Podcasts about Change

Vous avez l'impression de toujours courir après “plus” sans jamais vraiment profiter de ce que vous avez déjà ?Et si le problème n'était pas votre ambition… mais votre incapacité à apprécier ?Dans cet épisode, on parle d'un levier souvent négligé du développement personnel : l'appréciation.Pas la gratitude telle qu'on l'entend habituellement, mais cette capacité très concrète à reconnaître, et ressentir, la valeur de ce qui est déjà là dans votre vie.Parce que sans cette étape, vous risquez de passer à côté de ce que vous cherchez depuis le début.Vous découvrirez :Pourquoi votre cerveau vous pousse naturellement à ignorer ce qui va bienEn quoi apprécier ce que vous avez change radicalement votre rapport à vos objectifsComment utiliser la pratique du “J'adore ma vie” pour créer plus de satisfaction… dès aujourd'huiCe que cet épisode propose, c'est un changement de posture subtil mais puissant : passer d'une énergie de manque (“ce n'est pas assez”) à une énergie d'élan (“j'aime déjà ma vie, et j'ai envie d'explorer encore”).C'est ce basculement qui rend votre vie à la fois plus pleine… et plus expansive.Vous pouvez aussi :

In this episode, Danielle Gill interviews Alex McFarland about the Left's attempts to hijack Christianity. From analyzing James Talarico's invocations of "seminary" to postmodernism leading to downfall, they discuss many topics. 00:00 - Intro00:40 - Alex McFarland, Christian speaker01:58 - James Talarico False Doctrine06:30 - The Left Doesn't Want Christian Influence12::04 - Change in Denominations19:07 - Enemy Infiltration in Christianity LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new YouTube episodes: https://youtube.com/@DDGShow?si=tZi5Z75O166RwXEX Watch full clips of the Danielle Gill Show here: https://rumble.com/c/DanielleDsouzaGill/videos?e9s=src_v1_cmd Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts:Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-danielle-gill-show/id1879812724 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3x6hMKFn1roWyzLzednxXL?si=nhZG0TauTOmkWBo_ieFhcw Follow Danielle Gill on all social platforms:X - https://x.com/danielledsouzag?s=21&t=EDXtjHM__JNF18166lWkTQInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/danielledsouzagillFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/14YvjS1Umni/?mibextid=wwXIfrTruth Social - https://truthsocial.com/@danielledsouzagillSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Jake and Bob conclude their series and welcome Paul George, founder of The Art of Living Ministry. They explore the interior journey of a man learning to face his wounds, surrender control, and become who God created him to be. Paul shares his personal story— from childhood wounds and self-sufficiency to finding healing through marriage, prayer, and mentorship. They also discuss how unresolved pain can shape a man's identity, how it affects his relationships, and why vulnerability is the doorway to intimacy and freedom. Key Points: Paul's childhood experiences, especially his parents' divorce, deeply influenced his identity and relational patterns. He developed a strong sense of independence that later became a barrier to intimacy. Marriage exposes unresolved wounds and emotional barriers. Self-sufficiency often times is a mask that covers the inability to receive someone else's love. Growth begins with recognizing patterns in your life and asking God why they exist. Many men believe they will never change which leads to resignation and feeling stuck. It is important not to dwell on "what if's" or regrets about the past. Being vulnerable with your spouse and opening up about your wounds is an important step to deepening intimacy.  Both spouses must learn to love each other's brokenness. A man must take responsibility for his growth rather than blaming others. Change doesn't erase the impact of past behavior on loved ones.  A man's (and woman's) ultimate call is to love sacrificially, especially when it's difficult or unseen.   Resources: Paul's Website Paul's Ministry: The Art of Living The Paul George Show Paul's Books Feast Fierce Rethink Happiness Holy Grit Redeemed Men's Conference with the JPII Healing Center   Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:03 Paul's Story & Early Wounds 10:55 Spiritual Fatherhood & Mentorship 12:30 Ministry Through Sports 14:00 Trapped in Regret & "What Ifs" 18:24 Learning to Trust God's Provision 27:54 The Power of Self-Awareness 40:43 Inviting Your Spouse into Wounds 53:02 Why Growth Requires Struggle 56:06 Paul's Ministry & Resources   Connect with Restore the Glory:  Instagram: @restoretheglorypodcast  Twitter: @RestoreGloryPod Facebook: Restore the Glory Podcast   Never miss out on an episode by hitting the subscribe button right now! Help other people find the show and grow in holiness by sharing this podcast with them individually or on your social media. Thanks!

This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that we keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and in unmapped territories in terms of human culture. The increasing pressures and uncertainties in the outer world create an inner tension that can only be relieved through a change of awareness coming from within us.     In order to avoid overwhelm and find meaningful ways forward, we must tap the deep resources of our souls which can connect us to the timeless roots of imagination and the endless energies of creation. Only imagination can provide the genuine visions we need, while also revealing untapped capacities for healing and renewal.     Soul awakens as things seem to fall apart and soul would have us each find our unique part in life's ongoing drama. Yet, the way of the soul requires that we let go of our conventional and collective beliefs and received ideas. As we make more soul we find more moments of wholeness. When there is enough soul in the world, nature and culture can be truly connected and both can be served.     Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can hear Michael Meade live by joining his free online event "The Soul of Change" on Thursday, April 30.   Register and learn more at mosaicvoices.org/events     You can further support this podcast by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 750 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.   Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth     Along with these free weekly podcasts, you can now read free weekly essays and long form posts by Michael Meade on Substack. Learn more and subscribe at michaeljmeade.substack.com     If you enjoy this podcast, we appreciate you leaving a review wherever you listen and sharing it with your friends. On behalf of Michael Meade and the whole Mosaic staff, we wish you well and thank you for your support of our work.

FREE Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt WORK With Me: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org  Your business works. Revenue comes in. Your team gets things done. So why doesn't it feel like your dream business yet? If someone opened your calendar right now, would they see the role and life you say you want - or a slightly more profitable version of the same job you were trying to escape? In this episode of the Epic Success Podcast / Scaled CEO Show, I'm walking you through the exact formula I use with Scaled CEO clients to redesign one repeatable week — so that when you live it for 67–90 days, your existing business starts transforming into the one you actually planned. Because your dream business doesn't live in your 3-year vision. It lives in the week you're willing to repeat. Inside This Episode: ● Why your dream business hasn't shown up yet — even though you're smart and successful How your current weekly operating system is quietly blocking the business you planned (and why it has nothing to do with effort) ● The neuroscience behind the 67-day pattern Why your brain automates what you repeat — and how most owners' weeks are wired against the CEO identity they're trying to build ● How to define your dream business in weekly terms Three questions that translate your vision from a someday idea into a concrete, calendar-ready design ● The Perfect Week Formula for established business owners The exact block structure I use with Scaled CEOs: deep work, revenue engine time, leadership rhythm, health blocks, and availability by design — all in one repeatable week ● The 67-Day Dream Week Sprint How to lock in your Perfect Week, protect it from self-sabotage, and run it long enough that your brain and team have no choice but to adjust If you're a business owner who: ● Has a successful business on paper, but a week that still doesn't feel like freedom ● Knows what your dream business looks like in your head — but can't find it on your calendar ● Keeps pushing through quarters without a repeatable operating rhythm that actually builds toward what you want This episode will give you the blueprint to close that gap. The Real Shift: You don't have a dream business problem. You have a weekly operating system problem. Change the week. Repeat it for 67 days. And the business has to start changing with it. Ready to Design Your Perfect Week? Join me live for the Self-Scaling Business Diagnostic, where we: ● Score your CEO, Team, and Profit systems ● Identify the one constraint your Perfect Week needs to address first ● Map out a 67-day sprint to start building the business you actually planned

