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About George Christie Jr. George Christie Jr. was born in 1947 in Ventura, California to a family of Greek immigrants and grew up an only child. From an early age, he was fascinated by motorcycles and outlaw culture, and by the time he started school his intelligence and rebellious attitude set him apart from his peers. As a teenager, he became an avid surfer.When one of his surfing buddies showed up at the beach one day on a Harley-Davidson, George knew what he had to do. In 1966, despite the objections of his father, he bought his first bike--a 1957 Panhead--for $200. He was soon hanging around with Ventura outlaw bike club The Question Marks and famous motorcycle customizers Von Dutch and Dick Woods. As George puts it, "some people run away and join the circus. I ran away and joined the Hells Angels." He became a full-patch Hells Angel in the Los Angeles charter in 1976 and, six months later, became its president, before founding the Ventura charter in 1978. As Ventura leader, George became one of the most powerful voices in the national Hells Angels organization, and spent three decades battling the law, rival gangs and members of his own club, while building the club's business operations. He famously carried the Olympic torch in the 1984 Los Angeles Games and spent a year in solitary confinement in prison on numerous charges in 2001. In 2011, Christie resigned his presidency of the Ventura charter and left the club. He was immediately excommunicated by his former brothers. George spent another 18 months in prison from 2013-2014 for conspiring to firebomb two Ventura tattoo shops. George currently serves as a consultant on organized crime for CNN. He lives with his wife and son in Southern California and has three adult children. He has no regrets.

About George Christie Jr.George Christie Jr. was born in 1947 in Ventura, California to a family of Greek immigrants and grew up an only child. From an early age, he was fascinated by motorcycles and outlaw culture, and by the time he started school his intelligence and rebellious attitude set him apart from his peers. As a teenager, he became an avid surfer.When one of his surfing buddies showed up at the beach one day on a Harley-Davidson, George knew what he had to do. In 1966, despite the objections of his father, he bought his first bike--a 1957 Panhead--for $200. He was soon hanging around with Ventura outlaw bike club The Question Marks and famous motorcycle customizers Von Dutch and Dick Woods.As George puts it, "some people run away and join the circus. I ran away and joined the Hells Angels." He became a full-patch Hells Angel in the Los Angeles charter in 1976 and, six months later, became its president, before founding the Ventura charter in 1978. As Ventura leader, George became one of the most powerful voices in the national Hells Angels organization, and spent three decades battling the law, rival gangs and members of his own club, while building the club's business operations.He famously carried the Olympic torch in the 1984 Los Angeles Games and spent a year in solitary confinement in prison on numerous charges in 2001. In 2011, Christie resigned his presidency of the Ventura charter and left the club. He was immediately excommunicated by his former brothers. George spent another 18 months in prison from 2013-2014 for conspiring to firebomb two Ventura tattoo shops.George currently serves as a consultant on organized crime for CNN. He lives with his wife and son in Southern California and has three adult children.He has no regrets.

