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In today’s podcast, members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board discuss 3 clinical trials that are exploring new treatment options across prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer. This podcast will be led by Dr. Timothy Gilligan, Dr. Sumanta (Monty) Pal, Dr. Petros Grivas, and Dr. Tian Zhang. Dr. Gilligan is an Associate Professor and Medical Oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center. He has no relevant relationships to disclose. Dr. Pal is co-director of City of Hope's Kidney Cancer Program and is the head of the kidney and bladder cancer disease team at the institution. He has served in a consulting or advisory role for Astellas Pharma, Exelixis, and Pfizer. Dr. Grivas is the clinical director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at University of Washington Medicine. He is also an associate member of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has served in a consulting or advisory role for Exelixis, Merck, and Pfizer. Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and is a medical oncologist at Duke Cancer Institute. She has served in a consulting or advisory role for Exelixis, Merck, and Pfizer. View full disclosures for Dr. Gilligan, Dr. Pal, Dr. Grivas, and Dr. Zhang at Cancer.Net. Dr. Gilligan: Hi. I'm Dr. Timothy Gilligan from the Cleveland Clinic. I'm joined today by Dr. Monty Pal from the City of Hope Cancer Center, Dr. Petros Grivas from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, and Dr. Tian Zhang from Duke Cancer Institute. Today, we're going to discuss three ongoing clinical trials in prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer. As you may know, clinical trials are the main way the doctors are able to find better treatment for cancer and other diseases. Patient participation is vital for clinical trials. By participating in a clinical trial, you can directly help researchers develop better treatment, reduce side effects, or even reduce the risk of cancer all together. The three trials we'll discuss today were chosen by members of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board Genitourinary Cancers Panel from the trials and progress abstracts that were presented at ASCO's 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Because these are ongoing clinical trials, final results from these studies are not available yet. I'd like to note that none of us have any direct involvement with any of these trials. To view our full disclosures, please visit the show notes for this episode on Cancer.Net. So to get started, the first study we'll discuss is the TALAPRO-2 trial for prostate cancer, [Talazoparib + Enzalutamide vs. Enzalutamide Monotherapy in mCRPC (TALAPRO-2)] and Dr. Pal is going to discuss this. So if we could get started, just to begin with, who is the study designed for? Dr. Pal: Thanks a lot, Dr. Gilligan. Well, this study addresses a unique disease population. It's patients with prostate cancer that's metastatic, and that implies that the cancer has migrated out of the prostate to other organs. But beyond that, it also implies that these patients have also developed some resistance to first line hormone treatment. So patients in this study [have] so-called hormone resistant or castration resistant [prostate cancer]. Dr. Gilligan: So if a patient was in this situation, and they weren't going on this trial, what would be the standard treatment for them at this time? Dr. Pal: There are several options for these patients. Hormone therapies like abiraterone and enzalutamide could be considered. Chemotherapy is also a consideration. Dr. Gilligan: And can you say a little bit more about what the patients would receive if they went on it? The subjects of the study, what they'll get? Dr. Pal: Some patients with prostate cancer may have [a deficiency in their cancer’s ability to repair damage to DNA]. This is something that we've seen in other tumor types, breast cancer perhaps being the most notable example. Pancreatic cancer being another one. In this particular trial, [the researchers] try to exploit that by using a class of drugs called PARP inhibitors. In this case, a drug called talazoparib. So patients in this study receive a standard hormone therapy called enzalutamide. And they receive that with or without this drug, talazoparib. Dr. Gilligan: So they will get either-- what you described before is the standard of care—hormonal therapy, or that combined with this new drug. Dr. Pal: That's exactly right, Dr. Gilligan. Dr. Gilligan: I wanted to make that clear because this is a trial that has placebo, and sometimes research [participants] have concern about, "Do I want to be on a trial that has a placebo?" Do you want to say anything about that? Dr. Pal: It's very important to bear in mind that every patient that enrolls in this study is going to get the standard treatment in this setting. As I've mentioned before, enzalutamide represents one of those options. And, of course, in this trial above and beyond that, they have the possibility of getting talazoparib or a placebo. So certainly patients won't be receiving placebo alone in this trial. Dr. Gilligan: Do you want to say anything more about what's kind of interesting about this new approach to treating prostate cancer? Dr. Pal: What I think is quite inventive about this study is that talazoparib, the PARP inhibitor, is being combined with hormone therapy. And I think that's the real difference in what this protocol offers versus the treatment strategies that now represent a standard option for patients. Dr. Gilligan: Right. And my understanding is that the hope is that by using this combination, we'll be able to make treatment more effective. Dr. Pal: Absolutely. When we talk about PARP inhibitors and prostate cancer currently, we're typically restricting it to patients who have these so-called DNA damage repair mutations. And that's certainly a finite group of individuals. In this particular trial, we're actually going to look not just at those patients, but all patients within this disease state. So we go beyond the 25 to 30 percent of patients who are estimated to have alterations in DNA damage repair. Dr. Gilligan: Right. I think that's an important point: to get on this trial, patients don't have to have a particular genetic profile. So how will success be evaluated? How will we know if it's working? Dr. Pal: In this case, we're going to be looking at the delay in cancer growth as the primary outcome measure. We're certainly hoping that the combination of enzalutamide with talazoparib is going to slow growth relative to enzalutamide plus placebo. The innovative endpoint that's explored in this study is also diving deeper and looking at those patients who have these DNA damage repair mutations that's going to also reflect one of the primary outcome measures in this study. And that's something quite important to bear in mind. Dr. Gilligan: So we have some experience with PARP inhibitors. Can you say something about what we know about the side effects? Dr. Pal: Fatigue is a relatively common side effect. Decreases in blood counts is another potential side effect. And in particular in my clinical experience, I've seen drops in the white blood cell counts. That of course makes patients more susceptible to infection. Diarrhea may also be one of the consequences within this class of drugs. And certainly, I would refer patients to a more comprehensive discussion of these side effects with their clinicians before entering into the study. Dr. Gilligan: Is the trial still accruing patients? And do we know when we might expect results? Dr. Pal: I think that there are many trials within this particular space. This one is ambitious in that it hopes to accrue over a thousand patients. I don't have a good finger on the pulse of when results will report. But I'm sure that'll be the subject of future podcasts for us.  Dr. Gilligan: Well, thank you very much Dr. Pal. It's a very exciting study and exciting new area of research in prostate cancer. Dr. Pal: Definitely. Dr. Gilligan: We're going to move on now to the second study we want to talk about, which is the KEYNOTE-905 study. [Perioperative Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Plus Cystectomy or Perioperative Pembrolizumab Plus Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Cystectomy Versus Cystectomy Alone in Cisplatin-ineligible Participants With Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (MK-3475-905/KEYNOTE-905/EV-303)] And Dr. Grivas is going to talk to us about that. Can you orient us, Dr. Grivas, to what this study is, for which group of patients, and what it's looking at? Dr. Grivas: This clinical trial is applicable to patients with localized, meaning not spread, bladder cancer. And when the bladder cancer has invaded the muscle layer of the bladder, we call this muscle invasive bladder cancer. And these patients usually go for cystectomy, the removal of the bladder. And ideally, they get chemotherapy before, but some patients may not be fit enough for chemotherapy. So those patients go straight to cystectomy, the removal of the bladder. So this clinical trial is trying to evaluate whether immunotherapy with this drug, called pembrolizumab, helps these patients before they get the cystectomy. Dr. Gilligan: Can you tell us a little bit more about pembrolizumab and what we know about it? Where it's used currently in bladder cancer? Dr. Grivas: Pembrolizumab has three different indications for patients with bladder cancer. The first one is in an earlier stage, what we call non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, which is a very superficial cancer, when the cancer is not invading through the muscle layer. And there's a specific indication for those patients who get therapy with BCG, which is a form of immunotherapy given inside the bladder. And if the cancer is not responding well to this BCG, usually, they go for removal of the bladder. But some of them may not be able to do that or do not want that. And pembrolizumab has a track record in those specific scenarios of BCG-unresponsive tumors as we call them for those patients who cannot get cystectomy or don't want to have it. The other two indications are for patients who have metastatic, [meaning bladder cancer that has spread to other organs.] And there are two specific indications of pembrolizumab immunotherapy in that particular setting. So this trial is trying to expand upon the role of pembrolizumab in bladder cancer. Dr. Gilligan: So it's been shown to be a benefit when the disease is more advanced and now we want to see if it's helpful earlier on in the period of time around surgery. Dr. Grivas: Right. And it's interesting in a particular setting we're looking at this trial, because we have indications literally before and after in an earlier states, the non-muscle invasive disease setting. And also as you mentioned, Dr. Gilligan, in the more advanced setting. So we're trying now to see whether this middle setting of muscle invasive bladder cancer, whether there's a role of pembrolizumab by itself before removing the bladder. Dr. Gilligan: Are patients who are eligible to get chemotherapy prior to cystectomy able to go on this trial or is it only for patients who are not [well enough] to get chemotherapy? Dr. Grivas: This is for patients who are not in good condition to undergo chemotherapy. So if someone is in good condition to undergo chemotherapy, then the trial does not apply to them. This is only in those who cannot safely receive chemotherapy before the cystectomy. Dr. Gilligan: Thank you for clarifying that. What data do we have that makes us think that it may be a good idea to give immunotherapy prior to cystectomy? Because this has been looked at a little bit already, and I think it's why this trial is being done. Can you say a little bit about that? Dr. Grivas: Sure. I would like to underline that as you alluded before, the standard of care therapy for patients who undergo cystectomy, the removal of the bladder, is to undergo chemotherapy with a drug called cisplatin before cystectomy. But as we discussed before, this is the standard of care with a high evidence. However, many patients, maybe 50, maybe 55 percent of patients may not have enough condition to undergo this chemotherapy safely. And that is the population we would try to capture. And to answer your question, there have been so far, four clinical trials looking at immunotherapy before cystectomy. And all of those four clinical trials look very promising in that regard. So based on this promising information, this new trial the KEYNOTE-905 is a phase III trial trying to confirm the promising data from the previous phase II trials and help us make a final decision whether this should be the standard of care or not in patients who cannot undergo safely chemotherapy in that setting. Dr. Gilligan: What are the known side effects and risks of immunotherapy? Dr. Grivas: Immunotherapy overall is much better tolerated than chemotherapy. However, it can still cause significant side effects, especially in a small proportion of patients. So the main thing we need to keep an eye on is if the immune system gets too overstimulated, it can cause what we call immunotherapy-related adverse events or side effects. And any organ of the body could in theory be attacked by an overstimulated, overactive, immune system. So they are different forms of “-itis.” For example, if you have inflammation in the lungs, it's pneumonitis. In the liver, hepatitis. So we have to be careful and educate our patients, educate our medical providers and the teams, follow the patients and then report any new symptoms for changes in order to be able to recognize early and manage properly these side effects. As I mentioned, it's not common to have a severe reaction, but it can happen. So education helps, and I recommend to the patients to discuss with a medical provider the potential of those immunotherapy-related adverse events that usually, if they occur, can be managed with proper treatment to try to suppress, “cool down,” the immune system. So education is important. Dr. Gilligan: So just to summarize then, this is a trial for patients who would normally be treated with surgery alone, and we're looking at whether adding immunotherapy before and after surgery can improve those outcomes. Dr. Grivas: That's exactly right. Especially for those patients who cannot safely undergo chemotherapy before the surgery. Dr. Gilligan: And how are we going to measure whether it's successful? Whether that immunotherapy has improved outcomes or not? Dr. Grivas: The two measures that we're are looking at in this particular trial are the following. Number one, we tried to see how many patients--what is the proportion of patients from everybody who gets in the trial—who has no residual cancer cells at the time of the removal of the bladder, at the cystectomy. When the pathologist looks at the cystectomy sample in the lab after the bladder is removed from the body, what is the proportion of patients with no cancer inside the bladder after the immunotherapy compared to no immunotherapy at all? So we're going to compare these. We call this “complete response,” meaning no cancer is found in the bladder after its been removed, after the immunotherapy. And we're going to compare this complete response in the two groups. The other metric we use is to see how many patients have no recurrence regardless, meaning the cancer came back after the treatment. After the cystectomy, how many of those patients either had the cancer come back later or died from another cause. So we use these metrics and we compare the two metrics in the two populations in the trial with and without immunotherapy before the surgery. Dr. Gilligan: And currently, the relapse rate's roughly 50 percent, so we're hoping for a lower number than that. Dr. Grivas: Correct. We try to look for a lower number, and we try to see to compare these two populations with and without immunotherapy and see if immunotherapy adds value in that particular setting. Dr. Gilligan: Is this trial still open and do you know when we might see results from it? Dr. Grivas: The trial is open. It started recently, so I will strongly encourage the patients to discuss with their providers and look at particular locations where this trial is open. So definitely, there is room to go. And I think the trial will take a few years to complete and then report the results. So definitely an ongoing trial options for the patients. Dr. Gilligan: Great. Well, thank you very much. So an exciting trial for patients with localized bladder cancer going through surgery to see if we can improve outcomes, increase the cure rate, by adding this interesting new immunotherapy. Thank you, Dr. Grivas. Dr. Grivas: Thank you so much. Dr. Gilligan: So now we're going to move on and talk about the COSMIC-313 trial with Dr. Zhang from the Duke Cancer Institute. [Study of Cabozantinib in Combination With Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Patients With Previously Untreated Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (COSMIC-313)] Can you tell us who this trial is designed for, or which group of patients? Dr. Zhang: Absolutely. We know that for patients with kidney cancer with a clear cell component and intermediate or poor risk by IMDC criteria, that both immunotherapy combinations with ipilimumab and nivolumab as well as the targeted therapy blocking blood vessel formation, called cabozantinib, have both demonstrated significant benefit for these patients. And these are approved treatments. So this particular trial is attempting to combine these starting as a triplet of ipilimumab, nivolumab, cabozantinib for four cycles and then maintenance nivolumab with cabozantinib. And this triplet treatment is compared to a placebo-controlled regimen of the same immunotherapies without the targeted therapy. Dr. Gilligan: So if a patient weren't going to go on this trial, what's the current standard of care? Dr. Zhang: Both the immunotherapy combination as well as having the cabozantinib by itself, are our standard of care therapies for these patients in these categories. Dr. Gilligan: Is this restricted to any particular group of kidney cancer patients? Dr. Zhang: These patients must have at least one of the IMDC criterion. So these are markers of inflammation, like high neutrophil count, low hemoglobin, or high platelet levels, high calcium levels, as well as poor performance status in less than one year from diagnosis to needing these type of treatments. Patients have to have kidney cancer that spread to other sites of their body or locally advanced disease which is not surgically resectable. And as a note, other treatments that are approved in patients who have intermediate poor risk disease include combinations of immunotherapies with targeted therapies like pembrolizumab with axitinib or avelumab with axitinib. Dr. Gilligan: So then just to be clear, these are drugs that are already being used, have already been shown to work, and we're trying to see if we combine them do we get a better result than using them by themselves. Dr. Zhang: That's right. And I think that's a main point. If two agents work on their own, can they be combined to work better? It is important to note that we must follow these patients for their side effects to make sure that the benefit of the triplet therapy would be worth the potential added toxicity of this combination. Dr. Gilligan: So as you mentioned, there's already a standard treatment that includes targeted therapies, immunotherapies, axitinib and pembrolizumab. What do you think is the interesting or different about the approach in this study? Dr. Zhang: The main difference of this triplet combination is the addition of ipilimumab which is a CTLA 4 inhibitor. This is even a bit of a stronger immunotherapy, which targets the dendritic cell interaction with cells to activate the immune cells even more. And so we know that ipilimumab in kidney cancer does drive increase the ability for us to achieve a complete response, meaning that this combination is a really active immunotherapy combination for metastatic kidney cancer. So if we can add the ipilimumab effect with a very strong targeted effect of the cabozantinib the thought is that this triplet might be even more effective than the current standard of care, pembrolizumab-axitinib or avelumab-axitinib combinations. Dr. Gilligan: Thank you for clarifying that. Just to make sure our listeners are clear on this. They're two doublets that are already approved—two kinds of immunotherapy or immunotherapy combined with targeted therapy. This will be the first triplet, if I understand correctly, that if this is shown to be more effective, it would be the first triplet therapy where we're using three different agents, our strongest immunotherapy combined with targeted therapy. Is that a fair summary? Dr. Zhang: Absolutely. I think that's a great summary. Dr. Gilligan: So how will success be evaluated? What are the endpoints for this? Dr. Zhang: Success for this particular study will be evaluated by improving time until tumor growth and the safety of the triplet combination so the primary outcome of this particular study is improving progression free survival. But one of the key secondary endpoints, of course, is to make sure that the benefit of this triplet is worth the potential combined side effects. And then also to follow patients and see if it also improves survival to make patients live longer. Dr. Gilligan: Do we have any sense of how long it'll be before we see outcomes from this? Or results? Dr. Zhang: This is an ongoing international trial enrolling in the US but also spanning Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and New Zealand sites. It will enroll up to 676 patients, and it's open currently. And patients should discuss it with their oncologist and see if it's open in a site close to them. Dr. Gilligan: Dr. Grivas earlier told us about some of the side effects or risks with immunotherapy. This is combining immunotherapy with targeted therapy. Can you say a little bit about what we're gonna be watching for in terms of side effects or what we might expect? Dr. Zhang: Sure. I think all of the immunotherapy side effects that Dr. Grivas told us about pertain to this study as well. The rashes, the diarrhea, inflammation of the lungs or liver, and affected endocrine dysfunction. But the targeted therapies can also have high blood pressure, rashes on the hand and feet, so called hand foot syndrome, also diarrhea, and elevation of liver enzymes, as well as the loss of protein in the urine. I think the one overlapping toxicity of cabozantinib with a combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab, the immunotherapy combination, is the diarrhea. So patients who start on this trial should be careful to report any diarrhea early on so that their oncologist and their investigators on the study can get an early handle and manage their diarrhea well. Dr. Gilligan: Thank you. That's very helpful. One last question, I want to get back to that issue of eligibility. Sometimes when cancer patients want to go on a trial and they find that they are told they're not eligible to go on, this trial looking at intermediate risk patients specifically so a good risk patient might want to go on it and couldn't. Can you say a little bit about how those decisions are made and what the rationale for selecting groups of patients for trials is? Dr. Zhang: Sure. We know that the IMDC criteria were really made in the setting of targeted therapies, and they were a set of prognostic markers and markers of inflammation, for example, and of time from initial diagnosis to treatment. But now they've been used often as stratification markers in our treatment trials and as selection now for eligibility. In particular for this patient population, ipilimumab, nivolumab seem to have more benefit in this intermediate and poor risk population. And so that's why, for this particular study, they're selecting specifically those patients with intermediate poor-risk disease. Dr. Gilligan: So we want to focus on the patients who are most likely to benefit, it sounds like you're saying. Dr. Zhang: That's right. So the favorable risk patient population do have a better prognosis in general, but those patients may not have as much benefit from the immunotherapy doublet. Dr. Gilligan: All right. Thank you. Well, that brings us to the end of this podcast. Thanks for listening. There are many different clinical trials currently enrolling people with genitourinary cancers. 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Danny Ward (born 15 June 1980) in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. English former professional rugby league player. Coming from a rugby family, as Danny's Father, David Ward also played for Great Britain And Leeds Rhinos. Danny played for Great Britain, Leeds Rhinos, Castleford Tigers, Hull Kingston Rovers, and Harlequins. Even scoring a try against our own Hull FC in the 2005 Challenge cup finals. Danny is currently Andrew Henderson's assistant coach at the London Broncos since 2015 and previously head coach of the u19s. Speaking of the first book he loved ‘A Kestrel for a Knave’ (which the great film Kes was created from) Danny says: “is absolute classic”. But it was a great Teacher of his, Mr Butler that helped him in his school years. Having a great teacher like him helped him through his GCSEs in English language and literature. Being a young kid, he wasn't bothered about the school, but having a fantastic teacher helped change his outlook of school life, which Mr Butler did just that. Danny talks about the failures he's had in his life: “I don't try to dwell on the failures too much or look at it, but throughout my life and playing career, being an adult, there have been lots of lots of failures. I think you can't dwell on them. Learning to move on from your failures is just as important. When it can be hard and not probably something, I've learned. As I've got older, I wished I got a grasp of it as a young kid. You spend so much time worrying about what's up and then any mistakes you've made. It's just about moving on from it and learning best you can”. Take a listen to this week's Brilliant Podcast with Danny Ward. Sponsored by: Moodbeam, Hopen, Talk suicide Powered By: Think Cloud

Today I speak with Tina Brown. Tina began to provide financial wealth, empowerment, and health wellness resources for women through My Sister’s Keeper Expo created in 2015. Tina’s life has been a display of strength and courage mixed with compassion and love. Tina has always dreamed of being able to help teenagers reach their dreams. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. This series is a platform for women, female-identified, & non-binary individuals to share their professional stories and personal narrative as it relates to their story. This podcast is designed to hold a space for all individuals to learn from their counterparts regardless of age, status, or industry.   TRANSCRIPTION*Please note this is an automated transcription, please excuse any typos or errors [00:00:00] In this episode, I had the opportunity to sit down with founder and CEO Tina Brown. Key points addressed where Tinas convention called My Sister's Keeper Expo, which was launched in 2015. It was providing a yearly expo filled with financial wealth, empowerment and health wellness resources for women. We also discussed Tinas nonprofit Starbound Inc, which is an endeavor that reflects her passion for helping teenagers at risk. Stay tuned for my fascinating talk with Tina Brown.    [00:00:36] Hi, my name is Patricia Kathleen, and this podcast series contains interviews I conduct with women. Female identified and non binary individuals regarding their professional stories and personal narrative. This podcast is designed to hold a space for all individuals to learn from their counterparts regardless of age status for industry. We aim to contribute to the evolving global dialog surrounding underrepresented figures in all industries across the USA and abroad. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as Vegan life, fasting and roundtable topics. They can be found via our Web site. Patricia Kathleen dot COM, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Being and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation. Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I am your host, Patricia.    [00:01:36] And today I'm excited to be sitting down with Tina Brown. She's the founder and CEO of a couple of different companies. You can find out more about her companies and her nonprofit on w w w dot. My Sister's Keeper Expo. Dot com. Welcome, Tina.    [00:01:51] Thank you. Thank you for having me.    [00:01:53] Absolutely. I can't wait to kind of climb through. You have a production company and you have this nonprofit, Starbound, and then you have my Sister's Keeper Expo and they all kind of have this beautiful narrative between the three of them. And I want to dove into each of those. But before we get to that, I want to tell everyone listening. I have a bio that I'll be reading on TNA to give everyone this kind of platform of her professional history. But before we get to that, a roadmap of today's podcast. We'll follow the same trajectory as all of those in this podcast series. Namely, we'll start by looking at Tinas academic background, early professional life and personal narrative that kind of draws as to where she is now. And then we'll start look towards unpacking her nonprofit, Starbound Inc, her production company, Tina Brown Productions, and her My Sister's Keeper Expo. And we'll get into some of the logistics of who, what, when, where, why, how, with funding, founders, co-founders, all of those things, growth that all of those endeavors have received since they've been launched. And then we'll turn our efforts towards looking at goals that she has for the next one to three years for herself and her business endeavors. And then we'll wrap everything up with advice that Tina and I have. For those of you who are looking to get involved or contact her or emulate some of what she has done. A quick bio on Tina. Before I start peppering her with questions, Tina Brown was born in San Francisco, California. Three days after her birth, she was abandoned by her biological mother and left on the doorstep of of couple Mr. and Mrs. Walker, who raised her as their own. Later, a runaway teenage mother, Tina, still continued her education, taking up criminal justice at San Francisco City College. She has been employed with the city and county of San Francisco for 25 years. Tinas nonprofit organization Starbound Inc is a true reflection of the passion she has for helping teenagers. And her love of music made her dream come true come true. When she founded her own production company, Tina Brown Productions, where she serves as CEO after receiving a vision from God, Tina began to provide financial wealth, empowerment and health wellness resources for women through My Sister's Keeper Expo created in 2015. Tina hosted her third annual expo in October of 2018 and offered women the resources and support needed for their success. In spite of her busy schedule, Tina always places her Christian life first. She's an active member of her church as a servant leader for the women's ministry. Tinas life has been a display of strength and courage mixed with compassion and love. Tina has always dreamed of being able to help teenagers reach their dreams.    [00:04:33] So it's, you know, I think it's such a powerful bio that you have. It's it's such a mixture of the endeavors that you're currently involved in and your pursuit, an ethos that you run your life by. But before we get to all of that, I'm hoping that you can draw a numeral a little bit further on what I spoke about in reading your bio. If you can tell everyone listening about your academic background and early professional life that brought you to launching your first business endeavor.    [00:04:58] OK. I will start off by saying that I was a young girl 10, 10 and a half turning eleven. I end up being homeless in the streets. I didn't have many.    [00:05:14] I didn't have I didn't go to school at that time. And when I type there was like a two and a half year time period. I became a teenage mom. I had my children. And at that time I started to pursue going back to school. I went to teen pregnancy school and then I would finish high school. And then I attended city college. And that's where I got my criminal justice information, my classes. I didn't I didn't graduate from there because it became the fact that I had to work and take care of my my children at that time. So I wasn't able to finish that. And of course, life goes on.    [00:05:52] Say it's never too late. So that's life. Just calm down a little bit when it calms down.    [00:05:58] That's something that I will entertain pursuing to go back.    [00:06:01] Absolutely. It never is. And for me and the older I get, the more, you know, I get out of my educational training returning. I kind of feel like we do it backwards in this country. I've had a lot of professors speak to this as well, but saying, you know, you should work when you're young and go to school when you're older and can handle it. And all of those thoughts I'm wondering about. So which you've had three endeavors that I want to impact here today. I'm sure you've had a gazillion more than that. But a Starbound Inc, I want to know. Did your nonprofit. Come first, did the production company or My Sister's Keeper Expo?    [00:06:38] Nonprofit was first, actually. And when I listened to you read the bio, I'm like, Oh wow, this, you know, three different companies. But each one represented a piece of me where I was at at that particular time and how I developed that particular company.    [00:06:55] So what was the impetus for starting it? I mean, it's it's obvious that it was connected to your own pursuit in your own life as as a young teenager undergoing more than the average stressors. And did you have a directional goal when you launched that nonprofit as to how you were going to implement it and which communities or groups you were going to address?    [00:07:14] Actually, no. It was actually suggested to me. I've always wanted to help young girls because I was that young girl that didn't have anyone to feed into me or, you know, to talk to. So with that, I always worked with young girls and I was talking to her name was Jamila, actually one day. And just like you should start a nonprofit online. What's a nonprofit? Yes. And to explain. And so she offered to help me do that. And that's how Starbound each was incorporated. And even though it wasn't corporate, I still didn't have the knowledge or didn't use it to its full capacity at that time because it started in 2012. I just continue to help the girls on my own funding because I know how important it was. And with that, Starbound starts to, you know, take effect and get donations for, you know, like Tripps going to a game or just that type of thing.    [00:08:09] It's a major undertaking. Did you go through any type of an accelerator or how did you garner all of the knowledge? Nonprofits are such a different beast, right?    [00:08:17] They're like their own form of business. They have their own set of laws and rules. Did you have an advisor or a mentor that advised you or just kind of figured out as you went?    [00:08:26] No, I figured it along the way. She Djamila set up the whole nonprofit. So when I received my paperwork, I was already a nonprofit. So it was just at that time where I had to, you know, get a duns number and get it. Yeah, no. Oh. Type of things. But I learned as I go everything I must say that everything in my whole life, unfortunately, was like self-taught.    [00:08:51] Yeah.    [00:08:52] That's amazing. I mean, it's the information and the utility of knowledge when self-taught is usually much more deep, much more deep. It runs deeper. You know, it has a different effect on the person in the way that they run the business. In my humble opinion, I'm wondering. And so have. Has there been kind of a growth with it since you launched in 2012? And it's a nonprofit which has some flexibility. Has it changed and manifested over the years? Have there been some quieter years and some heavier years? And also, do you ally with other nonprofits who have similar goals and motives?    [00:09:29] Actually, I did not. I didn't network at that time.    [00:09:34] I'm just starting to really take advantage of the nonprofit and collaborate with different nonprofits. As I've gotten older and seen how it really works and how much more it could thrive more with the collaboration's like Larkin Street Youth that's in San Francisco, where, you know, they have their teeth. They have their youth programs focus on housing. But it also focused on speakers coming in and those type of things. So I've been able to collaborate a little bit with them. And then we have Huckleberry House, which is a house for runaways, which was right down the street from where I reside. Where I grew up. That and so I'm able to talk to young kids from there as well.    [00:10:16] That's awesome. So when did the production company. Tina Brown Productions come along that came along in the in?    [00:10:25] Actually, it twenty's 2014 because as I was homeless out there in the streets, I've always had music.    [00:10:35] So I have a great love for music. So I will listen to particular artists and things like that. And I wanted to see how I can make that happen and bring it to the Bay Area. So I started off with my church, like doing a church prayer breakfast, and I will bring in certain artists to come in and perform. And then it became like that was just like second hand. I just knew how to do that again. It's crazy. I was blessed to have that skill set. I worked at a B.F. F. as a volunteer. So I've had different people that were able to pour into me to where I was like, I think I want to have my own production company. I think I want to, you know, do that. I wanted to do film, but it's just I still haven't graduated, so I got to tell my story and to tell other stories that people encounter in their life span.    [00:11:25] Absolutely. So that's storytelling. The production company, does it have like a specialty or an area population, a group that it centers more towards? Or is this is it kind of anything that lands in your lap or any projects that you find interesting?    [00:11:41] It's really RB music and Christian.    [00:11:45] OK. Yeah. Sounds like that from the basis of launching within the church. I'm wondering, when did it when do you feel like that production company launched if you don't have a specific date. Do you have a year that you kind of felt like it was founded? And how long before was it before My Sister's Keeper Expo came along that launched in twenty.    [00:12:08] Fourteen. I was the summer was the summer because my first show was in November, November 4th in twenty fourteen. So.    [00:12:20] Yeah. Okay. And then my Sisters Keeper Expo. When did the idea for this come along and what was the impetus or the story behind developing it in 2014.    [00:12:33] Once I launched launched Tina Brown Productions.    [00:12:37] I found out I started to really get to know myself because in life you're just dealing with hunches that come along along the way.    [00:12:45] So that's when I start to realize that I was really a broken person and my self-esteem was really shocked to extent so because it got to a point with the shows, I wanted to do more. But then I would hear that little voice that says you could do it. You know, all my past failures came to creep up behind me. So with that, I realized when I realized that I was broken. I started to go out and get help. I started to go to workshops and listen to different people speak. And I went to Dallas for T.D. Jakes. He has a woman that are not loose a bit mega fest every year. And that's where I went there. And I had a vision that night from God. There was a room full of women. And I was like, well, I do that with my prayer book. So I really, you know, she did off. However, later on I went to a symposium and the girl there needs to be show Warner. She talked about how drain's impact us, how they're from, you know, God has things that he wants us to do. And afterwards, I connected with her and she had just shared little pieces of me and how I was fearful and how I didn't feel good enough. I felt less than and we talked a lot. And then there formed My Sister's Keeper because I had a conversation with a young girl and she was pregnant and she didn't think she was going to make it. She did that life. There was no life ahead of her. She just thought it was over. And I began to share my story with her and she ended up saying, I wish I had a sister. And when she said that, that resonated so well with me because I did so there was my sister's keeper. And it's really to build women up where I'm at. Like, I, you know, in the 40s, you think your souls have it all together. Some people wife showed up, though, and I didn't have it all together so as to help get our finances going. I care about money. It was as I was doing money given, you know, doing my girls programs and my production company. I really didn't have the solid knowledge of how I'm supposed to save or what stops a lot. So what is stocks about things like that? So when my sister's keeper up on that message to the Bay Area, for them to to hear the different speakers speak about things that was relatable to us and how it affects our community.    [00:15:06] That's exciting. And I think it's it's so crucial that people think that everyone's connected to all pieces of knowledge. You know, with the advent of social media and there is. Clearly, you know, in the industries and the people that I work with, which are women, female identified, non binary individuals, there are huge pockets, still completely mystifying. You mentioned the stock market and things like that. I have very seasoned sage colleagues, you know, who are female or female identified that are still terrified of those systems, don't understand them and claim that they don't want to get involved with them, you know. And so I think that breaking open those systems that have been largely dominated by, you know, a different gender or group is is really important. I'm wondering, can you kind of unpack or at least give us, like, a bird's eye view of what an expo event would have been like? Did it change from, you know, the first one to the last one that you had and was the last one in 2018 or 2019?    [00:16:02] Well, I actually was in two thousand eighteen. I didn't do one last year. I was working on the one for me, twenty twenty within Corona of it. And we, I say can work over 19.    [00:16:15] Absolutely. So what was the bird's eye view for the last one in 2018? Was it multiday?    [00:16:20] Was it one day don't breakout sessions. One day breakout sessions, different speakers come in and talk about different topics. Lunch was provided. We had we honored that that year. We are on it.    [00:16:35] Renel, she's a local deejay in the Bay Area. We we honored her. We honor Carolyn Tyler and wanted to rent was our keynote speaker for that year.    [00:16:47] Nice. So how does has the structure changed since you created it in 2015? I mean, you had this three year stint, but I hear frequently from people who host festivals or founders of events and things of this nature. You kind of massage it to the you know, to the industry and to the needs of the attendees and things like that. What changes existed over the three years that it was going up?    [00:17:12] Actually, the interest really grew. It grew probably because of the the not the topics that were discussed. My first one, you know, was like all day and I had M.S. like I keynote speaker and I massage it, too, because I always want it more. So I'm always reaching a high bar, reaching high. So I always wanted to be better than the last year. And I focus on whatever topic we're going whatever is going well in this particular season.    [00:17:43] Those are the speakers that I want to come speak and share with us today.    [00:17:47] Give us that knowledge and that insight to make us feel better is the hard part was is getting sponsors and stuff on board, because there again, I spent all my money on on into the program itself, but eventually that'll come.    [00:18:04] Do you think that moving forward you'll move some of it into a virtual space or do you think that you're far enough out from the next one? There will be a vaccine. People will return to nonsocial. This isn't saying. Also, do you think that the format could be conveyed as powerfully if it wasn't in person? I've spoken to a lot of people that say even if I can employ this Zoome aspect, the point of it was being in this group of people.    [00:18:27] I totally agree. I totally agree. That's why I haven't done it. I had the option to deliver Virtual for this year, but I declined because it's the atmosphere at the buildings. It's not as real. I mean, it's not as authentic as it's being there in person.    [00:18:43] Yeah, absolutely. So will you postpone the lineup that you were getting ready for in 2020 or will you completely revamp the entire thing for twenty, twenty one?    [00:18:53] I'm going to revamp it for twenty, twenty one because I think this year is pretty much halfway gone. And I want to focus on getting, you know, a fresh start. So Angela Davis was our keynote speaker this year. Hopefully she'll still be able to be on board for next year, but it'll be May 1st, 20, 21. Best to date scheduled May 1st, 2021.    [00:19:15] Excellence. And I'm sure you'll update it on My Sister's Keeper, Ex Baucom, everyone listening information from the vendor.    [00:19:23] But best that that data's available at that space. But as soon as I get the green light and that's the Tenzer.    [00:19:29] OK. And do you have other social handles that people can kind of follow some of this across with you?    [00:19:35] I have my Sister's Keeper XPO on Instagram, my sister's keeper on Facebook and link in my schools.    [00:19:43] Yes, yes. Everyone can kind of connect on their favorite and then follow it. Yeah. It sounds like a dynamite, at least Keano. So is everyone who's in the area should look into attending. I'm wondering. I've spoken with a lot of founders and over the past couple of months with the Koven 19 epidemic pandemic. And it's given people, in addition to the sorrow and the sadness, a lot of people have taken the time to reflect and and even reassess business, personal re. Conversation wise, their life with itself, with the outside world, and I'm wondering if you have done that with some of your endeavors and any changes that have come up for you over the past couple of months or any goals that have surfaced as a result of this kind of forced meditation that people have been having?    [00:20:36] Actually, I haven't had much time to sit because I'm a central worker. So they I'm out there front line. I work for the city and county homeless department. So I've been out there every day.    [00:20:51] Yeah. That's. So you are a unicorn in the people I've been speaking to. And I first want to just say thank you for your service and for being, you know, brave and and helping us all out and being an essential worker has its own incredible bag of baggage. I can't even imagine. So I do kind of want to dove into that because you're the first person that I've spoken to that is frontlines thus far since the pandemic hit. Has the how has the rhetoric within your department ban regarding the safety and the way that the city of San Francisco is handling it?    [00:21:33] I think I think the city of San Francisco's handled it very well. I'm really, really supportive of our mayor. When Mayor Brait, our department, actually is focused on homelessness. So, of course, it has like tripled as far as because our main goal is to get the people off the street and into hotels. So we're setting that up. And that takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of patience. But in the end, we'll get through. It probably will hit everyone at Nesto Reality part of it, but we'll hit majority.    [00:22:06] Has there been any talk about post? I live in San Diego and likewise we have these efforts to help individuals who are in homelessness. Reconvene right now to our International Conference Center and a couple of other places that they've loosened up. But there have been a lot of grassroots movements to give these individuals an opportunity not to return to the streets or start implementing mental health systems. Now that, you know, we've done this move. There's been a lot of talk about not having a return to prior moments. Has there been any of that in the city of San Francisco?    [00:22:41] Yes. Yes, there is. There's talks about it as far as because it would be ridiculous to house all these people. And then once the Cold War is over, we release them back to the street where we worked and basically in vain. So they are working on programs to keep them house. It's just a matter of budgeting and all the federal and all of these other Congress in votes. And it's beyond my control. But it is there. There are plans in place.    [00:23:11] Interesting. So you haven't had time to sit and reflect, as I very naively asked. I'm wondering, as you've gone in day in and day out with the kind of scarcity of people on the streets and things like that. Have you ruminated to yourself? Have there been thoughts that came over you about. Anything that's uplifting, things that you've noticed, you know, during this this incredible time of hardship for people, particularly people who are homeless, the idea of sheltering in place when you don't have a shelter is abusive and mean, you know, and having those thoughts you must have had early on. I'm wondering if you can share any nuggets of hopefulness or even lessons that you kind of washed over you or that you had with yourself.    [00:23:57] Well, for me, being homeless on the Akesson and a homeless community, my community, I could take that real personal because I walked those streets that they walk. I lived on some of those streets that they sleep on. So I get that part of it. And quite as a kid, we have our own community.    [00:24:14] So the hopefulness comes out of, you know, well, we're going to be OK. We're you know, we're going to survive this. Whether you have your your your people that are in addictions, your street walkers, still, there's a sense of that community sticking together and trying to go whichever way is beneficial to them and how we can stick it like I know people that want to stay right here in this area. So I take it back to my office where, you know, we've got to find hotels. We have to find a spot where you could just stay right here because this is their comfort zone. We can't move people out of their comfort zones. It's it becomes a that's a whole nother beast. So I see people on the street. Yes.    [00:24:54] But they're still hopeful.    [00:24:55] They're there. They're they're hopeful that things will get better.    [00:25:00] Yeah.    [00:25:01] Absolutely, and everyone needs hope, you know. And I think to be able to be hopeful is is crucial. I'm wondering, where do you see the production company? You said you were heading into film. Do you see any? Like, I feel like there's an opportunity for cross pollination between some of your companies. Have you ever thought about bringing your production company into the expo and utilizing some of that there in your future? Or is it still kind of disparate, separate measures?    [00:25:32] I've thought about it, but I would be wearing too many hats at one time.    [00:25:36] So I have to reach I'll have to learn to delegate and pick different people that those are in their field. I right now, my mindset is focused. I want to do a best me housing. I want to provide housing for young women. I'm trying to get capital to to purchase a building or you're going to lease a building for five years because I want to start that process because again, that's the walk that I come from. So at the end of the day, that's that's something that I didn't think I could do. Essential work were being put in a position where now I'm a project manager for starting up a hotel and putting people in it almost like I could do this. And I could help. I could give back. I always, always, always want to just give back because I know that I know that journey.    [00:26:22] So that's all that's on my pipeline now. And as far as Tina Brown Productions, I'm trying to work on Skilling starting my own podcast.    [00:26:29] I just have to figure out a day at a time. And yeah. And talk about things that go on in the community and how how we're affected by that and what change to take place for us all to be able to thrive, not just thrive.    [00:26:41] Yeah. Yeah. And that's it. It's a powerful topic that was never ending for a podcast. I would tune in immediately. Do you. So would you do it? This kind of dream that's formulating right now because of all the access that you have in implementing these structures for your current work with the city of Sandy at San Francisco? Would it be under Starbound? Would you do that under your nonprofit? Yes.    [00:27:07] Yes, definitely. And I would actually have to quit my job. So there goes that fear again, because I would be a topic of interest right now. There goes a fear again, because I'm like, I can't just do it because I don't have a funding to get a bill or to finance ability. So, you know, that kind of makes me kind of nervous. But, you know, people told me to do fundraisers and, you know, I probably will, but it just takes me a while longer. But that's that's that's a goal that I would love to accomplish. Yeah, absolutely.    [00:27:36] And for everyone listening, if you're interested in getting involved in any of those activities, reach out and, you know, throw some some lifelines into the water with Tina. I think that there's a lot of collaboration that can happen when someone's you've got a lot of the wisdom and stuff like that. And you need some of the energy that there are a lot of people out there with energy and resources that you can collaborate on partnering up. I think as good as a forty three year old woman, I haven't done half the collaborating and partnering that I ought to have done that a lot of my male colleagues have done because I was too busy working twice as hard as them, you know, and doing different things. And as women coming together as well, there's unity there, you know. And so. Yep, reach out to Tina. I'm wondering I want to wrap everything up with I always ask this in the end, and I don't know if this doesn't resonate with you. I can come up with a different analogy. You. But you'll bear with me. I am wondering if someone came up to you tomorrow without the covered concerns, they were actually able to speak with you without being concerned within a six foot radius. And it was a woman or a female identified non binary, pretty much anyone other than a cis gendered male man. And they said, listen, I am you know, I've had this this very interesting past and it's been riddled by a lot of struggle, but a lot of lessons and a lot of accumulation of knowledge. And I've been gifted with this faith and all of these things that I have. And I now I'm looking to launch like a nonprofit and maybe another company. What are the top three pieces of advice you would give that individual knowing what you know now?    [00:29:15] My first one was the to plan A.. I just did everything just off a thought process vision, just I think I will say plan. I would say you have to put on.    [00:29:30] Let's see your armor because you have to be strong because everything doesn't happen just like that.    [00:29:35] It doesn't. And focus on finances so that you won't be in the struggle and. The business will take such hard hits and so, so many hits to keep it going.    [00:29:53] So those are finance strengths. You definitely need strength to get through whatever journey you're trying to start. I mean, and faith, you've got to believe if it's something that's on you, you've got to believe, then you'll get through it and then we'll have nice.    [00:30:08] I like that form of armor being strength. That's both internal and external. Yeah. And I mean financial knowledge. And to be able to alleviate early stage struggle with any endeavor is another form of armor. That's a really great visual. Well, you know, we are out of time, but I just want to thank you so much. I really appreciate everything that you're doing. Your goals in all of your endeavors.    [00:30:32] My Sister's Keeper Expo, your nonprofit, Starbound Inc and your production company, they all align really great deal with what a focus of Patricia Kesling podcast and my film company do. And I really appreciate the work that you're putting into humanity. We need it.    [00:30:49] Oh, thank you. And I thank you for having me, Miss Patricia. Thank you.    [00:30:53] I appreciate that. Absolutely. And for everyone listening, we've been speaking with Miss Tina Brown. She's the founder and CEO of My Sister's Keeper Expo dot com. You can find her online at that Web site as well as across her social media handles.    [00:31:09] Thank you for giving us your time. And until we speak again next time, remember to always bet on yourself

Hello everyone, This week (a bit later than planned) I'm on my own again sharing some thoughts about when to 'go for it' and when to air on the side of caution/controlling things a little more. I'm talking about playing live, recording, practicing etc... It's all pretty loose and is more about my head space at the moment, now we are starting to see the end of lockdown and the possibility of gigging again in the near future. This is basically part of sharing my experiences of lockdown and the opportunities this has given me to develop my playing. As I've previously mentioned, I'd thought about having some time out of gigging, to sort out some aspects of my playing I'm not happy with, and this period has given me this opportunity. So I'm ultimately being grateful for it. It's been a tough period of time for many people and devastating for others, so I feel extremely privileged to be in the position I'm in. Hope you're doing well and enjoy the episode. Take good care and keep safe.

