Podcast appearances and mentions of Brenda Miller

Brenda Miller, owner of Velvet's Big Easy in Tacoma, transitioned from a successful career at Boeing to pursue her culinary passion. With the support of Chase's Coaching for Impact Program, Miller received mentorship and hands-on assistance from Sheila Winston, Vice President and Certified Senior Business Consultant at Chase Bank. This guidance helped Miller transform her business from a food truck and catering service into a thriving brick-and-mortar restaurant. Interview by Chris B. Bennett.

Brenda Miller, executive secretary to the superintendent and school board (l-r), administers the oath of office May 9 to La Vernia Independent School District trustees Shawn Strey, Place 6; Stewart Krisch, Place 7; and Jeff Towns, Place 5, at the La Vernia Independent School District regular board meeting. The three were unopposed for seats up for election May 6. Krisch replaced outgoing board President Nancy Janysek, who chose not to run for re-election.Article Link

Cada martes falo coa Psicóloga e sexóloga Verónica Barros de Barros psicoloxía. Hoxe visibilizamos a mulleres importantes e fundamentais no eido da psicoloxía e os seus estudos ou descubrimentos. "Cando comezas a estudar psicoloxía, todo o mundo che comeza a mencionar apelidos de persoas que foron relevantes neste eido. Involuntariamente sempre os asocias a homes". "Realmente foi Anna Freud quen máis investigou sobre a psicoloxía dos nenos, pero sempre pensamos no seu irmán Sigmund". "Sen o traballlo destas mulleres non se houberan obtido moitos dos avances cientificos e a psicoloxía actual non sería o mesmo". ‍⚕Brenda Miller. Investigacións no Instituto Neurolóxico de Montreal (Canadá) e profesora do departamento de Neuroloxía e Neurocirurxía da Universidade de McGill. Brenda é moi coñecida polo caso de H.M. Un mozo que sufrirá ataque epilépticos moi graves dende os 10 anos, e ao cal lle fixeron unha cirurxía na que lle extirparon os lóbulos temporais mediais, o que lle causou amnesia anterógrada. É dicir, deixou de poder gardar novos acontecementos na memoria a largo prazo. Sen embargo, o que descubriuMiller foi que podía continuar aprendendo novas habilidades sen recordar telo feito. ‍⚕Rosalie Raynor. Estudou, xunto a Watson, o condicionamento a través do pequeno Albert, un neno de 9 meses ao que introducían nun laboratorio cunha rata branca. Ao principio o neno non mostraba medo ante este estímulo, pero, comezaron a introducir un golpe forte dun martelo contra unha barra de metal, para asustar ao neno. Isto fixo que pronto o simple feito de ver a rata fora suficiente para xerarlle nervios e medo ao neno. Aprendera a que ver a rata conlevaba ese son que lle producía medo. ‍⚕Mary Ainsworth. Foi pioneira na psicoloxía do desenvolvemento. O máis coñecido na súa carreira foi o estudio da situación estraña e a súa contribución á teoría do apego. Esta teoría sempre se asocia a John Bowlby, porque foi o que comezou con ela, pero Ainsworth foi a que observou como os bebés respondían ante dúas persoas: unha coñecida e unha estraña, habendo tres estresores: meter ao neno nunha situación non coñecida, a interacción do neno cunha descoñecida e tamén as breves separación da súa nai. De ai, sacou que existían varios tipos de apego: seguro, evitativo, ansioso ambivalente e desorganizado. ‍⚕Anna Freud. Realmente moi importante no ámbito da psicoloxía, e non so porque acompañase ao seu irmán, Sigmund Freud, senón porque introduciu a idea dos mecanismos de defensa e ampliou o interese no campo da psicoloxía infantil. ‍⚕Melanie Klein. Xogou un papel fundamental no desenvolvemento da terapia de xogo. A través do seu traballo con menos, observou que a miúdo empregan o xogo como un dos seus principais medios de comunicación. É, polo tanto, unha forma perfecta para acceder aos pensamentos e sentimentos máis inconscientes, ansiedades e experiencias. ⚕️BARROS PSICOLOGÍA, Gabinete de psicoloxía especializado en trastornos do espectro autista e TDAH. Terapia individual e familiar, nenos e adolescentes, dificultades de aprendizaxe, problemas emocionais e de conduta, dificultades sexuais, terapia de parella... Máis información BARROS PSICOLOGÍA: ✔️Barros Psicologia: https://www.barrospsicologia.com/ ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veronicabarrospsicologia ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barrospsicologia/ ️ "SUSCRÍBETE" ao podcast MÁIS ENTREVISTAS: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-salta-da-cama_sq_f1323089_1.html Máis Información e outros contidos: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PabloChichas ✔️Twitter: https://twitter.com/pablochichas ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablochichas/ ✔️Clubhouse: @pablochichas ✔️Twich: https://www.twitch.tv/pablochichas

 If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek! On this great episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 55 and 55, from 1982.Author John Jackson Miller discusses how he handles writer's block. Check out his work on Faraway Press: https://farawaypress.com/startrek/Sean Witty reflects on what it was like to play Star Fleet Battles in the early '80sMarkAdam and Brenda Miller discuss the blooper reels that were presented at conventions. Follow their adventures on the USS Hephstus: https://m.facebook.com/104543106269305/Plus... the Trek Marvel comics, the Motion Picture uniforms, Star Trek: The Board Game, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!Theme music provided by Foot Pound Force. Find out more about the band here:https://footpoundforce.bandcamp.com/musichttps://m.facebook.com/100029411275345/Looking for a Star Trek fan club to join?Check out Starfleet Command!https://www.starfleet-command.com/Don't forget to join our Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=469912916856743&ref=content_filterLove Starlog magazine?Join the Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=303578380105395&ref=content_filterLooking for a Star Trek social club? Join us in STARFLEET International! https://sfi.org/Subscribe to our YouTube Channel “StarPodLog and StarPodTrek”:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgE_kNBWqnvTPAQODKZA1UgFind us on Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts!If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

 If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek!  Bob Turner and Kelly Casto review the Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith.Check them out on the '70s Trek podcast!https://m.facebook.com/1742040886071290/   Mark Adam & Brenda Miller discuss what Gene  Roddenberry was up to. Follow their adventures on the USS Hephaestus: https://m.facebook.com/104543106269305/Bruce Bert talks about astronaut and artist Alan Bean.Lou, Max, and Rich consider the career of William Shatner. Join the Mego Like Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/533274100662813/Plus...TMP on videocassette, and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!Join us at ShadowCon January 6-8!https://www.shadowcon.info/The Planetary Society:https://www.planetary.org/Looking for a Star Trek fan club to join?Check out Starfleet Command!https://www.starfleet-command.com/...and the Klingon Assault Group!https://www.kag.org/Subscribe to the Starbase Indy podcast!https://www.starbaseindy.org/podcastsDon't forget to join our Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=469912916856743&ref=content_filterLove Starlog magazine?Join the Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=303578380105395&ref=content_filterSubscribe to our YouTube Channel “StarPodLog and StarPodTrek”:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgE_kNBWqnvTPAQODKZA1UgFind us on Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts!Music used with permission by Five Year Mission. If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

Learn super-easy and free techniques that provide instant stress relief from Brenda Miller. When you think about things that are keeping you up at night and affecting the quality of your sleep, what's the first thing that comes to mind? I'm going to take a wild guess and say - stress. How often do you find yourself too stressed out to fall asleep? You're laying there, thinking about the day that just passed or the day that is coming tomorrow; you're thinking about all the things you did wrong and about all the things that can go wrong tomorrow. Stress affects us all, and everyday life gets hectic - work, kids, responsibilities - it catches up with us at the end of the day and keeps us up. But what if I told you there was a way to dissolve stress as it arouses, techniques and strategies you could use to dissolve that stress before it detonates once your head hits the pillow? Brenda Miller is an award-winning, bestselling author and founder of The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting Strategies—100 ways to get ‘right now relief' in an upset with your child—or anyone else! She has taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries. Her books, international speaking engagements, and 10-minute parenting courses taught by her and the Kid Code teachers help give parents strategies for dissolving stressful situations—before they detonate. Learn super-easy and free techniques for yourself, your kids and your family that provide instant stress relief from Brenda Miller. If you're interested in Brenda's courses or her fabulous new book, please visit https://www.thekidcode.ca/. Don't forget to play the Game of Sleep to find out if you ace your sleep fundamentals: sleeplikeaboss.com/the-game-of-sleep/