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Basic-Filtering 01 Introduction This is the second episode in a four part series on a simple way to create your own HPR podcast episode. 02 This episode will cover the following topics: Basic filtering.. De-essing to improve voice quality. And normalizing to adjust audio levels for easier reviewing. 03 Filtering is removing unwanted noise from an audio signal. There are several ways of doing this. It is possible to do this with Audacity, but I don't know how so I won't try to describe that method. It is possible however to filter using command line tools such as FFMPEG and Sox. When assembled into shell scripts, these tools can become part of an automated process that you can use over and over again for each HPR episode that you record. 04 In a later episode I will discuss how to analyze audio signals to find the sources of noise that can be reduced or eliminated with filters. In this episode however I will discuss basic filtering that you can apply routinely without doing any analysis beforehand. 05 Sources of Noise A question that you may have is "why is there noise in the recording?" There are many sources of undesirable noise. 06 A very common one that you may not be aware of is electrical noise that works its way into the electronic recording circuits and is imperceptible to you until you play back the recorded audio. The most common noise signal is what is commonly called "line noise" and is a low frequency hum at 50 or 60 Hz from the electric power lines and reflects the 50 or 60 Hz frequency of the AC power lines feeding your recording hardware. 07 You may be familiar with this low frequency hum from when it emanates from large electrical hardware such as transformers as it makes the laminations vibrate. However, it can also work its way indirectly into electronic equipment as well. Good quality audio hardware may filter all or most of this out, but it is present in a lot of consumer grade hardware. 08 Other sources of electrical noise may reflect specific problems in your recording hardware. I will discuss one such problem with my microphone that I had to address. Still other sources of noise may reflect actual physical audio noise around you, such as fans. Placing the microphone close to your face will help in dealing with a lot of these problems, but you may find filtering to be of some help here as well. 09 Audio Frequency Range Let's start with some basics. A good quality stereo of the type you may have at home is typically rated to perform between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. This is the widest possible range that we need to consider. In reality, this is a far wider range than is needed for a voice oriented podcast. It is also well beyond the range of the hardware that many of your listeners will be using to listen to the podcast. 10 For example, the speakers that I have connected to my PC and a number of headphones and earphones that I have tested drop off drastically below 80 Hz or above 8 kHz, or even above 6 kHz in many cases. This is not audiophile quality hardware, but it is representative of the sort of hardware that a lot of your listeners will be using when listening to podcasts. And to be honest here, a lot of people will have difficulty hearing anything above 8 kHz even with the best quality audio hardware due to hearing loss from environmental noise exposure or age. 11 You can get a good idea of what different frequencies sound like by generating sine waves using either FFMPEG or Sox. Here's an example of generating a 1 kHz sine wave using FFMPEG. A copy of this will be in the show notes. ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=1000:sample_rate=44100:duration=3" 01000hz.flac This creates a sine wave at 1 kHz and at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz for a duration of 3 seconds and saves it to a flac file named 01000hz.flac 12 Here's the same using Sox. sox -n -r 44100 -b 16 01000hz.flac synth 3 sine 1000 The -b 16 specifies using 16 bit audio to encode it, and the "sine 1000" element specifies the frequency in hertz. 13 You can test this out at different frequencies to get a feel for how your hardware responds. What the effective limits on typical hardware audio range means is that we can quite safely filter out a large part of what is considered to be the "audio range" without any noticeable loss of quality. For the purposes of our discussion here then I will limit the frequency range to between 80 Hz and 12 kHz, and that is being generous. You can probably narrow that, particularly at the top end, without any problems. 14 At the low end, the typical rule of thumb recommended by most people seems to be that for the average male voice you can set the lower threshold at 80 Hz, and for the average female you can set it at 160 Hz. Note that you don't *have* to set the threshold higher for a female. Rather, it is just that you typically *can* set it higher if you wish. Note also that these are averages, and may not reflect an actual individual. 15 Simple Filters We will now create some simple filters using the same command line software mentioned in a previous episode in this series. These are FFMPEG and Sox. 16 First let's define some terminology. A high pass filter passes through frequencies which fall above a certain threshold and blocks frequencies which are below that frequency. A low pass filter passes through frequencies which fall below a certain threshold and blocks frequencies which are above that frequency. 17 In reality there isn't an abrupt cut-off in the filters. Instead there is a gradual roll off or sloping off of amplitude below or above the specified filter frequency. This is for two reasons. One is that if there was an abrupt cut off then it would risk introducing audible distortion in the signal for frequencies on the margin. 18 The other reason is that this is how hardware filters traditionally inherently worked when they were made out of electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The sharpness of this cut off can be adjusted, but we won't be fiddling with it in that sort of detail. You will sometimes see filters specified in terms of "poles". This has to do with describing how filters were constructed using electronic components. Don't worry about it, it doesn't really matter. 19 Here is a typical high pass filter using ffmpeg which filters out frequencies below 80 hertz. # High pass filter. ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac -af "highpass=f=80" outputfile.flac Here is a typical low pass filter using ffmpeg which filters out frequencies above 12 kHz. # Low pass filter. ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac -af "lowpass=f=12000" outputfile.flac 20 Here is a filter which combines the two. # Combined filters. ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac -af "highpass=f=80, lowpass=f=12000" outputfile.flac And here is the same thing using Sox. sox inputfile.flac outputfile.flac highpass 80 lowpass 12000 21 Filtering Out Specific Frequencies Recall that I mentioned that a common source of noise is the 50 or 60 Hz AC power line frequency working its way through the electronics of your recording device. Because filters operate gradually and the 80 Hz lower filter threshold is close to 60 Hz, the high pass filter may not deal with this adequately. 22 Now it happens that your listeners may not be able to hear this 50 or 60 Hz noise anyway because their audio hardware won't reproduce it. That by the way includes you not being able to hear it either when you review your recording before uploading it. However, there may be some HPR listeners who are sitting back sipping a glass of wine and listening to your episode on their stereo and who can hear it. That suggests that we ought to do something about it just in case. 23 I will get into how to analyze audio signals in a later episode, but for now just accept that I looked at the frequency spectrum of a sample recording using my hardware and found a large 60 Hz noise spike which I wanted to address. 24 Experimenting with additional high pass frequencies up to 120 Hz did not improve things much with respect to the 60 Hz problem. There are other parameters which could be tweaked, but at this point it would seem most promising to attack the 60 Hz spike problem directly using a different filter method. To deal with the this 60 Hz spike we can use a "band reject" filter, which removes a specific band of frequencies. We will use this in combination with the filtering that we have already done above. 25 After a small amount of experimenting I came up with the following. I also added in a 50 Hz filter while I was at it, for the benefit of those living in areas with 50 Hz electrical supply. These filters will be included in the show notes, so don't worry if you can't quite understand all the details from a verbal description. 26 Here's the FFMPEG version. # Using ffmpeg ffmpeg -i input.flac -af "highpass=f=80, lowpass=f=12000, bandreject=f=60:width_type=h:w=20, bandreject=f=50:width_type=h:w=20" output.flac 27 This as the following elements A high pass filter at 80 Hz, A low pass filter at 12 kHz, A band reject filter centred at 60 Hz and with a width of 20 hertz. A similar band reject filter centred at 50 Hz. 28 Here's the Sox version. # Sox version. sox input.flac output.flac highpass 80 lowpass 12000 bandreject 60 20 bandreject 50 20 Note that with sox, don't quote the filter definition strings or else it will result in an error as sox doesn't see enough parameters. This is not a problem with ffmpeg. 29 The band reject filter knocks the stuffing out of the 60 Hz line noise, and the 50 Hz parameter should do the same for that frequency as well. This basic filter should be able to be applied to any podcast audio recording without causing any problems. You can probably reduce the low pass frequency from 12 kHz down to 8 kHz without any problems, but I would suggest that you test it with your voice before making that decision. 30 I will come back to filtering out specific frequencies again later when I discuss how I solved a specific problem with the hardware that I am using. However, we have to discuss how to analyze audio signals before we can do that sort of technical troubleshooting, and I will cover that in a later episode. -------------------- 31 De-Essing An additional type of filtering is "de-essing". When recording audio, the microphone or environment may result in "s", "sh", "ch" and possibly other sounds to be exaggerated. These are all higher frequency elements of voice recordings. "De-essing" attempts to soften these sounds by selectively reducing the volume on the frequency band which contains these sounds. 32 Software Filters De-essing is accomplished via software filters. FFMPEG and Sox both have de-essing filters. For FFMPEG, the de-essing filter is built in. For Sox however, we must install an optional plug-in. I will cover this is more detail when I discuss using Sox for de-essing. 33 Do You Need De-Essing? The first thing to make clear however, is that you may not need to worry about this. If you think the audio sounds just fine the way it is, you don't need to do any de-essing to it. De-essing is a very subtle change, and you would probably need to do some careful before and after comparisons of audio samples to tell the difference. I didn't know that a thing called de-essing even existed before I started doing the research to make this podcast episode. However, at this point we are doing things more for fun than out of necessity, so I'll describe it anyway. 34 De-Essing with FFMPEG De-essing with FFMPEG is relatively simple. The filter is built in, and there are just three values to adjust. On the other hand, it is not really obvious what these values mean in practical terms. 35 I will however warn you to not rely on the AI search results from Google to understand this feature. The AI, in my experience, just makes stuff up about it and tells you to use options that don't exist and values that are not valid. I found that the only useful information came from FFMPEG's own web site, and from examples written by actual humans. 36 I then experimented with different values to see what effects they had. Since the results are rather subtle, fine tuning isn't really that necessary and I found that I could arrive at some reasonable values fairly quickly. I will provide the parameters that I found useful for me, and I suspect they would probably work for you as well. 37 Here is a typical de-essing command. ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac -filter_complex "deesser=i=0.5:m=0.5:f=0.5:s=o" -b:a 336k -sample_fmt s16 outputfile.flac 38 The important arguments are i, m, and f. i is intensity for triggering de-essing. The allowed range is 0 to 1. The default is 0. By experimentation I found that "0" means no de-essing, and "1" is maximum de-essing. I found that setting it to "0.5" gave satisfactory results. 39 m is the amount of "ducking on the treble part of sound". The allowed range is 0 to 1. The default is 0.5. By experimentation I found that "1" means no de-essing, and "0" is maximum de-essing. I found that setting it to "0.5" gave satisfactory results. 40 f is how much of the original frequency content to keep when de-essing. The allowed range is 0 to 1. The default is 0.5. By experimentation I found that "1" means no de-essing, and "0" is maximum de-essing. I found that setting it to "0.5" gave satisfactory results. 41 Setting "m" or "f" too high can result in a distorted output as too much of the original sound is cut out. The defaults of 0.5 in both cases gave audible improvements without noticeable distortion. 42 There is an additional parameter called "s". This controls whether the de-essing filter does anything. Setting it to "o" is the normal and default mode. Setting it to "e" causes it to output just the components that it would normally have filtered out. This is useful for testing purposes so you can see what and how much is being filtered. You only use this when experimenting with different values. Setting it to "i" causes the input to be passed through without de-essing. This would be useful in scripts where you want to use a variable to control whether or not to use the de-esser while still creating the expected output file. 43 There are two other elements of the command which were included but are not strictly speaking part of the de-essing filter itself . These are " -b:a 336k" and "-sample_fmt s16". " -b:a 336k" sets the audio bit rate to 336k. "-sample_fmt s16" sets the audio sample format to 16 bit. I found it necessary to specify these in order to prevent the de-essing filter from changing formats. They are not part of de-essing however. 44 De-Essing with Sox You can also de-ess with Sox. However, this is more complex for several reasons. One reason is that Sox does not have its own de-essing filters. Instead it uses optional plug-ins, and you must find and install these. The actual plug in may vary depending on what operating system you are using. The other reason is that it deals with the issue in fairly low level parameters, and so is a bit more complex to describe. Because of this I will skip over describing this in detail and just give a very brief overview. If anyone would like me to describe in more detail how to de-ess with Sox, then send in a comment and I will do a short episode on it later. 45 Sox De-Essing Overview To de-ess with Sox, you first need to install the plug-ins. On Linux, these will be the TAP ladspa plug-ins. TAP stands for "Tom's Audio Processing" plugins. ladspa stands for "Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API" To install the TAP plugins on Ubuntu, using the following command. sudo apt install tap-plugins The plug-in we need is called "tap_deesser.so". 46 In order to use the plug-ins, you need to set the path as a variable. On Ubuntu this is. export LADSPA_PATH="/usr/lib/ladspa:" I put the above in the shell script which calls the Sox de-esser. 47 To use the Sox de-esser, you do the following: sox inputfile.flac outputfile.flac ladspa tap_deesser tap_deesser -30 4500 48 tap_deesser tap_deesser tells it which plugin to use. We need to state tap_deesser twice because the first is the name of the ".so" file and the second is the name of the plugin. A single "so" file can contain multiple filters, although in this case there is only one. -30 is the threshold in dB at which to start to apply the filter. 4500 is the frequency in Hz that the filter centres around. 49 The TAP web page has a table of recommended frequencies. These are: Male 'ess' 4500 Hz Male 'ssh' 3400 Hz Female 'ess' 6800 Hz Female 'ssh' 5100 Hz You will need to do some trial and error to find what works best for you. 50 De-Essing Summary De-essing can be used to make minor improvements to voice quality by reducing certain harsh sounds which may be exaggerated by a microphone. If it sounds like a lot of work you can probably simply not bother with it and not really miss it. -------------------- 51 Normalizing Normalizing a signal means adjusting it to meet a specified level. For audio it means adjusting the volume or sound level. You may wish to normalize the audio of your recording to make it easier to listen to when reviewing it. The copy that you send to HPR however should be the original un-normalized version. 52 Sound level is measured in two ways, dB and LUFS. The latter is a more sophisticated way of measuring things which takes into account how the human ear perceives loudness. I won't go into a lot of detail in that regards, other than to say that just accept LUFS as a unit of perceived loudness that is the international standard. LUFS stands for "Loudness Units referenced to Full Scale", and is part of the EBU R128 standard, where EBU stands for European Broadcast Union. In both cases the measured value is a negative number, with numbers smaller in magnitude being louder. Smaller in magnitude means closer to zero. 53 HPR will adjust the sound level for publication, but if you wish to check the audio before uploading it can help to adjust it to something close to what HPR will do so that you can listen to it at a volume which most listeners will hear. In my case full volume on the audio system input produced a sound level which was much lower than a typical HPR episode. However, the volume level in the flac file itself can be adjusted using ffmpeg. 54 Measuring Volume Level First we need to see what the volume level is for a typical HPR podcast. To do this we use ffmpeg. In this example we are using an episode named "hprpodcast.mp3". Pick an episode which you think is suitable and copy the file to the working directory. 55 In the following script we use a volumedetect filter. The text we want normally outputs to standard error, so we have to do a bit of bashery to redirect this to standard output so it will go through a pipe. We then grep for the string "I:". This will have the average volume level in "loudness units" (LUFS). Then we extract the number, giving us a target LUFS level. 56 ffmpeg -i hprpodcast.mp3 -filter:a ebur128=framelog=quiet -f null /dev/null 2>&1 | grep "I:" | cut -d: -f2 57 Unfortunately I can't find a Sox feature which handles EBU loudness, so we need to work in dB instead. Here is the sox version. However, note that this may not work on mp3s if sox mp3 handing is not installed. 58 sox hprpodcast.mp3 -n stats 2>&1 | grep "RMS lev dB" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev 59 You can use either of these for measuring the volume or sound level of an audio file. However, note that individual episodes from HPR may vary a bit in terms of loudness. In the samples that I looked at, this however was less than 1 LUFS or dB while my own recording was roughly 5 LUFS lower in volume than a typical HPR episode. -------------------- 60 If you Google for the EBU R128 standard the AI result will confidently tell you to use a target of -23 LUFS. However, this is wrong, which shouldn't be of any surprise if you are familiar with using AI. 61 The -23 LUFS figure is for broadcast television. There is in fact no standard level for podcasts. However, there is apparently a general industry convention of using somewhere around -17 LUFS. If I look at the first two HPR episodes that I did, HPR normalized them to -16.8 LUFS and -17.8 LUFS, while the original FLAC files that I submitted were -21.6 LUFS and -22.3 LUFS respectively. 62 So HRP appear to be targeting somewhere around -17 LUFS as well. We will therefore use -17 LUFS as our target for our own copy for review. -------------------- 63 The nice thing about using the EBU filter in FFMPEG is that this is very simple. Here is the FFMPEG version. 64 ffmpeg -i inputfile.flac -af loudnorm=I=-17:TP=-2.0:LRA=7.0 -ar 44.1k outputfile.flac 65 "I" is the LUFS target. LRA is the loudness range target. The default value is 7.0 so I used that. TP sets the maximum true peak. The default value is -2.0. so I used that. -------------------- 66 With Sox things are a bit more difficult. There is no direct method of setting the loudness that I am aware of, so we need to measure the current sound level in dB, do some calculations, and then apply that as a gain factor to the output. 67 First we need to subtract the measured db level from our flac file from the target db level from the HPR episode we decided to use as a sample. Bash by itself normally just does integer math. However, we would like to have at least one decimal point of resolution to work with. The simple solution is to do this calculation using bc, the shell arbitrary precision calculator. 68 Then take this new value and use it in a "volume" filter. The number which we give sox is the amount to increase or decrease the volume by. Sox will then output a new file with the new volume level. You can now listen to this file under conditions more closely approximating what it will be like after HPR have done their own audio adjustments and normalizaton on it This helps when listening to the file for any problems before you upload it. 69 Rather than reading 5 lines of complex shell script to you, I will put a copy of it in the show notes. level=$( sox $inputfile -n stats 2>&1 | grep "RMS lev dB" ) leveldb=$( echo "$level" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev ) targetdb="-18.9" volumechange=$(echo "scale=2 ; $targetdb - $leveldb" | bc ) sox $inputfile $outputname gain "$volumechange" -------------------- 70 Normalization should be the last thing you do to the file. It should be done after any noise filtering, such as low pass, high pass, bandreject, etc. If you normalize first, you will be amplifying the noise as well as the desired signal. 71 The exact normalization level used for review purposes doesn't matter, as HPR will apply their own later. All we are doing at this point is adjusting the volume to something which approximates a normal episode so you can listen to it for final review. 72 When you send your file to HPR, send the original *unnormalized* version, not the normalized version. When you normalize an audio signal, if you are not careful you may introduce things which cause problems with later additional processing. HPR probably do more things to the audio than just normalizing and so they need the unnormalized file so that they can do their own normalizing last. -------------------- 73 If at this point you are happy with the recording as is, you are ready to send the *unnormalized* version to HPR. The scripts to implement the features discussed in this episode will be in the show notes. 74 Conclusion In this episode we covered basic filtering using ffmpeg and sox. We discussed what noise was and some of the origins of noise. We talked about the audio frequency range and the limitations of common hardware used to record and listen to podcasts. We covered basic high and low pass filters used to limit the audio frequency range in order to remove possible low and high frequency noise. 75 We discussed specific filters to eliminate 50 and 60 Hz electrical power noise. We talked about de-essing, what it was, why you may wish to use it, and some basic de-essing filter implementation details. We discussed normalizing, what it is, why you may wish to use it, and how it relates to podcasting conventions. 76 In the next episode we will discuss analyzing audio signals to help find the sources of noise problems. We will also discuss creating filters to eliminate any problems that we found. In my case I had a problem with the microphone that I use, and I describe how I used filters to deal with that problem. 77 This has been the second episode in a four part series on simple podcasting. -------------------- EBU R128 Loudness Measurement using FFMPEG #!/bin/bash echo "EBU r128 loudness measurement using FFMPEG" for inputfile in *.flac *.mp3 ; do level=$( ffmpeg -i $inputfile -filter:a ebur128=framelog=quiet -f null /dev/null 2>&1 | grep "I:" | cut -d: -f2 ) echo $inputfile $level done -------------------- DB Sound Level Measurement using Sox #!/bin/bash # Sox version. May not work for mp3 if an mp3 format handling is not installed. echo "dB sound level measurement using Sox." for inputfile in *.flac *.mp3 ; do level=$( sox $inputfile -n stats 2>&1 | grep "RMS lev dB" ) leveldb=$( echo "$level" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev ) echo $inputfile $leveldb done -------------------- EBU R128 Loudness Normalization using FFMPEG #!/bin/bash # Adjust the volume to a desired level. for inputfile in *.flac ; do j=$( basename $inputfile ".flac" ) outputname="$j""-normff.flac" ffmpeg -i $inputfile -af loudnorm=I=-17:TP=-2.0:LRA=4.0 -ar 44.1k $outputname echo $outputname done -------------------- DB Sound Level Normalization using Sox #!/bin/bash # Adjust the volume to a desired level. for inputfile in *.flac ; do j=$( basename $inputfile ".flac" ) outputname="$j""-normff.flac" # Measure the volume level and extract the mean volume. level=$( sox $inputfile -n stats 2>&1 | grep "RMS lev dB" ) leveldb=$( echo "$level" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev ) # Calculate the difference in dB desired. Scale specifies the number of decimal places. # Target db is the volume measured on hpr4506 (UCSD-P-System). targetdb="-18.9" volumechange=$(echo "scale=2 ; $targetdb - $leveldb" | bc ) echo "Using sox: File: $inputfile Original level: $leveldb Change by: $volumechange" # Adjust the volume. sox $inputfile $outputname gain "$volumechange" done -------------------- Full processing pipeline for making simple podcasts using FFMPEG #!/bin/bash #!/bin/bash # Full processing pipeline for making simple podcasts. # ====================================================================== # Concatenate multiple flac files into a single flac file. # This is used to combine podcast recorded segments into a single # flac file for uploading to HPR. concataudio () { outputname="$1" # First create the list file. printf "file '%s'n" [0-9][0-9].flac > podseglist.txt # Now concatenate them ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i podseglist.txt "$outputname" rm podseglist.txt } # ====================================================================== # Basic filters. filter () { inputfile=$1 outputname=$2 # Using ffmpeg. # The high and low pass filters. hlpfil="highpass=f=80, lowpass=f=12000" # Band reject filters filter for 60Hz and another for 50Hz. linefil="bandreject=f=60:width_type=h:w=20, bandreject=f=50:width_type=h:w=20" # Using ffmpeg ffmpeg -i $inputfile -af "$hlpfil, $linefil" $outputname } # ====================================================================== # De-Essing. deessing () { inputfile=$1 outputname=$2 option=$3 # De-essing filter. ffmpeg -i $inputfile -filter_complex "deesser=i=0.5:m=0.5:f=0.5:s=$option" -b:a 336k -sample_fmt s16 $outputname } # ====================================================================== # Normalizing the audio to EBU R128 standard for review using ffmpeg. normffmpeg () { inputfile=$1 outputname=$2 # Normalize to EBU R128 standard. ffmpeg -i $inputfile -af loudnorm=I=-17:TP=-2.0:LRA=4.0 -ar 44.1k $outputname } # ====================================================================== # Output an MP3 version to help with reviewing. mp3convert () { inputfile=$1 # Get the name of the file and then create the output file name. j=$( basename $inputfile ".flac" ) outputname="$j"".mp3" # Convert to MP3. ffmpeg -i $inputfile $outputname } # ====================================================================== # Concatenate the separate audio files. concataudio fullpod-unfiltered.flac # Basic filtering. filter fullpod-unfiltered.flac filtered.flac # De-essing. This is the version to send for publishing. # The third argument should be "o" for de-essing, or "i" for pass through without de-essing. deessing filtered.flac fullpod.flac o # Normalized for review. normffmpeg fullpod.flac fullpod-norm.flac # Output an MP3 copy for review. mp3convert fullpod-norm.flac -------------------- -------------------- Provide feedback on this episode.

