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Jon is nearly finished with Quarantining in the Northern Territory, so planning for his next step must begin. As Jon embarks on moving in with a girl, Mike and Jon hatch a plan so that Jon can become the undisputed 'better flatmate'. Meanwhile, is it acceptable to piss in the ocean? Does Jon's mum know our friends better than we do? Are bread makers worth the money? Would you watch Nintendo Mario porn? The Morning JaM would be extremely excited if you contacted them at hello@morningjam.co.uk, especially if you have tips to make Jon the better flatmate and / or starred in Gladiator Eroticus. Theme tune is sampled from Walking Back to El Paso from texasradiofish

Football's Coming Home! But, Jon isn't allowed to leave his. As Jon struggles to make lockdown sound interesting, Mike is relishing his new found freedom in rural New South Wales. While in lockdown Jon wonders if a work colleague has called him fat, how did that man break his w*lly and why aren't bald eagles as bald as Mike? Mike, on the other hand, is confused by Australian sausages, struggles with a difficult Optus Sports password to watch Euro 2020, and defends the woman holding the sign in the Tour de France. The Morning JaM would be absolutely bloomin' delighted if you contacted them at hello@morningjam.co.uk, especially to give your opinion on Vegemite or Marmite? Theme tune is sampled from Walking Back to El Paso from texasradiofish

Reacquiring guest and friend of the show, JON MOROSI, joins John and Bob from Buffalo today to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays, their recent trades and their uptick in offensive production. As Jon gets ready for the broadcast tonight, the three talk about the impact playing on natural grass and how the team could be affected once they come back to Canada and the Rogers Centre's artificial turf.  We talk about the new additions to the team in Adam Cimber & Corey Dickerson and what exactly fans can expect from these fresh faces and the hot play from the AL Player of the Week, Vladimir Guerrero Jr as he continues his impressive season - which begs the question - Would you trade Vlad for Fernando Tatis Jr. at this point in their career? We also talk about the affects the recent crackdown on banned substances has had on the offensive output in Major League Baseball. To end the show, it wouldn't be fair if we didn't let Mr.Morosi talk hockey - the three discuss Jon's experience covering the Canadiens vs Vegas series and whether or not Montreal can pull off an upset.

What does it take to create marketing strategies and sales copies that produce great results?  Most copywriting freelancers follow the three-step formula: getting good, getting connected, and getting paid. But sometimes, this is easier said than done.  Meanwhile, for business owners, the biggest challenge is capturing a target market. You need to know how you can form a connection with your ideal customers. You should also make sure that they choose you over your competitors. In today's episode, Jon Reyes tackles both issues that these freelancers and entrepreneurs face. He discusses the fundamentals of writing a copy, business, and entrepreneurship in general. He also talks about the biggest challenges he faced, as well as the habits he developed to succeed. What does a copywriter do to create effective marketing strategies? How does writing a copy capture your target market, and how do you connect with them? Stay tuned to learn more about Jon's time-tested and effective strategies that freelancers and entrepreneurs will surely benefit from. Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Discover the things you need to do when you start out in business. What does a copywriter do and how can they overcome the challenges they go through? Understand why Jon puts so much emphasis on the importance of believing in your product or service. Resources John Carlton's The Freelance Course Greg Glassman's video on CrossFit Learn more about Jon's mentorship course and find downloadable files for freelancers here! Connect with Jon: Website | LinkedIn | Facebook Episode Highlights How Jon Got Started in Sales and Marketing for Business Growing up, Jon did not have a background in business. Over time, he developed self-esteem issues. He felt inferior and didn't think he was smart, resulting in social anxiety. Jon decided to rebuild and reinvent himself into someone he liked. He wanted to do something important in his life. He graduated with a degree in advertising and a minor in psychology. He wanted to find a job in sales but ended up not liking it.  As Jon was exploring opportunities, he came across internet marketing and copywriting.  Challenges in Writing a Copy Jon likens copywriting to public speaking.  When he was starting out, he was second-guessing his writing and unfamiliar with the business world. To address this issue, Jon resolved to get good at writing a copy. Jon also values good fundamentals. Through this, he can stay sharp and focused in the industry. If You Are Starting Out or Struggling in Writing a Copy As a freelancer, your skill set should match your rates. Hone your skill set by doing free projects, keeping a portfolio, and gaining testimonies. This way, you can serve the world of business and keep yourself humble. Never sell yourself short. Remember to keep the balance between knowing your worth and being humble. You also need to take time to learn new things and build your skills. This is true for all practices.  Writing a Copy: Habits That Jon Developed Throughout His Career If you are new to a business, you need to understand your target market. After this, figure out how you can connect to your market. Form a human-to-human connection with your audience. Tell the story in a way that speaks to people's pain points. If you can move people through words and win them over, that's how you build a longer-term following. For Jon, you have to understand the crowd you are selling to. Know what their motivations and pain points are before you start writing a copy. The Importance of an Outside Perspective If you're marketing something that you are passionate about, chances are you'll be too focused on the good points.  When you fall into this trap you don't see the perspective of your target market anymore. So you need outside expertise to connect the dots between your perspective and your target's. Coaches can also help you bring out your potential.  Remember that there is always going to be someone better than us, no matter how good we get at anything. Situations Where Jon Does His Best Work  Jon works best at influencer marketing, personal growth, and self-help.  He sometimes works in the health and fitness space as well. In everything he does, he works the best with someone who believes in what they sell. Jon also looks for scalability when working with companies. He cannot work with people who sell and/or market an inferior product or service. How to Work with Jon Jon gets prospects from his extensive connections. You can also reach out to him on social media. Before working with someone new, Jon makes sure that they're a good fit. He does this because he prefers to build relationships. Two Powerful Quotes  “You should never sell yourself short and always know your worth. But you have to remember that there is that balance between marketing and selling yourself and that confidence in your skillset.” “How can you connect to someone through writing or even through a video script that makes them feel like you're talking just to them? So it's kind of a unique dialling in, a unique message.” About Jon Jon Reyes is the copywriter behind today's top industry leaders. These industry leaders include Brian Tracy International, Brain.Fm, Conscious Copy, Mimosa Mastermind, the Fairall Group, and iThrive. He is a B2B consultant, strategic advisor, and high-powered copywriter for hire with a multimillion-dollar track record. Through his marketing strategies and sales copywriting skills, Jon has helped generate over 40 million dollars in sales for his clients.  Jon is also the founder of Copy Blueprints, an agency that integrates full-service copywriting funnels with collaboration and coaching principles. It is also a platform where he supports other copywriters through accelerated mentorships, helping them take more control of their income and career growth by leveraging the power of writing. You may connect with Jon through his website or reach out to him on LinkedIn or Facebook. Enjoyed This Podcast? If you enjoyed the podcast, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends. For episode updates, visit our website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts.  PS. Do you already have a successful business, meaning you're up, running, and paying your bills with some profit left over? Are you interested in growing your business, automating/streamlining things, and staying one step ahead of your competition?

We're in person for the first time since March 2021! As Jon struggles to run three microphones at once, he discusses the anniversary of his favorite movie with Elliott Serrano and Steven Brown. They talk the first time they each saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, the delicate balance of Read more... The post Caffeinated Comics – Indiana Jones 40th Anniversary appeared first on Radio Misfits.

When the evaluators have finished your proposal, you want them to turn to each other and say: they're brilliant, we should go with them – and to have a clear, consistent view of “why” that is. And then on to the pitch… Jon quotes the CEO he's worked with many times, who always comments: I want to walk into the presentation first of three, not one of three.” Obliviously the proposal and presentation need to align. Jon shared a story of a pitch from his days in procurement many years ago, where there was no mention of the key part from the proposal. At the end of the presentation, he asked the first question: “Thank you. That was great. I just wondered how you were going to achieve the commitment in the last line of your executive summary.” And the bidding team looked panicked, as they turned to the relevant page and saw: “We guarantee that, if you choose us, you will achieve your 30% reduction in total cost of ownership target”. So preparation and rehearsal are key. As Jon says: “I'm at my most spontaneous when I'm at most prepared.” And this is even more important in the middle of a pandemic, when presentations are online. Jon quoted one of his good friends, a brilliant proposal professional called Nigel Hudson, who observed recently that it's now more a case that: “People buy from people they know, like… and have never met.” How important is it to have a no bid policy and qualifying out? Rob shared a story where, out of the blue, he received an RFP for a large company they wanted to secure. But they had no relationship. They took the tough decision to no bid when access to economic buyers was denied. After he and his team had explaining the rationale, they opened up access and within a few weeks won the contract. When you no bid it can create panic in the buyers! Jon entirely agrees. It's important not to chase deals where you have no realistic chance of success. But a flaw in most “bid / no bid” processes is that they never really think through how a “no bid” could be done well – to enhance your credibility with the customer. Final insight on renewal proposals, in the current market: It's worth asking yourself whether buyers really want to go through the painful tender and change process at the moment. Gathering the stakeholders together remotely to agree requirements, evaluate proposals. Implementing new solutions in the middle of a pandemic if it's not strictly necessary to do so. So Jon argues that where you're the incumbent, with a contract that's due to expire (say) this time next year, you need to paint a picture for the client of what it will look like if we continue to stay friends – and thus avoid them going to competitive tender? The most successful bid teams are spending more and more effort on renewal proposals, not waiting for RFPs to land. Key takeaways: · The need to know whether this is business you actual want? Qualify, qualify, qualify. · The need for a compelling story: frame it first so you are people they want to go with. · Take the Spice Girls approach to proposals – give the customer what they want, what they really, really want! If you have found this podcast valuable, please review, re-share and pass onto a work colleague or someone within your network whom it could help at this stage of their career. To discover exclusive content for our community, go to https://www.enterprisesalesclub.com.

Jon Levy is the Founder and Host of Influencers, a Behavioral scientist, consultant, and author of a very interesting new book titled, "You're Invited, The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence." On today's episode we're talking influence, connection and trust. We start with Influence. What is it? What does it mean to have influence? And the role of relationships and community in creating influence. And Jon shares the details behind his Influence Equation. Then Jon and I dive into the importance of connection and connectedness. isolation and loneliness are an increasing fact of life. It presents itself in the stress, burnout and mental health issues we see in sales. As Jon points out chances are high that the people you want to connect with are in need of connection too and may not even realize it. We dig into why sellers need to develop relationships in which everyone is better off, rather than trying to extract as much value as possible from it. Finally, we get into the process of building trust. And why building trust begins with finding a challenge big enough to require people to work together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we are talking to Jon Shimer one of the Founders of the Fatty Vegan. A new restaurant in Ventura, California. Learn how this start-up took an idea that wouldn't go away, based in passion for delicious vegan food and had the courage to open  a new restaurant in the middle of the pandemic. As Jon shares, "Never give up on something you want to do." We hope this episode inspires you to take that idea you have been wanting to bring to life and do it! Instagram: @fattyvegan805 www.businessvictories.com

When I moved to Australia, I found it fascinating that the construction industry here is facing similar challenges to those faced in the US - lagging productivity gains, lack of trust and collaboration, and image challenges. Last year I was thrilled to meet Jon Davies, CEO of the Australian Constructors Association, a fellow champion of change who is leading the charge for shifts in the industry here in Australia. Jon joined the Greatness podcast to discuss global efforts to shift the construction industry, including the UK's Construction Playbook and the Construction Industry Culture Taskforce here in Australia, a group I was recently invited to join. As Jon says, "we all have a role to play".

Up for a little PoddiTics (PoddiMouths Politics), well then this episode is for you!  As Jon said, "It's all about money, power, and ratings," just like this podcast!  Or is it?  It's up for you to decide.  Listen now  and give your feedback later.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15325671)

