Podcasts about being afraid

Monica Lewinsky and Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow join for a very special episode of Hysteria. Mallory and Alyssa discuss Trump's systematic dismantling of the Department of Education, Lisa Murkowski's scathing read of the Republican Party, and their media diets. Then Monica shares behind-the-scenes stories from her new podcast and what reclaiming means to her. They wrap up with a petty rant about Usha Vance and a wholesome story of community coming together.USDA cancels $500M in food deliveries, leaving food banks scrambling (WaPo 3/24)Greenland's leader says US officials' visit is ‘highly aggressive.' Trump says it's ‘friendliness, not provocation' (CNN 3/24)GOP Senator Slams Republicans for Being “Afraid” of Elon Musk (The New Republic 3/19) Trump demands Maine governor apologize — or the state will face consequences (Politico 3/22) ‘A dark day' for American children: Trump issues order to kill the Department of Education (The 19th 3/20)

You don't want to make these mistakes in software development! In this episode, Nikolay shares the six most significant lessons from his 16-year career. From wasting time on over-engineering to relying too much on UI tests, he breaks down real examples that slow down processes and cost companies money. Tune in so you don't fall to the same fate.CONNECT WITH NIKOLAY ADVOLODKIN          

Thank you to our sponsor(s) *BetterHelp - Overcome your fears, with BetterHelp.Visit www.betterhelp.com/TRASHTUESDAY today to get 10% off your first month.  *See Esther LIVE! Purchase Tickets Here! *PLEASE Like & Subscribe to Our Channel on YouTube ___________________________________________________________________ The lovely and amazing Mother Maria Menounos joins us this week & we're all obsessed.  She tells us about her Howard Stern proposal, Kim K's Advice, and how the secret to better skin (and life tbh)  is going to target, purchasing little white towels and rolling them up to use in your bathroom once a day -- thank you for your work, mother! We won't let you down.   MORE MARIA: Heal Squad | The Website Heal Squad | The Podcast Maria's | Instagram ___________________________________________________________________ Chapters: 00:00 How did you two Meet?  01:43 Maria is Here & She's Mother 05:10 Esther to Maria: How are you such a good person?  14:30 An Ode to Maria's lovely and amazing husband, Keven 30:00 Surrogacy and Kim's Advice 38:00 Having a Kid feels like getting in a Car Wreck 43:46 Banana Break and Boarding School  50:00 Being Afraid to Admit You Want Kids ___________________________________________________________________ Listen to Trash: Trash iTunes Audio Feed: https://bit.ly/TrashTuesdayPod Trash Spotify Audio Feed: https://bit.ly/TTPodAudio   Follow Trash: IG: https://www.instagram.com/itstrashtuesday/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itstrashtuesday   More Esther: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@esthermonster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esthermonster/   More Khalyla:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khalamityk/ Tigerbelly Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCIyIoM_Nd8HtY19fuR_ov2A    Production Team: Tiny Legends, LLC:  https://www.instagram.com/tinylegends.prod/ Stella Young: https://www.instagram.com/estellayoung/ Guy Robinson: https://www.instagram.com/grobfps/ Ariel Moreno: https://www.instagram.com/jade.rabbit.cce/ Edited By: Case Blackwell:  https://www.instagram.com/caseblackwell/

A recent study done by Cornell University found that 85% of the fears we have *NEVER* materialize, yet the overwhelming majority of people are gripped by fear! Yet for many Christians, fear has an incredible stronghold on their lives. This is especially true when it comes to generosity. Without question, Fear is the number one reason why Christians are *not* generous.

After the Bar is back with Season 3! And this time, we're delving into the theme of navigating transitions. Join Shulin as she speaks with lawyers from various walks of life – past, present, and future – to explore their journeys in law, with a special focus on the pivotal moments in their careers and personal lives. In our season opener, Shulin is joined by Sophie Mathur, a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer and the Asia Head of Corporate with Linklaters. Sophie takes us on a journey through her evolution in the legal industry – from starting her legal career in London, to achieving partnership, leadership, and motherhood.  Along the way, she's shattered conventions and forged her own path. You will hear her share invaluable insights into personal branding, business development (without wining and dining!), and she even gives a masterclass on how to give feedback. Sophie opens up about the unique challenges she faced as an Asian woman of colour in the corporate realm. Through her candid reflections, she sheds light on the psychological barriers that often hinder us from realizing our full potential. Join us for the kickoff of Season 3, as Sophie shares her remarkable insights, lessons learnt, and the incredible journey she's charted. Follow Sophie Mathur: LinkedIn - https://sg.linkedin.com/in/sophie-mathur-090356 Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c4B56soGrno Videos with Sophie Mathur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0fbaxYFuu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfAwRhiYgCE Connect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulinlee/ More on the podcast - https://www.AfterTheBar.com.sg What to listen for: 00:00 Start of Episode 00:58 Introduction 02:10 What is a Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Lawyer? 02:42 Being an Asian Woman of Colour in the Legal Industry 07:19 Having Self-Confidence 11:19 Being Smiley but Firm 14:23 Being Afraid to Ask for a Favour 19:55 The Problem with Chasing Perfection 21:33 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome 24:26 The Feeling of Not Being Good Enough 25:56 Dealing with Negativity 31:24 Good Intentions but Bad Results 35:13 The Feeling of Winning Over the Support of the Team 38:24 Getting Feedback from Your Kids 40:51 Ingraining Giving Feedback in a Team's Culture 44:54 Sophie's Drivers for Career Pivots 48:40 Matching the Right Job to the Right Person 50:40 Knowing When to Pivot 51:44 How Becoming a Mom Affects Your Career Perspective 55:45 Sophie's Surprise Baby 57:26 Networking Without Wining and Dining 1:00:20 Alternative Methods of Business Development 1:01:41 Advice for your Younger Self 1:02:34 Rapid Fire Round 1:04:39 Outro

Welcome to episode 138 of Sports Management Podcast. Lauren Johnson is a mental performance coach who has worked with the New York Yankees, US Women's National Team, and Google. She is also a speaker and soon to be author. She is training athletes, military personnel and business professionals as well as giving speaking engagements and hosting workshops. In this episode we spoke about: Losing her best friend to suicide Being forced to quit soccer due to 5 concussions How a man in the Starbucks drive through changed her life Traits among elite performers The power of opposite thinking Re-Focusing Psychological Safety And much more! WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/ee341EqXCG0  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro  01:35 Lauren's Three C's 04:27 Working with Pro Athletes 07:55 Landing Her First Job 13:48 Losing Her Best Friend to Suicide 16:08 Being Afraid to Fail 19:13 Re-Focusing 20:48 Traits Among Elite Performers 25:01 "Be Brave to S**k at Something New" 29:19 Mistakes Athletes Make 31:16 Re-Framing 33:15 Power of Opposite Thinking 35:14 Psychological Safety 37:46 Writing A Book 40:41 Elite By Choice 42:25 Lauren's Best Advice 46:17 Bumps On The Road 50:39 Caring About Clients 55:36 Outro _____________________________________________________________ Lauren's Channels: https://www.laurenjohnsonandco.com/  https://www.instagram.com/laurennicolejohnson/  https://twitter.com/_laurenjohnson_  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgiinhnP664j96geaFkdFg  https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenjohnsonn/  _____________________________________________________________ Follow Sports Management Podcast on social media Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Sign up for the newsletter! www.sportsmanagementpodcast.com