 If you grew up in the '60s, '70s, or '80s,you will love StarPodTrek! On this spectacular episode of StarPodTrek, we consider the Star Trek contents of Starlog magazine in issues 49 and 50, from 1981.Read along with your personal issue from your collection or for free here:https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-049/mode/2up   Lou, Max, and Rich, consider the Motion Picture Ben Cooper Halloween costumes!Join the Mego Like Facebook Group:https://m.facebook.com/groups/533274100662813/   Shocking Jon helps us to appreciate the connection between Star Trek and Fangoria magazine! Subscribe to the Shocking Things podcast:https://anchor.fm/shockingthings   MarkAdam and Brenda Miller discuss the details about producing fanzines. Find out more about the USS Hephaestus here:https://m.facebook.com/104543106269305/   Areospace engineer Andy Dykes considers the real world launch of Space Shuttle Columbia.Plus...costuming at conventions and more on this episode of StarPodTrek!We will continue our Star Trek Thanksgiving tradition by attending Starbase Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana!https://www.starbaseindy.org/Don't forget to join our Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=469912916856743&ref=content_filterLooking for a Star Trek social club? Join us in STARFLEET International! https://sfi.org/ Love Starlog magazine?Join the Facebook group:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=303578380105395&ref=content_filterSuscribe to our YouTube Channel “StarPodLog and StarPodTrek”:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgE_kNBWqnvTPAQODKZA1UgFind us on Twitter and Instagram: @StarPodLog Reddit: u/StarPodTrek Visit us on Blogger at https://starpodlogpodcast.blogspot.com/ or iTunes or Spotify or wherever you listen to fine podcasts!Music used with permission by Five Year Mission. If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

Brenda Miller is the award-winning, bestselling author and founder of The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting StrategiesHer book is endorsed by Jack Canfield, “I absolutely love your work. Your book is phenomenal. Everyone needs this book,”—and lauded by Readers Views as “…the latest and greatest parenting book!”Brenda has an Associate Degree in Holistic Nutrition. She's married and has three grown children and six grandchildren. This means that family get togethers are loud—and a place where kids bring everyone to life!When she's not helping people find their joyfully harmless nature, she likes playing with her kids and grandkids, nature, gardening, photography, and enjoying the wildlife that frequent their little plot of land.

Jon talks with Brenda Meller about how often you should post on LinkedIn. Brenda Meller is a self-proclaimed “ambassador” of LinkedIn, national speaker, and the Chief Engagement Officer at Meller Marketing (www.mellermarketing.com), which provides marketing and social media support for individuals and businesses, specializing in LinkedIn. She has been leveraging social media to propel her personal and professional efforts for over ten years, and now blends this experience with her marketing expertise to help clients achieve their goals. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Brenda Meller: Website: https://www.mellermarketing.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendameller/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MellerMarketing/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/brendameller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mellermarketing/

Join Claire and her special guest, Brenda Miller, sharing 'The Kid Code - 30 Second Parenting Strategies'.

This week's guest has taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries and is the author of four books: The Kid Code - 30 Second Parenting Strategies, Blessing Mistakes, Tuskie's Travels. Bully Proof Yourself & Your Kids, Brenda Millar has been in private practice for twenty years where she's devoted herself to helping people free themselves from upsets and inner conflict—in 30 seconds! Her favourite discovery has been that joy is natural for all human beings—no exceptions. She helps parents and their kids rediscover theirs by doing one of these strategies every time a negative state appears. Find Brenda at www.thekidcode.ca  

Brenda Miller's expertise is in dissolving stress before it detonates. She loves to make the bold statement that stress is optional, and then help people prove it to themselves with her simple strategies for getting ‘right now relief' in an upset—in 30 seconds! She says that joy is natural—and then helps people rediscover theirs by meeting each upset with one of the strategies that take us out of distress and deliver us back to our playful, compassionate nature. Brenda is devoted to helping us hear the long-forgotten whisper of wellbeing.   Brenda taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries and is the author and founder of The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting Strategies, endorsed by Jack Canfield who says, “Everyone needs this book,” and lauded by Readers Views as “…the latest and greatest parenting book!” She's written four other self-help books, speaks internationally and loves gardening, photography, playing with her kids and grandkids, and watching the wildlife that frequents her and her husband's little plot of land within view of the great Canadian Rockies.                  3 top tips for my audience: 1. To take the stress out of making mistakes, when someone makes one, say and feel the truth of the statement, “You matter more than the mistake.” When you make a mistake, say and feel the truth of the statement, “I matter more than the mistake,” and then make the mistake right by making amends however you can.  2. To tame a tantrum (yes, we all still have them), put a note in your pocket that says, I don't need my raging story anymore and pull it out and read it every time anger tries to take you over.  3. Become a ‘Gratitude Practitioner' and see if you can be grateful for everything your eyes land on, every day. This diverts the mind away from negativity and into coherence.  Social media and contact info.  www.thekidcode.ca  https://www.facebook.com/thekidcode https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-miller-0a684765/ https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKidCode1 https://www.instagram.com/thekidcode/

