryl Eichenberger discovered a sensitive approach to grief in Melina Lewis's After you Died. The novel, in which four young women go for an early run, and only three return is set in Fish Hoek. Vanessa Levenstein found much that was familiar in Finoula Dowling's Okay, Okay, Okay. Penny Lorimer brings us her views on The Second Sleep by Robert Harris and A Walk at Midnight by Alex van Tonder. Fred Khumalo's The Longest March, took Philip Todres back 120 years, when 7000 Zulu mine workers marched from the gold mines of Johannesburg to Natal covering a distance of five hundred kilometres over ten days, and Vanessa Levenstein spoke to Andrew Newman about his conscious bedtime stories for children.

Fine Music Radio — Children’s stories and children books are in the spotlight on People of Note this week. Rodney Trudgeon will be talking to author ANDREW NEWMAN whose books include breathing meditations, value rich stories and reflection pages meant to help parents and children to spend 20 minutes before bedtime reading. With titles such as The Elephant Who Tried To Tip Toe, The Hug Who Got Stuck and the Boy Who Searched For Silence, the books are truly magical with beautiful illustrations.

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University.

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities (University of North Carolina Press—Chapel Hill & The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019), Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University, analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one’s own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations. Ryan Tripp is part-time and full-time adjunct history faculty for Los Medanos Community College as well as the College of Online and Continuing Education at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob interviews Andrew Newman,  who is a campus. minister with Reformed University Fellowship on the campus of USF in Tampa, FL. 

Men are more rapidly than ever flocking to men’s work, and we aren’t talking about men working out. They’re going to places where they can feel safe about being vulnerable and able to be open about what they are feeling. But does it work? Andrew Newman, children’s author, well known for his Conscious Bedtime Stories series, shares candidly the benefits that he has received as an active participant in many different types of men’s work programs. While at times it terrified him, he now knows what it truly means to experience that sense of safety and belonging in the company of men. About AndrewAndrew Newman is the award-winning author and founder of Conscious Bedtime Stories, a growing series of bedtime stories purpose-built to support parent-child connection in the last 20 minutes of the day. His professional background includes deep training in therapeutic healing work and mindfulness. He brings a calm yet playful energy to speaking events and workshops, inviting and encouraging the creativity of his audiences, children K-5, parents, and teachers alike.  Andrew has been an opening speaker for Deepak Chopra, a Tedx presenter in Findhorn, Scotland, keynote speaker at Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline Conference and author-in-residence at the Bixby School in Boulder, Colorado. He is a graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing, a Non-Dual Kabbalistic healer and has been actively involved in men’s work through the Mankind Project since 2006. He counsels parents, helping them to return to their center, so they can be more deeply present with their kids. Website (https://www.consciousstories.com/) You can also listen to the podcast on… (https://apple.co/2Q4nnbt)   (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/rick-clemons/forty-plus-real-men-real-talk)   (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/40-plus-real-men-real-talk-854094)   (https://radiopublic.com/40-plus-real-men-real-talk-WoBlp5)    Hey Guys, Check This Out!Are you a guy who keeps struggling to do that thing? You know the thing you keep telling yourself and others you’re going to do, but never do? Then it’s time to get real and figure out why. Take the  Unapologetic Life Assessment - Click Here, (https://rickclemons.com/ul_lp/) and stop playing it safe. For a real, deep-dive, one-to-one coaching session where we make things happen to get you out of your own way, check out my "Your Next Move" Strategy Session.  Check it out - Click Here! (http://rickclemons.com/discovery-session) Break free of fears. Make bold moves. Live life without apologies P.S. get your free My Bold Life Manifesto, right here - (https://rickclemons.com/manifesto/)

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and James Bonsall (blue team) take on Micheál Coyne and David Finn (red team). All questions in the show relate to France.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and Lee Donoghue (blue team) take on Michelle Coyne and Paddy Duffy (red team). All questions in the show relate to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and Patrick Carthy (blue team) take on Patrick Mulrennan and Paul Halligan (red team). All questions in the show relate to Canada.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and Brendan Cox (blue team) take on Michelle Coyne and Micheál Coyne (red team). All questions in the show relate to Spain.

What are the most important 20 minutes of each day with your kids? How can we as Dads use the power of stories to positively influence, educate and inspire? In this interview, we’re talking about storytelling and the power it has to connect and move young hearts and minds. My guest is the author and creator of conscious stories, a series of books that my boys, Tiger and Ocean, absolutely love. Honestly, I’m not a fan of many kids books. I ask myself, “what’s the point of this story?” I have a special book shelf in my boys’ room filled with books I’ve personally chosen, because they teach something of value. Hey, I’m all for being entertained, which certainly has value, and yet the real gold is when my kids are being entertained and learning at the same time. For years, I was the dad who just picked up whatever book was close by, or whichever one I could get through the fastest (being honest here), but today I’m much more careful about the stories I’m reading, because I’m much more intentional about the young men I’m hoping to empower. The words we read in the last 20 minutes of the day, become the seeds of consciousness and subconscious behaviors, many of which will be carried into our adult lives. So to explore this topic of storytelling, I invited one of my favorite authors onto the show this week, Andrew Newman, Founder of The Conscious Bedtime Story Club.    Join The Brotherhood Join the Front Row Dads private Facebook community so you can ask questions, share ideas, and be part of a supportive group of incredible brothers who help one another navigate the role of marriage and fatherhood. Visit FrontRowDads.com/facebook Leave a Review http://frontrowdads.com/review Website For more information, visit FrontRowDads.com

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Dave McBryan and Andrew Newman (blue team) take on Micheal Coyne and Michelle Coyne (red team). All questions in the show relate to Greece.

In Episode 13, I talk with Ted Talker, healing expert, and awesome human Andrew Newman. We discuss how becoming aware of the sources of your discomforts gives you the power to change internally to grow past those discomforts. Andrew also opened my eyes to how our physical and mental discomfort is a symptom of us not living in alignment with our life purpose. At the end of the Episode, Andrew gives some tips on how to cultivate self love and awareness to make your last 20 minutes of the day minutes of healing, discovery, and inner peace. Why the last 20 minutes of the day matter | Andrew Newman Check out Andrew's Books! https://www.consciousstories.com/#a_aid=applyingawareness Check out my Patreon! I interview experts in their fields about actionable tips you can take home with you. It's worth it https://www.patreon.com/applyingawareness Check out my Youtube for more valuable videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXXs9af6_5skuaVEXowG3g Twitter: https://twitter.com/applyawareness Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/appliedawarenesspod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/applyingawareness/ Medium: https://medium.com/applyingawareness

On this show, we talked about the value of incorporating mindfulness into the last 20 minutes of your child’s day with Andrew Newman, author and CEO of Conscious Bedtime Stories.  Listen to learn the benefits of raising a more mindful child! For the Difference Making Tip, scan ahead to 15:09. You can learn more about Andrew at ConsciousStories.com, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. For Andrew’s books, click HERE Please subscribe to the show however you’re listening, leave a review and share it with someone who appreciates good ideas.  You can learn more about the show at GeorgeGrombacher.com, or contact George by clicking here.

