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No século 20, descobertas revolucionárias abalaram a visão estática do cosmos. A constatação da expansão contínua do universo desafia conceitos antigos, revelando a existência de energia e matéria escuras, enigmas cruciais na cosmologia. A inadequação das teorias atuais para explicar a expansão acelera do universo revela coisas fundamentais do espaço, tempo e gravidade, que não estamos percebendo, revelando um cosmos mais estranho e desconcertante do que imaginávamos. O que acontece nas entranhas do universo que explicariam esses fenômenos?
Jean Fortier is the general director and founder of Québec Mega Trail. He joins us to talk about his running origins and dive deep into the past, present and future of this amazing event.QMT is a legendary ultra-trail race, renowned as one of the most beautiful but also as one of the hardest in Canada. Crossing one of the most beautiful places in Québec, it takes runners all the way to Mont-Sainte-Anne, and more than 3,000 racers meet there every year. A place where high-level athletes come to compete, the organization also offers challenges for beginners with ten events ranging in distance from 1-160 km over four days. Founded in 2012 and now in its 12th year, the Québec Mega Trail actively promotes trail running while being a flagship race in terms of safety, sustainable development and constant innovations.Since 2023, Québec Mega Trail has been part of the World Trail Majors and has been selected to host the 50 km and 80 km events of the 2025 and 2026 Canadian Mountain & Trail Running Championships.In this episode we talk about:Jean's own running experiencesHow QMT came to beThe values that guide Jean's decisions as a race directorThe highlights and the challenges the race has seen in the last 12 yearsHow QMT has chosen to remain independent in the international racing landscape in becoming a founding member of the World Trail Majors, an international group which includes some of the most iconic trail running events in Asia, Europe, Africa and North AmericaConnect with QMT:Website: https://ultratrailcanada.com/en/Instagram: @qcmegatrailFacebook: quebecmegatrailConnect with Carolyn & Kim:Email us with guest ideas: inspiredsolescast@gmail.comInspired Soles InstagramKim's InstagramKim's FacebookCarolyn's InstagramCarolyn's FacebookCarolyn's websiteWe love hearing from you! Connect with us on Instagram @inspiredsolescast or email guest ideas to inspiredsolescast@gmail.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend, subscribe or leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.
As defining your mission, vision and purpose statements is an important step when building a comprehensive brand for your business I was keen to speak to someone who has not only done this successfully but also recently. In this episode, I hear from Julian Parmiter, co-founder and CEO of Create Academy. Founded in 2019, Create Academy offers beautifully curated video courses providing unprecedented access to the expertise of today's best designers, makers, gardeners and chefs - with a mission to help people build their creative confidence.Having recently evolved Create Academy's original proposition by launching an annual membership offering, Julian shares his advice on how to define your brand's mission, vision and purpose and how to remain true to them as you scale. Julian's advice:The mission is what you want to do/produce/createThe vision is where you want to go with it/how you want to see the world changed by what you do/where you want to be in the future/ what will your impact beThe purpose is your motivation/why you want to do itThe “what” and the “how” will probably change. The “why” should stay with you. It's the “why” - the purpose - which will bring investors and others with you, will lift you when you're down. So take time to articulate this one (even if privately, just to yourself) early on. It will represent your personality, your ethos, your creedYou are the best person to articulate itKeep these three things distinguished one from the otherUnderstanding your customers will inevitably lead to changing or adapting your vision in time but you need to stay relevant and be flexibleYou have to be able to answer the question: “who cares?”Don't spend too much time and effort at the start on brandingFind inspiration in other people and other placesYou can contact Julian via email on julian@createacademy.comFF&M enables you to own your own PR.DM us on instagram @fallowfieldmasonHost Juliet Fallowfield LinkedInSubmit a guest via this link Submit a question for the next guestRecorded, edited & published by Juliet Fallowfield, 2023 MD & Founder of PR & Communications consultancy for startups Fallow, Field & Mason.FF&M recommends: LastPass the password-keeping site that syncs between devices.Google Workspace is brilliant for small businessesBuzzsprout podcast 'how to' & hosting directoryCanva has proved invaluable for creating all the social media assets and audio bites.MUSIC CREDIT Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod. Link & LicenceSupport the show
⬇️ Join the Quantum Coaching Academy ⬇️APPLY TO QCA NOWToday's incredible guest is also a graduate of the Quantum Coaching Academy, Kadi Sonntag. Kadi is an empowerment coach who works with women to reconnect to themselves and achieve optimal health and wellness. With a 12-year career as a physcial traning instructor in the Australian Army, Kadi utilizes various skills and tools learned in the Army and QCA to help women live holistically and intentionally.Kaid shares her empowering story of listening to her intuition and how she took the steps, leaps of faith, and answered the call of coaching while still maintaining her position with the Army. Kadi focuses on living a life of authenticity and inspiring others to do the same.Get ready for a powerful conversation that will help you dream bigger, answer the call of your inner guide, and stay the course! ✨HIGHLIGHTSUnderstanding the many twists and turns along your journey and how they ultimately lead you exactly where you're meant to beThe unparalleled confidence built by acting with blind faithHow taking casting and declaring your dreams to the universe can result in a reality better than you could've ever imaginedThree life-changing shifts Kadi experienced as a result of joining and graduating from the Quantum Coaching AcademyHow slowing down, especially in a structured environment, can expand yourself and othersKADI SONNTAG ON THE WEBKADI SONNTAG ON INSTAGRAMKADI SONNTAG ON FACEBOOKKADI SONNTAG ON TIKTOKASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKIT.APPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMY.LISTEN TO ASHLEY'S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACH. VISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP.
At only 17 years old, Ceci was assigned to become a plural wife and instant mother to 5 children before having her own child 5 months later. She then became 1 of 5 plural wives in this Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint (polygamous Mormon break off) community led by Warren Jeffs who is now in prison for CSA. Warren had a tendency to separate families for seemingly no reason and one night, she was told her husband and the other 4 wives were being sent away to “repent”, leaving the 20+ kids solely in her care.Click here to watch on Youtube Find Ceci on Social!IG: @Ceci.HendricksonClothing Line: https://pinkvalor.com/IG @pinkvalorOur C2C vacation where we can meet you in real life and go on adventures together has 7 spots left! Click here to go to the official booking page Life on the compounds (someone's always watching)The changes with leadership from Rulon to WarrenLife for Ceci as a 12 year old (stripping away things close to her)Ceci's family dynamic with 3 momsWhat it was like getting prepped at 12 to become a plural wifeBeing rebellious at 13-14Preparing herself for marriage at 15 as a "Good Girl"Summoned to marriage at 16 to unknown manWhat it was like seeing who her husband would beThe expectation of s*x once married (with no education)Expected to marry with no s*x educationCeci was had her first child at 17Ceci took on being a mother of 5 at 17How Ceci felt about her then husbandDid Ceci ever get jealous?Did Ceci feel her intimate time with husband was transactional?The 5 wives lived in the same homeWhat happened to Ceci's family when Warren Jeffs sent people awayWhen Ceci first considered leaving FLDSThey took Ceci's family awayOur Merch! Patreon: Patreon.com/cultstoconsciousnessVenmo @sheliseannAny donations are welcome and appreciated to support the making of this podcastWebsite CultsToConsciousness.comFind Shelise on Social media!Instagram @cultstoconsciousnessHost Instagram @sheliseannTikTok @cults.to.consciousnessTwitter @cultstoconTheme Song Produced and Composed by Christian Guevara**Disclaimer: Thanks for joining us at Cults to Consciousness. This storytelling podcast is meant to be for entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for medical advice. We may discuss triggering topics and we ask that you make your personal mental health a priority. Lastly, the opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the host.**
Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride – in the BEST way. Yum Mum Alum Sarah Crystal joined me for an episode where she shared her real-life transformation, and I DO mean transformation because guys, her life AND the life of her family has totally changed for the better.Sarah talked about her lifetime of body image struggles that started as a young woman and finally peaked after her 3 pregnancies “wrecked her body.” She gained 100 pounds and felt a stranger in her own skin. After having a tummy tuck and breast lift surgery to correct her muscle damage, Sarah thought that FINALLY, her lifelong negative thoughts about her body would disappear. That's what we're told is the ultimate solution, right? Get skinny and your problems are solved.In the Yummy Mummy Experience, we know that's not the case… And it wasn't long before Sarah's weight fluctuated again because she hadn't solved the UNDERLYING issue of her recurrent weight gain. Because there is always an underlying issue.NOT ONLY did Sarah get a body transformation by doing the Yum Mum work, but there were ripple effects on her marriage and across her whole life.You guys... This episode is just. So. Good.Listen in to our conversation and you'll hear more about: How Sarah joined Yum Mums from the carpool line, despite her husband's skepticismWhat made Yum Mum different from anything else Sarah tried beforeWhy plastic surgery wasn't the magic solution Sarah hoped it'd beThe role of root causes and behavior change when you lose weight for the last timeHow Sarah's hubs became 100% supportive as he saw the results of Yum Mum on her presence and energyAND, you don't want to miss out on the January 17th kickoff for the next cohort of the Yummy Mummy Experience. THIS time, we're doing something super fun: a 30 pounds in 90 days challenge! Get your booty over there and enroll today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today's songs have been submitted by members of our beautiful prayer family. Thank you all. ❤️MUSICOH HOLY NIGHT!Performed by Ce Ce WinansO Holy night! The stars are brightly shiningIt is the night of the dear Savior's birthLong lay the world in sin and error piningTil He appeared, and the soul felt its worthA thrill of hope, the weary world rejoicesFor yonder breaks a new and glorious morn'Fall on your kneesO hear the angel voicesO night divineO night when Christ was bornO night divineO night, O night divineChains shall He break, for the slave is our brotherAnd in His name, all oppression shall ceaseSweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise weWith all within let's praise His holy nameChrist is the Lord!His name forever praise weNoel, NoelO night, O night divineNoel, NoelO night, O holy nightSource: MusixmatchSongwriters: Adolphe Adam / Cappeau De Roquemaure / Adolphe-charles AdamJOSEPH'S SONGWritten and performed by Michael CardHow could it beThis baby in my armsSleeping now, so peacefullyThe Son of God, the angel saidHow could it be? Lord, I know He's not my ownNot of my flesh, not of my boneStill Father let this baby beThe son of my love Father show me where I fitInto this plan of yoursHow can a man be fatherTo the Son of GodLord, for all my lifeI've been a simple carpenterHow can I raise a king?How can I raise a king? He looks so small His face and hands so fairAnd when He criesThe sun just seems to disappearAnd when He laughs it shines againHow could it be?Father show me where I fitInto this plan of yoursHow can a man be fatherTo the Son of GodLord, for all my lifeI've been a simple carpenterHow can I raise a king?How can I raise a king? How could it beThis baby in my armsSleeping now, so peacefullyThe Son of God, the angel saidHow could it be?How could it be?
Thinking about starting a private practice to find more flexibility in your life? You're going to love this episode! In this episode of Private Practice Success Stories, I sat down with Martha Boiardt, a Grow Your Private Practice student who started her private practice in 2020 after becoming a mom and wanting the flexibility to spend more time with her family. Martha talks about how she went from working for a private practice to starting her own! Starting her private practice gave her the flexibility and freedom she needed as a parent to care for her own children while continuing to serve the needs of children in her community. She also discusses the importance of parent coaching and her future plans to offer a support group to her clients' families. Martha Boiardt, MS, CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist based in Miami, FL. She became a practicing SLP in 2010, working in private practice, public schools, and specialized private schools. In 2014, she founded Miami Speech Therapy with the goal of running a mobile practice that focused on a family-centered approach for each client. When she is not working with clients in their homes and schools, she enjoys spending time with her husband, 3 children, and their pets Allie and Sunny. In Today's Episode, We Discuss:How Martha went from working at a private practice to starting her ownThe benefits of having your own private practiceHow Martha discovered the type of business owner she wanted to beThe types of clients she serves in her private practiceHow Martha is incorporating parent coaching into her practiceA fantastic way to get referrals for your businessMartha's plan for the future of her private practiceThe power of collaborating with other professionals I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Martha! I love how she talked about how her priorities changed once she became a parent. She found that serving families through her private practice allowed her to feel fulfilled and have more freedom to spend time with her family. Want our help to start or grow your private practice in a strategic and profitable way - just like we helped Martha? Please visit https://independentclinician.com/learn-with-jena/! Whether you want to start a private practice or grow your existing private practice, I can help you get the freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and financial abundance that you deserve. Visit my website www.independentclinician.com to learn more.Resources Mentioned: Visit Martha's website: http://www.miamispeechtx.com/Follow Martha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miamispeechtherapy/Where We Can Connect: Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independentclinician/Connect on Facebook:
Ever wonder what it takes to start or join a TPT mastermind? What are the steps to get started and how do you find the right people? You'll hear all about it in this special episode with my own mastermind group! The best thing about a mastermind is that no two are alike, but you do want to make sure it aligns with your personal business goals and what you're looking for in a mastermind. Episode HighlightsHow our mastermind came to beThe structure and schedule of our mastermindWhat we've loved and learned about our mastermindBenefits and tips on starting or joining a mastermindMentioned in this episode:Book a 90-minute 1:1 Brand Strategy Session!Get support on creating or refining your brand strategy! In this service, we will meet via Zoom for a 90-minute strategy call with exercises to define your core values, target audience, unique positioning, and messaging.Book a 1:1 Brand Strategy Session!FREE TPT Store Audit for Teacher Sellers!Have you checked out the free self-guided TPT store audit? Use this free tool to help you self-assess your TPT store! This audit will help you see what's working well for you on TPT- and what can be improved. Take the brief quiz with questions to ask yourself in 5 key areas, analyze and reflect on your results, and get clarity on your next steps to improving your TPT store!Download the free TPT Store Audit!
Bullying, particularly in early stages of life, can result in severe consequences.With the addition of the online space, students are not only exposed to bullying at school, it can come home with them too via things like social media. This can lead to serious mental health problems. With that being said, it's more important than ever that we do everything that we can to prevent bullying from happening. In this episode of From Survivor to Thriver, we got to sit down with Caley Rose. Caley experienced extreme bullying herself in middle school and now makes it her mission to work with kids in schools and make sure people know that they're not alone with her empowering music. Caley Rose is a Billboard charting artist & motivational speaker. She is an empowering pop singer & songwriter whose music has been featured on Top 40 radio, TV, commercials & film. After being severely bullied in middle school, Caley dedicated her life to finding her own self-esteem and to empowering women & students to discover their own. She created her Music with a Message Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program to bring “confidence tools into schools,” by using the power of music. This former Off-Broadway singer has received an Inspiration grant for her work empowering women & students and regularly partners with women's and children's charities. In her own words, “The future looks so bright today I'm gonna need a bigger pair of shades.” In today's episode, we cover: How Caley overcame extreme bullying and depressionWhy the only opinion of you that matters is your ownThe work Caley does in schools using her empowering musicThe reality of bullying in schoolsHow Caley goes about writing her songs The negativity bias and how we can overcome it to understand that we're worth itThe power we all have to be who we want to beThe impact of being vulnerable in front of other peopleThe differences between anxiety and depressionOvercoming imposter syndromeWe hope you enjoyed our conversation with Caley! If you want to learn more about her, you can visit her website. You can also follow her on Instagram and check her out on Spotify. Thanks again for tuning in. We are so grateful to each and every one of you. Please remember to leave a rating and review of our show. It helps us grow and reach those who need it. Also, make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Links: Visit Caley's websiteFollow her on InstagramCheck her out on SpotifyFollow Caley on TikTokVisit our websiteFollow us on FacebookFollow us on InstagramGet in touch: amgits.reverse@gmail.com“If you're at a low and you hate yourself, you need to get to appreciating yourself and then to liking yourself. And then you can think about that almighty self-love.” -Caley“The only opinion of yourself that really matters in your darkest moments is yours.” -Marc “Until you actually look inside yourself and figure out what is it that's causing you to feel a ce
Paula Baker-Laporte is Founder of EcoNest Architecture and the author of Prescriptions for a Healthy Home, now in its 4th Edition. She specializes in designing homes that nurture health and well-being. In this conversation with Paula we discuss:How EcoNest came to beThe ways in which conventional construction can result in an unhealthy homeRethinking the cost of building a healthy homeVOCs and SVOCsThe three most impactful ways to create a healthier homeHow to mitigate electro-magnetic radiation in the homeEarthen floors...and more!Learn more about Paula on her website EcoNestArchitecture.com and through her books. Terrain Theory episodes are not to be taken as medical advice. You are your own primary healthcare provider.If you have a Terrain Transformation story you would like to share, email us at ben@terraintheory.net.Learn more at www.terraintheory.net.Music by Chris Merenda
In this episode of Take-Away with Sam Oches, Sam talks with Denise Pedini, the chief marketing officer of Newk's Eatery. Newk's is a fast-casual concept based in Jackson, Mississippi, with about 100 locations around the Southeast, and just this week announced a rebrand fashioned around the tagline “Extra with Every Bite.” Denise joined the podcast to talk about that tagline and rebrand, what “extra” means to Newk's, and how the concept is updating its digital marketing strategy to appeal to customers new and old.In this conversation, you'll find out why:Your guests are the best source to tell you what to be — and what not to beThe value message still resonates as a traffic driverDigital marketing is the perfect way to draw customers new and oldLoyalty programs are a cheat code for brand evolution The marketing and IT fields are fusing into one guest experience functionHave feedback or ideas for Take-Away? Email Sam at sam.oches@informa.com.
In 2016 a woman named Bethe Wettlaufer checked herself into a hospital in Toronto and made some startling statements to the staff that would later lead to an intense interrogation with the Canadian authorities regarding her nursing career. Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com Write me: spencer@cultliter.comSpencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcastJoin our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliterCheck out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you're listening now! Sources: https://chatelaine.com/living/elizabeth-wettlaufer/https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/in-written-and-spoken-confessions-serial-killer-elizabeth-wettlaufer-reveals-her-thoughts-as-she-killedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlauferhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/that-evening-i-got-the-urge-to-overdose-james-read-serial-killer-elizabeth-wettlaufer-s/article_e7d230bd-9112-5eec-b2b9-0c09b444f7fd.htmlhttps://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/381083901?access_key=key-14x2zy69z8ecwa0wzhbuhttps://nypost.com/2016/10/26/nurse-who-murdered-patients-wrote-eerie-poems-online/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/elizabeth-wettlaufer-messages-glen-hart-1.4039077See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Are we willing to take what God offers? Notes: 1. “Brother there is a stirring happening in the body of Christ - and it's a good one. “– “God is aligning things for His Glory - His authority and His power to be revealed through His people.” “Get ready!” o John 5:2-10 (NKJV) verse by verse 2. Bethe = house and Thesda = lovingkindness, mercy. Bethesda, = house of mercy. 3. Well – 5199. ὑγιής hugiḗs; Sound, Whole in health 4. Sir – 2962. κύριος kúrios; Lord, master, owner. equivalent for the OT Hebr. Jehovah. Also from kúros (n.f.): kuróō (2964), to give authority o Matthew 15:18 (NKJV) o John 5:8-10 (NKJV) 5. Some people like you better sick than healed. 6. “God is aligning things for His Glory - His authority and His power to be revealed through His people.” “Get ready!!!!” Need Prayer? Send your prayer requests to: journeychurcheva.com/prayer To give to Journey: journeychurcheva.com/give
Are we willing to take what God offers? Notes: 1. “Brother there is a stirring happening in the body of Christ - and it's a good one. “– “God is aligning things for His Glory - His authority and His power to be revealed through His people.” “Get ready!” o John 5:2-10 (NKJV) verse by verse 2. Bethe = house and Thesda = lovingkindness, mercy. Bethesda, = house of mercy. 3. Well – 5199. ὑγιής hugiḗs; Sound, Whole in health 4. Sir – 2962. κύριος kúrios; Lord, master, owner. equivalent for the OT Hebr. Jehovah. Also from kúros (n.f.): kuróō (2964), to give authority o Matthew 15:18 (NKJV) o John 5:8-10 (NKJV) 5. Some people like you better sick than healed. 6. “God is aligning things for His Glory - His authority and His power to be revealed through His people.” “Get ready!!!!” Need Prayer? Send your prayer requests to: journeychurcheva.com/prayer To give to Journey: journeychurcheva.com/give
Melissa was thrilled to chat with Karen Zacarías about her world premiere adaptation of Shane, based on the novel by Jack Schaefer, which is now playing (in August 2023) at the Guthrie Theater. In this episode, we discuss:How this co-commission and co-production came to beThe challenges of adapting a Western for the stageCreating a more complete and accurate picture of the American WestBeach Karen!And more!Resources MentionedCincinnatti Playhouse in the ParkGuthrie TheaterShane at the GuthrieAbout Our GuestKAREN ZACARÍAS was recently hailed by American Theater Magazine as one of the most produced playwrights in the US. Her plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens, The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, and the adaptations of Just Like Us, The Age of Innocence, Into the Beautiful North, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and a bilingual Romeo y Juliet. She has been produced at The Kennedy Center, The Goodman, The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, GALA Hispanic Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Old Globe, The Alliance Theater, Repertorio Español, The Latino Theater Company, Milagro Theater, and many more. She is the author of ten renowned TYA musicals and the librettist of several Ballets. She is one of the inaugural resident playwrights at Arena Stage, a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons- a large national organization of artists seeking to update the American narrative with Latinx stories-, and she is the founder of the award-winning Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT), noted as one of the best arts educational programs by the Obama White House. Karen was voted a 2019 Washingtonian of the Year for her arts advocacy by Washingtonian Magazine. She was awarded the 2019 Sine Fellowship at the American University School of Public Policy for connecting art with policy making. She is a recipient of 2019 Lee-Reynolds-Award for “social, cultural, or political change with theater” awarded by the League of ProfessioConnect with host Melissa Schmitz***Sign up for the 101 Stage Adaptations Newsletter***101 Stage AdaptationsFollow the Podcast on Facebook & InstagramRead Melissa's plays on New Play ExchangeConnect with Melissa on LinkedInWays to support the show:- Buy Me a Coffee- Tell us your thoughts in our Listener Survey!- Give a 5-Star rating- Write a glowing review on Apple Podcasts - Send this episode to a friend- Share on social media (Tag us so we can thank you!)Creators: Host your podcast through Buzzsprout using my affiliate link & get a $20 credit on your paid account. Let your fans directly support you via Buy Me a Coffee (affiliate link).
Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy', on the Japanese port city, Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second bomb, a plutonium-implosion device — Fat Man — on Nagasaki. When the dust settled, between 130 and 225,000 people were dead or dying. To this day, casualty numbers vary widely. One thing is clear: almost all were civilians. Thousands more would sicken and die in the years to come. America's public rationale for its nuclear bombing of Japan: avoiding the huge casualties that would supposedly have resulted from putting boots on Japanese soil. Other, more cynical reasons would emerge in time.This is a story about America's development of Little Boy and Fat Man, featuring interviews with German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe, head of the theoretical physics division of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where America's first nuclear ‘device', Trinity, was developed, and the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics. Host David Kattenburg interviewed Bethe in his office at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. You'll also hear from Martin Johns, late Professor Emeritus of physics at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, and researcher at Canada's Chalk River nuclear facility, about the history of Canada's involvement in the development of America's nuclear bombs.Find more Green Planet Monitor, and support the show, at https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/
(*) Receive weekly science-based, compassionate, and actionable skills to stop ineffective playing-it-safe: subscribe to the Playing-it-safe Newsletter: https://www.thisisdoctorz.com/playing-it-safe-newsletter/When was the last time you had an aha moment in which your next steps were clear? Do you remember how it is to be in the midst of a difficult situation, and then, have clarity of what you need to do?If you pay attention to your experiences, you may notice those aha moments in which your choices are clear - you will be able to clearly see what you are longing for or the changes you need to make in your life.Without that awareness, it's easier to play-it-safe, live automatically, and continue to respond to all those anxieties, worries, and fears in the same way you have been doing for years.One way to build that awareness is through the practice of mindfulness.In this conversation, Seth Gillihan, Ph.D. and I discuss how to nourish your mindfulness practice. In a world that moves so fast, and there are hundreds of mindfulness apps, books on mindfulness, and mindfulness teachers, it is easy to develop misconceptions surrounding the practice of mindfulness or to hope for a quick fix with it. But how can you really cultivate your mindfulness practice in your daily life? Key TakeawaysHow to approach mindfulness with a beginner's mindThe intersection of Christianity and mindfulnessTips to practice mindfulness in your day-to-day lifeHow to use movement as a way to practice mindfulnessHow to bring yourself back to the present when your mind is wanderingThe intersection of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulnessHow to coach yourself to recognize thoughts as thoughts versus getting consumed by themHow to practice non-attachment to how things are supposed to beThe relationship between non-attachment and mindfulnessHow looking for evidence for and against a worry may not be helpfulHow to use mindfulness skills to manage worry The benefits of developing an observer-selfEpisode's show notes: https://www.thisisdoctorz.com/how-to-practice-mindfulness-in-the-middle-of-it-all/(*) Receive weekly science-based, compassionate, and actionable skills to stop ineffective playing-it-safe: subscribe to the Playing-it-safe Newsletter: https://www.thisisdoctorz.com/playing-it-safe-newsletter/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How much money are you leaving on the table by limiting yourself to using only basic business strategies?Even if you've seen 6 or 7 figure success, you've more than likely been running your business with blinders on. How is that possible? Find out in this episode, as Tommie and Tie explore the untapped opportunities that are still on the table - especially when it comes to breaking down, dissecting, and properly using your data.They also discuss the importance of stepping out of your echo chamber and connecting with others to reach your next level of success. Plus, they share real examples and strategies for identifying potential buyers and the possibilities of creating a buyer's DNA using AI machine learning tracking software.You can hustle your way to 7 figures. But when you start looking at scaling to 8 and 9 figures, that's when you need a data driven decision making model. This conversation exposes how to begin making that shift.Use this episode as a means to stretch your mind, expose yourself to new concepts that can help you make more money in your business, and take that leap to the Next Level.In this episode, you'll learn:Strategies for creating a buyer's DNAHow and why you're spending way more money on ads than you should beThe 1 thing you should focus on to become more profitable before you begin extracting excessWhy the big players, like Google and Facebook, don't deliver more visual dataAn example of how to use data buckets to increase your conversionsTips for making the most of Google Analytics and Google Tag ManagersOverview of OKR's and how they can help you identify the needle moving activities in your businessWhat the roadmap to scale beyond 6 and 7 figures looks likeBe sure to check out the next episode of Scaling Uncensored and follow on social media for even more exclusive e-commerce game.For full show notes head to: nextlevelambitions.com/episode16Resources:Measure What Matters by John DoerrApply for the Next Level Ambitions MastermindWhere We Can Connect:Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on InstagramCheck Out Our WebsiteCheck Out Our Other Ecommerce Marketing PodcastsIf you're enjoying this podcast we encourage you to please leave a review, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it and hit the subscribe button so you don't miss out on any future episodes! Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts
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It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombWe discuss* similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain arms-race situation)* visiting starving former Soviet scientists during fall of Soviet Union* whether Oppenheimer was a spy, & consulting on the Nolan movie* living through WW2 as a child* odds of nuclear war in Ukraine, Taiwan, Pakistan, & North Korea* how the US pulled of such a massive secret wartime scientific & industrial projectWatch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.Timestamps(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movie(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?(0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombs(0:49:44) - Stalin & the Soviet program(1:08:24) - Deterrence, disarmament, North Korea, Taiwan(1:33:12) - Oppenheimer as lab director(1:53:40) - AI progress vs Manhattan Project(1:59:50) - Living through WW2(2:16:45) - Secrecy(2:26:34) - Wisdom & warTranscript(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movieDwarkesh Patel 0:00:51Today I have the great honor of interviewing Richard Rhodes, who is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and most recently, the author of Energy, A Human History. I'm really excited about this one. Let's jump in at a current event, which is the fact that there's a new movie about Oppenheimer coming out, which I understand you've been consulted about. What did you think of the trailer? What are your impressions? Richard Rhodes 0:01:22They've really done a good job of things like the Trinity test device, which was the sphere covered with cables of various kinds. I had watched Peaky Blinders, where the actor who's playing Oppenheimer also appeared, and he looked so much like Oppenheimer to start with. Oppenheimer was about six feet tall, he was rail thin, not simply in terms of weight, but in terms of structure. Someone said he could sit in a children's high chair comfortably. But he never weighed more than about 140 pounds and that quality is there in the actor. So who knows? It all depends on how the director decided to tell the story. There are so many aspects of the story that you could never possibly squeeze them into one 2-hour movie. I think that we're waiting for the multi-part series that would really tell a lot more of the story, if not the whole story. But it looks exciting. We'll see. There have been some terrible depictions of Oppenheimer, there've been some terrible depictions of the bomb program. And maybe they'll get this one right. Dwarkesh Patel 0:02:42Yeah, hopefully. It is always great when you get an actor who resembles their role so well. For example, Bryan Cranston who played LBJ, and they have the same physical characteristics of the beady eyes, the big ears. Since we're talking about Oppenheimer, I had one question about him. I understand that there's evidence that's come out that he wasn't directly a communist spy. But is there any possibility that he was leaking information to the Soviets or in some way helping the Soviet program? He was a communist sympathizer, right? Richard Rhodes 0:03:15He had been during the 1930s. But less for the theory than for the practical business of helping Jews escape from Nazi Germany. One of the loves of his life, Jean Tatlock, was also busy working on extracting Jews from Europe during the 30. She was a member of the Communist Party and she, I think, encouraged him to come to meetings. But I don't think there's any possibility whatsoever that he shared information. In fact, he said he read Marx on a train trip between Berkeley and Washington one time and thought it was a bunch of hooey, just ridiculous. He was a very smart man, and he read the book with an eye to its logic, and he didn't think there was much there. He really didn't know anything about human beings and their struggles. He was born into considerable wealth. There were impressionist paintings all over his family apartments in New York City. His father had made a great deal of money cornering the markets on uniform linings for military uniforms during and before the First World War so there was a lot of wealth. I think his income during the war years and before was somewhere around $100,000 a month. And that's a lot of money in the 1930s. So he just lived in his head for most of his early years until he got to Berkeley and discovered that prime students of his were living on cans of god-awful cat food, because they couldn't afford anything else. And once he understood that there was great suffering in the world, he jumped in on it, as he always did when he became interested in something. So all of those things come together. His brother Frank was a member of the party, as was Frank's wife. I think the whole question of Oppenheimer lying to the security people during the Second World War about who approached him and who was trying to get him to sign on to some espionage was primarily an effort to cover up his brother's involvement. Not that his brothers gave away any secrets, I don't think they did. But if the army's security had really understood Frank Oppenheimer's involvement, he probably would have been shipped off to the Aleutians or some other distant place for the duration of the war. And Oppenheimer quite correctly wanted Frank around. He was someone he trusted.(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?Dwarkesh Patel 0:06:22Let's start talking about The Making of the Bomb. One question I have is — if World War II doesn't happen, is there any possibility that the bomb just never gets developed? Nobody bothers.Richard Rhodes 0:06:34That's really a good question and I've wondered over the years. But the more I look at the sequence of events, the more I think it would have been essentially inevitable, though perhaps not such an accelerated program. The bomb was pushed so hard during the Second World War because we thought the Germans had already started working on one. Nuclear fission had been discovered in Nazi Germany, in Berlin, in 1938, nine months before the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Technological surveillance was not available during the war. The only way you could find out something was to send in a spy or have a mole or something human. And we didn't have that. So we didn't know where the Germans were, but we knew that the basic physics reaction that could lead to a bomb had been discovered there a year or more before anybody else in the West got started thinking about it. There was that most of all to push the urgency. In your hypothetical there would not have been that urgency. However, as soon as good physicists thought about the reaction that leads to nuclear fission — where a slow room temperature neutron, very little energy, bumps into the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom it would lead to a massive response. Isidore Rabi, one of the great physicists of this era, said it would have been like the moon struck the earth. The reaction was, as physicists say, fiercely exothermic. It puts out a lot more energy than you have to use to get it started. Once they did the numbers on that, and once they figured out how much uranium you would need to have in one place to make a bomb or to make fission get going, and once they were sure that there would be a chain reaction, meaning a couple of neutrons would come out of the reaction from one atom, and those two or three would go on and bump into other Uranium atoms, which would then fission them, and you'd get a geometric exponential. You'd get 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and off of there. For most of our bombs today the initial fission, in 80 generations, leads to a city-busting explosion. And then they had to figure out how much material they would need, and that's something the Germans never really figured out, fortunately for the rest of us. They were still working on the idea that somehow a reactor would be what you would build. When Niels Bohr, the great Danish physicist, escaped from Denmark in 1943 and came to England and then United States, he brought with him a rough sketch that Werner Heisenberg, the leading scientist in the German program, had handed him in the course of trying to find out what Bohr knew about what America was doing. And he showed it to the guys at Los Alamos and Hans Bethe, one of the great Nobel laureate physicists in the group, said — “Are the Germans trying to throw a reactor down on us?” You can make a reactor blow up, we saw that at Chernobyl, but it's not a nuclear explosion on the scale that we're talking about with the bomb. So when a couple of these emigres Jewish physicists from Nazi Germany were whiling away their time in England after they escaped, because they were still technically enemy aliens and therefore could not be introduced to top secret discussions, one of them asked the other — “How much would we need of pure uranium-235, this rare isotope of uranium that chain reacts? How much would we need to make a bomb?” And they did the numbers and they came up with one pound, which was startling to them. Of course, it is more than that. It's about 125 pounds, but that's just a softball. That's not that much material. And then they did the numbers about what it would cost to build a factory to pull this one rare isotope of uranium out of the natural metal, which has several isotopes mixed together. And they figured it wouldn't cost more than it would cost to build a battleship, which is not that much money for a country at war. Certainly the British had plenty of battleships at that point in time. So they put all this together and they wrote a report which they handed through their superior physicists at Manchester University where they were based, who quickly realized how important this was. The United States lagged behind because we were not yet at war, but the British were. London was being bombed in the blitz. So they saw the urgency, first of all, of eating Germany to the punch, second of all of the possibility of building a bomb. In this report, these two scientists wrote that no physical structure came to their minds which could offer protection against a bomb of such ferocious explosive power. This report was from 1940 long before the Manhattan Project even got started. They said in this report, the only way we could think of to protect you against a bomb would be to have a bomb of similar destructive force that could be threatened for use if the other side attacked you. That's deterrence. That's a concept that was developed even before the war began in the United States. You put all those pieces together and you have a situation where you have to build a bomb because whoever builds the first bomb theoretically could prevent you from building more or prevent another country from building any and could dominate the world. And the notion of Adolf Hitler dominating the world, the Third Reich with nuclear weapons, was horrifying. Put all that together and the answer is every country that had the technological infrastructure to even remotely have the possibility of building everything you'd have to build to get the material for a bomb started work on thinking about it as soon as nuclear fusion was announced to the world. France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, even Japan. So I think the bomb would have been developed but maybe not so quickly. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:10In the book you talk that for some reason the Germans thought that the critical mass was something like 10 tons, they had done some miscalculation.Richard Rhodes 0:14:18A reactor. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:19You also have some interesting stories in the book about how different countries found out the Americans were working on the bomb. For example, the Russians saw that all the top physicists, chemists, and metallurgists were no longer publishing. They had just gone offline and so they figured that something must be going on. I'm not sure if you're aware that while the subject of the Making of the Atomic Bomb in and of itself is incredibly fascinating, this book has become a cult classic in AI. Are you familiar with this? Richard Rhodes 0:14:52No. Dwarkesh Patel 0:14:53The people who are working on AI right now are huge fans of yours. They're the ones who initially recommended the book to me because the way they see the progress in the field reminded them of this book. Because you start off with these initial scientific hints. With deep learning, for example, here's something that can teach itself any function is similar to Szilárd noticing the nuclear chain reaction. In AI there's these scaling laws that say that if you make the model this much bigger, it gets much better at reasoning, at predicting text, and so on. And then you can extrapolate this curve. And you can see we get two more orders of magnitude, and we get to something that looks like human level intelligence. Anyway, a lot of the people who are working in AI have become huge fans of your book because of this reason. They see a lot of analogies in the next few years. They must be at page 400 in their minds of where the Manhattan Project was.Richard Rhodes 0:15:55We must later on talk about unintended consequences. I find the subject absolutely fascinating. I think my next book might be called Unintended Consequences. Dwarkesh Patel 0:16:10You mentioned that a big reason why many of the scientists wanted to work on the bomb, especially the Jewish emigres, was because they're worried about Hitler getting it first. As you mentioned at some point, 1943, 1944, it was becoming obvious that Hitler, the Nazis were not close to the bomb. And I believe that almost none of the scientists quit after they found out that the Nazis weren't close. So why didn't more of them say — “Oh, I guess we were wrong. The Nazis aren't going to get it. We don't need to be working on it.”?Richard Rhodes 0:16:45There was only one who did that, Joseph Rotblat. In May of 1945 when he heard that Germany had been defeated, he packed up and left. General Groves, the imperious Army Corps of Engineers General who ran the entire Manhattan Project, was really upset. He was afraid he'd spill the beans. So he threatened to have him arrested and put in jail. But Rotblat was quite determined not to stay any longer. He was not interested in building bombs to aggrandize the national power of the United States of America, which is perfectly understandable. But why was no one else? Let me tell it in terms of Victor Weisskopf. He was an Austrian theoretical physicist, who, like the others, escaped when the Nazis took over Germany and then Austria and ended up at Los Alamos. Weisskopf wrote later — “There we were in Los Alamos in the midst of the darkest part of our science.” They were working on a weapon of mass destruction, that's pretty dark. He said “Before it had almost seemed like a spiritual quest.” And it's really interesting how different physics was considered before and after the Second World War. Before the war, one of the physicists in America named Louis Alvarez told me when he got his PhD in physics at Berkeley in 1937 and went to cocktail parties, people would ask, “What's your degree in?” He would tell them “Chemistry.” I said, “Louis, why?” He said, “because I don't really have to explain what physics was.” That's how little known this kind of science was at that time. There were only about 1,000 physicists in the whole world in 1900. By the mid-30s, there were a lot more, of course. There'd been a lot of nuclear physics and other kinds of physics done by them. But it was still arcane. And they didn't feel as if they were doing anything mean or dirty or warlike at all. They were just doing pure science. Then nuclear fission came along. It was publicized worldwide. People who've been born since after the Second World War don't realize that it was not a secret at first. The news was published first in a German chemistry journal, Die Naturwissenschaften, and then in the British journal Nature and then in American journals. And there were headlines in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and all over the world. People had been reading about and thinking about how to get energy out of the atomic nucleus for a long time. It was clear there was a lot there. All you had to do was get a piece of radium and see that it glowed in the dark. This chunk of material just sat there, you didn't plug it into a wall. And if you held it in your hand, it would burn you. So where did that energy come from? The physicists realized it all came from the nucleus of the atom, which is a very small part of the whole thing. The nucleus is 1/100,000th the diameter of the whole atom. Someone in England described it as about the size of a fly in a cathedral. All of the energy that's involved in chemical reactions, comes from the electron cloud that's around the nucleus. But it was clear that the nucleus was the center of powerful forces. But the question was, how do you get them out? The only way that the nucleus had been studied up to 1938 was by bombarding it with protons, which have the same electric charge as the nucleus, positive charge, which means they were repelled by it. So you had to accelerate them to high speeds with various versions of the big machines that we've all become aware of since then. The cyclotron most obviously built in the 30s, but there were others as well. And even then, at best, you could chip a little piece off. You could change an atom one step up or one step down the periodic table. This was the classic transmutation of medieval alchemy sure but it wasn't much, you didn't get much out. So everyone came to think of the nucleus of the atom like a little rock that you really had to hammer hard to get anything to happen with it because it was so small and dense. That's why nuclear fission, with this slow neutron drifting and then the whole thing just goes bang, was so startling to everybody. So startling that when it happened, most of the physicists who would later work on the bomb and others as well, realized that they had missed the reaction that was something they could have staged on a lab bench with the equipment on the shelf. Didn't have to invent anything new. And Louis Alvarez again, this physicist at Berkeley, he said — “I was getting my hair cut. When I read the newspaper, I pulled off the robe and half with my hair cut, ran to my lab, pulled some equipment off the shelf, set it up and there it was.” So he said, “I discovered nuclear fission, but it was two days too late.” And that happened all over. People were just hitting themselves on the head and saying, well, Niels Bohr said, “What fools we've all been.” So this is a good example of how in science, if your model you're working with is wrong it doesn't lead you down the right path. There was only one physicist who really was thinking the right way about the uranium atom and that was Niels Bohr. He wondered, sometime during the 30s, why uranium was the last natural element in the periodic table? What is different about the others that would come later? He visualized the nucleus as a liquid drop. I always like to visualize it