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In this episode of the Marathon Running Podcast, we have a compelling discussion with Coach Todd Charnetski centered around crafting effective race day strategies. We delve into the nuanced art of accurately gauging your fitness and setting realistic expectations for your performance. Coach Charnetski guides us through the process of meticulously planning your race pace and understanding how to adapt when challenges arise. Beyond the physical aspects, we also explore the importance of cultivating a mindset that embraces the journey and fosters a culture of enjoyment throughout the race experience. Tune in for Coach Charnetski's expert insights on how to approach race day with confidence, strategic awareness, and a genuine appreciation for the event. aYou can find Coach Todd Charnetski sharing more of his expert coaching insights and connecting with the running community on Instagram at @runcoachtodd. For a deeper dive into his training methodologies and personalized coaching programs, be sure to visit his website at www.smartapproachtraining.com.

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Are You Vengeful or Petty in Your Relationship? LIVE Q&AYou will learn how being petty or vengeful might seem fun at the timie, though with destroy your realtionship or marriage! Weekly LIVE Q&A on Marriage, Love, Relationship, Dating and Sex from a Licensed Professional! � Self-Help Courses: https://theartofrelationships.org/courses www.theartofrelationships.org Greg's book–Love SOS: Embrace Your Passion & Intimacy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47R2L2WGreg always shines a light on the intriguing aspects of modern love, dating, chemistry, sexuality, marriage and relationships!Join this live Q&A to explore these fascinating topics and get practical advice.Subscribe for more insights, and let's navigate the unpredictable path of love together. Please Visit my Website for more information: https://www.theartofrelationships.org/ Greg Dudzinski, MS, LPC, and The Art of Relationships Show is about helping you have the “relationship you've always desired!” He offers a down-to-earth approach to obtaining real results.Greg's passion is healing broken hearts, repairing relationships, rebuilding trust, plus increasing your intimate connection. He has appeared on TV, Radio, and in numerous Magazines,  plus is an author. Weekly videos on love, marriage, intimacy, and much more! Let's find your spark! � Transform your relationships with expert guidance! Subscribe for insights into deeper connections and rediscovering passion: https://tinyurl.com/pvv3smde � Stay Connected With Me. @LoveGuruGreg* Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use

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Fluent Fiction - Spanish: Lost in the Crowd: A Barcelona Misadventure Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/lost-in-the-crowd-a-barcelona-misadventure Story Transcript:Es: A pleno sol, el bullicioso meridiano de Barcelona se pone en movimiento; las calles se convierten en ríos incesantes de gente.En: On a sunny day, the bustling midday of Barcelona comes to life; the streets turn into incessant rivers of people.Es: En el corazón del Mercado de la Boqueria, Pablo y Carmen pasean a través del mercado lleno de aromas agridulces de especias, frutas exóticas y pescado fresco.En: In the heart of the Boqueria Market, Pablo and Carmen stroll through the market full of bittersweet aromas of spices, exotic fruits, and fresh fish.Es: Sin embargo, al girar una esquina, las multitudes tragan a Carmen, dejando a Pablo solo y desconcertado.En: However, as they turn a corner, the crowds swallow Carmen, leaving Pablo alone and bewildered.Es: "Oh, Carmen, ¿dónde estás?"En: "Oh, Carmen, where are you?"Es: se preguntó Pablo, buscando en el mar de gente alrededor de él.En: Pablo wondered, looking through the sea of people around him.Es: Pero Carmen no estaba a la vista.En: But Carmen was nowhere to be seen.Es: Pablo se volvió inquieto, su corazón empezó a latir más rápido.En: Pablo became restless, his heart started beating faster.Es: "¡Carmen!"En: "Carmen!"Es: llamó una vez más, pero su llamada se perdió en el zumbido del mercado.En: he called once again, but his call got lost in the buzz of the market.Es: Avanzó, ojeando desesperadamente entre miles de caras desconocidas.En: He moved forward, desperately scanning through thousands of unfamiliar faces.Es: De repente, vio un destello de un vestido floral a lo lejos.En: Suddenly, he saw a glimpse of a floral dress in the distance.Es: ¡Eso fue!En: That was it!Es: ¡Era el vestido de Carmen!En: It was Carmen's dress!Es: "¡Carmen!"En: "Carmen!"Es: gritó Pablo, corriendo hacia el vestido floral.En: Pablo shouted, running towards the floral dress.Es: Sin dudarlo ni un instante, le agarró la mano con un suspiro de alivio, pero para su sorpresa, la mujer se volvió, y no era Carmen.En: Without hesitation, he grabbed the hand, sighing in relief, but to his surprise, the woman turned around, and it wasn't Carmen.Es: Era un extraño con una cara perpleja rodeada por una nuve de risa de los transeúntes.En: It was a stranger with a perplexed face surrounded by laughter from onlookers.Es: Pablo se puso rojo de la vergüenza.En: Pablo turned red with embarrassment.Es: "Lo siento, por un momento pensé que eras..." Tartamudeó Pablo.En: "I'm sorry, for a moment I thought you were..." Pablo stammered.Es: Mientras presenciaban el falso reconocimiento y la escena cómica que se creó, las personas no pudieron contener sus carcajadas.En: As they witnessed the mistaken identity and the comical scene that ensued, people couldn't contain their laughter.Es: Hasta un puestero de naranjas sonreía entre dientes.En: Even an orange vendor smiled to himself.Es: Añadiendo más color a su rostro, Pablo se disculpó de nuevo y rápidamente se perdió en la multitud, dejando una estela de risas a su paso.En: Adding more color to his face, Pablo apologized again and quickly disappeared into the crowd, leaving a trail of laughter behind him.Es: Horas más tarde, cuando por fin la confusión se disipó, Pablo vió a Carmen - la verdadera Carmen - esperándolo junto a una fuente en la Plaza de Cataluña.En: Hours later, when the confusion finally subsided, Pablo saw Carmen - the real Carmen - waiting for him next to a fountain in Plaza de Cataluña.Es: Se rió al verlo, agitando su mano.En: She laughed at the sight of him, waving her hand.Es: Corrió hacia ella, esta vez seguro de que era su Carmen.En: He ran towards her, this time sure that it was his Carmen.Es: Y en el contraste del cálido sol de Barcelona y el frío mármol de la fuente, Pablo contó la histérica búsqueda y lo mucho que había extrañado a Carmen.En: And in the contrast of Barcelona's warm sun and the cold marble of the fountain, Pablo recounted the hysterical search and how much he had missed Carmen.Es: Mientras en medio de la risa Carmen decía, "Estoy aquí, Pablo.En: Amidst the laughter, Carmen said, "I'm here, Pablo.Es: No me perderás más," y así, en la ciudad de Barcelona, repleta de miles de personas, Pablo se dio cuenta de que la única persona que realmente importaba era Carmen.En: You won't lose me anymore," and so, in the city of Barcelona, filled with thousands of people, Pablo realized that the only person who truly mattered was Carmen.Es: En sus labios ardía una promesa de no volver a perderla entre la multitud, un final hermoso para un día absurdo en la vida de Pablo y Carmen, cuyo eco aún resuena por los callejones del Mercado de la Boqueria.En: On his lips burned a promise to never lose her in the crowd again, a beautiful ending to an absurd day in the lives of Pablo and Carmen, whose echo still resonates through the alleys of the Boqueria Market. Vocabulary Words:On a sunny day: El meridiano bulliciosoIn the heart of the Boqueria Market: En el corazón del Mercado de la BoqueriaHowever: Sin embargoas they turn a corner: al girar una esquinathe crowds swallow Carmen: las multitudes tragan a CarmenPablo wondered: se preguntó PabloPablo became restless: Pablo se volvió inquietoCarmen! he called once again: "¡Carmen!" llamó una vez másHe moved forward: AvanzóSuddenly: De repenteWithout hesitation: Sin dudarlo ni un instantehe grabbed the hand: le agarró la manosighing in relief: con un suspiro de aliviobut to his surprise: pero para su sorpresathe woman turned around: la mujer se volvióthat ensued: que se creóAdding more color to his face: Añadiendo más color a su rostroand quickly disappeared into the crowd: y rápidamente se perdió en la multitudHours later: Horas más tardewhen the confusion finally subsided: cuando por fin la confusión se disipóShe laughed at the sight of him: Se rió al verloAmidst the laughter: En medio de la risaCarmen said: Carmen decíaYou won't lose me anymore: No me perderás másand so, and asíto never lose her in the crowd again, de no volver a perderla entre la multitudto an absurd day in the lives of Pablo and Carmen, para un día absurdo en la vida de Pablo y Carmen

Trigger Warning: We're talking about sibling sexual abuse in this episode. The links for sexual abuse hotlines are below. I've had so many guest interviews on SelfWork – really wonderful researchers and authors, therapists and thinkers. But there's something very special about someone coming forth to share their message when they've learned something the hard way – and they want to help others either through what they went through or to avoid it in the first place. Jane Epstein is this kind of person. She tells her story in this episode about how her life was dramatically impacted by her brother sexually abusing her. It took her years to put the pieces of the puzzle together, making connections between past and present that were difficult and painful to make – but also were freeing. Many of you who are listening may have experienced something similar – and have tried, as Jane did for many years – to sweep it under the rug. A stepsister or stepbrother, an older sibling – and you've blamed yourself. Or felt a shameful heaviness. Please know, you are far, far from alone. Advertiser's Links: We welcome back BiOptimizers and Magnesium Breakthrough as a returning sponsor to SelfWork and they have a new offer! Just click here! Make sure you use the code “selfwork10” to check out free product! Vital Links: Jane Epsteins TEDxBocaRaton Talk: Great sexual abuse website for sibling abuse: The 501-3-C non-profit 5WAVES.org - Jane's (and others) website for support International Sexual Abuse Hotline thru RAINN I want to thank Jane and all other survivors of abuse who've come forward. It takes tremendous courage. You can hear more about this and many other topics by listening to my podcast, The Selfwork Podcast.  Subscribe to my website and receive my weekly newsletter including a blog post and podcast! If you'd like to join my FaceBook closed group, then click here and answer the membership questions! Welcome! My book entitled Perfectly Hidden Depression is available here! Its message is specifically for those with a struggle with strong perfectionism which acts to mask underlying emotional pain. But the many self-help techniques described can be used by everyone who chooses to begin to address emotions long hidden away that are clouding and sabotaging your current life. And it's available in paperback, eBook or as an audiobook! And there's another way to send me a message! You can record by clicking below and ask your question or make a comment. You'll have 90 seconds to do so and that time goes quickly. By recording, you're giving SelfWork (and me) permission to use your voice on the podcast. I'll look forward to hearing from you! Episode Transcript: Speaker 1: Dr. Margaret This is SelfWork. And I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At SelfWork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. I'm Dr. Margaret and SelfWork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own selfwork. Welcome or welcome back to SelfWork. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, and we have a wonderful guest for you today. I wanna make sure you hear however, that this episode does discuss sexual abuse, sibling sexual abuse. So please heed a trigger warning and we'll have sexual abuse hotline suggestions in the show notes. You know, I've had so many guest interviews here on Selfwork, really wonderful researchers and authors, therapists and thinkers. But there's something very special about someone coming forth to share their message when they've learned something the hard way, and they want to help others, either through what they went through or to avoid the experience in the first place. Jane Epstein is this kind of person. She tells her story in this episode about how her life was dramatically impacted by her brother sexually abusing her for a six year period of time. It took her years to put the pieces of the puzzle together, making connections between past and present that were difficult and painful to make, but also were very freeing. And I want to quickly say, many of you who are listening may have experienced something similar and have tried, as Jane did for many years, to sweep the memories under the rug. Maybe it was a stepsister or stepbrother, an older sibling, and you've blamed yourself or felt a shameful heaviness. So that's what we're talking about today on SelfWork. But before we continue, let's hear a brief message from Magnesium Breakthrough. You wanna give their product a try if you have too many sleepless nights, maybe from your own troubling memories. Magnesium Breakthrough Ad: I hope you truly enjoyed some time with family and friends this summer and got to take a break from the daily grind and enjoy your life. Perhaps you've indulged a bit on ice cream to beat the heat, or a margarita or two. 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Speaker 1: Dr. Margaret I should tell you before we begin, how I met Jane Epstein. She actually did a TEDx talk for Boca Ratone and I watched it and we had the same coach. That's sort of a neat bond for us to share, but we talk about our TEDx experience a little bit here too. So please listen to this episode. Please click the link to Jane's TEDx talk, which will be in the show notes, or go to my website, drmargaretrutherford.com, and you can find it there. Another website that Jane has told me about, which is really wonderful is www.siblingsexualtrauma.com. But just know you are far, far from alone. Speaker 1: Dr. Margaret I couldn't be happier to have you on SelfWork Jane, because I have listened to your TEDx many, many times. And we shared a coach, which was kind of fun. And so I, I looked at yours as to say, well, what would it be like to to work with Brian Miller? But I personally today wanna hear more about your story. About one of my questions as I looked at it is, how did you talk to your family about it? Or, or did you say, "No, it's my story to tell."  