Today I chat with Andrew Newman. Andrew Newman has followed his deep longing for connection and his passion for spiritual development in a 12 year-long study of healing. He is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and has been actively involved in men's work through the Mankind Project since 2006. His latest project, The Conscious Bedtime Story Club, is a culmination of all of these areas of experience, intended to bring parent and child into deeper connection and spiritual union with each other. Highlights from today's episode.   Andrew's powerful story, how he woke up and started listening to his intuition. ( 3:50)   Healthy masculinity and The Mankind Project. ( 23:39)   Mindful bedtime stories for children. (42: 56)   Listen in on Andrew's process as he tunes into his intuition. ( 45: 28)     Enjoy!   To find out more about Andrew and his coaching packages visit his website.  The Mankind Project Watch his Ted Talk  Read his books.   

Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. How many times have you heard those words said to you when you were a child, by your parent. Or, how often have you said that to your own child? But, in this day and age, with the wisdom of consciousness, mindfulness, and being present and being WOKE is…

If you are needing some extra motivation about the art of story you really want to hear Andrew's story of creating stories for others. You will be inspired – I promise. He is a man who took a love for helping humans connect and brought the unedited idea to life! -- Learn more about Andrew and Conscious Stories: www.consciousstories.com/ -- Want to grow your business? Schedule a Marketing Clarity with Cheri Ruskus: www.businessvictories.com/marketingclarity --- Get inspired every Monday morning: www.businessvictories.com/subscribe --- If you enjoyed this episode please rate and review on Apple Podcasts! www.businessvictories.com/itunes

The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Michelle explores the practice of presence with Dr. Dan Siegel along with its many positive effects on the parent child relationship.   Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life. An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation's effectiveness, this book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle "Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows." Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can literally help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in your life. Whether you have no experience with a reflective practice or are an experienced practitioner, Aware is a hands-on guide that will enable you to become more focused and present, as well as more energized and emotionally resilient in the face of stress and the everyday challenges life throws your way.

Host Brady Toops sits down with author Andrew Newman who writes conscious children's books. Andrew talks about the importance of the last 20 minutes of the day as well as his journey into writing children's books while also reading one of the favorites from his collection called The Hug Who Got Stuck. To support Andrew Newman and his latest kickstarter project visit consciousstories.com/launch. Also check out consciousstories.com for his full collection of bedtime stories for children. Join The Unravel Community today and become a patron to get exclusive access to bonus content as well as to dive deeper with Brady and others who love to explore spirituality. It's also a great way to support this podcast! Connect with Brady on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook as well as find music and upcoming concerts at bradytoops.com. Also, check out theunravelpodcast.com for more information or to sign up for email updates to stay tuned for all the latest happenings. This podcast is a part of The Liturgists Network.

By Janae Jean and Spencer Schluter – For this conversation, we had the pleasure to speak with therapist, healer, speaker, life coach and author, Andrew Newman. Andrew has published a dozen books as part of The Conscious Bedtime Story Club, with two more coming soon. He graduated from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing as …

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. This is the final episode of series 4 and both teams brought in as many members as they could! Full roll call of those in attendance: Blue team - Marcella Connolly, John Cribbin Sr., Carol Cronin, Andrew Newman, Dan O'Malley and Ger Slattery; Red team - James Bonsall, Linda Conway, Micheál Coyne, Michelle Coyne, Brendan Cox, John Cribbin Jr., Dave Finn and Patrick Mulrennan. All questions in the show relate to the epic year of 1848.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Dan O'Malley and Andrew Newman (blue team) take on Dave Finn and Micheál Coyne (red team). All questions in the show relate to the epic year of 1848.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Paddy Duffy and Andrew Newman (blue team) take on Linda Conway and John Cribbin Jr. (red team). All questions in the show relate to the year 1968.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Anne McLoughlin and Andrew Newman (blue team) take on Brendan Cox and David Finn (red team). All questions in the show relate to the year 1980.

In 1765 armed rebels surrounded a British fort in the backcountry of Pennsylvania. Led by James Smith, the men opened fire on Fort Loudoun a full ten years before Lexington and Concord and the start of the American Revolution. While many have attributed "The Black Boys Rebellion" as a prologue to 1776, new evidence suggests that Smith's men were attempting to uphold royal authority, not challenge it. On this episode our guests are Andrew Newman and archaeologist Steve Warfel...spared no expense. 

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and Anne McLoughlin (blue team) take on Liam Rabbitte and James Bonsall (red team). All questions in the show relate to the year 2012.

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Andrew Newman and Ger Slattery (blue team) take on James Bonsall and Linda Conway (red team). All questions in the show relate to the year 1989.

Aired Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 4:00 PM EST / 1:00 PM PSTConscious Gifts For Our Children with Children’s Author Andrew NewmanOur children are our future and I’m pleased to have children’s author Andrew Newman join the show today. He has authored twelve books for children. Andrew believes that the last 20 minutes of every day are precious.His latest project, The Conscious Bedtime Story Club, is a culmination of all of these areas of experience, intended to bring parent and child into deeper connection and spiritual union with each other.My first story was simply a poem that needed some pictures. The book is called A Little Light.I was amazed to see how a colorful picture book brought to life some of the detailed psychological and spiritual understanding that I’d had spent years studying. When I showed it to my therapy clients many of them said “I wish I had this when I was younger. It would have saved me many years of painful misunderstanding”So I decided it is better to help parents nurture the spirituality of their children before their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors are fully formed, and hopefully the next generation do not need to repeat the same painful path that so many of us had to.Andrew Newman has followed his deep longing for connection and his passion for spiritual development in a 12 year-long study of healing. He is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and a qualified Non-Dual Kabbalistic healer. Andrew has been actively involved in men’s work through the Mankind Project since 2006.His portfolio of work alongside his therapy practice includes; publishing over 2500 donated poems as the PoemCatcher, volunteer coordination for Habitat for Humanity in South Africa and directing Edinburgh’s Festival of Spirituality and Peace.Please call in with comment and questions and Andrew may give a away a book or two!Contact:Email: Andrew@consciousstories.comWebsite: www.consciousstories.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousBedtimeStories/

John Nolan hosts After the Fact, CCR's weekly trivia quiz show. In this episode, Dan O'Malley and Andrew Newman take on Micheál and Michelle Coyne. All questions in the show relate to the year 1963.