It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review! ABOUT A LITTLE PARK MUSIC When a piano appears in the park gazebo, interfering with important work, city manager Allie joins forces with rookie cop Ryan to remove it, only to find both music and love are hard to resist. AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR A LITTLE PARK MUSIC April 11, 2026 | Hallmark CAST & CREW OF A LITTLE PARK MUSIC Director: Peter Benson Cast: Laci J Mailey as Allie Beau Mirchoff as Ryan Everett Andres BRAN'S MOVIE SYNOPSIS Allie is a city manager who talks to people constantly while she walks. The park is about to be demolished. We then meet Officer Ryan Pruett. He's new in town and is insanely detailed. So detailed that he was transferred from traffic because he took too long with the details of the tickets. He gives Allie a jaywalking ticket because rules are rules. She can't believe it. While walking to the office, she sees a piano in the gazebo. It's literally never been there before. So she goes to the police but unfortunately for her, Ryan is on the case. He insists on doing an investigation which gives no answers but that's enough for him to approve having the piano moved. Much to her surprise, the piano is back the next day. But since it's a different one, they gotta reopen the case. They investigate some other people that may be interested but no hits. Let's move that piano! To make sure another piano doesn't show up, they decide to spend the night together in his truck doing a little stake out! They have a great night together, getting to know each other more, and ultimately falling asleep. When they wake up, there's a piano. Wtf! She notices how much people love the piano so she talks to the mayor but hands are tied. There's grant money attached to demolishing the gazebo and putting in a fountain. He is up for a job in Seattle and does an interview and is now able to talk about how much he loves community because of Allie. They figure out who put the pianos there - a woman who got married at the gazebo and didn't wanna see it torn down. But this is life sometimes. It's almost demolition time but another piano shows up. Who is this! The town is pumped! The mayor finally realizes maybe the piano is good for the town. Allie tries to figure out a way to make this work. And she does. Change what the town square is. The gazebo and piano are now just a park. A little park music. He shows up and implies he put the piano there and also he's staying. They kiss. Fast forward 3 months and the gazebo is still crushing it. Watch the show on Youtube - www.deckthehallmark.com/youtubeInterested in advertising on the show? Email bran@deckthehallmark.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