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends March 31st 2021. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:Laura is Head of Content at the National Football Museum in Manchester, UK, where she is responsible for overseeing the collections, exhibitions and communities teams. Prior to working at NFM, she held leadership roles at Oxford University Museums and the National Trust. Laura has 8 years’ experience as an independent museums consultant, a role in which she worked with museums of all types and sizes to improve resilience through transforming organisational practice, better understanding audiences, improving evaluation, and developing innovative programming. Laura holds a PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, UK, for research into resilient community engagement practice in museums.Outside of work, Laura likes going to gigs, exploring new places and visitor attractions, watching football (her own footballing ability is, sadly, non-existent), enthusing about dogs (particularly her own rescue Staffy, Chance), and spending far too much time scouring vintage shops to find the perfect 80s dress.www.nationalfootballmuseum.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/laurafcrossley/Twitter: @lfcrossley Jon is Exhibitions Manager at the National Football Museum and has worked in the sector for 15 years. He’s worked on a number of exhibitions including Curator of the show ‘Strip: How Football got Shirty’. Born in Blackpool, his seaside upbringing has had an impact on his exhibition ethos of bright colours, cheeky humour where appropriate, experimentation and “what’s the worst that could happen?!”. Prior to working at NFM, he served candyfloss to the punters at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and worked in the curatorial department at the Manchester United Museum. With a remit to lead the National Football Museum’s move into digital, Jon has co-presented the Museum’s successful podcast and developed a popular online version of the ‘Strip!’ exhibition.Outside of work, Jon is a vinyl obsessive and adores electronic pop and guitars. He supports the mighty Tangerines of Blackpool FC and is a season ticket holder at the cathedral of football, Bloomfield Road. He likes visiting attractions and travelling a lot, with a preference for open spaces where he can freely walk and drink ale (not at the same time!) in the countryside.  www.nationalfootballmuseumstrip.comTwitter: @introspective81 Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue. A podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I'm joined by two guests, Laura Crossley, Head of Content, and Jon Sutton, Exhibitions Manager at the National Football Museum. We discuss why it's helpful for museums to have a podcast and what you need to think about strategically if you're going to create one. We also talk about their new podcast, Strip!, and all of the lessons learned from creating it. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Jon, Laura, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. Look at us as well. We've dressed for the occasion. We'll have to do a little standup, we've all got our strip on. Our favorite strip and all will become clear a little bit later why we are dressed as our favorite football teams today. Kelly Molson: Okay. As ever, we start with our lightning round. Jon, I'm coming to you first. What is the greatest movie that you have ever watched?Jon Sutton: I don't know. Karate Kid's very good. Karate Kid's a good film.Kelly Molson: With Karate Kid, are you a massive '80s fan? Is this your thing?Jon Sutton: Yeah, that's one of the films that left a great impression on me. I'm watching Cobra Kai at the moment, which is the follow-on.Kelly Molson: Can we talk about Cobra Kai? Because we were obsessed. I wasn't feeling very well, and I tucked myself up on the sofa with a duvet and Karate Kid. I was like, "Everyone keeps talking about Cobra Kai. We should do it. Let's start it tonight." Oh my God. Genuinely, did the whole two series in less than a week. We just smashed through it.Jon Sutton: Yeah, I'm stopping it. I'm calming it down because I don't want it to end. I think we got a bit giddy and then I'm calming it now because I want to... Series three is coming very soon so I want to make it that I'm there for it.Kelly Molson: So, you haven't seen the last episode yet?Jon Sutton: No, I've not seen the second, I've only just joined the party.Kelly Molson: It's feel good, isn't it? That's what I love about '80s films, they're really feel good. That was a great answer.Kelly Molson: Okay, Laura, I'm coming to you. What fictional family would you be a member of if you could be?Laura Crossley: The Simpsons. That's really obvious, isn't it? Partly because my family was absolutely obsessed with The Simpsons and even now, I find myself saying catchphrases. Like, "I have a feeling that we are going to win the lottery." Or like, I'm a vegetarian and I always quote things from the Vegetarian and I think other people know what I'm talking about but I'm like, "Oh no, it's just me and my family who know that."Jon Sutton: It was on the first day when you said, "Cowabunga dude." Laura Crossley: I skated in, in a hat. Kelly Molson: Love it.Laura Crossley: When I was younger particularly, I would get a lot of grief about basically being Lisa. Like when I was younger, I was very, very right on. I was a vegetarian and in the episode where she becomes a vegetarian, she can see bits of animals. That was exactly like me.Jon Sutton: Can you play the saxophone then?Laura Crossley: Can't play the saxophone but I could play the flute. I was in an orchestra, I could play the flute.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's close enough.Jon Sutton: Going to play the piano.Laura Crossley: And in my peak teenage years, I did go out, but I also spent early Friday evenings in Salford Youth Orchestra. So, I was really cool.Kelly Molson: You really are Lisa. You've already joined the family, you're there. Oh, I love it.Kelly Molson: Okay, we're going to go to your unpopular opinions. Jon, I'm going to come to you? What's the thing that you think is true but nobody else agrees with you on?Jon Sutton: I think it's humanity's worst invention, umbrellas should be banned really. I hate them. They're a weapon, pretty much, and particularly as people are more and more on their phones these days while they're walking down the street, if they're carrying an umbrella, you could lose an eye.Kelly Molson: Do you not think that this is an issue with people looking at their phones rather than the umbrella though?Jon Sutton: No, I think it was even before. I thought everybody hated them. Apart from Rihanna, I thought everybody hated them.Laura Crossley: I don't think I've ever hated an umbrella. I lose a lot of umbrellas. My mum once bought me 11, you know those little pocket-sized ones? She bought me 11 of them for Christmas one year. I had a whole stocking full of one pound bargain umbrellas because I just leave them in places.Jon Sutton: That's the thing, you think, "Well I don't want to spend a lot of money on them because I'm going to lose it," but if you buy a too cheap one, it's going to be inside out, probably leave things, it just doesn't stop revolving that's the problem.Kelly Molson: That's a great answer. Again, not really what I was expecting but interesting. All right, Laura, what's yours?Laura Crossley: Mine's going to sound really geeky now which is that I think that often theme parks are better at talking about history, teaching people about history and the environment than museums are.Kelly Molson: Oh wow, okay.Laura Crossley: Do you remember when we could go on holiday and things like that last year?Kelly Molson: The good times.Laura Crossley: We could go to other countries and it was really nice. I went to Florida last year and I didn't really go to Disney as a kid or anything but it was really fun last year and I nearly came back and wrote a big blog post about all the things that museums can learn from theme parks because I think they can learn absolutely loads. But one of them definitely is about teaching people about history and the environment and science because it just talks about things, you don't even realize you're learning. You think you're just on a ride or having fun or in a queue or just walking for a different land or watching a film or doing something that's just really fun and then you come out and you're like, "I've just learned about this new [inaudible 00:05:55] a new kind of animal that I didn't know about. I've learned about this really interesting thing in history that I didn't know about."Laura Crossley: Obviously, we can't see the original objects and that is a really good thing about museums but I just think the way that theme parks are quite sneaky about the way that they teach people history. Maybe it's mainly Disney because that is a big theme across Disney.Jon Sutton: I worked five years at the Pleasure Beach, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, for five years. I must admit I didn't really think about it from that point of view. I felt that I was not getting paid enough. I wasn't very good at doing candy floss either, terrible. If you asked me for a stick of candy floss and I would give you them through gritted teeth. I'd really try and shove a bag onto them because a bag was much easier to make.Kelly Molson: Oh, I always fancied a go of that though.Jon Sutton: Oh my god, it's really hard. It's so hard. Laura Crossley: Really?Jon Sutton: Particularly in Blackpool where it's windy all the time. The machine's quite dangerous as well because it spins around but you have to make sure you've got the right amount of moisture on the edge of the... You can't have too much moisture but you need some moisture for it to stick to the sides. It's really, really hard.Laura Crossley: It's like science.Kelly Molson: I've learnt so much today, I really have. I haven't even asked you any good questions yet. I've learnt loads.Jon Sutton: Museums are a breeze compared to producing candy floss.Laura Crossley: That's really interesting.Kelly Molson: I think, Laura, it's about making it fun.Laura Crossley: Yes absolutely, and immersive.Kelly Molson: Yeah, and then you don't really realize that you're learning, so you suck it in.Laura Crossley: Yeah, the other thing I really like is that it's really multi-sensory. You can hear music or read stuff and the atmosphere and so you just, yeah exactly, you don't realize you're learning. It's just really cool. Whereas at museum's I think sometimes, we don't talk enough about the story. I think sometimes it's just like, "Oh, there's another object." As Jon knows, I'm not the biggest fan of labels in museums. Maybe that's an opinion that won't go down well with the museum sector but I do think we put far too much stuff on labels and always want people to read everything.Laura Crossley: And I think sometimes it's nice to also help people use their imagination and tell a story, and not just be like, "This is a thing. Look at this thing and here are some facts about it." It's just, I don't think it's very engaging.Kelly Molson: Well, this leads us really nicely actually to what we want to talk about today because the reason that we are dressed in our strip is because we want to talk about your new podcast, it's called Strip the Podcast, but it's in line with the exhibition that you've got running at the moment which is Strip! How Football Got Shirty. And I guess that goes a little bit hand in hand about what you're talking about in terms of telling a story about something. So Laura, just for our listeners, can you just give us a little overview of what the National Football Museum is.Kelly Molson: I mean, it says very clearly what it is in its name, but what do you do there?Laura Crossley: We do all sorts of things. We are England's only national museum for football and we basically explore the impact that football has on all our lives and how it shapes identity and a bit like I was saying about telling stories, we are moving much more towards telling stories and sharing other people's stories about the diversity of the game. So we are not just about talking about men's elite game, although that's obviously a big part of football but we're also about the women's game and also, I think a really good thing that we can do is challenge attitudes around homophobia and racism. Laura Crossley: I watched that Anton Ferdinand documentary last night and just thought, "Gosh, there's still so much work to do in terms of challenging racism in football." So we're trying a lot more to tell those difficult stories and hopefully change attitudes and make football something that's really welcoming for everyone because it's something that touches all of our lives, even if you're not a football fan, it's not something that you can escape. It's something that you might dip in and out of or you'll know people who like football and so it is about telling those really broad stories and for me, about celebrating diversity and making everybody feel like they have a place in the game and that they're represented in football.Kelly Molson: Lovely. And Jon, the exhibition is something that you've been organizing. So can you tell us a little bit about what this exhibition is about? Again, How Football Got Shirty, I think we could maybe hazard a guess at that.Jon Sutton: There's no shorts or socks in the exhibition. That was the first thing. We're not having shorts, we're not having socks, it's just shirts. So yeah, it's got over 200 shirts going right back to the Victorian era, so it's very comprehensive. We did the first century of football shirts because there wasn't an awful lot of change and then we branch out into the '70s of Admiral and the dawn of replica shirts. And then we've got some bangers from the '90s, lots of the bright and the garish ones. We've got a bit about the retro revival. Got a real controversial hall of shame area which actually, the six shirts in the hall of fame are all pretty good shirts, to be fair, generally. But they're there almost for a malfunction of design, that's why they're there like that.Jon Sutton: And then right through to the present. So one of the big things now is eco-friendly shirts, so sustainability and we've also got loads of shirts from the women's game as well because I think we're the first exhibition that have worked out that basically women can play football too and women wear football shirts.Jon Sutton: There's been football shirt exhibitions in the past or there's almost like kit experts and things like that but I don't think the women's game and the shirts that women wear has been told yet. So it's really comprehensive. One of the toughest things is having to do the top 20 shirts of all time. It's so subjective.Kelly Molson: Yeah, I'll bet.Jon Sutton: I'm a Blackpool fan and I didn't put a Blackpool shirt in the top 20.Kelly Molson: There's no Tottenham shirt in the top 20 either, I checked.Jon Sutton: There are a lot more Arsenal shirts than Tottenham shirts as well.Laura Crossley: Oh dear, anyway.Jon Sutton: The shirt you're wearing is in the exhibition. Kelly Molson: It's a great shirt.Jon Sutton: We've got a Jurgen Klinsmann shirt as well when he did the dive celebration. We've got that in the museum as well. It's not in the exhibition.Kelly Molson: Perfect moment. Okay, so great exhibition, great museum. You've been shut for most of this year which has been a challenge all around in the sector. So what I really want to talk about is what you've done to engage your audience while you've been shut, and one of the great things that you've done is launch the podcast. It's a big thing to do, it's a bold move, and that's what I want to talk about today really. So I guess my first very short question, which has probably got a really long answer is, why a podcast?Jon Sutton: To be honest, I don't really listen to podcasts, so it was quite hard presenting one because I didn't really know much about the basis of being the host on a podcast, I'll be honest. And I think David realized that very quickly, our digital producer. I think David realized that too when we started.Kelly Molson: What have I let myself in for?Jon Sutton: I was amazed. On the day, luckily Tim, who is our graphics and interpretation producer, basically the three of us in our exhibitions team, we kind of led it I suppose, and luckily, he'd done a script which was really helpful because I was going there without even a script. Laura, why did you [crosstalk 00:13:36].Kelly Molson: Yeah, how did you come to the decision that a podcast is the thing that you're going to create to engage people with? How did that process work?Laura Crossley: I think a podcast would... because I joined the museum almost a year, just over a year ago, and even when I joined there were talks, before we even knew about COVID, there was talk about doing a podcast as a way to reach the audiences and share our stories in a different way. I think because our mission is all about sharing stories and a podcast, I think, and that narrative, is a good way to do that.Laura Crossley: So we'd always thought about doing a podcast and then Jon's team got some funding and it made sense to make that about the Strip exhibition. But certainly, when we then shut, for me it became more of an imperative. I know that museums decided to see lots of different things during lockdown but we have on our strategy, the aim to build a virtual museum, basically reflect the galleries and the content of the museum, but digitally, whether that be in our social media content on YouTube or via podcasts or whatever it might be.Laura Crossley: And so I saw this year as a way for us to just experiment because what other year do you get... I mean, obviously, it's been a bad year but the one positive, I think, is that it's allowed people to throw caution to the wind and just say, "Well, we'll just experiment with lots of different ways to engage people because why not? And if it doesn't work then it doesn't matter and we learn from it."Laura Crossley: And I really hope that that's something that museums take into the future. I think we always try and plan and try and be perfect, whereas actually, I think experimentation is much more exciting and just seeing what happens and not really worrying too much if things don't work because so what? You've learnt lessons and you try again. So for me, that was the really good thing about a podcast and also, I did really feel for them. Strip opened in my first week at the museum, and so it was open for what, three months, and then shut.Laura Crossley: And I could tell when I joined, I mean, Jon can talk a lot more about it because it's his exhibition, but I went to the opening night and I remember just thinking, "Wow, so much passion and love and care has gone into this exhibition," and it was incredibly sad to see it have to close, well, the whole museum have to close. So I think we focused a lot on putting content out about Strip. Partly for that, because it was just such a great topic, something that was really engaging. Something that we know that if the museum had been open, lots of people would have come to the exhibition and we really wanted to give them the chance to experience it in a different way.Jon Sutton: Yeah, on the day, the last day of March before we closed, we did a frantic tour around the exhibition and we got our own Strip website as well dedicated to the exhibition. And in co-curating the exhibition, we had so many assets. I'd spoken to a lot of the kit manufacturers, a lot of the kit experts. We'd had a panel discussion, been out to some clubs. We had so much and then only so much of that can go into the exhibition.Jon Sutton: So we're sitting on all these assets and I think we divided it so some went out onto the Strip website but then even then, we had so much and we just thought, "If we theme it right, we've definitely got a podcast here." And so we've managed to use some of those assets in the podcast but also recorded new interviews with people as well for it. So luckily, I think we've done a decent job on it.Kelly Molson: So you've done six episodes, is that right? Six episodes so far. Let me just go back a bit because what you said is really interesting, Laura, and I think I agree with you in terms of playing with things this year. We all know it's been a challenging year but it has given us that opportunity to do some new things and do some different things that we don't know if they're going to work, we don't know what the reaction's going to be but let's try it, right? Very much the same with this podcast that we're on. I had no idea what the... We'd pre-launched it the previous year. Hadn't really got a lot of traction and thought, "Let's bring it back. There's a lot of people that are potentially sitting around maybe with not a lot to do at the moment. Maybe we can give them something to listen to."Kelly Molson: And so, that was the objective really. What can we push out there that'll be helpful and engaging for people right now. So with the podcast, did you actually set any objectives for it or was it purely, "We're just going to do this, see what happens."Laura Crossley: I think this is what we were grappling with a little bit because we were kind of pushed into doing digital before we'd written a big strategy about it, and as I said, I don't think that's a bad thing. It's kind of like writing a strategy for research and development which isn't a bad way to do it. For me, Jon might disagree I don't know, but it's about engaging more people in a deeper way and growing those audiences and also hopefully, some of the people we engage will actually physically come to the museum. Acknowledging that some people who live in different countries might not actually physically be able to get to the museum now or in the future.Laura Crossley: But for those people, making them aware of us and getting a kind of loyalty to us and looking out for our stuff and feeling part of the museum and then for other people, hopefully