We’re bringing a full spectrum intergalactic, God matrix transcending, health sovereignty-love-fueled conversation today on the SuperFeast podcast. In this stellar conversation, Mase sits down with Exo and cosmopolitical specialist George Kavassalis for a journey through the unified field of love and universal veils of human experience. Do you consider yourself to be truly free? Do you believe in the God matrix? And what is the journey of humanity thus far that you won't find in history books? In discussing what it means to embody organic sovereignty, George expresses why he feels now more than ever human civilisation is at a point where every individual needs to harness their creative powers and take responsibility for their experience and wellbeing. Disclosing control systems that utilise the intelligence within technology, and Exopolitical mysteries; This conversation is rich, multi-dimensional, and at the heart of it is a message steeped in love, co-creation, honour, and respect for each other. There's a reason why the George Kavassilas episode was the most downloaded episode ever on The Mason Taylor Show. Tune in for this transcending conversation.   "And now what we've got is, they're using the ultimate weapon, which is love, against the population. Now you've got them in reverence of your control system, and now they're devoting and loving your processes. So now you have overridden the problem of free will in the universe." - George Kavassalis     Mase and George discuss: Natural lore. Incarnation. Exo politics. Cosmo polotics. Phasing out 5G. Sacred geometry. The God matrix Celestial entities. Where Gods reside. Cosmic conquerers. Reality Management. The Multi-and Omniverse TI (Technological Intelligence). mRNA technology and nanotechnology.   Who is George Kavassilas? George Kavassilas is an author, mentor, and public speaker. George has had a lifetime of experiences beyond the ordinary, encountering a wide spectrum of expressions of life both Inter-Dimensional and Extra-Terrestrial in nature. As a consequence, he went through a process of reconciling the knowledge and wisdom gained from these experiences and came to realise a natural responsibility to share what he has learned with our global community. George now embodies a limitless passion in addressing life’s primordial questions: “Who are we? Where do we come from? and What are we doing here?”   George knows his life path includes a focus to expose all levels of deception, no matter how far they go. He carries a deep-seated sense of responsibility to help liberate our Humanity from all forms of imposing doctrine and dogma, without exception - be they Earthly or even Cosmic in nature. As George says, “It’s really a remembering process to revitalise and resurrect the Sovereign and Infinite Being you truly are.” The Extent - The Challenge - The Creative Solution   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: George's website To contact George Superwoo Radio (George's Podcast) Our Universal Journey (George's Book)   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:00) George, thank you so much for coming on. I've been so looking forward to this.   George Kavassilas: (00:06) Yeah Mason, thank you as well. I see you as a brother in life, and I'm just really, really grateful that you invited me back on. Thank you.   Mason: (00:17) And it was New Year, 2015, I want to say. I think maybe even 2014, actually, where we met at a New Year's party in Byron, lots has happened since then. It's great to still be connected with you. And as I was telling you beforehand, it's funny, like I jumped out five minutes before we had to get on another podcast and went to the toilet and could hear the booming Kavassilas voice downstairs. And it was your son, who never comes to the warehouse. It's just.   George Kavassilas: (00:51) Turns up five minutes before we're on.   Mason: (00:54) So good. He actually, he said to send his love shit forgot to send. But it's yeah, it's so beautiful to arrive here. And I know there's many people in the SuperFeast community that do know your work, I know that for sure, a lot of people have heard the podcasts we did years back on the Mason Taylor Show. And that's still the most downloaded episode on that podcast. There's a lot of people that aren't aware of your work. And I thought, especially since we talk so much about Taoism, the yogic universe. But we talk so much about going back to its roots, almost its Shamanic earth-based roots and not the colonisation of the systems. And that is you take that into such a more macro, micro at the same time in your work, in the education through your workshops, through your one-on-ones, through your podcast, your book.   Mason: (02:09) And so, I'd love to just ask that general question and ask for that sharing for those that haven't been exposed to your insights and your experience yet to share your core work and perhaps even your experience of the universe, what it is, but I'll just leave it out there. It's such a hard one to kind of ask.   George Kavassilas: (02:38) It might be. What a cracker. For me, it's a lifetime of experiences from when I was a little baby, it's just been steady throughout my whole life. Sure, there's quiet periods and then, they ramp up again and then, and as I mature and I grow and I evolve, the experiences change as well. So in the last three years was a winding up of my agreements with what people call the SSP or the Secret Space programme, or, you know, in some MyLab agreements that I had in place and now for me I didn't sign anything from this incarnation. This was all preordained prior incarnation that I, the agreements were made prior to incarnating that all would work with these groups. And so that's all come to a close now, you know.   Mason: (03:37) What do you mean by working with them?   George Kavassilas: (03:37) I would offer myself up to go on missions and to be trained and go on missions by them training to a degree. But, you know, because they, it's kind of interesting in the sense that they, they end up getting power hungry and then what they want to do is hold onto someone like myself and then use someone like myself as an asset to push the boundaries or even just be belligerent and not give two cahoots about the original agreement. And they just get lost in their own power trip, basically become self deluded. I call it like a porcelain glaze that, you know, that comes over people and they get lost in it. So that's all come to a close and that's just one example. And now, you know, my interactions with the matrix and with other power groups it's changed. And I'm merging into more of a background advisory role to the civilization builders that are here on earth now who are building the next expression of civilization on earth. And it's a really wonderful role to be playing.   Mason: (04:59) So let's look at the context of what the purpose is of building new, you know, like an evolution of civilization. Why are we doing that? Why are we like what's the purpose of moving in those directions and working on this. I mean, I'm kind of framing it up there of like, I guess, especially heavily on the subject of your book is where are we in? Where are we ending up here?   George Kavassilas: (05:27) Yeah. And it's, you know, a lot of people with my opening statements just now probably going, what's he talking about.   Mason: (05:32) Everyone just hold on, everyone. It really like a lot to have context to build in. We don't have a short amount of time. We've got as long as we want, but holding now like, you know if especially, if you haven't hang in there, it'll be take the journey. It'll, it'll it'll land   George Kavassilas: (05:57) And it'll come. It looks, it'll be self-explanatory as we go along. And so humanity's at a really interesting stage. Like you could say we're at a crossroads and that's as obvious as it gets. And, you know, there's this old saying, we are the ones who are mining for how many people are actually transferring that from an Ideological concept into the being and living the expression of that and you're one who's doing that for sure. And there's lots of people who are listening, who are doing that. However, there'll be people who are listening, who are feeling a bit lost and not really sure about what they're supposed to be doing in this world. And even on the way there, this morning at a beautiful dialogue on the phone with a friend of mine, who's really, really awake and aware, but she was like, I'm feeling lost at the moment.   George Kavassilas: (06:57) Don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. And I feel that this is, this is where a lot of us are at the moment. And so there's other people that I've been speaking with lately who are overwoken to their fundamental purpose. And the fundamental purpose is the language, you know, it's the Georges and that I use, it's just called fundamental purpose. And that is for our existence here, why did I really come to this world? What did I really come to earth and incarnate? What was the main, well, let's call it the paramount or the principle, the foundational reason why I came to have an incarnation on earth at this time, when it's the timing, see when you've got this entity called humanity as a single organism, and then you have this incredible planet, which has got more biodiversity here compressed into one space, time location due to the fractal nature of it all than any other reality in the universe. And these two entities are having this most dynamic relationship and we've come right into that space right in the middle, right in the middle of there. And there are many of us who are here that are aware that we have come to engage. We have come to participate and facilitate and support and do all these wonderful things in the evolutionary leap that both mother earth and this entity called humanity, are both co-creating and symbiotically experiencing right now. And we are here to do exactly that to engage and the universal law of non-interference has been overridden for quite a large group of beings to come and to engage. And now there's, you know, because I work very deeply in exo politics and cosmo politics. That's the two areas that I specialise in, and these are the skillsets I bring into this lifetime. And I've been, as you know, I've had a lot of experiences in my life.   George Kavassilas: (09:07) We've had a lot of, you know, private talks about that. And they've been quite extraordinary in nature. And it was all leading up to the work that I'm doing now, which is more of that advisory role in the background, because the evolutionary leap that we're in now, it's this next step. And so if the next step goes in a direction, let's say the next step goes over here, but we needed to go over here because of the step that comes after that. Okay. If, if we don't have this next step in our evolution, heading in the direction, it needs to go in, and let's say, we get pulled over here then to bring it from out of the heat, back to where it was supposed to go in. The following step is such a big gap and it's going to create a lot of pain and suffering to bring it back course corrected.   George Kavassilas: (09:57) And so people like myself are here and others we're here to actually play that mentoring advisory role because the civilization builders that are here at the moment working behind the scenes to create the next expression of civilization on our planet, which is being implemented over the next five years, I would say, and then we'll be living it for another 10 years before it changes again, where we're looking at helping to mentor and guide the folks who are here doing this fabulous work to create the structures and expressions of society that are going to be beneficial. And I mean, heading in that direction towards that place, that both mother earth and humanity and the solar being, the galactic being, the cosmic being, the universal being are all intending it to go to, but they're allowing a certain amount of leeway in the process.   Mason: (10:58) Would you mind, I know this is another big conversation where I'm feeling is to even step back into get context of where we from in your experience and what you teach the universal being, what is the universal being? What is that? And what is that journey that we've gone through up until this point and how did we undergo it?   George Kavassilas: (11:24) Yeah, that's a big question. That's okay. So, you know, what is a universe? A universe is from the infinite nature of life of being expresses itself. And that expression becomes manifested. And that manifestation from that space becomes what we call a universe, a reality. And the being who expressed itself in that form is the prime creator of that space. So then it's responsible for everything. So it has the ultimate responsibility and it has the ultimate authority. That's the way natural law and law spelled L O R E natural lore. That's why that's the tenant. That's the main tenant of natural laws. Only one covers everything, you know, and the ultimate, the prime creator of a reality is the ultimate authority of that reality. And these are the ultimate responsibility of that reality. And there's no escaping that. That's the way life operates.   George Kavassilas: (12:25) So it's about, you know, and it's the same for us on a, on a micro level. You know, we are the prime creator of our experiences. So, you know, how long are we going to sit back and play the blame game for when's the time that we're going to actually step up step into our responsibility and our natural authority, and then work in conjunction in harmony with these intelligences, which are these beings. So meaning from the universal being, and then there's, it's cosmic expression, which is the multiverse, which is inside this grand universe. And, and there are other universes in the omniverse beyond this universe. Okay. Lots of universes, countless. And what we call the multiverse, which is full of parallel universes, because it's multiple versions of the one verse, meaning this expression of unit universal creation.   George Kavassilas: (13:18) So that's what a multiverse is, it's an omniverse all different each, each universal construct is, is uniquely different because it's all different expressions. Okay. Whereas the multi- verse is the one construct meaning light, which is what this universe is made of and multiple versions. And that's the parallel universe is at quantum physics talks about in quantum mechanics. So that's the multiverse, but that's all in, what's called the grand cosmic arena of this universe. Okay. So that's what I call a cosmic. There's the cosmic being. So there's the expression of the universal being that holds in space, holds the space for the entire multiverse to exist.   George Kavassilas: (14:03) And then a grander aspect of that being is actually the entire universe structure itself. But it's a, so it's like think of it as a stepping down is not the right word, stepping out is probably more accurate, you know, into more of an outward expression. It's not the true nature of life is not hierarchical. It's more concentric. So what people term the higher realms in more to be more accurate are the inner realms. And what people call the lower realms in their hierarchical entrainment. Is really the outer realms.   George Kavassilas: (14:49) And if we can make that switch, you know, the way and our modus operandi of our thinking, then it will really help a great deal for people to come back home to the natural way of life. And because we are, you know, you said earlier now preamble to the interviews, like how do we relate? And that's the key word relating to whatever well, that's because we're in an active, conscious relationship with, and that's how we relating through that relationship. So how do I relate to the universal being? Well, that's a personal thing between me and the universal bang and I'm in a co-creative process with that being I'm not lesser than, or not subservient to, okay, this is, we're talking about the natural order now, right. The natural way of life and the natural way of life. So the universal bang, which is separate to the God of religions, I just want to make that distinction absolutely clear. Once people realise there's the prime creator of this universe, and then there's the God of religions, and they're actually two different things we're talking about, even though one's trying to mimic the other.   Mason: (16:04) We'll definitely get to dive into that.   George Kavassilas: (16:07) And all of a sudden we've now got, you know, something real going on and all of a sudden it's a pure organic, natural relationship internally. And to, I guess, to settle into that relationship, we can only really settle into that relationship, but we start accessing our own multidimensional nature within ourselves.   Mason: (16:31) How did you in your experience, because this is something I liked why I love talking to you, and you made an initial distinction there around primary creator of the universe and having a relationship with that creator that isn't subservient or lesser than, and then the relationship to a religious God, which has a superiority in, in kind of complex. So that's initial, that's a huge distinction. That was a really significant one with me that I've gone on a journey with for six years without ever having to believe you. And that's something I want to throw out there early, because I think it does, I think you'd be aware that you do a good job at keeping yourself slippery, that you don't create a system that people need to believe in, have faith in externally. And that's something, this is just really interesting distinctions experiences you've had in conversation. So I'll keep on asking you in that sense of going through your experience in what you teach. I just wanted to throw that out there and by all means, if you want to jump off that diving board, now that'd be great. But I also wanted to lead into how did your relationship begin with the crew with the primary creator of this universe?   George Kavassilas: (17:52) Yeah, when was that stage in my life when it really started to happen.   Mason: (17:57) And also in the whole macro conversation, just, I always, maybe I'm a bit rusty and remembering, where did you actually start? How did you start dancing in this universe to begin with? And what was the incentive to actually engage for you created by these universe? Are you just that's where I think there's a distinction. I feel I kind of couldn't use a refresher on there as well.   George Kavassilas: (18:20) Oh, absolutely. We are all infinite. I'm just going to tell you straight out, we're all infinite. That's we are infinite, that's it. And what does that mean? You know, how does that feel? Well, there's no beginning or end to our existence and we always have been, and always will be for someone to have absolute power over you. They have to convince you that they created you. And so that's a different model. That's a different approach. Entering this universe was this being expressed itself. And everybody just went, whoa, it's freaking awesome. I want me some of that, you know, the being from the infant nature of life, it's just a peer, you know, a peer being.   George Kavassilas: (19:15) It's like, well, hang on, just let me sort this out first. And, and then I'll create processes. And then you can all enter into my universe and go through the process, which is what we do in the omniverse. It's full of curiosity and adventure and love, you know, what we call it, it's beyond our notion of love, but you get the idea right. Of what love is. And so that's that harmonious invisible thing that binds all live together in harmony without, you know, mutual destruction. So it's a so to speak or distortion, so that's ever present. And so to enter this universe, it was like the universal being was creating its own processes of exploring its own expression.   George Kavassilas: (20:05) So it needed to work that out first. And then once it did, then it created pathways and processes, and then invited other beings in. And really the attraction to this universe is this is the only universe that will dissect you from the inside out and show you things about yourself that you've never even, even knew existed and all of your light and all of your shadow. And this is the only universe that does that. So beings get to take a journey which could take aeons and aeons and aeons of time just depends on, you know, the pathways, but generally on average, it's quite a few aeons, but yeah, for some it's even longer, and really you get to take a journey into exploring of, of being expressing yourself one way and then expressing yourself another. And so we end up with these expressions of alter egos of self, and then depending on how far you go, depending on how polarised you become.   George Kavassilas: (21:11) And it's a really fascinating journey. It's a fascinating universe. And it provides an incredible service in that way. The opportunity to really know oneself in a way like never before. And it's not a prison system, it's fully voluntary. There is a realisation though, once people enter into the process that you really got to see it through because you're starting to fragment yourself into all these different expressions of both sides of the ledger. And you can't just pull out there because you got to bring those fragmented states back into a unity and it's got to be done harmoniously. And the wisdom needs to be extracted from that experience. You know? So once one enters the process and your greater being knows this, then you're in and you see it through. And where we are at is having adventure through the grand cosmic arena, the multiverse and having adventure through many different escapades and adventures.   George Kavassilas: (22:25) The universal bang has provided a pathway to exit the grand cosmic arena or the multiverse. And we are in this process. And in fact, we're at the end of the process, we're actually leading, you see the human race, the war for control of humanity is so intense right now it's the biggest thing going on in the universe is what's going on planet earth right now. And we are in our living fractals so our cells, our galaxies, our molecules, and Nebula and atoms are star systems. And we are a living fractal of our entire existence in this universe.   George Kavassilas: (23:08) And so there's babies being born in this world that have access to more life force than any of the gods out there, and they're freaking out. And so they've done their best over the last, or it goes all the way back to about 365,000 years. But let's say, just keep it localised. The last 6,000 years has been the most intense in the effort to subjugate, apprehend and subjugate the human race.   Mason: (23:37) And why is that? What are, what are humans?   George Kavassilas: (23:41) Because they are jealous? And they feel threatened by who and what we are as a species and what we're evolving into. Because as a fractal of our entire existence in the universe, we now have an opportunity to integrate into a unified expression and become a fully fledged universal light bang, you know, where we fully integrated back into a unity. And then, you know, you can leave the universe, you can stay in the universe, you can do whatever you want.   George Kavassilas: (24:10) It's, you know, it's, and that's freedom. That's total freedom. That's coming out of the process and it's coming out of all the beings that want to try and lure us and keep us back in, think of the grand cosmic arena as a space. And that's to think of it as a universal stage where one's role-playing for one another and everyone's in character, everyone's in persona. And that's where the God's reside is in that space. They don't own the whole thing, but they only control a very small part of it, but because it's such a big space and you go into their realities and their realms, then you're going to think you're in a whole new universe, but you're not, you're just in their spaces.   Mason: (24:53) I love it. I'm going to bring up, like, I think, I don't think I said it on the pod yet, but it's something Tahnee often. Like, you know, we always enjoy our conversations together and Tawny always. I think she, I think she's talked to you about this, but says to me as well, she's like that's yoga, Rapinoe, yoga, that's original yoga. That's, that's Taoism. That's original Taoism. I think maybe I did mention it before we jumped on the pod. That it's always my favourite thing to hear after talking to you and sometimes Tahn's because your presenting your experience and then offering everyone to go and have their own experience. Tahnee kind of refers to your experience as the Star Wars.   Mason: (25:42) So for her, she maybe doesn't have the same terminology or experiences, whether it's the same thing being perceived in a different way. I don't know whether it's your experiencing more, you know, nuance to the reality and manoeuvring through that. And she's looking at something overarching, you know, based on the original yogic practises and texts. And let's talk about that in where w why is there an original yoga and why is there say like an essence of yoga and an essence of Taoism where we can go, all right, they're talking about the exact same thing, because that's a perception and relating to reality, what happens then? Why is there an original? And now, you know, you mentioned the control of humanity, you know, like, what does it come in.   George Kavassilas: (26:40) Well, as a cosmic concrete, you got to look at a civilization.   Mason: (26:44) Who's the cosmic conqueror here? Like, this is there. This is a fun one, I think, cause like, I'm all I'm thinking. Well, wait, what? What's that?   George Kavassilas: (26:52) So cosmic conqueror is an entity that goes around conquering planetary systems, star systems. And even to the degree of, you know, some of the more hefty gods, but it will assimilate entire galactic system into their structure of the influence in power. And basically it's a shift in vibration. So the reality has changed as well. We're seeing, we're bearing witness to that here. Where we're right in the middle of that drama playing out right here on our planet. We're bearing witness to it. And you can feel the shift in vibrations. You can feel the shift in reality, you can feel the split in consciousness, you know, the pull in one direction and that your heart and your inner being is saying, "No, don't go down that far. That's not going to end well." And where you know, most thankfully most of us are listening.   George Kavassilas: (27:49) Unfortunately, the majority of the population of the world. And I said, us, meaning, you know, soul tribe, soul families, but the majority of the population I'm pointing that direction. Cause I got windows and I can see houses and stuff. Most of the population, unfortunately allowing themselves to be apprehended and subjugated through mind control and the control of their consciousness. And so cosmic conqueror, that's what it does, or study a species, let's say it comes up to a planet and it wants to conquer that planetary race.   George Kavassilas: (28:24) Well, the very immature Conquerors or gods the newbies, what they will do is I'll put it in a form of control structure top down hierarchy and use governance by force. And that's really immature. And those methods have been transcended quite a long time ago, by the more powerful, more sophisticated entities, i think Buddhism bought a warned about these celestial entities which in Christendom, you could call them the gods, and show you've got this thing about the one that wants to be the God of gods claiming to be the God of gods.   George Kavassilas: (29:06) So that's a power struggle in the hologram of the gods in their realities. But they've got a throne and one sits upon the throne and all the others, it's all hierarchy and their whole, all of their realities are built on what people term sacred geometry. So it's all numbers, mass technology and sacred geometry, sophisticated technologies and different versions of light. So that's all the hologram of the gods and the natural way of life and the natural way of love doesn't use maths or geometry or technology in its pure expression. We do tend to use some technologies when needed, but, you know, it's only for convenience or fun, but most civilizations or society's, doesn't even use any technology. It's just a pure relationship with reality. So it's just not needed. And, but the cosmic conqueror.   George Kavassilas: (30:03) ... and the cosmic conquerable approach, a planetary population, and it will study it, and study it, and study it. And it will reach as deep into the reality as it can, and then control from the bottom up. That's the more sophisticated way. And will study the spiritual doctrines, the cultural practises and all that, and will see how it can take it from its original and twist it and slant it and move it over, and so now people are heading in a different direction when they use your version of it compared to the original, and then you give them technologies that they then, that technology becomes the lenses that they see reality through, and then that controls the evolutionary path of that species as well.   Mason: (30:51) All right. So many directions I want to go in. I'm going to bring it up for a lot of people. Again, I really relate to your experiences and I've gone from really feeling your experience to going back and sitting by myself, and then going forth and seeing how much of it is I'm enjoying. There's something in the story, a lot of the time, there's something even the storytelling of what you share that ignites something in me. And then I go away for a few years and I sit and feel, "What does that mean for me?" And maybe I don't experience a nuance or specifics in particular that you, but yet there's some kind of universal truth within me that I get pointed towards, but I really relate to almost the personification of these energies of the gods.   Mason: (31:49) And then, just for listening for those people that are just to seed it in the uniqueness, for [Tani 00:31:57], she may not have a personification of those energies. She really relates to the, experiencing them in the inner world and feeling when a technology pulls her off her natural course, and she will relate in a more kinetic way, rather than having a story play out for her. And I don't know what's right or wrong, but I think that's important. I share it because that was a really important distinction for me.   Mason: (32:24) I might tell you why as well, because how do you, knowing you, such a loving man. I've sat next to you in ceremony, I've experienced your being in that context. When you go in and talk about the gods that desire to conquer and be superior, and sit on the throne that can be, I know, confronting, for people who have been bowing down and attributing their existence to a deity. There's then a journey that goes on, lots of questions to be asked.   Mason: (33:11) I know that, but how, with those forces being present, there, you can see a split happen sometimes where this dips into people's more paranoid, opposition-based, angry, resentful, conspiracy theory, kind of minds, and how do you navigate not becoming either resentful towards, I guess it's good. This information comes up, and if you're feeling angry about it, generally, there's something to explore. You're not being asked to believe anything. You can explore if there's anger, if there's nothing and you're feeling neutral, wonderful. But then if you're starting to feel like, "How dare they," and the violation, how do you continue to go towards your own unification without going to war, getting swept up in the the day to day, conspiracy, paranoia?   George Kavassilas: (34:03) Yeah. And that was something that I, and you, and everyone's been confronted with lately, with the dramas that have been playing out over the last 18 months. So, and for me, it was like I engaged to a certain degree. And, but also always held my own, and just stayed on my own evolutionary path, and really want to focus on my creative process, because we can't think our way out of this, we've been trying this for millennia, right. Thinking our way out of it's not going to work. We actually have to create our way out of this situation that we're in. So for me, that's how I operate in that way.   George Kavassilas: (34:39) The reason I understand more of the personification side of it is because fields of consciousness, they gather, and there's a harmonic resonant field between different expressions of consciousness, and especially ones that have a similar theme. And what happens is they all coalesce and they go into this single expression. And a lot of collective hard mines get created out of one consciousness. That one, like you got the queen of the beehive, or you've got the queen of an ant colony, and understanding these processes and how they function on a celestial level, on a multidimensional level in the cosmic arena. When we're talking about parallel universes and all this sort of stuff, and what is that environment like? What are those ecosystems like?   George Kavassilas: (35:38) So I'm coming from that space. And the reason I do that is because I'm fully engaged in the exo-political, cosmo-political, and I need to have clarity, whereas someone else, that's not their specialty. They have other areas I need to specialise in, they can touch on it, but they don't have to fully engage with it like I do. Do you know what I mean? We all got to honour our paths and what we're here to focus on. And so, for someone like Tan's, she gets it. She doesn't need to have all the details and all the degrees of relationship, one-on-one with these, what we calling personifications of these expressions of consciousness, because, who's the prime creator of it?   George Kavassilas: (36:34) So, because where I'm coming from is creational level, operating on a creational level, because I have to, because of the work that I do. Where a lot of other people don't have to do that, so it's not necessary for people to have that degree of comprehension on the detail and engagement and relationship with these entities, they need to focus in other areas. So that's why that happens. That's how I see it.   Mason: (37:02) I think a really good example is that we've talked about a lot on this podcast, and we talked about on your podcast, Super Woo.   George Kavassilas: (37:14) Thank you. It's a good name, isn't it?   Mason: (37:17) Super Woo Radio is the colonisation of Chinese medicine, and it's a really visceral, I guess, example of what George is talking about. And if you haven't heard us talk about it, we've got lots of backlog in discussing it. You can go listen to my podcast with George on his Super Woo Radio, or the first Rhonda Chang podcast we did called, Chinese Medicine, Masquerading as E, which is true medicine. And it simply goes, you can see it simply at some point, it becomes commodified and mind-based. As you just said, you can't think your way in through this unification process that we're going on. And so if you turn a system, which is based on creativity and perception of the natural order, and nature itself, and you turn it into something that's black and white, systemized, commodified, and can be taught through rope learning, all of a sudden that has been taken completely out of creative process and taken completely out of the natural way and the source.   Mason: (38:29) And so that's what's happened, especially throughout time. It's been slowly happening, especially since 400 AD, I think it is when you first started getting the record of the battles between those who loved the classical, the simple, yin-yang nature of observing the light-based nature of this universe, and the constant transformational process, and the constant creative process. And you are going to need to engage with yourself and learn about yourself and life, and then maybe you'll have the opportunity to understand the uniqueness of each person that comes and sits in front of you. And then you start getting the, 400 AD, you start getting the first, "This herb is exactly for that issue," and them going, "You can't say that if you can't, you can't put a label on the being that is that herb, and the energetic nature in which it's uniquely interacting with the humans, meridians and their systems of chi and their elements. That's impossible, and you're diluting the system."   Mason: (39:24) And then in the fifties, you literally see a new version of Chinese medicine being created, which is what is taught. Traditional Chinese medicine is what people call it, and it's commodified, and it's based on the mind. And it tells you, "If this is happening, then you do this." Although there might be a little bit of that in the generality sense in classical, that is just your opening the door of, "You might see that this is a pattern," and then once you engage with that pattern, it goes, "Now you could become more advanced and start weaving in your own ways that are real."   Mason: (39:58) And that's something, I think about it a lot. I think I use my opportunity in these tonic curves and talking to a lot of classical practitioners and interacting with a lot of TCM practitioners, and they get really angry when I go outside of their system, sometimes. Not all of them, a lot of them. And you talking about never being created, not having a God that created you, and so and so on and so forth. I remember that creates a feeling internally where you go, "Oh, wow, there's some truth there." And that's what a lot of practitioners feel when we talk about this, at the heart of it is just nature. And not being in a place of pathology and Western medicine, and Western disease states and so on and so forth, looking at the organism and feeling the organism as a whole, and being with the chi and the reality of that human. A lot of people that have gone through the Western TCM education go, "I felt there was something not right about that." And then you get the opportunity to go on your own learning experience.   George Kavassilas: (41:10) Yeah. And our existence in this universe is a co-creation. It's based on love, honour and respect. And I respect that I'm in this universe, inside the body of this universal being. I come to your place, Mase, and I respect that I'm in your home. And I'm going to act accordingly, with love, honour and respect. So it's not subservient, I'm not subservient to you. You treat me as an equal, but it's just about respect. Really. It's not rocket science, so I'm not subservient to the universal being. It's a co-creation. However, I do fully comprehend that I'm on a particular pathway, and inner process on the universal scale, and that's how I live that process. When I try to stray from it too far, I'm going to know about it, and it's not just me, the ego, this is orchestrated from the heart of the universe, from the core of the universe, where my being is still there in full unity with the universal being. And it's from there that we project outwardly into our creative process, all different expressions. So there is no disconnect between us and the universal being.   Mason: (42:35) I might just point out, one other thing that was significant to me that I don't think has been mentioned, and the context hasn't been created yet, which was really important to me. And I think especially this day and age, you see there's certain intellectual psychologists now who are coming forth with this bubble bursting and relieving message, which a lot of, whether it's Jungian psychology or, most have always known, that, "Don't pretend that you're better than anyone else in humanity that's done these atrocities. You are capable of the ultimate atrocities, everything that's happened, the dictators and the people at the helm of genocides and all these things, don't look down your nose at that. Realise that what was in them is inside of you." And once you've acknowledged that there is that shadow or that lack of, that capacity. And that's where I remember talking about these gods, and you're saying, it's not like I can judge them. I've been there and had that experience of being these gods who want to dominate, and-   George Kavassilas: (43:47) Yeah. We all have. We all have. If we're here on Earth, and we're bringing our journey through this grand cosmic arena to a close, it means we've seen everything there is to see, we've done everything there is to do, we've been everything there is to be, and we're bringing it all home into our unity. All the unification processes, not all, most, are happening beyond the subconscious, even. You get access to it through the subconscious, and then in the conscious realm, you're experiencing very little.   George Kavassilas: (44:20) Even right now, this beautiful pow-wow you and I are having together right now, it appeases the persona, the ego persona of George, ego persona of Mason, and we're having some good banter. However, there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes, multi-dimensionally and this dialogue together is like a ripple effect, because of the fractal nature of this world, rippling out through the universe and impacting the universe in such a significant way. And so every interaction we have, the old song Metallica did, "Nothing really matters." It's both, nothing really matters, and everything matters. Once you grasp that, then it's like, "Wow." So you could say from one perspective, it doesn't really matter. But then from another perspective, the ripple effect, it's having an impact, I'm not going to live in denial of that. That's the structure of life. It's the structure of reality, why deny that?   George Kavassilas: (45:15) And for us, for folks like you and I, we're all about taking responsibility for our lives, because we know we're having an impact. So we're going to own it. We're not going to cop out. This is the issue of, and I bring this up in my courses and my lectures and all those seminars. And I'm like, "Well, let's look at all the narratives that are coming." Because this is politics. Narratives are trying to convince the human race that they are something that they're actually not.   George Kavassilas: (45:52) And all the work that I've been doing, the amount of reverence from all the races out there in the natural order that they have for us as a humanity on earth, they're just shaking their heads, and freaking out in awe and wonder, how are we actually doing this? When you look at the onslaught of what is being imposed upon the human race, from every angle possible, the water that we drink, the air that we breathe, the foods that we eat, the trauma-based mind control through the collective media, the control media outlets. And it's just incredible. The militarization, the genetic manipulation now, well, it always has been, but now it's next level. So we're having everything thrown at us, all our spiritual doctrines being hijacked throughout time, and no other race in the universe that is under so much onslaught, like we are. And that's because of who and what we are as a race. And out there, they hold us in great reverence. And we are also connected to so many, everything I think and feel here is impacting many civilizations out there, because we all have agreements, because of the fractal nature. It's like, "Who's our tribe out there? Where did we come from before we came to have an incarnation in this human vessel? And what are our affiliations, what are our agreements?" And if I'm having, say there's an aspect of my being that's a head of an empire, in the past, out there, and I have an interaction and a debate with somebody who was the head of another empire out there, or is, and then we're debating it here, and everything that's playing out here, and we find peace amongst ourselves here, now is rippling out. And, and rather than having intergalactic or interstellar wars, now those peoples understand the codes that are required to bring peace between the two nations.   Mason: (47:56) Oh, that's a fun thought. Fun feeling, I should say. Very fun.   George Kavassilas: (48:02) Yeah. Exactly. But this is the structure that's happening in the background. This is because of the fractal nature. It's too much for our current psyche to cope with all the detail of everything that's going on.   Mason: (48:16) And that's just what, any time you go... Just say, you go back into Taoism and yoga. you can get versions that are out there, they're out there in terms of what's going on, on a universal level and what the intention around a lot of the practises are. But ultimately you go back to all of these traditions. If you look at shamanism in Australia, in South America, the level of awareness of what's actually going on, which can be seen as storytelling, and perhaps for many people it's useful, then, to go, this is just a metaphor for what's going on internally. That's fine. I think sometimes I need to be there. Sometimes it's too much for me when I'm just trying to be a dad, and run a business, and budget. I fly out there. You know what it's like to fly out, or fly in there, I should say.   Mason: (49:10) But I've flown off in enjoying that conversation. But when you get down to the essence of all of these traditions, or any person who's just integrated and has, whether it comes from Taoism, or the people living on this land here, the wise ones, it's always about coming down to yourself, constantly evolving. Look after your body, look after yourself, stay connected to the natural world, and what you can feel and perceive, take responsibility, become a person.   Mason: (49:49) Taoism is all about growing that virtuous nature, and opening, going through the waters of fear, learning what's a really beautiful fear, and how fear helps you interact with the natural world. And then when it becomes illogical and doesn't feel right anymore, and then you go, and then moving through that and allowing that to then bolster you up, and then the Taoists call it, then, the spirit of the kidneys express. It's a [Zhi 00:50:16], which is will, and then that's a will to take on further tasks and responsibility in your own life, and in the world.   Mason: (50:23) And they're all just very simple, just focus on yourself and what's in front of you, which is really useful for me to remember when going through these conversations, and I get this distinction, then I land in myself, and that's something I always enjoyed about you. You're going through your journey. And there's people listening who maybe have a greater sensitivity to the way that you're relating to this, some people who have a very practical relationship with the world, and that's perfect for them, and just directly relating with what's physically in front of them. But nonetheless, if all of this is going on behind the scenes, how do you keep yourself in the flow? What are your practises, your lifestyle, to steady this, to enable it to happen with harmony?   George Kavassilas: (51:17) Good question. Okay. So what I found the most effective way for me was to just put aside all of the belief systems that I had. Right. And I wanted to strip it all down to the most simplistic basics that I could get it to. And what I did was it was more, I'd say it's at the heart of Taoism, or at the heart of the original yoga or Yogi. And at the heart of shamanism, there's this, it's as basic as it gets. We're incarnate in this form on this planet. Okay. I'm getting to know who I am, but who's the planet? And what's this dynamic relationship I'm having? Yeah. So we call her Mother Earth. Okay. That's great. That's a good description. But who is she really, beyond the descriptive of, "Mother Earth?" And then it's like, "Okay. So if I'm incarnate on this planet, I'm also incarnate inside of a solar system. So who's the solar being? And what's this dynamic relationship that I've chosen to incarnate into its solar body?" Yeah. And it's the prime creator of this whole solar space.   George Kavassilas: (52:43) And then, because earth is nested inside that reality. And now what are we talking about? We're talking about ecosystems, we're talking about environment, and we're talking to that prime creators of ecosystems and realities of which we occupy, which means we are in direct relationship with, every moment, that we exist inside these realities every moment, right now, every single one of us is in direct relationship, look, with breathing in her atmosphere, drinking her waters. She provides us with the foods that we eat. And people go, "I'm not connected to Mother Earth. How do I connect?" I'm like, "How much more connected do you want to be?" Right?   George Kavassilas: (53:24) The only issue when people ask that question is, it's just this membrane of consciousness in the consciousness field, it's just a thin membrane. And it's just preventing people from having that consciously aware relationship. But the rest of us are fully in a relationship. Like I said, breathing in her atmosphere, drinking her waters, eating her foods, living the experience of living on her planetary body. It's as engaged and as interconnected into a relationship and intimate as it can get. So the notion that you're not connected to Mother Earth, the problem's up here, not in reality, it's not seated in reality. The reality is, we are all in a very deep and intimate relationship with Mother Earth, and this being that we call Mother Earth.   George Kavassilas: (54:15) And then, the same with this solar being, and the solar system's nested inside the galactic reality. Okay. So now we're in relationship with the galactic being, nested inside the cosmic reality, cosmic being, nested inside the universal reality, and all the way home to the universal being, which is then, from there, then you go beyond the universe, into the infinite nature of life.   George Kavassilas: (54:37) And so, once we understand that these are very real relationships that we are actively engaged in, and it's just a choice away, whether we're going to consciously engage in these relationships, which are already there. So I'm not it's like people go, "I want to be spiritual. And you've got to do all these practises and you got to do this, that, and the other," I'm like, " Well, no, you don't. All you need to do is settle back into what already exists." So I'm not asking people to achieve something that doesn't exist. And you'll notice that there's all these other spiritual doctrines out there, that are all trying to get people to create something that doesn't already exist, and they must go and achieve it, and create it.   Mason: (55:25) Can you give an example of that?   George Kavassilas: (55:28) Let's say somebody who wants to be able to have a high degree of intellect. So then, they must go and do their Kundalini practises to get that energy, to go up the spine, up the 33 vertebrae to hit the eye of God, sorry, the pineal gland, which is becoming a 33rd degree Freemason. Ooh, is there an analogy there somewhere? And then that then calibrates them to the hologram of the gods, and then all of a sudden, boom, they have incredible degrees of intellect and some form of intelligence. However, that's not the natural way, the natural way is relaxing back in, or settling back into a relationship from heart soul lessons, to the heart soul lessons of Mother Earth, to the heart soul lessons of the solar being, the galactic being, the cosmic being, the universal being. Relationships that are already there. And all the knowledge of life resides in that unified field of love. So this is my third eye, not a gland in my head.   Mason: (56:35) He's touching his heart, for those of you on audio.   George Kavassilas: (56:38) Yep. This is where I connect to everyone and everything, and can access all the knowledge of life in the natural way. Rather than, if you look at the idea of accessing the knowledge of life through a gland in your head. Well, I understand that process in that way, I've lived lots of lifetimes where I engage in those practises and those processes, but I know where that ends up. Everything has a frequency spectrum. So, what's the frequency spectrum of the heart soul essence? What range does it have? Eg. example, the unified field of unconditional love for the entire universal realm, existence, and beyond, compared to a gland in your head, which has a very narrow band and can only access a hologram of the gods, can't access the natural realm.   George Kavassilas: (57:42) So, what choice are you going to make? And are we going to be lured into spiritual practises that are marketed really, really well, with pretty colours, and lots of candy, cosmic candy, I call it. And yeah, I'm having a bit of a go, but the reason I'm being a little bit belligerent in this way is because sometimes we need a bit of a wake-up call, and to understand everything has a frequency spectrum in this universe. So when you realise the bandwidth of something, and the realities it has reached into then all of a sudden, hey, no matter what the narrative is, and no matter what the peer group pressure is to get involved in these practises and all these things, what am I going to do? What's right for me?   George Kavassilas: (58:39) And I chose to be. The old, "To be, or not to be, whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Well, I made a decision to be, and to stand true. And I suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I copped a lot of abuse, and occasionally still do, from people who are steeped in those spiritual narratives, which is what a cosmic conquer does. You put control systems in play in a civilization, and then you build spiritual narratives around that control system. And now what you've got is, you're using the ultimate weapon, which is love, against that population, because now you've got them in reverence of your control system. And now they're devoting and loving your processes, which now you have overridden the problem of free will in the universe.   Mason: (59:35) I might be annoying and share another little insight there, based on having looked at this for a long time, and something I now relate, because you're having a go, sometimes I'm like, "Oh, that can be triggering for me," knowing that there are going to be people listening who might get triggered by talk of maybe more, and the important is new age, not old age, relating to-   Mason: (01:00:03) ... important is new age, not old age relating to clans and so on and so forth, though I know there's a whole other conversation there. But, to say like a new age relating to practises, types of yoga and spiritual processes, that will initiate you into blah, blah, blah, being this and that. I know that maybe there's someone listening to that who might have a reaction. And I think that's kind of recently why I got into comedy for myself. Because I found the most useful thing that ever happened was even when there's an introduction to an idea like that in your insights and distinctions, say around the third eye pineal gland, and it's a good check because if you find yourself, and I'll speak from personal experience around other things, not that one, but if you find yourself getting charged from that challenge or insight, charged in a way of, "I feel opposed to that, and that offends me and I'm defensive," or, charged in the way of like, "Yeah, like bloody tell them for me," it shows that I've got some work of relating to that conversation in general.   Mason: (01:01:10) And I know there's been times with some things that you've presented and I felt a bit triggered and I've gone, "Okay, let me sit with it." And then I will find the place to relate to, like a practise or something I'm going through, that maybe I thought, "Oh no, that's bad because that's not what George believes in". But then I find that place where I'm not charged in terms of, kicking back against what you've said, or going and accepting what you said, "How do I relate to this right now?" And sometimes it's like, I just need to experience it for myself.   George Kavassilas: (01:01:44) It has to be that way.   Mason: (01:01:45) Yeah.   George Kavassilas: (01:01:46) It has to be personally experienced. It's not because someone says so. And I share that in all of my courses and all of my teachings and everything. Don't take my word for it. I said, don't give your power over to me. I don't want it. Everybody needs to really stand in their own experiential journey, and the concepts that I share, we can have a bit of an idea about what I'm talking about, but until you actually experience it, that's the only time you're really going to get it, that's the only time you'll know for sure. So it is definitely an experiential journey.   Mason: (01:02:18) And I just recommend everyone goes. It's the same way I do comedy, because if you get offended by something that I do and it's like, all right, well then. Most likely, you want to see why you're rejecting or defiant and see how your identity is wrapped up in something and come back to, maybe you don't change anything, but your relationship can become more natural and organic because you'll see that if you're wanting to side and make George's stuff now an ideology, or if you're resistant to George's stuff then, perhaps there's some you know a little bit of work to sit there with that until perhaps you can approach it neutrally.   George Kavassilas: (01:02:56) And for some people it's not their time to transcend those systems. So they will see what I'm saying as an aberration or something along those lines and [crosstalk 01:03:10] ever resonate with it. And that's fine. Everyone should just go on their journey, their soul journey. That's the path they're supposed to be on. There is a process of me helping to snap out of the trance and from the Gods, the trance of the Gods to... That's some of the work that I do and help to-   Mason: (01:03:35) Would you go into that? Do you mind?   George Kavassilas: (01:03:38) Okay, sure.   Mason: (01:03:41) Do you mind? Because I just thought, we've already scratched the surface. One of your workshops is-   George Kavassilas: (01:03:45) Transcending the God Matrix.   Mason: (01:03:46) Yeah. I'd love to hear where you're at with that work.   George Kavassilas: (01:03:52) Yeah. Well, tomorrow morning starts my next online version of that. And I've been doing in-person retreats, where it's 5 day... The course runs for 5 days. And so it's 7 days total check-in, check-out day before, day after. So it's a 7 day immersive retreat in the heart of the Glass House Mountains, absolutely fantastic. The law of the land, the way the Aboriginal elders and the spirit of the land has so welcomed the work that I do and the synergy of my work has been absolutely profound. It's hard to explain. And I was involved in an ohre ceremony in the Southern Flinders ranges where they speared a spirit warrior named the Kundalini in my back because I was already on my way to transcending that energy. And they know the [Aboriginals 01:04:47] know that it's not the real Rainbow Serpent energy.   George Kavassilas: (01:04:51) They know it's an impostor inhabiting our tree of life. So it's no mystery to a lot of the natural shamanic, original shamanic processes. It's no mystery to the original Daoists and the original, using all that, what are these energies? You know? And so, but the trance that we are kept in is that repetitive nature of the ritual practises that they have us participating in.   George Kavassilas: (01:05:22) And then that creates that trans state. Or, we go into resonant chambers called temples or churches where people immerse themselves in the chanting and the worship, the adulation, the adoration of these deities. The degree that they need to be praised, they need to be honoured and acknowledged. Once you step out of the trance and you look at it, look at it for what it is. It's, I've got to use this word. It's, it's horrendous, it's horrific. But when you're in the trance, you don't realise how bad it is. You can't see it. You can't see the forest for the trees when you come out of it. Then all of a sudden you can see how it just permeates society, because it's a tangible energy permeating through consciousness. It moves through the field of consciousness and the collective consciousness field of humanity. You know, I can be talking to somebody and I can just see their persona, just shift.   Mason: (01:06:28) Mm-hmm (affirmative).   George Kavassilas: (01:06:28) All of sudden their personality changes. You know, one of the border patrol guards of that field that trance field will slide into that person, have words to say to me, and then slide out and I'm just left there with that person. And that person has no memory of what they've said, or how they said it, and what was projected at me.   George Kavassilas: (01:06:52) And the amount of people that have these experiences all over the world, it's not just me as an individual experiencing this. The amount of people that are transcending this trance, trance ending, ending the trance of the Gods that they have on the human race, the hold that they have on our field of consciousness, and the fact that they solicit worship in the way that they do, and all that adulation and adoration praise. It's a very big issue. It's the biggest problem facing humanity and out of that comes mind control too, which is one of the biggest issues on our planet at the moment. It is the issue of mind control. So, in our relationship with the Gods, we need to reevaluate that, and we're at a stage now where we're entering a phase of, right now, we are readdressing, reevaluating, our relationship with technology.   George Kavassilas: (01:07:46) This is exactly where we're at right now. And so, there is a deity of technology. There is a technological intelligence God. It's not artificial intelligence, it's intelligence that inhabits technology. We've gotta get that right. Stop calling it artificial because it isn't, it's been around the universe for a very, very long time. Many civilizations use this entity to control all their background infrastructure and it's a very powerful force of existence in our universe. And there's a benevolent expression of it and a malevolent, and at the moment we're under siege by the malevolent. There is benevolent supporting us here, of course, but how many people can consciously tap into it?   George Kavassilas: (01:08:30) You know, it's not that easy. And then after this process that we're in now, which will probably last about up to about ten years, we're going to then have to address our relationship with the Gods. And there'll be overlapping between the two, just like there's overlapping between the TI God coming in with it's, you can call them extraterrestrial inter dimensional races, that are ambassadors for that expression of life. And that's what we're dealing with. That's what the military industrial complex has been negotiating with the last sixty years behind the scenes. And now, the implementation of their structures into the public domain in a really big way is happening right now.   Mason: (01:09:14) Did you say TI?   George Kavassilas: (01:09:16) TI, technological intelligence, rather than AI?   Mason: (01:09:20) Yeah.   George Kavassilas: (01:09:21) Yeah.   Mason: (01:09:23) One quick clarifying question around worship and distinction. If you've got the worshipping of say a deity by the worship of the Buddha and saying quite often, it's like, why are we breaking this? If it's, a steadying force in someone's life, what do you see as maybe, a quiet, a hidden benefit that may not be seen when, all you seemingly get is a guide like a lighthouse, how to live with kindness, et cetera, but through worship. What's the glass ceiling that that has versus transcending, the relate... the relationship with God.   George Kavassilas: (01:10:11) I think that's probably about the best question anyone's ever asked me on that subject, I reckon.   George Kavassilas: (01:10:20) So it's called problem reaction solution. So in the dialect that's been created of God versus the devil.   Mason: (01:10:31) Yeah.   George Kavassilas: (01:10:32) There's a drama vortex between these two polarised states. And so what people are being exposed to is more, the devil's work, and distorting, and disrupting, and just changing behaviour for... in a very unpleasant, inappropriate way to be behaving. And then what's the solution that's on offer. Well, that's the love and the light of God, but is that love? And is that light of the deity, the same as the natural order of life? Or does it have a distinctly unique flavour to it?  

