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Step into a world where the living and the dead aren't as far apart as you might think. In this spine-chilling episode, Alyssa shares her unsettling experiences at her Aunt Mary's house, where strange occurrences seem to follow her every move. From locked bathroom doors mysteriously swinging open while she's showering, to a phone mysteriously dialing someone's number in the dead of night, this story will have you questioning what really lurks in the shadows. Is it just a coincidence, or is there something-or someone—still hanging around? If you have a real ghost story or supernatural event to report, please write into our show or call 1-855-853-4802! If you like the show, please help keep us on the air and support the show by becoming a Premium Subscriber. Subscribe here: http://www.ghostpodcast.com/?page_id=118 or at or at http://www.patreon.com/realghoststories Watch more at: http://www.realghoststoriesonline.com/ Follow Tony: Instagram: HTTP://www.instagram.com/tonybrueski TikToc: https://www.tiktok.com/@tonybrueski Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tony.brueski
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Join us for one last, heartfelt episode with Mary Foley, who shares some of the year's most touching and pivotal moments. This episode is filled with personal stories about her family, the laughs, the tears, and the unexpected twists that life threw her way. From the emotional roller-coaster of moving her mom into memory care to the poignant reminder of life's unpredictability with Aunt Mary's passing, Mary drives home the importance of love, connection, and a good sense of humor. Signing off from podcasting, she leaves us with gratitude and an inspirational note on handling life's curveballs.Take-Aways:Keep Reaching Out: The story about Mary's aunt staying connected even through tough times reminds us that a little effort to stay in touch can make a huge difference in our relationships.Don't Wait to Spend Time with Loved Ones: Life's unpredictable! Mary's moment with Uncle Bud tells us that we should cherish every opportunity to be with our loved ones—you never know what tomorrow holds.Find the Fun, Even in Tough Times: From goofy photo sessions to heartfelt birthday celebrations, Mary shows us that it's totally okay—and important—to find joy and laughter, even when things are tough.Navigating Care for Aging Parents: Mary's journey in finding the right care for her mom highlights the need for patience and compassion. It's about learning to adapt and knowing when extra help is needed.Rolling with Life's Seasons: As she steps back from podcasting, Mary encourages us to be there for each other and to readjust as life changes. Remember her motto: "chip happens, but we can all flip the chip."
Join creators Shannon Hale and Dean Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham as they celebrate 10 years of The Princess in Black series. Discover how a child's simple observation that "princesses don't wear black" inspired a revolutionary series that bridges early readers to chapter books. The trio shares behind-the-scenes stories of their creative process, memorable fan encounters, and how Princess Magnolia has spent a decade showing children they can be both perfectly prim and powerfully brave. With over 5.8 million copies sold worldwide, this beloved series continues to challenge stereotypes while helping young readers discover the joy of reading. Transcription: You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review (coming soon) Order Copies: The Princess in Black on Amazon and Bookshop.org. About the Creators: Shannon Hale and Dean Hale are the award-winning husband-and-wife team behind the Princess in Black series, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Shannon Hale is also the author of the Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy as well as the New York Times best-selling graphic novels Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale live in Salt Lake City, Utah. LeUyen Pham is the illustrator of the Princess in Black series as well as many other books for children, including Love Is Powerful by Heather Dean Brewer, Pat-a-Cake by Mary Brigid Barrett, God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams, Aunt Mary's Rose by Douglas Wood, and Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever by Shannon Hale. LeUyen Pham lives in California. Visit http://www.leuyenpham.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thechildrensbookreview/support
Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Thanksgiving Chaos: Unforgettable Laughter Amidst Mishaps Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2024-11-23-23-34-02-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 在明伟的心中，这将是一个完美的感恩节晚餐。En: In Mingwei's heart, this was going to be a perfect Thanksgiving dinner.Zh: 他精心布置了餐厅，橙黄色的枫叶装饰着挂在墙上的照片，餐桌上摆满了丰盛的食物。En: He had carefully decorated the dining room, with orange-yellow maple leaves adorning the photos hanging on the walls, and the dining table was filled with sumptuous food.Zh: 空气中弥漫着烤火鸡的香味，家人都坐在餐桌周围。En: The air was filled with the aroma of roast turkey, and the family was seated around the table.Zh: 明伟微笑着，满意地打量着这一切。En: Mingwei smiled, contentedly surveying everything.Zh: 他的妹妹丽君正忙着在厨房里准备最后的甜点，而表妹小月则刚从外地赶来，兴奋地四处张望。En: His sister Lijun was busy in the kitchen preparing the final dessert, and his cousin Xiaoyue had just arrived from out of town, excitedly looking around.Zh: "丽君，甜点怎么样了？" 明伟问。En: "Lijun, how's the dessert coming along?" Mingwei asked.Zh: "快好了！我只要把糖加上就行了。" 丽君回答，声音从厨房传来。En: "Almost done! I just need to add the sugar," Lijun replied, her voice coming from the kitchen.Zh: 但是，丽君没注意到的是，她手边的并不是糖，而是一罐盐。En: However, Lijun hadn't noticed that what she had at hand wasn't sugar, but a jar of salt.Zh: 厨房里响起“咣当”一声，她惊讶地望着已撒进布丁里的白色粉末。En: There was a clang from the kitchen, and she looked in surprise at the white powder she had already sprinkled into the pudding.Zh: 随后，客厅里的小月忍不住发表了一个幽默评论：“哦，看起来玛丽姨的布丁今天有特别的味道！”En: Subsequently, in the living room, Xiaoyue couldn't help but make a humorous comment, "Oh, it seems Aunt Mary's pudding has a special flavor today!"Zh: 大家都笑了，丽君尴尬地耸了耸肩，摆出一个夸张的无奈表情。En: Everyone laughed, and Lijun shrugged awkwardly, putting on an exaggeratedly helpless expression.Zh: 明伟轻叹一口气，意识到事情似乎不像他计划的那样顺利。En: Mingwei sighed lightly, realizing things didn't seem to be going as smoothly as he had planned.Zh: 他深吸一口气，决定顺其自然，转身招呼大家：“好吧，既然有了意外，我们来玩个游戏吧！”En: He took a deep breath and decided to go with the flow, turning to everyone invitingly: "Alright, since we had a little accident, let's play a game!"Zh: 丽君灵机一动，提议道：“不如我们来个家庭接力赛，把每道菜端到桌上，只能用筷子来传递！”En: Lijun had a sudden idea and suggested, "How about we have a family relay race, bringing each dish to the table using only chopsticks to pass them?"Zh: 大家纷纷响应，客厅里顿时欢笑声不断。En: Everyone agreed enthusiastically, and the living room was soon filled with laughter.Zh: 但是正当明伟用筷子夹起一团土豆泥时，意外发生了。En: But just as Mingwei picked up a blob of mashed potatoes with chopsticks, an unexpected event occurred.Zh: 土豆泥飞了出去，正好落在奶奶张的脸上。En: The mashed potatoes flew off and landed right on Grandma Zhang's face.Zh: 奶奶张愣了一下，然后哈哈大笑，竟然故意用勺子舀了一大勺番茄酱往明伟身上甩去。En: Grandma Zhang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, purposely scooping up a spoonful of tomato sauce to fling at Mingwei.Zh: 所有人都笑得前仰后合，餐桌顿时成了欢乐的战场，所有的拘谨都烟消云散。En: Everyone laughed so hard they doubled over, and the dining table instantly became a joyful battlefield, all inhibitions disappearing into thin air.Zh: 最终，大家都放下筷子，满脸笑意地坐在餐桌边。En: Ultimately, everyone put down their chopsticks, sitting at the table with smiles on their faces.Zh: 虽然餐桌上一片狼藉，但每个人的心中都充盈着快乐。En: Although the table was a mess, each heart was filled with joy.Zh: 明伟望着大家，心中升起了一种温暖的满足感。En: Mingwei looked at everyone, a warm satisfaction rising in his heart.Zh: 通过一场意外的混乱，他终于明白，有时候不完美反而能让人更快乐。En: Through an unexpected chaos, he realized that sometimes imperfection can make people even happier.Zh: 他感激地微笑着，看着家人分享着他们在这个特别晚上最难忘的瞬间。En: He smiled gratefully, watching his family share their most unforgettable moments on this special evening.Zh: 这场感恩节晚餐，以意料之外的欢笑声落下帷幕。En: This Thanksgiving dinner concluded with unexpected laughter.Zh: 明伟知道，这一天会成为他们家未来许多感恩节晚餐时被津津乐道的故事。En: Mingwei knew this day would become a cherished story retold during many future Thanksgiving dinners with his family. Vocabulary Words:perfect: 完美的sumptuous: 丰盛的aroma: 香味contentedly: 满意地surveying: 打量pudding: 布丁humorous: 幽默comment: 评论awkwardly: 尴尬地exaggeratedly: 夸张地helpless: 无奈sigh: 叹气smoothly: 顺利accident: 意外enthusiastically: 纷纷响应unexpected: 意外的stunned: 愣了burst: 哈哈大笑fling: 甩去inhibitions: 拘谨disappearing: 烟消云散satisfaction: 满足感cherished: 津津乐道的future: 未来cherished story: 津津乐道的故事gratefully: 感激地relay race: 接力赛pass: 传递spoonful: 一大勺instantly: 顿时
Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia. Today is Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. Weirton bed & breakfasts team up with the local CVB to showcase the work of area artists…the new Heritage Highway joins four other scenic Mountain Rides throughout Almost Heaven…and West Virginia's Paranormal Trail gets even spookier, with four more additions…on today's daily304. #1 – From WEIRTON DAILY TIMES – Weirton area residents and visitors had an opportunity to tour three local bed and breakfasts and view a variety of art recently through a collaboration of the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau and Rivertown Inns. Rivertown Inns is an umbrella for the three bed and breakfasts — Arabian Nights, Aunt Mary's and the Sarah Miller House — which teamed for a revival of the CVB's Art Hop event. The bed and breakfast's artistic guests were James Sulkowski, an oil painter from Canonsburg, Pa., and Devin Ashmore, a photographer from Weirton. Arabian Nights owner Danielle Thomas said of the art hop, “I think it's fantastic. I love the collaboration with the other bed and breakfasts. We all refer people to each other.” An avid baker, she suggested a cookie crawl, in which visitors would be treated to cookies and other snacks made by local bakers, could be the next event for them. Read more: https://www.weirtondailytimes.com/news/local-news/2024/10/cvb-bed-and-breakfasts-showcase-local-artists/ #2 – From METRO NEWS – Governor Jim Justice and West Virginia Department of Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby are celebrating the addition of a fifth new route for West Virginia Mountain Rides. Heritage Highway, the new name for the 194-mile scenic loop, will lead travelers throughout the state's southern region, starting in Raleigh County, down to Wyoming, down to McDowell into Mercer County and then to Beckley. West Virginia Mountain Rides is a partnership between the Tourism and the West Virginia Department of Transportation to designate and promote the state's most scenic country roads. Ruby and Justice praised everyone, especially the Division of Highways, that worked on these scenic routes, putting them together, cleaning them and keeping them free of potholes. Heritage Highway joins Seneca Skyway, Capitol Circle, Cranberry Corridor and Birdeye Bend as a part of the rides that people can take. Ruby pointed out that they were not done adding routes to West Virginia Mountain Rides. Visit wvtourism.com to learn more about Mountain Rides in Almost Heaven. Read more: https://wvmetronews.com/2024/10/14/west-virginias-mountain-rides-add-their-fifth-scenic-route/ #3 – From WV PUBLIC – Don't look now, but West Virginia's new Paranormal Trail just got a little bigger – and a lot spookier. In the three weeks since the West Virginia Division of Tourism launched its new West Virginia Paranormal Trail, nearly 5,000 visitors from 39 states and three different countries have already signed up. Now, the trail has added four new destinations, for a total of 18. Cryptid Mountain Miniature Golf in Morgantown is one of the new attractions. Featuring creatures like Bigfoot, Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster, the indoor course incorporates the elements of “cosmic” mini golf, including blacklight and state-of-the-art video and audio systems. Also new to the list: the West Virginia Bigfoot Museum in Sutton, the Silver Run Tunnel on the North Bend Rail Trail and the Hempfield Tunnel in Wheeling. Read more: https://wvpublic.org/paranormal-trail-draws-visitors-to-w-va-with-spooky-attractions/ Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo. That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.
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Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:14-20, 26-27"Hi, Mom!" called Adalyn when she got home from school. She found her mother staring out the window, a sad expression on her face. "What's wrong?" asked Adalyn.Mom sighed. "Aunt Mary called. They heard from your cousin Mackenzie for the first time since she left home.""That's good, isn't it?" asked Adalyn. "They finally know where she is and that she's okay, right?""Yes, she called from some place in Texas," answered Mom. "But Mackenzie is making a terrible mistake. My heart aches for her and for Aunt Mary and Uncle John." Adalyn noticed tears in Mom's eyes."Well, I'm sorry for them too, but what can we do about it?" asked Adalyn. "Mackenzie's always had a lot of problems, and she won't listen to anyone." She turned and walked out of the room.A moment later, Adalyn let out a loud wail. "Ohhh!" she cried. "Ouch!""Adalyn! What happened?" Mom hurried to the kitchen where Adalyn crouched on the floor, clutching her foot."I slammed my toe into that chair leg," moaned Adalyn. "It hurts so bad!"Mom got an ice pack for Adalyn's injured toe. "That helps," said Adalyn after applying the ice. "But it still hurts a lot.""I'm sorry," said Mom. "Just sit still until it feels better." She gave Adalyn a confused look. "But why such a fuss? It's just a little toe."Adalyn blinked in surprise. "It makes me hurt all over!" she wailed.Mom nodded and smiled a little. "I know it does. Your cousin is like that little toe. Mackenzie's trouble brings pain to all the members of her family."Adalyn thought about it. "I guess you're right. But what can we do to help Aunt Mary and Uncle John?""We can pray for them," said Mom. "Whether it's for sore toes or broken hearts, Christians can pray for each other as we face sin and brokenness in our lives. Since Jesus brought us into God's family by dying for our sins, the pain and burdens of our brothers and sisters in Christ affect us too, whether we realize it or not. And we can also pray for Mackenzie. Jesus loves her, and we can trust Him to help us show her that we love her too."–Phyllis I. KlomparensHow About You?Are you sensitive to the feelings of others? Or do you not pay much attention to other people's problems? God wants you to care about what others are going through, just like He cares about what you're going through. Christians are all part of His family, which the Bible calls the body of Christ. When one part of the body hurts, it affects all of us. Pray for those who are hurting, and do what you can to comfort them and show them you care.Today's Key Verse:Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. (NKJV) (Romans 12:15)Today's Key Thought:Share the pain of others
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What do Danny from the hit boy band New Kids on the Block and Banana Pudding have in common? Well, they were initially rejects at the pot luck party in my brain. Banana pudding for its texture and banana flavor and just not being a super Louisiana type of dessert. Danny from New Kids on the Block for not being, well, not being the cutest one. And, for my allegiance to Donny - no wait Jordan - no wait Joey. (It varied on the day. Sorry Jonathan, you were too shy.) But, like a good Southerner, I learned to embrace the pudding which is essentially just a mushy ole trifle when my Aunt Mary brought in her fancier version with the Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies. So long 'Nilla Wafers! And, I also learned to embraced Danny from NKOTB (not literally, yet) because, like a wine, he got FINER with age (IMHO). I also tell tales on how ice box pies can be lower carb and lower sugar too. Mississippi Mud Pie is just one example of something you can easily make (read : "make" NOT bake) that's Keto-friendly. Like a church pot luck, there's a little something for everyone in this episode, y'all! If you would like to read transcripts of this (or any) episode, please check out my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/brookehoover And, for more information and to tell your friends about this, please visit me on TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@whosdatphatgirl INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/br00keh00ver/ and the MAIN WEBSITE www.brookehoover.com/podcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whosdatphatgirl/support
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www.atravelpath.com https://delicioats.com/discount/PATH Use Code PATH Welcome back to the show Pathfinders and holy smokes, Marc and Julie from RVLove did not disappoint! This was an information packed, nearly hour long episode on all things RV. Whether you are a newbie or seasoned RVer, there is something here for everyone. Listen in as RVLove shares all about: Buying an RV Over the past 10 years, RVLove has been through all sorts of RVs, and they offer many, many tips on the buying process. Instead of asking “How much can you afford?” RVLove frames the question, “How much can you afford to lose?” RVs depreciate and they are expensive, so it is important to know how much everything can cost you. They offer specific tips on why you shouldn't wrap your warranty into your loan, as well as the pros and cons of the many different types of RVs. How Has the RV Life Changed You? RVLove shares how they have become changed individuals after spending so much time traveling. The more things they see, the more perspective they have about the world, which results in more of an open mind. How to Get the Right Information About RVing? With so much clickbait and distractions available online, it is tough know whether you are getting the right information. You can watch 10 different videos and hear 10 different opinions on why you should or shouldn't do something, so it can be overwhelming. While you don't want to over-analyze, you definitely want to do your homework before you buy an RV. RVLove shares some tips on how you can verify the information you are receiving. Remote Income In order to make the most of full or part time travel, having a remote income source is key. RVLove shares their story on how they were able to achieve remote income positions at the beginning, before transitioning to their own business. Learn about all this and much more in this episode of A Travel Path Podcast! Chapters · 00:00 Introduction · 03:45 How Did You Get Started RVing? · 09:15 Living Out of Two Suitcases · 11:45 Downsizing and Letting Go · 14:30 Delicioats · 15:15 Pros and Cons of Different RVs · 21:00 All 50 States in 3 Years · 23:00 Biggest Challenge to Get on the Road · 24:45 Buying a New or Used RV · 38:00 How Much Someone Some One Save Up Before RVing Full Time? · 41:45 Books by RV Love · 44:00 How to Get the Right RV Information · 48:45 What Is Your RV Type? Quiz · 51:00 How Has the RV Lifestyle Changed You? · 52:45 What Is the First Step Towards Full Time RVing? 