Just what and what made you, what brought you to TEDx in the first place? Speaker 2: Jane Epstein First of all, thank you for having me on your show. Of course, I, I have listened to a couple of your podcasts and I, I've listened to you and I've listened to your TEDx and you are very trauma informed, and you are very kind and compassionate and lots of wisdom. So I appreciate being on your puck. Thank you. First thing, what brought me to TEDx and how did I tell my family? Me, I don't remember the exact timeline, but I started Googling sibling sexual abuse and trauma, and I couldn't find anything on it. And I, I had this feeling that I wasn't the only one. I thought, I can't be the only person. 'cause I found two outdated articles that stated that it's a silent epidemic, right? I was, okay, well, if it's an epidemic, I'm clearly not the only six year old little girl. My my sibling who was 12 at the time, is not the only 12 year old child who, who an abused a sibling. So I just was called to start talking about it, and I reached out to my sibling. It was very awkward. And I expressed to him, I said, "I feel called to start talking about this and sharing my story because no one's talking about it. And it's a silent epidemic." And he said he understood and that he would support me in whatever way he can. Speaker 1: I get chill bumps when I hear that. Speaker 2: Yes. He, I'm, I have a very unique situation. I've been able to forgive him. I can call him and ask him questions. I'll say, I had this memory, is this true? And he's very careful to not give me more information. Mm-hmm. , because he knows I have enough to work with. I don't need any more triggers. I don't need any more memories. Mm-hmm. . And I also think that because of what happened between us, that he's hypervigilant and that he's got his eyes on other families, and that he sees that there could potentially be problems and sexual abuse occurring. And because sibling sexual abuse is so prevalent and not talked about, I think we are seeing things and not always able to put our finger on it. In Speaker 1: Your talk, you quote in your talk, you quote statistics like it's three to five times - It happens three to five times more than father daughter abuse, which is incredible. It starts earlier. It lasts for years often. So you're right. And it, it is something I, I remember I wrote a post on sex, uh, sibling sexual abuse. I got all kinds of comments. So yes, you're exactly right. Speaker 2: Yes. I listened to your podcast on the sibling sexual abuse, and it was very well done. Thank you. You're, you're very informed, . Thank you. So I started talking to my brother and I said, I need, we need to talk about this. We need to, we need to do this. Um, or I need to do this. And I had these great grand visions because there's so much work that needs to be done. Well, it's a marathon on its front . So I started pitching the media, it, my emails were either not opened or not responded to. One response was, "Well, we haven't ever talked about that, but if we do, we'll reach out". And I'm thinking, you're not gonna talk about it. So I come across a video with Brian Kenneth Miller, our joint TEDx coach. And he had gone through, what is a TEDx? What is a TEDx? Speaker 2: What is not a TEDx? Because I thought, "Well, I'll go on TEDx and I'll share my story and I'll raise the alarm bell." Well, TEDx is not sharing your story, but I thought, well, I'll book a call with him anyways. So I booked a call with him and he said, "A tough topic, but I think we could come up with something." So we started talking about it, and it is, it's a tough topic, it's a dark topic. And Brian was never told me this, but he was concerned, how am I gonna get on the TEDx stage? Mm-hmm. . So we started going down the path of how to support someone who's been through a traumatic event. And I was gonna slide sibling sexual abuse and trauma through the back door. Okay. Which would not have been a great talk because there's lots of how to support people who've gone through trauma. It would not have been Speaker 1: Not unique, Speaker 2: Impactful, not unique, not impactful. It might have gotten on stage, but not likely. So then I heard from TEDx Boca Raton, and I sat down with Eric and Eric said, look, you know, we like your idea, but we really wanna know more about the sibling sexual abuse and trauma. Can you talk just about that? And I said, yes, I can. And I pointed to all my research books and I started spouting off all these statistics. And he said, "Great, that's what we want you to talk about". And I said, excellent. And that's how it all started. And I didn't mean to be on the TEDx, it's just that's kind of where I landed. And I, you know, once I was approved and started practicing my TEDx talk, I started having all the anxieties of speaking in front of a large crowd, but practiced and practiced and practiced. And the day I got on that stage, I just, they basically, there's something magical about that red dot. Maybe it's true. I got on that red dot and all was okay. But I was shaking.. Speaker 1: Oh, I was perfectly calm. . Speaker 2: It's amazing what you can make, even though the camera, you know, the camera shows all, oh, it was done. Well, you did aYou did a really wonderful job. Speaker 1: And, and one of the things that I thought was so powerful about it, again, you've already mentioned it, was that your, your brother had, he had apologized, but then he had, you had written to him years later and he said, "Oh gosh, I didn't know this was still a thing for you." So I'm sure this solidified for him, again, the seriousness of the trauma, the impact that that had had on you, uh, and that it had, it had, uh, impacted your choices as an adult. And when you left home and it was, it was a elegant story. Well, it's, call it elegant is missing the point of that. It was very painfully uh, impactful. So, um, yeah, I mean, you made, you made some career choices that were obviously you trying to get back in control, but it didn't work. Speaker 2: Right. Right. And I'm not sure he understands the full impact. We've never sat down and, and talked about it. It's, it's like, it's a, it's a strained relationship. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 2: Um, but it, it's friendly enough in that I can reach out to him. I haven't reached out to him for a while, but I would can reach out to him and say, "I had this memory, is this a false memory? Is this true? Is this what happened?" And he is very careful the way he answers it, because he does, doesn't wanna trigger me and give me more memories. 'cause I have plenty to work with. Sure. He understands why I'm so public. He's not exactly thrilled about it. But, you know, I was in the People magazine and I had to run that by him. And, and the pictures, I ran the pictures by him. And that, it's hard. Uh, it's hard because it's putting him in a, in a, in a tough situation. But in my situation, in my story, my sibling is not a monster. My sibling is not a pedophile. My sibling caused a lot of harm, caused a lot of damage, caused a lot of trauma. And I, I have forgiven him. Um, and I'm not telling every survivor, you have to forgive to heal. That is not my, that's not my thing. It's just that's what worked for me. And it started by forgiving the little girl first, my little girl myself. And then I was able to forgive him. Speaker 1: Well, an aspect of this that I wanted to talk to you about a little bit more was you opened the talk by saying that you were in marital work with your husband, and your therapist turned to you and said, "I, I just don't get where all this anger is coming from. It doesn't seem to fit the situation." And, and then ask the very astute question of, "Is there something that might be, is triggered by what's going on with your husband? And that's what's, that's what we're seeing". And you, did you, did you connect the dots right then? Or did it take you a while? It took a while. It was your sexual abuse that was getting somehow, maybe you can talk about that a little bit. What was getting triggered with your husband? Speaker 2: Right. Many years before, before we were in counseling, something happened in the bedroom that, that triggered a memory. And that memory would not go away. Usually memories would come and go and I could put them away. And I thought it was just two kids being curious. That's not my problem. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 2: I thought because I'd lost, I lost my first husband to cancer and I got remarried to my, my husband. Now I try not to use current husband 'cause he doesn't like to be the current husband. . Speaker 1: Well, my husband calls Speaker 2: Himself Speaker 1: ) . We've been married 33 years, and he calls himself my current husband. So , Speaker 2: He's a good sport then. Yeah. . Yeah. So I had thought, I knew we had two small children. He had a stressful job. I had, I was still dealing with grief. And I thought, that's why I'm angry. That's why I am upset. That's why I was not depressed in my brain. I was not depressed because no, I had survived burying my first husband, and I survived that. So there's no way I could be depressed. Speaker 1: I have a, I have a book for you to read, . I know Speaker 2: You do. I am in that category. So we eventually went to marriage counseling and I went into the marriage counseling thinking, okay, he's gonna fix my husband, gonna fix him. Well, I had work to do too, fix too, when it comes to that. So we were in counseling for five years and we really had made a lot of progress. But I was still very, very angry. And I had asked myself, I had dug down and I thought, maybe it's something inside of me. I've tried to turn over every stone that maybe there's something inside of me that needs work. Mm-hmm. . So when the marriage counselor asked that question, I thought, well, there is this. My brother sexually abused me. There's that. And I approached it as, it can't be that because I participated. Right. So who am I to be messed up over that? Speaker 2: And the counselor, I kind of describe it as the deer in the headlights look. He's kinda like trying to sit still and kind of leaning in and trying to be very calm, realizing, okay, this is a big deal. No, what happened is a big deal. Right. And that it went on and off for six years. And that No, that was a big deal. And he said, "You're gonna need to tell Steve". And I said, huh. Steve's my husband. Mm-hmm. Current husband mm-hmm. . I said, oh, no, because then he'll be able to blame all our marriage problems on me. And he said, you need to be able to tell him to protect yourself in order and to, to be able to heal. So that's how that all started. And then I started a whole new healing process. Speaker 1: It's amazing. I've told a story on, on SelfWork about a woman. Um, and I already put a cautionary warning before we started. So great. Uh, a woman came in to see me who, um, it was the local community center. I literally had just gotten to Arkansas where I live now. And, and she said, you know, she told me about sexually abu abuse that her father had, um, had done to her. And then she, and there was this huge sense of relief. And then she came in the next week and she said, I've got something worse to tell you. So I sat back and said, all right. And she said, my dad made me do things to my brother . And she, she was a tough cowboy kind of woman. She had boots and, you know, she was farm girl. I mean, she was tough as nails. Speaker 1: And she teared up and, and we talked about it. And then she, she canceled her next appointment. And I called her and said, I'm, you've, you've shared so much with me, I'm a little concerned that you're not coming back in. Yeah. She said, well, okay, I'll come back in one more time. And she looked at me, Jane, and she said, I thought I would, I knew the look that would be on your face when I told you that I had done something to my brother. Because from her perspective, she had participated rather than being coerced herself. You know, it was, it was her doing something to her brother. And I said, you know, so, and she said, but the look on your face was not condemnation. It was, well, of course you did what your dad told you to do. Right. Um, and then there are other instances I I, uh, I mentioned before when we were just talking about a, a little girl who wore a red nightgown for her brother. Um, because she, she said, I enjoyed the attention. I knew something was wrong, but I, I didn't get any attention from anybody except from him. And so it was very complex and very complicated. But that whole idea of participation is so, um, is, is so confounding for any victim of sexual abuse, but especially with sibling sexual abuse, I think. Speaker 2: Yeah. And I, I wanna share with you that I've actually had some people who, when I, when I speak about the child who caused harm, there are situations where the child causes a lot more than harm. And I try and, and, and lower it a little bit so that parents hear me. Mm-hmm. , because if I scream your child, the pedophile or your child, the monster, your child, the perpetrator, they're not going to hear me. Right. 'cause if I talk about it in a more gentle as your child who caused harm, they're more likely to hear me. So that's why I approach it that way. But I understand that there are survivors out there where it was a lot more than harm. Yes, I understand that. Yes. But I have heard from people who have caused harm and they are suicidal. You're right. And so that's why we talk about this, because we don't want our children to be on any side of it. Speaker 2: Or I feel like if we raise awareness, if we educate our children, maybe we can lessen the numbers. You know, if we talk to our teenagers when they're 10, 12 and explore with them, say, Hey, you're experiencing a lot of changes. You've got a lot of questions. And I understand you may not be able to come to me as your parent, but you are at risk of harming another child, either a younger sibling or a cousin. And so we need to talk about this. What do you know when you have these feelings? And, and we need to talk about pornography. So that's why I I I am, it's an all encompassing, it's a whole family trauma. And, and I work very closely with the women of Five Wave, I dunno if you know anything about the Five Ways, but there's three parents and two survivors. Speaker 2: We've come together. And so the parents have shared their stories when they discover sibling sexual abuse and trauma in their homes and what the parents go through. Yes. What the survivor goes through, what the person who cause harm goes through. If we just talk about it and raise awareness and, and educate people and quit shoving it under the rug, maybe we can lift the numbers. Maybe we can get people help. Because you are a very, you're an informed therapist. You, you are very informed. A lot of therapists I've heard from survivors, they'll, they'll tell a survivor, well, you know, kids are curious. You are very informed. We need more of you . We really do. Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. Are there statistics? 'cause I'm not aware of them. If there are, and I'd love to know, um, about how many of the siblings be they girls or boys, we might point out it's not necessarily, um, and of course, or, or any gender identification. Um, absolutely. And how, what are the statistics on whether they have been abused themselves and then turn around and abused? Speaker 2: Unfortunately, we don't really have those statistics. We need more research. And the women of five Waves, we've actually had people, researchers are reaching out to us, asking us to share their surveys. So there is progress. Again, it's the marathon, not the sprint. So we are trying to gain more, more insight into that. And that's another thing is that I, I hear from survivors a lot. They reach out to me and they say, well, you know, my sibling did this to me, or my cousin did this to me, and then I did it to another child. And that there's shame on top of shame. Yes, indeed. And that happens a lot. Happens a lot. Mm-hmm. . But we don't have those statistics. Again, we need more research and we need more awareness and we need to be talking about it. And that, that's why I'm very loud. Speaker 1: What, what is the name of the organization that you Women of five. Speaker 2: (20:58) Okay. So it's called Five Waves Worldwide Awareness Speaker 1: (21:02) Wave. W A V E Ss. Correct. Speaker 2: (21:04) Worldwide Awareness, Voice, Education and Support. Okay. The way we came together, I've just been out there being very loud. And I am a moderator of a Facebook group for all types of survivors. And we kept having parents keep trying to join. And we're like, well, this is for survivors. So I went to find a parent support group, and through that I found a parent who had started a Facebook group for parents experiencing sibling sexual abuse and trauma in their homes. In their homes. So I reached out to her and I tried to join her group and she politely declined . And then I had a person reach out to me, Brandy Black, which is a pen name, to protect her family. Mm-hmm. . She said, look, it's been during Covid this happened in my home. I couldn't find any research, I couldn't find any resources on it. So I developed a website. Will you look at it? I promised my children to have a survivor look at it. And I said, whoa, this is amazing. Great. That's something I don't have to do. Was on my list. And I started looking at her website, Brandy Black. Speaker 1: (22:03) Oh, black. Okay. Speaker 2: (22:04) Black. I said, I can't get through this. I'm writing my TEDx. So I pulled in another survivor that I knew who was public, Maria Awa. And then I reached out to the woman who ran the Facebook group. And we all came together as 5WAVES. Oh, see. And the parents shared their stories. We shared their stories. So what we have through this organization, it's now 5 0 1 C three, is we are becoming thought leaders in this arena, or it's all out of a matter of, of, of caring. But we all have unique perspectives and we just wanna raise awareness. We want families to have support. We want families to have resources. We, you know, obviously one day we'd love to have this go away, but we aren't, you know, we aren't that optimistic. It, it's been going on forever. Speaker 1: Two cases come to mind that are the opposite. Um, both of them were difficult. One case, um, a case, one woman's story, um, was, uh, I was seeing the mother actually in therapy, and her daughter told her that her brother had sexually abused her. Um, the mother went to another state and confronted the, the brother. And he said, yes, he had, it took them probably it would took them years. I'm not sure how many, because the mother had to do her own work. The, the daughter, um, started working on herself. Um, 'cause she was definitely making choices that were very, um, tied to that, uh, that kind of abuse. So was the perpetrator the, or you go the person who did harm? He got his therapy finally. They got together and did therapy. But it was a long time before this family got together for Thanksgiving or, you know, anything like that, because the, the, the pain was just too real. Speaker 1: And, and yet I, they gradually worked toward that. It was marvelous to see the kind of healing that could actually take place when everybody was, and the mother, you know, had to take some responsibility for saying was I checked out. I mean, you know, maybe I was, maybe I wasn't. Um, and so they did great work. You know, I also have an example of a patient who I was seeing the daughter who was abused. The sister who was abused, uh, when she was a toddler, she had a twin. And she didn't remember it until the twin did. And then they confronted the family together. Actually, before she saw me. The family kind of nodded. It was an older brother. The older brother said, it wasn't me. I think it was a neighbor. Um, that wasn't true. And not a word was said about it again. Speaker 2: Yeah. It's very common. Speaker 1: And she was, she had the kind of family where they expected her to be there at every birthday, at every anniversary, at every holiday, at every religious event. I mean, and it was every time she was, she had anorexia still does. She would just not eat for days, um, after a home visit. So it, you know, those two situations are so contrasting and, and, and one of there can, there can be healing. Yes. It's hard, but there can be healing. Speaker 2: Yeah. And I, I think that the second scenario that you talked about, if you're a parent, I mean, parents experience a lot too when they discover this mm-hmm. . And if they go to Google and they can't find anything, if they aren't understanding, they may think, well, my, my child's the only person in the world who's harmed a sibling, or is my child gonna grow up to be a pedophile? And it's probably terrifying and probably easier to say, okay, let's just pretend status quo, and let's just, let's just go forward. Let's just shove it under the rug. That's what we're hoping to raise awareness. So if the parent, they, they got, I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if like, the Today Show covered this? Speaker 1: Sure. Wouldn't Speaker 2: It be, you know, sibling sexual abuse? Then a mom might think, oh, that's ho that's horrible. I can't believe that's happening. But then if, if she hears about it in her home or friend, she'll say, oh, but I heard this was a thing. You know, it's, it's at least in their subconscious, because if we don't get it out there, it's really hard for a parent to wrap their heads around. Of course. I mean, I can't imagine. I am a parent and I try to educate my children to the point where they run away from me. , . But, um, I, I can't, it's really hard for parents to wrap their head around. And that's, we're just trying to raise that awareness. But I hear from a lot of survivors that they're expected to just go on is normal, and, and you're asking a survivor to, to sit in the room with someone who abused them and possibly in the same home where they were abused. And that's very triggering. That's very difficult. Speaker 1: Yes, it is. And, and it doesn't get any easier. Another woman comes to mind who said, you know, that she sits by her brother every day or every Sunday at church, and she's always crying and people believe she's crying because she's moved by the service. And actually she's just, she's overwhelmed with feelings about the abuse that he has denied and continues to deny. So it's, it's, gosh, it's so painful. But there, there can be healing. Um, what, what did your mother, how did your mother handle it? Speaker 2: Well, I told her, I wanna say I was around age 24 when I was still pushing it off. It was just two kids. It just, it ha it happened. Uh, um, and I kind of said it in passing, and she cried. She said, I believe you, but where was I? Where was I? And then she started questioning. She said, but he's a good kid. He, he always knew right from wrong. There was a lot of confusion. And then I pushed it back. I put it back in its box, and we didn't talk about it for years. And then when it reared its ugly head in my current marriage mm-hmm. , um, she didn't understand. I said, I need to come forward. I need, I need to talk about this. I need to come forward. And she, she said, you need to forgive him. You need to forgive him. Speaker 2: And I said, I don't need to do anything. I will forgive him when I'm ready on my own terms. And she gave me the books on forgiveness, and I rolled my eyes. You can't, you can't force that. And she said, what about his family? And I screamed at her. I said, his family. Yeah, yeah. Because unfortunately, I took him, I was angry at him. I was angry at my husband. I was angry at my, my siblings wife. I was angry at my siblings children, and I pushed them all aside mm-hmm. . And they didn't understand why I was pushing them away. They didn't know mm-hmm. . So I did come to terms with it, and I did forgive my brother on my terms when I was ready. And then I reached out to my mom and I said, I forgave him. And there was relief in her voice mm-hmm. Speaker 2: . And then she realized, oh, now I've got my own journey of forgiveness. And she had to follow her own journey. And she was at the TEDx, she was in the audience. She didn't know what I was going to say. And, but by the time she was at the TEDx, I think she was in a good place. Um, she loves both of her children. It's, it's a very tough position to be in. And there were times when I said, I don't wanna be in the same room with him. And that was really hard for her. Mm-hmm. . So she seems to be on her own journey, and I think she's into the point where she's been able to accept it and, and sees why I'm being so public and understands why I am so public. Speaker 1: So what's been the changes in your life? I mentioned in the intro that you have over half a million views. What, how has your life changed since the TEDx and, and what are your plans for the future as this, as you, as you run this marathon? Speaker 2: Yes. It, it, I'm still running the marathon. Expect I, the finish line keeps moving. I, I actually heard from another survivor yesterday via email because it came across the TEDx. And so people are finding me through the TEDx and, and when they find me through the TEDx, I'm able to get them into Facebook support groups. I'm able to get them resources. So I know that they're in a community of people that's been, you know, I think when we can help others that help heal us mm-hmm. , um, I am, I'm still writing my memoir. It's so, so close. I have a children's book that I've, I've submitted. I'm waiting to hear back if they will publish it or not. That's what's on my radar right now. I am slowing down a little bit. I try and be supportive within the Facebook groups. I, I'm trying to, um, answer all my social media messages because I get a lot of social media messages. A lot of people on TikTok, unfortunately, a lot of my people are on TikTok. They're a younger age. Speaker 2: I'm slowing down a little bit. One, I'm tired. Two, I have two teenage boys who are in 10th grade, and they will be leaving me in three years. So I'm trying to be very, very present with them and enjoy them. Sure. And I just kind of show up wherever I'm needed and trying to, to support Five waves and, and keep that momentum going and, and just raising more awareness through five. Nobody's selling anything. We're not trying to, you know, obviously we're looking for donations, but, you know, we're not selling anything. We're not making any money. We're just trying to raise awareness and, and collaborate. We're having more and more people reach out wanting to volunteer with us, which is great. 'cause we're five people mm-hmm. . And yeah. I'm just looking forward to a day when there's more survivors who feel comfortable coming forward. And, and honestly, I I welcome hearing from those who caused harm too. Um, I feel we've received a couple emails. If, Speaker 1: If someone wanted to donate or volunteer or just, I mean, can you give the names of the Facebook groups or do they reach out to you? How, how is that, how do you want them to do that? Right. Speaker 2: (32:14) The 5WAVES.org website. Okay. You can email us there. You can contact us if you're, if you're, if you're a parent, if you're a survivor, if you're someone who's caused harm, you can email us there. And then also on that website, we have Facebook groups and, and we, we try and respond to every email that we can. Yeah. So that's where I'm headed right now. I kind of show up where I am needed . Speaker 1: And so I'm a great admirer of yours. And I, because I think you did this TEDx for a really good reason. Um, and I mean, and, and a very honorable reason. And so, uh, that I, I admire greatly. Speaker 2: Well, thank you. And I admire you as much. I I think that we, I I was looking forward to this interview and I told my husband this morning, I said, this'll be a great interview because she, she's informed and she knows what she's talking about. She's done the research, she's done the homework. So I really appreciate it. Speaker 1: Oh, well, thank you. Take very good care. Thank you. Speaker 1: I know you could tell from Jane's interview just how sincere and how passionate she is about getting this message out. And we at SelfWork wanted to help her do just that. The organization Jane refers to in the interview is the worldwide awareness, voice, education, and support. Better known as 5WAVES.org. And the five is not spelled out, is a numeral. So 5WAVES.org give if you can. It's a 5 0 1 3 C. So it's a nonprofit. And I wanna thank Jane and all other survivors of abuse who come forward. It takes tremendous courage to do so. Thank you for being here at SelfWork today. Please take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your community. I'm Dr. Margaret, and this has been SelfWork.

