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In Part 2 of Episode 7, we continue our discussion with Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Lead for EWN; and Kris Tjernell, Deputy Director, Integrated Watershed Management for the California Department of Water Resources. We discuss their plans to fully integrate EWN into critical watershed projects in California. They hope these projects will showcase innovation and new ways of thinking about climate change adaptation and resilience on a broad scale, while accelerating the multi-benefits of water management, habitat restoration and community resilience. As Kris notes, “because California is such a focal point now for the impacts of climate change, we're positioned perfectly to be an innovator, to be a leader, to show that you can deliver landscape-level projects at the pace required to, not only keep up with the impacts of climate change, but to really get out ahead of it and prepare our landscape for those inevitable changes.”    One of the projects that they discuss is in the Yolo Bypass, a 100-year-old flood risk management project, where weirs direct water from the Sacramento River during high flow events and spread that water out over a 60,000-acre landscape. The 16,000 acres in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area is providing a range of other environmental and social benefits in addition to the flood risk benefits provided by the Yolo Bypass. Experience gained at this project and others can be applied to expand engineering with nature approaches to create greater economic, environmental, and social value within the existing structure of this well-established existing project. As Kris says, “if we truly want to be on the cutting edge and address the climate vulnerabilities of the State and its communities, we're going to need to accelerate the good work that we do. And we're going to need to accelerate the kinds of multi-benefit flood management, habitat, restoration, nature-based solutions that we're talking about.” Todd agrees: “You've got to think big. Some of these projects are tens of thousands of acres of opportunity to produce the kinds of integrated solutions that we've been talking about. That's the scale that's necessary. There's tremendous opportunity in California as there is across the United States.”   A key goal of EWN and the EWN Podcast is to inspire students, future scientists, engineers, planners, and policy makers. Kris and Todd close by talking about the importance of a STEM education – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They discuss their personal journeys, the challenges posed by climate change and the opportunities ahead for students and future professionals to apply their passion and creativity to develop innovative solutions by engineering with nature.     Related Links:  EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Todd Bridges at EWN Kris Tjernell at LinkedIn Kris Tjernell at California Department of Water Resources Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Sacramento Weirs

From flood risk to extreme drought and wildfire, California is feeling the brunt of climate change impacts and is, by necessity, at the forefront of climate change innovation. In this episode, we're talking about the unique challenges of managing California's precious water resources and about a new collaboration between the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and Engineering With Nature®. Our guests are Dr. Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Lead for EWN, and Kris Tjernell, Deputy Director, Integrated Watershed Management for the California Department of Water Resources. The goal of the collaboration on EWN is to advance opportunities for truly integrated solutions to water resource challenges.    California is exceptional in many ways, from its population of over 40 million people; to its size as the third largest state at over 160,000 square miles; to its economy, the largest in the United States at over $3 trillion. It is also the leading agricultural state in the US in terms of total agricultural sales and 8 million acres of irrigated land. California is also a land of extremes with its diverse landscapes and communities, and with the breadth of challenges it faces – from droughts and floods, to heat waves and wildfires – which strain the State's systems. This complexity makes presents a unique set of challenges.   As stewards of the state's water resources, DWR is responsible for delivering water to over 27 million Californians while supporting flood management in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that flows out through the San Francisco Bay. Managing flood risk for agricultural lands, small communities, and larger urban centers is a top priority.   The San Joaquin Basin, for example, has unique flood management challenges exacerbated by the effects of climate change, with more precipitation coming in the form of rainstorms and less from snow. Traditional strategies of flood management in California included: straightening the river systems; building taller, more armored levees; and building bigger reservoirs. The question is not how to add-on to these, but as Kris notes, “how to engineer with nature to solve those challenges in ways that work for our communities and the ecosystem together”.   The partnership between DWR and EWN is intended to do that – to leverage the natural systems to produce more sustainable outcomes. As Todd notes, “by applying EWN approach, we want to find innovative engineering solutions to flooding or drought, or wildfires, that make use of natural systems to produce sustainable, resilient solutions that create more diversified economic, natural, and social value. That's what we're seeking – to be able to solve those challenges in ways that work for our communities and for the ecosystem together. That is what's really exciting to me.”   Bringing people in California communities into these projects so they can experience them and see the holistic benefits of an EWN approach is a key focus for this partnership. As Kris notes, part of the effort of DWR and EWN is to figure out a way “to tap into the human desire and joy to live within a natural environment. The feeling of walking into a local urban park. The joy of driving towards Yosemite and seeing the valley open up in front of you. Seeing what John Muir saw back in the day.” The challenge, Kris says, is “how do we paint this landscape that gets interest, invigorates the conversation that allows us to think beyond the traditional approaches to flood management and water resource management.” Todd agrees, emphasizing the integration of engineering and natural systems to produce broad value: “The economic utility of a project is one lens through which you can assess the value of a project. Importantly, there's also the environmental value and the social value that comes from connecting people with diverse backgrounds to the land and to what it provides. Projects that produce economic, natural and social value at the same time are the ones we want to collaborate on.” Related Links:  EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Todd Bridges at EWN Kris Tjernell at LinkedIn Kris Tjernell at California Department of Water Resources San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge Pedro Fages expeditions to the San Joaquin Valley John Muir Trail The Moth Snowstorm  