Episode 115 - Improving Your Relationship with Your Spouse, Being Afraid for Your Kids - Part 3 of the Ask Me Anything SeriesToday's questions:Question 1:What does “Clean up your own side of the street” mean. You say this a lot and I'm not sure what you mean or how to do it. Question 2: If I were going to do one thing that would help me have a better relationship with my partner, what would it be?Question 3:I have 3 kids who are 10, 15, and 17, and I am so afraid for them. I'm watching what is happening with our youth right now and how so many of them are leaving their family's religion. I know I have good kids and I can't imagine they would decide to leave, but I've seen other kids that I know are really good kids that are leaving, so I feel like there are no guarantees. What can I do to help them?Links I referenced in this episode:How 2 Love Your Marriage with Aimee GianniCLICK HEREEpisode 81 “Know Yourself Through Self-confrontation”To submit your question to be answered on the podcast:CLICK HERE Tina Gosney is a certified life and relationship coach. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and helps with families who are experiencing relationship challenges because of LGBTQ, faith challenges, and other issues facing LDS families today. She is a positivity practitioner and is a trauma informed coach. Visit tinagosney.com for more information

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Do you long for personal growth and a deeper connection in your relationships? Are you searching for a way to navigate heartbreak and turn it into an opportunity for spiritual growth? Look no further. Join us as we welcome our guest, Claudia de Llano, who will share the solution to achieving increased self-awareness and the ability to transform heartbreak into a catalyst for a more profound spiritual partnership. Discover how heartbreak can be a stepping stone towards personal growth and find the tools to turn your pain into growth and deeper connection. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unlock the hidden potential within heartbreak. In this episode, you will be able to: Discover how heartbreak can be a stepping stone towards profound personal growth and opportunities to delve into love more profoundly. Engage with the vibrancy of being human and learn how to fully embrace the aliveness of our experiences. Master the art of releasing attachments and managing expectations in relationships for more contentment. Uncover the role of personal transformation and self-love in facilitating spiritually aligned partnerships. Explore the concept of healing within relationships, the karma attached, and the mystery of soulmates. My special guest is Claudia de Llano "Let yourself risk love, even if it leads to pain. Only then can you integrate that pain into love and find yourself loving brighter and choosing better." - Claudia de Llano Claudia de Llano is not your average family and marriage therapist. Instead, she is a beacon of light who guides individuals through the darkest toughest moments of their emotional lives. With her profound insights, she has proven her prowess as a speaker, writer, and meditation guide, always focusing on the sacred relationship between heartbreak and spiritual growth. For Claudia, heartbreak is not a sign of failure, but rather the perfect catalyst for deep, transformative love. The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:00 - Feeling the Pain of Heartbreak, 00:02:51 - Moving Through Heartbreak, 00:06:05 - Language and Heartbreak, 00:09:27 - The Role of the Heart in Choosing Partners, 00:14:21 - Overcoming Attachment and Expectation, 00:18:27 - Choosing Lessons and Taking Risks, 00:19:37 - Spiritual Partnerships, 00:22:34 - Honoring Individual Paths, 00:28:22 - Being Alone vs. Being Afraid to be Alone, 00:32:06 - Choosing Authentic Partners, 00:36:17 - Embracing Evolution and Taking Risks, 00:37:18 - The Importance of Speaking the Shadow, 00:40:09 - Unveiling the Truth in Relationships, 00:43:26 - Choosing Love Over Shadow, 00:53:32 - Unfinished Business and Karma, 00:54:52 - Judgment and Self-Worth, 00:57:08 - Relating to Deep Insecurities, 01:00:11 - Lessons and Awakening, 01:03:31 - Embodying Love and Growth, 01:10:40 - A Message of Love and Healing, 01:11:46 - Recognizing Soulmates and Gratitude, 01:12:06 - Expand Spiritual Partnership, 01:12:45 - Recommendations and Farewell, 01:13:20 - Connecting and Coaching, Please connect with Claudia here: Website: www.theawakenedjourney.com Looking for more FREE SELF-LOVE TOOLS? Join my newsletter and download some meditations, affirmations and visualisations on me: www.harrisonmeagher.com/learn-more  Don't forget to LEAVE A REVIEW (down to below) if you loved the show to go into a draw for our WEEKLY prizes!  My NEW BOOK “Your Cosmic Love Antenna” was just released! Find it here: https://www.cosmicloveantenna.com  Need more COMMUNITY and TRIBE? Join the Cosmic Love Antenna FB GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cosmicloveantenna Wanting to connect deeper either for coaching, feedback, or becoming a guest? See the following options: Social (FB, Insta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Youtube): @harrisonmeagher  Website: www.harrisonmeagher.com  Email: harrisonmeagher.business@outlook.com  Intro/Outro Music: Music by Yurii Kohut from Pixabay Music by Alex Golubiev from Pixabay LOVE you xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katherine McCord has dedicated her career to growing inclusion and better people operations for everyone. As someone passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Katherine creates safe spaces for people to discuss, learn, and grow personally and professionally.  In this episode, Katherine gets on the mic with John to discuss why we shouldn't be afraid of unintentionally getting DEI initiatives wrong, what it's like to be on the other side of the HR desk knowing that HR has no power in certain organizations, how to deal with ageism in your career, and why we could all benefit from being more like her grandmother.  Connect with Katherine McCord – Website | LinkedIn | Career Launch Live  Key Topics & Time Stamps: ·      Introduction (0:00)·      Get John's Free Career Guide (1:45)·      Meet Katherine McCord (3:15)·      Being Neuro-Physically Diverse (6:45)·      Being Afraid of Screwing Up DEI Initiatives (10:15)·      Break Your Ego Defense (11:25)·      Dealing with Human Resources (HR) (16:45)·      Tips for Dealing with Ageism in the Workplace (19:45)·      Being Like MiMi (22:00)·      Not Setting Career Goals (25:30)·      Katherine's Mid-Career GPS Advice (28:00)·      Connect with Katherine McCord (29:30) List of Resources:·      Get Your Free Guide - 5 Mistakes Mid-Career Professionals Make (And Need to Stop Doing) ·      Click here to subscribe to The Mid-Career GPS Podcast +. This is a premium or subscriber-based version of the podcast. ·      Purchase John's Books on Amazon – Your Mid-Career GPS – Four Steps to Figuring Out What's Next and SHOW UP - Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career ·      The Mid-Career GPS Podcast is featured in Mac's List of the Top Career Podcasts. Click here to learn more.  Support the showThank you for listening to The Mid-Career GPS Podcast. Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here. Visit https://johnneral.com to download your free guide, "5 Mistakes Mid-Career Professionals Make (And Need to Stop Doing) and more information about your leadership and career transition. Connect with John on LinkedIn here.Subscribe to John's YouTube Channel here. Follow John on Instagram @johnneralcoaching.

The Mandys recover from their strenuous time apart reviewing last week's podcast performance before they get to the business of Joel McHale in Animal Control. (00:00) - Welcome to the Mandcave (00:30) - Being Afraid of Mandy and Catching Up on Comedy (08:44) - Animal Control (32:12) - Getting to the business... (33:28) - Classic Sitcoms (36:09) - Games! (44:38) - Coming Attractions: History of the World Part II

Kiddo Kindness - Anna and Family's Ministry | Skills Young Adults Don't Have Today | Skills Young Adults Don't Have Today - Can't Tell Time | Skills Young Adults Don't Have Today - Typing on Home Row | John Bevere - Difference Between Fearing God and Being Afraid of Him | Good News - Jeff Lost 88 Pounds with Daniel Fast | TobyMac Corny Cornhole Jokes - Patti's Sleepwalking Nun | Lauren Daigle Surprises Amazing "American Idol" Contestant | Skills Young Adults Don't Have Today - Cursive Writing | Joy Report - Steve's Celebrating Sobriety through AA | Baby Recites the Lord's Prayer - So Cute!!

