Podcasts about Belgrade

Today we speak to concerned citizen Aleksandar Hough. He's on the ground in Belgrade, and will be telling us about the large scale anti-government protests that are sweeping across Serbia right now. Police and hired goons have began attacking protesters and the situation is escalating.   No ads and tons of exclusives: www.patreon.com/popularfront Discounted internet privacy for all our listeners: www.protonvpn.com/popularfront - Info: www.popularfront.co - Merch: www.popularfront.shop - News: www.instagram.com/popular.front - Jake: www.jakehanrahan.com  

My guest today is Vojkan Brankovic, founder of Apeiron, a principal investment firm that is shaping the future of sustainable real estate investment. Founded in 2013, Apeiron has established itself as a leader in high-impact real asset opportunities, specializing in logistics real estate across Europe.With over 30 years of investment management experience, Vojkan has positioned Apeiron at the forefront of logistics real estate investment, currently managing a portfolio of 500,000 square meters across strategic German locations spanning the full value chain from opportunistic and value-add to core+ strategies.Vojkan's journey into real estate began far from the world of buildings and investments, with his early years spent between Sweden and Belgrade, Serbia, followed by time in the UK. This upbringing shaped much of his entrepreneurial mindset and leadership style.Growing up in these diverse cultures gave him an early understanding of adaptability and collaboration, 2 key factors that would later influence how he built Apeiron. It was this exposure to different ways of thinking, working, and leading that laid the foundation for his approach to business.While his background had always been in business and finance, he found his true passion in real estate. He saw it not just as a way to generate financial returns, but as an opportunity to make a positive environmental impact.This vision was rooted in the recognition that the real estate sector, particularly logistics, was one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions. But it was also where he saw the greatest potential for change.What sets Vojkan apart is how he's using real estate as a way to do good while making money. For him, it's about transforming inefficient buildings into assets that serve a greater purpose.His vision for sustainable, technology-enabled logistics infrastructure has attracted partnerships with leading institutional investors from Korea and the Middle East, demonstrating the global appeal of Apeiron's differentiated investment approach.One of the interesting features of Apeiron is its lean approach to business. While many firms in the real estate investment space operate with large teams and complex structures, Apeiron keeps things simple and efficient. With just 5 people in its team, the firm can make quick strategy decisions and stay nimble in an industry that's often slow to change.Through Apeiron, Vojkan is demonstrating that real estate doesn't just have to be about buildings and profits—it can be about purpose, too.—Connect with SRI360°:Sign up for the free weekly email updateVisit the SRI360° PODCASTVisit the SRI360° WEBSITEFollow SRI360° on XFollow SRI360° on FACEBOOK—Additional Resources: 

Vuk Velebit is the co-founder and executive director of the Pupin Initiative, which has become the hub for bolstering US-Serbia ties, doing so through collaborative and non-partisan efforts and policies. The Pupin Initiative was established with the same values that renowned Serbian-American scientist and inventor Mihajlo (Michael) Pupin espoused over 100 years ago. They bring together young entrepreneurs, cross-field experts, and value creators from both the United States and Serbia, focus on creating impactful networks through a bottom-up approach, and provide an authentic understanding of local contexts. The Pupin Initiative is privately funded to ensure commitment and efficiency, and to surpass any bureaucratic shortcomings. Vuk Velebit is a leading new-generation political analyst, renowned for his expertise in foreign and security policy, media analysis, and political strategy. You can also watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/5qvATL-79q8 You can learn more about the Pupin Initiative at: https://pupin.org Follow the Agents of Innovation podcast on: Instagram: / innovationradio Twitter: / agentinnovation Facebook: / agentsofinnovationpodcast You can support this podcast and our Fearless Journeys community on our Patreon account: www.patreon.com/fearlessjourneys You can also join our network -- and our group trips -- through the Fearless Journeys community at: https://www.fearlessjourneys.org 0:00 Episode Intro 1:55 Introduction of Vuk Velebit 3:52 Why the Pupin Initiative? 5:55 Who was Michael Pupin? 10:28 Serbia's dynamic geographic location 14:06 U.S. companies with hubs in Belgrade 16:08 Serbia's startup ecosystem & US trade partnership 17:00 High-skilled tech talent 18:16 Why most Serbians speak English 24:05 Real Estate Investment in Belgrade waterfront 28:53 The need for internal investment in Serbia 30:43 Serbian economy and access to international markets 37:15 Serbian Dinar a very sound currency 37:50 Visiting Belgrade & learning its history 43:40 U.S. Presidential visits to Serbia 46:38 Connecting Belgrade and Miami 48:45 The affect of Russia, Ukraine, and Israel on Serbia 51:48 Serbian Orthodox Church & rich history in Belgrade 54:25 Events and Activities of the Pupin Initiative 58:01 Meeting with decision makers in Washington DC 1:01:06 The future of Serbia and U.S.-Serbia relations

Interview recorded - 3rd of July, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming back Marko Papic. Marko is chief strategist at at BCA Research. He is also the author of Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future.During our conversation we spoke about Marko's current thoughts on the geopolitical landscape, his framework, trading geopolitics, current flashpoints and impact on the markets. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:33 - Geopolitical framework5:58 - Trading geopolitics13:45 - Trump & Putin16:52 - Geopolitics the past 10 years27:03 - Russia, Middle East & Taiwan40:21 - Impact on markets?Marko is a macro and geopolitical expert at BCA Research, a global investment research firm. He provides in-depth analysis that combines geopolitics and markets in a framework called GeoMacro. He is also the author of Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future.At BCA, Marko leads the firm's premier service, BCA Access, that allows clients to unlock access to custom research and the vast expert network that BCA has cultivated over its 76 year history.Previously, Marko was a partner at an alternative asset management firm in California where he provided his investors and clients with controversial market calls, bold views, and around-the-clock research. He helped seed global macro hedge funds and curate several funds, across public and private markets. His work on incorporating geopolitics into the asset management industry has become part of the CAIA curriculum.Born in Belgrade, Serbia, he has lived in Iraq, Jordan, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S. He has lectured at the top universities and you'll frequently see him in global news media.Marko Papic - X - https://x.com/Geo_papicResearch - https://www.bcaresearch.com/Geopolitical Alpha - https://www.geopoliticalalpha.com/Geopolitical Cousins - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geopolitical-cousins/id1802258017WTFinance -Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseasThumbnail image from - https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/55370299-abstract-digital-world-map-illuminated-with-red-lines-and-nodes-showcasing-global-connectivity

A protest special as we look at recent events in Budapest and Belgrade - two cities experiencing mass-scale demonstrations in defiance of strongman leaders. And, as the UK parliament votes to proscribe Palestine Action, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights outlines his concerns.

KeywordsBitcoin, mining, 256 Foundation, open source, technology, community, ASIC, market dynamics, predictions, educationSummaryIn this episode of Pod 256, the hosts discuss various aspects of the Bitcoin mining community, including updates on the 256 Foundation, experiences from a recent meetup in Belgrade, and innovations in mining technology. They explore the importance of open-source mining, the challenges posed by copycats, and the dynamics of the Bitcoin market. The conversation also touches on predictions for Bitcoin's future price and the psychological aspects of Bitcoin pricing, emphasizing the need for education in Bitcoin adoption.TakeawaysThe 256 Foundation is actively engaging with the Bitcoin community.Rod shares insights from a recent meetup in Belgrade, highlighting community spirit.Open-source mining technology is evolving with new innovations.The importance of user experience in mining software is emphasized.Market dynamics are leading to a race to the bottom in pricing.New ASIC designs are impacting the mining landscape.Manufacturers and sellers play a crucial role in the Bitcoin ecosystem.Navigating copycats and knockoffs is a challenge for open-source projects.The state of the Bitcoin network is constantly changing, with fluctuations in hash rate.Education is key to fostering Bitcoin adoption and understanding. Chapters00:00 Introduction and Meeting Updates04:14 Rod's European Adventures and Community Engagement08:31 Innovations in Mining Technology12:33 The Future of Mining and Open Source Solutions16:49 The Shift from Proprietary to Open Hardware19:31 The Rise of Digital Shovel and Blue Axe20:57 Pricing Trends in Bid Axes22:19 The Race to the Bottom in Mining Hardware23:41 The Future of ASIC Manufacturers25:39 Challenges of Open Source in Mining27:51 The Impact of Rapid Development on Copycats28:34 State of the Network and Market Predictions38:25 The Mysterious Disappearance of Hashing39:06 Exploring the Hashes and Their Impact40:25 Community Contributions and Support41:34 The Rise of Ocean and Its Innovations42:46 Mining Dynamics and Market Fluctuations44:09 Treasury Strategies in Bitcoin Mining45:47 Market Sentiment and Bitcoin's Future48:31 The Psychological Aspect of Bitcoin Valuation50:25 Education and Resources for New Investors51:38 Upcoming Events and Community Engagement

Depuis novembre, la Serbie, candidate à l'Union européenne, fait face à une contestation étudiante sans précédent. Depuis le weekend du 28 et 29 juin, la protestation est passée à une autre étape.Le mouvement, qui a rassemblé 140.000 personnes dans les rues de Belgrade, réclame la fin de la corruption dans le pays et le bon fonctionnement des institutions. Pour y parvenir, les manifestants exigent des élections législatives anticipées, pour chasser le parti du président Aleksandar Vucic, au pouvoir depuis plus de dix ans.Les étudiants avaient lancé un ultimatum au Président. Le chef d'Etat nationaliste n'a pas cédé et des affrontements ont éclaté dans la capitale serbe. Quelles sont les revendications du mouvement ? Quelle est la réaction du gouvernement ? Quelle est la prochaine étape pour la contestation ?Dans cet épisode, Sur le Fil vous emmène dans les Balkans, avec les journalistes du bureau de l'AFP à Belgrade.Réalisation : Maxime MametInvités : Mina Pejakovic et Ognjen Zoric, journalistes au bureau de l'AFP à Belgrade.Sur le Fil est le podcast quotidien de l'AFP. Vous avez des commentaires ? Ecrivez-nous à podcast@afp.com. Vous pouvez aussi nous envoyer une note vocale par Whatsapp au + 33 6 79 77 38 45. Si vous aimez, abonnez-vous, parlez de nous autour de vous et laissez-nous plein d'étoiles sur votre plateforme de podcasts préférée pour mieux faire connaître notre programme Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

The leaders of the 27 EU nations meet in Brussels, Belgrade braces for anti-corruption protests, New Zealand at the Nato summit and public voting in Switzerland. Plus: theatre news and ‘What We Learned’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VOV1 - Ngày 26/6, Bộ Nội vụ Serbia (MIA) xác nhận, sáu cá nhân bị tình nghi âm mưu lật đổ chính phủ bằng bạo lực đã bị bắt giữ. Các vụ bắt giữ diễn ra tại nhiều địa điểm trên khắp Serbia, dưới sự chỉ đạo của Văn phòng Công tố viên cấp cao Belgrade.

Nada Jelic and Nicolas Payet were the featured guests on the latest edition of the PwC People Pulse themed around international mobility, in particular where it concerns work. Nicholas, originally from France, and Nada, who transferred from PwC's Belgrade office in Serbia, are among the many professionals who have chosen Luxembourg as their destination for personal and professional growth. PwC Luxembourg, home to over 4,000 employees, offers global mobility programmes that allow staff to explore opportunities abroad while gaining diverse experiences. For Nada, who relocated just six months ago, the choice was intentional. Drawn by the ability to work in English and Luxembourg's close ties to her home office, she describes her transition as both challenging and rewarding. One of the biggest adjustments, she noted, was moving from a tightly-knit 300-person office to a much larger environment where connections take time to form. In contrast, Nicholas, who has been with PwC for nearly two decades, first moved to Luxembourg without much prior knowledge of the country. What began as a search for an international experience turned into a long-term stay, enriched by the city's multicultural atmosphere and proximity to France. He also spent time working in New York, where cultural differences offered valuable lessons in communication and integration. Both professionals highlighted the importance of community and adaptability in navigating life abroad. From cultural differences and food cravings to building new friendships, their stories reflect the realities of international assignments. While challenges such as loneliness or missing family are common, the personal and professional development gained was worth it. *this is sponsored content*