as a water-filled balloon. It's wobbly, it's not very stable. The protons in the nucleus are held together by something called the strong force, but they still have the repellent positive electric charge that's trying to push them apart when you get enough of them into a nucleus. It's almost a standoff between the strong force and all the electrical charge. So it is like a wobbly balloon of water. And then you see why a neutron just falling into the nucleus would make it wobble around even more and in one of its configurations, it might take a dumbbell shape. And then you'd have basically two charged atoms just barely connected, trying to push each other apart. And often enough, they went the whole way. When they did that, these two new elements, half the weight of uranium, way down the periodic table, would reconfigure themselves into two separate nuclei. And in doing so, they would release some energy. And that was the energy that came out of the reaction and there was a lot of energy. So Bohr thought about the model in the right way. The chemists who actually discovered nuclear fusion didn't know what they were gonna get. They were just bombarding a solution of uranium nitrate with neutrons thinking, well, maybe we can make a new element, maybe a first man-made element will come out of our work. So when they analyzed the solution after they bombarded it, they found elements halfway down the periodic table. They shouldn't have been there. And they were totally baffled. What is this doing here? Do we contaminate our solution? No. They had been working with a physicist named Lisa Meitner who was a theoretical physicist, an Austrian Jew. She had gotten out of Nazi Germany not long before. But they were still in correspondence with her. So they wrote her a letter. I held that letter in my hand when I visited Berlin and I was in tears. You don't hold history of that scale in your hands very often. And it said in German — “We found this strange reaction in our solution. What are these elements doing there that don't belong there?” And she went for a walk in a little village in Western Sweden with her nephew, Otto Frisch, who was also a nuclear physicist. And they thought about it for a while and they remembered Bohr's model, the wobbly water-filled balloon. And they suddenly saw what could happen. And that's where the news came from, the physics news as opposed to the chemistry news from the guys in Germany that was published in all the Western journals and all the newspapers. And everybody had been talking about, for years, what you could do if you had that kind of energy. A glass of this material would drive the Queen Mary back and forth from New York to London 20 times and so forth, your automobile could run for months. People were thinking about what would be possible if you had that much available energy. And of course, people had thought about reactors. Robert Oppenheimer was a professor at Berkeley and within a week of the news reaching Berkeley, one of his students told me that he had a drawing on the blackboard, a rather bad drawing of both a reactor and a bomb. So again, because the energy was so great, the physics was pretty obvious. Whether it would actually happen depended on some other things like could you make it chain react? But fundamentally, the idea was all there at the very beginning and everybody jumped on it. Dwarkesh Patel 0:27:54The book is actually the best history of World War II I've ever read. It's about the atomic bomb, but it's interspersed with the events that are happening in World War II, which motivate the creation of the bomb or the release of it, why it had to be dropped on Japan given the Japanese response. The first third is about the scientific roots of the physics and it's also the best book I've read about the history of science in the early 20th century and the organization of it. There's some really interesting stuff in there. For example, there was a passage where you talk about how there's a real master apprentice model in early science where if you wanted to learn to do this kind of experimentation, you will go to Amsterdam where the master of it is residing. It's much more individual focused. Richard Rhodes 0:28:58Yeah, the whole European model of graduate study, which is basically the wandering scholar. You could go wherever you wanted to and sign up with whoever was willing to have you sign up. (0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombsDwarkesh Patel 0:29:10But the question I wanted to ask regarding the history you made of World War II in general is — there's one way you can think about the atom bomb which is that it is completely different from any sort of weaponry that has been developed before it. Another way you can think of it is there's a spectrum where on one end you have the thermonuclear bomb, in the middle you have the atom bomb, and on this end you have the firebombing of cities like Hamburg and Dresden and Tokyo. Do you think of these as completely different categories or does it seem like an escalating gradient to you? Richard Rhodes 0:29:47I think until you get to the hydrogen bomb, it's really an escalating gradient. The hydrogen bomb can be made arbitrarily large. The biggest one ever tested was 56 megatons of TNT equivalent. The Soviet tested that. That had a fireball more than five miles in diameter, just the fireball. So that's really an order of magnitude change. But the other one's no and in fact, I think one of the real problems, this has not been much discussed and it should be, when American officials went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war, one of them said later — “I got on a plane in Tokyo. We flew down the long green archipelago of the Japanese home island. When I left Tokyo, it was all gray broken roof tiles from the fire bombing and the other bombings. And then all this greenery. And then when we flew over Hiroshima, it was just gray broken roof tiles again.” So the scale of the bombing with one bomb, in the case of Hiroshima, was not that different from the scale of the fire bombings that had preceded it with tens of thousands of bombs. The difference was it was just one plane. In fact, the people in Hiroshima didn't even bother to go into their bomb shelters because one plane had always just been a weather plane. Coming over to check the weather before the bombers took off. So they didn't see any reason to hide or protect themselves, which was one of the reasons so many people were killed. The guys at Los Alamos had planned on the Japanese being in their bomb shelters. They did everything they could think of to make the bomb as much like ordinary bombing as they could. And for example, it was exploded high enough above ground, roughly 1,800 yards, so that the fireball that would form from this really very small nuclear weapon — by modern standards — 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent, wouldn't touch the ground and stir up dirt and irradiate it and cause massive radioactive fallout. It never did that. They weren't sure there would be any fallout. They thought the plutonium and the bomb over Nagasaki now would just kind of turn into a gas and blow away. That's not exactly what happened. But people don't seem to realize, and it's never been emphasized enough, these first bombs, like all nuclear weapons, were firebombs. Their job was to start mass fires, just exactly like all the six-pound incendiaries that had been destroying every major city in Japan by then. Every major city above 50,000 population had already been burned out. The only reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were around to be atomic bombed is because they'd been set aside from the target list, because General Groves wanted to know what the damage effects would be. The bomb that was tested in the desert didn't tell you anything. It killed a lot of rabbits, knocked down a lot of cactus, melted some sand, but you couldn't see its effect on buildings and on people. So the bomb was deliberately intended to be as much not like poison gas, for example, because we didn't want the reputation for being like people in the war in Europe during the First World War, where people were killing each other with horrible gasses. We just wanted people to think this was another bombing. So in that sense, it was. Of course, there was radioactivity. And of course, some people were killed by it. But they calculated that the people who would be killed by the irradiation, the neutron radiation from the original fireball, would be close enough to the epicenter of the explosion that they would be killed by the blast or the flash of light, which was 10,000 degrees. The world's worst sunburn. You've seen stories of people walking around with their skin hanging off their arms. I've had sunburns almost that bad, but not over my whole body, obviously, where the skin actually peeled blisters and peels off. That was a sunburn from a 10,000 degree artificial sun. Dwarkesh Patel 0:34:29So that's not the heat, that's just the light? Richard Rhodes 0:34:32Radiant light, radiant heat. 10,000 degrees. But the blast itself only extended out a certain distance, it was fire. And all the nuclear weapons that have ever been designed are basically firebombs. That's important because the military in the United States after the war was not able to figure out how to calculate the effects of this weapon in a reliable way that matched their previous experience. They would only calculate the blast effects of a nuclear weapon when they figured their targets. That's why we had what came to be called overkill. We wanted redundancy, of course, but 60 nuclear weapons on Moscow was way beyond what would be necessary to destroy even that big a city because they were only calculating the blast. But in fact, if you exploded a 300 kiloton nuclear warhead over the Pentagon at 3,000 feet, it would blast all the way out to the capital, which isn't all that far. But if you counted the fire, it would start a mass-fire and then it would reach all the way out to the Beltway and burn everything between the epicenter of the weapon and the Beltway. All organic matter would be totally burned out, leaving nothing but mineral matter, basically. Dwarkesh Patel 0:36:08I want to emphasize two things you said because they really hit me in reading the book and I'm not sure if the audience has fully integrated them. The first is, in the book, the military planners and Groves, they talk about needing to use the bomb sooner rather than later, because they were running out of cities in Japan where there are enough buildings left that it would be worth bombing in the first place, which is insane. An entire country is almost already destroyed from fire bombing alone. And the second thing about the category difference between thermonuclear and atomic bombs. Daniel Ellsberg, the nuclear planner who wrote the Doomsday machine, he talks about, people don't understand that the atom bomb that resulted in the pictures we see of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, that is simply the detonator of a modern nuclear bomb, which is an insane thing to think about. So for example, 10 and 15 kilotons is the Hiroshima Nagasaki and the Tsar Bomba, which was 50 megatons. So more than 1,000 times as much. And that wasn't even as big as they could make it. They kept the uranium tamper off, because they didn't want to destroy all of Siberia. So you could get more than 10,000 times as powerful. Richard Rhodes 0:37:31When Edward Teller, co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb and one of the dark forces in the story, was consulting with our military, just for his own sake, he sat down and calculated, how big could you make a hydrogen bomb? He came up with 1,000 megatons. And then he looked at the effects. 1,000 megatons would be a fireball 10 miles in diameter. And the atmosphere is only 10 miles deep. He figured that it would just be a waste of energy, because it would all blow out into space. Some of it would go laterally, of course, but most of it would just go out into space. So a bomb more than 100 megatons would just be totally a waste of time. Of course, a 100 megatons bomb is also a total waste, because there's no target on Earth big enough to justify that from a military point of view. Robert Oppenheimer, when he had his security clearance questioned and then lifted when he was being punished for having resisted the development of the hydrogen bomb, was asked by the interrogator at this security hearing — “Well, Dr. Oppenheimer, if you'd had a hydrogen bomb for Hiroshima, wouldn't you have used it?” And Oppenheimer said, “No.” The interrogator asked, “Why is that?” He said because the target was too small. I hope that scene is in the film, I'm sure it will be. So after the war, when our bomb planners and some of our scientists went into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just about as soon as the surrender was signed, what they were interested in was the scale of destruction, of course. And those two cities didn't look that different from the other cities that had been firebombed with small incendiaries and ordinary high explosives. They went home to Washington, the policy makers, with the thought that — “Oh, these bombs are not so destructive after all.” They had been touted as city busters, basically, and they weren't. They didn't completely burn out cities. They were not certainly more destructive than the firebombing campaign, when everything of more than 50,000 population had already been destroyed. That, in turn, influenced the judgment about what we needed to do vis-a-vis the Soviet Union when the Soviets got the bomb in 1949. There was a general sense that, when you could fight a war with nuclear weapons, deterrence or not, you would need quite a few of them to do it right. And the Air Force, once it realized that it could aggrandize its own share of the federal budget by cornering the market and delivering nuclear weapons, very quickly decided that they would only look at the blast effect and not the fire effect. It's like tying one hand behind your back. Most of it was a fire effect. So that's where they came up with numbers like we need 60 of these to take out Moscow. And what the Air Force figured out by the late 1940s is that the more targets, the more bombs. The more bombs, the more planes. The more planes, the biggest share of the budget. So by the mid 1950s, the Air Force commanded 47% of the federal defense budget. And the other branches of services, which had not gone nuclear by then, woke up and said, we'd better find some use for these weapons in our branches of service. So the Army discovered that it needed nuclear weapons, tactical weapons for field use, fired out of cannons. There was even one that was fired out of a shoulder mounted rifle. There was a satchel charge that two men could carry, weighed about 150 pounds, that could be used to dig a ditch so that Soviet tanks couldn't cross into Germany. And of course the Navy by then had been working hard with General Rickover on building a nuclear submarine that could carry ballistic missiles underwater in total security. No way anybody could trace those submarines once they were quiet enough. And a nuclear reactor is very quiet. It just sits there with neutrons running around, making heat. So the other services jumped in and this famous triad, we must have these three different kinds of nuclear weapons, baloney. We would be perfectly safe if we only had our nuclear submarines. And only one or two of those. One nuclear submarine can take out all of Europe or all of the Soviet Union.Dwarkesh Patel 0:42:50Because it has multiple nukes on it? Richard Rhodes 0:42:53Because they have 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles with MIRV warheads, at least three per missile. Dwarkesh Patel 0:43:02Wow. I had a former guest, Richard Hanania, who has a book about foreign policy where he points out that our model of thinking about why countries do the things they do, especially in foreign affairs, is wrong because we think of them as individual rational actors, when in fact it's these competing factions within the government. And in fact, you see this especially in the case of Japan in World War II, there was a great book of Japan leading up to World War II, where they talk about how a branch of the Japanese military, I forget which, needed more oil to continue their campaign in Manchuria so they forced these other branches to escalate. But it's so interesting that the reason we have so many nukes is that the different branches are competing for funding. Richard Rhodes 0:43:50Douhet, the theorist of air power, had been in the trenches in the First World War. Somebody (John Masefield) called the trenches of the First World War, the long grave already dug, because millions of men were killed and the trenches never moved, a foot this way, a foot that way, all this horror. And Douhet came up with the idea that if you could fly over the battlefield to the homeland of the enemy and destroy his capacity to make war, then the people of that country, he theorized, would rise up in rebellion and throw out their leaders and sue for peace. And this became the dream of all the Air Forces of the world, but particularly ours. Until around 1943, it was called the US Army Air Force. The dream of every officer in the Air Force was to get out from under the Army, not just be something that delivers ground support or air support to the Army as it advances, but a power that could actually win wars. And the missing piece had always been the scale of the weaponry they carried. So when the bomb came along, you can see why Curtis LeMay, who ran the strategic air command during the prime years of that force, was pushing for bigger and bigger bombs. Because if a plane got shot down, but the one behind it had a hydrogen bomb, then it would be just almost as effective as the two planes together. So they wanted big bombs. And they went after Oppenheimer because he thought that was a terrible way to go, that there was really no military use for these huge weapons. Furthermore, the United States had more cities than Russia did, than the Soviet Union did. And we were making ourselves a better target by introducing a weapon that could destroy a whole state. I used to live in Connecticut and I saw a map that showed the air pollution that blew up from New York City to Boston. And I thought, well, now if that was fallout, we'd be dead up here in green, lovely Connecticut. That was the scale that it was going to be with these big new weapons. So on the one hand, you had some of the important leaders in the government thinking that these weapons were not the war-winning weapons that the Air Force wanted them and realized they could be. And on the other hand, you had the Air Force cornering the market on nuclear solutions to battles. All because some guy in a trench in World War I was sufficiently horrified and sufficiently theoretical about what was possible with air power. Remember, they were still flying biplanes. When H.G. Wells wrote his novel, The World Set Free in 1913, predicting an atomic war that would lead to world government, he had Air Forces delivering atomic bombs, but he forgot to update his planes. The guys in the back seat, the bombardiers, were sitting in a biplane, open cockpit. And when the pilots had dropped the bomb, they would reach down and pick up H.G. Wells' idea of an atomic bomb and throw it over the side. Which is kind of what was happening in Washington after the war. And it led us to a terribly misleading and unfortunate perspective on how many weapons we needed, which in turn fermented the arms race with the Soviets and just chased off. In the Soviet Union, they had a practical perspective on factories. Every factory was supposed to produce 120% of its target every year. That was considered good Soviet realism. And they did that with their nuclear war weapons. So by the height of the Cold War, they had 75,000 nuclear weapons, and nobody had heard yet of nuclear winter. So if both sides had set off this string of mass traps that we had in our arsenals, it would have been the end of the human world without question. Dwarkesh Patel 0:48:27It raises an interesting question, if the military planners thought that the conventional nuclear weapon was like the fire bombing, would it have been the case that if there wasn't a thermonuclear weapon, that there actually would have been a nuclear war by now because people wouldn't have been thinking of it as this hard red line? Richard Rhodes 0:48:47I don't think so because we're talking about one bomb versus 400, and one plane versus 400 planes and thousands of bombs. That scale was clear. Deterrence was the more important business. Everyone seemed to understand even the spies that the Soviets had connected up to were wholesaling information back to the Soviet Union. There's this comic moment when Truman is sitting with Joseph Stalin at Potsdam, and he tells Stalin, we have a powerful new weapon. And that's as much as he's ready to say about it. And Stalin licks at him and says, “Good, I hope you put it to good use with the Japanese.” Stalin knows exactly what he's talking about. He's seen the design of the fat man type Nagasaki plutonium bomb. He has held it in his hands because they had spies all over the place. (0:49:44) - Stalin & the Soviet programDwarkesh Patel 0:49:44How much longer would it have taken the Soviets to develop the bomb if they didn't have any spies? Richard Rhodes 0:49:49Probably not any longer. Dwarkesh Patel 0:49:51Really? Richard Rhodes 0:49:51When the Soviet Union collapsed in the winter of ‘92, I ran over there as quickly as I could get over there. In this limbo between forming a new kind of government and some of the countries pulling out and becoming independent and so forth, their nuclear scientists, the ones who'd worked on their bombs were free to talk. And I found that out through Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow, who was connected to people I knew. And she said, yeah, come on over. Her secretary, Sasha, who was a geologist about 35 years old became my guide around the country. We went to various apartments. They were retired guys from the bomb program and were living on, as far as I could tell, sac-and-potatoes and some salt. They had government pensions and the money was worth a salt, all of a sudden. I was buying photographs from them, partly because I needed the photographs and partly because 20 bucks was two months' income at that point. So it was easy for me and it helped them. They had first class physicists in the Soviet Union, they do in Russian today. They told me that by 1947, they had a design for a bomb that they said was half the weight and twice the yield of the Fat Man bomb. The Fat Man bomb was the plutonium implosion, right? And it weighed about 9,000 pounds. They had a much smaller and much more deliverable bomb with a yield of about 44 kilotons. Dwarkesh Patel 0:51:41Why was Soviet physics so good?Richard Rhodes 0:51:49The Russian mind? I don't know. They learned all their technology from the French in the 19th century, which is why there's so many French words in Russian. So they got good teachers, the French are superb technicians, they aren't so good at building things, but they're very good at designing things. There's something about Russia, I don't know if it's the language or the education. They do have good education, they did. But I remember asking them when they were working, I said — On the hydrogen bomb, you didn't have any computers yet. We only had really early primitive computers to do the complicated calculations of the hydrodynamics of that explosion. I said, “What did you do?” They said, “Oh, we just used nuclear. We just used theoretical physics.” Which is what we did at Los Alamos. We had guys come in who really knew their math and they would sit there and work it out by hand. And women with old Marchant calculators running numbers. So basically they were just good scientists and they had this new design. Kurchatov who ran the program took Lavrentiy Beria, who ran the NKVD who was put in charge of the program and said — “Look, we can build you a better bomb. You really wanna waste the time to make that much more uranium and plutonium?” And Beria said, “Comrade, I want the American bomb. Give me the American bomb or you and all your families will be camp dust.” I talked to one of the leading scientists in the group and he said, we valued our lives, we valued our families. So we gave them a copy of the plutonium implosion bomb. Dwarkesh Patel 0:53:37Now that you explain this, when the Soviet Union fell, why didn't North Korea, Iran or another country, send a few people to the fallen Soviet Union to recruit a few of the scientists to start their own program? Or buy off their stockpiles or something. Or did they?Richard Rhodes 0:53:59There was some effort by countries in the Middle East to get all the enriched uranium, which they wouldn't sell them. These were responsible scientists. They told me — we worked on the bomb because you had it and we didn't want there to be a monopoly on the part of any country in the world. So patriotically, even though Stalin was in charge of our country, he was a monster. We felt that it was our responsibility to work on these things, even Sakharov. There was a great rush at the end of the Second World War to get hold of German scientists. And about an equal number