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We are not experts and the information is not designed to serve as legal, financial, or tax advice. Always do your own research and due diligence before making a decision. Transcript: Host: Marc and Julie, welcome to the Travel Path Podcast! Thank you for joining us. Guest: Thanks for having us. Host: Yeah, so we know you as RVLove. You guys sold your home in 2014 and have spent the past 10 years traveling full-time and part-time in a variety of different RVs. You're also bestselling authors with a focus on educating RVers. I just want to remind our audience to pay attention; I feel like there's going to be a lot of great information here. Also, I want to give a shout-out to Phil and Stacy from "Today is Sunday," who were on episode 17. I mentioned you guys were a huge influence on going full-time. Before we dive too deep, why don't you share a little about yourselves and then tell our audience what your current travel lifestyle looks like? Guest: Alright, sure. Well, as you mentioned, we hit the road in 2014 to go full-time because we wanted more time together and had limited time off from work. We thought it would be a great way to go. I had some limited travel experience before that, doing some RVing with my family when I was growing up, but hadn't done any extensive RV travel. And Julie had not either. My family, when I—just for anyone listening—I'm originally Australian, but I've been in the States since '08, so I'm a citizen here now. But we met in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, married in 2011. Yeah, met in 2010 and then we hit the road. And actually, it was funny because we hit the road in 2014, and then for the next over six years, so we actually spent way more time those first eight years of our marriage and our life together in the RV than we did in a regular house. So that was unique as well—still living in a small space, yeah, and working—still married, still even working together. That's great. And then you asked what type of travel we're doing right now. So we were full-time travel from 2014 to 2020; we bought a home base in 2020 and started doing part-time travel. Um, but some years more than others, but this year, right now, I mean, we've been out every month for quite a few of the months. We've been six of the last seven months; we're out since early October. We've only spent one month at home. So we all have been out for I think seven months by the time we get back, so yeah, might as well be full-time travel, right? Well, with the current rig we're in, you totally—this. Host: Yeah, yeah. So Mark, you had mentioned on your website that you worked a 40-hour-a-week job with very limited vacation time and you said RVing was a solution that made you feel like you had more time off. Can you elaborate on that and then how did you get started RVing? Guest: Yeah, sure. Well, I wanted to have a remote job for a long, long time, and I was having trouble finding an employer that would do that. And so I just made it my mission to find an employer that would allow remote work. And once I did that, it was only about three months that went by before I realized, well, I never go to an office, they don't really know where I'm at, so we could be anywhere. And that's when it started opening the idea of doing some more travel. Julie and I did some vision boarding and visualizing what we wanted out of our life, and a lot of it revolved around travel, not possessions. And so that's when we decided to make travel a bigger priority and started doing a lot more research. And in about nine months of heavy, extensive research is when we bought an RV, sold the house, and launched on the road. I had a full-time job at the time that was remote, that was paying all the bills for that, and that allowed that freedom and that remote lifestyle. And I actually didn't tell many people at all at my work that I was going to be doing that because I felt confident that I'd have internet connectivity if we made it a high enough priority and that the longer I went without telling anybody, as long as I didn't have any hiccups, then I would have lots of evidence to say, "Hey, it's totally how long?" Oh, you just—you noticed I'm traveling? How long? Oh, the last two days. Well, I've been doing it for four months. So that was a really great way to come back and say, "This is totally doable; you had no idea I'm doing this for all this time." And I even later went to Australia and didn't tell anybody either. Wouldn't recommend that; the time zone—time hurts; it crushes you. Yeah, but Marc was uh doing remote work before CO made it cool. Host: Yep, funny. Yeah, Australia—you might be showing up a little bit late to work or early depending on what the time difference over there is—brutal. Guest: You would—yeah, to work my 8-to-5 job, I had to work midnight to 9 a.m., and he's not a—not a—and I'm not a night person, and so it was actually really tough because we were also visiting friends and family in Australia. We'd spend a lot of time with them during the day, so I'd work midnight to 9 a.m., have a couple-hour nap, go hang out with friends and family, have a couple-hour nap, and then go back to work. I never got big chunks of time to sleep for a month, and by the end of the month, we would both be delirious. We were literally—wouldn't recommend doing that very often. Just take the time off and just have a vacation; that's our recommendation. Host: Yeah, it is hard to balance, especially if you're traveling that far to balance working full-time with travel and getting those experiences in. So that's probably one of the first lessons you learned was to just separate those a little bit. Guest: Yeah, even domestic travel, the time zones are still a factor, you know. If you have a job that has specific hours and not an asymmetrical or asynchronous job, you know, when you're on the Pacific coast, it's amazing in the summer because you can be off work at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, the sun doesn't go down till 9, you have this whole evening—it's almost like every day is two days. But when you're on the East Coast, unless you'd have to either try and get some stuff done before work or your evenings are short, so lots of modifications. Host: Yeah, so over about 9 months of really planning this, you know, putting a lot of thought into it, considering all the options, doing the vision boards, and really looking into travel over possessions. That's a classic example—doing four months without telling your employer that you're going remote. That's the example of not asking for permission, asking for forgiveness. Guest: Yes, exactly, exactly. And, you know, it—it worked for us. We just—we wanted to spend more time together, we wanted to spend more time with our dog, and, you know, that was RVing is the best way to do that. We—we really wanted to do some international travel, but as long as we had her, it just wasn't really feasible. So we—and we love to drive, we love road trips, we love driving. So, uh, we had a couple of spirited vehicles in the garage. So that's why we, uh, you know, looking for ways that we could go and do more road trips and try some of these most beautiful roads and scenic byways and highways in North America. Yeah, and that's actually part of why we chose the RV we did to start with, is because we had a WRX and a Mazda Miata in the garage, so we loved—yeah, so we loved these sporty cars. And so we decided to sell both of those and then buy a less expensive Mini Cooper Convertible, um, so that we could just have a car we didn't care about as much to tow behind the RV. And then, uh, and had a backseat for the dog. Yeah, but it was really great to go do the exploring, and it was especially fun to switch from the big lumbering class A motorhome to this fun, nimble light sports car. Host: Yeah, you don't want to put too many dents or dings in the WRX when you're driving up those rough rocky roads out west. Guest: Well, that was one of the things. I think our cars were—you know, they were not new but newer and nicer and had a payment on them both, and we're just like, we didn't know how they're going to get impacted being dragged around the country, and, uh, by consolidating and getting rid of those payments too, made a huge difference. But yeah, that Mini—we really had a bit of a rough adventure sometimes; we broke it boondocking, but it was a great car. Host: So, I know, Julie, you have a pretty interesting story as well, how this whole thing started out. So you moved to Boulder, Colorado, from Australia with just two suitcases after selling everything. Can you talk about some of the events that led to that, and then what did that experience teach you about how much stuff you actually needed? Guest: Say very succinctly, as my business blew up in 2008, like so many people when the economy imploded, so did my business. And I laugh about it now, but it was actually a really traumatic time in my life; it was very difficult. I know anyone that went through that, I empathize; it was a tough time. And I needed to start my life over, and I'm like, well, and I was single at the time. And so I'm like, well, if I'm going to start over, am I going to do it here in Sydney? And if anyone's been to Sydney, it's a beautiful city, but it's a big city; it's a fast-paced, one of the big expensive cities of the world. And I'm like, I just don't know if I want to do that again here; just the thought of it was very exhausting, actually. I think I was just burned out and needed a reset. And honestly, I was so broke I couldn't even afford to move out of my apartment, to be honest. I just—I couldn't even afford to send the car back to the lease company; I couldn't afford to do any of that because they wanted a big balloon payment. What am I going to do? So I sublet my apartment and I sublet my car, and then I just put, you know, my stuff in two suitcases and used frequent flyer miles to get over to Colorado. And I'd been at a conference six months earlier and I'd met some people, and somebody had a friend of a friend that had an apartment available for sublet. So I was able to be very creative and live for three months in—I think I lived three months rent-free in three months in Boulder for the amount of time I rented my apartment in Sydney for six weeks or something; it was something like that. I had to get very creative. And, um, so yeah, but it—it just made me realize that you really don't need that much stuff. And it's actually shocking to me when Marc and I met and married a few years later after—you know, back and forth, Australia, I eventually got a job, got sponsored, and then we met, got married, and had the townhome. And I'm like, how the heck am I downsizing when I moved here from the other side of the world with two suitcases? How did I end up with stuff again? Obviously, not as much stuff as I used to have from accumulating it over my life, but still, even periodically in the RV, we still go through and declutter and downsize and get rid of stuff. You just have to; it's human nature, I think, just to accumulate even little things. It just—I don't know what it is; it's an illness. Host: It is, yeah. I think I mean, part of it, we've heard that's been like the biggest, one of the biggest challenges so far, especially dealing with people who are going full-time, is just downsizing and getting rid of, you know, half, more than half, of the stuff that you own. Um, we've got a lot of content where we discussed, you know, not just the physical struggle, but the emotional struggle with that as well, because you're letting go of, you know, things that are—you're letting go of things that are important to you because, you know, you have to just make that choice, right? Guest: You have memories associated with those things, memories and people, and especially if people have departed, that's very hard to think about. You hear about a lot of people having trouble giving up the furniture that their parents or their grandparents had, and they're holding it for their kids. But if you can have that conversation with the kids now, I don't know about you guys, if you'd be wanting your grandma's furniture, probably not, even if it was top-of-the-line, expensive, fancy stuff back in the day, probably not your style. And so often, people can be holding onto that and paying to store it only to find that, well, they didn't want it anyway. So you've got to get practical too. Host: The two tips we've learned so far, I'll just sum that up really quickly, was Jim and Michelle had mentioned that they didn't want to leave the burden to their children because ultimately, you know, they're going to pass at some point, and their children are going to have all this stuff. They just figured they'd get rid of it for them before, you know, their children inherited it. And then Phil and Stacy had mentioned that those things that they have a strong emotional attachment, just take a picture of them. You can create a photo book online; you can always reference them. But the memories, you know, you can look at and go back to that place. Guest: And you could even take that up a notch and just put your iPhone on a tripod and do a little video and just film yourself having the item and telling a story, and just say, "Oh, this was given to me by my Aunt Mary, and this is what it meant to me," or this, and then actually have a story, and it's like watching your own little home movie, you know? So that's how easy to do these days is just hit play and uh, just have a conversation with it about. Host: Uh, 2014. We've probably come a long way with the technology and everything. Um, you talked about how you had transitioned your cars, right? You—you had switched to the Mini Cooper. Did you say it wasn't Mini Cooper? Guest: Mini Cooper S convertible, yep, yep, it was. Host: You switched to the Mini Cooper, um, but you also had mentioned that you've gone from five different RVs in your past 10 years of traveling so far, uh, motorized, towable, large, small, you name it. What are some of the pros and cons of each that you've discovered and um, what were some of the factors that influenced you to replace what you already had? Host: Hey, guys, I wanted to take a quick break to tell you about Delicia Oats. We've been enjoying Delicia Oats for many years, and they have helped fuel us for those extra-long hikes. They are flavored oats that come in a pouch and are very easy to set up. Just add water, give it a shake, and let it sit overnight and enjoy the next morning. Or you can add boiling water if you like them served hot. We've also added them to our morning smoothie, or I'll sprinkle some into my yogurt for some extra flavor and to help fill me up. You can make them in less than a minute, and there is no cleanup, which is huge for us on the road. Now, if you're like me, the first question you'll ask is how much added sugar is there, and here's a big one for me—no added sugar. They come in a variety of flavors; my personal favorite is cherry chocolate. Enjoy them for yourself by placing an order at DeliciaOats.com and use the coupon code "PATH" at checkout. That's DeliciaOats.com, D-E-L-I-C-I-A-O-A-T-S.com, and use the coupon code "PATH." Guest: Yeah, well, most all of our full-time travel was in a class A motorhome, the Big Bus type motorhomes towing a car. Um, part of it was the Mini Cooper, and then we switched to a Jeep so that it'd be easier to tow. But I want to jump in just there before you go into the details. For the first— it sounds like we've had a lot of RVs. It sounds like we change on average every two years, but for the first six and a quarter years, we only had two RVs. But it's been since we've gone part-time that we've been we switched a lot more when we went to part-time. Um, and the main reason we switched from the first coach to the second coach was cargo carry capacity because the first one was just inadequate for that and it was a little unsafe. Um, and then so we went to a diesel with much higher capacities. But we've actually—we have enormous experience, and we love learning from everyone else we meet in all of our travels. We did a lot of research ourselves, but then we also continually research with everyone else. And now we also wanted to have the other experiences to share with people. And so now we've traveled in 17-foot travel trailers and 45-foot classes and everything in between because we have owned five, but we've also rented or borrowed a lot of the other types too. Um, and really, the type of RV you have depends on the RV travel style you want to enjoy. You know, a couple years, we had a smaller Class C, which was a very nimble and faster-paced travel. Um, and now we have a truck and fifth wheel, which is a slower-paced travel but really homey, and we really enjoy that. This is the fifth wheel we've got here we're in, and it's so—they all have their own reasons and your own seasons for why you change them. Part of the reason we resisted having a fifth wheel for a long time is Julie is not very tall, and so a lot of fifth wheels, the cabinets are very hard to reach, so that's a challenge. But I didn't want to get into a big truck, and Julie didn't want to drive a big truck, but now she actually has quite a bit of comfort around that, and so she does drive the big truck. And then we've got an RV that has a big pantry that has low-level storage for easy access for her. So, but again, a lot of it depends on your travel style and pace is a big part of why you choose different ones and just different seasons of RV life. So when we first started out, we were just, I think, like most people that hit the road, you were like, "I want to see everything. I want to go to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon and all the top things on the bucket list, right? I want to go to all the national parks. I want to visit all 50 states, 48 with the RV. We have not driven to Alaska. I know many people have, but that's such a—and we didn't drive to Hawaii, which most people don't either; we flew to Hawaii. And actually, we did the 48 states, funnily enough. We love to share that we did all 48, the lower 48, in three years, a little over three years, while working full-time. And I think when you really think about that, like, this is such a big, vast country. And for anyone—I don't know how good geography is, but the size of the United States is the same size as Australia, geographically very similar. But there's nothing to really see in the middle except the Outback, and it's very hot. But in the US, there is so much you can see in every single state. And it's shocking, actually, when you think what a big country it is. And let's not forget Canada too; we love Canada. We should say North America, not just the US. But that—you know, even though it's so big, it's shocking how much you can really see if you're focused and you plan it in a relatively short period of time, because we saw all of the 50 states before age 15, which is pretty cool. I mean, a lot of people will never do that in their life, and that's something we feel really grateful and really blessed to have been able to do that at an age where we're still young and fit and healthy enough to get out there and do the hikes and, you know, get out there and not just do the little 500-meter loop, take a few photos, and get back in your vehicle, which some people do, but to really get out and, you know, bike and hike and do everything. So, I think, just that season of life, so we were going at a pretty fast pace that first few years, but we still stayed, we tried to stay for a couple of weeks at a time. And then we switched to the second rig, very similar kind of a travel pace, but we'd already seen all 50 states with our first rig, so then we changed gears where we're less about just going and exploring everything, and we would've been more time just really working in the RV and renovating the RV; we renovated that older one. And then a lot of the places we're going to now, we're going back to. There are less places that we're going to for the first time. So, for example, we're here in Tucson right now. We've been here before; we love Tucson, but we haven't gone out and done a ton because we had poor internet in Mesa in the Phoenix area, and we didn't get as much work done, and we had a lot of social time with friends. So now we're here, we're kind of playing catch-up. Host: Right, so you know, adjusting our schedule like that, but the different kinds of RVs just fit the season of your life. Guest: Sure, yeah. Host: Um, you guys are speaking our language. That's actually one of Hope's goals, is doing the 50 States before we turn 50. Of course, she turns 50, which we're on track to do. So, and um, the same thing, that's the reason we took our trip. You talked about wanting to do those longer hikes while you're young and you still can. That's the reason why we did this young while we're continuing to do it so that we can take those longer hikes and the scenic things and do that at a younger age while we still have our knees, right? Um, so 3 years, all 48 states, was that looking back on that, was that too fast or was that the perfect pace, do you think? Guest: Probably a little fast, especially working full—you know, you try to tell people to slow down, they're not going to, they're going to do it anyway, so just, you'll figure it out. But I will say, if you—Marc is very disciplined with his work schedule, we don't have kids, okay? So, if you have kids and you're trying to do a job, you know, travel, set up your RV, pack it down, road school the kids, all of these things, they just take more time and so you need to allow for that. But, yeah, well, you know, in the Northeast where you guys are from, you can knock out a lot of states quick because they're a lot smaller, but out west, in a weekend— Host: Yeah, they're a lot bigger. Guest: Yeah, Rhode Island, if you blink, you miss it, it's only 20 miles driving across it, right? So, it's quick, yeah. You drive four hours, you're in—yeah, four different states out west, you're still in the same state driving the same day, exciting when you have that state sticker map and you just go through and subtly your numbers go away— Yeah, but that's one of the funny things about a goal of hitting all 50 states, is like, you're in Texas, you're going to Colorado, but you decide to go through all these Midwestern states in this big arc because you want to make sure you get to these other states on your way, do that. We've done that, we do that. Host: Our rule is we have to do something cool in that state, like it's fun, we have to have an experience in every state, memorize every state on the East except Delaware, we've driven through Delaware a thousand times but haven't stopped there, so we have to actually stop there one day and do something cool. So, if anyone's listening for something cool in Delaware, let us know, at least stop. Guest: Yeah, everyone's got their own rules—nwe have to have a memorable experience. Some people have to visit the state capital, some people have to spend multiple nights and like that, everyone has their own rules of what they qualify, but you, that's