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In this podcast, Kelli is with Samantha, a mother of two, a dedicated wife, and an inspiring entrepreneur, and they talked about social media marketing for mompreneurs. She shared valuable tips about how to grow a business as a mom, pursuing your passion, and how to maximize your social media accounts and audiences to do it.   They also talked about: 04:44 Being a natural-born salesperson 06:30 Burning your inner passion 08:14 Routine of a morning person 09:45 Breaking down goals 11:05 Creating pillar content 17:49 Find your audience and engage on their posts 20:35 Tips for starting mompreneurs 22:35 Non-negotiable practice to do everyday   Samantha reminds moms who want to start their own businesses to stay true to their passion and to be honest with their capabilities, skills and strengths.    Check out Samantles Giles' social media accounts:   LinkedIn: Giles Writing Services Facebook: Giles Writing Book a CALL today!   Join Kelli Femrite in The Working Mom Collective Community: The Working Mom Collective  Instagram Facebook Group: The Working Mom Collective Join The Working Mom Collective Business Launchpad Course Waitlist! Who is this course for? Moms who are looking for an actionable plan to build their online business, whether you want to build a side hustle, an online biz to replace your day job, or you're a mom who is currently not working but wants to have a plan to build an online business that is straightforward and will take you from idea to action plan. This will be for all the moms out there wanting to do something more, that have a bigger dream in their heart. Join the Waitlist and find out more details here: The Working Mom Collective Business Launchpad   Bio: As a mother of 2 and a dedicated wife, Samantha understands the struggles of being a mompreneur and wanting to experience the awesome power of Social Media without spending more time on it. Giles Writing Services was founded in 2019 as a way to provide for her family financially and create time with them. When she realized her love and ability to create attractive social media content that could help other mompreneurs grow their businesses while freeing up their time, she began deep dive into all things Social Media Marketing.

“How do I want to feel today?” Are priorities and boundaries easy for you? Can you take a week off of work or a break from life and feel rested at the end of it? Are there moments in your life (like all of 2020 and now 2021) that have you feeling like you need to recover from an event or busy season? Gillian Behnke is here to share 6 ideas with us that can help us on our road to (much needed!) rest and recovery. All 6 ideas begin with the letter R...but by the time we ended our chat, we'd come up with 14 Rs altogether. It's a fun conversation that will encourage you to put yourself as a priority so you have the capacity to care for others. Gillian's Bio: As a busy mom of two, Gillian cares deeply about helping other moms feel better both mentally and physically. She believes that motherhood does not equal with exhaustion, and that it is possible to thrive mentally, emotionally, physically and professionally. Gillian is the founder of Mom Camp, a media and events company that empowers moms to live their best lives. She is also the host of the Mom Camp: Around the Campfire podcast. FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT: WWW.ELEVATINGMOTHERHOOD.COM Elevating Motherhood Links: Website: www.elevatingmotherhood.com Instagram: @loribethauldridge @elevatingmotherhood Patreon: www.patreon.com/elevatingmotherhood Please Visit Today's Sponsors: Homeschool Explained: Today's episode is supported by Homeschool Explained, an online course I created to help parents find their confidence on their homeschool journey. I used to teach in-person workshops here on Maui to help families gather all the information and resources they need, answer all their questions, alleviate concerns, and help them get organized as they started homeschooling. Homeschool Explainedis the online version of those workshops. I totally get it, starting any new journey can be overwhelming…especially when it comes to re-thinking how your kids are going to get an education—and that you're going to be the teacher. But don't worry. There is so much support and freedom in homeschool. It's do-able. It's fun. And it takes way less time than most people think. I put almost 15 years of homeschool experience and insights into this easy to follow, easy to use online course that answers common questions, helps you work through worries, and saves you time. No more internet search overload. This is all the info you need to get started homeschooling today from a trusted, experienced source. I show you what modern homeschool days actually look like—all while covering major topics like curriculum, homeschool styles, subjects to teach, cost, state laws, socialization and so much more. This course takes the guess work out of where and how to begin and leaves you with solid support and resources. I want you to start your homeschool journey with confidence! Find out more at www.homeschoolexplained.com Join Lori Beth on Patreon! Elevating Motherhood is coming to life over on Patreon! I'm super stoked to let you know I'll be over there in our online moms group in Patreon connecting with you and other incredible mamas. It's such a great space where we can have deep dive discussions about today's topic and every other topic discussed here on the show. WWW.PATREON.COM/ELEVATINGMOTHERHOOD

Hi, I'm the Profit Answer Man Rocky Lalvani! I help small business owners simplify their financial reports so that they can make more informed business decisions with fewer hassles. We utilize the Profit First system created by Mike Michalowicz Effortless Cashflow Course: http://bit.do/effortlesscashflowcourse Schedule your free, no-obligation intro call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes Bio: As a business transformation coach, Jeff Chastain works with business leaders and their leadership teams with two goals in mind – first to help them gain clarity in their business and second to help them get more of what they want out of their business.   https://www.admentus.com/ https://www.admentus.com/podcast/ More about making profitability simple: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Questions: questions@profitanswerman.com Email: rocky@profitcomesfirst.com Profit Answer Man Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitanswerman/ My podcast about living a richer more meaningful life: http://richersoul.com/ First 2 chapters of Profit First: https://sendfox.com/rocky Music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

Your Past Does Not Define Your Future With Vicky PooleConnect with Vicky:https://www.vickypoolecoaching.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicky-poole/ https://www.facebook.com/VicPooleCoach https://www.instagram.com/vickypoolecoaching/ Connect with EMS: Need some help? http://ethicalmarketingservice.com  Books: http://ethicalmarketingservice.com/book  Want to be a guest?  https://ethicalmarketingservice.com/guest/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/EMS_Worthing  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethicalmarketingservice  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-green-18655b97/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethicalmarketingservice/  Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/emservice/  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ethicalmarketingservice  Pricing: https://ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk  Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/EthicalMarketingService  Apple Podcasts: https://www.ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk/apple  Spotify: https://www.ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk/spotify  Stitcher: https://www.ethicalmarketingservice.co.uk/stitcher Vicky's Bio:As a child, I was always put in dresses and told what a “girl” should be and what could do.I was in my 30's before I realised that I can be:* a girl and play rugby.* comfortable in uncomfortable situations.* be loved by others for everything that I am, as I am.I grew up liking guys and girls at a time when that was NOT accepted. I had body dysmorphia gifted to me on a plate because what I wanted to do and was allowed to do we're totally and utterly different. My parents were close minded and unapproachable. I was alone and lonely with no one else like me.I felt like I had to give up my identity to fit in with the masses. There were two boxes, boy and girl, and if you didn't fit into those boxes easily then you were ignored as a "statistical anomaly". I felt that I couldn't be me, ever, not even in my own head. I would day dream about the ability to be me, feeling at that time that it would never happen. I was given other peoples expectations and was demanded to achieve them for fear of disappointment, which was never an option with my upbringing... I studied subjects that I didn't like and forced myself to work at them day and night.

VIVIAN ACQUAH; LIVE from Netherlands; The Power of Working Mothers; Inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate CONTACT INFO; Amplify DEI: www.amplifydei.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianacquah/ Twitter https://twitter.com/VivalaViveNL Website: https://vivalavive.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/vlvYouTube Let's Humanize The Workplace podcast: https://plnk.to/humanize-the-workplace Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivalavivenl/ State of Mothers in The Workplace https://womenintheworkplace.com/ Bigger by #Beyonce https://youtu.be/14di5tJxn7c Deactivating Biases Against Women https://youtu.be/IKvgIqoy56Q An Open Letter For Humanizing Mothers' Rooms https://resources.wellcertified.com/articles/an-open-letter-for-humanizing-mothers-rooms/ ** BIO "As an inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, I advise managers on how to keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable, long-term way. A clear Workplace Wellness strategy & implementation will fix your hidden cost drains and missed opportunity cost because it will improve talent retention, engagement, employer branding, and connection with diverse talent. It will prevent your company from leaving money on the table. It will also make your organization a better place to work and be in. Working with me means working towards sustainable employability in a holistic way: all elements of wellness and wellbeing are interconnected, including physical, mental, career, social, community, and financial wellness. I also purposefully incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). What I do is make workplace wellness & DEI accessible to everyone. I provide people with the right tools at the right time to embrace inclusive changes. I encourage people to think consciously and inspire them to get them moving.”

BIO: As a father of five, Dean Brown empowers professional dads to work fewer hours per week while generating more revenue and having more fun while doing it. STORY: Dean had just lost a high-income job when his friend approached him with an investment idea. The friend wanted him to finance his business idea and get a return on it. Because he trusted his friend and was looking for investment opportunities, Dean gave him $150,000. He's never received a penny from the business. LEARNING: Do not hand your money to anyone without a legal contract. First, understand the investment and the risk involved. Don't be the sole financier of an investment.   “Get lawyers involved, don't just hand money over to anyone, even for a friendship.”  Dean Brown   Guest profileAs a father of five,https://www.linkedin.com/in/holistic-life-coach-dean-s-brown/ ( Dean Brown) empowers professional dads to work fewer hours per week while generating more revenue and having more fun while doing it. Working with Dean, they will learn to face their suppressed emotions, limiting beliefs, self-denial, and self-sabotage to better embrace life without guilt, anger, fear, or hate while manifesting their highest vision of peace, love, and profit with their family and in their business. Worst investment everDean had always been an employee, even though he often toyed with the idea of becoming a businessman. He was an outstanding employee who quickly rose to the top in every job he ever had. Getting thrown into the deep endIt was not until he lost his most prolific job, where he earned over $100,000 a year in 2008, that he had tohttps://myworstinvestmentever.com/ep331-lou-adler-avoid-raising-capital-from-friends-if-you-want-to-keep-both/ ( start learning how to build a business). He now had to think of the best ways to invest under these circumstances. An investment idea from his trusted friendDean had this good friend who had a great vision and worked on it for a very long time. His enthusiasm was deep and engaging. Dean had a lot of faith and trust in what his friend was doing. One day Dean's friend asked him to help him take this idea to the next level. He had developed a one-of-a-kind invention and now needed to manufacture it. However, he needed cash to do it. Giving his friend money, no questions askedDean had some money to invest, and because he trusted his friend, he gave him $150,000 there and then. He transferred the money into his friend's account, and they agreed that Dean would get a return on the investment, and then they shook on it. That was eight years ago. Dean is yet to see a penny. Lessons learnedAlways have a contract, even where it involves friendsGet a lawyer to write a contract for you before you hand anyone money—including your friends. Understand the investment and the risks involvedBefore you spend any money, be aware of what you're investing in. Make sure there is an agreement stipulating what you will gain from the investment. Andrew's takeawaysA good investment starts with trustTrust is vital when it comes to investing. Before you give your money to anyone, make sure that you can trust them. Once you build trust, take the next step and evaluate if the idea is good. If the idea is good and you have trust, then now you can execute the idea. Don't be the sole financier of an investmentAvoid investments where you're the only one providing the capital. Be sure that the business has sustainable finances before you get in. Actionable adviceDon't take people's advice at face value, even if they are your friends. Cross your T's, dot your I's, and do your research before deciding to invest. No. 1 goal for the next 12 monthsDean's number one goal for the next 12 months is to help people get to that place where they do not make mistakes, as he did. And also, they're able to make a positive impact in their business and family lives. Parting words  “Don't spank yourself or grief over the losses. Instead,...

In this week's episode master student Anna Costanza comes on the show to talk to Dr. Ashley Scarlett about her study on the bycatch of humpback whales in Peru, and how art is an incredible way to tell stakeholders' stories. Bio: As an Illinoian born and bred, her younger self would pretend Lake Michigan was an ocean. After earning a B.S. in Environmental Science from Goshen College, IN, she moved from Midwest to the west coast and immediately dove deep into GIS courses and internships. If you ask her what my passion is - it's science, but her love is art. GIS is the perfect intersection of the two.   She is currently a graduate student at San Francisco State University working towards an MS in Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Science. Thesis For her thesis, she is collaborating with Pro Delphinus, a Peruvian non-profit, to study humpback whale and leatherback turtle bycatch within Peruvian small-scale fisheries. They leveraged fishermen's knowledge and expert opinion as input data into an open-source bycatch risk assessment model to identify seasonal high bycatch risk areas among data-poor fisheries.  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5e55226fec7f4996b038a8396bc16b79

My guest this week works as an adviser to senior leadership teams on strategy, risk and performance.  As a former Red Arrows pilot, management consultant and senior manager in a global corporate, he is not a speaker who pontificates from the side lines, but has spent significant time on the pitch, in some of the most demanding of high-performance environments.  He has masters' degrees from Cambridge and London Business School, and is the author of The Business of Excellence.  Currently he helping to launch a green technology company.  Please welcome my guest, Justin Hughes. Bio As a former fighter pilot and Executive Officer of the Red Arrows, Justin Hughes know exactly how you plan, execute and adapt in situations characterised by ambiguity, imperfect information, speed of change and pressure to deliver. Justin Hughes has worked as a consultant on organisational performance to clients including Microsoft, the United Nations and Mercedes F1. And he has walked his own talk during the Covid-19 crisis, in a corporate role as L3Harris' Director Integrated Airline Services. In one of the hardest hit sectors, Justin managed a major change programme in a fast-moving environment, while also sitting on the global business continuity team. Prior to his current roles, Justin Hughes was an RAF fighter pilot.  He graduated as top cadet of his officer training and went on to fly the Tornado F3 air defence fighter.  He subsequently served for 3 years on the Red Arrows performing over 250 displays worldwide including 3 international tours.  Justin has an MBA with Distinction from London Business School and is currently studying International Relations at the University of Cambridge. Justin Hughes is the author of The Business of Excellence (Bloomsbury, 2016), has been profiled in the London Standard, Director and the Daily Telegraph), and interviewed for BBC World ‘Talking Business' and BBC Breakfast. During 2020, he has conducted a range of virtual deliveries: from a ‘traditional' style keynote to a more interactive format to a fully participatory workshop and am very comfortable across different platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Teams). Recorded on: 18th May 2021 Links: More about Justin Hughes More about Maria Franzoni Ltd Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Podfollow Libsyn  Itunes  Stitcher Spotify

Episode #58. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This is the last week. Another great conversation with Jared's friend Deanna A. Robinson. They are friends from NAMI and have given In Our Own Voice Presentations together. Deanna's BIO: As a person diagnosed with a serious mental illness 23 years ago, Ms. Robinson draws from her rich experiences with psychosis, anxiety, depression and mania, inspiring students to see mental illness in a new, more progressive light.  As a master and national trainer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for 18 years, Ms. Robinson has a deep appreciation for the curiosity of students and engages humor and interactive modalities so students have the best chance of retaining the invaluable mental health information there is to share.   She has worked in varying roles for NAMI in Maryland, where she’s originally from, and in California where she now lives.  She’s helped create videos for the country’s emergency room hospital staff, University of Phoenix social work program, and has been featured in the New York Times, Baltimore Sun and other notable media. Prior to joining the NAMI family in 2004, she was a Senior Litigation Paralegal for CitiGroup.  She studied at College of Notre Dame of Maryland and has several mental health instructor certifications including Mental Health First Aid both for youth and adults and QPR Suicide Prevention. She owns her own coaching, training and public speaking business, The Healing Conversationalist. Ms. Robinson has 5 grown children, 7 grandchildren and enjoys politics, and reading and listening to self-help and spiritual wellness books. For more information on Deanna( The Healing Conversationalist) you can check out: https://thehealingconvo.com/ If you are feeling overwhelmed and need someone to talk to please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 Or visit online: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ If you would like to be a guest on the podcast or have any feedback or questions please email: loudernow88@gmail.com      

In today's episode, I talk with Irene Fehr. We discuss how to be better prepared to navigate long-lasting intimacy and deal with the extensive range of emotions that come with long-term relationships. We also talk about what emotions may be activated and how we can learn new perspectives on our relationship by becoming more curious and explorative. Ending up in a sexless marriage when she lost her libido, Irene felt shame around not sexually wanting her partner. She shut down and withdrew from life because she thought there was something wrong with her as a woman. From this point, Irene wanted to help other couples rediscover the magic of sex in all different stages to have a fulfilled intimate sexual experience, no matter how long a couple is together. Listen in to learn why looking outside of your relationship to fix a sexless marriage won't work, how couples can create connection sex, and how Irene helps couples navigate and access needs and sexual desires. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear explanations, stories, and examples.) Bio As a Sex and Intimacy Coach, Irene Fehr, MA, CPCC, has helped hundreds of committed couples to add sex and passion into sexless relationships and fall in love with each other again. She is no stranger to her clients' complaints, having recovered from the all-too-common story of "happy marriage turned sexless" when she lost her libido. You can read Irene's perspectives on sex, sexual desire in a long-term relationship, and women's libido in HuffPost, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, and ScaryMommy. In this episode, Irene Fehr & Dr. Jessica Higgins discuss:  Why friction sex has a shelf life and limits The three types of sex during stages of relationships How sex can get repetitive for couples Why women can lose their libido How stress can reduce your sex hormones Why friction sex is fueled by drugs and alcohol Where attachment is a factor in sex and relationships How sex can turn into a battleground for validation The three sex myths people fall into How couples can allow for quality time together and more touch The importance of making enough quality time together Messaging around the arousal journey Why you need to create space around your body as a woman   Mentioned Visit Irene Fehr on the web Free 3-video training “How to Want Sex Again" Three types of sex as background   Connect with Dr. Jessica Higgins Facebook: facebook.com/EmpoweredRelationship  Instagram: instagram.com/drjessicahiggins  Podcast: drjessicahiggins.com/podcasts/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/EmpowerRelation  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjessicahiggins  Twitter: @DrJessHiggins  Website: drjessicahiggins.com   Email: jessica@drjessicahiggins.com If you have a topic you would like me to discuss, please contact me by clicking on the “Ask Dr. Jessica Higgins” button here.  Thank you so much for your interest in improving your relationship.  Also, I would so appreciate your honest rating and review. Please leave a review by clicking here.  Thank you!    

BIO: As an executive coach, speaker, and international author, Gordon Jenkins helps people make a real impact and difference both in their professional and personal journey. STORY: Gordon grew up knowing that the only way to build a career was to go to school, go to college or university, then get a graduate job and work your way up. That’s precisely what he did only to realize, 10 years later, that he did not want to prescribe to this convection anymore. LEARNING: Shape your life after your own terms, not on convections. People are more interested in who you are not what you are.   “You’re either in or out. There’s no gray matter in life. You’re either full on, or you’re full out.” Gordon Jenkins   Guest profileAs an executive coach, speaker, and international author,https://www.linkedin.com/in/businessexecutivecoach/ ( Gordon Jenkins) helps people make a real impact and difference both in their professional and personal journey. With his trusty sidekick,https://gordon946517.typeform.com/to/JqiMj32q ( Banfi The Duck), Gordon has an innate knack for recognizing and celebrating people’s individuality. There is a common connection between Gordon and his clients. Success stems from the strong belief that it’s ok not to conform to societal pressures, it’s refreshing to be different, and that celebrating what sets you apart is the key to a rich and fulfilling life. Gordon’s clients include industry leaders who are regularly recognized by their peers as well as those quite happy to grow, away from glare of the media. Worst investment everGordon grew up knowing that the only way to build a career was to go to school, go to college or university, then get a graduate job. Then you sit in that job and work your way up. Following the system unwillinglyGordon followed the same system even though he always knew that he didn’t fit because he wanted to be a cook. However, he couldn’t take cooking classes because boys had to do woodwork and metalwork. After school, he ended up working in London as a phone exchange trader for a well-known Japanese bank. The job was fun, extremely high-paying, but very toxic. Charting his own pathGordon woke up one morning and decided that he didn’t want to do this anymore. It was not going to be his life. He realized that everything he’d been told for the last 10 years and the investment he’d made in himself was never for him. So that morning, Gordon resigned, and one week later, he arrived in Melbourne and hit a wall. Going against conventionIt took Gordon 10 years to realize that he is not someone who follows convention or tradition. He resolved to do what he wanted and not what other people told him was the norm. Lessons learnedPeople are more interested in who you are not what you arePeople don’t care about what you are; they want to know who you are as a person; they want to know you as an individual first. You could be the best executive coach in the world, but unless you connect with your clients, you are never going to close any deals. Andrew’s takeawaysYou can walk out of any situationYou do not have to live a toxic life; walk out of that situation. You have the power to walk away Shape your life on your own termsYour job is tohttps://myworstinvestmentever.com/ep345-steve-faktor-take-the-risk-and-pursue-your-dreams/ ( shape your life on your own terms). Forget what everyone else is saying. Live the life you want. Actionable adviceActions speak louder than words. There’s nothing wrong with reaching out to people who can help you turn your words into actions. No. 1 goal for the next 12 months.Gordon’s number one goal for the next 12 months is to start building the world’s number one Center of Excellence for post-transplant care for organ transplant patients in Australia. Parting words  “Leave no regrets.” Gordon Jenkins   [spp-transcript]   Connect with Gordon Jenkinshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/businessexecutivecoach/ (LinkedIn)...

Ep. 528 - Karen Gray - Confidence, Mindset & Transparency Coach - Karen from Taxes, speaks about burnout and how to deal with burnout. Karen's Bio: "As a Writer, Life Coach, International Speaker, Non-Profit Volunteer Leader, Former Non-Profit Manager and Financial Advisor, Karen Gray empowers women all over the world to reclaim their confidence and find their voice to pursue their calling and create their best lives. Karen empowers and equips women to dig deep, face their fears, change their mindset and remove limiting beliefs by providing them realistic steps that can be put into action immediately to change their life, future and their legacy. Offering practical, real life strategies and techniques, Karen addresses issues of insecurity, self-awareness, mindset, leadership, control and the balance of boundaries with humility, humor and grace." Karen's Link: https://www.coachkarengray.com/ Latin Podcast Winner 2020 Clubhouse: @angeliavg Facebook: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Instagram: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Merch Line IG: @avgest2020 Website: www.everythingwithange.com Buy me a Coffee: Ko-fi.com/everythingwithange Website: anchor.fm/everythingwithange Send A Voice Message: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/message #applepodcast #latinculture #growinguplatino #latinpodcast #iheartradiopodcast #spotifypodcast #googlepodcasts #podcast #podcasting #torontopodcast #torontotalkshow #podcaster #thecoop #coop #podcast #mindsetcoach #confidence #transparencycoach #burnout #stoptheburnout --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/support

Episode #47:   How do you cultivate a healthy relationship with money?  Bob Wheeler has been tackling this issue and helping people around the world with understanding the emotions that can be tied to the almighty dollar.  With his background of comedy, it lends to a very fun yet thought provoking conversation.  Do you need financial therapy?  How do emotions impact your financial decision-making?  Bob and I dive into those questions and so much more in this interview.  We all have a relationship with money, some good and some bad.  Come join us and see what yours is!Bio:As a man of true integrity with infectious energy, Bob Wheeler’s crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances.  His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions.  Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his book, The Money Nerve: Navigating The Emotions Of Money, his online course, Mastering The Emotions Of Money and his podcast, Money You Should Ask.  While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously pursued his love of satire and ventured into the realm of standup comedy. From his thirty years of helping clients, Bob has distilled a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives that he offers to anyone with financial concerns. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store.  Bob’s world travels have led him to high altitudes. He has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between. With charm and humor, his experiences on the road, in the office, or running a Greek marathon, feed his wit as a stand-up comic and financial motivator.Contact Bob:WebsiteFacebookLinkedInBuy his book

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Papa Bear talks with Enock Glidden about  inspiring people of all abilities totry new things and his work as a Ambassador for Paradox Sports. Enock Glidden (@enockglidden) • Instagram photos and videosBlog | Go Beyond The Fence | Adaptive AdventureParadox Sports – Climbing For AllMr. Glidden's Bio:As a child with Spina Bifida growing up in Patten a small town in northern Maine, Enock had to learn to do things differently than others but with the use of adaptive equipment and help from friends and family, he has had a very full life.Having had the opportunity to experience a lot of things that people with two working legs may not even try, he now resides in Bethel Maine and is an avid skier, rock climber, and participates in many other sports. These sports include tennis, basketball, paragliding and skydiving. Through an internship related to his studies in computer science he was able to travel across the United States and visit some of our most cherished outdoor spaces including many national parks. He culminated his internship experience in California with a 5 day ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.So despite what some may call a setback in life he has made it his mission to inspire others to get out and try things and experience as much in life as they can. Please Visit: Papa Bear Hikes

In this episode, Craig and I discuss the importance of designing a product that can be manufactured, how to choose a contract manufacturer, advice for start-up companies and more. Craig's Bio: As the Head of Project Lifecycle Management at NAGLREITER™, Craig manages the resourcing , performance, and overall customer satisfaction for all client programs including client company management and fundraising, client product specification development, client contract manufacturing, and general client consulting services With over 28 years in the medical device field, Craig's experience ranges from engineering, manufacturing, and clinical surgical expertise to acquisition analysis, financial management, and proven success with startups. Prior to joining NAGLREITER™, Craig was the COO at InNeuroCo where his responsibility for the overall operations included strategic planning, realigning departments to enhance efficiency, and implementing principles to meet customer expectations. Leading up to his role with InNeuroCo, Craig was a founder and General Manager of Interplex Medical responsible for all strategic initiatives including acquisitions, additionally serving as the Vice President of Research & Development heading all engineering services (product design, early stage conceptual activities, process validation testing, leading product development teams, and more). Prior to Interplex, Craig held managing partner and senior engineering roles for IDx Medical and General Dynamics where he was responsible for early stage product assessments, market trend analysis, and improving production efficiencies.