#LFC #LiverpoolFC #LiverpoolFootballClub Download SAILY in your app store and use our code bloodred at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. For further details go to https://saily.com/bloodred Milos Kerkez is flying back to England to undergo a medical on Monday ahead of his move to Liverpool. The Reds are set to sign the Hungary international in a £40m deal from AFC Bournemouth. The 21-year-old has been on holiday in Belgrade, but will return to the United Kingdom to put the finishing touches on his move to Merseyside - as first reported by the Athletic - with his transfer set to be announced later this week. Kerkez - who is set to sign a five-year contract - has made no secret of his desire to join Liverpool, while his father and agent, Sebastijan, confirmed the switch was ‘basically a done deal' when appearing alongside his son on Serbian YouTube channel Super Indirektno kod Popa i Milana. Join Joe Rimmer and Theo Squires for the Monday edition of the Blood Red podcast as they discuss the latest Liverpool transfer news. *#BeMoreDan: Fascinating Tales From Liverpool's Incredible History* https://reachsportshop.com/book/lfc-stories/ Download SAILY in your app store and use our code bloodred at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. For further details go to https://saily.com/bloodred Get exclusive Liverpool FC podcasts and video content everyday right here.  Subscribe to the Blood Red Liverpool FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3OkL9iT Listen and subscribe to the Blood Red Podcast for all your latest Liverpool FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HfBvKq SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/3SdsjeH Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoLFC Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoLFC Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodred_lfc Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bloodred_lfc Subscribe to us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bloodredliverpoolfc Download our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Planes scooping water from lakes. Crews flying into firestorms. Mechanics maintaining aircraft in warzone-like conditions.  It sounds like a military operation, because in many ways, it is. As wildfires grow more frequent, more destructive, and more deadly, the national spotlight is turning to one of the most critical and overlooked fronts in disaster response: aerial firefighting.  Events like the Lahaina fire and the Palisades blaze have shown just how high the stakes are and how essential rapid, airborne intervention has become in saving lives, homes, and ecosystems. Bridger Aerospace sits at the center of this transformation. With a mission rooted in military discipline and public service, the company combines aviation, emergency response, and cutting-edge technology in a way few others can. In this episode, I'm joined by Sam Davis, CEO of Bridger Aerospace, operator of the largest private fleet of CL-415 “Super Scoopers” in the U.S.  Sam opens up about what it's really like to run a year-round, 200-person aviation operation with aircraft flying low over burning terrain across the country.  From supply chain crunches to political backlash, it's a raw look inside one of the most demanding jobs in aviation today. We also talk about how Bridger Aerospace is pioneering wildfire response using military-grade sensors, early detection aircraft, and a culture of service that rivals special ops. You'll learn: Why aerial firefighting is one of the most complex aviation operations in the U.S.  How Bridger balances safety, inventory, and downtime in remote environments  What it takes to recruit and train elite pilots for low-altitude wildfire missions  Why sensors, software, and year-round deployments are the future of firefighting  How culture, passion, and purpose drive performance in high-risk settings  The role of private enterprise in strengthening America's wildfire defense    Guest Bio Sam Davis is the CEO of Bridger Aerospace. Bridger Aerospace is an aerial firefighting and aerospace services company based in Belgrade, Montana, located at the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (KBZN). It was founded in 2014 to support frontline firefighters with world-leading technology and aerial fire suppression systems. Since its inception, the company has grown from operating a single plane to commanding a significant Air Attack fleet, the most modern fire imaging and surveillance aircraft, and the world's largest private Super Scooper fleet. Sam is integral in facilitating revenue growth, implementing operational efficiency, and executing strategic initiatives to expand services and global footprint. Visit https://bridgeraerospace.com/ and connect with Sam on LinkedIn.    About Your Host Craig Picken is an Executive Recruiter, writer, speaker and ICF Trained Executive Coach. He is focused on recruiting senior-level leadership, sales, and operations executives in the aviation and aerospace industry. His clients include premier OEMs, aircraft operators, leasing/financial organizations, and Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul (MRO) providers and since 2008, he has personally concluded more than 400 executive-level searches in a variety of disciplines. Craig is the ONLY industry executive recruiter who has professionally flown airplanes, sold airplanes, and successfully run a P&L in the aviation industry. His professional career started with a passion for airplanes. After eight years' experience as a decorated Naval Flight Officer – with more than 100 combat missions, 2,000 hours of flight time, and 325 aircraft carrier landings – Craig sought challenges in business aviation, where he spent more than 7 years in sales with both Gulfstream Aircraft and Bombardier Business Aircraft. Craig is also a sought-after industry speaker who has presented at Corporate Jet Investor, International Aviation Women's Association, and SOCAL Aviation Association.    Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, and don't forget to leave a review if you like what you heard. Your review feeds the algorithm so our show reaches more people. Thank you! 

Music Not Diving is supported by AC55ID... head over to www.ac55id.com to check out the fastest growing electronic music marketplace, a central hub for music discovery, streaming and purchasing!And for artists and labels... use the code Scuba6 for six months free use of the platform!!--Watch the full video version of this episode over at youtube.com/@WeNotDivingWe've been talking a lot in recent weeks about politics in dance music. Over on the Patreon feed we did a bonus episode covering the debate around private equity in festivals, of which there will be a second part this week. There will be a solo podcast covering all that on the main feed in the next couple of weeks but in the meantime we wanted to return to one of the absolute best episodes we've done, one which covered many of the wider themes that have come to the forefront of the discussion recently, from all the way back in March 2023.Tijana T is a DJ from Serbia. She's been involved in the scene in Belgrade one way or another since the 90s, a period which for obvious reasons was extremely fraught across the whole region. The discussion covers her wider career, but we spend a lot of time discussing the effect that conflict has on art, and on artists. From a position of direct experience, Tijana speaks with real insight on these topics.Covering this sort of thing is difficult. Not least because we get blocked from promoting our videos on Youtube when certain topics are even mention. But this is the important stuff that's happening in culture right now, and while tackling anything of it with a degree of nuance is a serious challenge, it's one that we enjoy on this show. Even if you listened to this episode the first time round we highly recommend giving it another spin. It's highly relevant to what is going on today. --If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features the show without ads, regular bonus podcasts, and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using a card, with Paypal, or your Ethereum wallet! Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation in the public channels.Listen to the music discussed on the show via the Music Not Diving Podcast Spotify playlist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While no major court is officially named after Roger Federer, a street leading to the tennis stadium in Halle, where he plays, has been named the Roger-Federer-Allee. Additionally, a tennis court at his former club in Basel, Switzerland, is named the "Roger Federer Court". There are tennis courts named after Novak Djokovic, in Belgrade, Serbia, and in Clichy, France. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC Sports News Anchor, Jon Gericke

In this episode Dr Alice Tsai speaks with Prof. Milos Bjelovic, EAES 2025 Congress President, about the upcoming 33rd international EAES congress that will be held in Belgrade, Serbia from Tuesday 17 June through Friday 20 June in corporation with the Serbian Association for Endoscopic Surgery (UEHS). Prof. Bjelovic talks about the theme of the congress, what he's most looking forward to and where to visit while in Belgrade.If you enjoy this episode, why not subscribe to Inside Surgery so you don't miss out on future episodes?Would you like to become a part of the EAES family? Become a member via https://eaes.eu/become-a-member

"He was one of the greatest men of Serbia who ruled the kingdom after king Dušan. Upon the death of King Uroš, Lazar was crowned King of Serbia by Patriarch Ephraim. He sent a delegation to Constantinople, including a monk called Isaiah, to plead for the removing of the anathema from the Serbian people. He went to war on several occasions against the Turkish Pasha, finally clashing with the Turkish king, Amurât, at Kosovo on June 15, 1389, being slain there. His body was taken to Ravanica near Cupria, a foundation of his, and buried there, but was later taken to New Ravanica in Srem. During the Second World War, in 1942, it was taken to Belgrade and placed in the Cathedral, where it is preserved to this day and offers comfort and healing to all who turn to him in prayer. He restored Hilandar and Gornjak, built Ravanica and the Lazarica in Kruševac and was the founder of St Panteleimon, the Russian monastery on the Holy Mountain, as well as numerous other churches and monasteries." (Prologue)

Plus de soixante chefs d'État au chevet des océans à Nice, dans le sud de la France... et les sujets d'inquiétude ne manquent pas : du réchauffement climatique à la pollution en passant par la surpêche et l'acidification des eaux, l'océan souffre,  et les scientifiques sont les premiers à le constater.  Dans le nord de l'Espagne, le centre océanographique de Gijon travaille sur le pythoplancton, lui aussi victime du réchauffement... c'est un acteur-clé de l'absorption du carbone, une vraie pompe biologique, et aussi un aliment pour les poissons... mais sa qualité laisse aujourd'hui à désirer... Reportage auprès des scientifiques de Diane Cambon.   «Les grands fonds ne peuvent pas devenir un far west»La lutte contre le chalutage, ou l'exploitation des fonds marins, l'ouverture du sommet de Nice a été l'occasion de dire haut et fort ses inquiétudes... «les grands fonds ne peuvent pas devenir un far west», a ainsi lancé le secrétaire général de l'ONU, référence à peine masquée aux projets prédateurs du président américain.Techniquement, l'exploitation des galets de nickel et autres métaux précieux à plus de 6 000 mètres de profondeur est déjà possible... un navire Le hidden gem de la société suisse Allseas a déjà testé un équipement ad hoc Laxmi Lota.   L'Europe synthétise sa position sur les océans Et face au traité mondial de protection de la haute mer, qui devrait entrer en vigueur à la fin de l'année 2025, l'Europe a voulu aussi faire entendre sa voix. La présidente de la Commission européenne a ainsi fait un arrêt à Nice pour présenter son pacte européen pour les Océans. On retrouve à Nice Agathe Cherki qui suit ce sommet pour le média en ligne Contexte avec lequel nous sommes partenaires.Les étudiants serbes toujours mobilisés Et direction la Serbie pour cette fin d'émission, le mouvement étudiant contre la corruption et l'autoritarisme du régime Vucic, ne faiblit pas. Voilà six mois que les universités sont bloquées. C'est le cas à Belgrade, où les professeurs qui sont solidaires du mouvement ne sont plus payés depuis plusieurs mois. Louis Seiller est allé rencontrer profs et élèves du département de musique, où se pose la question de la forme que doit prendre la suite du mouvement.

With Kevin Damman, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen - The Netherlands, Floran Sahiti, University Hospital of Wurzburg, Wurzburg - Germany, Joao Pedro Ferreira, University of Porto, Porto - Portugal, Novi Yanti Sari, Siloam Hospitals Group, Jakarta - Indonesia, Marat Fudim, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC - USA, Gregorio Tersalvi, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - USA, Jose Luis Morales Rull, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida - Spain and Cornelia Margineanu, Bucharest - Romania. In this episode, we discuss four late-breaking clinical trials presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia. First, Kevin Damman presents the results of FUTURE-HF, a first-in-human study evaluating the long-term safety, accuracy, and clinical utility of a novel implantable IVC sensor for remote heart failure management. Next, Joao Pedro Ferreira highlights the key findings of SOGALDI-PEF, a crossover trial comparing SGLT2 inhibitor monotherapy versus combination therapy with an SGLT2 inhibitor and a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) in reducing NT-proBNP levels. Third, Marat Fudim reports on the MUSIC-HFpEF phase 1/2a trial, which explores the safety and preliminary efficacy of a novel gene therapy using adeno-associated virus vectors in patients with HFpEF. Finally, Jose Luis Morales Rull shares insights from PREFER-HF, a study assessing the effects of intravenous or oral iron therapy versus placebo in patients with HFpEF and iron deficiency anemia. FUTURE-HF: Long-term safety, accuracy, and utility of a novel implantable IVC sensor for remote HF management - Kevin Damman, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. Host: Floran Sahiti, University Hospital of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2025.01.019. SOGALDI-PEF: SOdium-Glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor with and without an ALDosterone AntagonIst for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction – Joao Pedro Ferreira, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Host: Novi Yanti Sari, Siloam Hospitals Group, Jakarta (Indonesia).  MUSIC-HFpEF: Gene therapy in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction – Marat Fudim, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Host: Gregorio Tersalvi, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA PREFER¬-HF: Effects intravenous iron or oral iron therapy compared to placebo in HFpEF with iron deficiency anemia - Jose Luis Morales Rull, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain. Host: Cornelia Margineanu, Bucharest, Romania. This 2025 HFA Cardio Talk podcast series is supported by Bayer AG in the form of an unrestricted financial support. The discussion has not been influenced in any way by its sponsor.

Plus de soixante chefs d'État au chevet des océans à Nice, dans le sud de la France... et les sujets d'inquiétude ne manquent pas : du réchauffement climatique à la pollution en passant par la surpêche et l'acidification des eaux, l'océan souffre,  et les scientifiques sont les premiers à le constater.  Dans le nord de l'Espagne, le centre océanographique de Gijon travaille sur le pythoplancton, lui aussi victime du réchauffement... c'est un acteur-clé de l'absorption du carbone, une vraie pompe biologique, et aussi un aliment pour les poissons... mais sa qualité laisse aujourd'hui à désirer... Reportage auprès des scientifiques de Diane Cambon.   «Les grands fonds ne peuvent pas devenir un far west»La lutte contre le chalutage, ou l'exploitation des fonds marins, l'ouverture du sommet de Nice a été l'occasion de dire haut et fort ses inquiétudes... «les grands fonds ne peuvent pas devenir un far west», a ainsi lancé le secrétaire général de l'ONU, référence à peine masquée aux projets prédateurs du président américain.Techniquement, l'exploitation des galets de nickel et autres métaux précieux à plus de 6 000 mètres de profondeur est déjà possible... un navire Le hidden gem de la société suisse Allseas a déjà testé un équipement ad hoc Laxmi Lota.   L'Europe synthétise sa position sur les océans Et face au traité mondial de protection de la haute mer, qui devrait entrer en vigueur à la fin de l'année 2025, l'Europe a voulu aussi faire entendre sa voix. La présidente de la Commission européenne a ainsi fait un arrêt à Nice pour présenter son pacte européen pour les Océans. On retrouve à Nice Agathe Cherki qui suit ce sommet pour le média en ligne Contexte avec lequel nous sommes partenaires.Les étudiants serbes toujours mobilisés Et direction la Serbie pour cette fin d'émission, le mouvement étudiant contre la corruption et l'autoritarisme du régime Vucic, ne faiblit pas. Voilà six mois que les universités sont bloquées. C'est le cas à Belgrade, où les professeurs qui sont solidaires du mouvement ne sont plus payés depuis plusieurs mois. Louis Seiller est allé rencontrer profs et élèves du département de musique, où se pose la question de la forme que doit prendre la suite du mouvement.