Welcome to the Damn Dude Podcast1 This is Season 2, Episode 96!- Being Afraid to Like or Want Anything Nice Due to Being Afraid to Fail or Not Acquire or Complete Said Task.- Shit Falling Apart in a Different Manner. - Stress Evolves.- Lessons Repeat, and Lessons We've Learned, Come in New Packages and Shapes and different Orders.- Stuffing an Entire Garage Worth of Things, Into a 625ft apartment.Remember to say 3 things you're Grateful for every morning and every night!- Available on all major platforms!@RealCaliforniaCal@DamnDudePodcasatAvailable on all major platforms: https://damndudepodcast.buzzsprout.com/- Apple Podcasts- Buzzspout- Spotify- Google Podcasts- Amazon Music- iTunes- Stitcher- iHeart Radio- TuneIn + Alexa- Podcast Addict- PodChaser- Pocket Casts- Deezer- Listen Notes- Player Fm- Podcast Index- Overcast- Castro- Castbox- Podfriend- YouTubeDaaaaaaamn Duuuuuude!!!!!Be sure to leave a 5 Star written review on Apple Podcast/Listen Notes! :)If you'd love and support the show, please feel free to make a donation to the Damn Dude Podcast!(link below)Anything and everything is Appreciated! :) Much Love, Love All.CashApp: $DamnDudePodcastSupport the show

Nagata Kabi has explored her struggles with her physical and mental health in her previous memoirs, and now turns her attention to one of her biggest lifelong hurdles - love. Okazu founder and yuri scholar extraordinaire Erica Friedman joins us once again to discuss the latest chapter in Kabi's ongoing and evolving memoir narrative, My Wandering Warrior Existence. Kabi uses the evocative image and anecdote of holding a wedding dress photo shoot as a springboard for exploring her desire to love and be loved, and her frustrations figuring out how to do that, including her experiences with online dating apps. We come to understand why she's afraid to meet and form relationships with people, a response that stems from lingering issues about her own negative self-image, and a mistrust of other people in part caused by, CONTENT WARNING, a horrifically traumatic sexual assault she experienced as a child. Which, because of the particular descriptiveness and upsetting nature of the story, we encourage you to use your discretion and the timestamps in the podcast breakdown below as to whether you rather skip that part of the discussion. But lest you fear Wandering Warrior finds Kabi drowning in her sorrows and traumas, we discuss how the book instead reflects the emotional growth and self-awareness that Kabi has come to understand over her previous books. This book finds Kabi taking in her memoirs in a new, confident direction with a clear thesis and structured storytelling designed with a message to the reader in mind, and we explore how it represents a positive direction for her as an artist and storyteller as we appreciate the messages she imparts in the book and her experiences and thoughts resonate with our own. Kabi may still be a wanderer in the landscape of love, but like a warrior, she's held firm in her resolve to find happiness, and we're more than happy to travel with her on her journey into whatever unknown territory the future may bring. For a complete list of links and community shout-outs included in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-195-my-wandering-warrior-existence/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:22 - Intro, Podcast Context, & Content Warnings 08:15 - My Wandering Warrior Existence w/Erica Friedman 09:15 - The Storytelling, Pacing, and Construction of Wandering Warrior 16:00 - Kabi's Growth as a Person and Storyteller 22:58 - Dating Apps and the Stress of Emotionally Taxing Tasks 26:33 - Having a Negative Self-Image and Being Afraid of Emotionally Investing Oneself in Another Person 28:11 - The Significance of Seeing More of Kabi's Friends and Relationships with Other People in Her Life 32:35 - CONTENT WARNING: Kabi's Sexual Assault Story 38:08 - Taking Down the Mental Hurdles in the Way of Forming Love and Relationships 43:25 - The Importance of Self-Love and Self-Care 45:30 - Importance of Seeing Positive Examples of Healthy Relationships Growing Up 47:33 - The Broader Relatability of Wandering Warrior's Themes of Navigating Love and Relationships 54:03 - Realizing What Makes You Happy May Not Be What We Think Will 58:09 - Understanding Your Own Gender and Sexuality: “I Am” vs “What” 1:02:45 - Appreciating the Small Pleasures of Life 1:04:50 - Final Thoughts and Takeaways 1:09:27 - What We Would Like to See Next from Kabi 1:11:04 - Brief Thoughts on Meisou Senshi Nagata Kabi: Gourmet de Go! 1:14:04 - Erica's Plugs 1:19:00 - Community Shout-Outs: Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you'd like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton's Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha's Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha's art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don't forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! Music Featured: “Densha Kamo Shirenai” by Tama “Lover Soul” by Judy and Mary

Fear can be life stifling… or quite the motivator. Canadian independent sports agent and 1999 NCAA Dunk Champion Gary Durrant runs the resume on how he decided to take a… The post Afraid of Being Afraid appeared first on PRESS.

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In this episode of the Morning Upgrade podcast I talk with Terry Tucker about his morning routine, how being afraid can be helpful, happiness, the four truths to living a fulfilling life and more. Hey guys! Do you enjoy listening to the Morning Upgrade Podcast? Do you think others would find value in it? If yes, please take 30 seconds and leave my show a review so more people find it. I appreciate you! https://ratethispodcast.com/morningupgrade -Ryan