This episode was recorded on 5-08-2020. * * What bottom or life struggle would you like to share with our audience? * Still living in New Zealand in 2007 losing our family home, marriage failed, losing money & investments and only a small part time business, no money...hitting rock bottom. walking out of the family home (since my ex wasn't going to) and leaving my teen kids behind (lowest point ever)-- rebuilding myself after a friend told me that I had created what I was experiencing because of my patterns of thinking and way of being, and all I needed to do was to change those to create something different. * I took this to heart and spent every spare cent on healing practitioners and coaches to do exactly that--change my subconscious belief systems, heal unresolved emotional issues, face fears and insecurities, forgive a bunch of people--and life started to reflect my inner empowerment, my business flourished, I reached financial goals I never thought I could, my relationships became more real and authentic, and I ended up meeting the love of my life in AZ (after leaving NZ after the earthquake in 2011, but that's another story), and now living my dream life in Sedona, AZ. * * Why do you feel that your story would be beneficial for other people to hear? * Until that time unbeknownst to me my past conditioning was running and ruining my life--my marriage, relationships, financial--like it does for many people. It'll give people hope that if they're in tough situations that they can change their lives and create something amazing, by up-leveling their mindset and empowering their consciousness. * Once we operate more from our higher selves than the hurt disempowered inner child, everything changes. That they're the creators of their lives not the victims of circumstance. I'd hope that it would inspire people to start embarking on their journey of healing and greater empowerment, which would benefit not only them, and the people around them, but also ripple out into the world. * * Karoline's Bio: * As a Certified Life Mastery Consultant, Karoline Stevens helps ambitious entrepreneurs achieve their greatest potential. She offers strategies for breakthrough transformation by removing inner blocks, up-leveling mindset and building a clear vision for success; in areas of wealth, health, relationships & lifestyle. * * Connect with Karoline to claim your Complimentary Clarity Session: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karolineste...​ * Email: contact@karolinestevens.com * Websites: http://www.karolinestevens.com​ * https://karolinestevens.lifemasteryco...​ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarolineLife...​ * * Book Suggestion: The Journey by Brandon Bays * Podcast Suggestions: Bossbabe.Inc , Marie Forleo * * Please Help Support My Vision Here: * If you like what I'm doing and creating and have been wondering how you can get involved and help support my vision. Head over to my Patreon page and check out the perks & benefits you receive by becoming a monthly subscriber. You can also learn more about the nonprofit organization that my team and I are building for transitional age youth in my county that are re-entering the community from incarceration. As a subscriber you would be helping to build and support my ability to work on this project full time, while still being able to bring you the engaging content that you enjoy listening to or watching. * https://www.patreon.com/user?u=198599...​ * * If you like the streaming platform that I am using called StreamYard use the link below to sign up with and receive a $10 credit for signing up. I will get a credit as well and that of course will help the show. * StreamYard Affiliate Link: https://streamyard.com?pal=5045291231...​ * * Live-Stream Locations: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowheretogo....​ * YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpit...​ * * Here is where you can find Sean Dustin: * Linktree: * https://linktr.ee/Nowheretogobutup​ * CLUBHOUSE: @seandustin * To support the show through Patreon: * https://www.patreon.com/user?u=19859993​ * You can also tip me through PayPal: * www.paypal.com * recipient: nowheretogobutupnow@gmail.com * The Cash App: * https://cash.app/​ * Recipient: $nwtgbupod * Show Notes Writer: Sean Dustin * *      

This week I am sharing an interview I did with one of the cofounders of Disability Support International (DSI), Jennie Wendland! Jennie's Bio: As a special education teacher, global disability rights advocate, and social entrepreneur, I believe that together we all can and must stand against injustice and inequality that exists in our world today, celebrating the diverse abilities that make our world joyful and 'rich'. As I grew up with a brother with multiple disabilities, spent time working with marginalized and vulnerable populations in Cambodia, taught special education in Alaska, and worked in many different diverse situations, God continued to cultivate my passions and open my eyes and heart toward those with disabilities, who are all too often unseen and unheard in many parts of the world today.

Today Cynthia hosts Christian life coach Alicia Michelle.  They discuss what she found in her Vibrant Christian Living community to be the biggest obstacles to self-care.  In the process, she realized that there were 4 general themes. Cynthia and Alicia Michelle discuss how mindset can change the theme that you may  identify with.  You may see yourself here! Bio: As a Bible teacher and Christian life coach, Alicia Michelle empowers women to cultivate a thriving connection with Christ, renew their thoughts and live a confident, balanced life. Through her signature coaching programs, Bible studies and her training as a certified NeuroCoach™she helps women connect with God, discover calm, balance and enjoy a renewed thought life. Alicia lives with her husband and four kids (ages 18 to 8) in Southern California. Listen to her connect with her on Instagram at @vibrantchristianliving or at VibrantChristianLiving.com. Is it time to make some changes in your life? Do you want to stop the madness and get on track with your health? Maybe coaching is right for you. I've helped many people gain their health back over the years, and would love to talk with you. Just reach out with the link below to get on my schedule. From time to time I have openings for new clients and accept them on a first come first serve basis. Book a Discovery Call

Episode #40: We have two amazing leadership experts on the show today and they bring their A game on the subject. Ben Baker and Claire Chandler are passionate about the subject of leadership and the importance it has for today and for the future. They started a mini-series podcast on the subject and it blossomed into a book. On this episode, they share tips on how to increase your current leadership and how to truly inspire your team. Take your next leadership step by tuning in! Ben's Bio:As the founder of Your Brand Marketing, Ben helps clients understand what makes them special, unique and engaging. For the past 25 years, he has been helping companies communicate internally and developing the next generation of leaders. Through his work, brands tell engaging and meaningful brand stories that elevate and engage employees and compel customers to take action.Contact Ben:LinkedInyourbrandmarketing.comleadersmadehere.com----------------------------------------------------------------------Claire's Bio:Claire helps complex, growing businesses build sustainable, profitable organizations. As the president and founder of Talent Boost, she leverages over 25 years of experience in business leadership, human resources and communications to boost leadership alignment and effectiveness. Through her work, leaders create the replicable confidence that leads to Profitable SWAGGER. Contact Claire:LinkedInclairechandler.netleadersmadehere.comGet a FREE chapter of their book "Leading Beyond a Crisis"

Mysterious and unrecognized symptoms can leave you feeling overwhelmed and confused about what protocols to implement, whom to trust and where to put your resources.Dr. Diane Mueller believes that "there is NO one size fits all in medicine" and that different people respond to different therapies and approaches. She speaks from both experience and education!This episode is packed with practical advice about:-Doctor Hopping-"When to hop and when to stop."-Mindset (Fight) + Action (Heal)-Medical PTSD-Reacting vs. Responding-Decision Fatigue-Pulsating Microbials-Social Isolation-Pathological responses that impact your cortisol levels-Creating a HEALTHY internal dialogue (One of my favorite topics)Since restoring her own health and recovering from neurological Lyme disease she utilizes these insights to help patients that are stuck, confused, and suffering.Her "Super-Power" (or super skill) is that she empowers patients to "ask the right questions." If you can learn to ASK, advocate and implement, you will begin to discover which medical approach is right for you.*Friends, if you pay close attention to this accidental journey, you too can discover super-skills. (Send me a message and tell me about yours. It'll seriously make my day!!! If you tell me your super skill, I'll tell you one of mine!)Bio:As a survivor of Lyme Disease and Mold Illness, Dr. Mueller is passionate about bringing research, understanding, and compassion to those with these diseases. Dr. Mueller holds a dual doctorate, one in naturopathic medicine and a second one in acupuncture and oriental medicine. Her mission is in bringing truth and transparency about the current research, treatment modalities, and clinical insights to her CO and national community.She has co-authored a book that is to be released in May 2021 called Use Your Mind to Heal Your Mold and Lyme. Her practice, the Medicine With Heart Clinic, treats those around the country. She also co-owns an online functional medicine school the Medicine With Heart Institute, where she trains clinicians around the world in functional medicine.Connect With My Guest:-Guest Links:Get a free copy of the book: (link)https://mwh.thrivecart.com/book/Clinic Link: (link)Medicinewithheart.com-To Book Free 30 Minute Consult:(link)https://medicinewithheart.com/discovery-consultation-Clinician Functional Medicine Certification:(link)Mindbodyfunctionalmedicine.com-Text "book info" to 720-722-1143 to get a free copy of the e-book for the first two days of the launch!Sponsors:Envita Medical Center: A Center of Excellence for Personalized Oncology and Lyme Disease Treatment located in Scottsdale, AZ. At Envita they have discovered a revolutionary solution for patients to help improve their quality of life.Link: (link) https://www.envita.com/aboutMedical Bill Gurus The experts at Medical Bill Gurus are dedicated to innovative solutions for any medical billing scenario. Their patient advocates are available to help reduce medical bills and assist patients with navigating a dynamic health landscape. They take pride in speaking with patients every day and helping them find guidance on how to navigate our broken healthcare system.Link: (link) https://www.medicalbillgurus.com/Urbane Medical A boutique ketamine infusion center located in Scottsdale, AZ. Who specializes in a "hospitable" environment rather than a hospital environment. Ketamine can promote a sense of wellbeing, decreases brain fog, and reduce chronic nerve pain.Link: (link) https://urbanemedical.com/Little Bite, BIG TROUBLE A Bird's Eye View of Chronic Lyme Disease. This winsome children's book articulates the complexities of parenting with a chronic illness. It gives families a deeper understanding of invisible disabilities and why their lives, households, and daily activities might look different from their friends.Link: (link)https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bite-BIG-Trouble-Birds-Eye/dp/0692599819Connect with Lyme Voice:(link) https://lymevoice.com/Instagram: @LymeVoiceFacebook: Lyme VoiceSarah Schlichte Sanchez: Sanchezsmile@gmail.com

Bio:As a person who has been in the corporate financial industry for 20 years, Tina Collura knows what it means to climb the corporate ladder, work incredibly long hours (which includes a 4 hour a day commute) and missing out on precious moments with her family. In January 2019, she felt like everything was crashing down on her, and that breakdown lead her to her greatest breakthrough! It was time to focus on achieving her perfect day, instead of chasing after the perfect corporate title.In 2009, Tina received her coaching certification from the Quantum Success Coaching Academy and hasn't looked back! Using her experience as both a people and project manager, Tina blends those skills to coach and motivate others to live their life with purpose, balance and a focus on positivity. Her energy, passion and commitment to growth has been integral to helping her clients successfully achieve their goals.Tina's Coaching Company is called “See Yourself Grow” was established in 2009. She has been a successful coach since 2005! Certified with the Quantum Success Coaching Academy.Tina was just named as one of the 500 people featured on the Brainz Magazine 500 Global list of 2020! For her outstanding Entrepreneurial Work and Coaching Processes! She shares this list with people like• Mel Robbins,• Elon Musk,• Simon Sinek and• Kamala Harris..just to name a fewSubscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Sticher | Buzz sproutClick here to get Tina's great offer: https://soniaclark.com/tina-collura/Check out: https://www.soniaclark.com/episode/  for more podcast info and Giveaways

Gary chats this week with Angelo DeTorres, one of the owners of Steps Dance Studio, and a real estate investor. Why are we talking dance on this show? Health, wealth and everything in between. Dance was introduced into Angelo’s life at a young age, but didn’t turn back to it for 15 years, after an ACL injury cancelled his NBA dreams. His passion for dance was reignited at a chance encounter in Cuba. Angelo had moved from the Philippines to Toronto, and got involved with Steps Dance Studio as a customer as a way to express himself, then ended up co-owning the business! Angelo relays experiences of seeing seniors dancers prolong their lives with movement! And, how his dance partner became his life partner, with two kids! WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Who recommended that Angelo read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” He was working at Bell, Steps and real estate investing How his growing family played into his lifestyle choices Why in 2016 he decided to leave 9-5 and what it was like His first house was $286,000 and he still owns it What the steps were to transition from 9-5 to full time entrepreneur From 500 members to 50 due to the pandemic What the lockdown has done to his business, how he stayed resilient and kept moving forward How they’ve moved business at Steps to go fully virtual, and were the first studio to do so They have daily courses online They got some members back before the 2nd lockdown How they will create online courses to allow people to learn 24/7 How he’s repurposed his dance space during the pandemic His feelings on Big Box stores vs small retailers and service providers Why he initially ignored dance and what he would tell his younger self And MORE! Angelo’s Bio As a co-owner of Steps Dance Studio, Angelo is a full time instructor, choreographer and performer. He is currently managing all of the Steps performance teams, and is choreographing for couples as well as competitors. Angelo is a professional competitor having won the Canada Salsa and Bachata Congress as well as the Chim Pum Callao Salsa Congress in the professional Bachata division. He also coaches and competes in Pro-Am showcase and heated divisions at local and international Congresses.  Angelo has trained with multiple world-renowned artists such as Tito Ortos, Tamara Livolsi, Anya Katsevman, Billy Fajardo, Katie Marlow, Nelson Flores, Adriano Ieropoli, Samantha Scali, Grupo Alafia and Raul Santiago. He has completed the Salsa Certification course with Tito Ortos in both 2017 and 2018. Angelo has taught and performed with the Steps Professional team in various Salsa Congresses and events including Mambo Nights in Bermuda, the New York Salsa Congress, Hustle & Salsa Festival in Puerto Rico, the Montreal Salsa Convention, the Canada Salsa & Bachata Congress, the International Hustle & Salsa Competition in Miami and the Ottawa Salsa Congress.  His love for Latin dance is reflected in his teaching technique. He is truly passionate about sharing his knowledge and in return seeing growth and advancement in his students.  
Website/contact info for guest Web: https://www.stepsdancestudio.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StepsDanceStudioToronto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stepsdancestudiotoronto/ Please a leave a review, as it helps Gary understand if he’s bringing on the right guests that you want to hear from! Interested in learning more about Real Estate Investing? Visit https://www.smarthomechoice.ca To learn more about Gary’s mentorship program, visit https://garyhibbert.ca

In this episode we talk to Eric Edmeades who is the founder of WILDFIT. We take a look back through Eric's life, which is fascinating, and weave our way through how he got fascinated with human psychology and behavioural change, the first time he met Tony Robbins and then the path to creating WILDFIT due to his own personal struggles with his health.Eric's Bio As well as being the founder of the fast-growing health coaching company, WildFit, I am an internationally recognized business speaker and serial entrepreneur.I enjoy helping people scale their businesses while also improving their overall quality of life. I do this through compelling keynotes, intensive training programs, blogging, and online training programs.I am a true serial entrepreneur having owned businesses in a variety of industries including mobile computing, medical simulation, augmented reality gaming, 3D camera engineering, and Hollywood special effects, where I had the privilege of working on Hollywood blockbusters like Avatar and movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, and Iron Man franchises.Today, I am focused on business education. As the founder of BusinessFreedom.com and the developer of Inception Marketing™, I travel the world hosting business and marketing education programs, speaking at business conferences and providing executive coaching and business mentoring services.My talks are designed to get entrepreneurs on the road to real business freedom; owning businesses that give them both the financial freedom and flexibility to spend more time on what really matters; their families, their health, and their lives.I also run exclusive retreats and adventure programs including WildFest and the famous See You At The Top leadership program that involves summiting Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak. I live in the Carribean where I spend a great deal of time kitesurfing, walking on the beach and spending time with my young daughter.WILDFIT LinksWebsite Instagram FaceBookYouTubePinterstWILDFIT CoachingErics Links Website InstagramFaceBookTwitterLinkedInYouTubeOur Courses WILDFIT CoachingRecovering from Ground Zero CourseEssential 8 Finding Your WhyCoaching

Tim Davis's Bio: * As recovering addict and alcoholic with 13.5 years sober now. When I hit several bottoms, and finally got tired of digging deeper. Been sober since 2007 and have gone on to accomplish things I never imagined in sobriety. I got a Masters degree because my 2 oldest sons "trolled" me about it. I have completed 12 Ironman triathlons, over 50 ultramarathons, and seven 100-mile endurance runs. I recently wrote about about my journey called TRIPOLAR: The Story of a Bipolar Triathlete, which I'd like to talk about on your podcast, if that is okay with you. I've been on over 25 podcasts in the last several months as my "virtual book tour" due to the pandemic. Also, I have been a high school science teacher and coach for over 20 years now, though I did take a few years off in my mid to late 20s while I bounced in and out of several rehabs. * Tim's Book: TRIPOLAR: The Story of a Bipolar Triathlete * Tim's Website: https://ultratimdavis.com/ * Tim's Social Media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tripolar_tim/ * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultratimdavis * https://www.facebook.com/ultratimdavis1 * Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultratimdavis1 * Tim's Book & Podcast Suggestions: * Book: Born to Run * Podcast's: The Brave & Crazy! * Right? * * Here is where you can find me: * Linktree: * https://linktr.ee/Nowheretogobutup * To support the show through Patreon: * https://www.patreon.com/user?u=19859993 * You can also tip me through PayPal: * www.paypal.com * recipient: nowheretogobutupnow@gmail.com * The Cash App: * $nwtgbupod * Show Notes Writer: Sean Dustin * *

Bio As the Government Services Administration’s Public Building Services Commissioner, he manages the nationwide asset management, design, construction, leasing, building management and disposal of approximately 371 million square feet of government-owned and leased space across the United States and six...

Bio:As a veteran, former first responder and motivational speaker, I capture the hearts of my audiences with my story of moving from trauma and burnout to triumph and overcoming obstacles. My passion for my work came from my own experience working in various first responder roles throughout my life and witnessing how traumatic events can leave a draining impact on one's mental and physical well-being.  My passion ignites my mission to ensure that every individual, including first responders has the tools to prevent and manage operational stress, PTSD, compassion fatigue and burnout. In 2014, I wrote my first book “Eye of the Storm: Personal Commitment to Managing Symptoms of PTSD”.  A book that shared......(click here to find out more, and get Jacqueline's great offer: https://soniaclark.com/jacqueline-buckley/)Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Sticher | Buzz sproutCheck out: https://www.soniaclark.com/episode/  for more podcast info and Giveaways

In this episode, we were lucky enough to have Dr. Nicholas Zyromski (https://twitter.com/nzyromski) give us a masterclass on pancreatitis. We go over classification and then go through a host of controversial topics: endoscopic management, percutaneous drainage, antibiotics, nutrition, and surgical management. Don't forget to check out Dr. Zyromski's music, including "P-Blues"! Links: 1. Nicholas Zyromski on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3H9y3W3B8a2K7SGAXgzNB6 2. Atlanta Criteria: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.2016150097 3. John Howard: https://bulletin.facs.org/2019/05/john-m-howard-a-pioneer-in-vascular-trauma-and-pancreatic-surgery/#:~:text=Howard%20was%20known%20for%20his,of%20pancreatitis%20and%20pancreatic%20cancer. 4. Thomas Howard “As Good As it Gets” editorial: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1877065/ 5. Transgastric Pancreatic debridement video: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11605-019-04375-x 6. Prospective Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying Ineffective Deep Vein Thrombosis Prophylaxis in Necrotizing Pancreatitis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33039510/ 7. Endoscopic management of pancreatic ascites due to duct disruption following acute necrotizing pancreatitis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgh3.12113 Dr. Zyromski's Bio: As a gastrointestinal surgeon with a specialty in pancreas and hepatobiliary surgery, a substantial portion of my clinical practice involves caring for patients with GI and HPB malignancy. My major interest within this sub discipline is pancreatic disease. In this context, my research goals are two: 1. Clinical research: To continue to expand and build upon an already active clinical research program within the pancreatic service. Current efforts include collaboration within the Department of Surgery pancreatic surgery group evaluating methods to improve technical considerations in surgery for pancreatic cancer as well as retrospective clinical studies utilizing lndiana Universlty's large volume of pancreatic cancer patients. Future directions include prospective randomized trials, evaluating optimal management for patients with pancreatic cancer including anticoagulation in the setting of superior mesenteric vein/portal venous resection. 2. Basic science research: The fundamental platform of my basic science laboratory program is to evaluate pancreatic disease in the context of obesity. Obesity is epidemic in America in 2007 and has been shown to be an independent risk factor both for developing severe acute pancreatitis as well as for developing pancreatic cancer. Over the past year, in efforts to get my laboratory program up and running, I have focused on the pancreatitis arm. The big picture, however, also includes the study of pancreatic cancer. This fall we have experiments planned to investigate the mechanisms by which obesity may potentiate the development of pancreatic cancer in our well-established murine model of congenital obesity. As both arms of this laboratory program mature , the ultimate goal is to provide translational application.