Show Resources Here were the resources we covered in the episode: Brenda Meller's post detailing all the new industries Oribi Aquisition Company Engagement Report New Pages Updates NEW LinkedIn Learning course about LinkedIn Ads by AJ Wilcox Contact us at Podcast@B2Linked.com with ideas for what you'd like AJ to cover.   Show Transcript LinkedIn Ads has a lot of options for retargeting and nurturing your prospects. What's worth using and what isn't. We'll talk about all of this in more in this week's episode of the LinkedIn Ads Show. Welcome to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Here's your host, AJ Wilcox. Hey there LinkedIn Ads fanatics! You're probably aware that retargeting ads are some of the most powerful ads that you can run, and also one of the cheapest. It's kind of like a digital marketing superpower. So LinkedIn has had retargeting since 2017. But I've never really been all that hot on it for reasons that we'll get into today. But in the last few years, LinkedIn has given us some really great firepower for nurturing our prospects. We'll dive into the different retargeting and nurturing strategies that you can use, even right now, to get the best bang for your hard earned marketing budget buck. First, let's cover the news because there's been a lot this week. In our Account Based Marketing episode that was episode 56, we talked about the company engagement report. This is when you upload a list of company names into your matched audiences and then you can click into them later to see which individual companies have been seeing your ads and engaging with them. Well, this was always really hard to share with your sales team or your ops team. And you can imagine how valuable that might be to get over to sales or get over to maybe your marketing or sales ops, like, hey, these two companies are really engaging with our stuff, right now, it might be a good time to reach out to them. Well, LinkedIn announced this week that your company engagement report is now going to have a CSV export feature. So now you can download this into Excel and send it around to whomever you'd like. About two weeks ago, LinkedIn announced that they acquired an Israeli company called Oribi. LinkedIn's own words, they said, "Through the integration of Oribi's technology into our marketing solutions platform, our customers will benefit from enhanced campaign attribution to optimize the ROI of their advertising strategies. This means that our customers will be able to more easily measure website conversions with automated tags and code free technology, as well as build more effective audiences, all in a way that is privacy first by design." What this tells me is this is a technology that's going to help us with attribution and conversion tracking. Basically, a lot of the stuff that we're losing as cookies go away. So, it all sounds really good on the surface, I'm really excited to see what LinkedIn does with it. Also, I'm sure you've all felt the same pain that we have, which is when you go to select an industry in LinkedIn's company pages, or even on your personal profile, the choices were very limited. I think there were only something like 26 different industries that you could choose. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. Well, something that is absolutely fantastic, LinkedIn reached out and said, Hey, we're expanding our number of industries that you can claim to over 400 different industries. If you are using industry targeting, this may be a huge help to you. But LinkedIn, and I know you listen, I have a huge ask for you on this one. I noticed when going through all of the new industries that we could select, we couldn't select SAAS software, and we couldn't select B2B. Those are two that for the longest time, I've really struggled to figure out how we can effectively target SAAS companies on LinkedIn, as well as those who are B2B versus B2C. If there's any way that we could get those somehow wrapped up in our targeting, or in company page classifications, that would be amazing. You should be able to go right now and start typing any industries that you think you might want to claim within your company page, and LinkedIn will auto populate some of the options there. If you're curious about all 400, a friend of the show, Brenda Miller, has created a post on LinkedIn that lists out all 400 of them. So we're going to go ahead and link to that in the show notes below. If you're curious to check out all the options, definitely check out her post. And Brenda thanks for putting that together. That's a great resource. And then a note from LinkedIn that in June of this year, 2022, the new industries are going to be released in the campaign manager and we'll be able to view or add these new options to any campaign. Excellent news that we're excited for. Alright, excited to jump into retargeting and nurturing. Let's hit it. First, I think we have to touch on the principle of what nurturing and what retargeting are supposed to be. The concept here is that it usually takes about seven to ten touches with a brand before someone will add the brand to their consideration set where they'll actually consider doing business with you. We know that people need multiple touches with your brand to get them into the funnel. We also know that a lot of us on LinkedIn are doing this with products and services that are extremely high consideration and high costs, which means more and more people have to be involved in this purchase decision. We call them the purchase committee. And so you start looking at, okay, everyone needs seven to ten touches. And there's quite a few people here within the buying committee and so now we're talking about needing a lot of touches on these people in order to secure them wanting to do business with you, or at least considering. So what is a touch? Well, in my mind, a touch is anytime that someone has some sort of an experience with your brand. That could be as low as they saw an ad on their screen and just took note of it and moved on. Others might be a full, they've downloaded an asset of yours, or they visited your webpage and clicked around. I'm wondering how many times you have ads on your prospect screen that they haven't even taken note of they've just scrolled right past. So in that case, we certainly couldn't call an impression, a touch. Just because LinkedIn charges you for an impression doesn't mean that it actually sunk in for your prospect. I like to talk about someone's know, like, and trust factor. If someone's going to do business with you, they need to know you, like you, and trust you. So think about how you build your know, like, and trust factor for any brand out there. Which brands do you absolutely love? And are you a huge fan of? Which ones will you support publicly without needing to be compensated in some way? Think about how you can copy those things that that brand has done for you to your own marketing so you can be doing that for your prospects. An example of how this principle works for me, about 10 years ago, I was really into Twitter, it was really heating up, I was having great conversations and getting a lot of value out of it. But I also noticed that a lot of my friends and industry colleagues would share content on there. But being a very busy professional and not having the time to read every single article that came through my feed, I set a rule for myself. That was if any one or two times that content was posted in the feed, I wouldn't worry about it. But if I saw three or more of the people that I follow, all reference the same article or topic, I would take the time to go and actually read it and research it. What I was doing is relying on multiple sources to share something before I found it worthy of my time. I think the same rule applies, like if you talk about popularity in high school. So if you can imagine one person in high school walking around and telling everyone, Hey, everyone, I'm popular, and they say it 1000 times, that doesn't actually help you believe it. In fact, you might actually believe that that person is the epitome of uncool. On the other hand, if you hear from 1000 Different students that this one student is really cool. She is the coolest girl at school. And even if the people who are talking about it are not the people that you trust, you hear it from enough sources, it starts to really sink in. So we know that when we hear about brands from multiple sources, it's going to help improve our know like and trust factor with that brand, much faster than if they just keep seeing you from exactly one source. In B2B, we know that someone is probably not yet ready to convert at the bottom of the funnel, the very first time they hear about your brand. So then it requires you to continue to warm up that prospect all the way from when they are cold and maybe have never even heard of you before until they are warm enough that they're ready to convert at the bottom of the funnel and become a customer or at least get a proposal or consider talking to someone. That ability to warm someone up is something that we can do through continued advertising. But it's especially powerful when we talk about retargeting those prospects. The lazy marketer will do this by just showing the same ads over and over to the same prospect. And to me, that's the equivalent of the one person in high school walking around and telling everyone how popular they are. It's not going to be believable. On the other hand, if that prospect is seeing you on certainly in the LinkedIn feed, maybe they see you across multiple different ad formats. Maybe they get a message from you inside of their sponsored messaging. This just keeps getting stronger and stronger, the more channels that you're targeting on. So sure, we're going to advocate running all of your ads on LinkedIn because that's all we do, but I also understand the value of making sure that that same prospect is seeing you when they log on to Facebook and Instagram and they see you on TikTok and they see you on YouTube. All of these are fantastic channels, and that really increase your know, like, and trust factor very quickly. And they're not all that expensive. Your job as a marketer is going to be what are the offers that I can come up with that are going to warm someone up and get their attention and nurture them, and maybe even help identify what sort of problems they face so that we can keep solving those in the future. That is a huge job ahead of you. But one that when you solve it, it's pure gold, and it's going to pay off for years and years to come. And as your retargeting and nurturing your prospects, it's important to understand that if you have an offer or ads that aren't performing or aren't converting, then you constantly need to be introducing new offers, and you constantly need to be shaking things up. 10:48 Website Retargeting So first off, let's talk about all the retargeting options that we have here on LinkedIn. First off, we have website retargeting, and this is the one that came out in 2017, which I was really excited about, but it ended up really deflating my sales just because there were so many weaknesses with it. So first off, when you're retargeting just on LinkedIn, you're showing ads to people only when they're on LinkedIn. And as we know, LinkedIn isn't the platform that the majority of your prospects are spending lots and lots of time on every single day. So that makes it a little bit weaker. If your goal of retargeting is to stay top of mind and stay in front of your prospects, then if you're only doing it on LinkedIn, you're leaving a lot of money on the table. When website retargeting first launched, LinkedIn said that those audiences would only store for 90 days. It turns out there was a little bit of an internal mistake where they were actually storing those audiences for longer, it was more like 180 days, which is right on par with Facebook, actually. But when I first saw 90, I went, Man, we're spending a lot of money on our LinkedIn traffic to retarget it and know that when we add someone to an audience, and it's only going to stick around for 90 days before rolling over, it doesn't get me excited enough to actually go and do something about it. Then there was the issue of costs, you know, we were paying $8 to $12 per click. And then when we used LinkedIn retargeting, we were still paying like four to $8 per click, sometimes even more. And so when we talk about retargeting being a good deal, it almost like it wasn't all that great of a deal. Plus, you need to have at least 300 people in your audience. So if I am doing a retargeting audience based off of just people who've clicked on my ads, I have to pay for at least 300 people to make it to my landing page or to my website to cookie them before I can even start advertising. So it was kind of a large hurdle to get over for the smaller advertisers for sure. The larger advertisers no problem. I mean, you get 300 clicks in pretty short measure. But for a smaller company or a smaller spend where 300 clicks per month would be a lot, it makes it a lot harder. So all of that to say that LinkedIn's website retargeting was never all that great value. But now we add to that the fact that LinkedIn's website retargeting is all based on cookies, and after the iOS 14 update, when all Apple devices stopped storing third party cookies, we looked at it and said, Oh, there goes half of our traffic, maybe this isn't all that great. And then add that to the fact that here in the next six to nine months, Chrome is probably going to be treating cookies the same way. So now there goes the other half of your audience. I know you didn't ask, but for my predictions here, I would say that in the next six to nine months, when Chrome does this, we're probably going to be left with audience sizes that are maybe 10 to 20% of what they were before the iOS 14 update. And this for sure isn't a good thing. That means that our retargeting audiences that we've built are just a 10th, or maybe a 20th as effective, but I don't want to paint a picture of all doom and gloom here. For the future. Maybe this isn't going to be a great long term avenue for you. But in the short term, realize that there may still be some value left. There's nothing stopping you from right now, even if you haven't started yet. Go and start building up your LinkedIn website retargeting audiences and get use out of them while you can make hay while the sun is still shining. Okay, so that's website retargeting. Event Retargeting Then there's something actually really exciting, which is event retargeting. So you can imagine with website retargeting, the technology that we're relying on is that when someone visits your website, your insight tag fires, and it communicates to LinkedIn who that person is. It allows LinkedIn to see based off of the cookie in their browser on their computer, if they are a LinkedIn member. If they're logged in LinkedIn can recognize them, then LinkedIn will make a note that that person has, indeed, visited your page and now they can put them into some kind of a retargeting audience. This is all based on the fact that LinkedIn as a third party has to be able to identify who someone is on your website and privacy concerns are going to make that a lot more difficult. But whenever someone takes an action on Linkedin.com, of course, LinkedIn knows. That's called event retargeting. So you can imagine someone is logged in, LinkedIn knows exactly who they are, they see one of your ads, they click on it, they convert on it, they watch a video, all of these things are things that LinkedIn can tell immediately. They know exactly who. They know exactly when. And as long as they have the server space on the back end, they're able to track this. This type of retargeting has been going on for years and years on Facebook, Facebook has pioneered it and it's so so good over there. LinkedIn has been rolling out some of these events that you can retarget over the last several years and honestly, they just keep getting better and better. And the most exciting thing I can mention is that LinkedIn just barely released a new one, that is actually the most powerful of all of them. So we'll get to that here in a minute, make sure you stick around. So here are some of the events that we can retarget, we've been able to retarget, those who have submitted a lead generation form. We can also separately track those who have opened a lead generation form. So that means they have taken enough of an action on an ad that it would trigger the form dropping down. So even if they didn't actually fill out and submit the form, you're still getting something from them, which is pretty exciting. But you might say to yourself, ma'am, that's a pretty big commitment for someone to actually engage with an ad like that, like they want to convert. We're not getting very many people into our funnel. Okay, I understand you there. And it's a very valid point. Okay, what about this, we've been able to target people who have watched at least 25% of a video ad. That's pretty cool. So you have these video ads out there. It's a little janky and difficult to set up for sure. But you have all these videos marked as if someone watches at least 25% of this, add them to this audience. Okay, I can still hear you saying, yeah, but 25%. If I have like a three minute long video, again, I'm capturing next to no one, only those are sticking around for 25% of that. Okay, so this one's a little bit more exciting. What about those who have visited your company page? Anyone who's visited your company page, you can add to a retargeting audience. And that, I think is a lot more exciting for sure. Okay, at that point, you may say, All right, well, company page, that means they haven't necessarily interacted with any of my ads, they could have gone to a company page a different way. Okay, I understand there's a little bit of a weakness there. But if you're running an event off of your company page, and someone is marked as interested like they want to attend, ah, we can now add them to a retargeting audience. And that's pretty cool. They've showed enough of an interest in an event that we've put on that they're probably going to be interested in future content as well, around those same topics. That's pretty powerful. 18:21 Single Image Ad Interactions All right, that takes us to the one that I told you, I was so excited about. This is the one that just rolled out. This is single image ad interactions. By the time you're hearing this, you should be able to go into your matched audiences and create a new event. And then if you see single image as one of your options, you know, you have this, I think it's rolled out to everyone at this point. But if not just wait a couple weeks. As you set this up, you have two different options. You can one retarget anyone who had a paid click interaction. That means they took an action that if you were paying by the click you would have gotten charged for. If that's a website visits campaign, that's going to be someone who clicked on your link, which is pretty cool because like we talked about with website retargeting, it's pretty weak when you are sending someone to your landing page. And then you know that maybe only 10 to 20% of the people who make it to the landing page are even going to make it into that audience. Add to the fact that if your page loads slowly, some people may bounce after they've clicked, but when the page doesn't load as fast as they were hoping, then they just leave. So you're left with almost no audience to be able to retarget Well, if you have this set up for single image retargeting, what you can do is anyone who clicked on your call to action is going to be put into this audience, whether they make it to your landing page or not, whether their cookie is recognized or not by the time they make it to your website. So this makes it ultra powerful to be able to retarget those who have clicked on your ads. That is really cool in my opinion. But then they've stepped it up even one more degree, this is a lot closer to where Facebook has it. If you're running a single image ad, you can retarget anyone who had any sort of interaction on that ad, that means a like a comment a reshare. they've clicked on your company page, maybe they've followed your company page from there. This is extremely powerful for noting whether someone has had truly some kind of a touch with your brand. We're doing quite a bit of testing around the single image interaction and click retargeting. So I'm sure we'll have more to share with you later. 