Uncertainty is the name of the game. As Kris, and many others say, change will be the only constant that we will experience in life, so how will you embrace that?As we reflect back on 2020, which was FULL – there are things that we could tally up that were more than just obstacles – a full-on obstacle course like the Tough Mudder, a surprise at every turn. Sure, with the flip of the calendar, it doesn’t mean everything goes away. In fact, we still are climbing up the hill and I know many of you are still feeling exhausted. Our guest on today’s podcast Kris Petersen, Executive Coach, Trainer, and Speaker who spent her career working in the financial industry will share why emotional intelligence is so important to that aspect of moving forward. At the beginning of the year, we hear so many terms like resolutions and goals that we should be focused on but how, how when everything feels so stuck do we move?In order to move, we have to know where we are, we have to understand what happened before – what we will learn from and what we will continue to do, and most importantly we need to define what is important to us – what are our values and vision for what we want. Defining our values and beliefs are different than goals – they work as our compass when well stuff hits the fan. Kris and her team have a great tool to help you discover your five top values on their website I’ll link below. Once you have established your values it’s easier to define what is important and what is not – what we truly have control over. We don’t have control over uncertainty, however, we can plan for some of the turns in life, and for the other’s we need to arm ourselves with resilience. These two topics I discuss frequently in my Money Matters workshop. Life will change, 2020 taught us that by just ripping out the carpet and letting all the ugly and gross dust bunnies show. You do have a choice, we want to empower you toward making a choice – you can look at life and try to control it or you can understand that the uncontrollable will happen, and how to better flow with it by planning for it. Kris delivers countless nuggets of knowledge in the podcast to help you see through uncertainty and into a bit more clarity. A couple of take-a-ways that I had from our conversation:Goals are different than dreams – well-defined goals will get you to achieve that dream. Be honest with yourself – when you set goals do you have the time, money, and support to do what you want to. If not how will you get it?Get a trainer if you don’t have one. Having a difficult time understanding how to talk about money with yourself, your partner, or other influential people in your life? Talk to an advisor that is trained and willing to dig past the surface to work with you on the emotional aspects of money. Plan for uncertainty instead of trying to control it. This podcast is for you if you are ready to take steps into 2021 that means you are building a healthy and impactful foundation in your life and with your wealth. As a reminder, I believe wealth is interchangeable with money. Your wealth is not determined by a dollar amount rather you being able to reach the space in life where you feel grounded and are able to enjoy life the way you have dreamed of. However, to Kris’ point, dreams are not achieved without the small goals to get there! You can find more information about defining your values through the resources from Kris’ company think2perform: www.think2perfom.comYou can also listen to Kris’ podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-ideal-real/id1455537942Connect with Kris on LinkedIn:

Today we meet Kris Campbell, a textile artist from New York state who has decided to take cross stitch to the absolute MAX! This is a fascinating story where we can see the threads of an artist's story come together in a body of work. In response to the global pandemic and the desire to make viewing art a safe experience, Kris decided to create a series of bold flowers, sewn in cross stitch.... on 11ft (4 metres) squares of construction debris netting. YES - that stuff they use to cloak buildings to protect passersby from falling construction debris! She creates translucent floral tapestries, featuring one large bold bloom and is making a rainbow of them. They are outdoor art, designed to viewed in a field, and Kris is also fascinated in whether they will actually survive out there and what happens as they age. As Kris says, "this is not your Grandmothers needlework!" Susan Weeks chats with Kris on this episode of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. The challenge of creating art to be exhibited outdoors Using construction debris netting for her cross stitch Cross stitch on a massive scale Filling her studio with one piece of stitching Fighting the urge to use flowers as her subject matter This is 'socially distanced' textile art An exploration in failure Tapestries swaying gently in the wind Will her art survive the great outdoors? And if not... why not The hilarious subject of her first stitching adventure Byzantine paintings with golden domes and coloured mosaics are very inspiring for Kris Creating an entire body of work planned from the start The beauty of wool even though Kris doesn't like using it Choosing materials Best quote of the year... "only 40ft was stitched in 4 weeks" Creating a giant Pride rainbow of giant flowers designed to be experienced outside For this episode View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Kris's massive cross stitch flowers at https://www.stitcherystories.com/kriscampbell Visit: https://www.kriscampbellart.com/ Look: https://www.instagram.com/kriscampbellart Other Episodes We Mentioned: Jenni Dutton https://www.stitcherystories.com/jennidutton/ Phillipa Turnbull https://www.stitcherystories.com/phillipaturnbull/  