This week I chatted to Marissa Saroca. I met Marissa this year during an online zoom acting class and we instantly became friends. We chatted about her journey as a performer, body image and representations in film and TV, keeping inspired and creating your own work and of course her very exciting booking in RENT and some fun rapid fire questions. So, grab a coffee and enjoy! :) BIO: As a professional singer/musician for most of her life, Marissa Saroca has two independent original albums (Cheaper Than Therapy and Boys Write Love Songs Too), was on Team Lea (Salonga) of season one of The Voice of the Philippines, two ABC Newcastle Music Awards for Best Female Vocals, and an extensive recording, coaching, and live performance career. In 2006 she was in her first musical RENT, with her third reprisal of ‘Maureen’ in 2017 earning her a CONDA nomination (City of Newcastle Drama Awards). She has played roles including ‘Gabriella’ (HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL) and was part of the development workshop of new work BETWEEN WORLDS, which was performed at the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) by a professional cast. Marissa was in the ensemble for the musicals GHOST and SHREK on the Philippine professional stage and her first play was for Knock And Run Theatre’s AJAX IN IRAQ in 2018, followed by THE PLASTIC BEACH at the Newcastle Fringe Festival in 2019. Marissa is currently in pre-production for her third original album, and will be playing ‘The Arbiter’ in the musical CHESS at Civic Theatre Newcastle in late February 2021, starring David Harris and Silvie Palladino as Anatoly and Florence. Marissa is the proud daughter of a Filipino immigrant and is excited for a future of more diverse representation and accessibility within the industry. She is an active member of Musicians Australia (MEAA). Marissa honours Awabakal and Worimi Land where she was born, grew up on, and is currently living. Always Was, Always Will Be. Instagram: @marissasaroca

Deborah Herbert's Bio: As a former Visual Arts Educator, consultant and trainer, my philosophical approach to my art is much the same as my teaching….I never stop learning, exploring and experimenting! The Equine form has always held great spiritual significance to me, it's beauty and grace is perhaps unsurpassed in nature save for the human form. They have much in common. To render them truthfully….their mystery, power, gentleness, strength and spirituality are the qualities I strive to portray! 1975 Faculty Scholar Graduate of Florida Atlantic University BFA with K-12 Teaching Certification 1994 Masters Degree in Educational Leadership w/Honors Nova Southeastern Alumni Honors Award Winner --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We’ve all heard of work-life balance, and it’s the thing we are supposedly longing to attain. But given how one’s typical day actually unfolds, is that even possible? And if it was, is it something we actually desire?  Listen in as host, Laura, dives into a different way of thinking with guest, Keith Campagna, who is on a mission to introduce the idea of Lifework Integration to others. “It’s the free-flowing exchange of ideas and energy between life and work,” he explains. Through his personal journey – from an often on-the-road sales guy, husband, and father of two boys, Keith found himself in a nearly 180° changed situation! His wife left him, he took on a new job that allowed him to be home with his boys and pay his bills… and found himself immersed in a deep examination of his life, work, and dreams.    With a background in music, he applied a basic truth about stress and creation to his study of how life, work, satisfaction, and creativity all come together. He explains that musical instruments have to be put under a certain degree of stress in order to actually produce the music that moves us.    The same principal can be at work in our lives, and in fact is more likely to produce a life we are actively engaged in, finding fulfillment, and feeling creatively alive. It doesn’t just happen, however; there’s a process involved, and Keith has the tools to help others through it.  Listen in as Keith and Laura explore life, work, creativity, the idea that COVID is an opportunity reframe everything, the concept of money as energy, what it means to be ‘in flow,’ and why we proclaim “Here there be dragons…” when we reach of point of turning back.  Keith’s Bio As the Chief Sales Officer at The ROI Shop, Keith Campagna spends his time talking with Sales Executives, sales leaders, sales professionals, and sales enablers inside companies of all shapes and sizes. Since 2006, Keith has sold "software as a service" on behalf of globally recognized companies such as ADP and SAP Concur. Keith's primary focus is on growing the 8-year-old, ROI Shop.  At a time when "no-decision" is every sales organization's #1 competitor and selling "value" is most sales rep's #1 challenge, The ROI Shop's value calculators make it easy for sellers to have financial discussions with their buyer champions.   Keith keeps busy as a single father of two boys, 12 & 13, and he is also building out his passion project, called "Lifework Integration."  Lifework Integration is a progressive employee development program helping CEOs, Sales and HR leaders, as well as anyone else turn stress into a competitive advantage.  Resources and Connections:  Keith on LinkedIn  Keith online  Talk to Keith  The ROI Shop Learn from Napoleon Hill Learn from Dr. Joe Dispenza Learn from Dale Carnegie Learn from Deepak Chopra  Flow Flow Book  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Erin Washington joins me to discuss her battle with bulimia, anorexia and depression led to her finding her voice and purpose to help others with her book Squats and Margaritas and her podcast with the same title.BIO: As a mom of two small children, juggling workouts, playdates and happy hours, Erin Washington subscribes to the philosophy of living life with balance. The former D1 collegiate athlete who struggled with body image and eating disorders for 20 years, finally found true happiness and got in the best shape of her life at 37, after having two kids.WEB: https://www.squatsandmargaritas.com/If you want go from feeling hopeless to hopeful, lonely to connected and like a burden to a blessing, then go to 1-on-1 coaching, go to www.thrivewithleo.com. Let’s get to tomorrow, together. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline800-273-TALK [800-273-8255]1-800-SUICIDE [800-784-2433]Teen Line (Los Angeles)800-852-8336The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Youth Hotline)866-488-7386National Domestic Violence Hotline800-799-SAFE [800-799-7233]Crisis Text LineText "Connect" to 741741 in the USALifeline Chathttps://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/International Suicide Resources: https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/https://www.nowmattersnow.org/skills

In this unique episode of What’s The Difference, you’ll hear audio from Sara Taylor’s recent guest appearance on the Undeclared podcast. Undeclared is a higher education marketing podcast hosted by Allison Lanier and Scott Fogleman from Up&Up, a branding and marketing agency focused exclusively on the unique challenges and needs of colleges and universities. Scott and Allison speak with Sara about the importance of diverse, equitable and inclusive marketing in the higher education space, and how it plays a key role in creating a welcoming and safe environment for students of all backgrounds. Allison Lanier’s Bio: As a Business Development Manager for Up&Up, Allison Lanier brings her experience in sales leadership and execution from past employers such as Verizon Wireless and PepsiCo. At Up&Up, she uses her passion for people to create a positive, effective, and rewarding campaign experience for the West Sales Region. Allison is our resident mud lover and spends most of her free time at obstacle course races with her husband, David. They also enjoy various outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, geocaching, and Pokemon hunting. Scott Fogleman’s Bio: Scott Fogleman is The Director of Business Development for Up&Up and he brings together his passions for the creative world and the impact education has on students. After graduating from Clemson University, he began his career in advertising sales at The Wall Street Journal, followed most recently by a successful sales career with SYNNEX Corporation managing the Google Brand inclusive of Chrome Education. Scott’s passion for higher education began during his time with Clemson’s Undergraduate Student Government and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. At Up&Up, he leads the East Sales Region with a mission to impact change by bringing strong, positive, executable campaigns to his clients and their constituents. Outside of work, Scott takes full advantage of the wonders of the outdoors ranging from hiking, water sports, snow skiing, photography, concerts, as well as lawn care (yes, he actually loves to cut grass)! Scott also enjoys spending time with his wife, Kate, their cat George, and friends and family. Sara Taylor’s Bio: Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She served as a leadership and diversity specialist at the University of Minnesota for five years and as director of diversity and inclusion for Ramsey County, Minnesota for three years. Sara is the founder and president of deepSEE Consulting and has worked with companies as large as Coca-Cola, General Mills, 3M Company, AARP, and numerous others. She has a new book, “Filter Shift: How Effective People See the World,” that explores how our unconscious is actually making choices and decisions for us, all without our knowing — and how to change that. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Why Sara and her team at deepSEE Consulting define diversity as “differences that make a difference” What unconscious bias is and how, of the millions of pieces of information we take in every second, we are only conscious of around 40 of them Why bias isn’t just about negative feelings toward marginalized groups but also includes positive feelings toward dominant groups What the five stages of cultural competence are and how each stage affects our ability to navigate difference How Sara helps people overcome feelings of self-consciousness over their unconscious biases and move forward How diversity can be included in marketing in an authentic and effective way, and what organizations should avoid doing Why diversity alone isn’t enough to improve productivity, and why a team’s cultural competence makes a big difference Why developing cultural competence is a process that starts with your own subconscious bias first How to best deal with situations in which people push back against diversity and inclusion work, and why commonality is the key Why equality isn’t the same as equity, and how doing the work can impact all aspects of an organization Resources: Website: www.theundeclaredpodcast.com Website: www.upandup.agency Email: contact@upandup.agency Scott Fogleman’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/foglemanscott Allison Lanier’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allison-lanier Facebook: www.facebook.com/upandupagency Twitter: https://twitter.com/upandupagency @upandupagency Additional resources: Website: www.deepseeconsulting.com Twitter: @deepseesara

MLOps community meetup #39! Last week we talked to Ivan Nardini, Customer Engineer at SAS, about Operationalize Open Source Models with SAS Open Model Manager. // Abstract: Analytics are Open. According to their nature, Open Source technologies allows an agile development of the models, but it results difficult to put them in production. The goal of SAS is supporting customers in operationalize analytics In this meetup, I present SAS Open Model Manager, a containerized Modelops tool that accelerates deployment processes and, once in production, allows monitoring your models (SAS and Open Source). // Bio: As a member of Pre-Sales CI & Analytics Support Team, I'm specialized in ModelOps and Decisioning. I've been involved in operationalizing analytics using different Open Source technologies in a variety of industries. My focus is on providing solutions to deploy, monitor and govern models in production and optimize business decisions processes. To reach this goal, I work with software technologies (SAS Viya platform, Container, CI/CD tools) and Cloud (AWS). //Other Links you can check Ivan on: https://medium.com/@ivannardini ----------- Connect With Us ✌️------------- Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Ivan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-nardiniDescription Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro to Ivan Nardini 3:41 - Operationalize Open Source Models with SAS Open Model Manager slide 4:21 - Agenda 5:01 - What is ModelOps and what is the difference between MLOps and ModelOps? 6:19 - "Do I look like an expert?" Ivan's Background 7:12 - Why ModelOps? 7:20 - Operationalizing Analytics 8:12 - Operationalizing Analytics: SAS 9:08 - Operationalizing Analytics: Customer 11:36 - What's a model for you? 12:07 - Hidden Complexity in ML Systems 12:52 - Hidden Complexity in ML Systems: Business Prospective 14:12 - Hidden Complexity in ML Systems: IT Prospective 17:12 - One of the hardest things is Security? 17:52 - Hidden Complexity in ML Systems: Analytics Prospective 19:20 - Why ModelOps? 20:09 - ModelOps technologies Map 22:29 - Customers ModelOps Maturity over Technology Propensity. MLOps Maturity vs. Technology Propensity 26:23 - Show us your Analytical Models 26:56 - SAS can support you to ship them in production providing Governance and Decisioning. 27:28 - When you talk to people, is there something that you feel like there is a unified model, but focusing on the wrong thing? 29:14 - Have you seen Reproducibility and Governance? 30:47 - Advertising Time 30:55 - Operationalize Open Source Models with SAS Open Model Manager 31:02 - ModelOps with SAS 32:06 - SAS Open Model Manager 33:18 - Demo 33:27 - SAS Model Ops Architecture - Classification Model 35:02 - Model Demo: Credit Scoring Business Application 50:20 - Take Homes 50:24 - Operationalize Analytics 50:32 - Model Lifecycle Effort Side 51:20 - Business Value Side 51:47 - Typical Analytics Operationalization Graph 52:18 - Analytics Operationalization with ModelOps Graph 53:18 - Is this for everybody?

Wow - what is this now? An anti-financial plan? That's right! Join me and our guest, Chris Miles, for a lively discussion on what an anti-financial plan is and how shifting your mindset away from the more traditional approaches to money management can lead you into an early retirement. Chris highlights very interesting points of contrast from how people believe they can achieve wealth in comparison to those that have already done it. Listen along to learn what these misconceptions are, if you're thinking like a gambler vs an investor, and most importantly, how to find your success far sooner than you may realize is possible. Asset: Diversifying is a key passion for Chris, although he shares how selecting your assets is really an important personal decision and preference. Today's conversation touches on assets from single family homes, multifamily, to even oil & gas. Process: How do you retire early? Chris shares a step-by-step process of where to start to have the goal transform into your reality. Strategy: While investors have different goals, an ideal strategy, especially for early retirement, comes down to a focus on growth or cash flow. Listen along to learn how to diversify well to accomplish both. Hungry to learn more? Visit www.ellieperlman.com/training for a variety of resources to help you grow your knowledge and chart your own course in real estate investing. Chris' Bio: As founder of Money Ripples, host of The Chris Miles Money Show, and co-author of the book Entrepreneur on Fire, Chris Miles is a leading authority on quickly creating wealth by increasing monthly cash flow and creating passive income. He has shown hundreds of thousands internationally how to free up or generate tens of thousands of dollars each year! Chris has been featured in US News, CNN Money, and Bankrate.com and has a reputation for getting his clients fast, proven results. Many of his clients have the option to retire in less than 5-10 years, and Chris himself was able to retire twice by age 39! Chris’s passion is helping entrepreneurs, and high-income employees become financially prosperous by finding and fixing their money leaks and creating passive income. Chris and his family live in Utah, but enjoy escaping to warmer weather during the winter months. In addition to helping his clients increase their cash flow, Chris is a talented ballroom dancer, choreographed ballroom dance routines for Utah Valley University, and got 5th place in his third grade spelling bee. How to Contact Chris: Website: www.moneyripples.com Podcast: The Chris Miles Money Show