Fluent Fiction - Serbian: Bridging the Ages: Innovation Meets Tradition at Kalemegdan Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-06-08-22-34-02-sr Story Transcript:Sr: Било је касно пролеће, а Сунце је тихо залазило над Калемегданском тврђавом.En: It was late spring, and the sun was quietly setting over the Kalemegdan Fortress.Sr: Овај древни споменик културе стајао је на брду изнад ушћа Саве и Дунава, окружен модерним градом Београдом.En: This ancient cultural monument stood on a hill above the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, surrounded by the modern city of Belgrade.Sr: Туристи и локалци шетали су старим зидинама, уживајући у историји и погледу.En: Tourists and locals strolled along the old walls, enjoying the history and the view.Sr: Милош, млади архитекта, стајао је на једној од тераса тврђаве.En: Miloš, a young architect, was standing on one of the terraces of the fortress.Sr: Био је страствено посвећен очувању културног наслеђа.En: He was passionately dedicated to preserving cultural heritage.Sr: Са њим је био Јован, искусни надзорник радова, који је био скептичан према новим методама које је Милош предлагао.En: With him was Jovan, an experienced project supervisor, who was skeptical about the new methods Miloš was proposing.Sr: „Милоше, знаш, ова тврђава стоји овде вековима без свих тих твојих новитета“, рекао је Јован.En: "Miloš, you know, this fortress has stood here for centuries without all your innovations," Jovan said.Sr: „Сумњам да нам сада требају те твоје нове технологије.En: "I doubt we need your new technologies now."Sr: “Милош се усмејао, али је био решен.En: Miloš laughed, but he was determined.Sr: „Јоване, наше је да очувамо и заштитимо.En: "Jovan, it's our job to preserve and protect.Sr: Имам план.En: I have a plan.Sr: Организоваћу демонстрацију.En: I'll organize a demonstration.Sr: Показaћу како традиција и модерно могу заједно.En: I'll show how tradition and modernity can go hand in hand."Sr: “Дан него што је демонстрација почела, Милош је окупио тим.En: The day before the demonstration began, Miloš gathered the team.Sr: Узбуђење се осећало у ваздуху.En: Excitement was palpable in the air.Sr: Уз то време, облаци су се навукли и почела је киша, али Милош и Јован нису одустали.En: At the same time, clouds gathered, and it started to rain, but Miloš and Jovan did not give up.Sr: Током демонстрације Милош је показивао како се нове технике могу комбиновати са старим.En: During the demonstration, Miloš showed how new techniques could be combined with old ones.Sr: Јован је пажљиво пратио, али и даље сумњичаво гледао.En: Jovan watched carefully, but still with a skeptical eye.Sr: Како је киша појачала, рад је постао тежи.En: As the rain intensified, the work became more challenging.Sr: „Људи, морамо завршити колико год било тешко“, повикао је Милош.En: "People, we must finish no matter how tough it gets," Miloš shouted.Sr: Тим је радио заједно под притиском, а Јован је брзо схватио колико су нове методе ефикасне.En: The team worked together under pressure, and Jovan quickly realized how effective the new methods were.Sr: Био је изненађен и импресиониран.En: He was surprised and impressed.Sr: Када је киша стала, и сунце поново обасјало тврђаву, радови су били успешно завршени.En: When the rain stopped and the sun shone on the fortress again, the work was successfully completed.Sr: Јован је пришао Милошу, похвалио његов труд.En: Jovan approached Miloš and praised his effort.Sr: „Изгледа да сам био у криву“, рекао је мирним тоном.En: "It seems I was wrong," he said in a calm tone.Sr: Милош се насмешио.En: Miloš smiled.Sr: „Не, Јоване, научили смо нешто обојица.En: "No, Jovan, we both learned something.Sr: Традиција и иновација могу ићи руку под руку.En: Tradition and innovation can go hand in hand."Sr: “Тог дана, Милош и Јован стекли су међусобно поштовање.En: That day, Miloš and Jovan gained mutual respect.Sr: Милош је научио да цени вредност старих метода, а Јован је постао отворенији за нове идеје.En: Miloš learned to appreciate the value of old methods, and Jovan became more open to new ideas.Sr: Калемегданска тврђава, тако, наставила је да сија, чувана и унапређена у духу оба светa.En: Thus, Kalemegdan Fortress continued to shine, preserved and enhanced in the spirit of both worlds. Vocabulary Words:fortress: тврђаваancient: древниcultural: културеmonument: споменикconfluence: ушћеstrolled: шеталиterraces: терасаdedicated: посвећенheritage: наслеђаsupervisor: надзорникskeptical: скептичанinnovations: новитетаtechnologies: технологијеdemonstration: демонстрацијуtradition: традицијаmodernity: модерноpalpable: осећалоintensified: појачалаeffective: ефикаснеchallenging: тежиimpressed: импресиониранpreserved: очуванаenhanced: унапређенаmutual: међусобноappreciate: цениvalues: вредностgathered: окупиоcombine: комбиноватиsurrounded: окруженview: поглед

Fluent Fiction - Serbian: Blossoms of New Beginnings: Vesna's Kalemegdan Adventure Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-06-06-22-34-02-sr Story Transcript:Sr: Крчало је пролеће.En: Spring was murmuring.Sr: Кале мегдан се будио уз птичје песме и разноцветне латице.En: Kalemegdan awakened with bird songs and multicolored petals.Sr: Весна је корачала историјским тлом, опијена лепотом овог места.En: Vesna walked over the historic ground, intoxicated by the beauty of this place.Sr: Недавно се преселила у Београд, тражећи нов почетак и припадност.En: She had recently moved to Belgrade, seeking a new beginning and belonging.Sr: Водила ју је жеља да упозна ову историју и да открије свој нови свет.En: She was driven by the desire to learn this history and to discover her new world.Sr: Весна је често долазила у парк, а овог сунчаног дана, неочекивано је срела Милана.En: Vesna often visited the park, and on this sunny day, she unexpectedly met Milan.Sr: Он је био дубоко заробљен у потрази за савршеним кадром.En: He was deeply absorbed in searching for the perfect shot.Sr: Весна је застала, приметивши да је Милан делио исту фасцинацију местима која су и њу привлачила.En: Vesna paused, noticing that Milan shared the same fascination for the places that attracted her.Sr: Тамара, њена добродушна другарица, увек ју је подржавала у авантурама.En: Tamara, her kind-hearted friend, always supported her in adventures.Sr: "Мораш ризиковати," рекла би Весни, подсећајући је да отвори срце.En: "You must take risks," she would tell Vesna, reminding her to open her heart.Sr: Весна је оклевала, али је на крају одлучила да послуша свој инстинкт.En: Vesna hesitated but ultimately decided to follow her instinct.Sr: Пришла је Милану, љубопитљиво га посматрајући.En: She approached Milan, watching him curiously.Sr: „Здраво“, позвала је, мало стидљиво.En: "Hello," she called, a bit shyly.Sr: „Шта то фотографишеш?En: "What are you photographing?"Sr: “ Милан се окренуо, изненађен али насмејан.En: Milan turned, surprised but smiling.Sr: „Истражујем светлост на старим зидовима.En: "I'm exploring the light on the old walls.Sr: Волим ове историјске детаље.En: I love these historic details."Sr: “Сели су на клупу тик изнад спајања Саве и Дунава.En: They sat on a bench just above the confluence of the Sava and the Danube.Sr: Ветар је шушкао лишћем, док су разговарали о старим причама и градским легендама.En: The wind rustled the leaves while they talked about old stories and city legends.Sr: „Често осетим потребу за новим инспирацијама,“ признао је Милан, као да открива део себе.En: "I often feel the need for new inspirations," Milan admitted, as if revealing a part of himself.Sr: Весна је само климнула, осећајући повезаност с том мишљу.En: Vesna just nodded, feeling a connection to that thought.Sr: Тог трена схватила је да није сама у потрази за припадањем.En: At that moment, she realized she was not alone in her quest for belonging.Sr: Милан је разумео тај осећај.En: Milan understood that feeling.Sr: Кад сунце поче да залази, обоје су осетили да је то почетак нечег лепог.En: When the sun began to set, they both felt that it was the beginning of something beautiful.Sr: Договорили су се да се поново сретну и истраже град заједно.En: They agreed to meet again and explore the city together.Sr: Споразумели су се без много речи.En: They came to an understanding without many words.Sr: Разговор, смејање, и тихи тренуци снажније су их везали.En: Conversations, laughter, and quiet moments bonded them stronger.Sr: Весна више није марила за прошле страхове.En: Vesna no longer cared about past fears.Sr: Сада је отворила срце и размишљала о свим приликама које јој пружа нова авантура.En: She had now opened her heart and was thinking about all the opportunities that her new adventure offered.Sr: Весна је, док је одлазила из парка, осетила да је коначно нашла своје место.En: As Vesna left the park, she felt that she had finally found her place.Sr: Она и Милан, са новим осећајем наде, били су спремни да заједно открију сву магију Београда.En: She and Milan, with a new sense of hope, were ready to discover all the magic of Belgrade together.Sr: Историја, природа и љубав исплели су невидљиву мрежу која их је спојила.En: History, nature, and love wove an invisible web that connected them.Sr: У том светлу, Весни је калемегданска авантура постала симбол новог почетка.En: In that light, Vesna's Kalemegdan adventure became a symbol of a new beginning.Sr: Лака и инспиративна, баш као пролеће.En: Light and inspiring, just like spring. Vocabulary Words:murmuring: крчалоintoxicated: опијенаbelonging: припадностdesire: жељаunexpectedly: неочекиваноabsorbed: заробљенfascination: фасцинацијаkind-hearted: добродушнаadventures: авантурамаrisks: ризиковатиhesitated: оклевалаinstinct: инстинктshyly: стидљивоexploring: истражујемconfluence: спајањаrustled: шушкаоlegends: легендамаadmitted: признаоrevealing: откриваconnection: повезаностquest: потрагаsunset: сумракbonded: везалиfears: страховеopportunities: приликеdiscover: откријуmagic: магијуwoven: исплелиinvisible: невидљивуinspiring: инспиративна

Fluent Fiction - Serbian: Avala's Echo: Young Champions Unveil Nature's Silent Cry Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-06-05-22-34-02-sr Story Transcript:Sr: На Авали, где свеже зеленило касног пролећа покрива планину, Никола и Мила корачају стазом, носећи мале ранчеве на леђима.En: On Avala, where the fresh greenery of late spring covers the mountain, Nikola and Mila walk the path, carrying small backpacks on their backs.Sr: Никола је био одушевљен приликом да проведе викенд истражујући еколошке проблеме за школски пројекат.En: Nikola was thrilled at the opportunity to spend the weekend exploring ecological issues for a school project.Sr: Његов најбољи пријатељ Мила, уметничка и маштовита, била је узбуђена због могућности да инспирацију пронађу у природи.En: His best friend Mila, artistic and imaginative, was excited about the possibility of finding inspiration in nature.Sr: Иако су их чекала много обавеза, Николи је било важно да разуме и документује истинско стање шума око Авале.En: Although they had many tasks waiting for them, it was important for Nikola to understand and document the true state of the forests around Avala.Sr: За њега, овај пројекат био је више од задатка - видео је прилику да подигне свест о сечи шума међу својим вршњацима.En: For him, this project was more than a task - he saw it as an opportunity to raise awareness about deforestation among his peers.Sr: Мила, упркос свом креативном духу, схватила је озбиљност ситуације и желела је да помогне.En: Mila, despite her creative spirit, understood the seriousness of the situation and wanted to help.Sr: Док су пролазили кроз раскошне пределе, где светло пробија кроз грање и птице певуше свој пролећни концерт, угледали су траг уништавања.En: As they passed through the lush landscapes, where light breaks through the branches and birds hum their spring concert, they spotted a trace of destruction.Sr: Шума која је некад била густа и живахна, сада је имала гола места, сведочанство људског утицаја.En: The forest that was once dense and lively now had bare patches, a testament to the human impact.Sr: "Погледај ово!En: "Look at this!"Sr: " изговори Никола превиђујући празнину између стабала.En: Nikola exclaimed, noticing the gaps between the trees.Sr: "Ово морамо показати свима.En: "We have to show this to everyone.Sr: Морамо их натерати да разумеју.En: We have to make them understand."Sr: "Мила, посматрајући сцену, доби идеју.En: Mila, observing the scene, got an idea.Sr: "Зашто не бисмо у пројекат унели уметнички елемент?En: "Why don't we incorporate an artistic element into the project?Sr: Можемо направити велике пано заставе које приказују природу, али са деловима који недостају.En: We can create large banner paintings that depict nature but with missing parts.Sr: Јасно би показале шта губимо.En: It would clearly show what we are losing."Sr: "Никола се замислио и осмехнуо.En: Nikola pondered and smiled.Sr: Идеја му се допала.En: He liked the idea.Sr: Онда након викенда проведеног у истраживању и прикупљању података, вратили су се у Београд пуног елана и нових идеја.En: Then, after a weekend spent researching and collecting data, they returned to Belgrade full of enthusiasm and new ideas.Sr: Када су завршили свој пројекат, користећи уметничке инсталације и податке које су прикупили, презентација је била снажна и емоционална.En: When they completed their project, using artistic installations and the data they gathered, the presentation was strong and emotional.Sr: Њихов труд је био награђен јер су успели да подигну свест међу вршњацима и наставницима о важности очувања шума.En: Their effort was rewarded as they succeeded in raising awareness among peers and teachers about the importance of forest conservation.Sr: Никола је научио важну лекцију - отвореност према сарадњи може довести до снажних и успешних резултата.En: Nikola learned an important lesson - openness to collaboration can lead to powerful and successful results.Sr: Кроз комбинацију њихових јединствених вештина, он и Мила су направили значајан утицај и инспирисали друге да делују за бољу будућност.En: Through the combination of their unique skills, he and Mila made a significant impact and inspired others to act for a better future.Sr: Брдо Авале постало је симбол њиховог заједничког напора и тријумфа духа.En: Avala hill became a symbol of their joint effort and triumph of spirit. Vocabulary Words:greenery: зеленилоimaginative: маштовитаopportunity: приликаecological: еколошкеawareness: свестdeforestation: сечи шумаlush: раскошнеlandscapes: пределеtrace: трагdestruction: уништавањаdense: густаpatches: местаtestament: сведочанствоimpact: утицајbanner: паноincorporate: унетиinspiration: инспирацијуinstallations: инсталацијеpresentation: презентацијаawareness: свестconservation: очувањаcollaboration: сарадњиsignificant: значајанtriumph: тријумфаspirit: духаdocument: документујеresearching: истраживањуenthusiasm: еланаrewarded: награђенunique: јединствених

