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In this episode, we're talking to Evan Meyers, an educator and the founder of the charter school, School in the Square. Evan shares his journey from a career in finance to a calling in education. His unique approaches to learning, collaboration, and student empowerment are as applicable in the business world as in schools. From building community and navigating power dynamics to fostering engagement and curiosity, Evan's practices are critical for any customer-obsessed organization, and the future of education.Key TakeawaysSome educational institutions still function like old-school big businesses, with a top-down 1950's leadership style that is outdated. It may do better to yield to a collaborative approach in which students & stakeholders have equity. Voices and choices matter, in school and in business.When deciding whether to make a change (career, life, etc.) there is no predicting the future, and no perfect solution. Sometimes a leap of faith is the only answer.Education matters to business because schools are fostering future leaders and a creative workforce. We need institutions which value students as creative individuals who can think and speak critically, are resilient, and have space to learn and grow.Evan's Customer Obsessed PickEnrique's Journey by Sonia NazarioAbout Evan MeyersEvan Meyers is an experienced and passionate educator and school leader committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity within the public education sphere. He is the founder and Executive Director of School in the Square Public Charter School located in Washington Heights, NYC. Under his leadership, School in the Square has expanded from a charter school initially approved to serve middle school grades 6 through 8 to include an elementary school that educates children in an immersive Spanish-English dual-language environment. Evan has worked tirelessly to ensure that School in the Square provides its families and the larger community with the economic, health and social welfare supports they need to provide children with the stability and security they need to thrive. As Evan's vision of the role of public schools in underserved communities has become reality through School in the Square, the school has become an anchor institution in Washington Heights. Evan is a New York State-certified School Building Leader. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Evan received his Master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College. He began his teaching career as a founding History Teacher at the High School for Language and Diplomacy after a 20-year career in the financial sector.

As Evan and his wife begin the trek home, Evan reacts to the Nets game 1 win over the Celtics.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Evan and Malcolm continue their journey through Mark 13, in this episode of Walking with Jesus, they reason over what does persecution looks like for believers in these last days. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/walking-with-jesus/message

As Evan and Malcolm continue their journey through Mark 3, in this episode of Walking with Jesus, the disciples reason over the significance of the willingness to surrender to God's will in the lives of believers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/walking-with-jesus/message

Part one of our first ever original story, Never Fear!All four parts are dropping today, Halloween 2020.Never Fear Part OneThe audiobook I was listening to ended about five minutes into the bus ride home from school. The book told the story of a fictional haunting in Chicago. It was an okay read, but this was the third time I had listened to it because I couldn’t find anything else that looked interesting. I pulled out my earbuds with a sigh.My friend, Alice, looked over and said, “It’s about time, Chad.” When I gave her a confused look, she continued, “Maybe now you’ll stop ignoring me for a while.”“Whatever, I haven’t been doing that,” I said.She raised an eyebrow and said, “I’m the one who recommended that book in the first place. In fact, if it weren’t for me, you’d still be reading your little kid stories.”I shrugged in response, and laid back in my chair to look up at the pieces of gum on the bus’s ceiling. “I need something new,” I said. “I’ve read all the stuff I have a million times already.”When the bus finally got to my house, I trudged up the stairs to my room and kicked off my sneakers. I laid down in my bed and called my mom to check in; her and my dad were both away for work, and wouldn’t be home for several days. When I was done talking to her, I thought maybe I would walk to the library, but the frost that framed my window reminded me just how cold it was outside. This fact made the two-mile trek to the library much less appealing, and I didn’t feel like I should risk taking my dad’s car again. So I set about scrolling through forums, hoping to find something short to get me by until I could get a new book. I spent several hours commenting on the forums, watching random YouTube videos, and generally wasting time the way only a teenager can, but I couldn’t find anything that looked interesting. I was about to give up, when my phone chimed with a notification. Someone had sent me a direct message in response to a post I’d left on a horror discussion forum asking for book recommendations. The sender was an anonymous user. The message read, “if you’re looking for something that will give you a genuine thrill, check this out. You should be especially interested because it is a true story about your hometown.”I sat upright in my bed as I read this. How did this person know where I lived? I was bewildered for a moment until I remembered that I had mentioned my hometown in a previous post on the site. Now realizing that this was a stupid thing to do, I went back and deleted this post and a few others. I was too intrigued, however, to ignore the message I’d received. The user had sent me a link to a file-sharing site. I switched over to my laptop to download the folder the link had led me to, and found it contained several sequenced audio files. I pressed play on the first one, and a voice began playing over the speaker on my desk.“Hello, and welcome back to the Never Fear Podcast. I’m paranormal detective Evan Sampson, and I’m back with a new story for you freaks,” said the voice through my speakers.I hit pause and immediately did a search for Evan Sampson. It took more clicks than I expected, but eventually I was able to find an Evan Sampson that seemed to match who I was looking for. Sampson had a website that looked amateur enough that I figured he had put it together himself. There was a symbol in the top left of the page that was an Egyptian-styled eye inside a pentagram. The site advertised his podcast, and had forums for discussing the various episodes. He also had a couple of social media pages each with a link to the podcast which only had about fifteen published episodes. It looked like it hadn’t been updated in about two years. I played one of the episodes, and sure enough, it was the same voice. The sound was different though; the episodes online were more polished, with intro music and sound effects. I spent the next half-hour skipping back and forth between the audio files the anonymous sender had given me, and the podcast