How a dentist can improve your sleep, breathing, and more If you have perfect sleep, NEVER mouth breathe, and have excellent tongue posture, then you can skip this post.  But if you are like the rest of us, no doubt you or your clients struggle in one or many of these areas.  What if all of these issues were related to the structure of your mouth? That's why I interviewed Dr. Brian Hockel, a dentist who I work with personally, and a leading expert in the field of dentistry and airway orthodontics. [caption id="attachment_12956" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The legend![/caption] In this podcast, you'll learn: How facial structure can impact breathing and tongue position Why a CPAP doesn't really fix sleep apnea How a well-trained dentist can improve mouth position to enhance your sleep and breathing How occlusion, tooth contact, may not be the exact science that people make it out to be What you need to look for to find a dentist who can best help your sleep and breathing If the health of your airway is important to you and you want to get your sleep on fleek, then you need to check out this interview. You can watch the interview here. Learn more about Dr. Brian Hockel His website: Life Dental & Orthodontics His practice is located in Walnut Creek, CA 64598. Bio As a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry in 1989, Dr. Hockel is a general dentist in private practice with a focus on orthodontics that aims to prevent or treat airway problems like sleep apnea. He aims for more permanent solutions to Airway-Friendly Smiles, going beyond the dental oral appliance approach, often having to reverse previous orthodontic treatments. He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of facial growth guidance, orthotropic, and airway orthodontics, and is an orthodontic instructor for the Academy of Airway and Gnathologic Orthopedics (AAGO). He is also co-founder of the Team Airway Study Club, a co-founder and board member of the North American Association of Facial Orthotropics, and a board member of the AAGO. Show notes Here are links to things mentioned in the interview: Joe Cicinelli - He is our mutual physical therapy colleague, and a dear friend. ALF - A lightwire appliance that is often used when there is cranial dysfunction present DNA - An appliance that aims to expand the palate in multiple directions. It's akin to the Invisalign of palatal expansion AGGA - An appliance that is used for sagittal palate expansion A Randomized Crossover Trial Evaluating Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Versus Mandibular Advancement Device on Health Outcomes in Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - A neat study that positively affected PTSD symptoms by targeting sleep. Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome Patients Have Worse Sleep Quality Compared to Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea - If you have never heard of UARS, then this is a must-read Bruxism: A Literature Review - An excellent in-depth article on all things bruxism, grinding, clenching, and more. Modified Transcripts The difference between conventional dentistry and airway dentistry Dr. Hockel: I think a lot of it has to do with the understanding of how we get to where we are and what the underlying causes are of some of the problems that we're dealing with. And then the connections to what we're doing in the orthodontic world, the orthopedic world. By that I mean if you understand that our growth really affects our function, especially of the airway but certainly of the jaw joints and of the bite, how those relate to each other? if someone says “we are the way we are because of our genes; we're just going to grow.” “This is a set shape to the skull, a set position for the jaws and it is what it is and make the teeth fit within that confine of the skeleton.” That's going to lead you to a very definite approach in orthodontics.  As opposed to the belief that the way we posture our mouths and the way we use the muscles of our mouth and head and neck, that's going to affect how our face grows at a young age. Then as an adult, it's going to affect the function of the airway, again of the joints and that maybe if we look for the underlying causes and address them, we can have other successes beyond just getting the teeth to fit.  So it's looking beyond how the teeth fit together and looking at the overall structure; jaws, airway.  It turns out that the roof of the mouth is the floor of the nose. The nasal airways are our next-door neighbor that way going up and the oropharyngeal airway is right behind the tongue. We're always looking at the back of the throat but we don't recognize that that's where the air has to go to be able to breathe. So there are neighbors in the dental world and it turns out that the things we do affect them. Zac: It's a lot more than making a pretty smile in terms of the impact that you can have on someone's health and well-being.  What kind of implications or negative things have you seen from people who don't respect that? We've spoken before having this conversation about some people who are just doing retractable orthodontics which maybe you can talk about. They're just pulling teeth so things can fit and the smile can look nice.  What are some of the implications of not taking into consideration the structure of the face? Dr. Hockel: It might be an overstatement to say that most orthodontists are focused on just making the teeth pretty because obviously there's a lot of science that goes into how we try to make the teeth fit. Jaw joints and even airway are in the conversation, though the latter seems to be lip service.   The best way to answer your question would be to use a term that was coined by Dr. Bill Hang in Southern California, he calls it ERRS (extraction retraction regret syndrome). He purposely called it errs because it's based on the answer to your question, what are the errors that we've been forced to live with? The first is kind of an aesthetic one where people don't like the way they look and with a lot of traditional orthodontics. There's a feeling like maybe the teeth are further back in the face than they should be or the lips seem sunken in or thin. There might be a feeling like the face has lengthened after orthodontic treatment has been done.  Then there's the whole functional side and this includes, both the airway and the jaw joints and also includes the bite, of course, the way the teeth fit together can be affected by that. How we chew and how we breathe, they can go hand in hand. If you bring teeth too far back in the face, the tongue doesn't have enough room, the chewing motions of the jaws can be affected and of course, the dimensions of the oropharyngeal airway can be affected. People who live with this for a long time and have been told this or that thing is all in your head and you just need to learn to deal with that.   [caption id="attachment_12855" align="alignnone" width="810"] How embarassing[/caption] We who work in the orthodontic profession may be saying your bite is fine, everything fits together, it meets every possible standard that or criteria that I could have treated it to. So whatever you're not happy with, it's not what I did and maybe I did treat to the best standard of care that's out there.  But we're learning now that there are things beyond what we've been held to and by ourselves and others and what we try to achieve that have really profound and far-reaching effects that we weren't even aware of. Zac: I mean you just think of this area of the body, you have most of your sensory systems there. There's a lot of prime real estate that could potentially be influenced in one direction or the other.  It's intriguing that you're saying the wide-ranging effects that can happen on this. I remember a study I read years ago about people who had PTSD. They put an appliance in the person's mouth as treatment in this randomized control trial and it had a profound impact on symptoms. We can have large substantial changes on someone's health and well-being by affecting this area of the body in the way that you're talking about.  Now you weren't always into the airway side of things so in your career what led to you appreciating this side of dentistry more? Dr. Hockel: I think it was contact with doctors like Bill Hang and John Mew.  John Mew is an orthodontist in the UK who for many years developed treatments that were based on what he called the tropic premise. That was the belief that the jaws are going to grow to the position that they most commonly adopt, so keep your jaws closed, pointed forward they're going to grow forward. Keep them apart, pointed away from each other they're going to grow away from each other. It turns out that the treatments he was doing to get the face to grow to what was a better proportion, more aesthetically pleasing result; it was also making a difference with the airway.  Initially, he didn't really even realize this so he's one of these people that looked at the results of what he was doing and actually saw something really good. There were a lot of us that looked at the results of what we were doing with more traditional methods and saw that we weren't doing things that were good. Bill Hang, who I already mentioned, is probably the biggest influence on how I've been able to connect the dots between the airway and what we do in the orthodontic and orthopedic world.  I thought I had every answer that I needed at one point and I suppose sometimes we get that state of pride in our careers. At first it can be unnerving to learn something new but then you can get to a point where you're kind of in a zone, you feel comfortable and I felt like I had a tool to treat pretty much every type of bite problem that I could come across. It was right then that Bill Hang dropped into my life and taught me to look at things in a very different way that included growth direction, growth guidance, developing more space for the tongue, looking at the oral posture. Especially looking at what was happening with the airway and how things affected that. Like most of the people who've heard Bill Hang, there was some of it that I readily accepted and other things I was skeptical about. I had to go home and think “I don't know if he's really right about what he says about the herbst appliance” for example. I'm going to go home and look at my cases a little more critically and I just shook my head as he was right. There were things going on that I didn't want to have going on right under my nose because I wasn't paying attention to it. So now my attitude is “just don't cause any harm, don't do anything that's going to make anything worse.” “And if you're doing something that has made other people worse and you're not sure if it's going to make this person in front of you worse, just don't do it,” it's the safest thing to do. Zac:  Yeah and I imagine too if you're not taking into consideration things like oral posture airway and things like that just because of how important respiration is. You could have wide-ranging effects of doing harm that you didn't know you were doing. Dr. Hockel: Right or at least miss the opportunity to do good, to me that's just as bad; if I had an opportunity to do something a lot better for someone and I missed the chance, I don't like that. Zac: Was that hard for you to have that kind of paradigm shift? Dr. Hockel: Yeah my wife would tell you, I was in a very difficult mental state during those years. It was a big paradigm shift and very emotional and around that time we had a lot of little kids around the house. It's hard to realize your professional foundation isn't as solid as you thought it was. I knew however, that  I needed to keep growing and learning; not being foolish to where I thought I knew it all.  Zac: Yeah, that's when you know you need to retire or quit.  What types of patients would benefit from airway orthodontics Dr. Hockel: I think the people that search me out know that there are important ramifications of the types of treatment we do in orthodontics and in growth guidance. And they don't want something bad to happen to their kids or they're an adult that has already seen something that happened to themselves.  We talked about extraction retraction regret syndrome and there's either an emotional component or an aesthetic component, more often I see the functional component. People will come wanting to know what they can do to improve their situation as an adult and some of them might come very bitter about what was done with them in orthodontics. It's unfortunate because the person who treated them was only treating what the standard of care was at that time and they probably did a very good job.  [caption id="attachment_13014" align="alignnone" width="500"] Making kids unhappy in more ways than one since 1960 (Photo credit: Orthodontist101)[/caption] I don't see too many people who were treated by an orthodontist who did a bad job; they were just doing it with a very different philosophy of how to treat and why to treat. So there are the moms with the kids that want them to grow right, that's a group of people who have young kids and they want to catch them as early as possible.  The earlier we get to kids the better.  I'd rather get kids at six days old and talk to the parents at that point. Make sure there's no tongue tie, make sure you're breastfeeding as long as you can, try to switch to solid food as early as you can, and the whole concept of baby-led weaning. Take away bottles, pacifiers, and sippy cups.  So it's not classic orthodontics to talk to a parent about their child when they're that young. And yet, if they follow what advice I'm giving them, it can help minimize what I might have to do later on. I think the goal would be for us to really find as far upstream as we can go to find the causes that can be addressed so that we don't have to treat them at the stage where we are. Even at age four and five when I'm treating a child that young in a way, it'd be better if I could have got them earlier. Tongue ties Zac: It seems like even the concept of having your child have a tongue-tie release is very controversial. I read stuff on the internet all the time where it's like “oh, we don't need to do that” and it's unfortunate because it can definitely negatively impact things like breastfeeding and things of that nature.  Let's say I have a kid and I say “Dr. Hockel, do unto this child what we can do to minimize any negative effects,” where would you start? Dr. Hockel:  Well those things that I just tossed off a little bit of a list when they handed me that little scissors to cut the umbilical cord in the delivery room for my kids. I look back on it now and think I probably should have just looked around like lifted their tongue going “okay, I'll just do that first!  Tongue ties can affect speech and growth. When they're really bad and a lactation consultant picks it up and says you're not able to breastfeed because of the tongue tie, they deal with it. Or if a speech pathologist says your child can't make those sounds because he's tongue-tied, they deal with it. But there's a wide range of restricted mobility of the tongue that can come before you ever have any of those kinds of troubles and it does affect the tongue posture.  There's research that's being done now by Souresh Zaghi, but it's going to take time to build the evidence body. They showed at Stanford that when you have a tongue tie, there's a correlation with narrow palates, and it kind of makes sense, it's common sense. The tongue is the scaffold of the palate so if it isn't able to posture up against the palate, how is it going to grow wide and up and forward? It's going to tend to be narrow and down and back. While we cannot expect adults who get a tongue tie release to grow differently, we do know that the muscles of the head and neck can be in better balance with good oral posture.  I'm not an expert in cranial osteopathy but I'm told that the cranial bone and the balance of how they fit together and move, you know cranial bones move right? [caption id="attachment_12694" align="aligncenter" width="329"] Now I got the loosest tongue in the game...wait....[/caption] Zac: Haha yes I do! Dr. Hockel:  Some adults will report some wide-ranging improvements of symptoms and you got to be careful about that. Because they'll tell their story on the internet and somebody else thinks “oh if I go get my tongue-tie release, all my troubles are going to go away.”  It is controversial probably because there's such a wide range of techniques in doing it. Back in the day, I got my laser in 1999 and I thought “oh, there's a tongue-tie, I'll just release that tongue-tie with my laser” and it's like getting a lightsaber on Star Wars. There's no bleeding and all of a sudden the tongue can just elevate really easily.  Mainly, all I was treating was that flap of tissue on the outside not knowing that there were deeper fibers that of fascia or even the mylohyoid going deeper that needed to be dealt with. Then the scar tissue would come because I wasn't having them do exercises afterward and the scar tissue ends up restricting the tongue down even more than it was before.  Doing it the wrong way is oftentimes going to make things worse and not any better at all so the data points that people have to compare to are very limited. The unfortunate thing is we currently lack a body of knowledge out there of training. It's changing slowly because people know improvement when they feel it. You can't put an idea in somebody's head that effectively after I do this all of a sudden you're just going to imagine that you have a tension release in your whole head and neck area. They're going to tell you stuff like that or you see a child who has a tongue tie and you get a certain growth direction improvement. Then don't treat the tongue tie and you see the growth direction tend to drop back, that's kind of the lost opportunity side of it.  You want to get everything going in your favor for optimal mouth posture. Facial underdevelopment Zac: Now if you have someone who was breastfed, had a tongue tie release, did myofunctional therapy, addressed nasal patency, do you see a reduced need for orthodontic services down the line? Or do you think that our altered cranial shapes are generational? Dr. Hockel:  If I had seen that happen here or there, that's such a small number of patients, it's really anecdotal and there's confirmation bias. I'm not sure how valuable that would be, I do know that I see patients who were breastfed very early on and their parents follow Westin Price. They feed them really well and try to avoid sugar and stuff, they avoid bottles and pacifiers, avoid milk, avoid wheat and they seem to be doing all the right things. Yet there are still issues there so there's so much that we don't understand about it. I feel like we're just at the tip of an iceberg and we're doing our best, we know certain things do affect it and we're trying to change those but we don't know everything.  I can sympathize with the mother who says that “I've done all this, what else do I need to do?” Well, sell everything you own, give it to the poor and then maybe… I don't know. Zac: It's hard, especially in health and wellness. You want people to do everything right. They eat healthily, they're sleeping and they're doing all of this, but sometimes there are genetic factors, epigenetic factors, and exposomal factors outside of your control that are the rate-limiting steps. It's unfortunate. But life's not fair either so I get that.  Airway orthodontics for children Dr. Hockel:  Orthotropics can be used for kids in a particular age range. There's a narrow window because orthotropics is growth guidance, and if you're trying to guide growth you need growth to be able to guide.  There are actually a couple of different windows where you can do it but for practical reasons, it tends to be a better fit somewhere in the 7-10 age range. In England, they'll say eight is too late, but in America, we tend to do it at nine or ten as well. The older you get, the less growth there is and the less cooperation there is to be able to do what's required for the treatment. So guiding growth and starting at that age; say seven or eight, you want to look at how the face is growing.  You want to look at imaging to see how the airway might be restricted. Although you can't diagnose from imaging, it's a glimpse into what's going on in the nasal airway, the oropharyngeal airway, and tongue posture sometimes.  Then you look at obviously orthodontic issues like how the teeth are fitting together, and how the jaws are fitting. If the jaws have not grown as far forward as they should and there's an oral posture issue, those are two things you can consider affecting at that age. Younger than that age, it's harder to make a change with how the jaws are growing with appliances and postural changes, and after age 11 or 12 it's very difficult, so during those middle years is prime time for treatment.   I had two boys in my office yesterday morning. Both of their faces were tending to grow more downward and backward than they should, and I always say “welcome to our world.” That's all of us to one degree or another much more so than our ancestors a few hundred years ago.  I looked at their imaging, teeth, questionnaires, and my notes from their exam and I thought I think they could really benefit from just simply widening out the dental arches. This would give their tongue and teeth more room. Then releasing the tongue tie could really help oral posture. Then I got their sleep studies. Both boys had overnight sleep studies and had sleep apnea at over 11 events an hour. For a child that's severe. For you and me it'd be 32, 35 or 40 times an hour (normal is less than 5 per hour). When I saw that, the scale was tipped WAY in favor of orthotropics.  Meaning it'd be worth the cost, the time, and the hassle if the parents and the patients were candidates for it.  Cooperation both by the child and by the family is so much a part of orthotropics. It's not like any other treatments that we do. Lack of family support, discipline, or money are all factors to consider.   What I like to do is look at what are the problems; what are this family's capabilities and desires and then what's possible from a technical point of view. How can I put all that together in a way that's going to be a win-win and get a good result?  [caption id="attachment_13015" align="alignnone" width="810"] Yeah, let's discuss airway later honey. (Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay)[/caption] Had it been a family that came in where the kids were climbing up and down the chairs in the room, they weren't listening to me at all when I talked to them. The mom's on her phone trying to carry on a conversation at the same time talking to the dad who doesn't live with them and is trying to tell him “don't worry, I'll bring them over;” you know just a lot of other challenges in life for a situation like that. Even though I knew it would make a big difference for them, I wouldn't even mention the word orthotropics because it's going to be frustrating and in the end, not a fruitful endeavor.  Airway Orthodontics for adults Dr. Hockel: Let's assume there's an airway problem, have sleep-disordered breathing, and don't want to be on a CPAP for the rest of their life. What are the options? Although everyone is different,  there are a lot of commonalities. The three general approaches are: CPAP [caption id="attachment_13016" align="alignnone" width="800"] It saves lives, fam! (photo credit: myupchar)[/caption] Dr. Hockel: The first is to push harder on the air going into the airway. That's the CPAP option and usually, there's kind of an x through that option, but for a lot of people, it is a realistic option. If those boys from earlier had severe sleep apnea, I told them “you need to follow the doctor's recommendation.” CPAP is a viable first aid option. Whenever we do growth guidance, changes in the skeletal structure aren't going to have an effect overnight, so just get some good sleep and get healthy in the meantime. Oral appliances Dr. Hockel: Option two would be to open the airway temporarily at night time, and that's effectively what the dental appliances do.  When you see dentists or orthodontists talking about how they treat sleep apnea, generally it's because they make appliances like this. There are over 200 different FDA approved designs for the appliances so there are lots of ways to try something and not be happy and then try something else and not be happy.  Or you get a good fit, if somebody really knows what they're doing and making these appliances, they look at other things beyond just the appliance itself then they can be effective too. They have their place; everything has advantages and disadvantages and the big advantage of an oral appliance is you don't have to be married to this machine on the bedside table. You're not dependent on electricity, you could bring it with you when you travel a lot easier, it's less bulk in the mouth, it's not as unromantic as having this thing strapped around your head.  It's got downsides too and that is it's not really fixing the underlying problem, it's not addressing the structural underlying problem for most people. The other downside is that it's anchoring a lot of force, pulling the lower jaw forward on the upper teeth. So there tends to be a reciprocal effect on the upper jaw of pulling it backward and over time that can allow for changes in the bite, how the teeth fit together or even on the jaws themselves.  It may not be the end-all be-all for many years for everyone although there are people who've gone many years and have not had bite changes, but you just don't know if you're going to be that one. It helps with cardiovascular effects with sleep apnea which cpap does not. Zac: Why is that? Dr. Hockel:  They don't know. Zac:  It is so interesting. Dr. Hockel:  It is. Zac: Because they say CPAP will save lives right, but if you're not getting the cardio protective effects... Dr. Hockel:  When my dad heard that he said “what should I just give up on my CPAP?” I said, “no dad breathing is important, you need to be able to breathe and without that, you might stop breathing in your sleep.” “You will stop breathing and that's not a good thing,” but it's kind of artificial breathing, forcing the air in and out. And the parts of the brain that control your breathing are like “all, right don't need us anymore” and may become less responsive over time, but I don't understand the physiology of it completely. I know that it's better than not breathing and it does save lives when it works, but the compliance goes way down after six months or so and for a lot of different reasons. Feeling claustrophobic, drying out the airway if it's not humidifying it, restriction of movement in bed just the hassle of wearing it, the feel of it on the face, a lot of reasons why people might not want to wear it. For them, the dental appliance might be a good alternative and it's got the added bonus that it turns out it does help with the cardiovascular effect. Zac: Is it effective in severe sleep apnea? Dr. Hockel:  It can be. Medical doctors will often tell you if you're over 30 on your AHI, the score of how severe the sleep apnea is, you should be on a CPAP. But if you're under 30, you can try an appliance.  However, my friend Pat McBride has treated more people than I know using appliances like this, including a lot of people with very severe sleep apnea, and she's been very successful at it so I think a lot of it has to do with the skill of the person making the appliance and how they adjust it. It has to do with what else they do in addition to it: do they work on vitamin D levels? Nutrition? Overall body markers? Breathing mode? Are they lip taping? Is the nasal airway clear?  There's a lot else that can go into it; the tongue-tie for some people can make a difference, so it can be a part of a good regimen for some people, but then there's that risk of the bite changing.  Change the airway structure Dr. Hockel: Option three is to structurally open the airway; do something so that the airway is able to be more open by changing the structure around the airway. Ear nose and throat doctors do the same thing with different types of nasoseptal surgery or reduction of turbinates or any number of things there.  But what we do in the dental world is either move teeth to a different position to allow more room for the tongue to come forward out of the way of the airway or work with an oral surgeon who's able to move the jaws themselves into a more optimal position.  So in both of those cases, you're trying to change the underlying structure. They have the potential of being a more definitive change to the airway but they're also more involved. Going through orthodontics takes time and going through double jaw surgery, first of all, it has to be done right and a lot of times it isn't as effective as it should be, but even when it's done right it's still an expensive and invasive procedure. Everything has pros and cons.  In our world, we ask what can we do to change the shape of the jaws? Either by moving teeth or by moving the bones of the jaws. Zac: I appreciate you listing out those options because I want people to know that if you do have some type of sleep issue. Like I had a guy reach out to me where he's like “I got my CPAP and my numbers are good according to my doctor, I don't need to do anything else,” it's like it depends right? If we're just looking at pure symptom management you're probably okay but if you want to fix the underlying structural issues maybe we do need to go down a different pathway. Using oral appliances and orthodontics to improve the airway Zac: So there are some people who would argue that they're creating bone growth with some appliances versus you're saying moving teeth. What is the underlying physiological way that an appliance like I have (Crozat) works and what is likely not happening? Dr. Hockel: It's a good question and it's a hard one that I don't have a fully comprehensive answer to, but I'll tell you what my thinking is on it today. Bill Hang calls it the alphabet soup appliances; we've got the AGGA, DNA, ALF, and all these different types of appliances that are out there. Zac: And they're all three or four letters, just like in our industry! Dr. Hockel:  Right, yeah pretty much yeah so but like you say claims are being made about the growth of the jaws and I'm skeptical of that in the way they make it sound. When you move teeth, you don't just move teeth, you move the teeth and you move the bone around the teeth. Technically, that alveolar bone is part of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. So yes you're expanding the jaw by moving the teeth, but you're not really expanding the jaw when you think about the basal bone, the roof of the mouth, the hard palate.  In a child, you can much more dramatically change the shapes of the jaws. You can apply to pull forward force with something that touches the chin and the forehead and rubber bands come forward out of the mouth and attach to that reverse pull headgear. Not like the old headgear that pulled things backward but a reverse pull headgear at the right age can bring the whole upper jaw forward; that's moving the base of the jaw.  I think the bottom line is most of the time for adults; it's not a huge order of magnitude in terms of the growth changes.  Now you're going the right direction if you keep your tongue on your palate, you push it up there and help your oral posture. Maybe you're going to slow the worsening of it.  You're going the right direction if you expand both side to side and somewhat forward with any appliance; I mean to a certain degree if someone can get it done with an appliance that's different from the one I use then great. I think as practitioners we get better with specific appliances by using them a lot. We learn the idiosyncrasies of them and it probably makes sense for practitioners to stick with tools that they are proficient with.  But on the other hand, I think there are some tools out there that don't accomplish the same thing even though a lot of times the people who use those appliances are talking about them accomplishing the same thing. For example, I'm asked a lot of the time what about the ALF appliance? Derrick Nordstrom developed this appliance from the Crozat, which was a lightwire appliance, just not as light of a wire as the ALF.   He wanted to develop an appliance that was cranial compatible because he was looking at what was happening with the movement of the head bones. He found that with certain adjustments of the wires in the mouth, he could help the mouth posture and encourage the mouth posture to help develop the jaws themselves. It's a way of letting the body's healing potential come out on its own to help the body do the healing from within. As a pure mechanical tooth moving device, it's probably not as efficient. I know it's not as efficient as other appliances would be, but it's not really fair to compare the two. Because the objectives that a good ALF practitioner is going to have are cranial stability and health; likely working together with an osteopath. They're doing very different things than somebody like I am is doing. I'm trying to accomplish larger-scale changes in either lateral arch development or forward arch development by advancing front teeth. As for something like the anterior growth guidance appliance (AGGA), the claim is that it's stimulating the growth center of the premaxilla, that with that pressure behind the upper front of the jaw there that now the maxilla is going to grow further forward. I have yet to see either case, research or x-rays, where that kind of growth could be anything more than dental alveolar changes. A dental alveolar, meaning the teeth and the bone around them moving, and I think they're going in the right direction. I love to see the changes in advancing the front teeth with those kinds of appliances, but my question is what do you do after that? What about the side-to-side expansion? What about the lower jaw position? There's more to it than just bringing the upper front teeth forward. I think that's a good direction to go in. Do I think it's something that's happening with the epigenetic change now and activating the bone growth genes to grow? I don't know enough to say that it's not; I'll just say that I haven't seen the cases that have shown me the kind of bone growth that is making that kind of a claim. It's a very different order of magnitude of change compared to what you would do with orthognathic surgery, where you may be going forward 18 millimeters and able to change the whole plane of the occlusion at the same time. The ALF crowd would say, “but that's completely destroying the cranial mechanism,” now the bones are frozen and unable to move as they should. I'm not going to say that they're wrong about that. I don't know enough to say when they are and when they aren't, the osteopaths I know will say, “Yeah they shut down for a period of time, but they work their way back to normal. There's this inherent healing potential the body has and that it's worth it to be able to get the kinds of changes in the structural airway that you would get.  However, picking the appliance you want to use for yourself is like telling your contractor he should use a Craftsman hammer. What do you know about the appliances? The consumer really is in a worse position than we are as professionals. We're going to lectures and hearing pro other experts talk about these things, it's confusing for us to try to piece together what's really going on. So for the consumer to be able to do that same thing and say, “well based on what this person said I want their results, so I want you to use this particular Craftsman hammer.”  On the other hand, the consumer could say, “well to me the osteopathic angle is the highest priority and I want to work with an osteopath,” and so in the hands of that practitioner, the ALF appliance might be the best thing to achieve those goals. Zac: It's just funny because we have the same issue in the movement industry. You have these people who are in these different camps and systems, all three or four letters.  But the tools themselves are irrelevant, it just depends on what you're objectively trying to achieve.  I actually really like how you broke it up into different camps because this was one thing that I wanted to talk to you about a little bit. You have Alf, which is more cranial osteoporosis driven, you have the Crozat which I have in right now, which is more airway focused? Dr. Hockel: Well no, the Crozat started out as something that osteopaths like to do. In my dad's book, Orthopedic Gnathology, is the best textbook out there on the Crozat.    The idea was that it was developing the potential that was there and the growth, both for the kids and for the adults and they knew there was an effect on the airway, not to the degree we know it now. There's a whole chapter in that book on cranial osteopathy and the pictures that are in that book are used in almost every cranial osteopathic lecture that I've gone to because they're well done. So the thinking by the osteopaths with Crozats was that they were also very cranial compatible. I'm not one to say how to compare Crozats versus the ALFS, but I know Derek Nordstrom's position as the very light biomimetic forces seem to be more cranial compatible. The Crozats to me having a larger body wire on them are more effective at getting transverse arch development, especially in the back in a more defined time period. An ALF practitioner will often go much longer periods of time than we would be comfortable in the orthodontic world wanting to have someone commit to. The objectives of the end of the treatment aren't what are focused on; it's more the journey along the way. Let's do the tweaking we need to do now, see if that's getting you going in the right direction and then nine years later maybe we're still doing the same tweaking and your bite is nowhere near fitting together. We've been looking at the symptoms and the cranial situation, it can go in a direction like that and maybe it's helping people, I'm not going to say it's not; it's just not what I do. I can't comment on it, except to say that I want to have a more defined period of time to accomplish certain objectives and in my world, I can do that. The Crozat is a common tool that I'll use, the sagittal designed by Bill Hang has been a very effective tool, as well as different kinds of other expansion screw appliances. They're different approaches depending on what you want to do and it's really hard to say, “I want this appliance.”  The most important thing would be to say what it is you want as a result of your treatment? People say, “Well can you use the ALF appliance to do what you want to do with that particular appliance?” I'll say, “yeah I could use my kids watercolor brush to paint that whole wall over there too,” it's not the most efficient way to do it, give me a roller and I'll just go like that and there it's painted. I think certain things can be done in other people's hands if that's the way they choose to do it. How to seek better dental care Dr. Hockel: That's a really hard question because what job do they want to have done? What's their goal?  I think if I could rephrase your question it might be “how could I help people know whether they're seeing a practitioner?” Who's going to do things that are not going in the wrong direction for the airway and sometimes for the jaw joint? Better yet, that they're going to be focused on ways that they can help improve the airway and there are other people around the country and around the world that focus on this and we all have our different approaches, but that's okay! I think asking questions like:  “If you have a child and the front teeth seem to be a little bit ahead of the upper than they are on the lower, what would be your favorite way to try to correct that kind of a bite problem?”  I can tell you that almost all the time the solution is going to be some type of mechanics that's going to end up pulling the uppers backward to a certain degree. We'll conceptualize in our mind that the appliance we're using is bringing the whole lower jaw forward, but that's a really hard thing to do. So dentists end up using things to pull teeth back. Back in the old days, it was headgear, now it might be the Herbst, the twin block, or the Carrier appliance, it could be the Invisalign with attachments on the side that brings the lower jaw forward. It could be class two elastics rubber bands going from the top to the bottom. There are all kinds of things: twin force bite correctors, jasper jumper. They've invented all these different things because it's the most common malocclusion, the class 2 malocclusion. [caption id="attachment_12200" align="alignnone" width="472"] #overrated (Photo credit: Rjmedink)[/caption] I won't say it's where the lower is too far back and I won't say where the upper is too far forward. I'll say where both jaws are too far back, but the lower is further too far back than the upper. So to do something that's going to pull it back even more is going further in the wrong direction, and it's not following the best principle which is do no harm.  So if you found an orthodontist that had a way of leaving those upper front teeth where they were, not pulling them back and consciously trying to hold them where they are and do something to compensate for it with the lower, you have somebody who is really on the right track. For an adult when there's a big discrepancy between the upper and lower like that there really aren't a lot of things that they can do. I have a patient who went to a local department head of orthodontics in the local dental school because her dentist had told her before he did porcelain veneers that she really should just get her bite fixed, which was a class II malocclusion.   They recommended that she take out two teeth on the upper and just pull the upper front teeth back to match the lower teeth, a very common way of fixing it that's been done for many years for many people around the world. It's considered the standard of care in many ways, but she felt that everything went downhill for after that: diabetes, hair falling out, she got atrial fib and more. She remembers having dreams while her front teeth were being pulled back of choking.  So she thought that this is probably affecting my airway health, my sleep, and my breathing. This is all on her own, from her own research, and she told her doctor, “you need to do a sleep study for me,” it turned out she had sleep apnea. Then she was recommended to have laser surgery from the back of her tongue to reduce the size of her tongue. They recommended double jaw surgery to bring the jaws forward; of course, there was CPAP, which she wasn't able to tolerate. She attributes all of this to pulling the upper teeth backward. Reversing that for her opening up that space again and eliminated the sleep apnea!  Her hair didn't grow back, but she felt overall so much better and people report little things that they notice along the way when you reverse that kind of extraction orthodontics. Our experience of patients reporting what negative things they went through, the extraction retraction, regret syndrome stuff, in her case it was functional, but it became emotional and aesthetic too. She didn't like how her face looked with those teeth further back. People generally look better when you bring the teeth forward. Their lips look fuller; they aren't sunken behind a line between their nose and their chin.  She's a good example of an overjet problem. When people have this they have an overjet problem, but they call it overbite. Zac: Just so people have that definition and I know this is not correct. It's when the top part the top teeth appear to be further forward than the bottom teeth even though from a facial structure standpoint that's not the case, versus an underjet, commonly misnamed an underbite would be the reverse of that where the lower teeth appear further forward than the upper teeth even though both are back. [caption id="attachment_13017" align="aligncenter" width="255"] Overjet is front to back, overbite is top down (chrome spinnin') (photo credit: Nielson2000)[/caption] Dr. Hockel: Yeah exactly, even though both are back that's the key, you see people with these really big chins, they're probably too far back. Zac: Like Jay Leno? Dr. Hockel: Like Jay Leno, his chin is actually not too far forward, if you put an outline on his face and make a comparison to the ideal. You'd see that it's really mainly the upper jaw that needs to be more forward and his lower if anything is slightly back. [caption id="attachment_13018" align="aligncenter" width="272"] HE HAS AN UNDERDEVELOPED JAW?!?!?!?! (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] Zac: Gosh could you imagine if he worked with you, he would have the most prominent chin. Dr. Hockel: No he'd have a balanced face because we get the whole midface further forward. He probably has sleep apnea as a result because his tongue must have nowhere to go. You see in his smile, it's a very narrow upper arch. Poor celebrities getting diagnosed by us dentists all the time on TV. Another thing to ask a practitioner is: Do they think that there are times when it's worth taking teeth out and pulling front teeth backward? Are there cases they think that can be helpful for?  If they say yes, I would probably just go somewhere else because if it's okay for an exception it's probably okay as a general rule. I'll tell you, the last time I took a tooth out and pulled things back it was when somebody had five lower incisors. Zac: Normally there are four. Dr. Hockel: There are four, so taking one out and pulling them together now we're just right back to where a normal set of teeth would be. Although there's a case to be made for leaving that tooth in there, allowing the lower arch to be that much bigger and then just making the upper fit bigger over the top of it. That would be a question to ask you:  How do they know if there's an airway problem?  If your medical doctor has told you have sleep apnea then I know you have an airway problem and you might want to ask:  Is sleep apnea the only kind of breathing disorder that you address? What are the ways that you address it? If they say yes, that's the main kind of disorder we treat and we treat it using appliances that bring your lower jaw forward. Well on the diagnostic side, if sleep apnea is the main thing that's being treated they might be missing something that's even more prevalent than sleep apnea and that's upper airway resistance. It's a whole side to sleep breathing disorders that get missed for kids, for thin, fit adults; people like you or women especially. It isn't always apneas, although the sleep medical doctor I was talking to yesterday was telling me if you score the sleep study the right way you'll see the apnea is there. It's just not things that would be traditionally called an apnea, so finding upper airway resistance as a potential confounding factor of these patients who have problems is important.  I think for the dental practitioner either working with a medical doctor who knows what they're doing with this or maybe helping the patient get the sleep study yourself. Another important question to ask would be:  If they are finding the upper airway resistance, then what are the ways that you try to treat it? Are they doing expansion arch development, getting the tongue more room, and working with a myofunctional therapist, in either their office or somewhere else to try to optimize the oral posture? If that's not a part of what they do to try to treat it then they're probably not as deep into this rabbit hole as they should be, because that's at the outer rim of the rabbit hole. That's the basics: create more room for the tongue however you're going to do it, don't close spaces generalized.  You could ask them: If my child has a lot of gaps between his teeth, how would you tend to treat that? And whether you do it with Invisalign or braces or whatever to take spacing between teeth and close all that spacing up? You're talking about a friend who had a bunch of missing teeth, when people have missing teeth the jaws don't develop to the size they should. If you just close all the spacing where there were teeth missing the tongue is going to have much less room to fit into, it's going to go back toward the airway and there's going to be a risk for sleep apnea, so that's another combo. Zac: The big things are you want are: Moving teeth forward and outward Prioritizes expansion Appreciation of sleep disorders Focus on attaining palatal tongue posture and adequate lip posture Utilizes myofunctional therapy Dr. Hockel: Yeah it's the tongue posture and the lip posture: lips together at rest all the time breathing through the nose and the teeth either together or in near contact. so lips together, teeth together, and tongue to the roof of the mouth; those are the three things posturally that a good myofunctional therapist is going to work towards. Keeping Our Wisdom Teeth Zac: Now I want to talk a little bit about getting teeth pulled, the ones that I'm going to bring up of course are the ones that are old remnants from caveman days, wisdom teeth. I was recommended by a practitioner to get mine pulled out, I didn't get them pulled out when I was 18, I actually pulled them out in my late 20s. The reason why I got mine pulled out was because I had no lateral jaw movement. Are there instances in which you should have wisdom teeth pulled out? Dr. Hockel: In the ideal world we would not have to take wisdom teeth out. In the ideal world, our jaws would be further forward and we would all look way better than we look now.  In the ideal world, our airways would be massively open, we'd be breathing through our nose, and our muscles would be much stronger to support that.  We're not in an ideal world, so taking wisdom teeth out now it's not the best way to go, and our hope in developing more forward growth of the jaws is that there would be room for them, but sometimes there just isn't room for them. Sometimes they're at crazy angles and you really don't have much of a choice. I don't tend to focus too much on the wisdom tooth issue. As much as I'd like everyone to have 32 teeth in position with the way they should, once the growth is done (age 12-14), there's not as much that can be done to make a difference in how much room they have or whether they come in. In my family, my dad tended to have us just keep them in our mouth and he didn't want to take the wisdom teeth out. So I still have all four of mine, I've got all 32 teeth and occlusion, but it's still somewhat tight on space back there. I think it's the case that when you leave them in you tend to get more growth of the jaw. I can't prove this and I don't know if there's research to show this.  I've had a lot of kids where they'll come in and maybe the general dentist has said take the wisdom teeth out I'm looking at them thinking, “you know what there might be room. You're only 18, go another seven years let's see how you grow.” I think that there's more and better jaw growth as a result of those wisdom teeth being there. We know that people like your friend with missing teeth get less jaw growth; why wouldn't having extra teeth back there help encourage more jaw growth?  At the same time, as an adult, if you're wisdom teeth are sideways pointing forward, now it's a liability for the bone integrity around the back of that molar in front of it better not to take that chance. I know that there's a discussion of meridians attached to different teeth and I'm not an expert in that. People might tell you if you lose that tooth that's going to affect some other part of the body, that may be true, but I'm just not sure what the best compromise is. I'd rather not lose that second molar in front of it by having more bone loss there, and I'd rather just lose the wisdom tooth. Zac: Yeah because I think in my case, mine were pointing straight forward at least on the lowers. Dr. Hockel: There probably was nothing that could be done to try to straighten them yeah and even if you went and did heroic orthodontics to try to move them up then where are they going to go? There's no space back there. Occlusion Zac: When I was first getting exposed to this even being a thing because in PT school, we never talked about when you need to refer to sleep apnea or how teeth influence things or anything. My anatomy is still lackluster up here; what is occlusion? Is it from your perspective an important thing that we need to consider? I know that they make appliances to alter occlusion, if you could just give a little overview of that I think that would be amazing. Dr. Hockel: Sure, that's kind of where I started, I was a senior in high school and my dad said “I bet you could earn more making teeth than you could slicing salami at the deli where you're working, why don't you give it a try?” I was like sure, I don't know what it really involves but that was my start in dentistry. I was working as a dental technician doing full mouth reconstruction. We call it wax up where you create and wax how the teeth should fit together, upper and lower, and it's a very precise scheme of how the teeth should fit. Gnathology was where I came from and people who are in dentistry would know they're kind of different camps of different types of occlusions and gnathology is the one that really raised the bar for how teeth should fit together.  There were certain principles you always tried to follow with it, and as a dental technician and as an early years in practice as a dentist, I focused a lot on the occlusion of my patients and trying to get the bite right. Gnathology means trying to get the bite right, but it turns out that some of the things we do to try to get the bite to fit right can work against the bigger picture. So I'm not against looking at how the occlusion fits and trying to be as precise with it as you can, but that's a tree. And if you don't see the forest, then you're way down a side path that's going to be very distracting.  We'd always try to get the canines to touch each other to guide the jaw as it moves side to side. It's called canine guidance, and the thinking is that there's enough leverage this far forward in the jaw to separate the back teeth as the muscles are chewing side to side. It's got leverage against the muscles way back here if the molars right next to the muscles that are chewing are the ones that are mainly hitting when you go side to side, it's much stronger bite forces and it's a risk for wear or for the fracturing of the teeth.  The idea was the front teeth protect the back teeth and the back teeth protect the front teeth; when you close, the back teeth should touch stopping the closing motion of the jaw. When you move side to side, the front teeth should touch so that you can bite through things and so that you separate the back teeth in those other positions. All this works great if you have jaws in a face that's in the right position so that now the joint is in a favorable condition and the airway is in a favorable condition.  If you have jaws that are somewhat too far back, take the case of my patient who had the bicuspids extracted and the front teeth pulled back. They did that partly because it looks better but mostly because we're just taught that's how teeth should fit together; the front teeth should fit with overbite and overjet. Also close contact or maybe slightly away so that they can slide against each other to separate the back teeth during the chewing movements. The problem is her jaws were already too far back and by pulling front teeth backward to meet against the lowers for the sake of what we disclusion, the best functioning of the teeth against each other. It can be making things worse for the airway, it can also be making things worse for the jaw joint when front teeth are brought back so that you have that contact which in the gnathological occlusal philosophy you want to have. Then it can tend to cramp the style of the joint, the whole lower jaw can be held in a position that's too far back. That was one of the things in the early years of learning about the airway is how do I mix this with my occlusion...I won't say beliefs, but it's almost like beliefs. There's no research to show that this kind of occlusion is better than that kind of occlusion. Even class one, ever since Edward Angle the father of modern orthodontics came up with his ways of putting a bite together and one of them is the molars need to fit like this what we call class one. There's no research to show that that's any better functionally or any other way than any other kind of occlusion. So yeah I had to balance how do I mix gnathology with the airway, and I think that you always put the airway first.  Michael Gelb has termed this ‘airway centric;' instead of having a centric relation which is what his dad and my dad and I would all be worried about. How do you make the teeth fit together when the jaws are in their center position? That would be the best connection of the two. The tooth home is the same as the bone home and they just work in coordination with each other. Well, maybe the bone home is pathologic, maybe there's something about that bone home that isn't right. Because maybe the lower jaw and maybe the upper jaw belongs further forward for the sake of the airway or for the sake of the function of the joint if the little disc gets displaced, then the lower jaw might need to be further forward.  If we do things with the bite, the occlusion, that works against that, the results are never going to be what they should be.  Another philosophy of occlusion might be to go to where the muscles in there are in their most relaxed or harmonious state and make the teeth fit there. Here again, in any philosophy of occlusion, if you're not looking at the airway function, you might be going down the wrong path. Zac: It's funny you mentioned Michael Gelb because that was the first appliance that I was exposed to. I wore it because we were trying to improve my jaw motion, and I definitely got some interesting changes within my body. Dr. Hockel: His dad Harold Gelb is the one who developed the appliance. It allows the bite to open and it allows you a lot of times to bring the lower jaw forward a little bit, which can decompress the joints. It can be good for a TMJ appliance and without knowing it, it was sometimes also helping the airway. Zac: Yeah, but it's also doing so without necessarily affecting the airway dimensions or the health of the airway, whereas it may be affecting other areas like you said the TMJ. Dr. Hockel: There are some people that when you put a thickness between the teeth, the lower jaw rotates as the lower jaw opens, it goes backward. There are some people that put a thickness between their teeth like that and it can make the airway worse, it'll make them grind their teeth even more so it isn't the same for everyone. Zac: Interesting, because they definitely said it would be bringing my jaw down and forward.  An analogy in my domain is shoe orthotics. Sometimes, shoewear is something that we can use to influence someone's movement versus not. I've had people where we've put them in really supportive shoes and have a completely undesirable outcome from a movement perspective versus someone having those same shoes doing very well. It's just funny how you kind of have the same thing. Dr. Hockel:  We call them the same thing; you call it an orthotic, we call it an orthotic. Dental pathology. Zac: There are a lot of other pathological processes that some people may be dealing with. Like people who have gum recession or crowns or veneers; I don't know much about this. Sometimes I'm sure that my clients and people are getting exposed to these things, how does that influence and play a role in the airway health? Tooth implants Dr. Hockel: Well you didn't mention implants. If somebody's thinking about getting an implant, but they also think they may have bite or jaw position or airway problems, they've got to be analyzed and diagnosed really completely first from the big picture before putting in an implant. Because once an implant's in, it's not going to move ever; it's just going to stay right where it is. I've had patients where I've had to do a lot of expansion of the arches and just leave the implant where it was. So in the end, the implants are like way over here toward the inside and sometimes you can work with it and just kind of warp a tooth out to where everything else is and leave it. But I've had other people where the implant has to be taken out and then put back in or another crazy way I've done it before is to have an oral surgeon just create corticotomies. Cut around the bone where the implant is and then I'll make an appliance so that after I've expanded everything else, he just cuts the bone around that section where the implant's sitting and then moves it out into the position where it belongs. Then we just let the bone heal there. Don't do an implant until you know where it's going to need to end up. I saw someone yesterday that's going to need one for an upper front tooth and their front teeth may need to be in a different position. I'd rather catch them now and say just don't do anything until it's in the right place.  Gum recession Recession is the gums moving down the root of the tooth exposing some of the roots, and it's generally a function of some bone loss around the tooth as well. It's not a good thing, but you don't look at any gravestone and see recession as a cause of death, it's usually not even a cause of death of an individual tooth even when there's a lot of recession. It's the bone between the teeth that tends to hold the teeth in really well so it's not a crazy bad thing if somebody does have some recession. Having said that, you'd rather not have recession. So we look now at ways of expanding the upper jaw for example, that the base of the upper jaw will expand skeletally so that the teeth don't have to be moved in a way that might risk recession.  Of course, there are procedures the periodontists can do to help minimize it or add bone back to those areas, different kinds of bone grafting procedures. It's sometimes a necessary evil. But it's often a sign that something's going wrong functionally with the tongue and the tongue space. You'll see people whose teeth don't even meet together in the front and they have recession. It's not from heavy bite forces or clenching or grinding on the teeth that caused it which is one cause of recession; it's like if you take a fence post and shakes it, the dirt kind of moves away and you're going to lose the support down where it's coming out of the ground. If the bite is putting forces on the teeth up where it comes out of the ground at the gum line, the bone may be getting lost and the gums may be receding. That would be like shaking the fence post but in the analogy another thing that happens you get a cow that comes up to the fence post and just leans against it all day long. That can also make it come loose and lose the support down below. That's the tongue on the inside without enough room putting constant force against teeth either forward toward the front teeth, sideways toward the back teeth and sometimes recession is the tongue's fault and the tongue just not having enough room.  We've been talking about the airway and when you don't have enough room for the tongue, you often want to make more room for the tongue so that the airway can be healthy. But making more room for the tongue might be important to try to prevent further recession when there's already been recession. Zac: Have you ever seen a case where you improve tongue positioning and you give the tongue enough shape where you've had a positive change in gum recession? Because I think with Wolf's law you might be able to get some bony adaptation. Dr. Hockel: No I can't. What I have seen is sometimes if there's a little recession in the front and you bring front teeth forward, it just from the way that it's moving through the tissue, the recession seems to look a little bit better. Other times the recession just follows it along; I don't know if there's really a pattern to when you're going to keep it or see it get worse.  For some people it will get a little worse, it's a risk of any orthodontics you could have some recession, but grafting is a possibility and trying to do things that avoid that. Moving slowly, lighter forces, and getting the tongue in balance too; get the tongue enough room so it's not going to be putting pressure on the teeth as well. Crowns and veneers Dr. Hockel: Those are the world of restorative dentistry and