were grabbed by the Soviets. All of the leading German scientists, like Heisenberg and Hans and others, went west as fast as they could. They didn't want to be captured by the Soviets. But there were some who were. And they helped them work. People have the idea that Los Alamos was where the bomb happened. And it's true that at Los Alamos, we had the team that designed, developed, and built the first actual weapons. But the truth is, the important material for weapons is the uranium or plutonium. One of the scientists in the Manhattan Project told me years later, you can make a pretty high-level nuclear explosion just by taking two subcritical pieces of uranium, putting one on the floor and dropping the other by hand from a height of about six feet. If that's true, then all this business about secret designs and so forth is hogwash. What you really need for a weapon is the critical mass of highly enriched uranium, 90% of uranium-235. If you've got that, there are lots of different ways to make the bomb. We had two totally different ways that we used. The gun on the one hand for uranium, and then because plutonium was so reactive that if you fired up the barrel of a cannon at 3,000 feet per second, it would still melt down before the two pieces made it up. So for that reason, they had to invent an entirely new technology, which was an amazing piece of work. From the Soviet point of view, and I think this is something people don't know either, but it puts the Russian experience into a better context. All the way back in the 30s, since the beginning of the Soviet Union after the First World War, they had been sending over espionage agents connected up to Americans who were willing to work for them to collect industrial technology. They didn't have it when they began their country. It was very much an agricultural country. And in that regard, people still talk about all those damn spies stealing our secrets, we did the same thing with the British back in colonial days. We didn't know how to make a canal that wouldn't drain out through the soil. The British had a certain kind of clay that they would line their canals with, and there were canals all over England, even in the 18th century, that were impervious to the flow of water. And we brought a British engineer at great expense to teach us how to make the lining for the canals that opened up the Middle West and then the West. So they were doing the same thing. And one of those spies was a guy named Harry Gold, who was working all the time for them. He gave them some of the basic technology of Kodak filmmaking, for example. Harry Gold was the connection between David Greenglass and one of the American spies at Los Alamos and the Soviet Union. So it was not different. The model was — never give us something that someone dreamed of that hasn't been tested and you know works. So it would actually be blueprints for factories, not just a patent. And therefore when Beria after the war said, give us the bomb, he meant give me the American bomb because we know that works. I don't trust you guys. Who knows what you'll do. You're probably too stupid anyway. He was that kind of man. So for all of those reasons, they built the second bomb they tested was twice the yield and half the way to the first bomb. In other words, it was their new design. And so it was ours because the technology was something that we knew during the war, but it was too theoretical still to use. You just had to put the core and have a little air gap between the core and the explosives so that the blast wave would have a chance to accelerate through an open gap. And Alvarez couldn't tell me what it was but he said, you can get a lot more destructive force with a hammer if you hit something with it, rather than if you put the head on the hammer and push. And it took me several years before I figured out what he meant. I finally understood he was talking about what's called levitation.Dwarkesh Patel 0:59:41On the topic that the major difficulty in developing a bomb is either the refinement of uranium into U-235 or its transmutation into plutonium, I was actually talking to a physicist in preparation for this conversation. He explained the same thing that if you get two subcritical masses of uranium together, you wouldn't have the full bomb because it would start to tear itself apart without the tamper, but you would still have more than one megaton.Richard Rhodes 1:00:12It would be a few kilotons. Alvarez's model would be a few kilotons, but that's a lot. Dwarkesh Patel 1:00:20Yeah, sorry I meant kiloton. He claimed that one of the reasons why we talk so much about Los Alamos is that at the time the government didn't want other countries to know that if you refine uranium, you've got it. So they were like, oh, we did all this fancy physics work in Los Alamos that you're not gonna get to, so don't even worry about it. I don't know what you make of that theory. That basically it was sort of a way to convince people that Los Alamos was important. Richard Rhodes 1:00:49I think all the physics had been checked out by a lot of different countries by then. It was pretty clear to everybody what you needed to do to get to a bomb. That there was a fast fusion reaction, not a slow fusion reaction, like a reactor. They'd worked that out. So I don't think that's really the problem. But to this day, no one ever talks about the fact that the real problem isn't the design of the weapon. You could make one with wooden boxes if you wanted to. The problem is getting the material. And that's good because it's damned hard to make that stuff. And it's something you can protect. Dwarkesh Patel 1:01:30We also have gotten very lucky, if lucky is the word you want to use. I think you mentioned this in the book at some point, but the laws of physics could have been such that unrefined uranium ore was enough to build a nuclear weapon, right? In some sense, we got lucky that it takes a nation-state level actor to really refine and produce the raw substance. Richard Rhodes 1:01:56Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning on the way over. And all the uranium in the world would already have destroyed itself. Most people have never heard of the living reactors that developed on their own in a bed of uranium ore in Africa about two billion years ago, right? When there was more U-235 in a mass of uranium ore than there is today, because it decays like all radioactive elements. And the French discovered it when they were mining the ore and found this bed that had a totally different set of nuclear characteristics. They were like, what happened? But there were natural reactors in Gabon once upon a time. And they started up because some water, a moderator to make the neutrons slow down, washed its way down through a bed of much more highly enriched uranium ore than we still have today. Maybe 5-10% instead of 3.5 or 1.5, whatever it is now. And they ran for about 100,000 years and then shut themselves down because they had accumulated enough fusion products that the U-235 had been used up. Interestingly, this material never migrated out of the bed of ore. People today who are anti-nuclear say, well, what are we gonna do about the waste? Where are we gonna put all that waste? It's silly. Dwarkesh Patel 1:03:35Shove it in a hole. Richard Rhodes 1:03:36Yeah, basically. That's exactly what we're planning to do. Holes that are deep enough and in beds of material that will hold them long enough for everything to decay back to the original ore. It's not a big problem except politically because nobody wants it in their backyard.Dwarkesh Patel 1:03:53On the topic of the Soviets, one question I had while reading the book was — we negotiated with Stalin at Yalta and we surrendered a large part of Eastern Europe to him under his sphere of influence. And obviously we saw 50 years of immiseration there as a result. Given the fact that only we had the bomb, would it have been possible that we could have just knocked out the Soviet Union or at least prevented so much of the world from succumbing to communism in the aftermath of World War II? Is that a possibility? Richard Rhodes 1:04:30When we say we had the bomb, we had a few partly assembled handmade bombs. It took almost as long to assemble one as the battery life of the batteries that would drive the original charge that would set off the explosion. It was a big bluff. You know, when they closed Berlin in 1948 and we had to supply Berlin by air with coal and food for a whole winter, we moved some B-29s to England. The B-29 being the bomber that had carried the bombs. They were not outfitted for nuclear weapons. They didn't have the same kind of bomb-based structure. The weapons that were dropped in Japan had a single hook that held the entire bomb. So when the bay opened and the hook was released, the thing dropped. And that's very different from dropping whole rows of small bombs that you've seen in the photographs and the film footage. So it was a big bluff on our part. We took some time after the war inevitably to pull everything together. Here was a brand new technology. Here was a brand new weapon. Who was gonna be in charge of it? The military wanted control, Truman wasn't about to give the military control. He'd been an artillery officer in the First World War. He used to say — “No, damn artillery captain is gonna start World War III when I'm president.” I grew up in the same town he lived in so I know his accent. Independence, Missouri. Used to see him at his front steps taking pictures with tourists while he was still president. He used to step out on the porch and let the tourists take photographs. About a half a block from my Methodist church where I went to church. It was interesting. Interestingly, his wife was considered much more socially acceptable than he was. She was from an old family in independence, Missouri. And he was some farmer from way out in Grandview, Missouri, South of Kansas City. Values. Anyway, at the end of the war, there was a great rush from the Soviet side of what was already a zone. There was a Soviet zone, a French zone, British zone and an American zone. Germany was divided up into those zones to grab what's left of the uranium ore that the Germans had stockpiled. And there was evidence that there was a number of barrels of the stuff in a warehouse somewhere in the middle of all of this. And there's a very funny story about how the Russians ran in and grabbed off one site full of uranium ore, this yellow black stuff in what were basically wine barrels. And we at the same night, just before the wall came down between the zones, were running in from the other side, grabbing some other ore and then taking it back to our side. But there was also a good deal of requisitioning of German scientists. And the ones who had gotten away early came West, but there were others who didn't and ended up helping the Soviets. And they were told, look, you help us build the reactors and the uranium separation systems that we need. And we'll let you go home and back to your family, which they did. Early 50s by then, the German scientists who had helped the Russians went home. And I think our people stayed here and brought their families over, I don't know. (1:08:24) - Deterrence, disarmament, North Korea, TaiwanDwarkesh Patel 1:08:24Was there an opportunity after the end of World War II, before the Soviets developed the bomb, for the US to do something where either it somehow enforced a monopoly on having the bomb, or if that wasn't possible, make some sort of credible gesture that, we're eliminating this knowledge, you guys don't work on this, we're all just gonna step back from this. Richard Rhodes 1:08:50We tried both before the war. General Groves, who had the mistaken impression that there was a limited amount of high-grade uranium ore in the world, put together a company that tried to corner the market on all the available supply. For some reason, he didn't realize that a country the size of the Soviet Union is going to have some uranium ore somewhere. And of course it did, in Kazakhstan, rich uranium ore, enough for all the bombs they wanted to build. But he didn't know that, and I frankly don't know why he didn't know that, but I guess uranium's use before the Second World War was basically as a glazing agent for pottery, that famous yellow pottery and orange pottery that people owned in the 1930s, those colors came from uranium, and they're sufficiently radioactive, even to this day, that if you wave a Geiger counter over them, you get some clicks. In fact, there have been places where they've gone in with masks and suits on, grabbed the Mexican pottery and taken it out in a lead-lined case. People have been so worried about it but that was the only use for uranium, to make a particular kind of glass. So once it became clear that there was another use for uranium, a much more important one, Groves tried to corner the world market, and he thought he had. So that was one effort to limit what the Soviet Union could do. Another was to negotiate some kind of agreement between the parties. That was something that really never got off the ground, because the German Secretary of State was an old Southern politician and he didn't trust the Soviets. He went to the first meeting, in Geneva in ‘45 after the war was over, and strutted around and said, well, I got the bomb in my pocket, so let's sit down and talk here. And the Soviet basically said, screw you. We don't care. We're not worried about your bomb. Go home. So that didn't work. Then there was the effort to get the United Nations to start to develop some program of international control. And the program was proposed originally by a committee put together by our State Department that included Robert Oppenheimer, rightly so, because the other members of the committee were industrialists, engineers, government officials, people with various kinds of expertise around the very complicated problems of technology and the science and, of course, the politics, the diplomacy. In a couple of weeks, Oppenheimer taught them the basics of the nuclear physics involved and what he knew about bomb design, which was everything, actually, since he'd run Los Alamos. He was a scientist during the war. And they came up with a plan. People have scoffed ever since at what came to be called the Acheson-Lilienthal plan named after the State Department people. But it's the only plan I think anyone has ever devised that makes real sense as to how you could have international control without a world government. Every country would be open to inspection by any agency that was set up. And the inspections would not be at the convenience of the country. But whenever the inspectors felt they needed to inspect. So what Oppenheimer called an open world. And if you had that, and then if each country then developed its own nuclear industries, nuclear power, medical uses, whatever, then if one country tried clandestinely to begin to build bombs, you would know about it at the time of the next inspection. And then you could try diplomacy. If that didn't work, you could try conventional war. If that wasn't sufficient, then you could start building your bombs too. And at the end of this sequence, which would be long enough, assuming that there were no bombs existing in the world, and the ore was stored in a warehouse somewhere, six months maybe, maybe a year, it would be time for everyone to scale up to deterrence with weapons rather than deterrence without weapons, with only the knowledge. That to me is the answer to the whole thing. And it might have worked. But there were two big problems. One, no country is going to allow a monopoly on a nuclear weapon, at least no major power. So the Russians were not willing to sign on from the beginning. They just couldn't. How could they? We would not have. Two, Sherman assigned a kind of a loudmouth, a wise old Wall Street guy to present this program to the United Nations. And he sat down with Oppenheimer after he and his people had studied and said, where's your army? Somebody starts working on a bomb over there. You've got to go in and take that out, don't you? He said, what would happen if one country started building a bomb? Oppenheimer said, well, that would be an act of war. Meaning then the other countries could begin to escalate as they needed to to protect themselves against one power, trying to overwhelm the rest. Well, Bernard Baruch was the name of the man. He didn't get it. So when he presented his revised version of the Acheson–Lilienthal Plan, which was called the Baruch Plan to the United Nations, he included his army. And he insisted that the United States would not give up its nuclear monopoly until everyone else had signed on. So of course, who's going to sign on to that deal? Dwarkesh Patel 1:15:24I feel he has a point in the sense that — World War II took five years or more. If we find that the Soviets are starting to develop a bomb, it's not like within the six months or a year or whatever, it would take them to start refining the ore. And to the point we found out that they've been refining ore to when we start a war and engage in it, and doing all the diplomacy. By that point, they might already have the bomb. And so we're behind because we dismantled our weapons. We are only starting to develop our weapons once we've exhausted these other avenues. Richard Rhodes 1:16:00Not to develop. Presumably we would have developed. And everybody would have developed anyway. Another way to think of this is as delayed delivery times. Takes about 30 minutes to get an ICBM from Central Missouri to Moscow. That's the time window for doing anything other than starting a nuclear war. So take the warhead off those missiles and move it down the road 10 miles. So then it takes three hours. You've got to put the warhead back on the missiles. If the other side is willing to do this too. And you both can watch and see. We require openness. A word Bohr introduced to this whole thing. In order to make this happen, you can't have secrets. And of course, as time passed on, we developed elaborate surveillance from space, surveillance from planes, and so forth. It would not have worked in 1946 for sure. The surveillance wasn't there. But that system is in place today. The International Atomic Energy Agency has detected systems in air, in space, underwater. They can detect 50 pounds of dynamite exploded in England from Australia with the systems that we have in place. It's technical rather than human resources. But it's there. So it's theoretically possible today to get started on such a program. Except, of course, now, in like 1950, the world is awash in nuclear weapons. Despite the reductions that have occurred since the end of the Cold War, there's still 30,000-40,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Way too many. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:01Yeah. That's really interesting. What percentage of warheads do you think are accounted for by this organization? If there's 30,000 warheads, what percentage are accounted for? Richard Rhodes 1:18:12All.Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:12Oh. Really? North Korea doesn't have secrets? Richard Rhodes 1:18:13They're allowed to inspect anywhere without having to ask the government for permission. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:18But presumably not North Korea or something, right? Richard Rhodes 1:18:21North Korea is an exception. But we keep pretty good track of North Korea needless to say. Dwarkesh Patel 1:18:27Are you surprised with how successful non-proliferation has been? The number of countries with nuclear weapons has not gone up for decades. Given the fact, as you were talking about earlier, it's simply a matter of refining or transmuting uranium. Is it surprising that there aren't more countries that have it?Richard Rhodes 1:18:42That's really an interesting part. Again, a part of the story that most people have never really heard. In the 50s, before the development and signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was 1968 and it took effect in 1970, a lot of countries that you would never have imagined were working on nuclear weapons. Sweden, Norway, Japan, South Korea. They had the technology. They just didn't have the materials. It was kind of dicey about what you should do. But I interviewed some of the Swedish scientists who worked on their bomb and they said, well, we were just talking about making some tactical
#029 - The Journey From Wolfdog Owner to Wolfdog Advocate With Georgina De CaignyThe first time I met a real life Wolfdog it was a magical experience. I started to imagine that one day I might share my home with a Wolfdog. I mean, how cool would it be to have a wild-looking pet that was actually domesticated like a dog?? But the more I learned about the Wolfdog, the more I realized that these animals are not just like dogs. They're not fully domesticated, and not fully wild and many Wolfdogs that contain high wolf content find themselves displaced and not truly belonging anywhere. Today's guest is Georgina De Caigny. Georgina is the founder of Wolfdog Awareness and the Executive Director of Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary near Cochrane, Alberta Canada. In this episode Georgina will share her personal experience with her pet Wolfdog named Kuna, and how she went on the journey from being a Wolfdog owner, to becoming an advocate for both Wolfdogs and Wolves.In this episode you'll learn:What a Wolfdog is, and how they came to beThe difference between a low, mid and high content WolfdogThe biggest challenges with owning a WolfdogHow owning a Wolfdog differs from owning a dogHow the Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary came to beAll about Wolfdog containment How you can help the WolfdogsWhere to find resources for Wolfdog ownershipResources from this episode:Episode 029: ResourcesEverything Pup Podcast Community on FacebookFind Holly on Social Media:FacebookInstagram Support the Show by SubscribingSupport the show
RhinoLeg's Beta Core Values & Principles4/27/23It doesn't take talent or genius to get things done; it takes discipline Everyone is a genius, especially at what you doSome people just move from extraordinary decision to extraordinary decisionYou came here to be legendary, but right now, you're performing at ordinaryThese are the six questions:1. Why do we exist?2. How do we behave?3. What do we do?4. How will we succeed?5. What is most important right now?6. Who must do what?If members of a leadership team can rally around clear answers to these fundamental questions - without using jargon and smarmy language - they will drastically increase the likelihood of creating a healthy organization. This may well be the most important step of all in achieving the advantage of organizational health.You have to be careful how you show upMission statement is what we're going to doVision statement is what that mission statement looks like You can't show up to $1 billion like you show up to your relationshipsIf you showed up to $1 billion correctly, you'd have itAntonio is showing 2 things:We are not the same, but should beThe reason we're not the same and should is because Antonio shows up with excellence and disciplineIf you're going to be excellent to people, you have to see them as excellentRhinoLeg is in beta modeHave RhinoLeg have a “Gone For the Day” modeIf you would like to inquire about their “conoaching” services, text Phil & Susan Sorentino at 614-736-6990It's far better to communicate your agenda up frontExcellence is you taking action“Don't adjust your goals because you haven't hit them. Adjust your massive levels of action to hit them.” — Grant CardoneIf we all take care of our part of the wall, that collective teamwork can get us to 20,000 satisfied customersRhinoLeg's Beta Core Values and PrinciplesI. Our PurposeAt RhinoLeg, our purpose is to create 100,000 millionaires and deliver massive profit and massive action for our users. We aim to transform the lives of our customers by providing innovative and effective solutions for their businesses.II. Our Guiding BehaviorsAs a company, we commit to the following guiding behaviors:Customer Service Excellence: We are dedicated to providing the highest standard of customer service, ensuring that our customers' needs are met promptly and effectively.AI-Driven Innovation: We continually adapt to the latest technological advancements and integrate artificial intelligence into our solutions to stay ahead of the competition.Leadership in Technology: We strive to be leaders in the technology industry, always pushing the boundaries of innovation and setting new standards.Inventiveness and Creativity: We foster an environment that encourages inventive thinking and creative problem-solving, enabling us to develop unique and cutting-edge solutions for our customers and employees.III. Our MissionOur mission is to relieve burdens for our customers and provide them with seamless, user-friendly solutions that simplify their lives and help their businesses thrive.IV. Our Path to SuccessWe will achieve success by offering unparalleled customer service, creating RhinoLeg to perform the most difficult tasks for our users with just a click of a button, and continuously improving our products and services.V. Our Current FocusOur immediate priority is to move out of the BETA stage, which will be accomplished by acquiring 20,000 satisfied customers and ensuring that our solutions meet their diverse needs.VI. Our Collaborative ApproachDrawing inspiration from the ancient story of Nehemiah and the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, we believe that teamwork and individual responsibility are key to our success. In the same way that Nehemiah instructed each person to build and protect their section of the wall, we encourage every team member at RhinoLeg to take ownership of their area of expertise and contribute to the collective strength of our company.By adhering to these core values and principles, we at RhinoLeg commit to upholding the gold standard in everything we do, ensuring that we never fall short of our customers' expectations and continue to lead the way in technological innovation and customer satisfaction.Best,Antonio T Smith JrCEO and FounderRhinoLegClosing Thoughts It doesn't take talent or genius to be excellent. It takes you looking at everyone else as excellent. You must view “other self” as excellent.Expect from Antonio to incorporate fair, remote employee monitoringThere will be multiple meetings with multiple departmentsMost meetings with Antonio may have to have your camera onYou cannot scale what you're not monitoring20,000 satisfied customers is the goalAntonio is going to have a winter galaTickets are $3,000 (invite only)$1,000 per plateCompletely formalPeople who attend will be able to write million-dollar checks to invest in people's businessesSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Welcome to part two of our dive into gambling. this week we focus on novelty/prop bets.Listen in as we talk about:Betting on the length of the national anthem during the Super BowlBets on who the next James Bond could beThe story of a non league goalkeeper eating a pie during a match to win his friends moneyWhy did Boaty McBoatFace cause controversyand much much moreGambling supportOur aim in this episode is to have a general talk about gambling and betting. If you or anyone you know has a problem with gambling addiction - there are places out there who can help. Check out the following:UK - Begambleaware.orgUS - gamblersanonymous.orgPod SpotlightChatsunamiNewslyNewsly is an all in one audio app for IOS and Android which picks up web articles and reads them out to you. Download and use Newsly for free from www.newsly.me or https://newsly.meUse promo code CASTV for a 1-month free premium subscription.MerchYes - we now have merch! If you'd like to support us and look wonderful at the same time take a look at our range of merchandise here:Shop now!ContactIf you like what you hear - please do like, subscribe and consider leaving a review where possible. If you'd like to be on the show, or would like to say hi or suggest a topic, you can find us at the following:castingviewspod@gmail.comTwitterInstagramPodpageLinktreeIntro - by Josh WilsonOutro - Sporks Ahead by Josh WilsonArtwork - Casting Views