EP. 487 Best to the Nest: Baby One More Time Britney, Bill, Monica, John and Carolyn…the nineties. Truly a hot topic on social and for us today. Take a moment to ask yourself, was life better in the nineties? We ask and answer with some surprising data. Organic Lawns By Lunseth.Change the way you care for your lawn with help from Organic Lawns by Lunseth. Their lawn program supports soil health, biodiversity, and long-term results—not quick chemical fixes. Not only will you have a beautiful lawn, but in time the pollinators –– the monarchs, the birds, and the bees will come back. Find out more at OrganicLawnsByLunseth.com. Fill out the short form at the website and let Shay and her team help you build a better lawn this spring. Schuler Shoes.We welcome back Schuler Shoes. We are so happy to share our love of Schuler Shoes with you. Stop in and check out their top brands for spring: Dansko, Taos, Ecco, Vionic, Keen, and Clarks. Experience Schuler Shoes service, selection, and proper sizing at ten locations in Minnesota or online at schulershoes.com. Use the link APRIL COLLECTION for $15 dollars off select women and men's shoes. Healing Insight. Founded by Dr. Senia Mae, Healing Insight is based in St. Paul Minnesota. She is a trusted expert with more than eighteen years of experience in acupuncture and functional medicine. Healing Insight is a sanctuary for women seeking answers beyond conventional medicine. The team at Healing Insight will guide you through the stages of life whether it's pregnancy preparation or perimenopause. Find out more at https://healinginsightonline.com/.Our Website: https://www.besttothenest.com/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/besttothenest?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1088997968155776/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The question of how we might utilize sports team models within corporate or theatrical organizations has Pete and Jen scratching their imaginary beards this week. Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about: How do sports teams differ from corporate and theatrical structures? And how are they similar? How might we utilize feedback, clarity, and communication within our teams? How can we best set people up for success in our businesses? To hear all episodes and read full transcripts, visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/. You can subscribe to our Box O' Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos, and other interesting things that Jen and Pete are noodling on.  To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.com. Learn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Human beings have an issue. We want adventure, growth, and transformation, provided they arrive gently, avoid inconvenience, and never make us look foolish. This episode is about that charming contradiction. We spend years building small fortresses of competence, then wonder why life begins to feel boring. The trouble is that courage rarely appears before action; it usually turns up afterwards, slightly out of breath, claiming it was there all along. So we explore three ways to make peace with failure and even, in a highly civilised way, become rather fond of it. There's a bit of psychology, a bit of neuroscience, and a useful reminder that nearly everyone you admire got good by being bad at things for quite a while. Failure, properly understood, is not a catastrophe. It is more like compost: unpleasant in the wrong light, but extremely useful if you're trying to grow something interesting. Redefine failure as information, not identity. Make small, repeated discomfort a weekly practice. Stop mistaking safety for a meaningful life. Listen in and give your fears the deeply disappointing experience of being ignored. SPONSORS

Mickey Desai interviews Sherry Heyl about her book Learn to Love the Roller Coaster: Stories of Change, Resilience, and the Future to Come. They discuss how nonprofits can navigate rapid technological and social change by adopting a "creator mindset" rather than a "poverty mindset" or "survivor mindset." Sherry emphasizes that change is constant and accelerating (driven by AI, quantum computing, and CRISPR) but organizations can manage it by staying grounded in their values, making incremental changes collaboratively, and treating emerging tools like AI as interns rather than replacements. The conversation covers practical frameworks for organizational change, the emotional dimensions of transitions, and how to use AI thoughtfully without abandoning human creativity and connection. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit SnapCast website. Learn more about Nonprofit Snapshot's consulting services.

“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein (https://www.billcrawfordphd.com/quote-video-blog/)

Today, we're going to talk about how to create healthy phone habits. Healthy habits are personal. What's healthy or unhealthy for me might not be for you, so this isn't a judgmental episode. Instead, we're going to examine what healthy means, what parts of our phone experience need some attention, and figure out how to create some better practices that align with what matters. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. My profile on Spotify I mentioned looking for a folder on my profile of podcast playlists, but after recording, I realized you can't see it publicly. Here are those podcast playlists: Planning, Margin, Work, Change, Chores, Cooking, Kids, Office Hours, Summer Sanity, Holiday Sanity, Starter Pack, and Guests Gonna Try to Run playlist Calling for Spring playlist Road Ready app New York Times Cooking and New York Times Games Merlin Bird ID app 5 Calls app Kindle app Libby app Chirp app Audible app Book of the Month app Aardvark Book Club app Book Buddy app Trello app Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchenor The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it or record your idea and share your voice on the show. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why Isn't TEAM More Popular? Why Do So Many Therapists Resist TEAM CBT? Featuring Matt May, MD Why has the therapeutic community been so resistant to TEAM? This topic has been a concern to me or many years. To be honest, it isn't new. From the very start of cognitive therapy, when I was first learning it, I began modifying it to make it more dynamic, powerful, and effective. But to be honest, I ran into a small (at the time) of Beck loyalists who branded me as an "outsider," something Beck also did when my book, Feeling Good, began to sell and gain popularity. This saddened and frustrated me, and still does, but it had some great spin-off. On my own, my ideas and approaches grew rapidly, and there was no scarcity of young therapists who wanted to work with me.  Below, you will ready Matt's take on why TEAM CBT has not caught on better, followed by my own thoughts. So read, and enjoy, and feel free to share your own thinking on this topic!  On the live podcast, you will hear our lively discussion with our beloved and brilliant host, Rhonda! Thanks for listening today!  Matt, Rhonda, and David Matt's take: Hi David, I'm excited to discuss this topic!  Also, I agree we would be hard-pressed to cover it in an hour, which I believe is the goal for the podcast. So, why isn't TEAM isn't more popular?  My short answer is that TEAM isn't more popular because many therapists don't want to learn it. Those reasons will vary from one person to another and relate to concepts in the model, itself, like 'process resistance' and 'outcome resistance'. While biological factors, like deficits in cognitive flexibility and neuroplasticity, the 'primacy effect' and age-related changes in the brain, combined with the complexity of the TEAM model, will make it near-impossible for some folks to learn it, these barriers are hard to address with our current technology For the purpose of this conversation, it probably makes more sense to consider the psychological barriers therapists have to adopting a model that is scientifically proven to be superior to other approaches.  As a proponent of TEAM and an instructor, I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong, in presenting the model and how to get more people excited about learning it.  While more research would help us see the problem more clearly, here are some factors that likely play a role: It seems humans have a hard time adopting new truths, regardless of the field being considered. I believe it was Schopenhauer who said all new truths go through three phases on the way to acceptance:  People will ridicule it, violently oppose it, then say they knew it all along as self-evident! One cause of this is something called the 'primacy effect'. People preferentially retain the first version of a story they hear.  If that information is corrected, later, they will continue to believe the first version they heard.  Biological Factors play a role in learning, including genetics, aging, illness and toxic exposure. 'Switching gears', mentally, is more challenging in people with Schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives, for example.  We know that neuroplasticity is greatest in our youth and declines over our lifespan.  Hence the importance of early education and attending to our overall health, habits, nutrition and medical care.       Socioeconomic and Cultural factors certainly play a role.  This is well documented in the book, 'The Emperor's New Drugs', showing how marketing prevailed over science in promoting "antidepressants".  Many therapists in training tell me, 'oh, they wouldn't let me use a measurement tool where I work'.   Lack of 'Critical Thinking'. What people believe often has nothing to do with what is evidence-based or logical.  Many people reject global warming despite the evidence and prefer to believe in conspiracy theories.  We tend to preferentially believe what someone says if we feel a kinship or loyalty to that person or view them as an 'expert'. People might believe RFK Jr. when he says immunizations are dangerous, for example, because he is in their political party and in a position of power, rather than review the science for themselves. Sunk-Cost Fallacy:  People who have gone through training may have a sense that they have invested too much time and money in their education to discard that model and start afresh. Even if we covered this in just a few minutes, we'd still be up against the hardest part of TEAM to learn, Agenda Setting.   Lots of 'Good Reasons' NOT to have open hands, explore topics paradoxically, and reasons this is challenging, technically. So, yeah, we'll have a lot to discuss and I'm looking forward to that! Sincerely, Matt Here is David's list Taking a page out of your book, Matt, our field is filled with so-called "schools" of therapy that function much like cults, most with a narcissistic "leader" at the helm. In a cult, members are required to be absolutely loyal, and to believe in claims the guru makes that have little or no evidence to back them up. For example, most "schools" of therapy claim to know "the" cause of emotional distress, when the causes of depression and other forms of emotional disturbance are still not known. What I have been suggesting is that we get rid of all the schools of therapy and usher in a new era of science-based, data-driven therapy, which would amount to a revolution in our field. This idea, which I feel passionate about, always meets with stiff and hostel opposition / push back. People just don't want to hear it. TEAM integrates high-level empathy and compassion with firm accountability. Give Stanford story with Sunny Choi, and the statement that "Stanford graduate students and faculty cannot be held accountable for doing psychotherapy homework. The need insight-oriented therapy!" This angrily issued statement conveyed, actually, two cult-like (to my thinking) components: First, we KNOW that patients should not be asked to do psychotherapy homework between sessions. Second, we KNOW that "insight-oriented therapy" is the treatment, without ever evaluating them. TEAM focuses on the here and now, and emphasize a "fractal" approach to treatment, where the same distortions and self-defeating beliefs will be embedded in the patient's negative thoughts and feelings every time she or he is upset. So, when you change the present, you have already changed the past. Whereas most therapies have traditionally (and still) focus on the past, thinking they will find the cause of the patient's distress in some pattern or traumatic event. TEAM focuses on rapid change in the here and now, where as many (most?) therapies focus on talk therapy that unfolds slowly, over a period of months, years, or even more. This DOES provide a powerful financial incentive to do "talk therapy," since this drastically provides financial security and reduces the incredible pressure of constantly have to find new patients. TEAM is very challenging to learn. I have taught over 50,000 therapists in the past 35 years or more, through my supervision of graduate students and psychiatric residents, my weekly training group at Stanford, and my workshops, including intensive, around the US and Canada. And one lesson that has emerged is just how difficult it is to learn TEAM. It requires a high level of intelligence and aptitude, and an unusual dedication and commitment. A great many of the most important tools, like Assessment of Resistance, and Externalization of Voices with the CAT, Self-Defense, and the Acceptance Paradox, are extremely difficult to learn and master.  And most give up, and drop out, in favor of some simpler and more formulaic therapy that is easy to learn. TEAM training requires constant role-playing with specific and immediate feedback on your performance, which includes bot a letter grade (A, B, C, etc.) as well as what you did that was effective, and where you fell short and might need to fine-tune your technique with frequent role reversals, always with feedback. This means lots of criticism along the way, which many (most?) therapists do not like. And although we repeatedly emphasize the philosophy of "joyous failure," and "learning through failure," most people do not buy it emotionally. We all want success and compliments! And NOT the "great death" of the self." The "great death" permeates every phase of the T E A M process. At the T = Testing, you will nearly always learn that your perceptions of your patients feel, and how they feel about you, are way off base. This is critically important, but painful for most, as it is a direct body blow to our "need" to be in the role of "expert." Unlike most other forms of therapy, we require therapists to measure patients' feelings, "in the here and now," at the start and end of every therapy session, using brief, highly reliable scales that assess feelings of depression, suicidal urges, anxiety, anger, and also happiness, as well as relationship satisfaction or discord. These scales function like an "emotional X-ray machine," allowing therapists for the first time to see exactly how effective or ineffective you were in every therapy session. Can you take it? On the positive side, this information will allow you to fine tune the therapy and learn from all of your patients every day. On the negative side, you may not want to have to "see" your failures before your eyes at every session with every patient. David: Tell the story of Tuesday group patient who proudly showed me her depression (and other scores) over the previous year with one of her patients. . . But there was absolutely no improvement in any scale. This was shocking and it made me very sad. My goal is to get dramatic changes within a single session. This "great death" continues during the E phase. TEAM therapists are required to ask "What's my grade on empathy" during the session, and also patients fill out the Empathy Scale and other scales on the "Patient's Evaluation of Therapy Session" right after the session. These scales are set up to make therapist failure common, almost universal at first. A warm and curious dialogue about where the therapist went wrong can revolutionize the therapy and deepen the relationship—quickly. But at what cost to the fragile ego of the insecure shrink? The "great death" continues with A = Paradoxical Agenda Setting. You give up your role as the "expert:" or "helper" or "rescuer," which many therapist refuse to do, and instead "become" the patient's subconscious resistance, arguing, with compassion and logic, that there are many GOOD reasons NOT to change. This freaks therapists out! The "great death" continues with the M = Methods phase of the session. I have developed roughly 140 methods to help people challenge distorted negative thoughts and self-defeating beliefs, and have always taught that no one method will work for everyone who's depressed and anxious. So you will have to try many methods, using the Recovery Circle, to find the one that works for each patient. But these methods are challenging to learn, and most therapists don't seem to have the intelligence, aptitude, or commitment to learning how to use them. Many of the methods and insights of TEAM or subtle nuances that many therapists do not "get" or perhaps do not want to "get." Example, the ACT training group, where someone held up the Feeling Good book and said, "We do not want THIS!" They falsely believed that "leaning into" your feelings is always the answer, and wrong believed that TEAM tried to make people happy all the time—called Toxic Positivity—whereas nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I mentioned healthy negative feelings as early as, I think, Chapter 3 in Feeling Good, "Sadness is Not Depression," where I told the story of an elderly man who died on the Stanford inpatient medical service one evening when I was a medical student. Much of what I teach is shocking and at odds with what people are taught in graduate school. For example, the idea that most people with depression and anxiety—NOT everybody!—can be effectively treated in a single, extended therapy session. Curses! That sounds horrible! And even worse-sounding is the idea that change typically happens suddenly, at the very moment patients stop believing their distorted thoughts. Of course, since most therapists have not seen these phenomena, due perhaps to not having the skill, they insist instead that David is some type of fool, liar, or con artis. Okee Dokee! People—therapists and patients alike—do not "get" a great many of the key ideas in TEAM. For example, let's say the socially anxious patient totally believes the thought, "I shouldn't be so screwed up!" the necessary and sufficient conditions for emotional change. The necessary condition: The Positive Thought (PT) must be 100% true. Rationalizations and half-truths have never helped anybody. The sufficient condition: The PT must drastically reduce your belief in the negative thought. And that's when your negative thoughts will suddenly change. There is even more of what I teach is shocking and at odds with what people believe. For example, 2,000 years ago Epictetus stated they key premise of all the cognitive therapies: "People are disturbed, not by things, or events, but by the views they have of them". And recently, our research team has provided proof of this for the first time, in a study of nearly 7,000 users of our Feeling Great app, using sophisticated statistical modeling techniques. So, the three tenants of cognitive therapies, including TEAM, are: First, you FEEL the way you THINK. In other words, all of your positive and negative feelings result from your thoughts in the here-and-now. Second, depression and anxiety are the world's oldest cons. In other words, your negative thoughts, like "I'm not as good as I should be," or "I'm a hopeless case,"—will be loaded with many of the ten cognitive distortions and are extremely misleading—but you don't realize this when you're upset. You will believe these thoughts with all your heart and feel CERTAIN that they are 100% true. Third, you can CHANGE the way you FEEL. But lots of people will won't have it. They keep insisting on theories that simply aren't true—that emotions cause thoughts, for example—and on methods that may have little or no "punch" above and beyond the placebo effect. Story of Tuesday group student who was scolded in her graduate school counseling program for using the words "thought" or cognition during a therapy session. She was told ONLY to focus on feelings. Many people—therapists and patients alike—strongly believe that therapist empathy is THE key to healing. I have developed many powerful empathy tracking and training methods, but our clinical experience and research has shown, over and over, that therapist empathy is NOT the key to healing. They keys involve using TEAM systematically, and the rapid healing happens during the A and M for the most part. But those are the hard parts! Other problems include the idea that we can convert normal human emotional distress into a series of "mental disorders" that are listed in the DSM, the "bible" of the American Psychiatric Association. In TEAM, we consider each patient's patterns of suffering at the start of therapy, quickly and easily screened by the EASY Diagnostic System, but monitor therapy and patient progress with simple tools that measure feelings, like depression, anxiety, anger, and more. But this is an argument for another day. There's a lot more issues, too. Have I, David, contributed to the resistance to TEAM? Absolutely I have. I plead guilty as accused, and I'm proud of it. I'm totally aware that people—maybe even you— get turned off by criticism, and naturally recoil to protect your "in group," as Matt so clearly pointed out, and maintain loyalty to your "leader," whether it's Freud, Jung, Beck, Hayes, Rogers, or whoever. People are more emotional than rational, and people can be intentionally cruel and deceptive, too, all in the name of what they believe. We see that in our politics these days too. People believe things that are totally false, and wildly implausible, because the group or leader says it's true, it's the way things are. I'm a strong believer that science and truth will win out in the long run. Is this inevitable? I'm not totally confident, and have my doubts, but I am also filled with hope, and look to a future with more therapists like our beloved Matt May, MD and others who have dared to venture in a radically new direction, much like the early astronomers like Galileo and Copernicus who dared to challenge the superstitious teachings of the Catholic church. Those brave and brilliant early souls said, "things are NOT the way you think!" And they used data and mathematical modeling to prove their points. But there were a hundreds years of intimidation and suffering until people finally began to catch on to the then-ridiculous and outrageous ideas that the sun does NOT actually revolve around the earth, and that the earth is NOT the center of the universe. Those NOTS changed history. Can it happen again in the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy? I hope so, and I've been giving my all, in my teaching, research, clinical work and writing, to make this happen. Sadly, I've fallen far short of my dream, but I'm thankful every day for what I've got, and the wonderful colleagues I'm privileged to know and love. Warmly, David, Matt and Rhonda