Turner Sparks (@TurnerBSparks) and Michael Kaplan (@KapInAmerica) have professional expats and comedians Ryan Hynek (@RyanHynek) and Andrew Newman on the pod this week. At certain points both guys ditched their lives in the U.S and Canada and hopped a flight to Asia to see what they could find. Both ended up with teaching jobs in Asia and also became integral pieces to the comedy scenes in places like Korea, Hong Kong and the Philippines. This episode is brought to you by Ense, Available in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ense/id1136044148?mt=8 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Behind the scenes of how we were able to profitably grow our company without taking on any capital. On this special episode with Brent Coppieters from Russell’s team, they talk about some behind the scenes things that need to be figured out while you are growing and scaling your company. Here are some of the cool things you will hear in this episode: How Brent has figured out how to structure teams with leads to make everything as efficient and smooth as possible. Why they hire Clickfunnels users to work on support teams in Clickfunnels. And why Russell wants everyone near him to max out their tax brackets. So listen here to find out some important behind the scenes things you have to think about when you’re in the process of growing your business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I’m here today with Brent Coppieters on the Marketing Secrets podcast. So everyone, I got a really special podcast for you today, I’m so excited for. Right now, where are we at? Brent: Kauai Russell: Kauai, Hawaii. This has been our backyard for the last week, and we’re heading home tomorrow, which is kind of sad. But I wanted to get Brent in here to help you guys out. Because obviously in the Marketing Secrets podcast I talk a lot about the marketing stuff, and Brent has been with me now for over a decade. How long is it actually? Brent: Eleven years at the end of July. Russell: Eleven years, dang that’s crazy. So that’s when you started? Was anyone else here when you first got started officially? Brent: Anyone who’s here now? Russell: Brittany? Was she here? Brent: Brittany came in after. I don’t think anybody else who was here before I started is still here. Russell: So Brent’s been the longest, long term person, except Doral maybe. Doral in Romania. We got a Romanian. Our backlight is kind of lit, it’s hard to see us. Brent’s been around for forever and done tons of different roles. Right now he runs the entire operations of Clickfunnels so I wanted to have him kind of talk about the stuff because it’s a big part of growing and scaling a company that we don’t talk about a lot. But first do you want to talk about your back story, as far as getting into this whole thing. It’s kind of a funny story. Brent: How much back story do you want? Russell: We should move over here to the couch so you can see a little better. So I met Brent at church initially. Do you want a pillow? Brent: Yeah. Russell: That’s how planned these things are. What was one of the first impressions, about this whole business, when you got introduced to it? Because I know a lot of people got through that, especially spouses or friends or potential employees or partners that don’t know this world at all, it’s kind of weird at first. Brent: Yeah, I had no idea. I was at, met Russell through a church function and didn’t really know what he did. When I kind of thought he made money on the internet, I initially thought eBay, he sold stuff on eBay or you know, I had no idea.  I really couldn’t understand. So he had some of the business partners and friends that he kind of worked with at the time and I kind of pulled those guys apart and was kind of asking those guys, “What does he really do?” and one of our mutual friends, he knew that I didn’t understand so I talked to my wife who said, “I don’t know what this Russell Brunson guy’s doing, but it is freaking crazy.” Our friend was sharing the numbers that Russell was doing. He was going to University, I was going to school as well. He was making more money than my parents combined income was, more money than they had ever made. So I was like, I gotta find out what this guy’s doing. So, like any friend, we invited him and wife over for dinner on a Sunday afternoon. So I just started asking him really carefully, “What are you doing? What exactly is this?” And he just kind of started sharing what he was up to, what he was doing. Obviously he doesn’t brag about what he’s doing, the success he was having and he was having tremendous success. After they left, we had a good dinner and visited and then they left. I couldn’t sleep for three days. My head was spinning. Russell: I ruined him. Brent: You did, I was screwed at that point. After that happened I couldn’t fathom the success. But what was more important there was the value he was providing the world. Russell: Was that before or after all our kids, we had twins and they had their first son the week before. I can’t remember if it was before or after. Brent: We had met you before, we’d been friends for a little while. I think that we had our kids and you guys moved right after that. Russell: All I remember is we had our twins we were in the NSU for two weeks basically. So we rented a hotel room in the hospital and just hung out there and goofed off, and I remember he was coming. “Don’t you have to go to work, or what are you doing?” He thought I was going to go… Brent: Yeah, I told my wife, “We gotta take dinners over there or something, we gotta help them because they’re in the hospital with these twins because they can’t leave and he can’t work because he’s in the hospital.” Russell: Little did they know the internet was working. Brent: I had no clue. Russell: So that was fun, so then a little while later, Brent started working for us. Initially it was affiliate management for how many years? You did that for a long time. Brent: Yeah, like 8,9 years, roughly. The hats were always being moved but… Russell: It’s a small company, you do a lot of everything. Brent: Yeah, so probably 8 years to really focus on business development, affiliate management and partners and stuff like that. Russell: And, just so everyone knows, I recently on the podcast had the presentation I gave from Funnel Hacking Live, the One Funnel Away, about the stories, and I talked about Brent in that and it made me cry in the middle of my presentation, it was kind of embarrassing. But you were here for the good and bad. When we went from 5 employees up to 100 and back down to 5 and all the stress up and down. I’m curious, honestly why you didn’t leave when everything collapsed and crashed. Brent: That’s a good question. Russell: I don’t know the answer either. Brent: You’re going to get me vulnerable. Working with an entrepreneur, especially Russell, you know where their heart is and there came a point where he was trying to help too many people. He was employing a lot of friends and family and people that he wanted to provide opportunities for and that was great to a certain point. But there was a point there where the business changed a little bit, evolved and we were needing to make some changes with it. And those changes wouldn’t allow him to support everyone he was supporting. That was very difficult for him. My wife and I, we cared and loved Russell and Collette and their family. We came to a point where I didn’t want to be a burden, I knew he was stressed and worried about taking care of people. I had a conversation with my wife, where I said I would rather keep our friendship, than have him feel stressed about supporting, having an opportunity for me to keep working there. So one day I kind of came into your office, and had a real chat. I probably said some things that, I wanted him to understand how important what he was doing was, and also I wanted him to understand that I was okay to leave. I didn’t want him to feel like he needed to provide for me. I would be fine to figure things out. I just wanted to make sure he was okay. Because it was at the point where you were helping so many people, really one hiccup you could have lost everything. All your savings was going back into the company and at some point you just can’t keep doing that. Russell: Yeah, I got really scared, but somehow we pulled it around. Brent: Pulled it around and obviously you had to make some tough phone calls and decisions that changed the company at that point. Russell: Basically we had to, we had 100 and some odd employees, we had all these wrestlers working for me, we had let go the whole wrestling team. We had to downsize. We shrunk from a 20,000 square foot building to 2000. It was rocky and scary but it gave us the ability to refocus and figure things out. Remember we went on a couple trips where we were trying to figure out who were the people still having success in our market. We jumped in a plane traveling to different people’s offices. We spent time with Ryan Dyson and Perry Belcher, trying to figure out what they were doing. With Alex Chafren, what they were doing. People who were our friends, just kind of used