In past episodes during COVID-19, I have shared at nauseum how I've educated my local community on the "9 Mistakes in Disinfecting". I have shared it in every group that would allow with several others upcoming! In my latest edition to my BIB networking group, I blazed through the 9 mistakes in 5 minutes. Since we were all on Zoom, some members had spouses in the background listening. I just wanted to get this information out there. My friend Bill Downs called me after the meeting. "Ken, my wife was listening to the call and said that we need to have Ken over here!" I scheduled the estimate, completed it the following day, and sent the proposal email by Saturday morning!While vacuuming Monique's house, I discovered that I sucked up a jigsaw piece into my vacuum. This is a nasty thing to look for, but I know that Monique loves her puzzles and I know how I'd feel if I finished the whole thing except for 1 piece. I told her what happened and asked her how important her puzzle piece was. She felt bad to make me search for it inside my dirty vacuum bag. I could tell it was important, so I dug through my nasty bag and found the piece, cleaned it off, and returned it. This was a simple act of service, but it goes a long way toward trust building and allowing me to optimize. Think of the missing piece of the puzzle. This is what it looks like to go the extra mile is. It's the missing piece that most companies ignore. I choose to add this piece over and over and over again. This simple core value has helped me thrive in business.Let's wrap this up on a fun story. As I've already shared, I did a 1-hour presentation to my chamber on the 9 mistakes. This week, I took a few hours and followed up with all 30 participants from that call through email and VidYard. Several personally thanked me. Some joined my weekly cleaning tips newsletter. One of the 30 names was familiar. It took me a moment to connect the dots. 'Ah'! Last summer, I did my "New to Harleysville Tour" where I solicited 25 offices for cleaning. This tactic does work, but the conversion is very low. I did add a biweekly office cleaning, Gehman Design Remodeling, but that was it. One of my visits was a newer accounting firm with the perfect profile small office for me to clean. I really wanted it. I did all that I could to be a Go-Giver and offer my professional advice on helping them make a better first impression. They were grateful, but it didn't go anywhere. Fast forward 10 months. The decision maker for this office was on my chamber call. They have yet to reach back out to me, but I have noticed they open my weekly emails multiple times. I believe this is a future client. My name is top of mind and their level of trust in my company is increasing.

I recently got an email I wanted to share with you. My comments will follow. Here goes... Valerie writes: "I like your emails and because you are being bold, I applaud you. I can hardly wait to see what the Freedom Club is about. I want self-employment as soon as possible. Keep up the tone of your emails. Just thought you would enjoy some feedback from a 62-year-old lady who doesn't want to live on Social Security or eat cat food when she is even OLDER. By the way, I do think the Internet business crowd pretty much ignores older people -- many of us are fairly tech savvy. I've hesitated to purchase things from online marketers who seem to target only one demographic." ----Thanks for the applause, I'll take it! As I've said before, I love entrepreneurs. All kinds. Young, old, man, woman, makes no difference to me. If you have a desire to create massive value in the world with a freedom business, you're my type of person. I wonder if most of the internet business crowd seems to focus on the young is because they are young themselves? Most of the main people I see all over the web seem to be kids themselves. Pretty kids just getting started themselves. Cool, more power to them. I'm 46 and I could care less about my age and the age of others. It's the entrepreneurial mindset, desire, and ability to take action that I focus on in my message and in the Freedom Club. If you're older and about to retire, awesome! You'll have more time to create your freedom business. RANT ALERT: I've never really understood retirement. A person is at their peak of skill and knowledge and then they check out. Time to go play or sit home and watch dumbass daytime TV until death (as I've seen most of my family do.) Why not create a life you don't need vacations from? Why not create a life you'd never need a retirement from? That's what my main goal has been since I've started my entrepreneurial journey. That can happen at any age. Become a Freedom Club VIP here: http://www.FreedomClubVIP.com Jeremy Frandsen World Leader in Freedom Business Education

Supplement Engineer Blog: https://supplementengineer.com/blogs/supplements Supplement Engineer IG: https://instagram.com/thesupplementengineer 1-on-1 Consultation: https://supplementengineer.com/products/supplement-consultation Supplement Engineer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNACHGhSRNCc98hHgBZhk_A?view_as=subscriber   In this episode of the Supplement Engineer Podcast, we're back with another Live Q&A session I recently took part in with Steve Shaw on the Massive Iron YouTube channel from June 19, 2020. As I've mentioned on many occasions, Steve has also been one of my closest friends and mentors since making my move into the industry as a writer and consultant back in 2015.  He's also been a mainstay in the fitness industry as a writer, editor, and competitive powerlifter.   We field questions on the fly and cover everything from training to nutrition to supplementation as well as some of our favorite adult beverages. I hope you enjoy the episode and tune in each Friday at 10 AM CST to the Massive Iron youtube channel for more Live Q&As with Steve and me!  Where to Find Steve Shaw & Massive Iron Super Living Today Website: https://superlivingtoday.com/ Steve Shaw on IG: https://www.instagram.com/bendthebarman/ Massive Iron YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BeardedBeastofDuloc/videos Before You Go... If you enjoy this podcast and want to see more content like it, please consider leaving a review! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/supplement-engineer-podcast/id1447389041?mt=2&ls=1

Boom! As I've stated on countless occasions, this is a time for honest conversation. POC are disproportionately under represented in recovery spaces, so this week we have Gaby Contreras sharing parts of her crazy ass story as well as her experience as a women of color in recovery rooms. Every time she shares, she tells my story…We do recover! @gabvenchyy https://www.amazon.com/Ill-better-someday-Gabrielle-Contreras/dp/B0858T5RHP/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ill+get+better+someday&qid=1592795716&sprefix=ill+get+better+&sr=8-1

As I've shifted to a more easygoing way of living - I've noticed that anxiety and I are no longer a thing. We still have a situationship, but it's been downgraded to more of a...friends with benefits sort of thing. I call her when I need her and she leaves me alone when I don't. It's perfect. As usual, a mindset shift got me here. Reality is perception, after all. Embracing the frilly frivolous (i.e.: not giving a damn about societal standards) doesn't eliminate negativity; it just gives you thicker skin and less fucks. SUBSCRIBE: Bad B!tch 101 READ: Catch me on Medium

As I've learnt by listening over the years to one of our guests, one in five travellers have a disability. That's a high percentage and I guess that means there's a good number of my listeners who travel with a disability, or have a family member or friend in their travelling group with a disability. This is important stuff! In Episode 191 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, I chat with three people on this subject. First up, I have a great chat with Seana Smith who describes the development of her son and his travels over the years. He was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of three, but is now an adult, and Seana tells me how his experience with travel has changed. Let's just say there's a heavy metal festival involved! Next I speak with Suzanne Kamata, who has travelled many times with her now adult daughter, a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy and a love of France (and travelling in general). Finally, I wanted to get Julie Jones back on to speak about a magazine she's started since we last chatted on the podcast several years ago, called Travel Without Limits. It's Australia's first disability-specific travel magazine and it's awesome! Links: Episode 53 - Travel with disability and chronic illness - https://notaballerina.com/53 Support the podcast via Patreon - https://www.notaballerina.com/support Suchita’s adventures in Bali - https://littlebodyhugelife.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/adventures-at-the-klung-kung-markets/ Jen's post about travelling to Cambodia - https://www.notaballerina.com/2018/10/travelling-to-cambodia-autism-spectrum.html  Seana Smith - Hello Sydney Kids - https://www.hellosydneykids.com.au/ Suzanne Kamata - http://www.suzannekamata.com/ Suzanne’s book, Squeaky Wheels - https://amzn.to/2qPbCNQ Julie’s blog Have Wheelchair Will Travel - http://havewheelchairwilltravel.net Travel Without Limits magazine - https://www.travelwithoutlimits.com.au  Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/191  

HAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to the weekly podcast No More Excuses! Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast with others! I hit a milestone with my podcast... Over 50k downloads and May - perhaps because of the panDAMNIT - the highest # yet! Remember, now that I've HIT 50k, the first 5 people to share this podcast AND tag me or include me in the email will win $500 in coaching! So... DO IT! And, yes what a crazy start to 2020, with the last three months being an epic Shit Show! But, now it's June 1st and we have to start living life and getting back to "business as unusual"! I read that phrase on Virgin StartUps e-newsletter and thought YES. YES IT IS! So, as you begin to [RE]open, [RE]EMERGE... it will not be the same and I don't want a "do-over", I want to focus on going forward and talk about what we're doing vs. the "panDamnit" as the #1 topic. As I've been on my soap box about - purging and pivoting! As I mentioned in last week's podcast, if we're in this together, then let's TRULY BE IN THIS TOGETHER... and make BIG SHIT HAPPEN! It won't be easy, but we have to focus on the FUTURE! And, those who had set their GOALS, created a PLAN to achieve and yes, have a business plan as well, are the ones that are recovering easier. Do you have yours? Have you updated yours? The ones who have, even though we all still face more uncertainty, the PLAN will help you recover. If you have not updated yours, email me NOW! Listen in this week, as I challenge you to focus on JUNE! Let's start small. And, use your WORD OF THE YEAR (email me for the worksheet!) to help you on your COMEBACK! I share how my word of the year has already helped me! LET'S DO THIS! Don't forget to SHARE this podcast, tag me and maybe, just maybe, you'll win some free sessions! Or feel free to "gift them" to someone you know that could use some help PIVOTING, and making a comeback better than ever! Have a great week! Cheers! Sandi 

As I've spent the last decade and a half recovering from my own eating disorder, I have had the most success with intuitive eating. You don't need to be afraid of it; of letting go of diets and restrictions. It is possible to live life in accordance to your values, on the other side of harmful dieting or disordered eating. Beth Summers, author, coach, and foodie, teaches how to shift your relationship with your body and food. She says, "Eating intuitively is using your intuition, which I consider to be a combination of your body, mind, and spirit." If you're struggling with the how, she address tackling your fears, leaning in to the discomfort and allowing the process. Tune in for the permission to unlearn diet culture and relearn those instincts you were born with. For me, breaking the chains of disordered eating allowed me to bring power back into my life. When you think about it, diets are really allowing someone else to control you, and you really naturally try to defy that. Intuitive eating will always be a process, and that's ultimately what allows for progress.   The Strive Tribe (formally our unnamed membership group) is now in full swing! Join a small and private group with like-minded members from this community for support and accountability. You'll have access to coaching, book clubs, challenges and more as we grow and develop together. Join now for lifetime founding-member pricing. I have been using these organizers to keep allll the things usually lost in the black hole of my purse easily accessible, and even transferable to other bags. They are high quality, with a sleek and straightforward design. I recommend getting the bundle, like I did, and using code 'MONICA10' for 10% off until June 1st. Make sure you're signed up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get each episode's Progress Pointers straight to your inbox every Thursday. SHOW NOTES Beth's Website and Instagram Blueprints Project bag organizers - 'MONICA10' for 10% off Get the Organization Overhaul audio course Join the monthly membership group Get your first month+ FREE with Libsyn using code MONICA Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: DRIVE by Dj Nicolai Heidlas @nicolai-heidlas Music provided by FREE MUSIC FOR VLOGS AND VIDEOS bit.ly/freemusicforvlogs

While the Napa and Sonoma Vintners organizations are incredibly supportive to their winery members, and communities, covid-19 has required an even greater response. The Napa Valley Vintners and Sonoma County Vintners are helping to promote the creative and necessary ways wineries are reaching out to the wine loving public. In some cases, they're presenting their own virtual tasting sessions. In this podcast I talk with the President and Executive Director of the Napa Valley Vintners, Linda Reiff, and the Executive Director of Sonoma County Vintners, Michael Haney. These interviews were conducted to coincide with my previous post "Wineries Battle the Coronavirus Blues." As  you'll hear, there is no elitist attitude from either of these executives despite the fact they run organizations in two of the world's top wine regions. They're pleasant, down to earth people. Many winemakers, growers, and owners are the same way. As I've said before, that's what I love about the wine industry. Keep listening until the end. You'll hear promising news that was released as I was finishing up the podcast today. We may be seeing you soon on winery patios. That's all I'm going to say about that right now. Can't ruin a good content tease.  

Recently I decided to go through a fat loss period. As I've talked about before, I still go through phases of cutting and bulking on a semi regular basis. I was especially focused on what lessons I could glean from this period beyond the normal fat loss tips like step goals, voluminous foods, limiting liquid calories, and things like that. (All very useful tips by the way!) Here I share 10 fat loss tips that are uncommon and I delve deeply into each one. Check out my Instagram this week for some pictures of my progress, I definitely feel like this has been my most successful cut ever and that my physique is more aesthetic than it's ever been! What is Leptin?: https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/glands-and-hormones-a-to-z/hormones/leptin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jakeparker/support

The importance for all of the matrix breakers out there to explode with the truth, logic, and common sense has never been more critical. This is the moment to step up and shine like never before. As I've mentioned in my previous podcast, "A Call To Action For Leadership," we all must take a stand to break the matrix once and for all at this point in time. Here is the list of products I mentioned to get to protect your health and keep you & your family safe: 1. Ultimate Microbiome- For gut health 2. Tangy Tangerine- Multi Mineral & Vitamin Complex 3. Killer Biotic- Immune System Boosting Herbs & Minerals (Zinc) 4. Colloidal Silver- Nano silver that is anti-viral and anti-bacterial 5. Eucalyptus & Honey Winter Thyme Syrup- All Natural/Organic Sore throat and coughing syrup Here is a list of the articles I referred to in the podcast: 1. End the lockdown, start the takedown 2. Medical Tyranny 3. To Zinc Or Not To Zinc 4. Vitamin C & Immune Function 5. Corona Virus Protection: Selenium The Answer?

Consistency is a key component to our progress as runner, but being consistent doesn't mean we need to be doing the same thing day in and day out. As I've learned over the past year in my attempt at learning to play the guitar, a little variety can lead to serious growth. And that got me thinking, maybe the same holds true in our running lives, specifically as it relates to the races we run... Check out the blog post for this episode, including memes, GIFs, links, and other miscellany at http://DizRuns.com/835 Love the show? Check out the support page for ways you can help keep the Diz Runs Radio going strong! http://dizruns.com/support Become a Patron of the Show! Visit http://Patreon.com/DizRuns to find out how. Get Your Diz Runs Radio Swag! http://dizruns.com/magnet Subscribe to the Diz Runs Radio Find Me on an Apple Device http://dizruns.com/itunes Find Me on an Android http://dizruns.com/stitcher Find Me on SoundCloud http://dizruns.com/soundcloud Please Take the Diz Runs Radio Listener Survey http://dizruns.com/survey Win a Free 16-Week Training Plan Enter at http://dizruns.com/giveaway Join The Tribe If you’d like to stay up to date with everything going on in the Diz Runs world, become a member of the tribe! The tribe gets a weekly email where I share running tips and stories about running and/or things going on in my life. To get the emails, just sign up at http://dizruns.com/join-the-tribe The tribe also has an open group on Facebook, where tribe members can join each other to talk about running, life, and anything in between. Check out the group and join the tribe at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedizrunstribe/

109. Insights from Federal Prison Camp   Innocent from The Inside Blog: By James Catlidge   James Catlidge is serving a 60-month sentence for a white collar crime. He is a businessman that got caught up in a criminal probe. Prior to surrendering, he began writing a blog. We are recording James’ blog, Innocent from the Inside, to help more people understand the challenges of surrendering to federal prison.   James serves his sentence with dignity, and readers may find hope in his positive mindset.   For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com   Below is the written version of his blog from one of his entries, describing his second week in a federal prison camp.     As I've mentioned before, any sentence less than 1 year creates real difficulty for both the "short-timer" and the population he's serving with.  Some of my good friends have been shot-timers.  My advice and our conversations all revolve around all the rich life experiences they are missing out on.  I encourage open honest dialogue with all my friends so my short-timer buddies often express real sadness and family difficulty brought about by their incarceration.  Keep in mind the natural consequences of all this outward verbal difficulty.  No man who will be here for years has any sympathy whatsoever for any short-timers difficulty!  None.  So if the short-timer is LOUD or needs emotional attention or is a whiner, or a victim-minded personality, life here can get ugly fast.  Every man in prison feels harshly treated.  Deprived of family time and not listened to to by the institution.  The short-timer must be aware that their time will be over soon and the rest of us are not ever going to feel sorry for them.   So last week, my short-timer buddy, Luke and I agree to go walk around 9:00 AM.  Luke is 265 lbs., 6'2" and very loud.  I'm constantly telling Luke to lower his voice.  He's a pitbull lawyer, who I would never want to oppose.  He's the scorched earth personality, who will win at all costs.  By any means necessary and I know this, so I use our workout times and our walks to allow him to rant, to fully express his sadness and longing to be with his wife and two young kids.  He's a good man with a very loud and threatening bark.  Luke has a 6 months sentence.  So after agreeing to walk, we each walk back to our cubicles to grab workout gloves and our coats,  As I exit my cube #6, I hear his voice very loudly addressing Chino, the head of the Pisa gang and my cook!  Chino is 5'10", 200 lbs. and kind and even tempered with a 10 year sentence.  Chino worked directly for the Cartel in Mexico and is highly respected by me and every man on the yard.  He's mopping the hallway outside Luke's cube and the floor is wet while Luke is walking across it back to his cube to get his stuff for our walk.  Chino, who I could not hear, said something to him about walking on his freshly mopped floor and Luke verbally attacked.  As I head toward the cube, the scene was escalating.  Chino went to get Greg, our Shot Caller (white).  Chino, of course, now has every Pisa in our dorm running toward Luke's cube.  Honest to God, as I'm tuning in and walking, the inner hallway is jammed up with 42 Pisas and 15 white guys, me included, waiting for a fight to erupt.  No one is closer to Luke, than me, but this is out of control.  I decide I need to attempt to defuse this very tense scene when Greg goes chest to chest with Luke and explains that Chino is mopping "our floor".  We all live here and he needs to be respected.  Now a correction officer enters the scene.  I'm now next to Greg and Luke and this C.O. looks right at me and says "Is everything ok here"  I know and the C.O. knows that question is an opportunity to defuse a sure fight between the Pisas and the whites.  So I say, "it sure is, we are just wrapping up here.  Chino and Luke are apologizing for a simple misunderstanding!"  So they shake hands and a real forced stand down occurs!   Now, since our walk is still pending, I say Luke, let's walk!  We spend the next 30 minutes talking about respect and gangs and the prison rule that when you fight, we all fight even if its 15 vs 40 Pisas.  No offense you take is personal.  It belongs to all of us.  So, please consider in all you do how important it is when you feel offended so quickly.  I then take a considerable amount of time discussing the loud, aggressive, abrasive script he enters every room with.  Luke says, I have never ever even considered this.  At age 48, I'm amazed he has zero awareness of the impression he leaves on others.  So, Greg meets with me later and says, does he get it?  I explain, I think so, but its a short-timer mentality that never quite invests himself into his new surroundings.  I love Luke and he has since apologized to Chino, Greg and several others, but this was very close to a disaster.   

Boy, I'll tell you what... Anytime I talk about what it takes to succeed, the whiny snowflakes come out to do their thing. Here is an email I got yesterday that I'm going to use to help you with your mindset. As condescending and 'fixed' mindset as it is, I'm going to take a crack at it. My comments will follow her SJW rant. "You come across as very judgmental. I'm not sure if you're open to feedback, but I recommend that you read Carol Dweck's book Mindset for some tips on how to use language that is less based on praise and intimidation. That is, unless your intention is to communicate that only "smart, non-lazy" people will buy your product. I wish you the best with your business. I hope you read that book, and you put more of your best self out into the world. There are many people you can help. I'm sure you have something wonderful to offer. Keep putting in effort and trying new tactics." Janna --I don't just come across as judgmental, I am. We all are. You are. You just judged me to be judgmental. It was totally obvious, but you were right. We are both judgmental. Next. Carol Dweck's book is awesome. It is so good that when I read it years ago I added it to the top of my reading list, which you can find here: http://www.jeremyfrandsen.com/books/ I write my posts to the growth mindset people. I write my posts to turn OFF the fixed mindset people. I can't change the fixed mindset of another person, even if I wanted to. Instead I have an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email, just for them, and I suggest they stop reading my posts rather than get their panties in a bunch. I want them to leave, because I don't want them to come into the Freedom Club Mastermind Group and ruin the budding success mindsets that are growing there. To your next point, yes, I am only intending to communicate to those with growth mindsets that are open to accepting and growing a success mindset. These posts are to help smart people get over their fears and past programming to enable them to get the freedom business these very much desire. Next. You are right, there are many more I can help. As I've said, I want to take the 10,000 people I've already helped to start freedom businesses over the last 13 years and make it 100,000. I can't do that with a bunch of snowflake, whiny, loser mindset type people gumming up the works. I don't have a magic wand I can use to change their mindset, only they can change it (maybe), I have to weed them out to let those with the guts and curiosity and grit needed to become successful. Those that are easily offended are usually fixed mindset people, so that makes it much easier to piss them off to weed them out so they will unsubscribe or stop reading my posts. Success isn't for the faint of heart. Not one of the people I know that are objectively successful with their freedom business need to clutch their pearls and faint back onto a Victorian couch at what I or anyone else says. They have grit, determination, and a massive growth mindset. My suggestion, Janna (and you reading this now), is to read Mindset if you feel any tingly feelies telling you to be offended at this post. Get rid of that fixed mindset, it's not doing you any good. If you're ready to rock and rock and design your success mindset and successful freedom business, join now: http://www.FreedomClubVIP.com Jeremy Frandsen World Leader in Freedom Business Education

As I've found my emotions all over the place, I've found comfort in the fact that God cares about our tears and struggles. Join us as we imagine a picture of God as a comforting Father, crying with us and walking with us through this crisis. Join the prayer challenge at www.teach4theheart.com/prayerchallenge. Join us in Teach Uplifted at www.teachuplifted.com.

As I've said before, many of our listeners are in very fortunate positions, but not everybody. You'll hear what I mean as I read a gut wrenching email from Dan. When you feel like complaining, think of Dan and all the others who are struggling just to get by. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Trevor Powles his involvement with translational medicine in the UK and early bisphosphonate. Conflict of Interest: Dr. Powles has not reported any conflicts of interest to ASCO.   TRANSCRIPT The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.   Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the role of cancer care. You can find all the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Welcome to Cancer Stories. I'm Dr. Daniel Hayes. I'm a medical oncologist, and I'm a translational researcher at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center in Ann Arbor. And I'm also the past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Today I am privileged to be your host for a series of podcast interviews with the founders of our field-- today in particular Dr. Trevor Powles. Over the last 40 years, I've been fortunate to have been trained, mentored, and inspired by many of these pioneers. It's my hope that through these conversations all of us can be equally inspired by gaining an appreciation of the courage, the vision, and frankly the scientific understanding that these men and women who established the field of clinical cancer care over the last seven decades. By understanding how we got to the present and what we now consider, quote, "normal," end of quote. I hate using quotes, but in oncology I think we can also imagine our work together towards a better future for our patients and their families during and after cancer treatment. As I've noted today, I'm really honored to have as my guest on this podcast Professor Trevor Powles. He's really generally considered one of the true pioneers in breast oncology. Dr. Powles was raised in London, where he went to medical school. He trained in medicine and surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and associated affiliates, graduating from medical school in 1964. He went on to obtain a PhD at the Institute of Cancer Research. He directed his thesis towards hypoglycemia and bone metastasis. Following his PhD, he then completed specialist training in medical oncology at the Royal Marsden and further pursued training in endocrinology with Professor Philip Bundy, [? who was ?] then Chief of endocrinology at Yale before moving to the UK. Dr. Powles remained at the Royal Marsden hospital during the bulk of his distinguished medical career, first as head of the Marsden breast cancer unit, and ultimately is the founding chairman of the Committee for Clinical Research for the entire Royal Marsden. After he retired-- which again requires [INAUDIBLE]-- at the age of 65, Doctor Powles has served on staff at the Cancer Center at London Parkside. Dr. Powles has authored hundreds of peer reviewed papers. He's mentor of many of the leaders in breast college around the world, which we will discuss in a second. And he's really won too many awards and honors from me to list here, but they include the coveted William McGuire Award presented annually at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium-- and by the way, so have two of his mentees, Professors Mitch Dowsett and Ian Smith. And he's also won the Nancy Brinker Award. Many of you know Miss Brinker founded the Komen for the Cure Foundation. And perhaps what is perplexing to those of us in the colonies, in 2002 he and his twin brother Ray were named Commanders of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or CBE for short-- which of course is one of the highest honors one can obtain in the UK-- for their work in breast in Trevor's case, and haematologic cancers in Ray's case. Trevor, I know that a lot of your work also was done with a variety of other contributors, including Dr. John Kanis, Dr. Eugene McCloskey, and of course Sandy Patterson [? period. ?] You've always been quite generous in pointing out that they had a lot to do with your own contributions, and we appreciate that as well. Dr. Powles, welcome to our program. Thank you very much, and thank you for those kind words. Yeah. Actually, I interviewed someone a few weeks ago, and he said, "Geez, that sounded like my mother wrote that." [LAUGHTER] I have a number of questions for you, and I want to start out-- your research and your background was really in endocrinology of the 1960s. And that was a particularly exciting time for endocrinology with the discovery of the hormones not more than 20 years before that, and then the increasing knowledge of understanding of [? the ?] peptides steroid hormone receptors. What made you veer off from that field into oncology in general and breast cancer specifically? When I was working at the Hammersmith Hospital doing my endocrinology [INAUDIBLE] endocrinology there. And one of the conditions we would be looking at would be hypercalcemia with hyperparathyroidism. And hypercalcemia was occurring very commonly in the breast cancer patients in the oncology and the radiotherapy department. [? And ?] to begin with, we thought this would just be another paraendocrine-type syndrome, and that was the thing that really fired my interest. From there, I then wanted to do my PhD to look more into what was causing the hypercalcemia with breast cancer, and that started the whole path of finding out about bone metastases, what they were doing, how they were causing the hypercalcemia, and the path just continued and continued. Most of your work-- I'm going to get to some of the other things you've done-- has been endocrine therapy, endocrine processes, and the bone metastasis, which is really endocrinology. In the United States about that time, most of the excitement in the 60s was around chemotherapy. Was it difficult for you to stick with the endocrine approach? No, it wasn't really. When I first started, all of in the endocrine treatment was ablative treatment. And I knew that from when I was doing my endocrinology is that the hypophysectomy, adrenalectomy, oophorectomy, those were the early days for chemotherapy at using combination chemotherapy and metastatic disease. [INAUDIBLE] and endocrine therapies were far better treatments from the chemotherapy. And although I was doing chemotherapy because we started with single agents then combination treatments-- and there was a lot of chemotherapy going on at that time at the milestone for haematological cancers, lymphoma, teratomas, et cetera-- I was able to do that, but I really focused on the endocrine side. And coming back to the hypercalcemia, the one thing that really impressed me was when I was originally doing my endocrinology was that rapid response you could get to the hypercalcemia by ablative endocrine therapy for oophorectomy, or adrenalectomy, or hypophysectomy. And that was really the thing that started all of the research I did in bone. It started on my PhD with in vitro work. We set up bone assays, I went to Cambridge to [INAUDIBLE] very famous scientist Cambridge to teach us how to do the bone assays for in vitro bone assays. We also set up the animal model with breast cancer. We were able to show that breast cancers could cause bone breakdown and osteolysis in vitro. We could find that we could block that by using drugs like aspirin, and that got us very interested in cross [? demandings. ?] We could then go into the animal experiments. And when we had a rat model using breast cancer that we knew from our assays caused bone breakdown in vitro, and when we did that in the animals by injecting into the aorta we could get bone metastases [? and ?] soft tissue tumor. When we gave aspirin, we could completely prevent the bone metastases-- quite dramatic experiments. And that was what really fired me into getting into the oncology, getting into the endocrine treatment in oncology because of my background in endocrinology. And that has stayed ever since. So what was the timing there? This is the late 60s? My PhD was 1970 to '73. I was at the Hammersmith from '67 to '69, and then I went to [? Barts ?] to endocrinology, and then I came back and then with Bondy in the Marsden, and then I got on the staff of the Marsden as a senior lecturer in 1975. So what you just described to me sounds like translational science. That word wasn't coined until probably 20 years later. Was it unique where you were to be taking things from the lab straight out to the clinic? And where there obstacles to doing that? No, there weren't. The thing that was good about that was we were doing the laboratory work based on what we'd seen, what I'd seen in the endocrinology with the hypercalcemia and the bone metastases, and responding to endocrine therapy. I then was in the PhD, doing the PhD, and then I was able to translate that into the clinic once I then became a consultant. So the main work I was doing when I was first a consultant, the research work, was actually looking at hypercalcemia bone metastases in patients. We had a surprise because when we took the aspirin into patients, we could see no effect at all even though we'd had very dramatic effects in vitro and in vivo. And it was only when the bisphosphonates came through that we were able to then use those, because at this stage we knew it was working on osteoclasts. And it was only when we started to get the bisphosphonates that we really got into the dimension of first of all, being able to treat the hypercalcemia, then being able to switch off the bone metastases, bone pain, and bone fractures with bisphosphonates. And then take it into the adjuvant, I was then able to take it into the adjuvant scene and set up the first adjuvant bisphosphonate trial. So I'd gone right from in vitro, I continued the path right the way through to clinical work. And then what happened was that if we did the bisphosphonate trial and we got the result of just like that had happened in the rats-- it stopped the development of bone metastases and it stopped the hypercalcemia in the rats, but didn't affect the soft tissue. So in the humans, we had exactly the same result where we were able to reduce bone metastases, not have an impact on soft tissue or other disease, and improve mortality. And so we've gone right the way through. It's a story that's extraordinary from my point of view, because I was able to follow the whole path all the way through. And you're absolutely right. That is a really good example of translational research where you hang in there until you get the answer. What's the history behind transferring the bisphosphonates from prevention of osteoporosis in cancer? Now they're widely used as well as denosumab. In fact, it's malpractice not to use them in a patient with bone metastasis. How did you make that leap where you're standing next to somebody who was treating osteoporosis, and you said, "I wonder if that should work?" And how did you get hold of the drug? There's got to be a history behind it. Well, we were looking. We were looking for [? anti-osteodiscitis ?] agents [INAUDIBLE] the aspirin didn't work but [INAUDIBLE] worked so we knew for no reasons at all that it would prevent, stop hypercalcemia. And so we were going down that path, and two really important people in the way the path was going. One was Herbie Fleisch, and Herbie Fleisch [? had ?] suddenly produced bisphosphonates. It was a terrific story if anybody was interested in bone, because it was an agent that clearly was working on osteoclasts, and that was the target we were after. We knew at that stage that the cancer cells had to activate osteoclasts in order to cause the bone breakdown and develop in bone. And the second person who was key was Craig Mundie, who again I met. And I went over to the Boston Dental Hospital several times, and I met Craig and the others there, and that was linking up with being able to see the story that they were developing where tumor cells were activating osteoclasts that were then causing bone breakdown that was then producing growth factors to activate the cancer. So it became a really preferential site for bone metastases to develop because of the interaction between the cancer cells and the osteoclasts. So then there's Herbie Fleisch in Switzerland. I had a few skis with him. He was a very good skiier. But the spin off was that bisphosphonates were going to be the thing that we really [INAUDIBLE] to be looking at. And then we tried four different bisphosphonates. Five foot was a guy in Amsterdam who had APD that was actually the forerunner for [INAUDIBLE]. And the one that worked best for us was clodronate, which we got originally from Finland. And we set up the bone trials. We had to go through three stages. We had to-- first of all, before we could use adjuvant, we had to show that it worked in metastatic bone disease. And it did. It reduced what's called skeletal related events-- that's fracture, hypercalcemia, pain-- requirements of radiotherapy. We then did a trial for phase 3 trial of using clodronate for patients who had metastatic disease but who didn't have bone metastases. And we could reduce the risk of them getting bone metastases. And then we had the justification for doing the-- So let me interrupt you for a minute. Now you're about 1983 or '4 I think when that was probably? Is that right? It was-- yes, it would be. With the adjuvant trial, we would have started in '86. I think. That's the window of time. And then in that trial, we didn't get the results from that until I think it was 1997 when we did the first analysis, and that we were able to then show in that randomized-- it was placebo controlled as well-- we were able to show a reduction in bone metastases and improved survival. And then we did a subsequent analysis in 2006. So we've got longer term data. Back then where other bisphosphonate trials were going on, adjuvant bisphosphonate trails going on, and then we had the meta analysis in 2015, Oxford meta analysis, which I was involved with Rob Coleman. And we did the analysis there, which confirmed that we could reduce bone metastases and improve survival with adjuvant bisphosphonates. So the story that starts from a test tube, so to speak. Oh, there's one other very interesting experiment we [INAUDIBLE] that's never been repeated. Right at the beginning, we were able to show that doing co-cultures-- you're reminding me of things now-- doing co-cultures of the bone assay with human breast tumors I'd get from the Marsden while I was at the institute. We'd have fresh human tumors, and we would do a co-culture and some of them could cause the complete breakdown of the bone assay, and others would not have osteoporosis. And we did a follow up of those patients-- it was only about 30 patients, I think-- and we did a follow up of those patients, and those who had the most bone breakdown in vitro [? with ?] [? those ?] patients who were then going to get the bone metastases. That was a real incentive to show that link that we were getting. So we knew something was going on there. And that experiment was going on in 1971. And in 2015 with the meta analysis of bone mets and mortality. So that's a long story. That's the story. Let me say that this entire story reiterates the phrase that, "On the shoulders of giants we all stand." You look at the number of people you've laid out who led to this story, which is still ongoing. It's actually fascinating. I want to return just a minute to your work with endocrine therapy of breast cancer and your work with tamoxifen. But first of all, a lot of young people listen to this. 'Cause I came in the field just as surgical ablation of many of the origins of estrogen was going away. Can you talk about what it was like to take care of the patients who were having hypophysectomies and adrenalectomies and oopherectomies? I recall thinking, "I'm an endocrinologist here. I'm not a medical oncologist," as a first year fellow taking care of Addison's disease and other things. There are two things about ablative endocrine therapy. The first was that the responses could be very dramatic, and it was quite a high response rate. There was something [INAUDIBLE]-- don't forget we weren't basing it on ER. ER came later, and then [INAUDIBLE]. Even not based on ER, we were getting 30% to 40% response rates, particularly in bone. The second thing is the management of the patients. The hypophysectomies were relatively easy, because I'd already got experience of patients who got pituitary failure from my endocrinology, and that's much it easier to manage. But the adrenalectomies are much more difficult because you can get very acute glucocorticoid symptoms if you're not getting cortisol, whereas in hypophysectomies it's a relatively slow process. And they were much more difficult to look after. But the thing that was important about it was the fact that although we were doing it, these patients were getting hypercalcemia [INAUDIBLE]. You could have a patient who was hypercalcemia, you do ablative surgery, within 48 hours the calcium is back to normal. In fact, it will go hypoglycemic sometimes on bone hungry [INAUDIBLE] thing. And from a clinical point of view, it was some of the best responses we ever saw even up to this time. Now one of the things that came out of that was that we had one patient-- I can say a name because he's long since dead and [INAUDIBLE] anyway-- her name was Mrs. Pottinger. It's engraved in my mind forever. And she had bone metastases, and she was not particularly well and also had some heart problem. And she was due to have adrenalectomy, and she wasn't well enough for adrenalectomy. And so what I did is I'd used [INAUDIBLE] when I was at the Hammersmith as part of treating Cushing's disease. And so I'd already knew about medical treatment for-- so I then decided that we would do-- and I think it must have been the first patient. I had to get permission from [INAUDIBLE], and I still got the letter I wrote to the medical director of [INAUDIBLE] then saying could we use [INAUDIBLE]. So what we do is the basis was in order to get her well enough to have her adrenalectomy, and she did exactly the same as she would have done if we'd done adrenalectomy. Within 24 to 48 hours, she's getting better, the pain's going, the calcium's down. So she then refused to have an adrenalectomy. There's no way she is going to have it. She said, "No I'll continue with the [INAUDIBLE]." And she continued on [INAUDIBLE] for over a year before she died. And that started a whole new thing. [? Ian ?] [? Smith ?] was my registrar at the time. And so we decided we'd do a phase 2 trial. We did a Phase 2 trial of [INAUDIBLE] on the understanding we were doing a medical adrenalectomy. And that started the whole story that we were doing using [INAUDIBLE], because a [INAUDIBLE] came over, I had various other people come, and what we found was the story was. It wasn't the medical adrenalectomy by blocking postmenopausal estrogen. And then we went down the pathway of doing various, about three or four different aromatase inhibitors with Mitch doing all of endocrinology. It's a wonderful time. We had Adrian Harris, Charlie [INAUDIBLE]-- [COUGHING]. [INAUDIBLE]. [INTERPOSING VOICES] That's a parade of stars. Were you talking across the Atlantic a lot during that time with Dick [? Stanton, ?] and Angela Brody, and the other two who were also-- Yes. Angela Brody was the one who got us a source for [INAUDIBLE]. That was the phase 2. Charlie led on that on the phase 2. That was Angela getting us to do that and linked him with Mitch. And Dick Stanton, yes it was a lot of collaborative work with Donald MacDonald. And a lot of the endocrinologists I knew. So that was how that whole story rolled. That's an amazing library. Let me take you back now to your childhood. I know you and your identical twin, Ray-- by the way for the listeners, if you Google either Trevor or Ray Powles, you'll see pictures of the two of them standing together. And I challenge you to tell who's who. [LAUGHTER] Anyway-- Well I could. I could tell the difference. Yeah I know you can tell the difference. I know that you were both young boys in London during World War II. Tell me about the experience then, and how your mother moved you. Obviously, we were very young. My father was in the Navy abroad, so my mother was alone and was looking after my older brother David, who was four or five years older than us. And I can remember the bombing. I can remember quite a lot about it, surprisingly. We were evacuated up into the north of England 1943, 1944, something like that. And we were there for I think something like six months. And it was an incredible story. I went back to see-- I hadn't been back-- I went back to see-- I was up in the north of England, and I suddenly thought I'll go over. We were at a place called Stockton. And so I was five when we left-- four, four years old when we left. And I had no idea. I knew it was Stockton, and I knew the name of the house was the Priory, and I had a faint recollection of the door. And then I went up to Stockton, and I found the house we were in. And I knocked on the door, and it was a major-- a colonel-- Colonel Brown and his sister who lived there. And the sister was still alive, and she must have been about 90. [INAUDIBLE]. And she looked at me and she said, "You're one of the twins." [LAUGHTER] So we had a chat. [INTERPOSING VOICES] At the time, did you think of this as being frightening, or was it just a great adventure for a young boy? Yeah, I wasn't unaware of danger. My house was bombed down the road flattened and presumably a lot of people died, but I was unaware of danger as such. We had a shelter-- it's something called a [INAUDIBLE] shelter, I think it was called-- that was half buried with corrugated iron as the top thing. And if the siren went, I can remember that we would have to go out and get into the shelter. And we could hear the V-1s very, very-- I can still remember. You can hear the V-1s coming over. It made a hum-- [HUMMING] --like that. And it's gradually getting louder and louder, and then it would stop, and then it would just fall out of the sky at an angle. It would go down at about 45 degrees. So if you could hear the [? stop ?] overhead, you weren't going to be hit. But if you could hear the [? stop ?] coming towards you, there was a chance you were going to get hit. I can remember that. Everybody was sitting listening to where these bombs were cutting out their engine. So that's one of the things I can remember. And I can remember the V-2. It was a huge bang if one went off. I know that you and Ray both also developed tuberculosis as young boys. What was the background behind that, and how were you treated? Yeah, Ray-- we'd just finished school. And we weren't sure what we were going to do, and Ray had developed [INAUDIBLE], which again didn't mean anything to me. He coughed up a couple of times or [INAUDIBLE] of blood. And the next thing he's carted off and he's got tuberculosis, and he's been taken down to a sanatorium down near the Thames out along the marshes sort of thing. And he's there for six months. And during that six months, I can't see him and everything, and I thought, "Well, you know I'd like to do medicine. I think this is rather a good thing." So what I did, I then applied for medical school and got a place. And then Ray gets better, and he then applies to medical school, and he gets a place as well. The dean said to Ray when he saw it, he said, "Haven't we seen you here before?" And Ray said, "No, it's my twin brother." And he then says, "Did we accept him?" And Ray said, "Yes." And then he said, "Pity." [LAUGHTER] And it was the end of the interview. The next thing, he's in as well. [LAUGHTER] And then I get TB, because it's about an 80% chance you get it if an identical twin's had it. And I was in the hospital for three months. So we were both back a year. I would have been a year ahead of Ray, but in fact then suddenly we're both back a year. And it was quite an interesting year for me, because I only had one subject to do. So I was able to do some reading, things like Darwin and that sort of stuff. And then we just carried on. And you were treated with streptomycin in those days? [INAUDIBLE]. You had 50 grams of strep. Yeah, yeah. Sounds like you used that as a springboard to change the practice of medicine. So in every cloud there's a silver lining. The one thing I want to bring up-- I remember several years ago at one of the San Antonio meetings, and you and Dr. [? Bernie ?] Fisher were the bait. And he did all but call for you to be arrested and locked up because your study was negative, and of course the [? PL1 ?] one was positive. And you very graciously responded to that, "You know, Dr. Fisher, I didn't start this trial up to be negative." [LAUGHTER] That was a great response. My goodness did I not admire him. The reason I did the trial is-- again, this is a funny story. I did a lot of horse riding, as you know. And what I did is after the 1985 first meta analysis, Oxford meta analysis, that was the first one to show that chemotherapy worked for the [INAUDIBLE] and other trials that chemotherapies show the reduction. And it showed that tamoxifen worked. That was the first meeting where I was really convinced that both those were positive effects. Up till then, it was one trial and you couldn't be sure if it was going to be reproduced all the like. And that was the 1985 meta analysis meeting in Oxford. And then I came back home, and I got on my horse, and I rode for a week. I took the horse down to the South Downs. The South Downs is a long, expansive country, and it took me five days, I think it was, of riding to get across from one side to the other where I'd stop in a pub. I had to go down the week before and plan out exactly what I was going to do. So I've got five days on a horseback thinking, and that was where I thought, "Well, where do we go from here?" You might say, well, let's do bigger and better chemo or the like, right? And you might say endocrine therapy, let's do more tamoxifen, or different doses, or [INAUDIBLE] down those paths. So I said, "But if you really want to do something different, the two things you could do would be for chemotherapy is why not give it before surgery?" That was the time when I really thought neoadjuvant chemotherapy was where we ought to be going, because then we could see that they're responding or not et cetera. But tamoxifen, if it weren't for adjuvant therapy, then it should work for prevention. We had a clinic at the Marsden that I took over because somebody was leaving-- which was a family history clinic, and they all had very strong family histories three or four relatives, et cetera, et cetera. And I took over this clinic, and I thought to myself we could do a prevention trial here with tamoxifen. We'll do a pilot. What happened at the Marsden they just had a ethics committee set up, one of the first in the world. This is in 1985. And it had never met, it had only passed the trials to be done. And so the first meeting of the ethics committee at the Marsden was to discuss the prevention, because it was such a awful thing to do. Do you know what I mean? And but after two or three goes, I got it through the ethics committee mainly because a colleague of mine who was the head of medicine then was Tim McIlwain. He pushed it through because he said "Look, it makes so much sense." And we did a [INAUDIBLE] and we had an agreement that we could do 250 patients randomized, then go to 500. And then we had a national meeting to discuss setting up the national program. And so it was a feasibility trial actually looking to see what the toxicity was or whether it was acceptable to do it. And we had such a spin off from that, because tamoxifen at that stage was supposed to be a pure anti estrogen. And we were screening all the tissues, we were doing bones that [INAUDIBLE] from the clotting factors. Everything. Cholesterol. We were doing, measuring everything in pre and post menopausal women. And everywhere we looked, tamoxifen wasn't acting as an anti estrogen. It was acting as an estrogen effect, so much so that at the Think Tank-- I presented it at the Think Tank, and I said, "Look these aren't [INAUDIBLE] tamoxifen and anti estrogen at all." And I thought Mark, dear old Mark Lippert, was going to have an epilepsy, which 'cause it's correct because it is an anti estrogen breast cancer effect. But that was the first time. So then in the paper I wrote, I called it a selective anti estrogen. But I didn't coin [INAUDIBLE], but I did coin the expression, the first published thing of a selective anti estrogen. I remember that paper. [INAUDIBLE]. I remember that. So I want to finish up with just-- Let me just finish up one thing. Can I just finish up one thing? [INTERPOSING VOICES] Because it links into [INAUDIBLE]. So after Think Tank presented it possibly as an estrogen. And what was happening is we've got a bell shaped curve that was very narrow. So we were on the estrogen side as opposed to the anti estrogen side, right? And that was what was happening in the normal tissues. So I had a slides that said, "Tamoxifen is not an anti estrogen." You probably remember if you were there. You were there. We go out on the boat, and we get stranded out of the boat in the mist-- the one you've mentioned about where you and I and Mark, et cetera-- when we're approaching the time after about four hours when we're thinking about meeting our maker, Mark says to me, "I've really got to have a word with you about this anti estrogen." Well one other thing-- and this is going to be more my talking than yours. I really just touched on the surface of your contributions to the field, but I think probably the greatest is your mentoring history. And you've already hit on a few of these, but I travel extensively and I'm struck by the number of times I've been in some remote area-- or at least remote to me-- and corner of the world, and somebody-- it's usually my host-- volunteers that he or she trained at the Royal Marsden with Trevor Powles. And I think it's one of the things you should be most proud of all the many things you've done. And I want to know that you set up a system that was opening and inviting and also somehow funded to support people to come from all over the world. What made you do that? How did you do that in the first place? It's hard to do. Certain people came to me, which was very nice. We did have funds. I would be able to get funding even at that stage. There are many more hurdles for getting funding now than there were then. And the other thing about it was the fact that I find that people-- many times we've [INAUDIBLE] [? mentioning ?] things-- but one of the things I really did [? let ?] is let people have the run of doing things as opposed to me doing it maybe with the assistant. And that was very rewarding for me in terms of results and [INAUDIBLE], 'cause people were very motivated to do it, people like you, and Charlie, and the others. So in some senses, I think it was the fact I was looking for the results we wanted to get rather than anything else. That's probably the basis of it, and therefore people came who ere good. And I'm very lucky I had very, very good people come. So just to go through the list briefly-- Ian Smith, Mitch Dowsett, Troy [? Kohns, ?] Adrian Harris, Paul Goss, who am I leaving out? Anyway, it's a who's who of breast cancer, especially endocrinology and breast cancer. And they all came out of your brilliance. So we owe you not just for what you've done, but who you've trained to do even more. Very kind of you to say that, but in fact they get the credit because if you look through my publication lists you can see.     Actually, I left out Steven Johnston, of course, who is-- Steve. Yeah, Steve. Yeah. OK, we've run out of time. I very much appreciate the fact that you've taken time to come on and do that for us. I'm sure our listeners will be thrilled by the stories you've told-- at least I always am-- and it's great to hear most of them again. And I hope sometime we can even do this again. So thank you for all you've done, thank you for all the people you've trained, and thank you for taking time to do this today. Well, thank you so much for asking me.   Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Story-- The Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org.