episodes online; After a while of doing this, I came to the conclusion that the files I had received were not part of the published podcast. They contained raw audio for something the creator had never put online. I wondered briefly if maybe the person who had sent them was the creator himself spamming out his audio as some kind of advance-screening.I transferred the audio files to my phone, connected my headphones, and settled into my bed with a two-day-old bucket of theater popcorn I had in my room. Salt is a preservative, I thought to myself, as I grabbed a fistful of the stale popcorn. At that moment, Alice sent me a “What’s up?” text, apparently hoping to get a conversation going. I was too excited to dive into the audio the anonymous user had sent me however, so I didn’t reply.I tapped the play button on the first file, and listened as Sampson’s scratchy, low voice began its narration. I was immediately intrigued; the story was indeed about my hometown. Evan began with the obligatory summarized history of my town. He rattled off a few interesting facts and mentioned a few semi-notable people who had connections to the town. The intro didn’t last long however, as my hometown is pretty small.Once this was out of the way, Evan revealed the reason he had decided to come check out the town.“This place off the beaten path has been the site of some strange disappearances and murders over the last few decades.” He paused, cleared his throat, and continued, “These occurrences have not been frequent or similar enough to warrant any kind of large-scale investigation, mostly because there was too much about them that was unexplainable and, maybe, paranormal. Having researched these events as much as I can from afar, I decided to visit the town and find out for myself what really happened.”Evan started with a disappearance that had occurred in 1976. In November of that year, an older couple had been taking a nighttime stroll through a large, forested park just outside of town. My curiosity piqued further, as it was a place I knew well. The forest was always rumored to be haunted, so naturally my friends and I had been there a few times to kill boredom. We would bring girls and tell scary stories around a fire and convince ourselves that we had seen a ghost here or there for the adrenaline of it all.Evan’s overly breathy voice told of how a couple, Diane and Victor Stevenson, had inexplicably left their home that night in 1976. They left without bothering to tell their twin grandchildren, who lived with them, where they were going.“The next day, a jogger on a morning run through the forest came across Victor’s frozen body. The woman described the scene in an article that ran in the local paper the next day: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it… or rather, I’ve never felt anything like it. The body itself was unremarkable. He lay on his back with his eyes closed, one arm laid over his chest, and the other down at his side. If it weren’t for the frost that coated his skin and sparkled at the ends of his eyelashes, I’d have thought he was asleep. What’s strange though is that my chance encounter with the man’s corpse isn’t what will haunt me for the rest of my life. There was this heaviness in the air, a cold that had nothing to do with the temperature. I don’t even know how to describe the emotion I felt. I was terrified. I was horrified, but I couldn’t tell you why. That’s what will haunt me.’”Sampson explained a police search had located Diane’s body about a hundred yards away, off the path in a small clearing. Hypothermia was determined to be the cause of death for both of them, which I found almost boring enough to make me turn off the podcast. But, remembering I had nothing else to listen to, and still not tired enough to go to sleep, I kept listening.The next two stories Evan covered involved individuals rather than couples, and had occurred in the winters of 1979 and 1981 respectively. In both cases, the victims were middle aged, one female, one male. They were both single parents, who’d left behind teenage children. One of them had died under similar circumstances to the first couple, leaving in the middle of the night then dying of apparent exposure to the elements. The second, who had previously shown signs of depression died of a self-inflicted knife wound to the stomach. The two cases were completely unrelated to each other and the deaths in the first story, except for one small detail. They had been found in the exact same small clearing as the woman years earlier.            I was underwhelmed by this coincidence, and really hoped Evan was going somewhere with all of this. About half-way through the suicide case, my eyes were starting to get heavy. I was vaguely aware of Evan discussing quotes from the woman’s teenage daughter that he had found in another local article. I closed my eyes and let my head fall back into my pillow. My breathing slowed. Evan’s low voice had become nothing more than background noise as sleep started to pull me away.            The audio was morphing into one of those weird dreams that sometimes crop up in the abstract moments before you’re completely asleep. My surroundings were too ambiguous to know anything by sight alone, but, as often happens in dreams, I didn’t need to see with my eyes to know that I was in the woods from the story I had been listening to. There was something behind me. I couldn’t see whatever it was because every time I turned around to look it was somehow still behind me. Disconcerted by this fact, I began to look around in a frantic attempt to identify what was stalking me. I began yelling at the thing. I don’t remember what I was yelling, but it was something my dream self thought would project bravery, and hopefully scare the thing away.            My awareness of the presence began to fade, which led me to believe I had been successful in getting it to leave. I was about to congratulate myself on this feat when I felt a sharp pain in my gut. I looked down to identify the source of the pain to find a gaping hole had been ripped through my stomach. I reached down to stem the free flow of blood which had begun pouring out of me when I felt the pain spike again. This time it was constricting in my chest, writhing as if a particularly agitated snake was trying to uncoil itself inside. With one hand on my midsection to keep my insides from spilling out, and the other clutching at my chest to keep whatever was in there from getting out, I fell to the ground in a pained heap.            Just when I thought I could no longer contain the thing struggling to free itself from my chest, the pain stopped. Surprised, I rolled onto my back and ran my hands over my body. It was intact again. I was still breathing heavily, but let my arms fall to the dirt at my sides. I was allowed to take a few strained breaths before tree roots sprang from the ground to wrap themselves around my wrists, ankles, and neck. Once I was sufficiently constrained, an arm erupted out of my chest in a spray of blood and rib fragments. At least, at first I thought it was an arm. It appeared to change first into a snake, then a jagged tree branch. After that I couldn’t see any more because whatever it was covered my face, obscuring my vision.            