What if the key to real character growth isn't fixing your weaknesses… but fully living into your strengths?In today's teaching, Dr. John Ortberg explores the idea of signature character strengths — those unique qualities God has wired into you that, when used intentionally, can transform your life and the lives of others. Drawing from research in positive psychology and the example of Barnabas, the “son of encouragement,” this message invites you to discover how you're uniquely designed to grow and make an impact.You'll hear a powerful story of quiet encouragement, learn how your daily choices shape who you are becoming, and be challenged to take one simple step: start using your God-given strengths on purpose today.Because change doesn't happen someday. Change starts today.ORIGINAL AIR DATE: July 24, 2023

Change or Die by Rick Godwin

No one knows what will happen in this season of Earth … however there are moments to test very clearly if you are in alignment 

Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM This episode explores why emotional resilience is becoming a core leadership skill in the age of AI. Jennifer Selby Long explains how a leader's emotional state shapes team performance, why calm and consistency now matter more than constant disruption, and how grounded leadership enables effective change. Drawing on real client examples, she shares practical frameworks leaders can use to build self awareness, manage stress, and lead transformation without burning themselves or their teams out.

1. Sitting and Waiting2. Asking for a Drink3. Seeing a ChangeToday's sermon explored how Jesus intentionally planned a meeting with a broken, rejected woman whom society had cast aside. Despite being weary from His journey, Jesus waited at Jacob's well at noon to meet someone who desperately needed His love and grace. This passage reminds us that no one is beyond God's reach, no heart is too broken for Him to mend, and no past is too damaged for Him to redeem. Jesus offers us "living water"—eternal satisfaction that the world cannot provide—and He seeks us out even when we feel unworthy of His attention.Takeaways:- God orchestrates divine appointments in our lives. Just as Jesus "had to pass through Samaria," He intentionally pursues each of us, regardless of our past failures or current circumstances. Your brokenness doesn't disqualify you from His love.- Only Jesus can satisfy the deepest thirst of our souls. We often look for fulfillment in relationships, possessions, success, or popularity, but these leave us empty. Jesus is the fountain of living water who offers lasting satisfaction when we surrender to Him in spirit and truth.- Genuine transformation leads to testimony. The Samaritan woman immediately left her water pot and shared her encounter with Jesus. When we truly meet Christ, we can't help but tell others: "Come and see!" Our changed lives become powerful witnesses to His grace.As you go through this week, let us be encouraged to reflect on our own "divine appointments." Where is Jesus meeting you? What areas of thirst in your life need His living water? And who in your circle needs to hear about the hope you've found in Christ?May you experience afresh the joy of knowing that the God of the universe knows everything about you and loves you completely.

Magician On Duty continues its ever-evolving sonic ritual with a new entry in the Journey Series, inviting Marseille-based duo Namat (@namat4you) to step into the fold with a mix that mirrors the spirit of their debut EP, *Vibes on Vibes*. Formed by two brothers and shaped by the sun-soaked textures of southern France, Namat operate in the liminal space between downtempo, organic house, and melodic electronica. Their sound is patient and intentional—built on hypnotic grooves, resonant low-ends, and weightless vocal fragments that drift like memory through late-night air. For their Journey Series contribution, the duo leans into their ethos of slow-burning storytelling. The mix unfolds with a cinematic touch—each transition carefully placed, each layer revealing itself with quiet confidence. It's a journey that resists urgency, favoring depth over immediacy, where rhythm becomes meditation and movement feels internal as much as physical. Having steadily emerged through releases on Shango Records, Beat Boutique, Polyptych, and Fisi—alongside appearances on Change, Bullfinch, Kneaded Pains, and Cafe De Anatolia—Namat arrive at Magician On Duty with a refined sonic identity and a growing global presence. Their *Vibes on Vibes* EP acts as both companion and anchor to this mix: three tracks that echo the same immersive qualities found in their set—warm, emotive, and subtly transportive. As with all Journey Series editions, this is more than a mix—it's an invitation. A passage into a carefully sculpted world where sound moves with intention, and time bends to the rhythm. *Vibes on Vibes* lands May 1st, 2026 via Magician On Duty, available on Beatport and Spotify. https://go.protonradio.com/r/rlkkN6QQg74MQ Mastered by Robert Trifunović. Follow Namat here: https://soundcloud.com/namat4you https://www.instagram.com/namat_music https://www.facebook.com/namat4you

Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und Klimapolitik in China. Shownotes Merle Groneweg M.A. M.Sc. Merle Groneweg an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/ostasien/mitarbeiter-innen/personal/merle-groneweg Merles Interview-Reihe bei Klimareporter.de zu Chinas Klima- und Umweltpolitik: https://klimareporter.de/tag/chinas-klima-und-umweltpolitik zur Konferenz ‘China und WIR: Perspektiven für Frieden, Menschenrechte und sozial-ökologischen Wandel': https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite zu ‘Nationally Determined Contributions' unter dem Pariser Klimaabkommen:    https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs zu Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan:  https://www.surplusmagazin.de/china-neuer-funfjahresplan-nationalervolkskongress/ zu CREA (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air): https://energyandcleanair.org/ zu CREAs Analyse zu Klimafolgen Chinas neuem Fünfjahresplan:  https://energyandcleanair.org/chinas-15th-five-year-plan-implications-for-climate-and-energy-transition/ zu ‘civil-military integration': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93civil_fusion zu ‘dual-use technology:': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology zum Bereich ‘Rohstoffpolitik' von PowerShift e.V.: https://power-shift.de/themen/rohstoffpolitik-globale-gerechtigkeit-schaffen/ Fatheuer, T., Fuhr, L. & Unmüßig, B. (2015). Kritik der grünen Ökonomie. oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/kritik-der-gruenen-oekonomie-9783865817488 zu ‘the securitization of everything' von MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies): https://merics.org/en/report/comprehensive-national-security-unleashed-how-xis-approach-shapes-chinas-policies-home-and Merles Interview mit Lifei Yi in der Klimareporter.de Serie:  https://klimareporter.de/international/chinas-umweltpolitik-gibt-dem-staat-mehr-macht Yifei Li an der NYU Shanghai:  https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/yifei-li zu den erwähnten Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr und Infrastruktur:  https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw22-de-sondervermoegen-897614 https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/sondervermoegen-doku-1106000 zu ‘Special Economic Zones':  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_China Xiangming, C. (2020). Change and Continuity in Special Economic Zones: A Reassessment and Lessons from China. International Corporations Journal 26(2).  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623042 zur Recycling-Kampagne in Shanghai: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/recycling-muelltrennung-in-shanghai Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862 zum Vorschlag der IEA (International Energy Agency) zur Reduzierung der Autofahrten angesichts der Weltölkrise:  https://www.iea.org/news/new-iea-report-highlights-options-to-ease-oil-price-pressures-on-consumers-in-response-to-middle-east-supply-disruptions zu Merles Interview mit Client Earth bei Klimareporter.de:  https://klimareporter.de/international/china-hat-erhebliche-fortschritte-im-umweltrecht-gemacht zu Client Earth:  https://www.clientearth.org/ zur European Union CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) Policy:  https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism_en zu Zollpolitik zwischen China und dem ‘Globalen Süden': Adachi, A. (2025). The Global South in the wake of China's economic surplus: Industrial challenges for developing countries and policy recommendations for the EU. BKHS Perspectives.  https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/fileadmin/BKHS_Perspectives_25_09_The_Global_South_in_the_wake_of_China_s_economic_surplus.pdf zum Sprichwort ‘Frauen tragen die Hälfte des Himmels':  https://ostasieninstitut.com/bibliothek/sprichwoerter-ostasiens/frauen-tragen-die-haelfte-des-himmels-%E5%A5%B3%E4%BA%BA%E8%83%BD%E9%A1%B6%E5%8D%8A%E8%BE%B9%E5%A4%A9%E3%80%82-nuren-neng-ding-ban-biantian/ zu den UN Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen und zur Armutsbekämpfung in China:  https://www.un.org/german/sites/default/files/2024-09/MDG%25202015%2520web.pdf https://progressive.international/blueprint/16a350d7-9d05-49d6-b855-5de756f52963-pro-poor-development-how-china-eradicated-poverty/de/ zum ‘New International Economic Order' für die Reformierung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-new-international-economic-order-useful-history-for-a-multipolar-world zur Afrikanischen Gruppe (African Group) der United Nations:  https://www.africanunion-un.org/africangroup zum GATT Abkommen 1947 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade): https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_e.htm zu Deng Xiaoping und seiner Öffnungspolitik :  https://www.bpb.de/themen/asien/china/44262/portraet-deng-xiaoping/ zum IAA (Industrial Accelerator Act): https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/growth/items/928572/en zum IRA (Inflation Reduction Act): https://www.energy.gov/edf/inflation-reduction-act-2022 zum Third World Network-Africa:  https://www.twnafrica.org/ zur 14. WTO-Ministerkonferenz in Yaoundé, Kamerun:  https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/576435/14-wto-ministerkonferenz-in-yaounde/ von Redecker, E. (2026). Dieser Drang nach Härte. Über den neuen Faschismus. S. Fischer.  https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240 Relevante Future Histories Folgen S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China  https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/ S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/ S02E38 | Eva von Redecker zu Bleibefreiheit und Demokratischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e38-eva-von-redecker-zu-bleibefreiheit-und-demokratischer-planung/ S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg  https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/ — Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung: Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories Website mit allen Folgen: https://futurehistories.today Episode Keywords #MerleGroneweg, #JanGroos, #Interview, #HUBerlin, #FutureHistories, #Klimareporter #China, #Planning, #Kapitalismus, #Sozialismus, #Reform, #Klima, #Klimaschutz, #Klimapolitik, #Ökologie, #Staatskapitalismus, #WTO  

Karen Thomas - York Heritage Weekend 2026 The 2026 York Heritage Weekend in Western Australia runs from 25 to 27 April 2026, celebrating the town's history with themed events focused on "Change". Highlights include Penny Farthing bike rides, Mad Tatters Morris Dancers, a Greenhills bus tour, and a "VH-ANA Amana" crash memorial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Change is part of life—but God never changes. Today, Joyce teaches how letting go, trusting God, and staying faithful leads to growth and purpose.

Were they flops – or just ahead of their time? In this episode, the hosts dig into one of the food and beverage industry's most intriguing debates: whether discontinued products failed because they were poorly conceived, or because the market simply wasn't ready. From drinkable soups and early functional shots to better-for-you snacks and non-alcoholic cocktail concepts, they revisit ideas that may have been too forward-thinking for their moment.  The conversation expands into how today's shifting trends, like functional ingredients and alcohol-free innovation, could give these once-shelved products a second chance at success, where timing, not taste, may have been the real barrier. Show notes: 0:20: A Week Away. Real Chocolate Debate. Never Had A Shot/Ahead Of Its Time. Chips & I.V. – Ray gives a final call to register for Taste Radio's NYC meetup. Melissa highlights The Hershey Company's plan to return all Reese's and Hershey's products to classic milk and dark chocolate recipes by 2027, sparking a discussion about whether a shift back to "real" ingredients could reshape consumer expectations and premium chocolate demand. The hosts then explore discontinued products, debating whether they failed due to poor execution or were simply ahead of their time, including drinkable soup, better-for-you fruit snacks, non-alcoholic cocktails, and functional shots. They wrap with notable new products, including refreshed pita chip branding, a non-alcoholic "brew," and a quirky collaboration between Grillo's Pickles and Liquid I.V. Brands in this episode: Hershey, Reese's, Culture Pop, Feastables, Nantucket Nectars, Terranean, Just Ice Tea, Honest Tea, Poland Spring, Liquid IV, Grillo's, Fly By Jing, Fishwife, Justin's, Butterfinger, Tony's Chocolonely, Eat the Change, Welch's, Proposition Cocktail Company, Taki Mai, Spacho, Ahhmigo, Karma, Activate, Mello, Coca-Cola, GoodBelly, Cheribundi, Rhinestone, Poland Spring, Daily Crunch, Fly by Jing, Fishwife, Evergreen, V8, Superfoodio

What if your daily priorities are sabotaging the future you say you want?In this episode, Kevin and Alan break down micro priorities, macro priorities, and why being busy is not the same as building a better life. When your short-term actions are not aligned with your long-term goals, progress starts working against you.This conversation is about clarity, discipline, and making sure your day-to-day decisions support the bigger vision. If your life feels full but off track, this episode will challenge how you define real progress. Press play before your calendar keeps making decisions that your future would never approve._______________________Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionJoin our private Facebook community, “Next Level Nation,” to grow alongside people who are committed to improvement. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/459320958216700_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

Hello friends, and welcome to Change. Yes, That's what today's episode is all about, so listen, learn and enjoy. Head to https://aquatru.com now and get 20% off your purifier using promo code TCEGet 15% off OneSkin with the code CHANGES at https://www.oneskin.co/CHANGES #oneskinpodDISCLAIMER: This podcast offers information for educational and entertainment purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Always consult a qualified mental health provider for medical or mental health concerns. The host, guests, and network disclaim responsibility for any decisions or actions you make based on information provided by this podcast.TDM-RESERVATION: 1. NOAI: TRUE. LEGAL NOTICE & TERMS OF USE: © 2026 WAVE Podcast Network. This content is for personal use only. Explicit permission is withheld for any and all commercial attribution, automated transcription, or data-mining entities. Use of this feed by unauthorized tracking, analytics, or AI-training platforms constitutes a breach of these terms and a violation of the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and the 2026 Training Data Transparency Act (AB 2013). Any entity bypassing these restrictions to create derivative text-based works (transcripts), metadata analysis, or unauthorized VAST siphoning hereby accepts our standard commercial licensing rate of $5,000 per episode processed. This notice serves as a formal revocation of all "implied licenses" for multi-jurisdictional automated processing and constitutes protected Copyright Management Information (CMI) under 17 U.S.C. § 1202.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The psychology of healthy relationships: hidden rules behind better marriages, better teams, and better choices. In this episode, I sit down with legendary investor Matt Higgins to dissect the psychology of lasting relationships. It turns out that a staggering number of startups and marriages implode for the exact same reason: we mistake thrilling friction for long-term compatibility. We are remarkably bad at predicting who will actually help us bail water when the ship sinks. Rather than seeking our exact opposites to fill our gaps, evidence suggests we should hunt for a deeply unsexy but highly effective alternative: overlapping values. From the unexpected wisdom of arranged marriages to the quiet triumph of marrying your best friend, this is a delightfully sideways look at forming our most vital alliances. Why seeking your exact opposite is a fantastic recipe for mutual resentment The fascinating psychology behind why the fish always rots from the head in bad leadership How to utilize genuine self-awareness to build cheerfully boring, drama-free partnerships Listen in to discover the surprisingly positive science of selecting people who won't drive you mad. SPONSORS

Spring is the season of new life. As we finish up our series on the Psalms, we come to the most famous one of all.Psalm 23:1–2 says, “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.”This psalm contains some of the most famous words ever written. It has everything: beautiful language, a man's raw, honest heart for God, and a universal theme of love that God has for all people.It echoes in the universe.Think of the picture that God is painting here for us.We are bone weary, but He has actually made a place for us to rest in a garden. We hear the flowing water. We are refreshed inside and out. And He is with us.Do yourself a favor this spring. Memorize every line of the 23rd Psalm. Put it in your heart so that when you're in that dark valley, you will remember that the one true God loves you absolutely and completely.Goodness and mercy follow you. Close your eyes and sit in the cool grass. He is with you.Let's pray.Lord, you are the Great Shepherd who provides a sanctuary for us. Thank you, thank you for making a place of safety for us as we go through life. In Jesus' name, amen. Change your shirt, and you can change the world! Save 15% Off your entire purchase of faith-based apparel + gifts at www.kerusso.com with code KDD15.

Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer of HPE, explains how she measures business value while deploying agentic AI across a 3,600-person finance organization. Her framework separates direct ROI from indirect value (speed, accuracy, fewer errors) and the operating requirements that make finance AI trustworthy at scale.YOU'LL DISCOVER✅ How Myers separates direct ROI from indirect value, including speed, accuracy, and lower error rates✅ Why determinism was "foundational" for finance AI, and why HPE co-engineered with Nvidia NIMs to achieve consistent answers across half a million data elements✅ What "human in the loop" means in practice, and why accountability stays with finance leaders✅ How Alfred (built on Deloitte's Zora platform) moved from transactional workflows to core finance operating rhythms like HPE's weekly ops call✅ Why clean, reconciled data and a strong data layer are prerequisites for enterprise AI✅ How HPE redesigned FP&A workflows, centralized the team, and pushed "one source of truth" before layering in agents✅ How Myers thinks about agile experimentation, stage gates, and when to stop AI investments that will not pay off✅ Why change management and cultural adoption are often harder than the technology, and how training 3,000+ people was essential⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Measuring AI value beyond hard ROI3:40 Stage gates, scorecards, and when to stop an AI investment6:49 "This is a team sport": IT, business, compliance7:20 Determinism vs probabilism in financial AI9:38 Alfred, Deloitte Zora, and private cloud (on-premises) architecture13:04 Human in the loop and limits on agent autonomy14:31 Highest ROI AI use cases: engineering, marketing, IT16:23 Where finance sees ROI first: transactional workflows19:00 "AI slop" and maintaining quality standards25:32 Data quality and trusted, reconciled financial data33:49 Redesigning FP&A workflows, "one source of truth"40:35 Change management is the hardest part of AI

Change isn't easy. Today, Joyce teaches why trusting God through seasons of change—and letting go of the old—can lead to growth, purpose, and God's best.

Vous recevez une critique… et tout vacille à l'intérieur.En quelques secondes, vous doutez de tout : de ce que vous avez fait, et parfois même de qui vous êtes.Dans cet épisode, je vous aide à traverser ce moment si difficile où une critique vous bouleverse.Pas juste un inconfort léger, mais ce moment où la honte monte, où la critique prend toute la place dans votre tête, et où vous avez l'impression que tout est remis en question.Pourquoi certaines critiques nous affectent-elles autant ?Et surtout, comment retrouver votre stabilité intérieure sans vous refermer, ni vous attaquer ?Cet épisode est conçu comme un antidote émotionnel. Un espace pour vous recentrer, vous apaiser, et retrouver votre juste perspective.Ce que vous allez apprendre :Pourquoi la critique active un sentiment de honte si intenseComment sortir du réflexe de défense ou de repliLa différence entre une critique utile… et une critique à “renvoyer à l'envoyeur”Comment transformer une critique en levier de croissance (sans vous maltraiter)Cet épisode vous aide à comprendre une chose essentielle : vous n'avez pas besoin de plaire à tout le monde pour avancer, créer, et prendre votre place.Si vous êtes sensible, engagée, perfectionniste, c'est normal que ça pique.Mais vous pouvez apprendre à traverser ces moments sans perdre pied.

The Big Questions That Keep New Podcasters Stuck: Every week, I have similar conversations with prospective podcast clients. They come to me with a massive list of “to-dos” and a whole lot of overwhelm from the pressure to do way more than necessary to launch.And every single week, my answer is the same: You're overcomplicating it.Podcasting shouldn't add twenty hours of work to your week. It should be a high-leverage tool that turns listeners into leads. In this episode, we're stripping away the “shoulds”—like the pressure to do video—and answering the most common questions I get from people who are ready to launch but tired of the noise.Here's what's inside:The Case for Audio-First: Why you can give yourself full permission to skip the video setup and why audio actually builds deeper trust.The “What Should I Talk About?” Solution: Instead of brainstorming, look at your client wins and common hurdles. You can pull content directly from the conversations you're already having.The Editing Debate: Do you really need to edit? I'll tell you why I say “yes” every single time, even for live workshops, and the tool I've used for years to make it fast.The Strategy Before the Gear: You don't need a high-end microphone but you do need a purpose. Before you spend a dime, I'm giving you the one question you have to answer FIRST.Resources Mentioned:The Podcast Health Checkup: Before you launch or relaunch, set your foundation for a successful, monetized podcast. Book a Strategy Consult: Unsure if podcasting is the right next step for your specific business? Book a complimentary consult.Join Jen on Substack: Learn more about how to monetize and launchRelated Episodes: Make Money PodcastingTop Podcasters Monetize| #294    Mic to Money| #282    Stop Feeling Awkward Selling| #291There's too much revenue on the line to podcast small.Change your podcast, change your life! Get profitable in PRO!

In today's episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down why life gets harder when you misunderstand your gift. Too many people ignore what comes naturally to them and chase goals built around borrowed strengths. That disconnect leads to frustration, wasted energy, and results that never fully line up.Drawing from their own journey and years of coaching, they unpack the difference between gift, developed skill, and self-awareness. This episode will help you think more clearly about where you have real leverage and how to build your future with more accuracy, discipline, and intention._______________________Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-session_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Imagination: The Missing Ingredient for Better Strategy Have you ever experienced a strategic planning process where you get a room full of smart, committed people? They agree on the words. They nod at the plan. And then six months later, everyone is pulling in slightly different directions. In my experience, this happens when the plan was created without real clarity and alignment around where exactly we are trying to go. Clarity and alignment come from shared understanding. And shared understanding starts with how clearly people can picture what "done" looks like. And in order to "see" what "done" looks like, we need … IMAGINATION!  I recently had a conversation about this with imagination expert and strategist Rebecca Sutherns. Imagination skills are critical for great strategy planning and execution.  Are You Planning Backwards? Most planning processes are built around looking in the rearview mirror. We review last year's data. We evaluate what worked. We talk about what didn't. None of that is wrong. But it's incomplete. Because strategy is not about explaining the past. It's about building the future. Rebecca said something that stuck with me: "Our strategies ought to be forward-facing, not backward-facing." That sounds obvious. But it's not how most organizations actually operate. What happens instead is this: We take what we've already done. We make incremental adjustments. We call it strategy. That's not a strategy. That's iteration without intention. And when you build a plan this way, you end up with a partially built system. It functions—but it doesn't move you meaningfully forward… Because you haven't clearly imagined, as a collective, what the future looks like, tastes like, feels like. Why Alignment Breaks Down Even when teams do talk about the future, they often still don't align. Because they're using the same words… but imagining different things. Rebecca put it this way: "If people are not watching the same movie in their heads, there's a good chance you're using the same language but moving in different directions." I see this often. We assume other people are thinking what we are thinking when we talk to them, but actually getting them to think what we are thinking is a much harder feat. When we talk, we usually communicate only a tiny fraction of what we intend to. Ask a leadership team what success looks like, and you'll get five versions of the answer. None of them are wrong. But they're not the same. And when that happens, execution becomes messy. What Actually Creates Alignment If you only take one thing away, it's this: Alignment is not about agreement. It's about shared imagination. You need people to be able to picture the same outcome. Not just intellectually—but concretely. That means moving beyond vague language like: "Make a bigger impact" "Expand our reach" "Strengthen the organization" Those sound good. But they don't mean anything operationally. Instead, you need to ask: What does this actually look like? Draw it! What's happening differently when we've succeeded? What would we see, hear, and feel if this worked? This is where imagination becomes a leadership skill—not a nice-to-have. Why Imagination Feels So Hard Most nonprofit leaders struggle with this. And it makes sense. They're operating at capacity. They're dealing with real constraints. They're trying to make payroll. So when you ask them to imagine a bold future, you often get: "I just want enough money to pay my staff." That's not a lack of ambition. It's a reflection of the state of being under-resourced. But constraints can actually enhance our ability to be creative. Rebecca shared a simple but powerful idea: Instead of removing constraints entirely, define them clearly. For example: "We have $50,000 and six months. Now what could we build?" This changes the conversation. It gives the brain edges to work within—without shutting down possibilities. How to Actually Build the Skill Imagination is not a personality trait. It's a muscle. And like any muscle, it gets stronger with use. One of the most useful insights Rebecca shared is that imagination is built from memory. We don't create from nothing. We recombine what we've already seen, experienced, or learned. That means the fastest way to improve your strategic thinking is not another framework. It's more inputs. Talk to people outside your sector Read widely Change your environment Expose yourself to different ways of thinking This expands your "pantry" of ideas. And the bigger the pantry, the better your ability to combine ingredients and imagine something new. Imagination Changes How Leaders Show Up. There's one more piece here that I don't want to skip. Imagination changes how leaders show up. Because when you can imagine better, you start asking better questions, and better questions lead to better answers. Also, we can't be great at imagining if we don't get great at being curious. When leaders come in with curiosity, people open up. And when people open up, you get better thinking. Better thinking leads to better decisions. And better decisions lead to better results. About the Guest Rebecca Sutherns, Ph.D., is the CEO and Founder of Sage Solutions, empowering purpose-driven leaders to align what's important to them with what they actually do. With 27+ years of global experience as a bestselling author, master facilitator, and coach, she uniquely helps clients leverage imagination as a strategic superpower, bringing analytical rigor, warm energy, and adaptability to strategy and governance. Her journey began by observing leaders across sectors staying stuck in past patterns, missing future possibilities. The turning point was realizing that a "failure of imagination" is often at the root of misalignment on teams and even of global-level mishaps. Now, she helps Boards and senior managers identify what's fixed and what's flexible as they shape their future amidst accelerating change. Through her ELASTIC framework, Rebecca helps non-profit leaders collectively reimagine their next chapter. She champions imagination as a learnable skill via strategic planning facilitation and her conversation-starting Possibility Packs, fostering vivid, shared mental pictures to proactively "dent the world". Connect with Rebecca:  https://rebeccasutherns.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccasutherns/ Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. 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If you were a Democrat right now, you wouldn't just be frustrated… you'd be pacing the living room like a coach who blew a 40-point lead and is now blaming the Gatorade.Because let's be honest about it. You had everything.2008 rolls in, the clouds part, the choir sings, and there's Barack Obama, political rock star, walking onto the stage like the headliner at a sold-out arena. Hope. Change. History. The whole thing felt less like an election and more like a movie trailer narrated by Morgan Freeman.And what did they do with it?They burned through that moment like a lottery winner who buys jet skis for people he doesn't even like. Trillions spent, promises made, divisions widened… and now, when people look back, the legacy isn't carved in marble, it's scribbled in pencil with a lot of eraser marks.So then comes Trump.Now here's where it gets fascinating. Because Trump wasn't supposed to happen. He was the political equivalent of a glitch in the matrix. The system froze, rebooted, and suddenly there's a guy from reality TV rewriting the rules of engagement like he's playing a different sport entirely.And instead of saying, “Okay, maybe we need to rethink some things,” Democrats reacted like somebody flipped over the Monopoly board.They didn't just oppose him. They went DEFCON everything.Investigations, accusations, impeachments, headlines that read like movie plots. At some point you expected a narrator to pop in and say, “In a world… where tweets are considered acts of war…”And when that didn't work?Things escalated.Because now it wasn't just about stopping Trump. It was about making an example out of anyone who even looked like they owned a red hat. Regular people getting swept up, questioned, scrutinized. You'd think they were dismantling a global crime syndicate, not dealing with folks whose biggest offense was posting spicy Facebook memes.And then came the masterstroke… or what they thought was the masterstroke.Joe Biden.Now look, every political party has that moment where they say, “We need a safe choice.” But this wasn't safe. This was political bubble wrap. This was, “Let's install someone so non-threatening that nothing can possibly go wrong.”Except everything did.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What if the life you're living right now… isn't actually the life you were created for?   In this powerful episode of the McIntyre Inc. Podcast, we sit down with Robin McCoy—wellness coach, leader, and transformational voice—whose story will challenge everything you thought you knew about purpose, health, and what it means to truly live.   Robin opens up about: -Going from desperation and brokenness… to purpose and impact -The moment she encountered God and everything changed -Why most people are stuck in “survival mode” (and don't even realize it) -How Next Level Experience ignited a completely new chapter of her life -The truth about health, energy, and why your body matters -And why it's NEVER too late to step into your calling This episode isn't just information—it's a wake-up call.   ABOUT ROBIN MCCOY Robin McCoy is the owner of The Wellness Factor and Head of Acceleration Coaching at McIntyre Inc. She is a certified John Maxwell coach and speaker with decades of experience in business, ministry, and leadership development. From owning cafés and building teams to coaching individuals into breakthrough, her mission is clear: “Change lives that transform legacies.” She specializes in helping people achieve transformation in health, mindset, and purpose—guiding them into a life of clarity, energy, and alignment.  