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Tonight Dr Robert Yoho joins Bryce Eddy once again. He talks about how all of the vaccines on the childhood schedule have faulty studies, the COVID clot shot is a depopulation weapon and causing a rapid decline in live birth rates around the world as well as the fact that CO2 is a greening element for the earth and global warming is a complete fraud in and of itself.To get a FREE info kit on diversifying and protecting your savings with precious metals in a TAX-SHELTERED account text LIBERTY to 989898.BE A THREAT TO THE GREAT RESET!Join our community by Subscribing to us on:Liftable TV - https://watch.liftable.tv/series/XOi2uRcOSGlo-liberty-stationRumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-1611564YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiXnArqAIXmVLZSSwEyd1HQPodcast - https://omny.fm/shows/liberty-stationCheck out our previous episodes with Dr. Yoho here - https://omny.fm/shows/liberty-station/dr-robert-yoho-butchered-by-healthcare-part-1-libehttps://omny.fm/shows/liberty-station/dr-robert-yoho-butchered-by-healthcare-part-2-libehttps://omny.fm/shows/liberty-station/big-pharma-corruption-liberty-station-episode-56https://omny.fm/shows/liberty-station/big-pharma-corruption-part-2-liberty-station-episoCheck out our latest episode with Dr. Judy Mikovits here - https://omny.fm/shows/liberty-station/dr-judy-mikovits-covid-shots-more-effective-than-aYou can find and purchase Dr. Yoho's books here - https://www.robertyohoauthor.com/

1Cor. 10:14  Therefore, my abeloved, flee from bidolatry. 1Cor. 10:15 I speak as to prudent people. You judge what I say. 1Cor. 10:16 Is not the acup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the 1bbread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? 1Cor. 10:17 Since there is one 1bread, we awho are many are one body, for we all partake of the one 2bread. 1Cor. 10:18 Look at 1the nation aIsrael. Are not those who beat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? 1Cor. 10:19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or athat an idol is anything? 1Cor. 10:20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they aSACRIFICE TO DEMONS AND NOT TO GOD. And I do not want you to become sharers in demons. 1Cor. 10:21 aYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and bthe table of demons. 1Cor. 10:22 Or do we aPROVOKE THE 1LORD TO JEALOUSY? Are we bstronger than He?

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Show Resources: LinkedIn Learning course about LinkedIn Ads by AJ Wilcox: LinkedIn Advertising Course Contact us at Podcast@B2Linked.com with ideas for what you'd like AJ to cover. Show Transcript: LinkedIn is the only way to reach your ideal target audience, and your event is less a week away. What do you do? This is high urgency strategies on LinkedIn Ads. 0:17 Welcome to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Here's your host, AJ Wilcox. 0:24 Hey there LinkedIn Ads fanatics. So LinkedIn Ads is a great ad network. When you're targeting just evergreen audiences on a consistent pace. You put interesting offers in front of the ideal audience, and then you wait for them to come to you. Every once in a while though, we run into situations where we need to spend budget quickly. Maybe you have a webinar in three days and signups are low. Maybe you have an in person event coming up soon, or an offer that's expiring. Whatever the reason, it can be really difficult to spend both quickly and efficiently on LinkedIn. So today, we're specifically going through the strategies for accelerated delivery. So you can hit your goals without wasting your hard earned budget. So in the news this week, LinkedIn did a poll of its members, and found some pretty interesting statistics. And I'm just gonna read these off, it was in a private deck or something that I can't link to. So you'll just have to listen really closely to get these these benefits out of it. So 43% of respondents are now working remotely. That seems small compared to maybe the knowledge workers that I know. But maybe the vast majority of these are not knowledge workers. 36% of respondents say they're actually more productive when working from home than when they were working in their office. Now, to me that feels low because I am very productive working at home. And I get so much less done when I could hear conversation around me in an office environment. 54% of senior leaders reported that their companies are implementing virtual events as a result of the outbreak. That even feel low to me. But hey, this is interesting. It's a poll 52% are doing more calls on phone or video that feels extremely low, especially when you look at Zoom's stock price. 26% of respondents report feeling no impact to their productivity at all. When you add those who report feeling no impacts their productivity, the 26% to the 36% of people who feel more productive, that makes 62%. So what that means is the 38% that are left are the people who feel like they're less productive working from home, which totally based off of your style, your preference, but that's pretty wild to understand as well. 45% say that this is somewhat or very likely going to become a more permanent shift. I've been thinking recently about those in commercial real estate and I'm thinking, wow, all these companies are figuring out how to get more and more of their people working from home, so they don't need larger spaces. And what are they going do with all of that space. So it will be interesting to see what that industry does. I won't be surprised if every company has some kind of a work from home policy. Okay, let's jump in and highlight a few reviews that you guys as listeners have left on the podcast pages. RyanRhoten says "Pure value. AJ is such a wealth of information on LinkedIn ads. This podcast is like using the Hogwarts pensive to glimpse into his brain and extract the exact information you need to grow your business through LinkedIn Ads. Thanks for sharing AJ, you are as generous as you are wise." Thanks so much, Ryan. So Ryan runs The BRAND New You Podcast and anyone who is into branding should definitely check that one out, The BRAND New You Podcast by Ryan Rhoten. Thanks so much for leaving such an awesome review. Okay, Cinthia M. P. calls it "Not your average marketing podcast. I just started listening to this podcast based on the recommendation from a friend and I'm incredibly impressed. Sometimes marketing podcasts can be pretty general with information that is somewhat actionable, or information you've heard 1,000 times already, but I found this podcast to be full of useful, very detailed and specific information. I had to stop the podcast a few times to take notes. I highly recommend listening. I'm excited to keep learning from the best in the world of LinkedIn advertising." Cinthia, I don't know if we've met before, but thank you so much. That means the world to me that you would say that. That's exactly how I create this podcast. I actually created in mind for my employees to help train them. And so it's really nice to hear someone saying that they're listening along, ready to take notes. So thanks, you're doing it right. The username Steve467774, totally machine generated, it says, "Informative and actionable. One of my favorite podcasts. AJ gets into the details of how to be successful with LinkedIn Ads, while keeping things easy to understand. And the best part, you can take immediate action on what you learn in nearly every episode. Keep it coming." Steve, I absolutely think that that's the case and I at least hope it is that every episode, you can take something away and go and make changes to your account right then to become more successful or more efficient. Everyone else listening, I want to feature you so go and leave a review on whatever podcast player you listen, and I'd love to feature you there. Okay, with that being said, let's hit it. 5:29 If you listened to Episode 14, that was all about low budget strategies, how to be as incredibly efficient as you can possibly be on the network. And I want you to understand, this is nearly exactly the opposite. This is all about how to get accelerated delivery. And we know that we're going to pay more for this accelerated delivery. But here all of the triggers, all of the levers, all of the knobs that you can pull in turn in order to get accelerated delivery. These are in no particular order, I really mixed them around because I didn't want this podcast to be totally lopsided where you only needed to listen to the first half. Because the last half, it got increasingly less relevant or less valuable. So we'll jump into one that I think is maybe a little bit obvious, but it's more valuable in this situation to target large audiences. Because remember, only a small percentage of visitors on LinkedIn will end up clicking on an ad. It's about 1% if you have really good ad copy, or if you're extremely lucky. So that means the larger the audience you have, the more opportunities you will have for impressions. And the more impressions you have, the more clicks that you'll get totally dependent on your click through rate. So you'll want to target these large audiences. Now consider either expanding your existing audience into new audiences, or maybe even try to reach your existing audience with new targeting. For instance, here If you are only targeting your audience with job title targeting, be aware that LinkedIn only understands about 30% of job titles out there. And so if you can go and reach that same audience through either job function and seniority, or skills and seniority, or groups and seniority, you now have access to significantly more people in your audience who should already still be a great fit for your product or service. And of course, it makes sense to target new audiences. If you know that, wow, only directors and above are a good fit for what we do, maybe consider adding managers in there as well. Considering that LinkedIn considers those who are managers as being people managers. So not just you have the job title of manager, they want to see that you have people underneath you that report to you. My next recommendation is called LAN, L-A-N, and it applies to sponsored content campaigns. And you'll see as you're going Down in the build process, the very first checkbox that you come across will say LinkedIn audience expansion. Don't worry, we'll get to that one in a minute. But the second checkbox will be LinkedIn Audience Network, which is like LinkedIn Display Network. If you've used the Google Display Network or Facebook's audience network. The difference here is that LinkedIn's LAN, their audience network is extremely high quality. Every one of these sites were handpicked by someone who was way way overpaid for doing this kind of job. But it's super important because so many advertisers on LinkedIn, super, super care about the sites that they're being associated with and how that reflects on their brand. LinkedIn hasn't announced before, which sites that LAAN actually has access to, and it's been really difficult. I've had conversations with those who are overland and so I know a few of these sites, but I've been under a nondisclosure agreement. So I couldn't share. So I was super excited when last week when LinkedIn made their announcement about engagement retargeting. They also mentioned an update to LAN. And they mentioned three places where these ads can show up. So Microsoft New, MSN.com, and the app Flipboard. Obviously, this is just a very small amount, I'm sure there are at least 1,000 of these sites who have all been hand picked to be high quality. What's so cool about being able to just enable LAN is one checkbox later, and you now have the opportunity to get maybe 25% more traffic from your same audience. You're not diluting the targeting, you're going after the same people you've been going after anyway. So lead quality is going to stay extremely high. The reason why you can capture 25% or maybe even more than that traffic is because LinkedIn is not really the site that people go and spend a whole lot of time on. So if LinkedIn understood who these people are when they're on other sites around the web, that is so good for us to be able to reach the exact audience in more places than just LinkedIn. And as a bonus here, when you turn on LAN, you will notice your overall cost per click goes down. And that's because your clicks on the audience network actually cost significantly less than they do on LinkedIn.com. So you'll get more traffic, it will cost less per, and your targeting stays the same. It's the same high quality, which is more than I can say for audience expansion. Still, we'll get to it. 10:37 So next we have your bidding strategy. Now first off, you need to understand the difference between your bid and your budget. Your bid is how aggressively you're telling LinkedIn I want traffic when people show up. Your budget, on the other hand, is a safety net that says once you've hit this, we remove you entirely from the auction from bidding. So first, what you want to do is get your budgets out of the way, because what you don't want to do is bid super aggressively on LinkedIn to get traffic, and then hit your budget halfway through the day, and then realize that man, I blew all of my budget on super expensive clicks. If I would have just bid less, I could have gotten clicks for cheaper and had it go all day long, maybe even gotten twice the traffic. If you've listened to me for long enough, you know that I'm not a fan of paying too much for clicks. So I always recommend bidding low. Under a high urgency circumstance, though you can't cheap out on your bids, you want to bid aggressively, giving you the maximum amount of impression share, which then turns into clicks at the rate of whatever your click through rate is. Now if you have time, I recommend first starting by bidding by cost per click, just because the risk is lower to you as an advertiser doing this because you're only going to pay whenever someone actually clicks to go to your landing page or clicks on your offer. And you can still bid aggressively on cost per click, but it's just that you're going to pay only for what you get. And I say if you have time, because a lot of times in high urgency circumstances, you don't really have time to go through and test different ad formats or test different bidding strategies. Because LinkedIn doesn't have hourly reporting, you have to go and really take a stab at something and hope that it's going to work as well as possible for you. So if you start bidding by cost per click, and you don't do well in the auction, you're not getting enough traffic. That's really unfortunate and you've lost some time. So that's a natural segue into the next one, which is all about CPM bidding. So as opposed to CPC or cost per click bidding when you're only paying because someone took action on your ads. The opposite end of the spectrum is CPM or cost per thousand impression bidding. And the way this works is it takes the risk and puts it all on you as an advertiser. Because if you have a bad ad that no one wants to click on, LinkedIn is gonna get paid no matter what, just for showing it. And you could get zero traffic to your website and still be paying and paying handsomely. The reason why it's attractive here, though, is CPM bidding, basically bypasses the whole auction. You don't need to worry too much about your relevancy score, how good your ads are, and LinkedIn size. Because since LinkedIn makes money every time they show your ad, it's low risk for them. So they don't really care to take that into account. They're just going to look and see what you're bidding and say, yeah, okay, we think that that would be more worthwhile to bank that cash rather than take a chance on serving against other advertisers who may only pay when their ads get clicked on. So this is riskier for you. But when you are bidding by CPM, LinkedIn will want to show your ad at every possible juncture. Every time that they get a chance they're going to show it, which is great for you if you're trying to get as many of these impressions in as possible in time for your event or the end of your budget. 