this time to figure out what’s actually working today and how do we shift our business model and change everything. It’s funny how much pain there was during that time. We flew to London. How important it was for the transition for what became Clickfunnels and everything else. Anyway, so many fun stories we could talk about forever. But we don’t have time for all those things. What I want to talk about a little today is, probably a year into the business when we first started growing, it’s funny I got a message today from Alex Chafren, he’s like, “You sound so calm.” Probably because we’re here in Hawaii but he was like, “I don’t know any other person running a hundred million dollar company that’s as relaxed and able to respond to people.” Anyway, when we first started, we didn’t know what we were doing. It was just kind of like, we know how to sell stuff. Started selling Clickfunnels, it started growing and all the sudden all sorts of new headaches came up with that. From a software standpoint with Todd and we brought in Ryan and they had to deal with infrastructure, ups and downs. I think based on ranking we’re the 700th most visited website in the world. But that’s not counting anyone’s custom domains. If you take away custom domains, we’re probably in the top 500 websites in the world. There’s not many humans on earth that have ever dealt with that kind of scaling and infrastructure. Todd had never done it, Ryan had never done it. They’re figuring this stuff along the way and we’re hiring consultants. On the marketing side we’re trying to grow and then all these things and as everything was growing one thing we didn’t have in place was any of the internal company business stuff. We were good sales people, good coders but we had to do that. It was funny because, you’d never had experience with that either though. Brent: Not really, no. Russell: We had this time where internally there were, everything was shaking and we said basically “Brent, we’re going to take you from affiliate management and you’re going to run this role.” And didn’t know what to expect, if it was going to work or not going to work. He was able to step into this thing and turned it really simplified. I’ve had zero stress about that part of the business since you took it over. From that time we went from 20 employees to I don’t even know where we’re at now. Brent: 135 or something. Employees and contractors, we got a few different folks. Russell: Lots of people. So I’d love to talk, first you step in that role and it was probably disorganized and stuff. What were your thoughts? What did you have to go and figure out? What’d you have to learn to be able to turn it into what it is now? Brent: I think the big thing is Russell’s vision for the company. We’d worked together long enough that I knew where he wanted to go. Even inherently just kind of knew. The big thing about Russell is his ability to surround himself with good people. That was the first part, evaluating who we have currently. Are they on the right seat on the bus, is a big part of that too. So we tested different things, and some things worked and some things didn’t work very well. We brought people and we started the phone stuff a little bit with the clickstart program and some of those guys were better than others and we’ve evolved that program. But the big thing about it is obviously support. We had, when you guys initially started hiring support team members, those guys were rock stars, and a lot of those guys are still with us today. They have evolved in their positions in the company because of their commitment and their love of Clickfunnels. I love when I get to interview and talk to people and when those individuals say, “I love Clickfunnels.”  That is the coolest compliment that we can get. When get people that raise their hand, they want to work with us because they love Clickfunnels, they love the mission, they love the ability to help people. I think the biggest challenge was how do we grow with it? Because the marketing side, was growing so fast, it’s important that we’re providing and helping our users and helping them have the best experience possible. Also, Clickfunnels isn’t just some easy push button software. It is easy to use once you understand it, but there’s a lot of different parts of it and understanding marketing is a big part of it. So we needed to bring on people who could understand Clickfunnels, who understood marketing and also understood Russell’s style, the way you were taking everything. Russell: It’s crazy because I think when you took over the role of that, it wasn’t just support but that was a big piece of it, obviously. There’s probably what, a dozen support people at the time? Brent: Yeah, there was probably about 6 to 10. Well, probably 10. Russell: 10 at the time. You found a way to take that….it’s funny because one of the criticism sometimes of Clickfunnels is “Support’s not live all the time. Awebber’s live.” Awebber’s been growing for 20 years. They probably get 4 new signups a day. Clickfunnels right now, it’s been a while since I looked at the stats, but it’s anywhere from 500 to a thousand sign ups a day, every single day. Coming to Clickfunnels and trying to learn this huge platform that runs your entire company. How do we stay in front of that. Our goal eventually is to get to the point where it’s real time support or as close to that as possible. But there’s no one else in our space that’s ever had to deal with that. That have grown companies that fast. Most big companies like Strive don’t have any support at all because they’re like, we can’t therefore we don’t. We still need to have that support and education and stuff like that in place. I think what you did initially, I know that Ryan was a part of this. Ryan Montgomery helped set this up initially too. But just for those that don’t have support teams or maybe have three or four people and are starting to scale something, you kind of broke people into teams. Do you want to talk about some of that initial stuff that you guys did there to make the scaling side of support easier? Brent: Yeah, so we moved over to Intercom, that allowed us to do like live support. It wasn’t right live, but people could submit conversations and we’d respond to them and that’s what we used to start. We’ve grown, our response time, that’s how we kind of gauge our success, our response time. There’s a lot of software companies that offer live support, from 8-5. Ours is essentially turned on 24 hours, we’ve got team members all around the world. When we initially started we actually had an international team and we had more domestic teams, but as we realized, and continued to scale and grow, we had more and more people international. We’ve got international folks on every team. We’ve got domestic folks on every team. So they can kind of work that schedule out as needed. But as we came in we saw the amount of conversations we had, these guys are answering 8-9 thousand conversations a week, our support team. It is crazy. Our billing support is unreal. We’ve got a team of billing support team members and most of them are in our office. We’ve got a few individuals who aren’t. But the big part of it is having leadership being in those positions. So every support team we have has a team lead who is the person we reach out to and help with training and they now can pass the messages and training on to the other team members. Russell: So how many teams do we have right now? Brent: So technical support teams, we have 8 technical support teams.  We have one billing support team. We’ve got one team that focuses on some other different partners we have and worked with in the past. We’ve got a team that helps with our Quickstart program, that’s a program people can signup with and it allows them to get some help on the initial setup and we’ve got a team lead that helps run that team. Russell: The thing that’s cool about this, for any of you guys who are scaling, in fact this is what happened at first when we were scaling. There was one person in charge and had 10 people underneath them and we were trying to grow and everything was growing and that person couldn’t handle any more growth. Because it’s hard to have more than 8 to 10 people you report to. You get bigger than that, it gets stressful and it’s really, really hard. So what Brent did, he came in and said, “Okay, the people we have that are rock stars, make each of those a team lead. And let’s put employees underneath each of those and the team lead can train the employees and make sure they’re doing good. And he’s only got to deal with the 8 or 10 team leads, deal with them and then they are dealing with the individual people. It gives us a communication channel to get through and now he’s not having 90 direct reports back to him. He just has the 8. Another cool thing we did recently, because the other big thing we have and some of you guys will have something similar with your businesses is, there was a competitor that has software that has pages that generate leads. Their software does one thing, there’s one button you can click and that’s it. It’s very, very simple. Clickfunnels is