encouraging them to come through the door and become physical visitors.Kelly Molson: And I guess you won't see that until a bit later on potentially, whether you do make that shift from people that are listening to the podcast, to coming along. Jon, I've got so many questions about the podcast because I know myself personally, how much time and effort and a challenge it can be. You said earlier, you've never made a podcast before. Have you ever been a guest on a podcast? Have you ever had any interaction with any of them?Jon Sutton: No, I don't think I have. I don't even think I've been a guest. I think I just assumed they were a bit like radio but not live. I have listened to some podcasts but not many, so I had no experience really.Kelly Molson: All right, so you were at the point where you've got all your assets and you think, "Yeah, we've got a podcast here. We can create some content and its valuable content, it's interesting." Where did you start because that's a big learning process, right? To saying, "I've got this idea about a podcast, I've got all this stuff, now I need to make a podcast." What did you have to learn?Jon Sutton: Well luckily, [crosstalk 00:20:02]. The first episode was a bit... Looking back now, if I listen to it now, I think it would be quite rustic and a little bit raw. One thing I did before we did the podcast, I listened to some other podcasts about football shirts. They were all pretty good, generally, but at the same time, I thought they might be slightly better at presenting than we would be. They may be more confident in front of a microphone, et cetera. But at the same time, I thought they might not necessarily have the assets we've got and also the knowledge that we've acquired in curating the exhibition.Jon Sutton: So that was a bit of me that thought, "Well, what's the worst that can happen with this thing and if we are terrible, at least we've got the guest to pull us out." The first one we did wasn't the best but then the next one we did was really good and then what we did was we went back to the first one and re-recorded it. But we did that with most of them, so it wasn't necessarily really a quick process. Sometimes we'd start in the morning, rattle through in say, an hour, get lunch. Then we'd go, "Actually, I think we could do that better now."Jon Sutton: So most of them, we did it in two takes. There was a period where we recorded, I think, probably three or four within a two week period because we were going into the museum, say, once a week when we could. And we found that we found a rhythm to it and then there was one episode, the last episode in the podcast, which I think is actually somehow the best one. We'd been about three, four weeks between recording the fifth and the sixth and that day, we had Linda working on it. She was fantastic. We had Tim working on it, he was fantastic.Jon Sutton: Whatever reason, I think I might have had a couple of too many drinks the night before or something, but I was absolutely appalling. Nothing was flowing that day, it was awful, but listening to it, you can't tell. So, David's a magician.Kelly Molson: So you had in-house editing skills, which is a huge bonus because we outsource our editing, we've got a brilliant, Steve is our... He's an award-winning podcaster. I have to just give him a little plug there. But that's the one thing that we didn't have in-house, so we were like, "Well that's something that we need to get professional help with." That's a huge cost saving and, like you say, it means that you can go back and do things again, so you've got that time.Jon Sutton: I mean, there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing as well. David would cut something, for example, and I'd go, "David, you just cut me." The pinnacle moment of the podcast, for once I was really funny in that point and David's just like, with a straight face, "It wasn't very funny at all, Jon."Kelly Molson: Steve does this to me all the time.Jon Sutton: That's the thing. Just because you're the host doesn't mean you get any kinds of rights, do you?Kelly Molson: None at all. My bits are always the bits that have been cut. Jon Sutton: The weird thing, I've been finding myself cutting myself as well. So when we have the to-ing and fro-ing, I'll say to David, "You need to cut me at this point," because I sound like an absolute imbecile. And it feels weird being the... It's almost like if you did an exam or something and you're the teacher putting the red pen through your own examination.Kelly Molson: What about equipment or anything like that? I'm just thinking about other museums that might potentially be looking to make this decision and do something like this. Did you have to invest heavily in any specialist equipment or did you have things that you just got? Did you just get by with what you had?Jon Sutton: Yeah, I think what we try and do with each exhibition is we try and purchase bit by bit, like piecemeal, I suppose. Little bits that make us stronger in the future so we've got a legacy from each project we work on. I'm not really technical, I'll be honest. I think we got new headphones and the new microphone but we had some other microphones. I remember though, I had the worst microphone. It wasn't a massive outlay. The other thing is, David is really particular and Tim, we are quite particular, but I think really, you don't have to have mega-quality to do it.Jon Sutton: For me personally, I think the stories and what you're going to tell is more important than if there's a little bit of hiss on it, for example. And we did have to lower our standards a little bit because we did some interviews with people via Zoom, et cetera, for it. So it's not all slick, I suppose. But yeah, it wasn't a massive outlay and luckily we've managed to, each exhibition we do, we try and buy a little bit of stuff.Kelly Molson: All right, two questions. What went well and what didn't go well?Jon Sutton: I think we managed to replicate the themes of the physical exhibition, I suppose. If you hadn't seen the exhibition, I think you would've got a good flavor of what it was about and I think, actually, at times, we even went a little bit further. In the exhibition, for example, there's a Lewis FC shirt and it's got What If on it as a hashtag and it's about the fact that they are the world's leading club on equality. Their men and women's teams get exactly the same resources, same pay. There are not many clubs doing that.Jon Sutton: And you've got a label on it and we're really strict, I think it's 50 words on a label, but we then take it one step further, so we then in the podcast, feature somebody from the club about what that stance means. So in a way, it looks at it and expands on it. It adds more to it. So I think in that respect if you think about the podcast and the Strip website as a duo in digital terms, I'd still want people to come and see the exhibition but you're getting a really, really good flavor of what we're about.Jon Sutton: Things that didn't work was, you can't really tell, but it's quite a time consuming, I think, recording a podcast. David's having to do a lot of editing. Tim, our digital producer's doing the theme music to it which obviously you don't have to do, go down that route, but he was bringing his own symph-pop tune-age to the proceedings. But even writing the script's quite time-consuming as well, so you've got to dedicate quite a lot of time to it really but luckily this year, we've been able to do that with lockdown and that experimentation aspect.Jon Sutton: I suppose one thing is that if you're doing it, don't see it as an add-on to what you're doing really. I think you need to build it in from the start. I think in the past, we'd never done a podcast. We've done online exhibitions on our website but they've been very much afterthoughts. Whereas we did build it into our thinking when we opened the exhibition in, I think it was November. 2019, we knew we were going to do some of this stuff but when we had the lockdown, it almost accelerated it, I suppose.Kelly Molson: Yeah, that makes sense.Jon Sutton: Nothing major. I remember the police sirens going off quite a lot when we were trying to record and then the lift would be going up and down, so it makes a racket. You've got to choose your space as well. Kelly Molson: That is really good advice actually because our podcast has been a lot better since I've been recording it at home. I do get the occasional dog bark but that's better than the constant trains that go past our office. So, it's swings and roundabouts.Kelly Molson: This brings me to a really good question to come back to you on Laura, actually, and it's something that you mentioned before we started speaking which is around what you said about not just bolting a podcast on, thinking about this strategically. Why is it helpful for museums or attractions to have podcasts and what do you need to think about strategically from the start if you're going to go down this path?Laura Crossley: I'd say this for everything about digital museums, that I think we can get a little bit excited about the word digital and just go, "Oh yes, we need a thing. We need a digital thing and if we get a digital thing then we're going to engage lots and lots of people and then they're all going to come to the museum and it's all going to be amazing." And I try and remember back to my Masters, which was a long time ago now, so before we were talking about things like podcasts, we talked a lot about digital interactives and it was in the first session where the lecturer was like, "Digital interactives are great but they will break and you have to have a reason for doing them and there has to be an audience in mind."Laura Crossley: And I think sometimes with digital, we don't plan with audiences in mind. It's like everything that we know about audience-centric planning goes out the window because we think, "Digital. Cool. Amazing." And I love digital stuff and I do listen to podcasts. Adam Brookson's podcast is my happy place and I do think they can be really good for museums in order to tell those stories and engage people who might not have heard of the museum before. Build the brand. Engage them with stories that they wouldn't hear if they weren't in the museum. Laura Crossley: Keeping engagement with audiences. I suspect that some people who listen to the Strip podcast have come to the exhibition but want more information and also, as I said, potentially convert people into visitors to the museum. But I think it's really important firstly, that there's a reason to do it. The podcast took a long time, it wasn't the quickest digital thing that you could do, so you do have to have a reason for doing it. I also think, really thinking about who the audience is and is the audience right for a podcast or should you do something like a YouTube channel or should you get a TikTok channel. I don't know, all the various different digital things that we can do.Laura Crossley: And also really plan it into strategic planning because the time it takes, the capacity, the resources. It can feel like it's free because you might not have to buy loads of equipment but it's not free because it takes people away from doing stuff on the galleries and the museum. So it is really important to schedule it in and make sure that you have the provision for it. And although I think that museums are getting better at having roles, actually it's been really interesting, over lockdown, I've seen so many more roles for digital content producers who just solely focus on blogs and podcasts and digital channels. So I think that's definitely going to be a trend that continues but you do need someone to take ownership of these things and not just say, "Oh well, someone will do it at some point."Laura Crossley: So yeah, definitely have it in the strategic plan. Have a reason for doing it. Know who your audience is. Test if it's the right thing to do, and it's fine if you have all of those things and then you try it and it doesn't work because then you can evaluate why it doesn't work, but you need to know why you're doing it. And also I'd say, next week, we're doing an evaluation session about the podcast which is really important to me because again, I want it to be a learning experience. So there'll be things that have gone really well and there'll be things that haven't as much but it'd be good to really test that. And I'd also really like us to talk to people who listen to the podcast and hear what they think about it and whether it has done what we set out to do.Kelly Molson: That is really good advice, and actually, my next question was going to be, what would be your best piece of advice to other museums who were thinking about doing this? But I think you just summed it up absolutely beautifully there, Laura. Jon, have you got anything that you would add to that in terms of your best piece of advice for a museum that's thinking about starting a podcast?Jon Sutton: Yeah, I think I might have covered some of it already but it's things like building the time, don't see it as an add-on, what's the audience? The Strip, I knew that we already had an engaged crowd for that and also it's not particularly niche either. We're not going for necessarily the most niche subject in the world, football kits and what they represent. Particularly at the moment, I think lockdown brings in... This year, if anything, has brought in a real nostalgia to yesteryear, hasn't it? Jon Sutton: The first shirt, basically, I ever had. Wore it when I was eight years old. It's an adult one but it's the same design, so I knew there was an audience for it. So that's how we built around the exhibition but if we were talking about football studs, for example, boot studs or something like that. I'm not sure whether that-Kelly Molson: That's like the niche that, isn't it? I definitely wouldn't have listened to all six episodes of that podcast, Jon.Laura Crossley: [inaudible 00:32:44].Jon Sutton: Exactly, but the thing is, you need to realize what you're presenting isn't niche. I'm not sure all museum people do that, I think you get bogged down in the day to day and maybe you need that bigger picture of actually what I do is quite a niche.Kelly Molson: Great advice.Jon Sutton: So we knew with this one it wasn't too niche.Kelly Molson: Really, really good advice. We're coming towards the end of the podcast. On every episode, I ask my guests if there's a book that they would share with us and it can be a book that's either helped you in your career or just a book that you really love and our lucky listeners get to win this book. So Laura, what have you chosen for us?Laura Crossley: Well, I was racking my mind for museum books because I did a Ph.D. in museum, so I have obviously read some amazing and really not so amazing type of books. Some amazing museum books that have really shaped my career but I was thinking about what book do I actually really love and again, remember that I'm a geek. The book that's really stayed with me for a long time is, Of Mice and Men, which I read when I was in year 10 doing my GSCEs, a long time ago now. And I was thinking, "Has that affected my museum career?" And I think it has because of all the books that I like, like that and The Catcher in the Rye and A Room with a View. Well firstly, they're all set in the past. Well for me anyway, they might have been contemporary at the time but for me, it was reading about the past and so I think that kind of bringing history to life.Laura Crossley: A bit like I said about theme parks. I think that books can do that as well really, really well and sometimes in a more emotive way than museums do. I think museums have the power to do it but they don't always do it. And also, all those books are about this big and you can probably read them in a day if you put your mind to it. And again, I think that's why I really like the power of storytelling but not over using words, just telling, a bit like with films. I just want an hour and a half. I just want to watch Stand By Me in an hour and a half and be told a really good story. Laura Crossley: And the same with books, just tell me a really emotive, evocative story, that paints this amazing picture and transports me into that world. I don't need too much and that's what I think museums should really aim to do as well. Think about storytelling and description and emotional engagement, as well as just, "Here's an object," and expect people to be engaged with it. Kelly Molson: I love that. I love that you've tied your book choice in with your career and how it's focused you on what you do. Jon, what about you? What have you got to share with us?Jon Sutton: Bringing you back to football shirts. When we were starting this exhibition, there was two books that stood out. One of them was book that was The Worst Football Shirts Of All Time, and I was flicking through it and I was like, "Well, that's a banger, that's a banger. These are amazing shirts. This book is so wrong." But the thing is when you look at these best ever shirts and worst ever shirts, often they're the same, they've just put opinion. But the book really that got the exhibition, made me say, "We're definitely doing this exhibition and we need to bring this author in," is a book called True Colors by John Devlin. He's done various books. His latest book is all about international kits.Jon Sutton: He does these beautiful illustrations of the shirts. He draws every single shirt, for example, England. He will have drawn in that book, every shirt that England have worn. Really nice illustrations. The passion for the subject comes across, the depth comes across as well. His books are amazing and we actually hired him as an exhibition consultant on the basis of his brilliant books.Kelly Molson: Wow, bet he never saw that coming when he was writing his books.Jon Sutton: No exactly. We can't feature every club in the exhibition, we've got 200 shirts, but there is this rainbow of football shirts that he drew for us and so most clubs are covered under that, for example, Derby under white, for example, Tottenham under white. And so, True Colors by John Devlin is my choice and it's the right one.Kelly Molson: Great but I love that book has been part of this journey that you've been on with the podcast as well. It's really great to tie it all together. Well as ever, if you want to win a copy of those books, then if you head over to our Twitter account which is Skip The Queue, and you retweet this episode announcement with the comment, "I want Laura and Jon's books," then you will be in with a chance of winning them.Kelly Molson: I've loved having you both on today, it's such an interesting topic because I've a personal experience of just how difficult it is to start a podcast, edit a podcast, all right, Steve does the editing, but pull a podcast together. Think about who you're going to have on as guests. It's a huge amount of work and I think it's a brilliant task that you've gone ahead and done this.Laura Crossley: Can I just say, I think yours is brilliant. It's so good.Kelly Molson: Thank you.Laura Crossley: I think that visitor attractions have a lot to learn from each other and I sometimes think museums can be quite snobby and not see themselves as a visitor attraction. Whereas actually, one of the best things we can do is give people a good day out. We should sometimes just relax a bit and say, "Actually, a really great thing we do is give people a good day out."Kelly Molson: Yeah, it's making memories, isn't it? So six episodes of the podcast have been released, what's next? Do you think there's any more episodes coming?Jon Sutton: David was really, really brutal in his editing, so I think there could be something in a bloopers episode, like a special. He'll probably tell me, 'No," but I was thinking like some of the bits, sort of me being stupid generally.Laura Crossley: You've said it now in public, so that's it. [crosstalk 00:38:40]. Kelly Molson: It's a commitment.Jon Sutton: It'll get vetoed, I know it will. It never gets their own way. I think it's probably it for Strip for the time being but then we're going to look at hopefully something that talks about the other stuff we do as a museum. So something that isn't exhibition focused but is about our general offer and the stories we want to tell and the power of football ultimately.Laura Crossley: I think for me, really feeling down to who it's for because we could just do it in so many ways and tell so many different stories and maybe that's something that museums do grapple with a bit, that unless it's about a special exhibition, you have to really think about who it's for and what you're trying to do, otherwise you could do a podcast that just never ended and you talk about a different random thing every week.Jon Sutton: That doesn't mean it's not going to have those studs [crosstalk 00:39:28].Kelly Molson: Honestly Jon, if anyone wants to listen to a podcast about football boot studs, email me and let me know and I'll pass this onto Jon but I think I'm going to get very few emails about this.Laura Crossley: That's episode 527.Kelly Molson: Guys, it's been so good to speak to you today. Right everyone, if you want to listen to the podcast, it's called Strip! The Podcast and you will find it on all of your usual podcast channels. Go and download it, it's really entertaining. I have listened to five of the six episodes now and look, I'm a football fan, I love football shirts and I really, really enjoyed it. I think you'll get a lot out of it if you're a football fan in general. So definitely go and download it.Kelly Molson: All that's left for me to say is, "Thank you both for coming on."Jon Sutton: Thanks very much, brilliant.Laura Crossley: Thank you, I love the Skip The Queue podcast, so it's really cool. Thank you so much for inviting us.Kelly Molson: Thank you for making it... It's the guests that make it, so thanks.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review, it really helps others find us and remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