14:10 Now, I've talked about CPM bidding. But it's really helpful to understand there's another option called auto bidding, that really is very much the same thing. All auto bidding is, is CPM bidding that you don't have to babysit as much. You don't choose a bid. It's kind of like handing LinkedIn, your wallet and saying here, take as much out as you think you need. But whatever objective you've told LinkedIn that you're trying to optimize towards, when you're doing auto bidding, it's going to optimize towards that paying CPM at the same time, CPM auto bidding, they are great if your ads are performing extremely high to the click through rate. 14:49 So this gives us a nice natural segue then into another lever you have which is just simply increasing your click through rate. I'll use sponsored content ads as an example here because they're really the standard. The average sponsored content ad gets clicked on about .4% of the time. So a little bit less than half a percent. What that means is there are a lot of people seeing your ads without actually clicking. So if you can increase your click through rates, even a small amount, it means you can get significantly more traffic. You don't need to make your audience bigger, you don't need to change your bidding at all. You can really just change your ad to something that people want to click on more often, and you can start enjoying getting significantly more traffic. On the other hand, when you're in a rush, launching new ad creatives is a significant risk. You'll have to launch and potentially see a four to eight to even 12 hour review period for your ads to go through review. And if you don't have something else running at that same time, that's scary because you're trying to accelerate delivery and at the same time your ads are offline for several hours. To mitigate this risk, I would consider going back through old successful, creative and trying to find something that used to work. And maybe it's even from different channels, maybe you're running the same kind of thing on Facebook, or Google and you can go and try to borrow whatever has been successful over there. And here's a neat little hack. If you're running sponsored content ads, there is going to be a frequency cap that is actually pretty stringent to you as an advertiser. The natural frequency cap, at least used to be members can see your ad once per day, per account. And the only way that we could actually get more delivery, we could show more often than that once per day once per 24 hours, was to put additional creatives in the same campaign. And thanks to a wonderful rep named Natalie Gubman, I recently got informed about how the frequency cap is working currently. And she says a member can see one unique creative from an advertiser determined at the company page level, so not account every 12 hours, they cannot see this one unique creative again, within that 12 hour period. However, a member can see five unique creatives from that advertiser, again determined at the company page level within the same 48 hour period. So what that means is, if you can put five unique creatives, five different ads into your campaign, you can essentially accelerate delivery to your most active LinkedIn users who are part of your audience. Now, you may not actually want to test five separate creative, maybe you're running an AB test, and you only want two different creative running. Well, what I would do LinkedIn doesn't know the difference between ads even if they look exactly the same. So if you're trying to run two ads against each other, just duplicate those two ads. LinkedIn thinks that these are two separate ads even though they say exactly the same thing. And then if you're trying to do this AB test where you're trying to split the traffic evenly, it'll be really easy to roll all of those results up and combine the metrics for the ads that were exactly the same. So you still get great split test data. And you got to take advantage of LinkedIn's increased frequency cap and getting the word out quicker. Okay, here's a quick sponsor break, and then we'll dive into the ad formats that we're going to use for accelerated delivery. 18:27 The LinkedIn Ads Show is proudly brought to you by B2Linked.com, the LinkedIn Ads experts. 18:35 If the performance of your LinkedIn Ads is important to you B2Linked is the agency you'll want to work with. We manage LinkedIn's largest accounts, and we're the only media buying agency to be official LinkedIn partners and performance to your goals is our only priority. Fill out the contact form on any page of B2Linked.com to get in touch and we'd love to help you absolutely demolish your goals. 18:59 All right, let's see jump into the other ad types that will help you accelerate your spend. So the first ad type you'll want to concentrate on here is sponsored messaging. Now this is because most of the ad formats on LinkedIn are what I consider inbound. They're essentially putting a message out there and waiting for someone to come around from your audience to log in, see something and then click on it when they're interested. But with sponsored messaging that includes both message ads that used to be called sponsored in mail, and conversation ads, these are what I consider push marketing. They push directly into a member's messaging box while they're online. And they're a little bit exclusive, because each member can only receive one of these every 45 days. So while sponsored content, it's sitting in their newsfeed and if you're lucky, maybe 1% of people will end up clicking on it. These end up getting about a 50% open rate, which is definitely a minimal kind of reaction, but it is a reaction nonetheless. If you're trying to get the word out as fast as possible, having someone see an offer and then click to open it is definitely more than just watching it scroll by in their newsfeed. So again, if you're trying to get the word out fast, this is really the only ad format where you can kind of force someone to see something. I really love sponsored content as well, I don't think you should ignore that. But the next thing I want you to consider doing is stacking your ad formats. And that means using all of the different ad formats, all concurrently, because if your goal is to get in front of these people, no matter where they are, each ad format depending on where someone is on LinkedIn, and what device they're using, it means using a different ad format is much more likely to still engage one of these users, even if they were on their way to do something or we're going to be like a ship in the night passing by. The more ad formats someone sees you in, the more likely they are to click one of them. We've seen this when we do quarterly business reviews with our larger clients and LinkedIn comes to present. One of the things that they'll give us is a report, like a contribution report, of those members who saw more than one ad format, what the difference in their click through rate was versus someone who hadn't seen another ad. And we routinely see this number between about 13% and 30%. So someone is 13% to 30% more likely to click on your ads, if they've seen you in a different ad format before. So certainly, my recommendation is to use sponsored messaging first, then sponsored content, then text ads, and then dynamic ads. And I would do this all concurrently, all mimicking the same targeting. And this will envelop your ideal target audience in just a nice warm embrace a nice warm display ad hug. 22:00 The next tip I have for you is essentially a change in motivation. So there's this concept called FOMO, that many of you know, and it stands for the fear of missing out. This is such a strong motivation, a strong emotion that we as humans feel. We hate missing out. We hate knowing that there was a big party that happened last night that we could have gone to that all your friends were there, and you totally missed it. And you can use this motivation in your ad copy. Try ad copy, like don't miss it, put it on your calendar, only a few days left, limited seats remaining. Now, a note here on morals. So I'm not a fan of putting limited seats remaining. If there really are unlimited seats, you're just manufacturing fake urgency here. But if you do actually have a limited number of seats, then yes, say it. Let people know. You might miss this if you don't take action now. 22:56 Okay, this next recommendation I've been debating internally whether or not to share it with you. If you've been listening to me for long enough, you know how I feel about the audience expansion option. I hate it. I loathe it. I shudder every time I think about using audience expansion. I will say, though, as a very last resort, after you've done everything else, all my other advice here, and if you're still spending short of trajectory, it is one checkbox that you can check that will instantly give you access to a larger audience. So let's say LinkedIn, when you click that box inserts about 20% more people into your audience. LinkedIn is going to try to make sure that those are close to your ideal audience. And I think this is the only situation where I can see audience expansion making sense. Although I will say conclusively, I have never once seen a situation where I couldn't significantly speed up my spend using all of the other strategies here before I checked the audience expansion box. So I'd say maybe this is one in 100 chance that you'd even have to do this, but I have to say it. Okay, so now I'm gonna go take a shower after making that recommendation, because I feel real dirty. 24:11 The next one I've got for you is really just in case, you should ask yourself, Is this a brand new account? Is this an account that's been opened in the last few weeks that really hasn't had a significant amount of spend go through it? You should know that there is a glass ceiling on every new account to keep people from making giant mistakes. And what it does is it artificially limits your spend in that account to $100 per day. LinkedIn doesn't tell anyone about this. It's not written really anywhere, at least not that I've seen. And so what happens is, you'll be in this high urgency situation where you're trying to spend and the account will just stop at $100 for the day, and you'll be scratching your head going, I don't get it. My ads are active, my campaigns active I have plenty of budget. Why? Well, it's because of this invisible cap and your LinkedIn rep might not even know about it. So what you want to do is either file a ticket beforehand with LinkedIn help, or if you happen to have a LinkedIn rep, make sure you let them know to remove it significantly beforehand. So don't do this they have because sometimes it can take some time for them to respond. Ask several days in advance, hey, we want to spend a lot of money please remove this cap. Because nothing is more of a buzzkill than when you have $1,000 a day to spend and the account gets stuck at $100 and two cents. While everything's active. please learn from my mistakes. I've done this many a time and forgotten about this glass ceiling. There's also a setting that is actually kind of hidden and it's for good reason, we've talked about it before. And this is where you can rotate your creative evenly or optimize for click through rate. Now I want you to go and look and make sure if you have the option check to rotate evenly, change it. Get over to optimize for click through rate. The reason here is if you are rotating evenly, I call this the charge me more and show me less button. When you're in a high urgency situation, you do not want to be shown less. And my guess is you probably don't want to get charged more. So avoid that option, even if someone looked at it and thought, oh, this will help me do AB testing. It won't, it'll just charge you more and show you less. So in conclusion here, you're going to pay more for this accelerated delivery. So set that in your expectations, expect your efficiency metrics to take a hit, you are sacrificing your efficiency for speed of delivery here. Ayou won't have as much time to test things, so you'll really have to accept whatever performance your ads and offers get. So give yourself the best stab. Do as much testing as you think you can do without disrupting, but certainly put your best stuff on and keep it going. I'll also mention that it's much better to front load your ads. That means take all of these strategies into account and potentially spend more rapidly up front than you want. The reason is, if you have something like a webinar coming up, it's actually better the sooner people can get it on their calendar, just so they don't end up having something else like a conflict happen before they see your ads. So you'll want to front load there. But it's also just as important to understand that it's easier to slam on the brakes than it is to slam on the accelerator with ads. It takes much longer to find new ways, new audiences to spend more than it is to just simply bid something down, set a daily budget or pause the campaigns or ads entirely. When you are in high urgency, there is value in just being everywhere. Make sure you use all of the ad formats, make sure you expand your targeting where it makes sense. Okay, with that being said, I've got the episode resources coming up right after this so stick around. 28:06 Thank you for listening to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Hungry for more? AJ Wilcox, take it away. 28:16 Okay, hope you enjoyed that episode. I had a lot of fun recording it. I get a little bit passionate about this stuff as I'm sure you can tell. I'd love to share with you the resources we talked about earlier. But because one was a link to a protected deck, I can't share the stats with you here. So maybe just write them down or keep them in in memory. But check in the show notes. If you are new to LinkedIn ads if this is something that you are doing for your job, and you need to get up to speed quickly. The course that I built with LinkedIn Learning. The link is right there and you will love this course. It takes you from absolutely nothing all the way to yes, you can build and run your own campaigns and get started. It contains the same information that I teach in about my first hour and a half In person training, and I charge $500 an hour for that consultation and training. And the course itself is only $25. And it's even free if you have like a premium subscription to LinkedIn. So definitely take me up on that course it is well worth the investment. Both time and money. 29:18 Whatever podcast player you're on, please look down right now and hit the subscribe button. Because if this is good content for you, if this is gonna help you in your job, then I want you hearing more of it. And then please do rate and review in whatever podcast player you're listening on. I would love to feature your review here publicly for everyone. If you have ideas for the show, topics that you want covered questions, shoot them over to Podcast@B2Linked.com. And we love to take those into account and help prepare future episodes. We're always looking for great content. Okay, with that being said, I'll see you back here next week. Cheering you on in your LinkedIn Ads initiatives.