20:40 Matched Audiences Let's move on to another retargeting option that we have called matched audiences. Now website retargeting is technically part of matched audiences. But the part that I get most excited about matched audiences for are the lists that you upload. So this is where you can take a list of people who maybe have converted already on your website, and you can upload them to LinkedIn and target them. You can also upload company lists, and narrow your targeting on those companies to get just those who have had some sort of an interaction with your brand in the past. Where you upload a list of contacts, we'll call that contact lists. And there's lots of different ways that you can treat these. You might break up your contact lists by what stage of the funnel they're in. For instance, if you have a list that you know are all cold contacts. Maybe they've had some sort of minor interaction with your brand, or maybe they haven't had any sort of interaction, and you want them to have an interaction with your brand. Then what you can do is upload these into a campaign. And you can promote a more top of funnel type of offer. Something to get their attention and get them to have a positive view of you. Then, of course, if you have a list of prospects, who are maybe a little bit further down the funnel. Maybe these are those who've converted in some way. You can show them maybe more of a mid funnel type of offer. And then maybe you have another list that are further along down the funnel. Maybe those who they're already in contact with your sales team. Maybe you've already given them a proposal, and you're hoping that this deal closes. Well, maybe you can either promote to them more bottom of funnel type of offer, or just stay in front of them long enough to help them make that decision as they're talking to their buyers committee. The kinds of lists that you can be thinking of, if you're not quite sure what you can grab. You can grab a list of your competitors, you can grab a list of your current customers, you could get a list of your past customers, like we talked about, you can have a cold list of prospects, maybe you're presenting at a show. And the show will give you a list of the people who've signed up to attend. Maybe you have a warm opt in list that you can upload and work with. Maybe if you're using a software like HubSpot that has a direct integration into LinkedIn, you can have a dynamic list where as someone is added to your CRM, they're automatically added to some sort of a list for retargeting or nurture on LinkedIn. When you go to upload a list to LinkedIn a contact list, one of the things that they have is an offline events list option. I looked into it because I haven't seen this before and to be honest, I'm not sure how this is different than any other contact list, other than it contains a few extra columns, one about like how much they paid for their ticket, and the ticket purchase timestamp. Because this is an offline event where LinkedIn wouldn't have any sort of vision into it. I'm not quite sure what value you would get out of matching these details, because LinkedIn won't know how much someone paid for their ticket, or won't know when a ticket was purchased. But maybe in the future, this could be used for like optimizing ads towards people who paid more for their tickets. So maybe they're a higher quality prospect. I don't know how this is working, but if you're not sure on how to use this one, and you are using offline events, just upload it as a normal contact list and you'll be good. I mentioned that we were doing some cool research around the single image interactions. And what we did is we went and created a separate audience, for those who have interacted with an ad in the last 30 days, the last 60 days, the last 90 days, the last 180 days, and the last 365 days. And what's so cool to me about this is something that Facebook has done that I honestly didn't think that LinkedIn was going to do. It will actually build these audiences in arrears. What I mean by that is if you go in right now and you set up one of these audiences to target anyone who's clicked on one of your ads for the last 30 days. Yoou know you create the campaign today, it'll take the full 72 hours to build that audience, and then it will actually go and put all of the people who've interacted with that ad in the last 30 days. In that audience. It goes back and grabs them, even from before they have this option, really cool. What I love about this is you can actually go and create all five of these audiences and you can even double them. You know, 30 days of interacting with the ad and 30 days clicking on it, and then 60 days interacting with the ad, and then 60 days clicking on it. You could create 10 separate audiences that you can use. And what I love about this is that you can actually graduate people through these funnels now. So if it's just tracking people who've interacted in the last 30 days, after 30 days passes, they will fall out of that audience, but they'll still be in the 60 day audience. So you could create different campaigns that pick someone up after they've not interacted with your brand in a while and try to warm them back up. It is important to remember that you still need at least 300 unique audience members in each in order for the ads to run, but set them up now, so that they're all ready to go once you have that many clicks. As we went and built these, we noticed that LinkedIn will tell us the number of engagements that an individual audience had. And then after the list processes, it told us a smaller number of people who are now in that audience. And the way that I interpreted that for one of our clients, it said that there were something like 11,800 engagements from that audience as we were building the segment. And then after it was done, it produced a list of 7,200 users. That tells me that, yeah, 7,200 people were responsible for those 11,800 engagements, which means that on average, each person in an audience was responsible for almost two engagements. That tells us a little bit about the frequency that we're hitting them on, which is pretty cool. Okay, we're gonna take a quick sponsor break, and then we'll dive into the general nurture strategies that we can use. The LinkedIn Ads show is proudly brought to you by B2Linked.com, the LinkedIn Ads experts. If the performance of your LinkedIn ads is important to you, B2Linked is the agency you'll want to work with. We've spent over $150 million on LinkedIn Ads, and no one outperforms us on getting you the lowest cost per lead, and the ultimate scale. Were official LinkedIn partners and from day one, you'll only deal with LinkedIn Ads experts. Fill out the contact form on any page of B2Linked.com to chat about your campaigns. We'd absolutely love to explore working with you. 27:33 Top of Funnel Okay, let's jump into some of the different nurturing strategies that we can use now that we know about the different tools that LinkedIn has given us to retarget people. I think first we need to talk about those who are top of funnel. So these are cold prospects, maybe they've seen your company at some point, or maybe they've taken some light action. There's a couple different strategies I might recommend. The first and lightest would be, you could put some kind of an offer together that's ungated and show it to them in hopes that you're just going to get them exposed positively to your brand. This, as we've talked about on previous episodes, is a very expensive strategy on LinkedIn, because you're going to pay $8 to $13 per click for people to go to a blog post or go to an ungated asset. There isn't a great way of staying in front of them on other platforms. We know if you send them to a landing page, and you're retargeting on Google and on Facebook, and you've got your LinkedIn retargeting set up, then you'll have a better chance, but it won't be bulletproof, for sure. All of those clicks will add up to something where you're not even asking them to convert. So you may not have that vote of knowing whether or not this is working because you're not seeing conversions come in. You could do a step up, which is you could gate that content. Showing them offers like free guides and checklists and cheat sheets, where they do have to enter in their personal information. This tends to be one of the strategies that we recommend the most for newer advertisers. And then you could take some of these event retargeting, as well as your website retargeting and show similar offers, or maybe even the same offer to those who haven't converted. And this is even stronger because of that new single image event retargeting because we can target those who clicked, but didn't convert, especially if it's like a lead gen form. If they need more warming up, you can always promote a more top of funnel or middle of funnel offer before jumping into a bottom of funnel offer. So what I mean by this is, let's say that you are running someone through a three stage funnel. So there's a top of funnel piece of content like a free guide, then the next offer they're introduced to might be something a little bit higher engagement, like join a webinar or an online event. And then your final step in the funnel might be talk to someone, set up a call, get a demo. Well, if you're running this and you notice that your sales team is talking about these being low conversion rate from MQL to SQL, or the leads just aren't ready yet, you could always insert one more step in there. You can say, Okay, we're going to try to top of funnels, or we're going to try a top of funnel and then to middle of funnel offers, before jumping them writes that bottom of funnel. Now I have to tell you, this is absolutely revolutionary that we can do this on LinkedIn, we didn't used to be able to create these bulletproof funnels, but now we can. We can start building these audiences of just those who've interacted with certain content. It's way cool. The kinds of offers that you might consider for cold audiences might be something like a blog post, or an infographic that or ungated. Or the kinds of things that might be gated could be things like a free checklist, or cheat sheet, a guide, an ebook, maybe even something like a webinar, or an in person event, those are getting a little bit more high engagement and high friction, I get asked a lot about case studies promoting case studies, either for the middle of funnel or top of funnel, or even bottom of funnel. And what I do is I split case studies into two different camps because there's two different really kinds of case studies, I have one that is more of a sales piece, and then one that's more of a guide. So if you look at your case studies, and you say, oh, what this is really saying is, look how awesome my company is, because we've had this success with this awesome client, then that's a sales case study and I would say that is already very bottom of funnel. You're not going to want to gate something like that near the top or middle of your funnel, because the only time someone would actually be interested in that kind of content would be if they're already considering doing business with you and they just want some proof that you are legit, that you are who you say you are. But if you have a case study that's very much like, Hey, here's the problem we face, and here are the concrete steps that we went through in order to get this outcome, and here's the outcome we had, and here were the things we tried, and the things that didn't work and did work. Now you can follow this exact same guide and get exactly the same outcome. You could still call it a case study, but I might also call it a guide or a checklist. And that is actually going to be valuable for everyone, even top of funnel. So take a look at your different case studies and see which of those categories yours falls under. If you're more middle of funnel with these prospects with a list that you're working on, I think you can go to the more high touch, the more high friction types of offers out there. So you might consider a webinar or a sales in case study or an in person event. And then when you get to the bottom of the funnel, that's obviously when you earned your spot to be able to ask them for things like talk to a sales rep, buy now, take a free trial of your software. Really anything that earlier stages in the funnel, they're not going to be ready for yet. So maybe you're thinking to yourself, hey, AJ, should I be setting up some sort of a retargeting campaign on LinkedIn? Should my company be nurturing? The answer is, absolutely, I don't care who you are. Everyone should be running retargeting in some form or another. There's no excuse not to at least get it setting up and building audiences so even if you're not ready to use them right now, you can still use them in the future. Remember with those website retargeting audiences, if you don't have that setup now and gaining audience members, every day that you put off doing that you're losing people in your audience, whereas with the single image retargeting that LinkedIn just gave us, and I hope they roll this kind of functionality out to all of their events, we really can set that up at any point in time, just realize that there is a 72 hour processing time. 33:56 Sequences So now we have this ability to run people through sequences. We can sequence them by how long ago, they committed some sort of an action, and then graduate them to the next step, once they've either taken a certain action, or it's just been longer than 30 days or whatever. If you're just brand new to this and let's say that some of your lists, you don't have enough people in them to run ads by themselves. What I would suggest doing is stacking your lists. What you might say is in one campaign, one beautiful retargeting campaign, you're going to have anyone who's watched at least 25% of your video ads. And then you add to that anyone who's opened a lead gen form. You can also add company page visitors. And you can do this until each segment of your audience is large enough to run on its own or just keep them combined if you only want one retargeting audience to stay in front of all of them, rather than having to run five or six different campaigns. If you're looking to build an audience as fast as possible, the fastest way to do this is still to run a short video ad, lets say something that is eight seconds or there abouts, and target anyone who's watched at least 25% of that video, then trigger showing them the next ad. That's the fastest way to build a retargeting audience. Now I mentioned ways of retargeting people and interacting with them off of LinkedIn. We call this maybe a holistic retargeting strategy, or a holistic marketing strategy. If you want to retarget on Google when you get people to your website, it's the same minimum that LinkedIn has, you have to have at least 300 people in an audience, but what you do get is access to incredible inventory. You have access to all of Googles Google Display Network, which is like 80% of the web out there. If your goal in retargeting is to stay in front of someone, and keep top of mind, there's no better way than on Google to do that. You get them everywhere that they are surfing around and looking for information. Then you've got Facebook, which last time I checked, the minimum to run a Facebook retargeting audience was like 20 people so much, much lower than LinkedIn and Google's 300 person minimum. That makes it an incredible place to start retargeting because you don't need very many visitors before you can start doing that. Of course, you can do email nurture, which is kind of like retargeting, but once you have someone's email address, you're retargeting them through their email inbox. Which you're obviously not doing through an ad platform, you would do that through your email provider or through your marketing automation software, but it's a great way of just having one additional touch with your brand. We've talked a little bit about how retargeting is taking a hit on LinkedIn with the cookie going away. And it's true retargeting has definitely taken a hit. And this is not just limited to LinkedIn, Facebook and Google are absolutely reeling, trying to figure out what's the best way that they can keep their retargeting technologies working because once those cookies are gone, they lose so many of the ways that they get signals on who's interacting with ads. But I will say Facebook and Google are still the most advanced ad platforms on the planet and if anyone can solve it, it is them. No matter whether you're currently advertising on Google and or Facebook right now, go set up your retargeting audiences so that they're building so that you can do this in the future. Because again, if you don't get it set up, now, you're losing all of those people who would be interacting today. All right, I've got the episode resources coming for you right up. So stick around. Thank you for listening to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Hungry for more? AJ Wilcox, take it away. 37:52 Okay, first of all, in the episode resources, you'll see the link to Brenda Miller's post, where she details out all 400 of the new industries that she's found. If you're curious to see what's coming, or what's already there, go check out her post, you'll also see a link to Lincoln's announcement about the Oribi acquisition. We've also covered quite a bit about the accompany engagement report, but you'll also see a link there where we pulled that information about being able to export those to CSV. And then finally, with all of these new updates to pages, including the new industries, you'll see the link to LinkedIn's announcement about all of the new pages features and updates. If you were any of your colleagues or friends are trying to learn LinkedIn ads, definitely check out the link to the LinkedIn Learning course that I did with LinkedIn. Whoo, saying the word LinkedIn a lot. You think I'd be used to that by now? Anyway, check out that link. It is by far the least expensive and the highest quality training that there is out there. And of course, it is LinkedIn recommended. However you're listening to this podcast, please look down and hit that subscribe button. If you're listening to us on our YouTube channel now since we started publishing to YouTube, definitely follow the channel for new updates there. As soon as YouTube lets us actually run our own podcast channel through it, we"ll be set up on that as well. 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Author Brenda Miller believes that everyone has a right to peaceful parenting, and that kids have the right to peaceful parents. Brenda's book offers 100 strategies to give parents and kids “right now” relief. Her book and its one hundred “30 Second” parenting strategies take the anger and confusion out of parenting and bring us back […] The post The Kid Code: 30 Second Parenting Strategies by Brenda Miller appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Brenda's quest has been to find ‘right now relief' in an upset—so that we can go from chaos to calmness in 30 seconds when challenges of any kind arise at home or in the workplace. To aid in that endeavor she taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries. Her devotion to instant evolution out of common stressors like kid-chaos for parents and grandparents, calmness in the classroom for teachers, and workplace woes to workplace wisdom began twenty years ago—and ever since, she's been offering others, through her private practice, books, courses, and by speaking to audiences, ways to free themselves from upsets and inner conflict—on the spot! She discovered that joy is natural to all of us and she enthusiastically helps people rediscover theirs (all day long) by using one of the strategies in her book, The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting Strategies—endorsed by Jack Canfield, bestselling co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He says, “I absolutely love your work. Your book is phenomenal. Everybody needs this book.”