Business Day TV — Independent Analyst Chris Gilmour did not have a stock pick but Ricus Reeders from PSG Wealth Sandton chose AECI Gilmour said: Take a 10-year view because then there's an awful lot of perceived an apparent value and so many things can can go bad. I'd be sitting on my hands, I really wouldn't be venturing into this market at all at this point. Reeders said: "As I've said in the past few weeks anything that I said looks interesting comes about with that big caveat and that you should have a stop-loss in place. Today is AECI, and I've had that previously and today the listing was at about R70 but on the other hand its cash-flow has allowed to see itself throught his period and putting some of your money in this and starting to nibble at these levels will probably in 5-6 years give you a pretty good your return.

As I've mentioned before, I get a lot of response to this daily emails. It may seem like it's a lot of negative, since I use the trolls to teach you lessons, but I get a lot of love too. Some people enjoy these daily ramblings so much that they decide to keep watching them even after they join the Freedom Club. Check out the Success Mindset on Blu. First Reply: "Oh my god, YES! I love you guys and my husband and I are *loving* the Freedom Club!! Here's to an epic adventure!!" ~Blu S. Then, the next day… "Let me just say, I have never replied to anyone's emails that I subscribe to, this makes two days in a row! Hell, I don't read 99% of them but I find myself looking forward to yours everyday. I wanted to reply to this email because it hit home with me. My husband (and I) are members of the Freedom Club and we l.o.v.e it.... but we have been skipping around. See, we paid for (Someone Else's Course) and were totally bummed that we paid $1,000 for it. It had some good content, but he said it was a step by step process. As an engineer (my husband) and former (now housewife) project manager (me :)), we took step by step somewhat literal, and we were disappointed. We really didn't realize how disappointed we were until we joined the (Someone Else's Course) Facebook group and people were asking the same questions we had. Most of the time their questions were answered by group members, or the course creator, with something along the line of "stop overthinking it" and, almost always, #followthesystem. We would be glad to, but felt there really wasn't an actionable system to follow. Maybe his course is a left brain/right brain thing?? We laugh that it almost felt like taking an art class. HA! We were jaded, but decided to sign up for the Freedom Club because the financial risk was *so small*. We were happy to find out it is exactly what we thought we were getting with (Someone Else's Course), step by step actionable items! So, we skipped to the Online Course Academy so we can finish up the course we have been working on. But once we were done watching it, we went back to the beginning so we can make sure we are following the system you guys have created, it's great! Thank you!!" ~Blu S. --I totally understand what it's like out there. It's scary to commit to a course and put the money down on it. Seems you never know if it's going to be worth the money AND the time it takes to find out if the course is what it says it is. I'm glad you two took the plunge. I've had 12 years to get better and better at presenting content so that nothing is missing. I've had forums and mastermind groups attached to my courses for YEARS so I could see what was working and what I might have missed. I love doing this, which is why I wanted it to be exactly what I say it is. Congrats on letting your Success Mindset overcome your past challenge, I can't wait to see what freedom business you two come up with. ******************* Most people like to see me punch a loser mindset in the nose, but I get excited and love emails too! I can't wait for your success story... Get all 9 courses and bonuses and join us in the Freedom Club mastermind Facebook group right now. http://www.FreedomClubVIP.com Jeremy Frandsen World Leader in Freedom Business Education

How are you feeling at this moment? All feelings are welcome. For me, I'm feeling grounded, optimistic, and curious. I'm always feeling a little curious, I must say, but I'm curious about what's next. So on the podcast today, I wanted to share with you various resources that are helping me right now to navigate these times and the resources that are working for me. I encourage you to take what you need from this episode and leave the rest behind because. As I've said before, no one knows what the hell they're doing right now. We've never been here before as business owners, as humans in this pandemic, but I feel called to tell you what works for me, what resources have been helping me and giving me peace of mind to  navigate the uncertainty and really helping my business thrive right now. Visit this episode's show notes page for links and a full transcript: https://drmichellemazur.com/2020/04/resources-for-how-to-thrive-navigate-uncertainty-in-your-small-business-during-this-pandemic.html

As I've mentioned a few times, I am often frustrated with the level of criticism and lack of respect shown on some of the sidemount Facebook groups. I guess there's an element of human nature in there and also comments are taken out of context or misunderstood due to language barriers or the limitations of the written word. You do see genuinely helpful comments but these are also sometimes shouted down or lost in the dross of the string. So I took note when a while back when Florida based Dive Instructor Ryan Custureri offered to do a live session free of charge for a new sidemount diver looking for some help. I thought that was very cool and I have seen Ryan referenced positively many times by his students and his videos are top-notch.  So... I thought I'd reach out to Ryan to ask his thoughts on sidemount diving, equipment set up, how he boat dives in Florida, how to choose your instructor, and his advice for instructors looking to set up on their own... All this and much more in this episode of Speaking Sidemount. Huge thanks to XDEEP for their support of Speaking Sidemount.

One month ago, I asked you guys if you'd be interested in a gardening episode and the response was a resounding "YES!" Today I sit down over Skype with my friend and garden wizard, Arianna Iappini. Through her company The Birch Arbor, Ari coaches people to help bring their garden dreams to life! She brings decades of gardening experience and an extensive amount of knowledge to serve beginners and experts alike. I have personally worked with Ari in creating our garden in our new home and have been blown away by her fluency and attention to detail. As I've shared our garden journey, I have received a mountain of messages expressing people's interest in starting a garden of their own and asking for advice on where to start. Ari and I both hope that this episode can serve as a catalyst for so many of you to finally take the plunge into your gardening journey! Get Connected with AriannaFollow along on Instagram for regular gardening tips!Email her directly to set up a consultation at thebircharbor@gmail.com. Get Connected with MJ and the More Than Mom CommunityFollow along with updates and daily life on InstagramSubscribe to our mailing list on our website Graphics by Angela VerweyMusic by Mike Lombardi

After the stay at home order was issued a lot of us have been going through changes. For me at first it was the decrease of momentum. As I've been figuring out how to keep that going for myself I wanted to share it with you all as well. Keep crushing it everyone and stay safe!

As I've spoken to pastors the last few weeks I've heard a common theme. A theme of concern for their congregations and how to meet those congregants' needs. With rules and suggestions changing daily pastors are trying to navigate what is best for their local gathering. This can be stressful and trying. Take a moment each day and pray for your pastors.

As I've mentioned before to many Ras Tafari, on many other platforms; where we find ourselves today in this technological age and seeing the geopolitical shifts across the world two progressive paths open up opportunities. In the new legislation not only being spurred and has come to pass across the United States of America, but also in select places around the Earth we see the infrastructure needed for a legal and subsidized business model. Given the social stigma that has slowly but, surely loss it prevalence in the USA, clearly has influenced other nations to follow suit and create markets where there were none. Not enough, can be said about how Blockchain Technology has rapidly made impact around the world also, giving way to new innovations in healthcare, logistics, and of course, finance and economics. But, as these proveribial wheels keep on turning and things change in major ways quickly, we are still yet in just the beginning stages of the birthing pangs of this brave new world we're seeing come to light. (S.2 : Ep.18)

I recently got an email I wanted to share with you. My comments will follow. Here goes... Valerie writes: "I like your emails and because you are being bold, I applaud you. I can hardly wait to see what the Freedom Club is about. I want self-employment as soon as possible. Keep up the tone of your emails. Just thought you would enjoy some feedback from a 62-year-old lady who doesn't want to live on Social Security or eat cat food when she is even OLDER. By the way, I do think the Internet business crowd pretty much ignores older people -- many of us are fairly tech savvy. I've hesitated to purchase things from online marketers who seem to target only one demographic." ----Thanks for the applause, I'll take it! As I've said before, I love entrepreneurs. All kinds. Young, old, man, woman, makes no difference to me. If you have a desire to create massive value in the world with a freedom business, you're my type of person. I wonder if most of the internet business crowd seems to focus on the young is because they are young themselves? Most of the main people I see all over the web seem to be kids themselves. Pretty kids just getting started themselves. Cool, more power to them. I'm 46 and I could care less about my age and the age of others. It's the entrepreneurial mindset, desire, and ability to take action that I focus on in my message and in the Freedom Club. If you're older and about to retire, awesome! You'll have more time to create your freedom business. RANT ALERT: I've never really understood retirement. A person is at their peak of skill and knowledge and then they check out. Time to go play or sit home and watch dumbass daytime TV until death (as I've seen most of my family do.) Why not create a life you don't need vacations from? Why not create a life you'd never need a retirement from? That's what my main goal has been since I've started my entrepreneurial journey. That can happen at any age. Become a Freedom Club VIP here: http://www.FreedomClubVIP.com Jeremy Frandsen World Leader in Freedom Business Education

Learn how to see the future through a fresh lens !   As you might know, we are setting up leadership academies and personal development programs for our SAMC clients in all types of industries. As corporate anthropologists, this is very much in line with our misson of helping organizations and the people working within them to change. In today's podcast, I speak with two notable leaders in the field of leadership development—Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—who share with us their brain-based approach to building better leaders within change management. I know you will learn so much here. I did!Today's companies are focusing on the future as well as profits More and more, organizations are realizing that they have a much bigger role to play beyond pleasing shareholders with excellent profits. As Amit describes it, "B" corporations (focused on their third bottom line, namely helping their people, their profits and the planet) are shifting the way companies build teams and get people to work together to do better. In turn, this new type of business structure is causing global cultures to redefine what is success. Organizations are now building more inclusive and sustainable economies which will in turn affect the societies which they serve. As I've written about recently, this is a great example of seeing the future through a fresh lens. Valerio talks about how he and Amit use the metaphor of a mirror to help individual clients and groups see themselves differently. Their company, IGEOS, teaches people how to lead, but like us, they believe that people have to see things differently if they are going to do things differently. In their workshops, they help leaders and employees shift their perspective so they can realize that “we” together is far more powerful than “I” alone. Change is pain but is necessary to grow It is interesting to me to listen to others who are doing similar things to what we do at SAMC but in different ways. I continuously learn from these conversations and realize that we humans, as complex as we are, hate to change. But, once we see that we can change, and that it is not as scary as we once thought, we embrace the new and allow ourselves to do things in new ways. We have to “see it,” then “feel it” and then "think about it" so we know what it is we must “do.” Rather exciting! About Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar Valerio Pascotto Dr. Valerio Pascotto is the co-founder of IGEOS which he built with Tim Gallwey (author of "The Inner Game of Work") to serve as a resource for global business leaders to strengthen their teams’ passion for excellence and create a workplace in sync with human values. He is also a Senior Partner at Illustra, where he leads his team in designing and delivering workshops and coaching for leadership performance optimization. A graduate of Pepperdine University, he has a Doctoral Degree in Psychology. He holds a psychology license as well as a license to practice marriage, family and child counseling, and is a certified independent Birkman consultant. A member of the Forbes Coaches Council, where he is a regular contributor, Valerio inspires readers around the world through his articles on change management, team-building and leadership performance. Amit Raikar Over the past 20 years, Amit Raikar has built a substantial career in personal and leadership development, effectiveness systems and behavior change. In addition to helping individuals, he collaborates with Valerio Pascotto and Timothy Gallwey to help teams overcome their challenges and generate high-performing results. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Tiny Habits® certified coach, and excels at recognizing and cultivating the potential in others, from improving their ability to handle and manage conflict to increasing their productivity and effectiveness. His leadership and management experience spans from corporate retail management to managing federal government contracts over $100M. Amit has worked at the EPA, is a Big Brother (Big Brothers Big Sisters) and holds a 4th degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. Want to learn more about change? Start with this blog, podcast and white paper Blog: Can People And Businesses Really, Truly Change? Yes! Here's How Podcast: Steve Harper—The Ripple Effect White Paper: Family Firms: Changing Times Demand A Culture Change Additional resources Valerio and Amit's website: IGEOS  My award-winning book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Simon Associates Management Consultants website  