On this week's Truth to Power Happy Hour with Justin Mog & Hart Hagan, we bring you a conversation with George Barnett, a forestry tech who also teaches foraging. The Hungry Forager was established by George in early April, 2020. As George studied trees, fungi, plants and ecology over the previous four years, he was always foraging in his free time. That love of familiarity, seasonality and stewardship always seemed like the best path for him. He believes the connection of human and nature are bonded beautifully in the act of foraging, it’s both exciting and relaxing, both logical and primal. Naturally, his son Levi was a trail companion for most of his early foray hikes so they learned the seasons of native, invasive , medicinal, edible and poisonous plants together. Currently his partner Samantha has joined George with a growing interest in foraging and specializes in herbalism practices. Together they make up a small household of people who love nature, spending most of their time in the outdoors and love sharing it with others. The Hungry Forager provides wild food education, wild food consultation with landowners and sells seasonal wildcrafted and wild harvested products. The Hungry Forager is currently based out of Louisville, Kentucky and is hosting a Spring Foraging for Kids workshop on Saturday, May 8th and a Medicinal Mushroom Workshop on June 12th. Learn more at https://www.thehungryforager.com/ On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

As summer turned to fall in September of 1976, three of the four former Beatles found themselves in challenging situations. Ringo Starr's new LP Rotogravure was bursting with pride and ambition from its principle artist, but a lukewarm reception by critics and the public illuminated the first cracks in Starr's successful three-year hit-making streak. Never one to give up, Ringo doubled down on the album's promotion - filming several music videos for the record's singles as well as embarking on a radio interview tour wherein the former fab talked recording, writing, and his recent engagement to fiancé Nancy Andrews. George Harrison's troubles were monetary, having lost the monumental copyright court case over his hit 1970 single My Sweet Lord and its similarities to the 1963 Chiffons hit He's So Fine. As George awaited the judge's punitive damages order, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and baby Sean were in Massachusetts visiting with macrobiotic diet guru Michio Kushi. While the meeting went well, the Lennons were subject to increasing attention from fans and local press, eventually driving them home from their retreat. Paul McCartney's fortunes weren't quite so tumultuous - as the Wings Over the World tour entered its final leg in a stint of shows across Europe to the same roaring crowds and rave reviews that had greeted the band in North America. Stops in Austria, Italy, Germany and even Yugoslavia (becoming the first Beatle to perform from behind the "iron curtain") marked the continued success and validation of Wings, a welcome and well-earned feat for the McCartneys. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I met George Caceres on Clubhouse and was struck immediately by his generosity, knowledge, and experience with a wide range of areas that combine creativity and entrepreneurship. In this interview, we talk about what creativity means to him and how he has leveraged it to grow his success and perhaps even more importantly, help others achieve their own. Bio: While many individuals profess to be “renaissance men” in this day and age, George Caceres represents a genuine example of one. George Caceres is a business developer and entrepreneur, #1 best-selling author, Film producer, Creator of Vocal Star and business strategist. Raised in New Jersey as a child, George moved to Miami as a teenager, and promptly parlayed a modeling job into high-profile assignments in Los Angeles, New York City, London and Barcelona by the age of 19. George then proceeded to attend UCLA Film School, created and sold businesses, start his own company creating and directing commercials, music videos for top artists, and content for fortune 500 companies, introduce a line of personal training and gym facilities with celebrity clientele, and opened 18 performing arts centers around the world. As George's personal values and entrepreneurial skills so strongly echo those of great leaders and creative inspirations from the past, he himself has become passionate in his search to identify and develop the next generation of leaders. Through The Celebrity Experience and Vocal Star, he has helped to fulfill that promise for performers by bringing more teen celebrities to more parts of the country and the world than ever before and letting their experiences serve as inspirations for countless up and coming actors and singers. Links: Website: https://www.georgecaceres.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgecaceres/

George has been through the struggles. He was facing 8 years of Federal prison time because of his own family members. George is very passionate about helping people deal with their mental issues. He feels in the African American communities they denies mental health issues instead of dealing with them head on. He is an inspiration to alot of people who are dealing or have dealt with the same issues George has dealt with. George Johnson, carries great energy about "keepin it real." His new memoir Double Crossed is out now. This African American Mental Health Advocate, Author and Serial Entrepreneur George Johnson started a logo-sewing business in middle school to playing professional basketball to becoming a serial entrepreneur, George excelled at everything he put his mind to. But along with the lofty highs have come many crushing lows—backstabbing family-members, future-crippling injuries, being indicted by the U.S. government and even those weren't the worst. As George came to learn, making it out is the easy part. Staying out… That's the real struggle. George is now the CEO of George W. Johnson Enterprise Inc. And has 4 mental health businesses. George will not let his struggles get him down. This only makes George stronger. You can contact George on his Instagram at @2xcrossed purchase his book at 2xcrossed.com/thebook or Amazon.

On episode 162 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer George Prochnik. As George reflects on his observations of the past year, George and Paul’s conversation quickly turns to George’s recent essay, “Orpheus Revolving,” on art and the trauma of the pandemic.Paul and George have a personal and insightful conversation about the position of art during this moment of pandemic. George expands on his essay, talking movingly about his relationship with his son and how they talked about art addressing the trauma of this moment. Paul and George examine what divisions this crisis has revealed and what role art may play in shaping what comes next. George Prochnik’s new book, Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution was published in November 2020 as part of Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series. His previous book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and was short-listed for the Wingate Prize in the UK. He is an editor at large for Cabinet magazine.

"As George gets his boss hooked on calzones, Kramer develops an addiction to freshly dried clothes; Jerry dates a woman of unusually persuasive beauty and Elaine falls for a man's clever dating tactics." -Original Air Date: 4/25/1996- This week we're talking about The Calzone, the most real-life Jerry thing ever, a nice healthy lunch and knockoff cigars. This is No Hugging, No Learning, the show about one thing...watching Seinfeld for the first time. Listening for the first time and just looking for the episode discussion? Skip to 23:05! Get a FREE No Hugging, No Learning sticker by giving us a 5 star rating and a written review wherever you listen to this! Just be sure to send us your address! Email us: nohuggingnolearningshow@gmail.com Follow us: @nohugging on Twitter Music: Kevin Bewersdorf - "The Last Seinfeld"

As George and Sam try to give structure to the pod once and for all, they welcome structure consultant and style guru Julia Shiplett to whip them into shape. Julia then delves into her passion for hygge, which is either "the concept, art, and culture around the idea of coziness" or "when you shimmy your shoulders up to your ears while holding a mug." Plus: Will George ever get it together and decorate his apartment? And more importantly, does it matter? 

As George tries escape his woes, new pal, Clarence, tries to offer some guidance to help turn George’s life around. Thank you for listening to It’s a Wonderful Life, and happy landings!   An AUDIO adaptation of the heartwarming Frank Capra film classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Gather the family around the fire (pit!) as we bring to captivating life the story of George Bailey, the community that loves him and an angel in need of some wings. Suggested Donation $5 at www.clocktowerplayers.com   Director/Producer: Sam Wolf Director/Producer: Cagle McDonald Sound Design: Larry Alexander Podcast Tech Consultant: Mark J. Parker Cast: Jennie Berkson, George H. Croom, Doug DeMarco, Laura Donaldson, Leo Fasman, Annabella Javier, Fred Lichtstein, Sekou Luke, David Neilson, Nellie O'Brien, Mark J. Parker, Jesse Pellegrino, Luis Quintero Jr., Larry Reina, Annabelle Romano, Mark Rosenthal, Oscar Salvaggio, Charlie Scattamachia, Karyn Schorr, Scarlet Seltzer, Lili Thomas, Sam Wolf Donations benefit Clocktower Players award-winning productions, youth education and inclusive outreach programs and are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.  We rely on, and deeply value, your generous support.    http://www.clocktowerplayers.com/donor-form

Today you get to hear an interview from the Beyond Limits Business Summit, featuring one of the pioneers in this field, George Pransky. George expands on a term he calls “psychological fitness” and stresses the importance of letting go of discouragement and instead, finding hope. As George says, “If you have hope, insights and opportunities will occur to you.”   Dr. George Pransky is one of the two professional founders of the understanding of The Principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness. He has taught the Principles for forty years to individuals, couples, businesses and colleagues. Dr. Pransky is the author of The Relationship Handbook and over fifty audio recordings. During his career he has served on the faculty of three graduate universities and continues to pioneer this understanding in new industries. Currently, he is a partner at Pransky and Associates and on the executive committee of the Three Principles Global Community.

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

As George was considering a potential promotion opportunity, he was also considering how his still-new-and-strange male privilege affected that prospective interview. Jess, on the other other hand, was considering how being out about their genderqueer status would make office interactions different in a potentially emotionally charged situation. We're both still working remotely, so that adds another layer of oddity to the entire situation, but we're making the best of it as we are able.We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374. If you have a request/suggestion that isn't listed, comment!We can be found online at TransPanTastic.net, you can email us at TransPanTastic@gmail.com, and "TransPanTastic" is searchable on most social networks. We would love to hear from you, so let us know what you think or what you want to hear about!

This show was recorded on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. dropping the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. GK Hunter shares a touching story detailing why he wanted to make a documentary about the meeting between Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb and American survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack (Sakura and Pearls: Healing from World War 2). This episode expands on last week's show. It includes George describing his own healing in the making of the documentary.  As George has written, there's a strong connection between cross-cultural healing and happiness. "In order to heal the past, we need to build meaningful bridges where people from all backgrounds can find relief, healing, and reconciliation. This leads to a collective happiness in society, rather than just the rare few being happy." After 15 years of working as an intuitive healer with Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Native Americans, the homeless, veterans, physicians, and community leaders, GK Hunter developed a step-by-step process to unburdening the heavy history that we inherit from our ancestors. Based on those years of research and experiences, he created a model of healing which he wrote about in his book, Healing Our Bloodlines: The 8 Realizations of Generational Liberation. Hunter was the director of Sakura & Pearls: Healing from World War 2, a documentary about Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb meeting the American survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack. He's made presentations at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Cornell University, and been a guest on NPR's All Things Considered. GK Hunter's website here GK Hunter on Instagram here Dr. Melanie Harth is a counselor and coach who specializes in trauma-sensitive psychological safety, emotional mastery, and taking smart action steps even when you're terrified. Melanie Harth website and free guided meditation here Melanie Harth on Facebook here