Hello hello HELLO my friends! Whew - what a time, huh? Life is crazy right now - nothing is normal, and frankly? I think we all are ready to resume our daily life. COVID19 is wreaking havoc on just about every industry, and the wedding industry is one of those. As wedding vendors, myself and my peers are facing some really hard conversations with clients & ourselves. We are being forced to adjust our policies, be more flexible than we ever thought, and in some cases, completely alter the days of our couples. It's hard, and we are all grieving what was set to be an incredible wedding year. I got my friend Allison on the podcast to chat with her about COVID19! She is a local wedding planner here in Tahoe and is such a light in my life on a personal level, but also helps couples plan incredible days. Being that I specialize in smaller weddings & events, I wanted to have her on to discuss the realities of larger events and what couples can expect during this time!The following episode is recapped in this blog post, here: https://ruthannez.com/blog/covid19-q-and-aYou can get in touch with Allison from this episode by emailing her hello@forgetmeknotevents.com or on Instagram @forgetmeknotevents!Stay safe & STAY HOME!

Today Dannie and Caitlyn are talking with Amanda Gulino of A Better Monday. We believe in accessible content and that anyone who wants to learn from this content should be able to. In order to support this, we've had every episode of Season 4 transcribed. The transcriptions are available at the bottom of every episode blog post. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:Learning to take a step back from your side hustle to reevaluate and reenergize.How to balance not taking things personally while you are on this extremely personal journey.How it is ok to embracing being in a waiting pattern for the next big step in your side hustle. While still addressing the void that occurs.GET MORE: Website | Instagram FOLLOW YOUR HOSTS: D Website | D Instagram // C Website | C Instagram Get the Side Hustle Starter Kit Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:00:21] Hello and welcome back to the side hustle gal podcast. Today we have one of my longtime friends, business friends, a business like partners. I guess if we talk about she will, um, clients. She's been a client of mine, Jordan Lacenski. Hold on, I always forget to ask you how to say her name. Jordan. Les. I did it again.Yep. Jordan, listen, ski. Uh, so Jordan, I'm going to toss it over to you. What? Tell us what's up with brand boss. What's up with she will what you're doing now because I know that you're back in the corporate world. I can't wait to hear all about it. Jordan Lacenski: [00:01:02] Yeah, girl, thank you so much and love. That we are in each other's lives in so many layers in ways.Um, so thanks for having me. What is going on with me? Wow. It's been an interesting, uh, four year journey really. But, um, as you know, I had brand box creative, which was a boutique branding firm. I opened and closed that in three years. I opened it in 2016. I had a freaking blast. I grew this thing. I had consultants, I had the CEO ego things going on.We, I was like, became becoming obsessed with processes and operations and customer service and just how to grow and improve this branding firm and, uh, how to make things really smooth for everyone involved. And then early 2019, we went through a litigation, which was kind of like the second of the three strikes, you know, uh, we had, we lost a huge client because they lost a huge client.And then we went through this litigation and it was wild. And. My consultant at the time was saying like, this is just something you prepare for in business, right? Like, if you budget for it, it happens when you're a business owner. At some point you will get sued. Like it's kind of like lock them to the big leagues, honey, you know?Um, but it was personally difficult and professionally difficult and hard on our team and hard on our P. and. L, you know? I mean, just all of it. And so it's actually, um, an advised by our lawyers, just easier to close the business. So we closed that business. It was an LLC and a pretty easy process to do.Um, and she will simultaneously, you know, she will had started as this collaborative where. Agencies or people like brand boss, like yourself, like other graphic designers and photographers and videographers and audio experts, and all of these people in the content creation, marketing, advertising world would come together for these projects and that's how she will start it.And I had a business partner and it was a super fun, wild ride. And we relocated it to Bozeman, Montana, to North Carolina. And you know, just kind of our shields pack was growing and, and really all over the U S and we decided that we wanted to try to make it a community, an online membership community, because what was happening was.The gals that are, we're working on projects. That's us. We would be on a call about a project and as soon as the client would hop off, everyone would say, how do you handle this? How much do you charge for this? Do you have a contract template? I can use all these things that, especially as a creative, you enter into business and you know how to do your trade.You know how to be creative, but the actual business side, nobody really teaches you that. In school unless you go for your MBA. So, uh, and even then, which I did, you know, even then, I mean, there's so many unanswered questions. So, so we tried our hand at launching a community, which simultaneously this launch was happening while a brand boss was in this lawsuit.Um, and it just took me down. Uh, I was totally wiped out, totally burned out. Uh, just. Spinning my wheels, trying to make it happen. Um, and I'd just gotten to the point where my body and my mind and everything said, girl, take a break. So I took a break. And, um, I took some freelance contracts, uh, one of which was, uh, for a company in Dallas as a kind of an interim creative director, one of which is still going on, which is working for a nonprofit.I'm coordinating their biggest fundraiser. Um, one of which is project management for a friend of mine who has, who owns several companies. Uh, so yeah, I, it's, it's kind of this weird floating, moving thing right now, and I've never done this in my life, but I'm waiting. I'm just kind of waiting for the next thing.Um, and I feel like it looks like being an intra preneur for a little bit, but I'm not certain. And so I'm not making any big decisions. Uh, but I am eyeballs open. I'm looking for kind of a new challenge. So that's my, my side hustle has went from a full time gig to just leaning, leaning the fuck out, and just being me, which within a home office, which is weird, which was a really weird experience, but it's been really good.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:05:26] That's such a journey, but it's coming from watching along the sidelines. I know. What a transition it's been for you. I know how crazy it's been for you, but I love that you're waiting for the right opportunity instead of forced. An opportunity is so that. Security is there, because I definitely lean towards the ladder, but leaning towards the former is what creates these like big next changes for folks.So I love that. Yeah.I have to ask. So you, you described the tactical evolution of things. How would you say your emotions have evolved over the last four Jordan Lacenski: [00:06:10] years? Oh my gosh. So I, if you want to be humbled and challenged and like the most excited you'll ever be and the most suppressed, you'll FRP cry in public.And I mean, just all these things, you should totally start a business. I highly recommend it. Um, I feel like, I think I've, my emotions have gone from. Really learning the belief, like I got this and embracing a confidence that didn't quite have before. And I think part of that is just what society tells us as women.And part of that is. How we grow up. And part of that is just who we are. Um, and so that was a really cool journey to embrace and just embracing like the business mind and being cool with that. Like my, how I approach things, like what my Enneagram type is, or what my Myers-Briggs says might be a little bit different when it comes to how I run my business than it, than it is for me, like at home, you know.Um, so. I think that's a really positive thing. I think all of it ends up being positive. All the challenges you embrace and go through, and that's teaching me something. And all adversity, you know, teaches you something. And when you're in it, you don't believe that. But the really, at the end of the day, uh, you learn a lot.I think the other, the biggest piece, I think this year has been from being on cloud nine, um, and just. Like getting a taste of, uh, we're scaling this thing, or we're launching this thing, or just this startup flavor. And then like a month later being at the lowest low, um, and taking all of that ego and just squashing it.And going through the phases of embarrassment and like hibernation, you know, I think like I didn't go to where I had an office or at a really cool kind of coworking, um, place in downtown Greensboro and I didn't go there for like six months. I was just embarrassed. Like, Oh, I failed and now I'm going to go in and all these people are not going to take me seriously.And I'm looking for freelance contracts, gigs, and how am I going to convince them that I. And still good at what I do. Um, and so definitely a lot of that self talk and processing and therapy, Holy hell therapy. Um, so I think, I think it's challenged me to discover who I am without a business. I think when you're an entrepreneur, it becomes so much of who you are.You never. Really sleep and not think about it. You're never really off. You don't really check out. You're, you're always on. Um, and I think this year the emotional journey for me has been, this is who you are as a wife or not a wife. This is who you are as a business owner or not a business owner. This is who you are with, uh.Your community and your pack and without, um, and so it's been, and it's a discovery. I'm still figuring that out, but I think the emotional, the emotional piece of all that, it's challenged me in ways I never would have imagined. And I mean, going through all of it, like grief, anger, resentment, you know, this, this litigation was like with a female owned business, you know, and I, and I knew her.Like in terms of like qualifying your leads so that stuff doesn't happen. I did that, you know, and I was so disappointed at the way that things were happening. I was taking it so personally, like, how could you do this to me? You're, you're like single-handedly trying to ruin my business. What's going on?You know? And I think it's been interesting to kind of step back and say, everybody has their stuff, like life is happening for everyone all the time. And. You can't take it personally. Uh, while it is a very personal journey, you know, um, people aren't necessarily coming for you. They're trying to survive themselves.So I think this year that's been the biggest thing is just like slicing that ego way down. Um, not to like a self-deprecation level, but just at a. You know, if you're, if you're not at the top of your game, you know what I mean? Using air quotes or, you know, if you're not on the cover of Forbes or, or if you're not successful, whatever that means, you know, what does success mean to you?Uh, then what, um, and that's part of like, taking the risks. Like that's part of stepping out on your own and creating something. It's like big risk, big reward, and like also big risk, huge failure, you know, huge, huge, uh, impact on, on your life and everyone around you. So. Yeah. Girl. It's been a been a journey.It's been an emotional journey too. Caitlyn Allen: [00:10:36] Ah, man. Yeah. So I think there's two really huge takeaways in that that I want to discuss a bit further. Um, maybe one we just have to highlight, but the first one is the sense of who you are outside of your business, especially a side hustlers. Um, specifically we are working and then also side hustling our business. And where does like you as a person stand? And then the second part is. When you do decide to go full time, you are not your business. And that's why you protect yourself with an LLC, so that when you get, you did not get your house taken away too. Um, so. They're two really, really big pieces there, but I want to talk to you a little bit more about like you outside of the business. So what do you do? Um, when you try to pull yourself away from, um, working and hustling and balancing all of the things, what do you do as a person to pull yourself away from it? Jordan Lacenski: [00:11:40] Yeah. I think the answer a year ago, and the answer now are so different. I think, um, the answer a year ago would be, yeah. Like