Ellen Ave: Kris Middleton x Fin Barnett (S2, E17) Accounting is RIVETING. As Kris said, accountants are like the doctors of business - and today he shows why. PS Request to Join the Facebook Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/372755443998032 On today's podcast we go over what accounting is, what accountant's do, how to become an accountant and a whole of other related things - the career ladder, what accountants look at and how they use that information to make informed decisions/ recommendations, and more Popular tangents include: Use it or Lose it - how not using knowledge leads to losing it, Science Sucks So Why Do It - heaps of people did science at school, but how many people genuinely use it now?, and Life After Accounting - Kris has a passion for something else that one day he wants to create (from around 30 mins onwards I think). Amazing discussion and yarn as per, finished the episode and hadn't even got through most of our cool stuff.... catch the visuals on Youtube (4pm on release date onwards) , leave us a review, and follow the instagram (@ellenave_) because as per the ANNOUNCEMENT there's a FB MEMBERS GROUP that's just started and there will be more info on the IG/ Page (linked up top)   IF YOU ARE READING THIS - I dare you to subscribe, and leave a review  cheers x  

First things FIRST: let's get HOLIDAY STRONG by signing up for the Fitness Protection HOLIDAY STRENGTH CHALLENGE We start today!!! If you want to see Coach MK in a tiara, join the private Facebook group and DON'T MISS A THING! More details here: https://www.fitnessprotection.com/event-details/fpp-holiday-strength-challenge   Coach Sarah talks with Running Life podcast producer Kris Zarnoch (without whom NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE!) about what Black Friday has meant for the two of them from their younger days to now. As you might imagine, it’s not quite as simple as just “the day I get great deals on the stuff I need every year!” After comparing our own Black Friday memories (Kris used to work at Victoria’s Secret during the midnight Black Friday rush, OMG!) we read stories that our listeners sent in about what they have done in the past and what they do now.   The tough part of Black Friday is that we’re supposed to be grateful and generous this season. We’re supposed to think about others and those with needs greater than our own, and we’re supposed to look outside of ourselves. At the same time, we’re supposed to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE DEALZ NOW because this is OUR ONE CHANCE TO MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF OUR DOLLARS! And we’re intimiately familiar with the trap of thinking that we can only buy things for ourselves when they are on sale...if that’s a belief ingrained in you, then Black Friday is uniquely designed to pull you in all different directions in the name of OPTIMIZING and OPPORTUNITY.   We encourage you to look at it a little differently. Like Coach MK discussed on her Twitch channel last year, we invite listeners to think about what they need to get this year as they look at the deals being offered on running tech, clothing and accessories. What do you need to upgrade and what are you paying for if you choose to spend slightly more money on a new piece of tech (we talk specifics about what Polar and Stryd tend to offer). What options are you leaving on the table if you decide to spend less money? On a similar note, what are the essentials that you use every day that offer a year’s worth of their service at a discount only once a year? Finally, what’s one piece of (nonessential) cool sh*t that you could add to your repertoire this year only? Many of the things we runners use are produced by small companies that can only afford to offer one coupon a year - how to healthily incorporate that fact into our decisions about what to buy?   Spending money on ourselves and others is an emotionally fraught topic even without the need to optimize our spending dollars, and we delve into what this season of shopping and giving and receiving brings up for us other than credit card statements and receipts. Gratitude is a tricky topic that readily becomes a bullshit stick we beat ourselves up with, but it doesn’t have to be that way. As Kris shows us with a beautiful reflection on her family, gratitude divorced from shame and “should” can be a beautiful mechanism to keep us grounded and at peace throughout this season.   So if you are ready to be INTENTIONAL with us here at the close of 2019, join the Strength Challenge AND sign up for our 2020 Planning webinar! What we DON’T want is to end this next month feeling like we are digging ourselves out of a hole (hello New Year’s Resolution bullshit). Black Friday kicks off a month of consumption, and THAT’S OKAY - that’s the culture we live in! Think about upgrades that are going to add something to your running and essentials you know you need! Do the things you want! Love the things you love (and really love them! Instead of saying “oh I REALLY shouldn’t”). Drink the buttered cider! And HAVE A PLAN for what you need to get, now and in 2020.   Other Links Work Play Love episode episode 63 (on Mary Cain and eating disorders) Knuckle Lights NoxGear      