Welcome!   We are going to hit a number of topics today from the world of Technology and I have a special guest today who will discuss a subject close that I feel is important for my listeners as well. We are going to talk about some of the dangers of using the cloud and why you need to be careful. Passphrases beat Passwords, Malware on Macs, Ransomware, Cloud Liability and How Big Tech is taking advantage of our kids.   For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Businesses in Danger: Data Transfer between Cloud Apps Passwords: Length trumps Complexity Businesses Must Understand The Intricacies of Cloud Security Malware on Macs: Not as Bad as the Headlines Might Lead You to Believe Businesses Beware: Ransomware is on the rise, again Liability belongs to You: Misconfigured Clouds and Security All Businesses are Tech Businesses - Like it or Not Big Tech taking Advantage of Our Kids --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. I am not doing the Facebook Live this week. If you watched it last week, I'd love to know what you think. Of course, it's something I am more than glad to do. We're busy, so I don't want to do something that people aren't going to like. We're thinking about trying to do something a little bit different, where we go ahead and instead of just the radio show when we do these Lives. We're going to use those for deep dive so you can ask questions and all of that sort of stuff. I think that's going to work out pretty darn well. We'll see how that goes. We're, you know, we're just trying a few different things here as time goes on. Hey, I got a great interview coming up with a friend of mine. He has been sugar-free now for years, you know, is a tech show right then, and there's no particular tech behind this. You know, if you listen to me for a while that I have had a weight problem, okay. Ever since I was a kid, I had a belly on me. The bottom of my rib cage there in the center kind of points out as I get a ski jump from my belly over the years. I've had this constant battle with my weight, and I lost 80 pounds, I put 40 back on throughout about 15, almost 20 years. I guess that's not too bad. Now I've taken it off again. I've talked about what I did to do that. I want you to hear what Barry has to say. I invited him on. He's an incredible guy and done so many interesting things over his life. He has a book out there, and he had a membership site. He was helping people for a while to get rid of their sugar addictions, but he's going to give us some tips and tricks and some points as well coming up a little bit later on today. I want to discuss a fair amount today about "The Cloud" because so many people think it's a panacea. They think by using the cloud somehow relieves them from the regulatory liability of these regulations that are out there and some of the things that you're supposed to comply with, right? In some cases, if you are a subcontractor selling stuff to a military contractor, there's now a ten-year prison sentence plus all of these fines and things that can nail you. So people are thinking, well, we'll just move to the cloud, right? It's going to make it easier. It's going to make it cheaper. And you know, the first pass on those numbers might be the case it might be cheaper. But what I have found in doing a little bit more digging is that many companies are now abandoning the cloud. And when I found they were abandoning the cloud, that's when I started getting interested trying to figure out why what's going on here. Here. And so I dug into it, and I'm going to share that with you today. I think that's an essential thing for businesses. I've got a new report out from the FBI this week that's backing me up from five years ago. I think that's kind of cool. So we'll talk about what the FBI is warning and telling us to do. From our security standpoint. We're going to also talk about some of the intricacies of cloud security. Still, Mac malware on Max, this is kind of interesting, isn't it because we all been kind of conditioned to think the Macs are malware-free, due to their secure design. They use software designed in the university environment for networking, unlike windows. You know, so when you think about the Mac and you think that you are completely free of malware, that is not the case. We'll talk about what kinds of malware you are likely to be exposed to that could kind of nail you. We're going to talk about business ransomware, you do not hear much about it, because you know, there was such a big deal a year to two years ago, but it is on the rise again. So we'll talk about that and how that's affecting business. We're also going to talk about the fact that if you are in business, face it, and you're a tech business. There are no two ways about it, right? As a business person, now you have to use technology. So how do you do it? How do you take care of your security and your technology, when the Calvary is incoming, they're not there? You're just like every other business out there. That means you have to develop some technical prowess and expertise. You have to be also the guys that take care of your security. Maybe you'll bring in professional services firms to help you out. Companies like mine can come in and design your network or redesign your network. Or maybe have accountants come in and look over your bookkeeping. Maybe help to improve some efficiencies in the business. Maybe you bring a legal team in to make sure that you're not going to get nailed by some of these regulations out there. The bottom line is that we are all tech businesses in this day and age. That's something that I don't think most people consider. We'll get into that a little bit later on today. We're also going to be talking about big tech, taking advantage of our kids some new lawsuits filed under the children's online privacy protection act or COPPA, against some of the biggest companies out there in the online world. These are all big deals, I think. That's what we're going to be talking about today. If you want to two, you can get all of these different segments from my weekly radio shows my appearances on TV and radio at my website at Craig Peterson dot com, and you can listen to them individually. You can also subscribe to the podcast. What we've been doing with the radio show since the whole radio show from soup to nuts is an hour and a half long every week is to put it out as one long show. Thanks to a suggestion from a few listeners and one guy that kind of pushed me over the edge in making it that way. If you subscribe to the podcast on any of the major podcasting services, you are going to get a one hour and a half, a 90-minute podcast that covers all the latest news of the week. I appreciate everybody that's doing that. Of course, our numbers have gone down a little bit in the podcast downloads because there are fewer downloads instead of the show being a different podcast is now one podcast, but I think it is better. There was an event that was held by the FBI infragard program in New Hampshire here last week. I didn't go as I was just tied up. They hold it the morning, every couple of months, and most of the time, I just can't go. But the event was called "The Calvary is not coming." They weren't talking about Covid-19 The coronavirus. They were talking about our infrastructure, our businesses when we get attacked. I work with the FBI on cases and help them understand what's going on with attacks against our customers like when Iran or China, Russia, or even others are trying to attack our customers by doing some nasty stuff with our customers, right? Our customer's data that we just don't want to have happened. We just didn't want that information to get out. While preparing these tutorials, the pop-up-trainings, and coursework, it brought to mind this idea of the Calvary, and whether or not they're coming. You and I, we are the people who are responsible for the security in the businesses we work in, right? And that can end up meaning that it's all on our shoulders. So this whole Calvary thing got me to thinking that I think there's a great analogy here. We are the Calvary, I'm the Calvary, and that is the director Action I've been going anyways, not with that specific wording, that particular name, okay. But that's the direction I've always been going. But now I think I'm going to get way more specific about that. Because you are the Calvary, you are the people that your family goes to when there's a problem. You are the people who are relied on by the business owner. Maybe you are the business owner, and the buck stops with you when it comes to technology when it comes to security when it comes to making everything work, right. That's the way it is with me, right? I'm the business owner, and yet the tech buck, the security buck stops with me. And so that's the approach I'm going to be taking here. We are the Calvary. I am the Calvary. You are the Calvary every one of you, right? You listen to this tech show to understand technology a little bit better because you're the person that others go to who is going to answer their questions. Who's going to fix their problems. I think it's great, but I also feel a huge responsibility to help you with that. I kind of woke up in more than one time over the last few months with nightmares, that's the wrong word, but how do I help you? How do I help you guys best? What are the things you need to know that is going to be easy? It is a question that we need to work on need to understand. We need to make work for us and our families, our business families as well as our families. That's my theme. I have already got five tutorials in the can where I'm doing screenshots, and I am showing you what to do while you're watching my desktop as I am doing things. I'm installing an extension, or I'm locking down a Windows computer, or I'm configuring a firewall. I am doing all of these things you have to do for everybody or that you have to understand. That's where we're going. I am committed to this. I think I have a message that that works that people can understand, right? The Calvary isn't coming. You are the Calvary. We are the Calvary, each one of us, and that's what we will be covering. So keep an eye on that. Make sure you're on my email list because these tutorials, although free, you can only get them if you subscribe. Craig Peterson dot com is where you're going to find it online. Craig Peterson dot com. Make sure you also use subscribe to the podcast, I'd appreciate it if you enjoy these. A subscription always helps us out and helps get the word out even further. We'll be right back listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and, of course, online at Craig Peterson dot com. Hi guys, welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. In online, of course, Craig Peterson dot com. We're going to talk about the cloud and what stuff you need to worry about and what you don't. I was at my chiropractor's just this week and talking with him, and he has moved his practice in with another chiropractor. It's a little bit bigger, they've got massage therapists, and now there are four chiropractors in practice there. He was asking because he was concerned, they have a system there that is cloud-based, and you know, time was they would have a server there in the office, maybe in the basement, and they would have their little firewall, they try and keep things safe. Now that it's out in the cloud, their worried. We're going to be getting into that in a few minutes. And then also coming up here at the top of the hour. I've got my friend Barry who's going to be joining us, and we're going to be discussing sugar, which is, yeah, I guess there's kind of a tech angle to the sugar side, right? Like the high fructose corn syrup and the problems coming from that, of course, we're not going to talk about that part of it, but what he's done and the book he has as well as what you can do. First off, let's talk about our first cloud topic of the day. And this is about businesses in danger, and how they're in danger now from the cloud. The cloud, as I mentioned in the last segment, is not a panacea; it does not relieve you of any responsibility for the data that is in the cloud. So, for instance, if you have patient data, if you have data that is privileged or personally identifiable, putting it into a cloud vendor's hand does not relieve you of that responsibility. If you want to check it out with most of the major vendors out there like Google, for instance, you can find their statements online of what it is that they will accept responsibility for, which is nothing. And that's particularly true if you're not using the business type services. For instance, with Office 365, if you are using their email service, for example, and you're on their lower tier of the platform, you're not going to get security. You're not going to get the ability to block some of the most malicious types of emails that might be coming in. It's not backed up. They are not going to have some of the multi-factor-authentication that you really should have tied in with things, maybe like DUO or others, alright. Just because there is a cloud-service does not mean it's safe. Just because a company like Microsoft with its Office 365 does have some pretty darn secure services. Don't assume that the lower end service is they have are going to be safe for you either. And there's a great article I have up on my website right now. And it's from Health Net security. And it's talking about this subject and saying that 44% of malicious threats are cloud-enabled nowadays. Think about that. It's huge. Time was when the risks were what viruses and we know anti-virus software now is pretty much good for nothing, right? Because the anti-virus software is not going to protect you from modern threats. But that's what it was. It was all this virus stuff that might spread and worms that might cover the basics. But now we're seeing that cybercriminals are using the cloud because it's been an effective method for them to hide their attacks. Because the cloud vendor again, it's you know, friendly. Glee, this is you know, saying, you see a lot, aren't I? Frankly, when you get right down to it, if you are in a big cloud vendor like Microsoft or Google or an Amazon. Or even some of these smaller guys that are still pretty big, you're not even noticeable. Would they notice if you moved to another cloud provider? You will not change their bottom line or their top line. You're not even a rounding error. How much do you think that they care about you individually? What can you do when you get hacked, and you're in the cloud? What can you do when their cloud network goes down? What can you do when their software isn't working when a rollout of their latest release doesn't work? Or maybe it just doesn't work for you and 10,000 other people, which is nothing, right? Because Yeah, well, we got millions of subscribers 10,000 Some people Yeah, well, we'll get right on that for you, sir. Right, because you're not even in the 1%. Lots of problems here. And when we're talking about the security side, yeah, in some ways, it's going to be more secure. But in many ways, it's not. Here's a quote here from a threat company that they do a lot of research is called net scope and scale P. and Ray can Aziz is the threat research director over there. And he's saying, and we are seeing increasingly complex thread techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from Cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud absolute control and ultimately, cloud data exfiltration. Of course, data exfiltration is where the bad guys are stealing your bank account information, stealing nutritional property, stealing your customer's information, etc. Or research Research shows the sophistication and scale of the cloud-enabled Kill Chain to increase, requiring security defenses that understand thousands of cloud apps to keep pace with attackers and block cloud threats. For these reasons, any enterprise using the cloud needs to modernize and extend its security architecture. In other words, what he's saying is any business because we know when he's an enterprise, I want to bring up a critical point. I was doing some work and doing some training with a bunch of accountants in Ireland. The largest group of accountants in Ireland, and I was explaining some of the security problems that we see here and around the world and that they see there, and they started talking about enterprises. Now I note in enterprises, right, and enterprise is big business. You think of enterprises here in the United States, and you're thinking about you know, the multi-billion dollar profit that some of these vast enterprises get. An enterprise means any business, right? It's an enterprise for a kid to set up a lemonade stand at the side of the road and sell lemonade to passers-by. That's an enterprise. So they're saying here, and I agree that every business, no matter how small, needs to understand the threat and understand that cloud apps aren't the answer and you have to take care of it yourself. The Calvary isn't coming. Your end Nat not even in that you're not a rounding error when it comes to the amount of money these companies made and make every year. So you have to be your own Calvary. Now, when we're stuck talking about businesses here, they're saying that 89% of companies are In the cloud Now, that doesn't mean they're hundred percent in the cloud, it just means you're using the cloud service. I bet you when you got right down to it, that those numbers are probably really 100%. People are using some of the services that maybe you shouldn't be using, right. They're using Google Docs and Sheets and all of those types of things. I use Grammarly all of the time, and some of those things can leak data. So we're trying to be careful not to use some of the cloud services when it comes to more confidential data. But really, it's 100%. Think about everything you're doing, all of the collaboration tools, and people are using Slack, which is not secure. And they're using that to share information within the team. You know, it's a great productivity application, sweb mail apps, those are probably the most popular and used today, people using Gmail or I mentioned office 365. I have a friend who still uses Yahoo, who knew that they were still in business doing email, right? There, the average company is using 142 different cloud applications. And I'm what I'm just trying to do here. Now, I'm not trying to scare you away from using the cloud. It isn't just a scare tactic. I'm not trying to sell you a listen. You need to have multiple layers, and you have to buy them for me, right? What I want you to do here, my whole goal of talking about this today is to get you to pay attention to what you're doing, and the data that you have up there. We're going to talk about this more when we get back. We'll finish this up. We're talking about the new FBI, released this week, what they're saying about security and what you can do to help. So stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back, everybody, Craig Peterson here, WGAN online at Craig Peterson dot com. We're going to talk here about the FBI his latest recommendation from their press release this week. We've got more coming up about cloud security. Ransomware is on the rise again, what type is it? What's it doing? And at the top of the hour, I've got Barry Friedman joining us. We're going to talk about sugar, and the impact of sugar. Now, this isn't an entirely tech-related topic, but I know you're going to appreciate this. He is a great guy. He's got an excellent little book out. It's been up for quite a few years now. It is this concept that he has about sugar and what to do with it, and about it has helped to change my life. I figured I would share it with you. It's one of the things I find essential. Let's finish up our first cloud topic of the day because I want you guys to think about your use of the cloud. When you get into the larger businesses, it's looking like the average of these Fortune 500 companies. The real big ones, but not like the, you know, absolutely massive ones. Those guys are using over 2400 distinct cloud services and apps. Think about what you're using what you're doing. And let's help you think about it for a minute here. Here's a top of five cloud app categories. Which of these are you using Cloud Storage? So we're thinking about things like Dropbox here or box, we're thinking about things like Google Drive, which again, all of these guys Microsoft has one drive, all of them have tiers that are safe. However, most people are not buying their secure tier. So keep that in mind. Next, collaboration tools, which collaboration tools are you using? Right? I am talking about Slack here, and about the Microsoft Teams program. And there are many other types of collaboration as well. We use some for putting together diagrams to use some for some of our graphics arts. We use some cloud apps for grabbing videos and doing some video production. Webmail, what are you using for webmail? Consumer stuff? What do you do? Are you going on to amazon.com to order things? How about some of these other sites, social media, many of us my business included, we have social media accounts that we use to keep in touch with our prospects and with our clients. Which are these are you using Google Drive, YouTube, office 365. Hopefully, you're at least using one of the business versions of office 365. How about Facebook? How about Google? Gmail, Microsoft Office SharePoint, that's a pretty common one. Outlook. How about Twitter, Amazon services like s3 or Amazon Web Services. It was the list goes on and on. LinkedIn, many of them are using them. When and when we're talking about 44% of the threats being cloud-based. It gets to be a big deal. The five top targeted cloud apps are Microsoft Office 365. Now we're seeing this right now with one of our clients who is using Office 365. Now we have them on one of the enterprise levels that they need. They have multiple times a day people trying to break into their Microsoft Office 365 for business accounts from Iran. Now numerous times a day, but also from China and Russia. The next top one box. Very good. Again, outstanding software, but you have to have the right kind. And make sure you're using at least two-factor authentication with some sort of a random one-time password (OTP) type generator. Google Drive Microsoft as your GitHub. Man, it goes on and on lots of great information here. I'm not planning on doing a full course on the cloud anytime soon. But we are going to talk about it more a little bit today coming up later on. But I want to get to this FBI thing right now. About five years ago, there was some academic research that was published, and I remember reading it back then I was really, really into it came out of Cornell, and they looked at the strength of passwords. And we went into the whole history of behind passwords how they started I remember the very first passwords, you know, we remember using systems didn't have passwords. But it has evolved to the point today where these recommendations that came out five years ago are starting to take root with people. There have been so many discussions, so many arguments, if you will, about what should or should not happen when it comes to security. Some are arguing that we need more complexity in our passwords. Many businesses require you to have uppercase lowercase digits, special characters in the password used to be used to have control characters and your passwords. I haven't seen that requirement in a long time. It was back in the days of terminals. Others say, Hey, listen, all you need to do is make your passwords longer. Because part of the problem we have with passwords is the more Like some password, the more likely somebody is going to write it down. And if they write it down, the cleaning crew or somebody else is going to come across it, right? That's a bit of a problem. Well, the FBI is Portland office this week, came out on the side of longer passwords and not this whole complexity mess. So in the FBI statement, they said, quote, instead of using the short, complex password, it's hard to remember, consider using a longer passphrase. It involves combining multiple words into a long string of at least 15 characters. The extra length of the password makes it harder to crack while also making it easier for you to remember. It falls right in line with the research out of Cornell. It is what I've been recommending for a long time. You're best off using some sort of a phrase such as a four-word phrase for a password. Remember, I use password managers, and you should be. You should be using one password or using Lastpass to make sure that you are safe right. So using one of those have it choose the words for you randomly. Both of them have the ability to generate passwords. Occasionally I will use these very complex ones with upper lowercase special characters and numbers. But I only do that when the site requires you to do that. Okay. But this is a very, very big deal. And you might have seen stuff about this before there is a famous now-infamous XKCD webcomic that is online, I should say. It is kind of cool. A lot of sarcasm, math, and language, but it's looking at password strength and through 20 years of effort and said We've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess. And that is the problem, the harder it is for the computer to guess. The longer it'll take to break-in to, and the less likely they can get into your account, right? So they break it down, look for common substitutions, look at the order numerals punctuations and basically, they come out and say, Hey, listen for your average password, using troubadour ampersand three as the example. That's 1-234-567-8910 11 characters, which is a pretty good length, right? Most sites only require eight characters. That breaks down to 28 bits of entropy. That's two to the 28th power, and at 1000 guesses a second, it would take a computer above three days to break that particular password. You know, possible attack if it's a weak remote web service, it can be a lot faster, there are hash tables that are news. Those hash tables make it so that the bad guys can crack a password in just minutes. When you start using these big ones, and the example is like course, correct battery staple, that's 44 bits, takes 550 years to guess versus three days. Think about that for a few minutes. I think it's vital that we use these passphrases from once again, I agree with the FBI on this one. All right, when we come back, we have one more segment before we get into our little sugar interview. And we're going to talk a bit of malware on Mac. So stick around. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online, Craig Peterson dot com. We're going to talk right now about malware on max. Right, our max hack-proof is not kind of the bottom line. But we're going to talk about that we also have more coming up on some of the cloud risks and things you can do, where you should keep an eye out when it comes to the cloud services that you're using. And I want you to think about what services you're using. And we did talk about that a little bit earlier. Okay, so let's get into the max right now. When we get back to the top of the hour, we're going to be joined by my good friend. We're going to be talking a little about what's going on when it comes to sugar, guys, so he's coming up here in about what 1015 minutes, so make sure you stick around you're going to enjoy it. He has a book out there by You'll find it over on Amazon almost anywhere online. And I think you'll get a lot out of it. It's called I love me more than sugar, the why and how of 30 days sugar-free. So it's, it's absolutely a great idea and is something must pay attention to, we have such an obesity epidemic in addition to all the illnesses, so many of them traced back to that one ingredient. Why and how and what's going on. All of that is coming up with my friend Barry Friedman coming up at the top of the hour. So our Macs you know if you've watched me for a while that I am a huge Apple fan, right? And I'm a big Apple fan mainly because when Apple first came out with iOS 10, not iOS but with a Mac os 10. They had switched from using what was a complete and total toy operating system to a real one using Unix and a refined version of Unix. They ended up having a mock OS underneath it. I had worked on both platforms before helping to develop the kernels in both of those, so I thought, well, this is great, maybe now's the time because I was frustrated, right. I had been using Unix for years. I had, at that point, used Linux as well. And so many of the apps that I wanted to use just weren't available for Linux or any version of Unix. That was a big BSD guy. He still used BSD for some of the things we're doing. I just said, this Is it, right? Because you could drop into a terminal, you had a real terminal, a real operating system sitting under underneath you. And I thought that was pretty darn cool. And I have stuck with Max ever since. But Macs are not foolproof. They do come under attack. Apple has tightened things up. If you've got Catalina, which is the latest release of the Mac operating system, you know that some of the old apps that you might have had no longer work on Catalina, because Apple now has put some requirements in place. The biggest one is, you guys need to be 64 bits instead of 32 bits. That makes the operating system writing a little bit easier because you no longer have to handle two sets of libraries and worry about linking the man or the addressing space for the application. After all, you want to randomize it. And so now I'm going down a rat hole, you're getting kind of geeky, but that's one of the things the other big thing is now you might have noticed that Apple has a lot of controls in place about where an application can go on your Mac, what it has access to and will pop up and ask you about it. There is a lot more stuff coming up. In fact, in the next minor release of Catalina, there's going to be more restrictions in place. But even with all of those things, there are still some vulnerabilities, nothing like Windows. But Windows is getting better. But there are still some significant flaws in the way windows works with its file-sharing services, services turned on, even though it has a firewall. It's a crappy one, and that's part of what we're going to take care of with some of the courses and tutorials I am offering. You're going to be able to lock down any Windows or Mac computer all by yourself. You're going to be able to lock down your small business network, and I am teaching you how to do that, absolutely free. No upsells. Depending on how far you want to be able to lock it down, I will have some courses and things too. As I've said so many times, you're the Calvary the hackers are coming you have to be prepared. When we're talking about Macs, what must we pay attention to? Malwarebytes has some outstanding software that you can use on a Mac and also on Windows. It's one of the few pieces of software one of the packages that I recommend, frankly, but they've got a new report out, and they're saying that Mac malware is now growing faster than malware for Windows, for the first time. It is a quote right out of malware bytes. For the first time, Macs outpaced Windows PC in the number of threats detected per endpoint. I want you to remember, that is threats, not actual successful attacks. In total, we saw approximately 24 million Windows, adware detections, and 30 million Mac detections. We're talking about adware here. These aren't the viruses that have plagued windows forever. It isn't the ransomware that continues to plague windows and will for years to come. We're talking about adware detections. Frankly, what this boils down to so that you don't get too worried about it with your Mac. It is that most of the Mac malware is much more of a nuisance, and it is a real danger. Because Macs are generally not vulnerable to what we would normally classify as malware. They do have some pop-ups that can happen because of the browsers. That's why I've got my training coming up. You guys that are the frontline defenses in your homes and your families and your businesses, you are the Calvary. I've got some great Calvary training coming up for all of you. Keep an eye out for that here in a couple of weeks. But Macs are mostly only vulnerable to this so-called adware frankly and add whereas I said it's more of a nuisance than a danger. Here's something else that Malwarebytes acknowledges it says max differed drastically from windows in terms of the types of threats seen. Between us. It's because they design Macs drastically different than Windows machines. Mac's operating system is designed right. Back to Malwarebytes, where we found several different categories and families in our top detections and Windows threats that classify as traditional malware, especially those aimed at businesses. Most Mac threats and certainly the most common ones are families of adware and potentially unwanted wanted programs (PUPs). Among the top 10 Mac threats for consumers and businesses or it is a mix of these PUPs, these potentially unwanted programs, and adware. The PUPs are a variety of mostly cleaning apps termed as unwanted not just by Malwarebytes but by the Mac user community at large. Two of the best-known examples mean Mac keeper and Mac booth. And I had to add to that, that I have a good friend and he was in the insurance business for years, had his practice and they had several people working for him as he was handling insurance, and then he went into investment type stuff. And it was interesting to me that he fell for that whole pop thing multiple times. He just kept downloading and paying for Mac keeper, which just doesn't do anything, and is malware itself. It is adware. Mac boosters are the same sort of problem. Don't install those things. By the way, when it comes to a Mac, this is very crucial. You have to install the software yourself, right. So until last year, the two top Mac adware apps had detected installations. Number one Hundred of thousands in 2019. However, one new piece of adware was detected 30 million times. It's called New Tab. It appeared on the scene in December 2018. It's an adware family that attempts to redirect searches in the web browser to earn illicit affiliate revenue. I've talked about that before it clicks on ads using your browser. And it is usually delivered in the form of apps with embedded Safari, Safari extension Safari is Apple's number one browser, Apple's browser itself, right. So don't use a new tab. Most crucially of all, Mac malware is not a virus, and it can't spread by itself. It isn't a worm that kind of crawls around. Mac OS does not allow unsigned apps to be installed without user permission at all. The mission these apps cannot spread from machine to machine. You have to fix them. No drive-by, right? None of that happens on a Mac. So the way Mac malware gets installed is by entirely new users like you and me into installing it ourselves. And when we're talking about these potentially unwanted programs, when I call it a scam, where, frankly, but these types of scams advertising junk apps, pretend they're doing something useful. And this is part of what chrome google just got rid of over 500 Chrome extensions because they were doing the same thing. They had scareware built into them. They weren't clicking on all kinds of ads out there to try and drive up revenues. Naive users like my buddy that get tricked into installing them and sometimes even paying for them, which is what he did with Mac keeper. Okay. And then they're hijacking your browser. It's just crazy. So protect yourself. It is simple. Only ever install apps from the Mac App Store or a trusted developer. Only install browser extensions that are recommended by me or by trustworthy sources, because they are not signed and not reviewed. You can always delete them, and you can always remove them, you know, and that's been my advice for people for a long time. Go through your inventory of apps, including on your iPhones, your iPads, etc. The thing that you see that you haven't used in a while delete them. I just went through earlier this week on my iPhone, I sat there and said, Okay, I haven't used that for a while, but I really could use it soon. No, I haven't used it for a while, and I deleted it, which is what I recommend everybody do here. Be very careful that great article from nine to five Mac by Ben Lovejoy that I was commenting on here this segment, and you'll find it online and, of course, at Craig Peterson dot com. And this is part of what I do if you are on my email list, you will get these emails. We have a high open-rate like 40% of you guys open these emails, and I think that's just phenomenal. It's a very, very high rate because they are so useful. So make sure you subscribe, Craig Peterson, calm, slash subscribe, get on my email list, and articles like this and others, including that FBI warning that just came out, will show up in your mailbox. Usually, Saturday morning depends on how far a week's been going. Stick around when we come back. I got my friend joining us, Barry Friedman. You're listening to Craig Peterson on w GAN online Craig Peterson dot com. Hello, everybody, welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. A little earlier this week, I sat down and recorded an interview with a friend of mine. I've known him for quite a while now. His name is Barry Friedman. He's written a book that you'll find online. It is one of the Amazon number one bestsellers titled I love me, more than sugar. You know that I have been very conscious about my health, particularly recently, right? As I get a little bit older, you realize I'd better be healthy, or I'm going to have all kinds of problems. I have been doing all sorts of diets over the years over the last 40 years. A lot, okay. I kind of stuck with the Atkins diet for a while lost quite a bit of weight. I also have tried a couple of other things. Over the last couple of years, year and a half, anyway, my wife and I have been doing Intermittent fasting. We found it to be just absolutely incredible for us. Now, Barry has a different way of approaching it that's been very successful for him and many other people. So I asked him if he'd sit down with us and talk a little bit about it, and he did. So here we go with the interview with Barry Friedman. Again, check it out online, you'll find this book. It's called I love me more than sugar, the why and how of 30 days sugar-free. We're joined right now by Barry Friedman. He is an author. He has been quite busy over the years, even on Johnny Carson, back in the day. He is a gentleman that I know and appreciate. He's helped me out with a few things over the years. I want to talk a little bit about this book here. I love me more than sugar. What he has found. What he's doing. To help not just me out a little bit, but he's going to talk about sugar and how it impacts all So let's get started. Barry, welcome. Barry Hey, Craig. Craig 2:06 Now there is a whole bunch of controversy out there right now, I've heard people say there are a million diet plans. If you do a Google search, you'll find one that'll work for you because they all work. You know, and it's varying degrees, right? And I've done this over the years, I lost 80 pounds doing the diet, which is really something and then I put about half of that on over the next 20 years. I've taken it off now by doing intermittent fasting and being a little more cautious about what I eat. Looking at all of these changes over the years, one of the significant changes I see right now, Barry, has to do with this food pyramid, which tells us we have to eat grains that were the basis of it. Why don't you tell us a little bit about why that is? What's the problem with the grains and sugars in them. Barry It is funny, you know, all that stuff. See, you would talk to a nutritionist and do well to dig into that, Craig. But what I can tell you is, you know, since childhood of our culture, our parents often use sugar as a reward, punishment, and bribe. It works its way into our lives so fast, so pervasively, and it's kind of a miracle. We eat a lot of wheat. We eat a lot of grains, and those turn into sugar. We eat a lot of sugar. We're up to about 150 to 180 pounds a year average for Americans. It's about eight pounds every three weeks. I know that because I used to go on TV talking about my book and a juggle an eight-pound bowling ball. I would hand that to the host and say, here's how much sugar an average person eats in three weeks, and they hit the table with it. Yeah, it's funny, you know, I think in 2020 or within this decade, we are going to unequivocably look at sugar the same way we now look at tobacco. It snuck in. Back in the old days, go back 150 years, rich people would eat four pounds of the stuff a year. Our systems have not developed fast enough to handle the massive increase, and it shows up in all kinds of ways, overweight, and obesity. A lot of people will tell you it has a lot to do with the number of cancers we have. If you were to look at those two curves, cancer, and sugar consumption, those curves look pretty similar. Now, I'm not a doctor. I'm a four-time world champion who doesn't eat sugar. Craig 4:28 Sugar over the years, we know it has caused problems. I saw some studies looking at some of the Egyptian mummies thousands of years ago now a couple of thousand years ago, and they had all kinds of problems with their teeth and many other diseases that they had. Now they're attributing that to sugar. You mentioned that when we were younger, we would get a little bit of sugar as kind of a treat or reward. Now we see these hangry commercials, but you need to eat this Chocolate Bar because it's going. It has gotten out of hand Unknown Speaker 5:04 Yeah, it's hilarious. I mean, that's how we get up to 150 180 pounds a year, it's added to everything. Crackers and salt have dextrose in it to keep it from caking, salt has sugar, which is fantastic. You know, a lot of savory foods will have it, and it just shows up everywhere. The truth is, after eight years of coming up, Leap Day 2020 will be my eighth anniversary. My first day sugar-free was leap-day 2012. I love these every four years I get an actual anniversary. What happens, you know, what happens when it stopped eating is the taste for the desire for the need. The addiction goes away. Food starts to taste differently. I've often said to people, Craig, that you can't speak for the version of yourself who lives on the other side of 30-day sugar-free. Right now, the person I am is influenced by everything I've done in the last whatever, 30 days or 30 years. That person on the other side of a 30-day sugar-free detox is an entirely different person as far as skin or anxieties. Usually, the feelings they have, their skin, the amount of sleep they need, the way their teeth feel. My teeth feel so good all the time right now used to be able to take my pulse in my teeth after eating a four-pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I could feel my pulse. Yeah, I may have been feeling my finger, but it felt like my tooth was banging. Anyway, if somebody is interested in doing that, you know jumping, find little tricks you can do for yourself like tell yourself you're not getting any sugar for 10 AM or noon. Little tiny tricks will turn around the habits. Craig 6:35 It is the habit that is the problem. In so many ways for so many people. Going back to what I've been doing with intermittent fasting. You know I had it in my mind that I had to eat. We look at our kids nowadays. They have breakfast, and they have a mid-morning snack in school, they have lunch at school and then an afternoon snack after school and another bite before they go to practice. The score it's getting bigger, just listening to it and drink during sports practice Barry Yeah, exactly. It is sugar, and it's compounding. Craig When I decided, Hey, I'm going to skip a meal, you know, just a very moderate light-fast. Yeah, my brain was just going, Oh, you've got to eat. I found that really what it was for me was kind of always an addict, right? I was addicted to it. Is sugar that way too? You are describing it as you know, try not to have sugar before 10 AM. Is this something an addiction, frankly? Barry Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? I mean, the sugar beats up four organs pretty severely, the brain, the liver, the heart, and the skin. As far as the brain and when you're talking about like, even before we take that bite, you know, it starts firing up, you know, it fires up the same receptors that are fired up by gambling or sex or drugs. No chance of addiction. They're right certainly no chance of addiction. But yeah, it plays, and you know, it's funny going off sugar and I did it for 30 days. Well, I did for one day at first felt so good on March 1, 2012. I was like, I have to do this for 30 days and see what happens about 20 days into that. I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm going to do this for a year just because I feel so alive right now I have to see how I feel. But what happens is it throws a monkey wrench into well-choreographed habits that you have in your life, right the way you live and yours and other people's. That's another thing that happens, you know, it's like I live in a family with a wife and a son. We mean, you don't do sugar. It's a personal decision. You know, you get this little dance of confusion that you get to run around, but it's also within that is bliss, and there's resentment, and there's a renewal, and there's hope the emotions so much is involved. When we eat sugar, you know, it's not supposed to be a portal for squelching fear and sadness and loneliness, anger. It's supposed to be for food, and so few of the 650,000 items that are on a market shelf, serve that exact purpose. The food you know, we can walk around and collect what's food, in a pretty small basket, and other stuff are usually just connectors for that hundred and 150-180 pounds of sugar a year. Craig 9:10 Let's talk about this bloating, right? We were discussing a little bit about what happens when we eat a lot of sugar. The insulin response, for ten years, I was a volunteer paramedic, and I certainly had diabetic patients. You'd find them just unconscious, and what do you do with them? I know a lot of people who have diabetes, as well. A lot of this has to do not just with the insulin response, which I'd love to chat about briefly. It has to do with inflammation at the cellular level. Our bodies are blocking themselves because of what we're doing with some of the sugars that we're eating. We put on weight, and that increases our inflammatory response. It results in some of these other problems with the brain and the heart and the liver. Barry Yeah. There are very few things that surprise me when I walk around an airport, and I still travel a fair amount. When walking around an airport, I see a lot of large people. We're big people nowadays, and it's not surprising. You know, when you talked about the molecules, sugar is composed of two molecules, I'll keep this as technical as possible, Glucose, and fructose. Glucose gets metabolized by every cell in the body, you know, and if we don't get it from the diet, our diet our bodies make it. Fructose, so very different. The only organized organ that can metabolize that is the liver. The liver is the single transporter for it. It's overworked. I mean, it's it probably did pretty well back in the days when people ate four pounds of sugar, wealthy people ate four pounds of sugar, not average peasants, the likes of me. I've gotten a few they called it the delicate spice back in the day, and that's what our livers could healthfully handle you don't see a lot of large people when we look back in old pictures. I just got all these pictures of my grandma, and her family send through the legacy box is such a beautiful thing to get these 14 Films back. No one is fat, Craig. There's nothing personal in the video. Yeah, going back to probably the 1880s the earliest people on here, but that's just people running around. They've not filled themselves. It's a challenge, man, you know, and it becomes a very personal decision, no one's going to make us quit sugar. We've been talking about it. Craig Hey, stick around. When we get back, we're going to finish up our interview with Barry. He has some more interesting points, including how he got to the point he's at right now. So we'll be talking about that. And we're also going to talk a little bit about intermittent fasting, what I've been doing, and what you might want to do and then we're going to get back into technology. Listen to Craig Peterson WGAN. Craig Hey, welcome back everybody Craig Peterson here WGAN online at Craig Peterson dot com. Hey, let's pick up our interview with Barry Friedman. In case you were wondering what the name of his book is, it's "I love me more than sugar." I quite enjoyed it. This guy is a great guy and has been involved with so many things over the years, from being on the Johnny Carson show doing juggling through today where I met him because he's one of the coaches in one of the programs in which I participate. Very, very great guy, and we're going to talk more with him about the whole sugar thing. Barry I wasn't famous for a long time when I first tried this and then then it started, like, wow, he's still doing that, you know, the Curiosity started then I wrote a book about it and got on TV shows as fast as I wanted to dial-up and call-in or fly-in and be on Morning News. There's a call for it. It's a curiosity, but soon, it will be something that we must study. Craig Yeah, I think it's going to be common sense a few years from now. We're speaking with Barry Friedman. He has written a book, and I want to get into that. Now. I'm glad you brought it up. It is part of the 30-day exercise that you discussed. There's a plan in there. Why don't you tell us a bit about the book? I found it over on Amazon. Easy enough to find, and what's it doing? How's it going to help people? Barry Yeah, you know, this book is it's very non-scientific, and I, my buddy, Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, the taller, bigger-half of Penn and Teller, He lost over 100 pounds on it. He wrote a great book called presto, how I lost 100 pounds. He's got an excellent subtitle for it, but his first line in the book, and I'm one of the few people in the world that can jump on to his tagline. If you take diet advice from a juggler, you're an idiot, because that's what he wrote in the book. I wrote the book really from just a perspective of a guy who did it. A guy who, you know, I traveled around a lot. I did shows for 34 years. Ted conferences, TV shows, I was around a lot of delicious sugar, and I used to love it all. From 2012 on, no added sugar, anything. I tell stories about that journey. Some substitutions we can do, where it starts, what it does to us. Some challenges you may come across, and then the 30 days is walked through very scientifically. I ran an online program for five and a half years and helped thousands of people do a 30-day challenge. What that gave me Craig was a massive database of where people are on day one, day two, day three. It is a traceable spike. I mean, you can see some of the most dramatic days of my life. And you know, it's, I call it in the book ground zero-day for ground zero it was crashing. I remember lying on a massage table. Tears are running down my face. Not because of not having sugar, but I knew that moment was a turning point. My wife as she was like holding me down deep massage as hard as she could just get stuff moving in my body, but I was I felt like it was the door of the threshold into a new life. I think if I would have folded at that point, just grab something I wouldn't have just gone back to going past that day. That was when everything changed. So we in the community, we often talk about what's your day for, and sometimes it's a day for other people, but there is a time when we need to. That's the hero's journey part. That's where you grab the mystical apprentice who goes with you and the mentor who goes with you and walk you through dope. If that helps, I would love to walk you through that. Visa v the book and we have a Facebook page with the how 50-60,000 people on it who have all dabbled in some realm of it, and it's a movement. As I said at the beginning, we will soon look at this the same way we now look at tobacco, no doubt about it. Craig 3:55 The book is called "I love me more than sugar." Barry Friedman is the Author, anything else you'd like to add here? Barry, before we go? Barry Oh, I would just love to tell everybody that if something in this conversation spoke to you, I trust it. Don't question it. There's a fight or flight reflex in the brain that a little gland, that small almond-shaped gland whose job it is to take us away from scary things. If something touched you before, it has a chance to go through that part of the brain, a chance to tell yourself that there is a time for doing this. Know that sugars not for satisfaction or completion. It has never put through that kind of test. It's always about getting more. Like, I said, we will look at this as a real downfall for society. It got added to everything, and it became routine. As Craig said, we began hearing commercials about how we owe it to ourselves how we deserve this. So I trust the gut influences the gut instinct. If you heard something and take a chance, Craig 4:53 I put a link on my website as well obviously to this interview, and you mentioned a Facebook page. What's the name of that group? Or that page? Barry Thirty days sugar-free, but the last 30 days sugar-free Facebook group. We post some stuff in there from time to time. Craig 5:10 All right, and it's a community, and I think that's something that can help. Barry Yeah. Boy does it ever. It is easy to feel alone in this stuff. Craig 5:16 Yeah, exactly. Especially in this day and age again, Barry Friedman. I love me more than sugar and 30 days sugar-free. Look it up on Facebook. I appreciate you being with us today. Unknown Speaker 5:28 Thanks so much, Craig. Thanks for what you're doing. Bye-Bye. Craig 5:31 Hey, as I said, I hope you enjoyed it. Barry's just a great guy. It's a lot of fun chatting with him about what is going on out there. What he's been doing, and he's done a lot, right. I think the most exciting people, frankly, are the people who have done a lot of different diverse experiences in it, and it helps us help you helps me just overall. All right, so we got a couple more things we want. To cover here today, one of them is the liability here on cloud services. We'll get to that in a little bit of business. Ransomware, I think, is an important thing. We'll be talking about that and big tech taking advantage of our kids. But I want to kind of continue with this theme. Barry was talking about sugar, and I know that you know, some diets w for some people, they're not great for others. If you have diabetes, of course, getting to getting rid of some of the sugar can be problematic, right? You know, I was a volunteer in the ambulance service for ten years, and I quite a bit of advanced training and everything else. When called to the scene of a diabetic emergency, we would administer d-50, which is 50% dextrose to diabetics who were out of it, then take the blood samples and stuff so they can spin them up in the lab quickly when we got into the hospital. You know, probably if someone has a diabetic emergency that you got to get some sugar into them right away. So getting rid of sugar is a difficult thing for a person with diabetes. I have, as I mentioned before, on the show, I have been focused on intermittent fasting. It is effortless to do. I've been following a doctor up at the University of Toronto, Dr. Fung, who has several books out on the subject. Before I started this, I read at least a half a dozen books on intermittent fasting. There are so many ways to do intermittent fasting nowadays. You want to go 12 hours a day, at least without eating. And that's not hard when you get right down to it. You know, think about going to finishing dinner at six o'clock or seven o'clock at night. And then not having any snacks, not eating until six or 7 AM. The next day, there's your 12 hours. And then the other thing to do with intermittent fasting is never, ever, ever snack. Now you can have dessert if you want, you're going to have ice cream, cake, pie, you can have any of that stuff that you might want to have, but have it with your meal. Don't wait an hour before you have dessert or two hours or more, have it right away. What you're trying to do is control the insulin levels. Now a better way to do it is what's called 16-eight. That is instead of 12 hours of no food at all. You can have water, you can have clear liquids, obviously no sugar, and you go for the 16 hours. That means if you stop at 6 PM by 6 AM, your 12 hours and you want another four hours left, so let me know You could eat at 10 AM. Or if you finish your meal at 7 PM, which is the latest, you should finish eating. That means you could eat at 11 AM The next morning. You might have a skip breakfast again, no snacks, just black coffee, or tea with no milk. And then you, you have your lunch at noon, and then you have your dinner at four or five or six o'clock. Whatever works for you. You will lose weight, and you will get healthier. If you have diabetes or have other medical issues. You want to talk to your doctor about it. But this can cure type two diabetes, just intermittent fasting. But the whole sugar thing I think is something any of us can do. Even if you can't fast. Hey, Craig Peterson here, WGAN stick around. We got a lot coming up. Yeah, we're back into tech in the next segment. Hello, everybody, welcome back, Craig Peterson here. I hope you're on my email list. I want to keep everybody up to date. We've got some training for you guys. You're the Calvary, right? You're the people who come in to help fix the problems with small business computers. Maybe you're responsible for them. Perhaps you're the owner of the business, right? You're responsible for making sure that everything's running right and for choosing the right technology and stuff. I appreciate you all being with me. I have some specialized training coming up for you as well. But you need to be on my email list if you are going to find out about those pieces of training. 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But let's start with a little history because I think this is cool when you get right into it. There is an article that I started reading over at CSO online that reminded me of it, and you'll see a link to it as well on my website at Craig Peterson dot com and in this morning's newsletter. Hopefully, you got that. But it started this ransomware thing back in 1991. There is a biologist who was doing AIDS research, and he was kind of upset that other people who were also researching AIDS, were getting more notice, and he wanted more credit than he was getting. He started sending out quote, AIDS research quote, on floppy disks via US mail back in 91, to other aids researchers. It had a piece of malware on there called PC Cyborg Cyborg. It was the first ransomware that we know of. Isn't that something, right? It was these researchers who were competing with this one researcher. The next big one used encryption was back in the aughts. Back in the mid-aughts, Bob 2005, it was called an Archie vs. It used encryption and was defeated. You can find its password over in Wikipedia even nowadays. Now, in 2010, we started seeing the series of what are called police ransomware packages. And they were warnings from law enforcement about victims of illicit activities and demanded payment of fines. So this was a new generation of anonymous payment services that they started to use to be able to better hard payments without getting caught. Of course, this was some of the Bitcoin and some of these other types of services. that allows you to send money, semi-anonymously. Remember that right it is not anonymous, the FBI and the Secret Service have worked together to arrest people who have been using Bitcoin illegally for, you know, these types of anonymous transactions. There was a new trend that started to emerge, and that was cryptocurrencies. Other than the legal activities that occurred that drove up the price of cryptocurrencies. Which were artificially high begin with, the other big drive for cryptocurrencies, has been ransomware. People need to pay ransoms, at least they want to pay ransoms. How do they do it? Well, that's what the criminal started to use. Extortionists just absolutely love them. Why? They are designed to be relatively untraceable, and relatively anonymous, right? So they started shooting their demands to other currencies. It's also nice because then they don't have to worry about, well, what's the value? In France, it's a euro, or In Britain, it's pound sterling, the US dollar, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, know the value. cryptocurrency is pretty much flat, no matter what currency you're using. These attacks started shooting up about that point in time. But as of a couple of years ago, in 2018, the ransomware boom seemed to be on its way out. The hackers had found other illicit ways that people were using to snag Bitcoin. One of them is still in use today, and that is to have something on your browser that starts to use your browser to do Bitcoin mining for them. Okay. They were also looking for bitcoin wallets, Cryptojacking became very popular. It is something denial of service attackers have been using for years. They gain control of computers without their users or owners of the computers knowing. Cryptojacking ransomware decline, but cryptojacking SHOT UP 14-15%, so they're using your electricity, they're using your computer to have this whole, you know, the whole thing of having a new mind for Bitcoin. And of course today and it's not just Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But today, many of these cryptocurrencies, it is costly to do mining, because most of the coins are gone. That's part of the reason they want to use your computer, but even then, the payback isn't as big as it used to be. So now we're starting to see two big drivers behind this massive surge recently in ransomware. So the First has to do with the vague guarantees of the cryptocurrency pricing. Many of the crypto-jackers. We're using the victim's computers to mine this open-source Monero currency. However, Monero prices have been dropping, and Bitcoin prices have dropped dramatically as well. Although now with some of the real viruses, like the Covid-19. Some of them are going up because people are moving their money into gold and some cryptocurrencies. Monero prices have started dropping, and the bad guys are starting to realize that mining cryptocurrency is not going to be as rewarding as ransomware. Attackers had already compromised the victim's computer with Trojan downloaders making it easy to launch a ransomware attack when the time was right. It took them only about a year 18 months to make a U-turn. It is just fascinating when you get right into it. We've seen a lot of them over the years, and now they are attacking businesses. They've always used this kind of spray and pray tactic of trying to send out this ransomware to as many computers as possible and as many people as possible, hoping that we are going to be successful without a significant return on investment. They've been going more and more against or against us by going directly right using phishing, spearfishing techniques, and other types of targeted attacks. So let's take a brief look here at some of the most significant attack methods that are out there. Sam Sam is number one right now is started appearing about f