Fluent Fiction - Serbian: From Stress to Success: Milica's Journey to Self-Care Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-06-03-22-34-01-sr Story Transcript:Sr: Милица је седела у клупи у средњој школи у Београду.En: Milica was sitting at a desk in a high school in Belgrade.Sr: Ван учионице чули су се гласови ученика како нестрпљиво чекају свој ред за годишњи лекарски преглед.En: Outside the classroom, voices of students could be heard eagerly waiting for their turn for the annual medical check-up.Sr: Мирис цвета липе допирао је споља кроз отворене прозоре.En: The scent of linden blossoms wafted in from the open windows.Sr: Пролеће је било у пуном јеку.En: Spring was in full swing.Sr: Немања и Јована, Миличини добри другови из разреда, већ су прошли преглед.En: Nemanja and Jovana, Milica's good friends from class, had already been through their check-ups.Sr: Осећали су се релаксирано, шалећи се на рачун лекара и слушајући музику на својим телефонима.En: They felt relaxed, joking about the doctor and listening to music on their phones.Sr: Али Милица није делила њихову безбрижност.En: But Milica did not share their carefreeness.Sr: Милица је одувек била озбиљна и амбициозна.En: Milica had always been serious and ambitious.Sr: Њена највећа жеља била је да упише најбољи факултет у Србији.En: Her greatest wish was to enroll in the best university in Serbia.Sr: Међутим, у последње време патила је од честих главобоља и умора, и то јој је отежавало учење.En: However, lately, she had been suffering from frequent headaches and fatigue, which made studying difficult for her.Sr: Плашила се да ће лекар открити нешто озбиљно.En: She was afraid the doctor would discover something serious.Sr: Када је дошло њено време за преглед, дубоко је удахнула и ушла у ординацију.En: When her turn for the examination came, she took a deep breath and entered the doctor's office.Sr: Лекар, старији господин с наочарима, пажљиво ју је прегледао.En: The doctor, an elderly gentleman with glasses, examined her carefully.Sr: Постављао је многа питања о њеним симптомима.En: He asked many questions about her symptoms.Sr: „Чини ми се да су ваше главобоље последица стреса,“ рекао је лекар након прегледа.En: "It seems to me that your headaches are due to stress," the doctor said after the examination.Sr: „Мораћемо да урадимо још неке тестове, али мислим да нема разлога за велику бригу.En: "We'll need to do some more tests, but I don't think there's any reason for major concern."Sr: “Милица је осетила огромно олакшање.En: Milica felt a huge relief.Sr: На крају, резултати су показали да је заиста у питању био стрес.En: In the end, the results showed that stress was indeed the issue.Sr: То је био позив на буђење за њу.En: It was a wake-up call for her.Sr: Одлучила је да се више брине о себи, помогавши себи да успостави бољи баланс између учења и одмора.En: She decided to take better care of herself, helping her establish a better balance between studying and resting.Sr: Постепено, учила је како да постане мање оптерећена стресом.En: Gradually, she learned how to become less burdened by stress.Sr: Провела је више времена са пријатељима, шетала парком, слушала музику и практиковала технике за опуштање.En: She spent more time with friends, walked in the park, listened to music, and practiced relaxation techniques.Sr: Милица је сада била спремнија неголи икада да постигне своје циљеве.En: Milica was now more prepared than ever to achieve her goals.Sr: Постала је срећнија, енергичнија и самопоузданија.En: She became happier, more energetic, and more confident.Sr: Схватила је да је брига о себи кључ успеха и да је њено здравље најважније.En: She realized that self-care was the key to success and that her health was the most important.Sr: Пролеће је наставило да шири свој чаробни мирис кроз школске ходнике, а Милица је отворила нове странице у свом животу, спремна за све изазове на свом путу.En: Spring continued to spread its magical scent through the school hallways, and Milica opened new chapters in her life, ready for all the challenges on her path. Vocabulary Words:eagerly: нестрпљивоscent: мирисblossoms: цветаwafted: допираоcarefreeness: безбрижностambitious: амбициознаenroll: упишеsuffering: патилаheadaches: главобољаfatigue: уморexamination: прегледelderly: старијиsymptoms: симптомиstress: стресrelief: олакшањеconcern: бригаbalance: балансburdened: оптерећенаrelaxation: опуштањеenergetic: енергичнијаconfident: самопоузданијаself-care: брига о себиspready: ширитиhallways: ходникеestablish: успоставиchapters: страницеprepared: спремнијаchallenges: изазовеambitious: амбициознаmagical: чаробни

Fluent Fiction - Serbian: From Pain to Genius: A PhD Journey Inspired by Tesla Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-06-01-22-34-02-sr Story Transcript:Sr: Милош је стајао испред музеја Николе Тесле у Београду, осећајући како се пролећни ветар поиграва његовом косом.En: Miloš stood in front of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, feeling the spring wind play with his hair.Sr: Имао је 27 година и био је докторант електротехнике.En: He was 27 years old and a PhD candidate in electrical engineering.Sr: Тесла је био његова највећа инспирација, али га је често мучила јака мигрена која му је омела фокус на истраживање.En: Tesla was his greatest inspiration, but he was often troubled by a strong migraine that hindered his focus on research.Sr: Ипак, данас је био решен да открије нешто ново о Теслиним изумима и можда направи корак ближе решењу за своје истраживање о преносу енергије без жица.En: Nevertheless, today he was determined to discover something new about Tesla's inventions and maybe take a step closer to a solution for his research on wireless energy transfer.Sr: Музеј је био препун историјских артефаката.En: The museum was full of historical artifacts.Sr: Ту су били оригинални документи, фотографије и чак неке личне ствари Тесле.En: There were original documents, photographs, and even some personal belongings of Tesla.Sr: Милош је пажљиво посматрао све око себе.En: Miloš carefully observed everything around him.Sr: Али, мигрена је почела да га мучи у глави.En: But the migraine began to bother his head.Sr: Бол је био као тупо куцање.En: The pain was like a dull throb.Sr: Није желео да одустане.En: He didn't want to give up.Sr: Ана и Вера, његове сараднице, биле су уз њега, охрабрујући га да настави и не одустаје.En: Ana and Vera, his colleagues, were by his side, encouraging him to keep going and not to quit.Sr: Док је истраживао мање познате Теслине изуме, бол у глави је постао још јачи.En: While he was researching Tesla's lesser-known inventions, the pain in his head became even stronger.Sr: Али Милош је осетио како му креативност оживљава.En: But Miloš felt his creativity come alive.Sr: Снажан бол доносио је и нешто друго - тренутак јасноће.En: The intense pain brought something else - a moment of clarity.Sr: Милош је осетио као да је нешто коначно дошло на своје место.En: Miloš felt as if something had finally clicked into place.Sr: Са блеском инспирације, видео је како би могао да савлада проблеме у истраживању.En: With a flash of inspiration, he saw how he could overcome the problems in his research.Sr: Бол га је сада потпуно савладао, али узбуђење је било јаче.En: The pain now completely overwhelmed him, but the excitement was stronger.Sr: Брзо је извадио свеску и почео да бележи све идеје које су му се јавиле у том тренутку.En: He quickly pulled out a notebook and started jotting down all the ideas that came to him at that moment.Sr: Знао је да ће ово бити прекретница у његовом раду.En: He knew this would be a turning point in his work.Sr: Касније, док је изашао из музеја, осетио је ветар на лицу.En: Later, as he left the museum, he felt the wind on his face.Sr: Био је исцрпљен али задовољан.En: He was exhausted but satisfied.Sr: Мигрена га је подсећала на бол, али знатижеља и одлучност били су снажнији.En: The migraine reminded him of the pain, but curiosity and determination were stronger.Sr: Научио је да верује у себе и свој инстинкт, чак и у најтежим тренуцима.En: He learned to trust himself and his instincts, even in the toughest moments.Sr: Схватио је да упорност и инспирација могу победити и највеће препреке.En: He realized that perseverance and inspiration can overcome even the greatest obstacles.Sr: Тако је Милош, уз помоћ Ана и Вера, започео нову фазу свог истраживања, вођен Теслином визијом и својом новом идејом.En: Thus, Miloš, with the help of Ana and Vera, began a new phase of his research, guided by Tesla's vision and his new idea. Vocabulary Words:play: поиграваcandidate: докторантtroubled: мучилаmigraine: мигренаhindered: омелаartifacts: артефакатаbelongings: ствариthrob: куцањеgive up: одустанеencouraging: охрабрујућиclarity: јасноћеclicked: дошло на своје местоflash: блесакoverwhelmed: савладаоturning point: прекретницаexhausted: исцрпљенcuriosity: знатижељаdetermination: одлучностtrust: верујеinstincts: инстинктperseverance: упорностobstacles: препрекеguided: вођенvision: визијомnew phase: нову фазуhistorical: историјскихcarefully: пажљивоpersistence: упорностmoment: тренутакjotting down: бележи

The Librarians are back with The Next Chapter on TNT. The show introduces a time-traveling swashbuckler, a new team of geniuses, and a monster-of-the-week demon called a Drekavac. Set in Belgrade (despite the cast's fluent English), this fantasy adventure keeps the spirit of the original series and films alive, literally featuring the return of Jacob (Christian Kane).We break down the premiere episode, “And the Deadly Drekavac,” talk about the showrunners mission to get this made, the pros and cons, and how it stacks up against other fantasy fighting shows like Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Magicians, and Buffy. Tune in and enjoy!

Luka Dukich is the Vice President of Content for the Chicago Bulls, where he leads the teams responsible for content strategy, creation, and distribution - including video, design, social media, international content and digital partnerships. With more than 45 million fans across social platforms, the Bulls are one of the most followed sports teams in the U.S., and Luka's team plays a central role in storytelling and building the team's brand with this global audience. Recent wins include: Sports Business Journal's “Best in Sports Social Media” Nominee (2025)- Hashtag Sports “Most Creative Partnership” Award Winner (2023)- Brand Innovators Midwest 40 under 40 (2018)- Sports Business Journal's “Best in Sports Social Media” Award Winner (2017). During his tenure with the Bulls, Luka also spent two seasons (2021-22) in a consulting role with the Chicago White Sox, helping to build out their digital content team and overall content strategy. Prior to his time at the Bulls, Luka also spent five years working in public relations and sports marketing at United Entertainment Group, a DJE Company. Luka graduated from Valparaiso University, earning a bachelor's degree in public relations & business administration. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Luka now resides in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and son. He loves reading, movies, and sports, with a particular passion for basketball, boxing, and soccer.

In the third episode of our Plečnik miniseries we talked about a couple more churches and the cemetery of Ljubljana. Specifically we discussed: the Church of St Michael, Črna Vas or the Church of St Michael in the Marsh (Cerkev sv. Mihaela na Barju); the Church of St Anthony of Padua, Belgrade (Црква Светог Антуна Падованског) and Žale Central Cemetery, Ljubljana (Centralno pokopališče Žale). Watch this episode on YouTube to follow along with images: https://youtu.be/m2Lhu-3TpuE Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter // instagram // facebook We're on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Today we have Jenny. She is 53 yeas old from Belgrade, MT and took her last drink on August 25th, 2015.   This episode brought to you by Better Help – 10% off of your first month   Exact Nature use code RE20 to save 20% off your order     The message that alcohol is good for you is outdated. Paul shares an article from GQ that was released shortly after the World Health Organization declared that no amount of alcohol is safe for you.   WELCOME to all our new listeners to the RE podcast!   [03:56] Thoughts from Paul:   In the interviews on this podcast, you've heard the word nature probably hundreds of times as a powerful tool to help overcome an addiction.   Today Paul shares with us a specific free tool that can enhance your experience in nature: the Merlin bird app.   There is science behind how birding can help you heal. Listening to birds reduces cortisol, slows your heart rate and triggers the parasympathetic nervous system which calms us.   The opposite of addiction is connection, and Paul shares that he feels a connection to some of his local birds. He encourages us to give birds a chance as they have the capacity to take our connection to nature to the next level.   [08:03] Paul introduces Jenny:   Jenny was originally a guest on episode 86.   Jenny lives in Belgrade, MT and says teaching fitness classes is her passion. She enjoys music, her chickens, playing golf and pickleball, and loves concerts and comedy as well.   Jenny had her first drink when she was just nine years old. Her parents drank socially and any time there was a party at their house, she and her brother or friends would sneak alcohol. In high school, she and her friends didn't participate in activities, so they just drank and dabbled with marijuana and hallucinogens.   Jenny moved from Helena to Bozeman to attend college and it was then when the drinking and drug use ramped up. While working in a restaurant, Jenny says drinking after work was common, and she was later introduced to harder drugs which she used for several years.   Jenny quit the harder drugs but drinking remained. It ebbed and flowed after she got married and had kids. Her drinking escalated when her husband became a firefighter and would work very long shifts. This time was stressful for Jenny with multiple young children and battling postpartum anxiety. Over time Jenny would start drinking earlier in the day but felt she was very high functioning therefore didn't see her drinking as a problem.   Jenny began to realize that her drinking was becoming an issue, but no one said anything to her, so she decided to quit on her own without telling anyone. She didn't attend AA and just used exercise and podcasts to help her quit. It took a bit for others to notice, but she was confident in her decision in spite of them insisting that she didn't have a problem.   In 2016, Jenny learned she had stage 2 breast cancer. She says that it was aggressively treated and once in remission, she didn't know what to do with herself. She started running half marathons and decided to use her degree in exercise and wellness and started teaching exercise classes which she loves.   Recently, Jenny and her husband hit a rough patch, and they have been attending counseling. Their counselor told Jenny they thought she might be a dry drunk and suggested she start the AA program. Jenny says she needed to hear that and has recently began going to AA and has gotten a sponsor who she is about to tackle step work with. Jenny also has learned that she suffers from several different disorders that have given her a lot of “a-ha” moments about who she is.   Jenny shares her journey with the world now. She believes being our authentic selves is most important. Jenny has learned that she needs to protect her mental health and her sobriety above all.   Jenny's parting piece of guidance: listen to that inner voice.   Recovery Elevator We took the elevator down, we gotta take the stairs back up. I love you guys.   RE on Instagram RE merch Recovery Elevator YouTube Sobriety Tracker iTunes       