In this first part of this Feature, we hear from Jon Bostock, Founder of Truman's, about making the Big Step. Jon tells us about his journey, making that leap into the economic unknown.   As Jon comments, when it comes to following through with ideas, personal goals, finding the confidence to leave the comfortability of a stable desk job, “we talk ourselves out more than we talk ourselves in.”    With Jon’s insight, today we’re learning to do just that; talk ourselves into making the big step to leave corporate America. The big step isn’t always safe, there aren’t always huge payouts, and it is rarely easy, but the ability to produce value in doing something you love is always worth it.    Whether you’ve kept it in the back of your mind or at the forefront of debate, Jon is here to help you break the routine, the normalcy, to go beyond all dreams of success.  In part 1, Jon discusses His start at General Electric; Building the confidence to leave corporate America; Giving into innovation; Finding freedom and reflecting on your career; COVID advice for future entrepreneurs; Discussing Jon’s book The Elephant Dilemma: Break Free and Reimagine Your Future at Work.      Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Jon in this episode and listen to him share the inside story of a brand. For more on Truman's visit: https://www.trumans.com/ Visit our advertisers:   CartText - https://carttext.com/  Retention Science - RetentionScience.com/SOB

When the world is falling apart the way we usually respond (complaining, blaming, fighting) usually only creates more problems. Maybe it’s time to try something else. Something that has been available to us all along. Something that isn’t simply “the least we can do,” but actually the most powerful force for good in the world. It also just happens to be the most reliable path to happiness. Episode Breakdown: 0:00 Studio Arrival 1:30 Happy Little Prayers w/ Jon 27:30 Behind the Scenes   Don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast or the YouTube channel  https://bit.ly/yourcrosscreek Let us know you’re here! || Discussion Questions || Read Transcript || Ask a Question For Kids: Crosscreek Website #forSalem November Challenge: United Way Pajama Drive #SalemOregon #local Giveaways (Happening on Social Media later this week) – Enter to win this week on Social Media- Geppetto’s Italian https://www.facebook.com/geppettossalem/ – This week’s winner- Every Child Oregon! $290 donated thanks to you! https://www.everychildoregon.org Suggested Readings: Acts 4 (disciples praying in hardship) Music we listened to making this episode: Jimmy Eat World: Pain- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaP6KgwbOvo Michael Jackson: Why You Wanna Trip on Me- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2FUzoy-UCg Josh Baldwin/Bethel: Surrounded- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBiE4dXT2I Donate to Crosscreek & keep a good thing goin’ DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What do you think about prayer? What personal questions / stories do you have about it? Read Psalm 86. What stands out to you as it relates to prayer? As Jon said in the message, share a couple of things going on in your life right now. You might have to fight through the awkwardness, but spend some time specifically praying for one another in your group.

Jon Huertas joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, for the final curtain call of the trilogy. They immediately delve into the ideology that African American's are in every fabric and every film and TV show in America. But with a lower demographic than Latinos, who are the one's standing on the sidelines? And why? This isn't speculation or opinion, this is fact, from Latinos whom have worked their way to the top of the Hollywood industry.  An industry that looks at the men as a threat, and the Latina female as someone with whom they want to indulge in sex. The problem is that Latinos don't find solidarity in a race or color, but in the country of their origin, which is the root of the divide. African American's have never had this problem, hence their influx and climb to the top of the Hollywood ladder. Who is mowing lawns, cleaning bathrooms and picking lettuce? As Jon and Kurt have experienced in Hollywood when they try and negotiate a deal, "oh they don't want the part bad enough, we'll take another just like them". Latino's are perceived as expendable in America, and with a demographic their size, once they stand in solidarity, America will never be the same. XX Please Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast.  Email anytime to podcast@provenanceroom.com X https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRF42UoBNLo9DXv5BYQQCqg X https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/ X https://www.instagram.com/wyna.podcast/ X https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/ X https://www.provenanceroom.com/wyna-podcast

Jon Chiu did everything right to ensure a successful career by excelling in school, getting an engineering degree from UCLA, and landing a full-time job with an investment management firm right out of college. It looked like things had lined up quite nicely for Jon. But the year was 2008, and a financial crisis was about to crash the economy and change the world. Jon lost his job after only a few months. He reluctantly decided to work as a cashier at his sister’s frozen yogurt shop. All his hard work and his expensive degree felt pretty meaningless at that point. But Jon Chiu didn’t give up. He went back to school, earning a master’s from Stanford. Then he was hired as a management consultant for the prestigious McKinsey and Company. He thrived there, using his problem-solving skills to help the company’s clients make informed, data-driven decisions. Jon also worked at Google for a few years, and then came back to McKinsey as an Engagement Manager. Jon was good at what he did – but the long hours and high stress environment made him realize his faith and family were being put on the back burner. As Jon considered making a career change, his wife was given a job transfer from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles. Jon sent out his resume, hoping to find a new company in LA to work for that would give him a better work-life balance. Jon ended up as the Director of Strategy and Finance at Blizzard Entertainment, a video game company well-known for titles like World of Warcraft and Overwatch. For the past few years, especially during the COVID pandemic, Jon has enjoyed working in the video game industry. He’s achieved a better work-life balance and is happy to know that his company has helped people stay connected virtually during times when physical connection wasn’t possible. Jon’s story is all about overcoming obstacles by never giving up, always being ready to move on to the next thing when it’s time and trusting in God to help you make the right decisions. He shares more on this episode of Faith Collides. Special thanks for this episode: Jon and Karen Chiu, Jennifer Lazala, Josh Batson and Martin Garcia Support Faith Collides podcast with a review—> http://bit.ly/FaithC0llid3s Faith Collides podcast is hosted by Grace Huang from Lux Mundi. More information: www.lxmundi.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/faithcollides/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/faithcollides/support

Jon is back! Jon joins us remotely for this week’s CM Podcast. As Jon explains in the podcast, he is currently in the hospital for cancer. This is a new complication that Jon found out about within the last few day. He is in one of the greatest hospitals for cancer and is being treated … Continue reading CM Podcast 283 – Black Badge (2018 comic)

As Jon and Erin hole up in their respective shelters, perusing their Encyclopedia Victoriana, they couldn’t shake the feeling of deja vu. Then they realized, it was the news! Erin tries to make sense of America’s secular government holidays. Really, WTF Virginia? Jon shares his pandemic preferences, up to and including the hottest bacteriologist of the Victorian era (possibly of all time). Hunker down and remember, if the Victorians got through it, you can too!

As Jon prepares for the 200th episode next week, he hasn't been able to watch much this week. After reviews for the latest episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, Patton Oswalt's Netflix special I Hate Everything, and Bob Rubin's comedy special Oddities and Rarities, Jon discusses HBO Max's promise to "Release the Snyder Cut" of Justice League. Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/popcornjunkie Follow the show on social media: Facebook: http://facebook.com/popcornjunkie Twitter: http://twitter.com/cornjunkiepod Letterboxd: http://letterboxd.com/cornjunkiepod Support Popcorn Junkie by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/popcorn-junkie This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

As Jon and Wil close out their long-winded ranting about their favorite genres, we finally come to the big one! This episode is solely Jon's favorite genre, Wil's favorite genre, and a whole bunch of talk of their shared favorite genre! Grab your favorite adult beverage and check out some all-around sweet music!  As always, the curated Spotify playlist can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FljIKc9vHllcx5T5ym9r9?si=quZAtvimT4SbpHSfn3Boyg If you care to, hit Like, Subscribe, or Review on whatever app you're listening on, that'd be sick! Email: stumblingdistancemusicpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SDMPVA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sdmpva Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDMPVA

Jon Schram is a husband, father, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of The Purple Guys, a Midwest-based information technology support company.   With over 25 years of Business and IT experience, Jon fully understands the "business of business". Having built three successful startups, he has learned how to leverage technology that supports growth. He also understands that technology is a tool to be used strategically. Jon started The Purple Guys because he found that many small business leaders lacked the internal resources to keep their technology and people fully supported.   He was finding that most businesses outsourced their IT only to be met only with frustration due to unreliable, unfriendly, and unpredictable IT Support.   Jon's pet-peeve is when an "IT helpdesk" is anything but helpful. Therefore, it's the Purple Guy's mission to make that frustration go away by providing fast and friendly IT Support, for a predictable price.   As Jon put's it, "We deliver IT peace-of-mind through our Purple Promise: NoStress Billing, NoWait Response, NoLimit Access. Instead of feeling frustrated, your focus will be on growing your business."

If you want to be a dad who is famous at home with his son, this is a must listen. Pastor Jon Tyson joins us to talk about the path he created to raise his now 19-year-old son. He turned the path itself into a course that every dad can use to lead his son into a life of purpose. As Jon looked at the landscape of today's boys, he saw the need for boys to be guided by a community of men, on a recognized path into adulthood, that matched the aches or longings boys have in their heart. He calls it The Primal Path. With so many incredible one-liners to count, here are some highlights of this episode: There is no constant, consistent, intentional pathway for boys to become men in American Christianity. Boys need a mentor or a father who can walk him through the process. The primal path is a way to help overwhelmed but determined dads raise sons of consequence.There's no way you can underestimate the joy of getting it right and overestimate the pain of getting it wrong when it comes to raising your son.It's not about getting it perfect, but getting it right. Don't shrink back out of insecurity or lack. Your son doesn't know what you don't know. Engage the path and process. Build a relationship with your son where he brings you his sin. Show Notes: Click here to check out Jon's Father-Son course, with a 77-page field guide, called The Primal Path. You can also check out YOUR FAMILY PURPOSE by clicking here.

Brotherhood Without Manners brings you the next chapter in our reread of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. This episode we read the final chapter for Jon Snow.    As Jon attempts to flee from the wall he fights with himself about joining Robb's march south. His plans fail and he is returned to the wall only to be informed that his secret attempt was not as stealthy as he thought. Jeor Mormont tells Jon there is something special about him, and he intends to have Jon and Ghost with him when they go North.   As always we give our chapter inductees and read listener write-ins.   All Music credits to Ross Bugden INSTAGRAM! : https://instagram.com/rossbugden/ (rossbugden) TWITTER! : https://twitter.com/RossBugden (@rossbugden) YOUTUBE! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthxycmF25M

How does a guy go from once working as a commodities trader in Chi-town, to becoming a successful country songwriter and artist along with being an entrepreneur selling his own name brand Tequila?  Well, in this interview with Jon Wolfe, we’ll get the skinny on it all. Jon’s journey as a musician and songwriter is unique.  While he knew he was always drawn to music, he didn’t take it seriously until college when picked up the guitar and realized he really had a passion for it.  After graduation, and following his employer transferring him from Chicago to Houston, Jon started playing open mic nights which eventually led to a relationship with John Evans who was one of his first influencers and really helped him work on his songwriting.  As Jon immersed himself in the Texas music scene, he eventually got to know a few other artists and even was roommates with Hayes Carll for a time. Eventually, Jon ended up in Nashville with a deal and was writing up to 3 times a day on Music Row where he was able to learn a lot and cultivate his craft which he talks about in the interview. When the deal fell through, Jon ended up moving back to Texas and putting his solo career as a Texas Country Music artist into motion. While Jon continues to build his career as a country music artist in Texas, he’s also been working over the last couple of years to develop his own brand of Tequila.  He’s proud to announce that Juan Lobo Tequila is now available in many Texas locations and he and his team are working on expanding their reach. Check out the Juan Lobo Tequila website below to find out how you can get your own bottle! http://www.jonwolfecountry.com/ https://juanlobotequila.com/ Listen via: The Troubadour Podcast Website Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Podbean

Today’s episode is a discussion of the relationship(s) between “natural rights” and the concrete specificities of human living. Our initial frivolity focuses on Robyn, Ryan, and Jon’s experiences of summer camp (Brian, for his part, has no such experiences), highlighting the specifics of Minnesotan lakes, camp songs, cowboy poetry, and vivid sense memories of cafeteria breakfasts. We then pivot into Lonergan’s 1977 lecture, “Natural Right and Historical Mindedness.” In this essay, Lonergan navigates the apparent tension between commitment to the idea of “natures” and the particularities of concrete location(s) and cultures(s). As Jon succinctly puts it, “If you’re going to say [human nature] transcends [these particulars], how?” Are natures unchanging? How does the assertion of metaphysics impact our account of variation in historicity? How can we be responsible in the ways we impact the unfolding of historical process? Lonergan offers his own answer to these questions, and the remainder of our chat explores how and why this is possible. TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT Aristotle. “Metaphysics.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by W.D. Ross, Reprint Edition., 681–926. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Translated by Robert S. Hartman. The Library of Liberal Arts 35. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1953. Kant, Immanuel. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Edited by Robert B. Louden. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Kant, Immanuel. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Gary Hatfield. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Foucault, Michel. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, 139–64. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Natural Right and Historical Mindedness.” In A Third Collection, edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, 163–76. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Untimely Meditations. Translated by Anthony Ludovici and Adrian Collins. Pantianos Classics, 2016. We have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically Please consider making a much-appreciated donation. We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