like, we’re building a landing page, your funnel, your shopping cart, your affiliate platform, your auto-responders, there’s 8 thousand things. For us, we can’t just hire someone in Boise, Idaho and be like, “Hey, now you’re a support person for Clickfunnels.” There’s such a learning curve they have to understand to be able to do that. So a couple of things, number one is that most of our hires come from people that are members of our software, which is a big thing for you guys to think through. In inner circle this comes up all the time. Where do I find rock stars? I guarantee the rock star you’re dreaming for is already a customer of your product right now. Look at your internal customer base for your rock stars, because they’re going to know your product, be passionate, they’re going to care more than someone you pull off the street. That’s number one. Number two is we needed, how do we train these people? I think initially each team lead just trained their people, and they were getting bogged down in the training and not being able to support and manage and stuff like that. So we talked about a new team that’s the training team, right? Brent: Well a big part of this that helped, Mark came up and helping work, he does a lot more direct work with the team leads. Russell: You guys know Mark Bangerter, he’s killing it, he’s awesome. Brent: You know he still kind of balances customer education and he helps with support management. So Mark came in and we had the idea, we brought new people on and initially they would slow down the rest of the team. So we pulled another team lead out, we pulled out Andrew Newman, and now his focus is just training. So as we bring new team members on, he’s focusing on those guys. As we look at, he doesn’t have anybody currently to teach, he’s reaching out to people who have been on the team and maybe lack knowledge about Backpack or Actionetics, and then he’s pulling those guys out and he’s doing training with those guys so that we can get everybody up to the same level. Russell: That’s cool. We did something like that back when we had our big call center before the big crash of what year was that? Crash or 08, crash of 09. Because we had 60 sales guys and the problem is the same thing. We’d hire sales guys off the street and someone’s gotta train them, so we had a training team. So every sales guy would come in and go through a two week training with Robbie Summers was the one that managed that and then the ones that were good we’d then put them on the floor under another team. And the ones that sucked, we’d just get rid of them. And that’s kind of the same thought here. Let’s bring people in and have someone who’s dedicated to training them and when they’re ready, then put them on a team so they can start running with it. Everybody’s opposed to pulling people back. It’s just crazy all these, these are all the things we’re learning as we’re growing and scaling. Someday we’re going to write a book about this whole journey and this whole experience, because I think a lot of times companies are built like, there’s a dude with an idea, they hire venture capitalists and bring in a management team, all this stuff and build a company. Whereas with us it was like raw passion and that’s what’s grown this whole thing and kept it afloat. It’s been a fun ride so far. Brent: It’s been an unbelievable ride. Russell: So I appreciate all your work and help and everything you do. Hopefully this gives some of you guys ideas as your growing your support teams or development team or management or whatever those things are. If you look at also, I had someone, it was Andrew Warner from Mixer the other day, he interviewed me, he’s like, “How are you able to write books and run a software company and do coaching and all these different things?” And the same thing is kind of what Brent mentioned earlier, I’ve gotten really good at surrounding myself with amazing people. Where I feel like it’s almost like there’s parts of the company that people are running. You’re running all the operational stuff, I don’t have to worry about that, the hiring and firing, the finding other people. Brent does that. So I just talk to Brent and then all the people stuff is taken care of. Todd and Ryan run the development team, Todd’s running it. I talk to Todd all the time, but it’s just happening and I don’t have to stress about that. I’m kind of running the marketing team. Dave’s running, there’s john, there’s probably 5 or 6 people that I deal with directly inside the company and I’m able to do the parts that I love the most, that I’m the best at. And I think a lot of us entrepreneurs and most of the people in those positions all get profit share and equity in the company and I think one of the big mistakes I made when I first got started was I was so protective, this is my, I wanted so much control over everything that I stifled everything. Whereas when I was able to give up control and bring in rock stars and people that have skill sets that I don’t and now, because they have a stake in the game, I don’t have to worry about everything, every decision, every single thing. I trust Brent. He makes a thousand decisions a day that I never even questioned or think about because I trust him. Same thing with Todd, they know they do that because they’re willing and able to do that. So I think a lot of you guys, if you’re struggling with growth, you don’t have the ideas, you’re not going to bring on venture capitalists and destroy your soul and you want to grow something. The opposite of that is bring on really smart people and give them a stake in the game. It’s kind of like Chet Holmes used to tell me, he said that in his company, everyone was based on a percentage of sales, there was no salary based people. He said what’s cool about that is that big months everyone gets big checks, small months everyone gets small checks but everyone’s in it together. I think that building teams that way is better than bringing in a bunch of money and hiring the right people, or hiring the best people. It’s hiring the right people and giving them incentive to where they can grow and do whatever they want. In fact, I’m going to share one thing. This is cool. Am I allowed to share this, I probably can. This was, we had these accountants, most marketers don’t like accountants, but we had these accountants and every year I’d have to go the accounting meeting and then they would always talk about all the stuff to do to try to lower your, anyway, it was super annoying. It was the worst meeting of my year, I would lose all motivation and momentum for an entire week because I was so stressed out. I remember driving home from one of those so pissed off at the accountants for trying to ruin my happiness in life. And I remember in this podcast, I have to go find it, but I was like, “My goal is I want, not only am I going to max out my tax bracket but I’m going to have everyone I know around me, all my partners, all the people that are pushing this, I want to max out their tax bracket as well.” We were talking about this earlier on this trip here in Hawaii, there’s probably half a dozen people or so on our team now, that have maxed out their tax bracket because of this whole concept that we’re talking about. That is the coolest feeling in the entire world. Brent: It’s pretty awesome. Russell: It’s pretty amazing. So there you go, Uncle Sam, there you go. Anyway, that’s all I got. You have anything else you want to add? Brent: No, I just think, you said unbelievable, it truly is every day. How cool is it to be able to come and work with friends and good people that, it’s just a positive place. Our company culture is a big deal and you drive that and it’s been really fun to see people come into our office or just come into our business, our space and feel that, and even those who just work remote, we’ve got a lot of team members that work remote, most of them are. And it can be kind of a lonely road out there, but we do things to try to help them feel the love. Russell will send swag to people and just unexpected things that make people feel the love and help them know we appreciate them and that’s a big deal. Russell: So here’s a question, for those who may want to join Clickfunnels team, how do they? Brent: We have a link on Clickfunnels, at the bottom of Clickfunnels under Careers, but we’re always looking. If someone out there is passionate, you want to be able to find a place with us, hit me up. You can hit me up on Facebook, email, brent@clickfunnels.com, send me an email. I can direct you where to go, we have application up. Russell: That’s awesome. Thanks man. So that’s a little behind the scenes of how the HR, the growth, the internal stuff, what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Again, we’re just learning all this stuff along the way. Someday we’re going to write a book about it when it’s all done. Because the lessons we’ve learned along the way have been cool. So hopefully this gave you guys a couple of ideas and things as you’re growing and scaling your teams, and that’s all I got. Thanks everybody. Thanks Brent. Brent: Absolutely. Thanks guys. Russell: Bye.