I struggled against my confusingly abstract enemy for a few more moments to no avail. I stopped only when I heard a voice. It was a ragged whisper that seemed to come from all directions at once.            “Are you listening, Chad?”            I woke with a loud gasp. After looking wildly around the room to make sure I was alone, I put a hand to my chest to make sure there wasn’t a gaping hole. I removed the headphones which were still playing Evan’s droning voice. After a few more deep breaths, I rubbed my face in my hands, and let out a strained laugh. What the hell was that? I thought.            The small release of adrenaline my nightmare had caused meant that I was now back to being fully awake. Even though Evan’s story hadn’t exactly been gripping so far, I decided to listen to a little more. The first thing I heard after replacing the headphones was something about multiple stab wounds. Finding this promising, I rewound the file to a little after where I had left off.            The next story Evan told was much more interesting and… honestly bizarre.            He said, “This is where we get our first apparent murder of the story. It happened after a six-year quiet period, in 1987. On a Friday afternoon toward the end of November that year, Henry and Sally Rosenberg left their house to pick up their fourteen-year-old daughter, Annette, up from her school. Their bags were packed, and they had their wheels pointed toward warmer weather. They had told family and friends the planned trip to Florida was an attempt to re-connect with their daughter, with whom they’d been in conflict over your run-of-the-mill teenage angst.            They never made it to the school. Annette waited outside with her friends until they’d all been picked up. She went to the school’s front office to try calling them at the home phone, but her calls went unanswered. The office lady would later say she thought Annette was exhibiting an excessive amount of anxiety about her parents not showing up, pacing the office, and musing aloud to herself what could have happened to them. Eventually, Annette called her aunt Rosalie to come pick her up.             Rosalie took Annette to spend the night with her kids, and reported her sister and brother-in-law missing the next day. The detective who took the missing persons report, Leah Phillips, though she hadn’t been a cop at the time, remembered the earlier disappearances. She decided the first place she would look was the forest clearing where the people had disappeared years earlier. Later, in explaining her reasoning for having gone to look for the couple in the forest, she said, ‘When people go missing in this town, they usually turn up in that forest. I think the place is cursed.’            Her hunch turned out to be a good one. She would later find Henry and Sally Rosenberg stabbed to death in the now-infamous forest clearing. What at first looked like a murder-suicide, turned into a murder investigation, when no knife was found on the scene.This scene was sinister, but it was an incident that occurred in the forest before the discovery of the bodies that I found most interesting.” Evan continued.            “I managed to find a copy of the police report in one of hundreds of dusty boxes down at the county records office. I missed the small detail at first, but on a second reading, it stuck out. In Officer Phillips’ statement, she mentions that they encountered two people along the trail to the clearing. One of these two people Phillips described in detail. He was a slight, middle-aged man with a shaved head, heavily tattooed arms, and a short beard. This man was David Thomas Rey, and he would go on to be tried and convicted of the grisly murders of Henry and Sally. The second individual is never described, and as far as I can tell, is never mentioned again in any official reports, nor are they ever mentioned in court transcripts.”As if he was reading my mind, Evan said, “I know that doesn’t sound like much, but here’s the weird thing about it. Officer Phillips and her partner, Officer Paul Johnson, who was with her when they discovered the bodies, don’t agree on the number of people they encountered on the forest path that day. In Officer Johnson’s statement, he says that their murder suspect, David Thomas Rey, was alone when they came upon him.This discrepancy in the accounts bothered me. It seemed like such a strange thing to disagree on. Were there really two people, or just one? Why didn’t the two cops get their story straight in their official statements? I needed to do some more digging on this.”At this point, Evan stopped speaking for a few minutes, apparently forgetting to pause the recording while he shuffled some notes around. I used this time to clean up the popcorn I had spilled on the floor in my dream-induced spaz-out.After a few minutes, Evan spoke again. “It took hours of pouring over microfilm records, but finally I found a news story where Officer Phillips describes the incident in better detail. In the article she says, ‘My partner, officer Johnson, and I made our way down the main path through the trees toward the clearing. It’s about a mile and a half walk, so it takes maybe fifteen minutes to get there. Along the way, we came across two people walking the opposite direction.’ She goes on to describe David Parker Rey just as she does in her statement, adding, ‘He had a backpack with a sleeping bag attached which lead me to believe maybe he was transient, and had been sleeping in the forest.’   Evan let out a breath of excitement, then said, “So, to recap, we have a double murder where the perpetrator is seen walking away from the scene of the crime with a second individual who is never seen again. Not only are they never seen again, but one of the witnesses at the scene, doesn’t remember seeing them at all! The only description we get of this second person is the fact that they have long black hair and pale skin.”From the excitement in Evan’s voice I could tell he was finally getting to whatever his point was, and it was about time. The story was getting more interesting, but I was starting to worry he never submitted this particular story to his official podcast because there was nothing to it.He said, “This takes me back full circle to the reason I started to look into this story in the first place. A few months ago, before I knew anything about the murder of Henry and Sally, at a used book store, I came across a stack of old issues of a magazine called ‘The Fates,’ which is an old publication that covered all things paranormal until it went out of print in the late nineties. The bookstore owner said I could take the whole stack for free, so naturally I took them home and read through them all.”I rolled my eyes at this and said aloud, “Get to the point.”He continued, “In an issue that was published about a year after they were killed, sandwiched between stories about a UFO sighting in southern California, and a possession in New Jersey, was a three-page spread about the deaths of Henry and Sally Rosenberg. Annette herself asked to be interviewed by the author. The title of the article read, ‘Teenager Claims Deal with Demon Caused Murder of Parents.’”I raised my eyebrows at this, surprised that Evan had managed to pique my interest once again.Evan said, “Remember the couple’s daughter from the start of the story, Annette, whom they never got the chance to pick up from school? The daughter with whom the couple was trying