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Fluent Fiction - Serbian: Lost in the Tower: Where Inspiration Meets Serendipity Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sr/episode/2025-05-23-22-34-00-sr Story Transcript:Sr: Белградска кула блистала је на пролећном сунцу, висока и импозантна.En: The Belgradska Tower gleamed in the spring sun, tall and imposing.Sr: Људи су се окупили на улазу, нестрпљиви да започну обилазак.En: People gathered at the entrance, eager to start the tour.Sr: Милан је стајао са стране, размишљајући.En: Milan stood to the side, pondering.Sr: Био је графички дизајнер, те често тражио инспирацију на неочекиваним местима.En: He was a graphic designer who often sought inspiration in unexpected places.Sr: Архитектура куле привукла га је овде, али осећао је да нешто недостаје.En: The architecture of the tower drew him here, but he felt something was missing.Sr: Јована је такође стајала на ивици групе.En: Jovana also stood at the edge of the group.Sr: Као млада новинарка, била је фасцинирана урбаним развојем.En: As a young journalist, she was fascinated by urban development.Sr: Желела је да напише причу о историји куле.En: She wanted to write a story about the history of the tower.Sr: Обоје су били пуни ентузијазма, али и опреза због претходних разочарања.En: Both were full of enthusiasm, but also cautious due to previous disappointments.Sr: Турнеју је водио Ненад, симпатичан водич с ненадмашном љубављу према историји Београда.En: The tour was led by Nenad, a charming guide with an unrivaled love for the history of Belgrade.Sr: „Дами и господо, добродошли у Белградску кулу,“ започео је Ненад осмехнуто, „данас ћете открити скривене приче овог дивног места.En: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Belgradska Tower," Nenad began with a smile, "today you'll discover the hidden stories of this wonderful place."Sr: “Док су пролазили кроз различите делове куле, Милан је проматрао Јовану.En: As they went through different parts of the tower, Milan observed Jovana.Sr: Видело се да је и она заинтересована за детаље.En: It was clear she was also interested in the details.Sr: Одлучио је да јој приђе: „Здраво, видим да записујеш много.En: He decided to approach her: "Hello, I see you're taking a lot of notes.Sr: Истражујеш о архитектури?En: Are you researching architecture?"Sr: “ упитао је Милан.En: Milan asked.Sr: Јована се осмехнула: „Да, пишем чланак.En: Jovana smiled: "Yes, I'm writing an article.Sr: Волим оваква места.En: I love places like this.Sr: А ти?En: And you?"Sr: “„Тражим инспирацију.En: "I'm looking for inspiration.Sr: Волим архитектуру,“ одговорио је Милан искрено.En: I love architecture," Milan replied sincerely.Sr: „Увек је лепо када пронађем некога ко дели сличну страст.En: "It's always nice when I find someone who shares a similar passion."Sr: “Како су обилазили кулу, њихова конверзација постајала је све дубља.En: As they toured the tower, their conversation became deeper.Sr: Разговарали су о својим интересовањима и делили мишљења о дизајну и историји.En: They talked about their interests and shared opinions on design and history.Sr: Одједном, у гужви, Милан и Јована су остали иза групе.En: Suddenly, in the crowd, Milan and Jovana found themselves left behind the group.Sr: „Мислим да смо се изгубили“, рекла је Јована посматрајући око себе.En: "I think we're lost," Jovana said, looking around.Sr: „Изгледа да јесмо“, рекао је Милан смејући се.En: "It seems so," Milan said, laughing.Sr: „Али, можда можемо искористити ову прилику да сами истражујемо.En: "But maybe we can use this opportunity to explore on our own."Sr: “Смирени и усмерени једно на друго, кренули су даље кроз кулу.En: Calm and focused on each other, they continued further through the tower.Sr: Пронашли су мали прозор са прелепим погледом на град.En: They found a small window with a beautiful view of the city.Sr: Сели су и наставили да причају, не марећи за време.En: They sat and continued to talk, not caring about the time.Sr: „Знаш“, рекао је Милан гледајући у пролећни пејзаж испред себе, „ово је било неочекивано, али баш лепо.En: "You know," Milan said, looking at the spring landscape before them, "this was unexpected, but really nice."Sr: “„Слажем се“, одговорила је Јована.En: "I agree," responded Jovana.Sr: „Можда бисмо могли направити још једну турнеју, али следећи пут по граду?En: "Maybe we could take another tour, but next time around the city?"Sr: “Са тим планом у мислима, и са новопронађеном блискости која је обећавала, обоје су осетили да је ово почетак нечега посебног.En: With that plan in mind, and with a newfound closeness that promised much, both felt this was the beginning of something special.Sr: И тако, захваљујући једној тури и једном случајном тренутку, Милан је пронашао више од инспирације.En: And so, thanks to one tour and one random moment, Milan found more than inspiration.Sr: Пронашао је некога са ким би могао да дели своје страсти, и заједно су чекали нове авантуре.En: He found someone with whom he could share his passions, and together, they awaited new adventures. 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This episode explores Turkey's evolving foreign policy under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—from assertive moves in the Middle East to its complex ties with NATO and the EU. Is Ankara driven by neo-Ottoman ambition or pragmatic regional strategy? We also look at how domestic politics—like the protests over Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's arrest and the recent dissolution of the Kurdisch Workers' Party (PKK) —are shaping its international posture ahead of the 2028 elections.Guests:Cengiz Günay is Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs –OIIP– and Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of International Development and the University of Vienna. In 2018/19 he was a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nietze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He is the author of the monographies “Die Geschichte der Türkei. Von den Anfängen der Moderne bis heute”, Wien: Böhlau, UTB, and “From Islamists to Muslim Democrats?” Saarbrücken: VDB. His regional focus lies on Turkey and the MENA region. His research interests are:• Democracy and the rise of new forms of authoritarian governance• Neoliberal Interventions und their effects on state and statehood• European Neighbourhood Policy• IslamismSabine Kroissenbrunner is Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for international Dialogue, Vienna, since August 2024. In 2000, she joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry and served as a career diplomat in Berlin, Ankara, Belgrade and Cairo. Between 2007 and 2011 she established and headed the Task Force for Dialogue of Cultures and Religions in the Austrian Foreign Ministry. Before joining the cabinet of the Austrian Minister for Women's Affairs as her advisor on EU affairs and the Federal Chancellery in 1995, Sabine Kroissenbrunner worked as a researcher, mediator and consultant. Her research publications cover topics related to Turkey, the Middle East, Islam in Europe , religious and political networks related to migration and integration. She studied political science at the University of Vienna, the Bosphorus University in Istanbul and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.Moderation:Marylia Hushcha, Researcher and Project Manager at the IIP.The episode was recorded on 14 May 2025 with the support of The Austria Future Fund.

“This week, the global stage is on fire—and at the center of it is Donald Trump.   After wrapping up high-stakes stops in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Qatar, Trump now heads to Istanbul, and this isn't just another handshake tour.   In Saudi Arabia, he sealed $600 billion in AI and energy investments—with U.S. tech giants backing the kingdom's ambitions to lead in artificial intelligence. In Qatar, he witnessed the largest aircraft deal in Boeing's history. And in Syria—shockingly—he lifted all U.S. sanctions and met with the new president, pushing Syria to join the Abraham Accords.   But now: Istanbul.   On paper, Trump is attending a reception at Trump Towers Istanbul. But in the backdrop? Vladimir Putin's sudden call for Ukraine peace talks.   So is this a genuine push for peace—or a global power play?   Turkey, as a NATO member that's kept close ties with both the West and Russia, is the perfect stage for a strategic pivot. Trump showing up in Istanbul right now, at a site that bears his name, may signal he's ready to step in as a deal-maker—or a kingmaker—in the Ukraine conflict.   Is he positioning himself as the only one who can broker peace between Ukraine and Russia? Or is this about optics, leverage, and legacy?   We'll be unpacking all this and more in this episode—don't miss it.”     Quantum Nurse https://graceasagra.com/  http://graceasagra.bio.link/presents Freedom International Livestream Thursday May 15, 2025 @ 9:00 AM EST Featured Guest: Joaquin Flores Topic: “Peace or Power Play? Dissecting Putin's Call for Ukraine Talks in Istanbul”   https://t.me/NewResistance - Xoaquin Flores https://twitter.com/XoaquinFlores https://www.patreon.com/JoaquinF   Bio:     Joaquin Flores (author, analyst and curator of the New Resistance Telegram channel): Channel description as follows: Save the Republic: Pure comedy and never real news or analysis) with Xoaquin Flores.   The channel delivers a global geostrategic overview with a focus on breaking developments in Ukraine, the breakdown of the liberal rules-based order, Jesuitical operations in Mongolia, Latin American historic dynamics and the faction fight waged by opposing groups of the American elite.   Educated in the field of IR and IPE at California State University Los Angeles; previously served as a business agent and organizer for the SEIU labor union; has published internationally on subjects of geopolitics, war, and diplomacy; serves as the director of the Belgrade-based Center for Syncretic Studies, and is Chief Editor at Fort Russ News.   Contributor: https://strategic-culture.su/contributors/joaquin-flores/   Special Guest Hosts:   Tim Kirby Telegram:  Tim Kirby Russia Hardcore -- https://t.me/timkirbyhardcore YouTube:  Tim Kirby Russia - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWjox2j8QnpUBanF7jTEg3A https://americanvillages.ru/   Drago Bosnic BRICS portal (infobrics.org) Telegram -CerFunhouse   www.GlobalResearch.Ca Dr Reza John Vedadi – LinkedIn - Instagram     Creator Host:   Grace Asagra, RN MA Podcast:  Quantum Nurse: Out of the Rabbit Hole from Stress to Bliss http://graceasagra.bio.link/ https://www.quantumnurse.life/ Bichute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nDjE6Ciyg0ED/   TIP/DONATE LINK for Grace Asagra @ Quantum Nurse Podcast https://patron.podbean.com/QuantumNurse https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FHUXTQVAVJDPU Venmo - @Grace-Asagra 609-203-5854 WELLNESS RESOURCES Optimal Health and Wellness with Grace Virtual Dispensary Link (Designs for Health)               2https://www.designsforhealth.com/u/optimalhealthwellness Premier Research Labs - https://prlabs.com/customer/account/create/code/59n84f/ - 15% discount - 15%_59N84F_05 Co-Host:   Hartmut Schumacher https://anchor.fm/hartmut-schumacher-path

From the moment Vesna Vulović saw her friend wearing a flight attendant uniform she knew the job was for her. Vesna loved travelling to different countries and meeting new people. January 25th, 1972 was a day like any other for flight attendant Vesna Vulovic - she checked her schedule and boarded JAT Flight 367 to Belgrade with a layover in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unbeknownst to the crew and passengers, a mid-flight attack would rip the plane apart, and Vesna would be the sole survivor of the incident and a 33,333 ft fall. Please review us in your favorite podcast app! :-) To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com    Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/Marooned    Sources: “Too good to be true?” The Independent, Thu, Jan 26, 2012 ·Page 25 “woman survives 30,000ft fall” The Muskegon Chronicle, Fri, Jan 28, 1972 ·Page 1 "She's the luckiest girl alive" The Toronto Star Tue, Dec 26, 1972 ·Page 17 “Ex flight attendant survived 33,000-foot fall” Honolulu Star-Advertiser Sun, Dec 25, 2016 ·Page B6 "Stewardess survives plane crash" South Florida Sun Sentinel Sun, Dec 25, 2016 ·Page B4 Greenlight interview

Serbia's citizens have been protesting for over six months, taking part in demonstrations around the country in reaction to their government's alleged corruption. Though the country's president, Aleksandar Vučić, has attempted to appease them, the movement shows no sign of slowing down.Situated in the Western Balkans, Serbia has had a long history of conflict; from the Ottoman Empire to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but the ongoing civil unrest comes at a crossroads moment for President Vučić. Serbia is awaiting approval to join the European Union yet remains closely tied with the Kremlin.As the Serbian government seeks to solidify its place in the world, protestors continue their calls for transparency and accountability. This week on The Inquiry we ask “Will Serbia's mass protests unseat the president?”Contributors: Gordana Andric, Executive Editor at Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Belgrade, Serbia Dr. Andi Hoxhaj OBE, Lecturer in Law and the Director of the European Law LLM pathway programme, King's College, London Ivana Randelovic, Senior Programme Officer for Europe at Civil Rights Defenders, Belgrade, Serbia Dr. Helena Ivanov, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, Belgrade, SerbiaPresenter: Tanya Beckett Producer: Daniel Rosney Researcher: Maeve Schaffer Editor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: James Bradshaw Production Management Assistant: Liam MorreyImage credit: Srdjan Stevanovic via Getty Images

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Julie Brill joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and her journey to understand the unexamined childhood stories she grew up with, being a reluctant memoirist and leaning into telling the story of an ordinary person figuring things out, the Holocaust and the history of the Jews of Serbia, inherited memories, making ourselves the central character, when our parents'  foundational stories become ours, finding our place, permission to tell a story if you didn't live through it, and her new memoir HIdden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia.   Also in this episode: -the missing missing -the unthought known -making research readable   Books mentioned in this episode: Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kertz Paper Love by Sarah Wildman Plunder by Menachem Kaiser Big Magic by Liz Gilbert The Creative Process by Twyla Tharp   As a child, Julie Brill held two conflicting beliefs. She knew Germans had murdered her Jewish grandfather in occupied Yugoslavia, yet she somehow believed the Holocaust had never come to his hometown of Belgrade. The family anecdotes her father passed down, a blend of his early memories and what his mother told him, didn't match what Julie had heard about Germany, Poland, and Anne Frank in Holland during World War II. Even frequent readers of Holocaust history likely do not understand the Serbian story. Destruction there came early and fast. Without cattle cars, gas chambers, or distant camps, the Nazis murdered almost the entire Jewish population before the plan for the Final Solution was even set. With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Serbia, the story of the Shoah there has gone untold. Julie's quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia. Julie has written for Haaretz, the Forward, Kveller, The Times of Israel, Balkan Insight, and elsewhere. She shares her family's experiences in the Holocaust in middle and high school classrooms through Living Links.  Additionally, Julie is a lactation consultant, doula, childbirth educator, and the author of the anthology Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their Experiences. She began attending births and teaching childbirth classes in 1992 and has supported thousands of families in the childbearing year. She graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Sociology and Gender Studies and completed the Massachusetts Midwifery Alliance Apprenticeship Course. She is the mother of two adult daughters.   Connect with Julie: Website: https://juliebrill.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliesbrill/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/juliebrill.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julie.brill1 X: https://www.Twitter.com/juliebrill8 Get her book: https://mybook.to/irl0   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

In the latest episode of the Pro Insight Podcast, Pro Insight's Florian Kurth sat down with INSEP Forward Meissa Faye and Olimpia Milano Guard Omar Karem at the Adidas Next Generation EuroLeague Tournament in Belgrade, Serbia.

