Podcasts about antidotes

Homelessness is a complex crisis—one that can't be solved by temporary fixes alone. It takes compassion, innovation, and the courage to rethink how we support those in need. What if we could build communities that restore dignity, stability, and hope? In this episode, I'm joined by Ashley Garcia, founder and executive director of Tiny Villages Inc. We dive into the deeper issues behind homelessness and explore bold, community-centered solutions. Ashley shares how her team is building small, self-contained homes and community spaces that give people not just a place to live, but the support they need to move forward. It's a reminder that even small ideas can lead to big change. --- Listen to the podcast here: Innovative Solutions That Are Changing Homelessness with Ashley Garcia Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you a little bit about addressing some of these major societal issues. Now, we all have our different reasons for why we're taking on the initiatives we have, but some of us are really moved by things that we see in the world, some major issues, and, sometimes, it could be pretty daunting to think about something that has been an issue for sometimes decades, centuries, even millennia, and really dig in and take it on. My guest today is Ashley Garcia and she is the founder and executive director of a Colorado nonprofit called Tiny Villages, the address is tinyvillages.org.  ---     Ashley is taking on a major societal issue and, Ashley, welcome to the program.   Thank you, Stephen, for having me today. I'm excited to talk a little bit more about Tiny Villages Inc.   Let's start out by, first of all, describing your story about the issue that you were moved to address and what made you decide that you have the capacity, have the talent, everything else to dive into it.    So, Tiny Villages Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Colorado nonprofit corporation where we're providing permanent housing solutions to citizens in the United States, and this includes safe housing with high quality of life and we're folding that into three different parts so there's housing, agriculture, and innovation. And with that, there's going to be things like solar panels being used, there's going to be over 110 acres on each of the tiny villages where we will provide agriculture that will give food to the villagers when they move in. And, with that, right now, we're focusing on the unhoused population. The reason being is, back in 2021, one of my businesses is real estate investing, and so with that company, myself and several of my business partners went and traveled the United States because we're looking for property so that we could have landing strips and have resorts and have gated communities, 24-hour security so that all the elitist in the United States could come, or actually in the world, could come and mastermind and just figure out and collaborate how to solve big world problems. And, the reality is, when we went and did this trip, we found out that there's a lot of land, and every single state that we went to, there was the unhoused population. So that's when I flipped all of this around and started Tiny Villages Inc.    So you noticed a lot of land, and another part of your mission is related to agriculture so did you notice a lot of land not only, and I'm specifically thinking about some places I've been to or used to live in like Illinois and Iowa where there's a lot of land but I just imagine a lot of it being corn fields, soy fields, and stuff like that, but I'm guessing you observed a lot of land that wasn't also already being used for agriculture?   That is correct. There's a lot of undeveloped land or there's a lot of like little towns and cities that have folded up because the people have actually left and went to the major cities where jobs are and so it was just eye opening to even see that.

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. 1.   One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Control and Anger: Proverbs 19:21 & Proverbs 29:11. 2.     Two resources to keep learning:  ·      enCourage Podcast series about Belonging to Christ- from Heidelberg Catechism question#1 ·      TGC Article: Fighting to Say Yes, When God says No.   3. Three Questions to discuss together:   1.What do you tend to try to control: people or circumstances?   2. How can the elusiveness of control lead to anger in your life?   3. What would it look like for you to surrender your desire to control this week and delight in your sovereign Savior? Spend time in prayer relinquishing the areas of your life that you are seeking to control and trust in His good will for your life.   To listen to the rest of this series go to enCourage Podcast-  https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/

Sales can be intimidating—especially when you're chasing a passion that doesn't come with a natural knack for selling. For many, mindset is the missing piece, not just in business but in life. But what happens when you combine strategy with psychology to unlock real growth? In this episode, I have Christopher Philippi, a seasoned sales consultant and coach for CEOs. He helps people overcome the fear of selling and client acquisition by blending both coaching and consulting to support real growth. In our conversation, Christopher shares how mindset shapes our actions, why clarity and consistency matter, and how to shift your thoughts to get better results in business and life. Tune in to learn how the right strategy and mindset can change everything. --- Listen to the podcast here: Mastering Sales and Mindset with Christopher Filipiak Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. A lot of us have ideas, a lot of us have passions, and a lot of us have the impact that we want to make onto the world and maybe you're listening and you're thinking about it a little bit, thinking, okay, should I get serious about this? It's springtime, there's a new energy going on, maybe it's time to actually get serious. But we have a series of things that oftentimes trip us up, make us a little bit intimidated, make us kind of question whether or not we want to hit that proverbial Start button. And one of the things that can really intimidate a lot of people is sales or kind of building a client base/audience, how do you actually connect your product to the market that you're trying to connect it to, i.e., how do you actually sell the thing? Is someone going to ever pay me for this? Today, to talk about that subject, I would like to bring on my guest, Christopher Filipiak, who is a sales consultant and a coach for CEOs. ---     Christopher, welcome to the program.   Hey, Stephen. It's so good to be here today. Thanks for having me on the show.    Yeah, thank you for popping on. So not kind of a normal combination, sales consultant and coach for CEOs. What does that mean in tandem?    Yeah, sure. It's a good question because consulting is its own unique thing and coaching is its own unique thing so when I think of consulting, you kind of think of three buckets, strategy, planning, and implementation of something, and a consultant is really someone who provides expert advice and a proven process, meaning, know how to get something done and they're there to be an expert and go, “Hey, this is how you do that.” A coach is more there to help you create clarity on what you want and help you discover your own truths. So a coach isn't there to tell you how to do it, a coach is really there to help you figure out how you want to do it and provide you some support and some challenge and a container for you to do that. So, when it comes to sales, I think both things are important, because my clients need someone who can help them set up a sales system, a sales process, the skills around the strategy and tactics of building a business that's competent and making sales, and so much of sales deals with what's going on in your own head and your own confidence and your own leadership and your own material around money and strangers that having coaching is also really supportive so that's why I do both.    And are your clients often the same for both the coaching and the consulting or is it usually separate endeavors based on what someone at a certain time?    Yeah, that's a really good question. So, they tend to be the same. When I work with my clients, what happens is we'll have calls that are focused on building skill sets or implementation work around the strategies and tactics around sales and then we'll have separate calls that are coaching-only calls. And so most of my engagements with my clients, I do both things,

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. 1.   One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Laziness: Colossians 3:23-24 & Romans 12:11 2.     Two resources to keep learning:  Leadership Training Workshop on Servant Leadership. Westminster Shorter Catechism- Question #1- What is man's chief end? To glorify and enjoy Him forever. 3.     Three Questions to discuss together:  1.     In what are you tempted to be lazy (physical activity, eating, relationally, spiritual disciplines, etc.)? 2.     Do you agree that laziness starts out feeling good, but ends up feeling empty? 3.     Ask your friends for accountability to work as unto the Lord in a certain area this week. Now pray for one another to ask the Spirit to help you selflessly serve others this week.   To listen to the rest of this series go to enCourage Podcast.  https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/

Family legacy means different things to different people. For some, it's a big part of who they are, with strong traditions and high expectations. For others, it's something they're still trying to figure out. But how do you build something new while honoring where you came from? In this episode, I have Leslie Lane, the founder and lead photographer of Studio 13. Photography runs in her family, and she's been able to take that legacy and shape it into something of her own. In our conversation, Leslie shares what it was like growing up in a photography family, how she found her own style, and what it means to her to carry that legacy forward while doing things her way. Tune in and learn more! --- Listen to the podcast here: What It Means to Carry Legacy Forward with Lesle Lane Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you all about a topic that we've yet to really cover in this particular podcast, and that is the idea of a family legacy. I know some people have a stronger family legacy than others. For some people, it really looms large and there's a lot of expectations, and, for others, it's maybe even lacking direction too much. But my guest today, Lesle Lane, is the founder and lead photographer of Studio 13 but she comes from a family that has a legacy of photography and she's been able to take their business and kind of move it in a direction that puts her own mark on it. ---     Lesle, welcome to the program.   Thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure.   Definitely. So, tell us first about how photography is part of your family legacy.   I sure will. So, my grandfather actually started the business. He came into the photographic industry because when he was an eighth grader, his father tried to kill him with a garden hoe and so he ran away from home. You've got the shocked look on your face. It's true. He ran away from home and they didn't have Child Protective Services and so he ended up getting in with traveling salespeople, nomadic people, that's what they did, and one of the things that they did was teach him how to be a photographer. And so he would go from town to town taking pictures and then going back several weeks later to deliver the pictures and, finally, came upon my grandmother, who he ended up marrying, though he was hired to shoot her engagement portrait so that was quite scandalous. And then they settled, started their portrait photography business in Columbus, Georgia. And then my mother and father divorced where we moved to Indiana together, she married my stepfather and then I took over his version of the photography studio, which was corporate and commercial work.    It's just shocking to hear someone trying to kill their own son with a garden hoe because people will oftentimes joke about it and they're like, funny, like, “Oh, I could kill you,” or something like that, but like this was a literal attempt to end his own son's life.   Yes, and, actually, I misspoke, it was a stepfather, but still, the man that was married to his mother, and it was during the Depression times, things were not good, there was no work, there was no money. It doesn't excuse it at all but he had no choice. And so my grandfather, he survived and ended up running a very successful business and dying a multimillionaire. He made something amazing of himself after leaving home in the eighth grade. That is a legacy. That is something you can grab on to. Great father, great grandfather, and I'm blessed to have known him.   One of the things that I've done personally and I know a lot of other people have talked about recently and it gets a little bit spiritual sometimes is this idea of multigenerational patterns and how they affect anyone's life going forward. And so you have this family legacy of photography, which I definitely want to talk about as well as that's your business,

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. 1.   One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Self-righteousness and Judgmentalism:  I Peter 5:6-7 & James 4:10 2.     Two resources to keep learning:  TGC Let's Talk Podcast: Thou Shall Not Judge Book: Flourish: How the Love of Christ Frees Us from Self-focus by Lydia Brownback 3.     Three Questions to discuss together:   Share one or two areas where you might be tempted towards self-righteousness and judgmentalism.   How do you think self-righteousness can become addictive? Marinate in how the Gospel frees us from the drudgery of trying to make ourselves right before God. Praise God in prayer for freedom that is found in our only righteousness being found as we are in Christ. To listen to the rest of this series go to enCourage Podcast.  https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/

In this episode of the Inside EMS podcast, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson dig deep into one of EMS's most overlooked (and often forgotten) topics — toxidromes. You might remember the word from paramedic class, but today's street calls demand more than a vague memory. With patients taking everything from grandma's Ativan to street-made speed, understanding toxidromes is crucial for making quick, accurate clinical calls. The crew breaks down the five major toxidromes every medic should know: anticholinergic, cholinergic, opioid, sympathomimetic and sedative-hypnotic. From classic mnemonics like “mad as a hatter” to real-life stories of fire ant poisonings, this episode serves up practical knowledge with EMS-grade humor. Chris and Kelly cover telltale signs (sweaty vs. dry skin, pinpoint vs. dilated pupils), treatment pearls of wisdom (easy on that naloxone, folks), and the real-world complications of polypharmacy. Plus, they touch on lesser-known players like serotonin syndrome and hallucinogens. This one's a refresher you didn't know you needed — but you'll be grateful when you respond to your next overdose call. Memorable quotes “Antidotes are overrated. Supportive care will take care of most of the toxidromes out there.” — Kelly Grayson “If they're pleasantly stuporous but breathing effectively, it's not an overdose. It's just a dose.” — Kelly Grayson “Narcan is not a punishment, it's a treatment. You don't slam it, you bump it just a little bit, just enough to get them breathing again.” — Kelly Grayson Enjoying the show? Email the Inside EMS team at theshow@ems1.com to share ideas, suggestions and feedback, or let us know if you'd like to join us as a guest.

Starting a business is a big decision, and people do it for different reasons. Maybe you have a passion you really care about, or you just want more freedom in how you spend your time. For some, it's about doing something different from the usual 9-to-5 job and having control over their own path. But what does it really take to start a business—and is passion enough to keep you going?  In this episode, I have Clara Ansel, CEO and Founder of Business Powerhouse. Clara shares valuable insights into managing business growth sustainably without burning out. The conversation delves into the importance of having a clear destination or 'Point B,' the role of mindset in business success, and practical steps to avoid chaos and inefficiency. Clara also discusses the significance of decluttering one's mind and surroundings, actionable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, and her personal journey from corporate consultancy to empowering small business owners. Tune in to learn more! --- Listen to the podcast here: Starting and Scaling up a Business with Claire Ansell Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidotes to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you all about starting and scaling up businesses. Now, perhaps you have your reasons for wanting to start a business and, usually, it's about passion that you have or just the desire to have a life where you have a little bit more autonomy over what you do and when you do it, something other than the corporate life, but maybe you're looking at these processes of starting a business and seeing how daunting the process is, how much it really goes on, especially if you do end up with an investor that expects you to scale or if you personally have the desire to scale because whatever mission you're serving, you're kind of wanting to bring to more or more people. My guest today is Claire Ansell, and she is the CEO and founder of Business Powerhouse and she has some good thoughts about how we could go about managing this whole process without kind of burning out, without kind of ending up doing too much in a more sustainable fashion. ---     Claire, welcome to the program.   Hey, Stephen. How are you?    I'm doing pretty well today. It's actually a nice 70 degrees here.    Nice. That's good. Summer is coming.    It always feels nice at this time of year. How are you today?    I'm pretty good. It's been an exciting day with doing lots of –– actually like in the same realm as what you're talking about. We launched a new kind of series in our hub called Awaken, which is all about mindset so it's pretty exciting to be jumping on here with you today and kind of continuing the conversation.    Yeah, and that's a good place to start. We can talk a little bit about mindset because I'm assuming you work with a lot of people who are either starting businesses or have a business and they're just starting to become overwhelmed as their web traffic, their client base, something kind of picks up.    Yeah, and I think it doesn't really matter what phase of business you're in, whether you're a startup or a ten-million-dollar business, the reality –– or a hundred-million-dollar business. I mean, I've seen it right up to 600 million. I mean, at some point, a business owner is overwhelmed in chaos and facing that burnout. It's just the reality of the way in which we structure and grow our businesses.   Now, given your role in your business, is there any way to prevent that burnout? Is there any way someone that's starting a business now can adopt either a mindset or a set of operational practical you want to start a business but you don't want to burn yourself out?  Yeah, 100 percent, and I think one of the biggest pieces the business owners really miss is they don't understand what their point B is. We talk about point A is where you are today and point B is where are you going in the future and that could be at ...

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. 1.   One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Jealousy:  Read Psalm 16 & 2 Corinthians 9:6-12 2.     Two resources to keep learning:  TGC Article-Generosity in a Time of Hoarding enCourage Blog: Stewardship and God's Abundant Grace 3.     Three Questions to discuss together:  1.      Complete this sentence….if only I have more ____________________. 2.     Share one area of your life where you have felt the “not-enoughness” or scarcity of life. How did it make you feel? 3.     What is one thing you can share with another person in your life this week? Offer a prayer of repentance for the areas of your life where you want more “things” rather than more of God's presence in your life.   To listen to the rest of this series go to enCourage Podcast.  https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/    

Special Guest Speaker:  Dr. Jay Forseth

Luang Por Pasanno gave this Dhamma reflection on the 24 March 2025 at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK. The post Antidotes to Hindrances appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.

Stress is part of life, but learning how to handle it well can make a big difference for your health and well-being. When we don't have the right tools, even small problems can start to feel overwhelming. The good news is, there are easy ways to bounce back and stay on track. But what if there was a way to actually measure how well you're handling stress? In this episode, I talk with Matt Bennett, founder of Optimal HRV. We dive into heart rate variability (HRV) and how it relates to your body's ability to recover from stress. Matt shares how HRV tracking can give you early signs of health issues before symptoms even show up. He also talks about affordable tools and breathing techniques that can help anyone improve their stress response and build resilience. --- Listen to the podcast here: Understanding HRV and Managing Stress with Matt Bennett Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about stress and, in some aspect, our response to stress, because that's one of the things that can really get in the way of us following our passions, and you can easily ruin a good reputation you built with one terrible stress response and that's something that is really sad to see because we all are human and we all have the times where we don't quite respond the right way but it can be a little bit difficult. So, one of the tools that a lot of people are using to manage their stress as well as their overall health is HRV which, my guest today, Matt Bennett, the owner and founder of Optimal HRV, is going to talk to us more about. ---     HRV is the heart rate variability and, Matt, welcome to the program.   Thanks for having me. Big fan of the show so it's an honor to be on.   Thank you so much for coming on and I want to start off with explaining to the audience to make sure we're all oriented, I know some people are probably pretty familiar with what HRV is, others maybe not as much, but I think most people probably aren't familiar with it and its significance on the level that you are.   Really, when you get down to what is heart rate variability, it's your body and mind's ability to handle or recover from stress. And, as you said in your intro, the stress response is so fundamental to everything we do. Now, stress can be an illness. Stress can be a very, very difficult workout. Stress is often you talk about on your show, can be, I've got five, six hours of screen time today and we know that can add stress to the system as well. So, your ability to handle or recover from stress is the best foundational definition for heart rate variability that I have seen. Now, we're doing that by measuring millisecond variations in your heartbeat, and I'm happy to explore the science behind that, but that gives us, I think, a good working definition to start out our conversation with.   So you're talking about like millisecond variance in heart rate and some people might be thinking why there should be variance at all because one of the key aspects of it that might be good to orient people to is that is there a too low, a too high number, or is it just a matter of keeping it at or above a certain level?   Right. So, we're in a time where consistency is usually leading to a good outcome. You and I want to turn our computers on and, for the most part, we want it to do the same thing it did yesterday and the day before. You don't want to sit in your car and have it operate totally different than it did the last time you drove it. In this high tech environment, mechanized environment that we modern humans live in, consistency is usually equated with good quality. We are biological systems so this variation is actually a positive thing. Now, you could have variation in your heartbeats to an extent where you have a medical issue, arrhythmias and other things are obviously not what we're talking about here and those need t...

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. 1One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Jealousy:  Read I Thessalonians 5:16-18 & Psalm 73 2.     Two resources to keep learning:  TGC Article-How to Overcome Envy enCourage Blog: Thanksgiving in all Things 3.     Three Questions to discuss together:  1. Share about a time when you were sad or mad when you saw another person in your life gaining something that you felt you were missing. 2. When you stumble or get tripped up as you view others' lives up close or on social media, what is one truth you can believe to regain your footing? 3. Recount at least three things you are thankful for this week. Offer a prayer of thanksgiving to God for His provision in your life.   To listen to the rest of this series go to enCourage Podcast.  https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/

Ready? 1,2,3! Let's walk this out together…. One Big Truth from Karen and Susan to find our footing: Antidotes to Pride and Self-reliance    Read John 15:4-5 & Philippians 2:5-11 2.   Two Resources to keep learning: ·      TGC Article-Pride in the Name of Love ·      Book- The Freedom of Self-forgetfulness by Tim Keller 3.     Three Questions to discuss together: 1.     Share one or two ways you see the culture fanning the flame of self-love or pride. 2.     In what place (abilities, gifts, past success) or person (seeking the approval of others) are you placing your reliance or confidence? 3.     Pride is the exaltation of self. “Gospel humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.” Share one area where you would ask for prayer to grow in humility and self-forgetfulness.   To listen to the rest of this series go to: https://women.pcacdm.org/stumbling-forward-together/    

We can't remove emotion from our lives — it's always been there since the beginning. Sometimes, when we're making big life decisions, we have to face and work through past trauma. That trauma can show up in different ways. So how do we start to heal? In this episode, I talk with Regard Tang, an energy healer and channeler who focuses on emotional and social trauma. We chat about how our childhood and our parents' influence shape our emotional habits as we grow up. Regard shares why it's important to deal with emotional and generational trauma so we can live healthier lives. She also explains how energy healing works, including how she connects with a person's ancestors and spirit guides to help uncover and release deep emotional pain. --- Listen to the podcast here: Healing Emotional Trauma and Understanding Energy with Regard Tang Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. When we are preparing for whatever our next move is, oftentimes that will be starting a business, starting a new initiative, or starting a new chapter in our lives, we need to do various things to, whether it be purge the old chapters or just kind of heal, reset ourselves, oftentimes, that will involve kind of overcoming or processing some trauma from previous areas of our lives, and that can take on many different forms, but it is a very important thing that I think a lot of people don't necessarily think of of why am I in this mentality where I don't seem to ever be able to get a move on what I'm doing or make a decision or really kind of go for what I'm going for. And so I want to present with you various different forms in which we can heal the trauma, because there's many different ways that we can process our energy. Today, my guest is Regard Tang, and she is an energy healer and a channeler. ---     Regard, welcome to the program.   Thank you for having me, Stephen.    Thank you so much. And I want to start this podcast with a quick explanation, because I'm bringing on a concept that may be new to a lot of people about the two things that you do, which are energy healing and channeling. By energy healing, what does that mean? What does that really entail?    So, energy healing, we all carry different kind of energy. Some people, they carry a little bit like a heavier energy and I'm sure that when you walk into the room, you can just stand –– the room is carrying those very heavy energy versus when you're seeing some people that they're very bubbly and they're just like lighter, they light you up. So energy healing, what I do? I do channeling. So energy healing, you can go to sound healing, you can go to reiki. There's a lot of different methods, but for me, I specialize in channeling. What does channeling mean? It means that I can talk to my client's ancestors, I can talk to my client's spirit guides, which is spirit team, and I can also talk to my client's inner self, means that, because I specialize in emotional trauma and social trauma, so I'm able to tell are their emotion aligned? Means that they're like, “Well, I experienced X, Y and Z,” but I'm able to tap into their emotion, it's like, actually, it's not exactly what you feel on their surface. I can feel very, very deep emotions that they literally put it in the box and put it away when they were younger. And, of course, in a minute, we'll explain a little bit more, but that is what I do.    Okay. And so I want to start the beginning of the story, which is these emotions that are pushed away and the energy that people all kind of come out in the room, because it sounds like this is something that could be really limiting some people from living their best lives and really presenting themselves in a way. So, what does it look like for someone whose energy is not aligned because of an emotional baggage from the past? What does it feel like when you walk into a room and you encounter that person and...

Having a big idea or vision is great—but at some point, you've got to share it. Whether you're talking to future customers, hiring a team, or just explaining what you do, people need to get it. And it's not just about what you say out loud or post online. A big part of it starts with knowing yourself—what you believe in, what you offer, and why it matters. So how do you figure all that out and actually get your message across? In this episode, I talk with Alice Marie Brink, and Ed Moehlenkamp about how to communicate your vision in a way that actually connects. We chat about the impact of social media, communication and leadership. Tune in, to learn more! --- Listen to the podcast here: How to Effectively Communicate Your Vision with Alice and Ed Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Any vision that you have, you're going to need to communicate that vision outward somehow. There is just no getting around it. At some point, someone needs to know what you're doing, whether it is people you hire to enact your vision and do the communication or the communication that you do directly yourself for your vision. And when it comes to communicating your vision outward, there's actually an internal and an external component of it. The external component is what we often see because those are the words you say or the words you type or the images you put out there. However, there is some also internal work that you need to do in order to understand what you're communicating, understand who you are, and understanding, in many cases, what your value proposition is, which is important for anyone to understand why they should be doing business with you regardless of what your idea is. To talk about both the internal and external components of this concept of communicating your vision outward, I would like to introduce to you Alice Brink and Ed Moehlenkamp with their Energy Interplay Initiative. ---     Alice, Ed, welcome to the program.   Thank you.    Thank you.    Nice to see you.    Great to see you as well. And so just to orient us a little bit, we'll start with you, Alice, as the internal component, which is the first component, and you work with mindset, energy, and mindfulness.   That's right. No matter where we go and what we do, we're carrying this internal environment with us and so my work helps people get in touch with that, become aware of it, and then learn how to drive that energy, because, after all, it's all energy. And so, through exercises and then practical application, I love the energy, I've been in energy work for almost three decades now, and so that's shown me a lot of different outpicturings of that. And so one of those, now that I'm with Ed, we're applying it to our presentation skills offering. So it's all about what you're bringing to this presentation internally that drives the energy and the connection of your presentation.Share on X Now, when it comes to energy work, how much of it is kind of overall what energy you bring to every single day interaction, whether you're attending a networking event, meeting with one of your employees, or even just hanging out with your friends, versus the energy reset that you do in advance of the actual presentation that you're about to give?   This is funny you bring this up. So, in almost every one of my workshops and in my coaching interactions, we get to a point where I share this favorite quote of mine, and it is, “Don't let the weeds grow on the path to the dear friend's home.” And I believe it's an old Chinese proverb of some kind, but the dear friend is you, and so getting familiar with that path that leads you inward and tamping down the weeds, if you will, through repeated trips there allows that connection to be more readily available and to be more authentic to you and more in alignment. So, especially now,

Distraction pulls us away from our relationship with God. So what's the secret to drawing closer to God? Spiritual disciplines! The habits that help us focus on God, grow in our faith, and stay grounded. In this episode, we overview the key spiritual disciplines for your life. (The 5th habit may surprise you!)0:00 - INTRO1:31 - WHAT ARE THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES?Intentional practices that help us deepen our relationship with GodLike exercise!3:09 - KEY SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES: 1. BIBLE INTAKE Psalm 1JournalSlow down4:39 - 2. PRAYERA.C.T.S.: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication2-Way Conversation5:43 - 3. SILENCE & SOLITUDEJesus often withdrew.Antidotes to noise.6:26 - 4. FASTINGIntentionally avoiding eating so you can focus on God6:49 - AN INVITATION INTO COMMUNITYSpectrums for Spiritual Disciplines:- Abstaining or Engaging- Individual or Corporate7:45 - 3 MORE! 5. WORSHIP, 6. SABBATH, 7. COMMUNITY9:30 - WHY SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES MATTERHelp us grow and become closer to Jesus (2 Peter 3:18)Remedy for spiritual dryness11:09 - PRACTICAL TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED- Just pick one!- Be consistent: small habits become large spiritual growth- Find accountability- Unplug from distractions12:46 - WHAT'S YOUR NEXT STEP? SET YOUR RHYTHMPick 1 spiritual discipline to do daily, weekly, monthly/seasonally14:11 - THANK YOU & WRAP UPJOIN the NEWSLETTER. SUPPORT Binmin with a tax-deductible gift HERECONNECT WITH BINMIN: TikTok Instagram Facebook Linkedin Binmin.orgQuestions?: info@binmin.orgPODCAST RESOURCES: More from Binmin: Binmin.org Subscribe on YouTube Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple podcasts 

We all experience moments when emotions overwhelm us, especially if we have trapped emotions that build up over time. In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel overloaded with anxiety, stress, and negative news. How can we find balance and set boundaries to protect our well-being? In this episode, I sit down with Vanessa Shippy, an expert in energy work and emotional healing. Vanessa is dedicated to helping individuals release trapped emotions, cultivate self-awareness, and create a more balanced life. Through her work at Dawning Hope, she guides clients on their healing journeys by integrating energy healing, mindset shifts, and self-care practices. We discuss how emotional buildup affects our nervous system, why setting energetic boundaries is essential, and how self-compassion plays a key role in emotional well-being. Vanessa shares real-life experiences from her clients, practical tips on processing emotions, and ways to stay grounded despite life's challenges. Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, or emotional overload, this conversation will provide actionable insights to help you regain balance. Tune in for an enlightening discussion! --- Listen to the podcast here: Finding Balance and Emotional Well-Being with Vanessa Shippy Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about a common situation where we have some trapped emotions, and what I mean by that is you want to get some stuff done, you have an important meeting maybe or even just a list of tasks that you would really like to accomplish and do well, yet something someone said or something someone did just kind of stays tracked in your mind, like it triggered you in a way, and you don't even oftentimes know why do I keep thinking about that but you just can't stop thinking about it. Why was her tone of voice like that? Why did he slam the door? Etc. So, today, I want to talk to you about how we can possibly get past some of these and other energetic and balanced situations by introducing to you my guest, Vanessa Shippy, and she is the founder of Dawning Hope. ---   Vanessa, welcome to the program.   Hi, thank you for having me.    Thank you and welcome to Action's Antidotes. First of all, tell us a little bit about Dawning Hope.   Yeah, so Dawning Hope is my business. I'm honored to serve in a way. I get to offer intuitive energy reading, clearing, balancing, and channeling sessions, and I'm actually also currently putting together resources and a guide to help people come into touch with their own energy and body. I typically will encourage this through like nervous system regulation and emotional processing, like through gaining knowledge and restoring balance to the mind, body, and spirit as a whole. I myself went from bedridden to feeling better than I ever have. My vision for my business is to let others know that even after the darkest night, the sun always rises and the dawn brings new hope.   With my initial statement, am I even thinking about it properly? Because I guess I was thinking about a situation where, okay, this person said something like this, this person was in a bad mood and it's weighing in my mind, but is that even the situation or is it about something way more than what happened yesterday, what happened this morning that I just can't stop ruminating on?   Yeah, so that can be more of the effects of what maybe actually happened. Typically, some of our deepest, you could say, traumas or trapped energies will occur in childhood. I personally have a theory that children are so open and, in openness, it's a gift but it can also be a vulnerability, and so, oftentimes, the way that they perceive the world is rather deep and they can internalize it more than adults might just because they don't have the same understanding or experience as adults. Say, if someone said something to you this morning and you're ...

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Why is the human brain so vulnerable to false beliefs and conspiracy theories despite evidence to the contrary? And what can be done to protect ourselves, our families, and society from our collective propensity to fall into these seductive traps? Dr. Joe Pierre, health sciences clinical professor at UCSF and a specialist in delusions and delusion-like beliefs, will be returning to the Club to discuss these issues with us. His first talk on the topic, a few years ago, was a sold-out, extremely informative success, so we asked him to return for a deeper look into the personal and societal effects of mistrust, misinformation, and motivated reasoning. Equally important, he is going to outline how we can avoid the pitfalls of acting on false beliefs, both as individuals and as a society. So if you've been puzzled by how "otherwise-intelligent" friends and relatives have fallen into the trap of a false belief, or if you're searching for a way to reach out to someone who has fallen for one, or if you're wondering how society can defend itself, join us for this event and discussion. We'll learn why "just the facts" doesn't usually work, and we'll learn how to view our ideological opponents with compassion while still vigorously defending society. Organizer: Eric Siegel   A Personal Growth Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums. This program contains EXPLICIT language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a world that's increasingly dominated by screens, how does reducing screen time impact our mental health and our connection to the world around us? In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Joan Savage, a multifaceted author and former professor, who transitioned from academia to pursue her passion for writing. She best known for her gripping murder mystery novel Red Fever, which she published after overcoming a challenging journey, supported by her community. With a background in business management and a deep commitment to mental wellness, Dr. Savage spent years researching the significant impact of virtual reality on mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations like young boys and military personnel. Together, we explore the pervasive issue of screen time and its effects on our lives. Dr. Savage shares her insights on how social media and technology can lead to feelings of isolation, and the importance of community in overcoming these challenges. She also discusses the balance between seeking validation online and forming genuine connections in a digital world. This conversation is full of meaningful insights and tips for fostering authentic relationships while reducing screen time—so you won't want to miss it! --- Listen to the podcast here: Navigating Life Beyond Screens with Dr. Joan Savage Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. One of my initiatives here in 2025 and something I'm trying to showcase is helping people cut down on their screen time. We've been seeing a lot more people take notice on how much of the excess time that we're spending in front of what's often referred to as attention grabbing or addictive technology is really impacting the lives we live as well as the mindsets that we adapt, so I'm going to be bringing on some guests from time to time that have their own really unique stories about how cutting down on screen time has changed their lives. Today, I would like to introduce you to Dr. Joan Savage. ---   Dr. Joan Savage, welcome to the program.   Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.    It's wonderful. So, Dr Savage, like myself, has a lot of different initiatives in life. I think, traditionally, we've always thought of people as their job title, or at least for maybe about 100 years in the 20th century mostly where it's like, okay, you are a broker, you are a data analyst, but we also know that, in life, people are way more than that so I want to start out by introducing you to my audience as all the different things that you're a part of right now that you have done recently and are doing.   Great. Too many things, I think.   Well, as long as it make you happy, right?   And it does, yes, you're right.   So, yeah, so you start by telling us about all the different things that you're –- yeah, all your different things.   So my –- I'll try to do things backwards chronologically. I feel like that makes a little more sense. So, right now, my full-time job, I guess, is I'm an author. So, a year ago, I released a murder mystery. It's got a little bit of eroticism in it but mostly it's a murder mystery. It's called Red Fever and it's my first attempt at fiction so that was a nightmare getting it published. I was really blessed to have just so many beautiful people in my life to speak into that and help me get that done and give me the courage to resign from my job as a professor. I was an adjunct teacher for about three years at Florida Tech and I was so, oh my gosh, that job came at such a time when everybody was looking for a remote position when COVID had hit so I have no complaints about that. Although I never wanted to be a teacher, that's just –- it fell into my lap. I knew it was what the universe was guiding me and, in COVID, everyone wanted to be home so I loved it. I took it, again, it wasn't anything that I've studied for,

Do you feel crushed by despair? Today we delve into the nature of despair, its physical and emotional signs, and understanding your experiences with burnout and despair. Healing starts with acknowledging your feelings and finding a trusted person outside your family as a guide to combat the challenges. Antidotes include finding hope, perspective, and positive connection, and if you are struggling to create a more fulfilling life and career, speak with Dex about coaching. Show Notes We Need To Talk About Shame, Brene Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C6UELitWkwSend us a text----------------------------------- Burnout Resources:Get 1-on-1 burnout recovery coaching at https:/mini.dexrandall.comBurnout Recovery eCourse: https://go.dexrandall.com/beatburnoutFor even more TIPS see FACEBOOK: @coachdexrandallINSTAGRAM: @coachdexrandallLINKEDIN: @coachdexrandallTWITTER: @coachdexrandallor join the FACEBOOK group for burnout coaches onlyhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/1030925731159138See https://linktr.ee/coachdexrandall for all links

Send us a textIn this episode we are continuing to follow this theme of antidote making —which I have been talking about in some form for the last few episodes.  Creating antidotes for what we see in the world.  Becoming what we wish the world to be.  This is no small task in a world on fire.  It's the stance of a warrior.  So today we are going to be talking about actions that generate love.  This is for you if you've ever felt awkward, you wish to see more love in the world, or you wish to actually BECOME LOVE.  One antidote for divisive times is unification.  It's care.  It's love.  It's seeing the best in one another— it's being there for each other and seeking that out.  It's anchoring in and making good feelings between people.  Show Notes:HOW DO I KNOW IF IT IS MY INTUITION SELF-STUDY COURSEFollow me on Blue Sky Social @Soulutionaries For more about Aimée, her work, readings, speaking, or classes visit www.AimeeCartier.com. 

Did you know that trauma and stress don't just affect your emotions but can also be stored in your body—especially in your spine? How can we release this tension and improve our overall well-being? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Lauren Stefanik, a chiropractor at Wellness Rhythms, to explore the powerful connection between stored trauma and physical health. Drawing inspiration from The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Stefanik explains how everyday stressors and past trauma manifest physically, leading to discomfort and emotional imbalances. We dive into Network Spinal chiropractic, a gentle technique that helps release tension in the spinal cord, promoting higher energy states and better health. Dr. Stefanik also shares her journey into this integrative healing approach and emphasizes the importance of self-compassion, body awareness, and open communication for overall well-being. If you're looking for ways to release stored tension, enhance your health, and embrace a holistic approach to healing, this conversation is one you won't want to miss! --- Listen to the podcast here: Healing Trauma Through the Body with Dr. Lauren Stefaniuk Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Recently, I read a book called The Body Keeps Score, which talks a lot about the idea of all of our traumas, everything happening in our past, regardless of what it is, kind of being stored in our body, this is oftentimes things that we sometimes tend to forget about, forget about how it's continuing to impact our lives, such as continued patterns in our childhood that we kind of lived through or even other kind of more acute lived experiences that could be one car accident when you're 16 and now you're 35 so it doesn't really become something you think about in a lot of your minds. Now, there's been some study about how some of these subconscious patterns continue to emerge through some subconscious programming, but here today, I'm here to talk to you a little bit more about how the body itself keeps score, how certain parts of the body kind of retain the memories of these traumas and how it can still be impacting what we're doing today and how we're showing up in everything around. And to facilitate this conversation, I'd like to invite on my guest, Dr. Lauren Stefaniuk with Wellness Rhythms. She is a doctor of chiropractic services. ---   Dr. Lauren Stefaniuk, welcome to the program.   Hi, Stephen. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really grateful that you have this awesome podcast and that you've given me the opportunity to be on it. And, yeah, I do network spinal as a doctor of chiropractor.   We're talking about how the body keeps score, and your focus specifically is on how the spine has kind of kept score of some of these traumas or other items from our past.    Yeah. So, what we like to say is that what goes to the back of the mind tends to go to the spine and so what Network Spinal is specifically helping people realize is that there's events that happen in our life, whether you call them stressors or traumas or just stressful events, your body actually doesn't really know the difference between a massive stressor like something that we usually, quote-unquote, call “trauma,” or the small kind of everyday stressors, where we're stressing to get to work on time or we have a deadline or our dog is barking at us and we don't know why. Your nervous system actually doesn't know the difference between a massive stressor and a small stressor. It really responds in the exact same way and, sometimes, that is responding by going into fight or flight. So, when we go into fight or flight, there's a lot of things that people realize happens. So, your eyes, your pupils are going to dilate, your breath becomes a little bit more shallow and more rapid, your heart rate becomes more rapid, your muscles tense, all of those things people recognize,

Send us a textThe stories I share with you today are deeply personal.  Nothing horrific, but ones that certainly have been tender at times in my life.  And we're going to talk about forgiveness.  In a world of division, where resentment is rife, one of the antidotes for these times, one of the gifts you can give yourself to free up more energy is forgiveness.  Forgiveness isn't for condoning another's actions.  It's actually for you— and I hope my personal stories today will provide an easy pathway for you to walk yourself right into this freeing state of mind.Show NotesI need a reading!  Find out more and get on Aimée's schedule here.BREATH TEST FREE DOWNLOAD: Want to learn one of the simplest intuitive tools I know, one that helps you understand the best course and is as available as your breath?  Download it here! INTUITION COLORING PAGES GETTING ANSWERS FREE CHAPTERHOW DO I KNOW IF IT IS MY INTUITION SELF-STUDY COURSE:  For more about Aimée, her work, readings, speaking, or classes visit www.AimeeCartier.com. 

Attachment is like a rope that binds us—tying our happiness to people, possessions, and circumstances. In Buddhism, attachment isn't just about clinging to things we love; it's the grasping, craving, and fear of loss that keep us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction. The tighter we hold on, the more suffering we create.   But don't worry—there are antidotes to this challenging habit of attachment! In this episode, we'll uncover practical tools from the Buddhist path to help us shift from attachment to true freedom. How can we love without clinging? Enjoy without suffering? These antidotes aren't just abstract teachings; they're actionable, life-changing practices that can transform our everyday experiences.   Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up sensual pleasures, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated sensual desires and has come to the end of existence. --Buddha, The Dhammapada, Verse 415 References and Links Buddha (1986).The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Translated by Daw Mya Tin, M.A. (Website). Edited by Editorial Committee, Burma Tipitaka Association Rangoon. Courtesy .of Nibbana.com. For free distribution only, as a gift of dhamma. Retrieved from https://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=415 Yeshe, Lama Thubten (2005) Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire [Kindle]. Wisdom Publications. To learn more about virtual classes with JoAnn Fox: Buddhist Study Program   Find us at the links below:  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Buddhismforeveryone Facebook Group:Join our private group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanghatalk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buddhism.with.joann.fox X: @Joannfox77 Buddhist Blog: buddhismforeveryone.com/buddhist-blog To learn more about virtual classes with JoAnn Fox: Buddhist Study Program

Send us a textFear will not build a house we want to live in.  Someone has to be the light.  To be the light you have to generate brilliance.  Some actions lend themselves to this generation, some actions are depleting.  Today, we are going to talk about making antidotes.  The process open to anyone who dreams of or who wants to put awareness and energy into a better future.  It's a more the merrier kind of party— I hope it sparks a light.Show NotesAOC Immigration Rights Page with printablesHOW DO I KNOW IF IT IS MY INTUITION SELF-STUDY COURSEFollow me on Blue Sky Social @Soulutionaries For more about Aimée, her work, readings, speaking, or classes visit www.AimeeCartier.com. 

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In this episode, we're going to talk about five powerful antidotes that can help you navigate mental blocks and entrepreneurial challenges as a food blogger. I recently heard someone use the word antidote to describe how they dealt with mental blocks as an entrepreneur, and it stuck with me. I love the idea that there's a remedy—a way to counteract the “poison” of things like overwhelm, self-doubt, and confusion that can suck the life out of us as business owners. In this episode, I'm diving into five powerful antidotes that can help you break free from those struggles that feel impossible to escape. You don't have to stay stuck. If you can identify the “poison” and apply the right antidote, you can move forward with clarity and purpose. Let's talk about how to do just that. Action Plan: 1 -Physical movement is the antidote for rumination. 2 - Air, water, and words is the antidote for confusion. 3 - Gratitude for people is the antidote for feeling underappreciated, undervalued, and unworthy. 4 - Doing one thing is the antidote for a lack of motivation. 5 - Setting boundaries is the antidote for overwhelm. Get in touch with Megan below. Website | Instagram

This week we shredded our vision board and fed it to some ornamental carp, purely to win the approval of author, critic and quite possibly the world first demotivational speaker, Patrick Freyne. Before becoming the enormously popular columnist and critic for the Irish Times, Patrick spent his 20s chasing the rock star dream. But while the life of big hair, hard drugs and tight trousers wasn't to be, it did give Patrick the time and space required to be one of the creative world's leading authors, thinkers and sense-talkers. His book ‘Ok, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea' is a glorious celebration of curiosity, experimentation and letting your heart lead the way. And now he's on a mission to dismantle the cult of ‘Big P' productivity and remind people that ‘maximising your potential' is a poor substitute for living your life.  This episode is dedicated to Patrick's wife Anna Carey, who has been his biggest influence. She also has an amazing funny romance fiction book coming out later this year called Our Song.  ///// Follow Patrick on X and Bluesky Timestamps:  01:32 - The Concept of Demotivational Speaking 07:36 - Patrick's Early Jobs and Musical Aspirations 09:08 - The Influence of Music on Patrick's Life 12:04 - The Importance of Curiosity in Career Paths 15:18 - Exploring the Idea of 'Stupid Ideas' 17:14 - The Impact of Burnout and Productivity Culture 20:40 - Finding Peace in Accepting Average Productivity 22:37 - Cultural Expectations and Work-Life Balance 25:31 - The Role of Technology in Productivity Anxiety 30:17 - The Dangers of Measurable Metrics 32:03 - Writing Techniques and Approaches 36:30 - The Importance of Rhythm in Writing 39:01 - Listener Questions: Generational Perspectives on Productivity 42:57 - Antidotes to Hustle Culture and Finding Balance 45:27 - Final Thoughts on Productivity and Well-Being Patrick's Book Recommendations are:  The Fourth Time We Drowned – Sally Hayden  Commonwealth – Anne Patchett A Visit from Lagoon Squad – Jennifer Egan /////

In 2025's uncertain climate and amid international crises, luxury industries are questioning their model: how to meet ever more ambitious financial targets? How can creativity inspire people to dream? Solutions are offered up by feminist designer Maria Grazia Chiuri's take on Alice and her wonderland, while irresistible Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf make fun of AI and the sparkling Japanese couturier Yuima Nakazato has an outfit that we'll be able to wear for 10,000 years.

We spend a lot of time on screens these days, whether it's for work, social media, or just relaxing with a show. It's easy to lose track of time, and hours can pass before we know it. But how much is too much? What exactly is the impact on our health and daily lives? In this episode, I talk with Sumayyah Emeh-Edu, Founder of Embedded Consulting. We discuss the impacts of excessive screen time and social media on mental health and the importance of connecting with people around us. Sumayyah shares her struggles with social media and how she observed its impact on her friends and family. Tune in to hear her insights! --- Listen to the podcast here: How to Break Free from Screen Time Overload with Sumayyah Emeh-Edu Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. And, today, I want to talk to you about a topic that's really near and dear to my heart, as in I know I have my own initiative around this, which is cutting down on people's screen time. I think you've probably seen in the news that we do have a lot of problems associated with the excessive amount of time in front of screens and people come up with different numbers depending on which particular study you're using or if you're considering phones, TVs, computers, and everything as well, but, regardless, it seems out of control and anyone that's old enough to remember the world before smartphones and everything took it over can remember a world where we spent a lot more time relating to each other in person as well as doing things not in front of some form of digital technology and it's hard not to make a clear connection between that and a lot of the mental health and loneliness issues that we're experiencing today. So, today, I'd like to bring on someone who is kind of taking on an initiative in the same vein, in the same realm, Sumayyah Emeh-Edu, the founder of Embedded Consulting LLC. ---   Sumayyah, welcome to the program.   Thank you, Stephen. Nice to be here.    Yeah, thank you so much, and thank you so much for connecting because it's always great to meet and connect with anyone else who's kind of observed the same issue. So why don't you start by telling me your story about kind of when you first started observing this whole issue, I think it was roughly maybe 15 years ago-ish that we all started in mass adopting these smartphones and excessive social media and the changes started to be visible in everyday life, regardless of whether or not you saw it as a problem.    Yeah. So, I was on Myspace back in the day, 2008 I got onto Facebook, and I didn't really see it as a problem. I was just like, “Wow, this is awesome.” There was a couple documentaries that came out around like 2014, 2015 that I had watched. There was also a lot of ethical folks and whistleblowers that were coming out of all of the big tech companies. And it was just information I digested but, like most people, I'm like, “Well, that does affect me,” and I would say a majority of my time was spent on Facebook. Twitter was always too fast and I wasn't even on Instagram at that point, and I had already been a person who didn't have, for instance, social media notifications in my email and on my phone because it just takes up space and I just hate my inbox just filled with a bunch of junk, but I had been in higher education most of my early career and then I made the transition into diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2015-ish, and it was just interesting because the election was going on, the first election with Trump, and it was a lot of negativity, a lot of just ridiculousness going on from a political perspective. And then, on top of it, I was doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work and I was deeply impacted when I would see injustices go viral or, unfortunately, the murder of a black man go viral, and so when I heard all of this thing about how social media is addictive, how it can impact your mood, and again,

Today's job search is considerably different from the busy, fast-paced job hunts of the past. Nowadays, it goes beyond having the ideal CV or applying as soon as possible. Finding a career that aligns with your values, demonstrating your abilities, and establishing genuine relationships are now important. In light of significant shifts like remote work and new hiring practices, how are you preparing to thrive? In this episode, I chat with Wyatt Carr, a partner at The Page Group and a seasoned recruiter. Wyatt talks about the struggles of finding a job and hiring the right people in today's fast-changing world. We discuss simple ways to stand out when job hunting, how automation is changing the workplace, and what businesses are doing differently when hiring. Tune in now! --- Listen to the podcast here: Navigating the Job Search in a Changing World of Work with Wyatt Carr Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about a topic, something that I find one of the most frustrating aspects of the world we're in today, and that is the process of finding a job or the process of connecting people with jobs. I know a lot of people and I also personally have been in situations where it just seems to just take a long time to find a job and there's all these things about getting noticed, getting your resume out there, when all it is that you really want is to just find a job that fits what you studied in school, what your background is, what you think you'd be good at and also be interested in, do a good job at it. The process does not seem to be that much better, per se, from the employer side too because they're just looking for talent and I know that there's mismatches all around. So, to talk about where we are in the process of job finding, talent acquisition, all that, I would like to introduce my guest today, Wyatt Carr, who is a partner with The Page Group and an experienced recruiter. ---   Wyatt, welcome to the program.   Thank you so much, Stephen. Happy to be here.    Happy to have you. I just see the frustration so many people express to me, whether it be in person or even over LinkedIn, about people really looking for jobs. If anyone out there listening is in that situation where they're looking for a job, they just need to find something, what do you think people need to be doing?    So I think the number one thing to understand when you're looking for a job is to realize that you are an investment if someone offers you a job. They expect to make more money than you cost to employ and that's the current challenge with the current market is companies are seeming to do more with less and that is a huge concern about AI and how it will impact the workforce and how it will target or potentially take opportunity from a lot of white collar professions. Everyone thought automation would come for blue collar and it's come to white collar, everyone's probably heard that already. You need to understand what value you bring to a business and then find the businesses that need your services, find the businesses that would value from what you can bring to the table.Share on X I think we were very spoiled the last 10 years, literally, in my career, I've been in staffing and talent management, the economy has just continued to boom. I think during COVID, white collar workers did better. Blue collar and essential workers, they absolutely were devastated. So much money shifted to the laptop class and the billionaire class. Corporations weren't hurt. Very few corporations were hurt from the pandemic. The small person was, the blue collar worker, the essential worker, and a lot of people did lose their jobs, but it was somewhat short lived on the white collar side, the skilled labor, laptop class, they call it or college degree educated class, and for the last 10 years with that exception where some people were impacted by...

Finding meaning and happiness in your career boils down to how you align your work with your values and passions. When we work on something that feels purposeful, it gives a sense of fulfillment that goes beyond a paycheck. How can we find a career that resonates with who we are? In this episode, I chat with Debbie Morris, the founder of Live, Learn, Serve, a career transition coaching service. We talk about how to create a happier, more meaningful work life by focusing on things like employee engagement, career growth, and aligning your values with your work. Debbie breaks down why so many people feel disconnected at work and shares tips on finding purpose, practicing self-reflection, and adopting a positive mindset. Don't miss this conversation—it's packed with insight! --- Listen to the podcast here: Finding Meaning and Happiness in Your Career with Debbie Morris Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about a topic that's really new to me as I've experienced it myself, I know a lot of other people have experienced it, which is how do we make work a better place to be, a happier place to be, a place that you really want to be? And I often comment that hating work is kind of built into our culture, if you think about Sunday scaries, Wednesday hump day, thank God it's Friday, and I've often said to people that it doesn't have to be that way. We can live a life where work is just one of the things we do along with weekends and you enjoy your weekend, you go, you dance, you party, and then you come to work on Monday and you also get to do something you love doing. To talk about how we can maybe help make that world a little bit more of a reality for more people, I would like to bring to you my guest today, Debbie Morris, the founder of Live Learn Serve career transition coaching service. ---   Debbie, welcome to the program.   Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Thank you. I'm excited,   Well, I'm excited to talk to you about this because you've brought up the Gallup surveys that seem to be pretty consistently stuck with only about a third of the people in this country actually being engaged in their work, and then, globally, that number is even worse than the United States. So let's start there. What leads to this result and this kind of stagnant result that, despite the fact that we've understood for so long that results in our organizations would be better if more people enjoy their job, why is it still that only a third of Americans are actually engaged in and what keeps it stagnant?   Well, I think first we have to sort of deconstruct the word and the intent of engagement. So, as organizations grow and they bring folks in, they want people to be committed to their work and to find alignment with the organization's values. So, intrinsically, they want that level of commitment and they know that if you are intrinsically motivated, that you are more likely to stay and be high performing. So, the goal is to have that level of engagement. In order to do that, though, there has to be some level of alignment so there has to be alignment to what I believe in, what that organization believes in, and I think, first and foremost, what we've seen lately is that, oftentimes, there is a misalignment. So, people don't necessarily feel like they are connected and believe in the same things their organization does. So, number one, there's misalignment. Number two, I think people have said over and over again, we hear this all the time, is that they want opportunities to grow. So, career growth, that is a type of growth, but then as we look across generations, we see growth as meaning different things. So, growth could be vertical movement within an organization, but it could just also mean I want to expand as an individual or I want to expand as a global citizen or I want to contribute to something larger. So,

Managing group finances can be tricky, but it's all about clear communication and setting shared goals. Whether it's splitting bills or budgeting for a project, transparency keeps things running smoothly. Have you ever had a financial disagreement that taught you something valuable? In this special episode, I'm joined by Joshua Lee, Co-founder and CEO of Tribe Money Pools. We talk about struggles of managing group finances, from tracking contributions to avoiding awkward money conversations. To deal with these, Joshua introduces his app, designed to streamline group financial management, making it easier to collaborate, stay organized, and maintain trust within the group. Tune in, and learn more! --- Listen to the podcast here: Collaborative Solutions for Group Financial Management with Joshua Lee Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today is an important day for Action's Antidotes because it is my 150th episode, that's kind of a milestone and, usually, I don't make these episodes or any of these episodes about myself. Usually, it's about the guest I'm interviewing, but this particular interview actually pertains to an area of my life personally because I'm the treasurer of an organization called Toastmasters, not the organization International, if you're familiar, but of a local chapter, I'm a treasurer, and as a treasurer of the group, I oftentimes go to the bank, facilitate transactions with a bank account, because groups like Toastmasters or any other group oftentimes require having a budget, and a lot of people have clubs like that or perhaps you're out there thinking about what kind of club or organization you want to start. Well, when I go to the bank, I never know what to say to the banker about whether it is a personal or a business account, because it kind of treads that line kind of between the two. It's not a business, we're not trying to make a profit or anything like that, we're just trying to organize all the Toastmasters activities and expenses under this account so that we can fund our operations with our dues and what we owe the international organization and stuff like that. Given that a lot of our pursuits and a lot of us are going to find ourselves in a situation like this, I want to introduce to you today's guest, Joshua Lee, who is the co-founder and CEO of Tribe Money Pools. ---   Joshua, welcome to the program.   Awesome. Thank you so much for having me today.    Yeah, thank you for hopping on. And so I want to start a little bit about what Tribe Money Pools does about these situations where, okay, you're not a business but you're also not a personal account, you're kind of operating something together in a group.   Yeah, absolutely, and I think it would be a little helpful for me to provide a little context as to what Tribe Money is just very quickly. Tribe Money is a digital platform that helps groups share and manage their finances. What we've taken are the fragmented processes that occur in group financial management today, such as communication, facilitation, execution, and, most importantly, governance, which is all done with different applications or through different means and different channels. We've taken all that and consolidated it all into one platform so the actual financial management, the process of sharing and collecting finances with members of your group, whatever it might be, is much more streamlined, way easier and easier to track, and it's much more secure than all traditional methods that really exist out there in the market today. So. Really pertaining to what you were talking about earlier, what we've brought to this space to really help groups such as yours is provide these quick, virtual, shared bank accounts that people can put together with the click of a few taps. Most importantly, set rules and access controls to ensure that people can monitor who can spend,

Where does your mind go when it wanders? If those reveries skew negative we have some ideas for you in this encore edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… “I Worried” is a poem by Mary Oliver. Improv Wisdom might inspire you to commit to the bit. Mel Robbins suggests you ask yourself this: “What if it all works out?”

Have you ever been in a situation where, if something doesn't work, it feels like going back to square one? This might make you question where and what you should pursue in life. One thing that prevents us from reaching our potential is limiting beliefs. What's holding you back, and how can you begin shifting your mindset? In this episode, I'm joined by Taylor Lehn, the founder of Black Raven Coaching. Taylor shares her story, starting as an aspiring coffee shop owner and eventually finding her true calling as a wellness and spiritual coach. We dive into the importance of building community and the value of in-person connections. Along the way, Taylor talks about the power of following your passions, breaking free from limiting beliefs, and creating a life that truly aligns with who you are. --- Listen to the podcast here: Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs with Taylor Lehn Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. One thing that's really important to me, in case you haven't heard it in some of my other episodes, is bringing community together, bringing people together actually in person more and more. We have a lot of online platforms where people are connecting with one another and that's great and that's beautiful, but one of my goals going forward is going to be, and has been for years, is how do we reestablish on this community feel, someone to feel like you're a part of something and that you're actually interacting with the other people in your community. My guest today, Taylor Lehn, is a life coach and a local wellness event coordinator and the founder of Black Raven Coaching here in Denver, Colorado. ---   Taylor, welcome to the program.   Thank you so much for having me.   Well, thank you for joining and I want to start a little bit by going into your story. Obviously, when you started this whole journey, you had a very different idea about what you were going to be doing.    Oh, definitely. Ever since I was young, I always knew that, as far as my career was concerned, that I just needed to be my own boss. So, entrepreneurship was always where I assumed I would go. However, when I was younger, I had almost no clue what I was passionate about and finding something that I could pursue that would actually fulfill me for my entire life seemed like a very daunting task. So, when I went to college, of course, and I studied entrepreneurship and economics and the only thing I really knew I was passionate about per se was, funnily enough, coffee. I'd always been a coffee snob throughout high school, into college, while going through college, when it came time to find a job, coffee shop barista was the number one. So I dove into that and loved it, absolutely loved it. Knowing that eventually I wanted to own my own business once I got out of college, I really pursued that path of becoming a barista, really thinking that opening and owning my own coffee shop someday was what I was going to do. So I spent about the next six years or so after college really pursuing that. However, as I learned the trade, met some amazing baristas, worked my way up to becoming a coffee shop manager, really learning the ins and outs of what it takes to get a coffee shop started and to keep it running, it is a lot of work. I would say owning a coffee shop is one of the most difficult businesses you could pursue. It usually takes a coffee shop about five years to even break even. Really seeing the inside of it, seeing the people who are at the top of their game and what they had to go through and struggle through just to keep their business and their dream alive, I started realizing that that might not actually be what I wanted to do for my entire life, and that left me feeling very confused and really just not knowing what step to take. I didn't know what else I wanted to do.    Yeah, that's a tough spot to be in, to be honest.

In today's world, shared workspaces have become more than just a place to work—they're hubs for connection and collaboration. They bring people together, creating opportunities to build relationships, share ideas, and grow alongside others who share similar goals. These spaces remind us how important it is to surround ourselves with supportive communities that inspire us to reach our full potential. How can being part of a shared workspace community help us achieve our goals? In this episode, I chat with Ann Marlin, the Owner of Broadway Collective, a co-working space in Englewood, Colorado. Ann shares her insights on creating spaces where entrepreneurs and small businesses can truly connect and thrive. We also explore the impact of a well-designed workspace on productivity and how finding balance between work and life can lead to long-term success. --- Listen to the podcast here: Community through Shared Workspaces with Ann Marlin Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. One of the things that I find most important in today's society is connecting people, rebuilding community. You're probably aware that compared to, say, 50, 100 years ago, we've seen a lot of our traditional sources of community decimated and people don't really kind of run into each other and people will often talk about this idea of a third place, a third place being somewhere other than the home and other than the work where you still go and regularly interact with people and regularly just bump into people, and that the way a lot of people build connections is just by these chance circumstances in which you run into anyone. And in modern society, in my own life in particular, I often notice that someone has to start taking the initiative to plan meetings. Otherwise, people can easily go weeks, months without seeing their friends, without seeing the people they're connected with. Today, I would like to bring on my guest, Ann Marlin, who is the owner, founder, and operator of a building where we're actually sitting in right now, called the Broadway Collective. ---   Ann, welcome to the program.   Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.    Well, excited to have you. We're sitting here so we're on the premise of the very initiative so this is a first for Action's Antidotes here at the Broadway Collective. Tell us what the Broadway Collective is all about.    Thank you. So the Broadway Collective really was born for the necessity of our sister company as we needed office space. We outgrew our previous office space and found an amazing mid mod building right here on Broadway in Oxford in Englewood, Colorado, and we fell in love with the building because of the floor-to-ceiling windows and just the overall vibe. It had not been touched since the 80s so I'm talking wood paneling, purple carpet, baby blue walls, but we really could see the potential in the building in that our sister company, we do real estate investments and fix and flip. The minute we stepped into this building, we're like, “Gosh, this is amazing.” We knew, however, that this building was going to be too big for our sister company, Elevation, so we thought, well, what can we do with this building? And our passion is to support other small and local businesses and so I thought, oh my gosh, let's make a co-workspace out of it and invite other businesses into our sphere and see if we can pass back business back and forth.    Now, one thing I love about your story is how you were able to come in and play a little bit bigger than a lot of people were thinking because I think a lot of people would look at something like this and be like, “Oh my god, I love this building so much but it's too big for us. What are we gonna do with all this space? Let's just keep shopping for somewhere smaller or find a way to get by with what we currently have.” What would you say is it about your experience,

When we hear the word longevity, it's not just about living longer—it's about thriving through the years with good health. Adopting healthy habits can make a difference in our day-to-day life. What are the things we can do to promote healthy longevity? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Cory Goldberg, a distinguished plastic and craniofacial surgeon with a vision for longevity medicine and aesthetic surgery. He discusses how to promote healthy longevity, emphasizing diet, exercise, sleep, and emotional health. He highlights the impact of poor diet and processed food on health and life expectancy. Listen now to explore strategies for a healthier, longer life! --- Listen to the podcast here: Unlocking the Secrets of Healthy Longevity with Dr. Cory Goldberg Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about longevity. Now, we've covered this a little bit in some of our podcast episodes that have covered health, fitness, wellness, but we've never really talked about longevity specifically. My guest today, Dr Cory Goldberg, is at the forefront and using some innovative techniques to promote longevity and some innovative ideas for the future of this entire subject as well as healthcare in general. ---   Dr. Cory Goldberg, welcome to the program.   Hi, Stephen. It's a pleasure. Thank you so much for your time. Looking forward to our conversation   Where we began here. So you have some innovative ideas about longevity. I know, traditionally, people just talk about stuff like getting regular exercise, eating well, and even we've recently talked about some other kind of psychological things people can do, like controlling their thoughts, minimizing stress, and being around the right people and spending good time and good company. Is that part of your program or do you go right to some of these more innovative, less currently mainstream techniques?   Well, honestly, what you just hit on are two of the most important pillars of healthy longevity and good diet and exercise are keystone. I mean, you can't have healthy longevity without that. There's no quick fix that gets you around those basics. And I would add to that, good healthy sleep and a good emotional state and interpersonal relations so you commented on your episode on thought control and those kinds of things, being present and controlling your thoughts and your emotions and relations with other people really key for healthy longevity. So, no matter what else we add to that now, those four pillars are by far the most important things that anybody can do to make sure that they're as healthy as possible for as long as possible.   And so if you think about the average person, either the average person you encounter or the average person kind of in society today, what do you think is the number one worst thing people are doing for the health on a regular basis?   I have to say it's diet. People follow the diet that their parents taught them, the idea of four main food groups. They follow eating habits that are based mostly on addiction to the foods that we were exposed to on a regular basis in our society. People are eating poison, they don't even know it, and I think that's the biggest contributor to poor health. And the reason that in the United States, the past few years, the average life expectancy has actually gone down by a couple years for the first time in over a century and a half and that's with corrections around the pandemic and COVID. Even with that, the life expectancy is going down and I would say diet is the number one contributing factors to that.Share on X   And so what is the biggest mistake people are making in their diet? You talk about the foods that you become addicted to, the foods that you're trained to eat. What can someone do right now to get out of that?   Well, as with any addiction,

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I've got two questions for you:Do you feel like a pebble on the shore who keeps getting caught in the break of the waves—unable to stand up, link with or be strengthened by community, unable to help elevate others by providing a grounded structure, or add beauty?  Did you know that you are influenced by the collective when large numbers of people are experiencing something, even if you are standing alone in your living room?What has all this got to do with the news, and the collective, and the whole world?  On today's podcast episode I'm going to guide you to finding your perfect formula of exposure so that instead of a lone pebble caught continuously in the chaotic turmoil, you'll find your peaceful place and we'll explore how that also contributes to the whole. Show NotesWant to learn one of the simplest intuitive tools I know, one that helps you understand the best course and is as available as your breath?  Download it here!Download Aimée's free: “44 Signs You Are An Empath.” (Also includes “4 Antidotes to Common Empath Challenges:” audio)I want Empath Core Tools! For more about Aimée, her work, readings, speaking, or classes visit www.AimeeCartier.com. Aimée on InstagramAimée on Facebook

Sometimes, we all stop and think about where our life is going and feel like we're meant to accomplish more. Life might be good, but there's something inside that is urging us to grow and do something bigger, and we are willing to work for it. It's a feeling many of us have had, and it often leads to big changes. When you feel like this, how do you turn that feeling into real steps forward? In this episode, I sit down with Christian Ray Flores, a performance coach and entrepreneur. He discusses the common experience  that we seek more in life despite achieving some level of success. He explains the concept of hedonic adaptation and the natural cycles of life, including the need for personal growth and fulfillment at different stages. Redefine success — tune in today! --- Listen to the podcast here: Embracing Growth and Change with Christian Ray Flores Welcome to Action's Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. We've had some episodes that have covered some broad topics and we've also had some episodes that have covered some specifics, specific aspects about starting a business, specific pursuits, specific components of our lives. Today, I want to take us a little bit back to the more broad topic because we've all found ourselves in that situation and I think the broad category of experiences around the situation can be I'm looking at my life and maybe it's okay, maybe it's not, but I know I'm capable of something more and I have the desire for something more, I have the willingness to work for it, which is the situation that a lot of people find themselves in and I found myself in quite a bit throughout my life. To touch on this topic, I would like to introduce to you my guest today, Christian Ray Flores, who is an entrepreneur, evangelist, media producer, and a performance coach. ---   Christian, welcome to the program.   Thank you for having me.   Thank you so much for joining. So, as a performance coach, you work with a lot of people in the situation that I just kind of described there where someone's saying, “Okay, I'm taking a look at my life and I'm deciding that I'm ready for something more, I want something more, I'm capable of something more.”   Yes, a lot. Me, actually, most of the people I work with are in that space.    Yeah, I can imagine that. What's a good way to kind of wrap your head around it, starts with a feeling, I'm assuming, for most people but –   It totally does, yeah.    Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an excellent question, by the way. Thank you for setting me up for success here. You know what I think? I think what happens is that the world changes around us and we change and those are the main reasons why we find ourselves in these places where we go, “You know what worked for me two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, it's just not working for me anymore. It's just not satisfying me and something that I would be grateful for five years ago, it's just not enough, and what do I do with that now? What kind of moves do I need to make? What kind of skills do I need to acquire? What risks do I need to take?” And that is sort of in the back of our mind. It's a little voice telling you, “Is this all there is?” and, yes, and I think the – I'll tell you a story of – I've had so many of those, so many. I can count at the very least five big ones where I've made, as a result of that thought, thinking about it, talking to some people, making a switch that is dramatically into another lane professionally, for example, so I've had five different careers, and I think I can name maybe five more that are more minor but also significant. But I'll tell you a story of one of the earliest ones. One of the earliest ones earliest ones was I think it describes the situation when you have acquired your first level of success, you professionally have mastery, maybe you're a senior executive, VP,

Find More Episodes on PCA Overdrive: https://www.pcaoverdrive.org/contractor-evolution PCA Overdrive is free for members. Not a member? Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play and enjoy a 7 day free trial! Become a member: https://www.pcapainted.org/membership-resources/ To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCA185 How did Plus Construction owner and Breakthrough Academy Member Charlie Bethell go from endless callbacks, cash crunches and frustration to selling and building 500 decks a year? Systemizing and optimizing. And a lot of it. Today, Charlie's on the show to talk about his digital marketing strategies, which bring in 60% of the businesses annual leads, and the massive changes he made to his sales-to-production handoff. In other words, we're diving into the secrets of a high-volume contractor. Episode highlights: Learn the strategies and tactics Charlie Bethell uses to get 60% of his leads from digital marketing initiatives. Find out which implementation items Charlie used to vastly improve his sales-to-production handoff, resulting in higher customer satisfaction, better team morale and more profitable jobs. Hear how Charlie hit his BHAG five years early and what he learned in the process. 00:00 - Intro 01:52 - About Charlie's "Want to Have" Business 04:08 - Charlie's Killer Digital Marketing Funnel 22:04- 3 Digital Marketing Mistakes to Avoid 23:58 - Why Sales to Production Handoff is so Hard 29:17 - 3 Antidotes to Sales to Production Issues 46:19 - How Charlie hit his BHAG 2 Years Early Subscribe to Breakthrough Academy to never miss a video!

Send us a textOn this episode of the Raising Wild Hearts podcast, I'm sitting down with Jessica Setnick to explore the complex relationship between food and comfort, particularly in the context of parenting and childhood development. We discuss how food can serve as a source of comfort from infancy, the importance of secure attachment in developing healthy eating habits, and the need for discernment in recognizing emotional versus physical hunger. Our conversation highlights the significance of understanding our own food relationships to better guide the next generation.Keywordseating disorders, food comfort, parenting, emotional hunger, self-esteem, nutrition, attachment theory, orthorexia, healthy eating, child development, food anxiety, perfectionism, parenting, emotional eating, food safety, mental health, nutrition, self-reflection, food relationships, childhood developmentChapters00:00 The Comfort of Food: An Introduction02:55 Understanding Attachment and Self-Esteem06:03 The Role of Discernment in Nourishing Children08:45 Identifying Emotional Hunger vs. Physical Hunger12:01 Navigating Feelings and Food in Parenting14:55 Teaching Healthy Relationships with Food17:58 Orthorexia: The Dangers of Food Obsession27:40 Food Anxiety and Its Roots31:24 Perfectionism and Control in Parenting35:58 The Antidotes to Perfectionism39:03 Food as a Mood Altering Substance43:25 Teaching Kids About Food and Emotions46:10 Personal Growth and Healing Through FoodSupport the showIf you feel inspired please consider sharing this episode with a friend, writing a 5⭐️ review or becoming a Raising Wild Hearts Member here!

This episode of Living Myth begins with excerpts from a new psychological survey that a majority of American adults are worried that the upcoming presidential election could be the end of democracy in the United States. More than 7 in 10 people fear the results could lead to widespread violence. While it is clear that the political stakes are high, the levels of uncertainty and fear are even higher.   Across the board, people feel less able to predict and control things, much less integrate the flood of emotions that come from all of the upheaval. Caught between the extremities of nature and the extremes of contemporary politics, people can become inundated by fear, flooded with worries, and overwhelmed by the radical presence of uncertainty. In the radical times in which we live, human intolerance for uncertainty has increasingly become an intolerance for other humans.   Michael Meade offers an ancient story that suggests that simply turning away from the storms of life or trying to deny their effect upon our psyches does not protect us from the corrosive conditions of our human community. When the world becomes stuck and deeply divided, the solace we desperately need and the sense of unity we have so clearly lost must be sought in the unseen realm of great imagination and in the healing haunts of nature.   Traditionally, the medicines needed to heal this world have been found in the Otherworld in the form of imagination, visions and dreams and in the shape of nature with its many ways of offering healing and refuge for the human spirit.   When the realm of human culture becomes unwelcoming and toxic, whatever it might be that stirs a sense of eros and deep connectedness can quickly become the antidote to the storms of uncertainty and the currents of fear and anxiety. As many ancient stories try to remind us, the indelible spirit of life keeps trying to enter the world and can only enter it through those people who are alive at a given time.   Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can hear Michael Meade live by joining his new free online event “Arts and Practices: Antidotes to Overwhelm, Sources of Resiliency” on Thursday, November 21. Register and learn more at mosaicvoices.org/events.   You can further support this podcast by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 700 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.   Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth.   If you enjoy this podcast, we appreciate you leaving a review wherever you listen and sharing it with your friends. On behalf of Michael Meade and the whole Mosaic staff, we wish you well and thank you for your support of our work.