Bio: As the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Seema Verma oversees a $1 trillion budget, representing 26% of the total federal budget, and administers health coverage programs for more than 130 million Americans. She was nominated by President Trump on November 29, 2016 – the seventh nomination by the President-elect – and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 13, 2017. This year, the Administrator has set a bold agenda to empower patients and transform the healthcare system to deliver better value and results for patients through competition and innovation. CMS will focus all of its efforts on 16 strategic initiatives across Medicare, Medicaid, and the Exchanges to move the healthcare delivery system toward value. During her tenure, Administrator Verma’s strong leadership at CMS has led to many major accomplishments. The agency has: · Stabilized the individual health insurance market, where average premiums decreased in 2019 for the first time ever on federally facilitated exchanges, and Medicare Advantage premiums continue to decline, · Restored the state and federal partnership for Medicaid with the approval of community engagement demonstrations to promote work and financial independence, · Introduced the first-ever Medicaid & CHIP Scorecard to provide much-needed transparency on how well Medicaid is serving its beneficiaries, · Took action across all programs to lower the cost of prescription drugs, including by bolstering the ability of Medicare Advantage & Part D plans to negotiate lower drug costs for patients, · Transformed the meaningful use program to focus on interoperability, · Created novel access to virtual check-ins for Medicare beneficiaries and expanded support for telehealth and remote patient monitoring, · Updated documentation guidelines and reduced 53 million hours of administrative burden through the “Patients over Paperwork” and “Meaningful Measures” initiatives, · Launched the Blue Button 2.0 API, through which more than 1,700 mobile app developers have signed up to provide beneficiaries with access to their claims data and help them achieve better health, · Advanced bundled payment models to motivate healthcare providers to furnish services more efficiently, coordinate care and improve quality and; · Published guidelines requiring hospitals to post their standard pricing information online in a machine-readable format, updating it at least once a year—a first step toward giving

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 619 features the return of Joe Schofield.  Joe and I talked about his new book, Aligning People and Culture for Agile Transformation: A Leadership & Change Story (https://amzn.to/2HCfRV1).  During our discussion, we talked about how writing the book changes an author and his hope for how people will use the book to understand and create change.    Company: https://joejr.com/  LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-schofield-6b393aa/  Email: joescho@cox.net Joe’s Bio: As an enabler and educator: Joe is an Authorized Training Partner with VMEdu, a Scrum Certified Trainer with SCRUMstudy™, and a contributor to the Great IT Professional Webinar Series sponsored by Computer Aid, Inc. Joe has over 80 published books, papers, conference presentations and keynotes—including contributions to the books: The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement (2012), IT Measurement, Certified Function Point Specialist Exam Guide, and The Economics of Software Quality. He has taught over 100 college courses, 75 of those at the graduate level. Joe has facilitated ~200 teams in the areas of software specification, team building, and organizational planning using lean six sigma, business process reengineering, and JAD. He was a certified instructor for the Introduction to the CMMI for most of the past decade. Re-Read Saturday News  I am pretty sure that Steve and Daniel might disagree with me, but I find the concept of full-kitting one of the most important ideas in Tame your Work Flow. Chapter 17 provides more explanation for the concept. My involvement in software development, enhancements, maintenance, package and hardware installation, and configuration has made it very clear to me that flow needs to be a paramount concern. Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s  Tame your Work Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) – https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi Week 3: Explicit Mental Models – https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN  Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact – https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL  Week 5: Flawed Mental Models – https://bit.ly/3eqj70m   Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts – https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN  Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture – https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT  Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and  Show Me the Money – https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu  Week 9: Constraints in the Work Flow and in the Work Process - https://bit.ly/33Uukoz  Week 10: Understanding PEST Environments and Finding the Constraint in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3ga3ew9  Week 11: Drum-Buffer-Rope Scheduling - https://bit.ly/32l0Z3Q  Week 12: Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/31Ea4WC  Week 13: Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards - https://bit.ly/32rYUVf  Week 14: Outcomes, Values, and Efforts in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3jd52qw Week 15: Introduction to Execution Management Signals - https://bit.ly/3mS9j4V  The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with a live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! http://mng.bz/5pmz  Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too. https://bit.ly/3gNR2Bw  Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 620 is something out of the ordinary. Ola Omiyale and I interviewed Nalin Parbhu, the Founder and CTO of Infuse, and useMango™. We talked about testing and test automation which is a passion for all three of us. It was also a blast for me to have someone co-anchoring the interview. 

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Rachel Druckenmiller of UNMUTED. cavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: jasoncavness@cavnessHR.com @cavnessHR   across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following Her company UNMUTED. Advice for new speakers. What people get wrong about culture. How to UNMUTE yourself and be heard. Rachel's Bio As the Founder and CEO of Unmuted, Rachel is on a mission to humanize the workplace, ignite intentional leadership and empower people to use their voices for good. She is a nationally recognized thought leader and speaker with over a dozen years of experience in the field of workplace culture and wellbeing. She has guided numerous organizations to earn recognition as "top workplaces" and "healthy employers".    Through virtual and live events, Rachel speaks to leaders at organizations and associations and teaches them to strengthen their power skills, resilience and self-care, so they can thrive at work and at home. When leaders are thriving, performance increases, trust is strengthened, creativity flows, and people are more fulfilled, connected and get along with each other better.    In 2019, Rachel was recognized as a 40 Under 40 Game Changer by Workforce Magazine, and Employ Humanity named her one of "7 Wellness Leaders Making a Positive Impact" in 2018. She was named the #1 Health Promotion Professional in the United States in 2015 by WELCOA. Rachel is one of the founding members of the international nonprofit, Global Women 4 Wellbeing (GW4W), and speaks to women leaders about how to be more confident and courageous. She is also a Founding Member of the Baltimore Chapter of HackingHR, a global community of constructively disruptive leaders committed to rethinking HR.    Rachel has worked with and spoken at organizations and associations including Deloitte, Under Armour, the National Wellness Institute, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and dozens of others.    She has a Master's Degree in Health Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Thriving Workplace Culture Consultant and Wellness Culture Coach. She was born and raised in Baltimore and lives there with her college sweetheart, Bill. Rachel's Social Media Website: www.UnmutedLife.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelbdruckenmiller/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/unmutedlife  Facebook: www.facebook.com/UnmutedLLC  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unmutedlife Rachel's Gift If you go to www.unmutedlife.com you can find a resilience resource guide that will pop up. I've got a list of my 10 to 12 strategies for boosting resilience and they're very practical and actionable. Then I have like a reading list in there. So my favorite books on those topics as well and how to like be more resilient. That's a place where you can immediately get a freebie after listening to this. Rachel's Advice I would say if I were to leave you with one thing to walk away from this with, it would be to have a bit more grace and compassion for yourself. Then to have the courage to get curious about the things that you're doing well, and the things you could be doing better or differently. So that you can grow and to be committed to that journey. Not just at work, but also your other relationships, as well. Because there's going to be crossover and there's going to be spillover benefit. So be willing to be curious, be courageous enough to be curious. Then, based on the feedback that you get, I would say be willing to take action. Be willing to take those courageous action steps because confidence is the byproduct of action. So stop thinking about whatever you are thinking about and take action and go do something about it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Speech Language Pathology is a fascinating field. Covering everything from swallowing to memory to the fundamentals of language to not biting your cheek every damn biter during dinner, it’s something most folks outside stroke world or the disabled community never really think about. Tsgoyna Tanzman is an author and a Speech Therapist in Southern California. In this episode Tsgoyna and I talk about: What we mean by “cognitive issues” The multiple different types of aphasia Managing over stimulation after stroke The nature of recovery The impact of telemedicine How race affects post-stroke care and assessment The process of editing and self-publishing a book If any of that  sounds interesting to you, be sure to listen. Bio As a Speech-Language Pathologist and Life Coach for more than 25 years, Tsgoyna has helped thousands of people transition after stroke and brain injury to the next stages of their lives. Having worked in hospitals, home care, residential and skilled nursing facilities, clinics, and community settings, she’s an expert at helping people find their inner and outer resources needed for the process of recovery. Tsgoyna’s unique approach combines traditional and holistic speech therapy along with the life coaching practices used by some of the most successful people on the planet. Trained by legendary coaching gurus Tony Robbins, Dr. Dawson Church, and Brooke Castillo; she’s also a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming. Tsgoyna is best known for her down-to-earth practicality, enthusiasm, and sense of humor while compassionately guiding caregivers and survivors through recovery. She is the author of the bestseller book, Hope After Stroke for Caregivers and Survivors: The Holistic Guide to Getting Your Life Back. Tsgoyna’s humor and poignant life stories appear in 15  different anthologies of Chicken Soup for the Soul. She is a current contributor to Thrive Global (Huffington Post). Her blog pieces about mental health appear on the largest online addiction recovery site: I Love Recovery Cafe.  Tsgoyna gained national attention on CNBC News, USA Today, Glamour Magazine, Woman’s Day Magazine, the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune for authoring the first-ever line of greeting cards for the unemployed in 1991,”Pink Slip Productions.” 3 Tips for Over Stimulation While I hope everyone is social distancing and avoiding large gatherings so that COVID-19 kills fewer people and causes fewer strokes, someday we will be out socializing again. If you struggle with over stimulation in social events, Tsgoyna has three tips to make it a little easier for stroke survivors to manage. Make sure you get adequate rest before and after the event. Find a space at the event where you can decrease the stimulation. Focus on talking to one person at a time in another, quieter part of the room. The 1950s I mentioned the cognitive assessment they gave me where I was asked to describe what was happening in the image. I answered “1954.” (actually, the specific year changes every time I tell this story, but it’s always the fifties) Here is that image:   Free Workbook Sample To get Tsgoyna’s free 21 Day Sample of the Recovery Journal and sign up for Tsgoyna’s mailing list, visit this link: http://strokecast.com/HopeAfterStrokeGuide Free Wheelin’ with Carden I was recently featured on the Free Wheelin’ with Carden Podcast. Carden Wycoff is podcaster and disability activist in Atlanta. She interviews guests about their experiences  going through life with disabilities, the nature of accessibility, the impact of the ADA, and how we can all work to combat ableism, and push for a more accessible world. You can listen to our conversation about my story and the power of Neuroplasticity here: http://strokecast.com/BillVisits/FreeWheelin Hack of the Week Meditation is key. It’s about taking a moment to prepare yourself for the day. Just like you prepare yourself to leave the house by putting on pants of a sort or a skirt (probably), you can prepare yourself for the day by taking some time to prepare your mind. It can be as simple as taking a few minutes to find one thing to focus on with each of the five senses in that moment — site, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. If you want to get really fancy may throw proprioception into the mix. Ultimately, the survivor does all the work of recovery. And it is work. So take a few minutes each morning to prepare. Links Tsgoyna’s Website https://www.tsgoyna.com/ Tsgoyna’s Email hopeafterstrokenow@gmail.com Tsgoyna on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Tsgoyna Tsgoyna on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsgoyna/ Hope After Stroke Website http://hope-stroke.com Hope After Stroke on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Hope-After-Stroke-Caregivers-Survivors/dp/1732953805/ Tsgoyna on Thrive Global https://thriveglobal.com/authors/tsgoyna-tanzman/ Tsgoyna on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsgoyna Free Wheelin’ with Carden https://www.freewheelinwithcarden.com/ Carden interviews Bill http://strokecast.com/BillVisits/FreeWheelin Where do we do from here? Get your free copy of Tsgoyna’s recovery journal and learn more about here book here http://Hope-Stroke.com Check out my conversation with Carden here: http://strokecast.com/BillVisits/FreeWheelin Share this episode with three other people you know by giving them the link http://Strokecast.com/HopeAfterStroke Don’t get best…get better Strokecast is the stroke podcast where a Gen X stroke survivor explores rehab, recovery, the frontiers of neuroscience and one-handed banana peeling by helping stroke survivors, caregivers, medical providers and stroke industry affiliates connect and share their stories.

EPISODE SUMMARY Getting your first deal done is a huge milestone to achieve. However, it is not an easy feat due to the built up anxiety you face before taking the initial steps. What must you do before before diving into your first deal. Find out by diving into this episode.  In this episode you'll learn: - How to beat the hesitancy that's stopping you from making your first deal - Patience is the number 1 virtue in real estate - Alot of people are getting into real estate so always be acquiring knowledge to have an edge over the others - Unique deals by Kenneth - When to work with local community banks Guest's Bio: As one of Founding Partners of H&K Capital Partners, Kenneth strives to provide his investors and partners with stable cash flow returns and long-term capital appreciation. Kenneth has experience in the SFR (Single Family Resident) marketing as a Wholesaler and Rehabber and now Self Storage Owner Operator and Syndicator. Kenneth is a technologist with 17 years in the industry that focused on Cisco Communication products such as voice and video collaboration. Kenneth is located in Atlanta, GA as a native, has a wife and 3 kids also a German Shepherd. My favorite things to do are to studying the Bible, spending time with my family and closes friends. and GRILLING!!!, I LOVE CARS (R35) Nissan GTR or anything that catches an eye. Working out is a must! My favorite teams are anything Atlanta lol. Resources from this episode: Book recommendation: The 4-Hour Workweek Contact Guest at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethwhayes/ H&K Capital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hkcapitalllc IG: @kwhayes1984 and @hkcapitalcrei Website: https://www.hkcapital.net/ Connect With Us! To connect with Jason, please email or call him at: Phone: (303) 949-8662 Email: crep@ecospace.com Wesbite: Ecospace  We look forward to hearing from you! Please go to iTunes to leave us a rating and write a review. Each review helps us reach a larger audience with your episode

EPISODE SUMMARY Getting your first deal done is a huge milestone to achieve. However, it is not an easy feat due to the built up anxiety you face before taking the initial steps. What must you do before before diving into your first deal. Find out by diving into this episode.  In this episode you'll learn: - How to beat the hesitancy that's stopping you from making your first deal - Patience is the number 1 virtue in real estate - Alot of people are getting into real estate so always be acquiring knowledge to have an edge over the others - Unique deals by Kenneth - When to work with local community banks Guest's Bio: As one of Founding Partners of H&K Capital Partners, Kenneth strives to provide his investors and partners with stable cash flow returns and long-term capital appreciation. Kenneth has experience in the SFR (Single Family Resident) marketing as a Wholesaler and Rehabber and now Self Storage Owner Operator and Syndicator. Kenneth is a technologist with 17 years in the industry that focused on Cisco Communication products such as voice and video collaboration. Kenneth is located in Atlanta, GA as a native, has a wife and 3 kids also a German Shepherd. My favorite things to do are to studying the Bible, spending time with my family and closes friends. and GRILLING!!!, I LOVE CARS (R35) Nissan GTR or anything that catches an eye. Working out is a must! My favorite teams are anything Atlanta lol. Resources from this episode: Book recommendation: The 4-Hour Workweek Contact Guest at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethwhayes/ H&K Capital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hkcapitalllc IG: @kwhayes1984 and @hkcapitalcrei Website: https://www.hkcapital.net/ Connect With Us! To connect with Jason, please email or call him at: Phone: (303) 949-8662 Email: crep@ecospace.com Wesbite: Ecospace  We look forward to hearing from you! Please go to iTunes to leave us a rating and write a review. Each review helps us reach a larger audience with your episode

Today’s well-known guest, Pat Hiban, has a diverse and successful history in real estate investing to share with us. As a top selling New York Times author of his book, “6 steps to 7 Figures: A Real Estate Professional's Guide to Building Wealth and Creating Your Own Destiny”, Pat is here today to help guide us in how to capture what matters most: making the money we need to spend our time where it’s really valued. Listen along to learn how to hone your focus into dollar productive activities to maximize your time, your portfolio, and your overall income to significantly boost the quality of your life! Asset: Pat has extensive experience in real estate investing, including single-family homes, multifamily, and office space/retail. Process: Accountability comes in many forms, and it exceeds beyond just your bottom line. For some powerful advice on how to build yourself into intentional success, Pat shares how he worked through the process of learning to maximize his time, significantly reduce his working hours, and learning to find fulfillment beyond his work ethic and net worth. Strategy: One element of wisdom Pat explains in detail is learning to focus on dollar productive activities. Listen along to learn why implementing this focus can revolutionize not just scaling your business, but can also translate to growth and success for areas even beyond your finances. Hungry to learn more about being a multifamily syndicator or a passive investor? Grow your knowledge here:  https://www.ellieperlman.com/training Pat’s Bio: As a young child, Pat Hiban was labeled “learning disabled with speech deficiencies” and put into special classes. Through his teenage years, Pat fell forward through life and tried everything he could to find his purpose, including 2 years as a 4th string player (benchwarmer) on the lacrosse team. He graduated from college with a degree in sociology and a 2.6 GPA. After being turned down for several corporate sales positions out of college, Pat jumped into real estate and sold 10 homes his first year (6 condos, 1 house, and 3 mobile homes); he earned a total of $13,200. Through the consistent application of 6 steps, Pat grew his real estate business each and every year. In 2004, he became the #1 RE/MAX agent in the world. In 2006, he was honored with the same recognition by Keller Williams Realty. Now, having sold over 4,000 homes and over one-billion dollars in volume, Pat is one of only a handful of residential real estate agents internationally to hold the title of Billion Dollar Agent. Pat is also an avid real estate investor, a venture capitalist, and the founder of Rebus University: an online training platform for real estate agents who want the secrets that most successful agents try to keep to themselves. On average, Pat takes 153 days off each year to spend with his wife of 18 years and his two daughters. How to Contact Pat: For your free copy of Tribe of Millionaires visit: www.tribeofmillionaires.com