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For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Four States Use A Flaw Filled Mobile Voting App  Iranian Hackers Exploit VPNs Worldwide IT Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Exacerbated by Coronavirus  Be Careful of Extensions on Chrome - Many found to Upload Your Private Data.  Sharp Increase in Exposed Records by Third-Party Applications Automotive Apps originally designed for Personal Owners cause headaches for rental agencies. 1.77 Billion  - That is how much Businesses lost last year to Business Email Compromises  Encrypted Communications for the Masses --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, welcome, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. And we're live on Facebook. And we, of course, can be found over my website as well Craig Peterson, calm. We got a lot of topics for today's show. But we're going to start with the one that is really on everybody's minds right now is we see more of these primary elections beginning to come up, and we see problems. Well, I don't know, or are they problems or features? I guess they are problems with some of the election technology that has been used over in Iowa. New Hampshire's technology was rather straightforward as the Secretary of State in New Hampshire says, and it's hard to hack a pencil, although they're not using pencils. In New Hampshire. They are using felt pens, which are hard to hack as well. And these cards can like the cardboard that you would have in the back of a shirt when you purchase it. It's that type of cardboard that is not shiny or glossy, and then it goes through an optical reader that scans the ballot and places it in the bottom of that machine. An election official stands there to make sure that the balance legitimate. That you are not trying to stuff the ballot box, and that machine counts your vote. Now the unfortunate thing is those machines are kind of old in most states, some of them, I think maybe all of them are still running Windows XP, but there's no easy way to get it the operating system. It's never connected to a network. Even though some of these machines that have been examined and have patch levels zero or in other words, no patches of Windows XP, which is quite surprising when you get down to it. That is a big problem in many many cases. In New Hampshire, the primary went pretty well. Of course this weekend, the next one coming up, which is in Nevada. The Nevada caucuses. I don't know what to believe anymore because I've heard both sides of this. One that voting in Nevada is using the same technology that was used over in Iowa, which to me would be just a shocker and a whole big dismayed because it was just so terrible. As I've said on the radio before, in fact, this week when I was on with Ken and Matt, I think it was, might have been with Jim, I'm trying to remember who it was, which show. I pointed out how in when we're looking at some of this technology, we all well, not all of us, but some of us love the latest greatest technology. I'm one of those guys that like to stick with something that I know works and explore current technologies and newer things. But so many times we get just bamboozled as taxpayers because the people that are in control of the purse strings, they like the latest coolest stuff. They buy equipment from people they know hence the app and iOS. Former Hillary Clinton staffers ran the company chosen for use in Iowa, and I don't know how much vetting they did. We do know that the code wasn't checked. Homeland Security had offered. We also had offers coming in from Federal Investigation Bureaus and from several security companies saying, Hey, listen, we'd be glad to have a look at this. It was all closed source. It wasn't open-source where you can have a look at that software and say, yes, indeed, everything's legit. That is excellent software. People can find bugs in it. If they find a bug, they can report it, and it can get fixed, right? There are so many different things that they could have done when we're talking about trying to make this secure. I see Mary just joined us here on the Facebook Live and which is cool. She and I have worked several elections in the pas,t and we've been monitoring them. I have a son that's been one of these election officials. You know, part-time people that get pulled in to watch the voter checklist and things in New Hampshire, you have to have an ID to vote, which is weird, you know. I liked the way we did it here, Maine's doing the same thing. Most New England states are in fact as northern New England are doing the same thing where we have a felt pen, we have a piece of paper, we mark it down on that piece of paper, and we can then count it later on. If there's a problem, right? You can just go to that paper that sits in the closet, pull out the stack, bring it with you. And once you've done that, you can have a bunch of people sit around and think about Florida 20 years ago and what happened there with the hanging chads. They at least had a physical card they could look at although you know pregnant chats, hanging chads got to be quite the mess. So now we're getting concerned because of this new voting app that's out there. It's called Votz. V-O-T-Z is how they spell it. It's not the same one that was used the caucuses in Iowa. The app that the Democratic Party was using was trying to take the tabulations that were made by the people who were at all of these different precincts and figure out what the vote tallies were and then supposedly put it into the app and it gets sent up. This vote app that we're talking about right now goes a few steps beyond that. They want military personnel, and people are overseas to use it when they can't necessarily vote when they want to vote. It's, you know, panacea, maybe it's something we can get to in someday, but four states are going to use it this year. It has not undergone the trials that really should have gone down. And it's using a buzzword that I think got people's attention. And they're saying, Oh yeah, this is going to be safe because it's using this buzzword called blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is what used behind various cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and some of the others, to help secure the transaction. So the whole log is it signed each record inside the register is signed. Just because it has blockchain doesn't mean it's secure and doesn't make it properly designed. I've got a quote here in this article from MIT, is computer science artificial intelligence lab saying the whole thing is sloppy. It looks sloppy. It's in Georgetown Law. It's awe-inspiring. They were able to find such a pervasive set of vulnerabilities, said Matt Blaze and election security expert and computer science professor at Georgetown Law School. But we should also remember it's ultimately unsurprising that they would be able to do so because of every expert has warned against Internet voting as being vulnerable to flaws exactly like this goes on. The University of Michigan here Alex Halderman, saying that it makes vote seemed like a sham. So it is a sham. I think I think it's a real problem. But we're going to do it anyways and four states, including West Virginia, this year is going to be a mass. We've already seen what happened in Iowa. We saw excellent voting happen in New Hampshire. We're not sure what's happening this weekend in Nevada, then Super Tuesday is right on the heels. Some of these states are using these voting apps. Some of them are using the apps used in caucuses. I think thank goodness there aren't very many caucuses in the country. And we'll see, but one thing is guaranteed, and that is it will be quite the debacle. It is going to end up being a problem for everybody involved because they didn't vet this technology. Now, I reported on this a couple of weeks ago, this $10 million grant set aside by the Department of Defense grant, ultimately, and it was to design a voting machine that would be secure. A voting machine that we could trust. I think that's just wonderful. It hasn't really been tested yet. They brought it last year to one of these conferences like Black Hat and Defcon. They brought it out there. Every year there is a voting machine village where they have all kinds of voting machines there. They are asking people to go ahead and try and hack into the voting machines. We had a 15-year old that was able to hack a voting machine right there, and they compromised every voting machine except for the device under development on this $10 million contract. Now, that might seem impressive, and that might be kind of encouraging to some of us. I think it kind of is in some ways. However, the reason they did not hack it was it didn't work. They were not able to get it online and did not get it online until Sunday, which was the last day of the conference. And so no one got to test it out. But that was last year. Let's get them a little real a little bit under their belt, a little water under that bridge sometime, and they will be able to do it. And you know, I think they'll be able to do it ultimately, but I still will be the biggest proponent of a pencil and a piece of paper or a felt tip pen. The software, By the way, those votes VOATz software is being used in Denver, parts of Oregon, Utah and Washington State, we'll see what happens. West Virginia, as I said, is going to use it. But for disabled voters, the federal government requires all states to have electronic voting machines that can be used by disabled voters. I know here where I live in New Hampshire, we have a thing I don't know they might have passed. Now they're kind of getting old. Twins, twin women, and one of them was pretty much deaf, and the other one was pretty much blind. So they were able to help each other out in a massive way, which is kind of cool and get right down to it. But what they did is they kind of both helped each other to vote, but we all have in every precinct people who are there who can help people with disabilities. I don't like this requirement to have electronic voting machines. But the MIT researchers, these other researchers all agree with me. I'm very concerned about the Android phone and Android as a platform for people to use. I don't know if you are if you're using Android, you know, I'm always saying use iPhones much, much more secure. But I also am not looking at an iOS as being the problem. Cure-all for some of the voting machines. Anyhow, we are live on Facebook, as I'm putting the show together and shout out to everybody who is on there and asking questions. I appreciate it. And I will go back in and answer questions for anybody a little bit later on who has them, and I want you to stick around. I will be back here after the commercial break. We're going to be talking more about the latest in technology. We're going to be getting into these Iranian hackers that have been hacking VPN. If you think your VPN is safe. We've got another thing coming. So we're going to shut this one down. And we will be right back. Thanks for joining us, of course, Craig Peterson dot com. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and affiliates. You'll find me online at Craig peterson.com. And, of course, online at Facebook. I'm doing this Live on Facebook, and also out at YouTube. And we're going to talk right now about VPN. So hopefully, you have some understanding of them. But some exciting statistics came up this week from our friends in government. The FBI has been warning us a lot lately about what's been happening over in Iran what they've been doing, and we don't have kinetic war. In other words, we're not shooting at each other, which is a good thing, right? But Iranian hackers have been right at the forefront of trying to hack into our systems, and they've been relatively successful. I have a few clients that are in the defense industry, because we do, of course, the higher security stuff, right. And they have been under constant attack from Iran for about six, eight weeks now ever since the last little tussle with Iran might have been longer than that. And we're seeing sustained efforts to hack into them. Well, now we're getting a report from our friends over at ZD net here about Iranian hackers targeting these VPN services. So I thought I'd start by kind of explaining to everybody a little bit more about VPN services, what they are, what they offer. And because I'm hearing ads about this all the time, and frankly, it's driving me crazy, because the ads are telling me that Yeah, Craig you need a VPN because it's the only way you're going to be safe. It's the only way you're going to be secure in your day. You've got companies out there that used to be known for anti-virus, which of course nowadays we know antivirus software is zero percent effective against the latest hacks that are out there. So antivirus software companies are trying to figure out what's another way that we can make some money because people are starting to realize that this is a scam. And it's been a scam for a lot of years. You know, antivirus worked pretty well 15 years ago. It doesn't work at all today, as I just mentioned for the latest now malware nastiness that's out there. So some of these companies one that comes to mind. It was purchased not too long ago by another anti-malware company is running a lot of ads. They're saying this we need our VPN you need our credit watch. They've tied in, with one of these companies that watch your credit looking for transactions, it might be a bad guy, and I'm a little concerned because here's what usually is going on in the VPN industry. Running a good VPN is expensive. When you are using a VPN, all of your data, depending on what type of a VPN, how it's employed is encrypted from point to point. We're talking about the right ones and not those that you hear the ads for when you're using those types of VPNs. Your data is transmitted up to the VPN service provider. Then once it gets there, it is sent out to the internet. So let's say you're trying to go to my site, Craig Peterson, dot com. If you're using a VPN, your web browser is going to ask the VPN server Hey, can I get the Craig Peterson dot com? What's the best way to do it? How can I get there, and the VPN server will say Hold on a second. I'll get that page for you. Then the VPN server goes out to Craig Peterson dot com gets the page and sends it back to you. Now, that would be a caching or proxy VPN server. And some of them will just pass packets through. But the big concern I have is twofold. One of them is this whole Iran thing, and we'll get into that in just a minute. Because it isn't only Iran. But the other one remembers if something is free, or if it's inexpensive, who's the product? You the product! And since you're the product, what do you think they're making money off of selling your personal information, that's how they make their money. And that is a big problem as far as I'm concerned. So what some of these VPN services are doing is they are tracking you online. Some of them go the next step, and they're actually acting as full proxies, and they are sometimes acting as a man in the middle attacks. They're injecting things into your data stream that you weren't expecting. So where you think you're getting the VPN to have some security, and to have some privacy. Some of these VPN services are the exact opposite. They are reducing your privacy because what they're doing now is taking your data and selling it to the highest bidder that's out there, right. So I think that's a problem. And if you think it's a problem, maybe you shouldn't use some of these cheap VPN services. And I haven't gotten any I actually like, okay, I've heard advertisements on these radio stations, my shows airing on and I've checked them out, and I'm not comfortable with any of them. And the only VPNs I use or VPNs that I run, but remember, your data still has to hit the internet at some point. Remember, you're using one of these VPN services. versus your data is going to the VPN service provider. And at that point, it hits the internet. So it's now out on the internet. Well, if you're trying to make sure your data doesn't get on the internet, and people aren't hacking you, you've lost because your information does have to get to the internet. How are Internet Service Providers supposed to get to your bank? How are they supposed to get to my website? How did they suppose to get to Facebook or Google or YouTube? They have to go over the whole internet as well. If you're using one of these services, and they're going out to the internet. What do you think is a bigger target you at home, using the internet via your cable company or your telco or maybe your smart device. Is that one device a big target, or do you think that perhaps its the VPN service providers that are the bigger target, right? I'm not sure I need an answer because it's kind of a rhetorical question. The most significant marks out there when it comes to VPNs are these VPN service providers. And we're seeing warnings out there right now that Iranian hackers have targeted pulse secure, which has VPN software that they sell to businesses, shown to be insecure. Pulse Secure for the net. Another example of one of these security companies, right that has a VPN service, Palo Alto Networks, a company I have never used and never recommended either. I haven't recommended any of these companies to anybody ever. We've gone up against Palo Alto Networks in some proposals and contracts and, and they won them because of all the whiz-bang, not because they were the best of the safest, and so So there you go, Paul secure Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Citrix VPN are now being used to provide a back door into larger companies. So if you're a business person, I'm going to put these right now into this channel so that you can look it up for you or business and seeing and write this in as a comment over here in the Facebook Live that you can find online. Yes, go to Craig Peterson, calm slash Facebook. It'll take you to my Facebook channel. But there's the list of them. It is from an article that's out there on ZDnet. I think they have been publishing some great information lately. I've been using them in a number of my alerts that I send out as part of my Saturday morning emails. But some of these attacks have happened according to this firm called clear sky that Iranian hackers have targeted companies. From the IT telecommunications, oil, gas, aviation government and security sectors, why because that's where all the real money is. The particular report is dispelling frankly, the notion that it's their Russian and Chinese hackers or maybe North Korean because the Iranian hackers don't know what they're doing right. I've heard that before all Iran, don't worry about it. They know what they're doing. When in fact, yes, within hours of being disclosed, the Iranian hackers were right in there. It's terrifying. So keep an eye out. I look. Again, online at Craig Peterson, calm you'll find this article, and a whole lot more. Make sure you ask your IT department if you're using any of these VPN services or software. And by the way, in most of these cases, you can get patches to fix it. When we come back. We're going to be talking about Coronavirus and the new challenges right here on WGAN. Hey, welcome back Craig Peterson here WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com, of course, on Facebook as well. I am live on Facebook, and you can ask questions there you can watch this whole show as it unfurls, and you will find me there. You can ask questions almost anytime. We try and keep you up to date on what is happening out there in the world of technology. Well, you might not have thought of coronavirus as anything more than just a piece of nastiness, right. The virus I know some people are saying well you know we haven't had as many deaths from the Coronavirus, also known as covin-19. I was trying to remember the name little earlier. We haven't had as many deaths from that as we have from our regular flu virus every year. Right now is the peak of flu season in the northeast and Anyways, and in many parts of the country, and what is there to worry about, right? Is it going to hit us? It seems to be slowing down. We don't have a whole lot of information from our socialist friends in China. Like most socialist governments, they play things very close to the chest. They don't want people to know what's happening, including their citizens. But we have some new fears now, and this is a great little article that I have found over on dark reading. It's pointing out some of the security challenges that we're facing, because of the whole Coronavirus thing. Everybody's heard about it, everybody's scared of it. And when you get right down to it, you're watching me right now listening to me talking about the Coronavirus because it is an exciting thing to understand. The CDC has not only maps of where the Coronaviruses hitting right now, but the CDC also has information about general flu viruses this time of year. There are outbreaks of different diseases, what's happening where CDC.gov now I've seen some fake stuff like CDC, dash gov.org, just all kinds of fake sites. With phishing, we've got to make sure that all of our employees, family, friends, know not to click on any of those links. Don't click on them. However, people do and when you click on them, who knows what's going to happen, you might be downloading malware, you might just be confirming this is a valid email address for more and future spamming, right there might be a lot of different things that it can do to you. Don't do that. The next one I think that that's very interesting is something most businesses have not addressed. What would happen if maybe covid-19, or something else, actually becomes a pandemic? What if it is not even a pandemic. What if you have an office with five or ten people in it and everybody comes down with the flu or cold? At the same time? Have you prepared for a business continuity challenge? And it isn't just what might happen if you're sick. It might also be a little bit further than that. What might happen if the business burns down? Or there's flooding, or no one can get into the office for a day or two because of some natural disaster? Maybe, it's just a really nasty ice storm like we had here? What a decade ago, where there were portions of New England that had no power for six weeks, in the middle of winter. That's a very, very big deal. What would your business do? Most people will haven't had a good hard look at business continuity, just in general, although we really should. And when we've got the cyber attackers coming after us, it also brings to mind what would happen if they got through, and let's say it was a version of ransomware that encrypted all of your data or deleted all of your data and demanded a ransom. Are you going to be able to handle that? Right? It's a big question. Will you be able to continue with your IT people, whether they're outsourced or in-house? How about your security operations people? It could be a huge problem. Let's move it up-scale because I know we've got a lot of people listening, who have more substantial companies. Maybe a 200 person company, perhaps something more prominent and it would be interesting to know you can just drop it in the channel like to know a little bit. But if you've got to hundred people working in one building and it's a contagious virus that's getting spread, the odds are pretty darn good, that 10 to 15% of your workforce is going to get nailed with that bug. Okay. Here's an example from the article. If it's by the way, if it's something that might be pandemic, there's an excellent chance the government's going to quarantine everybody anyways, whether the people get sick or not. Okay, and what's that going to do to your business? It is a consultant over Accenture working in Mexico City during the h1 in one virus spread ten years ago. They were saying that the current quarantine protocols are 14 days. So think about that. What happens if your business if your employees are out for 14 days if you've got a large outsource facility. Your security management, any facility, with a large number of people and you probably don't want to bring 100 people together and put them in a small room unless you-yourself have evidence that none of them have been affected. The second part of the challenges they may not be able to get there even want to get there. Now, this is the business continuity side. Can your business continue if there is a spread of these types of diseases, this could be huge? Some Indian companies have reported, according to dark reading, they've reported disruptions because of stoppages and shipments from China. They've got 45,000 Plus Now I don't know what the number is confirmed infections over 1000 deaths. So if you part of your supply chain now is affected, in this case with the Covid-19. Of course, most businesses are worried about the supply chain from China. There's supply chain manufacturing the low-cost components from China to Indonesia and all kinds of places in Southeast Asia what happens if that goes away too? If you have parts being made anywhere in the world, keep in mind that businesses are starting to move if they haven't already. Then with all of the phishing that's going on, It can get to be a very big problem. Proof point and Cisco Talos have reported messages purporting to provide tips for virus protection. They appeared to be sent not only by official government organizations but by the own businesses itself, upper management. So there's an example of spearfishing going after a specific company, and the messages get used to stealing credentials drop malware like mo tap, and in lures specifically targeting manufacturing and shipping industries. The nano core remote access software, these are back doors, like the kind I've talked about on the show that we have found in business and that is before backdoors get put in there by China or that Iran now has become a big player in all of this. So very, very big problems. Hey, if you have joined me on Facebook for the Facebook Live Welcome, welcome. I appreciate the comments, like seeing the thumbs up, so please do give that to me. Otherwise, you can find me online at Craig Peterson dot com. I post all of everything we talked about every week, right there Craig Peterson dot com and I started sharing videos and, and other things as well on YouTube and a little bit more on Facebook. When we come back after the break, we've got more to discuss. Next up. We're going to talk about these 500 Chrome extensions that have been secretly uploading people's information. How's that for a scary thing? So stick around because we'll be right back. If you are on Facebook Live. We're going to end this Facebook Live and start another one with our new topic in about five minutes on the radio. We'll be back even quicker than that. So stick around. Hold on one sec. Here we go, everybody. Welcome. Welcome Craig Peterson here on WGAN and elsewhere. Of course, also on Facebook, Facebook live is where you'll find me there. Just go to Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook. You can sign up for my weekly newsletter, where I make sure you have all of the latest news, everything that you need to know. And right now we're going to talk about everybody's favorite browser while except for mine. One of the companies that we use goes by the name of Duo and what they have recently found out about our friends over at Google and Chrome. If you are a big follower of mine, and you've attended some of my pop-up training, I do quite a few of them. Those are always free and, and I have some tutorials as well. I talk a lot about extensions because there are quite several extensions that can be fantastic. And I use them all of the time. If I were to bring up my browser here, you would see a whole bunch of extensions that I use continually. I use them to block certain advertising types, and I use them to prevent various kinds of malware. I have some extensions that use artificial intelligence to figure out what is this page trying to do? Because we've got things like pop-unders, where it opened something up, and it has little timer was saved for an hour, and then it pops up to this big scary message that you need to update windows or update something now Because it's out of date, and there are hackers out there that are trying to get you. And that's called, by the way, scareware. But it comes through your browser, and you have no idea. So some of these extensions that I use are specifically designed to look at the source code on the page, look at not just the HTML, obviously, but look at the JavaScript or so much stuff is hidden. So it pulls in all these pieces of JavaScript. Usually, they're removed in from multiple sites and assembles them has a look at them, and will even change them based on what it finds. Now, those are beneficial extensions. Then on the other side, there are these toolbar extensions. I don't know if you've used these before, man, these used to be all of the rages, and I still see them installed in people's computers. And these toolbar extensions give you a little bit of extra something sooner, just a call right in These extensions going to track you when you're online and shopping and tell you where the best deal is? Well, yeah, it's following you, right? It knows that you're on a shopping site because you give that extension access to all of your browsing history. Then it knows what you're looking at up the site and knows what you are searching. Because so many of these extensions come with their little search bar up top right. Yahoo was one of the big guys out there in this browser bar extension business. And every last one of them at the very least, despite you. Now, that's bad, right that it's bad enough. But now we're looking at this same mo wait a minute here. We have now uncovered 500 Chrome extensions that have been secretly uploading the private data from millions of users. Huge deal. An article in Ars Technica, if you are over on the Facebook Live, you'll see the article, right there has a direct link to it. But this is very bad. It was just discovered on Thursday here. It's been just about just over a week. And we found out from these guys, that what had happened is that these website extensions had more than 1.7 million installations. It was an independent researcher who worked with Cisco's own Duo Security. And they found all of these things. They then reported it privately to Google and the researchers and found 71. Google looked at what the researchers had seen, and how those extensions were coded up and how they we're behaving. Then Google found an additional 430 extensions. And Google has removed all known extensions that were doing this. So that's the right side of it. But that's the known extensions. Those are the extensions that we're doing something that looks suspicious that Google and the security researchers could identify. In this case, reported here, the Chrome extension creators and specifically made extensions that obfuscated the underlying advertising functionality from users. Now it did say advertising in this quote because here's another thing that they do. If you visit a website, and you have an extension installed, that has access to the websites that you're visiting, here's what they've been doing. They look for ads from their customers, so you've got a bad guy, Inc. Okay. And then what better guy he does is he goes out and says, Hey, listen, I can get you 1000 collects of thousand new views of your page, just pay me up. Then what they'll do is they will play some ads for you. These are pay-per-click ads. Every time someone clicks on an ad, they have to pay, right, and some of these ads are cheap at five cents. You don't see that too much anymore. Some of them are $500 for a single click. That money then goes to Google, who then shares it with whoever had the website where the click originated. Okay, so it's a pretty lucrative business if you as a bad guy that could guarantee clicks on these expensive websites That is what they're doing with some of these extensions. They are watching the pages you're visiting to look for an ad from one of these sites that they get some money fro, but now they can have your browser click on the ad unbeknownst to you. Your browser now clicks on that ad. They make some money because they have the fake ads that are up so all kinds of nastiness. The other side of this is let's say the bad guys want their competitors to stop advertising online. Let's say they make cups, and I make this glass. Other companies out there that make a blue glass kind of like this. They find out what are the ads this other blue glass company is running. They have their little extensions out there. They hire these people that only extension to then clicks on the competitor's ads automatically for them. The competitor might have a five hundred dollar a day limit with Facebook ads, and all of a sudden now that five hundred whatever it is they're spending where they've put a cap on it, right? So whatever it is they're spending is being 100% wasted, because you don't even see the ad. There are so many ways that the bad guys are using these extensions. It is a maze of redirects, malware, and more. Some of these plugins will do Bitcoin mining or other types of blockchain cryptocurrency mining out there. Man, there's just all kinds of them hardcoded control servers, which by the way, I've got another tutorial coming out telling you how to stop your computer from going on to some of these command and control servers. And that's going to be phenomenal for you. So keep an eye out for that coming up in a couple of weeks. Many the redirections because they're using redirections, as well as part of this, go to ads for products or Macy's, Dell, Best Buy large volume of ad content, as many as 30 redirects, the deliberate concealment of most ads from end-users and the use of the ad redirect streams to send infected browsers to malware and phishing sites. It goes on the bottom line, beware of extensions, but I also want you to be aware of apps, right? What are the apps that you are using? What are those apps providing you with? Now I'm talking about apps that are on your smartphone or on your tablet, maybe some programs that are on your computers. Okay, they're out there? What are those apps Are those apps something that you need? Many of them spy on you, which is another dangerous thing. They're stealing your data. They're taking the information they're sending to the bad guys. Right? It just goes on and on. So make sure you don't do that it is dangerous stuff. All right, I am doing this radio show on Facebook Live. If you want to follow me on Facebook, it's easy enough to do Craig Peterson comm slash Facebook. And if you are not a Facebook fan, and there are a lot of reasons not to be a Facebook fan, then you can also see a lot of these videos up on YouTube. I do YouTube lives, as well. You'll find that at Craig Peterson comm slash YouTube. And of course, you're listening on the radio, and you're going to find me on pretty much every streaming service that's out there. So I want to quickly ask a question - which browser do you use? If I say create a poll? What's going to happen here? Oh, there it is. I'm going to publish it right now. I see. Okay. All right. So far it's showing up. I should have clicked this a little bit earlier. So Facebook Live, you have a poll. Do you prefer Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Opera? And I personally use Firefox and Opera, Google Chrome and edge I don't trust particular Google Chrome, however, There are times when you have to use one of those two browsers, because your company might be using a website that's specifically programmed to only work with that particular browser. There. There might be other reasons, but let me know. Click on it there. If you are not watching me on facebook right now Facebook Live, go ahead and answer that poll. I'd really like to know or just drop me an email me at Craig Peterson calm. Let me know what your favorite browser is and why. And make sure that you delete every extension you don't need. Every app you don't use and don't need. We've got to cut back because it just presents such a broad attack surface to the bad guys. All right. Okay, so let's see end of this segment. When we come back, we of course, have a whole lot more to talk about. We're going to talk about third party breaches, what's been happening. It's increased sharply in 2019. If you are a business person, this is for you. Your listening to Craig Peterson WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com hello everybody welcome back Craig Peterson here on WGAN or also on Facebook Live if you have any questions, by all means drop them right here into the channel can always ask me a question to online anytime. Just email me and he had Craig Peterson calm more than happy to respond. You might have to have a little bit of patients I do try and get back ASAP. But if someone or my staff is not noticing or final notice Don't feel bad. It's not as though we hate you. But we do try and answer every question that comes our way just me at Craig peterson.com. We're going to talk right now about third party risks whether you are a small business or a little large business, this is a huge deal. very huge deal. And it's also a huge deal if you are an individual, because you are dealing with everything from Cloud services through a milk delivery company. All of these are third party services provided by third party companies. And many of them have information about us. And I've heard from so many businesses lately, that are now required under the new federal standards, the CMC standards, that they don't think that they really apply to them because they're not a primary government contractor. It's they don't have a whole lot or any personally identifiable information. You know, why? Why would you come after me? I just don't matter in the whole big scheme of things. So it's not something that I should have to worry about. When the law is clear, they do have to worry about it, but they're still not worried about it. And I think the biggest reason is because people just don't understand the risks involved. You're using Google spreadsheets, for instance, Google docs for me, you know, Microsoft Word replacement. And, and Google also has kind of a PowerPoint thing called Google Sheets, I think it is, or slides, Google Slides that you can use in order to put the presentation together. And even to show a presentation. It's, it's really rather cool stuff all the way around. But this is an example of a third party vendor. We already know that Google is looking at all of those documents and trying to figure out what a can use from that and in order to sell us stuff, right or do seller information to third parties. And in that's obviously a bit of an issue. But when we're talking about these smaller businesses that might be selling to Another government contractor that might be selling to Raytheon who's selling to the Department of Defense, just as an example. They wonder, why does it matter? That I'm really secure, because I'm making something that's completely passive. It's not as though I'm making the software that controls a missile in flight. Right? It is not doing any of those sort of things. So why should it matter? And I think that it's a good question, but here's why it matters. There were some huge hacks of the Department of Defense last year, and those hacks a good 50% of them came from their vendors. We're talking about a third party risk. That third party that vendor you're using, whether it's Google Docs and Dr. Mike, you might be using a version of Dropbox as Just a regular end user version might be using an unsecured or improperly secured as your instance or Amazon Web Services instance. You could be using any of those types of things. And guess what's going to happen if you're using those. All of those people who have your data could be used as a way into your computer's think for a minute. We spoke earlier today about these 500 plus Google Chrome extensions that were leaking your data there, the data is actually being stolen by third parties because of those. If you have software installed that's being used to manage your supply chain, and that supply chain software is tied into this third party vendor. Your network is is is exposed Now you may have tried to tighten it down, I might be as tight as could possibly be. And there's no problem here. But if you're like an average business, none of that is true. None of that is true at all. All of your data is potentially accessible by the third party. So some interesting stats that came out. And I again, I have this up on my website. I will post let me post this right now here in the Facebook Live channel. Okay. It's in there now to you can see that right at the end of my comment. They're showing that there were about 43% of businesses this last year 44% were, in fact, attacked and hacked via third party breaches. So in other words, the bad guys did not come in directly This wasn't a phishing attack attack necessarily directly against them. This wasn't a ransomware attack directly against them. It was against a third party. So it was a vendor who might have had all of their customer information they might have had to how to manufacture certain things. It could be all kinds of different types of information. And that information was then used against them. That's a very big deal. Think about billing. Think about your, your employees and their paychecks, their w 210 99. Since you send out all of these things to target so we talked earlier about these VPN services that are right now huge, they're huge attack vector. Now this number is up by the way 35% over the last two years. The number of records exposed in the breaches skyrocketed. Almost 300% last year, the cost of the breaches have gone up substantially as well. And you're going to find all of this up on my website, Craig peterson.com. But that's huge. So 44% of all firms that were surveyed had experienced a significant data breach caused by third party vendor. And remember, these are firms that know that they were breached. So let's look at an IBM study. This IBM study says it takes an average of 197 days for a company to identify that they have had a data breach almost 200 days to even identify even know that they had a breach and another 69 days to contain it. Fat is inexcusable. In excuse inexcusable, it really is. You know, so many people have fallen through victim to vendors that say, hey, we've got the solution for you Don't worry about it. This is this is going to be so easy, not a big deal. We'll take care of it for you and they don't that's the only explanation I can come up with here. For what 265 ish days, from the time a breach occurs to the time that they've contained it. 265 days, that's two thirds of a year. Now I believe me I'm this is not I'm not trying to sell you our services here. Okay. If you want to buy him great. I just want to let you guys know 250 days on average to contain it with what we do on average. It is this from this. From the time it happens to the time is discovered to the time it's contain. So from the very beginning of a breach to the time it's contained. With us, it's typically six hours. That's why I say this is in excusable, if you're a company with 200 employees with 1000 employees, and you're not using the right stuff. Whose fault is it? And I gotta tell you another number that I've seen before when when I was one of the FBI infragard programs that I ran, I had an expert on, and he was talking about breaches, and you know how many months it takes to discover and then to try and close the hole. If you take less than 30 days to stop the breach, on average, you save $1 million, a million dollars. So think about that when you're thinking about the cost of security. If you are slightly bigger company, you have a few hundred employees up into thousands of employees. And you can shave that whole massive number of 250 days, down to 30 days or less, you've saved yourselves a million bucks. So the million dollars that you might spend on security and by the way, it takes you quite a bit to spend a million dollars to even to get the kind of security I was just talking about, with the six hour to recovery stuff. A million bucks goes a long way now and that's plus, by the way, you know, all of your other costs, the loss of reputation that you get, so you're going to lose clients, you're not going to pick them up, you're not gonna be able to charge as much as you could before. People aren't going to trust you. All this is happening because of these third party breaches. So keep that in mind next time. You are auditing your business, right? You've got auditors and think about all of the people downstream from you who maybe you should be paying some attention to, because they have data that you might find to be sensitive. They might be used as a conduit to break into your systems as well as have their systems breached. Okay. So I know many companies now that are, are auditing their providers, their upstream downstream partners, for very, very good reason. So if you want to find out more, let me know just email me at Craig peterson.com. Be glad to punch in the right direction. You can find this particular order article over and dark reading and it's written by Jay v. JOHN, and you can find it as well at Craig Peterson calm Of course I post all of that stuff online. And if you have my newsletter, you get that Every Saturday morning, links to it there too. So stick around. We'll be right back. We got a lot more to talk about here. In this last hour of the show. We're going to talk about a rental car risk you might not be aware of. So stick around. Hey, welcome back. Craig Peterson here WGAN and and elsewhere. We are live on Facebook Live as well. out on YouTube. You can find me and Craig Peterson calm. And of course, listen to my podcasts on pretty much any platform out there. podcast platforms from one platform. I just been doing this for too long. I guess this is the problem. They've all found me. Oh no. So this is a great little article from our friends over at Ars Technica. I don't know if you're familiar with it. It's one of those websites that I follow fairly closely because they have so many great things out there. But this one is talking about the rental cars and I want you to think about cars for a moment because well, I like cars. Hopefully you do too. But what are the problems that we're seeing today that are actually caused by this latest, newest, most wonderful technology? And there are a lot of them frankly. And some of them have to do shoes me with our phones, right? We plug our phones into the cars, the cars will automatically say, Okay, I want the contacts, people will just blindly say okay, go ahead and upload the contacts. And all of your contacts are uploaded, and now the car has them and the next driver comes in I love doing this comes into the car and scrolls through all of the phones and sees all of the contacts people have their home addresses in their status home. So you just look up home on the on the cars GPS and and just some poor fool who uploaded all of his contacts into the car, right use seen that before a music downloads, just all kinds of stuff. So I'm always careful, I never let the car upload my contacts you were probably kind of conscious about that as well. If you're not making sure that that doesn't happen right to the car doesn't have your contacts. You You might also do what I do, which is after I'm done with the car, I go into the Bluetooth settings and disconnect my phone or with Apple Car Play. I make sure my phone is disconnected. Excuse me. So those are all things I think that most people would know about and think about. Well, here's the problem that we're starting to see today. These cars are getting smarter and smarter and have more and more features on them, don't they? So there there's been some research here. Ars Technica did a little dive into it as well. And this Dan Goodin ended up writing an article about This where he found that the previous driver to his car could start and stop the engine lock and unlock the doors and track the location of the vehicle because you remember again these cars are designed by my guys right and gals obviously but by guys who are not thinking about all of the use cases for the car you know man I had such a fight of one of my my eldest sons who works with me he's he's one of the employees and works with a company that is fire jumpers certified for not fire jumper as in the fire department, although he does have a firefighting certificate including tight spaces on ships, but he's a fire jumper for security when something bad happens. Or please, please have us design the network before something bad happens. He gets some old us all of those. Well. We have all of Our clients emails run through a set of high end filters provided by Cisco. So all of the emails coming in our filters, look at it, and they are phenomenal. They have cut my email, I was 5000 emails a day. And now I'm down to about 100 hundred and 50 emails a day just by the Cisco filters. So and by the way, I have, I think, in the last year had maybe one false positive, maybe one it's just these things are so smart the way they work, right? They're not just looking for keywords or other things are really looking at behavior. Because Cisco sees so much of the internet, right? Cisco runs the internet backbone, but then they see so much of that traffic plus they see so much of the email traffic they can, they can just be phenomenal. So we have all of our customers emails running through our data center and it's properly secure. Of course, and running through these special Cisco email filters. And then we take those emails and we forward them on to our customers mail servers. Well, one of the services that is used by quite a few of our customers, because it's inexpensive, relatively speaking, is the Microsoft Office 365. Now, there's a lot of levels of old 3065. It's their cloud services, right? But that's cloud is in the cloud, right? And we're not going to get into that right now. But they have a whole bunch of services. And Microsoft had an internal grey list against our Cisco email host that was doing all of the filtering. And Microsoft, you know, they said, Well, you know, we can figure it out. It took us 24 hours to escalate it to people who knew what they were even talking about. We showed them their own tech article on this problem. them inside Microsoft with Office 365. And said, Here's your problem. You guys know about it, you have defined it, here it is. And yet, you know, they they start you with the people that say is a computer powered on type, right? Just so, so, so frustrating to me. Well, the problem here is that the Microsoft software did not consider all their software designers did not consider all of the uses usage cases. In this case, the Microsoft software people thought, Well, people using Office 365 they're just going to be real small businesses and they are going to have you know, dozen through 1000 email accounts maybe. And so the usage patterns are going to be consistent, etc, etc. That's not true in a case like us, where all of the emails coming in from all over the internet. To to us for all of our customers, including their deal D contractor customers, right? The people, the customers that have it are compliant, have PCI that have legal compliance issues, accounting compliance issues, right. So they all come to us where they are heavily heavily filtered. And then therefore it on to Microsoft. Well, that's not a usage case they thought of when they design the software. So we were fighting with them. We had thousands of messages queued up So the good news is, we didn't lose any of the email. We kept it our systems noticed right away that Microsoft was misbehaving, which they do frequently. And and then we got on the horn with Microsoft, we went the level two right away and then level three No, I'm air quoting levels two and three, because they're not real levels two and three, not by our standards. By the time you get to level three or somebody like me that or Steve, the fire jumper, somebody that really knows What's going on? Right? That's not the case of Microsoft. Anyhow, the problem in Ars Technica is found here is that these cars are designed with the idea that there is a single owner. Now there might be multiple drivers to the vehicle, but there's a single owner, right? She owns the Mustang. She drives it, but you know, the old man drives every once in a while the kids might drive it once in a while as well. Well, in this case, they looked at a Ford Explorer. And October last year, they put an article in about a guy that was able to remotely start, stop, lock, unlock and track a Ford Explorer that he had rented and returned five months earlier. And they're saying now something almost identical has happened again to the same enterprise rental car customers. customer. Four days after returning a Ford Mustang, the Ford pass app installed on the phone continues to give them control of the car. So here we have a usage case where the car is being rented, it was not part of the original design considerations. And the rental car company, in this case enterprise, and maybe it's just one unit of enterprise, I don't know. But enterprise is not properly clearing or resetting, whatever they have to do to that car after somebody has rented it. So it's a real problem. And it's something we need to be cautious of. Because it's, it's not even something we can necessarily do anything about. But personally, I would go into the menu on the console on the control system, you know, the entertainment system, and I wipe out every phone that's in there, just so that something like this can happen to me, right? But that's what I would do and that's what I advise you to do as well. Okay, stick around. When we get back. We're going to talk about a new FBI report that's talking about what happened to this $1.7 billion right here. Stick around. Craig Peterson and WGAN and live on Facebook. Hey, welcome back everybody, Craig Peterson here WGAN and and elsewhere. Hopefully you're able to join me on facebook live this week and we spend some time talking about the articles and answering questions for everybody. And of course you'll find that online right now kind of all over the place, make sure you get my weekly newsletter. It'll keep you up to date on all the latest security topics and some of the cooler new technology out there that I think is or maybe isn't ready for prime time. Going to have a cool guests next week too. I I used to do a lot of guests. I had like a dozen a show back when I had a three hour show. But next week we're gonna talk with a buddy of mine Mine, who is actually fairly well known, he's written a book about sugar. And you probably know if you've been listening to me for a while, not all that long. But a while you know that I have been very conscious about my health and doing the intermittent fasting thing and stuff. And so we'll talk to him about what he has found. You might remember I did the Atkins thing some years ago, but we'll be talking with him a little bit about that, too. I'm sure next week, so Barry Friedman will be my guest. And I will probably be next week. We've got to figure out the calendars first. No, I hate it when that happens. Sorry about that little bit of a coughing fit. Okay, so let's get into the article right now. And this has to do with email compromise. Now we all have email accounts, right? You got them. I got them, whether they're on Google Shame on you, or if they are Microsoft Office 365. Okay, depends on which level you have. Or if you host them yourself, which is what we've been doing for decades now for ourselves and our clients. I like that because they have more control. I don't have the problems like we had with Microsoft this week with Office 365 for some of our clients. But when you have email, there's a certain type of exposure that you have. We talked earlier about this whole problem with the coven 19 with the corona virus, and how they're using it right now to get you to click on links and phishing attacks. click on links in SMS. Those are called smishing. To get you to do something that ultimately you shouldn't do because they're using it to download nastiness. And it can be nastiness in the form of ransomware he'd be nastiness in the form of software that being installed on your computer to use your computer's resources, maybe as part of a denial of service attack, maybe to attack other people and other computers that are out there, right? It's all pretty darn evil. Well, the FBI put together some numbers because there's this thing called a business email compromise. That's only part of the problem. Because it isn't just business email, that can be a problem here. It's also our personal emails. So we're finding on the personal side that people are getting emails that are again from bad guys, but what they're trying to do is get you to go a little bit further. So a lot of them for instance, are based around dating sites. So people looking for companionship, they might be out on one of these websites and and they meet somebody.g more coughing meet somebody and as they've met that person, they kind of go back and forth and how are you? Oh my we have so much in common and they're trying to scam you. That is a very, very big and prevalent thing right now. Because so many people are just trying to find somebody that they can love someone they can spend some time with. And enjoy company and you know how I get that pardon my French but this is a real tough time in the world. There's so many people that are so ostracize that are blocked off from other people that are just looking for something anything right? Doesn't have to be love. As I said it can just be companionship. So the FBI has been warning about that. And then we've got these business email attacks, that what's happening here is oftentimes it's spearfishing. They're going After the owner of a company, and and frankly some of these dating things are spearfishing, too, because they know that somebody who's a little bit older might have some money that they can get out. Yeah. And they'll ask you Hey listen, I my uncle cousin has this medical bill and and we really need the money can I get $10,000 from you and people, people are sending it in the business email account account. It's a little bit different. So here's another article from our friends over dark reading this up on my website as well. But it's same back in 2013 scams often started with the spoofing of a CEO or CFO his email account, fraudsters send emails appearing to come from these execs to convince employees to send wire transfers to fake accounts. Now we know that within the last six months, this has gone to the next level. We're there we are using computers to imitate the bosses voice and they've been able to take millions anyhow the article goes on. Since then business email compromise has evolved to include the compromise a personal and vendor emails, spoofed lawyer email account and request for W two data. Of course, taxis and everybody. This is a big one w two right now the IRS is warning about that. Attackers often target the real estate sector and or make requests for expensive gift cards. In 2019. The Internet crime center saw an increase in business email compromised complaints related to the diversion of payroll money. So the attackers send a fake email to human resources or payroll department requesting an update to a specific employees direct deposit information. This is really really big and you look at these numbers. We're talking about 1.7 billion in losses. That's absolutely huge amounts of money. The in 2019, they had a half a million complaints come in costing organizations three and a half billion dollars overall. That's up almost $3 billion from 2018. absolutely huge. So we have to be very, very careful. There are some reports out there email fraud and entity deception trends that are out there about the attackers what they're doing rise in hybrid attacks, which a victim receives an email making a request, and simultaneously receives a text message from a spoof number designed to seem to seem like the same person saying they just sent an email. It is highly targeted and also highly effective. So you got to be careful of all of this. We have to be careful of all of this and for business people, we have to be particularly careful about all of this government, government agencies. Did you see what happened with in Atlanta in the last year, how they got nailed multiple times. And it was ransomware. Getting in some of it was some business email compromises. We've had cities all over the country who have fallen victim to the business email compromise, and they have wire money to vendors that just don't exist, etc, etc. We have to be very careful. So how do you avoid this? First of all, don't send money to people that you really don't know. You know, you I'm thinking about those of us that are looking for companionship, friendship, maybe for a new lover, somebody that we can spend the rest of our lives with. Don't send them money really don't no matter how bad that sob story is. And then if we're business people be doubly careful. Verify everything via the phone. So the boss tells you that they need to move some money into another account. Call the boss you have their number, don't call the number in the email. If you are getting contact in HR from an employee's saying, hey, I want you to start direct deposited into my new account, here's the account number. Call back and verify it. Right That's always the case. You know, a police officer pulls you over the side of the road. You have a good chance that it's really police officer because they're an unmarked car. They have the blue lights going. They have a police officers uniform on. You just don't know even in that case. So be extra-extra cautious out there. Man. When we come back, we've got one more article for the day again, believe that it's gone so fast. We're going to talk about the most secure messaging app out there. Hi You can get it how you can use it. So stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson and wg AN. And of course, Facebook Live in YouTube Live. Man, we're going overboard this week. Stick around because we'll be right back. Hey, welcome back, Craig Peters, Melanie or w g. N. and online Of course, we're doing a Facebook Live even as we speak, having a little fun there as the chuckles we're all about. Hey, I appreciate you guys joining me and I know that your time is valuable, and I don't want to waste one minute of it. So I'd love to get your feedback. What do you think of this show? What are the good parts, the bad parts? What do you want to see more of? What do you want to see less of let me know just email me and eat at Craig Peters. on.com. I'd really appreciate it and make sure that you are on my email list so that you get every week the latest in technology news. With a course in emphasis, as always from me on security, and what you can and should be doing for security in your home, and in your business, you know, I really focusing on business, because that's what I've been doing for so many years. You know, most businesses aren't in the cyber security business. And so they're trying to make their widgets provide their service, etc. And they're just left hanging when it comes to the security side cyber security. And I know that's true of you guys, too, who are in smaller businesses, even larger businesses and home users. But the answers the solutions are always the same, although you don't have as much money to spend so you're not going to be as well protected. Right? Do you also, hopefully don't have as many assets at risk. I know a lot of people who are high net worth individuals who come to me in order to get things secured, but as as a whole Most of the time is business Zilla. So I kind of aim at that. And then every month is well, we have a list of the top security vulnerabilities that there are patches out for telling you, hey, you need to update this software or that software. There's various vulnerabilities that you have to take care of immediately. Another coughing fit, man, hope this isn't assigned to something coming down with something. Here's the vulnerabilities you have to t

As I've launched the new Badass Agile leadership learning experience, I had something I wanted to ramble about the partisan politics and binary thinking around modern education and certification. Be cautious of absolutes.  There is value in all education (if not necessarily certification), but there is a limit to how much you should attend, read, or memorize about any field of endeavour before we get out there and witness.  Live through some real challenges, develop and test your hypotheses. To overwhelm yourself with knowledge is to cloud and confuse the mind with too many competing products and their promises; shouting at you from every side.  Knowledge must be a stripping away of uncertainty and ignorance, not a warehousing of 'how-to's; and 'just by this'.  