your rules, so you can do them however you want. Host: So, going back to when you guys first started out, obviously, just mentioned it took about nine months to get there, a lot of work was involved in that, just planning, processing everything, um, what was the biggest challenge you faced in getting on the road? It doesn't sound like it was talking to your boss about going remote because he didn't do that, but what was the biggest challenge you had to overcome to get there? Guest: You know, I think when we first started out, we spent a lot of time researching online, YouTube, and um, we found a great ebook, actually. Our first question was not about the RV but was around the internet because if we can't get solid internet to work from the road, there's no point in setting foot on a dealer lot, starting our RV shopping because it's not going to happen. Yeah, in 2013, that was a lot more challenging than it is now. And we found an ebook by Chris and Sherie from Mobile Internet Resource Center. I'm sure you've heard of them or most of your listeners have. And I mean, they are—they are the reason, I think, a great many of us are being today because they are the gurus on all things mobile internet and connectivity. And so, we read their ebook, and it was just like, "Oh, we can do this." Because we're thinking, "Do we need to get satellite and all kinds of things?" But no, cellular, you can do it with that. And sure enough, we've just followed their lead, you know, the whole way. And we changed our plans and set up a few times along the way, not often, but often enough to just revisit it every couple of years and make sure it's still optimal set up for us. And so, that was a great resource, and we just devoured, you know, YouTube videos and blogs. We didn't read any books, there weren't any, except for that ebook. But I think, I think back then, what do you think was the biggest challenge? Was trying to figure out which RV we really wanted. We—we thought we wanted new until I remember we were at Camping World on a Sunday, and the sales department was closed, and we were looking at the accessories, the store was open, and some guy who worked in service came by and he said, "Are you planning on buying an RV?" We said, "Yeah." He said, "Whatever you do, don't buy new." Host: Wow. Guest: Planning on buying new, you know, when you're new, when you're new, you don't know. You assume it's like buying a new car, I'll buy new, I'm going to get the warranty and everything's going to be great. Well, the more you learn about RVing, the more you realize, no, it's not that way, your first RV is going to teach you the most and is going to depreciate hard and you're going to lose money. And so, I actually have a thing I want to start saying to people instead of saying, "Well, how much does an RV cost?" or "How much can you afford?" I would turn it around and say, "Well, how much can you afford to lose?" That's the question. I'm not saying that to be mean, just so much as it is going to cost you money. This is, for most people, unless it is your only viable option for housing, which is the case for some people, but many of us are out there living this by choice, and we're, you know, privileged, really, to do that. But you don't want to financially disadvantage yourself too much. And so, your first RV will teach you the most, so spend as little as you can to get something that's going to do what you want and needed to do. And then, once you learn more, then your next RV, you can look at. I know going to be a lot of people probably disagreeing with me in the comments, and that's that's just fine, that's just my opinion after 10 years and five rigs, and you do you, but you know, that's what, if that would be back then, I would have spent less than what we did on our first setup. I think we could have had just the same great experience. Um, it was a good rig, but I don't think we needed to spend that much. No. So, start with something that doesn't have everything you quite need because chances are, at some point, you're going to want to upgrade anyway, so might as well not spend a ton of money on your first. A lot of ours change within the first year or two, some, some transfer in less, switch in less than a year because they realized they made a mistake. We see a lot of people get forced off the road pretty early on because they've picked a dud rig or they just got unlucky or they—it was costing them more, it was costing a lot more than when we started. When we started 10 years ago, the cost of RVing is much higher now, not gas, surprisingly. I know we had that period where gas went high. When we started, it was like $3.50 something a gallon, we saw over $4 a gallon in our first year, and now we're seeing it again around $3.30 a gallon, but we've seen it in the sixes, and so, a lot, so, especially Host: seven, seven was our highest, 7.40 in California, but yeah, it's tough to prepare for how much you're going to be spending on fuel. Guest: Fuel is one of those expenses that you can modify, and you've got a van, so that's got better fuel economy than most. Host: Yeah. Guest: Yeah, but slowing down the pace, slow the reduced spend on fuel, and in fact, I was just, you know, we just, I was just doing a little recap on the last three years of our winter travel, you know, this year, we're in Arizona, last year, California, year before, we went to Florida, but also to California, um, and just looking at the fuel expense, you know, the first Florida trip, we spent $700 a month on fuel, and then last year, we were spending like five, and then this year, um, under, it's only three. And so, part of it's slower pace, but part of it's also, you know, just fewer mileage, you just change your travel plans, if it's a big part of your budget, don't go as far and don't—and stay longer. But I would say if people—if—if the cost of fuel is freaking people out, just don't buy an RV, that's my answer, just don't get one, because you never know what's going to change. I mean, you could wait for gas prices to go down, but they go up and down, I don't care who is president, they go up and they go down, and people just like to distract and blame, and that's something that is out of your control, so you're going to let it control you and your travels, and just like, you know what, maybe go out for dinner one less time a month and make a meal at home and what you save, you put it in the tank. I mean, it's your choice, if you're going to freak out and just whine about gas prices all the time, just go and drive your hybrid vehicle and stay in an Airbnb, then you won't have to fix it you don't have to worry about depreciation, that's a whole other episode, but really, I mean, I'm very direct about these things now, people may not like it, but also do your research, like one of the guys I met once that was the most ridiculous was he had—he had four different RVs in six months, he bought a Class C RV, didn't like it, bought a Class A gas, didn't like it, bought a Class A diesel, didn't like it, bought a Prevost bus conversion, you know, a half million dollar coach, finally was satisfied with that, but he obviously had more dollars than cents because he was just spending like crazy. If he would have just done a little more research, maybe gone on a test drive or something before just buying him, he could have saved himself a lot of hassle, a lot of money, and just ended up—it was a $700,000 rig, he ended up with a used $700,000, but you know they, you know, probably a couple of million years, yeah, do your research, but yeah, and rent. We say rent an RV, full disclosure, we did not rent, you know, not saying we advise people against it, it's a good idea to rent and be sure that this is something you really want to do. Now, the one that you rent, you can through companies like RVshare, for example, you can rent from companies, from individuals, rather, so you can do the—the ones with all the branding on the side from Roadbear and Cruise America, all of that that have the dog sticker looking out the window, but or you can get one that just looks like a regular normal RV owned by private, uh, people that just want to make a bit of money to help offset the cost of ownership. And that feels to me more like the kind of a—you can rent an RV, even the same brand, make, model, and size that you're even thinking you might like to buy, and rent that first, and it seems expensive, I think people look at that and think, "Wow, it's so expensive." Well, they don't realize is old—no, what is expensive is if you make a poor choice buying, and you have to get out of that, you're going to spend a lot more than you're going to think, "Wow, that RV rental would have been cheaper in it." I think, case in point, is our friend that we bought the Class C from, was a 25-foot Mercedes Sprinter little Winnebago navon, and he's 6'2" and he full-timed in that for a few years, and then he—he then he had it in storage and we rented it from him, then we bought it from him, and he was going to buy a Class B van, like, "I want a van, I want a van," and then he rented one for a weekend and realized this is—I'm too tall and if I want a friend to come and hang out and visit, this is not going to work. So, that's why he went from a B to a C, and so just renting it, renting it for a week, and saved him on making an expensive mistake, and probably the B would have been more expensive than the C too. So, that was a good move for him. Host: Yeah, being tall, I'm 6'4", being tall in a class B van, it really limits the floor plan you can choose. Um, since you guys started in 2014, obviously the landscape and just the world has changed quite a bit. Is there anything you would do differently now starting out? Guest: Well, I already said one, I wouldn't have spent as much on our first coach. I loved our first coach, it was beautiful, it worked great for us, except for the weight. We didn't understand, now that's not true, we didn't—it's not that we didn't understand about the—it was very difficult to find out the information that we needed to make that decision. And we're so happy that there's so much more information out there now that people, like, for example, how much does your stuff weigh? How much does your, you know, your food and your clothes and your work equipment and the stuff you want to take with you, how much does that weigh? And I don't know if maybe some people here have gone and literally weighed their stuff before, but we didn't. I actually intended to, we didn't. I intended to, but part of the transition was we bought the RV and then we set it up out behind our townhome, and I was working in there, and I brought the dog to transition so it would make an easier transition to actually hit the road. Meanwhile, Julie's just bringing stuff out from the house, and I remember her vividly saying, "It just keeps taking it," like it had tons of storage space. You're supposed to, because a lot of people think, "Oh, there's lots of storage space, it must have storage capacity," but it doesn't. Those are not the same thing, and so that's important. And so we found—and we did a video on this—and I think this one of the videos that I'm really, you know, proud of. Not that it was anything fancy or special, but it just, I think, shared a lot of information that wasn't out there at the time, and now we hear a lot of others talking about weight and being really mindful of their weight more, and that never used to be the case. I'm really happy to hear and see that so many people are mindful of that now because there's so much more awareness. So, I think the weight thing is a big issue. Do not trust the salesman to say, "Oh, yeah, your truck can tow that," or, "Yeah, it can." No, they're there to sell you something, do your own research, and don't just copy—don't just copy what someone else is doing. "Oh, I like that couple, they've got this setup, I'm just going to get what they got." Well, it may not be right for you. You know, like really ask yourself those big questions about what's important. We met a lot of people, remember the first trip to Tahoe, we met that couple that had been full-timing for 18 years, what did we do? Yeah, they've been—they've been full-timing for 18 years, our first RVing for 18 years, and then Julie asks them, "This is our first weekend, Julie asks them, 'So, what advice do you have for us as new RVers?'" Like, "Well, it's too late for that. I would have told you to get an RV with a washer and dryer." I'm like, "Really? That's your only advice?" That was, and then the conversation ended. I'm like, "So, 10 years we've never had a washer and dryer or any of our RVs, and we don't miss that. It's not something high value to us, we'd rather have the storage space for the extra clothes and then do laundry less frequently than have an actual washer dryer in the machine." So, yeah, it's different, everyone random answers to a lot of your questions. Host: But it would just kind I feel like. I'm an optimistic person, but for some reason when it comes to appliances, I feel very—I'm very pessimistic about putting a washer under, I just feel like it's asking for problems. I don't know, I don't know how common they are, but most St to go wrong. Guest: Yeah, we often say, you know, try and choose a less complex RV, less options, because there's less things to go wrong, the more simple the RV, the less things can go wrong, because RVs have a lot of maintenance. There's a lot of cost related to—we have a lot of blog posts on our website RVlove.com with things about costs of RVing, and I think that kind of thing is really important to share so people go in with eyes wide open. So, just make sure you reduce your debt as much as you can, reduce your expenses, make sure you have some padding because there's going to be unexpected expenses, and so plan ahead, be comfortable with what you're going into, at least if you're going full-time, you're trading, you know, one expense for another, but if you're trying to do both with having a home base and renting, just doing extended RV travel, then that can get expensive. And that is part of the reason why we have actually had three rigs in the last three years as part-timers because, you know what, we found like we—we had that little Casita, it was a little fiberglass, and we and we wanted something we could tow with our Jeep. We love our Jeep, we didn't want to change that, and we wanted something that would fit in our carport, so we had really limited parameters, and we wanted something quality, and so that ticked all the boxes, but it's so small, and they're cute and lovely, and we got lots of compliments in the parking lots when we would go to the store, but we're the kind of people that, we're not just using it as a base camp to go hiking all the time, we come back and we do work, and so we need more space. And so, it just was ultimately too small for us, especially once we got the dog and another dog, he's around here somewhere, and then that—we had that about 16 months, and then we rented our friend's Class C and ended up buying that, and that was good, and we went on a longer trip, that was much more comfortable for our longer four or four and a half month trip to Florida, and then we came home, and because we love where we live so much in Colorado, we actually love being there in the summer and the fall. So, the RV was hardly getting used, it was sitting out there. It's a motorized, it needs to be used and driven, so it was just heartbreaking to see it out there not getting used as much as we—you would hope, and then you, you do the math on it, like, this is a mortgage payment, I have a mortgage payment sitting out there depreciating every month, and so, you know, we're not independently wealthy and retired, we're still trying to, you know, get to that point where we—we can retire someday, and so it became a financial decision where it just wasn't the amount of money that was in it was just not worth it. And then we changed this, which is a truck that Marc can use around town and around home, you wanted that anyway, he does a few little handyman market construction jobs here and there, and then, uh, this fifth wheel that we ended up buying from a friend, it's used, it was two years old, but it's great, and we're—we're in the whole setup for half of the cost of what the—uh, the Mercedes was, the—it's on Mercedes chassis, which is very expensive, those little Class C's on the Mercedes chassis, the service and everything, they—they—they go really well when you take care of them, nothing tends to go wrong in between the services, but it's some sticker shot when they do go wrong. Host: Yeah, that sounds like kind of a long story short. Over time, your needs, your lifestyles, are going to change, as well as the RV type that you're going to be driving. You had mentioned having some sort of cushion or padding, some savings allocated in case things go wrong. Do you have a number on how much you should have saved up when you're traveling full-time? Guest: I don't think necessarily so much as probably a number of months. I mean, you're talking just for RV-related or just in general? Because anyone out there that you're learning from, say, doing financial investing, would say you should have six months' worth of savings just in case you lose your job or if something happens. Host: I guess that's, yeah, the six months is a good rule of thumb, I guess. So RV-related, people don't have that. Guest: A lot of people, especially if people are doing the full-time RV life, because they're trying to do big savings, and because that's an opportunity, you can do it where you spend significantly less than other styles of life. But especially if that's your goal and your priority because you just don't travel as far and you don't travel as fast, and that's a great way to save money if you're staying in campgrounds a month at a time instead of moving every week. And do your research to know how to do it inexpensively, like Julie and I have been out on this trip for a hundred days, and we've spent next to nothing on our campground stays because we have a campground membership that we've been staying in membership campgrounds with no nightly fee almost the entire trip. And so we spent some money on fuel but not that much. And so if you're in the Southwest, yeah, or if people Boondock, but how you want to travel can make a massive difference in what you save. And so I think percentage-wise, I just wanted to say people should have some cushion. Don't just go right on the very thin line because there's going to be something that happens, and you need to have some cushion for things to happen. And if it doesn't, but it will, but if it doesn't, but it will, then you'll have that money. But that, Marc point there about an extended warranty, you can get an extended warranty, but you can buy a used RV and get an extended warranty. Don't roll it into the cost of the financing. If you finance your RV, pay separately for the extended warrant. I don't care if you have to put it on an interest-free credit card and divide it by 11 and pay it off in the year so you don't get hit with that interest and whatever you have to do, actually. Our extended warranty company, you can do whatever. I think it's for payments or something. They have like a payment plan. Don't roll it in, def financing because a lot of people will finance an RV over 15, 20 years or more, and if you roll in that $7,000 payment for or 5,000 or $4,000, whatever it costs you for an extended warranty, you have to do the math on what that is really going to cost you factoring in the interest. So don't do that because or what you can do is put that money aside and so that let's say I don't pull a number out because it depends on your rig, right? Let's say it's $4,000. You can put 4,000 aside. Don't touch it. How disciplined are you, right? Or get an extended warranty, but then that sometimes we'll have something on the RV like when we had the nav on down in Florida that it would have qualified to be fixed under the warranty, but we couldn't get into a shop for six months. We needed it fixed like right away, so MK had to fix it. So even though you have a warranty, it doesn't always mean you'll be able to get into a shop to get it repaired right away or just may not be convenient on your most, most repairs on RVs can be done by someone 80% if you're willing to get your hands dirty and watch a couple YouTube videos. Most RV repairs can't be done yourself. They can be done. Host: And you mentioned you can't get into the RV dealer, but even sometimes if you get it into the RV dealer, they still might not do it or they might not do it for quite a long time horror stories. Yeah, we're smiling 'cause we wish we broke a lot of you guys' rules. We wish we had listened to this podcast before we ended up buying. But yeah, have has anyone ever said you guys should write a book? Guest: They have, and we did. We've written two of them, two bestselling books. Our first book, "Living the RV Life: Ultimate Guide to Life on the Road," is one that's focused on people who want to do extended RV travel. And then we have a second book, "RV Hacks: 400 Ways to Make Your Life Easier, Safer, and More Fun." And that's both have U Been bestsellers and both are, yeah. But that's funny that that's the first one. Yeah, that was our first rig, and fun fact, do you recognize this location? So don't... So that's a donor that is the donor M took that with the drone. And then the second book, about a week after month after we moved into our new house and now upside down and no furniture and our heads were spinning going, "What the heck?" Um, something... El, you go full time, you get off the road, you're so used to having your furniture in your RV that you realize you don't have any furniture when you have a... Yeah, we just start back into a house. But I'm glad we didn't pay for storage all those years because it wouldn't have fit and worked in this house. Now, our house is furnished. It's small. It's a th000 square feet, but it's perfect for us, felt very palatial after moving out of a 350 square foot RV. But this is the second book, "RV Hacks," and that's broken up into six chapters. Um, driving out the repairs and maintenance camp in campgrounds, I'll be living, working on the road, families, kids, and pets. So there's something for everyone. And it's one of those fun, easy books you can open at any page, and you just, like, read a hack. You don't have to read. You can read from front to back, or you can just randomly jump from chapter to chapter or, you know, play trivia games when you're driving down the road and see how well your significant other knows the answer to that question, whatever. But, uh, yeah, they're great, um, fun books that I, you know, the publisher reached out to us for the first one in early 2018, and I'd always kind of thought wanted to write. I've always wanted to write a book, actually, but then when the publisher reached out and said, "Well, there isn't anything out there to... We see RVing becoming a much, uh, bigger trend like extended and full-time RVing," and so they, they had a lot of foresight, and we said, "We think so too." So, yeah, it was great to be able to consolidate that into one place where you can go and read blogs, YouTube videos, like we did all of that as well. There's a lot more information out there now than there was when we started. So that's both good and bad because it's good because there's a lot more information, information out there, but it's challenging because now it's overwhelming, and you don't know what to trust. There's a lot of drama and clickbait content out there now. Um, we actually don't even watch YouTube anymore or any other YouTube especially, but because there we know seeing a lot of the drama, clickbaity type headings, and it's like, "Oh, we got kicked out of the campground." I'm like, "Really? In 10 years, been kicked out of a campground, like, really dude? What did you do?" I mean, you just... You're trying to get it worries me that a lot of people watching these YouTube videos get a bad, um, perspective for the lifestyle. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be. I'm not... It's not all sunshine and roses and rainbows. I really want people to know that it is not. But it is also not full of all this drama, scary stuff that you're seeing. But that's the stuff that people click on, and they create that content because that's how they make money. So it's so... We just done. Host: Yeah, and that goes for not just the RV world, but everything nowadays. Whether it's financial, real estate, there's contradicting information everywhere. So you bring up a good point. There's a ton of... You can look up 10 different videos that say 10 different things about what you should do RVing. How can people know that they're actually getting good information? Guest: Well, I think like anything, whether it's RVing or anything, you really need to spend a bit of time looking at the source. Do you know, is their face on there? Do they tell something about themselves and their story and their experience? I've seen some blogs where their experience is living in a trailer in their grandmother's backyard, like, literally, and then they're positioning themselves as these experts. I'm like, okay, I'm not really... Not getting that here. But, you know, do some research. How long have they been doing it? What, you know, how are they communicating? Like, it shouldn't be in a way that's being very forceful on a certain way of opinion so much as realizing that everybody's different and there's no one right way to RV. So I think getting balanced information is a really important point. Check on what is their background and experience, um, and, you know, I think that's one of the things that we really like about "Living the RV Life." We say, "Look, you can spend months researching YouTube, but you could read this in a weekend and it will give you a good baseline. And then you can with that go do your other research and see if it's aligning with that, because this was all verified and, you know, checked. This is not just us whipping out a book with our opinions. This is with a major publishing house. They edit it, they fact-check everything, and that takes a long time. And when you're turning out YouTube videos and blog posts, they're often thrown up in the matter of an hour or so. And ours, our blog posts, we can take 40 hours to write one article because we do a lot of research, do a lot of, you know, checking accuracy, and also not trying to force our opinions onto other people, but so much as get them to ask the questions that's going to help them reach the correct answer for their own selves, their life stage, their financial situation, their goals. Like, there'll be some people might say, "Just go out and do it. What have you got to lose?" Well, that's easy to say when you're 20s and 30s. But if you're someone, you know, like 40s or 50s or someone who's 60 and approaching retirement, well, that may not make the most sense. But it's harder for them to recover if they make a bad decision, right? So, you know, you've got time on your side when you're younger. And so I think, you know, the more money you're planning to spend, the more plan time you're planning to spend in an RV, the more you have on the line, the more you really want to do your research before you dive in so that you know that you're doing it as smartly as you possibly can. But there's, like I said, there's a lot of scary stuff out there online. It doesn't have to be that way, but certainly go in with your eyes wide open and buyer beware. And it's balancing, how do you balance that? How do you, you know, do that research but then go into analysis paralysis where you're so terrified to make a decision that you... And I think that can be really tricky for some people. But when you know yourself and what's important to you, and then you find that things are checking the boxes, then you'll know it's like... But they say, how do you know when you've met the right partner? You just know, right? 100%. Host: Yeah. Do the research on the research that you're getting. And if it turns out that that source has written two bestselling books, even better. I can't believe how... Guest: Through the reviews, yeah. Don't just trust or believe us. Go read the reviews and see what other people say. Host: Sure, yeah. And I can't believe how fast this episode's flying by. I feel like I haven't asked half the questions I had written down, but that's okay. We've opened up a whole other... Not can of worms, we've gone on a whole different route, and it's been really informative. Thank you guys for sharing so much information. I do want to add, you talk about 400 RV hacks. Um, I can think of one hack somebody could do right now, which is heading over to your guys' website, RVLifestyle.com, and filling out the "What is your RV type?" Quiz. When I did it before, personality, what's your, what's your RV style? That's a fun little quiz, and I did it right before, yeah, right before we started the podcast. We were preparing, and yeah, it takes, it's 10 questions, takes like two minutes. We both got Adventurer. So, and it's, I would say it's pretty deadly accurate. I got the... I took a screenshot. Let me see what it says. "I'm glad to see you're aligned with your travel partner. That's a big first step." Yeah, see here, it's both. Can you see it? Yeah, try, try, try, and tested, good dose of the great outdoors. Um, I like this part: "Your preferred choice of RV will be determined by where it can take you and what activities it offers. Um, you like national parks, heading out on a new trail, paddling a quiet stretch of river, um, so much better if it is shared with a friend, furry or otherwise." That's... Guest: And then you'll have somebody that only wants to stay at high-end RV resorts with level paved sites and no... and dirt, and, you know, that's... that's... that's a different kind of style. That's why we always ask the questions, so make the right decisions for them, and, and, you know, you can have the best of both worlds. I like both, actually. I like staying at nice, clean, level campgrounds, and then I love going out and boondocking in the desert, and then when that gets a bit old, we go back in and have a really long shower and think how wonderful that is. Do your laundry, exactly. Yeah, yeah. We'll put a link in the show notes for all the sources we talked about today, and, yeah, it's just RVLifestyle.com. At the top of your website, you can fill out the quiz. But yeah, we'll start wrapping this thing up. If you could have listened to this podcast when you were first starting out, what is one question I did not ask tonight that you wished I would have, and how would you answer that? Guest: Well, I'm glad you didn't ask the question, "Where's the best place you've been?" So, you get a big green check Marc for that. Uh, but I think the biggest question that I wish more people would ask, whether it's, you know, you and the podcast or, is, how has the lifestyle changed you? Because we go out with a big long bucket list. I want to go here and there and do this and do that, and you think it's about the places and the experiences, and it is, but then along the way you realize you grow and you change and your perspective on life and the world changes along with that, and your mind opens, and then you start to realize, actually, funny, just before the call, I posted on, um, on your Instagram at RV Love Travel, if you want to check it out, and it's like Marc sitting here at the desk that we're sitting, talking to now, and we're here at a park, we're surrounded by park models, so it's not a particularly scenic location, but the sunset was unbelievable, and you just... You can see, I did a pan around the windows, and you're just surrounded by these, and it's just those moments where you just, in everyday life, that didn't happen as much. You have to make an effort to go out and see a sunset, and this sounds so sunrise, too. I'm just not a morning person, but, uh, just... Just those moments where you just stop and you... You, I think, you become more present with all the little moments that happen, where some of our most memorable, special experiences were actually not any of the top, big places. Some were, but not all, and there were places I would never necessarily say, "Oh, you have to go here," it was just that that experience that day happened to be magical for reasons that I can't even always explain. So, I don't know if this makes sense, if I'm getting a little esoteric, but I think it's just we're different people now than when we started, and, uh, and I like that. Host: Yeah, no, makes perfect sense. Yeah, that's great. Um, for someone listening to this podcast who wants to set up a lifestyle where they can travel on their own terms but aren't quite there yet, what is one thing they could start doing today? Host: Do a budget and get clear on your finances, yeah, so you know how, like if you can generate a find a way to generate income mobile, then that's a big first step, you know. I chose to leave my, you know, good job to find another job that would allow me to do remote, is a huge factor for us to be able to hit the road. I eventually left that job too, so we could just launch our, do our own business to have even more freedom with our schedule, but I think to Julie's point, yeah, have you figured... Have it figured out financially how you're going to make the lifestyle sustainable longer term? It's hard to... Once you get in there, you're going to want it longer and longer, and you need to, so you have to have some idea of the sustainability before you start, because you're likely going to want to continue. Host: Sure, yeah, that's great. Um, last question, guys, where can our audience find out more about you? Guest: Well, we're at RVLove.com, and you'll find everything that we have linked there. You can Google us, RV Love, and you'll find us on social media as well, and, yeah, we just love you to say hi and come and drop us a note on social media or shoot us a note in the email, and jump on our... Do that quiz, do that quiz, and figure out your RV travel personality that will get you onto our email if you check the box, and, uh, yeah, we'd love to stay in touch and keep sharing and keep learning and see more people out there and doing it, and doing it well. Doing it well, we... We want to see people thriving, and back to Marc's point about the finances, you won't feel free if you're drowning in debt, if you're, you know, drowning in credit card debt, you know. If you need to delay your plans a bit, but for some people, we've seen some people do it for a while to get out of debt, so it's what are your goals in life, not just for RVing, but what are your goals for your life, for your financial life, for your relationship, for it all comes down to knowing your why, why you're wanting to do it, and then prioritize that, yep, so start with that, know your why. Host: Wow, guys, so many valuable points and quotes and information in this podcast. Thanks again, and last, last question, just for... Doesn't stay in too much suspense, what are we talking about for travel tips? Guest: Need to talk about Sedona today. Yeah, Sedona, Arizona, on the cover of our book, and we love it, and we actually just did a little trip up there last month, so a fresh new restaurant to share. Host: Yeah, all right, everybody, keep an eye out for that episode airing in two days. Marc and Julie, thanks again. Guest: Thanks, everyone. Bye
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This is one of the people, the heroes and Patriots who are educating us about our rights and how to protect ourselves from the police! The police - the slave patrol is what they were started to do! Law enforcement has a culture of impunity and immunity in America right now are out of control that's why I'm running for Sheriff in Pima County - they raided my home August 30 and stole all my pets for no reason! It liked me so this doesn't happen to anyone else again! #TUCSON SIGN MY PETITION TO GET ON THE BALLOT! IF YOU WANT YOUR #CIVILRIGHTS TO BE RESPECTED AND NOT ABUSED when you encounter law enforcement! You're a moderate of any party who wants a woman candidate in office who is tough on crime the real crime! Let's clean up law enforcement get me on the ballot can't wait! Go.azsos.gov/xww9 #azcentral #kgun9 Jim Carrey is a genius on and offscreen. I look into his comments and talk show appearance, where he mocked the #Illuminati by making a pyramid sign and sticking his tongue out as a gag! Genius! He obviously has no time for all the accoutrements of Hollywood and has retreated if not recoiled from all that! He is a artist, first and foremost, I think. Respect, dude! #TUCSON SIGN MY PETITION TO GET ON THE BALLOT AND RUN FOR SHERIFF! :-) GO.AZSOS.GOV/xww9 I often feel like I'm on a type of reverse truman show where I expose everything I do 24/7! It's not just so the cops come and raid me again and to show that I'm doing nothing that isn't wholesome, positive and peaceful! I'm running for Sheriff because what they did to me should never happen to any American citizen anymore! YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS WILL ALL BE RESPECTED!!! As your SHERIFF, I bring in #aclu to rewrite entire protocol regarding any contact with the public, at the border and in our jails! If I were president? I would reopen this case, by "my" attorney general of the United States - INDEPENDENT NOT INTERNAL INVESTIGATORS, because the military and /or local law enforcement may have been involved in some human trafficking scheme. Just sayin! Sounds like a cover-up! This guy Robinson might have been a patsy! Who does that, shoots himself? Maybe he knew too much and would implicate the police happens all the time man happened to me, I was framed! There are so many people that disappear out of fort hood! It is the worst in the country for these disappearances, there were many calls in the past for investigation into Ft Hood remember?? Yeah, it's been going on a long time. Too long! TUCSON get me on the ballot so I can call attention like this to other situations of Injustice in this country. Go.azsos.gov/xww9 As president I would shut it down! I would immediately call on Congress to shut it down and investigate what happened and what is going on with so many people disappearing out of fort hood! The entire leadership of fort Hood should be replaced! While they are under investigation. I would meet with this family personally and offer my full support in fully investigating the death of #VanessaGuillen, young talented beautiful woman in uniform #justiceforvanessa could have been me 20 years ago! #nwpc Young Democrats of America Occupy Democrats HuffPost Women Washington Post Politics POLITICO Azcentral Politics Texas Tribune Cost us millions probably billions! And a lot of heartache and depression and anxiety as long as the worst criminal in world history is still runnin free just sayin! PLS GOD PROTECT US FROM DIAPER DONALD! Stupid ass #diaperdon put some fake stigmata so the biblethumpers think is the second coming of christ! #Trumpstinks Tell #yale University to give #DrBandy Lee her job back #DIAPERDON constantly s* himself and has been for 40-50 years now! Eats nothing but McDonald's cheeseburgers and Adderall and meatloaf at night and freaks out when he has to read something because he's #dyslexic. His parents were ashamed of that and that's why he hides his transcripts because his Aunt Mary did his homework for him all throughout college!
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"All stress, anxiety, and depression is caused when we ignore who we are, and start living to pleasing others." -Paulo CoelhoDo you laugh in the face of those that say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, and instead want to avoid them like Aunt Mary's fruitcake? Are you bracing yourself for all of the awkward and hurtful conversations that inevitably come with the gathering together of all that are supposed to love us? I get it. And I have a secret for you. It's not about you, its about them. Or at least most of it is. In this episode I'm going to share with you a new perspective and mindset to try on this holiday season that will be another tool in your toolbox to go from surviving to thriving this December. Today on the Surviving to Thriving Podcast, I share with you a new perspective and mindset to try on this holiday season that will help you see these conversations for what they are--a lot of insecurities, anxiety, and malaise!I'll teach you an awareness game that will help you see that these hurtful comments aren't about you, it's about them.We'll then identify the root cause of why these comments hurt so much.And then brainstorm ways to help head these conversations off at the pass.Just because you are related to these people does not give them the permission to take you down! Don't use all of your valuable time and energy bracing for the what ifs. Don't go looking for the jabs and the zings. You are a strong, exceptional, creative, and able individual. Don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise. Get your Crazed to Calm guide plus ALL THE BONUSES today so that you can do less and get so much MORE. More smiles. More memories. More Sleep!What to listen to next:Episode 68: SELF-ADVOCATE: My Lesson From Dr. PhilEpisode 64: LOVE YOURSELF: Stop Punishing Yourself On Your JourneyEpisode 8: IMPOSTER SYNDROME: How I Overcame it in 2021!Need more than a podcast to get you back on track? Then learn how to work with me at: http://www.jennessadurrani.comAnd please like and share the podcast with those that need the message!Need more support, have questions, or an idea for an upcoming episode? Email me at jennessa@jennessadurrani.com.
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No one is safe from being thrown under the bus on this episode of the Cripescast. Just as unfiltered as the last time they were on the show, Charlie is joined by his Aunt Mary, his Grandma Sue and her best casino friend Lois Bentley, as they make their way to the casino. Whether it's prying information out of Mary about her new boyfriend, asking Charlie about his love life, or learning what “watching the submarines” meant for Sue and Lois back in the day, everyone has their time in the hot seat. Throughout the road trip they marvel at the fall colors, share Grandpa Bob stories, and by the end of the ride Sue and Lois earn some scandalous nicknames that are inspired by their glory days in the 1950s.