In the age of COVID, many people discuss the opportunity for a new normal.  However, how does a savvy organization shape that new normal?  In this episode, I speak to Lori Silverman, futurist, business storyteller and the founder of Partners for Progress, about data-driven decision making and the importance of applying Strategic Thinking in order to determine a path toward the future. Bio: As the founder of Partners for Progress®, Lori helps firms strategize about their future; navigate messy, complex changes; make smarter decisions using data, and influence through story. Since 1991, she’s worked in 25 industries, with enterprises like American Family Insurance, McDonalds, Target, GE, BMW, and Phillips North America. As a keynote speaker at more than 80 events, Lori’s inspired thousands to take action. She’s the author of five books, including the best-seller, Business Storytelling for Dummies. Lori is also an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University teaching the only graduate course in the world on strategic thinking in an industrial and Organizational Psychology Master’s Program.   Contact: hhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-silverman-700963 Business-storytelling.com Partnersforprogress.com pfprogress@aol.com   Resources:   Dan Burrus, The Anticipatory Organization Burrus.com/innovation/strategist   The story of Spa Resort Hawiians https://www.hawaiians.co.jp/english/about/history.html   Humanity Rising Summit sponsored by Ubiquity University: https://humanityrising.solutions/       Music by Ryan Sullivan.  Contact: sullybmusic@gmail.com

My guest this week is a Future-Ready Innovator. She has led transformation for Adobe, Autodesk, LiveNation as well as founding two Silicon Valley companies. Today she is building the Executive Growth Alliance, a global community of open curious and brave leaders collaborating to drive change in environment, transportation, health and consumer services.  She is here to share her journey to future-readiness and what it takes for leaders to succeed in today’s fast paced world of change.  Please give a warm speaking business welcome to Jennifer Vessels. Bio As a Silicon Valley entrepreneur; leader of transformation for Adobe, Cisco, LiveNation; and Chief Innovator for Next Step, Jennifer Vessels is an acknowledged expert in understanding what really works to drive change, leverage digitalisation, avoid disruption and gain tangible returns on innovation.  Her real – world examples and practical leadership, business growth and transformation techniques are proven to deliver increased productivity, speed up change, increase customer engagement and revenue growth. Future-readiness, i.e. adaptability, openness to global perspectives, willingness to explore and collaboration are natural to Jennifer.  Through her career in Technology Sales and Leadership with UB Networks and Tandberg, Jennifer built and led global teams consistently exceeding targets – across 3 continents in 6 years. After launching Tandberg USA, Jennifer founded Next Step in Silicon Valley to maximise results for companies committed to growth. Her vision and practical approach were instrumental in Next Step’s leadership of global expansion of Google, Netflix, Palo Alto Networks and business transformation for Adobe, AutoDesk, Avinor, Goodwill, LiveNation. As a natural connector, Jennifer knows the importance of human collaboration to address challenges, explore new ideas and drive success.  In 2017, she established the Executive Growth Alliance (EGA), a worldwide community of Open, Curious Brave leaders who collaborate locally and globally to become future-ready.  Using proven power of peers methodology, EGA members collaborate to co-create new solutions and share learning as they address common innovation challenges.    The result is growth for the members and their organizations, while impacting global challenges in agriculture, environment, health, industry and mobility. Jennifer is well-recognised as a high-impact speaker, conference moderator and workshop facilitator for Leadership Conferences, Corporate Events, Sales Meetings, Industry Association Meetings, Gartner Group Conferences, Vistage Events +.  Her contributions to leadership and futurist blogs, publications, podcasts and LinkedIn demonstrate her commitment to global future-readiness, new leadership approaches, business transformation and team diversity. If you want real results, learning and action, Jennifer is guaranteed to deliver. Recorded on: 26th February 2020 Links: More about Jennifer Vessels More about Maria Franzoni Ltd Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Libsyn  Itunes  Stitcher Spotify  

To stand out, to attract the attention of those who can raise your profile, to protect yourself during lean times, or to gain the interest of future employers, you must harness three critical communication traits that human beings respond to most: AWE: A―Authority. W―Warmth. E―Energy. When all else is equal―education, work ethic, intelligence, experience, ambition―the single biggest factor in winning business, promotions, friendships, or followers hinges on our ability to communicate and connect. Mastering AWE gives you an unparalleled advantage over the competition, no matter your field. Steve Herz, who has represented and coached dozens of sports, media, and entertainment leaders over the course of nearly three decades, delivers a step-by-step program that helps you understand and hone your AWE skills. Packed with inspiring success stories, grounded in the latest social psychology and scientific research, and featuring “insider” anecdotes from some of the most popular entrepreneurs and professionals in broadcasting, sports, and the corporate world―many personally coached by Herz. Bio: As the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, Steve Herz is one of the most influential voices in the broadcast space, as well as a respected business leader. In this episode of Trend Following Radio: Don’t Take Yes for an Answer Confidence and Strength Using Authority Changing Communication Behaviour Energy Definition Speaking and Listening

Gary welcomed Aziz Velji, teacher of human potential and author of “CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND: Abolish Stress to Unleash Your True Potential”. CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND is a comprehensive and seminal self-help book about how a person can eliminate stress from their lives in order to access the inherent power of their mind, and live a happy, healthy, and creative life. Gary and Aziz had a great chat about beliefs, thoughts, actions, mindfulness, meditation and the ability for change! What you'll learn: We have two ways or mindsets to respond to events - fear, unhappiness, stress, OR happy, calm, alert, resilient mind. Why the first 7 years program our beliefs for the rest of our lives, by people who want the best for us, but are teaching us what they know 70-75 of programming delivered to us is counterintuitive to our needs and is subconscious a child doesn’t know cause and effect, and this results in “I don’t deserve it mentality” After age 7 the conscious mind starts to evaluate our beliefs and our thoughts. Our beliefs become thoughts, which become our words, which become our actions, which become our habits, which become our values Do we have the ability to change our beliefs You face a crisis and you use the subconscious mind to solve the problem How do you approach changing your beliefs What is a Mental Diet? What is ‘mind chatter’? The brain has a negative bias and how that plays out for us Our mind is like velcro for negative thoughts, and teflon for positive ones What is observing your thoughts? Why you want to split yourself into two - watching and doing When we are present, there are no thoughts, we are fully enjoying an activity - some have trouble maintaining it, so we switch back to the subconscious Most people spend 95% of their day in ‘mind chatter’ / subconscious Why meditation is SO powerful! And MORE! Aziz’s Bio As a student, teacher and author, my background encompasses specialized areas of study and expertise in philosophy, psychology, meditation practices, quantum physics, brain enhancement, neuroscience, and lucid dreaming (or what is called Dream Yoga). My formal education includes postgraduate degrees in engineering and business management. I have applied these areas of study and formal training to better understand the nature of reality, the relationship between the brain and the mind, and to further advance society, humanity, and most importantly, our potential as human beings. My book, “CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND: Abolish Stress to Unleash Your True Potential” is coming out in a few weeks. CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND is a comprehensive and seminal self-help book about how a person can eliminate stress from their lives in order to access the inherent power of their mind, and live a happy, healthy, and creative life. There are many books that discuss ways of controlling stress, but this book seeks to help the reader understand the true causes of stress, and how the various parts of the brain are critical in its development... and ultimately, in its removal. As well, the book explains and provides the tools (like meditation) that can be used to eliminate stress from a person’s brain, mind and their thinking. I also teach my “Conversations with Friends” series of seminars and workshops which are based on the book. Contact Aziz Phone: 416 669 9539 Email - aziz@calmbrainpowerfulmind.com e-Book - https://www.amazon.com/author/azizvelji website - www.azizvelji.com   Interested in learning more about Real Estate Investing? Visit https://www.smarthomechoice.ca

Is being a podcast guest part of your marketing strategy yet? If not, what’s holding you back? I’m gonna take a wild guess that: A) You like listening to podcasts; B) You have a business; and C) You need to get your business in front of potential customers. If any of that is true, then you are not going to want to miss the next couple of episodes I have for you, because they are all about adding podcast-guesting to your marketing strategy. My guest today is Angie Trueblood. She’s a podcast visibility expert, and I met Angie because she’s pitched me on behalf of some of the guests you’ve heard on this show, like Brandi Mowles in Episode 241 about fast-tracking your side hustle growth, Dr. Cortney Baker in Episode 251 about going from side-hustler to CEO and Danielle Hayden in Episode 280 about taking home a bigger paycheck from your side hustle. And now today Angie is on the show to talk about how you can use podcast guesting as a strategy to grow your audience and get customers. Angie and I talk about: Her journey from side-hustle to self-employed. The opportunity podcasts can create for your business. How Angie found clients. Why Angie hired a business coach and how she grew her business. How to stand out from all the other people who are pitching podcast hosts. The six parts of a great pitch. Her best advice for you if you’re struggling to get traction in your side hustle. The one belief Angie had to change about herself to get where she is today. My favorite quotes from Angie: “You don't have to be at some giant stage of business to be featured as a podcast guest and to provide value.” “I think when you do good work and you take good care of your people, it eventually starts to snowball.” “Business is not just marketing, it's managing all of these other behind the scenes things.” Resources mentioned in this episode: Go Pitch Yourself Pitching Roadmap Go Pitch Yourself Podcast Angie’s Bio: As a podcast visibility expert and host of the Go Pitch Yourself podcast, Angie Trueblood knows that the only 'perfect pitch' is the one that leads with value and focuses on building a genuine connection.  Whether she is teaching entrepreneurs how to pitch themselves or working behind the scenes to secure opportunities for others, Angie leverages her super-connector powers to grow businesses and build long-lasting relationships.  When she's not working with her clients or being active in her local community, she loves exploring Richmond, Virginia's parks and playgrounds with her two kiddos, checking out new restaurants with her hubs, and laughing about motherhood with friends. Connect with Angie: Angie Trueblood Website Instagram Facebook Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Learn how to market yourself online without ads, algorithms or spending all your time on social media at www.howtomarketyourselfonline.com Learn how to get your first web design client at www.startafreelancewebdesignbiz.com Leave a Review!

Episode 24 - Working Moms Get The Job DoneHosts: Dr. Jeremy Waisome & Dr. Kyla McMullenGuest: Dr. Gloria Opoku-BoatengInstagram: @glowhyiaTwitter: @glowhyiaOBLinkedIn: Dr. Gloria Opoku-BoatengDescription: Gloria Opoku-Boateng met Kyla at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. And Kyla knew we had to interview her to share her unique story. She started her computing education in Africa while her father was working as a missionary. In high school, she and her siblings fell in love with technology. And as a result, Gloria decided to pursue computer science in college. Since she stayed in Africa to get her degree, While she didn’t have to contend with racism, she did feel isolated as one of the only women in her classes. But she persevered and went on to obtain 2 masters degrees and a PhD! Gloria’s determination (like doing 10 internships in her PhD program) is on display throughout this episode. She leveraged all her experiences which makes for an interesting career trajectory. Fun fact: Gloria is a Mom to a 7 week old and as this episode drops Jeremy’s baby girl is now 7 weeks!Bio: As an African-American, wife, mom, sister, and woman in tech, Gloria is not your typical black woman in computing. She grew up a missionary kid who lived in different parts of the world. She is currently in a research leadership/manager role at Amazon Web Services; leading UX and design research teams for some of the most technical services Amazon provides via cloud. Prior to her current role, she led research around Capital One's AI/ML Platform and Identity Services. She has also worked with corporate tech giants like Google, IBM, and Northrop Grumman. Her academic tech journey started with her bachelors in computer science; continued with two masters in applied health informatics and Human-Computer Interaction, and a phD that culminates health, UX research, and vulnerable populations. She is passionate about mentoring and giving back to the community. Over the last several years, she has volunteered in so many ways to teach girls how to code, mentor UX researchers, and served in various capacities with local and regional robotics competitions. With her work and passion, Gloria has been awarded several awards and recognition. She hopes to inspire women in tech with her experience and encourage black women to 'have it all' through balance and patience. When she is not at work or volunteering, she is spending time with her family; catching up on her favorite TV shows or book.

Ryan and Richard are joined by a very special guest:Ryan Sherman, co-founder of Century 21 MetropolitanRyan's Bio:As of 2020, Ryan has “personally” sold over $585,000,000+ in Manhattan/NYC Real Estate, SIX (6) transactions at 15 CPW, Two (2) at 432 P... Ryan and Richard are joined by a very special guest:Ryan Sherman, co-founder of Century 21 MetropolitanRyan's Bio:As of 2020, Ryan has “personally” sold over $585,000,000+ in Manhattan/NYC Real Estate, SIX (6) transactions at 15 CPW, Two (2) at 432 Park Ave., One (1) at 220 Central Park South and 100's of others throughout the city. The company he has co-founded has sold and rented over 1 billion in company sales / rentals with over two decades of experience. In 2014 our company became Century 21 Metropolitan. We are part of the largest Real Estate company in the world and leveraging our global presence to drive business to and from NY. We have over 2400 offices in Asia alone and 133,000 agents worldwide and 11,000 offices in 84 countries. Is your Real Estate firm global? Ryan Sherman’s entrepreneurial spirit is the driving force behind Century 21 Metropolitan. A truly creative business professional with an innovative view of Manhattan real estate, Ryan has over 25 years of highly successful Real Estate experience. As a founder of Metropolitan Residential Partners (now Century 21 Metropolitan) it was his intention to revolutionize the industry service standard. After experiencing firsthand the processes of Manhattan’s top real estate companies he felt that a smaller, boutique firm with personalized service could command the interest of the general public. Strategically he has woven this vision into the fabric of a new kind of real estate practice – focused very specifically on the family, on expectations that go well beyond square footage, on service that is extraordinarily responsive, and on marketing that is uniquely positioned. At his direction, the agents of C21 Metropolitan and C21 Commercial Metropolitan, New Harlem Realty and Century 21 Metropolitan Property Management provide their clients with the best possible buying or selling experience and attention to every detail. His brokerage agents are always accessible – via mobile phone, wireless email, voice and fax. Topics discussed:How Ryan's business and the real estate industry is adapting to the current pandemic.Working from home is the new norm and people didn't expect to enjoy it.Understanding the commission structure for real estate agents in NYC.Jeff Bezos' $80 million apartment in NYC: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-buys-manhattan-penthouse-apartment-80-million-2019-6Ken Griffin's $238 million property: https://therealdeal.com/2019/01/23/ken-griffin-pays-238m-for-220-cps-penthouse-setting-record-for-priciest-us-home/How does the Covid-19 pandemic affect real estate value.What Ryan is telling his employees and his optimism even in this difficult time. Exciting projects for Century 21 Metropolitan including new website and social media strategy. A new technology-focused approach to real estate including a more aggressive commission structure to grow their business.Century 21 Metropolitan: https://www.c21metropolitan.com/Ryan's profile: https://www.century21.com/real-estate-agent/profile/ryan-sherman-P25366461Ryan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/212centuryryans/Ryan's Instagram: @ryansherman_c21Under the Circumstances Instagram:

Teresa Zimmerman serves as the Vice President of Marketing at Personify. She leads Personify’s global marketing organization and is responsible for driving market leadership, global awareness, demand generation, strategic events, and product go-to-market plans. Teresa has a rich history of success driving excellence at enterprise SaaS companies, having spent time at Bazaarvoice, Lithium, and Fuze where she oversaw North American marketing programs, including field and solutions marketing, demand creation, advertising, and events. Beyond the office, Teresa serves on the board of directors for BookSpring, nonprofit supporting childhood literacy and resides with her family in Austin, Texas. A recognized leader in marketing, brand, and content, Erin Geoffroy has spent over 10 years helping organizations tell meaningful stories and create effective engagement strategies. Her diverse background includes developing highly effective national marketing campaigns and digital tools in the software, consumer goods, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors. Since obtaining her MBA in Marketing and MA in Journalism in 2016, Erin has focused on empowering nonprofits and associations to better engage their members and donors through technology and the use of data-driven insights. At Personify, Erin develops and executes marketing campaigns across Personify’s verticals and a suite of products and leads brand marketing initiatives. Julia Thurston’s Bio: As the head of marketing operations and demand generation for Personify, Julia Thurston is responsible for the marketing delivery functions across our digital ecosystem. Julia brings her technology leadership experience to this role having previously run operations, management and integration initiatives with our sales organization. Julia is passionate about the intersection between client experience and operational process, approaching the digital world through the lens of the physical. Julia is a graduate from Texas Christian University with a degree in Biology, a minor in Business and Chemistry and a member of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Team. In her free time, Julia enjoys the outdoors and travel. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Why communication and keeping PersoniFest stakeholders both internal and external informed has been key to moving the event to a virtual space How the PersoniFest virtual event will take place on Thursday, April 23, 2020, at 9:30 am EDT (8:30 am central) Why translating physical experiences to a virtual space has been challenging, and what innovative solutions the team has created to make the event special How a key early step in transferring PersoniFest into a virtual experience was to evaluate what tools and technology were available that could be leveraged Why establishing clear goals and technology needs for a virtual event and focusing on offering values to attendees is vital Why being mindful of the quality of the experience and ensuring that audio and video are sufficiently robust is very important Additional resources: Website: https://personifycorp.com/ Teresa’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tazimmerz/ Erin’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/eringeoffroy/

I really enjoyed this conversation with Renee Smith who opens our conversation with one of the most vulnerable personal stories of vulnerability shared on this podcast so far. Renee really does role-model the change she wants to see in the world, bringing the importance of love to the workplace, however, people wish to name or adopt that. We also discuss leadership, culture, vulnerability, courage and much more. Some key highlights include: - “We want to contribute; we want to matter. We want to be cared about ourselves. Of course love belongs at work and when we are in a condition when we feel love, we give and do and be our very best” – 09.20 - “You are a good investment. Invest in yourself. I was worthy of investing in” – 11.45 - “We need to be creating an environment where you stop, and we turn and we face someone to truly listen to them, and we look them in the eye and we turn away from our devices and our computer and we hear them.” – 36.10 - “Tell me a story about a time when you felt afraid at work and tell me a story about a time when you felt loved or any version of that at work?” – 38.00 Renee can be found via the following means: Email - renee@makeworkmorehuman.com Website - https://www.makeworkmorehuman.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-smith-wa-state-lean/ Bio: As the Founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, Renée champions a more loving, humane, and safe workplace where everyone is welcome to bring their whole selves to work. This is an effective workplace where individuals and teams can be and do and bring their very best to their toughest challenges. Under her leadership, A Human Workplace provides an expanding and unique set of cultural resources for leaders and teams including learning experiences, ready to use tools, gatherings, train the trainer, coaching, and consulting services to public and private organizations as well as to communities who want to make work more human and loving. Renee also conducts primary research, writes, and speaks on Making Work More Human, and personally hosts gatherings of A Human Workplace to help people (re)discover human values and practice what it means to be human at work. She actively collaborates with others around the world to grow global momentum to shift workplace cultures everywhere and to lift up a brilliant community of people each holding insights for a more human workplace. Please find my Interpersonal Catalyst brochure here in case I can support you at all -> https://my.visme.co/projects/rxyz4jpo-garry-turner-interpersonal-catalyst --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valuevulnerability/message

Today we have a “first” – not just one guest, but two! Listen along to an entertaining discussion between myself, Adam Southey, and Justin Sliva as they share the very interesting niche of raw land investing with us and it's impressive profitability. By leveraging technology and creating a very agile team, Adam and Justin share great information on not just this often overlooked asset class, but also on maximizing their business process to allow them to secure deals in 38 different states and counting. Asset: Adam and Justin both specialize in raw land investments – land undeveloped and typically in rural areas. Process: Listen along to discover the very interesting process utilized to not only find raw land assets, but how Adam & Justin maximize their efforts in a creative and far-reaching approach in securing their deals. Strategy: While Adam and Justin both agree that raw land is their number one investment vehicle, they each use a slightly different strategy in their businesses. By listening along you will learn how there is not just one, but many ways, to find success in real estate investing! Don’t forget your new FREE monthly resource: A Guide to Property Tours: https://www.ellieperlman.com/resources Adam & Justin’s Bio: As experts in Raw Land Investing, Adam Southey is CEO of Rural Land HQ. and Justin Sliva is the Founding Partner of Land Mule and the Principal of Plum Investment Group.  Together, they help Land Investors find and sell properties by creating resources to support both new and seasoned Land Investors along their journey. They launched the Casual Fridays REI Podcast and built a comprehensive online course they use to teach others about this unique niche. How to Contact Adam & Justin: Website: https://www.casualfridaysrei.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CasualFridaysREI/ Instagram: @CasualFridaysREI

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A Conversation With Coaching Client Marla Mogul   Marla is one of my coaching clients and she agreed to come on the show to share her journey. She also shares how my coaching has helped her create a life plan and achieve her goals faster than she could alone.     Take away: Coaches can help you achieve your goals much faster than going it alone.   Action step: Explore if a coach can help you achieve your life goals.    Money Learnings: Marla's family never talked about money. They grew up in a neighborhood that was beyond their means.    Bio: As the co-founder of the nonprofit, A Night Out, Marla created an organization that in five years served more than 900 survivors of domestic violence, while providing childcare for over 250 of their children. Through safe and healthy social experiences such as self-care spa nights, concerts and theater performances, A Night Out provides an opportunity for survivors to rebuild a sense of community in a safe environment with support, understanding, and fun. Her vision of growing the program to serve as many women, men and children as possible, led to the strategic acquisition of A Night Out by the nonprofit, Between Friends, an agency dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence. The consolidation represents a strategic growth opportunity that keeps the needs of survivors first.   Prior to establishing A Night Out, Marla was the founder and Managing Partner of Mogul Consulting Group. Offering turnkey event planning for CEOs and Corporate Officers of Fortune 500 companies, Marla directed all facets of operations.  From Board of Directors meetings, executive retreats, and special client events such as Super Bowl and Kentucky Derby trips, Mogul Consulting delivered quality results to ensure client satisfaction, repeat business and valuable referrals. Before starting her consulting business, she worked in Marketing Communications for Baxter Healthcare and The Kemper Group.   Earlier this year she founded The Mogul Method, a coaching program for women over 50 who want to lose weight without ever dieting again. The customized foolproof system help women stay vibrant and more beautiful as they age.   In addition to her career experience, Marla has served as a Board member of numerous nonprofit organizations, including Between Friends, Cancer Wellness Center, North Suburban JCC and North Shore Congregation Israel. She served as Treasurer and then as President for the Glencoe Parent Teacher Organization, as well as Treasurer of the Quest Academy Parent Student Association.  Her expertise was creating fundraising opportunities to support the schools and the community.   Marla is a graduate of the Indiana University Kelly School of Business. She lives with her husband in Chicago where they savor the beautiful lake views. Her passions include traveling, physical fitness, skiing, reading, and collecting wind-up toys.   Highlights from this episode: How Marla's upbringing caused her to spend too much as a young adult.  The need to fit in and leading a materialistic life.  Money doesn't make you worthwhile.  You have to be honest with yourself.  The life plan process. The power of being intentional. Why Marla reached out to me for coaching.  How financial coaching has helped Marla. Long term results come through changing habits. Marla's coaching program. The emotions we have with eating.  You have to be ready for coaching.  We are responsible for our lives and the outcomes we want. Why you should get a coach.   https://www.themogulmethod.com/ Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening! Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul https://www.facebook.com/richersoul http://richersoul.com/ rocky@richersoul.com Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

Can you “live your best life” AND follow God’s call to be a *gasp* church worker? Hear from regular folks who felt called to work in the church (Pastor, Director of Christian Outreach, Director of Christian Education, Teacher, Early Childhood Education, etc.) Discover the joy of serving God by serving others full time in ministry and get your questions answered about the good, the bad and the ugly of church work. Yes, even THAT question! Bio: As a senior in high school, Faith knew God was calling her to full time church work…but no opportunities seem to fit how God had shaped her. That is until she visited Concordia University, St. Paul and discovered the Director of Christian Outreach program. 20 years, three churches and one wonderful husband later, she’s still busy helping people and churches discover spiritual health that leads to more people knowing Christ and making Him known.