The RailsConf Scholarship Program (https://railsconf.org/scholarships) 03:12 - Tram’s Superpower: Getting 8 Hours of Sleep Per Night! 04:08 - Leah’s Superpower: Being a Companion to Long-Distance Runners 04:55 - Stefanni’s Superpower: Doing Things She’s Terrified of Doing 05:34 - Being Afraid and Grappling with Self-Doubt * Asking Questions and Being Vulnerable * Call-Out Bad Behavior 12:34 - Team Psychological Safety 17:20 - Education & Learning Environments; Tech Journeys * Ada Developers Academy (https://adadevelopersacademy.org/) * The Turing School (https://turing.edu/) 27:52 - Making & Noticing Progress; Comparing Yourself to Others * The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know (https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Code-Science-Self-Assurance-What-Should/dp/006223062X) Reflections: John: Finding new ways to be of service to other people. Leah: What can we proactively do to make our space safer and more conducive to diverse thought? Mando: It’s okay to make mistakes and not be perfect. Steffani: How common it is to openly talk about these things in the Rails Community ❤️ Tram: Representation matters! Humanization and inclusivity. Calling people out. Lending Privilege -- Anjuan Simmons (https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/) Transcript: JOHN: Hello and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 235. I’m John Sawers and I’m here with Mando Escamilla. MANDO: Thanks, John. And I'm here with three RailsConf scholars who are going to be joining us today, which I'll like to take turns introducing yourself, maybe starting with Leah? LEAH: My name is Leah Miller and I’m a Platform Engineer at Highwing, which is an insurtech startup based out of Denver. Before making over the switch to tech, I spent almost a decade in the insurance industry primarily working as a production underwriter. In my spare time, I enjoy running and craft beer and frequently, the careful combination of the two. I’m also a new dog mom to a rescue pup named Orla. MANDO: Great. Tram, you want to go next, please? TRAM: Yeah. So hi, everyone. I'm Tram Bui. I’m currently attending Ada Developers Academy, which is a tuition-free coding program for women and gender-diverse folks in Seattle. The program includes an internship match with a Seattle tech company. So currently, for my internship, I work as a Developer Relations engineer and what this means is that I try to make it easier for Rails developers to deploy their apps to the cloud. Outside of coding, I try to maintain it and improve my high school tennis skills. I also like to read books and also, thinking about my next great public transportation adventure and volunteering for local nonprofits. And then Stephanie, I can pass it on to you. STEPHANIE: Hi, I'm happy to be here. I'm Stephanie and I've been working with Rails for the past 4 years, but now I'm trying to transition from dev full-time to having my own projects. And besides software, I also like to talk about plant-based diet, financial independence, and mental health. Also, if you have noticed my accent, I'm from Brazil, but I live in Vancouver, BC and yeah, I'm really happy to be here. JOHN: Awesome. Welcome to the show, everyone. So this is just a little setup here. Not every year at RailsConf, but most years at RailsConf, we do have a special episode where sometimes, we've got many of the panelists are together and so, we can record in the same room, which is obviously very novel for us. This year of course, it's all online. One of the things we’ve also done is bringing in some of the people who are part of the RailsConf Scholar Program, which is the program to expand access to tech conferences to people that are underrepresented and to give them some guidance on how to make the most of their experience at the conference. We always think it's great to get the opinions of people that are brand new to this industry and see what their perspective is on everything. So we're going to start off with our usual question which is what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? We can go really in any order. Who would like to go first? TRAM: I can go first. So my superpower would be the ability to get 8 hours of sleep a night [chuckles] and I think I acquired this power – I think I was very just like, I loved nap time as a kid and I grew up knowing the importance of a good night's rest. I think for me to be my best self, that’s one of the big things that I need to have. I think growing up and going to college, it was very like, “Oh, sleep is not important,” but I always had noticed the importance of sleep and I think it does hustle economy, too. People are very fast to just cast aside and was like, “You can sleep when you're dead,” but I'm like, “No, if you don't sleep, you will die faster.” So I'm going to take every opportunity that I can do at least get a full night's rest. LEAH: I am so jealous of that superpower. [laughs] I think mine feeds into a little bit of the opposite of that, but my superpower is the ability to keep people company when they're running through the night during a 100-mile races, or ultra-marathons. So people running it 3:00 AM, 4:00 AM, getting really down, needing someone to lift them up, I can run alongside them and sing, or just be a companion to keep them motivated. I think I acquired this skill from being a middle child. I spent a lot of time just entertaining myself and being pretty independent and if you can entertain yourself, it's pretty easy to extrapolate that to others, keep people going, so. [chuckles] STEPHANIE: I would say that my superpower currently is a work in progress actually, but it's doing things even if I'm terrified of the way I always struggled a little bit with self-confidence. How I acquired that, I actually had to go to therapy first to build the foundation, but now I think I've been getting pretty good at it and the feeling of doing the things that you're scared at the end is a really good feeling. You feel like a superwoman. [chuckles] JOHN: Oh, those are all such great answers. I want to dive into each of them, I think oh, my thoughts are jumbling up because I want to ask questions to all of you. Well, I think I'll start with Stephanie. That's an amazing superpower and it's definitely going to serve you well. It's something that I've had to learn as I develop my speaking career at the same time. Even just thinking that it was possible for me to get up on stage and do that, that took a while to get there and then actually doing it also took a lot of practice. So certainly, that's going to be awesome. MANDO: Yeah. It's so easy to just keep doing the things that you're good at and try to ignore, or maybe push off the things that you're not so good at, or you don't have that confidence in, Stephanie, like you were saying. It's funny, I keep relearning this lesson over and over again, there's this project at work that I've been putting off and pushing the JIRA ticket over just because I kept telling myself that it wasn't important and that I could do – other things were higher priority. It's just because I was kind of scared, but I wasn't going to be able to do it as well as I could do the other things. I just had to sit down and do it and then I pushed up the PR and it got ripped to shreds by the other wonderful, [laughs] amazing engineers that I work with. But it's good. I didn't die. [laughs] So it’s funny how we have to keep learning these lessons over and over again sometimes, I think. JOHN: Yeah, that reminds me that there's a related skill in there also, which is realizing when you were afraid of something. Sometimes you think, “Oh, it's just not important that happened right now.” MANDO: Yeah. JOHN: As an excuse, but once you realize, “Oh, I'm actually afraid of how this is going to go.” It allows you to approach it differently. You can be like, “Oh, okay, well that's what this is. All right, then now I know how to like face it, head on rather than pretending it's some other reasons.” So I think that that's really important as well. MANDO: Absolutely. Yeah, and it took me a couple of days to [laughs] realize that that's what I was doing and it wasn't until that was the last thing I had to work on for the sprint after I had reshuffled and moved everything over and then looked at my other teammates, JIRA boards to see if they had any stuff that I could help out with [laughs] that finally I was like, “Well, okay, I guess I'll just do this one.” TRAM: Yeah. I think sometimes for me, the anticipation, or the thought of it is even scarier than actually doing the task itself. I've had this happen to me so many different times. For instance, with the podcast, I'm like, “Yeah, this is something that I want to do because I like listening to podcasts,” but I was like, the nervousness and the scariness of putting myself out there and just thinking about it leading up to this moment, it's so much scarier than actually being in the moment and talking with y'all. So yeah. LEAH: I think part of it, too is recognizing that your feelings are not existing in a vacuum. There's other people that experience the same insecurities, or just going through what you're going through. We were interviewing someone a couple weeks ago at my company and just talking about the stressors of being from a bootcamp and being hired into an engineering organization as either a junior developer, or a mid-level developer, or whatever level, but just knowing that your background isn't a CS degree, or it's just a little bit different than what other people have. And then having that insecurity of I'm pushing up a PR and then are 20 people going to make comments on this and then that gets pushed to Slack and everyone sees all 20 comments. Am I going to be laughed at, or looked at as less than? So it's just nice to express that to someone else and have them regurgitate the same feelings, or just reflect back to you that you're not the only one who's having self-doubt in that way. MANDO: Yeah, and it's tough for me at least to remember sometimes that I come from a very different place privilege wise than other folks on the team. So it can be a lot easier for me to do stuff like, just push this PR up and ask for comments because my experience may be very different than someone who doesn't have my same background, or the amount of experience that I have, or the kinds of relationships that I may have with other folks on the team. I strive to help create spaces whether at work, or wherever where people can feel comfortable asking questions and not worrying about people coming in and being overly critical, or negative, or whatever. But my lived experience is very different than others. That's something that I need to keep in mind that you can't always just assume good faith that everyone's going to treat you the way that you would maybe treat them and I have to actively work and actively communicate to people that this is that kind of place. JOHN: Do you find that there are specific things that you do to communicate that, or at least to make that ambiently knowledgeable to the other people in the team? MANDO: That's a good question. I think the easiest thing you can do is make sure that you're modeling both sides of that behavior like, asking a lot of questions, putting yourself in vulnerable situations, and then also, making sure that you always jump in and respond positively when others do that so that you can help set a baseline. I think of what the behavior should be and what behavior is expected, and then the second thing is always making sure to call out behavior that doesn't hit the bar. I can't remember where I first heard this, but my buddy, Jerry, he's the one who always drops the phrase to remind me, he says, “It's as simple as saying, ‘We don't do that here.’” It doesn't have to be a big deal. It doesn't have to be a huge problem, or anything. Just when there's behavior that you don't do here, you say, “We don't do that – [laughs] we don't do that here.” It's as simple as that. LEAH: I love that. MANDO: Yeah, Jerry's awesome. JOHN: I think this is a really interesting topic because I'm always looking for examples of ways to make that easily communicated in a team environment. So have any of you had experiences where maybe someone else on the team was able to communicate some thoughts of psychological safety, or things that made you more comfortable being who you were on the team? LEAH: So I can speak to the team where I work. We're a startup. We have about 15, I think maybe officially 16 people now and we have, I think just hired our fifth female to join the team, or a fifth non-male to join the team. We have created just a private channel for all non-males on the team in Slack where we can communicate with each other and we've set up a happy hour once a month where we can meet. You don't have to drink alcohol. You can just sit and chat and we just have an hour set aside where no conversation topic is off limits. It's just really helpful to just set aside that time where there's no outside influence and it's just the five, or six of us, or however many there are right now [chuckles] who can join and just chat through what's a win for the week, or what's a struggle for the week. I think part of it is giving each other the space to express what's going well and also, express what's going wrong, and then see if others of us on the team can be a champion for the other person and just offer support where possible, or step in when something's happening that we need to maybe put a stop to. Our private channel is lovingly called The Thundercats, [laughs] which I'm pretty fond of. MANDO: [laughs] That's fantastic. You make it almost sound like a union kind of [laughs] where y'all can have this place where you have this ability to do collective action, if necessary. I think that's just fantastic. That's amazing. LEAH: And I should say that the men on our team are fantastic. So this is not like a – [laughs] [overtalk] MANDO: Of course, yeah. LEAH: Escape hatch like, we're all upset about stuff, but it's just nice. Regardless of how wonderful the men on the team are, it's nice to have a space for not men. [chuckles] STEPHANIE: Yeah. I think that for me, from my experience, the one that I was more comfortable with was at my first Rails job. It was still in Brazil and the team was totally remote and they did lots of peer programming. They did a great job in onboarding people, but peer programming was way more than onboarding. It was a common practice and I was just like, “Wow, this is so cool.” You could learn so much more beyond just a code and besides that, I felt really comfortable in seeing that no one was scared of doing anything wrong like, there was a really good communication. So I think that the main thing that needs to be worked at, when you're working in a team, is to make sure that everyone feels safe to do their stuff and they don't feel like, “Oh, I'm going to be judged,” or “I don't want to try this because I don't want to have to handle with anything from management,” or whatever. So maybe having that feeling, “Oh, we make mistakes here. We are humans, but we try to make the best to learn from them.” That's a good way to improve this team behavior, I guess. [chuckles] JOHN: So you were able to see the other people on the team, that you were paired with, making mistakes and being okay with it and just that became obvious to you that that was the thing that happened all the time and it was fine. Right? STEPHANIE: Yeah, and especially because I was also self-taught. I actually went for computer science for one year, but I dropped out. I always had this idea that people with more experience, they know everything. [laughs] That was like a mindset that I changed and it made me feel way more human, more than anything at first, and that's when I started seeing how much it's important to think of your team and how much that affects everyone and in your company as well. MANDO: First of all, shout out to comp sci dropouts. I made it just a little bit farther than you, but I know exactly where you're coming from. I had that same thing in my head for a very long time that these folks with their degrees obviously must know so much more than me and I have no idea what I'm doing. That's one of the things that I've always loved about the programs, like the RailsConf Scholars, is that for me, one of the things that helps combat that imposter syndrome thinking is working with folks directly who are earlier in their careers, or have less experience. So not only do you get to help them, guide them, and show them things and stuff, but it really does help serve as a reminder of all the stuff that you do know. There's nothing better than talking about something with someone, being able to explain it to them and help them, and then you walk away and you're like, “Oh yeah, I do know some things, that's kind of nice.” TRAM: I think in talking about dropping out of a major, or switching majors, my experience and my journey into tech. In college, I was quite afraid. I had a requirement to take a CS class, but hearing all these horror stories from other people made me delay taking it. I actually took my first CS class, my junior year of college and while it was really challenging, I definitely enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. But since I took it too late in my college career, I couldn't switch my major, or couldn’t minor, or major in it and that really stuck with me because, I think going and finding the ADA Developers Academy, which is a coding program, it’s like it was my second chance at doing something that I wanted to do, but didn’t have the time, or didn't have the confidence to do in college. One thing that is nice, that I keep thinking about, is that even if I did do a CS major in college, that environment instilled with the competition of it and instilled with, I guess, people who may think that they know more than you