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Kris Ward. Kris is an entrepreneur and founder of Shadowblast, a leading marketing agency in Canada. She is the author of the best-selling book and philosophy - Win the Hour, Win the Day. The systems Kris has developed and teaches help entrepreneurs not only better grow and run their businesses, but flourish in their personal life as well. These systems were proven and put to the test when Kris went through a very tragic time in her life. You see, Kris is a widow. Her business was thriving and she had a wonderful life with the love of her life until her husband, John, passed away from cancer. The diagnosis came out of nowhere and was grim. Kris was determined to make the time they had left together the best she could. So she put work aside and immersed herself into John and making their last moments together the best she could. It was during this time, that her systems around Winning the Hour and Winning the Day were put to the test. As Kris says, “My team did an excellent job following what we had put into place and I am forever grateful for them. They followed our best practices and the business ran smoothly without any issues.” Clients didn’t even know she was absent. It’s these principles that I am excited for Kris to share with you in this episode to teach you how to go from overwhelmed and overworked to thriving on your terms in life and business. www.WintheHourWintheDay.com Podcast: NOW Your Business Kris was in business for over 4 years in her marketing agency when she found herself being overworked and had to find a way to make things easier. Her husband, John was her biggest fan and supporter, but she felt like she was letting him down with the time she was spending away. She had always pushed back in “time management” because she was highly productive and did a lot more in a day than most people did. But she made the decision to really study how she could do even more with less and started to put some strategies in place. As Kris says, “It’s strategy vs. systems.” And she did it. She went from working around the clock to working about 6-7 hours a day. It was just a couple years later that John was diagnosed with cancer. Just the doctor’s visits, chemo, etc. alone was time consuming, not to mention the emotional toil it took. Kris made the decision not to waste their time. They traveled and did a bunch of things together to make the most of their time and because of the strategies and systems of Win the Hour, Win the Day, she was able to work only 2-3 hours per week – for 2 years. And her business still thrived. Her clients were shocked when they found out. They didn’t even know she was out and began to ask questions about how she was able to do it. So Kris started helping people find “time empowerment.” She got rid of 80% of their “to do list” and 100% of their guilt. “So many of us think that grinding it out is part of the entrepreneur journey when it’s not. Your passion and your work should support your life, not consume it.” What’s the most important lesson you learned about life from your husband and going through what you went through together? The definition of what a problem is has changed completely. You find out what matters and what a real problem is takes on a new meaning. Ask the question, “Is that REALLY a problem?” What mind shift must happen to take back control of your time? Any powerful change comes from a mind shift. It doesn’t happen from just finding some secret or strategy. Many of us have never been taught to respect or understand the foundations of time. We don’t look at our “Time Bank Account” and fundamentally, we are building everything we do on a flawed structure. Seeing the issue is the problem for most. What is the issue people don’t see? Where do they falter? People don’t really understand or see their calendar as their “Time Bank Account” You don’t put things in you do every day, you put the external things. You hit the day thinking you have 8 hours to do everything in with your external appts., but you are not taking into account everything else you need to do – which may show, you only have 4 hours to do everything in. The one thing you cannot buy more of or change is time. We use a calendar as a reactive thing, but don’t use it as a GPS to navigate our business or our day – which is the foundation of the problem. At the 14 min mark, Kris gives a great example of how we fight for our limitations instead of removing them… Tell us about Win the Hour, Win the Day, and the Freedom Formula Focus. Studies are showing even more about the impact of not focusing or multi-tasking. It is almost the equivalent of being on drugs when it comes to impairing your productivity. You cannot shine a flashlight on two things at the same time. You must get serious about how and where you focus. To get better - Start with your creative work first in your day. Your first hour of work is incredibly important. Break things down and work backwards of what needs to be done to reach your outcome or goal. At the 20 min mark, Kris shares the truth about “to do” lists… Get rid of 80% of your “to do” list by getting ridding of your bad habits. A to do list is really a list of rotating emergencies for most people. The biggest mistake people make is thinking a “to do” list is a plan or strategy when it is not. It cannot be truly measured. What is the right way to plan to be productive? You have to work backwards to plan right. We do it in our personal lives all the time, but not in business very much. This is how you can create real plans and then systems around them to make a business go so that it can work on its own. Next, having a calendar that you know how much time you have for what you want to do makes you effective. You can then measure your progress by the steps from working backward and scheduling the tasks needed to reach to outcome or goal in your calendar with the time really have available. At the 26-minute mark, Kris shares her thoughts on times of day we are more productive… Studies show we are more productive in the morning after sleeping. The science bares it out. No matter what you think, your brain is more tired later in the day. Do your creative work, first. You will see a major difference. Do more mundane, autopilot type tasks later in the day. What is the #1 thing people can do starting right now to make the biggest difference in their productivity? Respect and really use your calendar as the tool that it is and can be for you. Put what you do in day in it and see what time you have left. Don’t fill it up and make busy work. Just be realistic about where you time goes and not as a diary for what happened yesterday. Put the things you do each day week in and out in your calendar at the times you typically do them. Standing meetings, specific tasks you have to do each week and so on. You’ll be amazed at what time you actually have left for real work. Top tips on how to market a product or service? Be careful of having disjointed messaging. It needs to be consistent – the same message. Be careful not the change your persona or represent yourself differently for different audiences in social media. You don’t have to do that. Be how you are. Remember the “social” in social media. The idea of social media is to get to know, like, and trust people. If you are different online than you are in person, it will catch up with you. Be careful not to “present” – talk to people instead of presenting to them. Don’t over think it. Be you. At the 41 minute mark, Kris talks about how to better automate your business and have it run for you. It doesn’t require the time and money that everyone thinks it does. Outsource obviously It is not just about strategies and systems, but keeping them as simple and easy to follow as possible to get the outcome desired. You do need a team around you to do it. But you can outsource a lot of it if you are willing and a little creative about it. Ask, “How do I do this once and make it duplicatable so it can be passed on and done by someone else?” What is something you think every entrepreneur should know? Business should be fun. You should not have to sacrifice your life for your dreams. You don’t have to “pay the dues” in the traditional sense. Your goal should be create the systems to replace and reduce your hours not increase them.   Best Quote: So many of us think that grinding it out is part of the entrepreneur journey when it’s not. Your passion and your work should support your life, not consume it.   Kris's Misfit 3: Lighten up and have fun, no matter what you do – business should be fun. Don’t’ get caught up in the “busyness” and lose sight of the passion you set out to put into the world for what you are doing, You are business athlete and you need to take care of the machine – your body. It’s the most important machine there is. Eat well, exercise, sleep right, etc.