As a child, Julie held two conflicting beliefs. She knew Germans had murdered her Jewish grandfather in occupied Yugoslavia, yet she somehow believed the Holocaust had never come to his hometown of Belgrade. The family anecdotes her father passed down, a blend of his early memories and what his mother told him, didn't match what Julie had heard about Germany, Poland, and Anne Frank in Holland during World War II.With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Serbia, the story of the Shoah there has gone untold. Julie's quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight.Julie's numerous short pieces related to this larger project appear in Haaretz, The Forward, Balkan Insight, Kveller, Cognoscenti, Alma, the Globe Post, and elsewhere. Julie is a contributor to the Read650 Anthology Jew-ish: True Stories of Love, Latkes, and L'Chaim and has been featured on Memoir Mondays. She shares her family's Holocaust experiences in classrooms through Living Links.Additionally, Julie is a lactation consultant, doula, birth educator at WellPregnancy. She is the author of the anthology Round the Circle: Doulas Share their Experiences. She lives near Boston and is the mother of two adult daughters.Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia (Holocaust Heritage)Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter's enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family's lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.https://juliebrill.com/Get the book:https://a.co/d/bdHtCyZBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.

Many frustrated by the perceived lack of understanding of our nation's maritime heritage requirements want new leaders with fresh ideas, unburdened by legacy entanglements. It is hoped that a younger cohort with military experience, preferably naval, in the House of Representatives and the Senate who bring to the job an additional background in business and industry will emerge to promote constructive change.Today's guest fits the bill perfectly: the new Senator from Montana, Senator Tim Sheehy.Tim Sheehy is a father, husband, combat veteran, patriot, and an entrepreneur. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2008 with a B.S. in History, Tim completed several deployments and hundreds of missions as a US Navy SEAL Officer and Team Leader, deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, and the Pacific region. Tim was honored to serve alongside many American heroes and was involved in dozens of engagements with enemy forces, earning him multiple combat decorations. Additionally, Tim completed a joint tour with Army Special Operations forces where he was privileged to complete US Army Ranger School and serve alongside the 5th Special Forces Group, 75th Ranger Regiment and other units within US Army Special Operations Command.Tim completed his active duty service as a mini submarine pilot and navigator specializing in sensitive undersea operations. After his active duty service, Tim fulfilled reserve duty as a recruiter and assessor for future naval officers. Tim was honorably discharged from the Naval Reserve in 2019.In 2014, Tim founded Belgrade-based Bridger Aerospace with all of his savings and an all-veteran team. Under his leadership, Bridger Aerospace and its sister company, Ascent Vision Technologies experienced rapid growth and created hundreds of Montana jobs. Ascent Vision Technologies was acquired by CACI in 2020, and Bridger Aerospace went public on the NASDAQ in 2023.Tim sits on the Senate Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.SummaryIn this conversation, Senator Tim Sheehy discusses his journey from Naval Academy graduate to U.S. Senator, emphasizing the need for a new generation of leaders in the maritime domain. He highlights the importance of revitalizing the Navy, addressing challenges in shipbuilding, and fostering bipartisan support for maritime strength. The discussion also touches on the need for innovation in naval strategy and acquisition processes, advocating for a shift in mindset towards risk-taking and adaptability in the face of modern challenges.Show LinksOperation Red WingsSix FrigatesThe Fall of KabulTakeawaysTim shares his journey from the Naval Academy to the Senate.The importance of revitalizing the Navy is highlighted.Challenges in shipbuilding and acquisition processes are discussed.Bipartisan support for maritime strength is crucial.Innovation in naval strategy is necessary for future readiness.Quantity in naval assets is as important as quality.A new shipbuilding paradigm is needed to meet modern demands.Risk-taking should be encouraged in military leadership.The Navy's historical context is essential for understanding current challenges.Chapters00:00: Introduction to Maritime Challenges and New Perspectives12:47: Senator Tim Sheehy's Journey: From Navy to Politics18:44: Revitalizing the Navy: Challenges and Opportunities24:37: Acquisition Paradigms and the Future of Naval Strategy