Author Brenda Miller believes that everyone has a right to peaceful parenting, and that kids have the right to peaceful parents. Brenda's book offers 100 strategies to give parents and kids “right now” relief. Her book and its one hundred “30 Second” parenting strategies take the anger and confusion out of parenting and bring us back […] The post The Kid Code: 30 Second Parenting Strategies by Brenda Miller appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Welcome back Cornhole fans! This week on Girls Throw Too, Meesh commits to getting a tattoo on her arm drawn by her 6 year old son. Whit's daughter let her friend cut her hair… but it actually looks really good! The ladies touch on their favorite binge worthy tv shows, including “Love is Blind”, “Ozarks”, “Yellowstone”, and more. You might start to see some other guest hosts on the GTT podcast as Whitney finds her place in the Cornhole world. The Kids Throw Too Tournament is less than a month away! We added more activities including 2 blind draws for adults AND a cornhole clinic for the kids. This week's player spotlight is ACL Pro Eric Tscherne, learn about his fascinating career and background. Later on we talk with expert Brenda Miller. She talks about how she helps people become more joyful and find peace.Links:Kids Throw Too New Website: https://kidsthrowtoo.com/Girls Throw Too Website: https://girlsthrowtoo.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276040074164229/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GirlsThrowTooInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsthrowtoo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ZZ9IXFbzMohv-lpWmzw9QTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@girlsthrowtooWhitney on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wingram/Michelle on IG: https://www.instagram.com/michellehastiethompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/michelle-hastie-thompsonSupport the show