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Yes, all three in the title are correct and there is even more. Marnie Vincolisi was born in Chicago in the 1950s. She and her older brother were raised by her mother and her grandmother as her father left the family and was not heard from for forty years. Marnie did not attend college in part due to the challenges of having dyslexia, although she did not realize her specific circumstances until later. Marnie by any definition is an entrepreneur. She did work for a bit as a hairdresser in the main store of Marshal Fields in Chicago. However, she grew tired of that and so created her own toy-manufacturing business. She will tell you about the business and how eventually she realized that such also was not to be her life path. Near the end of her time building toys she had the opportunity to reconnect with her father whom she never knew growing up. For the past thirty years, Marnie has been teaching Reiki as well as helping others develop and grow through her Reiki skills as well as through the use of other tools she has learned. Today her company, Light Internal, helps people around the world. She will tell us about that. I trust you will appreciate Marnie's thoughts and wisdom. By any standard, this incredible person is quite unstoppable. I hope her attitude and thoughts will help each of us be more unstoppable as well. About the Guest: Marnie Vincolisi, Founder and CEO of Light Internal, has been an entrepreneur for her adult life, constantly changing and creating businesses that bring her joy and align with her spiritual focus. For the last three decades, she has devoted her time to developing a unique way of transforming people's lives through past life regression, energy clearing, classes, meditations, and the authoring of books. In her material, the focus is on appeasing the intellectual left brain with detailed information, then allowing the intuitive right brain to feel the spiritual shift. Marnie helps you access your inherent intuition with guided practices, sometimes using pendulums, quartz crystal healing, or Reiki meditations but always using simple instructions to make learning Reiki and spirituality a fun experience. Anyone can make lasting positive changes with Marnie's spiritual healing and products. Her joy reflects in her private practice – online classes, blogs, and lectures. She continues to explore new avenues of enlightenment to keep her energy clear while sharing her discoveries with others. She is an enthusiastic and well-informed speaker traveling internationally, conducting tours, seminars, and energy treatments. Marnie draws upon her business experience, extensive knowledge in holistic health, and refined innate healing abilities to guide others to clearly understand how to balance their mental, physical, and spiritual presence. Marnie does not teach anyone anything they don't already know; she merely awakens the inherent knowledge within them. Marnie's initial Reiki training occurred in Frankfort, Germany, after which she returned to the States and developed the Light Internal System of Reiki. Ways to connect with Marnie: Marnie's three books: Finding Your Inner Gifts, Inner Gifts Uncovered and Claiming Your Inner Gifts. Youtube: Marnie Vincolisi Instagram: @marnievin Tiktok: @lightinternal LinkedIn: Marnie Vincolisi Websites: https://lightinternal.com/ Book page https://bit.ly/3vV30UH Book Amazon: https://amzn.to/3M99Mvq B&N https://bit.ly/3FqknzE About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Hi, once again, this is Michael Hingson. Your host for unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with Marnie Vincolisi, and I'm glad I asked her in advance because there's an I at the end and my screen reader says Vincolisi, but it's not it's Vincolisi. Good, good name all the way around. Marnie has an interesting story to tell in a lot of ways. She's written a number of books, she happens to be a person with dyslexia, dyslexia, she has formed her own company. And we're going to get into all of that. And the best way is for money to tell her own story. So Marnie, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Marnie Vincolisi ** 02:05 Thank you. I'm glad to be here and glad to share my story with your audience. Michael Hingson ** 02:11 Well, and I hope my audience and I'm sure my audience is glad to hear your story that you're going to share. Why don't we start by you talking a little bit about kind of you as a young morning where you came from, and growing up in some of those things. It's always fun to start at the beginning. Marnie Vincolisi ** 02:26 Okay, well, let's start at the beginning. I grew up in Chicago, my mother and father divorced before I was even born. So they're, and things happen in the family that put them very far apart. And so I never met my dad never had him in my life, lived about 40 years. That way, I grew up in the 1950s in Chicago, raised by my mother and my grandmother, who were, you know, to single women alone in the 50s, which was not common. They lived in fear. They felt that, you know, things weren't going their way, or they struggled with money, and they felt control was a really good way to raise children. And that didn't work so well for me. But I, you know, I did it, I got through it. And so I've written, I've written five books I've talked about that. I will talk about that. I am dyslexic in the 50s. They didn't know what dyslexia was, didn't talk about it didn't understand it. I remember dancing with my little black ballet shoes on and there was a red star on one side and a blue star on the other so that I would remember which foot I was supposed to use. So my dyslexia was right there when I was like three years old, going around and dancing, but no one ever connected that with reading at school, so I did pretty well in grammar school. But when I went to high school, we switched from Chicago to Skokie, Illinois, and our high school had a very high Jewish population. And those kids studied hard and it was, you know, going from city school to suburban school. It was so hard for me. I just couldn't get what they were saying and and how to write down the concepts. So after about two years in high school, I realized I can't even get through high school. How am I gonna get through college? So I dropped the idea of going to college and getting any other education and went into hairdressing. And I enjoyed it. I really had fun with it. moved from Chicago to Denver, and in Denver, I changed my vocation and I started a toy company, and it was called The Pee Wee TP company and I made a little play tents for children and Then I made costumes, and I travel around the country and I'd sell things at fairs. This is before the internet, this was before cell phones. So all the research I had to find on my products I had to do in the library and something called the Thomas directory. The Thomas directory had information about, you know, companies and where to buy, you know, different types of things, because I was putting all these things together. So this is a pretty successful cottage industry. I'm decided one day, well, things are happening. Okay, so my books that I write are on metaphysics or personal empowerment, and intuition. And, you know, intuition comes in many different ways. And I was running a toy company that was running pretty well. But I kept getting a message that needed to be doing something different. But I didn't know what that was. And I certainly didn't want to leave something that was bringing me income. So I, my van was actually my intuition. Your intuition comes through different ways. Some people hear it, some people see pictures. But this was my van telling me do something different. It never broke down the 15 years, I was in business until that last year, and it would break down on the road. And but I'd be right in front of a gas station. So it always protected me. But the last time it broke down, I was going, I was in Kansas, heading to Chicago to do some a big Christmas show, and then over to Texas. And I pulled into a gas station because the wheels were making this grinding noise. It was sort of strange. And I pulled in and the guy put my, my van up on a hoist, unhook my trailer, put it up on the hoist and the wheel fell off. He just fell right off. And he said, Lady, there was an angel on this wheel. I said, I know I put her there. So the bearing was fried. I said check the other bearing. He says, Oh, they don't both go out at the same time. I said, Well appease me, he did. And sure enough, he said you wouldn't have made it 30 miles on that bearing. So at that point, you know, he didn't have the parts, you have to order them and it was going to take three days, I realized, I am not going to get to Chicago, I'm not going to be able to do that big Christmas show. And maybe perhaps I need to listen to what's going on here. So this full story is in my first book that I wrote called Finding Your inner gift. But I won't bore you with all those details. I'll just let you know that. I stepped into what was a small hotel motel. And I sat down on the bed and I said, That's it, I quit. I talked to the universe. I said, I'm not going to do this anymore. I quit this business right now this moment. So the Vanguard fixed, I drove back home, I cancelled all my shows. From September to December, I sell toys. This was a big deal. And I just went into that place of trust, just trusting the universe that something's going to come my way. And what what came my way after about nine months, which I thought was an interesting gestation period was Reiki, someone mentioned that I should learn Reiki Reiki is a hands on healing modality. And so you might wonder, why am I jumping from hairdressing to Toy making to, you know, Reiki, because because I was dyslexic, I didn't think I was smart enough to, you know, work for a company, I didn't think I was a value. It took me decades to realize that I really am smarter than I think. And just because I don't spell right. And I don't comprehend when I read, I'm valuable, and I can bring that value to other people. So that's how I started my metaphysical business. Well, along this way, somewhere along the line, I just I found that I could find my dad, I never seen him, never met him. And in my last book, it's called they did the best they could discovering your path to compassion. In that book, I talked about how I found my Dad, how I learned all the stories about my family from the late 1800s in Italy, you know through now, just so many synchronicities and and stories and realizing how I was lied to all of my life. And you know, all those unrealistic expectations that I had, yet I was able to find compassion for the people that unknowingly hurt me. So that's basically me in a nutshell. Michael Hingson ** 09:58 What a story Yeah. That's okay, though. Well, several things. So were in Chicago. Did you grow up? On the Marnie Vincolisi ** 10:07 north side? Okay. And after I got married, I live closer to the lake. But yeah, north north side, Chicago. And you lived in Chicago, but you were the south side, correct? Michael Hingson ** 10:19 Yeah, I was born on the south side and live there only for five years. And then we relocated to California. Although I've enjoyed it every time I get a chance to go back, as we were talking earlier. We both Miss Franco minutes from Marshall Fields when i Miss Marshall Fields for that matter, but oh, yeah, Marshall Fields and Franco mints. But along the way, several years ago, while traveling through O'Hare Airport, I discovered Garrett's popcorn. So that's always a treat when I go to Chicago now, and I actually stayed downtown for a meeting, and got to go to one of the Garretts facilities downtown. And found it was just the same as it was at the airport. Very good. Marnie Vincolisi ** 11:04 All right, yeah. Well, my treat when I go to Chicago is going to the art museum. I just love it. I run up the stairs and go see the Renoise and I have my special places. Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe are some of my favorites. But you mentioned Marshall Fields. And that's actually where I was a hairdresser. So I was a hairdresser at Marshall Fields. Michael Hingson ** 11:30 I like the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, although it's been a long time since I've been there. And I'd like to go back. But usually when I go to speak, I'm never there long enough to be able to go see the museum. So I've got to work that out somehow. Marnie Vincolisi ** 11:43 All right. Yeah. That's, there's so much information in Chicago. It's just a wonderful place to be and I love the lake. Michael Hingson ** 11:49 I'd love to like, well, so you grew up being a person with dyslexia, dyslexia being dyslexic? When did you realize what was really going on? Marnie Vincolisi ** 12:02 That's a good question. I. But it must have been somewhere in my pocket when I started writing. And once I started teaching and writing, which was in my 30s, I realized that I had to really organize my thoughts in order to get that information out to other people. And so I would, I would bullet point things, I would, you know, write write the paragraph, but then underneath that bullet point, or number it so that it was very explainable and the things that people tell me about my books, my first three books are on personal empowerment. And people have told me gee, if I wrote a book about, you know, Reiki and hands on healing and intuition, I would write a book like this. And, and they often say, it's so easy to understand. And so I had to make it easy to understand for myself, which helped other people. Michael Hingson ** 13:04 Well, you and I gather that you've been pretty successful at doing that. Marnie Vincolisi ** 13:09 Yes. And, you know, I've got, you know, of course, people that would go over, you know, my copy and, you know, we talk about what's not clear or how I put in angles instead of angels, you know, different words, you know, letters that I would switch, but one thing that's helped me a lot is Grammarly, and I don't know if your listeners are aware if they write that much but Grammarly, I think, think you can get you can get a free version. And it'll go through everything that you write, whether it's on the computer, on your on your phone, on your tablet, it will you can download it so that it's checking your spelling and your words all the time. And that really really saves me a lot. So I'm really happy with Grammarly that's helped me I think I've Michael Hingson ** 14:00 tried Grammarly, but it's been a while and I found it to be a little bit inaccessible. And maybe it's improved. But for me using a screen reader, there were some challenges with it. But yeah, I think that's in the past. And maybe they've improved it because they certainly could. Marnie Vincolisi ** 14:16 Yeah, yeah. And another thing I found that helped my dyslexia is when I was writing my memoir, when I was writing, they did the best they could. I took a class and an online class. It's great courses, it's called, and it was on how to write nonfiction. And I went through that whole course and I of course, took notes. And I followed what they said and it really helped me put everything together in a way that it would be interesting for people because, you know, one thing they talked about was, you know, if you write and you just list things. It doesn't give the reader you know the picture and I'm sure you would understand this, when you're reading, you want to see the picture you want to see, you know, what did it smell like? What did it feel like? What was the temperature outside? What were they wearing, you know, what were they looking at, you know, through their eyes. And I was able to really capture that. And they did the best they could. And many people have told me that as they read that book, they find that my stories are similar to theirs, you know, we all go through struggles as children. And, and so it shows I went through the same things, the characters may be different, the location could be different. But the hurt in our heart could be the same, you know, feeling unloved, or not honored. It all, it's all similar. And so in my book, the second half of the book shows how you can deal with those issues, and not hold a grudge, find compassion for those that and, and people don't hurt us willingly, it usually is unknowingly. And so, Michael Hingson ** 16:03 and ultimately, no matter how much even if it's intentional, they may hurt us in so many different ways. The reality is, we really hurt if we allow ourselves to be hurt. I mean, that is we're dealing with a mental situation, we have control over how we deal with that kind of pain. Oh, absolutely. And we have the ability if we choose to exercise it to not let that kind of hurt, injure us or affect us to the point where we've turned negative and, and as a result become very bitter, which doesn't mean that we don't recognize that there was a hurt, but we do have control over how we deal with it. And I've used the example of the World Trade Center many times being in it when it was attacked by terrorists. We didn't have control over the World Trade Center being attacked. But we do have control over how we deal with it. And I think that's true. And in all cases, it's really up to us as to how we want to deal with situations we face. Marnie Vincolisi ** 17:12 Exactly, exactly. And I, you know, I do counseling. And as a Reiki Master, I'm able to move energy as well as counsel people and in their counseling. I do talk about, you know, how we can look at that person that unknowingly hurt us? And what happened to them? What put them in this situation, you know, people have, you know, these kinds of things at work, where they've got co workers or a boss that just really gives them a hard time. And so this is about how can we look at what's the struggles that they're going through so we can better understand their situation? And perhaps why they treat us the way they do. And once you understand that better, you can let go of that hurt and that pain and like you say, have have you have a different way of looking at it rather than saying, Oh, they did that to me. And it's not fair. And it's like, yeah, we move beyond that. Michael Hingson ** 18:10 Yeah. And the other part about it is, Was it intentional or not, if it's intentional, in a sense, that will only determine differently, perhaps how you deal with it. Marnie Vincolisi ** 18:22 Right. And if it was intentional, I would say they even hurt even more than you do. Because someone that acts out and is mean to another person, there's something that's really hurting them inside, and you can find what's hurting them, you can find compassion, you don't have to forgive them for what they did. But you can find compassion for why they acted that way. Michael Hingson ** 18:45 Well, but even forgiveness is a very important thing to do. Because even if they hurt you, and it was very deliberate, you can forgive them, which doesn't mean that you're going to put yourself in a position to allow them to hurt you some more, as my wife used to always say, Don't put your sails in their wind. But it doesn't mean that you can't forgive them and recognize and move beyond it. Marnie Vincolisi ** 19:09 Right. Right. I totally agree. And that's the kind of things that I talk about in my book is is how to get through and just sort of float through through life. You know, they did the best they could. I was going to call that walking in grace. But I realized the title really didn't tell you a whole lot about what's inside the book. But you know, walking in Greece, that kind of thing of Yes, things happen. And I can be graceful about how I deal with it and be kind to people. And that's what I look at. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 19:44 tell us about you. You finding your father You said that you after for two years finally did that. Can you talk about that a little Marnie Vincolisi ** 19:51 um, I can. Let's see because I was doing art shows. I happen to be Are you traveling to Chicago for an art show? And two weeks before I was leaving, my, my mother called me out. And she moved from Chicago out here to Denver after she had retired. And she told me that a friend of hers in Chicago, someone that was actually in their wedding party said, they're saying some prayers for a Tony, even police at our parish, do you think it's the same person. And my mom, you know, didn't know for sure, but maybe thought that it was. And so she called me up. And she said, Well, they're saying prayers for your father at the parish, not that he was ever a father to you. And those words, just like, hit me in the heart. And when I shared with her months later that she said that she Oh, that's a terrible thing to say, I would never say that. So it's interesting how we respond to a shock. Here, my mom didn't have any contact with him. As they say, they got divorced, the families were in kind to each other. And there was a confrontation, and my dad left the city and stopped paying child support after about a year. So that was really a hardship on my mom in the 50s, trying to, you know, raise two children. And what also happened to her is, she got divorced, and she moved in with her mother and father. And the month after the divorce was final, her father died. So now she's got my brother, who was about a year older than me, myself brand new baby, and has to take care of two children and her mother. Because my grandmother didn't work since she was instance, she got married. I mean, that's how things were back in the, in the in the 20s, and 30s. And Grandma did have one job, when she was 19, she worked for the Western Union. And her job was to deliver the messages that came in. So they would come in on a telegraph. And they'd have to be quickly brought over to another room where they would be typed in and sent out. And they were rollerskates. So at 19, grandma took the messages and roller skated from one part of the building to another. So I figured well, in the late 40s, you know, her skill of roller skating was not going to really give her a very good job. So hence why she didn't go out and get a job. So my mom, you know, here she is, you know, having to support, you know, two children herself, and her mother was really tough. And that's how she lived the rest of her life. But anyway, Michael Hingson ** 22:35 I can see her so roller derby wasn't in her future, you're saying Marnie Vincolisi ** 22:39 she wasn't going to be a roller derby queen. So I can sort of understand why my mother was angry at my dad, and you know, but that that really hurt me. So her saying that you know not to do this ever father to you, I didn't feel open to say, and Mom, give me the name of that friend of yours. So I can go find him. You know, that door was not open. And, and so in my book, I talk about how I go into my mom's condo, I have my children take her out to lunch. And I go inside and I'm rifling through her index cards to try to find this woman may see and find her number. Yeah. And, and I did find it. I did call her up. So when we get we went to Chicago and brought the kids with us, but this confrontation of meeting my father, I didn't know what would happen. So in the book, there's a beautiful story of how I go to Macy's house. And we look in the telephone book for his name. And, and it was there, which shocked me because my mother had an unlisted number. My father had an unlisted number, neither one of them wanted to find each other, you know, he would have been thrown in jail for not paying child support. And you know, so all that. So I thought, well, this, this can't be this can't be him. But I look at the address. And the address is around the corner, from Macy's house, this woman's house, who is in their wedding party, he lived around the corner from them, which I talked about synchronicities in this book, this one was way too bizarre. My mom would visit Macy, they would go out for walks on hot summer nights in Chicago, easily have walked by his house. Never saw him, right. So I'm thinking probably not him. But let's you know, Macy said, Well, here's his phone number. Why don't you call him up? I said, What would I say? I said, No, I'm not calling him up. I'm walking over there. So my husband Macy and I walk over to his house and I knock on his door. And the it was hot summer day was the third of July, the wood door was open. The screen door was closed. An old four year old man walks to the door and white hair did They look really healthy. And I asked him, I said, Are you Tony vocalise? He says, Yes, I am. I said, Well, I said, Were you married to Lorraine? He said, Yes. I said, I'm your daughter, Marlene. And at that time, originally, my name was Marlene. And he looks at me and he said, I had a son named Jimmy. And with that, it just, it just shocked me. I was like, story of my life. You know, everybody, I felt my brother was more honored than I was in the family. Here I am Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, once again, he doesn't remember me. But he remembers my brother. And I just sort of took a little step back. And my husband placed his hands on my shoulders just on my back. And he just gave me a little nudge. And I could hear him his thoughts in my head, saying, Go ahead. You can do this is okay. And so I again spoke, and I said, Well, I'm his sister. I'm Marlene. And you said, I had a baby girl. I only held her once in my arms. I said, open the door, you can hold her again. Dead silence. He's staring out into space. Nothing's happening. No one knows what's going on. And Macy finally says, Tony, Tony opened the door. This is your daughter open the door, you know. And with that, it takes him out of that shock. And he opens the door. And he falls into my arms and he just sobs and he says Marlene Marlene, I never thought I'd see you again. This is a miracle. This is a miracle. God sent you to me. And that's how the story began or continued. Just a little blip of 40 years. Just a little blip, just just a little blip. Michael Hingson ** 26:54 So you were able to reconnect. Well, how did your mother react to all of that? Marnie Vincolisi ** 26:59 Well, I that that that was another story. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you this, he had lung cancer. And if you know anyone that has lung cancer, he was not you know, the doctor told him the beginning of the year, he wasn't going to be around long. And this was July. But he says to me, you know, we were sitting on the sofa and and he says, I've got to take you to my sister's, one of the sisters had just passed on two weeks before that. And he says, I gotta take your two sisters. Well, all I had heard from my mom is how, how mean his sisters were to her. And I thought, oh my gosh, you know, here I am. You know, I've gotten through this part of actually meeting him and saying hello, and finding out that, you know, he does love me. But now I've got to be taken to the sister uglies, you know, so I'm like, Oh, my gosh. And then scarier than that was he said, Well, I'll drive us there. And so here's this man who can hardly walk, and he's going to be our chauffeur. But it was okay. We got there and met the sisters. And they were just so so glad to see me. It was it was just beautiful. So yes, I come back home. And you know, I've got to tell my mom, I, you know, I didn't even tell my brother I was going. And so I I call up my brother and tell him what happened. He says, You got to tell mom, I said, I'm not telling mom. He says you got to tell mom. I said, Nope. I'm not telling mom. I hang up the phone. And I paced back and forth for about a half an hour. And I was like, he's right. I gotta go tell my mom. So yes, I did go tell her. She was definitely not too happy with me. But you know, it's family. And over the weeks and the months, she softened, she got better. And I was actually able to have her reconcile with these sisters that she didn't like, you know, my dad passed on and three months later, and I would travel to Chicago for business. And sometimes my mom would come with and visit her sister and I asked her to come with and I actually got her to go see my Aunt Mary. And they knocked on the door and it was, you know, bygones be bygones you know, beautiful Italian family that that forgives and forgets. And I really feel they taught my mom how to do that. Because my Mom hung on to her anger for a long time. But once she met them, they became friends again. And it was you know, it was beautiful. Michael Hingson ** 29:26 So again, what was your profession at the time that all this happens? Marnie Vincolisi ** 29:29 Or do you my I was I had I had a cottage industry making toys, Michael Hingson ** 29:35 or you're still in the toy business that I was in the toy business. Your van was not sending you strong enough messages yet to change Marnie Vincolisi ** 29:43 that at that point. But you know, you know we reach parts in our life that just completely change how we deal with life. And I think after meeting my dad and understanding that the love that I didn't have was really there. I think it gave me the strength To stand up and say I can I can do something more, I can do something better. And the work that I'm doing now, which I've been doing for over three decades, is really heart centered. It's helping people. It's, it's showing people how they don't have to suffer emotionally or physically. And I really think meeting my dad catapulted me in into that position. I mean, I already I always have that. I mean, I was a child of the, you know, in this in the 60s, a teenager in the 60s, you know, flower child. So, I looked into meditations and yoga way back when no one was doing yoga. No, you know, I mean, well, people but you know, not not in the masses that they're doing it now. And, and my toy company, even when I sold those toys, I saw my tents as a safe haven for children to go into, I would fill those with light. So that if there was any disturbance going on in the home, that the children could go into that little tent, and it would be a place where they would feel loved and peace. And so I always worked with energy through I'd say, from my 20s on. So stepping into the vocation that I have now is as an intuitive. It was easy. Yeah. It was familiar to me. And I think meeting my dad helped help do that. Michael Hingson ** 31:24 Well, when you decided to change from toys, what really made you go into learning Reiki and being a Reiki Master and going into the whole profession that you have now? Because that's quite a major change in direction. Marnie Vincolisi ** 31:40 That is a jump, isn't it? Five years before I started learning Reiki I, I looked, someone gave me a book said, oh, you should you should, you should look into this, you should do Reiki and I thumbed through it. I said, I'm not a healer and threw it off to the side. But within five years, and after meeting my dad, and just knowing that my business had to be different, and it had to be, I wanted it to be something that helped people more than I was doing now, rather than just games and toys and playing. And so someone presented Reiki to me again. And this time, it clicked in my head. I was like, Okay, I'll look into this. But what happened was that the friend of mine that told me about Reiki says you need to go to my Reiki Master, I said, Okay. And she lives in Germany, outside of Frankfurt, Germany, and I'll tell you, you know, Boulder, Colorado is a very metaphysical community. And you can throw a rock in any direction and probably hit a Reiki Master, you know, diamond doesn't. But somehow I was guided to leave the country, which I've never done before. And go to this woman and and learn Reiki, so I went there. She was very German, she was very strict. She was very traditional, which is not how I teach Reiki now, but um, and, you know, why did I go there? Well, I found that I had a past life, in Germany, in this town at this church. I mean, I would say, maybe a year or so before that, in meditation, I saw past lives. And, and so I understood on a feeling level, at least I saw in my own mind's eye lives that I'd had before and when I was in Germany, and as I've traveled more throughout the world, I find that when I'm at a place where I've been before I get emotional. In Egypt, I stood by Coptic jars, I had seen myself as the one in Egypt that took the organs out of nobleman and put them in Coptic jars. And when I started these particular Coptic jars, and I saw many there, I started to sob. And I walked away, I came back three times. And every time I stood by those jars, I cried, knowing in my mind that those were the jars that I worked with. So in Germany, I'm standing in front of this big church, we go into her small village, and we're walking around, and I stand in front of these big wooden doors. And I started to cry. And I was like, I was a priest, in that church. And then I was guided to just turn around, and I turned behind me, and I saw ruins of a castle. And again, in my mind's eye, when I did meditation, I saw myself tortured as a priest because I didn't follow the way they wanted me to do it, which is how I am now. And I said, that's where I was tortured. And even walking through the countryside, I saw a small church and again, tears came to me and I knew I had lived there. That was where I was my parish as a small boy. So why did I go to Germany, all these all these things that sometimes you just do because you just feel you Should Do you ever get that Michael? Oh, yes. And you don't understand why, you know, why did I quit my toy business in the moment? Because I knew there was something out there. I knew it. Michael Hingson ** 35:09 And that's all the understanding, you need to make a choice. If you're certain, then that's what you do. My favorite example of that kind of thing is a real simple one. Do you ever play Trivial Pursuit? Marnie Vincolisi ** 35:21 Not very well. Michael Hingson ** 35:24 But how many times do you play the game? Or do you interact with other people who are playing the game? Somebody asked the question, you know the answer, and you just say, Well, that can't be right. And you give a different answer. And it's the wrong answer. And the one that you thought at first was the right answer truly was correct. All the time and Trivial Pursuit. So when I play Trivial Pursuit, I have learned to listen, because usually, it's the right answer. And we, we ignore our inner guide. So much, we ignore those things that are really telling us what to do. So as they say, in Australia, New Zealand Good on you for what you're doing and how you do it. So what did what did you write? Marnie Vincolisi ** 36:14 Let me let me let me just segue on top of that, I'm going to give a little exercise that that I have in some of my books on how to build that intuition. I mean, just what you're saying you second guess it. So I say this is what you do for the next, if you want to, if you want to create a new pattern, you do it for 30 days, or at least 21 days, you know. And so every time you have an intuitive thought, you should write it down. Just just by having a little notebook, of course, now we've got our phones. So in your phone, you could have in your notes and intuitive thought I wasn't going to go down the highway this particular way. I'm gonna go the other way. And you find out that the way we're first gonna go now has a block of of traffic. Yeah, it's an intuitive thought you go to the grocery store, you think you need something, you get it? And you find out yes, indeed I do. Just keeping track of all those intuitive thoughts, because we have way more than we think we do, you will start building that confidence within yourself to trust as you found to go with that first thought. So that's one practice. Okay, back to your question. Michael Hingson ** 37:20 People have asked me if I ever felt any nudge or reason not to go to the World Trade Center on September 11. Even though there was a very severe thunderstorm that came right over our house at 1230. That morning, I never had, and I can sit here today and say I never had a single inkling that I shouldn't go. There was no message that said Don't go. And what happened, though, at at the World Trade Center for me, I think justify that just all the experiences that I had that day, but the reality is that we we do get so many different kinds of things that if we would, but listen, we would be so much better off, but we tend not to we ignore them, or we say that can't possibly be right. And then as you say, it turns out it is and I think your exercise is a very good one, that people who don't listen to those inner thoughts really are, are missing out on something extremely valuable. Well, right. So, so go ahead. Marnie Vincolisi ** 38:34 Yeah, well, and you know, you go into the Trade Center, we could call that divine order, because it completely changed how you work and what you do and, and how much more you can give to people than you were doing there. And I don't feel divine order is necessarily God given. I mean, it can be if that's your belief system, but I feel our divine order comes from within ourselves. We know within ourselves, we've got something more to do that can help people society life grow. And we follow that. Michael Hingson ** 39:06 Well, of course, the reality is that is God. And I think it's all interrelated. What did you make a master think of your past life experiences? I assume you divulge those to her when you were in Germany. Marnie Vincolisi ** 39:21 You know, I can't, you know, I don't remember a lot lot with her. We talked a lot I shared it. She was she was very stoic. Let's say that way. You know, so there wasn't you know, a lot coming from her. And I'll tell you this when I first learned the energy, I didn't feel it. I mean, when I teach people Reiki, they feel the energy coming through their hands and all through their body, but with this woman, I didn't feel anything happening there. It wasn't because she wasn't a good teacher. It was just, I was just different. I but I it was about trust. We're going back to why did I follow through, I get attune to the energy which channels the energy into you and you feel it. I didn't feel any of that I didn't feel energy coming out of my hands. But in my heart of hearts, I knew this was my path. And as I continued to practice it and get move on to the higher levels, I started feeling a lot more energy. But it really helped me to teach people to tell them, I didn't feel anything, but it works. And it's channeling love into the body. Reiki is channeling the infinite love of the universe, into your head, into your heart, you channeled it out your hands to a situation to a person or to yourself. And it's just working with love, it's, it's pretty simple. Michael Hingson ** 40:45 Well tell us a little bit more about what Reiki is. Marnie Vincolisi ** 40:49 Reiki, like I say, is channeling the infinite love of the universe, through your body into another one, when we heal at the deepest level, we heal through love. On some level, we're allowing the medicine to work, allowing the procedure the doctors giving you to work, or just trusting that your body can be better. And so building that love in and around a person allows them to get better and understand things in a different perception. And we sort of talked about compassion, but you know, compassion, and we talked about looking at what goes on with other people. It's perception, how do you perceive something that makes you ill, you know, a lot of illnesses that come in are from stress doctors, they'll tell us that, you know, this is happening, you know, because you're stressed, you know, your heart is hurting, or whatever. So if we could be less stressed, that means that we would have to have a different perception of what's happening around us. And coming into a space of love or feeling love around you or asking love to come in you is going to put you to a softer space, so you can see things in a different way. So Reiki channels in loves and gives you a new perspective. And once you have the new perspective, you can act differently, you can feel differently, your body's going to relax, because Reiki just doesn't come into your physical body, we have four bodies, we have a physical body, we have an emotional body, which is an etheric body, it's about you know, inter to offer our our skin, hence why we like to hug, why we shake hands, it's that touching of that emotional body that we're really looking for, the mental body is a little bit further out probably about 18 inches out, we're all those thoughts that run through our head are right there in our face. And then the spiritual body is right at the edge. So Reiki not only comes into the physical body, but goes through the emotional body, palms that emotion goes into the mental body gives you a new perception of the thoughts that you've been having. And it's charged with that spiritual body, which is that God given right that we come into our life with Michael Hingson ** 43:01 is Reiki always hands on. So it's a physical touch or something that you can do remotely. Marnie Vincolisi ** 43:08 Yeah, some masters teach it hands on, yes, you can do it remotely. When you move up on the levels. It's definitely can be sent remotely. And I work with people all around the world. And even though I do counseling, at some point, I might say, you know, just close your eyes relax, I'm going to direct this healing energy, this loving Reiki energy into and they you know, I always check in, you know, what do you notice? And what do you sense what's different? What's the same? And they feel it even across the miles? And that's that's the beauty of it. Michael Hingson ** 43:41 That's certainly pretty cool. And it's great to have that that kind of experience. How about your, your family, your children husband? Do they do Reiki or Marnie Vincolisi ** 43:55 I have trained let's see, two of my three children, you know, not all of them go along. But two of my three children have learned it and and use it not as practitioners but just in their everyday life. My little granddaughter I one time I picked her up from from preschool. And she says, Wait a minute, no, no, I can't go right now I have to go help Billy. He fell down. And I have to go give him Reiki. And she went over to him and put her hands on him. And then you know, just a few seconds and then and then came back again. So it's it's sort of cool. Michael Hingson ** 44:32 Well, it really is and it's always good to explore. Marnie Vincolisi ** 44:37 It is and and it's fun. And what I find with Reiki is that when when I trained someone in Reiki and they can go home and place their hands on someone and someone actually feels calmer. Their headache subsides. Their backache goes away. It makes them realize, Oh my gosh, if I've got this within me, and I can do this, I can do anything. And, and I've seen it over and over, over the decades that I've taught that people step out of their vocation that they had and moved to something that serves them better. They, they moved to new locations, they change family, they change, not family, but you know, friends, it really empowers them, it really is an empowerment kind of thing. It's not like you've got to learn it and, you know, be a practitioner and give treatments to people, but it just shows you that you have the power to change your life, and understand and perceive what's best for you and follow it. Right. So there's a lot of aspects to it that people don't think about when they think of Reiki hands on healing. But again, Michael Hingson ** 45:42 it requires you to be open, and to absorb information and process it. And I noticed when I was reading some of the information about you, you talk about getting information into the left side of the brain, and then allowing the right side to accept it spiritually. Marnie Vincolisi ** 46:03 Yeah, it well and spiritually, because the right side is the feeling sensing part. And that's the part that we don't trust. Yeah. And once we start trusting it, we can get a deeper a deeper connection to what we see as as spirit or power beyond us, or power within us. You know, however we focus on that. And, you know, Reiki is not the only thing I do. I mean, I also you know from that it stems out into meditation, which again, helps people understand that they have the power to do what they need to do for themselves to come, there's themselves down, you know, they don't need to, you know, take take drugs to be more relaxed. And that, and vegetation, people get so scared about meditation, I've got to have absolutely no thoughts. It's like, no, that's, that's not what it's about. It's about just changing that thought from that auto rewind that you have. And So meditation is putting in a different thought, seeing a different picture. And you don't have to do it for hours on end. 20 minutes is good. And when I start people out, I say do it for five minutes, just close your eyes, you know, just think about ocean waves, I often start with the breath, watching how your lungs rise, and just drop down. And when we breathe, the rising of our lungs take some effort, but when we exhale, they just drop all by themselves. And it's going into that space of letting go. Breathing in and letting go. Michael Hingson ** 47:37 That's really it. It's not about having no thoughts, it's not having directed thoughts, it's letting go and letting your mind really go where it chooses to go. And you just doing that and following along and not trying to control. Marnie Vincolisi ** 47:55 Right. And it gets to be fun. I mean, there's a sensation in your body that is so uplifting when when you meditate that like, yeah, I want to I want to hit that again. Yeah. Yeah. Michael Hingson ** 48:10 And, again, if you learn how to do that, and to let go and to let your mind direct you, if you will, again, that will enhance your your being in your life a whole lot. And it will help you in understanding so many things about other people. And and what's happening to you as well. Yeah, well, Marnie Vincolisi ** 48:33 you know, we we give our body a rest, we will lay down at night and we sleep. But we never really give our mind that that reprieve and meditation, just 20 minutes a day gives your mind that rest and we start figuring things out better and start working with both sides of the brain. And we know the left side is our that analytical side, the right side is the feeling side. But if we could be in that whole brain thinking we could we could do the analytical and allow the intuitive right brain to tell you which direction to go. And so just like you were talking about trusting your intuition, you can do that if you meditate because you're gonna get that whole brain thinking going on. So you're not battling it. You know, when you've got that one idea that comes in and the other one says, No, that's not it. You know, the intuition comes in. And the other one says, Now that can't be it. They stop arguing. Yeah. They start they start communicating better. Yeah. And I just got here I've got meditations on my website. I know you'll put it up for your, for your audience. It's light internal.com And there's mp3 is on there. And you know, when you start with meditation will listen to somebody it's a lot easier to have because as as a meditator and as a Reiki Master, I'm able to bring that calm energy into my voice and into you. So you're gonna get into that space a lot faster. And if you don't listen to mine, there's other People out there, but find someone that sounds good to you feels good to you makes you relax. And it's a lot easier to listen to. One, when you get started, Michael Hingson ** 50:10 you know, you were talking about sleeping, and we don't really let our brains do the things that that they should. The fact is that there should never be anything wrong with taking a few minutes at the end of the day just to relax, maybe just think about the day, think about what worked, what didn't work, and let your mind direct you as to how you deal with it tomorrow. But we don't tend to learn how to be introspective, Marnie Vincolisi ** 50:37 right, and you know, at work, and now not that many more people are working at home. But when people worked more in the office, there were you know, you would get coffee breaks, yeah. And then they stopped, the coffee breaks, but people that smoked would go outside and smoke, they would take their break. So I would I would tell my students tell you what, you know, you don't have to go out and smoke. But just give yourself five minutes, just put your hands on the computer screen and close your eyes or a keyboard. And just close your eyes for five minutes and give yourself the break that other people are taking. But yours is much healthier. Michael Hingson ** 51:14 And more productive. And more. Marnie Vincolisi 51:16 Yes. And and I think companies are beginning to learn that, that people are more productive when they're happier when they're relaxed. And there's ways to give them that. Michael Hingson ** 51:28 Tell us about the different products and services that your company does and the name of the company