Unlock the Wealth-Building Secrets of Real Estate Investing! Learn how strategic real estate investing can dramatically transform your financial future. Discover the Revolutionary "5 Ways You Get Paid" Strategy, updated for today's times: Appreciation: Turn a 5% property value increase into a potential 20% return Cash Flow: Generate steady monthly income from tenants Return on Amortization (ROA): Let tenants build your equity for you Tax Benefits: Enjoy generous government incentives for providing housing Inflation-Profiting: Transform economic challenges into your personal wealth generator  Key Highlights: Potential 38% first-year return on investment No special certification or license required Ethical wealth-building using other people's money Proven strategy for creating generational wealth Simple, accessible investment approach for ordinary people Your wealth-building journey starts today! Share the wealth by sharing this episode with a friend. Free Resources: Connect with a free GRE investment coach at GREinvestmentcoach.com Download the infographic gift summarizing the five ways real estate pays here. Show Notes: GetRichEducation.com/550 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching:GREmarketplace.com/Coach Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE  or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments.  You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review”  For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript:   Automatically Transcribed With Otter.ai    Keith Weinhold  0:01   Welcome to GRE. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, real estate pays five ways updated for today's times, even with conservative assumptions, watch your total return from real estate climb to great heights today. You'll understand what billionaire real estate investors don't understand a new free audio course today on get rich education.    Since 2014 the powerful get rich education podcast has created more passive income for people than nearly any other show in the world. This show teaches you how to earn strong returns from passive real estate investing in the best markets without losing your time being a flipper or landlord. Show Host Keith Weinhold writes for both Forbes and Rich Dad advisors and delivers a new show every week since 2014 there's been millions of listener downloads of 188 world nations. He has a list show, guess who keep top selling personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki, get rich education can be heard on every podcast platform, plus it has its own dedicated Apple and Android listener phone apps build wealth on the go with the get rich education podcast. Sign up now for the get rich education podcast or visit get rich education.com   Speaker 1  1:12   You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education.   Keith Weinhold  1:28   Welcome to GRE from Belgrade, Serbia to Bellingham, Washington and across 180 nations worldwide. I'm Keith weinholder. You are back inside get rich education. Today you're going to understand real estate investing really well, probably better than anyone that you know, in less than an hour. Now, before I begin investing in real estate, I seriously wondered how in the world it could possibly be a lucrative investment vehicle. I mean, like, how would that even work? Because you've got this physical structure where elements wear down the outside, tenants wear down the inside, and the whole thing only appreciates it about 5% a year. Yawn. That is really boring. Well, later I would start to put the pieces together. And actually didn't really understand leverage in cash flow until after I had bought my first rental property, I became the person, however, to coin the real estate pays five ways concept, and I discussed that years ago on the show here, and now I have updated it for today's times. So the principles remain the same, but the numbers are different. That's because today, cash flows are lower and interest rates are higher than they were five and 10 years ago. So let's see what total rate of return we come up with today, and just how we get there. And on the way, you'll see even more evidence of why compound interest does not build wealth, and getting your money to work for you doesn't build wealth either. And to say that is total heresy. In a lot of financial circles, you'll clearly see how real estate has really made more ordinary people wealthy than anything else. This is course level instruction, and you're getting it all free right here today as part of one of our weekly episodes. This will help you retire earlier than you ever imagined, or just find the time for yourself to become the best version of yourself. Now, for long time, listeners, I've got to tell you first, much of today is going to sound like a review, but I've got a really surprising twist at the end here, in the fifth of five ways that you're paid, I also have a free gift to give to you and to all listeners today. And this is not in any way, replay of old material. It's not AI generated. It never is. It is me talking to you updated for today's times. And this is we're about to get started. This is just with simple buy in hold real estate. So you don't even have to be a house flipper or a wholesaler or a landlord, and you can just use normal 30 year mortgage loans. And as we see, it doesn't even take a ton of money. These are fundamental wealth building attributes that lay people don't understand and will change your life. I mean, more than 95% of real estate investors don't even understand what I'm about to share. We're going to calculate your rate of return from each of the five ways we'll calculate, then your cumulative return on investment until it builds up and culminates. In your total return at the end today, and I'll tell you anything less than a 20 to 25% total return in this buy and hold real estate is actually disappointing, and you don't even need to take on inordinate risk. But you'll see the exact percentage that we get up to today, and how it gets even higher than 20 to 25% I mean, this is how real estate creates Young Money and old money and Fast Money and slow money, and gives you access to other people's money. Ethically, all of that, we have some new listeners dropping by today. So if you're new here, I'm Keith Weinhold, get rich education founder, Forbes real estate council member, best selling author, and long time real estate investor, also an incomprehensibly slack jawed and snaggletooth to podcaster. But see here in the audio only, you only have to hear the slack jaw, but video platforms where you'll find me and this course on YouTube and rumble, oh, through a disaster, because you both hear my slack jaw and have to see my snaggletooth. It's dreadful.    Getting back to the course here, you know, school did little to teach you and I about the most important things in life, like nutrition or relationships or money. And you know what drives most divorces? Can you guess what it is? I mean, it's not arguments over trigonometri or English grammar or the periodic table of the elements. No, it's money problems. Well, the financial education in this course, it's gonna help you solve that as much as anything you need to take on the mindset of how you must unlearn what you've learned before you can believe something else.    We're gonna use this same simple example of a $200,000 income property throughout the course a rental, single family home. Yes, you can still find many of these, and it's with a rent paying tenant. Now, if you want to think bigger than a 200k property, no problem. Say you want a $20 million apartment building, you can just multiply everything by 100 because we're talking about ratios today. Say that when you buy this property, your down payment and closing costs have you putting in 25% All right? So you've now got 50k invested on this 200k property.    Well, in the first of five ways you're paid appreciation is what it's called. Well, historically, real estate appreciates at about 5% per year. All right, see your 200k Income Property appreciates to 210k There's your 5% yawn, boring. That might only be about the real rate of inflation. That's what most people think. But look at what you just did there already. You just did something amazing. You already benefited from a force greater than compound interest. You just created compound leverage, and most people don't even know it, because your return is far greater than the 5% total appreciation your return on investment is your gain, which is 10k divided by the amount that you have invested, which is 50k because that's all that you put into this. You just got a 20% return from only the first of five ways you're paid appreciation. And now, if you're scratching your head wondering how that just happened, how did 5% return go to 20% no worries, I will slow it down. And this course never gets more complicated than this, you achieved a 5% return on both your 50k invested and the 150k that you borrowed from the bank. See the return on the bank's money doesn't go to the bank, it goes to you all while the tenant pays the interest on the mortgage loan. We'll get to that part later for you, this could be your first moment of epiphany in this course, a light bulb moment. Yes, today you'll get more light bulb moments than Thomas Edison. That is the magic of leverage. It's so simple ethically use other people's money, but most people are only getting compound interest, a return on their money, only not theirs and others like they could have great so where does appreciation come from? What is its source? Supply versus demand for real estate an area's wage growth, population growth, a region's infrastructure improvements contribute to this. The shrinking availability of developable. Land and more. Now what if real estate prices go down? You're covered. That will be addressed shortly. Here we are just scratching the surface. You're starting to figure out why wealthy people's money either starts out in real estate or ends up in real estate. And the thing is, is you can do this the same simple way that I did when I began as a real estate investor. You don't need any degree or certification or real estate license in order to do this. Real Estate pays five ways.    Now that you know about the first appreciation, leveraged appreciation in real estate's case will carry forward your 20% gain and add it onto the second of five ways you're paid, cash flow. For many, this is the most important one. One way for you to think about this second way cash flow is that it's the recurring income from your tenant that shows up, whether you had any involvement with the property that month or not. That's why this is passive income most months. This one is the most liquid of the five ways, because it pays you cash every month, and therefore you can immediately either reinvest it or just spend it and increase your standard of living. This is effectively your salary increase plan. Yes, it's the opposite of a 401 k, which is a salary reduction plan, which actually was an early name of 401 K plans, since this income is sourced by your tenant rent payment, minus the property expenses. Your Cash Flow is sourced by jobs, because that's how your tenant gets their rent payment that they pay you, and this is why I like larger metro areas, your market selection is more important than your property. That's a huge lesson right there, because it's about the durability of this cash flow. All right, we're about to run the numbers and see what your rate of return from passive cash flow is. Let's do it. We'll build on our example of your ownership of a 200k income property with your 50k down payment. All right, on the 200k rental single family home, say that your rent is $1,500 a month. That is therefore $18,000 of annual rent income. But then you need to deduct out your expenses, and you do have a lot of them. They are your mortgage and your operating expenses, like I've shared with you before. The easy way to remember those operating expenses is with the acronym VIMTUM, vacancy, insurance, maintenance, taxes, utilities and management, and paying that manager is what keeps this mostly passive for you. So to be clear, your rent income minus your mortgage in VIMTUM operating expenses equals your cash flow. You can kind of think of that as your rent overflow. Okay, here we go. Say you figure that from your 18k of annual rent income that you need to pay out 15k worth of annual expenses, that leaves you with $3,000 of cash flow, or so you thought, but you have a freak plumbing problem that creates a bill of 1000 bucks. However, you have property insurance, but say your insurance deductible is $1,000 so you've just got to come and pay out of pocket for your managers, plumber to fix it, and now the $3,000 of annual cash flow you thought you'd have only leaves you with $2,000 somewhat of a thin cash flow. Then that's a higher maintenance expense than you had previously forecast in your pretty looking pro forma projection. That often goes wrong, because something stupid often happens out of the blue in real estate investing, all right, well, with your $2,000 of cash flow, which is passive income, that's divided by your same 50k invested that gives you a return of 4% from the second of five ways you're paid. That number is what's known is the cash on cash return. You thought it would be 6% but we're being conservative. The Freak plumbing problem made it just 4% add this to the 20% from leverage depreciation in the first video, and you now have an accumulated 24% total rate of return from this income property already, and we still got three ways to go. We're just gonna keep piling onto this return in the next three ways you're paid. How high is this going to go? And you know what's interesting with this? Luke. Conservative math adding up your lofty return. It's actually conservative as we proceed, you'll note that I'm using simplification and rounding you're going to see me round down more than round up. To keep this conservative and real estate math is simple. It's just add, subtract, multiply or divide. There's nothing complex, no trigonometri or calculus or exponents. This is easy. You just have to know what numbers to use, and that's what you're learning and reinforcing today.    Now here's a weird scenario. Imagine if you had a stranger out there funding a bank account for you, making monthly contributions into this illiquid savings account. I mean, does that sound too good to be true? Nope. It exists. The third of five ways that real estate pays is exactly why this is real, as this free audio course, real estate pays five ways continues for you. Real estate has so many ROIs returns on investment that one of the five is called an Roa. That's the third way you're paid. And none of this material is new or esoteric or avant garde. It's always been out there. There's just been no one else that's put it together before this, most people were never taught how to build real estate wealth in the real world. And what's insane about this third of five ways you're paid is that now you're probably already getting paid more ways than you ever have. I mean, instead, what is most people's investing experience, it's in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, gold or Bitcoin. I mean, that's where you're typically only paid one way, capital appreciation, if you even get that, and maybe a second way is if you have a dividend paying stock. But I mean, that's all you've got. One way, maybe two. If you want to build wealth, you've got to give your money multiple jobs. That's exactly what we're doing here. ROA stands for your return on amortization this third way you're paid is the monthly principal pay down portion of your mortgage. That's your return. So we're going to add your ROA to the 24% total return that we've accumulated so far. And now you might think you already have experience with an ROA if you have a mortgage on your own home, your primary residence, but no, not actually, because in your own home each month, a portion of your mortgage payment goes toward principal pay down and the rest of pay interest, but all you did in your primary residence is you went and you had to work to earn money all month. All you did at the end of that month was move that money from your cash pocket over to your equity pocket when that mortgage payment gets made. So that's merely a transfer of funds, but with income property, your tenant earned that cash that month to pay your mortgage principal payment, and we'll tally that up in a moment. On top of the principal, they pay your entire interest payment, plus your tenant pays you a little on top of that each month called cash flow, which was the second way you're paid. So yes, your tenant is going to work for you. If your tenants rent payment is a third of their income, they're working close to 10 days a month just for you, just to pay your rent. I mean, that is amazing. If you add properties with rent paying tenants like this. It's sort of like you have all these employees out there working for you, and yet you don't have to manage them at work. It is amazing this third of five ways focuses on that return on amortization, and the etymology of the word amortize that comes from the old French meaning death. And that makes sense, your tenant is slowly killing off your mortgage balance for you over time. So let's do this. Let's add up your ROA, all right, we're using this same example where you got a 150k loan on your 200k rental, single family home. Let's say that you got a 7% interest rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, so just the plain everyday loan. Just look up any amortization calculator, enter those numbers in there, and you'll see that in year one, your tenant pays down over $1,500 of your income properties mortgage balance for you, let's round it down to just 1500 bucks, because it could have been some vacancy in there as well. Your ROA is simply this year, one principal pay down divided by your amount invested again, that is 1500 bucks divided by your 50k Of down payment and closing costs that you have in the property your skin in the game. And this is another 3% return for you. That's your Roa. I mean, you are beginning to really build wealth now. This is somewhat of a hidden wealth generator that a lot of investors never consider. Many of them are aware of this, though, it's like your tenant is funding an ill, liquid savings account that has your name on it. We'll add this 3% ROA to the tally of a 24% cumulative return that we figured from the first two ways. Yes, you are now up to a 27% total rate of return from appreciation, cash flow, your ROA, and we still have two of the five ways to discuss. We're just gonna keep piling onto your return. What is the source of your Roa? This 3% it is jobs again, your tenants income. If interest rates fall and you refinance, you'll get an even higher annual chunk of tenant made principal pay down, even with the initial loan kept in place this 7% mortgage note, how in future years, your amount of 10 it made principal pay down. Only keeps increasing over time. But we're only talking about year one in this whole example. We're going to carry forward your 27% total rate of return so far into the next one as this real estate pays five ways. Audio course will continue here in Episode 550 of the get rich education podcast, yeah, even the episode number has some fives in it as we roll on, breaking down just how the five ways build wealth more after the break, I'm your host, Keith Weinhold, this is get rich education.   You know what's crazy? Your bank is getting rich off of you. The average savings account pays less than 1% it's like laughable. Meanwhile, if your money isn't making at least 4% you're losing to inflation. That's why I started putting my own money into the FFI liquidity fund. It's super simple. Your cash can pull in up to 8% returns, and it compounds. It's not some high risk gamble like digital or AI stock trading. It's pretty low risk because they've got a 10 plus year track record of paying investors on time, in full every time. I mean, I wouldn't be talking about it if I wasn't invested myself. You can invest as little as 25k and you keep earning until you decide you want your money back. No weird lockups or anything like that. So if you're like me and tired of your liquid funds just sitting there doing nothing, check it out. Text family to 66866, to learn about freedom family investments, liquidity fund again. Text family to 66866. Hey, you can get your mortgage loans at the same place where I get mine, at Ridge lending group and MLS, 42056, they provided our listeners with more loans than any provider in the entire nation because they specialize in income properties. They help you build a long term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. You can start your pre qualification and chat with President Chaley Ridge personally. Start Now while it's on your mind at Ridge lendinggroup.com That's ridgelendinggroup.com.   Speaker 2  23:45   This is Ridge lending group's president, Caeli Ridge listen to get rich education with Keith Weinhold, and remember, don't quit your Daydream.   Keith Weinhold  24:10   Welcome back to get rich Education. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, as we continue with the real estate pays five ways audio course, before the break, we're rolling forward a 27% total ROI from the first three ways that you're simultaneously paid. Again, nothing complicated, just with a piece of buy and hold real estate that you purchase carefully. You don't have to do any renovations. You don't have to be a landlord. This is how you're going to build forever wealth, legacy wealth, if you don't come from money now, money can come from you. This can shake up your entire family tree. After today, you'll have a concrete plan. I don't come from wealth. I build it myself, and I'm laying out the architecture of how I did. Just that in a simple way for you, the fourth of five ways you're paid is that real estate investors are rewarded with a generous basket of tax benefits from the government because you are doing what the government wants. You're providing others with housing. Informed people know that if you spend money on certain things like solar panels for your home or education expenses, you get a tax break for spending that money. Well, with real estate, you don't even need to spend any money to get a tax break every single year. Incredibly, you get the tax deduction anyway. It's easy. Let's do it here. And you know, it's time to make something crystallized for you. And this can rock your world and even induce some disbelief. Some people say, don't get your money. Get your money to work for you. We've all heard that. Here is the heterodox. Here is the paradigm shift. If you want to build wealth, don't get your money to work for you. Outside of this show, I bet you have never heard that iconoclastic stance your best and highest use as an investor is not to get your money to work for you. It's making other people's money work for you. OPM, now, you probably heard that before as well, but I've got a twist on that. But see if you want to build wealth, do you think you'd have to both think and act differently than the masses? I mean, yes, you certainly do, but this is your differentiator, even multi decade billionaire real estate investors don't realize what I'm about to share with you forever. Wealth is built. Early Retirement, wealth is built. Your standard of living is indelibly elevated beyond what you ever thought possible because you are ethically using other people's money three ways at the same time, the bank's money for leverage in the loan, which we covered in the first way, you're paid the tenants money for cash flow and loan pay down, which we covered in videos two and three. And now here you are using the government's money for generous tax benefits at scale, which we're covering in this fourth of five ways you're using other people's money, three ways at the same time within this, this is why you're building wealth. And of course, this does not mean you're exploiting people by using their money, just the opposite. You're doing good in the world. Provide people with housing that's clean, safe, affordable and functional. Do that, and you'll be profitable in the long term and never get called a slum lord. Rental property income is generally taxed at ordinary income tax rates, but you don't have to pay tax on all of your rental income. The tax deductions are generous from rental property, you can deduct out your mortgage interest and your operating expenses, which I will not cover in our example. You also get a depreciation deduction. We'll look at that one closely, and when you sell, you can endlessly defer your capital gains tax so you never have to pay it all of your life, all right. Well, what does this really mean? If you buy a rental property for 200k and after a bunch of years you sell it for 500k your capital gain was 300k in most investments, you need to pay capital gains tax of at least 15% on this you would take a $45,000 tax hit. But with real estate, when you sell if you generally replace it with a property of equal or greater value, your capital gains tax is zero, absolutely zero. Now, rental property taxes are somewhat complicated, and I am not a CPA, I'm giving general guidance. I'm not going to get into things like your adjusted basis and other details. In fact, I'm not even going to consider this benefit of deferred capital gains tax in tallying up your rate of return. So instead, let's only look at your return from the tax depreciation portion of your full basket of tax benefits. It's going to keep things simple, and it'll also keep our example more conservative. Yes, even though your 200k rental property in our example tends to appreciate in value, the government says you can get a tax break because they say that the property wears out over 27 and a half years. That's just what the IRS guideline is. This only applies to rental property. There's no depreciation deduction on a primary residence. Let's do it on your 200k property, you can only depreciate the structures value called the improvement, not the land portion. We'll say that your structure or house's value is 150k and the land is 50k even the IRS knows that land doesn't wear out, only the structure. Divide your 150k structure value by 27.5 Yep. Pretty weird, arbitrary number, but that's how long the IRS says it takes to wear out. That gives you $5,454 that's how much you can depreciate or shelter from taxes if you're in the 24% tax bracket, that's $1,309 in tax savings for you. Divide that by how much you have invested in this 200k property. Again, that was 50k when you made the down payment and closing costs. This is a 2.6% return. Let's keep being conservative and round that down to 2% there it is our number from the fourth of five ways you're paid. We are layering on another 2% return. Now, can you really call a tax break part of your return? Is that fair? Should that be considered? Yes, it is, in this case of tax depreciation, because you did not even have to incur an expense in order to get that deduction, that's why some people call it the magic of depreciation. Usually, to get a tax break, like I was saying earlier, you have to make an out of pocket expense, like pay for fees to attend a conference or buy solar panels or pay automobile expenses. But you don't have to do that here, so the 2% rate of return for your tax benefit is even more conservative when you realize that we also are not digging into how this piece of real estate can also make you eligible for other tax benefits like a qualified business income deduction, a cost segregation and bonus depreciation. And for simplicity, we're not going to go run examples on different marginal tax brackets, and there are income thresholds and other thresholds, whether you're married or single. And of course, we are excluding that erstwhile capital gains tax that you can legally duck out of to collect all the tax benefits without me having to get deeply involved. At the end of each year, my property manager just sends my property's financials directly to my bookkeeper. And yes, I know we've got some CPAs listening to this right now thinking that 2% that is much too low of a return from your basket of tax benefits, but that is all we're going to use. We're going to add this to the ROIs that we accumulated from leverage appreciation at 20% in the first way, cash flow at 4% in the second way, and an ROA of 3% in the third way, plus this 2% from tax benefits here in the fourth way, here we are up to a 29% first year total ROI from your 200k single family income property that you so wisely purchased. Now you know how to use other people's money three ways at the same time again, the banks, the tenants, and with these tax breaks the governments.    Let's move on to the fifth of five ways. Add up your total rate of return, and then I'll give you some more important takeaways to give this context, and I'm going to give you your free gift. Your fifth way is your second biggest profit center, and most real estate investors don't even know that it exists, you're going to profit from something that actually makes most people poorer. So we're going to take our 29% add the fifth way to it, and it's going to culminate in your total number. The fifth way is called inflation profiting. Remember, it's not inflation hedging. Real Estate bought the right way is not an inflation hedge. Hedging is defensive, meaning that you break even from inflation, but no instead, you're actually profiting from inflation. That's different. This is offensive. Now a conventional financial advisor. You know, they're often out there selling investment products that tout something like a 10% rate of return. You know, synonymous with a return from the s, p5, 100. Ask your financial advisor about the five drags on that return. It's 10% minus inflation, emotion, taxes, fees and volatility, and your adjusted return is often less than zero. Just look at their track record. Stocks and mutual funds don't make anyone wealthy. They might just preserve wealth if you already have it strategically bought. Real estate has hegemony over all the other. Set classes precisely because it pays five ways. Either you can be a conformer or you can build wealth. If you want to escape financial mediocrity, you can't run with the herd. You need to get into a lot of good debt. It sounds scary until you realize that debt is tied to a carefully selected income property, meaning your entire debt payments are therefore reliably outsourced to tenants. DEBT, TAXES and inflation are three forces that make most people poorer. It makes most people poorer because they either don't have the resources, or they don't have the know how to arrange their financial life. They don't have any strategy. Well, today, you're learning how to make these three forces, DEBT, TAXES, inflation, those three wealthier with the Debase purchasing power of the dollar. You know most people, they see the price of a new car that goes from 50k to 60k or that their favorite Subway sandwich goes from nine bucks to 10 bucks, and then they just kind of hope that their salary keeps up. You know, that's sort of the average experience with inflation. Now, you and I, we would not save by stashing a million bucks under the mattress, because 3% inflation would de base its purchasing power by 30k every single year. That's why we do the opposite of saving. We borrow. For every million you borrow, we'll every year say that with inflation, your wage, salary, rent, income, all go higher by 3% now it gets easier to pay back your million dollar loan all while the tenant pays the interest, and you're profiting 30k each year. So after one year, you only owe the bank back 970k and inflation adjusted dollars and 940k after year two, and 910k after year three, inflation debases savings and debt at the same rate, so borrow instead of Save and see, this is the reason why the top selling financial author of all time, Robert Kiyosaki, a frequent guest on our show here, he says, savers are losers, debtors are winners. In an inflationary world, don't be a saver. Be a savvy debtor, because in the future, you can count on more inflation. See, the government needs inflation to occur. The easiest way for the US to repay its 10s of trillions of dollars in debt is to just keep printing lots of dollars, and that process debases every dollar that you're currently holding on to. Who cares about your debt when both tenants and inflation are just relentlessly paying it down for you? That is if you're doing real estate right, which means buying an income producing property with a loan. That's the whole formula here. That's all we're doing, buying a rental property with a loan. But when you understand how inflation both pumps up your real estate value and simultaneously debases your debt, it turns your world upside down, you almost become this inflation cheerleader, because inflation is now good for you, as this audio course is now covering the fifth of five ways you're paid. Please understand some risk still exists. You could buy in the wrong market, hire the wrong property manager, or just buy the wrong property no matter what, you're going to have some inevitable problems along the way, like that plumbing problem I mentioned earlier in the second of five ways you're paid over leverage is a risk over leverage means that you take on so much debt that you can't make the monthly payments so you can still lose money. But from listening today, you vastly increase your chances of being profitable, and that's why we say that carefully bought real estate has the best risk adjusted return. Here we go, following through with our example across all five ways on your 200k income property that you made a 50k down payment on, that is therefore a $150,000 loan that you took out at a 3% inflation rate each year, your debt is then being debased by $4,500 this is a quiet, hidden wealth generator that most investors don't even know about. $4,500 of inflation profiting divided by your same 50k down payment means that you have another 9% rate of return. Wow, a 9% rate of return that you're getting that most investors don't even know about. I mean, in the conventional financial world, I mean, they're proud to offer you a nine. Percent mutual fund return over time, and they advertise that as something good here by putting a down payment on a rental property. This 9% is another sweetener that no one even notices, and that gets added on to everything else. It's just incredible. Yes, 9% now, in the past, I used to think this return was just the inflation rate that we're using here, 3% but see, this is leveraged as well a 9% return from inflation profiting. And like I mentioned, uh, towards the beginning of the show, this is the twist for a long time get rich education. Podcast listener, see 3% that would merely be a hedge. So add this 9% to the 29% running total in the first four ways, and there you have it, an astounding 38% total rate of return from the five ways that real estate pays 38% I mean, you are really understanding why wealthy people's money either starts out or ends up in real estate, and that you don't have to be wealthy to start everything we discussed there was in year one. I mean, if someone asks you why you're investing in real estate, you can just hold up five fingers and share this episode with them. I mean, this says it all, and we could have surely come up with a higher number than 38% if you had used a 20% down payment instead of 25 then you'd have more leverage, and your total ROI would be in the mid 40s percent, and we really handled the tax portion conservatively. Here another reason your return could be higher, this was with a 7% mortgage rate and a pretty modest 4% cash on cash return as well. Yes, your total ROI is 38% now after year one returns fall over time due to the accumulation of equity in your property, so the denominator for the calculation is larger. You got 38% in year one, perhaps year two is 31% and year three is 24% but you can really see how you're getting ahead of the world in three years like that in other episodes of the show. Here, I do talk about how to limit the return attrition through refinancing and some other techniques, but these are amazing rates of return, compounding evidence that compound leverage blows away compound interest, and again, it's DEBT, TAXES and inflation that are making you wealthy. How you should know by now the formula is really simple. Just buy an income producing property with an everyday 30 year loan, even if real estate values fall, you can get paid for other ways and still have a positive return. Real estate values have always bounced back even after 2008 and see if the property is temporarily suppressed in value, you're going to have little concern with wanting to sell it when tenants are still paying you a monthly income during that time. Very few veteran real estate investors understand the five ways. Most real estate educators don't understand this either, but now you do, and to get this 38% total ROI again at times I simplified throughout I mean, your real world return is likely going to be different. It's going to be higher or lower than 38% probably. But now you know about a vehicle for actually creating durable wealth, and I would like to think that what you learned today is the most complete yet still concise way of understanding how a real estate investor gets paid. You gotta know this. This is the motivation for wanting to do this in the first place.    And hey, if you like what I've shared so far, I'd love to ask you for something, and then I have more important things to tell you and give you your free gift. As I made this course free. Hey, if you would please just share the wealth. Share this episode with a friend. I'm sure you know somebody that would benefit from this. It's really a big aha moment when you finally know how it all goes together. If you subscribe to our newsletter, you were already sent the video version of this course here in just the past couple weeks that's going to help you see how all the numbers go together. And the video course was also released free on YouTube, so if you're listening to this within a few weeks or months of the episodes release, it's still easy to find on our get rich education YouTube channel and four. Finally, in order to make this actionable and actually profit from what you learned, you can just copy me and buy properties from where I buy them at GRE marketplace, that's where there are properties conducive to the five ways you're paid. It probably does take about a minimum, oh, of a 35k to 55k down payment in order to get started. Properties are either new build or renovated. Tenants are in place. There's a property management solution, if you like, and optionally, our free investment coaching service there learns your goals, then helps match you with the right areas and properties and hey, I'm happy to tell you and announce that you can now connect directly with our completely free investment coaching service at GREinvestment coach.com, yes, this is a new URL to make it easier for you to connect with a GRE investment coach. Yeah, I kind of thought that was a good one, huh? How do you connect with a free GRE investment coach? Well, at GREinvestment coach.com I've got a free gift for you. Everything that we discussed in this course today was distilled down into one colorful infographic that we designed and laid out here so you can view it, download it, or even print it out on one eight and a half by 11 inch sheet of paper. Yeah, my team and I went back and forth on this infographic for quite a few rounds to make it just right. I like how it looks, and I've never known anyone else to do this all the ways real estate pays concisely onto one sheet of paper. The link for that infographic gift is in the show notes for this episode at get rich education.com/ 550 since this is episode 550 get it at getrice education.com/ 550 Yeah, the infographic gift is a memento of this course and the time that we spent together today. Think of it as your diploma, and it's a diploma that doesn't come with 12 years of student loan payments either. Yes, it is just a piece of paper, but is it worth more than the piece of paper known as your bachelor's degree or your MBA? I don't know. You can be the judge. So congrats, graduate. Now you know how real estate makes ordinary people wealthy, but learning this today really doesn't benefit you if you don't find the right property in the right market with a property manager. If you so choose a property manager, you've got to take action. You usually want to start small, including with investor advantage, single family rentals for as little as 200k just like our example, some cost even less. We will help you do just that, and do it for free with our coaching book a time and get it on the calendar at GREinvestmentcoach.com that's GREinvestmentcoach.com    I'm get rich education's Keith Weinhold, thanks for being here, but you weren't here for me. You were here for you. I'll see you next week. Don't quit your daydream.   Speaker 3  48:25   nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. 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When we teach our children about the Holocaust, it is largely from the perspective of those who survived. But what about the million or more Jews who lived in communities that were completely destroyed. Thus began the quest of this week's guest, Julie Brill, whose family was from Belgrade, Serbia one of those places whose entire Jewish community was destroyed in the early days of the War. Julie details her family's history, and her journey to memorialize all those who died in Belgrade, in her new book, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia.In this week's conversation, Julie and the Rabbi dive deep into the book, into the horrors that happened to Julie's family, and reason why Julie worked so hard to tell this story.