Welcome to Season Three of Gap Year Radio! We are excited to bring you a brand new season of exciting interviews. Our premiere episode features three entrepreneurs who launched successful social ventures as a result of their gap year experiences. You’ll hear from Kris Cody of PAKA Apparel, Anika Funk of Banana Backpacks and Cecilia Polanco of So Good Pupusas. Although these three stories are unique to each of their personal journeys, they share a common thread of their gap time influencing their worldviews, and eventually, their enterprising career paths. As Kris says,” Taking a gap year in of itself is an entrepreneurial act.” Note to listeners: Use coupon code GAPYEAR for discounts on PAKA and Banana Backpacks gear!

In the inaugural episode of the Shut Up and Build Bikes Podcast, I interview one of my favorite framebuilders, Kris Henry of 44 Bikes. As Kris puts it, he specializes in “anything that has knobs that touches dirt.” With 44 Bikes, he offers made-to-measure TIG welded steel and titanium frames. He is especially known for his hardtail mountain bikes.In this episode, we talk about the most satisfying parts of bicycle framebuilding, how he got interested in framebuilding in the first place, what role he really plays in the process with a customer, and more. This episode should pack a lot of value for new or experiences framebuilders, or anyone interested in the process!Be sure to check out Kris Henry’s work on 44 Bikes on Instagram and Flickr, as well as his website.

As Kris navigates the online dating world, she’s realizing that often it’s easy to forget there is always a human on the other side of every screen name. She shares a story about a man whom she met online who recently treated her with disrespect as he “ghosted” her - and how she called him out! This episode is a gentle reminder to reconnect with our innate sense of humanity and to act with kindness; both online and offline!

As Kris and Donny were arguing the same point on immigration we also talked about protestors getting locked up in New York's state capitol over housing costs, West Virginia tries to take away educators right to strike-will the Governor sign the bill? We also look at how Trump's tariffs will hurt the poor, TWU's President promises that there will blood in a strike against American Airlines, and the US Senate wants answers on Volkswagen's illegal employer retaliation tactics.  Make sure to hit the Subscribe button if you like what you hear.

(NOTE: This show opens with the music, so be warned that it's a little louder than usual.) Welcome to a diverse week of movies on Spoilerpiece! As Kris notes, there couldn’t be four more different flicks featured on the show. First, Kris talks a little about WHITE CROW (2:20), which Dave recently saw (and wanted to hear Kris’ opinion), then Dave dives into Olivia Wilde’s feature-directing debut BOOKSMART (7:16) and his interview with Wilde. Then Evan covers EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE (18:16), the Ted Bundy movie starring Zac Efron and directed by Joe Berlinger (and it features some serious stunt casting). Finally, Kris talks the Disney live-action remake of ALADDIN (32:30) and blue Will Smith. Why is 38 minutes longer than the animated version? Kris tells you why!