LISTEN TO PAPER TALK - EPISODE 33: Overcoming Workshop Fears with Emily Paluska We welcome our first artist of this brand new year - Emily Paluska of Revery Paper Flora - on Paper Talk to learn about her paper flowers and business. Known for her colourful and realistic paper flowers, Emily strives to make each and every piece special and unique. In addition to making paper flowers on commission, for wholesale, and events, she’s a prolific workshop instructor. In 2019 alone, she taught a total of 35 workshops in the Washington, D.C. area and Austin, Texas! Can you believe that before her very first workshop, she was so terrified that she considered not showing up? Listen to Emily as she shares her workshop experiences through the lens of a successful entrepreneur. You won’t want to miss her tips and tricks invaluable for anyone considering teaching workshops. First, let’s get to know a little bit about Emily:1. Who is Emily Paluska?I'm the owner and botanical artist behind Revery Paper Flora. I live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC. I balance running my business with trying to keep my two young children alive, one of whom is named Poppy because my love for flowers runs deep! 2. How did you get started making paper flowers? What drew you to this art form?I started making paper flowers after my son was born. I was experiencing postpartum depression and was desperate for an outlet after I put the baby to bed at night. I was never a crafty or DIY type of person so I'm not sure why I thought doing something like this would be fun. I credit it to how dark of a place I was in. It made me desperate to cling onto something to keep me afloat. It was a toss up between paper flowers or those really detailed coloring books. Paper flowers ended up winning out. I made a paper flower every day for a year. It was my therapy and saving grace on the darkest of days. I'm not sure what made me choose flowers (honestly it was probably because it was the cheaper option that night on Amazon) but I'm so happy I did. I had first stumbled upon paper flowers when I saw Lia Griffith's website. I found them appealing initially because I hated spending money on fresh flowers and thought paper flowers would be a fun alternative for me to have flowers around my home that I wouldn't have to take care of.3. How would you define the style of your flowers? How did you find your style? How has your creative style evolved to what it is today?Oh this question is a hard one but I would say realistically unique. Some of the flowers I make are a lot more detailed than others, others are simpler and more understated. It also depends on the client and specific project in question. I found my style through a lot of practice. I make a lot of my flowers over a hundred times and through all those renditions, they evolve into something better, not just because of the practice but I am able to see it more clearly. I can see what things can be tweaked and how I can make the flower just a little better the next time. Having my flowers look real is very important to me. Color has also become integral to my achieving realism. For the majority of my custom projects, I will always start with white paper so I can achieve the exact shade necessary. 4. How have you made your paper flower voice stand out in the crowd?I think the reason why I stand out in the crowd is because I do a lot of different types of work. I have my own personal projects, commissions, events, workshops, pop ups, wholesale and window displays. I think being able to show the wide range of the things you can do can showcase the value of what you bring to the table.5. How did your name, Revery Paper Flora come about?I named my business after my favorite Emily Dickinson poem called 'To Make a Prairie.' I'll share it with you now:"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee.And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few." I loved this poem from the time I was a teenager. Revery is defined as a release from reality or a daydream. I love the idea that something like say a flower can spark a memory and bring you back to a different time and place. I want my flowers to feel like a little piece of magic to their recipients. 6. What are your ideal clients and/or ideal projects?My ideal client is someone that gives me a lot of carte blanche to bring their vision come to life. I love when I get just the basics like colors or a couple flowers they like but the rest is up to me in how I can bring it all together.I don't really have an ideal project. So many of my commissions are wildly different and I like that. I never want to feel pigeonholed into doing only one type of work. That would get boring and I can get restless easily so I find the constant change is good for me! 7. What are some of the challenges you've faced in your business and/or art?A big challenge I've found is finding the time to balance it all. If I could have my way, I would only make flowers and do no other parts of the business but that's not how it works. The administrative part of your business is integral to its success. Thankfully in the new year, I'm bringing someone on to help me with this!Another challenge is that you should always get things in writing. If you are working with third parties or clients, you should protect yourself. Your expectations for a project or event may not be the same as the party you're working with. Make sure you're on the same page and have the paper to prove it.8. Tell us about your workshops - how many do you do per year, where are your workshops located, why do you like to teach workshops, what is your teaching philosophy?I taught 35 workshops in the last year in the DC area as well as in Austin, TX. I teach in a variety of places around the city. Some businesses have dedicated workshop spaces like The Paper + Craft Pantry, Steadfast Supply, The Lemon Collective, etc... and others have been special events like with Appointed Co.I enjoy teaching workshops because a lot of my work is just me, sitting in a room by myself listening to true crime or foreign policy podcasts. I am a true introvert. If I could live in a house in the middle of nowhere and never talk or see humans again, I would be okay with that. All that being said, that's NOT healthy and it's really good for me to connect with the outside world. It surprises people when I tell them that I am introverted but social interaction can really drain me. As I've gotten older, I've learned that putting myself out there is very important for my mental health. Feeling like you're a part of the world is crucial to keeping yourself grounded. It's also nice to talk to adults when you're surrounded by toddlers.My teaching philosophy is that you're here to learn a new skill but you're also here to have fun. I never want people to feel pressure to be perfect. I always tell everyone at the start of class that nature isn't perfect so your paper flower shouldn't be either. After elementary school is over, unless you go into an art-related field, you're not being forced to be creative or make a piece of art. I think stepping away from your daily life for a couple hours to create something with your hands that you had no idea you could do before, is the ultimate self care. I want people to enjoy themselves and use it as a temporary escape from the everyday grind. 9. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is starting out today?My best advice is to just have fun with it. Don't start making paper flowers because you want to make money or turn it into a business. You can absolutely do that later but if you go into a new art form with that intention, people can see that. You want your art to be genuine. Practice, practice, practice. You can read all the books or watch all the tutorials in the world but unless you build the muscle memory and skill yourself, it won't amount to anything.Be kind to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes. Give yourself room to grow. 10. What advice would you give to a paper florist who is about to give up?Unplug. Do not look at Instagram. Do not look at Facebook. I think most people want to give up because they play the comparison game and in that game, there are no winners. Take a walk outside. Breathe. Maybe take an extended break from making. Remember what made you drawn to this art form in the first place. Maybe the break brings you back to it with a fiery heart ready to go or maybe it leads you elsewhere. Your art shouldn't drain you; it should bring you to life. 11. Do you have any paper flower tips to share with our listeners?Say yes to the scary things. I think ever since I started my business I've been uncomfortable and scared SO MANY TIMES but I've found there is a 100% positive return on saying yes. You learn so much and you learn where your boundaries are and what things you love doing and the things that don't bring you joy.12. What is your favourite tool?I use a bead reamer for curling paper. I would be lost without it! Want to learn more about Emily and Revery Paper Flora? Follow her on her on social media:WEBSITE:www.reverypaperflora.comINSTAGRAM:@reverypaperflora

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Tanner Fans, Angela Bowen here, the host of Oh Mylanta Holy Chalupas: An Unofficial Full House Fuller House Podcast. Since today is the Super Bowl and I am an avid non Super Bowl Watcher I decided to cover this episode Full House S8E14: Super Bowl Fun Day, which aired on January 25, 1995. In this episode Joey comes home from a two-week comedy tour to watch the Super Bowl Game, forgetting that he and Jesse had volunteered to take Michelle's science group to the museum that day. He takes them to the local bar so that he can watch the game and promises the kids that they will have fun. When the TV gets broke the guys brings all the mad football fans to there house to watch the game, interrupting DJ's college interview. As I say in this episode, I'm not a sports team person, my sports watching consists of 90's Kids Sports Movies like, The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Rookie Of The Year, Little Giants and The Big Green. In this episode I talk about the Super Bowl 2004 Half Time Show Incident between Janet Jackson. I never saw it live but was able to catch it online for this episode. I also discuss the 10 Best Halftime Musical Acts of the Super Bowl History as well as the strangest Super Bowl Commercial, 2016 Mountain Dew Puppy Monkey Baby. It still freaks me out to see this monstrosity. I mean the pug is cute but the monkey body and baby diaper butt and legs is just something out of someone's nightmares that shouldn't exist I also learn what constitutes a water cress (not crest) sandwich. Also who wouldn't want Jesse Katsopolis to shampoo and condition your hair? I know I would, he's got the magic fingers. I also wished I could have been Derek sitting in the chair as Jesse gives the kids a demonstration on how spit ends split. Weird? Yeah, I know, but who cares. A girl came dream, right? DJ gets the worst dressed award for this episode (As I've said before on past episodes, I don't think there is a person alive that looks good in a turtle neck, that fashion should have died in the 90's and this is coming from a girl who has evidence of wearing turtlenecks in school photos) and the worst person of the episode. Her attitude was horrible. Screaming, pushing, over demanding, it felt so un DJ like. Teddy gets the best dressed away for his black vest and black and white print shirt. I hope you enjoyed this episode and get ready because this week we have our first of three Valentine's Day episodes Full House S2E14: Little Shop Of Sweaters and the next episode in the Jesse & Becky: A Love Story Series S4E20: Fuller House. Book Recommendations: Give & Take by: Elly Swartz (Middle Grade) Some Places More Than Others by; Renee Watson (Middle Grade Black History Month Recommendation) Clean Getaway by; Nic Stone (Middle Grade Black History Month Recommendation) To EMAIL The Podcast Go To: omhcfhfhpodcast@gmail.com Have a great week everyone!

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Tanner Fans, Angela Bowen here, the host of Oh Mylanta Holy Chalupas: An Unofficial Full House Fuller House Podcast. Since today is the Super Bowl and I am an avid non Super Bowl Watcher I decided to cover this episode Full House S8E14: Super Bowl Fun Day, which aired on January 25, 1995. In this episode Joey comes home from a two-week comedy tour to watch the Super Bowl Game, forgetting that he and Jesse had volunteered to take Michelle's science group to the museum that day. He takes them to the local bar so that he can watch the game and promises the kids that they will have fun. When the TV gets broke the guys brings all the mad football fans to there house to watch the game, interrupting DJ's college interview. As I say in this episode, I'm not a sports team person, my sports watching consists of 90's Kids Sports Movies like, The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Rookie Of The Year, Little Giants and The Big Green. In this episode I talk about the Super Bowl 2004 Half Time Show Incident between Janet Jackson. I never saw it live but was able to catch it online for this episode. I also discuss the 10 Best Halftime Musical Acts of the Super Bowl History as well as the strangest Super Bowl Commercial, 2016 Mountain Dew Puppy Monkey Baby. It still freaks me out to see this monstrosity. I mean the pug is cute but the monkey body and baby diaper butt and legs is just something out of someone's nightmares that shouldn't exist I also learn what constitutes a water cress (not crest) sandwich. Also who wouldn't want Jesse Katsopolis to shampoo and condition your hair? I know I would, he's got the magic fingers. I also wished I could have been Derek sitting in the chair as Jesse gives the kids a demonstration on how spit ends split. Weird? Yeah, I know, but who cares. A girl came dream, right? DJ gets the worst dressed award for this episode (As I've said before on past episodes, I don't think there is a person alive that looks good in a turtle neck, that fashion should have died in the 90's and this is coming from a girl who has evidence of wearing turtlenecks in school photos) and the worst person of the episode. Her attitude was horrible. Screaming, pushing, over demanding, it felt so un DJ like. Teddy gets the best dressed away for his black vest and black and white print shirt. I hope you enjoyed this episode and get ready because this week we have our first of three Valentine's Day episodes Full House S2E14: Little Shop Of Sweaters and the next episode in the Jesse & Becky: A Love Story Series S4E20: Fuller House. To EMAIL The Podcast Go To: omhcfhfhpodcast@gmail.com Have a great week everyone!

Happy Super Bowl Sunday Tanner Fans, Angela Bowen here, the host of Oh Mylanta Holy Chalupas: An Unofficial Full House Fuller House Podcast. Since today is the Super Bowl and I am an avid non Super Bowl Watcher I decided to cover this episode Full House S8E14: Super Bowl Fun Day, which aired on January 25, 1995. In this episode Joey comes home from a two-week comedy tour to watch the Super Bowl Game, forgetting that he and Jesse had volunteered to take Michelle's science group to the museum that day. He takes them to the local bar so that he can watch the game and promises the kids that they will have fun. When the TV gets broke the guys brings all the mad football fans to there house to watch the game, interrupting DJ's college interview. As I say in this episode, I'm not a sports team person, my sports watching consists of 90's Kids Sports Movies like, The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Rookie Of The Year, Little Giants and The Big Green. In this episode I talk about the Super Bowl 2004 Half Time Show Incident between Janet Jackson. I never saw it live but was able to catch it online for this episode. I also discuss the 10 Best Halftime Musical Acts of the Super Bowl History as well as the strangest Super Bowl Commercial, 2016 Mountain Dew Puppy Monkey Baby. It still freaks me out to see this monstrosity. I mean the pug is cute but the monkey body and baby diaper butt and legs is just something out of someone's nightmares that shouldn't exist I also learn what constitutes a water cress (not crest) sandwich. Also who wouldn't want Jesse Katsopolis to shampoo and condition your hair? I know I would, he's got the magic fingers. I also wished I could have been Derek sitting in the chair as Jesse gives the kids a demonstration on how spit ends split. Weird? Yeah, I know, but who cares. A girl came dream, right? DJ gets the worst dressed award for this episode (As I've said before on past episodes, I don't think there is a person alive that looks good in a turtle neck, that fashion should have died in the 90's and this is coming from a girl who has evidence of wearing turtlenecks in school photos) and the worst person of the episode. Her attitude was horrible. Screaming, pushing, over demanding, it felt so un DJ like. Teddy gets the best dressed away for his black vest and black and white print shirt. I hope you enjoyed this episode and get ready because this week we have our first of three Valentine's Day episodes Full House S2E14: Little Shop Of Sweaters and the next episode in the Jesse & Becky: A Love Story Series S4E20: Fuller House. To EMAIL The Podcast Go To: omhcfhfhpodcast@gmail.com Have a great week everyone!

I like Millions of people today was shell shocked to learn of the death of 9 people via a helicopter crash. As I've gotten older death no matter who it is affects me. I feel it deeply. I guess it's me finally realizing my own mortality.  As I reflected on the news of the day I did what I often do when I'm hurting, I found solace in music.  Here are a few of the songs I played that helped as I attempted to not to make sense of this tragedy, but to know that tragedy will affect us all at one time or another and we must live our lives better. I'd like someone to stop and think of me the way we are remembering those lost today.  Hope you enjoy and BE KIND! Dj Shizz

This week, I share my thoughts on Byleth being announced as the final Smash Bros DLC character (for now at least), touch on the greatness that is Witcher 3 on the Switch, and I'm finally playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Oh yeah, and Mark McCue and I talk about a bear that keeps a bird trapped in his backpack. If you just want to hear about that, skip to 14:50. And toss us a follow, pleeeease? We'll follow you back! Twitter - @memberthegame Instagram - @memberthegame I missed out on Banjo-Kazooie back in the Nintendo 64 days. As I've (infamously) made clear on the show, I'm not a huge fan of old-school 3D platformers, and it just never jumped out at me back in the day. I always thought it looks colourful and nice, but I never really had a crazy urge to play it. Luckily, I have a friend named Mark McCue that wouldn't stop badgering me to give Banjo a shot, and for the sake of this show, I finally did. And it was absolutely delightful. I can't even explain how impressed I was with Banjo-Kazooie, although I'll give it a shot on the podcast this week. To be fair, I did play the Xbox Arcade remastered version and not the original Nintendo 64 release, but from what I've been told, that's the way to go. The game SCREAMS retro gaming, from the graphics, to the music, to the gameplay, it took everything Mario 64 did and did it better. And that's from a life long Mario fanboy. This game is fucking awesome, and if you haven't played it, you really should. We'll tell you why on the show this week. Mark McCue is a Banjo-Kazooie super fan, and I'm a junkie in training, and if you're not already one of those things, we're gonna change your mind over the next hour or so. Enjoy the podcast!

Freya is an avid fitness junkie and Yogi who lives in the twin cities as well as being someone who is very successful in global software sales professionaly. She travels globally almost every week but always finds time to fit in a yoga session. As I've grown increasingly more into my own yoga practice and enjoyed what its done for me physically, emotionally and mentally, I've wanted to interview someone who has been into it alot longer than I have and has more of a proficient knowledge base surrounding it. In comes Freya, someone who I've been playing tag with for over a year to get an interview. Here is her take on yoga, what it means to her and why it's not just a stretching session or another work out craze. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome!   Today there is a ton of stuff going on in the world of Technology, and we are going to hit several topics today. From Technological Protection to tactics. Zero-Day Browser Vulnerabilities, Malware Infected Phones, Vulnerable Broadcom Chipsets in Cable Modems. Why connections always mean hacking. Social Engineering. The absolute need for Updates, Patches. The Coming Cyber War is already here, and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGANand more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN and even more.  It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Technology Can Only Protect You So Much --- Then Other Tactics are Needed Zero-Day Browser Vulnerabilities A Free but Malware Infected Phone -- Courtesy of the US Taxpayer A Lesson to Learn - If it is Connected It can Be Hacked Routers and Firewalls with Broadcom Chipsets Are Vulnerable Social Engineering Comes to the Forefront of Attacks Updates, Patches, and Hackers Oh My! Cyber War isn’t Coming It is already here! --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here a big week when it comes to security updates, and I mean a massive weekend. Welcome to show number 1043. That's weeks people. I've been doing this for a very long time, glad you have joined us, and if you are watching over on YouTube, I'd love to hear from you. Just email me at Craig Peterson calm you know if you're on YouTube or, or Facebook, I've noticed a few people who have subscribed, and I love that thank you very, very much. I hope you get a lot out of the show. If you're listening on the radio, of course, you can also email me at Craig Peterson calm with any questions that you might have. And I always try and answer them now sometimes it takes me a little longer than others. As you can imagine, I am a busy guy. It is kind of a labor of love, but we do want to answer your questions and help You out with everything. Keep an eye on your mailbox this week. Because I am finishing the course of courses. I am so excited about this, so proud of what we're doing. And what I'm trying to do here is help you get to the point where you have all the information you need. If you're the Operations Manager now responsible for it in a company, or you're a smaller company, you know, doctors office, etc. It is going to be great. So keep an eye on your email. Because what I want from you here as I'm finishing this course up is your questions. I want to make sure they all get answered. As I've been going through putting the course together, I've even noticed that there are things that would help take that kind of extra mile if you will, you know there are these concepts that people just don't understand. And I'm going through this thinking oh my gosh, you know, to me, it's so obvious, but to so many people, it's just not because this isn't what they do every day, and they've done every day for years and years. So we're adding a bunch of different things to this course, different bonuses that are going to help. Of course, as we always do, I will still do free training, that's always part of one of these courses when we lead up to it. And there's a lot of people out there that say, Hey, listen, I can get everything I need just from the free training. And you know, between you and me, that's not true. But you can learn a lot from those. So I hope you will attend. And if you're not on my email list right now, even if you're a home user and not a business person, you're not an office manager. Let's say you're a small business owner, and you're wondering if this is something that you should do or not. I think the answer is yes. Because really, I've never been so excited about something ever. It is something I think you're going to love. I know I have put mine all into this and solos my wife. I've had a couple of other people here in our team helping out as well had a great meeting this week. And it's just man, this is exciting. So anyway, if you're not on my email list, sign up right now so that you can get on you can get not just this, but every week I send out videos, I send out a newsletter. I do Facebook Live training and YouTube Live, and we have pop-up training when there's something that's hit the news that you know you're trying to stay ahead of we do all of this stuff, and that's all for free, but you got to be on that particular email list. So subscribe by going to Craig Peterson comm slash subscribe, make sure you're there. I think you're like it. You know, you can always unsubscribe, which some people do, right? It's not for everybody, but most people have been on there for years now. I have people on there. That man, I'm trying And remember, but it's been probably 25 years on that list. So join now Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe. Now I started by saying that we have some real security problems this week. So I want I'm going to mention this a couple of times during the show, I want to make sure you guys know first of all, huge, huge, huge windows problem out there. And this problem was reported by the National Security Agency. Now, I made mention of this on the radio this week when I was a guest on the morning drive show, but I think it's worth mentioning again, and that is The National Security Agency when they have found these types of bugs. What do they do? They keep them for themselves. They don't want other people to know about the virus, because then they use that bug now to go and grab onto other people's computers, you know, foreign agencies, bad Guys, good guys, people that they're not sure of right all of this stuff. They've been using it for years. We saw this from Edward Snowden and his leaks, right? He went out, saying everything they are monitoring, and that they are capturing and, and they're putting up on to their computers and their data storage over there in Utah and just terrible things. So we know they're doing this stuff. Well, this was amazing to me, because I realized that here under the Trump administration, this is the first administration where the National Security Agency has recognized a more significant responsibility. It isn't just hacking into other people. It's providing security to us, to you to me, right, and helping us to understand what we need to do which yea yea yea right. I've always been trying to help everybody. Get more secure. So I'm glad the NSA is doing that. Now. They didn't do it under the Obama administration or the Bush administration or the Clinton administration, right? They just haven't done this, and I don't think ever. So kudos to them if they're listening. And of course, we know they are. And kudos to the government agency. So this is a big, big deal here with Windows. And we need to understand kind of what it is it's going on. But basically, it has to do with encryption. It has to do with that part of the windows that we use to try and keep ourselves safe. Now, it's not all encryption. I don't want to get too technical. Everybody, you know, my show here is really to help you guys understand things and not get all cliquey and clinical and buzzwordy, although sometimes I am accused of doing that frequently, I try not to. So it has to do with encryption. And it turns out that in the cases of this time, encryption. Microsoft isn't even validating keys, which, as you can gas, if you don't know anything about encryption, is a huge deal. So update windows pronto. Now, there are no known attacks in the wild, but you can be sure those are coming. Also, a big update this week from Firefox because of a massive security hole. You probably know, I love the Firefox browser. I use that Firefox browser. And I hope you do too. It is important if you use Facebook, because of Firefox browser has a special thing where it's fencing Facebook in so that it can't read all these other sites visited. It's great for that, but there is a security bug. So that's news, I guess. We want to make sure we fix that main, and you can do that by updating Firefox. Now Firefox is one of those browsers that updates itself. So hopefully you've recognized it Firefox came up and said, Hey, I want to restart to install patches, and then let it restart, you have to let it restart. And Chrome started doing that as well. Again, never, ever use Microsoft Internet Explorer, it is the definition of a problem for you. Okay, security and otherwise, so don't use Internet Explorer. And also, of course, the Edge browser. I wouldn't use either. And I'm not fond of Google browser, Google Chrome unless you have to use it, right, because some applications only work well in Chrome. So let's get to our first article of the day here. We're talking about half protected is half empty, and you can see behind me, technology can only protect you and me so much. Many of these threat actors, these cyber guys that are out there, they are coming after you and me. And one of the easiest ways to come after us is using phishing smishing some of these other tactics, and we're going to come up here in another segment Today, I'll be talking about smishing. And how bad that has gotten and how you can avoid it six tips. I'll give you here to avoid smishing. But in reality, right now, we're talking about the human element. And what the wetware You and I, right versus hardware and software you and I are doing, and we're getting confused, and they are taking us to task on this. But we've got to be careful here with our security controls. We got to make sure that people only have as much access to data as they need to know so so many businesses will see this all the time. And I understand if you're doing this because it gets kind of complicated to do it the right way. But so many businesses are sharing their file server with everybody. They've got an Active Directory server or some sort of a network-attached storage device, etc. And all of their files are on it, and everybody has access, you don't want to do that. Because all it takes is one person to get fooled into clicking on a link, downloading some of the malware software. And once that malware loads onto their computer, start to spread. Where is it going to spread? Well, heck, it says Look at this, a network-attached file system a file share. I'll just try start to spread that way, and it does. So keep your security controls in place. Make sure you have the minimum necessary access. Make sure when it comes to your password management, be sure that you are using password vault at a very minimum. You can go all the way up to things like Thychotic, which is just phenomenal; it changes passwords and everything as used. But be very, very careful because this can go a long way towards helping your business to stay safe. Train your personnel and make sure they know what they should be doing. You Google has some free tools you can use. I have some tools. In my weekly newsletter, a lot of businesses use that as their training. They have people go through that read it and then answer some questions. So that's all free at Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe. So stick around. We're going to come back, and we're going to talk more about this whole Firefox warning. And we'll talk a little bit about browsers. You're listening to Craig Peterson. I'm of course on the air on WGN radio and other stations online at correct Peterson dot com Hey, hello, everybody, Craig Petersson here. Welcome back. We're going to talk a little bit right now about browsers. You know, this is the biggest problem I think many of us have when it comes to being online. which browser should I choose? And where am I going to see the problems? Well, as I just talked about in the last segment, and we're going to talk a little bit about now, we have a security vulnerability out there for Firefox. Now, Firefox is a browser made by the group known as Mozilla. And they've been making this browser for quite a few years. Now. I love this browser. I used to use it almost exclusively. Now, I've changed my tune a little bit. And I have a few different browsers that I use, frankly, for different reasons. So let's go through those reasons pretty quickly. One, if I need the most compatibility in a browser. And this usually means I'm using some sort of software as a service online. So I might be trying to do something extraordinary with a Canva, for instance, which is an amazing tool when it comes to graphics. And it doesn't always work so well with other browsers. It refuses to run under the Opera browser. So if I need the highest level of compatibility, it's Google, Google Chrome. And Google Chrome browser is the most supported, and it's number one out there, the most supportive browser, bar none. It didn't use to be, but it sure is now, the second browser level browser that I use for everything except for Facebook. Lately, I've been using Opera O-P-E-R-A. Now opera has browsers for your desktop, whether it's a Mac or Windows machine. Has it for tablets, it has it for your smartphones. P-opera is great. It is Every fast. That's kind of its claim to fame. It's the fastest browser, but it also has the highest level of security. Well, almost right? But of the common browsers that are going to work with most websites opera. So that's number two. Number three is the Firefox browser. Now, remember, I said, I don't run Facebook, inside of opera. And that's because Firefox has an incredible feature. When it comes to running Facebook. It fences it in quite literally see what far what Facebook's trying to do is get all the information they can get about you. Now, that's not necessarily a terrible thing. Because Facebook is frankly, selling advertising and they Want to know? What are you most likely to buy? And you know what this world runs on advertising. We see ads all the time on TV. We hear ads all the time on the radio like right now, if you're listening to me on the radio, you're going to hear ads, right? That's how the lights get kept on at all of these businesses. Now, would you rather see an ad for cars, new cars, when you're looking to buy a new car? Or do you want to see ads for cars all the time? Personally, if I'm looking for a new car, that's what I want to see. ads for a new car. If I'm looking for shoes, that's what I want to see ads for shoes, right? you get the point here. So if Facebook's able to kind of track what you're interested in what your friends are talking about, then it can give you the ads, and it thinks you're going to be interested in I love that concept. And as somebody who owns a business, I particularly love that concept. So I'm not wasting time or money, not wasting the time of people who aren't my customers and would never become a customer by showing them an ad, right? It's like the Super Bowl ads coming up in a couple of weeks here. But those Super Bowl ads that are almost useless and cost millions of dollars, you know, those are almost useless. So from an advertising standpoint, I love the fact that Facebook keeps that information. As a consumer, I love the fact that pays Facebook keeps that information. However, What I don't like is Facebook's habit of doing what's called cross-site tracking. What that means is Facebook knows Hey, I went to this site I went to that site, and it can help them with selling stuff it knows Hey Greg just went to the Ford website Ford trucks he was looking at, etc. etc. And so now it says Hey, Mr. Chevy dealer Are you interested in maybe buying some advertising is handed off to good old Craig there. And that's how they're making money as well. And so the Chevy guys happy because his ad went to somebody who was potentially going to buy the competition, which by the way, I buy an F 150. Any day over so many of the other products on the market, let me say that we can talk about that some other time, or a rather lengthy discussion. But that's what they're doing. So in the faith in the Firefox browser, when you're running Facebook, what it's doing is it is blocking that cross-site tracking. Because when you like something on Facebook, you might not be aware of it, but it can use some of that information for the cross-site tracking stuff. And there's a lot of information that I just don't want Facebook to have any of their business. Remember, it ends up in the hands of who knows who. Everyone to the Obama campaign. Did you want all of your information given to a political party? Then when Trump ran, they sold some of the information through a third party over in the UK to the Trump campaign. Alright, and so I certainly get it What? Why weren't people upset that the record of literally billions of people was handed right over to the Obama campaign, and yet, few only 10s of millions went to the Trump campaign, and everybody freaks out. Well, I guess that's part of the Trump derangement syndrome, right? So that's why I don't like Facebook to do cross-site tracking. none of their business was out. I'm going online, frankly. And that's where I use the Firefox browser. It's got some excellent cross-site tracking features built-in Plus it has some other features about advertising. And one of the ways that the web sites can figure out who you are, even if you turn off tracking, is to look at what plugins you have installed in your browser, right? A little bit about the history, the cache, the memory in your browser and your computer, right? The operating system version, the computer, the version of the browser, all of that stuff gets pulled out together, come up with a unique picture of who you are. So even if they can't say cookies, they can get all of this information, figure out who you are. Blocking Facebook from doing that when you are on Firefox, and in fact, Firefox blocks that kind of information gathering, no matter which website you're going to, it isn't just Facebook, so check it out. But the Department of Homeland Security now has come out issued a notification encouraging People to upgrade the Firefox browser. It is because there are serious critical actions where they use a security problem with the version of the Firefox browser. So they're warning us, they're advising us, they are encouraging us to make sure we update our Firefox browser up to at least version 72. Now the beautiful thing about the Firefox browser is it always tries to keep itself up to date. And so if your browser, whether it's Chrome or Firefox or anything if your browser comes up and says, Hey, I want to do an update, just let it do the update. Okay? Which usually means you have to quit the browser and restart it. So that's a huge deal because it's likely unless you configured it differently. You can tell it hey, I want you to reopen all the tabs I had open before all of the windows I had open and I do that all the time. I have, by the way, a little browser plugin that I use that you might like, it is called the Great suspender. I figured I should mention this to you guys, the great suspender. And what the great despite suspender does is if you go to a web page in a tab, it will automatically be suspended after an hour, 15 minutes whenever you set it for saving your computer memory and saving your computer execution time. Alright, so if you're like me, and you have a ton of tabs open, check that out the great suspender. So, in summary, if you have to have absolute compatibility, Google Chrome, normal browsing, you probably want to use opera and then Firefox for one year using Facebook, and then you know banks and things. Facebook or excuse me, and Firefox is pretty good. You're listening to Craig Peterson WGAN stick around because I'll be right back Welcome back everybody Greg Peter song here on WGAN and, of course, online as well. If you are watching on YouTube, and you want to see the articles, I post my videos on YouTube. This week we posted a few on Facebook as well. Hopefully, we'll be able to get them all up this week on Facebook as well as YouTube. So how do you find them? simplest way? Go to Craig Peterson comm slash YouTube if your YouTube user or Craig Peterson comm slash Facebook if you are a Facebook user, you know some of us like Facebook some of us don't like Facebook, I use it because of business. There are people on Facebook who are clients and who asked questions I often will put together these pop-up Facebook groups to address specific problems that people are having or the come up in in the news cycle as well. So all of that online at Craig Peterson calm, I'm also we're in the process of changing the website look and feel we got the new one laid out. But we don't have it up and active yet, but we should have it up hopefully within the next few weeks. So keep an eye on that too. I think you're going to like it a lot less confusing homepage than what used to be there. There's just too much stuff on there. So the new homepage has a couple of videos from the weekly summary of the articles. So you can click on them and read them and watch me as well. And then it has this is a new feature that we're adding to our newsletter right now. And that is, we have the top security tactics for the week. So the things you need to So like this week, as I mentioned at the top of the show, we've got a huge Microsoft huge security problem that the NSA told us about Homeland Security warned us about a problem with some of the older releases of Firefox. What software is being attacked right now in the wild? What needs attention now. So that's going to be a new feature of our newsletter as well. So keep an eye out for that. Lots of stuff going on as we get ready for our big training course that's coming up in just a few weeks from now. So keep an eye on your email box, because we're finishing up the course and I'm going to ask you guys what you think maybe I should add, make sure I have in the course. And I'm sure it's going to result in us having to produce a little bit more content than we thought, but the goal is to help you guys understand the security stuff. Now, this article is just mind-blowing to some people. It is from Forbes magazine. You'll find it at Forbes calm. And of course, I have a link to it on my website as well at Craig Peterson calm. But the United States has these programs. You remember all of the bragging people that, wow, I got my Obama phone now that President Obama took over and somehow they figured that it was from him, right. But we have had a program for a very long time for people who don't have much income. And I remember people with dial old rotary phones that got free phones, and the idea was that they could be used to call your doctor to call 911 or something that happened. A quick call to your family and friend. It was even back in the day when the phone call Company charged per minute to make a phone call on a landline. So these programs have been around for many, many years. And more recently, the government has been giving out to people, some of these smartphones. Now they're usually more limited functions and features, and they're trying to keep the costs of these phones down and keep them simple. But in this day and age, I look at it and say, Hey, listen, if we want people to be able to find jobs, they need an online web browser of some sort. So yeah, I love the idea of giving them a smartphone, you know, providing them a charity shouldn't be doing it. The government is doing it right now. But they should be able to go online and do some shopping. Some of the numbers I've seen out of Africa are amazing to me some of these charities I've worked with, who have gone and given phones even just the basic old phones you know, with the ten keypads on It that you can use to what was that called the T something rather. But you could use to spell out words and websites, and it would go there. And they've been giving them those phones, and now they've given them smartphones. But they have had some amazing results, particularly with women in Africa. They were able to build businesses now because they could communicate. Right? capitalism is a terrible, terrible name. Because the capitalists aren't the ones starting the companies. Then it's the entrepreneurs, and it's the people like you and me. Were the ones creating the companies? We're the ones taking the risk of the capitalists are the guys in the banks, who say, yeah, hey, if you don't need the money, we'll loan it to you. Right. Those are the capitalists, the people that are buying and selling stocks, and these big public companies. Yeah, those are capitalists. When we're talking about these African women, who have been some subsistence living for their whole lifetimes. Now being able to have a business where maybe they're making something selling it online, maybe they're selling their herds of animals buying herds, cheese, milk, whatever it might be. Those are entrepreneurs. And giving them the tools that they need, like the ability to be able to communicate is a huge, huge deal. Very, very big. So what are we doing here in the US? For years, the government has provided low-income households with cheap phone service, cheap cell service, and even free smartphones. Sometimes they are completely free, particularly if they are ill or injured, you know, on disability, etc. Well, one provider called assurance wireless, you probably heard of them before, offers a free Android device, along with free data, free trial. 16 and minutes now, this is all in this Forbes magazine article. So it sounds fantastic, right? smartphones can be expensive. Even if you buy the ones I say till I say don't buy, right like the Android phones, they can still be expensive, and they can still be $1,000. For some of these phones, it's not a cheap deal at all. But according to some researchers, the article goes on. There's a catch. The Android phones come with a pre-installed Chinese malware, which effectively opens up a backdoor onto the device and an endangers their private data. One of the malware types is impossible to remove, according to the researchers, and now the researchers here, our company called malware bytes. If you have bought one of my courses before you know Malwarebytes is one of the pieces of software, I recommend that you get it Not perfect right, but it helps much better than antivirus software, right? My gosh, did you realize antivirus software today? Today is effective against zero percent of the newest attacks is zero percent right, so having Malwarebytes is probably an excellent idea. So Malwarebytes said that they tried to warn assurance wireless, which is a Virgin Mobile company. And assurance wireless never got back to them. These devices that we're talking about have a backdoor and one that looks like it's impossible to remove. Those companies are still are those phones that are still out there. Man. So Forbes then after they found out from Malwarebytes about what was going on, Forbes reached out as well to assurance to wireless. Nothing happened. Okay. Then apparently, after the initial publication, this article a spokesperson for Sprint, which owns Virgin Mobile, and assurance wireless said, we are aware of this issue. We are in touch with the device manufacturer, unit max to understand the root cause. However, after our initial testing, we do not believe the applications described in the media are malware. So there you go. Chinese spying on Android smartphones. Well, that's nothing new. Having your phone coming pre-installed with malware. Hey, didn't we just talk about that a few weeks ago, how the latest releases from some of the major manufacturers of Android come pre-installed with over 100 vulnerabilities? So again, don't buy an Android period. Anyhow, let's see if the Craig Peters song. And here on WGAN online and Craig peterson.com. And we're going to talk about the ring controversy when we get back So stick around. Hey, welcome back, everybody Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. Thanks for joining me today. I appreciate it. We enjoy putting the show together, getting the information out helping everybody understand what's going on in the world of technology, you know, and I try and not use some of these industry terms that confuse people. And I've been told many times, that's one of the reasons people love to listen and to watch, and you can do both online at Craig Peterson dot com, and you can find me almost guaranteed in your favorite podcast app. No matter what it is. I'm pretty much there. I've been doing this whole podcasting business now for upwards of 20 years. So I am out there, and I appreciate every listener. Hey, if you enjoy the podcast, If you're listening to this podcast on TuneIn, make sure you spend a minute if you wouldn't mind and go to Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Now iTunes is the 800-pound gorilla still in the marketplace, and they do a lot of statistical tracking. Go to Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. And if you would give me a five-star review, let me know what it is you like about the show, the best things. Hopefully, we can get even more people signed up. But I'm also on tune in, and I heart and all over the place. So you can go to Craig Peterson dot com slash, your favorite, whatever that might be tune in, and it'll take you right there, and then you can subscribe to the podcast. Well, we've talked many times about this general problem, and this is called the Internet of Things. What are you supposed to do? What is Well, we'll start there very briefly for those that aren't, you know up to date on this, because it is changing all the time. The Internet of Things now includes some of your clothing, yes, computers embedded in your clothes. Computers are built-in to the newest televisions, obviously, and into the refrigerator and your washer and dryer. At the Consumer Electronics Show, I saw some of the kitchen appliances like your stove, right? You no longer have to turn that knob on the stove. Now you go to an app, and you get your phone out, and it'll turn on or turn off whatever. That's the Internet of Things. The Smart light bulbs that we have the turn on and off the at the front door where you have maybe used to have a key, and now you can hold your phone up near that's the Internet of Things. Now, it brings about a whole lot of significant use cases and, and I love the Internet of Things. I have some of the devices at my home in my office that is all connected to the internet. And there's a good reason for it. And it works well for us. So that's the Internet of Things. Ring, which is a company that was acquired by Amazon a couple of years ago for $1 billion, is a security company. And their claim to fame was this video doorbell that they made, and they still do, and it's even still called Ring, and it's now being sold by Amazon who owns the company, as I mentioned. And the idea is you replace your doorbell on the front door, side door, whatever it might be with this little ring device. And the ring device has built into it a camera, and it's also hooked up to the internet. So if someone rings the doorbell, it will go ahead now, and it'll pop up and alert on your phone. And it'll say, hey, someone's at the door. Now you can not only look at the person at the door, and know that they are, who they are you can talk to them, you can hear what they're saying, you can go ahead and respond to them, have a conversation with them, whatever you might need to do. And then there are other ring devices now, and other devices in your home so you could unlock that front door. And Amazon has a service now that is used primarily in the bigger cities, where they'll walk into your home and leave the package inside by using a unique door lock that they can unlock. I don't know about you, Walmart is doing the same thing. With Walmart, that door lock is exclusive again, but Walmart will only use employees who have been with Walmart for more than a year and have a spot free record. Now that makes sense to me. You don't just want anybody walking in. But I don't want anybody walking into my house. So the idea behind Ring is you can be on that beach, you can be at work, you can be picking up the kids doesn't matter. And you know who has been at your home. So if you got a porch pirate, you can go back and look at the video. You can even turn it over to the police, which is where part of this problem starts. Because Ring has been doing some things that a lot of people say whoa, wait a minute now. Ring has stored all of these video recordings from the front doorbells and storing it in the cloud. Now just because it's in the cloud doesn't mean everyone has access to it, although we have certainly seen that with some cloud databases, which I believe is the problem that Ring had. So what happens then? Because now all of the videos that your ring devices have captured is online. Another problem that these companies had (Ring, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Siri) is that some contractors were looking at these video files listening to the audio. And people thought that was a terrible thing. Oh, you know, frankly, that's not a terrible thing. Because how are you going to make the voice recognition better? If nobody verifies the voice recognition, right? You have to have somebody listened to it. Well, in Rings's case, it turned out that some of their devices were getting hacked. Now we know this happens with the Internet of Things devices. Most of it's like 90 95%. I think all of the security cameras that we have in the United States get manufactured in China. Many of them are eminently hackable. I mean, in a very, very big way. So, if you have a device that's hacked, what does it matter to you? Well, it mattered to some of these people who claim someone hacked that their Ring device because they had a camera in their kid's room. And the bad guy took over the camera and started having a conversation with their kids. Now, if that's not a problem, I don't know what it is. Remember the LA Unified School District with their laptops. And the cameras on the laptops are being turned on remotely by their IT people at the school district. And young ladies had their laptops open in their bedrooms while they were getting changed. Think about the consequences here. They can be pretty steep, and there's no question about it. One of these days, we'll make a comparison of some of the smart devices that are out there. As far as things like smart-speakers go, Amazon has been excellent. They design their echo devices to have a hardware limit on them. So they can't just sit there and listen, unlike Google Home. There are some malicious apps on Google Home that could sit there and listen for hours on end and stream everything said. They heard streaming it all up to the internet. Okay, so Alexa is kind of the way to go there. There are these people whose kids' rooms now had hacked cameras and microphones and speakers going after the company. And in November senator Ed Markey, Democrat from Mass said that he wants to make some changes to something else that Ring has been doing. The other thing the Ring did was cooperating with police departments. What they've been doing with the police departments is sharing the video, live video as well as recorded video, from the doorbells, hopefully just the doorbells. The police are doing an investigation in the neighborhood. The idea is, hey, we can grab. They're up all this stuff from all of these different cameras. We can see this car that went through the neighborhood and spied on people. Right? Maybe, someone marking to come back to later and steal things. Now, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The problem was that people didn't know it was going on and didn't sign up for it. They were not aware they could opt-out of it, which is a huge, huge problem. When you get right down to it, we don't have the kinds of standards I think that we should have. There are some significant technical flaws in some of these devices. There have been Hackers accused of breaking into ring products, using the cameras and speakers to yell obscenities at customers in their home and harass children. It is an enormous thing, leaving data online uttering racial slurs issue violent and all kinds of extortion threats to residents. So it's a very, very big deal. Now Amazon responded to these charges, and this was Brian Huisman, an Amazon vice president said they take customer privacy and protection of customer data very seriously. Amazon acknowledged that on for occasions in the last four years, they fired employees for improperly accessing customer videos, and that's what I was talking about before. Ring used to have it set up so that anyone could access anything. It's kind of like God Mode over on Uber, where any of the employees could track any movement of anyone using Uber editor. Employees were using God Mode to track celebrities. It was just incredible login credentials, and a breach of more than 3600 Ring account holders last month. That's personal information. We've got to get more careful. If you are a company that has custom software that you've designed or that is designed for you, I urge you have it code reviewed. Make sure you are using the highest standards available so that you're not going to end up in a lawsuit. Ring is going to end up in a lawsuit over this. It's not just going to be Ed Markey going after him. Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN online and Craig Peterson dot com. Stick around. We got some more news, this time about cable modems. Hey, good afternoon. Welcome back. I should say I like Good morning anyways, it's a better greeting, isn't it then Good afternoon or good evening or Good night. So good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and of course online and Craig Peterson dot com. We are also putting all of the show up on YouTube and Facebook. And you'll find all of that if you dig a little bit over on Craig Peterson calm, so hopefully, you'll be able to check it out over there. Now we have Greally seen a lot of security problems this week. You might even call it kind of a week of security problems. So just started with just a quick reminder to get everything patched up significant issues with Microsoft this week, and Firefox as well. Now the Microsoft problem was so severe that they released a patch for Windows the same day they announced the bug. They kept everything under wraps, which is how they try and do it. Typically someone will report it. Usually, they'll give 30 to 90 days to the vendor to get it fixed before they all kind of open source it before they tell the world about it. They want the vendor to fix the problem if it's a white hat guy, right? Of course, this time, had the NSA involved. And they did wait until Microsoft had a patch. But sometimes these vendors they'll sit on it for six months or more. And so they the guys that discovered it, say Okay, forget about it, we're just going to go ahead, we're going to release it out into the wild. We know everybody knows, you can usually expect attacks within a month after that happens. So make sure you patch up and patch up soon. You should have automatic updates turned on. We're going to be discussing this during the training that's coming up here in this course. It is going to be phenomenal. Let me tell you, but some of the free training, we're going to talk a little bit about that. We can't do this on the radio because I want to show you screenshots and where to go and what to do and how to do it. But make sure you have that all turned on. Okay. So now let's talk about our next article of the week. And this also has to do with the security problem. Now, if you are a listener to any of the radio shows that I'm on if you listen to have Jeepers, all over New England, any of these stations, you know, this week I was mentioned, I was talking about this problem with cable modems. And there are some huge, huge issues with them. And, you know, we got to be careful when it comes to our networks because that's how the bad guys get in and once they're in whether they came in on your system. Or they came in on that little thumb drive these stuck in the computer. Or maybe they came in some other way no matter how they came in. What we found is they use the network to spread. So what kind of network stuff can you get? What should you do? And most of us want to rely on it. We rely on our cable company, maybe our telephone company, etc., etc. So I'm pulling up right now. I'm just checking some pricing active here on my computer. What should you get? So first of all, this chipset that's used by several different significant vendors out there, including Campolo, net gear, sage, calm, Technicolor, they have ten different models that the researchers have found are vulnerable, which is not a good thing. And right now we know of over 200 Hundred Million cable modems that are affected. It means if you're a small business and man, we see a lot of these guys that get a cable modem because it's cheaper, right? It's going to save a couple of hundred bucks a month as opposed to getting fiber coming in with real professional gear. Yeah, the professional equipment is going to cost you more, but what's ultimately going to cost you more if you get attacked, right? Because 20% of the businesses filed for bankruptcy in less than a week. You know what's going to save you money. There's also the problem of you not knowing what to do or how to do it, and that is the reason I have created courses that help explain it to you? But with 200 million cable modems that are open right now in this is a massive, huge deal. So I've got an article up on my website talking about this that I got from Forbes.com. They don't require any authorization these cable modems to analyze what they call their analyzer. And they have two more. Two more of these vendors used an undeniably awful combination of this software and usernames and passwords a new spectrum for the username and the password to be able to get into these. So a very, very big deal. So what do I recommend? I have a lot of this in my, in my course, right, the DIY course that did last year. It's almost been a year, and I think since I did that course. But what I'm recommending right now, for most people in their homes is something get out a pencil, piece of paper, to text it to yourself, whatever you might need to do. It's called a net gear, or B or B i. Now, you can find these things at the big box retailers. You can buy it from Amazon, and you can get them all over the place. Now you know, I don't like Google stuff because I don't trust Google. Netgear has not been the best when it comes to security stuff. So they came out that's the main reason they came up with this thing. The RV allows you to have your main unit that plugs into the cable modem. And now that from that main unit, you can have used a mesh network is what it's called, you can have other Orbi devices around the house and get excellent coverage. Now in this day and age where everybody's streaming, the kids have streaming televisions in their rooms. Hopefully, you do not use the built-in Smart TV functions, but you have an external little smart box. But our kids have them in the room, so you need more bandwidth. If you see jerkiness when you're watching videos and having troubles on the internet, that's probably why, and you may only be using the old fashioned networks, the 2.4 gigahertz stuff as opposed to the five gigahertz stuff. Orbi of takes care of all of this for you now, it is not cheap. It is also not a professional grade. If you're a business, you should not be using this, and you should be moving up to the better Cisco stuff. Now, thank goodness Cisco got rid of the low-end line. They Cisco had bought, I think it was next year actually and some of their low-end equipment. And they can confuse the industry because people's you know, I got Cisco Well, no, really actually when she got was a home-based router, firewall, whatever it was. Small businesses medium, particularly in large businesses, you should have a Cisco network. Juniper doesn't have anywhere near the security stuff. Palo Alto Networks, nowhere near the security stuff. Cisco is 100%. Okay, so we count me on this. Back to the home users, and the real small business like a small office, Home Office, this Netgear Orbi, a tri-band whole-home mesh Wi-Fi system, is what you want. Three gigabits a second speed. It's very, very good. It's this particular model I'm looking at right now, and Amazon is called an RBK 50. It's a router, and the extender covers up to 5000 square feet. It is two-pack, and it is right now selling for $286 for the pair. You get the main unit, and then you also get another unit that is part of the mesh system that kind of expands the coverage and gives you the coverage you need in this day and age right because we have so much that's going on via the internet. So this works with all internet providers saying replace your existing Wi-Fi router and extender compatible with any internet provider, including cable, satellite fiber, DSL, and more. It has wired Ethernet ports and parental controls and even pauses device internet access. You can view history usage filter websites for free set online time limit schedule, device internet access, and more for five bucks a month, and they have advanced cyber threat protection. Now, it's not a tip. It's not the real commercial Advanced Threat Protection, but this is better than you're getting from the cable company. Okay. Advanced cyber threat protection, what they call net gear armor. And this is something a bit defenders provided but defenders you probably know something I like. Its network-wide anti-virus anti-malware fraud, phishing ransomware security on an unlimited number of devices, and comes to the free 30-day trial. And this is $70 a year for that service. Now you're paying per year like if you're a business and you buy equipment from us, you are paying monthly, and every year we at least right we do major software upgrades we keep the hardware up to date and because we're using the professional's stuff from Cisco. They're taking up literally hundreds of millions of endpoints. They're watching what's going on, and we're providing updates hourly for the commercial gear. Okay, so this is quite good. It's using, you know, mu MIMO. I'm not a big MIMO fan. Smart Connect for one Wi-Fi name being formed beamforming technologies, which is Primo. What that means is it aims a signal at the device so that it's not the kind of stomping over itself and stomping all over other devices, which is just fantastic. It has to be Bay to wireless security protocol, which is the lowest you want to use. It's quite good. Includes guest Wi-Fi access DLS which is a denial of service firewall VPN, Mr. Now we here's why I say guess Wi-Fi is excellent. You know home always talking about how you've got to be careful when it comes to your Internet of Things devices, like your Amazon Echo or your light bulbs or whatever. What you do when you set them up is you configure them to go on to your guest Wi-Fi network, which can still have a password, and then they cannot easily get on to your main Wi-Fi network and go after your computers. So there goes some actionable stuff. We learned that cable modems just aren't what they used to be, especially the ones we get from the cable company. I've got some courses that go into a lot of detail on this, but if you're kind of a techie person, you can probably figure this out. I brought up that at least right now. I still like this Netgear Orbi. It is a great little device. I'm seeing it at this very minute. Over on Amazon. com on the Amazon business site, by the way, an Amazon business they're selling it for $286. So good deal all the way around. Stick around. You are listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. We will be right back. Hello everybody. Welcome back. Craig Peterson here. Glad you can join us today we are, of course, on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. Right now, I want to talk a little bit about a problem that you may not have heard about. You've probably heard of phishing, and you know, I talked about that all the time. That's the P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G. That's where someone sends you an email pretending to be someone that they're not trying to get you to do something. Often, it looks like it's from your bank, or maybe a bank you used to have dealings with, and they try and get you to click on something, and that might cause you to download and install something, and now all of a sudden, you are hacked. A lot of times that use this whole phishing thing to use it as a part of social engineering, right? They are trying to get you to do something, so you reveal your password and account numbers to them. Then they can get in, and they approach you and them, you know, make it look like it's all legitimate and hey, you know, we really want to help you out, and it just doesn't happen. That is the basics of phishing. If you're still if I'm not clear if you're still wondering what that is, just think of that good old standby right, the Nigerian prince scam from all those years ago. I wrote some software to help stop some filters. But that particular type of fishing doesn't go on like it used to. It's changed. And part of the reason it's changed is that our habits have changed. Now, how have our habits changed? Well, one of the ways that they have changed and changed hugely is that they have started using SMS. So you know, we're on our phones all of the time, these devices are formerly known as cell phones, these smartphones, these computers in our pockets. And if you look at the overall internet traffic, more than half of it now comes from these smartphone devices. So, by the way, if you have a business and you are not using a smartphone first strategy, you are probably missing out and maybe missing out massively. So make sure you handle that right handle that, okay, handle that for me. So, smartphones are a huge deal. Well, the bad guys aren't stupid. They're just greedy, and maybe even a little bit lazy. And that's where we get into this whole concept now of switching from email, where they're sending you phishing email trying to get you to do something to today, where they have switched over to SMS, where they are trying to get you to do something based on a text. They send you Now, and it used to be that if you send someone a text, the normal text was open within seconds after it was received nowadays. Now, with so much nastiness going on, we very frequently don't pay attention to the text messages. But they're doing the SMS phishing, and they're doing it more. So I wanted to cover five different attack examples so that you can see what they're doing and what it might mean to you. Alright, so let's go through them right now. So the first one up on the screen is a smishing. Example. Now. smishing is fishing over SMS. SMS is, of course, texting or a simple messaging system. Okay. That's what it is. That's what it was. So the first one is your bank account is locked. So you'll get a text message. It looks relatively legitimate. And it'll say from and the biggest example out there right now is the one that's up on my screen. You can see this by the way, by going to Craig Peterson comm slash YouTube, or Craig Peterson comm slash Facebook, if you're a Facebook user, you can see all of the videos from today's show. But it'll say from US Bank, separate US Bank unusual activity. It'll tell you your account is frozen.They want you to unlock it, and you want to go to a URL. Now they're not getting fancy with most of these URLs. And in this particular smishing case, it's taking them to their site. And then it has a question mark US Bank. So you look at it and say, Oh, well, this is from US Bank. I'm going to the US Bank website. I can click on that. so fast that this is not us banks URL at all. When you're looking at a URL, which of course, is what the browser uses to get you somewhere, the question mark just means pass this through to the program that's running on the original website. So there you can use it as a tracker saying, oh, wow, our US Bank submission attacks are working well, right now much better than the XYZ bank. So we're going to send out more than with the US Bank. Okay. So that's that after that question mark, in this case, is used for tracking but not always, right? There's a there are excellent legitimate uses. Not that tracking is not an illegitimate use. But in the case of bad guys, it's illegitimate. So that's number one. Number two is an urgent message about your credit card. And in this case, it's claiming to be from American Express. So if you look at this on the screen, you'll see it's from Amex. the message, which there is no such thing, right. And as you got a card alert and noticed the URL on this. It's WW, Http colon slash slash, www dot American Express dash message.com. So let's break down that URL for a little bit here. First of all, it's HTTP and not HTTPs. It doesn't matter a whole lot to you, if it's a scammer, because what they're trying to do most likely is avoid some of the tracking ability that's inherent in an HTTPS request. To be able to have an SSL certificate or a secure server certificate. They're going to have to at the very least go to a website and get a free certificate, and it's going to do a double verify, making sure they are who they say they are. That's going to record the Right. It's just a big hassle. So they're not going to bother doing that HTTPS thing. So that's why it's HTTP more than likely. And then it says www dot American Express dash message.coYou see that part? Well, again, that is not an American Express URL, not that you know, right. And not that you can verify when you go there. When you go there now, they kind of have Yeah, now in SMS, once you see, and you click on is where you're going. It's not like in an email where you can kind of hide what the real URL is people are going to, and it's going to show you the whole real URL. And when you get there, it's not going to know anything about you. But it's going to look like the American Express website. And it's going to have the login and password, and you're getting a card alert. So you're going to go there you can enter your username you can enter in your password. And tada, you're out of luck. Because now they have a username, password. And then they might redirect you to the real American Express website, and you have to log in again. You say, Well, that's weird. And you go on with life. No big deal. Well, in reality, what just happened is you gave it to them. And they're all set. So they're going to send you on over to the American Express website. And then you're done. Okay, next one up on the screen is you won a prize and click here to get it machine attack. You can see this one appears to come from our friends at Walmart. It says the example here on the screen is congrats, Kelly, we printed your code on your last receipt. You are among seven we randomly picked for $1,000 Walmart gift card promotion, and then it's got a link to a redirect Type site k three x VC dot-info, slash blah, blah, blah, blah. So if you click on that, you're going to their site. And again, they're going to squeeze you in this case for some Walmart information, maybe a bank account saying, Hey, we're going to wire the money to you what's your bank account number. And number four is, we're going to have to go through these last two real quick here and pretending to be from Amazon. You can see these up on the screen right now. And this last one is an unusual account activity from Apple support. So make sure you check these all out Craig Peterson dot com slash YouTube, or Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook. I'll try and put this up on my homepage as well. You can see examples of these newest mission attacks. Stick around. We're going to talk about why some of these businesses are not patching and are leaving us vulnerable. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. Wow, can't believe it man is our last half hour together right now. You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Thanks for joining me and online Craig Peterson dot com. Make sure you subscribe to my email list. You'll get all of the updates, and my most important videos of the week. You'll also find out about when the nasties are happening like they're happening this week as well. Sign up Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. I'd love to see you there. We're going to talk about the biggest problem we as consumers have, we as business people have. These lines cross because businesses are holding our data. With this new California law that's been in place for consumer privacy and keeping everything information safe, letting us know what businesses have about us and requesting its removal. There's a movement afoot to help get a handle on our personal information. You probably know that the Europeans passed a similar law, that when in fact that got teeth last year, went in a couple of years ago, just like the California law did last year. And these laws are rolling out all across the country. Massachusetts has it, and the federal government is looking at a law similar to California has to pass on a national basis. So what this ultimately means is, we could be in better shape as consumers and we could be in a lot worse shape as businesses, as we've been getting calls from businesses lately about how do I go ahead and protect myself as a business here? What do I have to comply with when it comes to this whole California Yeah, consumer privacy thing, right? Very, very, very big deal. So how do we do this? Well, as a business, the simplest thing we need to do is start at the very beginning, because the California law lots and lots, a customer client or prospect come to you and say, Show me the data you have. But there are crazy teeth in place in pretty much every state now that if you lose their data, you are in even deeper trouble. Look at what happened with Equifax. Look at what happened with TJ x right the TJ Maxx type companies who lost tons of our data Home Depot. Some of these companies had good security tools in place, but their people did not know how to use them. They couldn't read the reports. They had multiple vendors tools in place, and they didn't have just a single pane of glass. Lastly, they didn't have the type of automated systems that really can get rid of the false alerts. Man do we are there a lot of false alerts, every day hundreds of thousands, my company it for our clients we get 10s of thousands no think of it of these alerts every day. Oh my gosh, it's crazy. So you as an individual, whether you are just all just right, but if you are a consumer, or if you are a business, you have to patch now it's painful I get it. It is in nowhere near as painful as it used to be, you know, you used to install the windows patch and, and it was like putting your marble on red and Vegas, right? The odds are what 5050 not even quite that you're going to win it, it's crazy because you would install a patch and your machine Wouldn't boot. And so now you had to spend days sometimes trying to figure out, Why won't my machine reboot? What can I do? I think I'll get a new machine and move my data over. Make a good backup and write all of this stuff back and forth. The pros and cons. So how do you do all of that? How do you make that happen? Well, today, it's a lot less of a problem. Most of the time, when Microsoft releases patches, you're okay. It's not like the apple environment with a Mac where it's scarce that you ever have a problem with your Mac, okay, with an upgrade. It's sporadic. So keep that in mind as well. And now, let's go back to this. So if you are a big business like an Equifax and you find out that there is a major security problem with, let's say, some of the middleware that you're using. Now middleware is the stuff that sits between the front, which is typically the way site or your customer service people, and the backend, which is typically your set of databases. So that's your middleware. So let's say that there's a patch for the middleware, which there was. And you look at it and say, Oh, my gosh, this middleware changes. Because usually when they issue a patch, it isn't like, Hey, this is just a patch, install it, and you're fine. It's usually a hey, we've made a bunch of changes to improve things in our middleware, or our software and our web browser or web server software. We've made these changes. And as part of this, by the way, we fixed this other security problem. So when you as a business person now who have complex systems in the background, and you're trying to do an upgrade to make sure that middleware is up to date, or that database software or that front end software is up to date. It may not work properly anymore. It probably won't. Now you have to spend a bunch of engineering time to figure out what do I have to change? What other components do I need to modify? How can I make this whole thing work properly again, and that can cost you a lot of money. So what a lot of businesses have been doing is burying their heads in the sand. Hopefully, that's not you, but burying their heads in the sand. All of a sudden, before you know 200 million US citizens, data is out there. You have all of this inside information about people because your Equifax right now people lost jobs when it came to, to these hacks I just mentioned earlier, and that's probably a good thing. But I also empathize with them because I do outsource CISO, chief information security officer tasks for people. I can tell you most of the people who are in these positions have in their drawer, right there next to them, their resume. If they do get hacked, they'll pull out the resume and start shopping around again because they know it's over with. And yet they could not get the authority from the business to do the upgrades and the updates. So I have done this myself. You sit there, and you say, Oh, my gosh, what's the win here? It is not going to generate more revenue by doing these patches. And I'm just one of what millions of companies worldwide that using this software, open-source or otherwise, probably nothing that I need to worry about. So forget about it. I'm not going to mess with it. Have you fallen victim to that I know I have, and that can end up being a problem and a real problem depending on who you are? So pay businesses is upgrading. Sometimes it's because they don't know, which by the way, is another reason to be on my newsletter list. It's free. But every week now, we're telling you here are the top problems that are out there right now from a security standpoint that are being exercised right now by the bad guys in the wild. And if you don't have these patches done, you are in deep trouble. So that's easy to do just credit Peter song.com slash subscribe, and you'll get those types of things. But we're looking right now this particular article that came from secure World Expo, and they're talking about Paul's secure VPN, which we don't use for any of our clients. We have a much much better VPN software from Cisco. But anyways, patches came out for this a long time ago. months. In fact, and it turns out that most organizations have not done the patches yet. So be very careful here. If you're a member of a board of advisors, a board of directors if you're a business owner, if you have questions, reach out to me at Craig Peterson calm, I'll do what I can, but you have a responsibility. And now, it's fiscal responsibility. Coming June this year, depending on what kind of manufacturer you are, there are criminal liabilities tied into this including, ten years in prison. So hey, guys, pull up your socks and start taking this seriously. So you'll find me online. Greg Peterson dot com, and, of course, I'm right here on WGAN and make sure you subscribe to that newsletter. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We'll be right back. Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Welcome back. Wow, the last segment of the show today. It's just going by fast, and I love it. I'm so excited about everything now. We have so many, so many things that are going to help you in the works right now. It's just been a phenomenal, phenomenal time for all of us here. So thanks for joining us. I want to do a quick review of what we've covered today. So let's go back here. I got my slides up. And we'll go right back here. So we started with some of our training and tactics. And we talked about technology and how it can only protect us so much. And in fact, part of the problem we have is the wetware. It's you, and it's me responding to things. Next up, we talked about some zero-day browser vulnerabilities. And in this case, we specifically were talking about Firefox and significant weaknesses this week in Firefox. And I told you what version of Firefox you should be running and what you need to do for the windows security vulnerabilities was exposed this week by the NSA. So you know, congrats to them. By the way. Here is your free phone, right? The Obama phones while it's not Obama's phone, it goes back for decades now, this program that we have in place to help underprivileged people who don't have much money, who maybe need some way of contacting their doctor, etc. Well, it turns out that some of these phones from one manufacturer, in particular, come with m