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The “hands off NATO” protests against Trump, anti-NATO protests in Belgrade, tariff shocks, Japan's US T-bill selloff, the power of blackmail, or lack thereof, the decline of movie theaters/going out to the movies, editing movies for television (films of the 40s vs. films of the 80s) the films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Ed Wood, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Genet for Palestine. Music track “Motherless Children Have a Hard Time” by Blind Willie Johnson (public domain, see also modern covers of the song by Eric Clapton and friends on YouTube).

Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse.An auditor who worked for Barcelona for four days is the only one who included the €100million sale of VIP seating to Middle Eastern investors and now that has been questioned by La Liga, which could lead to Dani Olmo and Pau Victor's registrations being in question. When you think this story is as ridiculous as it could possibly be, the scriptwriters find something else even more ridiculous to add into the mix. In reports filed from the previous auditor, who worked through sometime on December 31, and the unknown auditor who worked from December 31-January 3, and the next auditor who started on January 3 (we think)... only the unknown auditor had the sale included. That sale allowed Barcelona to have the additional salary cap space per La Liga rules to extend Olmo & Victor's registrations into 2025. But that sale either didn't happen, wasn't properly accounted for, or something else because it didn't show up on a subsequent financial report. Lots for the courts, league, and federation to sort out in Spain. And it affects a potential bid for a quadruple from Barcelona who are leading La Liga, won the SuperCopa, alive in the Champions League, and now into the final of the Copa del Rey where they will face Real Madrid. Announced this morning, the bid led by the US (which might or might not include Mexico as a co-host) was the only one submitted by the deadline to host the 2031 Women's World Cup. Gianni Infantino said at the UEFA Congress in Belgrade that other Concacaf nations could be involved in hosting matches, something that has been reported recently here in the US. The 2035 tournament will be hosted by Great Britain as it was the only to submit a bid in time for that event. LAFC beat Inter Miami last night in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup quarterfinal, the first loss for the Herons in 2025 in all competitions. Nathan Ordaz with the goal in the second half, second leg is in Ft. Lauderdale next week. Chattanooga Red Wolves won the penalty shootout across town at Finley Stadium to knock Chattanooga FC out of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup in the second round in the first ever meeting between the two clubs. Over 12K were on hand for the game, 4th largest crowd in CFC history and their largest in a long time, 2nd largest in the 2nd round in the history of the USOC. Jose Mourinho did another ridiculous thing, which is becoming commonplace for him at this stage of his career. He grabbed the face of the opposing manager after yesterday's Turkish Cup match between his Fenerbahce & Galatasaray. The ridiculous actions seem to come on a bi-weekly basis for Mourinho at this stage, sad after one of the greatest careers for a manager in history but completely inexcusable to act in this manner. Liverpool defeated Everton yesterday 1-0, Everton should have had a player sent off for a horrendous challenge, but Liverpool's goal was controversial as well. Referees got it right according to how the rule is written, but I'm asking IFAB to consider changing the Laws of the Game to account for situations like this. When a pass is made for a player in an offside position, that should make them active in the play, regardless of whether they move for the ball or not. Defenders have to play the ball in that situation because they don't know if the player is offside from their vantage point. The defender shouldn't be punished for playing that ball by that action allowing the offside player to be now in an onside position. Luis Diaz was onside according to the letter of the LOTG, but not the spirit in my opinion and this should be changed going forward in interpretation. 

Marina Lazovic: Leadership Skills Make the Difference for Product Owners Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. The Great Product Owner: The PO as a Leader Marina identifies that while product skills are important, it's leadership abilities that truly distinguish exceptional Product Owners. Great POs demonstrate strong empathy and lead by example, creating an environment where the team feels supported. Marina emphasizes the importance of availability – outstanding Product Owners make themselves accessible to their teams when needed, establishing a presence that goes beyond just attending ceremonies. This leadership through presence and support fosters trust, enabling teams to approach challenges with confidence knowing their PO has their back. The Bad Product Owner: The PO Who Did Not Understand Their Team Marina describes a problematic pattern where Product Owners fail to understand their team's strengths and weaknesses. These POs lack awareness of team composition – not recognizing the balance between senior and junior members or understanding their specific challenges. This blindness leads to unrealistic expectations about what the team can accomplish in a sprint. Marina suggests addressing this by establishing regular sync meetings with the PO to discuss team dynamics and challenges. By helping Product Owners understand team composition, Scrum Masters can bridge this knowledge gap and foster more realistic planning and expectations. Self-reflection Question: How might you help a Product Owner better understand the unique composition and capabilities of your team without creating an adversarial dynamic? About Marina Lazovic Marina is a Scrum Master and Kanban Trainer from Belgrade, Serbia, with nearly a decade in the IT industry. Though not from a technical background, she is passionate about helping development teams and organizations optimize processes and build great products using Agile. She thrives on driving efficiency and fostering collaboration. You can link with Marina Lazovic on LinkedIn.

Today we speak to reporter Katarina Petrovic. She's been on the ground in Serbia documenting the huge wave of protests sweeping across Belgrade and beyond. She talks about road blocks, motorcycle club protesters, and that strange sound weapon.  No ads and loads of bonus: www.patreon.com/popularfront Discounted internet privacy for all our listeners: www.protonvpn.com/popularfront - Info: www.popularfront.co - Merch: www.popularfront.shop - News: www.instagram.com/popular.front - Jake: www.jakehanrahan.com  

Can anti-corruption protests in Serbia take down a populist president? Democracy activist Maja Stojanovic joins the show from Belgrade. Then we go to Gaza, where the end of the ceasefire could also mean ending any chance of an education for hundreds of thousands of children there. And we take a look at the harrowing Netflix hit series that takes on toxic masculinity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Preview: Colleague Ivana Stradner of FDD reports on the large protests in Belgrad against the incompetence of the Vucic government. More tonight on why 1930 BELGRAD.

Today's Headlines: Fallout from the Trump administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act continues, as a judge demanded the DOJ provide a sworn timeline after officials refused to clarify whether they defied a court order halting deportations. Border czar Tom Homan dismissed the ruling, insisting deportation flights didn't need to turn around. Meanwhile, a Brown University medical professor was deported to Lebanon over alleged ties to Hezbollah, and a German green card holder was detained at an ICE facility without explanation. Trump also declared that Biden's pardons—including those for January 6th defendants, Dr. Fauci, and General Mark Milley—are invalid because they were signed using autopen, despite it being a long-standing practice. Today, Trump will speak with Putin about Ukraine's ceasefire, claiming that key aspects of a peace deal—including land divisions and power plants—are already settled. Meanwhile, over 100,000 people in Serbia protested against their pro-Russia president, prompting resignations within the government. Back in the U.S., Texas filed its first criminal abortion charges against a Houston-area woman and midwife under its 2022 ban, with penalties including heavy fines and potential prison time. In contrast, Harvard announced a major financial aid expansion, making tuition, housing, and other costs free for families earning under $200K per year. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode:  NPR: Judge seeks sworn declaration from Justice Department in deportation case Axios: Trump's border czar: "I don't care what the judges think"  NBC News: Brown professor deported to Lebanon after allegedly attending Hezbollah funeral, government says NBC News: German national with U.S. green card detained at ICE facility, family says NY Times: Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void' and ‘Vacant' Because of Autopen  BBC: Trump says 'many elements' agreed to ahead of Putin call Reuters: Protesters flood Belgrade in one of biggest anti-government rallies  CNN: Texas woman arrested for providing ‘illegal abortions,' Texas attorney general says  Axios: Harvard offers free tuition for some students  Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump says the US has launched a "decisive and powerful" wave of air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Also: thousands rally in Belgrade against corruption.

The British prime minister Keir Starmer says an online summit with twenty-five fellow leaders has built momentum towards setting up a peacekeeping force in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal. We speak to an Italian MP on why his country is not ready to send troops. Also in the programme: Tens of thousands march against alleged government corruption in Serbia's capital Belgrade; and Sri Lanka conducts first-ever census of wildlife harmful to agriculture. (Image: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Downing Street, London. Credit: Leon Neal/PA Wire)