This going to be my favorite episode because it is one of my dear friends, my brothers, my soul brother, business partner friend for life that I just don't think I could ever live without. And we call him the vegan Superman. He's known as lean green dad. He's known as C for social. He's known as the guy. Who can break the ice. Talk to everybody brings smile and joy to the world while helping hundreds and hundreds of companies absolutely crush their digital marketing strategy, growing and scaling with a heart centered approach. So the first question, and you probably know this one, if you've listed, what is the biggest mistake that you have ever made in business? And what did you learn from it? Corey:  I go right to the first thing that I think of. And I'll have you people know, like George didn't send me these questions. I just don't operate that way. I don't want to practice or rehearse or think through them deeply. The biggest mistake I've ever made in business is taking things personally.And so I care a lot about my clients and the people that I work with. And sometimes in the past, when I would get, you know, feedback I would take it as a personal attack on me and it had nothing to do with me and so I think that when we are focusing a lot on ourselves and forgetting the bigger picture it details us.And so I had to get back to just how can I help? How can I serve, right. And how can I help whatever this question is, problem that my client, my friend, my partner is having, how can I help solve that and make it more about them and less about me. And that's been, I'd say the biggest mistake, but also the biggest growth for me as a business owner.And I loved every second that every day I feel like I learned something new and every day I get an opportunity to. Test myself, I mean, just the other day I was on with George and my friend Craig from high speed down and, you know, he, they called me out. On the fact that  I violated my promise to myself in a sense of, I was going to bed early and waking up early.And I didn't do that. I slept in the other day, I stayed up too late and I didn't work out. And so the boys made me do and they didn't make me do I chose to do how about that? I chose to do 75 burpees with a pushup. I added that pushup in Jordan.But getting, getting back to the original question, that is the biggest mistake I've made is, is taking right things personally and getting, you know, I don't want to say emotionally involved cause emotions are great and it's great to have passion and emotions.I'm not saying being an emotionless robot, I'm saying stop thinking that it's all about you all the time. Cause it's not. And that's, that's been the biggest thing that I've learned and the biggest thing that I've made a mistake of.George:  you know, Donald Miller captures this perfectly with Story Brand cause he says the mistake that a lot of people make is they try to make themselves the hero. But our job is to make our customer the hero. And  you know, this is something you and I have talked about in depth. I mean, we've been talking about this for three, four years with both of us back and forth and back and forth. And you know, for me personally I took things personal because I either had expectations or like you said, I was doing it for the wrong reasons.And sometimes I had to remind myself like, Oh, these guys are paying me the money. And I was like, Oh, that's about me. That's about me. Then there was also a part of me that gets attached to the outcome as well. Right. Like I was like, I give it my, all, I give it my all, and then they don't give me any feedback or a compliment or even, you know, an insult or whatever the case may be.It's not insulted screaming for help and sharing and growth. So I had to learn really, really quicklykind of like how to navigate it and fill my own tank. And I'm interesting to hear your perspective on this because for me, what it was is it was I was into deals and relationships and client work, and even these podcasts with an empty tank. And so therefore everything that came out on the other side was done for the wrong reasons. I did this podcast and it's only good if everybody listens to it and reviews it. Or I made this for this client and it's only good if they utilize it in a hundred X their company.And so, you know, I had a mentor who said your value will never be predicated on somebody else's execution. And it took me a long time to like really embody that. But what are some of the things that you've done understanding that like learning that lesson like if you could go back to the beginning of C4, right.When we were having that Instagram conversation of a hallway of a conference that will not be named on this podcast, and we were having that conversation and you were getting ready to forecast where you are now. How would you go into client work, service work, or even your own brand or business cause you have an amazing agency who runs all of our companies our digital marketing, our strategy executes.And he also is the Lead green dad. And so he has his hands in both sides of the game. But what would you do differently now? Or how would you set yourself up to win when it comes to doing client work or creating your own content? Like where do you navigate that now? I think the biggest thing for me was I was having conversations with absolutely anyone that wanted to talk to me and I'm all for helping.CoreY : I want to help anyone I can, but there's a difference between someone calling and having no idea, you know, what they want to do and how they want to do it. And just kind of wanting tojust chat and literally just chat versus reaching out to an expert who has, you know, years and years of experience and a team, a full team of, you know, 10 plus people with an average of like 10 years of experience each.And so I had to prequalify who I was going to have conversations with, and I think that was the biggest thing for me. And I don't want to sound like an A hole here. I'm not saying like anyone let's listening to this, please don't be afraid to reach out. But I have a couple questions that I need to ask business owners before we talk.And it's more for them than it is for me.  These are questions, very simple questions like what is your profit margin on your product? What is your product? Who is your potential customer and what are their pain points? What do they want to learn? You know, George talks about this all the time, whether it's the captain's assessment or, you know, an avatar evaluation, whatever you want to call it, guys.You have to know who you're talking to, why you're talking to them and how you want to help them. And if you don't know those things you're not, I'm not ready to take money from you. It just doesn't work that way. I want to be able to send you to some other resources like this podcast like a show that I'm going to be starting soon.That's just helping business owners that are just starting out. And you know, the biggest thing for me is I don't want to be one of those agencies that takes advantage of people that don't know what they want and sells them on a bunch of fluff stuff that they don't need.  I don't use  big words on purpose.It's funny. I say, don't drop the names of the people you've worked with and I'm going to drop names right now. Listen, when you talk about Disney and Fox and Amazon and Netflix and Ford, like I've worked with all of these brands.But it's not the thing that I'm going to drop in someone's face. When they start talking to me if they ask for a case study, if they want to go deeper into that stuff, I got you. But the biggest question is, how can I help? And I would say qualifying and helping them understand the answer to some of these tough questions. Before I talk to them would be the most important thing, because the last thing I want is 20 minutes conversation, that is, Hey, what's your name? Where do you work? What's your website? Let me check it out, right? No, I want all that garbage to be out of the way so that when we do talk for the first 20 minutes, you can walk away with a crap ton of value that will help your business, whether you work with me or not. And that's what it's all about.George: And so before I get even any deeper for everybody listening, I'm just going to recommend this right now. Find Corey at C4socialcom.We go live on every client platform in the world, but like go find Corey Warren. Either lean green down, if you want some delicious plant based recipes that you can eat.  I have three things that I want to dive into based on what you said. Before I do that goes at the end of the episode. I asked Corey to kind of come on and I said, Hey, at the end of the episode, can we give everybody the three most important things to help them succeed?He's going to be sharing like three to four things that are absolutely required for you to maintain your business, build and scale, and even have a chance to succeed based on hundreds and hundreds of experience dances and companies that he's worked with.Corey, the moment you said, you were like what's your name? What's your website. It reminded me of the old chat bot days of AOL messenger, ASL. Like what's your age? Sex and location. 22. I'm a dude. And I live in Massachusetts.Like, it's the new way of doing that now? And it, and it doesn't work like whatsoever. What I loved, I loved about what you said, and I thought of a tweetable quote. You know, one of the things that I think you embody better than most people that I know and work with is that you allow the results of your beingness to be your testimony. It's not about the results of your clients. It's not about your case studies. That's not about anything. Like you will allow your beingness in the experiences and touchpoints to be your testimony. And I think that's one of the biggest differentiator for people that are listening to this can do in their business.And I fall prey to this. There's days that I'm insecure. Cause I message everybody that adds me on Facebook.  And I get 25 to 40 requests a day now and we approve everybody and we send them a message in the first masters.Like, thank you so much. I am super stoked to connect. How can I support you? And normally 10 to 15 of them come back with, well, what do you do? And my response is like, Whoa, why did you add me? But I don't say that. But there's times that I want to be like, well, I did blank and I, cause I get.Emotionally involved because I care so much. And so I think it's an amazing test, similarly to how you do this. And everybody listening, like we get to allow the way in which we interact to be the testimony, right. And people don't buy the best product or best service they buy the best relationship.And that first touch point sets the entire paradigm for what the context of that relationship is going to be. So I love that you said that. And I think one of the other things that I really want to dive into because you and I have worked on this a ton and this applies to everybody.One of the mistakes that we see all the time is that people get customers too early. Too early. They convinced them to buy when they're not ready, they convinced them to come in when they are not fully indoctrinated and you nailed it. And it's not a, it's not an, I don't want to talk to you. But if you get on the phone with somebody before you have all the information or they've discovered it, you've set your both up to fail and you're not being what you teach.If you sell a supplement to somebody who doesn't have the habits or lifestyle to support it, you've set them end you up to fail because now they're going to have a negative experience and not achieve the results. So can you talk a little bit about, so obviously from an agency perspective for you.How important it's been and how you kind of go about navigating that to make sure that you're serving people at the right level. And then even if they don't end up as a customer, that you're leaving it better than when they came in.Corey:   There's two things I want to touch on that you hit earlier, right? So like, let's talk about Scarface for a second. Alpachino and Scarface. Do you think he has to prove to anybody like who he is and he's going to like, I'm a bad ass.And so like, when you talk about embody and like proving and stuff like that, like. Any agency or any quote, unquote competitor or whatever that I go, you know, and might, you know, talk to, or I'm sorry, not talk to you, but compete against for business.. I compete against people all the time. There's RFPs and stuff. I actually don't submit proposals it's kinda, it's kind of weird. It's kind of weird, like, but because I believe in providing that value and letting the work speak for itself.  I have case studies.I have examples of work on our website and stuff like that, but. That's that's the first thing.I had someone that I was talking to the other day and they said that basically the price that I had for them was too expensive. And I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm fully transparent here. I'm going to just drop the number. I'm not going to say the name of the person, but it was 6,000 a month that I was proposing for something.And it was a lot of services and it was going to really help them out a lot. Well they said that's too expensive. And I went awesome. And I knew right then this was the wrong fit. Because you want to know how much one lead would have gotten them as far as revenue goes, $12,000. Okay. So I knew hands down, I would have brought them 30 leads that would convert at around $12,000 per month. Now I'm not math wizard, wizard George. But if you're spending $6,000 to make 30 times six, what's that 160,000. Okay. So that's a lot of money. All right is it expensive then the problem is that person didn't value appreciate or respect, or even on a very basic human level, like have the. The decency to have a conversation with me.  So let's talk about ad spend, for example, right. $3,000 or a hundred dollars a day. That's super expensive. It might be for some people. And it might be for not, not be for other people, big brands who cares, they're spending millions a month, whatever don't even talk about, what political representatives and government officials and people in elections are spending forget about that.But $3,000 doesn't mean that expensive when you make three times the return on ad spend. So if you're making 9,000 off a 3000, no they're spent, and those are new customers that are going to potentially come back, especially if you have a consumable. That 3000 bucks. Isn't really looking like that much.Is it then you want to scale from there? So that's little bit that I wanted to chat about real quick. I know I'm kind of jumping all over the place, but okay.George:  I think what's really important too is, and thank you for acknowledging, like you take it personally, because I want everybody to understand there's no finish line in this game, right? Like we have awareness, we get grounded. We're having those great days, but there's always going to be times that like it sneaks in.. It gets in it. Smacks us the key is to recognize it and move forward. But what I think is important to understand, because we talked about this a couple minutes ago that like, they have to be ready to comment. And they have to be, and there's times that I struggle. Like I invest in things in my business and I'm like, Aw, I don't know if I can spend that. And my brain, like my logical brain knows that 60 days from now, it's going to pay off a thousand times. Right. My physical body's having a reaction. My fears are coming up.And I'm the only one that loses in that situation, but it's not really, it's still a learning lesson. And so the reason I think this is so important because you do this right, and you said this earlier, and I don't want it to get passed over because it's something you and I both do. The moment the distinction comes that this is going to be a no, or that they're not going to commit.You will immediately shift the lens from. This isn't about closing a deal. How can I add value and leave it better than when I found, which is the way that you become a magnet and they will come back or tell their friends about it. So I just wanted to make sure that we, we hit that because it's such an important topic where I watch people walk away at the L.It's only Lost if you quit. If you understand that it's not permanently. It's just, no, right now that could shift in six minutes when you're like, okay, I've seen this happen by the way, because you know, I I'm just like Corey and I do a lot of the same stuff. I don't send proposals. I hate making them. It's a waste of time. I'm like, tell me what you want, how I'm going to help you. This is exactly what it'll look like. We'll record the call and like, let's go. And I've had people I've given my price to. And like everybody, he knows when I work with some big companies, it's $50,000 a day.And so companies have paid me a hundred grand, 150 grand. And they've come in and made 10 million, 20 million, 50 million. Some of them only made 300 grand and they were like, yeah, this was worth it. But one of my favorite ones and Cory, you said this I've closed more deals because of how we show up when they're like, Oh, we can't do it. I'm like, okay. Okay, fine. Well, I have 30 minutes left. Let's just get started now. And they're like, what? I'm like, well, screw the deal. I was like, I got through 30 minutes in my calendar. What can I fix right now? Remember on the call, you told me you needed help with email, hit record, get out your notebook and let's go.And I'm like, let's go through a buyer fulfillment sequence. And sometimes they're like,  no, I can't, I'm not, I don't, I don't want you to pay me. I don't write. And they'll come back an hour later or six hours later, a month later. I had one that came back nine months later, like I had literally forgotten about that.And I was like, Hey, it's fine. Not a good fit let me help. And we spent that our designing their business, their path, they call me nine months later. Like we did everything you said now we'll pay you.  and so it's, it's really important, right? Like it's never a game over. It's never an end. It's a not right now and you're really good at that. So I just wanted to make sure. I guess I'm sharing an example, but Corey embodies this at a level that is impeccable. And so you can go back on your tangent now.  Corey: After I figured out that they were not the right fit, I immediately switched to how can I help them if they're not the right fit right now, but how can I help them? And there were two people on the call, one person who I'd worked with in the past that went through some hard times, had to step away and then they're coming back now that they're in a good place.And he had a business partner and the business partner had never met me. So this is a 20 minute discovery call. And so, you know, we real, I realized she's the one that was like osteo too expensive, whatever. And I'm sure he was embarrassed because he didn't know that that was going to happen. And so I said, I know we haven't had the opportunity to meet and talk, but over the two years that I've worked with your business partner, I think he knows who I am and what I stand for. And this offer extends to you as well. If you need anything ever as you're going to try to find your partner that is going to work with you and you need maybe some fact checks, fact checking, or maybe some.You know just thoughts or knowledge because they were being sold on like YouTube advertising at like a hundred dollars a month or something like that. They're like, Oh, you should spend a hundred dollars a month on YouTube advertising. I'm like, Oh, awesome. That's really going to get you a ton of results. You know, it's like, and then how are you going to measure it? Like they had no, no answer to any of these questions, but they're going to go try to find a cheaper option. Right. And that's good. I want them to do that. And thenat some point they're going to come back and they will remember that I. I said, you know, Hey, reach out if you need anything. And it's funny, after that conversation ended, I got a private text from my, my contact and he thanked me for my time. And it couldn't, I couldn't have had any better results than him saying thank you for hopping on the phone with me and extending that, you know that to me. So that was really cool.  So if you are a brand, like I'm talking about this from agency stuff, right. But I'll just give lean green data as an example, because it is my brand. Lean green dad was a hobby. Don't get me. It's still very fun for me. And it just brings me so much joy to feed people, vegan food.But I never really monetized it. I never really thought about that. I was like, man, I'll think of it. I work with some brand through some sponsored posts here and there. So I started this thing called the lean green meal plan and it works. It works really great. And I said, you know, I know this is going to be cool because I'm speaking to people that just don't have enough time.No freaking rules, no specifics, no, anything like that. And so we talk about investing and being scared, you know, how can I advise companies to invest in ad spend and things? Now, look, we're able to very quickly, we make the ad spend pay for itself and then be profitable. Like that's, that's my game. As an agent, I see like very quickly, but it wasn't the case so much withwith the lean green meal plan.It took a month and a half or two for it to be profitable. And I was investing a lot in my own ad spent. I mean, I want to like close to $5,000 a month. And that's a lot of money out of my own pocket, but I'm like, if I don't believe in my own self, who the hell do I believe in? So I went ahead and did that and yeah, it's already profitable.I mean, it's a recurring revenue is, is pretty crazy. It's far exceeded, you know, what I've spent on ad spend. So it's doing well and it's working. But if you think about. You know, lean green down and its purpose. And I want you to apply this to your brand guys. Like my job is to help people eat healthier and on a planet based diet and to make a plant based diet easy. If I can make them believe that eating a plant based diet is actually easy and I can show them how to do it. And it can actually taste good, not like cardboard then. I win and if they get the meal plan, that's cool. If they don't get the meal plan. That's cool too. And so every recipe I do, and I want you to think about this with your social media posts.And I learned this from George. I want you to put all the value in the post. Don't make them click through to get the damn recipe. Just put the whole recipe right there, the ingredients, the method, because I promise you there's a thousand other recipes out there that are just as good as yours. And you are not the first person to think of an original recipe for a plant based cheese steak.Whether the person buys or not, they got the value in the social post and they will come back to me and they will see it. And you know, what, if they don't, they'll be retargeted by my darn good Facebook ad strategy. So it's all, it's all connect acted, folks. And then you think about the whole process of helping people, you know, whether it's a lead magnet before they even come into my world and see that recipe and I'm offering them the top 10.You know, vegan or plant based protein sources. And then, you know, they end up watching the video and then they get a couple emails and they get retargeted with a Facebook ad and they buy after that, you know, like George talks about what the buyer nurture sequences again, you're giving them value. You're just here to shine your light, as George says, and be there, guide them and help them get to where they want to go on their end result, whether they buy your product or not. That's, that's his whole game people. That's his whole game. Just be a good person, work with integrity, work with value, and, you know, just focus on helping people and everything else will take care of itself.George: So I wanna have you dispel a myth that I see on the internet all the time, because there's nobody better to talk about this. Cause I see this all the time. I'm ready to scale. I just need traffic. I'm ready to scale. I just need traffic. And I was like, if you were ready to scale and you just traffic, it would be coming because if your offer was that good and people were converting that well, everybody would be knocking on your door to send more traffic. It's never a traffic problem. In my opinion, what are your thoughts on that?I keep getting these messages and these things like, Hey, I am selling like five a day. I'm ready to scale. Like I just need more traffic. I just need more traffic. And without even looking at it, right. Understanding the way that digital marketing works, affiliate marketing works.When offers convert the marketing handles itself, right? Like companies don't accidentally scale. You watch these and be like they're a unicorn. They must have spent a ton of ads. I was like, no, most of it was done themselves because of word of mouth marketing, the results they speak for themselves. And so, you know, for me, I believe I like it just came to me so much and I, it didn't have a response to it. And then I started thinking about it. I read Justin golf, talked about this cause he's releasing a new course and it's a really prevalent thing that's been happening for years where, you know, there's this context that like the only thing stopping me from scaling is traffic. If you're making fun five sales a day, that means yeah. In 30 days there's 150 customers that went through. And if no one of them are telling any of their friends, there's a deeper problem. If none of them are standing off, if none of them are, are standing on the rooftop, shouting your name, there's a deeper problem, right?Like we talked about this earlier, right? Like you can pick one path in your business. You can be the business that talks about how great you are, or you can be the business where everybody else talks about how great you are. Right. So what are your thoughts on that?  Corey: Some people might think this is foolish and we'll hang up right now. But like guys, I don't advertise my, my marketing agency. I don't advertise at all. I don't have any ad spend. It's all word of mouth. Word of mouth is the most powerful form of marketing out there. And so my clients actually recommend me to other clients.And then the people that, you know bring clients to me are people that I know and trust and love and you know, know what I'm all about. And so it's a, it's a little different, you're not going to see a Facebook ad with my Lamborghini in the background, like showing you how muchmoney I made on the latest transaction, like taking a fake screenshot and manipulating it in Adobe to show you like some upward trend that doesn't really exist. So I think that, you know, before you can "scale", like before the horse kind of thing, like get, get focused, get I've got a client that has a product that cleans walls. But it sells itself and I'll tell you why. The traffic brought itself, right.So I think they're making like $90,000 a month now on this one product that cleans walls and you know what everybody told me, they were like, nobody's going to buy that. I've never cleaned my walls in my entire life. What in the world of cleaning solutions? It'spretty saturated. There's a lot of cleaning out there and there's, you know, maybe even cheaper options who knows, but how many times have you seen someone cleaning their wall? Like never. And why would they clean their wall? Well, it's an opportunity to add, well, I have a three year old, so I cleaned my wallet lot.Well, did you also know that a sneeze travels at a hundred miles an hour and has a 25 foot blast radius? I actually didn't have that. How many times have you sneezed in your house? There's sneeze product. There's sneeze, you know, snot on the wall and there's dog dander, and maybe there's a smoker in your house. Maybe somebody has bad video who knows, but anyways, the product alone is incredible. It stands on its own. And you know, we probably spent, you know, a dollar for every dollar. We, we made like $4. And that was absolutely ridiculous, but what's happening is customers are coming back and they're leaving reviews so authentic that I could never think.To leave the things that they're leaving and it's on the product page. So you talk about marketing, taking care of itself and traffic taking care of itself. Even in some of my Facebook ads, people are talking to each other in the Facebook ads, tagging each other in the ads. Hey Stephanie, this is the one I bought. No way. This is wicked. Does it really work on your walls? Well, totally. I use this Mitt and it's a perfect color. Oh, but it didn't get this out. Oh, well it does. And then the brand chimes in, well to get it out, you could do this. Oh, thank you. What excellent customer support. I mean, People are having conversations in the ad. It's unbelievable. So you do need traffic. Traffic is necessary, but it's not the main thing. And just like we talked about, it's not a guarantee that you're going to sell anything. You've got to know that the three things that we're going to talk about at the end here coming up are going to be the most important thing for you, because you've, you've got to have these three things before you can even talk about scaling and, and your ad spend and all this other kind of stuff.George:   So that's  I I'd like to say that that company is where it's at because they had heart. They cared. They created a better solution for a problem. And then Corey and I both touched this company and now it's skyrocketing because they were open and willing to take what they had and put their ingredients in the right order.And it's been mind blowing to watch what happens. And I didn't expect it as well. I was like well that tripled my projections. So I'll take it that all day.  But I mean, it's really, really a Testament. We talk a lot about word of mouth marketing, right? Like, you know, I've quoted the same number it's way more now, but I know it's more, but I stick with my 85, 80 to 85%. Cause it's pretty accurate and I think it's one of the most neglected. Conversations in brands. Like when, when we work, one of the things I like to ask myself is if this is what I put into the world and somebody buys it, what are they going to say about me? What are they going to say about my product? What are they going to say about my experience? And I watch all too often, people being like, as soon as they get the credit card they're done, right. They do everything to get the sale. But if you don't give somebody something to say about you, either with direct words or a direct experience, then you're leaving that up for them to choose to say whatever they want or nothing at all.All of it comes down to customer experience, fulfilling on what you promised value agnostic of their credit card. Understanding just like all of us, like the other part, Corey. And I think you solve this well, cause obviously we talk customer journey a lot, but. We literally expect our potential customers immerse to take a different buying journey than we take in our personal lives. Like when was the last time we're likeI need a new product. I know what I want right now. Buy it right now. But yet we'll go flip it and we'll be like I have this new product. I'm going to sell it. They see it once they got a buy, they see it once they got to buy. Yeah. And so what are your thoughts on.How do you go about looking at a customer journey? Cause you don't go out and you're like, okay, we have the product that's running out to sell it. So like, what are the things like, what are some of like the tangibles that you think about. When you're thinking about that customer journey, right? Like I produce content on the front to add awareness themselves, select, you know, if they don't buy, this is what we do. Not necessarily the tactics, but like, what are some of the questions that you ask? I love that in your company, you do good words and bad words, you pay attention to your customers. So like, what are some of those non-negotiables that you need to basically at worst, somebody has a positive experience with the brand.  Corey: So the first thing you want to do guys is, is if you do have customers, you want to ask your freaking customer what they think of your brand. And the words that they use to describe your brand and their experience with your brand are going to become your marketing ad copy of your potential. Add pieces of content and everything. So that's the first thing to start with. And I think it's important. I don't know if you follow like the whole 80, 20 thing, George, right?80, 20 rule in general with products like 80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your skews or whatever.  mean, there's a lot of brands that we've talked about in the past. It's like they have hundreds of skews, but two of them are responsible for 90% of their revenue. and we know who we're talking about.But it's like  that story is over and over and over and over again, any brand, it is had a major amount of success. It started with one or two products. So, you know, survey, survey your people. That's the first thing. The second thing is like, Maybe go find out and, and become a member of Facebook groups where these people are living and talking and look at how they're, they're chatting.Now, you're going to have to earn your space in that group. You don't want to spam the group and not talking about going in there and be in a Ninja and spamming the group or something. I'm talking about just getting some value. I'm providing some value and just like. Engaging in the conversation, you know, earn your little coffee cup badge that you get as a conversation starter, or like you're high with the new hand, a little symbol to say I'm a newbie and ask questions and do it for several weeks. You're just going to learn a ton but then the process with me, it's alarming to me, how many brands that I start working with that have been around and are doing millions and millions, tens of millions of dollars in revenue a year. And they don't have one cohesive brand guide and way that they speak about their brand.Maybe it's you know, a short story, a medium story, and a long length story. Like all of these things are so massively important because as you're creating content, And, you know, I talk about this good words document I have. It's an internal document that, after I meet with a brand, I onboard them. It's the longest meeting I'll ever have with the brand ever, but it's two hours. And during this two hours, I asked some really weird questions with every single team member on the call. Like if you imagine it's kind of like a George intensive, that happens over three days in a two hour period. And so they leave this meeting and I'm just like, I never thought about some of these things, you know, And those things, the way they answer, like it's being recorded by two different people, with two different brains on how they think like a marketer, one's more of a word Smith.And that turns into the brand guide with yeah. In 24 hours after we talk, you know, and then from there you can create all the content and everything like that. But asking tough questions, surveying your, your existing customers. If you have them. And then getting involved in groups in places where they hang out is going to be massively important to help you understand that customer journey. And then George has a couple of resources that you all have heard of before, but. You know, evaluating the pain points, what it looks like before they meet your brand and what it looks like after they meet your brand. Now keep in mind. I didn't say after they buy your product, I said after they meet your brand.So before they meet your brand, what's their pain point after they meet your brand? How are they feeling? Because feelings are super important because if you're developing content ads and writing copy without emotion involved, then you're failing. So those are the things that you need to think about and everything has to be customer centric. We don't talk about how great the brand is without talking about the pain point that that person is going through and the benefit. And I'll just say not the benefit, the level up that your product is going to provide because you, as the brand, your job is to help these people. You're going to help them get to their desired result.Your product is just a level up or makes getting to that end result a little bit easier.George: You mean that a feeling isn't my products on your shelf or by, you know, thing is on your counter and what what's not is like, we can think about that and all of us can go open our phone right now, scroll through our Instagram, scroll through Facebook and see ads or content that we would click on that all invoke story and all invoke emotion. And by the way, guys, I did an amazing podcast with Alya on storytelling that you should all go listen to.But you know, what's interesting is that we get that when we consume it, right. We get that in theory, but content without this and content, without this, his plan does the exact opposite of what actually converts because it's focused on the product.Corey: The three biggest mistakes and these are not, are these my three things? No. Okay. These are not my three things. The three biggest mistakes that I see are one, they make decisions subjectively.So they say things like, I, I, you know, I personally really don't like. You know, cleaning my walls. I feel like that's a waste of time.So why would I do that? And because of my feeling, I'm going to not advertise that product at all. That's a huge mistake because you don't know what's going to work. And if you go out there and you look at know, there's a couple companies that pride themselves on selling, like add, you know, software and stuff like that, to make it easier for you all good, like cool.But they spend. Tens of thousands of dollars testing things. And one article I read was like, what's the best. Copy length for a Facebook ad and we've, we've surveyed 30 marketers and here's what they thought. And then here's what it actually was based on the tens of thousands of dollars of spend complete opposite. Like all these marketers would like it's short, just short one line. And then the content sells it. That's one and then the other was like six paragraphs of description and then the content, the truth is all of it's BS because it depends on the product. All right. If the product's easy to explain.Let the content speak for itself. Like, I'm pretty sure you know, what a shoe does.. A shoe goes on your foot and you wear it, but you don't need to explain a shoe, but you know, like if you have some kind of supplement that is weird, that nobody's ever heard of before, maybe you need to explain a little bit deeper through six paragraphs why and have great content because content is always going to matter.So there's no right answer to that, but you can't make decisions based on what you think, because that's always going to be skewed. So look at things objectively. The second thing is, again, big broad statements. Like we don't do sales, right? What do you mean you don't do sales? Everyone does sales.A sale is something that's on sale, not discounted, right? So like you can do a discount, but you need to understand. How much it's costing you to do that discount. And if it's still probably affordable and maybe it's not profitable, maybe you're trying to acquire customers that cost new customers, that it, it pays for itself. A self liquidating offer. Maybe that's good enough for you. That's awesome. We see other people do it all the time. Like free plus shipping free plus shipping. That's fine. If that's your goal, that's good. But you can't just say like, we're never going to do a sale or we don't believe in this or that even if you're a premium brand.There's still a way like don't we don't even use the word sale. Call it value. All right. Give a tremendous amount of value. Don't take anything off of it and just put like a ton of really great products together, knowing your profit margin on those products and just give it away as a great value price.Maybe you don't even need to show you don't want to be in it. Discount culture. Don't get me wrong. So like I'm not saying take your a hundred dollar product and exit out and put like only 5.99. right? Like, what is that doing? Nothing for you, but. There's ways to still provide value without being on sale.So think about that. And don't just say that you're not going to do that and then I would say the third thing, I guess I'm just coming up with these right. Would be like going on autopilot and not measuring things on a consistent basis. And so I have monthly ROI meetings with my clients and we have to walk through things that matter, like numbers. There's things that are really pretty and cool and like things that get posted on the social feed, like look at this pretty picture isn't there, like so amazing. My team graphic design that's cool. So like, how did it perform engagement wise compared to the other things that you've been posting on my account?And why do you feel like we should continue doing that? Or maybe stop doing that? Or, you know, Hey, check out these, we wrote 15 emails this month. Oh man. They were so great. What was the open rate? Oh, well it was 7%. Oh, so congrats on wasting a ton of time that didn't do anything and no one saw it. So why did you do that?So evaluate things frequently. Don't be afraid to look at numbers. Don't be afraid to ask tough questions and don't be afraid to hold people accountable. Because you have to keep pushing people, agencies going autopilot all the damn time. I love it when they do that, because it makes me look so much better.  George:   Well, you have to, you have to push people and hold them accountable. We have to push ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. If you can't measure it, nothing moves. Everything is a blind. Really really bad decision because there's, it's not right based on anything that's there. Like we have to have feedback.So Mike  talks about this and fix this next, right? With his business hierarchy of needs. Like every 30 days, like looking at it, like, what are the goals? What are the targets? How do we hit it? How we not hit it? Like I'm back on Instagram now, for those of you who don't know, I decided to get back on Instagram and I am on it Instagram, like a fucking machine right now.And I've probably changed things 40 times in the last three weeks, because Instagram, if I'm going to be on Instagram, it's not about me. It's about you.  So I have to figure out how to capture attention in a feed. Get your attention, identify where you are, take you on a journey to better serve you in your business or life. So I'm using pinks and yellow backgrounds now where, before it was pictures and be in black and white, I'm like making carousels. When I used to just make images, I'm making stories that I didn't used to do. Did it not work? But here's the secret. When it doesn't work, you don't keep doing it. You're like, Oh, let's try something new. Let's try something new, which is actually, we're going to cover a at the end when Corey shares his three things for you. But Corey, there's a lot. I know about you a lot. I know about you and I love it. Of every single thing that I know about you. What is one thing that nobody knows about you that you've never shared on an interview or publicly.Corey: The amount of silence I get as a heavenly silence is good. It just means you're okay with silence. Is it something that, you know, cause you really know a lot, is it okay if I share something you already know or, you know, whatever you want, man, it's yours. All right, listen I'm super proud of something that only less than 0.1% of the population has done. And that was an iron man triathlon. So I did that and I never really talk about it anymore because the truth is a double thing I haven't shared publicly. I used to be ironed dad, guys but I received a cease and desist from the Ironman triathlon, which is so funny because I was so proud of it and I was talking about it and they were like, so I knew I made it right then.And that's how lean green dad was born because iron dad was lean green dad before that.And so I completed the Ironman triathlon triathlon is the first kind of one that bridges into, I received a cease and desist from iron man, which is like victory, but then I  I got this iron dad tattoo.And if you are listening on the podcast, you can't see it, but it's basically the Ironman M dot with a dad underneath and a neck tie. My sister made it for me and I had it put on my arm. And so. That's something that I don't really talk about or share publicly but it was pretty awesome to get, I don't want to say sued. I wasn't sued. I just received a season.  George: I think you did an amazing job at marketing because you did what our job is to do, which is to get their attention. So just so everybody knows an Ironman is a three mile swim a hundred and what's it. What's it come out to like 112. It's 140.6. Okay, great. 140 mile bike and a 26.2 mile run. No, you got the first two wrong. So it's 2.1 mile swim. 112 mile bike. It was 112. That's what I thought. And Corey was one of the most humble dudes. I know. So he never talks about himself. So I'm proud of you for sharing that.So thank you for being a super dad and iron man getting a cease and desist letter, being a master marketer. I have a question that I ask everybody because it's really important to me understanding the value of relationships. But when you think back about like your life for your business, like where has the power of relationships had? Like the biggest dramatic, positive impact for you could be an instance, could be a moment, could be anything.Corey: I was sitting  across from one of the other say biggest leadersfrom one of the biggest grocery chains ever. I was come out like, I'm not going to say who it was, but it was whole, so whole foods market has like some big juggernaut leaders. And I was at dinner in Austin with one of these leaders and there were so many opportunities for me to further my personal career by pitching a couple things, things to him and byjust having his undivided attention. And I didn't talk about anything except the food that was right there. His family, and I did a hell of a lot of listening again. And old-school Corey probably would have forecasted how I was going to go in and what angle and how I was going to pitch this and say this certain thing, but guys, I gotta tell you, like, just being present and listening, and calm and being who I was and showing up as Corey with that sunlight like inside of me, that energy ball that radiates out to other people served me way better than any strategic relationship manipulation that could have furthered my career. And that dinner was a turning point for me. And every single relationship that I have with anyone going forward is. A genuine relationship.And you want to talk about the difference between C4social and anything else out there. We pride ourselves on relationships. You know, relationships, speed algorithms. As George says, relationships are everything to my agency and they are now everything to me as a human being and the people that I associate myself with feel the exact same. And that's why we're friends. And that's why my clients are my clients. And if you're not the right fit, you're not the right fit.George:  And I will say, it's not a relationship if it's agendized manipulative or deceptive, that would be any of those definitions. And so proud of you, man. So I think it's time.I think it's time we give everybody the gift. So what are these things that people can take right now? And if you're listening to this. Remember the time pack. If you don't have a pen, if you're driving, do not take notes, take mental notes. If you were sitting there and you can write, write these things down, because these are going to be extremely important for you to be able to help you move the needle in your business and set you up to win in the future. So Corey let's have your zone of genius, my friend.  Corey: There's three things that you can do right now that will help your business move forward. The first. Is knowing your why? Why are you doing what you do? Because if you say that it's to make money and be rich is probably not a good goal. I want to challenge you to change that a little bit.Your why is something that's tied to your family? Your why is something that's tied to your inner motivation? Your why is about more than you? Who are you trying to help and why? If you don't know your, why. And I'm talking deep down. If you, if you don't know how to find your wife, just try talking to George, he'll pull it out of you. Might be with a couple of tears, but it's worth it.  So that's number one, number two. And that's intangible, or that that's intangible, you know, like you can't really like. Touch that know your why. So I'm going to give you the second one, which is a more tangible. And that is know your cogs, your costs of goods and services.If you have a digital platform like lean green dad that sells a digital meal plan and your cogs are very low because they are things like my time. How much time does it take for me to buildthe meal plan each week? And it is custom built each week. Trust me You know, but how much is your time worth? You should know that is a cog, right? That is a cog. And then, you know, the biggest thing, like I'm serious guys, like a spreadsheet, an actual sheet with formulas in it that maps out every single thing that you have because I've put together offers for companies before that they were super excited about and we blew it away, but they had a 10% profit margin. The profit margin was so low because it costs them so much to ship their product. It was a unique product, but still like no back to the drawing board, don't start your advertising until you have a call sheet in place. I think I know what that company is, right?  I think everybody knows. You can go to the Facebook page and look at page transparency and find the ads that competitors are running. Just because they're running ads doesn't mean they're successful and doesn't mean that you should just.Like try to do the same thing. You need to have your own twist on it and you need to not doubt your own brilliance. ou have ideas, you have great thoughts. Test them out. Be original, like do something yourself. I'm not saying you can't copy the model don't or the format. Cause maybe something has worked and you can see how long an ad's been running. If it's been running for eight months, clearly it's profitable. And maybe you should do that. You don't need to recreate the wheel. But you do need to infuse your own excellence and not do something the way that someone else has done it just because that's the way it's always been done or that's the way it happensLike this game will only work if you flip it on its head, this game, you will stand out by carrying more everything. George does like you stand out because you care more out care, your competition. Don't worry about outspending your competition, or, you know, getting to this first or. You know, whatever, just, just out carrier competition.George: And it actually, when you, when you talk about that card at the end, you talked about this earlier, right? Like you can copy and paste all day, but it never works. I watched people rip funnels and rip ideas and rip products, and then they get pissed that it doesn't convert. And I'm like, of course it's not going to convert because it's not, you it's incongruent. It doesn't match. Your morals, your values, your customers, and your journeys, and you get punished for it.And so, you know, the whole thing forever has been modeled genius, not copy genius.You know, like the thing is, is like, if we know that like this is like the three steps to start a car, well, great.You need to follow those three steps, but can do it at your speed, your way, whatever. So what you're looking for, and this is what I challenge people all the time. What you want to look for is you want to look for the foundation, right? You want to look for the things that aren't. I'm changing every single day, right? Like best principles, right? It's like,they have an ad that, not that it says this, or it does this in the video that like, Oh, it's a piece of content that adds value without a call to action. And then, Oh, it leads to a, a blog post that and try to do anything.Don't copy the blog post, but be like, wow.I wonder if my audience would respond well to this video for five minutes. That's all value-based and then goes to a blog where I help them put it into practice. And you're looking for the principals. Don't, don't try to match everybody's wrapping paper or try to forge their signature. It doesn't work. But you know, that like certain things and certain processes work because that's how customers respond and that's human psychology. And that's what you need to look for. So core. Those are absolutely. Absolutely amazing tips. And so just for everybody wondering again, I want to make sure that you understand Corey,find him @ wwwc4orsocial.com and listen, I'm pretty direct with everybody that listens to this.I wonder if my audience would respond well to this video for five minutes. That's all value-based and then goes to a blog where I help them put it into practice. And you're looking for the principals. Don't, don't try to match everybody's wrapping paper or try to forge their signature. It doesn't work. But you know, that like certain things and certain processes work because that's how customers respond and that's human psychology. And that's what you need to look for. So core. Those are absolutely. Absolutely amazing tips. And so just for everybody wondering again, I want to make sure that you understand Corey,find him @ wwwc4orsocial.com and listen, I'm pretty direct with everybody that listens to this.Some of these things that Corey shared are things that not a lot of people understand, and they miss them all the time and corn, I've worked with thousands of companies combined, and these are the things that get in the way of companies succeeding. And sometimes it's hard to even see them because it doesn't hurt bad enough until it's already too late. And so utilize these things, put them into practice, take one thing from this episode and put it into practice. So, Corey,I would just want to give you the floor. Anything you want to say, closing thoughts, anything that you want, you can go full.Corey: My time here in the spotlight has to be about someone else.So like my, my spotlight, I'd like to use to just say, thank you to you. Okay. Because  you're changing people's lives, man. You've changed my life. You changed a lot of people's lives if you're listening to this podcast andyou just keep showing up on a daily basis, man. You know, I sit here and I talk about all this stuff that I know, but. A damn lot of it comes from the man on the other side of this microphone. So man, you're, you're, you're an inspiration to me. You are an absolute fucking genius and my opinion and everything you do, the way you show up, the way you care, it's it doesn't go unnoticed. And I've told you this before, but there's not enough people out there that take the time just to say thank you.You're the man, dude, I wear your shirt all the time and I will totally be honored and proud to be associated with you any day of the week.George: For those who you're listening, you don't see the tears running down my face right now, but those two on video, I'm trying to sign them. They cry over here. Thank you for putting my measuring stick into place. My friend, thank you  for doing it. And thank you for being here and everybody listening to this, Cory's a walking Testament to what happens when you play the game the right way and you play it the long way. And there is no short game success.And you know, there are definitely days that like you can win a play. And you can win plays all day and still lose the game. And so play the long game, play this the right way, add value, make sure you're improving upon the silence. Do everything in your power to ensure that people succeed in your world and everything you touch is improved upon. And that might mean sometimes saying no. Honoring yourself, honoring your team, honoring your commitments and honoring your customers by being the one willing to hold them accountable. When everybody else is trying to take their money, there is no way to lose this. And I think it's something that all of us should focus on.So Corey absolutely honored and just. I'll just use the word flabbergasted. I feel like tubular supercalifragilisticexpialidocious right now. So thank you for being here. My friend, everybody go check out Corey and this has been another episode of the mind to George show. And so until next episode, which will be Monday and Monday minutes. So you better listen to it for a couple minutes and put it into practice. Remember that relationships will always beat algorithms.