may have not been conducive for my education. But what I really enjoy about the current coding program that I'm in is that it's all women, or gender diverse folks and we all come from all different walks of life. But one thing that we have in common is being really empathetic to each other and that environment, I think made all the difference in my ability to learn and to see that there is a community that would champion me and that would also try to uplift other people. JOHN: Yeah. I think that highlights the importance of that initial learning environment. If your first exposure to tech is a weed-out course when you’re trying taking CS in college, you're probably never coming back to it. But having an environment that's specifically designed to actually be supportive and actually get you through learning things can make all the difference, really. MANDO: Yeah. My oldest son is going through a computer science course, or computer science curriculum at UT Dallas here in Texas and his experience is a little bit different, I think because of the pandemic and he doesn't have that in-person structure. Everything's different. He's not having in-person classes. So it's forcing it to be a little more collaborative in nature and a little less kind of what you were saying, John, like waking up at 8 o'clock in the morning to go to some 300-person weed-out class. I think it has served him a little bit better having things be a little weird in that regard, but it is funny to see how little the curriculum and set up around getting a computer science college degree has changed in the 20 years since I took it. That's a shame and I think that that's why the places like ADA Developers Academy and other folks who are showing people and especially employers, that there's different ways for people to get these skills and get this knowledge as opposed to a strictly regimented 4-year, whatever you want to call it, degree program. Leah, you came into technology, you were saying, through a different path other than your traditional computer science degree? LEAH: Yeah. So I majored in math in college and wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do with that and when I graduated, it was 2009, to age myself. [chuckles] It was 2009 and the economy was not doing very well and a lot of my peers were really struggling to find jobs. I went for a leadership program at an insurance company and ended up staying there and moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, which I had no desire ever to go there, [laughs] but it worked out fine. I ended up in this insurance company for almost 10 years. Met some really wonderful people and I got to do a lot of really great things, but just kept having that question in my mind of if it hadn't been a poor economy and if it hadn't been whatever factors, could there have been another path for me? I just kept thinking about what I enjoy doing at my job had nothing to do with the insurance side of things. I found that I got really into writing Excel formulas, [chuckles] those were the days that I was having the most fun and I was working remotely, living in Charleston, South Carolina at the time. After chatting with a few friends, I found the Turing School of Software & Design out in Denver. So I quit my job and moved out to Denver and two days after I moved there, I started the bootcamp program. After an entire week of school, I still hadn't unpacked my bag of socks and several other things from my car. So it was just kind of a whirlwind, but I picked Turing because they had an emphasis on social justice and that was really important to me and I think it served me very well as far as being able to meet a lot of people who are like-minded—who also picked Turing for similar reasons—just wanting to better the community and be a force for good with technology. So yeah, that was my rambling answer. [laughs] MANDO: I know that I struggle a lot with knowing the “good programs” and the not-so-great bootcamp style programs. Like anything else, when stuff becomes something that's popular, it attracts folks who are speculators and usurious, I guess, for lack of a better word. [chuckles] So you hear these horror stories about people who go through and spend all this money on bootcamp programs and then can't find a job, don't really feel like they learned the things that they were supposed to learn, or were told they were going to learn. It's nice to hear good stories around those and some good shoutouts to solid programs. LEAH: It was definitely stressful and we had a hallway that we deemed “the crying hallway.” [laughs] But I think it did serve me well and has served many people well in the several iterations that Turing has had over the years. MANDO: Yeah. Just because it's a solid program, or a positive program doesn't mean that it's easy by any stretch. LEAH: Totally. MANDO: I remember one time I was talking with an old coworker and she was telling me about her experience going through the CS program at Carnegie Mellon. This woman, Andrea, she's easily one of the smartest people that I've ever met in my life and she's fantastic at everything that I've ever seen her do. So to hear her talk about going through this program and finding stairwells to cry in and stuff as she was a student really shook me and made me realize that the stuff's not easy and it's hard for everybody. Just because you see them years later being really, really fantastic at what they do doesn't mean that they spent years trying to build those skills through blood, sweat, and tears. LEAH: Yeah, I think one of the things that was hard, too is you have no idea what playing field everyone is starting from. It's easy to really get down on yourself when you're like, “This other person is getting this so much faster than I am,” and come to find out they've had internships, or have been working on random online courses teaching themselves for years, and then finally made the decision to go to a school versus other people who haven't had that same amount of experience. It's another lesson and [chuckles] just level setting yourself and running your own race and not worrying about what other people are doing. TRAM: I totally agree with that, Leah. I feel like sometimes I compare my starting point to someone's finish line and I'm like, “Oh, how did they finish already? I'm just starting.” It can be really hard to think about that comparison and not get down on yourself. But I think it's also really good to keep in mind that we only know our journey and our race and it's so hard to have all of the other information on other people, how they got there. So it's just like, I try to remind myself that and it's like, I think the only one that I'm trying to compare myself with is me a month ago, or me a year ago instead of someone else's journey. LEAH: Totally. JOHN: Yeah, that's actually something I'm trying to build into a conference talk because it's so hard to see your own progress unless someone points it out to you. Especially as you're grinding through a curriculum like that, where it's like you're always faced with something new and you're always looking ahead to all the things you don't know. Like, when am I going to learn that, when am I going to get to that, when am I getting to know all these things like everybody else? It takes extra work to stop and turn around and look at, like you said, where you were a month ago, where you were three months ago and be like, “Oh my God, I used to struggle with this every day and now it just flows out of my fingers when I need to do a git commit,” or whatever it is. Being able to notice that progress is so important to feeling like you're not completely swamped and struggling the whole time; that you're always looking to the things you don't yet know and never looking at the things you do know, because you don't have to struggle with those anymore. They don't take up any space in your mind. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I can relate to that as well. Something that I've been doing that it's working a lot is okay, I look to others, but I try to see what they did that I can try to look forward. Like, “Oh okay, so they did this and this looks like something that I want to do,” but I only compare myself to my past self because it can be really – I don't think it does a lot of good to anyone, in fact, when you compare yourself to others, just for the sake of comparing. But if you do see that as an inspiration, “Oh, look, this person is showing me that what I want to do is possible and that's great because I have now more proof that I'm going the right path.” It definitely takes some time to change this little key in your head, but once you do, it gets so much easier and so much lighter. You see even people in a different way because you start asking, “I wonder if this person is struggling with this as well because it's not easy.” [laughs] So this is something that it's helping me. MANDO: Yeah, that's something that I'm struggling with right now with my daughter. She plays high school softball. She's fantastic, she's an amazing athlete, and she's really, really good, but she's a freshman on the varsity team at the highest-level high school team. So she continually compares herself against these other girls who are like 2, 3, 4 years older than her and have a lot more playing time and playing experience and they're bigger and they're stronger. I keep trying to look for a way to help her understand that, like you said, Stephanie, she can compare herself to herself yesterday and she can look to these other players as inspiration as to what's possible. But what she can't do is get down on herself for not being there yet. That's just not fair at all and she may never get there. There are a lot of other factors, outside of how hard she works and what she does, that will contribute to how she's going to finally be. That's another thing that I have to [laughs] work on just me personally is that we all have our own built-in limitations and we all make choices that set us down only so far down a path. I choose to not keep my house completely spotless because there's only so many hours in a day and I would rather go watch my daughter's softball game than deep clean a bathroom. I'll eventually clean the bathroom, but today, [laughs] it's not going to be cleaned because that's the choice. But yet for some reason, I still get down on myself when I come home after the game and I'm like, “Ugh, why is this house so dirty?” STEPHANIE: Yeah. I think now that you mentioned that you have a daughter, I remember this chapter from this book called The Confidence Code. It’s a really, really good book and it talks about all the reasons women are the ones that more self-confidence and how we can put ourselves to compete. There is a chapter for parents and how you can help your daughters to not go through the normal route because it will happen. Not that much anymore, but we are still, in terms of society, expected to behave differently and the book brings you really good tips for parents. I think you would be nice for you. It looks like you want to learn more about that? MANDO: Yeah, for sure. Thank you, Stephanie so much. I'll take a look at that and we'll include a link in the show notes for that and some of the other stuff. Any and all help [chuckles] is very much appreciated. JOHN: We've come to the time on the show where we go into what we call reflections, which are just the takeaways, or the new thoughts, or the things we're going to be thinking about that we've talked about on this episode that really struck us. So for me, it's a couple of different things. First Leah, you were talking about being a companion to long distance runners, which is something I had never thought about being a thing, but of course, the moment you say it, I'm like, “Oh yeah, if you're running a 100 miles, it'd be nice to have someone keep you a company.” That sounds great and it's something you need to be suited to. You need to be able to run and talk and so, finding new ways to be of service to other people, I think is really interesting part of that. I think the other thing that struck me is we're discussing different ways of increasing psychological safety on the team and the ways that you can communicate that to the people that are there. Those are the things I'm always keeping an eye out for because I always want to be able to provide those to my team and so, hearing your examples is just always good for me just to have even more different ways of doing it in the back of my head. LEAH: Well, thanks, John. Yeah, I think the big takeaway for me is just what can we proactively do to make our space safer, or just more conducive to diverse thought? I think, Mando, maybe you asked the question of what we were explicitly doing at our companies, or if anyone had ever done something explicit to make us feel safer, or invite us to participate fully in the community of developers? I think there is a lot more that can be done to help people feel as though they're a part, or that their opinion matters, or their belief matters and their contribution will only make the team better and stronger. MANDO: Yeah. I think that was John who asked that and then I rambled on for about 20 minutes afterward, so. [laughter] LEAH: Sorry. MANDO: But that reminds me, or that that leads into my reflection. Stephanie was talking about the one of the things that helps reinforce that psychological safety for her was seeing people make mistakes and having it be okay, and having that general attitude that we're going to make mistakes and bad things are going to happen and that’s okay. It's something that Leah, like you, I work at a really, really small startup. There's five people at the company total. So the pressure to make sure that everything is done right the first time is pretty high, the pressure that I put on myself, and it can easily spiral out of control when I start thinking about how long I've been doing this and then the should start to come out. “You should know this,” “You should be able to do this,” You should get this stuff done quickly, or faster,” or “It should be perfect.” I need to keep reminding myself that it's okay to make mistakes, it's okay to not have it be perfect the first time, it's okay to not be perfect. So thank you for that reminder, Stephanie. STEPHANIE: You're welcome. I have to remind myself every day as well. [chuckles] It is a daily practice, but I can guarantee you that it's so much better, things like life in general is so much better, so it is worth it. I think that my takeaway here, not only from this talk with everyone, but also from the RailsConf in general and the Rails community is how common it is to talk about these things at our community. Like, yesterday at the keynote, I saw the diversity numbers and I was like, “Whoa, wait a second. I think this is the first time that I go to a conference and someone is talking about this openly.” I think that's one of the reasons why the Rails community is so important to me and I want to continue the legacy. I think that talking about these names is what makes our community unique and I'm really grateful to be part of the community. TRAM: Yeah, I think my main takeaway is what I've been reflecting on the past few days and this conversation is one thing following the psychological safety theme of how can we have more inclusive and safe environments and like Leah said about representation matters. The people you see around you and the environments that you are in can help you to feel a certain way and when there's such a monolith of people in a certain company, that can make me feel very scared and open up to what I think, or my thoughts are. So I think the diversification of type is very, very important, but also just humanizing people and that's one thing that we can do today is highlight, be open about our mistakes, but also have an environment that is inclusive enough where people can speak up about their mistake and that inclusivity begets inclusivity. You're not going to just say that you're inclusive and don't have actions to back it up. Also, I think what Mando said about calling someone out. Sometimes being a newcomer to a company, I don't feel like I have the power to do that and sometimes, it's uncomfortable for me to do that. So having someone who is in upper management, or someone who has a little bit more power showcase that that's something that they have the power to do, but something that I can do also is really helpful. So that's something that I would try to reflect more on and act upon because it's been a really wholesome conversation and I'm glad to be a part of it. JOHN: Wonderful. Yeah, and to your point, Tram, there's a talk that was actually at RailsConf a couple of years ago by Anjuan Simmons called Lending Privilege. One of his points is that those of us who have the higher levels of privilege, we can wield it for good and we can do things like putting ourselves out there to say, “No, that's not okay on this team,” or to lift someone else up and say, “Hey, you just talked over, what's her name.” Like, “Please Stephanie, say what it was you were going to say,” or like, “Stephanie mentioned that idea tenured 10 minutes ago and we ignored it.” So using that privilege, or the position on the team. I've been at my company for 10 years so I have a lot of social capital; I can use that for a lot of good. I'll post a link to that talk as well in the show notes because I think it's really important concept. All right. Well, we've come to the end of our show. Thank you so much to all of our scholars who were able to join today, Leah, Stephanie, and Tram and thank you, Mando for being here. This was a wonderful conversation. MANDO: Yeah, thanks everyone. LEAH: Thank you. MANDO: It was fantastic. STEPHANIE: Thank you! TRAM: Thanks, ya’ll. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guests: Leah Miller, Stefanni Brasil, and Tram Bui.