Updated: March 20, 4:14 p.m. | Posted: Feb. 27, 4 a.m. Persia Erdrich's son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents and elders in a program to teach Ojibwe to young children and their parents. Erdrich, whose Ojibwe name is Netaa-niimid, said it happened when her son Patrick Linehan, whose Ojibwe name is Ogimaagaabaw, pointed at a bear in an enclosure.“Makwa nibaa,” he said. The bear is sleeping.This was possible for Erdrich's son because they attend a language nest in Cloquet, Minn., on the Fond du Lac Reservation called Gookonaanig Endaawaad, or “Grandma's House.” The program started in 2020, and now seven families learn Ojibwe traditions and language from elders who speak it as their first language.Grandma's House is not like a drop-off daycare or an immersion school where only the children learn. Through a grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation and support from other funders, parents get paid to learn alongside and speak with their children in Ojibwe five hours a day, four days a week.Don Jones, whose Ojibwe name is Niigaanibines, is one of the elders who teaches at Grandma's House. He said the language nest got its name because “a lot of young Anishinaabe people always went to Grandma's house for food, company, legends, and stories.” The word Anishinaabe refers to the Indigenous people of this area of the U.S. and Canada, and Ojibwe is a specific subgroup, so some use the terms interchangeably.Jones has been learning and speaking Ojibwe since he was born. It is unlikely that any adults who speak Ojibwe as their first language remain in the Fond du Lac Reservation, but it is not definitively known. All of the elders sharing their teachings at Grandma's House travel to Cloquet from places like Ontario, Manitoba, and Wisconsin. For instance, Jones travels from Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation, which is on the Canadian side of the border from International Falls, Minn.“Even in our community on the Canadian side, I grew up in that kind of environment. I appreciate the love and kindness from grandmothers and what they provide: love and caring and sharing. So, that was the whole idea about recreating that kind of concept here.”The beginning of language revitalizationGrandma's House wouldn't have been possible a little more than a generation ago. In the late 1800s, the U.S. government created a policy that banned speaking or teaching in any language other than English in schools. This was standard practice in Native American boarding schools. For generations, Native children were taken from their families, banned from speaking their native language or engaging in traditional religious practices, and often abused if they didn't comply. Hundreds of Native children died in these schools. Counts vary, but there were at least a dozen of these boarding schools in Minnesota. “It wasn't until the passing of the Native American Languages Act in 1990 that we saw a federal policy that allowed the use of Native American languages in the classroom,” said Deidre Whiteman, director of research and education for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, which is based in Minneapolis.“When Indigenous communities lose their languages, they also lose thousands of years of stories and traditions,” Whiteman stated. “Everything we know about ourselves as Native peoples is found in our languages — our songs, our stories, and our ceremonies. Our connection to our lands is rooted in languages. It's what makes us who we are.”A study led by The Australian National University and published in 2021 found that, worldwide, “The loss of language diversity results from a complex network of factors, particularly those associated with colonization, globalization, and social and economic change.”Ojibwe is endangered and there were only an estimated 678 first-language Ojibwe speakers in Minnesota in 2009, according to the University of Minnesota.The “language nest” model of language revitalization began in New Zealand, where a movement to revive the Maori language began in the 1970s. In the 1980s, the government there began funding language nests, or Te Kōhanga Reo, which brought elders together with children and their parents. The program flourished there. By 1991, a year after the U.S. lifted the ban on learning Native languages, New Zealand had “630 kōhanga reo operating, with a total enrollment of 10,451 children and about 4,000 staff”, according to an essay from Maori scholars Tania Rei and Carra Hamon. Language nest models now exist worldwide, but only a few exist in the United States. Commonly cited reasons include a lack of fluent speakers, financial challenges, and loss of language diversity.Likely the oldest equivalent to a language nest in the U.S. is 'Aha Pūnana Leo, meaning “nest of voices,” in Hawaii.There also is a history of language revitalization programs including language nests in Minnesota. Eni-gikendaasoyang, or the Enweyang Ojibwe Language Nest, was a preschool lab classroom that taught Native and non-native children common core subjects in Ojibwe at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The school ran from 2009 to 2014.Minnesota is also part of several Native ancestral homelands, such as Lakota and Dakota people. In South Dakota they have a Lakota Language & Education Initiative, and in North Dakota the Lakȟól'iyapi Wahóȟpi Lakota Language Immersion Nest. And last fall in 2022, the University of Minnesota began a Dakota language nest program.Other language nests are still forming across the U.S. today: Saad K'idilyé Diné Language Nest (SKDLN) opened in August in New Mexico. How Grandma's House came to beThe seed that bloomed into Grandma's House started more than a dozen years ago. A small group, most who met in the University of Minnesota's Ojibwe Language Program including Erdrich, developed an idea for an immersive program where adults could learn from Ojibwe elders. The group worked with the Fond du Lac Tribal College to create Ojibwemotaadidaa, an Ojibwe Immersion academy for adults. It was there that discussions began about making an Ojibwe language nest for the adults at the academy who were planning or starting to have children, including Erdrich. “I was actually living in Wisconsin but I moved back here because I wanted him to learn how to speak Ojibwe,” she said about her son. Many minds went into the creation of Grandma's House. Families from Leech Lake, Bad River, and even Ontario attended these adult language camps where part of the brainstorming of Grandma's House took place. When Grandma's House was developing, the group did a pipe ceremony. Jones said they requested “guidance from the Spirits, for the program to be looked after and funded, and to provide spiritual guidance in the way this unfolds in the future.” Putting his faith in that ceremony, Jones stated Grandma's House would “come about the way it should come about.”“It was prophesized that a new generation would come in and bring back what was lost. And I really feel like the people in the language revitalization movement are that generation,” said Nicole Kneeland, who is the grant manager for Grandma's House and helped secure the grant that financially supports parents in the program. Her Ojibwe name is Gaagigegiizhigookwe. See inside Grandma's House Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation got involved because it is “committed to increasing access to early childhood care and education in a way that advances racial and health equity. The efforts of Fond Du Lac Tribal College and their creation of Grandma's House is a great example of that intersection,” stated Bukata Hayes, chair of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation board.Due to distance, some families who helped develop Grandma's House can't attend. From elders to parents to Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, to the newest and youngest first-language Ojibwe speakers at Grandma's House, the program's foundation is still growing. Erdrich and several others involved in the founding now have children in Grandma's House."Learning Ojibwe in college and pursuing learning the language and teaching the language, I hadn't really thought about babies speaking it as their first language,” Erdrich said. “It seemed like this impossible thing because of how much work it would be, how hard it would be to have a whole community and other babies to be speaking Ojibwe, but it's happening! And it's amazing because it's the peer language here so the kids are speaking Ojibwe to each other,” she said. ‘Language is healing'Even though it falls under the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Grandma's House is not like other college language programs. Learning a Native language in an academic setting is beneficial for language revitalization, but academic learning does not usually include learning the traditions, heritage or spirit within a Native community.A regular day at Grandma's House begins with a snack and casual interaction while the kids, parents, and elder or elders arrive. Then, depending on the season, they head outside for activities. In winter the group will snowshoe along trails or set rabbit snares; other times they will tap trees for syrup and sugar. A lot of the work is in noticing and identifying when things are changing in nature and telling the kids about it. For example, now is the season when rabbits are pregnant, so parents and elders teach the kids not to kill animals that carry young. After, everyone heads back inside to eat lunch. Sometimes they teach the little ones to process and eat wild rice, or eat what's harvested from their garden.Language diversity provides different ways of thinking and listening. Jones described that when he hears stories in Anishinaabe, “the words are very beautiful.” He said he can see a picture developing as other elders talk, as opposed to when he hears something in English and has to listen carefully to see what's being said. He said his teaching style at Grandma's House relies more “on the legends, the stories, and what my grandparents and my parents taught me to speak the language.”Grandma's House is set to expand soon. It recently got notice of funding to start an extended program this fall for children ages 3-5 to learn Ojibwe, taught by Erdrich, according to Kneeland.“We're working with the Fond du Lac Tribe to find a licensed space. Families that are currently in the program will shift their children into that program which will open up more family spots in our Grandma's House,” shared Kneeland. It will continue Ojibwe language learning when children leave the language nest.“There will be applications soon, but we're still working on it right now. This summer will be a big application period for us because we're going to go through two programs: Grandma's House and the new preschool classroom,” she said. Waking up a sleeping language Although it's common to refer to a language no longer commonly spoken as a “dead language,” some people in the language revitalization movement instead refer to them as “asleep.” The idea is that sleeping languages can be awakened through family and community efforts. Waking up Native languages can also bring intergenerational healing.“There's a tremendous amount of healing in everything that we do around Grandma's House. Once they get to a certain age, they can pass on that knowledge later on if they're in their 30s and 40s. Then they can share what we passed on to them so it continues, it lives on,” Jones said. “We all need each other to heal,” Whiteman said. “Our elders are our knowledge keepers and carry the memories of our ancestors. In our communities, elders are revered. When the youth are able to hear stories from elders, they are able to make that connection to who they are.”Native people learning their language is not only changing families but healing them. “Language is healing. When you speak your language, you have your Anishinaabe name, and your clan, and can introduce yourself and where you're from. So we always tell people that the spirit is always listening to us, not just the Great Spirit, but everything has spirit — the trees, the plants, all these are healing,” Jones said.Whiteman explained that some elders are “hesitant to re-learn their Native languages because of shame and guilt. Many struggle with their identities and feel robbed of that connection to their cultures that they felt they should have had. There were also many families who converted to Christianity and assimilated to survive.”However, the elders and families at Grandma's House are motivated to “break the cycle,” Kneeland said. “We do have situations where elders are hesitant to do this work due to the effects of being at boarding schools. It can be a really lonely trail doing this. We have to build that community and support each other, and now the language line is back in families. We have seven families that will have the language back since the last speaker two to three generations ago. This is changing families,” Kneeland said. Jones appreciates the lightness that can come with speaking and learning Ojibwe. “The spiritual language has a lot of humor. There's a lot of humor in our language, stories, directions, and mostly, what we call ‘Gizhewaadiziwin,' which is love and kindness, that's ingrained in the language,” Jones said. Erdrich is “fluent enough to keep a conversation but waiting to know enough to tell a good joke in Ojibwe.”“I can't believe it's happening: my little boy is speaking Ojibwe as his first language. The last person to speak it was my great-grandfather. It's a full circle of healing,” Erdrich said. Her son is now beginning to dream in Ojibwe. He recently shared with her a dream about a small bird flying high. It was eating, resting, and sleeping. “It was just this powerful moment because he was talking about his dream in Ojibwe and usually, in my experience, I only hear people speak about their dreams in Ojibwe when we are at ceremonies or there is some special important, maybe sacred, occasion. But, for him, he was speaking because that's the language he has.” Video of Persia ErdrichCorrection (Feb. 28, 2023): An earlier version of this story misstated the age of students at Eni-gikendaasoyang. Also, photo captions in an earlier version of this story misstated which language appears on a toy and the age of a child.
Jeff Albaum is a real estate investor of 5 years, studied engineering as an undergrad, interested in personal development, spirituality, and continually learning both personally and professionally. He shares how engineers have an advantage when it comes to real estate investing and how he and his partner got into the short-term rental space. He discusses how they manage their own properties and set up a company to do so at a lower cost than third-party companies.[00:01 - 01:59] Opening SegmentWe welcome, Jeff Albaum!How he started buying out-of-state properties and slowly building up his portfolio[02:00 - 25:40] Don't Dive In Head First: Learn As Much As You Can While You Have A JobHe believes that engineers have an advantage in real estate investingThe majority of doors in his portfolio are small multi-familyThe acquisition strategy is to hold onto properties for as long as possible and invest in making them the best they can beThe short-term rental industry is new and uncertain, making underwriting difficultStarting his own management company to outsource cleaning, maintenance, and coordinate everythingBuilding systems and processes to increase communication and transparencyBringing on a maintenance person and guest messaging experience coordinator[25:41 - 35:36] THE FINAL FOURWhat's the worst job that you ever had?Working at a bakeryWhat's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?“Can't Hurt Me” by David GogginsWhat is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?Learn a new languageWhat does success mean to you?Jeff Albaum says, “Success would be day-to-day doing things that fill you up.”Connect with Jeff Albaum: LinkedIn: Jeff AlbaumLEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW by clicking this link.WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?Be sure to follow me on the below platforms:Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or Stitcher.LinkedInYoutubeExclusive Facebook Groupwww.yonahweiss.comNone of this could be possible without the awesome team at Buzzsprout. They make it easy to get your show listed on every major podcast platform.Tweetable Quotes:“When we started the company together, our whole thing was we wanted to be there for everyone's big moments.” – Jeff Albaum“Learn as much as you can about it while you have your job, start investing while you have your job, and don't leave your job until you are very, very clear on your actual cash flow coming in on a regular basis.” – Jeff AlbaumSupport the show
PC128 - Profit PsychologyWhat is the purpose of your business? I'm not asking you why you decided to start a business, why you got into business. I'm asking, what's the purpose of your business? And yes, pretty sure I have an answer.You may have noticed by now that the title of this show is Profit for Coaches. And my brand for all of the coaching that I do for other coaches in the coaching community is the Profit for Coaches brand. My program for cashflow management is Profit Flow, which is based a hundred percent on Profit First. I am a licensed and certified Profit First Professional. I'm an Advanced Professional. I'm a Profit First Coach, and I'm a guide and trainer for other Profit First Professionals in Canada. I'm pretty fond of that system of cashflow management. We talk about leveraging your own psychology as a human being. Leveraging the way that your brain and emotions already work, so that your behaviors are actually a benefit to you rather than something that is getting in your way, causing a problem or something that you're supposed to have to learn how to retrain, do differently, et cetera.So why do we focus so much on looking at profit first?“Before you can do anything else, before you can make any changes in the world that are positive, you have to be self-sufficient.” — Jos WillardThis week on Profit for Coaches:The psychology of Profit First and why I focus so much on itWhat questions to ask in your business to make the most positive impact on the worldThe science side and the woo side of how we make things come to beThe purpose of any business, whether for-profit or notThe FREE profitable practice scorecard!Our Favorite Quotes:“Your number one focus as a business owner, needs to be having that business be profitable.” — Jos Willard“The purpose of a business is to make a profit for its owners. Everything else that does is secondary to that.” — Jos Willard“We're making decisions, we want to ask, is this investment going to help the business perform its purpose?” — Jos WillardResources Mentioned:Book: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike MichalowiczPodcast Episode: The Woo ScaleAny purchase through the amazon affiliate link above helps support the podcast. Thank you!
Is exponential growth possible on a finite planet? How might we balance growth and profit with maximum social and ecological benefit? This is a huge topic that we're just beginning to scratch the surface of. In today's bonus finance episode, we share two differing viewpoints on growth from regenerative economics pioneer John Fullerton and venture capitalist Manuel Gonzalez. We also include a discussion with Sara Eckhouse, executive director of Foodshot Global, about using Integrated Capital investment models that combine funding from multiple types of financial instruments to fund solutions that address social and environmental issues. Topics covered in this episode include: The failures of the current financial system and the business models within itThe potential benefits of restructuring the ownership of large multinational food companiesWhether we need to build a new system from the ground up with alternative principles and priorities to cope with our current crisesWhat those principles might beThe potential negative impacts of a model that doesn't center growthHow Integrated Capital works and is able to develop novel ideas that could be missed by other financing structures John Fullerton is the founder and president of Capital Institute. He is also an active impact investor and co-founder and director of holistic ranch management company Grasslands, LLC; a director of New Day Farms, Savory Institute, and the New Economy Coalition. Manuel Gonzalez is General Partner at AgFunder, one of the world's most active foodtech and agtech VC investors. Manuel was formerly the global head of innovation for Rabobank, the world's leading food and agriculture bank, and founder of its two startup engagement platforms: FoodBytes! and Terra. Sara Eckhouse is Executive Director at FoodShot Global, whose mission is to empower bold ideas and innovative companies to accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system. Show notes: Herman Daly Interview Paul Polman Capital Institute AgFunder FoodShot Global - Precision Protein Challenge Donella Meadows: Limits to Growth Neo-Confucianism Karl Popper Albert Michelson S2G Ventures and ocean data David Deutsch: The beginning of Infinity. Timothy Snyder *Giveaway Details* We've teamed up with our partners at New Hope Network to offer ALL of our listeners an exclusive 25% off discount for an Expo West 2023 badge and ONE lucky listener will have the opportunity to win a free booth at Expo West 2024 ($8k value). To enter, do the following by February 17th: Head to New Food Order's show page on Apple PodcastsMake sure you are subscribedLeave us a review - good or bad - but hopefully good! Scroll to the bottom of the page to do so.Screenshot the review and email it to Meg at meg@savageimpacts.com - if you're interested in the 25% discount to this year's Expo, please call it out in the email. Lastly, head to newfoodorder.org - select newsletter - and register to receive our newsletters. In addition to New Food Order content, AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect publish the leading newsletters for the food and agtech community.Those who follow New Hope Network, Food + Tech Connect and AgFunder on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn will receive double entry. Follow us on Linkedin: @agfunder & @foodtechconnect This series is sponsored by: New Hope Network New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com. FoodShot Global FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.