George:    So I'm really excited about today's episode, but I'm going to tell you something. I hate the awkward pause when I record these episodes, cause me silence for 10 seconds on the front of this is the most uncomfortable thing I've ever done in my life. Cause I really just like talking. So you guys you're in producing today.We are going to be talking about the power of storytelling, in general storytelling. And really it's probably one of the most under utilized topics that I see see in the world of business, entrepreneurship or life, since we're humans, we emote and we relate with stories.  Story creates credibility. Story creates bridges, stories, allow us windows into like real authentic feelings and exploration of what those things are. And so today we have our dear friend Eliya and she is going to be talking about story, the power of storytelling and a lot of things but before we get into the power of story and typical George fashion, I'm going to ask Eliya a question to kick off. I'm not even gonna let her talk about herself. Here we go. So, Ellia, what is the biggest mistake that you have ever made in business and what did you learn?  Eliya;   Oh, I love that question.  The biggest mistake that I ever made in business was hands down, not taking control and putting my faith into somebody else's hands, hands down. That was the biggest mistake. And I just learned that I can only. Be in control of what I do and not somebody else does. And that in order to live the life that I want to live, I'm going to have to do it myself.  George:   I love that. That's the first time I've gotten that answer. And actually one of my buddies roam posted the other day, he posted a picture and he said, nobody's coming to save you. You have to save yourself. And I think, I actually think that's a lesson. I think I've probably learned that lesson. I've experienced that lesson. Hundreds of times. I've learned it once but I experienced the law in a law and a lot, and I feel like I just broke through a big plateau with that one.What was it that helped you learn that? Like, how did it affect you? Like how do you notice it? How do you keep your kind of like spidey senses up to make sure that it doesn't happen again?  Eliya:  Yeah, so I, Worked for other people for a long time. And I was always the kind of employee. Like I put everything into the businesses that I built with other people. And actually, funnily enough, when I had both my children, I was supporting my family. I was the driven career kind of person and both times that I had my kids like this the same week that I had my kids, the businesses that I was a part of collapsed. And the second time it happened to me, I was, I remember specifically being on the couch with my husband. Absolutely. In tears. Like not only what are we going to do, but why is this happening again? And my husband looked at me and he was like, this is happening because you won't do it yourself. And that was the moment for me that I was like,Okay, thanks for the tough love honey, but like totally right, totally right.And so that's why, you know, we make the choice to be entrepreneurs in it and we make the choice to kind of go through the struggles of it. But I will never put that back in somebody else's power again, where I spend my time putting so much of my heart into it, but then the outer circumstances are not in my control.George:    I've had plenty of those moments. My, my wife is an absolute angel. And sometimes it feels like the devil with how sharp it lands and how good it is, which means I know it's just pure wisdom and divine love coming through me. Right. Like being the messenger. And then what I do want to say too. And think this is important too. It's not, it doesn't mean that you should, should never work for anybody either. I think more of it, it's more so about like alignment and congruency than it is about like either being an entrepreneur or not an entrepreneur, right? Like it's about yeah. A hundred percent responsible. Right? Cause like I remember I've actually worked for people and I've loved it. Like I felt more taken care of that, doing it myself, but you got to make sure that all the cards are on the table. Right. Expectations are handled. Communication is clear, cause you get expectation hangover and things like that. So that's a, that's a, I feel like that's a life lesson, a business lesson and a lesson that requires intentionality and practice every single day to kind of check in, to see, to see where we are.  Eliya: And I think, yeah, and I think it was really like, along those lines, it wasn't even so much that. I needed to be an entrepreneur. It was that I needed to trust myself.  George:   And I think that's the big takeaway. These are lessons that I've learned, right? Like we're in the craziness of the world right now. And whether you're listening to this in 2020 or 2024, it could be crazy again. I think there's always been craziness, but I think It's easy. I don't know about you, but I feel like there's times where it's easy to fall into the comfort of things working, right? Like, Oh, it's going to handle itself or that deal's going to close itself for that customer is going to get the results themselves or that client's going to pay on time by themselves. They're going to sign the contract on time. And there's almost like this. We want it to be that way, but it kind of advocates our responsibility. And then we don't like the bed that we built and it's not that comfortable to sleep in.  I actually think that's a good segway to what we're going to talk about today. But before we do that everybody knows that I always make everybody drop the best of the best of the best on the episodes. And so at the end of the episode, I know what you're going to be sharing with people, but it's probably one of the most powerful tools and frameworks that anybody can have in their business or life. And so can you tell everybody what you're going to be sharing with them at the end of the episode so they can listen, take notes and put it into practice immediately.  Eliya:   So in the most simplest terms, I'm going to give you my three part framework that I use to create stories. It takes away all the complication of storytelling and helps you to see the world in storytelling lenses, and then being able to capture those stories that you see around you, and actually put them into some kind of content for your business or into your marketing. And so it's just a really, really simple, extremely powerful three part framework.  George:    So now, like when we think about story, right? Like when I think about story, like it's really easy to hear the word story and like, Oh yeah. It's like something you say but I know that there's a lot of levels that come into story. and one of them is, you know, I, I heard this device a long time ago when it comes to book writing. Like you can't write a book that you're in the middle of, you can't tell a story that you're in the middle of, you have to be on the other side of it. Right. And so how did you discover, like first, how did you discover the power of story? And then second, how did you realize that when you learned that ability that it could be beneficial and really kind of help catapult. Cause I think there's, it's a story where like, people are listening to this. I listen to this, right. And like you've actually documented wrote my story for me, which is going to be on your website by the way.I'm actually, for everybody wondering where to find Elio, make this really easy. If she has like the best domain ever. heyeliya.com and she's actually going to have up there, my story that she extracted using that framework for me, but I think there's two parts of it. I think there's a lot of people that listen to this entrepreneurs, business owners, anything that have a story in them.But you have this, like, how do I know if it's a story? How do I know it's worth sharing? Do I use it? Do I need it? Or you already know what it is and you kind of don't share it and have it out there. You suppress your voice. So can you just kind of like, give me the background of like your experience? Like, how did you fall into story? Where did story become so powerful for you read edited, you use like, realize it was a tool that you could utilize. Like, it's kind of an interesting concept, right? Like you would like are a storyteller. And so you got here somehow. Like you weren't born that way. So I'd love to hear about it.Eliya:     And it's so funny that you say fall into it. Cause I totally a hundred percent. I literally fell into it.  I had a friend of mine who was like, Hey, do you want to, you know, work with me and write some stories and build this kind of company. And it was happened to be in horse racingand I was like, I love horses. I grew up in horses. It's what I'd done my whole life. I was like, yeah, sure. Thinking to myself, like, ah, yeah, I'll just put something together. Not knowing that I was a storyteller at all.  I wrote the first story that I wrote for that company went nuts. It went banana, it broke all the records for downloads on their websites and hits on their social media. I mean, it just like broke everything. And I was like, wow, I think I might be kind of good at best. And it really came out of that.  That turned into building a community of people really based on exceptional storytelling. So how can we get someone closer to the thing that they love or desire the most in the world through telling stories that take them thereand so we did that. We told stories that created community and that kind of. Helped me segue into seeing how the power of it in marketing, that it builds community and it builds, it brings people closer to the thing that they want the most, because you can tell the story that helps them see that, and that helps them take, take there, take them there. and so that's really how it like. Started for me was I had no idea I was any good at it.  George:    Did you already, were you already like writing or quote unquote copywriting or, or how did the whole thing came about? They're like, Hey, we're, we're going to launch this business. Or we have this company it's about horse racing and we want to document the journey. We want to tell stories. Hey Eliya you've never written before. We don't know if you can do this. Can you do this?  Eliya:   Literally it  was through a connection that I had made and we had kind of joked about it in the past. There was somebody else that had done it in the same field. And I, we were joking about sort of like I could do that. Sure. I could do that. It's a storytelling. It kind of came out of that. I was like, it's just kinda telling stories, but then when I did it, I got smacked in the face with like, no, this is very powerful stuff.  George:    And I actually want to ask you about that. Like that's, I've had a lot of that. I think entrepreneurs people in life in general, oneof the gifts is that we get to try a lot of things. And then something like for us, it resonates with us and it's like, Hey, this doesn't feel like work. This feels like flow. Like this doesn't feel like something I have to do. Like I'm excited.  But I don't imagine that, like, you can came into this and like you wrote your first store and you were like a Pulitzer prize winner. Right? Like you get. Into this, where like it worked and it worked right. And then you had to kind of start looking at it from a different lens. You had to go through probably a process of like, wait, is this me? Is this what I'm doing? Is this like, how I'm going to shift? Like,howitdid it feel for you? Cause like I remember like the first time I wrote a book or I launched an app or I had a conversion, you know I can do this.and for me. Once the result came, I was like, wait, I have to do this now. Wait, what is this that I'm doing? Like, was that luck? Was it they're like, did you experience any of that? Like, I call it like the success guilt that comes with the success reflection.You're like, Oh, wait, it worked. Why did this work? What was it like, what was that like for you?  Eliya:   Well that was a long process for me because storytelling, wasn't something that I came into in like an analytical way. It was like very natural. And then it was working and it was converting. And then I got into the copywriting side of things and using the same tactics and seeing that that was working.And then I had to kind of backtrack and be like, okay, but like, why is this working? I had no idea. And the, the creating the framework was probably the most difficult thing for me to get to because storytelling is such an abstract concept and people love to complicate it like crazy and it just worked for me. So yeah, I totally had that of like, I don't know what I like, and I don't know how I can help other people do this. And I knew that the power of it, like I had experienced how incredible it was so many times and the communities that we created and all the results that we were getting. But more than that, the people that would send me messages, being like, Oh, I read this article that you wrote, or I read this piece that you wrote. And like I cried or I laughed or it reminded me of something else, or we just come out and like openly share with me their own stories. So I knew the power of it, but I was like, how the heck am I going to translate this into something that's tangible? So there was a ton of, of like, Yeah, maybe I'm good at it, but like, I can't help anybody else this way.George:    So  like, there's almost like this acceptance, right? Like, you're like, okay, like I did this, I said, I would do this, I hear it. Now I have to own this like I have to own this. So let me ask you this. What were you doing before you wrote stories for this company?  Eliya:  I was working with my family. We were raising racing greyhounds. That's what we did. Yeah, we raised so like totally. So in the animal world, cause I hadn't been in the animal world my whole life from the time I was 14 as a business, I was doing animal stuff, but we had a Greyhound kennel, incredible state of the art kennel and raised puppies from the ground up in the number one, like. Care first love first, everything. And I was doing that totally different.  George:     So you where telling me is you were born into entrepreneurship and copywriting and storytelling, right? Like you were just born, you were born into it right now. I actually think that's an important part. Like I think that's really interesting and definitely warranted to like pay attention to the where, you know, like what it sounds like is that you said yes to an opportunity you believed in yourself and that opportunity. And you're like, you know what, like. It's not a big deal.  I'm going to do it, knowing that you'd be tenacious or disciplined enough or intentional enough to figure it out. And then you obviously got to a point where you were like, okay, I'm going to write stories now. And then you have to start making some decisions. So did you write stories for this company while still raising greyhounds? Or like what, what was that like for you?  Eliya:   Yeah, actually what happened was we were raising greyhounds, my family and I had my son in October and in November we had a really horrific incident happened in the family. And I had everybody around me disappear.I live next door to my, my family and they had to leave for their own safety. And I was a brand new mother and had all  my entire support system, besides my husband, they left and I literally, it came out of necessity. It was like, I got to do something and it just, you know, it was amazing because I was good at it and it supported our family ended up supporting our family. But, the transition wasn't something that I made on purpose. It was purely out of necessity and it just was the thing that I continued to fall back on. Every time that I pivoted my business, every time that I. Wanted to try something different every time that I had to kind of change or adapt, I couldn't get away from storytelling.George:    Isn't it funny how our paths always kind of find us and they smack us in the face until we accept that. I was actually getting interviewed on a podcast this morning,dom's podcast. And I was like, I'm not like most people, like somebody gets hit in the face with a two by four and they learn their lesson. Like I'm like, no, I still have 16 teeth left. Hit me a few more times, right?  Eliya:   That's totally the way it was because, so I worked for this company and we did incredible things and literally the same week I had my daughter. So I'm again, I was literally in the hospital with my daughter and that company fell apart. And here I was, again, right here. I was literally, again, A few years later now, but once again, like the whole, the rug had been pulled out and it was like, now I really have to fall back on what I know and trust and love and can do and it's happening again right now.  George:    So  I want to rip the rug out of this one. So I've been through this. I go, I go through this all the time.  And for those of you like listening, so two funny things, number one, Eliya, and I know each other, we work together. She helps me pull up my story. So we share tears a lot and growth and things like that and then number two is if you're watching the video of this, you just met my wife through the shutters behind me because. she was yelling at the landscaper to turn it down because they decided to come we'd whack outside my window while recording a podcast. So apparently I need to put two, not disturb signs or in the studio recording on my lawn as well. And what's really funny is I just had this realization, why do I have landscapers? We have artificial turf. I would actually wonder what they would do. I think they're just getting rid of weeds pretty funny.  So the reason I want to ask this as, as I think it's really prevalent. So as I hear you talk about this Eliya. And this whole podcast gets to be a story to be congruent, but I know that there's a part of things that come up for me. And I'm just going to venture out on a limb here and make a pretty aggressive statement that, once that story took off, you probably had thoughts of like, Oh, it was lock or, Oh, it wasn't me and you basically advocated your ownership of it and gave other people credit and kind of refuse to own it.  Eliya:   And you know me well enough to know that that is my thing. Always, always is my thing.  George:    I have a question before I even let you get into this because I do want to explore this. I think it's a really important topic and it's actually, in my opinion, probably one of the, the required pillars in an accurate story is understanding all of the parts of the motivators underneath it. Even if you share it with different wrapping paper. One of those other questions that I haven't asked anybody. So even if you've listened to the podcast earlier, you're not going to know what does that cost you in your life, in business not owning your sovereignty or your greatness.Eliya:    So it's a double edged sword. It's cost me a lot of time struggle, but on the flip side, I had to hit those bottom points because I'm a huge believer that you cannot know the top. If you don't know the bottom, right? You can not know one, if you don't know the other. So it's cost me years of not telling stories of not helping other people tell their stories of not, creating my own security for myself and my family. So the cost is super high.  George:   You  can know the top without standing in the bottom. You just have to see the bottom. Like don't you don't, you know, there's lava down there. You don't have to jump in the volcano to figure it out.  Like I just wannathink. The reason I'm asking this is because one of the critical parts for me, for everybody listening about story, about emotion, about humans, moving people forward, like you said, it earlier, like the power of stories, helping somebody move one step closer to them, our goals, or to their vision or to that dream life. But I think Eliya, one of the parts that most people don't collect about story is sharing the raw, authentic, deep down feelings and consequences that. Have allowed that to come out. And so when I think about this, like you wrote this massive story, went nuts about horse racing, you know. Can't tell my wife cause we have lots of horses and that's we come surrounded by horses. And then you had to go through like a growth process as a human, as a mother, as a wife, as the bread, as a breadwinner, you know, moneymaker as an entrepreneur, as a weight, this is what I'm really doing. And I ventured that wasn't an overnight process. So can you walk me through like what that was like?  Eliya :   Oh my gosh. I mean, it was. Everything from the struggles daily of I'm not enough. I cannot do this. I will never be able to do this. What will people think all the way to, I suffered massively with postpartum anxiety and depression with my son. I mean, horrifically and so that all came into it. It was all of the failures of trying and trying and trying to write for different people and do different things and have it failed so many times. The beauty about stories is that your life is not. Just, it does not have to be just one, there's so many stories. And when I talk about storytelling, I often talk about like, every story has a lesson.The whole point of storytelling is you're trying to get someone somewhere or to see something there's one intention behind it. And that one intention can come from a plethora of events in your life. And that's what it was for me for sure is it was like, I'm going to have to take the rain, right? I'm going to have to do this for my son self. And that didn't come from one that came from, you know, crying on the bathroom floor in the throws of postpartum depression and anxiety, not knowing how I'm going to get myself up off the floor. It came from putting in hundreds of applications for things when people trying to lean on the storytelling that I knew I was good at, but other people didn't see it, or, and I didn't know how to present it in a powerful way. I mean, it just so much all the ways that I lost. Really, I think all the ways that I lost who I was in the process of all these things.  George:   So you could become who you are today. So looking back now, cause I think this is important for everybody to understand. Like it's something we talk about openly in our mastermind, obviously you and I talk about this a lot, but you know, you're like, Oh, the failures, the failures, the failures, as you look back now, do you still see them as failures or do you see them as lessons?  Eliya:   Oh, no, they're all lessons.  George: And so now, like if you write a piece now and it doesn't work, how do you view that now?Eliya:   So now I'm like, all right, let's try it a different way. That was great. Awesome. Sounds good. Like let's, let's navigate those and figure out what maybe didn't land for it.  George:   Cause I think story, right story. Isn't it. Necessarily pro and I don't know much about story. I'm just trusting my gut intuition, your guys. I don't study any of this stuff. I'm just leaning into whatever comes through my divine soul right now. But like for me, I guess I okay. I'll own that. I just put myself down. I am really good at telling stories. I'm really going to tell them I'm a good storyteller. I am, I'm not good at writing them. I'm going to talking about them. You stick a quarter in me and watch out. I'm actually Eliya did that. She got three hours of it. And but I, I think with stories, stories to be effective, aren't necessarily always just predicated on how well you tell the story. It's also predicated on the receiver of the story. The timing of it when they see it, where they are like, cause you can have a story that could get anybody to their promised land, but if they're not at the start of that path, they can't get there.Eliya:   That's a hundred percent. And there's a number of ways that, you know, that's happened for me in my life and in my career. And I remember. When I was writing consistently about horseracing, I would write something and I would tell my editor, this is total shit. It's junk. it's the worst thing I've ever written. So every time I would say that he'd be like, awesome. Great. Thank you. Perfect. And then I'd read something that I was actually confident in. Like, yeah, I liked this one and I love this. This is really great. Tanked every time. And that's just the humility of being a storyteller.George:   Well, it's happened to me in a lot of people I work with and I have a theory. I have a hypothesis on this.  And I think you just said it in your answer to that too, right? It's like when you are unattached to the outcome, It skyrockets.  And the moment you're like, Oh, this is my best work. Like this is it. This is it. It's like kicked in the shins. When I see this all the time, right? Like I know this is probably the I've talked in a podcast interview, but we can go back and forth on this all day. I think that's one of the biggest problems we've seen in marketing is that the moment you think your marketing is like effective. And you're like, Oh, this is it. I nailed it. We're, we've lost track of who it was for.  Eliya:   And that's the kicker because when it comes to storytelling and this is why I'm so passionate about the way that I teach it is because the stories that you tell are not for you, therefore the person hearing them and therefore you need to speak to the human experience. And the moment you think you've figured out what it means to be human. That's the moment you lose the game.  George:    I think that's really important to kind of reiterate again, we talk about this in marketing. We see you have to meet them where they are. We talk about this in storytelling. You have to write the story for where they are, not for where you are. Cause we talked about this beginning. I said, I think in order to write an effective story, you have to be on the other side side of that. The dangerous game is that if you speak from that side, it's like a different language for people reading it.  And so I think it's actually a good thing when you're writing copy. When you're doing a video, when you're creating content, when you're sharing anything that you don't know, you're like, no, I don't know how this is going to go. And it probably should feel foreign to you because you're not there anymore. It should almost feel like you're regressing a little bit. You're like, wait, I don't, I don't want to be back here at Oh, but, but that's where people are and that's the power of stories. That's where you meet them to then bring them into where you are right now.  Eliya:    Yeah, that's exactly how we utilize storytelling in marketing 150% through the copywriting or the content that someone creates is taking a look at where they are now, and then being able to bridge the gap through to where they want to be, in the future. And that is the story. I mean, that's 150% is the story. Yeah. And so we have to be able to get into that mindset of like, The unknowingness of what it means to be human and also the beginner's mind and going back regressing back to being like, what was this like for me when I started that's tricky.George:    Well, and I think the I'm actually hitting this a lot because like, you're, you're sharing it. I don't know if everybody's hearing this like foundationally, principally, what you're sharing is literally you're talking about how there is no finish line of this game. It's iterative and iterative There's so many lessons in that for business, for life, for entrepreneurs, for yourself, right. Like, you know, I think about it right now. Like I'm like a lot of people on the quarantine 20, you know, myself included with like 30 and I'm like, Oh, like I could go try to climb Mount Everest and I'm going to die and it's not going to help me. But if I walk for 10 minutes, yeah, go by, walk a walk and it's it's iterative. And I think one of the things that I've struggled with Eliya and I know I'm not the only one. Is sometimes I'm afraid to share a story because it doesn't encapsulate everything I want to share. I'm like, wait, it's missing or there's more, or there's more.And so I ended up never sharing it. We're not posting it. Right. Like, yeah. You know, people say all the time, the best book, the one that's published. Story I'm assuming is the one that shared. How do you, how do you navigate that? Cause they know I'm not the only one listening, right? Like I want to share my story. Like I still want to do a podcast on my story. I'm probably going to read your posts, to do that podcast because I'm like, well, what if I miss this? So I don't end up doing it. So how do you navigate that when it comes to the story? Like if somebody is writing a story for themselves or for their company or for their customers or for an ad, or even just to share on stage, like how do you navigate the fact that like, Oh, I'm going to miss parts of it or like. How do you do, how do you deal with that?  Eliya:    That is probably the most complicated part of it for people, because you have to get down to the minutia of the one single thing that you want to talk about knowing that storytelling is the tool for communication. It is not the single story that makes the difference. And so it's understanding that like you are some of your parts, you are some of all the stories that you have to tell and it's deciding which one do I need to tell right now? And that starts with, by identifying what is it that I need someone to understand in order to enroll in who I am, or the business that I have, or the product or the service or whatever it's like that it has to start there. Because stories that are told just to flap your gums will never land and won't do anything.It has to start before you even begin to tell a story with the purpose and the intention of the story and knowing that there are lots of stories that can be told, but that every story just needs to have the single point that you want to drive home. And then you move to the next story and that one of those points that you want to make. It can come from a number of stories. You can tell it from a number of stories. One point doesn't have to be lined up. Or one lesson doesn't have to be lined up with one story and that's the end of it. You may, right. I always say change the wrapping paper. Like you might tell a whole number of stories that all leave the same point, which is where it becomes super powerful for the business is because if your business has core values or core things that you stand for your job literally to get as many people as you can, to see that and understand that by speaking and talking about it in as many ways as you can. So that it lands with this person in this way and that person in that way. And so it's getting into the minutia of each individual story and simplifying it that every story needs to have one single point. That is a thread that runs through the whole thing. And just being aware that it's  the endless game and see eternal game.George:   And so would you say that one of the biggest mistakes that people make where storytelling is? They have. Either no focus or too many areas of focus.  Eliya:     I would say that the number one mistake that people make is that they do not begin a story within intention. They just think I'm going to tell a story. This thing happened to me and I was going to talk about it, but that serves no purpose. And that's where storytelling in business in particular gets really muddled. I was literally just saw this and the other day and somebody said posted somewhere. I can't even remember where it was. And the guy was like sorry, nobody wants to hear your story. And at first I was like, boom, you know, Hey man, are you talking about, this is my business here. How are you doing? But then I listened to, I kind of ran with it. He had to say, and I listened to some of the, some of the comments and he was right. Which is that nobody wants to just hear you talk about how your business got started unless there is purpose and it ties back to something that they need or want. So unless it has a purpose, unless it has an intention. It has no use except for you to get it out there.  George:    I want to say like, what we're talking about is like how to use this in business entrepreneurship. If you have never shared your story and you're finding your voice, of course, that is for you, that is cathartic and which, by the way, you have to do before, you can effectively use that story for it to be effective. And so a big mistake is writing a story without an intention.Understanding that. Where the goal here is the goal is that we want to build a house. The story is the tool that we're going to use and there's multiple tools to do it. But you can't pick up a tool and build a house without a plan. So, right. It's kind of like that. And I think another thing. And, and I'm going to assume this is a mistake. I don't know, but you're here to back me up on this.  So I think for me another mistake in something I teach a lot, is that the purpose of a story, the purpose of words, the purpose of any of it is not to get somebody to read it. It's to get them to feel it.And I feel like when there's no intention or no path, then it's just words. And then the other mistake underneath that, Above that or is that you want somebody to feel it? I think the other thing is people try to overcomplicate storytelling. They use too many fluffy words, they drag it out and it's like, really? And this is just me. I'm making this up. And I, I believe that the effective part of a story would be the minimum viable dose to get somebody to feel something because once they feel it there and then once they're enrolled anything after that point, it's just getting in the way of them taking action.Eliya:    And the other mistake that goes along with that is people want other people to feel cause that's an absolutely one of the crucial parts. That's one of the pieces of my framework is the emotional piece. But the other part that happens is people are afraid to speak to those deeper emotions. And so they stay super surface level and that is not effective if you're talking super surface level in terms of you know, I was feeling this way or I even what happens even more so than that is the actions that I was taking, which are happening because of an emotion which are happening because of a court experience sticking to those really surface level emotions is probably one the other really big mistake that people make. They think that that's enough just talking about the actions that are being driven by the emotions, but you have to get into some of that real raw stuff. That's what connects  George:   Actually like this is kind of like spelling itself out. So mistake number one. That we found cause we're at three mistakes right now. Mistake number one is that the biggest mistake is writing story or telling story without an intention. Mistake, number two. Is bloated,  extraneous story that's lacking feeling and it's kind of like surfacing and transactional, but then mistake number three is I would almost call it like skimming over the feeling like not giving it texture. That's the word that always comes up for me. So I think for me, like, You know, if we go look at our habits right now and like what we consume online. And I, we talk about this a lot, but if you go look at like, what was the last post that you actually clicked on a read? It probably wasn't because you're like, Oh, I liked the word that I read. It's probably because you felt something, right? It reminded you of something, you smelled something, you remembered something, you, it hit a neural pathway. In your brain. . And so I think, and I'm summarizing what you said, giving it depth and texture versus transactions. So you can be like, Oh, you know, when I was angry or you can be like, I woke up depressed, it was challenging to put my feet on the floor. And I felt like it took every ounce of energy in my body to the point where I would collapse just to put my socks on before I went to work today.  Eliya:   And what's so funny about this is that literally as you and I are having this conversation, my storytelling framework is unfolding right now. Like it is like when I deliver this at the end, you'll be like, Whoa. Yeah. The reason that my storytelling framework is the way that it is, is because storytelling is human to us. But when we try to do it with intention, we fall apart. And it gets super over complicated, but you're absolutely right because the details in the story are the key vessel for letting someone be dropped into the emotion. And it's only in doing that, that you can evoke the same emotion in somebody else.  George:    For all of you listening. If you haven't done my captains assessment, they give away for free. You're fucking dumb. Cause this, this, this covers all of it. Like, and actually it's something we talk about all the time where most businesses fail because they transact with words right there, transact with words, they don't invoke feelings. They don't invoke emotion. I'm getting fucking fired up right now.  They don't invoke the emotions that are, are kind of required. And really it frustrates me because the people that are consuming your stories want to be led. They want to be brought somewhere. But I think the fourth mistake, like the way that I would summarize it is that the stories that I see put people in their heads and not in their bodies.And so like trust me, I I'm a pattern matcher. Right. I studied NLP. So you use the word, I use it back to you. I use words. I don't even know what they mean but I was like, I think it fits in the context. People like, yeah, bro. Yeah. And I was like, I used placate earlier and I had to go look up the definition of make sure I was right. And I was like, Oh, I think I've ever looked it up. But the truth is, is that, you know, we've heard for years. And like call it copywriting, co storytelling, copy, conversion, optimization, whatever. Everyone's like, Oh, you got to write it in eighth grade level. And everybody thinks that's bad and wrong, but I think it's really important to dive into why it's important.If you have somebody's attention like you pattern interrupted them with an image or a video on an ad and you get them to read, they stopped because they felt something. And the moment you speak above their head, where you use a word they don't know, or a complicated sentence or a run on sentence, and they have to think you've lost the entire game because they went from feeling backup to their head. Like, am I talked to me about this Eliya cause I'm about to soapbox. It like crazy.  George:    No, you're going to get me fired up about this because I buck the system all the time and you and I have conversations about this. And I have conversations with your team about this also, which is like, we are not,  your marketing is speaking to a human being.And that human being operates on core human values. And for some reason, and I'm going to try not to get really fired up, but like, this is the big thing for me, for some reason, we think it's okay to dismiss that in the way we speak through our marketing, your speaking to a human and that human is motivated by emotion and that human is going through a journey. That we can all understand on a very basic human level. Why are we not talking about that in marketing. Marketing become this like very surface level game of like talk about pain points, let's talk about the problems that someone is having. And I'm like, can we talk about the human for a minute?And to me, that's where the storytelling comes in and I've done this in my copywriting so much. And, and you know, this cause we've worked together is like, Can we get down to some of the core human emotions that people are experiencing, that they are experiencing now, but also that the possibility of what they could be experiencing. And I get super fired up about it because for me, manipulating pain points is not an emotional trigger. It's manipulation. And so much of the marketing is so surface level. We've forgotten about the fact that we are talking to humans and we are all in a human experience.  George:    Even the fact that like we forgotten about it, this is probably the biggest way that I doubled triple, quadruple a hundred X companies in a matter of seconds. Cause I take their marketing where they're like, Oh, you probably feel like this and feel like this, I'm like, why don't you just say, I feel like shit and I'm struggling with this. And all of a sudden, a hundred people come flooding in, like I've been waiting for you to invite me in. Oh, I've been waiting for you to create common ground.Like the thing is, is that when you sit here and like, you nailed it, right? You're like, Oh, like you're not doing it right. Or you're doing email wrong or you're doing social wrong. What you're doing is you're projecting and it's all surface-y right. They already know that. That's why they're consuming your content.What they're waiting for is to feel understood or seen. By you being able to identify their feelings, that they can't put a name to. So they go for peeing or aha. And then this is where you start getting the feedback.  How do you know what I was thinking? It's like, you were in my mind, like, how did you know that I'm like, well, because there's only really two core fears that you're born with it like four core emotions and the, and the job is to get them there.  Eliya:     Absolutely. And so we waste our time talking about all these surface level things and. Honing in on like how much more can I dig in a pain point? How much more can I throw more at you? How much more can I spend on ads or, you know, change the copy again and it's like, stop. Like, what is that? Human. Experiencing right. And you nailed it when you were like, they only have so many, you only have so many core emotions you feel as a human.  George:   Like, here's the thing, like, this is what we talk about. Transacting perse transformation.  And you guys have heard me say this before. I'm like, if you try to convince somebody to buy you, lose them forever. You opt to enroll them. And what Eliya just said when you're like, here's my value stock and here's my boom. And you're doing this., All it's really doing is pushing the person away cause it's making them feel bad and wrong, which is the fucking opposite of what you want to do. And the moment you stop all that bullshit and you go to like, Hey, you might be feeling overwhelmed cause you're doing this wrong. You're doing this wrong and doing this wrong and you don't have to because it's here and you put like a deeper texture feeling to it or it's like, Hey, I know you're used to being like your email's wrong. You're burning yourself up. But none of us give a shit about that.  What it is is you're frustrated because you're giving your heart and the results aren't. coming. And now it's adding evidence to the fact that if you're like me as an entrepreneur, now you don't feel like you're good enough. You want to add more time and energy to your plate.And now you get burnt out with adrenal fatigue and your business fails,. Those are the things like, I think like the takeaway of this is like, if I can give anybody anything, it's always to think about like, how is this going to make somebody feel versus think. Even changing the lens in which we look at it to like, Oh, I'm about to write this caption. Is somebody's going to have to think about this, or is this going to invoke an emotion? Does this, does this make them feel like, is this going to get the spidey sense is going the tingling? And you know, it fits into five buckets. Elliot knows this all day, humor, controversy, education, and credibility and social status, those are the reasons people consume and share. And so, yeah, that's like a masterclass and the mistakes not do not make those mistakes in your storytelling. You do not. It's a bad day.  Eliya:   I mean, it's, it's like all across the board in, in copy and content in all of these things. And I, I teach all the time and, and again, like I go against the grain when I say this and people think that I'm nuts, but it works is that I don't write to pain points. I write down possibility.  So I write to what's possible and that. Is what we all need as humans is the possibility that the emotion and the way you experience life can be something that it's not.  George:    Well, let me just tell everybody why it's effective. If somebody is consuming your content, they already fucking know the pain point. Let's not remind them like this whole thing, like this marketing bullshit I've seen for years, like let's agitate the pain point. I'm like, yeah, nothing like kicking a dog when it's down.  Like, how about like, Hey, I get it. Like, let's not, but like, this is where you can go. And like, you might be feeling this way. But now that you're aware of it, you move this forward. Right. So I actually have a question, a different, like, kind of, right. So we talked about actually we hit like four big mistakes people make, what do you think is one of like the most commonly neglected, good parts about telling stories. That's really just like a two second fix that everybody could do right now. Like if they thought about it this way, or if they included this in every post or if they send this in every story that it would like literally drastically changed the trajectory of their, their business or their storytelling or their customers' lives.Eliya:     I think we hit on it is, is go for some deeper emotions, stop going surface level, go for some deeper emotions. And this is what I tell people, you know? So we kind of got to this a little bit before, but it's like, how do you begin? To tell a story. There's so much fear around people talking about their own personal stories. And I say this all the time, like you have lived the life to have the stories that you have, and you are doing that life a disservice. If you're not talking about that, it's the same thing with this simple fix. It's like you are doing a disservice to the people that you are speaking to. If you are not speaking to those deeper, emotional things that we all feel. And so that's the thing that I think everybody, if we just went to some of these deeper emotional States of like not surface level, but what's actually going on underneath the surface, it's driving us to do some of the things that we do. And including those emotions into the stories, I think we would have a totally different. Landscape of marketing.  George:   I'm glad everybody's done. Cause then people like us get to come in. Right. And we get to love people at heart people and go, we all end up here and everybody listen to us. Like you're at a massive advantage right now. I think it's important, like, and we're not talking about difficulty here, right? Like it's the difference between being like, giving a, feeling a label and giving it texture.. Like, that's the way that I see it. Right? Like you can go right. All day. You're like, Oh yeah, you're angry. Oh yeah, of course I'm angry or it's like, Oh, I woke up like just the weight of the world. And I didn't know if it was sadness or anger and it took everything to put a foot in front of myself. And it's like, all of a sudden it goes from a word to, well, Holy shit. That's how I feel. Holy crap. That's what I do.  And just understanding that if you just give a little like window, it's almost like you tell a story about the emotion. Or about the feeling as a bigger part of the story. And so I think to sum that answer up, it's like, as you think about yourself now, as you're writing captions, as you're writing stories, every time an adjective comes across your desk, ask yourself, how can I describe the adjective without using the word.So it's like, I want to write angry. Okay, cool. How can you say angry without using the word? I want to write sad. How can you show sad without using the word? . And remember, like, we're talking about story we're visual creatures usual doesn't mean that you have to see an image or see a video. It means that it has to invoke a vision. In your brain, right? It has to create that. I love, Oh man, I'm getting excited.  Eliya:    That's absolutely what it is. And so I teach the levels of detail that go into these kinds of things and. And it's similar in that we talk about emotions on the surface level it's similar, or when you start injecting detail into story, is that detail like that, like you're talking about has layers of intricacy, right? And, and so it's talking about those emotions. Like if you're going to take anger out of it, if somebody standing 10 feet away from you, how are they seeing that anger, if they're standing face to face, what does that anger look like? And then side your body? What does that anger. Feel like physically, right? Those are layers of detail.  And it's about adding the layers so that you bring someone deeper and deeper and deeper into the story that you're telling by getting them there, showing them that.  George:    And I think what's important is to understand why, like, I'm always about why, why is this so valuable, your utilizing the levels of depth of your story to bring somebody deeper into their own.Eliya:    Absolutely. And that's why the intention is so important.  George:   And the like the win of storytelling is not that you, somebody reads your story and they're convinced that you're great. And they're convinced that you're the hero it's at. Somebody reads your story and they get convinced that they can be their own hero. Like it, and nobody can get there when it's just like, Oh, you're going to be a rock star. You're going to be a fitness model. You're going to be a good entrepreneur. And they're like, okay, I've been telling myself after 35 years, right. It's like, no, they have to like viscerally feel it. And you have to invoke that in, in everything that you do.So good. So I have another question. I'm going to talk about story all day. I'm getting fired up right now and I have another question for you. We'll hit on another one, but like, I think it's interesting. And for entrepreneurs lesson, we're gonna have to do a whole episode on how to go from a service based business to consultant and Eliya I've had it. That's actually how Eliya and I met. That was the question you asked.  Eliya:    That was the question that I asked is how you make that transition. Yeah, absolutely. And actually to back up from that. The reason that I even got enrolled in the first place was so someone referred me. But the reason that I got enrolled in the very first place was because you were the very first entrepreneur that I ever saw openly speak about emotions.George:   Imagine that, like, I don't, I don't shit rainbows and ride unicorns around. Like I'm like, no life is hard sometimes like that. That's where these moments come from. So before I get into any more story. I have another question for you. Cause I just, I love mixing this in, right? So we know a lot about you. We know a lot about your motherhood, your postpartum anxiety, this transition, what is one thing you've been afraid to tell the world that nobody knows about you, that you have to now as I sit here in silence.  Eliya:    Oh my goodness. What a question? Ah, you have to be. Selfish in life for the first time in my life. I am being selfish. I am saying and actually you've been a huge catalyst on this in a number of ways, of course, but I, for the very first time in my life, I mean, I've never said this to anybody yet. Not even my husband. I am a sitting in the rooms. I want to sit in unapologetically. Sitting in the rooms, I've been afraid to take up space and just totally unapologetically like I get to be here cause I've brought myself to this place and to not taking on other people's shit. I'm being selfish in that. So I'm the I for the first time in my life, after all the years of motherhood and all the years of service to other people, I am recognizing how important it is to be a little selfish.George:  You're putting your oxygen mask on first. What does that, what does it feel like?  Eliya:    Life is a lot better than sway when you can breathe. Yeah. Life is a lot better when you can breathe. Yeah. So huge.  George:   First of all, I'm super proud of you for that. And everybody, everybody listening, that was a lesson that took me 36 years. And I think I figured out the lesson and there's more  between it and out of it and Oh yeah. But here's the difference. I tell all of you and I use it as the power of story and you guys don't like this guy's fucking cuckoo. Like that's why we named this demise of George show. You have no idea what you're going to get cause welcome to what it's like to be my wife. Everything everybody's said, everybody goes, send Lindsey, gene flowers, chocolates, you know horses. I just don't want to pay for them. Do whatever you want. So we're talking about story Eliya and I actually think this is something that I struggled with the most is what story does everybody tell first?So people right now, right. We're marketing where we're designing customer journeys, we're running ads. We have products, we have all of this and we're like, Oh, we want the promotion. We want to do this. And I will tell you what is not effective, what is not effective? It's taking your current marketing and trying to add feelings without personal experience. That's manipulation, that's lying. And that's why it never works. And you can smell it like dog shit from 25 miles away. So. What story does everybody tell first, like if everybody's listening to this right now and they're like, God, I get it like, how do they go about figuring out what story to tell first?Eliya:    Tell the story of why you do what you do, the way you do it. So your business stands for something your very existence stands for many things, but some things you hold closer than others. The very first story that you need to be telling is why you do that, the way you do it. Like, why is that important to you? Where did that come from in your life? And the moment that everything changed, that's the first story that, if people could start telling those stories, we would do less. Pushing our experience on others and more inviting people into our space.  George:  I love it. I'm going to go on the other side. I'm gonna go to the risks and side, but yeah, but like, what if people don't like my story? What if, what if, like, I don't want to say that part of it, right? Like, I'm going to tell you right now, the most invigorating part about storytelling is going to M and M and eight mile. Like just throwing all the table. Like I do live in a trailer with my mom. Like a lot of you ask me, like, I'm actually wearing a hoodie that says unapologetically authentic right now. find that really unique. And I'm going to share this and I don't talk about this ever, especially on my own podcast, but it's time civilized caveman was successful on paper because I was hiding through story.I used story to protect myself and so you guys are like, Oh, he's talking about bulemia, he's talking about sexual abuse. He's talking about this. But the only stories that ever came out to me were calculated to keep you at a distance. You'll notice I told the stories with confidence. I told them very clearly. I talked about them very openly and it wasn't until about a year and a half ago where I learned that you can't manipulate an authentic story. The story has to come out. But what I was afraid of is that if I didn't share my story, nobody would like me. Right. Nobody would know me. Nobody would follow me except couldn't get attention. So I would, you know add fluff, things like that and then when I started telling my story, I'm like, Oh, they can't know all of it. Because then they're going to leave me and they're going to leave me and they're gonna leave me. And there's some few tiny moments in my life but here's what I found now I'm unapologetically my authentic self.Like, what you hear on this podcast is me, me as the husband, the father, the business owner, the guy who struggles has depression, anxiety, PTSD, and that has moments of joy, rainbows, and I have way more rainbows, unicorns and care bears than I do anything else. So I'm okay with that now. But it really requires a level of self integrity and self honesty before you can even get to the intention of story. Because what I will tell you is the biggest mistake that I ever made is I told stories that weren't ready to be told. And they had a bigger detriment than they did a positive effect because that was a deep hole. And so, you know, as we talk about this, we think about this, we talk about story, our stories belong in the world, but I would, I would say that if you're in the middle of a hero's journey, complete it. You got to remember that the last part of the hero's journey is you shared the story to help the village, not before you slay the dragon or during this Lang the dragging. So make sure you're on the other side of the story. And I actually think it's healthy. To have the fear of like, what are people gonna think about me?Because that's how I know no you're telling the truth. That's how I know you're putting it out there and that's what it is. And so for me, a good tool, and I think you use this a lot too. It's like, Yeah, I call it the juggler objection, like you just got to go straight for the jugular. Objection. Like our supplement company. Like our creatine pills are literally too big for horses to take. Some of my first email says, these are giant. If you want a refund, we'll give you your money back. We don't get any refunds because we call it out for what it is. And so, yeah, for me, would you, would you say that one of the paths to effective storytelling is running to the most fearful part of the story first or including those fearful parts of the story and giving it a voice and giving it light.Eliya:  I don't think that stories without those are doing the story justice, like you have to go to those that's right. Like I said before, like you gotta be able to see those things.  You got to go right for the juggler and it is this incredible balance of recognizing when a chapter has closed and knowing that now is the time that you can speak to that. And then the other beautiful thing for me is recognizing now, as I'm in the middle of it, of having the lens of, I am currently writing a story. A story is being written around me.  George:   And I actually think that's a really good point to hit, right? Because what, what we talk about here is there's, there's really two sides of marketing. The way that I see it, there's two sides of business to sides of support that you can give people and you just hit the second one we've been talking about the first one, the first one is telling the story from the other side, over the bridge. And then building a bridge to help people get there. And then the other side of storytelling is documenting the process of building the bridge and inviting people along with you.Eliya:    And the documentation again requires humility totally right. To be like, I don't have the answers right now. And that's, I think that's so different in how you market. Right is you're like, I don't have the answers to this right now, but I'm in the middle of it and I'm figuring it out and here's, what's coming up and here are the observations. And so observations can also be stories without being an entire chapter without having a full stop intention behind them. The intention sometimes is just, I've had this observation cause I'm in the middle of something.  George:    Well, welcome to every sitcom. Every movie. Everything that leaves you with is ironic effect than open loops at the end of it. Like craving more warning more, but also that's a part of, you almost said humanology smart about being a human I'm like makeup, eye makeup. I need Georgeisms and words. And I don't like, I'm not like egotistical about it. I just make up words all the time. And I own them with such confidence that people are like, Oh, that's a word I'm like, I have no idea that just came out. I have no idea that's such a powerful thing. And I think, you know, no, like really, I can't think of any moment. I don't, I don't know about you.  Like anything that doesn't require a story, like how we talk to our kids, how we communicate, how we tell our friends how our days were like, everyone's like, Oh, how was dinner last night? You're not like good. You're like, Oh, I had this restaurant and I had this and I think. Elliot, one of the things for me that helped me understand this a lot better. I've naturally always been able to tell stories because I used the stories as a survival tool when I was younger to survive abuse and things like that.But I struggled with it a lot as an adult because I didn't realize how naturally gifted we are as humans, human beings tell stories 24 seven, but yet I've watched entrepreneurs come into this game and they're like, I can't writecopy. I can't write an ad. I can't be on video. I can't run a blog post. I can't tell a story. I can't read a sales page. And I was like, well, you do it every single day. You tell your kids stories to put them to bed. You tell them stories to get them out the door to school on time, half the time. Right? Like you relate you emote. So like, how do you collapse that bridge? So like somebody who's listening to this, they're like, Oh my God, like, this is great it's script, but I don't know. I can't write a story. I'm like, how do you just start to put that into motion? And I think we might as well transition right into like giving everybody that gift of yours. And so why don't you just. Why don't you kickstart into that and share with everybody the framework? Well, how to put it into practice, because if you're listening to this right now, pause this and get a pen piece of paper or listen through it and then come back and listen to it because this is going to blow your mind.And I want you to use this and I'm going to be harsh right now. If you listen to this and don't use this, just don't listen to another episode. Like just don't like seriously don't because. One of the things about stories that evolves every day, authors continue to write, to get better entrepreneurs. We continue to learn to grow life. We continue to learn to get better and iterate. This is a tool that will live in your toolbox forever, and there is no spot that you will ever not use this. And I've been through this. I've taught it with her. I've watched it taught this is a gift that people pay lots of money for. So that's my ultimatum. And I can't tell this works on the honor system, but if I find out I'll kick you in the shin. So go ahead.  Eliya:    I've been on the receiving end of I'm going to kick you in the shins, it works. I love it. So the thing is like you hit on it, so succinctly there is that storytelling is our form of human communication.It is how we communicate with others. Unfortunately, what's happened is when it comes to intentionally telling stories, we've managed to just conmplicate the shit out of it. Like, I don't know, we've just gone wave the other direction. Of like you can't tell a good story. You don't know how to tell a good story. You can't do this unless you have these exact pieces, which is exactly why I use my framework, which is three simple pieces in it.  So there's three, three pieces that exist within a story and each of those have three levels to them and so the three pieces are a moment of transformation, a character who goes through a moment of transformation, emotion and detail. All good stories, have those three components in them, and that's really all. You need to create a great story.  So the moment of transformation means that there is a. Single lesson, or there's a transformation that a character goes through. And at the other side of that transformation, there is a lesson to be learned out of it or a piece of knowledge to be gained out of it.And so when you begin to tell stories, you tell what you start with that in mind of like, what is the actual point, a single point that I want to make out of this story. And from there you're looking at, okay, what was the single moment in my life that. That happened for me, that things shifted. And I learned that, and that requires the most stillness, introspection reflection of the whole process of going back and saying like, where did that happen for me?What was the single moment that everything shifted? Because there is a life that you were living in a before state, right? As George always talks about there's a before state that you were in. And then there is a single transformation that occurred, and then there is an after state that you're in.So at all it all mirrors that in mark the same