The Difference Between the Fear of the Lord and Being Afraid of Everything Else Series: Wisdom from the Darkness Preacher: Scotty Smith Sunday Morning Date: 16th August 2020 Time: 11:00 Passage: Psalm 56:1-13

Ivan shares a refreshing message about how important the presence of God is for lives of believers and what it looks like to live a life filled with His presence. *If you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior for the first time, please go to www.hungrygen.com/vip Notes: Omni-Presence: - Jeremiah 23:23-24 - Psalm 139:7-10 Manifest Presence: 1. Solomon built the Temple (2 Chronicles 5:13-14) 2. Moses (Exodus 33:18-22) 3. Jesus John 14:21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal (manifest) myself to each of them. A. From the Beginning of Creation (Genesis 3:8-9) * Sin brought a separation * As we are bringing people to Christ (John 12:32) B. Out of His Presence (John 15:4) * In His presence. you flourish (Psalm 92:13) * In His presence, there is fullness of joy (Psalm 16:11) * Safety and Provision in His presence (Exodus 13:21) * Revelation/Direction in the Presence (1 Samuel 3:1) * The presence of God sets us apart from the people in the world (Exodus 33:16) * David when he (sinned) messed up, cried out, “Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me (Psalm 51:11) * The Presence of God brings Vision and Clarity. Cain went away from the LORD's presence and lived in a land called "Wandering," (Genesis 4:16) * Mistakes happen outside of the presence of God (Isaiah 1:9) God still wanted to dwell with his people. - Exodus 25:8 - The Ark of the covenant (presence). (Exodus 25:22) 2 Samuel 6:1-12 * Death by Familiarity - God struck Uzzah down because he touched the Ark. - Romans 11:22 * New Cart: something that was invented by man. * Being Afraid of the Lord is not the same for Fearing the Lord David was now afraid of the Lord. - Leviticus 10:3 - Acts 9:31 * Blessed in 3 months - 1 Chronicles 15:11-15 - 1 Peter 2:9 * Conscious of God’s Presence - 2 Samuel 6:12-14 How is the Holy Spirit doing inside of you ? Are you conscious of His Presence ? Are you living recklessly? Are you Exposing the Dove to all kinds of junk? How is the Dove feeling? - Eph 4:30-31 * Sanctify ourselves, (set ourself apart not to be religious but to Host His presence in Us) - Isaiah 33:14 - Psalm 24:4 If we desire to live with God, God will not stay at our level. He came down to our level and Died in our place to take us to His Level of Living. Don’t make excuses.