Kim Kardashian's life is turned upside down when a sex tape she made years earlier suddenly surfaces. But Kris Jenner realizes she might be able to leverage fame from the tape into endorsements, just like she did for her husband Bruce. As Kris steers Kim through a very public crisis, Kris and Kim go from mother and daughter to manager and client. Meanwhile Kris brokers a deal to get the family on air in their very own reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. But as Kim emerges as the star — and Mom's favorite — can the family weather their changing relationships?Support us by supporting our sponsors!Care/Of - For 30% off your first Care/Of order, go to takecareof.com and enter promo code PLUSONE30Cayman Jack - Cayman Jack provides premium prepared cocktails for those with good taste and little time. Find Cayman Jack at a store near you by visiting caymanjack.com. Please drink responsibly. Premium malt beverage. American Vintage Beverage Co. Chicago, Illinois.

Instar by Carrow Narby       They just broke ground this week on a new high rise. When they cracked into the earth it flooded the neighborhood with the stench of sulfur. There’s a layer of ancient rot beneath the pavement. Centuries worth of life, ground into filth. Or so I imagine. I had to look up the source of the smell and some local news site attributed it to “organic materials” in the soil. I was worried that it might be a gas leak. For the past few mornings the wind has pushed the awful smell in through the screen above my bed. As bad as it is, it isn’t worth shutting the window. Even as late summer beats on, I can’t sleep without the weight and softness of ten thousand blankets. Without the breeze my nest would become unbearably hot, so I tolerate the smell of brimstone and corruption. It’s sort of fitting, I think, given the maggoty turn that my life has taken.   Full episode after the cut.   Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 67 for March 8, 2019. This is your host Keffy, and I'm super excited to share this story with you. Our story today is "Instar" by Carrow Narby, which is part of the Summer 2018 issue of GlitterShip.   Carrow Narby lives on the north shore of Massachusetts. Their writing has been featured in Bitch, The Toast, The Establishment, and PodCastle. Follow them on Twitter @LocalCreature.       Instar by Carrow Narby       They just broke ground this week on a new high rise. When they cracked into the earth it flooded the neighborhood with the stench of sulfur. There’s a layer of ancient rot beneath the pavement. Centuries worth of life, ground into filth. Or so I imagine. I had to look up the source of the smell and some local news site attributed it to “organic materials” in the soil. I was worried that it might be a gas leak. For the past few mornings the wind has pushed the awful smell in through the screen above my bed. As bad as it is, it isn’t worth shutting the window. Even as late summer beats on, I can’t sleep without the weight and softness of ten thousand blankets. Without the breeze my nest would become unbearably hot, so I tolerate the smell of brimstone and corruption. It’s sort of fitting, I think, given the maggoty turn that my life has taken. There are these long, wonderful moments, in between waking and rising, when I am both sentient and senseless. The light doesn’t resolve yet into images. Sensation doesn’t crystallize into meaning. Best of all, I can’t feel my body or apprehend its shape. You see an awful lot about monsters these days. Just everywhere you look, endless breathless chatter about fucking monsters, turning into monsters, giving birth to monsters. Beautiful and interesting people who just happen to be monsters: some sad grackle-winged boy, a girl with coral antlers. Everyone always looks so slender and sharp. Perfect rows of needle teeth, perfect iridescent scales, perfect gold stiletto claws. It seems downright glamorous, like it would all be neon witches’ sabbaths and subterranean raves or something. For me, monsterhood is mostly just strangers demanding to know what I am. There wasn’t any kind of initiation waiting for me. No coven or cabal. No prophecy or secret past was revealed. It was on my own and by creeping increments that I realized I had become a thing. Kris is a friend of a friend. I saw her around a few parties and we fumbled into each other’s orbits. She called out my name from across the room once, amid the din of disparate conversations. It was so charming, that little gesture of being summoned. I let her ask me out, to sit with her in that park at the edge of the North End. When we meet, she wants to go down Hanover to Mike’s but I point just across the street to a tiny storefront with a blue and yellow sign. “It’s way better,” I insist, and I feel strangely proud as she acquiesces. The leading edge of autumn has brought a welcome break from the suffocating heat, but it also means that the sunlight has shifted. As Kris and I sit together, the late afternoon light lances down at us. It’s relentless, prying. I wonder if she can tell how much I’m trying to hide from it. Despite my anxiety, we talk easily and idly. When she was little, Kris recalls, she heard somewhere about the dangers of zebra mussels. They’re an invasive species around the Great Lakes, she explains. Her mother must have read a sign to her or something, warning boaters to inspect and clean their hulls. Except that Kris was maybe four at the time, and she had no concept yet of what a mussel is. She heard “zebra muscles.” What she pictured, she tells me, was downright nightmarish. Not a muscular zebra or something, but a boat encrusted with disembodied, pulsing zebra flesh. She says that the image came from nowhere except the most literal understanding of what she had heard, and that it