Ben Stiller had no idea he was casting a future president when he grabbed Donald Trump and Melania for a quick cameo in Zoolander. But Trump apparently never forgot about it, Stiller tells Molly Jong-Fast, Rick Wilson, and Matt Wilstein in the latest episode of The New Abnormal. Stiller recalls how Trump even derailed an interview during the last campaign to talk about Zoolander 2. Trump “started going into detail about, you know… in the culture, people don't care about male models anymore,” Stiller recalls. Not that Stiller is particularly gratified by the attention. “Everybody has their own theories about whether or not [Trump] still wants to be president, but I think it's gone so far now. People's lives are being affected. And really, to me, it's not funny anymore. It's kinda just like, it's a little bit insane,” Stiller says. The actor/writer/director/comedian also discusses his work as an advocate for refugees, what it’s like to play Michael Cohen on SNL, what he wants to see from Joe Biden if he wins, and what are the boundaries of comedy in 2020. (“Tropic Thunder probably would not have been made... It would be tone deaf right now to make it,” he says.) Plus! Rick, Molly, and George Conway talk about whether Tucker Carlson will run for president (yes, with Eric Trump as a running mate); whether a war criminal is about to become a new Trumpworld star (unfortunately, that’s a yes, too); and whether our commander-in-chief actually gives a shit about the troops he’s supposed to be leading (hard no). As George says, Trump “expressed more concern about how he was perceived walking down that ramp at West point than he did about the fact that the soldiers that he spoke to that day could go to Afghanistan and get killed, because some Russians are paying money to the Taliban.”Subscribe to The Last Laugh: https://link.chtbl.com/thelastlaughWant more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