Behind the scenes of how we were able to profitably grow our company without taking on any capital. On this special episode with Brent Coppieters from Russell’s team, they talk about some behind the scenes things that need to be figured out while you are growing and scaling your company. Here are some of the cool things you will hear in this episode: How Brent has figured out how to structure teams with leads to make everything as efficient and smooth as possible. Why they hire Clickfunnels users to work on support teams in Clickfunnels. And why Russell wants everyone near him to max out their tax brackets. So listen here to find out some important behind the scenes things you have to think about when you’re in the process of growing your business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I’m here today with Brent Coppieters on the Marketing Secrets podcast. So everyone, I got a really special podcast for you today, I’m so excited for. Right now, where are we at? Brent: Kauai Russell: Kauai, Hawaii. This has been our backyard for the last week, and we’re heading home tomorrow, which is kind of sad. But I wanted to get Brent in here to help you guys out. Because obviously in the Marketing Secrets podcast I talk a lot about the marketing stuff, and Brent has been with me now for over a decade. How long is it actually? Brent: Eleven years at the end of July. Russell: Eleven years, dang that’s crazy. So that’s when you started? Was anyone else here when you first got started officially? Brent: Anyone who’s here now? Russell: Brittany? Was she here? Brent: Brittany came in after. I don’t think anybody else who was here before I started is still here. Russell: So Brent’s been the longest, long term person, except Doral maybe. Doral in Romania. We got a Romanian. Our backlight is kind of lit, it’s hard to see us. Brent’s been around for forever and done tons of different roles. Right now he runs the entire operations of Clickfunnels so I wanted to have him kind of talk about the stuff because it’s a big part of growing and scaling a company that we don’t talk about a lot. But first do you want to talk about your back story, as far as getting into this whole thing. It’s kind of a funny story. Brent: How much back story do you want? Russell: We should move over here to the couch so you can see a little better. So I met Brent at church initially. Do you want a pillow? Brent: Yeah. Russell: That’s how planned these things are. What was one of the first impressions, about this whole business, when you got introduced to it? Because I know a lot of people got through that, especially spouses or friends or potential employees or partners that don’t know this world at all, it’s kind of weird at first. Brent: Yeah, I had no idea. I was at, met Russell through a church function and didn’t really know what he did. When I kind of thought he made money on the internet, I initially thought eBay, he sold stuff on eBay or you know, I had no idea.  I really couldn’t understand. So he had some of the business partners and friends that he kind of worked with at the time and I kind of pulled those guys apart and was kind of asking those guys, “What does he really do?” and one of our mutual friends, he knew that I didn’t understand so I talked to my wife who said, “I don’t know what this Russell Brunson guy’s doing, but it is freaking crazy.” Our friend was sharing the numbers that Russell was doing. He was going to University, I was going to school as well. He was making more money than my parents combined income was, more money than they had ever made. So I was like, I gotta find out what this guy’s doing. So, like any friend, we invited him and wife over for dinner on a Sunday afternoon. So I just started asking him really carefully, “What are you doing? What exactly is this?” And he just kind of started sharing what he was up to, what he was doing. Obviously he doesn’t brag about what he’s doing, the success he was having and he was having tremendous success. After they left, we had a good dinner and visited and then they left. I couldn’t sleep for three days. My head was spinning. Russell: I ruined him. Brent: You did, I was screwed at that point. After that happened I couldn’t fathom the success. But what was more important there was the value he was providing the world. Russell: Was that before or after all our kids, we had twins and they had their first son the week before. I can’t remember if it was before or after. Brent: We had met you before, we’d been friends for a little while. I think that we had our kids and you guys moved right after that. Russell: All I remember is we had our twins we were in the NSU for two weeks basically. So we rented a hotel room in the hospital and just hung out there and goofed off, and I remember he was coming. “Don’t you have to go to work, or what are you doing?” He thought I was going to go… Brent: Yeah, I told my wife, “We gotta take dinners over there or something, we gotta help them because they’re in the hospital with these twins because they can’t leave and he can’t work because he’s in the hospital.” Russell: Little did they know the internet was working. Brent: I had no clue. Russell: So that was fun, so then a little while later, Brent started working for us. Initially it was affiliate management for how many years? You did that for a long time. Brent: Yeah, like 8,9 years, roughly. The hats were always being moved but… Russell: It’s a small company, you do a lot of everything. Brent: Yeah, so probably 8 years to really focus on business development, affiliate management and partners and stuff like that. Russell: And, just so everyone knows, I recently on the podcast had the presentation I gave from Funnel Hacking Live, the One Funnel Away, about the stories, and I talked about Brent in that and it made me cry in the middle of my presentation, it was kind of embarrassing. But you were here for the good and bad. When we went from 5 employees up to 100 and back down to 5 and all the stress up and down. I’m curious, honestly why you didn’t leave when everything collapsed and crashed. Brent: That’s a good question. Russell: I don’t know the answer either. Brent: You’re going to get me vulnerable. Working with an entrepreneur, especially Russell, you know where their heart is and there came a point where he was trying to help too many people. He was employing a lot of friends and family and people that he wanted to provide opportunities for and that was great to a certain point. But there was a point there where the business changed a little bit, evolved and we were needing to make some changes with it. And those changes wouldn’t allow him to support everyone he was supporting. That was very difficult for him. My wife and I, we cared and loved Russell and Collette and their family. We came to a point where I didn’t want to be a burden, I knew he was stressed and worried about taking care of people. I had a conversation with my wife, where I said I would rather keep our friendship, than have him feel stressed about supporting, having an opportunity for me to keep working there. So one day I kind of came into your office, and had a real chat. I probably said some things that, I wanted him to understand how important what he was doing was, and also I wanted him to understand that I was okay to leave. I didn’t want him to feel like he needed to provide for me. I would be fine to figure things out. I just wanted to make sure he was okay. Because it was at the point where you were helping so many people, really one hiccup you could have lost everything. All your savings was going back into the company and at some point you just can’t keep doing that. Russell: Yeah, I got really scared, but somehow we pulled it around. Brent: Pulled it around and obviously you had to make some tough phone calls and decisions that changed the company at that point. Russell: Basically we had to, we had 100 and some odd employees, we had all these wrestlers working for me, we had let go the whole wrestling team. We had to downsize. We shrunk from a 20,000 square foot building to 2000. It was rocky and scary but it gave us the ability to refocus and figure things out. Remember we went on a couple trips where we were trying to figure out who were the people still having success in our market. We jumped in a plane traveling to different people’s offices. We spent time with Ryan Dyson and Perry Belcher, trying to figure out what they were doing. With Alex Chafren, what they were doing. People who were our friends, just kind of used this time to figure out what’s actually working today and how do we shift our business model and change everything. It’s funny how much pain there was during that time. We flew to London. How important it was for the transition for what became Clickfunnels and everything else. Anyway, so many fun stories we could talk about forever. But we don’t have time for all those things. What I want to talk about a little today is, probably a year into the business when we first started growing, it’s funny I got a message today from Alex Chafren, he’s like, “You sound so calm.” Probably because we’re here in Hawaii but he was like, “I don’t know any other person running a hundred million dollar company that’s as relaxed and able to respond to people.” Anyway, when we first started, we didn’t know what we were doing. It was just kind of like, we know how to sell stuff. Started selling Clickfunnels, it started growing and all the sudden all sorts of new headaches came up with that. From a software standpoint with Todd and we brought in Ryan and they had to deal with infrastructure, ups and downs. I think based on ranking we’re the 700th most visited website in the world. But that’s not counting anyone’s custom domains. If you take away custom domains, we’re probably in the top 500 websites in the world. There’s not many humans on earth that have ever dealt with that kind of scaling and infrastructure. Todd had never done it, Ryan had never done it. They’re figuring this stuff along the way and we’re hiring consultants. On the marketing side we’re trying to grow and then all these things and as everything was growing one thing we didn’t have in place was any of the internal company business stuff. We were good sales people, good coders but we had to do that. It was funny because, you’d never had experience with that either though. Brent: Not really, no. Russell: We had this time where internally there were, everything was shaking and we said basically “Brent, we’re going to take you from affiliate management and you’re going to run this role.” And didn’t know what to expect, if it was going to work or not going to work. He was able to step into this thing and turned it really simplified. I’ve had zero stress about that part of the business since you took it over. From that time we went from 20 employees to I don’t even know where we’re at now. Brent: 135 or something. Employees and contractors, we got a few different folks. Russell: Lots of people. So I’d love to talk, first you step in that role and it was probably disorganized and stuff. What were your thoughts? What did you have to go and figure out? What’d you have to learn to be able to turn it into what it is now? Brent: I think the big thing is Russell’s vision for the company. We’d worked together long enough that I knew where he wanted to go. Even inherently just kind of knew. The big thing about Russell is his ability to surround himself with good people. That was the first part, evaluating who we have currently. Are they on the right seat on the bus, is a big part of that too. So we tested different things, and some things worked and some things didn’t work very well. We brought people and we started the phone stuff a little bit with the clickstart program and some of those guys were better than others and we’ve evolved that program. But the big thing about it is obviously support. We had, when you guys initially started hiring support team members, those guys were rock stars, and a lot of those guys are still with us today. They have evolved in their positions in the company because of their commitment and their love of Clickfunnels. I love when I get to interview and talk to people and when those individuals say, “I love Clickfunnels.”  