In May 2022, an academic research paper titled “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation” was published in Nature (one of the most prestigious scientific publishers). They tested how the transition from in-person to online interaction affected innovation (measured by collective idea generation) and concluded that video calls were bad for brainstorming.The media derived: “Zoom is a creativity killer.”But, as (online) facilitators, we have first-hand experience with remote teams' creativity and effective collaboration. But, we haven't had hard evidence proving the study wrong.My guests on today's bonus episode, Elise Keith (CEO of Lucid Meetings, Author and Meeting Innovator) and Dave Mastronardi (CEO of the Gamestorming Group) have the ambition to test the hypothesis that online work killed creativity through a global mega experiment. As they kick off the project with a Symposium, Elise and Dave joined me to share their vision, drivers and open questions.Listen to this episode to find out about:The definition of creativity and how to measure itHow the project came to beThe bigger vision behind the project: How online collaboration can tackle global challengesHow you can get involved in the experimentDon't miss the New Rules for Work Experiment and SymposiumVisit the New Rules for Work WebsiteAnd, don't miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.LinksWatch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.Read the Article published in ‘Nature'Read about the studyWatch the Youtube video: Why video calls are bad for brainstormingConnect to Elise and Dave:Connect to Elise on LinkedInConnect to Dave on LinkedInSupport the showCheck out the podcast map to see the overview of all podcast episodes: https://workshops.work/podcast-map
15 years ago, I thought I was really self-aware. I saw myself clearly and understood how my experiences shaped my behavior. But in truth, I wasn't nearly as self-aware as I thought. And the Enneagram showed me what I was missing. It helped me take my emotional intelligence to the next level. On this episode of Lead with the Enneagram, I explain how true self-awareness comes from understanding how you respond to triggers and recognizing the impact you have on others. I explore why blaming, judging and justifying keeps you stuck, challenging you to turn the mirror on yourself when you're irritated by other people. Listen in to understand why you can't have compassion for others when you're beating yourself up and learn the first steps to developing genuine self-awareness using the Enneagram! What You Will Learn Why you may not be nearly as self-aware as you think you areHow true self-awareness involves understanding how you respond to triggers What makes the Enneagram a powerful tool for recognizing how you impact othersHow to leverage self-awareness to communicate more effectivelyThe value in turning the mirror on yourself when you feel judgement or irritationWhy blaming, judging and justifying keeps you stuckThe danger in letting self-awareness take you down a shame spiralHow we're triggered when we feel weak in a particular area of our livesWhy I feel judgmental when someone else gets attention (and what I do about it) Why we can't have compassion for others when we're beating ourselves upHow the Enneagram can help you get to who you're divinely designed to beThe first steps to developing self-awareness using the Enneagram Connect with Tracy Tracy's WebsiteTracy on InstagramTracy on FacebookTracy on TwitterTracy on LinkedInResources Access Your Enneagram Blueprint Book a 90-Minute Power Session Email info@tracyomalley.com
One of the biggest shifts I made in my business as a leader and CEO is when I went from being a task assigner to assigning ownership of results. This was a huge “a-ha” moment for me. You can't grow your business if all you're doing is assigning tasks. You have to be able to assign ownership to specific people on your team. With that, you're going to want to have specific KPIs or success metrics that you're watching. Sometimes they're easy to determine, but there are some positions on our team that aren't as easily attributable to revenue or profit. So today on Art of Online Business, I sat down with Erica Macauley to talk about how we can determine success metrics for those support roles in your business. This is critical if you want to shift from a day-to-day entrepreneur to the leader and CEO of your business. Erika is a systems slayer, chaos coordinator, Trello evangelist, and pretty dang good at whipping the back end of businesses into shape. She's an OBM, integrator, and project manager who works with 6 and 7-figure creative business owners to get her Type A brain wrangling all their amazing visionary ideas into actionable outcomes. In this episode, you'll learn:What your first hire should beThe importance of finding the right people to hireWhy you have to start with your job descriptionTips for writing success metricsKPIs you can use for these hard-to-quantify roles What you shouldn't put in your KPIsWhat to expect from contractorsIdeas for rewarding your teamLinks & Resources:Get Erika's resources https://erikamacauley.com/rickThe Art of Online Business websiteDM me on InstagramVisit my YouTube channelThe Art of Online Business clips on YouTubeFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeThe Art of Online Business Podcast websiteCheck out my Accelerator coaching program*Disclosure: I only recommend products I use and love and all opinions expressed here are my own. This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission.Erika Macauley's Links:Visit Erika's websiteBook a Hiring ProjectFull show notes available at www.rickmulready.com/661We've made some big changes to my Accelerator coaching program recently, including two 30-min 1-on-1 coaching calls with me each month. If you are interested in 1-on-1 and group mentorship to help guide you to the next level of your business through things like clear systems, creating an effective and efficient team, and a growth-focused strategy, head over to www.rickmulready.com/accelerator to fill out the short application.
How do you know when you're following your true passion… and when you're just walking the path others have set for you? My guest Maria Stanfield has cracked the code.Maria is a speaker, bestselling author, and executive coach who is committed to empowering people with the tools to thrive in business and in life. Through her nonprofit My Sister's Closet and her executive coaching practice My Sister CEO, she offers support and resources to women seeking professional success. Her organization The Future Face of Law promotes diversity in the legal industry.In this conversation, we explore Maria's experience with imposter syndrome and the inspiring vision that led her to become a values-based serial entrepreneur on a mission to make a difference!Ready to play bigger? Listen now to discover:The vital question you need to ask yourself before pursuing or accepting new opportunities — no matter how prestigious they may beThe tool that helps Maria set her intentions regarding where and how to create impactA powerful book recommendation that is sure to inspire you!Guest bio: Maria Stanfield is an Empowerment Speaker, Certified Executive Coach, and a bestselling author with a heart of service. She is the founder of My Sister's Closet, My Sister CEO, and The Future Face of Law, an organization built to bridge the diversity gap in the law industry. She is the author of From the Front Desk to the Corner Office.Timestamps:01:36 Intro03:50 Meet Maria Stanfield06:34 Modeling industry08:10 Rollercoasters & adrenaline11:34 Imposter syndrome & dream job16:48 Ego or impact23:13 Founding My Sister's Closet25:20 Riding in the impact lane27:41 Vision boards30:31 Think and Grow Rich34:57 Staying in the process37:46 Shifting to The Future Face of Law43:06 Maria's vision & promoting belonging47:23 Final thoughtsLinks:Maria Stanfieldhttps://mysisterceo.comhttps://www.futurefaceoflaw.comShift Out Loud #2: Everything is Negotiable with Dr. Meg Myers MorganThink and Grow Rich: A Black Choice by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon HillDiscover your tactical leadership toolkit: https://www.exceptionalleaderslab.comInterested in working with me or having me speak at your event? Find more information at https://tracyspears.comWant tools and insights that will help you play bigger in your life, at work, and in your community? Visit my resource library: https://tracyspears.com/blogConnect with me:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracylspearsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TracySpearsSpeakerTwitter: @tracylspearsInstagram: @tracylspearsPlease consider leaving a rating and review — this helps others discover how to play a bigger game. Watch these episodes on Youtube! Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, and ring the bell for notifications so you never miss an episode!
Who told you couldn't do the thing you want? Who shaped your belief about money, faith, and relationships? This episode is a deep dive into helping you rediscover the why behind what you believe and the encouragement to become the person you want in this life. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How do you plan for the next year?Decide what you don't want in the new year to lead what you do wantStarts acting as if you already are the person you want to beThe impact of the vulnerability in conversations You never have to go through your struggle aloneHow to ask better questions with intention The separation of Depression and AnxietyWhy you need to be clear on why you believe what you believe.New Year, New You is a lie. Episode References/Links:Join us on Tour!Get on the Cambodia Waitlist!Elevate mentorship Program If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyUse this link to get your Toe Sox!ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Brad Crowell Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan Welcome back to the interview recap where my co host in life, Brad and I are going to talk about the emotionally available convo I had with Jeremy and Zach in the last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that one, pause this now, go back and listen to that one, or listen to this one and then listen to that one. I mean, honestly, I think you could do either order on all of our episodes. I also know from the download that some of you just do the recap. So I feel like everyone's on the got a lot of people who enjoy the short version.Brad Crowell Yeah, I mean, it's, it was a good recap. Those guys seem pretty cool. I'm a big Star Wars fan myself, so maybe we'll be hanging out and doing Star Wars talking someday.Lesley Logan I feel like whenever I interview any men, they bring up Star Wars. I think there's very few interviews with men that have not brought up Star Wars. (Brad: Many men) So maybe (Brad: wish death upon me) like, like maybe Michael is the only one. (Brad: Yeah, right.) So anyways, yeah, I thought they were really amazing. And it was a really neat conversation to have and there's some very awesome BE IT action items that we get to talk about. But I just want to say it's so nice to be back from Dallas on this like really short opportunity to be in our house together. That's been a crazy, like we were we were talking about this in Arizona, or maybe it was in Cambodia. But how since end of August, we really haven't been home for a full two weeks ever.Brad Crowell You have clearly stated find the fact that you can remember where we were when we were talking about this.Lesley Logan No. And then also when we were home, there are people here at the home. So like, right now we have like, seven, six days together in our home for the first time since (Brad: In a long time.) August. I don't think we've had six days in our home (Brad: Oh really) together without anyone in our home. No. Five is the longest. (Brad: Wow.) Yeah. And that was between photoshoots and we had to go. Anyways, so I just got back from an amazing time in Dallas with Erika Quest. She is just I mean, she's a fucking amazing person, one of my best friends. And we have now made this an annual trip to teach in Dallas and we're actually going right back there, Brad and I exactly to where I just Pilates for our tour.Brad Crowell I was feeling left out. So (Lesley: Yeah, well you know ...) you know I felt like crash the party and actually just take over and do it on my own.Lesley Logan Our Pilates lovers there were missing Brad and specifically also a workout. So we are going on tour and our first stop is in Frisco and ... (Brad: Frisco) If there are any spots left in any of our classes that are tour, you can find them at onlinepilatesclasses.com/tourBrad Crowell Yeah, we'll be doing two in Frisco and then Houston the next day.Lesley Logan Houston and then we head to Nashville. Hi Lauren Zoeller. And we've got a bunch of fan favorite people in Nashville. And then we are going to Atlanta to Joel studio. Just actually outside of Atlanta, it's called Duluth. Don't complain about the drive. If you live in Atlanta, you can do this. And then we go to Greensboro, which is like (Brad: North Carolina) hey, first time doing that. (Brad: Yeah it was first.) And then we're going to do a little Christmas time. Then in Cleveland, then in St. Louis. And then we are home in time for New Year's for our ...Brad Crowell But we will be stopping through Denver for lunch. So (Lesley: Yeah, Denver keeps ...) on the way home at post Xmas we'll be fooding in in Denver.Lesley Logan We'll be fooding in in Denver for lunch. (Brad: Yeah) We're gonna pick a spot where maybe this spot we went to last year where people could just find food anywhere, that (Brad: It was perfect actually.) was pretty great. So (Brad: Yeah) we'll figure out whatever the place that was. But if you are in Denver, and you want to be on that invite list, we'll just watch out for emails and stuff. You want to go on the tour, go to onlinepilatesclasses.com/tour. Also a couple things if you'd like hanging out with us, we have actually announced our presale for the Cambodia retreat next year. Remember, we're only doing one and we let our waitlist there's no first so if you were not on the waitlist and you really want to go, well I hope there's a spot for you. I'm sure there will be and if not just DM me and I will help you get that information. So you do not miss out on the opportunity to go to Cambodia with with us because we're only going one time next year. (Brad: Yeah) So there's that. And then finally, I'm so excited about this. You probably haven't heard me talk about it for a while. And that's because honestly, it keeps selling out. So, I haven't even like brought it up. But if you have been following this path for a while you know that I have a mentorship program for Pilates teachers. It's called eLevate, and we decided to do our first round here in 2022. It sold out with amazing, amazing crew. So we did a second round which are sold out. And then the third round, we're actually going to kick off in May, and that of 2023, which I know you're like, "Lesley, it's only December." Yes. But you know, mentorships are a big commitment. And we like to give people a lot of time to plan for them. And it does start in May. And there's only a couple spots. So if you are a Pilates teacher who's wanted to dive into the classical method, more understand how I was taught, become like a more of a master teacher, third generation instructor, things like that, if you're wanting to, like, teach more, but not be burned out, this is the program for you.Brad Crowell Yeah or even explore classical, (Lesley: Yeah) you know if you're coming from anonclassical foundational training, you know, this is a great opportunity to get into all that too.Lesley Logan Yeah, so you don't have to be classical to do this, you don't have to be contemporary to do this, you can be either or you just have to have been a teacher already.Brad Crowell At the time, we're recording this, there are three spots available. But if they are filled full, by the time you hear this will be will will add you to the waitlist for the next round, (Lesley: Yeah) round four. SoLesley Logan So you'll go to lesleylogan.co/elevate. And I it's one of my passion. I frickin love this group of people. It's just so fun for us. So anyways,Brad Crowell And you get the join the RAD alumni group.Lesley Logan I know once you graduate, there is a alumni group. (Brad: Great group of ladies.) And there's like, you know, we're we're secretly behind the scenes planning, like a retreat just for Elevators. And so, (Brad: Yeah) yeah, anyway. Well, it's not a secret that I told you about. You don't know where it is or what's going to happen. So that's the secret. Anyways, (Brad: anyways) do we have an audience question to respond to before we start talk about Fit Mess.Brad Crowell We do. So we were asked, with all the things that you have going on in your life, in your business and your friends and family. How do you make decisions about the upcoming year? And how do you plan for the next year?Lesley Logan Yeah, well, that's like, this is a great question.Brad Crowell Also a very broad question but ...Lesley Logan It super broad. Well, well, well, this will gonna narrow it in to the Be It Till You See It podcast as the filter. (Brad: Sure) So first of all, very important that you ask yourself this, because if you don't plan for yourself, you were you will be planned. Don't worry. Like, (Brad: Yeah) it's not like (Brad: It happens whether you plan it or not.) Yeah, it's the same thing like when are, when Hilary says if you don't brand yourself, other people will brand you. Like, if you don't make goals. (Brad: Hilary Hartling) Yeah, someone else is gonna go, make goals for you (Brad: Right) like, so it's important that you take time to set aside like what you want in your next year. And if you're like, "I don't know what that is" because some people like to do that. How do you want to feel then, like, what is that look like? So make sure you're setting aside time. I like to journal, draw, go for a walk, think about things like that percolate on it a lot.Brad Crowell She was on episode 57.Lesley Logan Yeah. And so I'll let Brad answer how he likes to plan his upcoming year. But first and foremost, I definitely throughout the current year, do retrospection that Kareen Walsh has taught us. She was episode, Brad will tell you in a second, and she has a free resource that you can learn how to do this retrospection. But I do it throughout the year, because I like to know how as the years going, like what I don't want in next year, so that when the new year comes, I'm not like, "I'm doing the thing. I don't want to do anymore." And often what you when you know what you don't want it to let you know what you do want. And then I well before, we're probably actually probably plan the next year around beginning of Q four. Because we have to, and some things that we do happen the same time ish every year. So those things happen on that, like they're already planned. But then the next thing I like to think about and it's hard, this is the hard part, this is why this podcast exists is who do you have to be to have the thing you want to have next year and how can you start acting like it now so it actually happens, hello, be it till you see it.Brad Crowell Well, let me jump in (Lesley: Yeah) because that that's a perfect segue. I'm in the middle of a book right now called The As If Principle by a guy named Andrew Wise... So Richard Wiseman.Lesley Logan If you guys know him, can you help me out? Because y'all I have been trying to find this man's information. (Brad: Information) And I want him on the podcast.Brad Crowell Yeah, totally. Richard Wiseman, and a general summary of the concept is to make decisions as if you already are where you want to be. Right? So if you want to be here's a here's a great example. Let's say you want to run a studio that has a team of 10 instructors. Today, you don't have that, but you know that that's where you're going. So if you were going to set up a studio, how would you set up the studio? You would set it up as if you already had 10 instructors? (Lesley: Yeah) Right. So like, would you have a lot of space for a lockers? Would you have a, you know, like a spot for shoes? And like, you know, what are the expectations? How are they checking in? How are they clocking in as an employee? All these kinds of things, you make these decisions as if they're already in place.Lesley Logan Yeah. And that doesn't mean you spend the money on the clocking and machine or the lockers yet that might ... (Brad: Yeah, not necessarily.) you hold that you you make sure that you have, you hold the space, and you consider that as you're looking for spaces.Brad Crowell Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs will talk about this act as if you are already the seven figure business you want to be. You know, if you are looking to start a family, act as if you already have kids, how would you make a decision? I think, Lesley, (Lesley: Well ...) talked about this before, in your personal life, when you were looking to meet someone and start a relationship, you were acting as if you already had a relationship happening, which was making coffee for two.Lesley Logan Making coffee for two people. Also making sure that I had evenings or time blocked off that I could not work in case I would go on a date or spend time with that person. (Brad: Sure) And I literally went to New York, my first Christmas being single, so that so that I wouldn't go to my parents house for Christmas, because I was like, "No, I'm going to meet a man who soundly celebrates Christmas and will celebrate Thanksgiving with my family." (Brad: Right) And so I'm not going to go home for Christmas, which really pissed him off. Sorry, guys. But I went to New York and said, and then guess what? We spend Christmas with your family. (Brad: Yeah) So worked out.Brad Crowell So you know, this concept of acting as if I think it's really cool. I think it's, it's a, I think the hardest part is remembering to do it, to be honest. Because it makes sense to it's very logical. I like it.Lesley Logan It's because it's easier to do the thing you already been doing and be the person you already are. And because that's, you know that. So I think like, first of all, if you start acting as if and then you revert back to who you once were, it's like, it's okay, because you don't need to be perfect. But also, if you notice that you did that, then you can make a change. Okay, what would I do next time? How can I like, (Brad: Sure) if you set an appointment based on the person you currently are not the person you want to be? Can you cancel the appointment? Can you reschedule the appointment? Can you block your calendar out so that that appointment doesn't exist anymore? You know, there, it's ...Brad Crowell It's constantly be it till you see it. I think it's like a perfect parallel here. And I mean, it's obviously why we'd love to get ...Lesley Logan Yeah, so I want it. (Brad: Richard on pod.) So who knows it. (Brad: But um yeah.) But I love this question. I hope that that helps. I feel like it could be a little esoteric, but it's like, think of it ... Sometimes it is easier to think about, you don't want to have happen in your life next year, to figure out what you want to have happen in your life and sometimes easier to figure out how you want to feel in your life next year at the end of it. And then what would be the things that have to happen to make you feel that way? And then finally, who do you have to be to make those things happen? How do you act like that person today? It is a consummate be it till you see it. It's also like, how would Oprah do this? Like sometimes I have like, that's what I have to think. (Brad: How would, what?) Oprah do this. (Brad: Oh, Oprah, Oprah.) Yeah, like, we have a big goal that we want to hit in our business. And I had to make changes in my life, in my routine and in how it worked to make us get closer to that this year. If I want to do it next year, next year. I like up the goal a little bit because you know you have to and because because you need we will I want more. And so it's like okay, well then who do I have to be to that? And sometimes I think Oprah or I, I picture other female business owners who have done things that I want to do but it's not exactly the same, but like it's the it in the most general term, it's the same thing. And then I'm like, "Okay, well, how would how would they do it?" Because they're already there. And I could probably look back at examples of what they did, and then interpret it for myself. So anyways, I love these questions, y'all can send them in to the @be_it_pod on Instagram or you can send it into my team. You can send it anywhere to say this is for the Be It pod, you can also send in your bold moments. It's where you take a BE IT action item.Brad Crowell Yeah, tell us your bold moments, yell us what's going on for you. We'd love to shout that out.Lesley Logan Yeah.Brad Crowell (Brad claps) All right. Hold on. I'm gonna get the dog bed for the dog so she doesn't keep scratching.Holy Cow Gaia surprise. Look. Yeah, good girl. Okay, okay, that's better. All right, so (Brad claps)Okay, now let's talk about Jeremy and Zach from The Fit Mess introduced by through their wives, because I, they said their wives both had daughters at the same time. So (Lesley: Yeah) I'm guessing they met at like, you know, something to do with the kids.Lesley Logan I know. It's made me, this totally made me think of like you and Eddie and all these friends because it's basically because of Chanda Ashley, myself and a couple other wives that you all got together and expanded and made your own friends.Brad Crowell Well, Jeremy and Zach formed a quick friendship because of their love of Star Wars. They began to move to have more intentional conversations about their challenges and their struggles, mental, physical and emotional, which led them to the creation of their podcast, The Fit Mess. Zach and Jeremy are on a mission, to share their stories and struggles to empower men to discuss their feelings and emotions and to motivate them to take small steps each week towards a more fulfilling life. And then they also said that a large part of their audience is actually their girlfriends and wives of the men that they're speaking to. But I thought it was really fun to, to connect with them to listen to them talk about their experience.Lesley Logan You know, I most like, not my football players, but many of the men that I taught in Pilates, I taught them because of their wives. So like, I would teach their wives and their was like, "Husband should be doing this." And I'm like, "Okay, send them in." And, and they would and so it's what I had for a long time, I had more male clients than female clients. Because when you add like the the football players, and then the husbands, I was like, "Well, that's all the intention that I had." But you know what, there are great people that introduce great people. And I think that's what's really cool. So I really, they were talking about, you don't have to go through your thoughts alone, other people in the same place. And you know, it's so this