I absolutely loved this conversation with Amanda, despite us having a battle with wifi throughout :-) We covered do much including creativity, story-telling, self-worth, relationships, vulnerability, awareness and much more. Email - amanda@truetointention.com Web- https://truetointention.com/ The Message Matrix program is recommended if people are interested in getting their stories out. Amanda's programme 'Character to Co-Author' is for people who wish to heal their story. Bio: As a Personal Brand Strategist and Messenger Guide, Amanda Johnson helps aspiring speakers, authors, and coaches craft their message, expertise, and stories for maximum impact on their audience, their brand, and their bottom line AND heal their st*ries and lives in the process. After years of engaging, clarifying, and helping others develop powerful messages [as a Student, Teacher, and Master Writing Coach], Amanda uncovered her own. The decision to share it launched her on a journey of personal and professional transformation that quickly made her limited life unrecognizable. In her bestselling books Upside-Down Mommy and Upside-Down Messenger, Amanda shares The Butterfly Approach philosophy responsible for her successes as a parent, messenger, and coach. Please find my Interpersonal Catalyst brochure here in case I can support you at all -> https://my.visme.co/projects/rxyz4jpo-garry-turner-interpersonal-catalyst --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valuevulnerability/message

Bill Caskey explains how sales professionals can double their results with a scalable plan, based on improving Mindset (how you think, and how you see yourself) and implementing the right Mechanics (how you communicate, how you react to resistance and how you control the sales process). Bio: As an author coach and speaker, Bill Caskey has trained sales teams for 30 years, taught over 7500 workshops, and coached over 50,000 sales professionals. Bill proves that by abandoning the worn-out sales approaches that prospects see coming a mile away, you can radically increase your income. It requires that you develop and implement a scalable plan, think differently, and take new and different actions. Resources: Web Site: https://billcaskey.com/ Podcast: https://billcaskey.com/podcast/  

As a marketing leader, getting to know your target market is crucial. Marketers who know and understand their customer-base are able to unlock exponential growth. So how can marketers get in sync with those they seek to reach? To find out, we talked to Marie Rosecrans, SVP of SMB Marketing at Salesforce. On this episode of Marketing Trends, Marie also talked about how to build a great marketing team, her favorite ad campaigns, and much more.   Links: Full Notes & Quotes: http://bit.ly/2m6XmNz Marie’s LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2lOXi5e Marie’s Twitter: http://bit.ly/2kv5V4F Salesforce: https://sforce.co/2lLV86l     3 Key Takeaways: - Surrounding yourself with a great team is one of the most important things you can do as a leader. - “You absolutely have to know who your customer is, in and out. Don't bother with any marketing - don't spend a penny - until you've done that.” - Marie Rosecrans - Consider showcasing your customers and promoting their successes.    Bio: As senior vice president of SMB marketing at Salesforce, Marie Rosecrans focuses on empowering small and medium businesses with the tools and resources they need to grow. Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. Marie lives in the San Francisco Bay area and enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband and family.   --- Marketing Trends is brought to you by our friends at Salesforce Pardot, B2B marketing automation on the world’s #1 CRM. Are you ready to take your B2B marketing to new heights? With Pardot, marketers can find and nurture leads, close more deals, and maximize ROI. Learn more by heading to www.pardot.com/podcast. To learn more or subscribe to our weekly newsletter, visit MarketingTrends.com.

She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques. She then open-sourced this device so people can use the technology across the world. In today's show, Gitanjali talks about her learning journey and the teachers who reached her (and the pedagogies that didn't.) This show is a must-listen for science teachers and teachers everywhere. www.coolcatteacher.com/e556 Bio As submitted Gitanjali Rao is 13 years old and is an 8th grader at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, CO. She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques. She is a Davidson Young Scholar since 2012 and has received several scholarships and awards for achievements in science, arts and community service. She is an active STEM promoter and is involved in promoting STEM-based activities in schools, clubs and the community. She was selected as the STEM Scout of the Year in 2016-2017 and was selected as one of the 12 delegates to Report to the Nation in the year 2017-2018. She was recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30, for science and invention. She is also an EPA Presidential award winner and is recognized as a Gloria Barron 'Young Hero' Honoree for community impact. Gitanjali has open-sourced her lead detector invention processor and app code for the community and it has been used for other applications. She is continuing to perform accuracy testing in Denver Water for the lead sensor and has partnered with an incubator to create reproducible devices. Gitanjali has won awards for her writing in national and international contests. She published her first book at the age of 9, called, “­Baby Brother Wonders.” The self-illustrated book, based on the story that won 2nd prize in the PBS national writing contest, described the world through her younger brother’s point of view. Gitanjali has also won first place in the International Aviation Art Contest for last four years at the state level. She was a “TIME for Kids” Kid reporter for the 2017-2018 school year and wrote articles bringing awareness to Flint crisis. Apart from writing and art, Gitanjali is part of STEM Scouts and 4-H club. Some of Gitanjali’s hobbies include playing the piano, Indian classical dancing and singing, swimming, fencing, and baking. She has been playing classical music for almost 8 years. She shares her talent of playing piano in local assisted living centers. Gitanjali is on the board of Directors for an organization called Children’s Kindness Network that spreads an anti-bullying message and promotes the importance of kindness in all of us. She conducts workshops in elementary schools and hopes to educate children about kindness when they are still young. Gitanjali interns in summer at the "The 3D printing store" to shadow designers. She is conducting research in the University of Colorado, Denver in the Department of Cell Biology to find a solution for prescription opioid addiction using the latest in genetic engineering. Gitanjali is also working on implementing a Cyberbullying app based on AI/Machine Learning in the community along with a team and they were awarded a grant of $5K from eCybermission (Army Educational Program). She recently gave four TEDx talks three in India and another in Nashville apart from speaking in several girls' and global conference and being a UNICEF panelist about the role of Youth to power the planet. Gitanjali aspires to study genetics and epidemiology. She hopes to keep writing, discovering, and sharing her knowledge in the future.

Teaching women to feel empowered with their body and food. The answers are within you to reprioritize themselves so they can choose to be happy!    BIO: As a holistic health coach, my passion is supporting my clients, to heal their relationships with eating, food and their body. To learn to reprioritize themselves, and step into themselves in a bigger way.    There's a lot of frustration women feel at knowing what do but not quite being able to do it, and some of my clients are not sure what to do to get results.  I’m the guide, I work lovingly, supporting, inspiring, and creating a judgement free experience, challenging them to reach their goals! Which get set in the beginning of our work together.    My mission & philosophy: With incremental changes one can create a life time of change. I believe eating well (and living well!) is about changing your lifestyle—not dieting. When you have a confident, compassionate relationship with your body, everything that follows, is positive and healing.   As a health Coach, and educator I focus on a holistic approach. Including working with one’s mindset, because one’s thinking effects their emotional and physical body.    I’ve a background in Yoga, teaching since 2001, and about 30 years of a personal practice, as well as aromatherapy. I’ve a passion for the power of scent and how essential oils enhance ones well-being. I enjoy teaching others how to use Essential Oils to experience greater harmony in their busy life.    Plus my time in social work school and my personal spiritual practice aid my ability to provide a safe non-judgmental, nurturing space.    Claudia Healthy Living & Lifestyle Coach www.claudia-braun.com 847.492.0227   To ask Dr. Steph a question, call 708.808.6250 and you will hear your answer on one of our episodes.   To make an appointment, call  773.528.8485 or go to CommunityChiropractic.net 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E Chicago, IL 60657   To learn more about Dr. Maj, go to drmaj.com/bundle to receive the digital copy of her book & speaker’s books and resources will be delivered right to your inbox.  

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, James Rores, President of Floriss Group and Dan Harris discuss and share COLLECTING WINS™ which is a customer-centric sales platform. You'll learn, that this approach will help sales professionals better understand the WANTS, IMPACTS and NEEDS of their prospects and customers and help you, the sales person, become a Growth Multiplier. BIO: As a veteran top producer, coach, trainer, author and keynote speaker, I founded Floriss Group in 2006 to extend and scale my passion for helping sales and customer-facing teams compete and win as servant leaders. Eventually, our clients’ successes fostered the creation of the Growth Multiplier Movement™. Over the years, I have founded or invested in more than a dozen closely held and venture backed companies, resulting in multiple IPOs and liquidity events. I have trained or coached more than 6,500 CEOs and sales leaders from startups, family businesses and global enterprises across more than 100 industries — including many INC 500, Deloitte Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, Business First Fast 50 and Innovation Award winning companies. Today, I serve and lead clients and partners from our offices in Columbus, Ohio. My calendar is open to anyone who wants to #takethelead by taking control of growth. Connect with me here, or reach out to james@florissgroup.com. Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrores/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesRores1 Visit the Floriss Group Website: https://florissgroup.com/

Bio: As a lover of written words and the authors who wrote them, Antoinette taught 5th grade through high school. A toxic injury in 1991 led her out of the classroom and into a bookstore – where she went in short order from bookseller to event planner and developed a reputation among authors that soon led to her becoming a literary publicist. Seeing the changes coming in the publishing industry, she added book developer to her resume and soon thereafter founded the La Jolla Writers Conference. Now in its nineteenth year, the conference has been called by Writer’s Digest one of the 84 conferences in the country worth the money. Simultaneously, she also hosted Writers Roundtable radio show for eight years, was the Book Lady on KUSI-TV Good Morning San Diego for 20 years, and created Nightstand Press. What are manners? And how do manners differ from etiquette? Manners are the socially correct way of behaving, whereas etiquette is defined as the formal manners and rules that are followed in social or professional settings. For example, manners may dictate that we use utensils when we eat while etiquette may determine which fork or spoon we use for which course at a formal dinner. On a more practical level, good manners lead us to consider the feelings and comfort of others before we act. How would you describe manners to children? And why is it so important that we teach our children manners. I always described manners to my own children – and to my elementary school students – as the lubrication of society. Think about it. Whether we consider the microcosm of the family or the macrocosm of society in general, think of a machine. Without lubrication, there is friction between the parts and eventually, the machine grinds to a halt. Without manners, there is friction between people, and eventually that friction leads to a breakdown. It is mannerly to signal when you are going to make a turn with your car. Failing to do so can cause an accident. It is mannerly to be polite to those in your family or those at work. Failure to do so can engender conflict. It is mannerly to listen to someone when they speak to you. Failure to do so causes a breakdown in communication, not to mention hard feelings. Manners can make tense situations more workable and good situations even more enjoyable. Conversely, a lack of manners is an irritant that can impact everyone involved. Why are we talking about manners today? I brought it up because a lack of manners seems to be permeatin

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, James Rores, Founder and CEO of the Floriss Group and I discuss the personal and professional benefits of being a servant leader in sales versus a power leader. The results shared in this episode are amazing. Learn more about James and the Floriss Group below. BIO: As a veteran top producer, coach, trainer, author and keynote speaker, I founded Floriss Group in 2006 to extend and scale my passion for helping sales and customer-facing teams compete and win as servant leaders. Eventually, our clients’ successes fostered the creation of the Growth Multiplier Movement™. Over the years, I have founded or invested in more than a dozen closely held and venture backed companies, resulting in multiple IPOs and liquidity events. I have trained or coached more than 6,500 CEOs and sales leaders from startups, family businesses and global enterprises across more than 100 industries — including many INC 500, Deloitte Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, Business First Fast 50 and Innovation Award winning companies. Today, I serve and lead clients and partners from our offices in Columbus, Ohio. My calendar is open to anyone who wants to #takethelead by taking control of growth. Connect with me here, or reach out to james@florissgroup.com. Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrores/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesRores1 Visit the Floriss Group Website: https://florissgroup.com/

Guest: Tiffany Thoen Summary: Together we explore the ways disordered eating shows up and how shame gets in the way. What is a new practice to consider and options you can find to start having it all go differently for you today! We also touch on how the more popular Intermittent Fasting diet may not be the best decision for your body. Bio: As an RN and Intuitive Eating Coach, Tiffany helps women with disordered eating to finally heal their relationship with food so they gain freedom, balance and satisfaction. She helps clients to stop the binge/shame/restrict cycle. Through Intuitive Eating, clients begin to fully nourish themselves (mind, body and spirit) so they feel great and have the energy to do what they want to do. Tiffany's passion is helping women stop wasting their precious energy drained by the food and body struggle so that they can use their energy to be powerful leaders in the world. She has been sober for 20 years and feels that her recovery has informed all areas of her life, especially her work as a nurse and a coach. When she isn’t coaching, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, being out in nature and creating more fun, adventure, and play in her life. Follow Tiffany: coachtiffanyrn.com Show Notes:Shame & The Perpetual CycleDefining & Examples of Disordered EatingIntuitive EatingHealth interventionsIntegrative or Functional Medicine Doctor or NaturopathEnergy Drain Behind FoodDiscernmentUnconditional Permission to EatIntermittent Fasting

Bio: As a lover of written words and the authors who wrote them, Antoinette taught 5th grade through high school. A toxic injury in 1991 led her out of the classroom and into a bookstore – where she went in short order from bookseller to event planner and developed a reputation among authors that soon led to her becoming a literary publicist. Seeing the changes coming in the publishing industry, she added book developer to her resume and soon thereafter founded the La Jolla Writers Conference. Now in its nineteenth year, the conference has been called by Writer’s Digest one of the 84 conferences in the country worth the money. Simultaneously, she also hosted Writers Roundtable radio show for eight years, was the Book Lady on KUSI-TV Good Morning San Diego for 20 years, and created Nightstand Press.

Bio: As a lover of written words and the authors who wrote them, Antoinette taught 5th grade through high school. A toxic injury in 1991 led her out of the classroom and into a bookstore – where she went in short order from bookseller to event planner and developed a reputation among authors that soon led to her becoming a literary publicist. Seeing the changes coming in the publishing industry, she added book developer to her resume and soon thereafter founded the La Jolla Writers Conference. Now in its nineteenth year, the conference has been called by Writer’s Digest one of the 84 conferences in the country worth the money. Simultaneously, she also hosted Writers Roundtable radio show for eight years, was the Book Lady on KUSI-TV Good Morning San Diego for 20 years, and created Nightstand Press.

Zach Miller, JoeFroyo founder and president, will tell us about his journey from franchise owner to business founder. After owning and operating more than 30 retail locations from 5 national brands, Zach took his entrepreneurial skills to the next level developing 3 of his own companies, including dairy innovation brand, JoeFroyo. He'll share helpful lessons and advice from both sides of the operation. You won't want to miss this! Bio: As a Franchisee, Zach Miller has been a Multi-Unit owner/operator of more than 34 locations with 5 national brands, including Little Caesars, Sonic Burger, Cinnabon Bakery, Carvel Ice Cream, and Verizon Wireless. One of Zach's franchise ownership groups grew from 0 employees to 400, scaling it from one location to 19 in three states – generating over $20 million in annual sales. As a Founder, Zach has developed and launched 3 of his own branded companies. In 2014 Zach launched his current venture as Founder of JoeFroyo, a Dairy Innovation company focusing on value added products. As Founder, President, and Chief Innovator of JoeFroyo, his company's products can be found in retail all around the world.

Zach Miller, JoeFroyo founder and president, will tell us about his journey from franchise owner to business founder. After owning and operating more than 30 retail locations from 5 national brands, Zach took his entrepreneurial skills to the next level developing 3 of his own companies, including dairy innovation brand, JoeFroyo. He’ll share helpful lessons and advice from both sides of the operation. You won’t want to miss this! Bio: As a Franchisee, Zach Miller has been a Multi-Unit owner/operator of more than 34 locations with 5 national brands, including Little Caesars, Sonic Burger, Cinnabon Bakery, Carvel Ice Cream, and Verizon Wireless. One of Zach’s franchise ownership groups grew from 0 employees to 400, scaling it from one location to 19 in three states – generating over $20 million in annual sales. As a Founder, Zach has developed and launched 3 of his own branded companies. In 2014 Zach launched his current venture as Founder of JoeFroyo, a Dairy Innovation company focusing on value added products. As Founder, President, and Chief Innovator of JoeFroyo, his company’s products can be found in retail all around the world.

EPISODE Bonus Episode Day 26 TITLE Everyone Gets to Own Their Awesome! PLUS exclusive meditation just for our listeners! GUEST Chel Hamilton EPISODE OVERVIEW We talk a lot about play and inhibition, and I ask Chel how do we take those first steps when we want to let go, but we’re really scared. The interview takes an unexpected turn when Chel asks me something, and I get tearful, and have a pretty big insight! I was NOT expecting this.  The is so much freedom and joy on the other side of letting go of fear and inhibition and we talk about how to get there. This leads to a conversation about the importance of community, support, validation and knowing that you’re not alone as a sensitive. I wonder about the connection between childhood wounding and our preferred love language because I can see a direct correlation since my preferred love languages are Quality Time and Words of Affirmation. Chel talks about the benefits of meditation and silent meditation for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) as well as hypnosis. Guided meditation can be really helpful when you’re having feelings of overwhelm, stress, overstimulation because your body and mind will engage your relaxation response—your parasympathetic system, which is going to soothe your entire system, which will also create more calm for you, which also improves our emotional responses. Chel ends with talking about the quote Brene Brown uses about The Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt and how to focus on feedback from those that are actually in the arena doing the work.   BIO As a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist in practice for over a decade, and over 20 years of working with addicts and alcoholics, Chel has helped thousands of people let go of habits and thought patterns, and re-design their lives for more joy, freedom, and confidence. Through her guided meditation podcast “Meditation Minis” (with over 12 million downloads) she has helped people create more calmer, clearer, and happier lives. Her mission is to be an agent of change of powerful, positive change for the planet, and her passion is to that light that sparks in people’s eyes when that change occurs.   HIGHLIGHTS Silent Meditation or focal point meditation (when you focus on your breath, or an object or a word) is good for training your brain to focus, and letting go of distractions. It can also be good for mindfulness, which is the practice of noticing what you’re thinking and feeling in the moment because you no longer become distracted by those things Guided Meditation is closer to hypnosis. It can cause focus to increase, but it also reprograms the brain to have different reactions What happens with guided meditation or hypnosis is that your body is in a trance-like way your body and mind starts having difficulty differentiating between reality and what you’re picturing. This is the power of imagination and visualization. Hypnosis has more direct suggestions, so it’s similar to doing a guided meditation, but it often focuses on literally changing habits QUOTES Girl! There is only one of you in the Universe! Everyone gets to own their awesome! The more you own your awesome; it gives others permission to own their awesome I want to renew my sense of play in life and set aside perfection I think everybody gets to do a happy dance much more frequently than we typically do As a Highly Sensitive Person, it’s important that we do bring more play in If we’re going to feel all the feels…why can’t feel all the outrageously positive feels too? We get to choose what we believe Beliefs that are nourishing to us, we get to choose to have more of, and beliefs that are depleting to us, we get to acknowledge and set aside(ren)], and party with them Most of what we choose to take as truth, are actually beliefs we choose to believe All of this is for play and exploration, and adventure and fun, and I get to create more of that I’m talking about incorporating play and fun into what we’re already up to. Even in a more powerful way In those times when you are feeling overwhelmed, and/or are in a place of doubt or dread, there is so much power in just acknowledging where you are at, and taking 3 deep breaths   LINKS Where to find Chel Hamilton-- https://audioboom.com/channel/meditation-minis-podcast APPLE PODCASTS: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id963597166/ SPOTIFIY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4bSTeVDsXWKQCRptxuZnVQ     How weird are you? JP Sears--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaPjy7FB254   Saying YES! to your Weirdness | JP Sears | TEDxCardiffbytheSea-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79zra755WgA     SHOW PAGE: https://audioboom.com/channel/meditation-minis-podcast APPLE PODCASTS: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id963597166/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4bSTeVDsXWKQCRptxuZnVQ   To write a review in itunes: click on this link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unapologetically-sensitive/id1440433481?mt=2 select “view in itunes” chose “open in itunes” choose “ratings and reviews” click to rate the number of starts click “write a review”   Website--www.patriciayounglcsw.com Podcast--www.unapologeticallysensitive.com Facebook--https://www.facebook.com/Patricia-Young-LCSW-162005091044090/ Instagram--https://www.instagram.com/unapologeticallysensitive/ Youtube--https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOE6fodj7RBdO3Iw0NrAllg/videos?view_as=subscriber e-mail--info@unapologeticallysensitive.com Show hashtag--#unapologeticallysensitive MUSIC—Gravel Dance by Andy Robinson www.andyrobinson.com