I hang out with my friends.Well, guess what? All of my friends are also side hustling or have businesses. So eventually talk about business. That's not really a play way. Um, I think it was, uh. Reading, uh, which also tended to lead towards like kind of personal and professional development. Now I think what I ha, I think my body has forced me to do, uh, is rest and totally check out.Like. Your computer is not on you. I mean, maybe it's Netflix thing. I don't know. Like maybe it's hanging out watching true crime shows. Maybe it's taking a leisurely chill walk in the neighborhood with our dogs. You know, maybe it's, um, going to like a cafe by myself without my computer to kind of sit, get some vitamin D, eat a croissant, you know, grab a coffee.Um. I think part of it has been, you know, I have, I have a lot of friends that live somewhat close in there. They all are, you know, um, celebrating really cool milestones, like adopting children and having children and and moving and buying new houses and things like that. And so really trying to spend quality time with those people.I think that's been really big. And I think, um, I think therapy again has been like, that is. Like my self care, um, as been really, really huge. And, um, and so with that, I kind of discovered like, what else is it that I need to do? You know, is it, is it some kind of exercise? Because I think for me, especially this year.It was the energy that it felt like it would take to go to the gym and like actually lift weights was just like not happening. Um, but being okay with maybe I cycled for 20 minutes, or maybe I go on a walk or maybe I parked further away in the parking lot just to get my body moving and get some endorphins going.So, and art, I think like this year it's been cool. It's like, uh, something I'm really passionate about that I haven't. Spend a lot of time doing. And, uh, we have awesome art museums here and there. Cheap or free, you know. And so like, I went to the Frida Kahlo exhibit and just walked around the thing like four separate times, you know, and just stared at these really cool photographs and, and artwork.And I'm reading these stories. And so. That's what's the, this year, that's what I've been doing. M and a and a year ago it would have been like, Oh, well, I'm just so go, go, go. But I go, go, go in a different way. Or I maybe this networking thing feels fun, but it's still me, you know? Um, so I think it's more, more rest.Caitlyn Allen: [00:14:18] I love that answer because I love that, you know, the difference between hanging out with. Entrepreneurs also, um, as like, Oh, that's my fulfilling thing that I do for myself. But really all you're doing is talking about work. And I think it, it takes us so long to figure out that like, okay, I have to distinguish myself specifically from my business and how am I going to do that? Even if it's finding friends that. Can't comprehend business, then like, yes, perfect. Let's not talk about that. yeah, that's always something that, um, I know I've struggled with is finding a way to like turn off that business mentality or, Oh, I can put my phone down for 10 minutes and if a client messages me, I don't have to respond right away type of thing. Um, and especially as a side hustler. That's so hard.Jordan Lacenski: [00:15:15] Right, right. And then there's pressure while you're, I mean, even like I'll work at the nonprofit, I work in the office, uh, one day a week, and I go to meetings another day, a week. But that one day a week I'm in there and I'm stressing about any other. Contracts, you know, like, or any other to do's and like, Oh, I need to answer that email, but I'm really, you know, like, I'm on the clock for this nonprofit. I can't be doing that. You know, it's, um, I remember when I started my business and it being a true side hustle and having a full time job and just feeling like, okay, can I schedule a meeting at four and can I get it to the office at seven and leave at three 45 and, you know, I mean, just how to make it work. Um. And yeah, it becomes all your spare time really becomes about the side hustle and feels like there's not enough hours in the day and it's all about prioritizing yourself too. Caitlyn Allen: [00:16:04] Yeah. So I guess moving on from that, how do you like organize your day in a personal way and then in the business sort of way, like how do you, how do you tend to blend them together?Jordan Lacenski: [00:16:16] Oh, still figuring that out for sure. Um, because it's so different than it used to be. Uh, it definitely used to be. Wake up, go, you know, coffee, coffee first. Uh, love the dogs out. Go straight to the office, work, work, work, meetings, meetings, meetings, networking, saying go home. Uh, and when I was like down on the couch, I was down on the couch.Like I wasn't getting up for anything. Um, and my sweet husband was like making dinner most nights. Um, so now it's been like training myself to say. You want to go to the gym at 9:00 AM, you can do that because totally empty and you have the space to yourself. There's no real pressure and you can listen to the music you want to listen to and um, or if you wanna wake up, answer a couple emails and then go on a long walk, you can do that.So I think I'm kind of trying to train myself in that way. Mondays I always have a status call for the project management gig. I do. And so Mondays are typically like. Kick the week off, get shit done. So I like that because I have this status call and then at least for that, that dig, I know everything that I need to do for the week and I can organize myself.Um, so Mondays are typically a lot of like admin, organization, emails, that kind of thing. Tuesdays are always pretty blank on the, on the calendar. So those are days that I typically like. All right, I'm going to go for a walk, or I'm going to go to the gym at an odd hour. Um, or I might meet a friend for lunch, or I might go on a walk with, with aYou know, my friend who's a new mom and is also like get me out of his house. Um, so I might do something like that for an hour or two. And then I'm definitely in yoga pants hanging out at the, at my home computer and just kind of cranking out some creative things that need to be done. More like content execution.Um, Wednesdays are somewhat similar. Sometimes I have some in person meetings on Wednesdays. I try to keep them on that day. So I know like. Okay. On Wednesday, if you wash your hair, you know, and I'm on Thursdays, I do the volunteer center, so. Part of Wednesday. Um, if I have any meetings outside of that, like really prep for everything that needs to be done on Thursday, if there's any like pre-work that needs to be done for me, being in the, the office that, uh, is called the volunteer center.So I, I try to. Solely focused on that gig on Thursdays, if I can. Um, and Fridays I try to be pretty chill. Like I've tried to, like today, I, I'm obviously I'm talking to you, uh, which I love. And, um, I had a doctor's appointment and I am, uh, my husband and I are hitting the road out of town a little bit early today, and I have some calls from the road, but, uh, we're going camping.So I tried to get. I try to let Friday kind of start the weekend and I, that sounds like really luxurious. Again, like I'm in this, it's a privilege right now to be able to do that because I'm in this waiting stage. Uh, but I'm with the gigs that I have. I'm making enough to be able to do that. I'm not hitting my, my big goals, but I'm making enough.As I'm, as I'm kind of waiting, and I'm not committing to anything that is bigger than that at this moment. Um, and so I'm thankful that I can do that. I know not everybody can, but that's what my week looks like now. And in Saturdays and Sundays, I do nada, like I do nothing business-related on Saturdays and Sundays, which has been really a much needed change. Uh, and I've really embraced it. It's been great.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:19:39] I am. I'm first so grateful that you're embracing rest and embracing space and embrace sitting breathing room because I definitely am someone that's guilty of not doing those things. I think it's really smart to be doing those things. Um, but I also, I'm also,Jordan Lacenski: [00:19:58] I've looked at my week, I'm like, your week does not look like that at all.No, no. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:20:05] Um, I'm also curious cause I think the biggest thing that I struggle with, and I wonder if you struggled with this in the beginning too, is. How to address the void. Like people like you, people like me, people like Caitlyn are so good at packing our schedules. So full that to take that space invokes feelings of guilt. Feelings of what am I not doing? What am I forgetting? What like the like entrepreneurial FOMO that comes from not having things in that time. How did you wrestle with that in the beginning?Jordan Lacenski: [00:20:40] I'm still wrestling with that. I've actually, as I'm as I'm like telling every day, I'm, I'm telling myself, wait, you know, and I know even you and I have had conversations about just, uh, different companies or different people, because I definitely feel bored because I am so used to chaos.Um, and so part of that journey has been like me in therapy saying, am I bored because I'm used to things being so insane and unhealthy that I don't know what to do with myself now, or am I bored because I really am missing a challenge that I need. So it's, that's been hardest part of the process right now has been all right, we really do need to like dig deeper and figure this out because I think.You know, for the last five years, really, life's been pseudo chaotic. You know, we've moved across the country twice. My husband switched positions, switched jobs. He got out of the military. You know, we, we've like rescued a million dogs and had like a geriatric home for dogs for awhile. It's just been some kind of a big change.Uh, all the time was, was basically how life was. Running before. So it's really hard. I don't, I don't know the answer. I think, um, when I, in the beginning, I don't know that I had a choice. I think my, I was so, uh, emotionally like pers, like things in our personal lives were happening simultaneously on top of all this other stuff.And I was so stressed out and I just wanted to hide. And I've never been there before. Like, I mean, I was like in bed. Eating Twizzlers for whatever reason. That was the only thing that I felt like eating. Just my mom was coming by and saying, I brought you soup and a sandwich cause you have to eat food.You know, like I just was really having a hard time. Um, and I think I, I, my body was just like shut down. Like just, it was like, I just had pain in my back and my shoulders and my neck and I was so tired. It felt like mano hit me. Like I just was so exhausted, so I didn't have a choice. Other than to embrace the void.Um, and now, you know, eight ish months later, um, I'm starting to feel really itchy and antsy and bored and trying to fill that with things. And in the last few weeks, it's been interesting because I have packed my schedule more than I should and I'm feeling a little bit more anxious. and I deal with anxiety anyway.It's kind of resurfaced in a new way. And so that's been kind of a warning sign because I've, I've this good, you know, I was like breathing normally my heart's beating normally for a while. And then the last few weeks as I've been a little bit forward and trying to pack myself full of like, Hey, yeah, I'll join this board and yell, and that's where this person, and yeah, I'll, I'll help you with that messaging and bloat, like loading up that. That plate a little bit too much. Um, I've been feeling it just with, uh, just, just with time and just with anxiety. And so I think that's been a warning sign. So then I think that may be, helps me reevaluate and say, all right, I gotta I gotta pump the brakes a little bit. Um, and what's really a priority? What's, what do I really want to be doing? What's really fulfilling me right now.Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:23:40] I think that that is so important. This, this, I put something that's truly giving me some really good vibes and chills because I think conversations are so important, and I think that something you said earlier was like feeling like a failure. Feeling like you had let people down, feeling like other folks were not going to see your worth because you weren't all of these things that you were once. And I want to take a step back first of all and acknowledge that. Someone out there has to be the entrepreneur that stops hustling 95 hours a week. Uh, and so in your own way, your new identity is going to help, frankly speaking people like me, but also people listening to this podcast who. Are hustling too hard, who are doing too many things, who are involved in too much to take any breeze and say, you know what? Like maybe I need to change to where's the space in my life? Jordan Lacenski: [00:24:43] Yeah. Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:24:44] know that you're freaking awesome. So you've gone through this huge evolution, but what about people who are too close to things to see that it's time to evolve? What advice would you give to someone who's not ready to hear advice that they need to take a step back? Jordan Lacenski: [00:25:08] You know, I think this is something that I've been challenging myself with a lot because I have a couple of friends that are so good at this because I am one of those people. I don't, I'm like, you're giving me advice and I'm not going to listen to any of it. Thanks. Bye. You know, I am a hard, I'm kind of a hard nut to crack when it comes to that, and so. There are a couple people in my life who asks really pointed questions that helped me discover that myself. So like they might say, is that working for you? Or, um, do you feel healthy? Like overall, like just your body, your mind? Like, do you feel healthy? And I'll probably say out loud, yeah, things are great. But in my gut and in my heart and in my soul. There's alarms going off. Like, no girl, you are on the verge of burnout. Like, and you know, why are you acting like it's all good?Um, and so I think I've watched them get through to me in those ways, and I have tried to. Mirror that for other people. And, and you know, I have a lot of friends that are actually in the exact same boat right now. You know, they, they've been hustling at like full speed for the last two years in their business. They like one of them, for example, just hit $1 million in revenue. She's super excited. She's like growing, growing, growing. It's a super small team. They're staying really lean and she's working 19 hour days every day. And every time I see her, she is, that's one of the first things that we talk about. It's like, and today was another 19 hour day and I want to sh, you know, you want to shake her, cause you just want to say stop doing this to yourself.But there's this pressure I'm sure in her mind, like if we could just get here, if I could just get to the next phase. So I think the advice would be really to like. Step back. Do a workshop, you know, have a coach, have a consultant, have somebody that you really trust who's going to ask you really hard questions, help you discover what you're doing.All this for. I think like defining the goal, defining what success looks like for this thing for you is really important. Um, it could be this is my side hustle that I'm doing because I want to start putting more money in savings for my kid's college. Or it could be, I just want to be able to go out and get happy hour wine with my gal once a week and I want some fun money to do it. Or it could be, I want to take this thing full time. Um, and so. I think working with someone who's not you, who's able to see that and say, all right, well, is working 19 hours a day getting you there? Like, is it, is it reaching your goals? You know, how are you, how are you auditing those goals? Like how are you measuring if you're reaching them?Um, and I think. I think we know ourselves better than we think we do. I think we know like your gut is really powerful and it tells you things. And so like when people ask you those questions, if something in you feels like, ah, this is a lot, or if, if your throat is sore all the time and you're on the verge of a cold all the time and you wake up in the morning and you're so tired, you know there's, there may be something there that.Like your body's telling you, Hey, you need to slow down. Um, but I think that's the biggest thing is like surrounding yourself with people that are going to be really honest with you, but in a way that you'll actually hear it and in a way that'll impact you to make the right choices and decisions. And sometimes that's just asking you questions, you know, just asking you hard questions and not telling you anything, not telling you you should or shouldn't do anything. But just saying, wow, it seems like you're working a lot. How's that feeling for you? Like, how's that sitting with you? How you doing? You know, I think for me, that's what works. So that's what I would suggest.Caitlyn Allen: [00:28:43] Yes. I am so thankful when, um. Even sometimes my clients are like, Hey, you know, I just realized, I've been talking to you like all day and I know you have other clients. How are you doing? Like even just having my clients call me. Yeah. I mean, as a project manager, you, you would know, you know, um, sometimes your clients or you're talking to your clients all day to make sure things are moving along, especially when you're delegating out and. I think those check-ins have really made me realize, Whoa, like not only should I be taking care of myself, but I need to surround my self with the people who are checking in with me also, because that just means the world. When somebody asks you, Hey, how are you doing? Like how are you actually doing? Um, and sometimes it sucks. Like sometimes it's so hard to be like. Well, I'm fine, but, and then evaluating it and in your head it's, it's so hard. But I loved this conversation. You are amazing. I feel like we could talk all day and I think our audience is going to really, really love this episode.Um, but we do have wrap up at some point, Jordan Lacenski: [00:30:03] right. So, Caitlyn Allen: [00:30:05] um, where can we find you on the interwebs? Jordan Lacenski: [00:30:10] Yeah. So now, um, my website is just me and Jordan, alexandria.com. So Alexandria, like, like the city in Virginia. Um, and Jordan, just like Michael. Um, they'll just like that. Um, and you can find me on Instagram and Facebook.Sometimes I try not to, uh. I, I try to actually now, especially because I don't have to, for my, for my business, like be on social all the time. I'm not on there as much, but I, but I have like a love affair with Instagram. So I'm civically on Instagram at, um, Jordan. Dot. Alexandria or at J listen, P that that will be a tough one for, uh, for people, but it's in my bio for my other one.Well, yeah, you'll find me there. Caitlyn Allen: [00:30:54] Well link all of those in the show notes. Um, and I just really wanted to say thank you so much for your vulnerability today. Jordan Lacenski: [00:31:01] Yeah, thank you. Thanks for being an awesome person, a safe place, and for creating space for these conversations. It's super important. It's huge.

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In this special bonus episode of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts asks Paula’s Choice founder Paula Begoun YOUR most frequently asked skincare questions. Ahead of Part 2 of her conversation with Paula, Gemma took to Instagram to ask “What would you ask one of the most famous names in skincare if you had them at your disposal?” Your answers have guided this episode- the first Glow Journal rapid fire beauty Q&A.You can read this interview now at: glowjournal.com/paulas-choice-q-and-aYou can read and listen to Part 1 of this interview at: glowjournal.com/interview-paulas-choiceFollow Paula on Instagram at @paulaschoiceDiscover more about Paula’s Choice by visiting: paulaschoice.comStay up to date with Gemma on Instagram at @gemkwatts and @glow.journal, or get in touch at hello@gemkwatts.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm slap-happy with the bass today because it's my new toy. My brother bought me a Squier Vintage Modfied Jazz Bass as a belated birthday present. I'm also more comfortable in the studio today because I've got a boom arm stand for the microphone which allows me to position it especially while playing bass. The bass tones today are complements of a device called a Vox Amplug for Bass. I'm pretty happy with the tones that I get, plus I don't have to deal with latency issues that I get from using the amp emulators available in Garage Band.  Nonsensical Ramblings is a Fuzz Bucket jam session from 9/24/2014 where Jamie played Novax, Eric dialed knobs on the synth and played drums, and I played Trumpet and Saxophone. It's a good fun drony moody thing. It came highly recommended by my brother, Roy, who was visiting over the weekend to deliver the new bass.  Nonsensical Ramblings is on soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/shimster/fzzbkt-9-24-14-aYou can download Fuzz Cast on iTunes here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fuzz-cast/id897769608?mt=2&uo=4or on my blog:http://shimmymusic.blogspot.com/or directly from libsyn:http://fuzzcast.libsyn.com/and also on Stitcher app:http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dan-shimmyo/fuzz-cast?refid=stprmore links:http://soundcloud.com/shimsterhttp://danshimmyo.bandcamp.comhttp://twitter.com/danshimmyohttp://www.facebook.com/FuzzBucketNYC

Our very upbeat and bouncy version of the Jamaican Gospel song “Hey, Hey, Mon Do You Know My Lord?”Traditional Jamaican Gospel FolksongVerse 1Well all de people in de islands playIn de sunshine every day.But Jesus come to show de way,And teach His children how to pray.Verse 2See de big lady in de market place,With de big smile on her face.Say, “Hey, big lady what you smiling for?”She said, AYou would too if you knew my Lord. (Singing)Verse 3Well, de witch doctor, he think they all gone insane,For everybody he sees has changed.He came to church to hear what they say.He learned of Jesus and was baptized that day. (Singing)© 2014 Shiloh Worship Music COPY FREELY;This Music is copyrighted to prevent misuse, however,permission is granted for non-commercial copying-Radio play permitted www.shilohworshipmusic.comCome and check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/ShilohWorshipGroup.  Free Christian Worship Music on the iTunes StorePlease check out our free Christian Worship Music on the iTunes Store. We offer 6 free Podcasts that contain our original worship music. Below are the links- if you like them you can subscribe FREE and receive new songs in the form of podcasts as they are released.Free Bluegrass Gospel Hymns and Songs from Shiloh Worship Music. Old Standard Hymns and Songs as well as Original Bluegrass Gospel Songs.http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-a-friend-we-have-in-jesus/id471784726?i=100849735FREE PRAISE & WORSHIP  FREE Original Praise and Worship Music Our style is very eclectic ranging from Blues to Folk to Reggae to Worldbeat to Bluegrass to Contemporary Worship. Most songs Are in English, some songs are in English and Spanish, and a few songs have been translated into other languages like Swahili, French, Chinese, and Korean. Etc. We Love Jesus, we are simple christian disciples of Jesus using our gifts to lavish our love and lives for Him. Our desire is to point others to Jesus. Our music is simple-most of these original songs are prayers to Jesus set to music. Although our music is copyrighted ©2000-2013 Shiloh Worship Music, to prevent misuse, feel free to pass this music around for any and all non-commercial use. Jesus said, "freely you have received, freely give!"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/free-praise-and-worship/id436298678FREE Contemporary Christian Worshiphttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/free-contemporary-christian/id882132356 FREE WORSHIP MUSICOriginal Worship music SUBSCRIBE in iTunes We Love Jesus, we are simple christian disciples of Jesus using our gifts to lavish our love and lives for Him. To point others to Jesus. our music is simple-most of these original songs are prayers to Jesus set to music. Although our music is copyrighted ©2000-2013 Shiloh Worship Music, to prevent misuse, feel free to pass this music around for any and all non-commercial use. Jesus said, "freely you have received, freely give!"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/free-jesus-music/id395892905祈る日本 Christian songs 津波 Jesus ccm worship praise 敬拜赞美 耶稣基督 Иисус Христос поклонения похвалы музыки Christus Lob Musik यीशु मसीह की पूजा प्रशंसा क्रिश्चियन संगीत musique chrétienne COPY FREELY ©2014 Shiloh Worship Music-This Music is copyrighted to prevent misuse, however,permission is granted for non-commercial copying only. Radio Play permittedwww.shilohworshipmusic.comThese videos are works of Video Artwork created to accompany our original music as an educational and research vehicle to teach others about Jesus Christ and Christianity.COPYRIGHT NOTICE: images used for nonprofit, educational purposes only under the "fair use" provision of U.S. Code, Title 17, section 107.

While it’s helpful if you’ve got to know the right people to give you opportunities, it’s more about making a good impression on those you do know so they will want to work with you in the future. Ayou says "you’d be surprised at how many senior members of staff started out as runners."