In today’s episode, we continue last’s week’s discussion of Lonergan’s “Mission and the Spirit.” After a quick request for our wonderful listeners to send us Treasures Old & New, we pick up our previous analysis of finality, which Lonergan understands as a relation to an end. This quick review leads us into the essay’s fourth section (“The Human Subject”), which examines the exigences driving the operations of our consciousness’ unfolding. Because human life is marred by bias, sin, and decline, Lonergan also stresses that our self-transcendence and vertical finality require the healing and elevation that can only come from God’s saving action in history. This soteriological necessity serves as the subject of the essay’s final section, which treats the missions of the Son and Spirit. TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT Augustine. On the Trinity. Edited by Gareth B. Matthews. Translated by Stephen McKenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Lonergan, Bernard, J.F. “Finality, Love, Marriage.” In Collection. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 17–52. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1988. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Mission and the Spirit.” In A Third Collection, edited by Frederick E. Crowe, 21–33. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “The Natural Desire to See God.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 81–91. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Rahner, Karl. “Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World.” In Theological Investigations, translated by Kevin Smyth, 4:157–92. Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1966. Rahner, Karl. Spirit in the World. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 1994. Sala, Giovanni B. Lonergan and Kant : Five Essays on Human Knowledge. Translated by Joseph Spoerl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Exciting update: we have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically and please consider making a much-appreciated donation. There reating and posting each episode of Systematically We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Subscribe on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

In today’s episode, we begin with a very amusing conversation about recurring dreams. This conversation quickly reveals that we don’t really know how math works (although we do learn that Jon likes “trashy, voluptuous equation[s]”)! We also learn that Robyn’s stockpile of recurring dreams is fascinating and intrepid. Jon’s King Lear dream, on the other hand, gets him yelled at by Orson Welles! After this most interesting introduction, we pivot into a discussion of Lonergan’s 1976 essay, “Mission and the Spirit.” First, we set the scene for by unpacking finality and its place in metaphysics and epistemology. This leads to a discussion of how incredibly complex and mid-blowing the universe is, as higher, sublative processes integrate and order lower schemes of recurrence (which gets even more interesting when we bring human agency into the picture). Even more fascinatingly, finality extends beyond even proportionate being, as all things have a relationship of absolute finality to God. Come back next week for an overview of how Lonergan relates this framework to trinitarian theology and soteriology. TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Aristotle. “Metaphysics.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by W.D. Ross, Reprint Edition., 681–926. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Blondel, Maurice. Action: Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice. Translated by Oliva Blanchette. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1984. Lonergan, Bernard, J.F. “Finality, Love, Marriage.” In Collection. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 17–52. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1988. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Mission and the Spirit.” In A Third Collection, edited by Frederick E. Crowe, 21–33. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “The Natural Desire to See God.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 81–91. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Lubac, Henri de. The Mystery of the Supernatural. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998. Rahner, Karl. “Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World.” In Theological Investigations, translated by Kevin Smyth, 4:157–92. Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1966. Exciting update: we have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically and please consider making a much-appreciated donation. There reating and posting each episode of Systematically We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Subscribe on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Jon Yeo deconstructed every aspect of business to become a winner. A self-confessed introvert, he worked tirelessly to improve the way he communicated, and now he actually advises professional speakers! Jon is behind TEDx Melbourne so he really knows what it’s like at the cutting edge of business. He is also past chapter president of Professional Speakers Australia.   See some of Jon’s top tips below: **  You can’t grow a business without the right mindset. **  Have the courage to be wrong. You won’t have all the answers. **  Never forget the true meaning of value. **  Understand how you can use numbers to make good business decisions. This is more than understanding how a spreadsheet works - it’s about understanding why each number is useful. **  Surround yourself with extraordinary people and understand how they think. **  Knowing yourself can be the difference between success and failure in business.     In this episode of Business Brain Food you will learn: **  How mindset helped build Jon’s business **  What value really means **  Are you born an entrepreneur? **  How to utilise ad-hoc support **  How Jon sees mistakes as good thing **  The changing face of the events industry     Resources mentioned in this episode: **  Find Jon on Linkedin here **  Keith Cunningham’s ‘Keys To The Vault’ course can be found here **  The Business Brain Food Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessbrainfood **  All previous BBF episodes & show notes can be found at http://www.businessbrainfood.com.au **  Twitter: https://twitter.com/bfewtrell   Call to action: As Jon says, “Anyone can be an entrepreneur, but some do it more efficiently than others”. Wise words! Also, if you are enjoying these Business Brain Food podcasts, then make sure to share them via social media sites or email the links to family and friends. A lot of time and effort goes into producing each of these podcasts with the goal in mind of the more people we can inspire about business the better. You can help us do just that!     Until next time, have a profitable day! Cheers, Ben Fewtrell (02) 8808 5500  

In today’s episode, we give low-temp takes on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, and high-temp takes on meaning! After blowing Robyn’s mind by demystifying DMs, unpacking the truly disturbing original version the “Baby Shark” song, and choosing our animal sidekicks (editor’s note: Brian’s would be a mischievous but loyal cartoon wolf named Wolfram), we continue our deep dive into some of Lonergan’s lesser-known writings. This week’s discussion is focused on Lonergan’s 1965 lecture, “Dimensions of Meaning,” which appears in Volume 4 of The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. True to its title, “Dimensions of Meaning” is a discussion of meaning, but—true to form—Lonergan means something very specific by “meaning.” What is the relationship of language and meaning? How does the mediation of meaning shape social and cultural development? How does meaning serve a constitutive function? Do we make meanings? Where do the natural sciences fit? These and similar questions are what drive today’s discussion. TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Jaspers, Karl. The Origin and Goal of History. Abingon: Routledge, 2016. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. O’Regan, Cyril. “The ‘Gift’ of Modernity.” Church Life Journal (Notre Dame), March 20, 2018. https://churchlife.nd.edu/2018/03/20/the-gift-of-modernity/ Piaget, Jean. The Moral Judgment of the Child. New York: Free Press, 1997. TREASURES OLD AND NEW Exciting update: we have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically and please consider making a much-appreciated donation. There reating and posting each episode of Systematically We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Subscribe on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

We’re back! As we begin the new year, we’re also starting a new season of Systematically, and we’re glad you’re with us. Although Brian and Robyn are absent (due to Christmastime traveling and sickness, respectively), Ryan and Jon ring in 2019 by discussing their children’s uncanny ability to both catch and spread seasonal illnesses, inhibiting dissertation progress along the way. This segues into a spirited conversation about Lonergan’s 1974 essay, “The Dialectic of Authority,” which appears in Volume 16 of The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. That essay focuses on the complex tension between power and the exercise of legitimate power (i.e., authority), especially as this tension impacts a community’s development of shared meanings and values. This tension’s historical unfolding manifests itself in widespread progress or decline. If contemporary headlines are any indication, Lonergan’s thoughts on the topic are still quite timely in 2019. TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Jaspers, Karl. The Origin and Goal of History. Abingon: Routledge, 2016. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dialectic of Authority.” In A Third Collection, edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, 3–9. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind. Revised Edition. New York: Dover Publications, 2011. Exciting update: we have a Patreon! Check out the page at https://www.patreon.com/systematically and please consider making a much-appreciated donation. There reating and posting each episode of Systematically We’re still working through what special content we will provide for our subscribers (mini-episodes, submission opportunities, merch, etc.), but we promise the perks will be exciting. As always, your support is greatly appreciated! Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us and chat with us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Subscribe on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is…not a full episode! As Advent moves us closer and closer to Christmas, we are taking a brief hiatus, and this recording is a message and update from Jon. We have big plans for a new year of podcasts, and we’re excited to bring you more interviews, discussions, and frivolity in 2019. Until we return in January, we want to wish you and your loved ones a restful, happy, and blessed holiday season. Thanks for listening! As always, our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is a one-on-one conversation between Jon and Robyn, developing our conversation from Episode 04 (“The One Introducing Theology of Children”) by exploring the specifics of childhood decision-making. Does it happen? Is it important? How can adults more effectively foster integral meaning-making and existential authenticity in childhood development? Before this discussion, however, we address the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving, debate the problematics of putting up Christmas decorations during Advent, and analyze the inclusion of Advent wreaths in liturgy. Robyn then gives an overview of contemporary bioethical debates regarding childhood decisions, especially as her own work contests a number of the field’s unexamined assumptions. Robyn wraps up the discussion by sharing her rather morbid Treasure New, and soliciting your feedback about corresponding Treasures Old, then we say goodbye. To listen to Robyn present "Children and Meaningful Choice: Medical Decision-Making and Lonergan on Meaning" at Lonergan on the Edge 2018, visit https://www.lonerganresource.com/conference.php?49 TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Beauchamp, Tom L, and James F Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Seventh Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Bluebond-Langner, Myra. The Private Worlds of Dying Children. First Paperback Edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1980. Kierkegaard, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition For Upbuilding And Awakening. Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Third Edition. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Matthews, Gareth. The Philosophy of Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. McCabe, Mary Ann. “Involving Children and Adolescents in Medical Decision Making: Developmental and Clinical Considerations.” Journal of Pediatric Psychology 21, no. 4 (1996): 505–16. Miller, Mark T. The Quest for God and the Good Life: Lonergan’s Theological Anthropology. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Voegelin, Eric. “Immortality: Experience and Symbol.” The Harvard Theological Review 60, no. 3 (1967): 235–79. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Cicero. On Life and Death. Edited by John Davie and Miriam T. Griffin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Edited by Dennis Taylor. Reprint edition. London: Penguin Classics, 1998. Laqueur, Thomas W. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Reprint Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is a one-on-one discussion between Jon and Ryan, laying the groundwork for clarifying what precisely we, the hosts of a podcast called “Systematically,” understand systematic theology to be. The chat begins with a brief overview of the Heaps and Hemmer couples’ joint vacation on Marco Island, where they reflected upon the divergences between Hot Fuzz and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, the speed of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue, and the apparent malaise of Floridean retirees. This pivots into a nuanced examination of the relationship(s) between systematic theology, dogmatic theology, historical consciousness, and philosophy. The conversation then culminates in a discussion of whether or not speculative theology can make any meaningful contribution to our contemporary pluralist cultural contexts. Ryan wraps up the discussion by sharing his Treasures Old & New, and then we say goodbye. TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Aristotle. The Basic Works of Aristotle. Edited by Richard McKeon. Translated by J.A. Smith. Reprint Edition. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Coakley, Sarah. God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Foucault, Michel. Power. Edited by James D. Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley. Vol. 3. The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. New York: The New Press, 2001. Harnack, Adolf. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. Translated by James Moffatt. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008. Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. Translated by Bruce Fink. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Marion, Jean-Luc. Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Lonergan, Bernard J.F. The Triune God: Systematics. Edited by Robert M. Doran and Daniel Monsour. Translated by Michael G. Shields. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 12. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is a thought-provoking conversation between Ryan and Paul Axton, one of the founders of Forging Ploughshares, a communal initiative striving to cultivate the Peaceable Kingdom through ministry in biblical study, community outreach, media productions, and international outreach. After a brief conversation about racquetball, Dr. Axton gives us an overview of his book, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation, which T&T Clark just released in paperback and Kindle Edition. The conversation pivots into a nuanced, wide-ranging exploration of the interconnections and mutually illuminating convergences and divergences between biblical theology, psychoanalytic theory, various theories of atonement, and the paschal mystery. Paul then gives us an introduction to how Forging Ploughshares is helping to establish a community ordered toward overcoming the deception of sin. Lastly, Paul shares his Treasures Old & New, and then we say goodbye. Learn more about Forging Ploughshares by visiting https://forgingploughshares.org You can purchase a paperback copy of Paul’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/Psychotheology-Sin-Salvation-Paul-Axton/dp/0567682498/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1542639195 To listen to Ryan being interviewed on the Forging Ploughshares Podcast, visit http://podcast.forgingploughshares.org/category/ryan-hemmer/ TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Anselm. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works. Edited by Brian Davies and G. R. Evans. Reissue edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Axton, Paul V. The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation: An Analysis of the Meaning of the Death of Christ in Light of the Psychoanalytical Reading of Paul. Paperback Edition. London: T&T Clark, 2018. Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Revised edition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2007. Doi, Takeo. The Anatomy of Dependence. Reprint edition. Kodansha International, 2014. Doi, Takeo. Understanding Amae. Kent: Global Oriental, 2005. Freud, Sigmund. The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. Translated by A. A. Brill. New York: Modern Library, 1995. Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. Translated by Bruce Fink. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Moltmann, Jurgen. The Crucified God. 40th Anniversary Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. Zizek, Slavoj. The Essential Zizek: The Complete Set. London: Verso, 2009. Zizek, Slavoj, and Simon Critchley. How to Read Lacan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Hauerwas, Stanley. The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. Irenæus. The Writings of Irenæus. Aeterna Press, 2015. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is a lovely chat with our very interesting and talented friends Erin Kidd, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s University (Queens, NY), and Jakob Karl Rinderknecht, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Pastoral Institute at University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, TX). After a lively discussion of Erin’s most recent culinary catastrophes and the wild/wonderful Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee, we learn about Erin and Jakob’s new edited volume: Putting God on the Map: Theology and Conceptual Mapping (Fortress Press, 2018). The volume is an interdisciplinary work in theology and cognitive science, and our conversation covers the basics of cognitive linguistics and conceptual mapping. We also introduce the wide-ranging implications of their intersections and applications in theological discourse. Jon shares his Treasures Old & New, and then we say goodbye. Erin and Jakob are very generously offering our listeners a 30% discount on Putting God on the Map! Enter promotional code LEX30AUTH18 when you checkout at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978703964/Putting-God-on-the-Map-Theology-and-Conceptual-Mapping TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Johnson, Elizabeth. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. 10th Anniversary Edition. New York: Crossroad, 2002. Jong, Jonathan, Christopher Kavanagh, and Aku Visala. “Born Idolaters: The Limits of the Philosophical Implications of the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 57, no. 2 (2015): 244–66. Kidd, Erin. “The Subject of Conceptual Mapping: Theological Anthropology across Brain, Body, and World.” Open Theology 4, no. 1 (2018): 117–35. Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Masson, Robert. Without Metaphor, No Saving God: Theology after Cognitive Linguistics. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2014. Ricoeur, Paul. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976. Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language. Translated by Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello. London: Routledge, 1978. Rinderknecht, Jakob Karl. Mapping the Differentiated Consensus of the Joint Declaration. New York: Palgrave, 2016. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Schleiermacher, Friedrich. Christian Faith (Two-Volume Set): A New Translation and Critical Edition. Translated by Terrence N. Tice, Catherine L. Kelsey, and Edwina Lawler. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Today’s episode is a lovely chat with our very talented friend Jakob Karl Rinderknecht, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Pastoral Institute at University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, TX). First, we ask Jakob a series of our go-to Introductory Questions. These questions lead to impromptu introductions to monastic tonsure, as well as the weird and wonderful Milwaukee watering hole known as The Palm. Next, Jakob gives us a primer on the complex history of the relationships between the local and universal church, the episcopacy and the papacy, and ecclesial authority and local governments. The conversation culminates in a nuanced and accessible introduction to synods, the relationship(s) of synods and councils, and the consequences of various positions on synodality in contemporary Catholic theology. Jakob also shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Conference), and Bergoglio, Jorge Mario. The Aparecida Document. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Flannery, Austin, ed. Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations. Revised Edition in Inclusive Language. Northport, NY: Costello, 1996. Gaillardetz, Richard R. An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2015. Heaps, Jonathan. “What Did Pope Francis Mean to Say with His Strange Abuse Crisis Letter?” In Church Life Journal. Posted September 3, 2018: http://churchlife.nd.edu/2018/09/03/what-did-pope-francis-mean-to-say-with-his-strange-abuse-crisis-letter Lubac, Henri de. Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages. Translated by Gemma Simmonds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. McDonnell, Kilian. “The Ratzinger/Kasper Debate: The Universal Church and Local Churches.” Theological Studies 63, no. 2 (2002): 227–50. Pope Francis. Amoris Laetitia: On Love in the Family. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2016. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Duffy, Stephen J. The Dynamics of Grace: Perspectives in Theological Anthropology. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007. Duffy, Stephen J. The Graced Horizon: Nature and Grace in Modern Catholic Thought. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1992. Turnbloom, David Farina. Speaking with Aquinas: A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2017. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