Show Notes: http://www.bfrshop.com?aff=114 Coupon code: LTH Learn True Health Listeners get a special discount! Use Coupon Code LTH at checkout.   BFR Training http://learntruehealth.com/bfr-training/ BFR training is getting positive results from those who have tried it.  But for those who haven’t you might want to give this a try if your goal is to gain muscle mass.  To know more about BFR training, join me and my guest, Kusha Karvandi on this episode. Finding Passion There are so many ways to lose weight.  It doesn’t have to mean lifting weights all the time. Even walking is a form of effective exercise if you do it consistently. It’s the micro-habits that can help change our body. I was pleased to find out that Kusha Karvandi also has a Sunlighten Sauna, although it shouldn’t be a surprise since he says he’s a fan of heat therapy in general. Kusha Karvandi first worked as a part-time membership sales guy at a gym in San Diego. When Kusha Karvandi was in school, he initially thought he was going to take the medical route because he wanted to become a doctor. But then he soon realized that he was not cut out for sales. Instead, he was always passionate about health fitness and working out. “I found a passion for it during the first three to six months doing personal training, and I did it for several years. Apart from that, I also had a big boxing gym in San Diego,” shared Kusha Karvandi.  He adds, “I started managing gyms and teams, hired and developed hundreds of trainers and I had different certifications. They all speak through the lens of biomechanics. And they all look at the human body as being a biomechanical machine. To a certain extent, it’s true. Career Shift By accident, Kusha Karvandi stumbled upon this science called Functional Neurology. It’s like neurology but more of an Applied Neurology. It looked at how does an exercise program influence the brain, or how can we get the brain to influence the goal of fat loss or muscle gain.  “But there are things like visual skills you need to have to have optimal performance. And that includes strength,” said Kusha Karvandi. “I also realized that traditional medicine is good for emergencies. But regarding improving quality of life and optimal performance, traditional medicine has many pitfalls.”  One pitfall of traditional medicine is the fact that it is impersonal. There is no diving into a patient’s deep health history.  Often, patients are hardly analyzed, and the solution is usually either surgery or prescribing medication.  BFR Training BFR stands for blood flow restriction.  According to Kusha Karvandi, BFR training helps people gain muscle and strength without having to lift heavy weight. Kusha Karvandi first learned about BFR training when he read about it in a journal around six or seven years ago. For those who are not aware, BFR is not new. It has been around for decades with over 25 years of research and the subject of approximately 200 studies. It was initially developed by a Japanese doctor to help his patients prevent atrophy. “It made its way into the bodybuilding world because they wanted to use this to gain size and strength,” shares Kusha Karvandi. “In the 90s or before that, the bodybuilding community adopted this to use it as a tool to gain size and strength, without lifting heavy weights. If you lift heavy weights all the time, it takes a toll on the body and brain.” Benefits of BFR Kusha Karvandi believes that a good workout gives the body more than it takes. With exercise, most people immediately think they need to do more, lift heavier, workout harder – when in reality they need to trainer smarter and more efficiently. “I realized how valuable BFR could be too pretty much anybody who wanted to look and feel better. If somebody is trying to strengthen an area that’s weak and can’t do a whole lot of load, this is a great tool,” said Kusha Karvandi. Kusha Karvandi also says that the goal is keeping workout efficient. And also remember that the recommended weight is 20% of your max in terms of load. Because apparently, it is easier to fatigue with heavy loads so start lighter. Things To Remember Kusha Karvandi also advises everyone to maintain technique before increasing loads. Genetics, nutrition and hormonal factors all have a role in building muscle, so it is essential to pay attention to those factors as well. “As for fat loss, it has more to do with the hormone influence on IGF 1 and growth hormone as well as the metabolic stimulation and metabolic stress,” said Kusha Karvandi. “It’s almost like high-intensity interval training workout. Also, remember to change things every so often.” He also advises to pay attention to recovery and get some hot sauna therapy as well. Because ideally, you have to have a planned recovery if you want to see continued progress. “Research showed that doing lightweight BFR training has been equally as effective. In some cases, more effective than doing traditional weight training with moderate to heavy weight without the band,” Kusha Karvandi said. He adds, “Many people think that because of where the bands are placed, that the only benefit is to the muscles directly near the side of the cushion. But it’s creating a systemic effect. In fact, because of metabolic change, you’re building a shift in homeostasis.  Choosing A Trainer In any diet or exercise, it is always best to get professional help. But not all trainers or health practitioners are good, so you still have to be alert on how to choose the best one. For choosing trainers, in particular, Kusha Karvandi suggests looking for trainers who jot down your progress. Observed if they are engaged in your workout and gauge how are they facilitating. Recommended Frequency Kusha Karvandi recommends that doing BFR training for two to three weeks is best. He also dismisses rumors that BFR training is unsafe. “There is no increase in coagulation with BFR training and no added risk. In a Scandinavian study, it stated that BFR training is safer than traditional training,” said Kusha Karvandi. He adds, “I’m not a big fan of CrossFit. They are using traditional training. In many cases, heavyweight training like Olympic lifting and combining it with high-intensity and high reps. It’s a recipe for disaster like muscle damage as well as a breakdown of muscle cells and leaking toxicity into the body which can kill you.” Basic Diet Diet is not complicated in BFR training.  Kusha Karvandi says to make sure you get adequate protein intake from a natural source. Supplements are also useful for muscle gain, and creatine has been proven to help gain size and strength. A right amount of fish oil intake is also recommended as well as eating enough saturated fats. Kusha Karvandi also reminds everyone to have enough electrolytes to replace minerals for proper muscle contract and recovery. Magnesium and vitamin B12 complex can also work wonders for your muscle progress. “When you gain muscle mass, it burns more calories. You have a higher energy demand. You’re going to be hungrier. Gaining muscle mass is important if your goal is permanent weight loss,” said Kusha Karvandi. “How you train and the genetics you have, the supplements you take, physically dictate how big you get. It helps to burn more calories at rest and be more efficient.” He adds, “I’m also not a fan of fat burners. The best fat burner is eating better, sleeping better and exercising better. It’s all about finding what works for you.” BFR Bands Online Store You can buy BFR bands at Kusha Karvandi’s online store. There are several bands to choose from, and very affordable, too! You don’t need to worry about the bands pinching your skin because it has been tested and proven to aid your workout in the most comfortable way possible. Apart from the bands, there are also several supplement products, accessories, books, and apparel on his website. There’s even an app and a BFR course to guide you through the workout. As an added incentive, Kusha Karvandi threw in something nice for Learn True Health listeners. Just type in LTH at checkout to avail of the discount so do check out the website.  Bio As a personal trainer, Kusha Karvandi has trained over 10,000 hours of one-on-one sessions. With over 20 nationally-recognized certifications and a unique specialty in neuroscience, Kusha Karvandi’s ability to transform his clients is unlike any other coach in the fitness industry.  Although considered the eternal student, Kusha Karvandi describes his coaching philosophy by the Latin word “docere” which implies ‘coach as teacher.’ Kusha Karvandi is the creator of the BFR Bands, designed for the research-backed form of training known as blood flow restriction training which helps you gain muscle and strength without lifting heavy weight. Get Connected with Kusha Karvandi! 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Galitta is unique – a singer who combines very personal, very creative work with an almost magical healing vibe that includes Kabala, shamanism, and more. Galitta translates those healing tools into art forms … which you can experience firsthand through the very cool videos on her website. Her zest for life is infectious and this episode will put a smile on your face! Galitta’s desire to heal people arrived when her daughter was in intensive care, having a life or death procedure. In those agonizing hours, she discovered her own ability to handle stress by singing and chanting. Until then, she’d simply been a big band and jazz singer who loved music … but now she had more to share. Her stories are warm and generous, and her passion is overflowing! You will be enlightened and inspired by what Galitta has to say. Interesting things I learned … and you will too: The mysterious connection between healing and the creative arts How we can tap into our body’s innate knowing as a way to heal trauma and more How to use your creative expression to hang in the midst of a major crisis … even if you’re not ‘creative’ What happens mechanically in the body when you sing or chant … and why it’s so healing for the soul How we can tap into our own ‘Inner Voice’ that guides our creative expression … and our own healing How you can use this even if you’ve never done anything ‘creative’ The power of achieving balance between our masculine and our feminine BIO As a healer Galitta is a certified practitioner of Theta Healing and Reconnective Healing and has practiced since 2000, the Sound Healing and Shamanism. Galitta is an inspiring force in the world of artistic expression and personal development. She is a happiness guide and transformational midwife, a mother and a woman with a passion for voice and self-expression. She is on a mission to share the creative force, scientific nuggets and mystical knowledge and secrets about happiness. Galitta grew up with strong tribal traditions and her own journey took her through Europe as an accomplished artist, entertainer, coach and sound healer. An inspiring force for female creative expression and personal development, Galitta has performed and spoken at hundreds of events around Europe. Galitta’s tribal heritage, prolific artistic range, and entrepreneurial drive led her to produce the Grand Dessert show, sound healing album “The Thirteen”, and The Fertile Ground Studio, which is a center for learning. Galitta is the founder and originator of the Happy Goddessa teaching program. To date Galitta has led hundreds of events and workshops in Europe, inspiring countless numbers of people to find their voice and live a better life. RESOURCES Galitta’s Wonderful Healing Videos (link from her home page) Galitta’s free gift: What Is Your Intuition SuperPower? The Happy Godessa work (for women)  

In November, 2015, this dynamic duo broke ground on the 15,000-square-foot distillery in Shelbyville, KY. Joyce is the Master Distiller behind the operation, while her daughter Autumn acts as Co-Owner and Marketing Manager. And although Jeptha Creed is still very young, they’re already creating incredible buzz in the spirits world.   This episode is sponsored by Ora Organic, my favorite supplement company because they use only organic and sustainable ingredients in ALL of their supplements, the products forking work, and who doesn’t love sexy packaging, right? I am so excited for you all to experience Ora Organic for yourselves with a SWEET discount! Go ahead and please enjoy a 15% discount off your ENTIRE order, always! Not just one and then done! At Checkout use JustForkingAround for your code and happily receive your 15% discount, forking awesome! (I have been using and am obsessed with the Trust Your Gut Probiotic Powder and the Omega 3 Spray called Nothing Fishy Here. The Organic Greens Powder, Easy Being Green, is also a crowd pleaser). ENJOY! Check out Ora Organic Here     When you think Kentucky, you probably think bourbon – whiskey, vodka, and moonshine – and if that’s the case… you’re absolutely correct!  But this epic tale is much grander, and goes way deeper, than just another Kentucky distillery. The Nethery story is truly fantastic, and what they are creating is nothing short of inspirational – and forking tasty! From the farming techniques, to the family creed, to their commitment to sustainability, Joyce and Autumn hold true to the legacy of distillers. We also discuss: How serendipity made Joyce a master distiller Why Autumn studied in Scotland for a year Why they chose the name “Jeptha Creed” The “secret recipe” and unique heirloom varietals that go into these spirits Sustainable farming techniques Wet, dry, and moist counties The Jeptha Creed drinks & their bourbon coming up in 2019 (it has to age!) Everyone’s different reactions to different spirits Resources: Learn more at JepthaCreed.com Connect with Jeptha Creed: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Joyce Nethery’s Bio: As far back as she can remember, Joyce has had a passion for chemistry. She earned a Master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School, and for 15 years worked as a process engineer in industrial scale distillation. She then spent a decade teaching high school chemistry and physics before her husband Bruce’s dream of opening a distillery reignited her passion for the distillation process—and the rest, as they say, is history.   Her deep love for farm life, as well as her many years working her family’s land, have given her invaluable insight into growing the wide variety of crops used in Jeptha Creed’s products. It has also inspired the distillery’s distinct ground-to-glass maxim. In addition to being a Master Distiller and owner of Jeptha Creed, Joyce is a devoted mother of two who has a  passion for all things Kentucky. She couldn’t be prouder to carry on the state’s long history of distilling the finest spirits in the world. Autumn Nethery’s Bio: Autumn comes by her love of distilling honestly—her mother is Jeptha Creed master distiller and co-owner Joyce Nethery. But it took a year at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, studying the craft with some of the best distillers in the world to truly ignite her passion. Now Autumn is among the youngest distillery owners in the country and an integral part of making Jeptha Creed one of Kentucky’s most groundbreaking distilleries.   Using what she learned traveling abroad with Semester at Sea, as well as through her studies at the University of Kentucky, where she earned her Bachelor’s in marketing, Autumn’s dream is to expand Jeptha Creed’s reach into every state, while still keeping the family feel the distillery is known for.

“You don't have to live with whatever life throws you—or whatever you've gotten yourself into. You can change your story! No matter how it looks right now, your life is a masterpiece waiting to be discovered.” This is the message of author, screenwriter, singer, and sought after speaker, Kirstin Leigh. Originally from a small town in Kentucky, Kirstin Leigh is a powerhouse of strength and compassion—one who has battled the demons (and the bottle) and won. In today's interview Kirstin shares captivatingly honest accounts of her dreams, detours, tragedies, and triumphs; what it took to overcome, and why her breakout book Change Your Story is the story she never planned to tell. If you have ever struggled with addictions, depression, or anxiety; if you are tired of wrestling with negative thoughts and being defined by your past; if you wonder why the same things keep happening to you and are ready for your breakthrough… you won't want to miss today's interview. Key Takeaways: 1) More often than we'd like to believe, the addictions, the bad relationships and every other problem we have, are our insides screaming, “Deal with me!” 2) Balancing (pretending to be fine), takes every bit of our energy and is the biggest distraction to our destiny. 3) Dealing with our backstory is NOT the same as dwelling on it. 4) Our feelings deserve to be heard and need to be understood—but sometimes we have to tell them to shut-up! 5) Our bad decisions can make us wiser. Our rocky past can clear the path for a purpose filled life. 6) When you're stuck, ask God to reveal what's standing in your way. 7) You are not your pain, your problem, or your past. 8) The worst part of our story can bring God glory—if we let it. Favorite Quotes: “Don't let WHERE you are become WHO you are.”  “If you don't learn from the battle behind you, you won't see the one in front of you.” “Don't breakdown—breakthrough.” “Your scars can become someone else's stepping stones.” “Feelings have a mission. Change requires vision.” “Our story is a chapter in someone else's life.” Kirstin Leigh's Bio: As a writer, singer and speaker, Kirstin's goal is for her messages, characters, songs, and stories to speak to a part of the soul that has been untouched or forgotten. She hopes that by sharing pieces of her journey, along with Biblical truths, insights and revelations, that people from all walks of life will be challenged, inspired, motivated, and equipped with the tools to “change their story” and to become everything God created them to be. In addition to speaking at youth events, women's conferences, rehab centers and churches, Kirstin Leigh has written over one hundred articles for national publications and churches such as The Daily Positive and One Church LA. Kirstin's up and coming projects include a television series for teens that features her original music, a series of books for young readers, and a trilogy for middle graders. Kirstin Leigh's faith based self-empowerment book Change Your Story was released Easter weekend, and is endorsed by International Author, Speaker, and Life Advisor, Tim Storey; Touré Roberts, Author and Founder of One Church LA; Judy Radachy, Founder of Oasis of Hollywood; Rex Holt, Pastor of Mercy Chapel; and Actress and Author, Nancy Stafford. Change Your Story is for every soul that is searching, every heart that has been broken, every dreamer who lost the fight… and every survivor who is ready to soar. What other Leaders of Transformation are saying: “It's time to change your story. That is the message of Kirstin Leigh. In a time when so many people are finding themselves in an OK life, Kirstin Leigh tells us and shows us by experience that there is definitely more. Her story is compelling and gives us hope, that we can change the channel at any point in our journey and find a life full of meaning and strength. I highly recommend this encouraging book.” - TIM STOREY, Author, Speaker, Life Advisor “Change Your Story will give you the impetus and inspiration you need to get you ‘unstuck' and make those long desired changes in your life! Full of Biblical truths and powerful insights, Kirstin Leigh will help you shake off your past, alter your thinking, and dare to believe that you DO have a wonderful future and destiny. A natural encourager, Kirstin proves that it doesn't matter where you've been—you CAN change your story! This book can change your life!” - NANCY STAFFORD, Actress, Speaker, and Author of The Wonder of His Love: A Journey into the Heart of God and Beauty by the Book: Seeing Yourself as God Sees You.  “Everyone has a story but only the brave really share their stories. Kirstin Leigh is brave. I know her. She is radiant, life-giving, a blessing bearer to all. She is a woman who has learned to live again and her life message will inspire, motivate, and equip you to change your story. Her practical insights will engage you and give you the courage to dig deeply into your own story. You will start to see it from a new perspective. This book will read you as you read it providing on-ramps to a road of unimaginable freedom where dreams become reality. I am honored to endorse such a life giving book.” - W. REX HOLT, Pastor of Mercy Chapel, Agoura Hills, CA Resources: Amazon Books: Change Your Story by Kirstin Leigh Connect with Kirstin Leigh Online: www.Kirstinleigh.biz  Follow Kirstin: Facebook: KirstinLeighWriter Twitter: KirstinLeighWriter Instagram: KirstinLeigh3

Galitta is unique – a singer who combines very personal, very creative work with an almost magical healing vibe that includes Kabala, shamanism, and more. Galitta translates those healing tools into art forms … which you can experience firsthand through the very cool videos on her website at http://happygoddessa.com/ Her zest for life is infectious and this episode will put a smile on your face! Galitta’s desire to heal people arrived when her daughter was in intensive care, having a life or death procedure. In those agonizing hours, she discovered her own ability to handle stress by singing and chanting. Until then, she’d simply been a big band and jazz singer who loved music … but now she had more to share. Her stories are warm and generous, and her passion is overflowing! You will be enlightened and inspired by what Galitta has to say. Interesting things I learned … and you will too: The mysterious connection between healing and the creative arts How we can tap into our body’s innate knowing as a way to heal trauma and more How to use your creative expression to hang in the midst of a major crisis … even if you’re not ‘creative’ What happens mechanically in the body when you sing or chant … and why it’s so healing for the soul How we can tap into our own ‘Inner Voice’ that guides our creative expression … and our own healing How you can use this even if you’ve never done anything ‘creative’ The power of achieving balance between our masculine and our feminine BIO As a healer Galitta is a certified practitioner of Theta Healing and Reconnective Healing and has practiced since 2000, the Sound Healing and Shamanism. Galitta is an inspiring force in the world of artistic expression and personal development. She is a happiness guide and transformational midwife, a mother and a woman with a passion for voice and self-expression. She is on a mission to share the creative force, scientific nuggets and mystical knowledge and secrets about happiness. Galitta grew up with strong tribal traditions and her own journey took her through Europe as an accomplished artist, entertainer, coach and sound healer. An inspiring force for female creative expression and personal development, Galitta has performed and spoken at hundreds of events around Europe. Galitta’s tribal heritage, prolific artistic range, and entrepreneurial drive led her to produce the Grand Dessert show, sound healing album “The Thirteen”, and The Fertile Ground Studio, which is a center for learning. Galitta is the founder and originator of the Happy Goddessa teaching program. To date Galitta has led hundreds of events and workshops in Europe, inspiring countless numbers of people to find their voice and live a better life. For more information: Galitta's Wonderful Healing Videos Galitta's free gift: What Is Your Intuition SuperPower? 

In This Episode Our guest, Irina Balyurko, shows us how putting your products on Amazon.com can benefit your business. She goes in to a detailed process of how to get your product on Amazon. What You’ll Learn Benefits of using Amazon Shipping with Amazon vs. self-shipping How to scale in your inventory to Amazon fulfillment Is it really worth it to use Amazon Irina’s Quote “I love my life” How to find Main Website: sellerladder.com Facebook: Irina Balyurko Books to check out Essentialism Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown Irina’s Bio As an Amazon consultant Irina's main goal is to help product based brands grow on Amazon platform.  She built her e-commerce expertise on both personal experience and providing guidance to business in various stages: from product launches to boosting sales for a mature business. She also brings MBA degree, and 10 years of corporate experience in project management and business analysis. Irina has an unhealthy obsession with farmers markets, and often can be caught playing superheroes with her two boys.  

What you'll discover when I talk to Cinzia Cinzia shares her journey from Kitchen Table to success Why her family was the motivator for Smoothie Bombs How she juggles working and being a single mother What happened when someone stole her idea and copied it BIO As a nutritionist and dedicated single mother of two, I created the Smoothie Bombs 5 years ago at my kitchen bench. Lana, my youngest, was skipping breakfast way too often; it was a battle to get her to eat breakfast. I tried many tactics and I nailed it with what has become Smoothie Bombs. When it proved successful at home, word got out in the local community.  Soon after family and friends gathered around the kitchen table for rolling sessions to keep up with demand.  Local cafes were soon on board and the idea of turning this into a business became viable. I decided to make it into a consumer product in January 2014, where the iconic tube was born.     LINKS: Smoothie Bombs website Smoothie Bombs Instagram  

In today’s world, branding is a big buzzword. How does branding fit into the world of political campaigns and activism? I have special guest Nicole Williams of Spark Freedom on today’s podcast to discuss branding for political candidates and activist organizations. She has lots of great ideas and information to share with you. If you are a political candidate or activist, or if you are working on a political campaign, then you need to hear what Nicole has to share with us. The information that she shares about branding will help bring your political campaign to the next level and help you win your local election! In this episode, you’ll learn: Why it is important to define your goal up front- learn how having a clear, measurable goal will help shape your branding How messaging is shaped by your end goal– learn how you can use your goal to define the message for your political campaign Why it is important to limit your key points- learn why you don’t want to have more than two or three key points for your end goal How you can creatively use interns to help define your messaging- learn how you can recruit interns to do surveys to help define your branding Why story matters for political candidates and activist organizations - learn why it is important to tell a story instead of listing facts How story fits into branding for political candidates- learn how story fits into defining your political campaign or activist organization’s brand Resources: Spark Freedom: Website Spark Sessions: Website and YouTube Archive ArrowHead Accelerator: Website Arrowhead3 Consulting: Website Contact information:  Nicole Williams Email: Nicole@sparkfreedom.org John Tsarpalas Twitter: @JTsarpalas Email: john@commonwealthy.com Nicole’s Bio: As president of Spark Freedom, Nicole works with many freedom-oriented organizations to improve their marketing and communications. She is passionate about raising awareness of and appreciation for the ideals of liberty, freedom, and self-reliance. In addition to her role at Spark Freedom, Nicole runs a small homestead where she raises chickens, grows vegetables, and roasts coffee. Active in her community, Nicole serves as president of the board of directors of a local classical choir, Mastersingers of Cookeville. She also serves as secretary on the board of directors for the Dekalb County Farmers Market in Smithville, Tennessee. Nicole's degrees in German, music, and education may not directly relate to the work she does today, but the skills she learned both at university and afterward have provided her with what she needs to excel in her current role, which requires her to analyze problems from multiple perspectives, tailor coaching services and programs to bring outcomes for participants, and use her well-honed abilities for facilitation and motivational speaking. While the degrees she pursued in her younger years also provided her with beautiful pieces of paper that many claim are required for successful entry into the job market, she has found these to be less and less necessary as the years go by. Transcript: Available here  Thank you for listening!

Khateebah Zahra Billoo delivers the 7th khutbah for The Women's Mosque of America on July 24th, 2015. In her sermon, Zahra talks about how we as individuals in the Muslim community should stand up for ourselves and our communities to challenge injustice in our daily lives and the world around us. Bio: As the Executive Director of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) San Francisco Bay Area, Zahra Billoo strives to promote justice and mutual understanding. Zahra joined CAIR-SFBA in 2009, and immediately embraced her roles as community organizer and civil rights advocate. She frequently provides trainings at mosques and universities as part of CAIR's efforts to empower the community, while building bridges with allies on civil rights issues. Zahra also represents victims of discrimination and advocates for policy changes that uphold civil rights for all. A 2014 recipient of the National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter's Unsung Hero Award and a 2013 recipient of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California's Trailblazer Award, Zahra came to CAIR with a background in employment and labor rights advocacy. In college, she worked with the California Faculty Association on issues including faculty salaries and the defunding of public higher education. In law school, she was awarded the Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship to work on the National Employment Law Project. Zahra graduated Cum Laude from CSU Long Beach with degrees in Human Resources Management and Political Science. She earned her J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law, and was admitted to the California Bar in 2009.

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Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.Bio:As one of the first pioneers to introduce house & dance music to his native South Florida, this veteran has been DJ'ing, producing, & releasing techno projects since 1992. Since then, Penton has produced various releases that have fueled the best talents in the world. Penton's productions have been supported for over a decade by Sasha, John Digweed, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, and countless others. Today, he has released over 100 various projects on some of the industries highest respected dance labels, including Perfecto, Armada, System Rec., In Charge, Beatfreak, Stereo Productions, Sutil, Baroque & more. For-more his many past & present productions are featured on numerous compilations from some of the industries largest selling dance labels, such as Euphoria, Gatecrasher, Bedrock, and Perfecto. His style has crossed all borders, from producing a wide range of progressive, tribal, and now electro house releases. His productions have received acclaim press from some of the industries largest dance magazines and online publications.Penton also heads his own label, Electric Candy Recordings. Running since 2006, the label allows him to focus on a mixture of electro, house & progressive styled projects, with many releases scheduled throughout 2008. The label has feature numerous international artists such as: Thomas Gold, Jerome Isma-Ae, Alex Armes, Sam Stizer (aka Sergio Armes), John C, Kotoswitch, Chris Reece, Tyler Michaud, Gabriel Batz, D6, Nick Galea, David Michael, Peter Presta, Tronso, Martin H., Hernan Serrao, Scott Anselmo, Damien Heck, Santiago Nino, Audio Junkies, Cecil McCarthy and many more. Most projects are out now and receiving massive support worldwide.Thomas has also been the featured artist at numerous publications & retailers, including www.Beatport.com. And at the beginning of 2007, his release, 'Jacks Funk' topped the sales chart at www.Beatport.com for several weeks. Releases from his label ECR are available now exclusively at www.Beatport.com.His studio productions also include sample library cds for production studios & artists titled, Essential Drums & Percussion Vol. I. and, Essential Loops & Sound Effects; which has been featured in Future Music Magazine. These two special projects are available exclusively at www.Resonantvibes.comBookings:Thomas Pentonemail: info@thomaspenton.commsn: wisenomad@hotmail.comPLEASE SEE  WWW.THOMASPENTON.COM & WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJTHOMASPENTON  FOR MORE CURRENT INFOThomas Penton818 S. Grand Ave. Suite 701, Los Angeles, CA. 90017 USA - tel. (954) 638.0957 e: info@thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.myspace.com/djthomaspenton.comSpecial Thanks to Mr Thomas Penton.

Rod B. & Alvaro Garfunk bring you the Miami Underground Movement.Bio:As one of the first pioneers to introduce house & dance music to his native South Florida, this veteran has been DJ'ing, producing, & releasing techno projects since 1992. Since then, Penton has produced various releases that have fueled the best talents in the world. Penton's productions have been supported for over a decade by Sasha, John Digweed, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, and countless others. Today, he has released over 100 various projects on some of the industries highest respected dance labels, including Perfecto, Armada, System Rec., In Charge, Beatfreak, Stereo Productions, Sutil, Baroque & more. For-more his many past & present productions are featured on numerous compilations from some of the industries largest selling dance labels, such as Euphoria, Gatecrasher, Bedrock, and Perfecto. His style has crossed all borders, from producing a wide range of progressive, tribal, and now electro house releases. His productions have received acclaim press from some of the industries largest dance magazines and online publications.Penton also heads his own label, Electric Candy Recordings. Running since 2006, the label allows him to focus on a mixture of electro, house & progressive styled projects, with many releases scheduled throughout 2008. The label has feature numerous international artists such as: Thomas Gold, Jerome Isma-Ae, Alex Armes, Sam Stizer (aka Sergio Armes), John C, Kotoswitch, Chris Reece, Tyler Michaud, Gabriel Batz, D6, Nick Galea, David Michael, Peter Presta, Tronso, Martin H., Hernan Serrao, Scott Anselmo, Damien Heck, Santiago Nino, Audio Junkies, Cecil McCarthy and many more. Most projects are out now and receiving massive support worldwide.Thomas has also been the featured artist at numerous publications & retailers, including www.Beatport.com. And at the beginning of 2007, his release, 'Jacks Funk' topped the sales chart at www.Beatport.com for several weeks. Releases from his label ECR are available now exclusively at www.Beatport.com.His studio productions also include sample library cds for production studios & artists titled, Essential Drums & Percussion Vol. I. and, Essential Loops & Sound Effects; which has been featured in Future Music Magazine. These two special projects are available exclusively at www.Resonantvibes.comBookings:Thomas Pentonemail: info@thomaspenton.commsn: wisenomad@hotmail.comPLEASE SEE  WWW.THOMASPENTON.COM & WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJTHOMASPENTON  FOR MORE CURRENT INFOThomas Penton818 S. Grand Ave. Suite 701, Los Angeles, CA. 90017 USA - tel. (954) 638.0957 e: info@thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.thomaspenton.com - www.myspace.com/djthomaspenton.comSpecial Thanks to Mr Thomas Penton.