That is the coolest compliment that we can get. When get people that raise their hand, they want to work with us because they love Clickfunnels, they love the mission, they love the ability to help people. I think the biggest challenge was how do we grow with it? Because the marketing side, was growing so fast, it’s important that we’re providing and helping our users and helping them have the best experience possible. Also, Clickfunnels isn’t just some easy push button software. It is easy to use once you understand it, but there’s a lot of different parts of it and understanding marketing is a big part of it. So we needed to bring on people who could understand Clickfunnels, who understood marketing and also understood Russell’s style, the way you were taking everything. Russell: It’s crazy because I think when you took over the role of that, it wasn’t just support but that was a big piece of it, obviously. There’s probably what, a dozen support people at the time? Brent: Yeah, there was probably about 6 to 10. Well, probably 10. Russell: 10 at the time. You found a way to take that….it’s funny because one of the criticism sometimes of Clickfunnels is “Support’s not live all the time. Awebber’s live.” Awebber’s been growing for 20 years. They probably get 4 new signups a day. Clickfunnels right now, it’s been a while since I looked at the stats, but it’s anywhere from 500 to a thousand sign ups a day, every single day. Coming to Clickfunnels and trying to learn this huge platform that runs your entire company. How do we stay in front of that. Our goal eventually is to get to the point where it’s real time support or as close to that as possible. But there’s no one else in our space that’s ever had to deal with that. That have grown companies that fast. Most big companies like Strive don’t have any support at all because they’re like, we can’t therefore we don’t. We still need to have that support and education and stuff like that in place. I think what you did initially, I know that Ryan was a part of this. Ryan Montgomery helped set this up initially too. But just for those that don’t have support teams or maybe have three or four people and are starting to scale something, you kind of broke people into teams. Do you want to talk about some of that initial stuff that you guys did there to make the scaling side of support easier? Brent: Yeah, so we moved over to Intercom, that allowed us to do like live support. It wasn’t right live, but people could submit conversations and we’d respond to them and that’s what we used to start. We’ve grown, our response time, that’s how we kind of gauge our success, our response time. There’s a lot of software companies that offer live support, from 8-5. Ours is essentially turned on 24 hours, we’ve got team members all around the world. When we initially started we actually had an international team and we had more domestic teams, but as we realized, and continued to scale and grow, we had more and more people international. We’ve got international folks on every team. We’ve got domestic folks on every team. So they can kind of work that schedule out as needed. But as we came in we saw the amount of conversations we had, these guys are answering 8-9 thousand conversations a week, our support team. It is crazy. Our billing support is unreal. We’ve got a team of billing support team members and most of them are in our office. We’ve got a few individuals who aren’t. But the big part of it is having leadership being in those positions. So every support team we have has a team lead who is the person we reach out to and help with training and they now can pass the messages and training on to the other team members. Russell: So how many teams do we have right now? Brent: So technical support teams, we have 8 technical support teams.  We have one billing support team. We’ve got one team that focuses on some other different partners we have and worked with in the past. We’ve got a team that helps with our Quickstart program, that’s a program people can signup with and it allows them to get some help on the initial setup and we’ve got a team lead that helps run that team. Russell: The thing that’s cool about this, for any of you guys who are scaling, in fact this is what happened at first when we were scaling. There was one person in charge and had 10 people underneath them and we were trying to grow and everything was growing and that person couldn’t handle any more growth. Because it’s hard to have more than 8 to 10 people you report to. You get bigger than that, it gets stressful and it’s really, really hard. So what Brent did, he came in and said, “Okay, the people we have that are rock stars, make each of those a team lead. And let’s put employees underneath each of those and the team lead can train the employees and make sure they’re doing good. And he’s only got to deal with the 8 or 10 team leads, deal with them and then they are dealing with the individual people. It gives us a communication channel to get through and now he’s not having 90 direct reports back to him. He just has the 8. Another cool thing we did recently, because the other big thing we have and some of you guys will have something similar with your businesses is, there was a competitor that has software that has pages that generate leads. Their software does one thing, there’s one button you can click and that’s it. It’s very, very simple. Clickfunnels is like, we’re building a landing page, your funnel, your shopping cart, your affiliate platform, your auto-responders, there’s 8 thousand things. For us, we can’t just hire someone in Boise, Idaho and be like, “Hey, now you’re a support person for Clickfunnels.” There’s such a learning curve they have to understand to be able to do that. So a couple of things, number one is that most of our hires come from people that are members of our software, which is a big thing for you guys to think through. In inner circle this comes up all the time. Where do I find rock stars? I guarantee the rock star you’re dreaming for is already a customer of your product right now. Look at your internal customer base for your rock stars, because they’re going to know your product, be passionate, they’re going to care more than someone you pull off the street. That’s number one. Number two is we needed, how do we train these people? I think initially each team lead just trained their people, and they were getting bogged down in the training and not being able to support and manage and stuff like that. So we talked about a new team that’s the training team, right? Brent: Well a big part of this that helped, Mark came up and helping work, he does a lot more direct work with the team leads. Russell: You guys know Mark Bangerter, he’s killing it, he’s awesome. Brent: You know he still kind of balances customer education and he helps with support management. So Mark came in and we had the idea, we brought new people on and initially they would slow down the rest of the team. So we pulled another team lead out, we pulled out Andrew Newman, and now his focus is just training. So as we bring new team members on, he’s focusing on those guys. As we look at, he doesn’t have anybody currently to teach, he’s reaching out to people who have been on the team and maybe lack knowledge about Backpack or Actionetics, and then he’s pulling those guys out and he’s doing training with those guys so that we can get everybody up to the same level. Russell: That’s cool. We did something like that back when we had our big call center before the big crash of what year was that? Crash or 08, crash of 09. Because we had 60 sales guys and the problem is the same thing. We’d hire sales guys off the street and someone’s gotta train them, so we had a training team. So every sales guy would come in and go through a two week training with Robbie Summers was the one that managed that and then the ones that were good we’d then put them on the floor under another team. And the ones that sucked, we’d just get rid of them. And that’s kind of the same thought here. Let’s bring people in and have someone who’s dedicated to training them and when they’re ready, then put them on a team so they can start running with it. Everybody’s opposed to pulling people back. It’s just crazy all these, these are all the things we’re learning as we’re growing and scaling. Someday we’re going to write a book about this whole journey and this whole experience, because I think a lot of times companies are built like, there’s a dude with an idea, they hire venture capitalists and bring in a management team, all this stuff and build a company. Whereas with us it was like raw passion and that’s what’s grown this whole thing and kept it afloat. It’s been a fun ride so far. Brent: It’s been an unbelievable ride. Russell: So I appreciate all your work and help and everything you do. Hopefully this gives some of you guys ideas as your growing your support teams or development team or management or whatever those things are. If you look at also, I had someone, it was Andrew Warner from Mixer the other day, he interviewed me, he’s like, “How are you able to write books and run a software company and do coaching and all these different things?” And the same thing is kind of what Brent mentioned earlier, I’ve gotten really good at surrounding myself with amazing people. Where I feel like it’s almost like there’s parts of the company that people are running. You’re running all the operational stuff, I don’t have to worry about that, the hiring and firing, the finding other people. Brent does that. So I just talk to Brent and then all the people stuff is taken care of. Todd and Ryan run the development team, Todd’s running it. I talk to Todd all the time, but it’s just happening and I don’t have to stress about that. I’m kind of running the marketing team. Dave’s running, there’s john, there’s probably 5 or 6 people that I deal with directly inside the company and I’m able to do the parts that I love the most, that I’m the best at. And I think a lot of us entrepreneurs and most of the people in those positions all get profit share and equity in the company and I think one of the big mistakes I made when I first got started was I was so protective, this is my, I wanted so much control over everything that I stifled everything. Whereas when I was able to give up control and bring in rock stars and people that have skill sets that I don’t and now, because they have a stake in the game, I don’t have to worry about everything, every decision, every single thing. I trust Brent. He makes a thousand decisions a day that I never even questioned or think about because I trust him. Same thing with Todd, they know they do that because they’re willing and able to do that. So I think a lot of you guys, if you’re struggling with growth, you don’t have the ideas, you’re not going to bring on venture capitalists and destroy your soul and you want to grow something. The opposite of that is bring on really smart people and give them a stake in the game. It’s kind of like Chet Holmes used to tell me, he said that in his company, everyone was based on a percentage of sales, there was no salary based people. He said what’s cool about that is that big months everyone gets big checks, small months everyone gets small checks but everyone’s in it together. I think that building teams that way is better than bringing in a bunch of money and hiring the right people, or hiring the best people. It’s hiring the right people and giving them incentive to where they can grow and do whatever they want. In fact, I’m going to share one thing. This is cool. Am I allowed to share this, I probably can. This was, we had these accountants, most marketers don’t like accountants, but we had these accountants and every year I’d have to go the accounting meeting and then they would always talk about all the stuff to do to try to lower your, anyway, it was super annoying. It was the worst meeting of my year, I would lose all motivation and momentum for an entire week because I was so stressed out. I remember driving home from one of those so pissed off at the accountants for trying to ruin my happiness in life. And I remember in this podcast, I have to go find it, but I was like, “My goal is I want, not only am I going to max out my tax bracket but I’m going to have everyone I know around me, all my partners, all the people that are pushing this, I want to max out their tax bracket as well.” We were talking about this earlier on this trip here in Hawaii, there’s probably half a dozen people or so on our team now, that have maxed out their tax bracket because of this whole concept that we’re talking about. That is the coolest feeling in the entire world. Brent: It’s pretty awesome. Russell: It’s pretty amazing. So there you go, Uncle Sam, there you go. Anyway, that’s all I got. You have anything else you want to add? Brent: No, I just think, you said unbelievable, it truly is every day. How cool is it to be able to come and work with friends and good people that, it’s just a positive place. Our company culture is a big deal and you drive that and it’s been really fun to see people come into our office or just come into our business, our space and feel that, and even those who just work remote, we’ve got a lot of team members that work remote, most of them are. And it can be kind of a lonely road out there, but we do things to try to help them feel the love. Russell will send swag to people and just unexpected things that make people feel the love and help them know we appreciate them and that’s a big deal. Russell: So here’s a question, for those who may want to join Clickfunnels team, how do they? Brent: We have a link on Clickfunnels, at the bottom of Clickfunnels under Careers, but we’re always looking. If someone out there is passionate, you want to be able to find a place with us, hit me up. You can hit me up on Facebook, email, brent@clickfunnels.com, send me an email. I can direct you where to go, we have application up. Russell: That’s awesome. Thanks man. So that’s a little behind the scenes of how the HR, the growth, the internal stuff, what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Again, we’re just learning all this stuff along the way. Someday we’re going to write a book about it when it’s all done. Because the lessons we’ve learned along the way have been cool. So hopefully this gave you guys a couple of ideas and things as you’re growing and scaling your teams, and that’s all I got. Thanks everybody. Thanks Brent. Brent: Absolutely. Thanks guys. Russell: Bye.