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Are you looking for some good, juicy, snarky books to read for the summer? Leann Harris, host of Shelf Aware Books podcast, reviews five snarky books that you'll definitely want to have on your summer reading list. We also talk about the word "self help," why people cringe when they hear it, and why we feel worse after reading self help books. One thing is for sure, you'll feel enlightened after listening to this episode! Reading list: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It - Kamal Ravikant Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Guide) - Sarah Knight Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things - Courtneay Hameister The No Self Help Book - Kate Gusten Bonus Book! Stuff That Sucks: A Teen's Guide to Accepting What You Can't Change and Committing to What You Can - Ben Sedley You can find Leann Harris on Facebook and Instagram @shelf_aware_  and you can listen to Shelf Aware Books podcast where ever you listen to indie podcasts! We'd love to hear from you! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @womenwhosarcast! Become part of the WWS community by visiting us on Patreon.

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WILDERNESS: The Fear of God vs. Being Afraid of God.

As a child, have you ever been lost or separated from your family? How did that affect you? These moments growing up can cause separation fear and anxiety that goes on as we age. Depending on when and where you grew up, some of us wondered away from home for miles and miles. We stayed out till dark. It is odd that a moment separated from family is panic. However, voluntarily separating is just part of fun day. What fears do you have? Spiders, heights, claustrophobia, severe weather, or snakes? Do you live with or by fear? Do fears parallyze you? How do fears change your life or plans?

Fear comes in many forms. It can be defined as an emotional experiece of physiological or psychological stress that is without love, trust, or hope. In this day and time, there are a lot of people afraid of where the country is going. Whether that is the fear of contracting an infectious virus or fear of unemployment. Both of these are real and part of present day. Fear impacts our lives in a way that can affect the way we develop as humans. Listen along as Eddie and Darren discuss their fears and how they deal with them.

This episode is a little different. I'm pigging back off of a clip I seen on Instagram by @sleepis4suckers . With everything going on, it was only right I addressed the elephant(s) in the room. Fear... Hesitation and Being Afraid. A lot of us are feeling the overwhelm of everything going on. We already feel like we can't move like we want or we're feeling stuck adjusting to this new norm. Transitioning from outside to online. In this episode, I dive deep into where we are now. And HOW and WHY we should overcome the fear of moving to the next level. Whatever that looks like for you. Maybe you need to make a important decision that could Change the rest of your life. Maybe you want to start an online business, make a huge investment, learn a completely new skill or even become a multi level marketer. All these decisions that need to be made so that we can protect our homes, our families, our businesses. Our peace, our sanity. It's so much. But the GOOD NEWS IS, you can do it! You got this! Follow me at @theactionmom and the podcast at @actuallytakingactionpodcast ... Enjoy!