to reconnect as their relationship had been rocky? Yeah.The author of the article writes of how Annette reached out to him to tell her story, hoping that, given the nature of the magazine, they would take her seriously. The article is in the form of an interview, allowing Annette to tell her story in first person. First, she details the reasons for which she had grown to resent her mother and father. She talks about the unrealistic expectations they had for her academic performance, and how they felt the hours she spent at school were inadequate. She talks about how she would come home from school only to spend hours completing the additional reading and writing assignments her mother prepared for her, and how weekends, when other kids were out playing, were reserved for piano and violin lessons with her father. Whenever she would ask why she wasn’t allowed to go out and make friends like a ‘normal kid’, her mother would tell her, ‘You’re destined for great things; those ‘normal kids’ will never accomplish anything great, but you will.’Annette tells the interviewer there were two main reasons why she went along with her parents’ rigorous study schedules. First, they told her all along that they wanted her to be searching for her passions and that they would be supportive of whatever she chose to do in life; and second, her parents had instilled in her a sense of ambition. She truly believed them when they said she was destined for great things, and she wanted herself to accomplish those things just as badly as her parents did.What Annette’s mom and dad didn’t know is that Annette’s aspirations had started to shift. Just as they had told her to, she was trying to find what she was passionate about. In one of her classes, she felt she had found that passion. In this class, they had spent the past semester studying Shakespeare. She says, ‘The course met one of my requirements, otherwise my parents wouldn’t have allowed me to take it. I was surprised to be so moved by the plays we read. They were so emotional, especially the tragedies. It was such a dramatic contrast to the logical world my mom and dad lived in.’One day, Annette got up the courage to sit her parents down and tell them she had decided her dream was to become a stage actress, and how she had dropped one of her math classes to enroll in musical theater. They were not happy to hear this, furious actually. They spent the next hours berating her for believing in a dream so unrealistic. She was confined to her bedroom for the rest of the night, and her mother called the school the next day to let them know the registration change had been a mistake.It was that night, as Annette sat steeped in anger, curled up in the corner of her room, that she says she first met ‘it.’ She says, ‘I was hurt. I felt so betrayed. All this talk about how they wanted me to choose my path, and that they would support whatever I chose to do, and this is how they react to me spilling my heart out? I had always felt like my parents were strict because they wanted what was best for me, but that night I could only feel like a prisoner. I felt like I was just a prized hog to be paraded around to satisfy their own pride. It was like I wasn’t my own person; you know? I just sat there in my room, watching my tears turn to dark spots on the knees of my jeans.’Annette goes on to talk about how in her emotional state she started to hear what she described as a whisper inside her mind. She says, ‘It didn’t use words. It’s like it was somehow speaking to me through my emotions.’ When the interviewer asks her if she was frightened by this voice, she says, ‘I probably should have been, but it actually felt… good. It was like this presence had taken all of my anger and outrage and multiplied them exponentially in a way that was so satisfying. It was like all of a sudden I was so much bigger and more powerful than I had ever been. It made me feel like my anger was justified, good even, and that I needed to go wherever that anger took me. It promised me that it could help me get whatever I wanted, If I let it.’Annette barely slept that night. She says she isn’t sure how long she spent staring at the brown shag carpet in her room, but eventually she fell asleep. She talks about how the next morning, the intense emotions she had been feeling the previous night had been replaced with a different feeling. She says, ‘I felt so calm. I got ready for school like it was any other day. My dad ignored me at breakfast, and my mom hardly spoke on the drive to school. Normally, I would have been annoyed at their attempts to guilt me, but my feeling of calm only grew. For the next few weeks everything went back to normal. I would go to school each day, come home to do the work my mother assigned in the evenings, then practice music on the weekends. All the while my sense of calm endured. I didn’t bring up my desire to enroll in theater to my parents again, which almost seemed to bother them. There were a few times where my mom or dad would raise the issue at random, like they felt a need to continually explain themselves. It was in these moments when my calm would slip, to reveal the anger that still boiled beneath. I was careful, however, not to let my parents see this. What they did notice was how closed off I had become. Whenever they tried to speak to me I would only give short, curt responses, not shutting them down, but not really allowing conversations to go anywhere, either. Their concern grew until, one day, they announced we would be going on a trip to Florida. They told me it was a reward for how hard I had been working, but I knew it was just an attempt to connect with me again. I wasn’t interested, but they weren’t about to take no for an answer.’”            At this point, Evan could be heard shuffling papers again. After a moment, he stopped, and the audio was silent for a while. When he finally spoke again he whispered, “Let’s see, where was I?” He said. “Annette, yeah.” He cleared his throat and adopted his podcaster voice again. “This trip, of course, never happened. As we know, for unknown reasons, Henry and Sally Rosenberg detoured on their way to pick Annette up from school, and ended up in the forest. Annette talks about how, in the days leading up to the trip, an expectant tension grew inside her. The calm she had started to feel the night after her argument with her parents dissipated over this time. Now, whenever she looked them in the eyes, the now-familiar anger threatened to boil over.            It was the day of the murders that Annette started to experience doubt. She says, ‘Up until that point, the other consciousness helped me keep my emotions pretty clear and focused. I had moved back and forth between anger and the sense of calm. But the day they were killed, it was almost as if the thing had to transfer its attention to their murder, leaving me to fend for myself emotionally and mentally. The anger was dampened, but still there. The calm, however, was replaced with anxiety; you know? I started asking myself questions like, “What have I done? But I could feel that it was already too late.”’            