happened when they realized that they were all like, sort of talking around how they were feeling and not really engaging. But when they finally just did, and were just like honest about it, they're like, "Oh, wow, this person feels the same way too." And, you know, I know that they were to my, how, like a lot of men go through this. But if you listen back to the episode, the recent episode with Jessica Valant, when we brought her back, she's like, women are in the school line and they're not talking about how they're really feeling either. They're not talking about what they're really going through either. And so I love that they have a podcast, that they're basically sharing this idea so that other men know you don't have to go through this alone, that you can share your real feelings. But I think in general, what it sounds like is most people are not sharing their authentic feelings with other people in their lives (Brad: Yeah) until it's like this big thing. And like, what if we actually did it throughout the day, throughout the week with the people that we see often?Brad Crowell Yeah, I think it's, I think that's a good observation. I think that's funny that I didn't actually I listened to it twice. And I didn't actually think about that. But you're right. If if the conversation is about sharing their feelings, genuinely sharing, you're right. The implication is that people don't do that especially men. So I I also thought they kind of had a laugh about their like, you know, oh, yeah the first time we went out to lunch, it was like, I guess we'll talk about cars and sports and stuff that generally, I'm not into, you know, and I was laughing because I was like, "Oh, yeah, okay." I mean, I'm into motorcycles, but I don't really nerd out that much. I couldn't like tell you about some 1965 motorcycle or something. I don't know. You know, so.Lesley Logan Yeah. I did think of you on that because it's true. Like, I think people have the assumption that that's what men want to talk about. (Brad: Right) Just like they assume women want to talk about these other things like (Brad: Yeah) kids.Brad Crowell Family, marriage, wedding, wheeLesley Logan Like no one would actually wants you to ask her about the next wedding date, or when are they gonna have kids? Or if they're gonna have like, no one, you know, one of my friends recently asked me because we're talking about her kid, and she just said, hey, like, it came up in a way that was not actually like, "When are you gonna have kids?" You know what I mean? It was like, "Have you guys thought about that?" I don't know how we would talked about it. And we had an honest conversation around it. But like, I definitely think that people have these like standard questions that they ask people at events, and none of them go deep at all. And it's so (Brad: Right) and that's why no one wants to go to anything. (Brad: small talk) No one wants to have small talk. So what if like one of my Breathwork coaches, she sends out an email every week and it says, "Hey, so and so how are you, really?" And I fucking love that. Because every time I read it, I'm like, "How am I really?" (Brad: How am I really?) You know what I mean? No one's actually asked me that this week. You know, people ask me, "How are you?" But they're expecting, "I'm good." They're, because they're already on to the next sentence. (Brad: Sure) They're not listening. So like, I love that email so much, because it lets me think like, "How am I really?" So, I don't know, I feel I feel like whether it's men or women or even non binary, I feel like we can all do a better job being it till we see it in the conversations that we want to have, asking better questions that actually allow us to, to learn more about the people that we're having a conversation with. You and I are in a Mastermind and there was a couple girls that I've really never like I've I've talked to, but in this group of four, but then we like actually ask different questions. And I'm like, "Oh, my God, how come we've not talked for the whole year? We do the same thing. (Brad: I know) We're going through the same thing?"Brad Crowell Well, it's it's definitely funny, you know, it's one of those where, I don't know, we, I guess you find yourself in the same group, or the same clique, or the same, you know, conversation over and over and over again. And this time, it was just the the it was very, it was happen instance. We were supposed to go to dinner with a group. And then plans changed, and we shut up the restaurant and then surprise, a whole another group was already there. (Lesley: Yeah) We bumped into them inadvertently, like, who knew.Lesley Logan Well, this guy is so crazy. So we made a reservation for five. (Brad: Yeah) And five people at six o'clock. And then, like, 20 minutes before, we're supposed to have dinner, three of the five people. So well, two of them weren't gonna come to that because one of them already been in the restaurant. No big deal. We didn't call the change reservation we just showed up. (Brad: Yeah) We walk in. There are three girls from our Mastermind that we had not planned with. They did not have reservation, I'm like, "Great. You're having dinner with us."Brad Crowell Yeah. And we and we actually, like, you know, of course we know them. But like, we haven't had a chance to hang with them to have like, one on ones and all the things and that was lovely.Lesley Logan It was so lovely. And like we'll have to figure out how to have some of them on the pod because ...Brad Crowell Yeah, we definitely went deeper than that's the thing that gave us an opportunity to actually go deeper than casual like, "Hey, cool. How's it going? What do you been up to?" whee next.Lesley Logan Yeah, well, we got down to like, we knew each other's food allergy. So we're literally at sushi dinner like, "You can have this. I can't have that. You can have." (Brad and Lesley laughs) You know what I mean? (Brad: Yeah that was fun.) Anyways, I just I love that their podcast and their relationship stemmed from this idea that they both had this problem. And they realized that they weren't going through it alone. So they decided to go through it together and be the example of what they want to see in this world. They fucking love that. So what did you love that they said?Brad Crowell Yeah. Well, so I thought there was something really interesting about the very, very beginning of the pod. They, I can't remember which one actually mentioned, the separation between or the difference maybe, between depression and anxiety, which I mean, obviously, they're different. But what was what was really like, wow, I never thought about it like that before, for me was depression focuses on the past. Anxiety focuses on the future. (Lesley: Yes) And it was very casual. He just kind of threw it in when they were talking about the two things because one of them suffers from depression, the other suffers from anxiety. And they were like, "Oh, yeah, well, he's always lived in the past. And I'm also in the future." And I was like, "Wow, I never thought about that before." (Lesley: Yeah) That's very interesting.Lesley Logan That's why we've been given today as a gift. It's a present. Right, to be present. Like it's a gift.Brad Crowell Yeah, there's that. I mean, I ...Lesley Logan Good luck with being present. But ...Brad Crowell I've definitely gone through like moments of depression. But I think, for me, consistently through my life has been more anxiety. (Lesley: Yeah) You know, fear of the unknown, fear of failure, you know, fear of the pressure, the pressures of life that, you know, I have to meet these expectations, or, you know, I don't know, pay the bills, even something as mundane as that, you know, and it creates that anxiety where one of my dear friends has suffered from depression. And I've always, I've actually, I've not been able to connect with that nearly as much because it's not something that I struggle with as much. However, listening to them, just throw that one sentences was very revealing for me, oh, wow. Depression, you're focused on the past, anxiety you're focus more on the future. Very interesting.Lesley Logan Yeah. I think that's interesting. I think some people know that without knowing that and I think some people need to be reminded of that because it can be, it can be hard if you've if you are more one than the other to relate to someone like you just mentioned. But also, if you are with someone who focuses more on the past, asking them questions that just keep taking in the past is not actually that helpful versus like someone who focuses a lot on the future talking about their future. When is your wedding? Are you gonna have kids? (Brad: Right) Are you gonna ... what are you doing that? Like ... Brad Crowell Oh, this is, (Lesley: you know) very inte... good good observation. Lesley Logan So this is really funny, because I have some friends who always want to ask things about the future. And like, I love that because obviously be it till you see it like, of course, I must be thinking about the future a lot. But if I live in the future ....Brad Crowell No, actually be it till you see it is focusing on the present.Lesley Logan Well, correct. (Brad: Yeah) No, that's the point. But like, you have to know who you want to be in the future to be present in the thing during the be it. Right. (Brad: Yes, yes.) So which I do, but when people like I have a couple of friends who are always asking about the future, "When is this? When is this?" And I'm like, "Oh my God." I just like, "You have no idea what you just put me into these are the things..." Because I can lean (Brad: Sure) anxious, more easily that I can lean depress. I'm not a depress, I don't really. And that's like, sometimes I wonder I'm like, "Is there so much I think about the past little bit more." But like I don't, I like you know, I've moved on, healed from it, dealt with it, decided how I feel about that. I'm good. And so I tend to shy away from people where the questions are all futuristic. (Brad: Interesting) And how are you to do that? What do you do that? What is this going to be? And I'm like, I actually can hear myself try to make the question shorter, or change the subject, because some of those questions can create anxiety, and I'm at a party and now I'm anxious. (Brad: Right) And I'm a high functioning introvert. So I'm already like, "I want to see all of you. I need to go lay down."Brad Crowell That's a great observation about the questions, you know, and I wonder, like, I wonder, I wonder about the psychology behind that. If it would make more sense to ask future questions to people who are suffering from depression, as opposed to (Lesley: Maybe we'll bring my ...) past questions vice versa, like asking past questions to people who are more prone to anxiety.Lesley Logan Yeah, so we should have a little like checklist like or a badge. This is my name. And I prefer questions about this. (Brad and Lesley laughs) Like, you know, you have your pronouns and then you have like I lean ... anxious, I lean depressed. (Brad: Right) Please ask me only questions about ...Brad Crowell Ask me about my future. Ask me about my past.Lesley Logan Oh, my God. It's like, I think about my Uber profile that I haven't filled out but I want to go like, "I don't want to talk to you."Brad Crowell Yeah, yeah. But if you have to ask, asked me about my future.Lesley Logan Yeah. Oh, not me. But yes. So well, maybe we'll have maybe we'll have one of my therapists on. I don't like what my past therapists on to like answer. See if we're on the right track here before.Brad Crowell Interesting, interesting stuff Physician.Lesley Logan This is a hypothesis right now, everyone, please don't go like performing an experiment and blaming us. So.Brad Crowell Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, that's really funny that you say that, because one of the comments that I want to say was Zach hat was my biggest fear is that I will give advice on our podcast that will actually hurt someone.Lesley Logan Because he's so like, it's so perfectly aligned with his anxiety.Brad Crowell So, you know, the disclaimer that you just gave that made me laugh. Yeah.Lesley Logan Well, I think I resonate with him a lot. But I it's true. I'm like, please don't like, you know, go, don't, don't go jump off a cliff. You know what I mean? (Brad: Yeah) Like, like, let's experiment first in a safe place.Brad Crowell So funny. All right. Okay, now let's talk about those BE IT action items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items, can we take away from your conversation with Jeremy and Zach from The Fit Mess? So I'm gonna hop in real quick they're, they each had one that worth, that they shared that was really, really great. I thought it was, I thought this one was really reflective of my life, and it was question your own beliefs. And this is a tough one, I think, you know, especially if you were raised religious, or had a very opinionated adult, you know, in your life, parent, or teacher. And I know, for example, that had I met you prior to my first marriage, there's not a chance that we ever would have been together.Lesley Logan Oh, for sure. Don't worry, same thing.Brad Crowell Yeah. Because I had a very specific conceptualization of right, wrong, rules, life, this is how it should, should not be, all those things.The only reason that that changed was because I had an incredibly traumatic event happen, my divorce. And it caused a massive introspection, like reflection, internal reflection of like, what I do wrong, what could I have done better? I think I've reviewed every fucking conversation that she and I had ever had ever, you know, ever. And I analyzed it and thought about it and like, looked to see, what did I miss? How did I, how did I get to where it was? All this kind of thing. And there was so many instances of me deciding I wasn't happy with myself in the situations that she and I had gone through that forced me to look at me. And that was like a unique moment in my life. I don't know that I would have changed or reviewed or questioned my own beliefs. Have I not gone through this emotionally devastating event. Otherwise, I probably would have just, you know, kept on, keeping on. And I would have been the same person that I was. And my life wouldn't be anything like it is today.Lesley Logan That's true. Well, (Brad: That's true.) I actually really loved when they said that. Because I think people say that, like you should question like, you know, because thoughts become facts, and then facts become me think let me know if you believe it. And like, we think we know, on certain levels, we hear that. But like, have you ever actually written down what you believe? And have you ever there's like thought about like, do you know why you believe that? I'm not saying what you believe as you're listening is wrong, or that should be like, like ...Brad Crowell I think that's key to clarify.Lesley Logan Yeah, cuz I actually don't, I think a lot of people most of their beliefs have good intentions. But I do think ...Brad Crowell Well, I mean, I don't even know if they have intentions or not. (Lesley: Yeah, well, that's ...) It just their belief. (Lesley: Yeah.) Why do you believe what you believe?Lesley Logan And so not to like, look at your beliefs and go all these are wrong? These ... your beliefs are not wrong, inherently. But do you know why you believe them? And is that belief aligned with who you want to be in this world? (Brad: Yeah) And who you who you want people to think you are in this world? And so I know ...Brad Crowell And past who, you know, it's also about yourself, like, are you comfortable with those? And why why I think that the asking, why do you believe what you believe? And (Lesley: Oh yeah) actually going back and, like, do you believe what you believe? Because that's what you were told, you read in a book because of personal experience. I mean, there's like only a few options of why you believe what you believe.Lesley Logan Yeah, I mean, like, think about what you about how you feel about money, your beliefs around that. Who told you that? Your beliefs around yourself, who said that? (Brad: Yeah) Um, your beliefs about other people and how, what their intentions are to other people? Who told you that? Because you grow when you are born, you don't have beliefs. (Brad: Right. You don't.) You are, you know, you want to eat, sleep and pee. Like that's what like that's what your whole intentions are. You know, and then they are passed along and like ...Brad Crowell They are learned from somewhere.Lesley Logan They're learn... and I have to say, like, I I don't know how some some of the beliefs that my family had. I thought I didn't believe but like my actions were otherwise when, especially when it came around money, but certain beliefs that like I remember certain family members having around types of people and kinds of people and things like that. I really disagreed with, but and I had to like ask myself was what I, why was, why was I in conflict with that? And what is going on there? And like how do I how do I feel about that? And I think as we get as adults, especially as like everyday, it's feels like the world is burning down. It is challenging your beliefs. (Brad: Yeah) Now, if your reaction is instant, like oh, whatever, that's okay. If you have taken the time to ask yourself why you believe that way, and why you're reacting that way in the moment.Brad Crowell Yeah. And I think right now, what we're what I'm envisioning in my mind is, you know, very foundational beliefs like religion and, you know, society, you know, other rising people and all that. However, it can be, it doesn't have to be quite as foundational as that. Although this is foundational, not the minimalize it. But I again, I think it was Zach's example was he was overweight as a kid. And so he was always told, you know, you're not good enough. You're the fat kid. And now he's 43. And he's not, you know, overweight anymore. But he still sees himself as that. He's still in, like ...Lesley Logan That's a complicated, that's it ... That's a complicated belief, because it's, his, his, his thoughts, his beliefs are because what people told him ...Brad Crowell Yeah, yeah. And when he was talking about this, he was saying, you know, why do I believe that? You know, and like, what, like, where did that come from? And is that something that I should still be holding on to?Lesley Logan And for the record, overweight or not? No one gets to tell you, you're not good enough. You are good enough by being a fucking human being like, (Brad: Yeah) it doesn't actually matter what the scale says, like, you are good enough. (Brad: Yeah) And I think like ...Brad Crowell So it's interesting, because, you know, I guess what I was saying was the pe... you know, like, the beliefs that I was challenging were beliefs that that I learned, people were sowing into me with the intention of good, whereas the beliefs that he was, has, has (Lesley: Yeah) learned and embrace were sown into him with the intention of hurt and negative and bad. Either situation you're still embracing beliefs, and why are you doing that? And on should you be.Lesley Logan Yeah. This is, y'all that's a tough, that's a heavy BE IT action item. And and we gotta just stop there. But we have one more. (Brad: We do.) So good luck with that one, I think it's important to do it around the holidays, specifically, before you hang out with your family. (Brad: Yeah) Because you're going to hang out with your family and you need to, you need to be like really apparent, like, you need to do something really quick. You're going to have conflict with them, whether you say it out loud, or in your head, if you are clear on why you believe what you believe, you will have less anxiety, depression, frustration, like inner turmoil, because you will be found, you will be like, this is this is what I believe. And that's, and they believe that but like, I don't have to believe that.Brad Crowell Right. You'll be secure in your beliefs.Lesley Logan In the early part of this year, I, there was a situation that happened. And I called my therapist and I was like, "This happened. I can't believe I did this ... I thought I was over this." And she said, "It's actually okay, you got angry about that. What's not okay is that you got mad at yourself for being angry about that. Like, it's not okay that you judged yourself." That's where the work is. And so, if you do this BE IT action item homework, and you have a moment when you want to punch a pillow at your parents house at Christmas time, that is okay. (Brad: Yeah) Don't get mad at yourself. Don't punch them and don't get and also don't judge yourself.Brad Crowell Don't touch them and don't judge yourself for getting angry. It's okay to get angry. That's normal. That's life as humanity.Lesley Logan You are, you're supposed to feel your feelings. (Brad: Yeah) And it is part of the process. Just because you have done the work to figure out what your beliefs are. And then you go and put yourself in a situation where you're frustrated by other people's beliefs because you're like how can you believe that. I love this person and they believe that I don't believe. It is okay to be upset at that. It's not okay to get upset at yourself for being upset that because you're a human being who is in process and you will eventually get to a place where like you can let that go because you know that you're doing the work in other places where it makes a difference. (Brad: Yeah) Anyways, my favorite action item after that heavy one which I don't think that was our attention. But I'm just thinking about the person listening to this and I'm and not time of the year that they're listening to they're like, a lot, guys (Brad: Yeah) Good luck, let me know how it goes. One of, they said, Jeremy said, when, when you when you want to see change in your life, it's more than just a desire, it is a decision. And so you have to see and believe that you are the person that can be and want to be that. So his example was he wanted to be a bike guy. So he didn't just think I want to be a bike guy, someday I'll be a bike guy, and like, look at bikers and go, I want to be a bike guy. I think there was like a cycle, actually versus like a motorcycle. But ...Brad Crowell Yeah, bicycle. Lesley Logan So instead of just like wanting to be a bike guy, and someday being a bike guy, he like, rode his bike to work. So guess what? He made the decision. I want to see this change. I want to be this person. I'm going to do this thing to do to have that thing in my life. And I ...Brad Crowell Yeah, he took took action on it. But also, before even he took action on it, he was specifically he was like, "Oh, it'd be cool if I was the bike guy." And then he's like, "No, it needs to be more than that." It was, I am the bike guy. I am, I'm the guy. I'm the guy who gets up at five in the morning, and gets the, you know, bike, you know, uniform on and rides, you know, 10 miles to get to wherever he's (Lesley: Yeah) going, you know, "I am that guy." And he and he, like, he (Lesley: Yeah) made that decision before he even took that action.Lesley Logan Which goes back to the question we answered today, which is like, if you are that person who has these goals achieved at the next year, then what like what does that person do? That person puts on that? I think it's like a singlet. That person you know buys these things, that person like has the fancy backpack that has all the things in it, like that you make decisions based on that person. And then you do the, then the actions follow and boom, you are that bike guy. (Brad: Yeah) And so I hope that like especially now everything that's going on if there are changes you want to make in your life, make the decision to have the change happen now and then allow yourself to take action based on as if that change has happened before you seen the results of that change happening and that's what makes the result.Brad Crowell I think we're talking about New Year's resolutions right now. (Lesley: No, we don't do resolutions ...) I'm aware (Lesley: We do ...) but my point is the process of making change.Lesley Logan Well, because we we are we be it till we see it, we take messy action and we are we are not making resolutions because of who we want to be next year is just like getting like the up, the new update on the iPhone. There's a new update. Okay, you know, download, implement let's go like all of a sudden your phone has new things it can do because it's like oh like like for example what is ours like a 13 plus or whatever. So but it has the operating system of something something point something, my phone isn't go, "I'm a 13 plus." It goes. "No I'm operating with this system." Like it doesn't doesn't go, "Sorry guys can't upgrade to that." Like you know what I mean? Like it just goes, "Now I have these capabilities," boom. So that's to me ...Brad Crowell You're speaking my tech language here, Babe.Lesley Logan I, thank goodness because I was really just like riffing that. You know me, I don't know anything about my tech but I have I wrote that blog years ago with Clare Solly, my slingshot friend. And I wrote like you're there's no such thing as like a new year, new you. It's just the upgraded version of yourself based on the experiences that you have, and the decisions that you've made. (Brad: Yeah) The changes that you do, to be the person you want to be. Boom. I think you're awesome. Thank you so much for listening. I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell And, I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan How you use these in your life? What are you gonna do? Which one are you going to take action on right now? Which when you take action on the future? We want to know. And so what you need to do is share this with a friend, tag the @be_it_pod and tag The Fit Mess so they can see what actions you're taking and until next time, Be It Till You See It.Brad Crowell Bye for now.Lesley Logan Be It Till You See It is a production of Bloom Podcast Network. 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In a remote corner of the metaverse, a veritable supergroup assembled in the virtual Paradise Pod studios to discuss the end of Nashville SC's regular season, their 1st round playoff exit, and how they'll remember the club's third year in MLS.John, Andy, Paul and the legend in his own time Chris Ivey joined Donald and Josh. Josh had some weird audio issues - either punishment for sins in a past life, or crimes against podcasting in this one. Nevertheless, they persisted. Topics hit include:The topsy-turvy end to the season with a deflating loss against Houston and a surprise 3 points at eventual champions LAFCGary's absence for the playoff match against the GalaxyTeam selection in that match - no Shaffelburg no party?A bittersweet MVP awardWhat opening Geodis Park meantWhere does it all feel like it's heading for next season?THE 3RD ANNUAL PARADISE POD HOLIDAY QUIZConfirmation we're moving back to the Eastern ConferenceHuntsville City FCFafa Picault, and what the club's other priorities in the transfer market should beThe gaht-dang World CupHappy Holidays you bastards. We go again in 2023. Up the 'yotes forever. Come on you boys in gold.