This episode proves that even when Robyn’s away, Jon, Ryan, and Brian will still be nerds (and argue about the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In!). First, we catch up on our recent pop culture consumption, as well as Ryan and Jon’s responses to toddler-initiated accidents. After a brief discussion of films about Formula 1 racing, Ryan gives us an overview of how René Girard’s mimetic theory relates to Lonergan’s scale of values. We then unpack Ryan’s observations by discussing how friendship, affectivity, politics, and grace complicate and illuminate Girard’s writings. Brian shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998. Doran, Robert M. Theology and the Dialectics of History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Girard, René. Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Girard, René. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. Translated by James G. Williams. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis, 2001. Girard, René. The Scapegoat. Translated by Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Girard, René. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. First edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Girard, René. Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Kaplan, Grant. René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Miller, Mark T. “Imitating Christ’s Cross: Lonergan and Girard on How and Why.” Heythrop Journal 54, no. 5 (2013): 859–79. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Flanagan, Brian P. Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church. Collegeville: Liturgical Press Academic, 2018. Giussani, Luigi. The Religious Sense. Translated by John E. Zucchi. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

This episode explores the intersections of Trinitarian theology, psychology, epistemology, and embodiment. After we spend a few glorious moments pondering the potential advantages and dangers of providing alcohol to athletes, Ryan gives us a brief introduction to Thomas’ psychological analogy and its importance to systematic theology. This frames our discussion of how meaning is experienced by embodied, self-present, knowing subjects. The givenness of such experience is central to Jon’s 2016 article, “Insight is a Body-Feeling: Experiencing our Understanding,” and we spend the majority of our episode exploring the implications of Jon’s arguments in this essay. Ryan shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT All referenced passages from Thomas’ Summa Theologiae are available in both Latin and English at https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/index.html Aristotle. “On the Soul.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by J.A. Smith, Reprint Edition., 533–604. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Doran, Robert M. Theology and the Dialectics of History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Gendlin, Eugene. Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Heaps, Jonathan. “Insight Is a Body-Feeling: Experiencing Our Understanding.” Heythrop Journal 57 (2016): 461–72. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. The Triune God: Doctrines. 11th Revised Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. The Triune God: Systematics. Edited by Robert M. Doran and Daniel Monsour. Translated by Michael G. Shields. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 12. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Donald Landes. New York: Routledge, 2014. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Misner, Paul. Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialization to the First World War. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1991. O’Siadhail, Michael. The Five Quintets. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

Guilt! Sin! Cheesy TV Movies! This episode has something for everyone. First, we share our pop culture “guilty pleasures,” exploring Brian and Jon’s questionable musical choices (past and present!), Ryan’s Star Wars fandom, and the guiltiest of all pleasures: Hallmark Christmas Movies. The ensuing chaos segues fittingly into shared reflections on the surds of sin, evil, and decline. We discuss the connections and divergences between medieval terminology, contemporary relational anthropologies, and our own linguistic baggage, and then work toward a framework for analyzing sin on the level of our time. Robyn shares her Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998. All referenced passages from Thomas’ Summa Theologiae are available in both Latin and English at https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/index.html Thomas Aquinas. On Evil. Edited by Brian Davies. Translated by Richard Regan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Augustine. City of God. Translated by Henry Bettenson. Revised Edition. London: Penguin Classics, 2003. Davies, Brian. The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil. London: Continuum, 2006. Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Kaplan, Grant. René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Lonergan, Bernard J. F. The Incarnate Word. Edited by Robert M. Doran, Charles Hefling, and Jeremy D. Wilkins. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 8. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries. Illustrated Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Pelikan, Jaroslav. Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Richard of St. Victor. On the Trinity: English Translation and Commentary. Translated by Angelici Ruben. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

This episode finds us safely returned from our trip to Milwaukee, and excited to talk about theology and philosophy! After Robyn gives us a mind-blowing introduction to obscure British comedy albums, we dive into a discussion of the fact/value distinction. Is there a meaningful difference between “is” and “ought”? Do judgments of fact ever occur independent of moral connotations? Did Hobbes have gastrointestinal problems? We explore answers to these and other exciting questions. Ryan shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five is a good number of stars! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Aristotle. “Categories.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by E.M. Edghill, Reprint Edition., 7–37. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Aristotle. “Metaphysics.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by W.D. Ross, Reprint Edition., 681–926. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001. Byrne, Patrick H. The Ethics of Discernment: Lonergan’s Foundations for Ethics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by C. B. MacPherson. Fourth Edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1982. Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Kovesi, Julius. Moral Notions. Edited by R. E. Ewin and Alan Tapper. Lisa Loucks Christenson Publishing, LLC, 2004. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Cognitional Structure.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 205–21. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. O’Donovan, Oliver. Self, World, and Time. Vol. 1. Ethics as Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. Westphal, Merold. Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church. The Church and Postmodern Culture. Baker Academic, 2009. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Desmond, William. God and the Between. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Reissue edition. New York: Vintage, 1992. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast Lastly, if you enjoy our conversations, please share them with your friends!

As Jon and Tim get ready to go broadcast from the Memphis Grizzlies Pre-Game Pep Rally before their game in Birmingham, they knock out an Off the Record podcast that touches on a variety of subjects. This is unscripted, real conversation. This is what happens off the air. This is Off the Record. 0:40 - Jon and Tim discuss their excitement for the NBA coming to Birmingham and if the NBA would work permanently in the Magic City. 8:28 - Tim talks about having to wake up early to deal with his sick daughter. 10:15 - A new "AJ Question of the Day": Who would you like to interview you and for what reason would they be conducting the interview. Jon chooses Bill Simmons and Tim chooses Conan O'Brien and compared Conan to old late night hosts. 14:20 - Tim asks Jon whether he is more comfortable on or off the air. Jon gives his reasoning for why he is more comfortable off the air. 20:34 - Tim asks Jon what his dream project would be within radio. Jon explains his dream scenario which is something that hasn't ever really been attempted before. 28:10 - Jon and Tim discuss doing more than 2 hours at a time (which is how long Primetime is each night). That leads into a discussion about how Primetime is much different than The Midnight Meltdown (their first radio show together on another station). 39:14 - Tim discusses buying NBA 2k19 for..."research". 41:25 - Jon talks about how excited he is for A Star is Born while Tim makes fun of him. 43:30 - Tim asks Jon why he hasn't gotten their video series going yet. 47:20 - Jon and Tim complain about the weather being too hot for October. 48:55 - Jon and Tim talk about how they always get sick when the weather transitions from hot to cold and cold to hot outside.

This episode is recorded on location at Lonergan on the Edge Graduate Student Conference, an annual event featuring presentations drawing from, related to, or adjacent to Lonergan studies. Gathering around the coffee table in Robyn’s hotel suite, we are joined by our friend Chanelle, who presented this year’s M. Shawn Copeland Presentation in Contextual Theology. After Chanelle answers a number of our go-to Introductory Questions, she gives us a brief overview of her excellent presentation, “Embodiment, Bias, and Memory: The Theological Task of Remembering Indigenous Women in Canada and Unsettling the Virgin Mary.” Chanelle reflects on how Copeland’s methodology might provide the theological grammar necessary for discussing missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW), and briefly explores how Bernard Lonergan’s understanding of bias might unmask the inaction and apathy of both the federal government and the Roman Catholic Church in Canada. Finally, through sustained reflection on the intersectional identity of the Virgin Mary, she proposes that Mary and her posture of memory might frame how the Roman Catholic Church responds to and supports communities impacted by MMIW. Brian shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five stars is a good number! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Mary for Today. San Francisco, Calif: Ignatius Press, 1988. Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Chanelle also references the REDress Project. This project is “an aesthetic response to the more than 1000 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.” Visit http://www.theredressproject.org to learn more. To learn more about Lonergan on the Edge and the Marquette Lonergan Project, and to access papers and recordings from past meetings of Lonergan on the Edge, visit https://www.lonerganresource.com “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Möhler, Johann Adam. Unity in the Church, or, The Principles of Catholicism: Presented in the Spirit of the Church Fathers of the First Three Centuries. Translated by Peter C. Erb. Reprint Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal. In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall. Translated by Boniface Ramsey. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. Brian also mentions the following book as an interesting correlate to Ratzinger’s homilies on creation: Crysdale, Cynthia S. W., and Neil Ormerod. Creator God, Evolving World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast

In today’s episode, we begin by discussing our most memorable cooking failures, asking a proverbial chicken/egg question: “Does Robyn have no memories of her cooking failures because her culinary record is perfect, or is Robyn’s culinary record perfect because her memory has selectively deleted her cooking failures?” Regardless of where you stand on this issue, we doubt you’ll disagree that her area of research is fascinating. This research is focused on the theology of children, which is the topic of today’s main segment. Robyn walks us through contemporary debates about children’s humanity, dignity, agency, etc., pointing out how much work remains to be done within this burgeoning field. Robyn then gives us an introduction to her own work in developing a nuanced, holistic, and honest account of children and their decision-making, especially as this relates to theological anthropology and ethics. Jon shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Exciting reminder: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five stars is a good number! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Blackwood, Jeremy W. And Hope Does Not Disappoint: Love, Grace, and Subjectivity in the Work of Bernard J. F. Lonergan, S.J. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2017. Derrida, Jacques. The Animal That Therefore I Am. Edited by Marie-Louis Mallet. Translated by David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Doran, Robert M. Theology and the Dialectics of History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Jensen, David H. Graced Vulnerability: A Theology Of Childhood. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005. Gandolfo, Elizabeth O’Donnell. The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Piaget, Jean. The Moral Judgment of the Child. New York: Free Press, 1997. Rahner, Karl. “Ideas for a Theology of Childhood.” In Theological Investigations, Volume 8: Further Theology of the Spiritual Life 2. 33–50. London/New York: Darton, Longman & Todd/Herder and Herder, 1971. Rothko, Mark, and Kate Prizel Rothko. The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. Edited by Christopher Rothko. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Wall, John. “Childhood Studies, Hermeneutics, and Theological Ethics.” Journal of Religion 86, no. 4 (2006): 523–548. Wall, John. “Fatherhood, Childism, and the Creation of Society.” In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75, no. 1 (2007): 52–76. Wall, John. “Human Rights in Light of Childhood.” In International Journal of Children’s Rights 16 (2008) 523–543. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Walsh, J. P. M. The Mighty from Their Thrones: Power in Biblical Tradition. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2004. George, Robert P., and R. J. Snell. Mind, Heart, and Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome. Charlotte: TAN Books, 2018. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast

In today’s episode, we begin by sharing our favorite movie quotes, referencing a true statistical anomaly: a movie where (spoiler alert!) Sean Bean does not die. The discussion then pivots to Lonergan’s distinction between classical and statistical intelligibilities, especially as it is employed in a forthcoming article co-authored by Jon and Neil Ormerod. Jon gives us a teaser of this article, explaining how the complementarity of classical and statistical investigations might provide a helpful foundation for exploring the word “normal” and its implications for a metaphysical analysis of gender, sexual identity, cultural meaning, and ethics. We then discuss the necessity of distinguishing the respective aims and operations of dogmatic and systematic theology, highlighting the unique and important role speculative theology plays in navigating theological reflection. Ryan shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye. Brian is off defending his dissertation in Toronto (second spoiler alert: he passes!), but he will be back soon. Thanks for listening. Exciting update: We are now on iTunes! Please search for Systematically Podcast, hit the “Subscribe” button, and—if you’re feeling so inclined—leave us a review. As Jon points out, five stars is a good number! TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge Classics Edition. New York: Routledge, 2006. Doran, Robert M. Theology and the Dialectics of History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Heaps, Jonathan and Ormerod, Neil. “Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of ‘Normal.’” Theological Studies. March, 2019. At Press. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Milbank, John. Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon. Radical Orthodoxy. London: Routledge, 2003. “TREASURES OLD AND NEW” Coakley, Sarah. God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Gilson, Etienne. Being and Some Philosophers. Second Edition. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016. Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV “14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track. Follow us on Twitter @SystematicPod Email us at SystematicallyPodcast@gmail.com Subscribe and Review us on iTunes: Systematically Podcast

00:00 // Intro talk. Are we out of topics!? Nope. As Jon’s wife says, “only boring people are bored.”5:30 jumping into the episode! (We’re talking about Sundance)Robert Redford is a good looking man. “Old Man And The Gun” // Watch the trailer Mr. Show // Watch this episode on YouTube // Feat: David Cross and Bob Odenkirk)Mitch Hurwitz on IMDB 13:15 Time for the MAIL BAGPeacock update15fourJustin Bieber’s pastor (apparently they had a falling out)Lisa (Left Eye) Lopez // “Don’t Go Chasin’ Waterfalls”23:20 / That was interesting story add space24:00 // We solve the age-old question… What was in the head in the box???28:30 // Steve helps us with the school-arson fact checkNorthern district police station PICTURE // Spoiler: it really does look like a castle39:00 // Back to stories of Sundance!!!James Schamus on WikipediaAn exterior picture of our house at SundanceA picture of the deadly fireplaceMarcus Cox On IMDB Tangerine // Watch it on NetflixCredits and Personal Links:A Mama Bear Studios Production // Mama Bear Studios’ WebsiteProduced and Edited by: Isaiah SmallmanExecutive Producer: Jon SchimpfOpening music: "The Get Down," Produced by Summer DregsOutro music: Composed and Recorded by Tom Paulus and Max BelzCover Art by: Nate GiordanoShow Website | ThatWay.fmShow Twitter | @ThatWayPodJon TwitterIsaiah InstagramIsaiah IMDBIsaiah’s Twitter (which he never uses)Isaiah LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Jon reaches the seven-year anniversary of getting laid off and ultimately starting his business, he struggles with the perils of boredom after seven years of doing the same thing. How do you get the passion back when it seems that the excitement of doing something new is gone?