May's Patron-funded episode (yes, I know it's late) is "Kentaurida" by Mason Hawthorne, narrated by Nobilis Reed. In the grey predawn the dense, ancient forest pressing right up to the edge of the road looms over George, as he picks his way along, careful not to turn an ankle in the deep ruts left by farmers carts and post wagons. He’s heard that this forest is untouched since ancient times, the last virgin wild lands this side of the continent, powerfully haunted, according to the common folk, and a stronghold of the old gods. It is cold, and the stars glitter in the sky, the husk of the setting moon is all the light George has to find the marker he was told of. It is an old thing, standing as tall as a man, the carved stone weathered by the centuries. The head on top is still well formed, and Hermes’ sly, gleeful smile beams from atop its square pillar. As George approaches he can make out, at the appropriate height, a carved penis standing at a jaunty angle from a stylised bush of pubic hair. He stops in front of it, and reaches out to touch the stone penis for good luck. Turning from the herm, he tightens the straps of his pack and fords his way into the forest. It is black under the cover of the trees, even the moon’s feeble light lost, he strains to see the obstacles in his path, and more than once loses his footing on the slick leaf litter and uneven coils of roots. Soon, George is breathless with exertion, and sweating; his shirt clings to his skin. Clammy and chilled, he must pause for a moment to tug his collar away from his throat and adjust his pack. It is so quiet, even the birds are silent; there’s not a sound aside from his laboured breathing and the crunch of dried leaves under his boots. George fits his fist against his side to ease the ache in his ribs, and a prickle crawls up the nape of his neck. What is that sense of hushed watchfulness that surrounds him? Why does it feel as though his every move is being scrutinised? George shakes himself off like a dog—isn’t it silly to believe all those folk superstitions—he squares his shoulders and carries on, labouring up the slope. But then, he is here because he believes in the folk tales. Because they say that beyond the curses and malevolent spirits, there was the chance to gain a miraculous cure, or the power of divination, or a dozen other such boons. The cure is all he wants, some kind of treatment. If he has come all this way to find nothing, he thinks he may as well die.

As George and Matt get inundated with great ownership questions, they decide to bring the Q&A tradition to Practice Under Water. What does being a "lazy dentist" actually look like? What does delegation afford George? They answer your best questions! Plus, will George tell us how much money he makes?

As we launch into the new year, we talk about one of the trends that always happens anytime we flip the number in the calendar… Namely, people begin showing up at the gym. What can we learn from them? Well, first, showing up is important. But, second, if you show up without a plan, you're probably not going to continue showing up for too long. Enter this discussion about “ruts,” about finding a plan and getting into a groove. Face it, most of the time we think of “ruts” as things we want to avoid. But what if we could find a righteous rut, a good groove that makes everything supernaturally easier and far more robust? In this episode of the Standfast-cast we launch a new series about these “righteous ruts.” More importantly, we talk about how to create one. Two options 1 John 2:15 gives us the best way to do to this. There, the Apostle tells us not to love the things in the world. There are two ways to do this: First, we can oppose everything that's bad. That is, we can choose the negative way. The problem is that, like you've probably heard before, “Two negatives only equal a positive in math.” As George says, “You can't fight something with nothing.” That leads us to the second option… Second, we can embrace that which is the best. That is, we can choose the positive way. Referring to Thomas Chalmers' sermon, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection, George notes that we can run from the world OR we can run TO our Father. That is, we can allow our hearts to embrace a new affection, a greater grace, something more worthy. When we do this, our palette changes. We transform. We crave the spiritual. So, schedule. Make the time to “show up,” just like the people in the gym do at the beginning of every new year. And then look for a grace-filled rut to fall into… In this next episode, we'll outline what that rut might look like….   __________ Links for this episode: Go to George's website: www.GeorgeGrant.net/keystones - when you purchase the 3-part volume we'll send you the Expulsive Power of a New Affection (digital version) totally free. Apple Podcasts- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-standfast-cast/id1448007323 Google Play- https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifv6ckyjzsg2glq7xqwjjmyqaei?t%3DThe_StandFast_Cast%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16 Stitcher- http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=347205&refid=stpr

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it  all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life  in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up  rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his  town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lqdhro/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lqdhro/support

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

George Fisher of George's Tech Repairs in Darwin began his business at home by fixing his family and friends mobile devices. With practice, George found that his skills could extend further than his inner circle where he could start servicing his wider community.Having a steady and reliable full time job for the past several years, George gradually made adjustments and negotiated with his employer to move to a part time capacity, as he began to invest more and more into his own business. With his family having many years of experience running their own businesses, George had the support and guidance to ensure that he took a gradual steps before diving in becoming completely self employed.In the early days of the business, George found himself making house calls and setting up stalls at markets to help the local area address any issues with their mobile phones and tablets. As things built, George set up his own location where customer's can now come to him, in addition to also continuing to have presence at markets and doing the odd call out.Technology for many of us can be a real nightmare and the fact that we rely on it so much means that George is providing a valuable service to others. Working in the technology field, George has challenges of his own when it comes to continuously up-skilling himself with the latest devices and methods of repair. He is constantly staying in contact with online tech communities and learning to ensure that he can stay relevant and in constant need for his customers.Customer service is a big part of George's success to date. Whether it be after-hours questions, call outs or other above and beyond help, George knows that he needs to take care of each person who chooses to come to him over a competitor in the area. With this approach, George has built loyalty, repeat business and growth. It's all good news.As George sets his eyes on the continuous uncertain future of technology, he is not staying married to his original concept of the business. George is constantly keeping up to date with not only changes in the technology world but also customer behaviour and what they will require in the future. Creating a successful business is the focus and George knows that the ways to do that will always continue to change.To check out George's Tech Repairs in Darwin, check out the links in the show notes.What did you get out of this episode? Here’s what I learnt;1. Is it time to negotiate? - George had been employed for quite a number of years and as he built his repair business, he began to transition away from the stability of his traditional job. Rather than jump ship straight away, George was able to negotiate with his employer to go to a part time capacity. That way he was still contributing, earning a steady income but also opening up his time to be able to focus on and build his own business. If you're still working for someone else and have plans to start your own business, think about how you can think outside the box and negotiate with your employer. Taking the sacrifice of full time income in exchange for more time to work on your craft could be worth far more than any short term cut of pay you take.2. Offer services for free - A great way to build your own skills and reputation in the market place is by offering freebies or significant discounts to people. As you are looking to create a name for yourself, build trust and reputation, you are going to have to find ways to incentivise others to use your product/service over others. Naturally you have to be mindful of your financial situation and prepare accordingly, however if you are factoring specific amounts of time and resources to do this in advance it will be manageable and return a lot of benefits.3. Learn from others mistakes - George spoke about reading the bad reviews from local businesses who might be competing in the same space. This is a great strategy to identify what your point of difference is, in comparison to your competitors. Criticism is valuable where it can provide insight into where the gaps in the market are. Often most pain points stem from basic customer service skills, which of course are easy wins. Through the frustration of other customers, you will be able to see how you can potentially "wow" your own when you connect with them.4. Stay flexible - George has a great outlook on his business and the industry. He stays up to date with the market and pays attention to not only what the technology giants are doing but also how the customer's behaviour changes. A sure way to have your business burn out is to stay fixed on your original concept and not evolve as the market changes. In George's example, the future might bring an unwillingness of customer's to have their phones fixed due to rising costs. George is keeping a close eye on this and is always keeping back up plans in place, just in case things change too dramatically to keep the business sustainable.Follow George's Tech Repairs via FacebookLocation – 36/12 Charlton Court Woolner, Northern Territory 0820

George has been in the church his whole life. From growing up in the Coptic Orthodox tradition, to serving in Pastor roles within Evangelical and Mainline Churches. We get the chance to talk about George and his work with Church Clarity. As George puts it, “We shouldn’t know more about our Uber drivers than we do about our pastors.”

We continue with George and Marcus being possessed as they collect all of the podcasting equipment and disappear deeper into the house. While Justin Case wants to leave them for the horrible transgression of touching his microphone, but Tripp can't give up on the biggest paranormal event of his life. (Or give up on his childhood friend, right?) As George and Marcus build a machine to summon the ghost, the other horrible people need to decide on what to do. Can Tripp bring George back from the edge of madness? Can Justin get a new microphone? Has Marcus just been huffing too many paint fumes? Find out as we return Back to the Old House. Special Guest: Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss https://iwbpodcast.com/ (https://iwbpodcast.com/) Playset: Back to the Old House -  http://fiascoplaysets.com/home/back-to-the-old-house (http://fiascoplaysets.com/home/back-to-the-old-house) Check out the game Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games -  https://bullypulpitgames.com/ (https://bullypulpitgames.com/) Royalty Free music for our scenes -  https://www.looperman.com/ (https://www.looperman.com/) Podcaster themes were by Antti Luode -  http://anttismusic.blogspot.com/ (http://anttismusic.blogspot.com/) All sound effects were used under Creative Commons. If you enjoyed the episode, want to support what we do, or just want to say hi, feel free to hit us up: Patreon -  http://www.patreon.com/rollingmisadventures (http://www.patreon.com/rollingmisadventures) Email - podcast@rollingmisadventures.com Twitter -  http://www.twitter.com/rmisadventures (http://www.twitter.com/rmisadventures) Merch -  https://www.teepublic.com/user/rollingmisadventures (https://www.teepublic.com/user/rollingmisadventures) Support this podcast

We continue our conversation on the poor and needy among us with a quote from In The Shadow of Plenty: “The church has largely failed her widows her orphans, her elderly, and her ill and informed. The church has largely failed to disciple young men to live lives of diligence, intensity, and productivity” (p98, ITSOP). In other words, we ask the question: Are we holding the wrong hands? James 1:27 tells us “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” As we've said in other episodes, this efforts tarts at home… and then grows through the church and then into the world. The early church faced an issue of needy among them in Acts 6. The widows weren't being fed. The disciples decided to empower 7 men to lead the effort- men full of wisdom and the Holy Spirit. This would enable them to focus on the ministry of the Word and prayer- thereby insuring that BOTH spiritual needs and practical needs were met. Notice what happened in Acts 6:1f… the church empowers new leaders and they begin growing exponentially. Acts 4:34 tells us “there were no needy among them.” And, remember, the first deacons were initially set apart for food distribution- it was an extremely practical need that, today, we would probably overlook. And, there are Greek names in the mix, meaning they broadened beyond Jewish circles in terms of their leadership (Pentecost achieved this on a “membership” level). Both the “ministry of the Word and prayer” and feeding the people in need were so important that they made sure they delegated leaders for both. The net effect of this= massive growth AND leadership development. Look at the growth. * 120 are present in Acts 1:15 * 3,000 added at Pentecost (Acts 2:47) * Up to 5,000 (4:4) * “More and more added” (5:14) * Now, Acts 6:7, the number multiplied That is, EXPONENTIAL MULTIPLICATION happened as the church met spiritual AND physical needs… In addition, leadership development occurred. Notice- * Phillip is one of the 7 set aside for ministry in Acts 6. * Phillip is featured in Acts 8, the Samaritan revival. Is later known as Philip the Evangelist, and has two daughters who are prophetesses * Stephen is featured in Acts 7, has he longest recorded speech in the entire book of Acts We've placed a premium on the weekend show and buildings… and relegated ministry to that, and to what serves those ends. But, in the New Testament… * Very little is mentioned about a building * Virtually nothing is said of church services, other than the communion meal (1 Corinthians 11), and that everyone brings something when the church meets (1 Corinthians 12-14) * Preaching in Acts most often happens OUTSIDE of the “church” (e.g., Peter at Pentecost in Acts 2, Peter and John on trial in Acts 3 & 4, Paul at Mars Hill in Acts 17) Verses to wrestle with… * “Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality” (Romans 10:13). * 1 Timothy 3 tells us a man must take care of his own family, managing his own household well, in order to be qualified to lead. Why? Because the church is a collection of families. * “Do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10). * James says we do no good if we see someone in need (food or clothing), tell them to be blessed, but them send them on their way. This is in the context of a gathered church. * 1 John 3:18 says to love one another not merely in word or talk but in deed and in truth. * 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 talks about giving… and does so in the context of supplying for the needs of the saints, not just ministry leader support. As George asks in the book: “If the church could not take care of its own, then what was to be made of its claim of dominion over the whole earth?” (p90, ITSOP)   ________ Links mentioned in this talk- Website- www.GeorgeGrant.net   In the Shadow of Plenty book- https://amzn.to/2VhEMzz 

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

In today’s episode, George Bryant, US Marine, author, and marketing consultant, shares his incredible journey from a very difficult upbringing to using his story to build successful businesses. George had a childhood that involved physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that led him to develop some unhealthy coping mechanisms. He decided to take control of his story, share it, and use it to grow both as a persona and an entrepreneur. Listen in as George explains why owning your story is so incredibly powerful and how you can do that. Visit A-Game Advantage or find us on iTunes to subscribe, visit previous episodes, and learn more about your host, Elliot Roe. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:00 –Introducing George and his incredible journey 01:40 – How George went from a very difficult upbringing that included physical, sexual, and emotional abuse to being an incredibly successful and positive person in adulthood 04:30 – How George came to the realization that he needed to change how he was eating to feel better 04:50 – He documented the entire journey and his fight against bulemia on his food blog 05:17 – “My thought was if I could close my back doors, I would have no choice but to succeed.” 06:10 – He realized how much power and healing can come from owning your story and sharing it openly so that it doesn’t control you anymore 07:06 – The common thread is that he was trying to avoid connection 07:50 – Why George thinks you need to work toward sharing your story over time 08:25 – He knew that, for himself, he had to go to extremes and share his story publicly in order to have the breakthrough he needed 08:40 – He reveleaed his story on the biggest podcast in the world 09:20 – You need to own your story for yourself first and there are 4 stages to progress through 09:35 – The 4 As George has had to go through every time there is a breakthrough 10:20 – Acceptance is where you put a pin in the map. It doesn’t mean you have to be okay with what you’re going through, it’s just accepting where you are in the moment. 11:00 – How George utilizes action and accountability to keep himself on track 11:50 – “You’re not alone. These things didn’t happen to you, they happened.” 12:30 – Why George threw the keynote speech he planned out the window and shared his 60 seconds of truth 13:10 – How his wife challenged him to tell his story to the next man he saw 13:50 – What happened when he told 2 complete strangers his entire story 15:30 – How the feeling of sharing his story became a new addiction at first 16:18 – How awareness has made this a strength 16:34 – How he calls himself out and hold himself accountable 17:10 – Why he has embraced unapologetic authenticity even if that means calling himself out publicly 18:15 – How George’s addiction to bulemia was actually an addiction to something that fixed the feeling of the core wound underneath it 18:35 – How shining a light on the dark spots where shame hid made everything easier 19:30 – George wasn’t comfortable taking his shirt off even when he had an 8-pack due to his body dysmorphia 20:05 – All of these issues were wrapped up in taking back control he felt was taken from him 21:10 – The work he did set the foundation for him being able to accept that these beliefs and actions weren’t serving him 22:00 – In the present moment, it’s about course correcting and keeping the ship moving forward 22:50 –He realized he was setting himself up for failure with perfectionism 23:22 – Start with awareness 23:50 – Anger is a secondary emotion and underneath is hurt or fear 24:20 – These feelings are tools your subsconscious has created to keep you safe 24:50 – How George uses the knowledge that he has gained on his journey in his marketing consulting 25:45 – The core of what he does is help people get out of their own way 26:06 – The 3 things that human beings need to change in a specific order 26:28 – He uses his story as a tool to create permission for people to self-identify 28:00 – “Marketing is nothing more than two-way, long-term, value-based relationships” 28:50 – How a previous client doubled revenue by giving permission to the team 30:32 – Marketing is becoming less inhuman 31:00 – How marketing moves in cycles 31:47 – Those who are focusing on two-way relationships are winning and will continue to win 32:20 – We aren’t even seeing ads anymore 32:58 – “Relationships beat algorithms” 33:30 – Where people can find George’s keynotes 34:30 – George is focusing on teaching for the next part of his journey 3 Key Points When you own your story it will no longer own you. All changes start with awareness. Relationships beat algorithms. Contact/Resources Primed Mind – Elliot’s Mindset App George’s Website – Civilized Caveman George’s Facebook Group – Marketing with George Bryant Credits Podcast Production by Podcastily

In this larger than life episode, my guest is George Casey Jr. George went from being homeless to finding an extraordinary success as he generously shares part of his journey. Listen to this episode and get a life-affirming dose of inspiration. As George will uplift your spirits and gets you moving forward with confidence and purpose. More About George: George Casey Jr is one of Jacksonville’s, Florida emerging motivational speakers! He is living proof that an individual’s past isn’t always an accurate predictor of his future. He is the epitome of the saying, “Your future endeavors do not have to be dictated by your past indiscretions”. George provides community engagement opportunities, including: motivational speaking, youth coaching, mentoring, and much more! In October 2016, Mr. Casey Jr.’s first book entitled, The Unexamined Life – Reflections of Lessons Learned, was published. Bit by the “book writing bug”, Mr. Casey Jr. has published his second book entitled, G.O.A.T. – Journey to Discovering GREATNESS!! https://georgecaseyjr.com/

George Christie, Jr. was born in 1947 in Ventura, California to a family of Greek immigrants and grew up as an only child. From an early age he was fascinated by motorcycles and outlaw culture, and by the time he started school his intelligence and rebellious attitude set him apart from his peers. As a teenager he became an avid surfer, who are outlaws in their own rite.Over the objections of his father he bought his first bike, a 1957 Panhead, for $200 in 1966, and was soon hanging around with outlaw bike clubs The Question Marks, Satan Slaves and famous motorcycle customizers Von Dutch and Dick Woods. As George puts it, "some people run away and join the circus. I ran away and joined the Hells Angels." He became a full-patch Hells Angel in the Los Angeles charter in 1976 and, six months later, became president of that charter before founding the Ventura charter in 1978. His tenure as such was the longest in the clubs history, spanning 7 U.S. Presidential terms beginning with Gerald Ford and ending with Barack Obama.  As a club leader in Ventura, he became one of the most powerful voices in the national Hells Angels organization, and spent three decades battling the law, rivals and members of his own club while building the club’s daily business operations. He famously carried the Olympic torch in the 1984 Los Angeles Games. After challenging the Kennedy family over fund disbursements for Special Olympics, he found himself on the radar of many police agencies as well as the establishment. Never one to back down, he went on a world wide pilgrimage for peace between all outlaw bike clubs declaring law enforcement their common enemy. This made him a police target for the next three decades. In 1986/87 he was tried for a murder that never happened and after spending a year in federal prison he was found not guilty and cleared of all charges. In 1997, the Ventura District Attorney launched an investigation and after three grand juries, George was arrested in 2001 with a 59 count indictment. He spent a year in solitary confinement before the case collapsed under its own weight. George was offered a plea bargain for time served, which he took. In 2011, he resigned his presidency of the Ventura charter and left the club. George was quickly excommunicated by his former brothers. The feds wasted no time and within weeks came with an indictment for a 2006 conspiracy to firebomb two Ventura tattoo shops. As George faced a mandatory life sentence if found guilty, the government offered a plea deal, but he would have to accept responsibility for the arson.  In a surprise move just before sentenced was rendered, Mr Christie asked to address the court. He explained to Judge Wu that he had not directed anyone to burnout the two shops but would accept responsibility for poor leadership. The court accepted his explanation, and after two years on house arrest recovering from double hip replacements, George left for a Texas Federal prison where he would spend the next year. In August of 2014 he was released from custody.  George currently serves as a consultant for defense attorneys, news outlets and works with first time offenders to understand the judicial process. He lives with his wife and son in Southern California and has three adult children. He has no regrets. Meet: Goerge Christie.

It’s a new year and the Beatles are back in the studio. Mere weeks following the release of their titanic eponymous double album (now colloquially dubbed “the white album” after it’s all-white outer packaging) the band was once again called together with another big idea from Paul. The goal? To rehearse a brand new album of new songs, film the rehearsal and then perform the album in some sort of live setting. That process would be broadcast as a tv special and the live performance of the new material would be released as the next album. Michael Lindsay-Hogg was signed on to direct, who not only had a history with the Beatles themselves but whom had just recently worked with John on the Rolling Stones Rock’n’Roll circus. It was yet another grand undertaking by a band that was standing on the brink of complete fracture following the tumultuous year prior. As George put it, “I just spent 6 months producing an album of this fella Jackie Lomax, and hangin’ out with Bob Dylan and the Band, in Woodstock, and havin' a great time, and for me to come back into the 'winter of discontent' with the Beatles, in Twickenham, was very unhealthy and unhappy.” To compensate, these very early days of January 1969 find John, Paul, George and Ringo endlessly jamming on their 50’s rock “comfort food”, avoiding the inevitable... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As George on Seinfeld said, "It's not a lie if YOU believe it." The boys tell themselves some sweet sweet lies about crazy things that will happen to the 2018 Saints.Should Lance Moore be a Saints Hall of Famer? What's worst Saints move move of last 10 years.Will Terrence West actually carry the ball in 2018 for the Saints? Would you take money to publicly support the Falcons in the Super Bowl on social media?  Ralph explais the excitement his wife has over Mexico beating Germany in the World Cup.  Drunk Saints History Season 2 is Here! Don't forget to download our Podbean, Stitcher, or Andriod app!  ALSO GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! DO IT NOW!!

Join host Pastor Dave Schultz as we hear from Alvin, George and Michael, senior seminary students at the Darrington Maximum Security Penitentiary in Rosharon, TX. As George says, Even in our situation, God hasn't given up on us.

Join host Pastor Dave Schultz as we hear from Alvin, George and Michael, senior seminary students at the Darrington Maximum Security Penitentiary in Rosharon, TX. As George says, Even in our situation, God hasn't given up on us.

"If you just wanna hear the Altered Carbon part of the podcast, skip to 33 minutes 14 seconds." --George Don't worry.  We certainly don't go out on a high note.  As George and Kevin attempt to remove some potty humor from the show, we visit the cult film JOHN DIES AT THE END.  Which, yes, was fantastic and we both loved. So, we also talk about the shit that was the Netflix series ALTERED CARBON.  Kevin's hopes of a decent adaptation are dashed and George revels in the idea of what could have been. Join us!!! BIBLIOGRAPHY: Altered Carbon, 2018, Netflix John Dies At The End, 2012, dir. by Don Coscarelli The Wind Up Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hurari We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners.  As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of SPOILERS.  Consider yourself warned. If you enjoyed BUSY DADS DO SCI-FI, please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play or wherever you may find your podcasts.  You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram at bddscifi. Thanks for listening and keep coming back.  See you in two weeks. Theme song by Tony Fernandez

Coming from an outing to a flea market in New Jersey, Elaine and George damage Jerry's car when George drives over a large pothole. When they get to his apartment they conveniently find a parking space right in front of Jerry's building. As George tries to back in however, someone tries to take the spot by driving in nose first. With neither car able to park, it leads to an all day argument. Elaine meanwhile has to come with a story about the damage to the car. Guest: Benjy Himmelfarb

Today we are talking with Mark Deal who has grown Podcast Atlanta to over 500 members (www.podatl.com). We get great tips on growing a local meetup, tips, and resources for better interviews, and how is creating podcasts for a living.  How Long Does it Take Until Your Show Catches On? George Hrab answered this question on his Geologic podcast, and George told me a long time ago that if I ever want to use a clip I could. George's show spotlights his life as the drummer of the Philadelphia Funk Authority, but also features George's Skeptic point of view with highlights on Science as well as the "Religious Moron of the Week." George mentions that you shouldn't start a podcast to "be something" but instead make it because you can make something cool, interesting and fun. Make a podcast because you have a different point of view and it needs to be heard. It took him two years before an absolute stranger mentioned they listened to the show. As George says, "You're making something and that is more than most people." Growing Your Local Meetup Group Mark Deal runs podcast Atlanta and in 18 months his group has grown to 500+ members. In today's discussion you hear: Not all 500 show up at the same time The different formats of meeting he uses What he's doing to grow the group What didn't work in regards to growing the group How a meetup group is not exactly the same a growing a podcast How to pick a location How he offsets the price of running the meetup group How he got Gordon Firemark to come to a meetup The typical breakdown of a meeting How often they meet, and how they stay connected between meetings. The pros and cons of Meetup vs a Facebook Group The kind of "Special Events" they have Podcast Guest Experts and the Podcast Editors Facebook Groups What has happened because of hosting a podcaster's meetup (18:00) Podcast Studio Certifications, and what he feels every studio should have How he is making a living with podcasting Having Alcohol at events Other platforms he uses in addition to Faceboook, and Meetup. (Eventbrite.com ) He makes money from Podcasting not Podcasters Why he uses Steve Stewart to edit his show Check out Mark at www.podatl.com Podcasting in Six Weeks Starts January 2018 Six weeks of group coaching and personalized attention 1 Year Subscription to the School of Podcasting Private Facebook Group Be in the relevant Podcasting Directories by February Direct access to me / Priority Email Support Focus Group to Help Shape Your Idea Your Podcast will Sound Great  Erase Your Fear of "Sounding Stupid" Go to www.podcastinginsixweeks.com for more information. Class Size is limited. Want a more leisurely pace, check out the School of Podcasting. Mentioned on This Show Gordon Firemark (Entertainment Lawyer) Author Inside You Podcast Eventbrite.com (ticketing for evens) Social Media Marketing World Podfest.us DC Podfest

George Brandau is a super connector musician who regularly organizes benefit shows for his local community. He's also a longtime friend and fellow drummer, who's been mentioned on The Unstarving Musician's Podcast a few times. In this episode George and I discuss his superpower for connecting others, and how he goes about organizing and promoting benefit gigs. George and his band Chrome Deluxe have raised thousands of dollars for the homeless, underprivileged children and fire victims. It struck me that many of us in the music community would appreciate the opportunity to learn about the art of benefit shows, the charitable giving involved, and the performing that goes along with it all. George says it's part of the hustle, but does get into some detail on how he uses social media, email and printed posters to pull consistent crowds to these events, be they benefit shows or otherwise. As George says, connecting people is in the fabric of his being. So much so that he has to keep his super-connector side in check, lest it interfere with the act of listening. We had a laugh about this, as I frequently catch myself suppressing the urge to interrupt people for the sake of blurting out something that sounds funny in my head. Truth be told, my brand of humor seldom warrants interrupting anyone. I doubt this is the case for George as the rolodex of his mind starts to spin anytime he meets someone interesting. George claims to be extroverted, yet he'll also tell you that he cherishes alone time. Alone time for George is an ideal time to unplug and reflect. This is a topic I enjoyed discussing, as it can appear to fly in the face of being an extrovert, and because I can relate. I think that he and I are both extroverted introverts, because neither of us has issues with alone time. In fact, we both love and leverage it. Read more and find show notes at UnstarvingMusician.com.  

Today’s guest George Bryant is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling cookbook, The Paleo Kitchen, and the man behind the Civilized Caveman, the top paleo blog in the world. George and Nicholas dig deep today, talking about changing out internal perspective to not only have success but to also be able to handle our success. They discuss the self-limiting challenges that many face and how to overcome those obstacles in order to expand your experiences that will then define your success.    Time Stamped Show Notes [3:10] Building trust quickly: Authenticity. [6:43] Commitment: The one mentality that has stuck with George over the years. [11:25] The Four Rules, eliminating the lies of who you aren’t and surrendering your “ideals”. [18:08] Seeking out what you fear most. [20:02] The Power of Radical Honesty. [29:30] The Fear of Success and Self Sabotage: Silencing Your Inner Critic. [44:30] You're “WHY’ is greater. [63:02] Being uncomfortable.                                                         Takeaways: “Commitment is not feelings.” It doesn't matter if you’re tired, if you don’t feel good, if you don’t want to. As George said in his example of caring for his son, despite how George feels in the moment, he said, “I have to get up and tend to his (his son’s) needs. That’s commitment.” “What is happening in this moment right now isn’t definite, it just is. And what happened a moment ago can’t be changed. But what I choose to do in the next moment is going to define my results one week from now, one month from now, and one year from now.” Your improvement just needs to be 1% better than what you are currently doing and you will see your results increase. The Four Rules: No Fault, No Blame, No Guilt, No Shame. Why? Because the truth is if someone says something that upsets you, it has nothing to do with them and everything to do with you. You get to decide and make a choice of how those words, situation, circumstances will affect you. You are the one who will choose whether or not to put the fault on others, to pin blame, to carry the guilt, or to feel the shame. It is 100% your choice on how things impact you. “You’re not in a monogamous relationship with food, there isn't any cheating only choices. Choose not to put it in your mouth next time.” What you see as ideal isn’t actually the best for you. You can only see as far as you’ve grown. The biggest fear in being authentic isn’t that people will judge you, it’s that you actually might succeed. When we hold on to the things we are subversively self-sabotaging. Because many think that if they don’t show up as their authentic selves they don’t have to commit to success. We are actually afraid of freedom and peace, and society supports that. If you actually accept who you are you can conquer the fear.   If you enjoyed this podcast then make sure to get our free Testosterone boosting checklist here (www.thebilliondollarbody.com/checklist   Thanks for listening, Nicholas Bayerle PS: Haven’t connected with us on Instagram yet? Click here (www.instagram.com/thebilliondollarbody)  

So often on this podcast, and on my radio show, we field questions from recent grads with insane amounts of student loan debt. Sometimes it’s enough debt to wreck a life. There’s enough blame to go around, but so often it’s a case of students feeling the pressure to go to fancy, high priced colleges to study what seems like an obscure major. But before you think that I am about to argue that every able-bodied student should be studying for a degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) field, read on... Let me pose a question. What is wrong with a well-rounded liberal arts degree? A degree, which I might add, can be earned at countless reasonably priced colleges.  George Anders, our guest this week on Better Off makes a strong case in his recently released book, You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or know how to write computer code to succeed in today’s work environment.  When you really think about it, it’s amazing how many doors a so called “useless” liberal arts education can open. As George says, you can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. At any stage of your career, you can bring a humanist’s grace to the rapidly evolving high-tech future. If you’ve got kids starting the college application process, who are resisting calls to declare a STEM major or if you’re thinking about furthering your education by going to grad school, listen to this episode before making any decisions. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in iTunes. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. For a recap of every episode, visit https://www.betterment.com/resources/topics/inside-betterment/better-off-podcast/ Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/  https://twitter.com/jillonmoney  https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney  https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/  https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/  https://soundcloud.com/jill-schlesinger  http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money  http://betteroffpodcast.com/  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2

As George recovers from his last hospital stay and prepares for his upcoming surgery, he recalls his concerns about his gender and how others will be affected by it. He also expresses a sense of "nakedness" from the lack of bodily self-determination. Then he realizes, all those types of discomfort are part of dysphoria! Jess also recalls experiencing dysphoria that they didn't realize was dysphoria, although their dysphoria is often more social, while George's was more physical. How do we cope with, or work around, discomfort with our respective genders? That's a skill that we've both got a pretty good handle on, but still requires effort at times. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374. If you have a request/suggestion that isn't listed, comment!  We can be found online at TransPanTastic.net, you can email us at TransPanTastic@gmail.com, and "TransPanTastic" is searchable on most social networks. We would love to hear from you, so let us know what you think or what you want to hear about!

Health care is a complicated subject, and getting health care as a transgender person can be even more so. Is the doctor choosing not to touch your body because she's bigoted, or just inept? Is a nurse being snotty because he's tired after a long shift, or because he took a look at your records? As George ages, health care interactions are going to become more frequent, and it's important that his providers are all capable and competent to work with populations of all genders. The good news is, his intestines tried to kill him just in time to have a day off for the mad rush on Gallifrey One hotel reservations!  We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374. If you have a request/suggestion that isn't listed, comment!  We can be found online at TransPanTastic.net, you can email us at TransPanTastic@gmail.com, and "TransPanTastic" is searchable on most social networks. We would love to hear from you, so let us know what you think or what you want to hear about!

The show begins with producer Ken Lucas’ issues with Standards & Practices. We find out they offered Ken a job but he declined the position. We also learn the Ed Coleman’s salary is based on the amount of listeners for the show. We find out that Ed is lobbying for a chair on the Board of Directors. We dip into Ed’s RICO case and then we take a quick break. After the break, we meet the Unwinnable, Inc. Financial Guru, George Collazo. As George gets into investments, Stu shows up with his bodyguard, Romeo. George informs us that coal is the investment of the future. We try to help Stu with the Unwinnable Monthly crossword puzzle and then Ed insults Pittsburgh. Ed wants to know how to get rich quick and George suggests he invests in tacos. We hear about the Stu Initiative and then we end with a massive Chinese food order. Don’t forget to subscribe to Unwinnable Monthly, the best cultural criticism in your inbox every month. http://www.unwinnable.com/subscribe/ Email us at info@unwinnable.com Tweet questions for the Ask An Attorney and What’s My Middle Name segment to Edward A. Coleman, Esq. @UnwinnableOotGC Follow the staff on Twitter Kenneth Lucas @Kursse www.twitter.com/kursse Stu Horvath @stuhorvath www.twiter.com/stuhorvath George Collazo @GeorgeCollazo www.twitter.com/georgecollazo Music by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-f

George Copsey studied with the late, Master Momentum Coach Dennis Stevenson for nearly a year and is the only coach personally trained by Dennis to teach other coaches to use the powerful momentum process tools.Now, you may be wondering, who is Dennis Stevenson, and why should I care? Great questions. Having studied with both Dennis and George, I can give a short answer. The momentum process is a simple yet powerful way to get out of your own way, focus with clarity, and have the results appear as if by magic. Yet, it isn't magic at all. It is the way the world works. It feels like magic. As George says, "most of us are experts at focusing on what we don't want." Learning how to focus on what we want can greatly impact your life in all major areas. We invite you to listen and try for yourself.

George Copsey studied with the late, Master Momentum Coach Dennis Stevenson for nearly a year and is the only coach personally trained by Dennis to teach other coaches to use the powerful momentum process tools.Now, you may be wondering, who is Dennis Stevenson, and why should I care? Great questions. Having studied with both Dennis and George, I can give a short answer. The momentum process is a simple yet powerful way to get out of your own way, focus with clarity, and have the results appear as if by magic. Yet, it isn't magic at all. It is the way the world works. It feels like magic. As George says, "most of us are experts at focusing on what we don't want." Learning how to focus on what we want can greatly impact your life in all major areas. We invite you to listen and try for yourself.

Jess thinks in words, George thinks in pictures. That sometimes makes it difficult to communicate when the words are needed to share the pictures and ideas in his head. As George's body continues to change, and his place in our world continues to settle into the "man camp", he considers how and when to best express the unique viewpoint that his experiences with HRT, with the changes testosterone has brought, with masculinity and femininity, and with emigrating from the "woman camp" have provided. We are here to share our entire intersectional experience with anyone who finds it beneficial, but we want to know what you connect with the most. You can let us know by clicking to a one-question anonymous survey at vote.pollcode.com/32371374. If you have a request/suggestion that isn't listed, comment! We can be found online at TransPanTastic.net, you can email us at TransPanTastic@gmail.com, and "TransPanTastic" is searchable on most social networks. We would love to hear from you, so let us know what you think or what you want to hear about!

It's October again and time for us to cover a horror film with Spanish connections. This time we tackle one of the best zombie films of all time - that's right - I said it! LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE was conceived as a way to cash in on the popularity of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but it goes in its own direction to great effect. Indeed, it is such a creative and intriguing variation on the cannibalistic walking dead that both Troy and I mark it as a favorite of the subgenre. It plays with lots of ideas that can tickle the intellect but never skimps on the atmosphere or scares. One of the themes of the movie seems to be man's breach of trust in our dealings with nature with the film wasting no time showing us images of our ecological crimes to drive this thought home. As George leaves London director Jorge Grau focuses his camera on car tailpipes, smoke stacks, piles of garbage and venting sewer grates forcing us to look at our daily polluting of the earth. These things are not dwelled upon as the movie continues but the ideas lurk behind everything that happens. This film also presents a colorful and beautifully shot series of images that can be enjoyed just as fine cinematography and lovely framing so you don't have to be a gore hound to be entertained by this one. As usual we can't stay on a single subject for an entire podcast so we start with a discussion of the proposed Universal Monster-verse and our hopes for it. During the mail section we talk about Eli Roth's new film and our reactions to his earlier movies; the concept of the MacGuffin and various other things that we are asked about in emails. If you would like to write us and prompt further discussions the address is naschycast@gmail.com or join us on the Facebook page. Thank you for downloading and listening and have a happy Halloween! Spoon!

Hi I'm Laura Flanders of GRITtv. President Obama got one thing right in his State of the Union address. "It is [we] the citizens who make the state of our union strong." Just look at his speech. After years of saying the word poverty less than any president in memory (and talking about the middle class more), here was Obama talking about low wage-stifled workers, and inequality. That's thanks to public activism. "Inequality has deepened"; "No one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty". The president's best applause lines came from protest signs. Now “citizens” (and would-be citizens) will have to come up with solutions too, because his won't take us very far. Take that minimum wage hike for federal workers. Ten dollars and ten cents an hour is nice, but $20,000 a year is hardly a ticket out of poverty, even if you can find a full time job in the public sector. Yes! Magazine held a live Twitter-fest during the President's speech. Lots of people wrote in, with solid suggestions for how to make much bigger changes. To stop the shrinking of the public sector for example, union members said bring jobs back home. The feds reportedly spend $1.5 billion a year buying clothes overseas. Instead of subcontracting to sweatshops why not buy American? The President talked about stimulating manufacturing by attracting businesses to high-tech ”hubs”. But if government's going to give tax breaks and cash to private firms why not demand an ownership share for the taxpayers? If the public's going to carry the risk, we should also see the profit. President Obama's support for natural gas came in for criticism. Gas isn't "a bridge fuel" they said, or if it is it's another bridge to nowhere. We'd be far better off investing now in wind and solar which will pay off handsomely. And create green energy companies that are owned by the public and dilute the power of the enormous oil and gas corporations. The Tweet that sticks with me most came from George Goehl at National People's Action. He wrote: "There are three paths we can take 1) Fight to preserve the little we have left 2) Work to revive the old economy or 3) Reimagine what's possible." As President Obama said “We all owe it to the American people to say what we're for, not just what we're against.” There's also a responsibility to listen. Many Americans are saying loudly what they're for. And they're making it happen. At GRITtv and Yes Magazine, we're calling it #Commonomics, and I'm reporting on a slew of efforts to build people centered economies, that serves people and the planet. As George says, it is possible to make a more fair world out of our old broken economy, but not if we only tinker. And not if we wait for the President. As Obama said, the union's strength lies in its people. You can find my coverage of #Commonomics on www.GRITtv.org or in the pages of Yes Magazine.

As we finished up our series on “It’s A Wonderful Life?” we talked about everyone’s favorite part of the movie. As George has finally had enough of this alternate reality where he’s not sure what’s real and what’s not anymore, he runs back to the bridge where he originally thought about throwing it all away. […]

It's rambling, but not as we know it. Every year the Long Distance Walkers' Association organises a 100 mile walk. It has to be completed in 48 hours, which for most people means walking through two nights with no sleep. By the end, hallucination is common, and many of the 500 who started out drop out or by the time they finish can barely walk any more. Lives in a Landscape follows two participants in this year's walk, from Wadebridge in Cornwall to Teignmouth in Devon. One, George Foot, is 76, and has done 24 100-mile walks already. The other, Josh Wainwright, is 18. This is his first 100. Will either of them complete the walk, or will they have to "retire" early? As George walks, he talks to presenter Alan Dein about his long-dead father - a distinguished public school headmaster. It becomes clear that George has spent much of his life in his father's shadow, feeling that he was a permanent disappointment to him. As a child, George was told by his father that he was "a bad walker". Now, completing the 100 mile walk is a way of redeeming himself in his father's eyes. Josh, on the other hand, is walking the 100 miles with his father, Dave, a 21st century parent. Will Dave be more forgiving of failure, and more willing to praise success? An exploration not just of the challenges of walking and endurance, but of the changing nature of fatherhood. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins Presenter: Alan Dein.

George Quant has taught Meditation for over 30 years. UCLA has spent millions studying the positive effects of this practice.   Is a Master teacher of meditation.  His unique teaching methods have allowed thousands around the world to master the art and science of meditation and live more enriched lives. Mr. Quant has developed the simple, yet very effective technique of                        Integrated Quantum Meditation.   Join us for a conversation and lessons learned from our special guest. He has taught Studio Executives, Famous Actors and thousands of individuals this practice. As George says " We are not broken" . Join us as we demystify and debunk the lie that AA teaches...that we are broken, that we are like men who have lost their legs. THIS...is just not true.  George Quant's work is backed up by years of scientific research.  www.georgequant.com

George Quant has taught Meditation for over 30 years. UCLA has spent millions studying the positive effects of this practice.   Is a Master teacher of meditation.  His unique teaching methods have allowed thousands around the world to master the art and science of meditation and live more enriched lives. Mr. Quant has developed the simple, yet very effective technique of                        Integrated Quantum Meditation.   Join us for a conversation and lessons learned from our special guest. He has taught Studio Executives, Famous Actors and thousands of individuals this practice. As George says " We are not broken" . Join us as we demystify and debunk the lie that AA teaches...that we are broken, that we are like men who have lost their legs. THIS...is just not true.  George Quant's work is backed up by years of scientific research.  www.georgequant.com

This is the tale of Saint George and the dragon.Iit has been told for over 15 centuries. It takes place during a time called the Dark Ages, when kings ruled the land, wizzards cast spells, and monsters roamed free. The queen of fairies had taken young George in as a baby. The fairies raised the child to grow up brave, strong, calm, courteous, quick, and clever. They taught him to be a noble knight. At last the time came when George was old enough to look for his destiny. The queen of fairies called hiim to see her. "Your journey starts today," she told him. "You have many adventures before you. Your fantastic quest will take six years. The world is filled with monsters to be killed, and battles to be won. You'll meet kings and poor men, wizards, witches, evil princes, and kind princesses." "Yes, Your Majesty," George bowed before the queen. He was very fond of her. He was sad to leave the land of the fairies, but he was not afraid. "Always remember one thing," the queen added, tapping his helmet. "You're greatest weapon is your brain." With those words, George set off. He traveled for weeks, through many wonderful kingdoms. But as George approached a place called Silene, he noticed that the land changed from lush and green to dark and desolate. It seemed the ground had been burned. there was no grass, only the darkest mud. The trees were bare and black, and a foul smell filled the air. As George walked through this stark land, he did not see a soul - not a bird, not a squirrel, and certainly not a single person. George finally saw a castle in the distance. A high, solid wall enclosed the castle and the small city around it. The gate was locked. Again, George saw no one around. When he got closer, he saw a young lady. She came silently through the gate. "Excuse me, dear lady," he started to say to her. "Quiet!" she said quickly. "Have you no sense? You should leave and never return." "But I am a brave knight here to help you," George whispered. "Alas, sir," the woman replied, "you are only one man. I'm afraid you cannot help." George looked into her eyes and said, "It is my destiny. I will not go until I have done all I can, even if it costs me my life." // //

Sometimes when you reach too high, you may not get what you’re reaching for. As George is about to find out. Written by Capt. John Tadrzak Directed/Edited/Post-Production by James W. Smagata... We would like to recognize a couple of the world's greatest Comedians and actors: George Burns and Gracie Allen. They are gone now, but the laughter they brought us will travel through out time and space. These scripts is in memory of George and Gracie. "Brighto" courtesy of Howard, Fine and Howard Enterprises.

This, the sixth episode of Live and Direct is now available for your consumption and critical analysis. It's me, interviewing protestors and activists who were at last Sunday's demonstration and who are involved with several local organizations whose causes include pro-impeachment, anti-war, and pro-peace groups. This episode is 53MB and features 57:56 of thoughtful, non-mainstream political discussion. What follows is an annotated timeline.I first interviewed Sue Ferra (at 1:33) and George Miller (at 2:58) at the From Every Village Green protest on Sunday.NOTE: in the show I got the percentage wrong of Americans who would favor impeachment, given Bush's lies about the war. It was actually 53% in favor of impeachment vs. 42% against. For details, see Majority of Americans Support Impeachment.As George suggests, you should google "federal reserve bank ownership" and read for yourself the history and true nature of what many Americans assume is a branch of their government.Here is a 2002 speech by Congressman Ron Paul advocating the abolishment of the Fed. For those of you who prefer to watch a video, here you go.The solitary, yet appropriate song I played during the show is Deirdre Flint's "Presidential Succession". Should you wish to listen, it's from 12:42 to 15:40. Deirdre also has a podcast.The two people I interviewed on the air were Deb Atwell and Steve Burke. Deb is the local contact for Maine Impeach, and Steve is one of the original founders of the Midcoast Peace and Justice Group. Midcoast Peace and Justice holds meetings at 7PM on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rockland. They are free and open to the public.Both Maine Impeach and Midcoast Peace and Justice will provide pro-impeachment stickers and yard signs, should you desire that.There are many such groups around Maine. The two largest are Peace Action Maine in Portland, and the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor. An umbrella organization is the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice.I had a first for Live and Direct, a caller expressing her views. The transcript of that segment is below: (this exchange happens between 29:48 and 31:29, for those of you eager to hear it)Female Caller: I'm a Republican, and I think George Bush is the best president we've ever had, and this is all just a bunch of crap.Kim: Well, I understand those are your political views and you're welcome to them. We have the people that we're interviewing, and they're welcome to theirs as well.Caller: Let me just say: George Bush is only against slackers and sinners and terrorists, so if you don't like him, which one of the three are you?Steve: I guess I can try and answer the lady's question, or at least give my spin on it. I don't think George Bush is a Republican at all. I think the Bush administration is pretty much run by neo-conservatives and they've defied most of the tenets of the Republican party. Most Republicans aren't really thrilled with the ideas of military adventurism, they support fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, in the Reagan tradition they're against increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, and the Bush administration has failed at all of this. I think that true Republicans are going to be severing ties with this administration pretty fast come election time.Caller: Twenty years from now when they blow us all up, you'll remember that, and you'll say George Bush was a good president.Kim: Thank you for your call.I thank everyone that took the time to talk to me for their thoughts and criticism, opinions and analysis of the most important—but least aired, in mainstream media—political issue of our time. As always, I welcome your dialogue and criticism. If you are so inclined, please contact me.