In this episode, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs) Michelle Iversen and Brett Cushing discuss the concept of gratitude in the first part of our "Managing Holiday Stress" series. Did you know gratitude isn't just an action or saying "thank you"? Together we will look at what research says gratitude is, and the mental and physical health benefits of making gratitude an intentional daily practice.Listen to learn more about how an "attitude of gratitude" helps with stress (not just during the holiday season, but all year long) and ways you can incorporate this every day using DBT skills. Brett and Michelle will demonstrate an "A, B, C" gratitude exercise for listeners and let you know what makes them feel grateful this time of the year.Episodes Mentioned: You Are Who You Choose to BeThe 5 Love LanguagesWhat You Didn't Know About Stress Do you have feedback or topic requests? Email us at podcast@nystromcounseling.comWe'd love to hear from you!Follow alongInstagramFacebookNystrom & Associates
In this episode, Sujani sits down with Deborah Thomson, the founder of One Health Lessons. They discuss the various titles Deborah has held, Deborah's areas of interest in public health, and the vision and mission of One Health Lessons. You'll LearnDeborah's career journey from teaching, to practicing as a veterinarian, to working in public healthWhat a day in Deborah's life looks likeTips on time management How Toastmasters helps with communication skills,What One Health isHow One Health Lessons came to beThe goal of One Health LessonsHow listeners can help with this missionWhat's next for One HealthAdvice for others passionate about starting an initiativeDeborah's experience writing “The Art of Science Communication”Deborah's career goals for the futureToday's GuestDr. Deborah Thomson is author of The Art of Science Communication and the Chair of the World Veterinary Association's One Health Education Subgroup. In addition, she founded an organization that inspires children and adults around the world to value the interconnection between human health and the health of the environment, plants, and animals (called One Health Lessons). She has served as a Science Policy Advisor in the United States Congress and is also a clinical veterinarian and award-winning public speaker. Her articles have been printed in multiple publications, including The Lancet Planetary Health.ResourcesLearn more about Deborah and follow her on LinkedIn Learn more about One Health LessonsLearn more about ToastmastersBuy The Art of Science Communication: Sharing Knowledge with Students, the Public, and PolicymakersFollow One Health Lessons on Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and FacebookOther PH SPOT resources:Share ideas for the podcastNever heard of a podcast before? Read this guide we put together to help you get set upBe notified when new episodes come out and receive hand-picked public health opportunities every week by joining the PH SPOT communityContribute to the public health career blogUpcoming course on infographicsLearn more about The Public Health Career ClubSupport the show
"There is a vast difference between better and best. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you make the effort to become the best you can be.” - John Wooden Coach Wooden's Pyramid of SuccessHow do you become your best?There is a big difference between better and best. But the only way you become your best, is by getting better. You commit to becoming better each day and that is how you become your best.Only you know what your "best" looks like. And you probably don't even know your best right now because as you become better and better it becomes clearer.If you want to be your best...The best mom you can beThe best entrepreneur you can beThe best knitter you can beThe only way to get there is to commit to getting better.What is one small thing (I mean stupid, small) that you can do every day for 1 week to bring you closer to being your best? Pick one thing that you will 100% do and do it every day for 1 week and see how much better you become. www.allyoumama.comIG -@MeghanQBarrett
In this episode, we're chatting with artist, creative producer and co-creator of Ngamumu (For Mothers) Lia Pa'apa'a about how to support mothers and their babies through Arts & Cultural practice during the first 1000 days.
When Amy Clarke had her second baby 5 years ago, she felt so lost. She couldn't go back to her full time office job and after coming out of a Post Natal Depression Fog. She really wanted to create a brand that resonated with her and my fellow female community. This drove her to create Confetti Rebels. It soon became her third baby. Amy wanted to create apparel that made people feel happy, confident and speak their mind (without speaking their mind verbally). She wanted to create apparel that MEANT something to the person wearing it. Amy makes such an impact to her community supporting dozens of charities as well as making sure her products are ethically made and of the highest standard possible. Amy is such a delight and wonderful person, we are so stoked to be chatting with her today. We talk about: Mums having a cheeky vino in Mothers Group in the park How Confetti Rebels came to beThe 4th Trimester and Postnatal DepressionAmy's fav slogan on her tee's. And the idea of "Life/Child Balance"The most rewarding part of the businessSuccess and what it means as a business owner and MotherIntroverts and extrovertsThe most rewarding parts of Amy's businessThe biggest challenges of Motherhood and the most beautiful aspects and SO much moreThe idea of "going deep or going home" and its not what you think. Get your mind out of the gutter!This episode is brought to you by the incredible Rachael Rose who was a guest on Episode 10. Rach spoke about how lonely she was during her early Motherhood - and this was a catalyst to start running pregnancy and mothers circles, where she basically forces attendees to exchange numbers and start mum-dating. Rachael has released an online women's circle facilitator training called Together, where you can learn all about starting up a mothers circle, creating places where mums can connect, talk honestly and feel less alone. Visit rachaelrose.com.au/together and join the self paced training for $50 off, by entering PUMPED at checkout.XXXSupport the show
If someone told you that financial freedom could be achieved by traveling the world, you probably wouldn't believe them. How can going on a work vacation to Europe make you richer? Surprisingly, doing this can help cut years off your retirement horizon, allowing you to save more, spend less, and invest for your future faster than ever before. Don't believe it's possible? Scott and Mindy prove the profits behind doing so in this Finance Friday episode!Today we're talking to James, who is inches away from retirement. He has only a few years left before he can sail off into the sunset, but James wants to know how he can reach his goals even faster. He keeps his spending low, continuously invests, and has a remote work position, allowing him to work wherever he wants. He dreams of living in other areas of the United States but wants to ensure he has enough money to do so.His highest monthly cost? Housing! Like most Americans, a majority of James' spending is for the roof over his head, but could geographic arbitrage turn his travel plans into a seriously profitable excursion? For those who are trying to hit FI, are close to FI, or simply want to spend more time enjoying life abroad, this episode is for you!In This Episode We CoverCalculating your FI number and getting to early retirement faster Defining your retirement goals and knowing what you want to do and where you want to beThe 4% rule and whether or not it holds up as stock values have taken a tumbleGeographic arbitrage and using it to reduce your largest monthly costCoast FI and why a more gradual retirement option may work for youThe five questions every investor should ask themselves when planning for retirementAnd So Much More!Links from the ShowBiggerPockets Money Facebook GroupBiggerPockets ForumsFinance Review Guest OnboardingMindy's TwitterScott's InstagramListen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One PlaceApply to Be a Guest on The Money ShowPodcast Talent Search!Subscribe to The “On The Market” YouTube ChannelListen to The “On The Market” Podcast: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, BiggerPocketsCheck Out Mindy's 2022 Live Spending Tracker and BudgetReady to Retire: The Ultimate Pre-Retirement ChecklistCoast FI: The Calculated Way to Retire Early WITHOUT Giving Up What You Love w/Jessica from The FioneersRamit Sethi's Money Advice for Couples: Live a Rich Life, TogetherNetworthifyCfiresim SimulatorClick here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/money-334Interested in learning more about today's sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Check out our sponsor page!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode we chat about:Human Design as Spirituality meets ScienceThe "Science of Differentiation"Unbecoming the things we were conditioned to think & beThe basics of Human Design - Energy types, Strategy, & AuthorityAlignment, Self Acceptance, & Living in your TruthThe nuance of your personal chart, beyond your Energy TypeThe life-changing benefits of knowing the Human Design of your kids & family membersThe ripple effect of individualityHow to apply Human Design to your Work, Creativity, & CareerThe Magnetism of Living your Human DesignEnergetic Discernment & absorbing other people's Energy - "Is this mine to hold?"How Lucy uniquely works with clients using Human DesignLucy's most grounded place in NatureHow to work with LucyGo to mybodygraph.com to get your Human Design chart.Connect with Lucy on Instagram at @lucyvanderriet.Connect with Meredith:meredithewenson.com@meredithewenson on InstagramDownload my free Walking Meditation herePurchase a Custom Re-Grounding Meditation hereJoin the waitlist for the fall session of Nature as Ceremony, a seasonal group business mentorship for creatives, led by nature hereMeredith Ewenson is an enjoy-er of Nature who's work begins where the cross-section of nature, business, creativity, and life meet.
If you think about our phones, we all essentially have the same phone yet, it's a deeply personalized experience for each one of us. What if healthcare was like that? - Personalized and holistic, thinking about you, where you are.Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., is the President of Verily Health Platforms, overseeing all health care platforms, including Onduo, Healthy at Work, and Verily's Value Suite, among others. She is also the author of The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone. As a healthcare executive, she formerly served as the medical school dean, SVP, and CEO of the University of Utah Health, a $3.5 billion integrated health system and health plan that ranked first among university hospitals in quality and safety. Over her career as an NIH-funded MRI researcher, she has published over 200 articles in leading journals including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine and received the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.If that wasn't enough, Dr. Lee was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015 and was ranked #11 among Becker's 100 most influential people in healthcare in 2019. A Rhodes Scholar, she is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, Harvard Medical School, and NYU Stern School of Business.On this episode of HLTH Matters, Vivian joins hosts Dr. Gautam Gulati and Patricia Bradley to discuss the intersection of health and tech and how it can be very transformative on health care. She describes strategies to solve America's healthcare crisis and how these strategies can not only work for everyone, but also advance healthcare faster than ever before. Listen in for insight on the future of health platforms and the potential they have to advance population health.Topics CoveredVivian's background in medicine and what she does now with VerilyInsight on Vivian's book, The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for EveryoneWhat the average individual can do to contribute to the ongoing change of healthcareWhere all the costs of healthcare are coming fromThe Surf and Turf ProblemHow the healthcare system is only designed to treat instead of preventWhat Vivian took away when writing her bookWho Verily is and their purposeVivian's insight on how much more personal healthcare could be and the goal around thatVivian's insight on how unique and personalized healthcare could and should beThe ways Onduo plans on providing more personal results and solutions for peopleThe vision of Verily Health PlatformsHow Vivian defines health as the ability to really live our lives in a productive, comfortable and safe wayVivian's belief that healthcare for every single person in America is the answer to health Connect with Vivian LeeVerily Connect with Dr. Gautam GulatiHLTHDr. Gulati on TwitterDr. Gulati on LinkedIn ResourcesThe Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for EveryoneOnduoHealthy at WorkVerily's Value Suite Introductory Quote[19:05–19:34]“Even though my book is called The Long Fix, I'm hoping that it's going to be less long now because of the pandemic and the acceleration of these digital health approaches that can be a lot more personalized and holistic, and thinking about you, where you are. So, if you think about our phones, we all essentially have the same phone...but yet it's a very deeply personalized experience for each of us. Now, think about if healthcare were like that.
The founder of the African People's Socialist Party & The Uhuru Movement, Omali Yeshitela, checks into our classroom on Thursday morning. Chairman Omali will discuss the January 6th hearings and if they will impact the mid-term elections. Chairman Omali will also explain the majority of the African state's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the recent BRICS meeting, the much talked about coming recession, a Black Political party & more. Before we hear from the Chairman, Professor Manu Ampin checks in from Aswan, Egypt & Ron Bethea on why we should be embracing alternative energy protocols. The Big Show starts on WOL 95.9 FM & 1450 AM, 1010 AM WOLB and woldcnews.com at 6 am ET., 5 am CT., 3 am PT., and 11 am BST. Call in # 800 450 7876 to participate, & listen live See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“When you go for your dream, we're not just doing it for ourselves. We're doing it to show other people it's possible.” - Barry NicolaouToday's featured bestselling author is father, husband, keynote speaker, and Personal Well-Being & Culture Specialist, Barry Nicolaou. Barry and I have a fun chat about his book, “”, why genuine giving is important, and more!! Key Things You'll Learn:How to find out what your next move in life should beThe importance of giving to others.Why spirituality belongs in businessHow fear holds you back from fully embracing your dreams Barry's Site: https://barrynicolaou.com/Barry's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Barry-Nicolaou/e/B01AFUX7TU/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk The opening track is titled “Kirin” by Marcus D. to listen to the full track and purchase the whole album, click the following link. https://marcusd.net/album/kirin You May Also Like… Ep. 435 – “Breaking the Code” with Rusty Gailliard (@RustyGaillard): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-435-breaking-the-code-with-rusty-gailliard-rustygaillard/ Ep. 426 – “Success Left a Clue” with Robert Raymond Riopel (@RobRox69): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-426-success-left-a-clue-with-robert-raymond-riopel-robrox69/ Ep. 411 – “Name That Mouse” with David Wood (@_focusceo): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-411-name-that-mouse-with-david-wood-_focusceo/ Ep. 428 – “Hard Conversations” with Dr. Brad Johnson (@bjcommunicates): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-428-hard-conversations-with-dr-brad-johnson-bjcommunicates/ 280 – “Architect of BEing” with Dr. Travis Fox (@travisfox360): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/280-architect-of-being-with-dr-travis-fox-travisfox360/ 289.5 (Charm City Bonus Episode) “Love Made Simple” with Juan Lee (@LoveMadeSimple): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/2895-charm-city-bonus-episode-love-made-simple-with-juan-lee-lovemadesimple/ 263 – “The Power of a Peaceful Woman” with Jennifer Forster: https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/263-the-power-of-a-peaceful-woman-with-jennifer-forster/ Ep. 468 – “The Power Of Mindset” with Hayk Tadevosyan (@hayktadevosyan): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-468-the-power-of-mindset-with-hayk-tadevosyan-hayktadevosyan/ #HolidayBonus Ep. – “Wisdom Of The Men” with Clint Arthur (@clintarthur): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/holidaybonus-ep-wisdom-of-the-men-with-clint-arthur-clintarthur/ Ep. 304 – “Tranquil Triumphs” with Mike Carr (@mikecarratx): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-304-tranquil-triumphs-with-mike-carr-mikecarratx/ Ep. 500 – “Life Reset” With Dr. Foojan Zeine, Psy.D., MFT (@DrZeine): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-500-life-reset-with-dr-foojan-zeine-psyd-mft-drzeine/ Ep. 501 – “Everyone Is an Entrepreneur” with Gregory Diehl (@GregoryVDiehl): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-501-everyone-is-an-entrepreneur-with-gregory-diehl-gregoryvdiehl/ Ep. 493 – “The Three R's of Business Growth” with Edwin Dearborn (@edwindearborn): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-493-the-three-rs-of-business-growth-with-edwin-dearborn-edwindearborn/ Ep. 481 – “Breakthrough” with Thomas Gelmi: https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-481-breakthrough-with-thomas-gelmi/ Ep. 512 – “The Essential Inner Game” with Torrin Minutillo: https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-512-the-essential-inner-game-with-torrin-minutillo/ #Bonus Ep. – “Superbold” with Fred Joyal (@fredjoyal): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/bonus-ep-superbold-with-fred-joyal-fredjoyal/ #M2M Bonus – “A Significant Fork” with Mehdi Bouneb (@Mehdi_lba): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/m2m-bonus-a-significant-fork-with-mehdi-bouneb-mehdi_lba/
Jen is back this week with our guest of the month, Pepa Paniagua, to talk about how you can be the one to help reduce the risk of self harm in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Have you ever felt like you're *almost* to where you want to be?Maybe you've told yourself that if you just hit a certain level in your career, meet your person, build a family, buy that home, or heal your skin, THEN you'll be happy and complete.But when you think like that, the finish line will just keep moving because there will always be something more that needs to happen before you can be satisfied.So in this episode, Jordan chats about what to do when you feel like you're never quite where you want to be. This is the fourth episode in a series that takes a look at unmet expectations and goes along with her new book, Embrace Your Almost.With new content that complements chapter 4 of the book and reflection questions to ask yourself, this episode will help you stop living for a moving finish line and start embracing the season you're in with intention and contentment.So find a comfy seat and tune in to learn:Why you feel like you're never where you want to beThe problem with arbitrarily pursuing goals without asking whyHow to define what's enough for youQuestions you can ask yourself to gain clarity and define your “why”Want to dig deeper?Get a copy of Embrace Your Almost: https://jordanleedooley.com/eyaDownload the free book guide: https://jlmedia.lpages.co/eya-book-study-guide/ Start the Bible study plan: https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/30872
UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo explains why he's asking Dana White to book his next title defense against Kai-Kara Franca instead of Brandon Moreno, and why he's planning on training with fellow UFC titleholder Charles Oliveira. Retired fighter Bethe Correia reveals there is no chance she ever returns to MMA, but could make the jump to boxing or bare-knuckle boxing. Deiveson Figueiredo, campeão dos moscas do UFC, que revela um pedido a Dana White: ele quer enfrentar Kai-Kara France na próxima defesa de título, e não Brandon Moreno. Ele conta, ainda, por que pretende treinar com Charles do Bronx. Na sequência vem o papo com Bethe Correia, ex-desafiante ao cinturão de Ronda Rousey, que conta por que nunca mais lutará MMA, e o desejo de competir no boxe (com ou sem luvas). Listen to Trocação Franca with Guilherme Cruz every Wednesday to hear from the biggest names on the hottest topics in the Brazilian combat sports world. Follow Guilherme Cruz @Guicruzzz Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo explains why he's asking Dana White to book his next title defense against Kai-Kara Franca instead of Brandon Moreno, and why he's planning on training with fellow UFC titleholder Charles Oliveira. Retired fighter Bethe Correia reveals there is no chance she ever returns to MMA, but could make the jump to boxing or bare-knuckle boxing. Deiveson Figueiredo, campeão dos moscas do UFC, que revela um pedido a Dana White: ele quer enfrentar Kai-Kara France na próxima defesa de título, e não Brandon Moreno. Ele conta, ainda, por que pretende treinar com Charles do Bronx. Na sequência vem o papo com Bethe Correia, ex-desafiante ao cinturão de Ronda Rousey, que conta por que nunca mais lutará MMA, e o desejo de competir no boxe (com ou sem luvas). Listen to Trocação Franca with Guilherme Cruz every Wednesday to hear from the biggest names on the hottest topics in the Brazilian combat sports world. Follow Guilherme Cruz @Guicruzzz Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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