became horrible only afterward, in retrospect. “I didn’t understand but I just accepted it,” she laughs. I grin too, and I tell her “I love that.” And I love sitting here, with a friend of a friend that I met at a party. Normality is too distant even to long for, but here is something so conventional, so pleasantly dull. I wonder if there are people who feel like this all the time and I almost ask that out loud. But all at once I realize that she’s looking at me, and I can’t bear it. She can see me in the slanted orange light. The rays reveal the translucency around my edges, the ugly pulse of slime beneath the membrane of my skin. I can feel the buttons of my jacket straining. I can’t eat the pastry that I’ve bought, not in front of her. She must realize that my clothes are holding me into a human shape. She’s imagining the strange organs that shudder and twitch beneath the seams. I can’t force myself to say much more before we part ways. She knows. I’m sure that I won’t hear from her again. I slump back toward Haymarket. I huddle stingless on a crowded E train. My spines are sparse and transient: often I neglect to shave, sometimes my keys poke out through a hole that they’ve worn in the pocket of my coat. It is the fate of monsters, no matter what, to attract would-be monster-slayers. For me, this has never been as straightforward as a jeering mob or as romantic as a lone man with a glittering sword. This time it’s kids. A small group of ninth or tenth graders, maybe, standing on the other side of the train car. They gesture toward me and consult each other in stage whispers, wondering aloud what I could possibly be. There’s this image, a fragment of a story. I don’t remember where I picked it up or what first made me think of it, but it’s there in my brain and it’s this: Once upon a time a baby was found in a beehive. By chance, a passing witch heard a newborn’s squall. Amid a hovering cloud of bees, she cracked apart a hollow log. And there was an infant nestled in the rot, slick with honey, as pale as a grub. I don’t know what happens after that or why any of it happened at all. It had started with sacrificing some of the other larvae to widen her cell. And things just took off from there, I suppose. Things took a turn, as they will do. At home I start to undress as soon as I’ve closed the door. When I finally peel the tight undermost layer away from my torso, my body sags out, shapeless. I slump onto the bed and burrow down into the tangle of blankets. As I curl up tight, I tuck a bit of sheet between every segment and fold, so that I don’t have to feel the awful touch of myself. I can’t say when or how my metamorphosis began. Day by day I watched my face bloat outward, swallowing up my eyes, my jaw. My skin became a pallid casing. It strains to hold in my shuddering mass, as if my body wants to burst and dissolve. I have always been drawn to hollows and nests and to the dirt. Spaces in the dark where a thing might press itself flush against the walls, unseen and safe. As a child I would build a cairn of pillows around myself before falling asleep. I used to turn over the rocks that edged my mother’s garden, to watch the millipedes and woodlice scatter. Eager to recoil from the sight of a grub writhing helplessly against the light. In my tiny apartment there is an alcove that, I think, was meant for a writing desk. But I wedged my bed into it, and closed it off with a heavy curtain. I guess that it has all been a sort of instinctive preparation. Like the bees widening the larval infant’s cell. The thing is, it’s not just shiny little flying things that start their lives as fat, fumbling worms. It isn’t all butterflies and bluebottles. There are things in the world that wriggle freely as larvae and then pupate into sessile blobs. I think about all those mornings when I stretch out shapeless and insensible. I wonder if I’ll turn out to be more of a sea sponge than a sphinx moth. Kris calls. She wants to see me again. We meet at my place. I don’t know what to say about the evening in the park but she doesn’t ask about it. She calls me by my name again. She wants to know if I’m alright. I tell her about that unshakable image of the bee-child. “What must it be like,” I sigh. To wonder why, out of a sea of sisters, you were the one to swell into something wingless and terrible. “What must it be like,” she echoes. She’s sitting beside me, looking down at her hands. She smells like soap and trampled grass. I want to settle in closer to her—to kiss her, I realize—but she has seen me in that searching autumn light. “You know,” I say. She takes my hand. “Is that your bed?” she asks, nodding toward the alcove. “Yes.” “Can I show you something?” I don’t know how to respond. She tugs me gently toward the bed and draws the curtain aside. The final cast-off rays of sunset are glancing in through the window. She turns and looks at me. Her cheek catches the light with a faint damson iridescence. She tilts her head and reveals a weird translucency about her neck and face. I can see the steady pulse of veins and pulpy glands beneath her skin. Her tone isn’t mocking, just forthright, as she asks, “Did you really think that you were special?” I guess that I did. I tell her: “I thought I was alone.” She reaches out to draw me close. We sink down into my nest and curl up tight against each other. In her touch I can feel the hum of twenty thousand sisters, the promise of clover and of wings.   END     “Instar” was originally published in The Fem, and is © Copyright Carrow Narby, 2017. 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As Kris and Erik race to the end of Season 1, they face Astro Zombies, Tura Satana, high heels as weapons, and the mysterious connection between the lengh of the song and an ancient UFO conspiracy. 