After Annette describes the events of the murder, and the aftermath, the author asks her if she knew that the entity with which she had been conversing was actually going to kill them. When she answers that she did, he follows up this question by asking her how she felt now about what she had done. She says, ‘I know that it was wrong, and I regret it all. I take all the blame for what I did; I don’t put any fault on the thing that was inside my mind. But, you have to understand… or rather, you can’t understand how that other presence made it feel. It’s like the thing took all of my feelings of betrayal and anger and amplified them until that’s all I could feel. It all just felt so good. It felt… right.’”            Evan let out a breath and said, “Pretty cold, right?” I nodded in agreement.Evan continued, “Skipping forward a little, Annette describes how the presence came back to her after the murders, but she had learned her lesson. She no longer wanted anything to do with it. She says, ‘I could feel it trying to get back in my mind. I could even hear the strange whispers from time to time, but I never let it back in.’After the interview section of the article, the author went on to speculate on what kind of creature Annette could have come in contact with. He listed off a few of the usual things like vampires, poltergeists, aliens even. I found the author’s ideas intriguing, but there wasn’t enough evidence to support any of his theories as to what had been influencing Annette. If you’ve listened to the show before, you’ll know that I don’t believe paranormal creatures fit into neat categories. Every haunting is unique. And now, even after all I’ve learned from my research since I’ve been here in town, I only have more questions than ever.The evidence against Rey, into which I won’t go into detail here, is pretty compelling. So if Annette’s otherworldly friend really caused the killings, how did it do it? How did it make sure Rey was in the forest that day? How was it able to influence Rey into killing them? And also, who was the second individual in the forest that Officer Phillips saw? Was this mystery person some kind of physical manifestation of the creature that influenced Annette? And, most importantly, why? Whatever this thing was, what did it stand to gain by the killings? And then, taking a step back, the other question I hope to get answered is this: Is this same creature responsible for all of the people who’ve turned up dead in that same forest clearing, or was it all a big coincidence? I’ll be back in the town’s library tomorrow, so hopefully I’ll turn up more answers. For now, I’ll sign off for the night.”As Evan’s voice cut off, I checked the time on my phone. It was after two in the morning. I wanted to play the next audio file, but with school in the morning, I knew I’d be kicking myself if I didn’t get some sleep. I thought briefly that maybe I would skip school the next day, and give myself a long weekend, but this idea was quickly tossed aside. Even though my parents were away, I knew my mom received notifications whenever I missed school.I realized I had received another message from Alice, probably while I was asleep earlier. I knew she was going to be annoyed at me for ignoring her messages. I fired off a quick message telling her I was sorry and that I had something I was excited to show her. I knew she would be just as interested as I was in the audio I had found. I figured that she would be asleep given the hour, so I let out a surprised chuckle when she sent me an eye-roll emoji seconds later. After that, I plugged my phone into its charger, and went to bed.

Tim and Randy are joined by Evan Howard of Forward Thinking Fitness to discuss the success Evan's had by utilizing software and systems within his business. As a gym owner, automation plays a significant factor in the success of your fitness business. Evan has been a super-user of our CLA (Client Lifecycle Automation) and explains what the automation has done to his business. As you’ll hear him discuss, not only has it drastically brought down his business expenses, but has also freed his time to focus on other things.The CLA does the work that would otherwise require a sales team, thereby reducing your overhead costs. At a time when gym owners are trying to bring down their expenses, automation is the surest way to do it. As Evan details in the chat, automation does the job consistently. You do the job once and the system replicates it over and over without intervention.  Automation and systems don’t just stop with new client acquisition though. The long term nurture process is another area where automation shines by providing constant touchpoints at key points in the journey. Additionally, if ever you want to sell your business, buyers will be most interested in the systems you have in place. That means that implementing automation can not only reduce your expenses and free up your time, but it can also increase the value of your business.Talking of automation and software, Evan is building an app that improves the client experience in the gym. His intention with the app is to bring together the many different apps that gym customers have to download into one app that stores all their data and their interactions in a central place.Click play to hear more about the power of automation, how you can get started, and the tool that Evan is creating.Key TakeawaysHow automation brings down your business expenses (03:30)The Client Lifecycle Automation does the work that would require a sales team (06:24)How a system helps you be consistent in your messaging (08:54)The CLA helps you own your traffic and advertise to them for free (14:47)Long term nurture within automation (17:49)How Evan's new app helps improve customer experience (21:52)How systems will help if you ever want to sell your business (31:10)Systems give you more freedom as a business owner (33:25)Additional Resources:Evan Howard: evan@trainftf.comEvan's business: https://www.trainftf.com--------Register for the Fitness Growth Summitwww.fitnessgrowthsummit.com/------www.PFMarketingSolutions.com/Callwinninggym.com/workshopwww.PFMarketingSolutions.com/Automationwww.CLACourse.comwww.ProFitGPS.netMarketing Talk with Fitness Professionals Facebook Grouphttps://PFMarketingSolutions.com/Data--If you are interested in a free audit for your gym, visit http://bit.ly/free_gym_audit--You can find out more about Tim and the strategies covered in this episode by checking out our website.--Would you rather watch the video version instead?Head over to our YouTube channel to watch this episode by going here--If you don't already have my book, get your copy FREE here.--Connect with Tim:Schedule A CallFacebookInstagramLinkedInConnect with Randy:FacebookInstagram--Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, YouTube, or anywhere else you listen to your podcasts.If you haven't already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

Recorded before the global pandemic (before shit got real) As Evan, the 3rd Host promised, every week you are guaranteed to have new content from the podcast network to get you through these trying times (there's a very good chance you might even get two episodes this week). We're also working on getting as much visual content to you as possible on the YouTube channel (please subscribe and like). This week Brian and Evan, The 3rd Host are back at it again with another episode of the highly rated "B&E At the Movies" as they wax poetic about the latest DCEU film: "Birds of Prey." How many drunk Iron Man's will they give this jawn? You might be surprised....