Scott Brophey. As Jon conveys the wonder of the Trinity, he also lays out the importance of Christ as the revealer of God's mind and will.

Open relationships. We've all heard about them. But how do they work? Would one be right for you? And how can you even broach the subject with your partner? And then, if you get into one, do you need to set rules? Can they change? Do you need to ask for permission beforehand, or take video footage to share with your partner afterwards? It gets very complicated very quickly, and in this special episode, we set out to answer all these questions and more. The goal isn't to unconditionally praise open relationships, but to explore what they are, how they work, and what the many benefits and pitfalls can be. First off, we dig into the biological and anthropological history of monogamy. Andrea breaks down some of the dodgy science being cited by open relationship evangelists, while Jon takes the side of Chris Ryan (author of Sex atDawn) and his argument against the idea that monogamy is simply 'natural'. Why is this all so emotionally charged for us in the first place, though? In large part, it's because we've been fed a gluttonous diet of unrealistic and idealised versions of what 'true love' is and should be through TV, movies, books, and magazines. But real life and real people aren't so simple (or so boring). Few people are sexually monogamous with one person for their whole lives, so it raises the question of why being serially monogamous is somehow 'better' than getting jiggy with multiple people at the same time. Jealousy is the obvious issue here, and it's one of the biggest fears about open relationships: How will I be able to deal with my partner being intimate with someone else? But jealousy doesn't have to be a bad thing. Relationship counsellor Esther Perel argues that jealousy is 'an erotic rage', which can be channelled in positive directions – to inspire you to bring your best self to your relationship, to recharge your energy and really take your investment in your partner to the next level. And that shouldn't be confused with possessiveness. Possessiveness is when we try to keep our partners on a short leash because we're afraid and insecure that surely they'll leave us if we even give them a sniff of other possibilities. If the fear of being open is that your partner might fall for someone else and run away with them, it's worth pausing to reflect that they can always do that anyway, unless you physically lock them in the house. In any case, exploring an open relationship is neither a recipe for an immediate jealousy implosion nor abundant wall-to-wall orgies. As Jon explains from personal experience, it's more of a crash course in confronting your deepest insecurities. To work well, open relationships require morecommunication, morewillingness to be vulnerable, moretrust, and so on. This isn't the absence of commitment, but a much more active and conscious approach to that commitment. It's a process – often an immensely challenging one – which can be incredibly rewarding for your personal development, self-understanding, and your ability to remove the masks of fear and truly connect with another person. Jon shares plenty of stories from his own experiences of open relationships – including his many fuck-ups – and why, despite all the challenges, he wouldn't want to go back to monogamy. Andrea is, if not on the other side of the debate, at least standing on the fence, so this is a juicy discussion rather than a manifesto. But being a discussion – and on such a hot topic – we want your questions! Get in touch via our Facebook Groupor through hello@voicesinthedark.world. We'll be recording a follow-up episode where we dig into the digital mailbag to continue the conversation.   Also Including: Why being teammates is the most romantic kind of relationship How to deal with strong emotional reactions Are threesomes the gateway drug to open relationships? Erotic rage! 'You're mine' vs. 'I'm yours' Using the right language to discuss emotional issues Find Out More: Chris Ryan and Cacilda Jethá's landmark book, Sex at Dawn Esther Perel Aubrey Marcus's Open Relationship Field Guide and other resources – highly recommended Be Silly. Be Kind. Be Weird.

Jon Meacham’s new book, The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels provides a condensed view of the history of the United States, chronicling the tougher times that we have endured.I enjoy reading history, and at my age, I’ve lived a lot of it! What strikes me in reading Meacham’s book is how our history has been distorted by the story-teller, and even when living through an era, our memories are imperfect.As Jon’s book unfolds, he gives us hope that just as in times past, the right parts of humanity prevail and we are a better society when we band together with simple messages about loving one another and caring for our neighbor. It was the perfect reading material last week to follow Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s inspiring sermon at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle!Jon’s well-referenced story dispelled many of the myths that I had previously held:I’ve been to museums that attempt to convince that the Civil War was really all about the financial challenges of a cotton-based economy. Not so fast. Jon cites numerous politicians and authors of the time: it was clearly about slavery and racial injustice. But what I didn’t know is that Abraham Lincoln had changed his position on slavery, first agreeing that no slave owner would have to change in the South, but then eventually turning to an emancipation of all slaves regardless of location.I remember how excited my mother was when JFK was elected. Both my parents were staunch Republicans but also Catholics. My mother said that a Catholic would never be elected to the US Presidency as she carried the stigma of being the daughter of Polish Catholic immigrants.I had forgotten that the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t just against African-Americans. They hated Catholics and Jews, too. How easy it is to block our memories when we encounter sin.I’m left with this quote from Meacham’s book: “There is such a thing as discernible reality. Facts, as John Adams once said, are stubborn things, and yet too many Americans are locked into their particular vision of the world, choosing this view or that perspective based not on its grounding in fact but on whether it’s a view or perspective endorsed by the leaders one follows. “The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it,” Truman wrote. “Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they’ll believe it and go along with you.”May we start telling the truth, not blocking sin from our memory but overcoming it.Blessings, my friend,Agatha

In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, Kirsten welcomes special needs financial planning expert Jon Elfin into the studio. Jon has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry and focuses on processes and expertise to help clients understand their options and more importantly take action when it comes to building and preserving wealth for families with special needs dependents. Jon and Kirsten break down what exactly special needs planning encompasses and discuss the processes that Jon goes through with each of his clients. More importantly, Jon discusses a few of the biggest mistakes he sees when clients come into his practice and also highlights effective strategies that a special needs family can take now in securing the future of their dependents. As Jon is also a parent of a special needs child, throughout the interview he weaves in topics of transitional life experience from his own personal perspective. Big Three From Episode #008: Start early Don’t be overwhelmed Utilize your resources!   Time-stamped Show Notes: 1:50 – What exactly is Special Needs Planning? 2:48 – How Jon got into Special Needs Planning 4:00 – The complexities of Special Needs Planning 7:00 – Jon highlights common mistakes he’s come across in his practice when working with clients 8:05 – Jon and Kirsten discuss a few of the biggest benefits/acronyms that people miss 10:42 – Kirsten discusses Special Needs Planning from the estate planning point of view and a special provision that should be put in all estate plans 11:37 – Jon addresses why ages 18 and 22 are important ages for special needs people 13:30 – Jon defines “transition class” and its extreme importance 15:35 – What a regional center is and how it helps special needs families plan the next step. 16:20 – Don’t leave all the money for a special needs family member to a sibling! 20:14 – A special needs person can save money in these accounts too – Big win for the disability community 25:15 – The other important strategy for special needs individuals according to Jon is life insurance  Episode #008 Freebie: No matter where you are in your journey as a special needs family know that there are things that can be done to help build and protect the future of your special needs dependent. During this episode, Jon mentioned a few of the common mistakes well-intentioned special needs families make. To help educate listeners on what to look for he outlined and is exclusively sharing with us a few more! In addition, Jon is also offering a FREE 90-minute consultation. So if you’re a special needs parent or caretaker who is worried or doesn’t know where to start, call Jon. He will cover all of the basics and see if he can be of further service in making your special needs life transitions go as smoothly as possible.   Resources/Tools/Links mentioned in this episode: Special Olympics Sunflower Hill Disability benefits 101 - https://ca.db101.org/

Holly, Jace, Dylan and Jon Smith of X96 and the Down Range Podcast go head-to-head in an epic battle to argue their favorite Disney movies to victory! As Jon put it, "I've actually had gun control debates that were more civil than this!"

Holly, Jace, Dylan and Jon Smith of X96 and the Down Range Podcast go head-to-head in an epic battle to argue their favorite Disney movies to victory! As Jon put it, "I've actually had gun control debates that were more civil than this!"

MARCH 16, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee and Chandler Dean! As Jon settles back into his life behind a desk, he is disrespected by Tom Green as he stomps it with impunity! Plus, Steve Carell is on the consumption path – devouring the recently departed Andy Kindler with his TV recaps and then slimming down to run the Boston Marathon. Daily Show Weekly is produced by Vic Shuttee, with album artwork designed by Felipe Flores Comics! #SteveyGuy

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman Jon DeWaal is the founder of Liminal Space, a nonprofit dedicated to helping others navigate life's major transitions. As Jon suggests change is a natural part of the human story. In all transition, small or large, transformation takes place and it is that process that shapes our future story. How we manage and respond to transition is a choice. How we learn and grow from the experience is powerful. In this episode, Jon lays down the fundamentals of change and transition and Why it's such an important topic. He shares practical tips that we can all benefit from. Enjoy!

FEBRUARY 16, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee and Chandler Dean! As Jon gets his Grammy on, a few lucky correspondents get the opportunity to keep their host’s seat warm as Guest Anchors. Stephen Colbert shakes the nervous energy of his previous interview and delivers world class charm in his two cracks at the chair. Plus, real life husband and wife team Nancy Walls and Steve Carell go full morning schmooze on the desk, with empty banter and plenty of “gonna be fun!” Jon better get back soon, or he may not have a job to come back to! Daily Show Weekly is produced by Vic Shuttee, with album artwork designed by Felipe Flores Comics! #ItsSatire

The holidays are a time to gather with our family, friends, and coworkers. There are social gatherings to attend and eggnog to drink. A time of joy and chatter. The holidays can also be a time of anxiety and stress. One of the tools we have found to be helpful during gatherings and in our family life is to become a gentle observer. A gentle observer, according to Maureen Graves, is someone who steps outside of the moment and notes what is happening. The gentle observer does not judge herself or himself, or other people. As we cannot control the behaviors of others, we focus on taking care of ourselves so we can have a loving experience. As Jon notes in the podcast, being a gentle observer is like becoming Ebenezer in A Christmas Carol. He is an onlooker to the past, present, and future. He can not meddle in the what is going on but merely observe from his perspective as a ghost. In this way, you can also become a spectator, you are not pulled into conversations by emotional responses. You can choose to respond, or you can choose to just watch it unfold. The gentle observer can also be a way to listen to what others have to say, even if you don't agree with their opinion. You can use it at social gatherings, when you go out shopping, or when you listen to your teenagers as they verbalize the belief systems they are trying to create. A gentle observer is a way we can be gentle with ourselves and with those we love. (Theme music: Ethan Anderson, Photo credit: Brigitte Tohm) Relationship Podcast Gems: What does it mean to be a Gentle Observer for you? Talk about what anxieties you have before attending your social setting. While observing, note your responses to the situations. Reflect with your spouse/partner on what you observed about yourself and others after the event. Grab your free conversation starter for a peaceful holiday experience this year! Stream "Dealing With the Holidays" Your Next Steps: Grab your freebie for fun conversation. Join our email list for new episodes and articles.

GET FREE EMAIL UPDATES First NameLast NameEmail YOUR PURPOSE IS CALLING PODCAST EPISODE 006 Christian Filmmaker Jon Cortizo LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: SHARE THIS: View show notes Photo by Gina Esposito Have you ever felt trapped and miserable in your job, even a job you once dreamed of, and unsure of how you could change course? My guest on this episode of the Your Purpose is Calling podcast, filmmaker Jon Cortizo, certainly has. Several years ago  Jon was living the life he dreamed of since he was a kid. He had a job working in production on Hollywood films and top television shows. But the grind of working 14 to 15 hour days left Jon feeling isolated and burned out at a young age. As Jon says, “I sounded like a grumpy old man at 22.” At one point Jon was so miserable in what had once been his dream job that he was close to contemplating suicide. But a chance visit from his sister and the support of a church community helped Jon discover a new dream for his career. In this episode of the Your Purpose is Calling podcast Jon talks about the influences that helped him re-shape his perspective on ambition, competition, and calling. Jon talks about the importance of a church community and how using his passion and gifting for filmmaking to serve in his local church gave him a fresh perspective on his career. He discusses how he discovered that he could use his gifting to make a positive impact in people’s lives and serve God. In this episode Jon discusses: How a failed first business helped him create a more successful second one The high price of an unhealthy view of competition How biblical principles apply to work and career today How he redefines success today Listen to the podcast to learn more about Jon’s story. Subscribe on iTunes to hear all episodes of the Your Purpose is Calling podcast and leave us a review. SHOW NOTES: Here are links and resources that were referenced during this episode. Jon and Erin Cortizo’s website Books about John Wooden Last Chance U show on Netflix Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 SUPPORT THE PODCAST: The Your Purpose is Calling podcast features conversations with Christians who are finding purpose, redefining work and changing their world. Want to hear more? Here are a few ways you can support this podcast. Subscribe on iTunes Leave a review on iTunes Subscribe to the blog Follow me on Instagram Like the Facebook page The post 006: From Burnout to a New Business with Purpose appeared first on Dawn Sadler.