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and serial entrepreneur Brenda Miller. Brenda talks to us about the six tips for entrepreneurs to get 'right now relief' in an upset with their employees or customers.  Brenda's quest has been to find ‘right now relief' in an upset—so that we can go from chaos to calmness in 30 seconds when challenges of any kind arise at home or in the workplace. To aid in that endeavor she taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes four dedicated Creatives. Brenda Miller is a serial entrepreneur with 21 businesses, the founder of The Kid Code, and author of the books The Kid Code and Blessing Mistakes. Rico Lamoureux first tried telling his own stories in grade school. Today, he's as passionate about the art and craft of storytelling, writing stories that engage, excite, and enlighten. Victoria Wieck's family immigrated from South Korea with only $30. She has built a multi-million-dollar jewelry business, is a novelist, and hosts the Million Dollar Passion podcast. Nathalie Noisette is a credit expert, personal finance professional, and author who has helped thousands of mothers live fuller financially, eliminate debt, and access credit. Join us for Read My Lips: Creatively Finding Your Why.

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes four dedicated Creatives. Brenda Miller is a serial entrepreneur with 21 businesses, the founder of The Kid Code, and author of the books The Kid Code and Blessing Mistakes. Rico Lamoureux first tried telling his own stories in grade school. Today, he's as passionate about the art and craft of storytelling, writing stories that engage, excite, and enlighten. Victoria Wieck's family immigrated from South Korea with only $30. She has built a multi-million-dollar jewelry business, is a novelist, and hosts the Million Dollar Passion podcast. Nathalie Noisette is a credit expert, personal finance professional, and author who has helped thousands of mothers live fuller financially, eliminate debt, and access credit. Join us for Read My Lips: Creatively Finding Your Why.

Hi, welcome to Write Better Now, a podcast of quick, weekly writing tips meant to help you become a better writer. We're your hosts with NYT bestselling author Carrie Jones and copyeditor extraordinaire Shaun Farrar. Thank you for joining us. What is your story? Really? It's more than you're a writer. You're a citizen of your community, your country, your world. You might be a certain race, religion, a sex (or not). You might have a faith, an economic status, a job. You might have hobbies, traits. But you might not think you have a story especially when you see huge events unfolding in the world. You might think that your voice doesn't matter, that your viewpoint doesn't either. You might be used to people shouting you down when you say things they might not agree with or don't want to hear. This week we wanted to touch on how big events happen and we find them so harrowing and we think: Who am I to tell this story? I'm not in the Ukraine. I'm not on the frontlines of human rights struggles in Texas or Florida or China. I am not this or I am not that. But here's the thing. We are all witnesses or witnesses of witnesses. We all are a part of this world and the moments of this world. And we all get to tell our moments and our stories if we want to. Perspective and voice doesn't just belong to people in power and it doesn't not belong to people who see, who can testify, who can witness. In Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola write, “Our role as writers can be that of witness. … Think of yourself as a witness and your writing will take on greater weight and urgency.” Daisy Hernandez has a great essay where she comes to terms with her aversion to the term ‘witness' when it comes to literature. She writes (link below): “While it may well be that no book has ever prevented genocide or fascism, we still have a necessity for literature to testify to the political conditions of our lives—not only so that we might have a record of those we have lost, but also that we might have a reason to gather with others to read and to continue resisting.” She prefers the term ‘testimony.' “In contrast to witness, I love the word testimonio, testimony. I love how it sounds: serious and engaged, aware of itself. Intentional. It says: I have made a decision, and I am here to testify.” Intention is important. Connections are important. And so are authentic narratives. We learn by story, but we also learn how to be human via stories. Connections happen because humanity happens. And even if you think that you're not an important piece to the story that unfolds, you are. We all come through things through our own psychographics and demographics and bubbles and experiences. Each piece and understanding of the stories of our times matter. George Sand wrote, “Everyone has his own story, and everyone could arouse interest in the romance of his life if he could but comprehend it.” Here's the thing: There are enough buttheads out there in the world trying to prevent people from having a voice and trying to keep others from hearing that voice. It could be a company or government censoring tweets, political statements, books. It could be an ideological group banning books. It could be a sibling shouting at you to “Shut the hell up” when you talk about feminism. But you can't. You must not shut the hell up. As long as you can fight, fight. As long as you can write, write. As long as you can survive, survive. For the rest of the podcast notes (they don't fit here), please check out this link to our website. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/support

Are you or your kids feeling stressed these days? Learn how to push through that stress and come out feeling ok. Guest, Brenda Miller will have you laughing in this podcast as she helps you destress in 30 seconds with her easy-to-follow strategies As a certified BreakThrough Instructor with IBA Global Healing, Brenda taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries. To broaden her expertise in turning chaos into calmness, she studied and applied the work of the masters who live without stress. They include Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Sadhguru, Mooji, Guy Finley and more. Brenda has been in private practice for twenty years where she's devoted herself to helping people free themselves from upsets and inner conflict—in 30 seconds! Her favorite discovery has been that joy is natural for all human beings—no exceptions. She helps parents and their kids rediscover theirs by doing one of these strategies every time a negative state appears. The Kid Code can be found here You can find Brenda Miller here --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chucktuck/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chucktuck/support

On this edition of Newsgram I bring you peace. If you are a human being, let's hope that is the case, and you have children or work with children then this show is for you because we are bringing in the services of “the Peace Coach”.   Brenda Miller has been in private practice for twenty […] The post The Kid Code: 30 Second Parenting Strategies appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

On this edition of Newsgram I bring you peace. If you are a human being, let's hope that is the case, and you have children or work with children then this show is for you because we are bringing in the services of “the Peace Coach”.   Brenda Miller has been in private practice for twenty […] The post The Kid Code: 30 Second Parenting Strategies appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Jill Amber Chafin lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she is a member of the Durham Writers' Critique Group. She wrote her first short story when she was five years old and has written thousands of pages since then. She is currently juggling several works-in-progress, including a young adult novel, a memoir, and an almost-completed contemporary fiction novel. She works as a freelance writer and has her own blog about motherhood, health, writing, and more. This essay was inspired by Brenda Miller's "Hermit Crab" essay workshop.

Kids make a lot of mistakes and regularly push our buttons—but it doesn't need to lead to chaos! As a parent, you have two options—you can either use a peace-keeping strategy in these situations to get ‘right now relief' in an upset with your child or you can get sucked into the stressful chaos that drains your energy and fractures one of the most important relationships we have, the one with our kids. We all want positive parenting because we know it provides the biggest opportunity for us to guide, listen, and love. My name is Brenda Miller and I welcome you to this first episode of the Kid Code Playground podcast where you'll hear some simple strategies to help you achieve a peaceful parenting experience by dissolving stress every time an upset arises. I'll share with you some important parenting tips that will help you on the journey to achieving harmony-filled relationships—and I'll invite you to consider something few people know—the true cause of, and the guaranteed cure for stress! Tune in and join me on the journey to peaceful parenting! In This Episode, You Will Learn:Why you should give others Grace and not grief when a mistake is made (04:45)The two states that operate human beings (05:13)Why stress is optional (07:06)A feel-good strategy to dissolve stress the moment it arises (08:50) Connect with Brenda Miller:Kid CodeEmail: brenda@thekidcode.ca FacebookInstagramLinkedInTwitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Taxation and inflation combined is the formula to kill the middle class per Vladimir Lenin, and our government is doing just that.  Lone Tree proposes a retail sales tax hike of 55% for their city; vote NO.  LEAP, Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program, is a strong NO.  Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats will be appointed by the governor to have complete control of this new program with additional taxing authority for “eligible” children, not all Colorado children.  Greg Fisher, candidate for Widefield District 3 School Board, wants to bring back transparency and parent involvement.  Critical Race Theory, CRT, and the sexualization of our children have no place in our schools.  Instead, schools need to teach the core academics.  It is unconscionable that with all the money spent on education students are not even 50% proficient in reading and math.  David Dock and Brenda Miller are other good candidates to consider for 3 openings out of the five seats. Do not miss Leslie Manookian, founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund, presentation's in Loveland this coming Thursday, September 30th, and Denver on Saturday, October 2nd. Guest Dave Keyte, CEO of Caerus Oil and Gas, discusses the Biden policy to shift oil and gas production away from the U.S.  Even OPEC openly admits that they are the winners of this policy coupled with the global energy transition; OPEC will regain its dominance as America will become dependent on OPEC once again.  Politics in DC give no metrics to measure “success” in renewable energy as they get rid of fossil fuels.  We are transferring the issue of air quality from air to surface due to the high usage of rare earth minerals that must be mined.  The climate czars do not want to talk about this impact on the earth, let alone the labor used to mine the minerals (i.e., OSHA regulations are not used in China or Afghanistan).  We need to step back and understand the energy mix available, analyze what sources are available locally, and be a part of the solution

A Braided Heart provides a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. It also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today's emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay. An acknowledged expert in these forms, Brenda Miller gives writers practical advice on how to sustain and invigorate their writing practice, while also encouraging readers to explore their own writing lives.   Miller is in conversation with Susanne Paola Antonetto. _______________________________________________   Produced by Maddie Gobbo, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

Kathy Anderson and Brenda Miller talk about HVAC needs for their shelter, ways you can provide more than just money to the work of helping domestic violence victims.