40 Days of Faith: I Want to Get Better at Being Afraid (4.5.2020, John Furste) by River NYC Sermons

Season 01 Episode 06 Are you afraid? If we're honest, we're all afraid of something. For some, it's monsters under the bed and things that go bump in the night. Most of us, though, are fearful of things like failure, of not being able to pay your bills or the death of someone you love. The Bible tells us over and over again not to be afraid, but how do we do that? Today, we'll hear from a crime victim, a battle-tested soldier, and a missionary who all had to learn the secret of courage.   Joanne Austin “I’m Tired of Being Afraid” 02:30 - 9:26 Jeff Struecker “Fear and Courage” 11:29 - 15:55 Jane Cook “Breaking Fear Barriers” 16:51 - 21:11   Resources to help you grow No More Fears "No fear is too small for Christ to handle, and certainly, none is too large." https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/devotionals/todays-promise/01/25.html   When the World Feels Unsafe "But God meets us in our fears and promises to usher believers on to a tear-free eternity." https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/life-and-relationships/hardships/when-the-world-feels-unsafe.html   4 Practical Things to do Instead of Worrying "Worrying less starts with knowing who God is." https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/life-and-relationships/emotions/why-worry.html

Get out your Rydell High letterman/woman’s jacket and/or pomade up your hair for this chat with author and storyteller Courtenay Hameister (Author of the new book Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things) who be-bopped all across these United States and even over the Pacific Ocean for a childhood of Army-Bratting… with plenty of energy left over to experience some juicy panic and anxiety in her adult years! Hosted by Janet Varney. Edited by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun

Today, David & BT go inside Episode 114 – Being Afraid of the Unknown. David brings in the science behind the subconscious mind, how to properly develop the courage muscle, and how he personally embraces the “do it regardless‘ mentality.

Humorist and former Live Wire host Courtenay Hameister reads from her recent nonfiction book "Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things," which is a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Courtenay shared this essay on stage during Live Wire's 15th anniversary show in June 2019 at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon.

02:06 - Claire’s Superpower: The Ability to Distill Things and Catching Pellets 05:21 - Janelle’s Superpower: Seeing the Gifts of Others and Bringing Them to Surface 08:19 - Sam’s Superpower: Being Able to Make Connections Between the Shapes of Things Even if They Don’t Look the Same on the Surface 09:13 - Bad Bosses Panelist Experiences, Symptoms of Poor Leadership and Management Are We Bad Bosses?! Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things by Courtenay Hameister (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316395706/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316395706&linkId=2ea38ee8c980c0bc28c894b768c5b572) Command and Control Leadership (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control) 26:18 - Talent vs Skill Questions to ask yourself if you’re an aspiring manager: How much do you enjoy being in Flow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))? How much do you enjoy repeating yourself? Do you like to play detective about people? Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being by Brian R Little (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610396383/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1610396383&linkId=a4d39d490502f94089460a5a28cb97f1) Reflections: Sam: “Do we ever think about ourselves, that we me be someone else’s worst boss?” Arty: Claire asking the panelists questions was different! (In a lovely way!) Claire: The different forms and threads that real leadership can take. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Claire Lew.

Mindset Explosion Season 2, Ep 024 - Being Afraid is Normal. Originally Recorded in 2019 for my Facebook Live Mindset Explosion Series. Stay Up to date with the live show on my Facebook page for Cheltenham Martial Arts. Currently at Season 2.... I will be uploading all of Season 1 and Season 2 over the coming weeks.... Get binge watching :-) or download them all now FREE at http://www.cmauniversity.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/martialartscheltenham/ or follow me on Instagram & IGTV @mindsetexplosion http://www.martialartscheltenham.co.uk ✌️ make today a great day, make this year amazing✌️ #mindsetexplosion #mindset #goals #fitness #martialarts #success #cheltenham #cheltenhammartialarts #wellbeing #chimpparadox #mentalhealth #health #life #love #business

It's been 4 years since we last visited with our friends at Major League Bowhunter.  Every conversation we've had with their crew has lead to some deep thinking related to hunting, industry challenges, and solutions to keep hunting alive for generations to come.  According to Matt, due to some legislation and some economic factors relative to agriculture in Mississippi, the Mississippi deer hunting has never been so good.  We reflect on Matt's 2018-2019 deer season and then we turn to Brandon Adams, a long time MLB crew member, and learn how he prepared for a season he called the Oklahoma Slam which involved taking one of each of the 5 big game species in Oklahoma in a single hunting season using over the counter tags available to anyone. SPECIAL OFFER FROM QUIETKAT TO OUR LISTENERS-  USE CODE: BIGBUCK15 to Receive 15% Off Your Order OUR SPONSORS:  Rackology, Covert Scouting Cameras, QUIETKAT,  BIG BUCK MERCH   Here's What We Discuss: I Can't See My Phone Lasik and Target Panic HHA Site, Being Afraid to Miss Deer Feeding Program in Mississippi Inventory the Deer Letting Deer Grow Eat Up with Bow Hunting Mississippi Delta and Low Nutritional Browze A Big Huge Shift - Cotton and Soybeans to Corn and Soy Select Targeting Field Fertilizer Building Passionate Young Deer Hunters Fortnite, NFL Madden after the Hunt Every Hunter Should Take a Kid Hunting Mandatory Oklahoma Slam 5 Big Game Species Hitting Up Instagram for a Hunt The Pan Handle Speed Goats Practicing at 90 and 100 Yards A Dozen Arrows at Lunch - One to Two Dozen Per Session Training to Hunt They Don't Move Like Whitetail Holding the Pin - Archery Is Just Math You Want the Shot to Just Happen Just Send It Bear, Antelope, Elk, Mule Deer, and Whitetail MLB 2019 Chipper Jones and Shoemaker Homes The Adult Hunter Developing an Arkansas Farm   Our APP: CLICK HERE for Our FAN APP Help Support This Show: Click Here to Support Us Big Buck Merch: Click Here for BBR Deer Hunt Merch FEEDBACK HOTLINE: 724-613-2825 PLACES TO FIND OUR PODCAST: Click for Apple Podcasts Click Here for Stitcher Click Here for Google Play Click Here for Our Podcast Page Click Here for YouTube Subscribe to our RSS Feed Click Here for TuneIn Click Here for Google Podcasts Click Here for Spotify Click Here for Radio Public Click Here for Radio.com Click Here for iHeart Radio Want to Know When the Next Big Buck Podcast is Released? Join the Club: Click Here to Join Our Mailing List Submit A Buck: Click Here to Submit a Big Buck Hunt Pic Big Buck Registry Social Media Links: Facebook: Click Here for Our Facebook Page Twitter: Click Here for BBR Twitter Instagram: Click Here for BBR Instagram Email Us: BBR Feedback:Feedback@BigBuckRegistry.com Be a Guest: Guests@BigBuckRegistry.com CREDITS: This Show was Written, Edited, and Produced by Jason “Jay” Scott Ammann Deer News Written and Recorded by Jim Keller Chubby Tines Tip of the Week Written by Dusty Phillips

Author and radio host Courtenay Hameister (Live Wire!) stops by the show to talk about her hilarious memoir Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things, her RV book tour, relationships, being a late bloomer, the mixed feelings she experienced when she stopped hosting Live Wire!, live show anxiety, the genesis of the book, having sex in public, burrito night at the sex club, breathing and mindfulness, how she knew polyamory wasn't for her and so much more.    Check us out on Patreon: http://patreon.com/alisonrosen   Buy Alison's Book: Tropical Attire Encouraged (and Other Phrases That Scare Me) You probably need to buy a new ARIYNBF Legacy Shirt! and the HGFY ringtone! This show is brought to you by Everyplate.com (enter code BestFriend for 50% off your first box) Try Amazon Prime Free 30 Day Trial

Being Afraid of Complex Medical Histories Watch the video at https://www.facebook.com/educatePT/videos/1797074913720075/ Be sure to check out Modern Management of the Older Adult - an 8 week online course led by Dustin Jones and Christina Prevett. This course is approved for 16 CEU's and is sure to help you improve how you treat and view older adults - http://ptonice.com/older-adult-1  

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