In the season one finale of Making An Addict, D.J. talks with colleague Kristina Cook about her life in recovery and the challenges she faced growing up as a young person looking for validation, support, and love - everything she should have received freely - and how she eventually discovered her inner worth and beauty. As Kris says, "It's about attachment, for reals!" Kristina is a leading therapist in Seattle, WA. Learn more at http://www.fremonthealingarts.com/practitioners.html. Making An Addict is hosted by D.J. Burr, psychotherapist, and author of I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict and the host of the podcast Journey On: Men Healing from Sexual Abuse & Assault. www.djburr.com Music Like Music (cdk Mix) by cdk (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike  (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/

As Kris is off celebrationg the 4th with sparklers, Chris does a show with his Knicks-aholic friend Mike Davey. What perfect timing with the eternal hope that springs anew, Phil Jackson being fired. But first they do what they do best, talk about weddings and jazz… wait what (1:33)? They reluctantly get around to talking Knicks, which takes a while (13:51). They work their way to other NBA offseason talk (38:42). Then they wrap up their talk with baseball because it’s slow this time of year ( 42:29). There’s actually more, but these chuckleheads forgot their time limit and got cut off.

Kris Kaplan is a firm believer that if you’re not having fun at what you do, you shouldn’t be doing it. After a long career on the road as a rep, Kris decided it was time to create an organization of people who shared the same values as him and were wholly focused on a singular vision. He is now a coach to entrepreneurs, business leaders, and other high-performing individuals, providing them with tools needed to simply execute. It is that focus on execution that inspired his contribution to Paper Napkin Wisdom: “Giddy Up and Make It Happen.”   Kris’ personal mantra of making it happen originated from taking his own thirst for learning and turning it into action - step on the gas and go for it. Within his own business, he found himself in a learning mode, protecting what was his during the post-recession free fall. Dealing with that kind of negativity in his business - a focus on saving what was left - made the business gun-shy about being as forward/active as possible. It also drove Kris toward developing a philosophy of less learning; more doing.   Personally, this mantra inspired Kris to become more active and lose weight, mostly to keep up with his young children. Professionally, however, it helps to maintain a “north star” when traveling along your path, or what Cameron Herold would describe as a vivid vision. Kris’ experience has taught him to take the strategy that he crafted and make the decision to accomplish it. Entrepreneurs can become enthralled with strategy as a sexy topic, but tactics are going to move you forward. Focusing on execution will also help simplify your strategy and create/maintain alignment among the team. In other words, a return to a singular goal.   The motivation for this focus on tactics derives from Kris’ observation of the current state of success: we now accept the “stumbling forward” way of business can be acceptable, rather than striving for true greatness. Companies are merely surviving rather than growing - 10% growth is stratospheric rather than the norm. Ask yourself this: what if you do a little less business, but become true experts at what you do? Wouldn’t that ultimately push your business towards a more rapid period of growth? Especially considering that revenue is not necessarily the only way to measure growth and success.   The foundation on which Kris has built this philosophy is one of empowered entrepreneurialism, passion for the products he represents, and simple solutions. Simplify your vision - be the #1 provider of X - and that vision will eventually filter down to tactics and execution (e.g. achieving that goal means I need to make 3 phone calls instead of 2).     It is certainly a more difficult proposition for an established company to rethink their perspective, as opposed to a new company that is just starting out, but the reward is that much more valuable when it happens. The time might never be right, but the result will always make it worthwhile. As Kris says, think about “when is now a good time”. 

Evan’s late discovery of a Hall & Oates hotline (719-26-Oates) inspires him and Dave to sing some of the duo’s biggest hits at the start of this week’s episode. Once they get that out of their system, Kris takes over for the latest installment of “Keepin’ up with the Jensons,” where he actually defends APOCALYPTO, describes why he didn’t hate X-MEN: APOCALYPSE as much as Bob, and reveals how A FIELD IN ENGLAND prepared him for HIGH-RISE’s use of overt metaphor. After they’re all caught up with Kris, Evan spoilerpieces NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (at 18:34) by sharing how this well-paced comedy surprisingly tackles racism and sexism between its outrageous pranks and raunchy jokes. Then everyone reviews THE NICE GUYS (at 36:16) by talking about how similar it is to other Shane Black movies like THE LAST BOY SCOUT. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe have excellent chemistry and can both be quite funny in it, although it’s a lot of missed opportunities. As Kris says, "Plenty to like, just nothing really to love." Lastly, tune in at 50:18 to find out why past guest Sam Cohen is wrong, and at 56:52 for Kris’s very brief review of Jodie Foster’s MONEY MONSTER.