The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on businesses large and small, curtailing travel, sporting events, and gatherings of all manner; even weddings. For many owners and entrepreneurs, it portends financial disaster. But this week’s guest this week, Evan Morgenstein, a veteran talent agent who specializes in representing social media mega-stars, sees a path for companies to not only survive coronavirus but to thrive. As Evan points, all the people who are confined to their homes, working from home, or planned to attend now-canceled conferences and entertainment events, will almost certainly be surfing the internet and watching more television than ever. That makes this the perfect time, Evan contends, for companies to use strategic influencer programs to bolster their brands and their revenues in ways that will continue to serve them long after the current health crisis passes. Join host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart for a timely examination of influencer marketing. Photo: Evan Morgenstein, CelebExpertsPosted: March 16, 2020Monday Morning Run Time: 50:52

As Evan was driving home from work and to the mall to pick up a child's birthday present he got the news that Zack Wheeler was going to Philadelphia.  Evan reacts to this very disappointing piece of information. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Evan drives home from the Nets win over the Pelicans he has a lot to talk about...but its mostly not Nets related.  He touches on why he went to the game, what he did in Brooklyn, and his thoughts on the flatulence controversy.  He also reveals an embarrassing story involving that.  Plus he discusses the Nets win and his overall concerns for the team moving forward.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's that time of the year again!! Time for Evan to reveal his detailed NBA predictions.  He is joined by long time friend and star of ViSN and Mad Dog Radio Patrick Meagher.  As Evan reveals his exact order of finish in both the Eastern and Western Conference as well as his NBA Finals picks, Patrick as he does so well; clowns him.     COMING TUESDAY 10/22: The Brooklyn Nets Round Table Season Preview See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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After ditching Chicago and transplanting to New York in what might have been the most poorly executed move of all time, the fellas take a brief moment in their chaotic week to sit down for a raw, skincare-packed convo with digital beauty editor at Allure, Sable Yong. As Evan talks over everyone while Emilio reels him in, Yong drops her routine, reminisces on the absurd Craigslist housing post that led to her career and unpacks the many changing stigmas surrounding beauty today. From speculating on the future of the online beauty world to plugging her favorite sunscreens, Yong schools the boys on what the fuck is up in skincare culture just in time for the wet, hot summer. Follow Yong on Instagram and Twitter at @sabletoothtigre.

The Case: Jena is 35 who recently moved across the country. Since then, she’s experienced sinus issues, brain fog, dizziness, and fatigue. Her GP sent her to specialists who did countless test but they couldn’t figure out what was going on. The Investigation Jena knew there was something going on even though all of the doctors and tests revealed nothing. When she came to me, we looked at a bunch of possible causes that the specialists may have missed. But, when she told me that she’d recently moved into an apartment where they had recently repaired some water damage, I knew we had our first clue to the real cause of her problems. Mold can cause a great deal of health issues, even if you can’t see it. Evan Brand knows this from personal experience. Now, he’s made it his mission to reveal just how prevalent and harmful mold can be to our health. Evan is a Clinical Nutritionist who has been studying the effects of mold on the brain and body. His interest came about when he discovered that exposure to mold was the root cause for his own personal health mystery. With his research as well as the clinical work he’s doing with his clients, Evan has joined a handful of experts on this topic in America. I was excited to share Jena’s case with him and find out more about mold in our environment and food supply. The List of Potential Symptoms is Extensive When mold is present in an environment, it releases ‘mycotoxins’. If a significant amount of mycotoxins enter the body, it can cause a wide range of symptoms including anxiety to heart palpitations to depression to anger and irritability to insomnia, blood pressure problems, cold hands, cold feet, dizziness and vertigo. He says some people have experienced tremors or twitching which could lead to a misdiagnosis of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Mycotoxins Have an Affinity for the Cerebellum Many different types of mycotoxins attack the cerebellum which is a part of the brain. This area of the brain is responsible for spatial navigation. This is why people with mycotoxins in their body may find themselves dragging their feet, twitching, experiencing vertigo or feeling dizzy like Jena was.   