again, and just a little bit about how people can reach out to you and learn more about what you do and so on. 51:41 Okay, well, my website's a great place to go light internal, a lot of people want to call it light, eternal, and it's like, no, it's the light that's within you. Okay, lightinternal.com I write a weekly blog. And in there, sometimes I'll have meditations that you can listen to. I talk about things that are pertinent with what's what's going on how we can see things differently, how to deal with, you know, angry people or things that upset us. Lots and lots of information in there. And so you'll find that on the site, as I've got YouTube videos, so if you put my name in, you know, Marnie, Marnie, Vin or Marnie Vincolisi, I'll pop up on YouTube. Facebook, not so much. I got hacked on Facebook a few years ago, and was able to get back on I was like, Oh, well, let that go on Instagram. I'm on. I'm on Instagram. My products are I've got five books. Three of the books, the first books I wrote, we're about personal empowerment using Reiki and other meditative type techniques. One is called Finding Your inner gift. Second one is inner gifts uncovered. And the third one is claiming your inner gift. And then you asked about my family. So another grandchild who lives in San Francisco, I was telling her story, as we were going through San Francisco, I was in the backseat with her my daughter's driving. And you know, she's getting sort of fussy, and the story that I told her turned into a book. And it's, it's called the House who found its home. It's a children's book, it's a good reader for early readers, because there's repetitive statements. And it's about a house, it was living in a place that was too tight and too bright and too noisy. So the House took off to find a new place to live. And of course, it's because it's my book, The House learned a valuable lesson. Yeah, and the last book is they did the best they could discovering your path to compassion, with beautiful guidance on how you can work through issues that might be bothering you. But as I said, there's mp3 there's as well. And you know, and anytime that you've got issues, I'd love to work with you through hypnosis, guidance. Counseling, does moving energy for you. And that's my counseling. So it's all there on the site on lightinternal.com. And Michael Hingson ** 54:13 you do that worldwide. So anyone who is listening who wants to can certainly reach out to you and I hope that they will Marnie Vincolisi ** 54:20 write and all my books I can, I can ship worldwide as well. Michael Hingson ** 54:26 Did you publish them yourself? Marnie Vincolisi ** 54:28 I did. I did do self publishing the first three books I did self publishing, because they were my processes. And I didn't want to give them away to a publisher because I know if it doesn't sell the way they want and the books off the shelf. Yeah, you know, once I learned how to do that, I just continued with my other books and self published. And I just love the creative nature of it. The last book, you know, I created the cover the background that you see here is is the cover of my latest book. And let's see I can sort of see it here. I worked with fonts and how to do the layout and just that creative part of me that right brain, Mason, create your own books and create how they lay out and do your covers. And it's just fun. Michael Hingson ** 55:14 So that's certainly not allowed dyslexia to stand in the way and your brain has dealt with that. Marnie Vincolisi ** 55:21 It has, it's some pretty good, Michael Hingson ** 55:23 which is cool. I want to thank you for being with us again, on unstoppable mindset. And clearly, if we're going to talk about someone who's unstoppable, that would be you. I am so glad that you, you found us because you actually found us and said, I want to be a guest on your podcast, which I'm grateful for you to have done. So very much. That was great. Marnie Vincolisi ** 55:45 Right? And I've so I've so enjoyed meeting you and hearing, you know how you've dealt with diversity and what you've gone through. I mean, I love your story about riding your bicycle at seven years old by yourself and a neighbor complaining. May I May I take a moment and ask you that. So my father in law was blind. And so I learned, you know, a lot of things through him. So when you were riding your bike, did you listen for how the air went by you to know if there was something along the side of you? I mean, you knew how far I mean, how many turns to the end of the quarter? Yeah. How many times did you go around? Tell me how you did it? Michael Hingson ** 56:22 No, it's not so much the air going by you. It's just all the echoes and all the sounds. I mean, it's like, how would you describe to someone when you're riding a bike, what it looks like, and what you see how do you describe that sense. And it's the same thing, you're using different senses to do the same thing. And the fact is that with all the different kinds of noises echoing and so on that you can hear, it's possible to ride a bike. Now, I'm not going to probably want to be a bike messenger in New York City. But I, I enjoyed riding a bike. It's been a long time since I've written but I've enjoyed it. And you learn to trust your senses, which is what we've talked a lot about here. Marnie Vincolisi ** 57:04 Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that with me. And thank you for having me on. I've really enjoyed meeting you. And I hope I get to talk to you again. 57:12 Well, I think we definitely ought to stay in touch by by all means. 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Introduction Good morning! Today I'm introducing you to a new summer series with John's Aunt Mary, one of the people I most enjoy, appreciate, and admire in this world. John's Auntie Mary is like a living embodiment of the famous serenity prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference". It seems to be that God has given Auntie Mary all of those things. On Monday evenings, John and I love to sit at a table with Mary, share in a simple delicious vegetarian meal with her, and soak up the wisdom that Mary has gained over 86 years of life. Mary was born in 1936 in Ramallah, Palestine as the 3rd of 9 children (that lived to adulthood; her mother bore 11). She was 12 in 1948 and saw the Nakba - the Catastrophe - with her own eyes. Fellow Palestinians, including her future husband Shafiq, were forced from their homes, sent barefoot, unarmed, and homeless into the streets, and in some cases - massacred. At 19 Mary immigrated to the United States. Every day of her life, Mary worked hard to start businesses, keep a home, raise her 4 children, and to show kindness and compassion to everyone she met. In addition to her own children, Mary was like a mother to my husband John, who is joining with me in this series, and to many others. Her heart and home were always open and her table overflowing with the delicious food of her homeland. I'm hoping to release at least 5 episodes in this series. This first one I've called Paradise in Palestine, as Mary remembers her simple wholesome childhood in Palestine full of the freshest, lushest fruits and vegetables and meals cooked before electricity. Listen to Mary Now Related Episodes Related Recipes
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John deBary joins Dave and Chris to lather themselves up with everyone's favorite food: butter! This episode sees the intrepid ‘Recipe Club' luxe-ify, speed-up and keto-ize Julie Joiner's Aunt Mary's famous Sage Stuffing. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: John deBary Producers: Gabi Marler, Euno Lee, Victoria Valencia, and Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Do not be a mirror, be an energy laundering queen besties!! PERIOD! Happy Thursday!! Today Morgan starts us off by covering the Ghost of Cock Lane... yes, we know it sounds kind of dirty, but that is because IT IS! A 1700s Loan Officer seems to carry a curse that causes every woman he has ever loved to die, while also getting scammed time and time again! Before he knows it, Will finds himself at the center of a paranormal investigation from the Scratchy Fanny, but we prefer the underground shoemaker DJ of Cock Lane! Find out why Aunt Mary continued to lose it, and five people went to jail for defamation before you tell us what the heck you think was going on down Cock Lane! Taylar then wraps us up with the final part of Mike William's case after leaving us on a massive cliff hanger last week! After 18 years of searching for the truth, his mother, Cheryl was able to "make a deal with the devil" (as according to Investigators that made the deal for her) in order to bring her son justice and learn the TRUTH of what happened all those years ago! WE LOVE YOU, BESTIES! Next week is Tay's 25th Bday ep, so be prepared for some season 1 level unhinged "cases"! BYEEE! If you would like to request sources or ask any questions, reach out to us via our email creepsandcrimespodcast@gmail.com To submit a Creepy Account for July, email us at creepsandcrimes.ca@gmail.com Shop our PRIDE AND VARSITY MERCH COLLECTIONS at https://linktr.ee/CreepsAndCrimes Don't forget to follow us on socials! Instagram: @creepsandcrimespodcast @taylarj @morgg.m Tiktok: @creepsandcrimes @taylarjane98 @morganmounts3 @taylarjane1 Facebook: Creeps and Crimes Podcast Youtube: Creeps and Crimes Podcast Produced by Dear Media
Live from a car ride to Ho Chunk Casino, Charlie chats with his Grandma Sue, his Aunt Mary, and Grandma Sue's friend Lois Bentley. As a returning guest of the Cripescast, Grandma Sue shows the girls how it's done as they trade funny stories including the time Mary got her bra caught on a ceiling fan at the local bar. Growing up together, Lois and Sue share stories about their late husbands Bob Bentley and Bob Berens, finding their children's stashes of weed, and Grandpa Bob's impression of Elvis. Being the first female prison guard at the Waupun prison, Lois recounts the time she found some risque items in the mail that were sent to the inmates. Just as they arrive in Baraboo, everyone offers up a piece of life advice to the audience and wishes each other well at the slot machines. Follow us on all platforms @cripescast and @charlieberens. For more bonus content from Charlie's trip to the casino, head to patreon.com/charlieberens.
Elise Crawford is dying in her aunt and uncle's home in New Orleans. Aunt Mary is alarmed by Annie's calmness. Elise and Annie are both keeping secrets. And soon, the police in New Orleans will learn about everything. Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2023 All Rights Reserved See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Mary Agnes Crawford and her parents Emma and Walter are now dead. Annie and her surviving sisters move in with their Aunt Mary; unfortunately, Annie and Aunt Mary don't get along at all. And when yet another family member becomes ill…Annie's little sister becomes suspicious because Annie is the main beneficiary in the life insurance policies. Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2023 All Rights Reserved See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
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In this episode we listen to a few personal items that Ernie wrote about on Monday, February 12, 1945. They focus on his father and Aunt Mary. Doug Hess is the host!
Welcome to the show comedian and everyone's favorite aunt, Aunt Mary Pat. On this episode we discuss the origin story of Aunt Mary Pat, our first and worst valentines, why not to laugh in the bedroom, Tatas' car jacking, the in's and outs of an open relationship, being a mans first big girl or gay experience, bath houses, glory holes, the hottest Philadelphia Eagles and way more. We also play "Plead the Fifth". Follow the Podcast @loveandthenwhatFollow Mr. Everybody @mr.everybodypodsFollow Aunt Mary Pat/Troy@auntmarypatFollow Tata Sherise@tatasheriseFollow our Maura@maurbiexoCheck out Fairy Garden@fairygardenmindsetWould you like to be apart of the show, ask us a question or tell us a story? Please email us at LoveandThenWhat@gmail.com or send us a message on Instagram @loveandthenwhatTo see other clips, remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel and go to our website loveandthenwhat.com to see all of our videos, socials and behind the scenes clips.
I feel like I have a personal connection with Mother Seton. My great, great, great Aunt Mary or Sister Olivia, lived in Emmitsburg and was a member of the Sisters of Charity, she taught at the local Catholic High School. When Aunt Mary would come to Nashville for a visit, she always brought me some sort of trinket from Emmitsburg along with tales about the life of St. Elizabeth and her path to sainthood. This was in the early 70's and she was canonized in 1975. As a young child, I loved to listen to her stories. Of course, the trinkets and stories were also a way to entice me to join the religious order as I got older. Although God called me to be a mom instead of a religious sister, the life of St. Elizabeth has touched me in many ways over the years. One of my most treasured gifts from Aunt Mary, is a bone relic from St. Elizabeth. I keep it in my office as a reminder that St. Elizabeth can be called on to intercede in prayers, I know that when I feel overwhelmed, worried, uncertain on my next move or simply tired from a busy day that she understands. Like most moms, she wore many hats and tirelessly served. Even though it isn't an official title from the church, I consider her the patron saint of multi-tasking for mothers. I believe that she knows exactly how to intercede when I call on her for prayers. Like most mothers, Elizabeth poured herself out to those around her through her words, actions and prayers. She cultivated deep relationships where she was a source of encouragement and teaching of the Catholic faith. Elizabeth's life was filled with responsibilities, demands and new adventures and Even though Elizabeth was always going from task to task, she also craved time for quiet reflection and solitude so she could spend time with Christ. St. Elizabeth is quoted as saying, “the nearer a soul is truly united to God the more its sensibilities are increased to every being of His creation; much more to those whom it is bound to love by the tenderest and most endearing ties.” There is so much more to share, but hopefully you have an idea of why this saint is so important to me and for all mothers. I want to share 3 powerful life lessons that I have learned over the years from the life and example of St. Elizabeth. The first lesson is to meet everyone with charity, including those who are difficult to love or for that matter challenging to even be around. The second powerful lesson that I learned is to be still in the presence of God. As I shared, St. Elizabeth lived a dynamic life, as a busy mom in the middle, you probably know how this feels,right? . She accomplished so much in her brief 46 years here on earth. Through her journals and letters, it is clear that St. Elizabeth desired quiet moments with God. The third lesson is to follow where God leads with open hands and a heart full of grace. The life of St. Elizabeth took many unexpected turns and twists. The life of St. Elizabeth contains many lessons for mid-life moms. Jennie is a Catholic Life Coach, Podcaster, Speaker and founder of Catholic Moms in the Middle. She equips and encourages middle-life moms to reconnect in their faith by breaking spiritual strongholds so they can finally lose the weight they've struggled with for years, to reconnect in their marriage and to discover where God is calling them in this new season of life.
It's Valentine's Day, and what better way to celebrate than to recap a tear-filled Week 4 with our very own Aunt Mary! Bachelor Nation's favorite aunt returns to the pod to give her blazing-hot takes on Zach's season and to show us just how to carpe diem the hell out of a Bahamian vacation.This week's episode is brought to you by Manscaped, the G.O.A.T for all men's below-the-waist grooming! Visit www.manscaped.com and type in our promo code "Zone3" for 20% off your order and free shipping!Check out our exclusive bonus content here!If you would like to help our dear friend of the show Ali Barthwell with medical expenses for her ongoing cancer treatment, you can donate to her medical GoFund Me hereSupport the show
The Couple Next Door was a similar Peg Lynch radio series which aired on CBS Radio during the waning days of network radio, (December 30, 1957 – November 25, 1960) with Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce as the married couple. It reprised Ethel and Albert, but the new name was necessitated because Lynch had long since lost the rights to the original title. The CBS iteration was named “Best Daytime Radio Program” for 1959 by The National Association for Better Radio and Television. Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradio Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/ Podcast Service I Recommend https://redcircleinc.grsm.io/entertainmentradio7148 Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio
Here's the thing… gratitude isn't standing around the dinner table holding hands with people you haven't seen in a year, feverishly trying to think up a new thing you can say you're grateful for because Aunt Mary already took what you were going to say! Gratitude is not just a holiday theme. It isn't a one-and-done kinda thing. In fact, I love that gratitude gets the spotlight for one-twelfth of the year because I believe it is a powerful practice and is something I do all the time. Gratitude is a practice. You aren't supposed to be good at it on your first try. How do you work on it? You try your best to find things you are grateful for and acknowledge when that feeling of gratitude or thankfulness genuinely shows up. For example… Let's say someone hands something to you and you say “thank you”. If you were practicing gratitude you would take a moment to really be thankful for it. Thank you can be such a mechanical thing to say. If you are practicing gratitude then simply really being thankful for something when you say thank you can be a great place to start. Listen to episode 139 to learn more about what gratitude actually is and ways you can start practicing it today. Find a free gratitude sheet in the show notes at https://www.loveyourcaregivinglife.com/blog/episode-139-gratitude-and-thankfulness-don-t-have-to-be-bad-words-for-caregivers
Whoa boy! Nothing gets your heart rate going like a good ol' round of Thanksgiving dysfunction! Thanksgiving is both of our favorite holidays due in large part to our love of boundaries. And food. What's the best way to ensure Aunt Mary doesn't knock a bottle of pinot and slide off her chair into the sweet potato mousse? Easy - ask her not to. Boundaries can be easy OR difficult, even for the most practiced in this skill. In this episode, we talk about why boundaries can feel scary and how it can get even more charged depending on who you set them with and how they respond. Take some notes on How, When, and WHY setting boundaries are the best way to communicate in your relationships. Plus an impromptu role play (which of course Beth nails). Listen in for more! You can reach us at the websites below or on all the socials! https://nancymedoff.com/ https://thatsaspade.com/ High 5 strengths test
Anne Hollander is the CEO of Lobby CRE, a Thirty Capital company. She's making an impression in CRE and Tech as one of the few CEOs with a background in both real estate operations and rapidly scaling technology companies. [00:00 - 05:16] How Technology is Improving Real Estate Performance Technology is essential in helping to improve performance and speed up the process of getting projects completed. Lobby CRE uses four levers of performance - operational data, debt management, equity analysis, and legal structure - to help boost returns for investors. [05:16 - 10:40] 30 Capital Launches Lobby CRE, A Platform That Helps Real Estate Investors Perform Better Lobby CRE is a proprietary platform that helps real estate investors manage their workflows more effectively. The platform has been introduced into the market and has partnered with a number of industry organizations. The platform is helpful for real estate investors who want to take a more holistic approach to their investments. [10:40 - 16:03] Lobby CRE Helps Real Estate Professionals Migrate Data Easily Lobby CRE can help optimize individual asset returns and larger portfolio returns by bringing all data together Data management is a huge issue in the real estate space and lobby CRE can help solve this by handling all data transfers and user permissions Lobby CRE can be implemented within 30 days [16:04 - 20:07] Closing Segment Reach out to Anne Hollander! Links Below ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tweetable Quotes: “Being able to understand what those ownership contributions look like, what those distributions look like, what timing can look like on this, and balancing that across these levers.” - Anne Hollander Connect with Anne Hollander by visiting emailing her at ahollander@thirtycapital.com or Visit https://www.lobbycre.com/ Connect with me: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns. Facebook LinkedIn Like, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on. Thank you for tuning in! Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: [00:00:00] Anne Hollander: being able to understand what those ownership contributions look like, what those distributions look like, what timing can look like on this, and balancing that across these. Levers is really critical here. And then finally, probably the least sexy, but most important of all is our entity management, right? Being able to manage those legal structures, understanding what your tax obligations look like, understanding what your insurance obligations look like, and of course, what that corporate structure above these investments is. [00:00:37] Sam Wilson: Anne Hollander is the CEO of Lobby cre, a 30 capital company. She's making an impression in CRE and Tech as one of the few CEOs with a background in both real estate operations and rapidly scaling technology companies. And welcome to [00:00:50] Anne Hollander: the show. Thank you for having me, Sam. So thrilled [00:00:52] Sam Wilson: to be here. Absolutely. The pleasure is mine. And there are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90 seconds or less. Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you [00:01:01] Anne Hollander: get there? Yeah, absolutely. So I started here my career in real estate here in Dallas in leasing and marketing operations at a, a small portfolio, about 30 properties or so in the Dallas area. Got my feet wet in the value ad space but technology was always my calling. And so I find myself now right at that intersection working right between technology and real estate to help improve, perform. , [00:01:24] Sam Wilson: What does that even mean? When you say unique, [00:01:27] Anne Hollander: Let's talk about improving performance, right? Yeah. It's, it's that thing that everybody wants, everybody says, and nobody really quite knows how to get to, right? So when we think about improving performance depending on who you are and what your role is inside of real estate, that can mean a number of different things. Right. The way that we think about this here at 30 Capital is improving the returns that you have so that you can get to that promote. We're very focused in the general partner and very focused in returning those returning that money and returning as much performance as we can back to the investor as well. We do this with technology. We know that there have been a number of other industries who have started down the path and already seen so many of the benefits that technology can provide. But by putting technology into place, we find ourselves getting to a place where not only we can be much more efficient in what we do, but much more effective as well. [00:02:17] Sam Wilson: What, when you say that, when you say putting technology into place, like what are some high level things that come to mind that you say, Man, these are, these are some things we've done that have, have juiced that performance. Cause again, I'm going back to what you said, which is we want to, we, we want to obviously juice the performance of projects so we can actually get to the general partner promote, like that's, that's good for the investor and that's good for you as a general partner. Yeah. But what are those things that you guys are doing, or what technologies come to mind that you feel like you use maybe that other people. Would benefit [00:02:47] Anne Hollander: from. Yeah, absolutely. So as we think about this, right, let's, let's go way back in time. First major jump in technology was being able to write things down, pen and paper, right? And I myself am a member of the Red Pen Club, and I will print things out, mark them up, absolutely, and decide what I, what it is I need to do. However, when I do that, I'm not able to look at nearly enough data to necessarily understand the, the finer points or the more contextual points that are potentially affecting my performance, slowing me down and creating a lag. And so then along comes Microsoft. And I gotta tell you, nobody wakes up in the morning wanting to get into their Excel spreadsheets. But this is what folks do today within real estate. They try to put all of this data together, manually manipulate it, and hopefully it will set out an answer that is acceptable and that you know what your path forward looks like. But you know, Excel doesn't really cut it. That's still creating that lag on performance. We've got Excel documents flying around through the organization. It's not getting data fast enough. I mean, I know that I have big fingers and sometimes fat finger numbers, columns, whole sheets of things. And so what we have today now is a another step forward, right? So from pen and paper to Excel now from Excel into lobby cre, where we're really managing all four levers of performance across the real estate portfolio. We're managing the operational data that's coming in, So understanding all of those leading indicators around leasing and marketing, around delinquency around all of the financials, the costs and income that may be generated in the property. We're looking at your debt and understanding what that looks like and understanding not only the covenants and obligations that you have as you're beginning to manage and optimize that debt, but then also what your options are to generate cash back out. Lots of folks might be sitting on a particular gold mine. And as, as folks especially today are looking at options for refi sell, they're going, Oh, I didn't know that there was an additional $300,000 here, 500,000, $800,000 that we could pull out of this. We're looking at the equity, which I think a listeners of your podcast here certainly know something about already, but being able to understand what those ownership contributions look like, what those distributions look like, what timing can look like on this, and balancing that across these. Levers is really critical here. And then finally, probably the least sexy, but most important of all is our entity management, right? Being able to manage those legal structures, understanding what your tax obligations look like, understanding what your insurance obligations look like, and of course, what that corporate structure above these investments is. [00:05:10] Sam Wilson: That's a lot of moving pieces to compile into one software platform. It absolutely is. This is a proprietary platform that you guys have developed in house. It [00:05:22] Anne Hollander: is, yes. And so we developed this after multiple generations inside of real estate. We're struggling with the same exact problem. Right, right. And paper wasn't cutting it. Microsoft Excel not cutting it. And so finally we decided, you know what? We're gonna build our own solution. And so for the last three years, that's exactly what we've done. We've now introduced this into market, partnered up with a number of industry organizations, and have more than 600 clients now enjoying the benefits of lobby [00:05:48] Sam Wilson: cre. Wow, that's really cool. But you built it for your own portfolio. We [00:05:52] Anne Hollander: absolutely did. Selfishly, we did. [00:05:54] Sam Wilson: Right. Now that's, i, I, I love that approach cuz I feel like you will end up building a better product. In the end, then necessarily somebody that comes along and sees a problem in the industry and goes, Hey, I can help you solve that. You're like, Hey, I'm gonna fix the problem myself. And then once we have it in in house and it's functional, we can then sell it to the rest of the market that needs it [00:06:15] Anne Hollander: as well. Exactly right. We understand these workflows. We understand the, the give and take that comes into these workflows. We understand the role of. Inside of these workflows as well, right? We, we see a lot of other technologists come into this space who, you know, want to let go of Aunt Mary who's been running payroll for forever and ever, and they don't understand the family dynamics that go into a real estate investment. And so we're really considering, okay, how can I make Aunt Mary more effective here? How can I give you a lot more power? Just simply by using technology rather than having to do this manually every single, every [00:06:52] Sam Wilson: single day. Right, Right. And you hit, I mean, you hit on e even, even problems, you know that I think about it in our, in our own business. You hit on it, you know, it's the, it's the Excel sheet. It's the entity management. It's, when's this filing due? When's that come up? Who's taking like, and, and you can build systems around it. But again, like you said, it, it's still similar to pen and paper in its own right. And that it requires us to go back in and look at it and go, Oh, right, no, that's due on April 15th or whatever it is. I'm thinking of taxes here more. More, I guess, by the date that came to mind. But you know, I think that that's, that's that you're hitting, obviously, you know that what you've built is solving an industry problem. Is there, is there a stage at which a real estate investment company should begin considering a platform like yours or, [00:07:37] Anne Hollander: I'd say the earlier, earlier the. Why get yourself into a place where you're developing manual workflows inside of your organization. Start early. Build these processes from the beginning. Understand what these workflows are and, and get your team trained up as early as you can. Now, if you're pretty deep into your investments already, you've got 10, 20, 30, 50, a hundred. Assets already. That's okay too. Our team will work with you to help update what those workflows are inside of your organization to be sure that everybody is getting value out of lobby [00:08:06] Sam Wilson: cre. Yeah, absolutely. What, so where do you, where do you guys go as a business? I mean, if you're building, and I know you used the term technologist, that's not a term I'm familiar with cuz I can barely send an email. So you won't be calling me for tech support, that's for sure. But, but tell me this, I where do you guys go as a company? I mean, if you guys started as real estate investors and that's, that's what you've known for so long, you built a platform that then services your own business. Do you guys then kind of veer off and go into the software as a, I guess you call it software as a service side of things, or do you stay in real estate? Where are you guys going? We're [00:08:45] Anne Hollander: actually doing both. We believe so strongly in the things that we built of improving our own real estate portfolio, that we have the two things side by side within the business here at 30 Capital. We're never going to abandon real estate. We, we love real estate. We know real estate. That is our, our home for sure. We are a real estate first organization. I come in as, as more of that tech person that has a little bit of real estate background to help build out launch and then scale what these. Technology solutions can do for us as an organization. Again, focused on our own real estate portfolio, but then really also focused on the mid-market space as well. We know that there are other technology companies out there doing something kind of similar but really serving that top end of the market. Those top hundred real estate investors that exist out there. There's nobody that's been serving this mid-market space, and that's the spot that, you know, that's our sweet spot. That's what we know. That's what we love. Can [00:09:36] Sam Wilson: you define mid-market for me? Sure. [00:09:38] Anne Hollander: So under 5 billion in [00:09:40] Sam Wilson: aum. Okay. Okay, great. No, that, that, that's extremely helpful. Let's go back to what you called the four levers of performance, and then tell me maybe in a little greater detail how exactly this software platform is helping end users. I guess pull those levers of [00:10:00] Anne Hollander: performance. Absolutely. So what we see today and this is certainly was, was true in our own real estate portfolio, is that we were taking a very siloed approach. So we were just looking at ops, just looking at marketing and leasing, just looking at occupancy and vacancy, just looking at delinquency, just looking at the expenses down at the individual asset level. And that's great. That's what a lot of organizations are doing today. But when we begin to put other data, Next to this, so debt, for example, understanding what my debt obligation is, understanding my am schedule, understanding the covenants of this loan and what my options are to help generate cash back out of that. Suddenly some of the decisions that I made over in the ops side didn't look quite as optimized. As they could have been. Same thing goes with equity, same thing goes with entity is they begin to put these things together and not having to do so manually or not having to pull data out of so many disparate systems that that it, it, none of it talks to one another. What I'm able to see is actually optimizing not only individual asset, but larger across the portfolio as well. So if I'm invested in multiple. I may decide, okay, with this particular asset, I'm gonna do X, Y, and Z. This one, I'm gonna do X, Y, and Z. Across the portfolio that I have, I am going to get a stronger return because I'm able to optimize each one in in light of the whole. [00:11:17] Sam Wilson: Got it. that's really, really compelling. You know, tell me, I, I guess are there, are there, Well, here, let's hit pause real quick. What are some things, I feel like I'm looking for a question and I can't find it. Tell me, is there something else I should hit or highlight that I've, that I haven't yet asked you about? Let's, let's talk about [00:11:33] Anne Hollander: data management. Okay. Bring all [00:11:35] Sam Wilson: the data together. Great. We'll jump right back in here and I, and I'll, I'll ask a, a lead in question for that. And what can you tell me about data management as it pertains to lobby [00:11:45] Anne Hollander: cre? So I know you're not a tech person, and nor do I expect anybody in real estate to be tech people, right? You brought up this point earlier, I wanna come back around to this. Real estate people need to be real estate people. You need to go operate, manage real estate and not really worry about the tech. Right where, where lobby CRE can step in. But let's talk about data management for a minute, because I think this is one of those areas that is greatly misunderstood, especially in the real estate space, data management. So you're probably not even thinking about how much data that you're sending back and forth in an Excel file today, right? Probably not. No. Probably not. Just like, okay, it's just data on a sheet, right? What if that data fell into someone else's hands that it wasn't intended? Wouldn't. What if, there it had sensitive information, You know, investor information addresses, contribution amounts, right? The, the risk begins to come up that if, hey, if that's in the wrong hands, whether it's even somebody inside of the org that you find yourself in, or if it's somebody outside of your organization, that could be bad for you, right? So what we do here within lobby series is handle all of that. You don't have to think about it. It's all in one platform. All of your users are managed. Anybody can come in and you can set up what those parameters are, what they can access, when they can access it, and how they access that. So data management is huge in this particular space. We think about how much data that a real estate asset or a real estate portfolio can generate. It's staggering. Staggering, right? If it's Facebook and, and Twitter and the rest of it, just shame for the amount of data that a real estate asset can generate. And so if without some data management actually in place through a, a provider or through a partner that you know, and you trust to do this for you you open yourself up for a lot of risk that I don't think a lot of people are actually. [00:13:26] Sam Wilson: Yeah, I guess I easy example there, and again, maybe I'm talking a little bit outside of my depth, but let's, let's talk about a multi-family property, right? Let's say you got 250 units on a multi, I mean, if you're trading data back and forth on all of your tenants, on everything they've paid on this and that, does this allow you to interface with your property management company back to lobby c e so that it all stays kind of housed in one secure? You nailed it. [00:13:52] Anne Hollander: Okay. You're a technologist, you just didn't know it. , Right. You're solving the same problems, Right. That we are trying to solve as well. Right. Let's use that multifamily example. If I pull that that rent roll outta the property management system, it's gonna come with all that personally identifiable information, right? All those things that we never wanna get breach alerts about, correct. Correct. We don't wanna do that. And so a provider then to help you manage all of this, help take that risk off of your plate and not have to worry about it, is huge in my mind. [00:14:20] Sam Wilson: How? How do you work? What I have found with some technology solutions is in the end, they end up creating, and obviously yours doesn't do this, but just tell me how you guys worked around this. They end up creating more work than if you just went out and just did it manually. I've seen this on some things where it's like, oh my gosh, like by the time we get this set. We might as well have just gotten on the phone and just had phone calls and written it on paper and sent, sent it in the mail. So, yeah. How, how have you guys effectively solved that? I guess when I think about interfacing with the property management company back to us as owners, bringing on our investors and making sure all of this gets dumped into one place that is easy to access, but yet difficult to access. Tell me. Yeah. [00:15:02] Anne Hollander: Oh, so we handle it is the short version of that. So in, in our implementation when we're, when we're doing a lobby CRA implementation today most of our implementations are less than 30 days. Wow. If you've ever been through a property management system migration or, or putting one in, in the first place, you're like, Oh my God, I'm never going through this again. Right? So much pain, so much agony, never doing it Instead we recognize that real estate is built on, on people and, and the people that are in those particular spots. And so we force those relationships. Directly with those people to help make this as an easy and seamless transfer as we possibly can. Once it's up and running, then we go into our next phase of being sure that everybody in your organization is now leveraging what the platform looks like. So we're very deep into the analytics within the platform to make sure that, Hey, are you using this dashboard? Hey, do you know how to use this report? Hey, here are all 500 KPIs that we've got, which ones are gonna be most important to you? What are you interested in? and a full team there of real estate and data analysts who are there by your side to help with all of that. It's rather amazing. What we've seen is that we have organizations who are able to go from you know, from a, an old system or an old manual way of doing things and be able to create not only time in their day. One of the metrics I love here as an organization we worked with that wanted to create for everybody in. Their property managers, their asset managers owner, everybody, an additional eight hours a. To focus just on real estate, not on tech, not on reporting, not on data, not, not on anything that was not directly real estate related. Whether that means how do we grow the real estate? How do, what are our acquisition targets? Do, do we have assets ready for disposition? Are there other things strategically that we can do? And we were able to do that for them plus some. Wow. [00:16:47] Sam Wilson: Wow. That's really cool. And I, and I, and I really, actually find your answer there valuable. It's, it's, it's more of a done for you. Especially on the onboarding side of things. Mm-hmm. , because that is where a lot of us get lost in bringing on technology. It's like, Oh my gosh, this is, this is, I just don't understand. It's gonna take forever to get it implemented, and by the time we get it implemented, we've lost out on how much ever progress could have made on something else. Exactly. [00:17:09] Anne Hollander: Right. Why are we messing with actually in a market dynamic like this, right? Yeah. Where we've got so much activity now, kind of like, Okay, are we going this way or this way, or this way or that way? Or what's going on with this asset, with this deal, with that, that particular opportunity that's on my plate. Right? Right. Trying to keep track of all of that and implement technology incredibly difficult, which is why we lift that whole thing off of. I [00:17:31] Sam Wilson: love it. I love it. Very, very cool. And is there anything else that we should know to highlight here on this show before we sign off as it pertains to lobby cre, what you guys are doing, where you guys are going? Anything I've missed? [00:17:42] Anne Hollander: I think just one big thing. And that's just one, so you talk about, Hey, I'm. Not a technologist, and we think that's that's great. We have recently launched the Academy of CRE and Innovation here at 30 Capital, and I serve as an executive in residence there. This academy is a great source for anybody that wants to build or sharpen their skills, specifically within real estate focused in, in critical areas. For example, our first two courses here are in debt and equity optimization, how to go and do that. And we're leveraging a number of mid-career functional experts who have been doing this for, for quite some time as well as some later career industry heavyweights that are providing a lot more context into market dynamics and how things shift. It's been great for our students. We've got we've had just about a hundred folks now go through these certification courses. We've got another one in data and. So you said you wake up one morning, you're like, I wanna know more about data and how I can derive value from data. Excellent Academy of CRE and innovation is there for you by your side to teach you all of the cool new things that you can do with real estate data. [00:18:49] Sam Wilson: That is awesome. Is there, tell, tell us while we're on this topic, how does someone find that resource? [00:18:55] Anne Hollander: Yeah. You go to the academy of cre.com and it will be right there available for you. You can go and register and I'll even leave you with this, right? If there's a listener here who's interested in taking one of these courses, participating in our panel sessions or even becoming an expert in residence, please reach out. I have a lot of free codes to get you a free certification. [00:19:16] Sam Wilson: That's fantastic and thank you for taking the time to come on the show today. If our listeners do wanna reach out to you about that particular topic or any other topic, what is the best way to do [00:19:25] Anne Hollander: that? Oh, email might be the best as much as I love to ignore it. hollander@30capital.com. Or you can reach out via the lobby cre site at www.lobbycre.com. [00:19:35] Sam Wilson: Fantastic. We'll make sure you put both of those there in the show notes. And thank you for coming on the show today. I certainly appreciate it. Absolutely. [00:19:41] Anne Hollander: Thank you, Sam.
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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with NYC Pianist/Composer Ben Bierman on the 2022 CD Songs for Aunt Mary .. His last record called Some Takes On the Blues focused on the blues, while on this set of compositions are the types of songs that make up a large part of the Great American Songbook. These standard song forms are as natural to Ben as the blues .. Over the course of our conversation, we talk about Aunt Mary, COVID life, the state of jazz buinsess and much more .. Enjoy this interview …Click to listen.Thanks for listening and tuning into yet another Neon Jazz interview .. where we give you a bit of insight into the finest players and minds around the world giving fans all that jazz .. If you want to hear more interviews, go to Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino on the iTunes store, visit the YouTube Neon Jazz Channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/neonjazzkc, go The Home of Neon Jazz at http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/ and for everything Joe Dimino related go to www.joedimino.com When you are there, you can donate to the Neon Jazz cause via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ERA4C4TTVKLR4 or through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neonjazzkc - Until next time .. enjoy the music my friends ..
Love Sculpture - Blues Helping In this episode, we review the first album by a Welsh blues band that had a great guitar player and some great playing… even though not too many people nowadays listen to them. Well, that's why we chose to review this album. Our tracks of the week are The Cult's “Give Me Mercy”, Aunt Mary's “Joinin' The Crowd” and we finish with Lee's song “Playing Games In The Wind.” Drink a bit, kick back, listen to an episode and have fun. #blues
Another special & extended episode where I break from routine and feature music from artists both Prog-Scure and famous. In each episode of this series, I'm playing one half (one full side) of outstanding and influential albums throughout rock ‘n' roll history, regardless of sub-genre. In this episode, hear diverse artists including Aunt Mary, Cold […]
Granny, Uncle Earl & Aunt Esther & Aunt Mary spent all day fixing the front yard and the garden in the backyard All for Cousin Trey to pull up in his new Chevy Caprice and leave tire tracks on the lawn smh Your favorite cousins are back again and we give a candid recap of GTX's 3rd event of the year, Ouroboros DONATE: $NewEraPod GET YOUR COUSIN's MERCH: https://theloladopecollection.com/ LIVE SHOW DISCORD: https://discord.gg/NuunqQau52 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @NewEraPodcast1 @BENSWAYZE2 @DAMNIMWILD @LILFR3DDY @DUTCH_KIB @LOLADOPE_ FOLLOW US ON IG: @NewEra_Podcast1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/new-era-podcast3/support
Jesus' followers included many women from Galilee who supported him out of their means. They followed him to Calvary. Who were these extraordinary women and what do the different Gospel accounts say about them? Did Jesus have an "Aunt Mary" who was there, too? Join us for this Part 1 of a four-part series on "The Women at the Cross."
Have you ever unexpectedly bumped into a tradition at a family holiday gathering that seemed normal to everyone there except you? A warning not to sit in a certain chair? An obligation to eat a slice of Aunt Mary's fruitcake? Did it feel like a rule or expectation you were being forced to play along with? If you've had encounters of this kind (and most of us have), then you know the complications your potential responses can create for the relationships you have with those you care about and love. In this episode of “Asking For A Friend,” Dr. Pamela Kreiser aka TalkDoc with her colleagues Meredith and Teighlor, discuss strategies for managing traditions and rules that may be the norm for one family but not ok with you. You'll learn how planning ahead can relieve the tension created by expectations and what to consider when setting boundaries “in the moment.” You'll also learn the concept of “fractionation” - a powerful strategy for resizing potential conflict. Music by epidemic sound. Available also on youtube.com - Asking For A Friend with TalkDoc Podcast
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