Happy Mother's Day Trendie Mamas! This week, we had the pleasure of asking Meg's mom 20 questions all about trends, events and pop culture, and it was a hoot! She shares some of her funniest memories with Meg as a kid and what actor's poster she had on her bedroom wall when she was younger. Plus, we talk in depth about "stirrup pants", ever heard of them?Be sure to follow us @trendsandthecitypodcast on Instagram and we will see you next Wednesday for another fun episode of Trends & the City.All music rights belong to A94. 

The Bible in a Year with Maple City Chapel & Brenda Miller.  Today's readings are: 1 Samuel 2:22 - 4:22 // John 5:24-47 // Psalm 106:1-12 // Proverbs 14:30-31 - NLT  ----------  www.maplecitychapel.org www.facebook.com/maplecitychapel  ----------  Maple City Chapel is an evangelical, interdenominational church with Anabaptist roots that welcomes people from a variety of beliefs and backgrounds. Our worship is contemporary and energizing. Our teaching is bible-based, Christ-centered, and life-giving. Our atmosphere is warm, accepting, and casual. We invite you to join us as we connect with each other, connect with God, and change the world!

Profit Launch With Kathleen Riessen  Some of us spend a lot of time dreaming and few of us actually turn that dream into reality. Today's guest, Brenda Miller, saw an opportunity to empower women in Ghana through the creation of a non-profit sewing school. She and her partner, Ruth Meyer, raised $70k in one night and launched their idea. Now in their third year, they have successfully completed their first program and are underway with their second. Learn all about how they did it on today's show. After traveling to Ghana in 2015, Brenda Miller was empowered to create a sustainable education program to create income generation for women of Ghana. She spearheaded an auction that raised $70k in just one night. Together with Ruth Meyer and Jordan Saddoris, the auction raised enough money to build the Nyame Do Women's Center. In addition to her work with the Women's Center, Brenda enjoys her small party planning business, her book clubs, card clubs, Mah Jongg, her prayer group, entertaining and traveling. Brenda lives in West Des Moines with her husband of 31 years, Jeff. https://divineaccessghana.wixsite.com/nyamedowomen Join in the Live Chat Room too!!! https://inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/chatroom   Kathleen's Book: Joy in Uncertainty: A Guide to Creating a Meaningful Life Purchase on Amazon.com     ~ More About Profit Launch With Kathleen Riessen ~  As a former Certified Public Accountant turned marketing strategist turned entrepreneur of multiple businesses, Kathleen Riessen has the background and credibility to elevate you and your business. Kathleen started her first business while six months pregnant with her first child in the beginning of a recession. Fast forward twelve years and she has sold that business and now runs six others including her speaking and coaching business. Kathleen is the queen of harmony. In addition to running her businesses, Kathleen is Mom to three boys with her husband Josh. They have faced their share of adversity through Josh's two near death experiences and the multiple near-death experiences of their youngest son Andrew during the first year of his life. You can read more about these experiences in Kathleen's book Joy in Uncertainty: A Guide to Creating a Meaningful Life, available on Amazon. To learn how you can create consistent income in a six-figure+ business, join Kathleen Riessen in Profit Launch with Kathleen Riessen. https://bookwithkathleen.com/ https://www.kathleenriessen.com kathleen@kathleenriessen.com To get more of  Profit Launch with Kathleen Riessen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/profit-launch-with-kathleen-riessen/

Sis. Denise Arceneaux, Bro. Don Robuck, Sis. Mary Pannell Sis. Brenda Miller got sanctified!

This episode is part two of my conversation with Michael and Brenda Miller. Michael is a retired U.S. Air Force Officer, and together, they share their journey through the stress of deployment. Thank you, Veterans, for your service. www.humanswithfaith.com  

My guests for these next two episodes are Michael and Brenda Miller. Michael is a retired U.S. Air Force Officer. Over dinner with my wife and I, Michael and Brenda shared their story of Michael's deployment to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Their journey through what's often called 'Deployment Stress' became an opportunity to grow closer together and to grow in their faith. Today, Michael and Brenda share with other military couples what they've learned about walking through the stressful times before, during, and after deployment. www.humanswithfaith.com 

Today's show was true girlfreind time as Brenda Miller and Cathy Fuller join us at the Catholic Women coffee table. Based on the popular book, "The Rhythm of Life" by Matthew Kelly, we visit about how to discover God's plan for you. Is that dream in your heart from God? The culture bombards us with how to do everything that it is sometimes difficult to know if it is God or wishful thinking. And those pesky fears creep in... we talk about how to turn off the inner critic and listen to the Holy Spirit. Pursuing a passion can be draining and we talk about what self-care looks like for each of us and how to do it.

Our good friend Brenda Miller joined us today. She followed her dream that God put in her heart to start a Women's Center in Ghana, Africa. Through the training in the women's center, the first class of twenty Ghanian women graduated as professional designers and seamstresses. These women gained so much more than a job skill. An inspiring journey of miracles and God's hand in every step on the way including closed doors and opened windows. To learn more about the Nymedo Women's Center click https://divineaccessghana.wixsite.com/nyamedowomen Listen in to hear a great story of inspiration!

Brenda Miller talks about taking a break from the Podcast for the week and how you can apply that to your everyday life. 

Brenda Miller talks Allyson Felix and Moms of Color in the corporate world. We should go where we are celebrated! ~~ Instagram: MomsHustleDifferent Website: www.momshustledifferent.com Facebook: Moms Hustle Different

Maybe you didn’t notice it at first. After all, you live out of town and only visit your parents in the summer. But during your most recent visit, many things seemed amiss. Unpaid bills were piled up on the kitchen table. Items in the fridge were expired. In fact, your parents aren’t eating like they used to, if at all. And why, oh, why have they become so paranoid? You make their doctor appointments and join them, but it’s time to find someone to help you long distance, because there’s only so much you can do. Who can act on their behalf? Pay the bills? Act as a trustee? Believe it or not, there is a local dynamic duo that can act as a conservator or guardian. Today, we are interviewing Brenda Miller and Lisa Lundy from Fiduciary Services North, Inc. They’ve served the five-county area as senior advocates and personal representatives for more than 10 years, and have wisdom to share for those seeking an independent third party to manage financial, medical and legal logistics.

Brenda Miller is a wife to Andre and a first-time mom to six-month-old Arthur. She works for a non-profit by day and is trying to navigate and balance her roles in the evening. She started Moms Hustle Different to share the stories of working moms of color and give us all the tools to soar in motherhood and in our careers. Follow us on Instagram: @momshustledifferent Sign Up for our Newsletter: www.momshustledifferent.com

Kiera welcomes Brenda Miller to the podcast for an episode surrounding office managers, business leadership, and consulting. Kiera was in Brenda's three offices and decided it would be fun to take the listeners "behind the scenes" of in-office consulting.

Tunnel Vision. This week our very own Rev. Carol Rawlings brought us a message from Exodus 34: 29-35 and Luke 9: 28-36. We were also blessed to hear a wonderful piece played by our amazing pianist, Brenda Miller. Hear both on this podcast, and read some background on Brenda's piece below. Troubled Water, Margaret Bonds Margaret Bonds was one of the first black composers and performers to be recognized in the United States, known for her collaborations with Langston Hughes. Troubled Water is Bonds's adaptation of the African American spiritual Wade in the Water, which has the following text: "wade in the water, children, wade in the water, God’s a gonna trouble the water." This spiritual is believed to have been one of the songs containing instructions for slaves trying to escape via the Underground Railroad. Troubled Water takes this melody and transforms it with various tones and colors, but the melody remains present throughout. In its last moments, the notes become stark and simplified in favor of the piece turning very rhythmic and percussive, as if abandoning its old form and transforming into uninhibited spirit.

Guests: Jack Legg, Branch Manager, Agronomist, SGS Canada; Brenda Miller-Sanford, Manager, Administration, Grain Farmers of Ontario; Markus Haerle, Chair, Grain Farmers of Ontario. Hosted by Rachel Telford and Laura Ferrier.

   When co-host Brenda Miller suggested we do a podcast with the authors of a new book about America's first (1796) cookbook, I thought a culinary episode might be a nice change of pace.     What we found, though, is that Keith Staveley and Kathleen Fitzgerald have not only written an extraordinary history of Amelia Simmons's  Hartford-published American Cookery, they've also written one of the best books about Connecticut history in a generation. This is an episode you don't want to miss. Presented by Attorney Peter Bowman, helping the seriously injured and holding distracted drivers accountable for their actions. More at bowman.legal .  