It’s Not Just Black Mold Most people know that black mold in a home is unhealthy but when they don’t see black mold, they think their home is fine. As Evan explains, there are a variety of different molds (some that are hard to spot) that can give off mycotoxins. Myth: Mold Causes Allergies or Sinus Problems Many people who are affected by mycotoxins from mold do not experience any allergy-type symptoms, sinus issues, or breathing problems. There are many ways that mycotoxins present so people should be aware that an absence of typical sinus-related issues does not mean that mold is not the cause of health issues. Mycotoxins Can Also be Ingested Inhalation of mycotoxins (usually from being in a moldy building) is the number one issues but we can also ingest mold and their byproduct; mycotoxins. Mold on foods is often not visible. The most common carriers of mycotoxins are grains (corns, rice, wheat), peanuts, coffee, chocolate, and wine (grapes)). And, Evan believes that as GMO foods become more prevalent, the risk of mold infections increases. How to Test for Environmental Mold in Your Home The gold standard for testing your home or office for mold or the presence of mycotoxins is called the ERMI (Environmental Relative Moldiness Index). This is where a sample of the air is collected. Evan feels that this is not the most accurate test. Instead, he recommends doing a ‘plate test’ which can be acquired from Immunolytics Labs (see below for links). These can be used to test your home, your office or even your car - wherever you are spending a significant amount of time. Testing for Mycotoxins in the Body Determining levels of mycotoxins in your body requires a specific urine test. Evan recommends also doing an organic acid test just to see the full picture of fungal metabolites at play. This test can be repeated once actions have been taken to gage successes in detoxifying the body. Detoxing Mycotoxins can be Challenging When we start to experience symptoms as a result of mycotoxin exposure, it usually means that the body is at a breaking point. We often talk about the bucket being full before we notice anything. To start emptying out the bucket, the environment has to be cleared of mycotoxins, then the diet needs to shift and finally, we have to actively encourage the mycotoxins out of the body. However, we can’t live in a bubble so when we get exposed to mycotoxins in other environments (whether that’s a store we go to or a friends house), our bucket starts filling back up before it’s had a chance to empty.  For this reason, detoxing can take a long time. Mystery Solved Evan believes that most of us experience a high level of exposure to mycotoxins which results in almost everyone having some form of toxicity. If you struggle with health issues that seem to have no other explanation, then a simple test may provide you with the answers you’ve been looking for. For Jena, this was absolutely the case. Once we were able to pinpoint the issue, the investigation moved to her apartment. Luckily, her landlord was proactive. When he discovered that the old leak had not been fixed, he fixed and cleaned out the HVAC system too. Jena was finally living in a mold free environment so the next step was to rid her body of the toxins. We put her on a strict diet protocol which also included a variety of supplements. Within a few months, her blood tests showed a significant difference in her mycotoxin levels and she was feeling so much better. Eliminating Health Mysteries For Jena we were able to track down the root cause of all of her health mysteries and help her feel better. Could mold and the mycotoxins they release be the missing clue for you or someone in your life? Consider getting tested - it could give you the answers you’ve been looking for. And please share this episode. It could change someone’s life. It changed Jena’s. Links: Thanks to my guest Evan Brand. You can connect with him on Instagram, Facebook or his website: www.EvanBrand.com If you are interested in testing your environment, here is where you can access the ‘plate test’ we discussed.   Immunolytics Labs https://immunolytics.com/   Here is a list of the supplements I mentioned: Anti-Candida (Antimicrobials) GI MicrobX FC Cidal MicroGone Oil of Oregano Allicilin   Gut Healing GI Revive   Mitochondria Support Methyl  B Complex CoQNol Liposomal Glutathione Liquid AC Glutathione (capsule) *please note, you will need to log into the website to view this one but creating a login is free.   Thanks for Listening If you like what you heard, please rate and review this podcast. Every piece of feedback not only helps me create better shows, it helps more people find this important information. Never miss an episode –  Subscribe NOW to Health Mysteries Solved with host, Inna Topiler on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. 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As Evan drives home from the Mets lifeless opening day loss...he talks about the game and eventually complains about the current Nets situation.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NOT A MEMBER OF THE "HYPER CONSCIOUS NATION" YET? Visit www.thehyperconsciouspodcast.com to get access to our behind the scenes content, courses, training programs, articles and build your dream team!!! YOU DON'T WANNA MISS THIS EPISODE!Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping to raise $500,000 to $15 million. He now runs www.EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs. He breathes and bleeds entrepreneurship. He's obsessed, aiming to help one billion entrepreneurs and change the world. Evan's YouTube channel is one of the biggest ones for entrepreneurs with over 1.7 Million subscribers. Evan is also a world class speaker, coach, and author. As Evan writes about in his book "Your One Word", figuring out what word best represents you can really help you stay on track in the future! Evan was kind enough to chat with us while working his way across the country as part of his #BELIEVE Tour 2019. This episode truly blew us out of the water. Evan taught us so much, dropped so much knowledge for you guys, and gave us twice the amount of time we asked for so we could keep interviewing him!Evan is a consistency guru... with over 5000 videos on YouTube. He believes that effort and consistency will beat pure talent any day. We talked about:- How he stays motivated when times get rough- Why he didn't quit when he was only making 300 dollars a month and struggling, - How he deals with disappointment when he has such high standards, - His journey to achieve his goal of helping 1 BILLION entrepreneurs - Growing his YouTube page to 10 million subscribers Evan was very down to earth and really made it a focus to allow us to see what's behind the curtain to his success. We hope you enjoy, Evan already said he wanted to come back for an episode in the future! ENJOY!!!