Get your presentation skills right and you can totally transform your business, so listen up to our esteemed guest Jon Yeo. Jon is the licensing curator of TEDx Melbourne and has worked as a specialist consultant for numerous TEDx speakers, so he understands exactly what it takes for speakers to succeed at the highest level. There were so many pearls of wisdom from Jon, which were delivered clearly and succinctly as you can imagine! Here are some of the highlights:   **  Speaking is becoming more relevant. In an era where words have been reduced down for mediums like Twitter, TED-style talks (18 minutes or less) are more relevant than ever. **  On-demand education from talks is becoming more popular by the day, because of how fluid people’s careers are these days. People need to learn a lot of different things throughout their career but often can’t justify learning in the same academic depth as they used to. **  Good communication is a balance of relevance and engagement. Think ‘content’, ‘context’ and ‘intent’. **  When giving a talk, get over the fact you’re transferring knowledge. The emphasis should be on giving insight. Aspire to get your audience to say “tell me more about that”. **  It takes and average of 25 times to fully ‘embody’ your content. The amount of practice you need to put in when speaking is to get you to the point where you are so ‘embodied’ in your content, your delivery sounds natural. **  The greatest speakers have the ability to change the tone, pitch and positioning of information. **  Always remember your audience. This sounds obvious, but you must think long and hard about what they might want to hear, and give them a message that’s digestible. **  Be clear on your desired outcome at the end. That way you know what content to leave out.   In this episode of Business Brain Food you will learn:   **  How long you should practice for a talk **  How to market yourself to TEDx **  How to cram your message in to 18 minutes **  The 9 dimensions of communication **  What is the right amount of content **  The benefits of speaking coaching **  The 5 levels of understanding **  Do we still need subject matter experts?   Resources mentioned in this episode:   **  Ben’s free business planning template: http://www.maxmyprofit.com.au **  To connect with Tim on Linkedin, send him a request beginning with the sentence “Jon, I heard your interview” **  All previous BBF episodes & show notes can be found at http://www.businessbrainfood.com.au **  Twitter: https://twitter.com/bfewtrell   As Jon said, think of the potential loss of opportunity if you stuff up your pitch/speech. This is a fundamental part of business that you need to master! Also, if you are enjoying these Business Brain Food podcasts, then make sure to share them via social media sites or email the links to family and friends. A lot of time and effort goes into producing each of these podcasts with the goal in mind of the more people we can inspire about business the better. You can help us do just that! Until next time, have a profitable day. Cheers, Ben Fewtrell (02) 9811 5000

Hello! As Jon and Trev have been preparing to start their residency programs we sat down to have a chat with one of our most influential teachers at Queen's Medical School, Dr. Jackie Duffin. Dr. Duffin is a medical historian and hematologist, she has written numerous books on the history of medicine (https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/contributor/author/jacalyn-duffin/) and she has also written pieces that have been featured in the CMAJ (http://www.cmaj.ca/content/165/12/1609.full) and the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/opinion/pondering-miracles-medical-and-religious.html?_r=0). We sat down to talk with her about her journey to medical school, how she became a medical historian and advice for aspiring physicians! As always please send your questions, guest suggestions and comments to clerkshippodcast@gmail.com. Enjoy!

In this episode, Andrew Blick and Jamie May, graduate students in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program, investigate the maker movement by visiting ULabs or U[biquitous] Labs, a makerspace in Lubbock, Texas, and interviewing Jon Turner, ULab’s director of marketing. As Jon describes in the episode, the mission of ULabs is "to have a place where you can come, you can create, you can make." During this episode, we explore ULabs's origins as a community-engaged nonprofit, learn about the events and programming supported by ULabs, and hear how users are using the space. Through this project, we hope to contextualize the maker movement and to help promote awareness of ULabs. Introductory music is the opening of "No Ska Today" by Skabrot (available on Jamendo) plus some radio interference and static from freesound.org. This episode features music from Nicolai Heidlas Music ("Drive," available on Soundcloud) and freesound.org (Goran Andric's "hard rock intro," day_tripper13's "FX 808 Beat 120 BPM," Tristan Lohengrin's "Happy 8bit Loop 01," and Lemoncreme's "Floating Synth Melody"), as well as other sounds from freesound.org: metal fun, Mancunian dot matrix printer sounds, distorted laser, and kids playing. Listeners who are interested in makerspaces might check out Make: Zine, Educause's "7 Things You Should Know About Makerspaces," ULabs in Lubbock and their Facebook page, and the Crucible's makerspace website.

Jon and Simon go al fresco to discuss how technology is changing transportation, with connected and driverless cars. As Jon explains the rise of the robots, Simon can't wait to play him his new jingle. 

Washington's apple industry alone accounts for 40,000 jobs in this state. Add to apples our state's other tree fruit crops - cherries, pears, peaches and the like - and you've got a major economic driver. In this episode we talk with the president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, Jon DeVaney, about the importance of international trade agreements to keeping the sector healthy and competitive. As Jon points out, trade agreements lead to predictable, consistent trade rules for Washington apples, one-third of which are exported overseas. For more information on the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, visit their website here: http://wstfa.org/

Welcome to Barefoot Innovation and to a new dimension in the topics we explore. We've talked with many startups in lending, payments, and managing personal finance. Today, we're looking at the most exciting change underway in the investment space - "robo-investing." My guest is Jon Stein, the founder and CEO of Betterment. We met in their fast-growing offices in New York, a converted warehouse steeped in industrial character and with mouth-watering aromas wafting from a very substantial food bar that lined one end of the busy open space, and offering the special charm unique to businesses where people bring their dogs to work. In our conversations, Jon told me the story of his personal journey. He graduated from Harvard and - since, as he says, no one was recruiting for jobs with the description of "making people happy" - went into finance. Eventually he went on to Columbia Business School, gained Series 7, 24, 63 certifications, and become a CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst. He expresses respect for traditional financial businesses, but became frustrated by their transactional focus, and also by his own financial life - he had 7 brokerage accounts, invested in Enron, and finally concluded that the industry encourages the wrong investor behaviors, especially in trying to "beat the market." He'd studied both economics and human behavior in college (before behavioral economics caught on) and realized that his interests lie at the intersection of behavior, psychology, and economics. He remembers a professor saying "how crazy people can be, and how very often they would get in their own way, and how even when we wanted to do the right thing, we would do the wrong thing." He also says he always knew he wanted to do "something big." So in 2008, he founded Betterment. Betterment is now the largest independent "robo-advisor," with $4.3 billion in assets under management and 150,000 customers. I've interviewed many founders of startups on Barefoot Innovation, but this is the first one that runs commercials on television. Betterment aims to optimize investment through automation that produces sound advice for the long term, and that also makes the process both easy and more affordable. It builds around what Jon considers the MOST important advice -- which is too often overlooked, namely -- "How much to save?" The company has also taken on the "behavior gap" in financial advice - Betterment has the lowest in the industry and is trying to drive it to zero. They are also constantly driving for efficiency gains (his colleagues say if you want to sell Jon on an idea just tell him it will increase efficiency), and for fee transparency. They think this combination of strengths - being advice-centric, transparent, and hyper-efficient -- will revolutionize the investment world. They also think their model, over time, can be applied to a much broader set of financial services. As Jon's biography puts it, "What excites him most about his work is making everyday activities and products more efficient, accessible, and easy to use." One highlight of our conversation is his insights on the thorny questions of how these innovations should be regulated, including on the advice given, how data should be used to be sure it's helping customers, and how performance should be measured.   Note on upcoming podcasts Click below to donate your "buck a show" to keep Barefoot Innovation going and growing. (If you didn't hear my explanation on this, it's at the end of the previous episode, with Raul Vazquez of Oportun). Support the Podcast Upcoming shows are going to be so interesting. Keying off Jon Stein's thinking on human behavior, we'll have an episode with one of America's top experts in how behavioral economics impacts investment and retirement savings, Harvard Professor Brigitte Madrian. I'm delighted to say Brigitte is also my faculty advisor on the book I'm writing on financial innovation and regulation for my Harvard fellowship this year. We're also working on a fascinating show on innovation emerging in the insurance sector, dubbed, "insure-tech." Other guests in the queue include some of the country's most thoughtful bank compliance officers, and the very thoughtful founders of Bee. Note on Regulation Innovation Briefing Series Meanwhile, click here to explore my Regulation Innovation briefings, while you still can for free!  The briefings are short monthly videos, each paired with a deep article about the twin and intertwined challenges of financial innovation and regulation. They are still free for a few more weeks, and then the series will be for subscribers, so please check it out. As I said last time, these articles are the most important and valuable thing I've ever written. I hope you'll join the journey. Subscribe to Our Mailing LIst Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!

Once Jon Cohen's parents divorced at an early age, sports gave him something to focus on.  He played all the sports growing up, and especially loved football. However, even though he worked hard, politics wormed their way in, even at the middle school level.  The most shocking part of this interview is when Jon recalls the moment when his coach told the team, with him in earshot, "I will never have a Jew as my quarterback." Even though he dealt with this bullying and abuse, Jon still continued to play football in high school, and eventually transferred his skills to the rugby field at Quinnipiac University.  There, he got the joy of the game back since he didn't have to deal with an official coach. As Jon explains his transition to being a non-athlete, he describes similar experiences of bullying at the office working in commercial real estate, but fortunately now he knows how to deal with it in a positive way.

As Jon concludes his adventures in the far-away lands of the dancing sun, Joel bravely sets out to review a film all on his lonesome! Quiver with fear and prepare your ears, for it might be a bit of a bumpy ride.Joel reviews Charlie Kaufman's latest project, the stop-motion-animated "Anomalisa". Tune in to learn about about Starburns, Tom Noonan, Kickstarter and being a sh*tty human being.You can call me Anomajoel from now on. That is all.Enjoy.SPOILERS ABOUND...

Jonathan Krinn joins us to talk about innovation in any marketplace, how to create a culture of caring among your employees and what transparency has to do with being a successful leader of your team, no matter your industry.Jon Krinn joins us to talk about innovation in any marketplace, how to create a culture of caring among your employees and what transparency has to do with being a successful leader of your team, no matter your industry. Listen to this episode and discover: - Why did Jon name his restaurant Clarity? - What is his secret to an engaged, happy staff? - Why do you have to trust your product? - How being vulnerable with your team translates to success. - And so much more… Episode Overview Jon Krinn started this current journey by attending culinary school in France, New York and Washington, D.C. for 12 years. When he finished his schooling he was fortunate enough to work with some of the best chefs in the world. Then in 2010 he was offered an opportunity to work in the field of innovation marketing, and even though it wasn't culinary in nature, he jumped at the chance. It appealed to him because of the unique experience it offered him. He pursued that path for the next 5 years before opening his creative bistro/culinary hangout Clarity. On today's show we dive deeper into why he opened Clarity, and what insights he brought with him from his time in the innovation marketing world and why that's made Clarity so successful. We also discuss how he keeps his staff happy, a notoriously difficult feat in the restaurant field. One of the first things Jon wanted for Clarity was to have an open kitchen. Most restaurants have a closed kitchen: you're not able to see what the chefs, line cooks and prep cooks are doing to create your meal. But with Clarity you get just that: clarity on what goes on "behind the scenes" and people appreciate the transparency it offers. That clarity and transparency don't just apply to the restaurant industry, they apply everywhere. As Jon says on this show if no one sees it, no one buys. If no one can see what you're doing and how you're doing it they are far less apt to buy from you. Give people transparency and they'll trust you and buy from you. Another way to create trust is vulnerability. Jon is vulnerable with his team and it's made a big impact. According to Jon if you're vulnerable with your team it shows you are human, you aren't always right and you aren't made of Teflon! When your staff knows you're human they simply trust you more which goes a long way towards creating a positive environment for everyone from your staff to your clients. Jon continues that culture of caring by taking care of his staff first. He works to make their lives more fulfilling and that translates to a better overall customer experience. When the staff is happy they make the customers happy! The same is true for your team. One specific way Jon does this is by asking for their ideas. He lets everyone know that no one is smarter or better than anyone else on the team, they are all equals and all ideas are welcome. And not only does Jon care about their ideas but he gladly gives credit to his entire staff on a regular basis. So often when a restaurant or company succeeds it is the owner, the CEO, or another high-visibility position that gets the credit. But that success couldn't have been achieved without the contribution of everyone on the team. Listen in to this show to find out more about Jon's keys to success including the importance of restating your mission and vision statements regularly, and why you can and should innovate when something is broken in your industry. Jon's insights go far beyond the restaurant world, listen in and apply them today to grow your revenue.

Dr. Jon Ruthven is Professor Emeritus, Theology, from Regent University School of Divinity. He is the author of What's Wrong with Protestant Theology, published by Word & Spirit Press late last year. As Jon shares foundational truth about what the Bible says about hearing from God today and moving in the Spirit's power, the Spirit breaks in on us. I encourage you listen to what the Spirit is saying to the Church worldwide.

With deep sadness I write that we lost Minnie last Wednesday evening, January 21. The following is an update from Pat regarding her passing:For the past few months, Minnie had been experiencing a recurrence of her urinary tract infections and bladder problems which have plagued her for many years. This was the first incident in three years, and we hoped that the miraculous effects produced by her cranberry diet might have cured her.During this last bout, Minnie refused most food and water, except for cranberry sauce and cereal. We hand fed and watered her, and administered necessary medications at two hour intervals around the clock. We we all concerned that we might lose our beloved Minnie.Miraculously, once again, she began eating and drinking on her own. During the month of January, she made incredible strides toward recovery, and we were optimistic that she would have one more summer in the lake with her friends.On Wednesday, January 21, Minnie had her very best day in a long time, playing with Rebecca and chirping and squeaking at her keepers, who were delighted to see her behavior. Ed Stewart, one of her favorite people, spent most of the day with her, and Pat Derby fed her buckets of her favorite treats. Ed gave her a very warm bath, and she spent several hours throwing dirt, chirping and thumping. Everyone was delighted with her progress.Minnie and Rebecca went into their dirt stall in the Asian barn and ate hay and dusted in the late afternoon. At 6:00 p.m., the afternoon keeper, Jon, served meals to Minnie and Rebecca. Minnie devoured every bit of her food. As Jon warmed water for their drink, Minnie laid down and seemed to be going off to sleep. Jon called softly to her, then realized she had stopped breathing.Minnie, our 54 year old circus retiree whose vocalizations and sweet disposition charmed everyone at ARK 2000, died peacefully in her barn with Rebecca, her long time companion, and Pat Derby, Ed Stewart and her keepers at her side. Her peaceful posture and the serenity with which she slipped away were a great comfort to all of us. Minnie, who had endured years chained in railroad cars, died tranquilly among her old friends.Rebecca slept next to her, and Wanda, Annie, Pat, Ed and her keepers Annamarie, Tom, Jon and Brian spent their last evening with the beloved leader of the Asian group.We are so grateful to our dedicated staff and veterinarians who spent all their time and energy feeding, medicating and caring for Minnie. We take comfort in our loss knowing that her last days afforded the peace and dignity which this great lady deserved.Fortunately, Pat had produced the following video update including Minnie the week prior to her passing.