As I've been seeing lots of new people in the gym where I train, I've been taking notice of a lot of common dos and don'ts of the gym. I hope this will come in helpful for some of you, because I know that a lot of people don't reach their goals because they are not consistent, and a big part of consistency has to do with confidence. I didn't always have confidence in my body, or at the gym. Everyone starts somewhere. I used to not only be picked last for teams as a kid, but I was often not even picked at all. Today I'm sharing my experiences, my embarrassing start to getting acclimated to the lifting weights, and some tips if you're afraid to venture into the weight room.   Some highlights in this episode to help you feel more confident in the gym: • People aren't watching you as closely as you think they are • Why everyone is bound to have their clumsy moments, even professionals • Why hiring a trainer is best if you want to stay injury-free • Basics about warming up and stretching • Have a plan • Wipe up your sweat; clean the equipment • Dumbbell etiquette • Put equipment away • Use a locker; Don't put your bags, purses, coats in the training area • Properly asking for help • A challenge for you to get out of your comfort zone! Note: At 08:40 I said "Stairmaster" but I meant to say "treadmill".   If you accept this challenge, I'd love to hear about it! Tag @fitfizz on social media and show me what you're trying that's new each week that you're proud of — even if you're listening to this a year from now, I will be your cheerleader to help you celebrate those victories of trying new things at the gym!   Please share this with anyone who popped into your head while listening, subscribe, leave a review for the show, and if you'd like extra content, visit Patreon.com/kellywilson and check out the different levels of rewards you can get for helping to support the growth of FitFizz. A very special thank you to my current Patreon supporters: Elise V, Tracy D, Zach R., Wendy C, and Pamela P., Jeris H, and Carmina S! I love you for listening and for caring about your health. Until next time, breathe, stay strong and always celebrate victory! Go check out the rewards you can get at various levels! Patreon.com/kellywilson Episode page Shop Facebook Instagram YouTube Order lab tests Please subscribe, leave a review and share this podcast with a friend! The information shared is for educational and informational purposes only. It should not be interpreted as an intent to diagnose, treat, cure, heal or prescribe.

Thanks for joining us for Episode 4! As I've said multiple times, Short Term Rentals (STR's) are an amenity for the neighborhoods and cities within which they're located. In this episode, I talk with a property owner and a short term tenant. Tony owns an Airbnb in Boise along with other long term rentals. Megan is a tenant that occupies Tony's Airbnb after her rental flooded and was left without a home. In the dead of winter and with little options, Megan was able to secure a place to stay thanks to the availability of Tony's STR.Tony and I discuss the challenges of making a profit in the residential rental market as well as the ways STR regulation would affect his investments. Megan shares her experience as she's transitioned from a rental to an STR, and her plans to travel abroad which has made the necessity of STR's like Airbnb a requirement.Listen in as we talk about the challenges and opportunities that Airbnb's in Boise present.***Subscribe*** iTunesStitcherGoogle Podcasts***Visit the new website***www.realboisepodcast.com

Sitting here in beautiful Costa Rica, after leaving my apartment, my car, and my job and heading out for 6+ months of travel - with no real plan except to trust fall with the Universe.  As I've begun traveling, and leaning into fear, and letting go more and more of the idea of needing to control outcomes, I am diving deeper and deeper into myself and receiving exciting new downloads to share! Today was an intuitive message and divinely guided (aka: not at all what I was planning when I jumped on the mic - as usual) and because of the topics - I feel called to not explain anything much except that it dives into a specific message to light workers who feel frustrated with the old paradigms, what labeling does to your awakening, my personal opinion on the topic of alcohol (and substances) in regards to awakening, and how you can SHIFT frequencies through INTENTION. Enjoy! Ceremonial Cacao Discount Code  Connect with me on Instagram  Join the 5D Frontier Membership Site Join my tribe on the FREE Facebook group  Also, if you are considering the path of health coaching, and resonate with any my content, I highly recommend looking into IIN, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to launch your career as a health coach!  With my referral, you'll receive a HUGE discount, just mention my name when calling in - or reach out to me directly and I can get you in contact!  IIN has changed my life, and I guarantee it will change yours too!  

In this episode, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife PhD answers questions from our Improving Intimacy community. Here are the podcast episodes: Ask A Mormon Sex Therapist, Part 16 - THE oft-cited Episode 16 that has positively impacted so many marriages!http://www.finlayson-fife.com/podcast-archive/2019/10/11/ask-a-mormon-sex-therapist-part-16 Partner Desirability and High/Low Desire Dynamics:http://www.finlayson-fife.com/drjenniferfife/virtualcouch2 Virtue, Passion, and Owning Your Desire:http://www.finlayson-fife.com/podcast-archive/2019/11/25/virtue-passion-and-owning-your-desireBook Club Video Interview----more----Bookclub Video Transcript:00:00 Ray: So carry on.00:03 Jennifer: Okay, so should I just jump in with the...00:06 Ray: Yeah, please.00:07 Jennifer: Yeah, sure. The only event, I think, that isn't currently full is just one that we kinda last minute decided to do because we had an opportunity, a venue, which is doing The Art of Desire workshop in Alpine, Utah next week, a week from Thursday and Friday. So it's a two-day women's workshop. It's like my most popular course and workshop because it's a course focused on women's self and sexual development, and kind of rethinking the whole paradigm in which we've been inculturated, and how it really interferes with desire and development.00:48 Jennifer: And so, it's a good one, it's, you know, it's taking my dissertation research into everything I've kinda learned since then. So that's in Alpine and we just posted the tickets for sale like three or four days ago, and we still have maybe 20 spots left, so if anybody is interested in it, you can get a ticket. On my website actually, on my homepage.01:15 Ray: Wonderful. At this point, I have to admit that I did exactly what Ellen and I talked about that I wouldn't do, which is forget to mention that our other host tonight is Ellen Hersam, and... [chuckle]01:32 Ray: So we've been accepting questions for the last 24 hours, and we had several that came in and we have picked three or four that we might get to, I don't know, however many we're able to get to tonight.01:44 Jennifer: Sure.01:44 Daniel: And Ellen, why don't you pick up and can you give us a question?01:48 Ellen: Sure. Happy to jump right in. Yeah, so we've got a few questions tonight. We thought we'd start off with this one. It's, "There's often debate around sex being a need or not, and how neediness isn't sexy, and how sex being a need kills desire. Yet many view sex as a need, not in life-or-death sense, but because they need that healthy sex life, helps them be happier both individually and as a couple. If sex isn't a need," so there's two parts here, "if sex isn't a need, what does this say about David Schnarch's Sexual Crucible?"02:24 Ellen: "If any marriage would be improved by a healthy, intimate sexual relationship, how can it be said that sex isn't a need? If sex is a need, is... In this sense of being able to achieve personal growth, if I understand how Schnarch views marriage or the corresponding increase in marital satisfaction or individual happiness, how can we talk about its importance without killing desire? Or making one partner feel like it's their duty, instead of something they're doing for themselves, to increase their own happiness? I feel like if the couple isn't working toward a healthy sexual relationship, they're leaving something good and positive on the table, and missing a wonderful opportunity."03:07 Jennifer: Okay, it's a good question, although I think the questioner is conflating the issue of... Well, I mean they're using the word "Need" in a way that kind of complicates it. I think when I say sex isn't a need, what I... If I have said that, what I mean is it's not a drive, it's not required for survival. Right? So a lot of times, people try to pressure their partner to have sex with them by putting it in the frame that they need it, meaning...03:38 Jennifer: And my issue with that is if you're gonna talk about need, need is a way of trying to pressure their partner to manage and accommodate you without sort of taking responsibility for what you want. That's why I don't like it. So if you're gonna talk about need, then I'm thinking more about the issue of survival, and nobody needs sex to survive, 'cause as I've said, if that were true, there'd be a lot of dead people in our wards. And...04:03 Ray: Oh my goodness.04:04 Daniel: Maybe that's a good thing. [laughter] [overlapping conversation]04:10 Daniel: And so Jennifer, is what I'm hearing you say is, is more of a manipulative tone...04:16 Jennifer: Yes.04:17 Daniel: Tone? Okay.04:18 Jennifer: Yeah, exactly. And as soon as you start trying to manipulate, which many people do this, the higher-desire person tends to do this... And men are given that script a lot, that they need sex and so on. But as Mormons, we should be the least prone to that idea because we are fine, from a theological perspective, with people going without sex for their whole lives. Okay? So, now that said, I think sex is a part of thriving. Intimate sex is a part of thriving. It's part of a marriage thriving, and I wouldn't so much say that you must have sex in order for a marriage to be good. I wouldn't... Also, I wouldn't say you need for a marriage to be good in order to have sex.05:04 Jennifer: I'm just saying that marriage... Meaning good sex is a part of thriving, but good sex is not something you manipulate or pressure into place. And lots of people try and don't believe me when I say that. [chuckle] So we all want to be desired, but the hard thing about being desired is you can't make somebody desire you.05:28 Jennifer: Desire is a grace. And the more we try to control it and get somebody to give it to us, the less desirable we are. And the more that it feels like an obligation, or you're having sex with your partner just to get them off your back, or to get them to stop bugging you, or moping, or you know, whatever, and even if you get the sex you still don't feel desired. And so it's tough, it's a tough business, because the very thing we want, we don't have control over getting, we only have control over how desirable we are. 06:04 Ellen: So part of their question that I think I wanna highlight a little bit, is they say, "How can we talk about its importance without killing desire?" So without...06:13 Jennifer: Yeah, yeah, because people are talking about its importance as a way to manipulate often. Right?06:18 Ellen: Mm-hmm.06:20 Jennifer: Like they're just saying it like... I was working with a couple of recently, and it was sort of, you know, "I'm focused on this marriage growing, that's why I wanna try all these new things with you." And so, they are using the idea of their standing up for a good marriage as a way to pressure the other person.06:37 Ellen: Yes, so not making it manipulative?06:40 Jennifer: Yeah. And I think you can be standing up for a good marriage and a good partnership by dealing with yourself. Dealing with the issue of your desirability. That doesn't preclude you from talking about the sexual relationship, but a lot of us are, because it's so easy to do it as human beings, we're much more focused on what we think we need our spouse to do, either stop pressuring us so much, or get their act together and go to Jennifer's The Art of Desire course, or something. [chuckle]07:12 Jennifer: I have sometimes the men go and buy the course and then, a day later they ask for a refund, 'cause their wife doesn't wanna go, but... [chuckle]07:18 Ellen: Yes, that makes sense. [chuckle]07:22 Jennifer: So they're pressuring more on what the other person needs to do, as opposed to, "What is my role in an unsatisfying sexual relationship?" And I don't mean to say you can't talk about it and address what your spouse isn't doing, but oftentimes, we're so much more drawn to what our spouse is doing wrong, than how we're participating in the problem, and it keeps people stuck.07:52 Ellen: Yeah, and they mentioned right at the beginning, this neediness isn't sexy.07:56 Jennifer: Exactly.07:56 Ellen: So if somebody is approaching this conversation in a relationship about their desire to have sex, and being in a relationship, a sexual relationship, they could essentially be approaching it in this neediness. And I think it sounds like their question is, "How can I approach it and not be killing desire by this neediness, but also be addressing the importance of intimacy and sexual relationship in the marriage?"08:23 Jennifer: It sounds maybe like I'm not answering the question, but you have to confront... 08:25 Ellen: Maybe I'm not. [chuckle]08:26 Jennifer: Oh no, no, not you. I'm saying me 'cause I'm gonna say something that maybe sounds like I'm not answering it, but...08:32 Ellen: Okay.08:32 Jennifer: I think you have to kinda confront that you are using the frame of neediness to get the other person to take care of you. Right? So, "I feel so bad about myself, I feel so undesirable, I feel so depressed when we're not having sex, and so for the love, give it to me." Okay? So you can do that, you might even get some sex, but you're not gonna get a passionate marriage. You're not gonna get the experience of being on an adventure together where you try new things.09:05 Jennifer: So you have to deal with the fact that marriage is not designed, in my opinion, and I see this, we kind of learn the idea that marriage is mutual need fulfillment, and that's the wrong model in my opinion. That it's not about, "You prop up my sense of self, and I'll prop up yours." Because that just doesn't work, it breaks down very quickly.09:31 Ellen: Absolutely... [overlapping conversation]09:33 Jennifer: Yeah, that's what's happening when you date, but it only lasts for those few months. Okay? [chuckle]09:38 Ellen: Yeah. [chuckle]09:38 Jennifer: Because it's a short timespan. In marriage, you really have to handle your sense of self. You have to sustain your sense of self. If you're approaching your spouse, if you can sustain your sense of self, you're approaching your spouse from the position of, "I desire you. I love you, I like you, I like being with you." And it's real. Not, "Do You Love Me? Do you desire me? Am I enough?" Because that's not... A lot of people when they say, "How was it?" They mean "How was I?" Right?10:11 Ellen: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.10:12 Jennifer: And people know that... They instinctively know what's actually happening. Are you touching your spouse 'cause you want them to validate you sexually? Are you touching them because you really do desire them, and find them attractive, and you can stand on your own, and sustain your sense of self? And a lot of us don't even track that's what we're doing.10:35 Ellen: I think that goes to say a lot to what you had spoken about in your first podcast that we had linked to this book club, where you had done the role play, where you stood in for the husband and spoke what he would say to his spouse in that sexless marriage, but it was what you're saying here. He came across as, "This is what I need. This is where I stand."10:57 Jennifer: Yes.10:58 Ellen: And, "This is what I'm looking for. I love you. And this is where I'm at." It was less of, "This is what I... I'm in need."11:05 Jennifer: Exactly.11:05 Ellen: It was more important for our marriage.11:07 Jennifer: That's right. He's talking about what he wants from a marriage, what he really is standing up for, but he doesn't sound needy.11:16 Ellen: Yes. Yeah.11:17 Jennifer: It's not about, "Hey, you have to give it to me. Please, oh please, oh please." It's like he's sustaining his own sense of self in that conversation.11:26 Ellen: Yeah, yeah. I'd wanted to dig into this question. I'm not the one who wrote it, but I wanted to give this person the opportunity to kind of hear out the full... I'm feeling satisfied with it. I don't know who wrote it, but if they have any additional questions, they're welcome to jump in. Otherwise, I wanna give time to more questions. I know, Ray, we were gonna tag team it. Do you have a second question to go? 11:55 Ray: I do. [chuckle]12:00 Ray: So this is a honeymoon question. So, "As I've recently heard you and other LDS podcasters talk about how newlyweds can have a better honeymoon. Thank you, this conversation is sorely needed. However, I'm disappointed that it so often addresses only the new husband's likely transgressions, while ignoring the new wife's. This makes the conversation feel very one-sided and blaming. I would love to hear you tackle the other half of the problem with equal energy, to round out the conversation by talking just as bluntly to future wives about what they need to know and do, to make their first sexual experience a good one, both for themselves and for their husbands. [noise] Cinderella will wreck a honeymoon just as completely as the inattentive two-minute groom we talked about so often."12:49 Jennifer: Sorry, you just kind of... I just missed that last sentence. You said, "Cinderella can wreck a honeymoon as quickly as" and then I... I think that's what you said.12:57 Ray: Yeah, as completely as the inattentive two-minute groom we talk about so often.13:03 Jennifer: Oh, two-minute groom, got it. Yeah, I mean, probably the reason why I focus on the men is in part because we are so male-focused in our notions of sexuality, and so lots of men come into marriage, and LDS men specifically, in a kind of unacknowledged entitled position. Right?13:29 Jennifer: So it's kind of like, "I've... This is my prize for having remained virginal all this time, and this is... " And they have learned about sexuality in the frame of, "Women exist to gratify this urge within men." So very often, the couple is complicit in that framing, meaning they come by it honestly, but that's their understanding. And so, it often goes that the woman has a very unsatisfying experience, and they both are kind of participating in this idea that the sexuality is primarily about the man.14:13 Jennifer: Okay so, "This person wants me to have equal energy." [chuckle] "It's challenging, I don't know if I can generate it or not." [chuckle] But I guess what I would say to a future woman is just everything I say in The Art of Desire course. Right? Which is that your sexuality is as important as the man's sexuality, and this is a partnership. Right? And that if you frame it in this idea that this is a gift you're giving to your future husband, you can say goodbye to positive sexual experiences, because that frame will kill it. 14:54 Jennifer: And so, even though it's the frame you've been taught, and you've also probably been taught the idea that... I'm assuming you all... Yeah, okay, good. I thought I'd lost you, Ray. The idea that your selflessness and your sacrifice is gonna be fundamental to the marriage being happy, and that you are partly responsible for your husband's happiness sexually and in the marriage... That sounds a little bit wrong for me to say it like that, but basically you kind of shoulder this responsibility of him being happy, especially sexually, that that framing is going to make you unhappy in the marriage, it will kill intimacy, and will be a part of you disliking sex soon enough.15:39 Jennifer: So you must think of it as a shared experience. And I would probably be talking to women about how important it is for them to... If they are relatively naive coming into marriage, how important it is for them to take the time to understand their own capacity for arousal and orgasm, and to not make the focus be intercourse, but mutual arousal, mutual pleasure, and that this is a team sport, and that taking the time to be together in this process, which is... Intercourse and orgasm are not as important as being together in this process of creating something mutual, shared, and desirable by both of you, is extremely important and you ought not move into a passive position, even though you maybe have learned that's the proper way for a woman to be sexually.16:38 Jennifer: That you are a co-constructor of this relationship, and if you take that position, it's a devaluation of yourself and will interfere with the marriage developing as a partnership. So yeah, I have way more to say on it than that, because I've just... That's kind of like my main passion. But yeah, but that's what I would say is right.17:08 Ellen: Jennifer, I'd even jump in to say, on your third podcast that we posted, The Virtue, Passion, and Owning your Desire, you spoke a lot to that point of, "Are you ready as a woman to take on being part of the relationship equally?"17:24 Jennifer: Yeah. Right.17:25 Ellen: And step into that role. And I thought that was really important to pull out.17:31 Jennifer: Yeah. Because a lot of people are... [noise]17:36 Jennifer: Can you hear me alright? Suddenly, it sounded kinda glitchy.17:37 Ellen: Yeah, I can. Could we make sure everybody's on mute?17:41 Jennifer: Just got glitchy for a second there.17:42 Ellen: Yeah, I think... Yeah.17:44 Jennifer: Yeah, I think so. I think one of the things that we just posted today, a quote from one of the podcasts I did recently, was just that a lot of us are tempted to hide behind a partner. You know? To not really step up and be in an equal position, and a lot of times we talk about that, as the male oppresses the female, but I think what feminism hasn't articulated as clearly as it's talked about that dynamic of oppression is how... Like the upside of being Cinderella in a sense. Do you know that fantasy that someone's gonna caretake you, and protect you from the big bad world, and sort of you can just sort of hide in their shadow.18:26 Ellen: There's comfort in that.18:28 Jennifer: Yeah, there's comfort in it for many of us. And we're... So that's why we're complicit in creating an unequal marriage, is we want a caretaker more than we want a partner.18:36 Ellen: Yeah, so I'd even go to say that there's familiarity in that.18:40 Jennifer: Oh absolutely. It's... Right, you know? We grew up watching Cinderella.18:43 Ellen: Exactly.18:44 Jennifer: You know? [chuckle]18:46 Jennifer: I mean, I was looking for somebody to ride in on a horse, for sure. You know? [chuckle]18:50 Ellen: Literally a horse, a white horse.18:52 Jennifer: Exactly. Exactly. And I remember my first year of marriage and I was actually in a PhD program, I was 29 years old. And my, just my IQ dropped in the first year. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I just started... I had earned all my own money for my mission, for college, I had lived independently for years. Okay? I get married and I start like, I don't know, just doing dumb things, like parking in a tow zone because I thought John had told me it was okay to park there.19:22 Jennifer: It sounds stupid. I would never have done this in a million years if I had... I was just sort of moving into the frame that I knew, and even my husband was like, "What's going on? Why did you do that?" I'm like, "I don't know, I don't know." [laughter]19:38 Ellen: I got married. Why is my head so... "19:42 Jennifer: Exactly. And almost it's like... It's almost in your DNA or something. Like you're just moving into what you've known. And so you have to catch yourself, that you sometimes are dumbing yourself down 'cause you think that's the way you'll keep yourself desirable.19:56 Ellen: Yeah, I think that's a very good point. It's this idea that that keeps you desirable, but in fact, what keeps you desirable is that ability to make choices and be. And your...20:07 Jennifer: Yeah. To have an... To have a self in the marriage.20:10 Ellen: An identity. Yes.20:11 Jennifer: Absolutely. And any... Any man or woman for that matter, who needs a partner to be under them, for them to feel strong, is a weak person. Right?20:22 Ellen: Yeah. And you made that point actually in another one of your podcasts recently.20:25 Jennifer: Yeah and I... I honestly was married to somebody who was like, "Wait, what are you doing? Don't do... " In that meaning he needed me not to do that, he had no need for me to do that. And so it was helping me stay awake to my own kind of blind movement in that direction.20:43 Ellen: Yeah, and sometimes it just happens, you do it. It's almost this innate... Yes, like you said...20:50 Jennifer: A hundred percent.20:50 Ellen: It's an innate reaction and then, someone else finds that, "Oh, okay, we'll do [noise]" It becomes a pattern.20:57 Jennifer: Absolutely.20:58 Ellen: But you gotta get yourself out of that pattern.21:00 Jennifer: Absolutely, and... Yeah, I... I still can do things like that, where if I'm with an intimidating male, I'll go into "Nice girl" instinctively, and just all of a sudden realize I'm throwing all my strength away like an idiot, and so it's just what is easy to do.21:17 Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.21:19 Ray: And perhaps that's actually another thing we don't do very well in preparing people to be married, is you've lived your whole life as an individual, and now you've gotta learn how to be in a relationship all the time with somebody. And if you've been on your own a long time, you're probably actually looking forward to being able to lean on a partner to help with... You know.21:40 Jennifer: Yeah. Yeah. But "Lean on" might be a little different than the experience of partnering and sharing the burden, where "Lean on" is a little more of a dependency model, but the collaboration model is really where you have intimate partnerships. That, "How can I bring my strengths, and you bring your strengths to bear, and we can create something stronger and better together." But it's not dependency, in the kind of up-down way. Mm-hmm.22:08 Ray: Yeah. And that was... That was not what I was implying, by the way, but yeah...22:11 Jennifer: Yeah. Sure, sure. Yeah. I'm just a word Nazi, I have to say... [laughter] Because... Because words communicate meaning, so I'm like, "No, wrong meaning." But anyway. [chuckle]22:20 Daniel: So maybe a slightly different perspective, I've worked with a lot of men who've been very patient, they've stopped the pursuing of sex, or taking that dominant role, and have allowed themselves, from maybe your podcasts or things that they've just learned naturally, to kinda back off and allow that space to be there. But then, something else that's happened is kind of what we're talking about, is [cough] Excuse me. I just choked.22:51 Daniel: Is, the female has no desire to pursue desire. So months go by, six months will go by. In some cases, even years will go by23:02 Ray: Or decades.23:03 Daniel: where the husband is not bringing it up in a... Maybe occasionally, "Is it a good time tonight?" But then, the partner's just like, "No, I'm fine." Right? How... I realize that's a huge topic but, how would you go about addressing that? And what's the role... What does... Does the man just not pursue it anymore or what?23:24 Jennifer: No, no. Definitely not. And I hope I can address this well 'cause I'm... I am, 100% I promise going to do a class on men's sexuality this year. [chuckle]23:37 Daniel: Great.23:37 Jennifer: Yeah, I keep promising this, but I actually am gonna do it so... [chuckle] Anyway. But I do hope I can talk quite a bit about this, because I think we've sort of socialized men either into the entitled position, or they... If they don't wanna be that, then they almost can't own desire at all. They see it as, "It's offensive that I want it." And, "This is just this hedonistic, bad part of me." And they can sometimes be partnered with a wife who kinda takes the moral high ground of not wanting sex, or whatever. And this, of course, gets very punctuated by... If porn has been in the picture at all, because you know, now you can kinda claim that you're the bad one because you want sex, and it can make it really hard to deal with the sexless-ness of the marriage.24:22 Jennifer: So what I would be thinking about is, if you're the higher-desire person, whether male or female, and your spouse does not desire you, I think the first question I would want to deal with is, "Why?" Okay? Why don't they desire me? Is it about me? Or is it about them? Or both? Is it that I'm not desirable? And that I'm functioning in a way in my life, or in the marriage, or in the sexual relationship, that it is actually good judgment that they don't desire me?24:53 Jennifer: And/or is there something going on in them that they don't want to deal with, or grow up, or handle around sexuality? And that's obviously it seems like a basic question, but it's one that people surprisingly don't ask themselves very much. Because as I was talking to somebody a couple of nights ago, I was saying, "Why not go ahead and just ask your wife why she doesn't desire you?" And the reason for him is he doesn't want to hear the answer.25:23 Ellen: I was gonna say, that's a very scary question to ask.25:26 Jennifer: Yes, exactly. And in part because he already knows the answer, and he doesn't wanna deal with his own neediness, and the ways that he takes advantage in the marriage, and the things that are actually there that he would need to deal with to be freely desired. I mean, that's the bummer about marriage and intimacy, is that your partner gets to know you. And so, the things that... Your limitations become anti-aphrodisiacs often.26:02 Jennifer: And so if you're gonna really grow in a marriage and a partnership, you have to really look at, "How do I engage or deal in a way that makes me undesirable?" Sometimes people are undesirable, and I'll just speak in the stereotypical way for a moment about, you know, some men are undesirable because they're too apologetic about their sexuality.26:20 Jennifer: Because they sort of devalue it also. And they want their wife to manage the question of their desirability. Or manage the question of the legitimacy of their sexuality. And so, when they are too anxious, or apologetic, or looking for reinforcement around their sexuality, it feels more like mothering or caretaking on the part of their spouse, and that's very undesirable. And so, it's a hard question for men, and for all of us, I think in some ways, of, "How do I stand up for something I want, without being a bully?" Right? "And be contained enough without being wimpy and apologetic for my sexuality?"27:10 Jennifer: "And how do I find that middle ground of kind of owning that my sexuality is legitimate and being clear about my desirability?" Without somehow taking advantage or being too reticent around it. And I think the answer, it's not an easy one to give in just a podcast really, because you kind of have to work with people around what's actually going on. But I think you have to really look honestly and with a clear eye towards the issue of your desirability.27:47 Jennifer: And your own comfort with your sexuality and your sexual desires. Because if you can be clear that you are choosable, and clear that what you want is a good thing, and doesn't harm your spouse or you, then you can stand up for it and deal with... Because it could be that your spouse doesn't want sex because she or he just doesn't wanna deal with their anxieties about sex. And maybe you've been pressured in the marriage to coddle those anxieties too much and too long. And it's creating resentment and low growth. Well then it would actually be a desirable position, even though a challenging one, to stand up more for the sexual relationship moving forward, like in that one podcast I did. 28:36 Ray: Okay. Alright.28:36 Jennifer: So are there other follow-up questions about that, or thoughts? If anybody has them, I'm happy to...28:44 Ray: I'm guessing here, but the person who asked the question, 'cause I've heard you talk about it, I've heard, I think, Natasha Helfer-Parker talk about it, Nate Bagley talk about it. And it does kinda sound pretty one-sided, it's, "Husband, you gotta set your agenda aside, you have to make it all about her. Don't be a jerk."29:12 Jennifer: Yeah.29:13 Ray: My experience was... And I know a lot of other men have, we've had a similar experience, is it's not that we wanted, it was, we weren't gonna just run over our wife and get what we wanted. 29:24 Jennifer: Yeah, yeah, yeah.29:25 Ray: You know? And we wanted to know we...29:26 Jennifer: You maybe didn't have... You didn't have a participant maybe from the get-go, some people. Yes, definitely.29:32 Ray: And so, if your partner shows up without any clue at all about what they want or what they need...29:40 Jennifer: Sure. Oh, yeah.29:41 Ray: How do you navigate that?29:42 Jennifer: That's... Absolutely, that's... Right, it can't be collaborative if one person isn't... Not showing up, if they're pulling for a passive position. And many people are and you know, women have been taught not to kinda claim their sexuality because it's anti-feminine. You know? And so a lot of people believe they're gonna show up and the man is gonna teach them about their sexuality, and really, How does he know? [chuckle] I mean, right? For the very people.30:13 Ray: Exactly.30:14 Jennifer: And also, how do you co-create something, unless you're both participants in this process? So yeah, it's true. Yeah.30:23 Leann: I think the frustrating thing is that, and I was one of them, oftentimes women don't, they don't realize they have desire, and they don't even feel like there's anything for... They're not the one with the problem, it's the husband wanting it and I guess pressuring. But when I'm in this intimacy group and it breaks my heart to hear from the husbands, 'cause the wives aren't in the group, they have no desire to want to get better, as far as the sexual relationship.30:56 Leann: So that's what breaks my heart, is these husbands want to, but the wives just shut it down. They don't wanna have anything to do with helping themselves, or how... You know? And that's what I get frustrated in, is how do you help these husbands stand up for what... It would be beautiful, and right, and good in this relationship, but the wives just want nothing to do with it.31:21 Jennifer: Yeah, yeah, and I mean, there's... Well, there's the part of me that's compassionate towards the wives, and then the part that would challenge the wives. Okay? So the compassionate part is, "This is how it's all set up." Okay? So desire is bad, sexual desire, any kind of desire. I grew up, the whole Young Women's Manual is about your selflessness, and how that makes you desirable, and that's the frame. Right? So it is a passive frame.31:50 Jennifer: And that sexuality is a challenge to your desirability. So you wanna shut it down. I have lots of clients who had sexual feelings and thoughts, they'd watch Love Boat and masturbate, and [chuckle] so on and on. And then, they'd feel so guilty and bad, that they'd repent and shut it down and shut it down. You know?32:10 Leann: Yes.32:11 Jennifer: And like, as an act of righteousness and sacrifice would basically shut this whole thing down. Then they show up on their wedding night, and they're supposed to be a participant? I mean, based on what? So, meaning we culturally create this. Now, that said, because I have compassion for that, both... And men too, because for the men that maybe are too eager or whatever, they've also... They come by it honestly, they've been sort of taught this idea that women's sexuality exists for their benefit, and for their delight, and so on. So people come by it honestly.32:45 Jennifer: I think, where I would be challenging of women is when they just don't want... You know, I talk about hiding in the shadow. A lot of us don't wanna own what our desires are, or cultivate them, or figure them out. Because we don't want the exposure of it. We want the safety of having somebody else caretake us. We want the belief, or the fantasy that this makes us more righteous, or more noble, or whatever. And we wanna sell that idea, because what we really know is, we don't wanna sort of grow up and take an adult position sexually.33:16 Jennifer: And so, I think, the challenge is once you start... I had a lot of women whose husbands signed them up for the workshop or something, and they are mad, because... And legitimately so, because they feel like, "Look, you just want me to go get fixed, so that you will get everything that you want." Well then, sometimes they show up there, and then they realize, "No, that's not the approach she's taking. And I have this whole aspect of myself, that I have shut down, that it's felt so self-betraying."33:47 Jennifer: And then, they suddenly realize, "Wait, I want to develop this part of me, I want to be whole again, I don't want to always be living in reference to my husband's sexuality." So they really just start to grow into it, and they start to figure out, and sort of deprogram these parts of themselves. There was other people that don't want to develop this part of themselves, because they are afraid... They're in a marriage where they're afraid, if they start to develop any of it, it will just get hijacked and used for the benefit of the husband, because the dynamic of the marriage has to be addressed, still.34:19 Jennifer: But then, there's other people who just, like I said, don't really wanna grow up and develop. And they can hold the other... Their spouse hostage. And they can get the moral high ground, because he's looked at porn, or whatever it is. And it's cruel. You know? [chuckle] It is absolutely cruel. And people can definitely do that, because they just don't want to grow up, don't want to be fair, don't want to take on the full responsibility of sharing a life with somebody. A lot of us get married with the idea that, "You're gonna manage my sense of self and make me happy."34:54 Jennifer: Men and women do this. Very few of us, if we really thought about what we are committing to, would even get married. Because what we're really committing to is, "I'm willing to basically deal with my limitations, and grow myself up for your benefit, given that you're willing to actually hook yourself to me. And I'm willing to really be a good friend to you, and do all the growth that that's gonna require of me." I mean, that's what you ultimately agree to, if you're gonna be happily married.35:22 Ellen: So you're speaking a lot of collaboration. A collaboration alliance.35:25 Jennifer: Yeah. Mm-hmm.35:28 Ellen: Now, I understand you've spoken in the past of collaboration alliance versus collusive alliance?35:33 Jennifer: Yeah, a collaborative alliance versus a collusive one, yes.35:36 Ellen: What's your difference in that? It being a unilateral? Can you speak a little bit more of that?35:41 Jennifer: Well, a collaborative alliance is, I think, the easiest way to say it. And I'm sure if David Schnarch were here, he would say it much more thoroughly. But basically, the idea that David Schnarch is talking about, is that a collaborative alliance is you are willing to do your part in a partnership towards a shared aim. Being good parents, be creating a good marriage in which two people thrive, creating a good sexual relationship in which two people thrive, that would be collaborative. And you do your part, whether or not your spouse is doing their part. You don't use the fact that your spouse may be having a bad day, and not doing their part, to get yourself off the hook around your part.36:18 Ellen: Definitely.36:19 Jennifer: That you're willing to stand up, and be a grown-up, and deal with things, even if your spouse is having a bad day. A collusive alliance is basically, where the worst in your spouse, and your worst in you... And everybody's in some version of a collusive alliance with their spouse. The happier people have less of one. Okay? [chuckle]36:37 Jennifer: But a collusive alliance is the worst in you, hooks into the worst in me, and it justifies the worst in each of us. We use the worst in each other to justify the worst in ourselves. So it's like, you know people say to me all the time in therapy, "I wouldn't be such a jerk if he weren't such a... What a... " You know, like meaning... This is collusive alliance, that I don't have to deal with my sexuality because you're a jerk.37:03 Jennifer: And so I use the fact that you're a jerk to keep justifying that I don't deal with my sexuality. But you can get really mean, and hostile, and nasty, 'cause you know I won't develop this part of myself. Right? So that's the way it dips... Reinforces. And I'm constantly in therapy being like, "Stop dealing with your spouse, deal with yourself. It's the only way this will move forward." I'm always saying that. 37:23 Ellen: Look in the mirror. [chuckle]37:25 Jennifer: Exactly, get the beam out of your own eye. [laughter]37:28 Daniel: Ellen or Ray, there is, I think, a few questions or comments in the comments section. So you don't have to do it at this moment, but when you have a second, follow up with that. 37:36 Ray: We'll have a look at that, thanks.37:38 Ellen: Yeah.37:40 Ray: When you've got a script for how to have that conversation with your kids…[noise] 37:48 Ellen: Ray, I think you're cutting out.37:49 Jennifer: Yeah. Yeah, you just cut out there Ray. Can you say it again? How to get your kids to do that?37:54 Ray: Yeah, I wanna know, if you ever have a script for how to address that with your kids. 'Cause that's the, kind of the bell. Right?37:58 Jennifer: Well, when there are kids who are younger, what... 38:00 Ray: "'Cause you started it." "Well, you started it."38:01 Jennifer: Well yeah, yeah, when my kids were younger, and this was a borrow, I think, from the IRIS book. But basically, they would have to sit on the couch, and they couldn't get off until they each owned what their role was in the problem. So...38:12 Ray: Yes.38:13 Jennifer: Yeah, that's one version of it, yeah. Another version is, like, put you both in the same boat, and until you can come up with the solution, neither one gets the positive thing. So you have to collaborate to get the positive thing. Right.38:28 Ray: Right. Okay.38:30 Ellen: So kind of back to a topic that we had been discussing about the woman really stepping into the role of being collaborative, and in equal partnership in the relationship. We have a comment in the chat box saying, "How do we change the church culture problems of the unclear functioning of women?" I've... So Nicole feel free... Oh.38:54 Jennifer: Can you say that again? Say that to me...38:55 Ellen: Nicole, feel free to jump in and clarify that. I don't know if I read it... "So how do we change that church culture problem of the unclear functioning women? Woman."39:05 Nicole: Under-functioning.39:05 Jennifer: Meaning that... Oh, under-functioning.39:06 Ray: Under-functioning.39:06 Jennifer: There, under-functioning.39:07 Ellen: Oh, under-functioning...39:07 Jennifer: Yeah, there we go.39:08 Ellen: That is why. [chuckle]39:09 Jennifer: Yeah, good.39:10 Jennifer: So how do we change that culture? I mean, it's the women themselves often that are doing the teaching. To basically teach better and teach differently. I mean that like, you know, we can't necessarily go in and change or control what is in the curriculum, but we can change how we each talk to women and we can change what we share in Relief Society and so on, what we... So that's about the best we have. You can do podcasts. [chuckle]39:41 Ellen: You can say really, it's really us, we can...39:44 Jennifer: It's us.39:45 Ellen: Change us, and us will change our relationships with others, and our others or relationships with others will change the others we interact with, and it will expand.39:54 Jennifer: Yeah, absolutely, and I just tend... A lot of times we think the church is the leadership, and then...40:00 Ellen: It comes down to that too, yeah.40:00 Jennifer: We are the church. You have to think of it that way, in my opinion, and you just roll up your sleeves and have as much impact as you can, because I think the more you role model strength like that, the more you give people permission to relate to themselves, or to women in general, differently.40:26 Ellen: So I'm ready to move on to another question that was posed. Ray, do you have any follow-up to the question that you had?40:34 Ray: Nope.40:34 Ellen: No? Alright. So the next one is a really interesting one, it says, "How is it best to navigate having sex during marriage struggles?" They go on to say, "When she's rude, or attacks the kids, or criticizes, or makes fun of me in front of the kids, I'm so repulsed, I don't feel like being around her at all. But then, eventually, within a few days or less, we both get the biological urge and want to enjoy each other, so we do."41:01 Ellen: "And it's great, and we feel closer and better afterwards, but I worry she thinks everything is okay or resolved because we're having sex. When it's not. Perhaps that's how she feels as well. We are starting therapy... " Or, "We started therapy a few months ago, and that's helpful, though expensive. A chance to talk through things. However, in general, when we get a rare chance to be alone and talk away from the kids, we'd mostly rather have sex than talk about our problems."41:26 Jennifer: Okay, well, that's the problem.41:27 Ellen: "Is that a good approach?" [chuckle]41:27 Jennifer: Wrong, no.41:29 Ellen: "Give me advice in that respect, what we do when our problems are all so present?"41:34 Jennifer: Well, it doesn't have to be one or the other, because you could say, "I really wanna have sex with you, but I think the way you talked to the kids today was horrible." Okay? And you don't have to necessarily put them right next to each other. But I wouldn't say one precludes the other necessarily. You can say, "I like you, you matter to me. I like having sex with you and I'm really concerned about how we're parenting the kids, and specifically how you are harsh with them, and then I come in and I coddle them." Or whatever it is. I don't think it has to... I think what maybe the person's asking is, "If I address this, it may very well kill... "42:10 Ellen: I would say, absolutely yes.42:11 Jennifer: "Our ability to have sex." Right? But then, I would say, if that's really true, if you can't deal with your problems and have sex at the same time, then you probably shouldn't be having sex. Because if dealing honestly with what's going on in the marriage means that you're gonna go through a period of time in which desire gets challenged, well I personally think you have a deeper responsibility to the well-being of the marriage, and your role as parents, than to whether or not you have the... How to say it? The placating experience of having sex. So I'm not here to say that necessarily you'll get one or the other, but if you know that you get one or the other, then I think you have to be really careful about how you're relating to sex, 'cause it has its costs.43:05 Ellen: So if we go back to the original... Oh, go ahead.43:06 Jennifer: Okay. No, I was just saying it has its cost if you keep kicking... You know, I talk in my marriage course about over-reactors, people that are freaking out all the time. But then there's also people that are under-reactors or they don't deal with problems as they arise. That's as toxic to a marriage. You then have people that look like they're doing great, because they have sex or they are low-conflict, but a huge storm is brewing, and oftentimes when those marriages rupture, they rupture permanently. Because they have no ability to... They have no ability to kinda handle the problems, because they have no practice in it. And so, under-reacting to your troubles, is really setting yourself up.43:51 Ellen: Yeah, it's an avoidance technique.43:53 Jennifer: Yeah.43:54 Ellen: That's basically what they're doing.43:55 Jennifer: And you know, of course the problems grow. They don't go away, they grow, they start getting out of your control when you don't deal with them.44:03 Ellen: And they're certainly recognizing that, like they've said that they don't like that they're doing this, that they're concerned about this, they've started going to therapy, they recognize that's a very expensive way [chuckle] to talk. And... But they are...44:21 Jennifer: Good luck if you're gonna go into... [chuckle]44:23 Ellen: But they also recognize that they're physically attracted, and they have, as they say, the biological urge, and they want to pursue that as well. And so I see that as a good thing, as well, that they still have that, despite this... [overlapping conversation]44:38 Jennifer: Yeah, well, and it doesn't mean that you can't have sex for sure, 'cause there's lots of couples that are dealing with their troubles, and they're still having sex.44:45 Ellen: Yeah.44:46 Jennifer: It's just another way of being together and sort of, you know, I think sometimes we have the idea that everything must be good in the relationship, and then sex is legitimized. It's just kind of a Mormon cultural idea we have. I don't see it that way, because I think a good sexual relationship can give you some of the sustenance to kinda keep dealing with the challenges. Part of why I've worked out things with my husband is 'cause I'm attracted to him. [chuckle] Okay?45:12 Jennifer: And I want a good sexual relationship, but I want, you know... And so, that desire pushes you through the troubles. It gives you the energy to deal with the hard things. So I wouldn't necessarily say it should... You shouldn't be having sex, I would say if you're using it to get away from your troubles, then it's a problem.45:32 Ellen: But using it for motivation to work through this?45:35 Jennifer: Sure, absolutely. Now, I think what some people are afraid of is if they talk about hard things, then their spouse won't wanna have sex with them. So it's a kind of a kind of... People can be complicit in not dealing with things, the sad issue. But you certainly can use it as a resource, 100%.45:54 Ellen: So their general question is, "How best to navigate having sex during marriage struggles?" It sounds like you're saying, of course don't cut it out, [chuckle] altogether.46:04 Jennifer: Yeah.46:05 Ellen: So... But don't use it as a way to avoid having those conversations.46:09 Jennifer: Exactly. Exactly.46:10 Ellen: Because there may be some fear around having those conversations, that it will reduce the amount of sex that you're having, but using the desire for each other as a motivation to work through those troubles, because you wanna get close together. Is that right?46:26 Jennifer: Yes. Yeah, and I would say what often happens for couples is when they're right in the heat of the struggle, sometimes their desire goes down, but as they start to work things out, the sex gets way better. You know? It's like that, you feel gratitude, you see your partner as somebody who's willing to deal with things, you feel more aware of your separateness as a couple and through some of the struggle, and so the sex is more positive. So I wouldn't see it as one or the other, but I think if you want good sex, you want your relationship to keep growing and thriving, and that means dealing with hard things.47:01 Ellen: Yeah, I can imagine that coming through difficulties and then coming to this place of convergence, where you're just together on something and you've almost... You've repaired something together.47:15 Jennifer: Absolutely.47:15 Ellen: It would make it even more powerful and even more meaningful.47:19 Jennifer: Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, I think that's how couples continue to create novelty. In a long-term partnership there's only so much novelty you can generate. And I'm all for novelty, but it's still the same person, it's [chuckle] the same room, or whatever. 47:38 Ellen: That's so true. [laughter]47:41 Jennifer: So you know, but I mean...47:42 Ellen: I worry about that.47:44 Jennifer: Yeah, sure. And I'm all for novelty. There's a lot of fun things you can do to create novelty, but I think what's at the core of a good intimate marriage is a growing marriage. It's a marriage that's growing, and you don't take the other person for granted. You recognize that they will challenge things in themselves, they'll deal with things honestly, you keep sort of becoming aware over and over again, that this is a separate person from you, who owes you nothing, but that will continue to grow and do better for your benefit and their own benefit, and that drives respect and desire. And so...48:17 Ellen: I think that is a really key point, that I'll personally draw out, is they owe you nothing.48:25 Jennifer: That's right.48:25 Ellen: That's hard to swallow.48:26 Jennifer: Yeah, I know.48:27 Ellen: Because there's this sense of, "I've done this for you, you do this for me." Give-take. "You owe me" kind of idea...48:36 Jennifer: Exactly.48:36 Ellen: But to get away from that...48:37 Jennifer: Yes.48:38 Ellen: Feeling. That's hard. [laughter]48:41 Jennifer: It's hard and it's the only way to do marriage, in my opinion.48:44 Ellen: That's novel. [chuckle]48:45 Jennifer: To do it from a passionate position, because as soon as you get it into, "I need this, you're obligated, you owe me." Right?48:52 Ellen: Or even just the marriage contract idea of, "We... You married me, for good and for bad. This is bad, you are in it with me." This idea of, "You owe this for me, we're working on this." Making sure that you're not using that as a form of manipulation.49:08 Jennifer: Yes.49:09 Ellen: But a motivation to work together.49:12 Jennifer: Yeah, which is not about precluding you from running your life, because you can say, "Look, here are the terms of my participation in this marriage, and if you don't wanna live by those terms, I can choose to exit." Okay? I know that's hard when you have a mortgage and kids, and all that, but you can define the terms of your participation, you can control your own choices. But I think as soon as we are in the idea that, "You owe me."49:39 Jennifer: As a way to pressure and to... As a way to be in a marriage, you will kill desire. When it's more like, "Wow, this person chooses me day, after day, after day. That's amazing. This person has offered goodness to my life, and they don't have to. And they do. And that they do, it's a miracle actually." When you live in that frame, which is the only honest way to live in the world, to be honest. Who's owed anything? There's children starving in Africa, do you think that's what... They're getting what they deserve? You know what I mean?50:13 Jennifer: No, but when you get good things it's good fortune. It's by grace, it's by... And so if you don't live in a gratitude-based frame, you're gonna have a hard time living with joy. And you have to live it, I think you have to live in that frame in marriage. Now again, I know people get like, "Wait a minute. Well, do you just mean you have to take whatever you get? The person's having affairs, you can't... "50:34 Jennifer: No, I'm not saying you can't decide if somebody is bringing too little good, if somebody is trying to take advantage of that commitment you've made. That you may then have to make other choices, because living with them is not good for you. Right? Continuing to struggle with them is not good for you. But the idea that... But that's different than living in marriage from a frame of demand. And a lot of people want the safety of doing that.51:04 Ellen: And I think there's this importance of, again as you've mentioned, this independence of self. You've mentioned in your other podcasts sometimes you do have to bring the conversation to the point of, "I'm willing to step away from this marriage."51:19 Jennifer: Absolutely.51:19 Ellen: If that's the case, "Because this is not good for either of us." And that's a very scary place to come to.51:25 Jennifer: Oh yeah. But it's usually where people grow the most. It's when they realize, "I can't make this marriage happen." That for me is when people often make their biggest strides in their development, is when they stop trying to control whether or not their proud spouse chooses them, whether or not the marriage stays together. They're no longer controlling that, they're only controlling who they are, in the marriage.51:48 Jennifer: When people really take that developmental step, that's when marriages really... Well, sometimes they fall apart at that point, because the other person won't step up. Or they really, really take a massive step forward. Because people are really operating, not from trying to obligate and control, but really a framing of choosing, and controlling themselves, and who they are in the marriage.52:09 Ellen: Maybe I'm making a leap here but, Would you say that that's more a high-desire partner position to be in than a low-desire? To kind of...52:19 Jennifer: To put the question of the marriage on the line, you're saying?52:22 Ellen: Yeah, yeah.52:25 Jennifer: Well, it depends on, "Why?"52:25 Ellen: I don't know...52:25 Jennifer: It would depend on "Why?" If somebody is in a marriage where their spouse just won't develop or deal with their sexuality, yes.52:32 Ellen: That's where I'm... Yeah, that's where I'm looking. Right.52:34 Jennifer: If somebody is in a low-desire position because their spouse is narcissistic, for example, or won't deal with the ways that they take too much in the marriage, and they keep trying to stand up to get that person to deal with who they are, because they do want a good sexual relationship, they just don't want sex in the current form. Okay? They're low-desire because of good judgment. Well, then they may be the one who's saying, "Look, I want good sex too, I just don't want what you're offering. It's all about you." And so, they may be the ones putting on... You know, calling it quits.53:08 Ellen: Interesting.53:10 Ray: I think, whenever the notion of, "Is sex a good enough reason to leave the marriage" comes up, there are a lot of people who are really quick to jump on that because they're afraid that if we normalize that, that's gonna be everybody's first choice. "I don't get what I want, I'm out."53:29 Jennifer: Yeah, yeah.53:30 Ray: And in my experience, it's really the opposite. It's when you're willing to actually walk away from... It takes a lot to be willing to walk away from what you have.53:40 Jennifer: Absolutely.53:40 Ray: I don't know that it's... That's anybody's first choice.53:44 Jennifer: Well, and I think a lot of the time when people are saying, "Is sex enough reason?" We have it in the hedonistic frame, rather than if sex really isn't happening in a marriage, there's something bad going on. [chuckle] Okay? You know what I mean? Like, I mean...53:58 Daniel: Yeah, it's not the sex. [chuckle]54:00 Jennifer: Yeah, it's not the sex. Exactly, it's not the sex.54:02 Daniel: Sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but...54:04 Jennifer: No, but then you're right. The sex is an indicator of something much more profoundly important going on. And so, the sex is the canary in the coal mine.54:14 Ellen: And I think that actually hits the point of the original question, the debate around sex not being neediness, or isn't sexy, but also wanting to talk about the importance of it.54:25 Jennifer: Yeah.54:27 Ellen: I think it goes back to that. I know that you've said it's not necessarily about the sex, but... It's the canary but, What killed the canary? [chuckle]54:35 Jennifer: You know, exactly. It's exactly right. Why is the canary dead? Okay? Can we look at that? [laughter]54:44 Jennifer: Exactly. Is there just too much noxious gas that the canary can't breathe? Or is the canary faking dead so that it doesn't have to, you know... [overlapping conversation]54:54 Ellen: It's looking away. [laughter]54:58 Jennifer: Yeah.54:58 Ellen: Well, it is about three minutes to the hour, so I wanna respect your time. It has been a pleasure chatting with you, and being able to listen more. Our focus to three podcasts and collect people's questions and really just discuss with you. So I wanted to give you a couple minutes to close up, any closing thoughts you had as far as the discussions that we've had today. If there's any kind of ending thoughts you'd like to share, and then give you that au revoir and [chuckle] the opportunity to sign off, and...55:38 Jennifer: Sure.55:38 Ellen: Really one day invite you to come back, we'd love to have a follow-up at some point, and do this again.55:45 Jennifer: Sure.55:46 Ellen: But the time is yours.55:48 Jennifer: I'm trying to think if I have any profound final thoughts. [laughter]55:53 Ellen: You're probably thinking a lot actually. [chuckle]55:57 Jennifer: Well, I guess maybe I would just say I respect in everybody that's here, the pursuit of sorting through these hard things, like marriage and intimate relationships are not easy. To achieve the beauty that relationships are capable of, takes a lot of courage. Courage to deal honestly with ourselves, to deal honestly with our spouse, to face hard things. Happy marriages are not for sissies. Okay?56:30 Ray: Soundbite. [laughter]56:39 Jennifer: So I really do...56:41 Daniel: Jennifer?56:41 Jennifer: Yeah, go ahead.56:42 Daniel: My wife just wanted... Heard what you said and wants to put it on a t-shirt. Do we need to get a waiver or something? "Happy marriages aren't for sissies." [chuckle]56:50 Jennifer: Aren't for sissies. Yeah, you could do that, just stick my name on it and my website... [laughter]56:55 Daniel: You got it.57:00 Jennifer: So yeah. So I respect it, I always respect it because I think it's the best in humans when people are willing to kind of face those hard things. And when I watch people go through it, it's hard. But it's really where all the beauty lies. So, there's divinity in all that process, even though it can feel like you're in hell sometimes.57:25 Ellen: Well said.57:25 Jennifer: Okay.57:28 Ellen: Well, Jennifer thank you so much for your time.57:31 Jennifer: You're welcome.57:32 Ellen: Have a wonderful evening, and keep warm out there. [chuckle]57:36 Jennifer: Thank you, I'll try.57:37 Ellen: Please try to stay warm.57:39 Jennifer: Okay, thanks everybody. Bye.57:40 Ray: Thank you.57:41 Ellen: Bye-bye. So, we're on. Yeah, go ahead Ray. You got it.57:46 Ray: No.57:46 Ellen: Well you got the book. [chuckle]57:49 Ray: Okay. Let's go ahead and stop the recording at that point.

As we start a new decade, I'd like to share my experiences of the last decade with you. As I've mentioned in episode 300, my employment with Jet Airways in India ended toward the end of 2009. The Indian pilots were fully up to speed, and it was time for us expat pilots to leave. So there I was, 64 years old, unemployed, and no pension. I filed to start drawing Social Security payments and started looking for work. As so many of our podcast guests have advised, networking is the key to finding employment. In my case, I recalled reading an update from a former United pilot in our retiree newsletter. He had mentioned that he had a job performing airline audits, and I contacted him to learn more. He put me in touch with the company he worked for, ARG/US Pros. Toward the end of 2009 I visited them for an interview, and they hired me. https://youtu.be/Xxk3IIdJ7MU In January 2010 I attended Auditor Training, and then went on my first assignment, to Japan, in February. One of the reasons the company sent me to Japan for a month - four audits - was because I mentioned in the interview that I spoke Japanese. Each audit was five days long, and our team of five auditors (plus myself) would look at every area of an airline's operations, and debrief the airline CEO at the end of each day. On the weekends between each audit our team would work on our post-audit report and prepare for the next audit. During the first audit I mostly was observing, although toward the end I performed a lot of the auditing duties. For the last audit, I was "cleared solo" and operated by myself. The audit process is called IOSA - IATA Operational Safety Audit - and during an audit the team uses an IATA (International Air Transport Association) checklist to look at everything an airline does, to determine if the airline conforms to the ISARPs (IATA Standards and Recommended Practices). There are over 1000 ISARPs the team examines. It's hard work. For the next two years, I performed about an audit each month, and eventually became an audit team leader. Since I had studied Russian some 40 years earlier, I led a team to Moscow for a few weeks. By the end of the visit I was able to conduct the debriefs in Russian. Leading the team entailed planning for each audit and writing a detailed audit report at the end of each audit. It was a great experience, but I wanted to get a bit closer to airplanes. In 2012, through networking with some of my former Jet Airways pilots, I heard that Boeing was looking for instructor pilots (IPs), and I applied. I went out to Seattle and interviewed, and was hired to be an IP on the new B787. I started as a contract employee on the anniversary of my United new-hire date, October 16th. I went through the 787 course as a student, took a check ride and received another type rating: B787. Then I went back through the course again as an instructor-trainee. Since the 787 was not yet flying, Boeing didn't have any real airline students, so three of us instructors would practice our teaching on each other. Two of us would play student while the other instructor would go over the planned lesson in the simulator, then we would each trade places. Finally the 787 was cleared to fly and we started getting real airline students. I really enjoyed being back in a cockpit environment, but wasn't crazy about always being away from home. One day, a Boeing check airman told me that Omni Air International was looking for B777 IPs, and they were using the United simulators in Denver for their training. I applied to Omni, had a telephone interview with the Chief Pilot and the Director of Training, and was hired on a contract basis. So now I had two contract jobs: Boeing and Omni. Omni was great with scheduling, giving me work assignments a month in advance. Boeing operated a bit differently. Typically, I would get a call saying I had a work assignment in two more days. Sometimes I could accept the assignment, but often it conflicted with my Omni commitment. After I turned down several assignments, Boeing advised me I was no longer a contract employee. So I was all-in on Omni. Unfortunately, the United Training Center in Denver was getting busy with internal training, so Omni had to look elsewhere for simulators. Eventually, all of the Omni training was conducted at the Delta Airlines training center in Atlanta or in the Boeing training facility in Miami. In 2016, again through networking, I heard that a training company in Tennessee, ARCS Aviation, was looking for a B777 Subject Matter Expert (SME) for some software development. I contacted the owner, and he drove up to Atlanta to meet me when I had finished an Omni simulator period. We hit it off, and I started doing consulting work for ARCS. After a few years, Omni decided to use only their line pilots as simulator instructors, so we parted ways, and I spent all of my time as an SME, first on the B777, then the B787, then the B747. It was a great job that I could do at home, on my computer. Finally, the software programs were complete, and my work for ARCS was over. In 2016 I started the Ready For Takeoff Podcast at the urging of an Omni pilot, Phil Pagoria, and my son Steve. Phil became one of my first guests on the podcast, and will make an appearance again soon! Steve walked me through everything I needed to do to produce a podcast, and has been my go-to person every time I need help. In 2018 I heard from a friend, Nick Hinch (former RFT guest) that Wheels Up was looking for pilots. I hadn't flown in nine years, but had stayed current in simulators, and figured this would be my last chance to be employed as a pilot again. But, of course, my medical certificate had expired. So I made an appointment with my Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). And I did something really stupid. For over 30 years, I had gone to the same AME, and every time on my application I had listed all of my visits to healthcare professionals since my previous visit (6 months earlier). And for some reason, I don't know why, I simply did the same thing. I listed all of my doctor visits since seeing him last. This is important: the form only asks for doctor visits in the last three years. But I foolishly listed all of them, and some from five, six or seven years earlier, were no one else's business, certainly not the FAA's. My AME said he needed to send my information to the FAA, and the FAA Medical Department wanted some tests. Expensive tests, over $10,000 worth of tests. I saw the Wheels Up job disappearing, and asked the FAA if I could change my application from First Class medical to Third Class. No can do. Once you apply for a medical certificate, it must be either Approved or Denied. After many exchanges of letters, mine was Denied. After a Denial, an airman cannot get ANY medical certificate, including the new BasicMed. So, the only solo flying I can legally perform is in a glider, which does not require a medical certificate. One of my first jobs when I had retired from United in 2005 had been teaching at Metropolitan State College of Denver, in their Aviation Department. In 2018 I visited them, now renamed Metropolitan State University of Denver, to see if they needed a classroom instructor. My timing was perfect, and I started teaching Fundamentals of Aviation and Basic Instrument Flight, two days each week, as a contract employee. Eventually, I became a full-time employee with the title of Lecturer, and I still teach courses two days every week. In 2018 I was accepted to the Writers Guild of America Veterans Writing Project, and started working on a screenplay adaptation of my Hamfist novel series. (That's my son Steve sitting next to me in the first picture that comes up on that website). In the next RFT episode I'll visit the year 2019. Have a GREAT 2020!

Y'all! My sister and my best friend Iman Pearce has come to help me host the Hey Baby Podcast, the first episode of the new year. For me, 2020 is the year of Clarity, Vision, & Focus. As I've said before - if God gave me the Clarity to visualize it, He will give me the Character to pursue it, the Strength to fight for it, and the Wisdom to maintain it. In this episode, we talk about the importance of vision, focus, and authenticity. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

2019. Wow, what a year it's been! As I've worked to grow our brand, the diaspora have constantly served as my inspiration. To recap the year, I'm sharing quite a few things they've taught me about building a business, making an impact on someone else's life, and sharing unforgettable stories. Get your little piece of home HERE: www.balkanbred.com For 10% OFF your first order, use code WELCOME10 Keep up with us on Instagram @balkanbred If you're interested in joining the BiH Founders Network, please send an email to adna.pekmezovic@gmail.com. If you're interested in being featured or have an idea for an upcoming episode, feel free to send an email to hello@balkanbred.com with 'Podcast' in the subject line. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/balkanbred/support