   In part 3 of our Special Witch-Hunting in Connecticut series, Brenda Miller, Executive Director of the Hartford History Center and I interview historian Richard Ross about his new book, Before Salem: Witch- the Connecticut River Valley 1647-1663. Ross's historical spadework provides many new insights into one of Connecticut's most important, and least well known, events.  

We couldn’t wait to chat with Callie Feyen for the Chasing Creative podcast! If you’ve ever read her blog, you know why: her essays are stunning glimpses into a life lived with eyes wide open, taking in the world and finding the beauty in the everyday. Callie is a writer, a teacher, and a mom to two awesome daughters. In this episode, she discusses how balancing the three of those callings has looked differently in each season of life, how she learned to bring her writing into her daily life, and adds a half a dozen more books to everyone’s TBR list. Here’s where to find Callie: Her essays on her blog are fabulous. You can also find her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Here’s where to find Ashley: Website: www.BrooksEditorial.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/brookseditorial Instagram: http://instagram.com/brookseditorial Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/brookseditorial Here’s where to find Abbigail: Website: www.InkwellsandImages.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbigailekriebs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbigailekriebs/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inkwellsandimages/ Mini Book Club Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paolo Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The War of Art by Steven Pressfield The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly Quotes from this Episode: "I threw away everything. I was just going to be a mom. That was what I was going to do." -- Callie "I had always written. Even before I was seriously writing, I was writing." -- Callie "What I loved about writing even as a little girl was that I loved to go back and look at something again and again." -- Callie "It’s always been a balm for me to revisit something." -- Callie "I remember thinking: that is exactly what I love to do." -- Callie "I basically DIY-d my own career. I teach part time. I write part time. I am a mom all the time." -- Callie "I had six hours a week to write. I would get any textbook I could find and I would go to a coffeeshop and I would just write for three hours." -- Callie "It’s really good to hear from someone who has done that and made it work and says it was worth it. It’s encouraging". -- Ashley "I felt so much better after having been away. Sometimes motherhood is like looking at a crossword puzzle - you have to step away a bit to get the answers." -- Callie "It was nice to say 'hi' to myself again." -- Callie "My goal is to write. When I sit down, my goal is to keep writing." -- Callie "I always have a list of things I want to write about." -- Callie "Every single gig I have is because I was already writing." -- Callie "When I am try to change my voice to fit in, I get rejected." -- Callie "When you first hear that voice that says you should never write about this, I think you should." -- Callie "I learned how to write dialogue by studying my daughters." -- Callie "I was reading Virginia Woolf 48 hours ago and now I’m folding socks." -- Callie "If writing is going to be a part of you, you have to fit it into your day." -- Callie "Before I had kids, I decided I was going to write. I had all day! I didn’t write. I did not have the discipline to do it all day." -- Callie "It would make me really sad if somebody said 'I would love to be a mother but I’m a writer so I can’t do that.' ” -- Callie "It’s my story. Nobody is going to write it except for me." -- Callie "That really stings. Maybe you’re no good. Do you want to keep writing anyway? The answer is always yes." -- Callie "You may have this negative emotion. But what else do you feel?" -- Callie "The three of us combined could probably talk about books for 3 or 4 hours straight." -- Abbigail "You can’t be a good writer if you aren’t a good reader." -- Callie

Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (Liveright Publishing) Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as Moses s story becomes much more, as fellow squid-enthusiast Matthew Gavin Frank boldly winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about the interrelated nature of them all. In a full-hearted, lyrical style reminiscent of Geoff Dyer, Frank weaves in playful forays about his research trip to Moses' Newfoundland home, Frank's own childhood and family history, and a catalog of bizarre facts and lists that recall Melville's story of obsession with another deep-sea dwelling leviathan. Though Frank is armed with impressive research, what he can't know about Harvey he fictionalizes, quite explicitly, as a way of both illuminating the scene and exploring his central theme: the big, beautiful human impulse to obsess. For tonight's reading, Matthew Gavin Frank will be joined by Los Angeles Times book critic (and author himself) David Ulin. Praise for Preparing the Ghost: "Preparing the Ghost is a triumph of obsession, a masterful weaving of myth and science, of exploration and mystery, of love and nature. Here Matthew Gavin Frank delivers my favorite book-length essay since John D'Agata'sAbout a Mountain, and with it he stakes a claim to his own share of the new territory being forged by such innovators of the lyric essay as Eula Biss and Ander Monson." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "Matthew Gavin Frank has made a book into a curiosity cabinet, one dedicated to the storied giant squid. A mysterious but seductive mix of history, creative non-fiction, memoir, and poetry, Preparing the Ghost is written with contagious passion. In this original book, Frank weaves his imagination through history s gaps, and keeps the reader riveted with the lure of the unknown and dark, sultry prose." --Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise "Preparing the Ghost reads like a cross between Walt Whitman and a fever dream. Who would think squid and ice cream go together? I remained riveted to the very last word." --Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig "Matthew Gavin Frank has fashioned a book-length essay marked by unforeseen oneiric asides, and of real and imaginary escapades in search of one Newfoundlander s giant squid. Preparing the Ghost is a mash-up of a meditation on the nature of myth, the magnetic distance between preservation and perseverance, and the sympathetic cravings that undergird pain. In Frank's heart-thumping taxonomy, monstrous behemoths square nicely with butterflies and ice cream. Don t ask me how: read this book!" --Mary Cappello, author of Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor who Extracted Them "What a marvelous essay Matthew Gavin Frank has written. Preparing the Ghost is driven by narrative, by lyric association, by memoir, by lists, by research, by imagination. Frank delivers this story of Moses Harvey, the first person to photograph the giant squid, with a passion as supercharged as Harvey s own. Above all, this is an essay about obsession, mystery, mythmaking, and the colossal size of our lives. Take it all in. Revel in its majesty." --Lee Martin, author of Such a Life "Like the giant squid at the center of this enchanting inquiry, Mathew Gavin Frank's Preparing the Ghost is a multi-tentacled and entirely captivating saga of profound mystery and relentless pursuit." --Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire "Part history, part lyric poem, part detective novel Matthew Gavin Frank's Preparing the Ghost is just as intriguing and hard to classify as its subject. I never thought I'd care so much about the elusive giant squid, but thanks to this book, I can t help but see its shadow everywhere." --Brenda Miller, author of Season of the Body and Listening Against the Stone "A great essay takes us into the author's polymathic mind and out to the wondrous world, teaching us something we didn t know we wanted to know. In Preparing the Ghost's deliciously delirious layering of science, biography, history, mystery, linguistics, myth, philosophy, epistemology, adventure, travel Matthew Gavin Frank has given us a truly great essay." --Patrick Madden, author of Quotidiana The shortest distance between two people is a great story. This one is incredible. You will embrace Preparing the Ghost like a friend you won't want to leave." --Bob Dotson, New York Times bestselling author of American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things "Matthew Gavin Frank reinvents the art of research in extraordinarily imaginative ways. His meditation on the briefly known and the forever unknowable courts lore (both family and creaturely), invites the fantastical, heeds fact, and turns the human drive to notate and list into a gesture of lyrical beauty". --Lia Purpura, author of On Looking and Rough Likeness "Fans of Federico Fellini and, most especially, of Georges Perec, will adore Mr. Frank's infuriatingly baroque, charmingly eccentric and utterly unforgettable book. And with hand on heart I can truly say that I also loved every word of it." --Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded "Inventive, original, and endlessly interesting, Preparing the Ghost is a gorgeous exploration of myth, history, language, and imagination, all swirling around the mysterious and evocative figure of the giant squid. This book is a journey through passion, obsession, fear, and adventure, and the hunger to behold what lurks within the depths of the sea. "To look into a squid's eyes is like looking into infinity," one squid-obsessed character declares, as Matthew Gavin Frank leads us deeper and deeper into this dazzling account of strangeness, and danger, and the longing to see." --Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country "Preparing the Ghost is the most original book I have read in years. Opening with an arresting image that literally haunts him, Matthew Gavin Frank unstrings history and reweaves a narrative from its threads, from fiction and news reporting and his own life, to remind us that every experience is a story braid. To remind us that life and love and death all are beauty." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase Matthew Gavin Frank has previously written about everything from wine-making in a tent in Italy to the social hierarchies of a pot farm in California. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan. 

On this Thanksgiving edition of Another View we celebrate Seniors! According to the U.S. Census, soon there will be more senior citizens living in this country than children and teenagers. For many, the golden years are just that - golden opportunities to live life to the fullest. Join us as we talk with seniors Brenda Miller, Joseph Dancy, Ph.D., and Darnell Johnson, Ed.D about the challenges and rewards of living life as a senior. They truly believe that "age ain't nothing but a number"! So grab some turkey leftovers for lunch and join us for Another View, Friday, November 29 at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM, or stream us on this blog!

My guest Brenda Miller joined me to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of Revolutionary Spirituality. She turned the tables on me by asking the questions as I became the guest for the day. This is an anniversary tradition and it was in interesting conversation. I hope you enjoy it.