What is a mindful Children's Story? How are many children's books un-mindful? Waylon sits down with Andrew Newman of Conscious Stories & Conscious Bedtime Story Club

Join Michelle Gale and Andrew Newman as they explore why and how the last twenty minutes of the day between parent and child can be such a special time. Andrew loves all things creative and spiritual. He has been training and working in healing and community building for many years. You can find Andrew and the Conscious Bedtime Story Club here. He would love to hear from you!

When I think about nursery rhymes and the stories we read to our children, I believe they can leave a child lonely or perhaps fearful of abandonment. I met the founder of Conscious Bedtime Stories, Andrew Newman, at the Eckhart Tolle retreat. When he shared that he writes books for children that promote mindfulness and consciousness, I was more than intrigued. Andrew will share how his books teach our children how to deepen their wisdom and mature spiritually.

  This week I reflect on the theme of conscious transitions. The topic of transitions came out of my conversation with last episode's guest, Andrew Newman. Transitions are an important part of our life and growth. They are the messy middle between where we are and where we want to be. It is easy to want to rush through them, but often there is much learning and growth to be done within those periods. Also, are we ever really not in some kind of transition? I explore the idea that in fact we may always be moving from one of kind of transition to the next in whatever way.  The Good Work Revolution Podcast is for people who are creating businesses, shaping new careers, building social enterprises. Who are creating new ways of working, embracing a multi-passionate work life, working their way, exploring entrepreneurship, changing organisations for the better and so much more. Please come and join the GWR Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/goodworkrevolution You can find me at: My Website: http://katemccready.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/katemccreadyhq Facebook: http://facebook.com/katemccready.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/katemccready Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/katemccreadyhq

My guest today in Andrew Newman, founder of the Conscious Bedtime Story Club. While expecting a working life as a retail jeweller in the family business in south Africa, the tug of something more always seemed to be there for Andrew. Shifting from everything from community development making hammocks, Andrew ended up following his deep longing for connection and his love of all things spiritual in a 10 year study of healing. His portfolio of work includes running a therapy practice as a Barbara Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, inspiring and publishing over 1500 donated poems as the PoemCatcher, volunteer coordinator for Habitat for Humanity in the township of South Africa and directing Edinburgh's Festival of Spirituality and Peace. He is a qualified Non-Dual Kabbalistic Healer and has been actively involved in men's work though Mankind Project since 2006.His latest project, The Conscious Bedtime Story Club, is a culmination of all of these areas of experience, intended to bring parent and child into deeper connection and spiritual union with themselves and each other. Join Andrew and I as we discuss themes of  the one, expressing your inner self, setting intentions, transitions, inclusivity and the importance of the last 20 minutes of the day.   You can find Andrew at www.consciousstories.com   Want to be part of the conversation? Come and join the GWR Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/goodworkrevolution   You can find me at: My Website: http://katemccready.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/katemccreadyhq Facebook: http://facebook.com/katemccready.com  Twitter: http://twitter.com/katemccready Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/katemccreadyhq   Books, Sites, People mentioned in Podcast you might want to check out: Dr Kristy Goodwin - Kids and Technology http://www.everychancetolearn.com.au/about/   Story about kids giving up sense of smell - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/todays-global-youth-would-give-up-their-sense-of-smell-to-keep-their-technology-122605643.html   Book - Hands of Light:A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field  by Barbara Brennan http://www.amazon.com/Hands-Light-Healing-Through-Energy/dp/0553345397 The Pomodoro Technique - http://pomodorotechnique.com  

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Wondering what he could do to help disaster-impacted people in Haiti, Andrew Newman started asking others on the street for poems to share. Little did he know at the time that “poemcatching” would take him around the world and result in several anthologies of collected poems. In this episode of A Congruent Life, Andrew shares […] The post ACL 057: Andrew Newman appeared first on A Congruent Life.

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices