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April: Welcome to the Weinberg in the World Podcast where we bring stories of interdisciplinary thinking in today's complex world. My name is April and I'm your student host of this special episode of the podcast. I'm a second year student studying physics and integrated science, and I'm looking forward to learning more about our guest's career. Today, I'm excited to be speaking with Rachel Pike who graduated from Northwestern in 2006 and is now COO at Modern Treasury. Thank you, Rachel, for taking the time to speak with me today. Rachel: Nice to be here. Nice to meet you April. April: You too. To start us off today, I was wondering if you could tell us more about your time at Northwestern as an undergrad. What did you study? And how did you get to your current career path? Rachel: Oh, man, two different parts. The easy part is to say what I did at Northwestern, so I majored in chemistry, physical chemistry specifically. I had a minor in African studies through the center or program for African Studies. And I did my honors chemistry work with Franz Geiger, Professor Franz Geiger in the chemistry department. So that's sort of the what. My major extracurricular was Fusion Dance Company. That's where I spent a lot of my time. How I went from there to here is such a circuitous, crazy path. It is not direct. I left Northwestern and did a Gates scholarship, I did a PhD in chemistry at Cambridge. Loved it, but I was not meant to be a professor. You could ask John Pyle or Franz Geiger, both of whom advised me. It's just it takes a very certain wonderful mindset, but it's not me, to be a lifelong academic. So I left academics and got an amazing role in venture capital and got to learn all about startups from the investing side. Did that for just over four years. And in my last couple years, started getting really close to one of our companies and operating with them and ended up launching products for them and got the bug. Realized that that was a better calling, a better match for me, which we can talk more about what I mean by that. And moved into operating, so then I worked for a health tech healthcare software company and then I moved here into FinTech. So it sort of couldn't be more random, but also each step made sense only as one step. It's just as a sum, they lead you very far from where you were. Not normal in any sense, but in the end I just don't think anything is normal. All paths turn out to be good as you make these accumulation of small decisions. April: Yeah, okay. What are the most challenging and rewarding aspects of your current job then? Rachel: There's a lot. The hardest thing in a startup, there's so many things that are hard about startups, growing startups, but prioritization and focus is one of the hardest things. And you have to actually prioritize not doing things you want to do, which is very antithetical to what it's like to be a driven, hungry person and be in a company of 200 driven, hungry people. You want to do everything that you see that seems like a big opportunity and a challenge that we need to fix, but you can't. There just literally is not enough time in the day and there's opportunity cost to lack of focus. So I think the hardest thing is, the phrase I always use with my teams is you have to let that fire burn. You just have to pick things that you know are broken that you're not going to fix, that it's not the highest priority thing to fix or things you want to work on that you know we just can't go work on that thing right now, we have to work on this other thing. So it's very counterintuitive and I would say that's the hardest thing to learn when you enter startups, how to get through that kind of mindset. April: Yeah, prioritization is pretty hard when there's so many options. Rachel: Yeah. Yeah, when there's so many options and when you're hungry and you feel like a small startup is always up against big Goliaths, so there's a billion things you can do to go after companies that are bigger. So I would say that's the hardest in terms of not the content of what we do is the wrong word, but what Modern Treasury builds and how we bring it and sell it in the market and how we run the company. Letting fires burn and ruthless prioritization is the most unnatural part of working for a startup, I would say. On the interpersonal part, so not what we do, but how we do it, like in every stage of life and everywhere I've been, the hardest part of anything is getting really good at giving and receiving feedback. And that is a lifelong, you have to dedicate your life to it and using that to make decisions with people. April: Could you talk a little bit more about what your company does and what your role is? Rachel: Yeah, sure. So I'm chief operating officer of Modern Treasury. Modern Treasury is a payment operations software platform. So we help companies of all sizes, from other startups to huge big public companies, manage their money movement. And it sort of sounds like a back office thing, but really, we actually mostly get bought by product and engineering teams. And those product and engineering teams that are our customers want to do payment stuff. They want to build a digital wallet or embed payments in their application. Or we also serve non-tech companies, so you're buying a house and you need to pay the real estate agent or you're buying a house and you have to go through the title and escrow process on that home purchase. A lot of money moves around in those businesses. In fact, it's core to all of those products to move and manage and track money. So we build the software for that. Complex payment systems get built on top of us and complex payment products. We have an engineering database product called Ledgers, which is how you, with high performance and perfect fidelity, track balances, which is a really hard computer science problem, although it seems that it should be easy. It's a very hard computer science problem. And then you can imagine that as we grow and have more and more data and understanding, we're building more and more AI into our platform, so teams can run in a safe way with AI helping them. So anyway, yeah, it's a complicated thing that we do, but we help companies move and manage their money movement. April: Okay, cool. So how well did college prepare you for this career, do you think? Or what was the most important skill that you learned from college? Rachel: There's so many things that you learn in college as you sort of separate from home life and become your own person. I think there's soft skills and hard skills. I obviously don't use the traditional academic knowledge that I got in my undergrad and graduate experiences in chemistry, not a chemist anymore. But I don't think there's anything that can replace scientific training in how to think and pursue questions and how to separate how to go through a research process and understand and also understand the limits of your knowledge. That is a very profound experience the more advanced you get in science. I didn't even get that advanced. But in understanding the boundaries of what the community of scientists knows and what personally and how to ask questions, build a hypothesis, and go again. And I know that the hypothesis process is something you learn in like second grade or fourth grade or whatever, you go to school, but truly, that process is very hard, like holding yourself to a standard of making a rigorous, very thought out hypothesis and understanding what would prove or disprove that. In a scientific setting in a lab, sometimes it's a little easier to go through that process. Hey, if this experiment works, I'll see X. In a business environment, that's actually very hard. How do you measure? Is that metric actually counting that? What else is getting conflated into these signals and systems? And then almost everything, unless it's something like website clicks or latency or something that's directly measurable, almost all the signal that you get is mediated through people. So not only do you have to go through this process of trying to constantly get to truth, everything that you're trying to pursue is going through people. So I would say academically, that's the longest lasting impression for me. My team gets annoyed because I say things like rate-limiting step all the time, which is a chemistry phrase. So it taught me how to think. I think another very impactful part of my college, two other very impactful parts of my college experience, Fusion was just getting started, I was one of the people that helped get it started. And starting a club that is, very proud to say it's long-standing and I could never audition and get accepted today, is a lot like starting any organization. How do you run things? What is governance like? How do you navigate people? What are the expectations? How do you communicate that? How do you do things excellently? Starting and building a club is very similar to starting and building an organization, it's just we get a lot more complicated with time. So I learned a lot in that process and running rehearsals and putting on a show and what it's like to run an audition process. I have very fond memories of that. And lastly, I would say is I studied abroad for all of junior year. And I don't know if this is true, but someone along the way of me, because chemistry has so many sequential requirements, and it was very hard for me to figure out how to do those requirements and still be away for a year, someone along the way told me I was the only chemistry major who was ever away for a year then. It's probably not true now. I also don't know if that's true, speaking of rigorous hypotheses, so that's an aside. But the experience of being abroad, I was in Tanzania, was obviously profoundly eye-opening. And being in multiple cultural contexts, not just for travel, but for a long period of time with real life, day-to-day life, it just changed my whole perspective on the world. And then same thing, I lived abroad again for my PhD, so I was abroad on and off again for about like five out of six years. It really changed my perspective on the world, my perspective on people, and I only got that opportunity because of college. April: Yeah, college is a great time to study abroad and do those things. Rachel: Yeah. Yeah. April: [inaudible 00:09:31] possibilities, yeah. Also, it's so interesting to hear that you found Fusion or helped found it because it's such a big thing on campus now. Rachel: It's such a huge thing now. April: [inaudible 00:09:39]. Rachel: Yeah, no. We really grew it, but it was small when we started. We were just in parades and doing small shows, and then we finally started putting shows on in Tech my last two years there. It was very fun, really meaningful experience. April: That's great. Yeah. Rachel: Yeah. April: Then you kind of touched a little bit on this, but could you elaborate more on the biggest adjustment you had to make going from undergrad to industry? Rachel: I actually got this piece of advice when I went from my PhD to venture. I went and had coffee. One of the coolest things about Silicon Valley and the technology community is that it's very open and if you ask people for advice, they're really open to giving it and having conversations like this, but times 10. So one of the coffees I had was with someone who had also had a PhD and moved into venture. And he said something to me that has always stuck with me, which is the biggest adjustment you're going to have to make is the complete lack of rigor in business decisions, which is hysterical, and I don't think fully true, which I'll explain, but it is true, the standards of rigor in academic science are completely different than the standards of rigor in making a business decision. So I always think about that moment of you got to get used to the fact that they make decisions with less information. I think that's only partially true. I think one of the reasons is true is what we talked about, that data is often mediated through people, and so it doesn't feel as rigorous. But actually, the decisions you're making about and with people are just as important. It's just different, and that is a very big adjustment. There is not always right. It's not a test or a thesis or whatever, and that's a big change. There's just making a decision and then owning the consequences of the decision and upside of the decision. But that, it's a huge change. So that's what I would say one of the biggest adjustments that I had to make. On a more practical basis, specifically like Silicon Valley and startups, they're just opportunities, they are roles, sorry, environments with very little management structure. That's the whole point, you're doing something from scratch. There's not someone telling you what to do. That's not true if you go into industry and go to a very big technology company or a bunch of industries I've never been in that are managed in totally different ways. That obviously is like two hops from undergrad. I had a PhD and then I had time in investing. But yeah, working without a lot of oversight, also a big change. April: [inaudible 00:11:58]. The training you get from undergrad to grad school and then going to industry, it's a bit of an adjustment, but yeah. Rachel: Yeah. April: It's an interesting problem, how you would apply your scientific training to the business world. Rachel: Yeah. What do we know and what do we not know, is a question I often try and ask myself. In fact, I was thinking about it late last night about something we're trying to figure out in our business. And it's hard because you sometimes feel like you know things that you don't. It's a trick of the brain. April: Then sort of related, but what are some current trends that you're seeing in the industry or in the area that you work or some of the modern day challenges? Rachel: I would be remiss if I didn't say the most enormous trend in technology right now is AI. So there's sort of no other answer you can give them that, this unbelievable explosion in technical capability and then it's application into all kinds of industries. So I don't know, Modern Treasury has been such an interesting ride. One of the things that is interesting about startups is you really cannot predict the world around you. So this tiny company, we're not tiny anymore, but this company that was tiny, I was the first employee, it was just the four of us, just us chickens in a co-working space, trying to build this payment operations company. And in the interim, COVID happened and we could never work together again until many years later. And then Silicon Valley Bank crashed and there were multiple bank failures all over the country. If that had happened two years earlier, it would've taken our business down. As it happened, it accelerated our business like, oh my god, better lucky than good. Now we're going through an AI transformation. Crypto has gone up and down three times in those six and a half years. It's just wild what happens around you and how that affects the work you do day to day. So I don't know. One thing I would say is things are unpredictable. I have never learned that more than in this particular job I'm in now. April: For sure. Would you say that kind of unpredictability is characteristic of working at a startup versus a larger company or even in academia, for example? Rachel: It's a good question. I'm not sure I'm the right person to answer because I've never worked in a huge company. I've always worked in... Investing is also in the business of startups, so I don't think I'm the right person to answer. I think I have a hypothesis that it affects you less. If you're in a big established company where things don't go, the amplitude of the curve isn't quite the same level, I don't think you necessarily feel it as much. AI is happening to everyone no matter where you work, right? I assume you're all using it every day in your undergraduate environment. So that's universal. I think how it affects your job or what you're using it for is probably different. If you're a computer science undergrad, it's really affecting what your experience is like compared to five years ago. If you're a physical chemistry undergrad like I was, doing some frequency generations two floors below in the basement of Tech, I'm sure it's helping on the research side, but nothing changes the lasers but hands yet, until the AI robots come. So I just think it depends how much the volatility affects your certain area of pursuit. April: That makes sense, yeah. So with all this volatility, how do you approach work-life balance? Rachel: I don't think there is any, in all honesty. My mornings are totally insane between the 27 things I'm trying to do, and I'm always later than I want to be to my first meeting, and that just is what it is. I actually have a four-page document called Working with Rachel and for people to get to know what it's like to work with me when I hire and bring on new teams or new managers, et cetera. And one of the things that's in here is my mornings are insane and I'm always late and I'm totally frazzled and whatever, but I can almost always talk in the afternoons and nights almost any day. You just have to know your rhythm. Exercise is a huge part of my management of work-life balance. So probably started before Fusion, but definitely long, hard dance practices helped me get through undergrad. And at every phase of life I've sort of had a different exercise, deep exercise pursuit and crutch, I would say, to get through the craziness of life. So that's really important for me personally to focus and, I don't know, just get to a different level than the overly intellectual all the time, brainwave level into the body and into the breath. So that's huge. And then more tactically, I'm terrible about always having my phone around, but I do always have my laptop on do not disturb. So when I'm working in my environment, Slack and email are going constantly nonstop, especially Slack. So if I actually want to write or actually want to read or actually want to listen, the pings don't help. But to do my job, I need to be ever present with my teams. So just practically, it's always on do not disturb, and then I pick when I check. So I don't know, that goes from small to big of how I manage and cope with work-life balance, but it's the truth. April: There's some pretty good tips though. Sympathize. Rachel: Do people in Northwestern use Slack? Is that part of an undergrad life or no? April: Some of the clubs use it. I have a couple- Rachel: More texting? April: Yeah, they use GroupMe. Yeah. And then I know a lot of the research labs use Slack. Rachel: Oh, that makes sense. April: Yeah. Rachel: Yeah. But less of the all in every day, all encompassing, et cetera. April: Yeah. Rachel: Yeah. April: Do you think those work-life balance habits were developed during your graduate school years or in college or as you go into industry? Rachel: I don't know about do not disturb because technology has, not technology, but the physical hardware of communication has advanced so much. I'm so old compared to you guys. And when I was an undergrad, Facebook came out when I was a sophomore. So just think about how different of a world it was then. We had really kludgy Hermes email, Hermes email server at Northwestern. So the never ending notification encroach on our life, it existed then. And of course, we texted, but we texted T9. So it's just a different world. So we had it and obviously we all needed to learn how to focus, but not to the extent that it is a challenge for people in college and PhD programs now, I don't think. That's my guess as an outsider. But some things, like exercise, 100%. I think those things get developed earlier on. But once you're in university, it's your decision to continue to pursue them and how much you pursue them and how much they're a part of the rhythm of your life. So that, I would say for sure, I established for myself at Northwestern. April: Was there anything at Northwestern that you wish you had participated in that you didn't? Or the other way around, that you did but you wish you had opted out? Rachel: I wish I'd done dance marathon earlier. I only did it senior year and it was like what an incredible experience. Once you had the experience, then you realize, oh, I should have been doing this the whole time because it's like, I don't know, it's just something you could only do in an all encompassing environment like that. My major regret at Northwestern is actually academic, which is a silly small choice, but I studied French in elementary and high school and I really wanted to learn Spanish as a California person. So I took it in college, but that ate up a lot of quarters of getting my language credit because I was going from scratch. So my regret, and I'm not very good at languages anyway, so it's not like it stuck around, my regret is actually not that I took it, it came from good intentions, but that I used up six possibilities of taking classes in non-chemistry, non-African studies. Just you're spoiled for opportunity in undergrad of going to learn about everything. And it's one of the amazing parts about Northwestern and the way they do the core curriculum, that everyone has to learn a little bit of everything somehow. And that's my biggest regret. I regret not taking a philosophy class or a whatever. I took one world religion class, but should I have taken two. That breadth is the thing that I crave and miss. And by the time you get to PhD, and certainly in the British education system, you specialize earlier, so that opportunity's gone. You can obviously go to lectures and stuff, which I did, but it's not the same as being in a class. So yeah, my biggest I wish I had is I wish I hadn't taken Spanish in that environment and done it some other way and had six quarters to go just do dealer's choice of interesting things in departments I never would've gotten to know. April: Did you have the Weinberg language requirement? Rachel: Yes. April: But you got out of it with French? Rachel: I could have taken I think only one quarter or no, I can't remember how my testing was, sorry. But I could have taken either one quarter or zero quarters of French. But I instead put myself from scratch with Spanish because I've never taken it before. So I don't know, I just think that was good intentions, wrong decision. April: It happens. Rachel: Anyway, yeah, that's my biggest, I don't know, regret is too strong a word, but if I had a magic wand and could do it all over again, I would've taken more general humanities or other types of classes. April: Speaking of classes, what were some of your favorite classes at Northwestern? If you were to- Rachel: Oh my God, do I even remember? April: Yeah. Rachel: The physical chemistry. I don't remember if it's physical chemistry honors class or physical chemistry practicum. It's the last thing you take senior year with real world lab problems. And that class, there were six of us and we were in lab, I don't know, four or five hours twice a week. We were there all the time. It was so hard and so intellectually stimulating. I remember that class extremely well. I remember my world religions class. I don't remember who taught it, but it was the only time I ever studied anything like that. That was interesting. And I remember some of the seminar debates I had with other people. I don't know, those are the two that come to mind. April: Very cool. Now that we're getting towards the end of our time, the last question is if you were to look back on your undergrad, which I suppose we already did a little bit, but what advice would you give, I suppose, other people in your position? Rachel: I have one very specific piece of advice that I give to a lot of undergrads or people early in career, which I can share. And then the other is one that I give all the time now, but I don't know if it's relevant, but I'll share that one too. I'll start with the second one first because it might be less relevant. The one I give now, that is also can be very counterintuitive to people who are working on giving and getting feedback and what it takes to truly manage and motivate teens, is that clarity is more compassionate than kindness. And I don't mean don't be kind because the goal is, of course, to deliver clarity with extreme compassion and care. But it's nerve wracking to tell someone, "You're not meeting expectations for this role," or, "We did not hit our goal as a company and we have to make this really hard decision," or whatever the hard thing is that you have to say. It's harder to say it clearer than to say, "Well, I know you this and what about that, and I'm so sorry and this is hard, blah, blah, blah. But I think maybe the role," and then the person walks away and is like, "I don't know what I heard," and they don't know that they're not meeting expectations. So I would say that took me, it's a lifelong pursuit, I don't think I'm perfect at it yet. No one anywhere in my academic career, undergrad or grad, really taught me that. So that's one. I'm not sure if that's relevant for a sophomore undergrad, but maybe. April: I think so. Rachel: Could be. The advice that I often give to undergrads or very early in career folks, who are either looking for startups or end up whatever. I actually have a call with one this afternoon who's a woman who's a family friend who's thinking about a job change and she's like just wants my advice. I think that one of the unrealistic things that somehow culturally gets imbued in very driven and successful students, like all of the people who get accepted to Northwestern, is that you can have it all in your first job. And that is fucking bullshit. And I think it leads to a huge amount of heartache and angst because it's not true. Now, what you can have is one or two awesome things. So when you're, like you graduated at 21 or 22 or whatever age you are, you have usually no strings attached. You can make incredible broad decisions that you can't make later on and that affords you the opportunity to go do amazing things. But what you can't do is do it all at once in that one first job. So the specific example that I often give is you could pick where you work or what industry you work in or that you make a lot of money, but it is basically impossible to pick all of those things. So if you're a econ undergrad at Northwestern, of which there are many, it's probably pretty hard to work in a mission-driven company, make a 300,000 a year banker undergrad job, and move abroad for that first job as an American, blah, blah. That doesn't exist. If you want to make a lot of money, there are incredible programs with established firms where they really reward you for hard work really early on and that's the trade that that job encompasses. And if that's valuable to you, awesome. But you're probably going to be in one of their major locations and they're unlikely to ship you to Sydney for being 22. If you have the opportunity to go do something extremely mission driven that speaks to you, that's amazing, go do that. But you're probably not necessarily going to pick where or you're not going to be highly compensated. So I often talk to people who are in their early 20s who are like, "But I really want to be in New York, but I really want to work, I want to be in the arts and I want to do this, but I need a lot of money to support this thing." You're like, "You can't have it all." And that's not bad, it's just true. And it's much more compassionate for me to tell you, April, if you want to pursue physics, that's awesome. I was a PhD student. You're not going to make any money in your 20s. April: That's true. Rachel: But you might work at the cutting edge of science in something incredible that super motivates you. That's awesome. So if I could wave a magic wand for undergrads, I would get rid of that angst of that decision making. And the decision can have angst because it can be hard to choose a path, but the you can have it all, I think is a great lie. That's not fair to people in their late teens and early 20s in undergrad. I thought of another one, so I'm going to give you a third, even though you didn't solicit another one. Which is you at the beginning of this you asked about my career, which is kind of all over the place from a traditional perspective. I was in academics and then I went to investing, and then I went to startups. And then in startups, I was in healthcare and I went into payments in FinTech. It's all over the place. Every time I made the jump, everyone around me told me I shouldn't because I was leaving their path. And to be an amazing professor, you stay in academics. So people leaving academics is like, they don't want to give you the advice to do that. Or when you're in investing, the way you stay in it, and particularly in private investing, it's long feedback cycles. You got to stay and practice the craft. So I said, "Hey, I'm an operator at heart. I'm going to go do this thing." Some people encouraged me, but many people said, "Why would you ever do that? Why would you ever leave the job you have? Stay in practice." And then same when I left healthcare and picked a totally new thing. So that's more mid-career advice, which is like it's okay to leave that perfect tracked path and trust your gut. April: Yeah, that's actually really valuable advice, so thank you. Rachel: I hope so. April: Yeah. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to talk with me and to give all this advice to whoever's listening. Rachel: Yeah. It's awesome. Nice to meet you, April. April: Mm-hmm. And thank you for listening to this episode of the Weinberg in the World Podcast. We hope you have a great day and go Cats.  

⁠Get $200 Off Coaching!⁠ Budget besties, can you believe it? 2024 is wrapping up, and we're here to help you close the year with clarity and confidence. In this episode, we break down the ultimate year-end financial checklist to help you reflect on your wins, learn from your not-so-great moments, and prep for a financially successful 2025. We're diving into everything from reviewing your budgets and debt to tidying up your financial docs and celebrating your wins. Don't worry—it's not all work. We're also here to remind you to acknowledge how far you've come and dream big for the year ahead. Look back at your spending habits for 2024. What worked? What didn't? If you've been using our system, use the financial snapshot to analyze trends like your biggest expenses or where you've consistently overspent. Didn't have a budget this year? That's okay! Start fresh in 2025. Did you pay off debt this year? If so, celebrate that win! If you didn't make as much progress as you'd hoped, use this time to reflect and plan for 2025. What were your 2024 savings goals? Did you hit them? Take note of what worked and what didn't so you can plan for bigger wins in 2025. Get tax-related paperwork, receipts, and records in order now. Trust us, April You will thank December You! Visit annualcreditreport.com for a free annual report. Make sure everything is accurate and catch any surprises. Are you paying for coverage you don't need? Are you underinsured? Shop around for better deals or adjust your coverage to match your current needs. Check your accounts to see if you can make additional contributions before the year ends. It's the season of giving! Review your budget and decide if you can make any last-minute contributions to causes that matter to you. 4 Ways To Connect With Us: 1️⃣ FREE CALL: Book your FREE 20-Minute Financial Coaching Call now! Get personalized advice and start your financial journey ➡︎ https://www.budgetbesties.com/freecall  2️⃣ FACEBOOK: Become part of our Supportive Facebook Group. Connect, share, and learn with others mastering their budget skills ➡︎ https://www.budgetbesties.com/facebook  3️⃣ BUDGET: Grab our Signature Budget Template! It's your key to organizing and optimizing your finances effectively ➡︎ https://budgetbesties.com/budget  4️⃣ COACHING: Ready to dive deep into your finances? Sign up for 1-on-1 or Group Financial Coaching. It's the accountability and guidance you need to make real progress ➡︎ https://budgetbesties.com/coaching  "I love Shana & Vanessa and this podcast is amazing!" < If that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show! It helps us to reach more people – just like you – to help them change their financial future. Don't forget to follow the show so you don't miss any episodes! And, if you're feeling really generous, we'd be SO honored if you would share this podcast with someone.  Click here to view our privacy policy. This description may contain affiliate links, meaning we may get a commission at no cost to you if you click & purchase! 

In this exciting episode, the tables are turned as April Garcia, host of PivotMe, shares her insights on leveling up in life and business. Are you ready to elevate your peer group, manage your time more effectively, and achieve your goals? Tune in to learn from April's wealth of experience and actionable advice.   Key Points Intentional Peer Groups: Why you need to move away from your default peer group and intentionally design one to reach the next level. Designing Your Peer Group: How to select and integrate people into your peer group who align with your future goals and can push you to excel. Effective To-Do Lists: Tips on evaluating and optimizing your to-do list to accomplish more in less time. Time Blocking: The importance of time blocking for tasks and protecting that time to ensure productivity. Accountability: How to choose an accountability buddy who will strictly hold you accountable to your goals. Self-Commitment: Learn how to show up for yourself and maintain your commitments without breaking your word. Navigating Unsupportive Environments: How to stay aware of and manage lack of support from those undermining your confidence.   Quotes "You have to intentionally design a peer group that gets you to the next level." - April  "Somebody you already know is connected to someone who could solve all your problems." - April  "You can do all the things that you want to do in life but you cannot do them all at the same time." - April  "We have to hold our word to ourselves as one of the highest words that we can hold." - April    Thank you for tuning into this episode of Born Unbreakable. April Garcia's insights on elevating your peer group, optimizing your time, and staying accountable are invaluable for anyone looking to level up their life and business. Don't forget to apply these strategies and watch as you reach new heights. Stay tuned for more empowering episodes with Dez Maya.   ___________________________________________________ Would you like to know more about being coached by April? Are you read to take your business or life to the next level? With her extensive experience and deep understanding, April will provide invaluable insights, tailored advice, and targeted coaching to help you optimize your performance. Whether you need guidance on performance, leadership, team dynamics, sales strategies, or personal development, April will be by your side helping you to achieve extraordinary results.  Book a FREE 20 minute call with April at www.theaprilgarcia.com 

It's the middle of the year. Maybe some of you are feeling like we're already halfway through the year and you haven't accomplished as much as you wanted to yet. Maybe you're feeling a little discouraged with your progress, or maybe your brain has convinced you that the things you want are never going to happen and this is a good time to just give up.  Today on the podcast I want to give you some encouragement to keep going and some tools to help you keep working on the things you want to accomplish and create in your life.  In this episode we'll talk about how discouragement and shame can stop us from continuing to work towards the things we want and what to do about them. And I'll share two powerful experiences I had recently that I think will help motivate and inspire you to keep working on it no matter where you are in your progress. *** If you are interested in coming to HOPE DAY, an all-day coaching retreat where I will be coaching and teaching, please follow this link to get signed up: www.eventbrite.com/e/930171486957/?discount=April You can use the code APRIL to get 15% off.

How to Avoid Poisoning Your Child's ConfidenceWhat happens to a child who begins to internalize from a young age, “I'm a bad kid, I'm slow so I'm not smart, I'm always in trouble, my parents are never happy with me, there's something wrong with me, or I'm not as smart as my siblings?” That will sabotage yourchild's success and relationships for a lifetime. Kirk shows you how to cultivate your child's confidence and guiding internal dialogue.We Are Extending Our Spring Sale into April: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2024 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our Spring Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/products/Questions? Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com and he'll be happy to help out personally.Get an exclusive 15% off your first OneSkin purchase using the code KIRK when you checkout at https://oneskin.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How to Avoid Poisoning Your Child's Confidence What happens to a child who begins to internalize from a young age, “I'm a bad kid, I'm slow so I'm not smart, I'm always in trouble, my parents are never happy with me, there's something wrong with me, or I'm not as smart as my siblings?” That will sabotage yourchild's success and relationships for a lifetime. Kirk shows you how to cultivate your child's confidence and guiding internal dialogue. We Are Extending Our Spring Sale into April: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2024 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our Spring Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/products/ Questions? Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com and he'll be happy to help out personally. Get an exclusive 15% off your first OneSkin purchase using the code KIRK when you checkout at https://oneskin.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Do Your Neuro-Divergent Kids Do These Things?Do you have a child who is disorganized, forgetful and seems to have selective hearing? Does your child struggle with writing and get frustrated trying to get thoughts from head to paper? What about a bossy child who likes to control people and situations (or maybe that's your spouse?!)? How about a child who melts down over little things? Kirk shares practical ideas to help your kids with these challenges and more.We Are Extending Our Spring Sale into April: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2024 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our Spring Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/products/Questions? Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com and he'll be happy to help out personally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Quickest Way to Change Your Child's BehaviorDo you have a child who doesn't want to listen, blames others, doesn't clean up his or her room, is unmotivated, talks back like an attorney, refuses to sleep or eat or do homework, touches the hot stove rather than doing what you ask? Of course you do! Kirk shows you the most powerful way to change your child's behavior, and do it quickly. Learn more at CelebrateCalm.com. We Are Extending Our Spring Sale into April: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2024 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our Spring Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/products/Questions? Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com and he'll be happy to help out personally.Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3 & K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase exclusively at https://drinkAG1.com/calm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Having a digital skillset isn't enough. You must be SEEN as a Digital Leader & KNOWN for your expertise. Listen to this podcast episode if you want opportunities to come to you.  You will learn: How headhunters and conference organizers look for candidates and speakers Why your LinkedIn profile needs to speak to two audiences simultaneously (and what they are) Two changes you can make today to make opportunities come to you Join Be SEEN as a Digital Leader on 16 April You will learn: What executive recruiters look for on LinkedIn today Simple hacks to update your personal brand as a Digital Leader Strategies specifically aimed to highlight digital innovation skills Apply here.  ----- Join the Tech for Non-Techies membership and lead in the Digital Age.  Tech for Non-Techies clients  Reach senior leadership positions in Big Tech firms Lead digital transformation in established businesses Create tech businesses as non-technical founders Pivot into careers in venture capital We love hearing from our readers and listeners. So if you have questions about the content or working with us, just get in touch on info@techfornontechies.co   Say hi to Sophia on Twitter and follow her on LinkedIn & Instagram. Following us on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok will make you smarter. 

“I'm a firm believer that your network is directly tied to your net worth. And so you really have to surround yourself with the right people,” shares April Pyatt, owner and lead event coordinator at Socialite Events. Today, April joins host Calvin to talk about building a growth business on the side. Later in the episode D-Rich is joined by Lathay Pegues, Rodney Robinson, and Terrell Cooper of JohnTom's Barbeque Sauce to talk about how they turned a BBQ sauce into a business.    It can be scary when starting out creating a business, especially if you do not already have a foundation in that industry. When Lathay, Rodney and Terrell began their barbeque sauce business, they did not have any experience in the food industry. However, they didn't let that stop them from trying. Similarly, April explains that she was nervous about creating video reels for marketing and had to learn to just do things in spite of the fear. When you are not afraid to fail and you leverage the skills of your teammates, you can accomplish anything. It all comes down to not being afraid to try and putting yourself out there to the right people.   Even if you do not have a firm foundation in a specific industry, that doesn't mean you won't be successful. Part of creating a business is learning and growing along the way through making mistakes and not being afraid to fail. By reaching out to the right people, finding mentors within your community, and believing in yourself and your team, you can build a successful growth business that utilizes the skills you already have.   Quotes • “We set ourselves apart a lot of times by just building the relationship with our clients and giving them the customer service that they may or may not be getting in other places.” (4:24-4:33 | April) • “You really leverage what you already know, and just become a beast at it.” (7:19-7:25 | April)  • “I'm a firm believer that your network is directly tied to your net worth. And so you really have to surround yourself with the right people.” (11:02-11:13 | April) • “Take baby steps, but definitely take those steps. Some things in life, I have learned through experience that you just have to be afraid.” (20:52-20:59 | April) • “It didn't start to be something to make money. It was more of a legacy, and it was a dream to carry out.” (41:15-41:20 | Rodney) • “Making those failures very early and not being afraid to fail and fail fast was vital to our success.” (57:00-57:08 | Terrell) • “Persistence beats resistance. Tell your story. Understand your worth and your value. Make somebody listen to you and make them give you a chance.” (1:00:19-1:00:29 | Rodney)   Links   Connect with April Pyatt of Socialite Events: Website - https://www.yoursocialiteevent.com/about Complimentary Consult - https://calendly.com/socialiteevents/complimentary-consult?month=2022-06 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/socialiteeventsnc/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SocialiteEventsNC/   Connect with Lathay Pegues, Rodney Robinson, and Terrell Cooper of JohnTom's Barbecue Sauce: Website - https://www.johntomsbbq.com/ BBQ Sauce Review - https://meatwave.com/reviews/johntoms-original-barbecue-sauce Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/johntomsbbq/about/?ref=page_internal About with Southern Soul Live Stream - Podshow   Witty, thought-provoking, and uplifting, Southern Soul Livestream - Podshow is the program that you'll invite friends over to watch every week, where you'll learn about fascinating speakers and get to share in exciting experiences. Tune in each Thursday at 8 pm eastern at SoulThursdays.com to connect with guests from across the generations and to laugh with our "cast of characters," hosts who are as charming as they are talented!   Support Community Exploratory Journalism  Buy us  A Coffee!  Shop Southern Soul Official Merchandise  Buy  Official Merchandise Purchase Official Show Companion  SSL Companion & Journal   Register for Live Episode - “It's a Whole Vibe!”  Click here to register.     Connect with us Website: www.SoulLiveStream.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthernSoulLiveStream/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulthursdays/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soulthursdays TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@soulthursdays

Hello! Thank you for listening to Into the Pray. This guest testimony episode today is very precious and very powerful: a former homosexual atheist radically saved by the sovereign hand of God, despite an unfaithful local church. We'll let Aimee do the talking but suffice to say there is nothing as encouraging as listening to a new believer describe the transforming work of our resurrected King Jesus. When new believers enter the kingdom with a polemic for/against the chaos in the Church, we should all (especially church leaders) sit up, listen and think long and hard. GOOD FRIDAY premieres (15th April): You can watch this full length conversation via YouTube here at 7:30pm and a flagship testimony film first here at 7:15pm. Please consider supporting our work here and/or here. If you have any questions, thoughts or testimonies, please contact us here. How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here. Order our new gospel tract for your parish here. Let's smash this fake gospel up.Our flagship content:

All of quality B-sides been dropping as of late. Enjoy! www.kmusiceveryday.com www.instagram.com/kmusiceveryday www.twitter.com/kmusiceveryday BSKP 117 Tracklist: 1. GWSN - After the Bloom (Alone) [00:00] 2. (G)I-DLE - Maybe [04:03] 3. NCT DREAM - 7 Days [07:01] 4. GOT7 - Poison [10:15] 5. KARD - Go Baby [13:08] 6. Han Yo Han - Routine [16:19] 7. Limit - Funny feat. Grizzly [19:51] 8. IMFACT - 아무 말도 하지 말아요 Dont Say [23:19] 9. NOIR - Think About Chu [26:43] 10. ONEWE - Q feat. Hwasa [30:02] 11. April - YOU.zip [33:30] 12. Apink - Be Myself [36:44] 13. H&D - emtpy-handed [40:07] 14. NCT Dream - Love Again [43:19] 15. Oh My Girls - Neon [46:47] 16. ITZY - TING TING TING w/ Oliver Heldens [49:57] 17. GWSN - Tweaks ~ Heavy cloud but no rain [53:30] 18. Oh My Girl - Dolphin [57:14] 19. The Boyz - Break Your Rules [1:00:09]

Assembly with Mr Mills – 27 April You can watch the video version of this episode by going to www.walhampton.org/assembly

My birthday is here and I wanted to share a birthday message with you. A COVID-19 Birthday In this episode of Hilary Topper on Air, Hilary talks about being on "pause" in New York for nearly eight weeks and counting. She discusses and reflects on the month of April and talks about why T.S. Eliot's poem, The Wasteland, suggested, "April is the cruelest month." April You will hear about how Hilary's mother, sister, and Hilary shared birthdays and her experiences throughout her life. You will also learn about what happened to them both and why Hilary's birthday is bittersweet. Reflections and Hopes for the Future Hilary Topper also shares insights and hopes for the future. Listen to this one, we know you will be moved.

Assembly with Mr Mills – 24 April You can watch the video version of this episode by going to www.walhampton.org/assembly

Audio EXP - the 4th April - You are a hero Comicbook collections worth millions, lots of generous free RPG offers and surprise superheroes. About Audio EXP Audio EXP is Geek Native's highlights podcast. Each week there's a recap of some of the big or exciting RPG news, film, anime, fantasy, sci-fi, superhero, tech or geek culture news. The average length of the podcast, based on the first thirty, is just over 10 minutes long. You will find a transcript of this week's podcast and links to the stories mentioned here: https://www.geeknative.com/72160/audio-exp-38-you-are-a-hero/

Today on this very special episode of BeastNet Host Mike James lands his "White Whale"(Moby Dick reference) After almost three years of trying to sync schedules, work interruptions, and figuring out how to make things work, Today Mike talks with Trailmaster Steve Hammond. Starting April 1, Participate in the Hammond challenge. You Run the number of miles for the day of the month. 1 mile on the first, 2 miles on the second, and so on until 30 miles on the 30th of April(You can substitute other mileage, biking, rowing, etc if daily marathons aren't your thing). Join us with him and log your progress on Instagram tagging @trailmasterhammond #HammondChallenge @BeastNetPod Mike and Steve reminisce about how they met at the 2016 Montana Beast when Steve was the Sweeper and they laugh about that experience with Mike and Stevie. They discuss what got Steve into OCR, his life as an international whitewater guide, Skiing all around the world, and eventually how his now wife Stacey suggested he tried @Spartan. Mike and Hammond compare stories about Seattle, Las Vegas, and of course many stories about Montana. From there they talk about the current race season, Broken Arrow Skyrace World Cup Race (Like a trail race, but extreme. 5-8k elevation gains, crazy views, and a fun crossover for Spartan Pro athletes), Spartan and OCR delays for COVID19, and the Hammond Challenge. WANT FREE STUFF? Do us a favor and rate us and leave a review on your favorite Podcast Platform. Screenshot it and email the review to us at BeastNetPodcast@gmail.com and we will send you a sticker. www.BeastNetPod.com Get Your Groove On by Ron Gelinas Chillout Lounge | https://soundcloud.com/atmospheric-music-portal Torn by Ron Gelinas Chillout Lounge Freedom by Twisterium | https://www.twisterium.com Bittersweet by | e s c p | https://escp-music.bandcamp.com Wandering by Numall Fix | https://soundcloud.com/numall-fix Runaways by MegaEnx | https://soundcloud.com/megaenx Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US #BeastNetPod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beastnetpod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beastnetpod/support

This week, Dalton (@dalton_trigg) and Matt Galatzan (@MattGalatzan) were joined by Mavs.com's Bobby Karalla (@BobbyKaralla) to re-hash the Mavs' 110-107 loss to the Clippers. In that game, Dallas unfortunately lost Dwight Powell for the rest of the season with a ruptured achilles. The guys discuss not only how losing Powell could change the Mavs' offense, but also how it could affect the team's NBA trade deadline plans as well. Want to know which potential playoff matchups the guys think would favor the Mavs in April? You get all that and much more in Episode 53. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/step-back-mavs/support

Join the Joyful Courage Tribe in our community Facebook group - Live and Love with Joyful Courage.  Raising our children while growing ourselves... ::: Creating a Connected Holiday WEBINAR Monday, December 3rd, 5pm PST and 8pm PST How are you FEELING about the upcoming holiday season? Excited to host family? Hopeful to bring to life magic for your kids? Anxious about everything going to according to plan?? Bracing yourself for your children's behavior??? I am feeling all of that. Join me for an hour of exploring how to create a holiday season that FEELS GOOD this year. You will get clear on what it is your want, and leave with tools that will support you in facilitating a holiday that values the connection and love we all crave during this season. Go to http://www.joyfulcourage.com/connectholiday to register! ::: Where we have been: Podcast highlights Tina Bryson first interview of the year – SO GOOD! Got feisty and real about parenting politics in February Two of my fave “peaceful parenting” experts – Rebeca Eanes and Genevieve Simperingham were on in March and April You all LOVED Mary Tamborsky – daughter of Jane Nelsen coming on talking about being Raised with PD last May My interview with Danielle Slaughter last July about privilege and how white women can do better was super powerful DAN SIEGEL!!! This fall has been RICH with interviews about teens, energetic connections, self care, supporting our partners…. Not to mention all of the messages I got from you about how much you love the solo shows – thank you for that. Joyful Courage offers I loved leading the JC10 twice this year and having that filter into the Joyful Courage Academy. So fun to work closer with you and support your growth in a really personal, connected way. Next year is HUGE Be on the look out for more JC10s and JCAs Stay tuned in for the launch of my first BOOK (woah) in the spring The patreon community will be on FIYA AND – an audio summit that I will talk more about later is happening in January. I am honored to serve you. ::: Today’s content: Parenting through the self doubt and worry Parenting teens – why have a separate group? What is missing from the resources? The continuum of behavior Attachment and getting a life Intuition and trusting your gut It gets ugly Feeling isolated/shame/ Lisa Fuller episode 87 Why meditation/yoga/journaling matters What it really means to be aware The tight rope Kimberly Muench eps 158 Pendulum swing Trust and surrender over and over again It’s a crap shoot – the myth of “good parenting” It’s their journey ::: Audio summit for parents of teens One week of real conversations PD trainers who have already been through it The launch starts January 1st Summit will run January 21st – 25th ::::: Be a Subscriber Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Joyful Courage Podcast on Apple Podcast to get the latest shows STRAIGHT to your device!!  AND PLEASE rate and review the Joyful Courage Parenting Podcast to help me spread the show to an ever-larger audience!! CLICK HERE to watch a video that shows up how to subscribe with your iPhone!  

01:07 – April’s Superpower: Synthesizing Seemingly Unrelated Concepts to Create Something New 02:30 – Tension Between Code and Compassion 05:47 – Living According to Your Values 11:33 – Team Values and Feedback Loops 17:23 – Changing Social Makeups of Teams 22:22 – Conscious Business 32:51 – Self-Compassion and Forgiveness 40:34 – Alleviating Pain and Suffering 43:51 – Being Kind vs Being Nice 47:16 – Having Hard Conversations 51:15 – “Clever” Code Reflections: Sam: Capturing how zero-sum thinking works and holding compassion for yourself and other people. John: Putting values evaluations into regular retrospectives. April: You don’t just apply compassion in isolation. True compassion is unconditional. Janelle: Helping to relieve quiet suffering. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: April Wensel.

This week on the Friday News Update: - Apple could start using its own processors instead of Intel's in its Macs by 2020 - Apple could start producing microLED screens for Apple Watches this year and might use the screens in AR glasses and future iMacs - The new Mac Pro is coming in 2019 - OnePlus confirm some specs of the OnePlus 6 and that you will be able to hide its notch - New wireless OnePlus Bullets earphones could be announced alongside the OnePlus 6 - Samsung is apparently working on Galaxy A6 and A6+ mid-range phones with Infinity Displays - Galaxy S6 will no longer receive software or security updates - Samsung announce the Notebook Odyssey Z gaming laptop with great specs - The Pixel 3 is definitely coming, possibly alongside a mid-range Pixel - LG G7 ThinQ rumoured renders published online - The Moto G6 could be announced on the 19th of April - You can now buy games from Razer via the Razer Game Store Get every episode of the Friday News Update with the Friday News Update Alexa Flash Briefing

The Dow 20,000 party is going to have to wait - at least for another day The Dow was down a little bit today - 23 to 19,918 The broader market was a bit weaker than the Dow The markets continue to shrug off very weak economic news that came out throughout the day We got bombarded with all sorts of negative pieces of news that ordinarily, maybe before the election of Donald Trump, would have weighed down the market Certainly it would have weighed on the currency markets The dollar would have been very weak and gold would have had a big rally Instead, gold was down a little bit, and the dollar rose a little bit despite very weak economic data that I will get to I want to start off by focusing on the stock market and the optimism which is really quite ridiculous and unfounded Part of the reason for the rally, though, is a lack of selling We have a lot of people mindlessly buying the markets, but you don't have a lot of selling One of the reasons is that people would rather sell in January than in December People are enthusiastic about Trump's presidency because he will cut taxes If you have a gain in the stock market, why realize that gain now in the waning trading days of 2016 If you sell now, not only do you have to get your check into the IRS by April of next year But also, you've got to pay the current tax rate If you wait until the firs week of January, you don't have to pay taxes until a year from this coming April You have all that time to use the money and the tax rates may be a lot lower So why sell now? A lot of people are being given that advice; don't sell now - wait until January Who knows - this market could ring in the new year with a major sell-off

The Marathon des Sables is one of the ultimate multi-stage endurance races in the world. It consists of running six marathons in six days across the Sahara desert. It’s been around for over 30 years and according to the Discover Channel has the reputation of being “one of the hardest footraces on earth”. It’s brutal, it's challenging and according to pretty much everyone I speak to, a crazy race to do! During this podcast I will share my journey of the challenges I faced on getting to the start line and running the toughest footrace on earth! Shownotes Introduction from Saira The MDS and when the seed got planted  The start of the journey in September 2014 Preparation for the race - How I changed my fitness routine and diet Weight lifting and how it changed my body Starting to feel tired, lethargic, aching legs, no energy…..over training My low point - not having the energy to get out of bed My body failing me & being so disappointed in myself Dealing with candida and having to drastically change my diet Having to postpone the MDS until April 2016 Working with a Personal Trainer - Jack Clover from JC Performance Why its so important you listen to your body The importance of being specific with your training and not just training for training sake Heading to Australia for endurance training Dealing with issues during training such as a broken little toe! What I learned from training in the heat What a typical week of training looked like Kit & equipment (You can also watch videos on the Tough Girl - YouTube Channel for more info) Top tips for preparing your feet and why it’s so important Dealing with the nerves before the race, and why its important to be relaxed! Getting the hair right for the race! Travelling to the start of the race & what it was like out in the desert The importance of receiving e-mails and the extra motivation they provided  - THANK YOU to everyone who wrote to me!! Cut off times and why you need to stay a head of the camels! Why it was important for me to run my own race. We also discuss the high points, the low points and handling day 4, the long day (80K - 52 miles) How I used gratitude in the race and why I found the finish of the race a bit of a let down Why I wouldn’t race the MDS again and what I’ve got coming up next My top tips for the MDS & dealing with pressure from the race Some final fun questions and what made me emotional after the race! If you listen to this episode before the 29th April - You can vote for me to be your role model with Panache! Become a Patron! Support the Tough Girl Podcast - CLICK HERE! Special thank you to Saira Khan for being an awesome host of the Tough Girl Podcast!

1. CHARLIE BABIE You Take Me Higher 2. CORINA Give Me Back My Heart 3. TKA Tears May Fall 4. JASMIN Once Is Not Enough 5. LATIN RASCALS Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood 6. WENDY I Want You Back 7. C-BANK I Wont Stop Loving You 8. LORENZO D’LAN If You Were Mine 9. APRIL You’re The One For Me

Great new releases from some of the big guns of trance make it a storming September! Plus on the harder side, Costa Pantazis/Ashley Waters and April manage to keep their full-throttle sound melodic & uplifting - love it. But Indecent Noise’s “Grim Reaper” has to be my favourite track for bloody months - incredible. As the Aussies like to say… banging like a dunny door in a thunderstorm. 01. Peter Sawland - Angel Eyes02. Paul Webster - Circus 03. Paul Oakenfold - Full Moon Party 04. JFK - Good God (2010 mix)05. John Askew - Torture Chamber 06. Indecent Noise - Grim Reaper 07. Robbie Muir - Buzz Tribute08. Shiverize - Repulse (Xinetd D remix)09. Ashley Waters & Costa Pantazis - Pathfinder (Instrumental mix)10. April - You’re in my World Now11. Cosmic Gate - Human Beings (Daniel Kandi’s Humane Society remix) Download MP3