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Evan Hafer is the CEO and Founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company, with annual growth of over 750%, and a goal to hire 10,000 veterans. Listen to Evan’s ideas on setting priorities, solving business problems, and getting to ‘mission accomplished,’ in this conversation with Jim and Jan. Key Takeaways [3:38] As Evan developed in business, he put together structures that helped him get to ‘mission accomplished.’ First came learning from a book, then understanding the wisdom of what he learned, and then applying it through manpower and resources. [16:10] The most important lesson Evan has learned is that if you work long enough and hard enough at something, you’re going to make a result. You have to apply more energy than you’ve ever applied and when you think you don’t have anything left, you go further. Quitting is not an option. Failure is not a choice. It doesn’t exist. What gets you to success is effective prioritization of work. Triage your time. [19:40] Civilians at Black Rifle help the Special Operations veterans dial back their mission urgency and work tasks into regular schedules and projects. Evan has a goal to hire 10,000 vets. He is working on franchising and corporate stores. He will start with 20 franchises in 2018 and will ramp up to hundreds. [27:06] Evan uses cut-to-the-bone candor when necessary. Business is problem-solving. Evan cuts the fluff and gets directly to the point. He doesn’t hide who he is to appeal to people that do not support veterans or the Second Amendment. He would rather people see him up front and buy his products in authenticity.   [32:01] Evan explains some of the effects of war on military personnel. An introspective veteran becomes a warrior philosopher based on their experiences. He is grateful every day to be here with his family when some of his friends are no longer here. [33:48] Evan reflects on how service and combat reshape character. He urges people who have deployed to use that experience in the greatest way they can, and grow from it. You have to decide to fight and win. That’s the first step. Embrace the positive and flush the negative. [38:27] Define your success criteria before moving into a specific objective. You might not achieve the exact results; that doesn’t mean you have failed. There’s always another solution to the problem. If you quit, you have chosen to fail.   Facebook: Black Rifle Coffee Company Check the More tab to look at opening a franchise. Instagram: @BlackRifleCoffee Instagram: @EvanHafer Twitter: @BlckRifleCoffee YouTube: Black Rifle Coffee Website: BlackRifleCoffee.com Quotable Quotes   “I always tell people I was an OK Green Beret and I’m trying to be a good businessman but I pride myself on being a great father.”   “I’m not going to be remembered for my coffee. I’m going to be remembered by my children for being a halfway decent guy.”   “You can’t control everything that people write about you and you can’t control people when they take creative latitude.”   “The single most effective gift the military gave me, they gave to me when I was 18 years old and that was confidence.”   “They instilled the dumb idea that you can accomplish anything with the correct amount of energy and the right team.”   “You start to really refine — what does that mean, to have mission accomplished? Then you start putting structure behind that.”   “When I left the military I wrote … my mission objective … to emancipate myself from government service and to become successful.”   “My work, my job, my company of Black Rifle Coffee is quite literally just my value proposition to my family.”   “Nobody controls my destiny but me.”   Evan prizes spending more time with his family to be a better father and husband.   “War will humble you. Regardless of what mission you’ve had …  or how … you’ve been trained … Everybody is equal in a gunfight.”   “This is a customer service issue. We’re not going to lose life, limb, or eyesight. We can take care of these customers, make it right, and we’ll move forward.”   “We’re not fighting Al Qaeda, anymore, guys! Dial it back a little bit. Everybody doesn’t need to be a Tier 1 Operator.”   “As soon as I pass the threshold into my home, it’s all about family, and I just try to focus completely all my attention, … on my family.”“if you work long enough, hard enough, at something, you’re going to make a result.”   “[Profit can be,] how much will this give me as far as individual freedom, down the road, or a profit back into my account?”   “If you’re [prioritizing] on a regular basis, you will be able to spend most of your time working on the things that will pay off in big results.”   “At any point in time, we could move from coffee company to direct action kinetic operations.”   “War has been the single most defining thing of my character and my life.”   “There’s not a day that goes by in my life that I’m not thankful for being here and it has re-prioritized my value system.”   “Embrace the positive and flush the negative. … Every day there’s an opportunity to reinvent yourself.”   “When I say failure, it means that person has quit — quite literally — and that its a choice.”   Bio   In 1995, Evan Hafer was introduced by a friend to great espresso. Intrigued, he began reading and researching the art of coffee roasting, taking classes, and traveling to cities like Portland and Seattle to learn more about the craft.   Between deployments to Iraq -- where Evan served with Special Forces and later as a CIA contractor, from 2003 to 2014 -– he brought along the boutique, small-batch coffee he had learned to roast. The gospel of good coffee was spread to his fellow service members; soon, they had converted gun trucks and were grinding coffee every morning.   After finishing his military service and returning home, all Evan wanted to do was make coffee. After meeting Mat Best, one of the founders of Article 15 Clothing, Evan started selling his Freedom Roast on their site. Over 500 lbs. were purchased.   In December 2014, he pulled the trigger and launched Black Rifle Coffee. The company has experienced exponential growth since opening. Today, they see continued annual growth of over 750%. About one million pounds of coffee are roasted a year. it can be found in over 500 retailers internationally and 65% of employees are veterans.

Whew, Paulie and Evan waded  through the flood of 06 here in Washington to make sure that you still got you podcast on time!  Kind of like the post office they always deliver!  This week Paulie and Evan are asking you to go and vote for them on I tunes.  Let every one know how much you like them, spread the word.      This weeks pod cast id chock full of listener questions and viewer mail.  Don't forget to write us of call us with your comments and we will try to get them on air.   Is Chad hunt still the biggest in Gay porn.  The gauntlet has been thrown down.  Will the challengers stand up?  Listen to what Paulie and Evan have to say about this along with all of the other great Gay entertainment and news they have for you this wee.  Evan has hit the mother lode with this weeks DVD installments of Spokes 1, 2 and 3.  Number three is the newest Falcon installment and you can ride this one all the way to the bank!! Evan rates it a whopping 4 splats his highest award.  The reissues of Spokes 1 and 2 won't disappoint either they both are rated the high  4 splats award too!  As Evan says to paraphrase Freddie Mercury  " I want to ride my Bicycle, I want to ride their dicks, I want to ride those dicks right now, I want to Take it how I like"!    Paulie Reviews the Colt Waterproof Silver Rod.   Paulie took this into the bath with him and never came out!  TO wrap it all up Evan has a great new tune for you in his MTFT series its "As Long as I am With You" by Victor Dimarko.  You can find him on music.podshow.com.