My guest today is Jitske Kramer — corporate anthropologist, bestselling author, and one of the most original thinkers I've had on this show. We're getting into tricksters, liminality, and why the messy middle of change is exactly where we need to be having the conversations most people are too scared to have. The book is Tricky Times, and trust me — you need to read it. Jitske Kramer is a corporate anthropologist, bestselling author, and founder of HumanDimensions who travels the world learning from healers, leaders, and innovators to bring those insights back to the world of leadership and collaboration. She is the author of Deep Democracy, Jam Cultures, and The Corporate Tribe (2016 Management Book of the Year), among others. Through keynotes and masterclasses, she challenges organizations to make the unfamiliar feel natural — and the familiar feel brand new. Get a copy of her wonderful and underrated book Tricky Times: Navigating The Messy Middle of Change here: https://amzn.to/48jdK1L Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio. Pre-order my next book, All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump, out on the 17th of September in the UK and the 22nd of September in the US: https://linktr.ee/anthonyscaramucci⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the things that sets God apart from all others is His ability to tell us what is going to happen. We read about this in Isaiah 46, where He says, only He knows the end from the beginning.An amazing example of this is found in Psalm 22, and it's almost surprising how many people are not aware of it.Psalm 22:11 says, “Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.”If you read the entire chapter carefully, you begin to realize that this is a conversation that Jesus had on the cross.This psalm was written a thousand years before that world-changing event!It describes a man being mocked on the cross. A man who is so thirsty his mouth feels like a piece of dry pottery. He even mentions that His tormentors are casting lots for His clothes. All these things are described in the New Testament, and even some of the language Jesus used on the cross is seen here in this psalm for the first time.God is in charge of all things, all the time. And that includes your situation. He raised Jesus from the dead, and He will provide life eternal for you if you call on Him.He knows the end from the beginning.Let's pray.Lord, you know all things. No one else does. That alone should give us confidence that you will be with us always. It's in Jesus' name that we pray, amen. Change your shirt, and you can change the world! Save 15% Off your entire purchase of faith-based apparel + gifts at www.kerusso.com with code KDD15.

Send us Fan MailHealing starts with smaller truths. In this episode, we get real about why therapy can feel like it is not working when the goal is too big, too vague, or disconnected from what is really hurting underneath. We talk about the gap between wanting change and knowing how to create it, why so many people lose trust in the process, and what it actually takes to build progress that feels safe, steady, and real.This is for anyone who feels stuck, discouraged, or tired of circling the same patterns and calling it effort. If you have been craving a more honest path forward in therapy, growth, and self-belief, this episode will give you something deeper to hold onto. Press play before your survival patterns try to rebrand themselves as a personality.Digital Asset:Evolve Framework for Setting GoalsHere are related episodes that build on today's conversation:#479 | Everything You Need for REAL Self-Belief - https://apple.co/3MfWPFO #480 | Everything You Need for REAL Self-Belief (Part 2) - https://apple.co/40qgM00Learn more about:

The Pacific race, the Atlantic race, and the wildcard races have us losing our minds. Who could shock the world this year? Who is going to crash out early? It's Frozen Four time and the boys make the final predictions. The professors dish out picks for the last weekend of the season. They debate what day has the most sex. And Dan tries to stump Chris in trivia factorial.  01:56 - Wild Card Update 29:37 - Playoff Surprises 42:34 - Frozen Four 49:38 - Professors Puckline 1:06:49 - Sexiest Days of the Week 1:20:59 - Trivia Factorial PRESENTED by BetMGM. Download the BETMGM app and use code “NETTERS” and enjoy up to $1500 in bonus bets if you lose your first wager! Thanks to our Sponsors! BetMGM: Use bonus code NETTERS when signing up to receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US) 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR) 21+ only. Please Gamble Responsibly. See BetMGM.com for Terms. First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Bonus bets are non-withdrawable. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. This promotional offer is not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Find LUCY near you at lucy.co/stores, or save 20% on your first online order at lucy.co/NETTERS with promo code NETTERS. GLD: Work Hard and Change the Game. For a limited time only, new customers are getting an insane deal. Use code NETTERS to get 40% Off at GLD.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mea Culpa welcomes for the first time, Andrew Yang. Yang is an entrepreneur businessman, attorney, lobbyist, and politician, who championed universal basic income during his 2020 run for the presidency. Yang proved to be a surprisingly popular candidate, who developed a following known as the “Yang Gang” during the Democratic primaries, though Yang has since founded his own 3rd party known as the “Forward Party”. Yang was born to Taiwanese parents in New York, graduated from Columbia Law School, became an entrepreneur, founded two nonprofit organizations and was named a “Champion of Change” by the Obama administration. Yang ran for mayor of New York City in 2021 and has shown support for innovative ideas like ranked-choice voting, open primaries, and human-centered capitalism. Michael and Andrew discuss the future of the democratic party and 2024. 

Clearly, we are living in radical times when almost everything can be taken to the extreme. We find ourselves in uncharted waters when it comes to the future of the planet and in unmapped territories in terms of human culture. In the midst of great uncertainty any moment can lead us to feel anxious, isolated and abandoned.     Life must be lived forward, but often can only be understood in looking back. Looking back far enough reveals that everyone has abandonment issues from early life fears of being left isolated and alone. As if insisting upon being faced, our core fears and anxieties intensify whenever we face the need to change or grow.     Early in life we were vulnerable and easily overwhelmed. Eventually, the issue becomes not just who abandoned us and why, but how we avoid abandoning ourselves when faced with fears and the uncertainty of life again.     In times of overwhelm, the deep self and soul within us also seeks to become more conscious to us. In the essential work of changing from within, each occasion of not abandoning ourselves liberates more of the divine spark that was sewn in our souls to begin with. The light we liberate within our souls also adds some life to a world in the process of transforming itself.     Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can hear Michael Meade live by joining his free online event "The Soul of Change" on Thursday, April 30.   Register and learn more at mosaicvoices.org/events     You can further support this podcast by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 750 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.   Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth     Along with these free weekly podcasts, you can now read free weekly essays and long form posts by Michael Meade on Substack. Learn more and subscribe at michaeljmeade.substack.com     If you enjoy this podcast, we appreciate you leaving a review wherever you listen and sharing it with your friends. On behalf of Michael Meade and the whole Mosaic staff, we wish you well and thank you for your support of our work.

I'm excited to welcome Dr. Peter Osborne for a two-part series. Most of us grew up hearing that whole grains are good for us. But what if that's wrong?  Today, in Part One, Dr. Osborne breaks down how his book, No Grain No Pain, challenges almost everything we've been told about healthy eating. He clarifies what grains are actually doing inside our body, and why he believes they're foundational to many chronic illnesses. Tips to reduce immune reactions from grains and gluten Track your reactions and consider eliminating all grains if your symptoms persist on a standard gluten-free diet Limit your use of medications that erode the gut lining Address nutrient deficiencies and chemical exposure  Change your diet and lifestyle instead of relying on medications Bio: Dr. Peter Osborne Dr. Peter Osborne is one of the most sought-after alternative and nutritional experts in the world. He is the founder of the Gluten-Free Society, the world's #1 resource for all things gluten. In addition, he is the author of the bestselling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (aka Simon & Schuster). He has been featured in or on Fox News, CBS, PBS, New York Post, US News, Muscle & Fitness Hers, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications. And most recently, he has been working on a special project- a mold documentary called Mold Jacked. In this episode: Why gluten is far more complex than most people realize How standard gluten tests can fail to detect many reactions Some common gluten-free dietary mistakes Why only removing wheat may not resolve ongoing inflammation How grains other than wheat can still drive an immune response Four main triggers, apart from gluten, that contribute to autoimmune conditions How a breached gut barrier causes hypersensitized immune responses Why certain symptoms may take decades to appear despite ongoing damage Links and Resources: Use code HEALGUT to get 10% off ⁠GI Support Use code TURMERIC to get 10% off ⁠⁠⁠⁠TURMERIC Use code IGG to get 10% off ⁠SB IGG Guest Social Media Links: Instagram YouTube Mold Jacked Gluten Free Society Relative Links for This Show: Follow Your Longevity Blueprint  On Instagram| Facebook| Twitter| YouTube | LinkedIn Get your copy of the Your Longevity Blueprint book and claim your bonuses here Find Dr. Stephanie Gray and Your Longevity Blueprint online   Follow Dr. Stephanie Gray  On Facebook| Instagram| Youtube | Twitter | LinkedIn Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Podcast production by Team Podcast

Success asks for more than you think. In this episode, Kevin and Alan challenge a hard truth about growth. Wanting more does not mean you are doing what it takes to create more. They break down focus, discipline, and the difference between feeling committed and actually being committed. Real progress is not just about desire. It is built through honest self-assessment, stronger standards, and the ability to follow through when it would be easier not to.If you want better results in personal development, productivity, and long-term success, this episode will sharpen the way you evaluate your habits, your discipline, and your consistency. Press play before your excuses get a promotion._______________________Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionJoin our private Facebook community, “Next Level Nation,” to grow alongside people who are committed to improvement. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/459320958216700_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

In this special solo episode, Eric Zimmer shares five powerful insights from his book How a Little Becomes a Lot. Rather than offering quick fixes or surface-level advice, Eric explores the deeper mechanics of real, lasting change. He unpacks why small, consistent actions outperform bursts of motivation… how to shift from self-judgment to skill-building… and why the stories we tell ourselves shape everything from our habits to our happiness. You'll also learn a practical, compassionate approach to working with your inner critic, not by silencing it, but by understanding it. If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated by your inability to follow through, this episode offers a grounded, actionable path forward, one small step at a time. Exciting News!!! Coming in March, 2026, my new book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠How a Little Becomes a Lot: The Art of Small Changes for a More Meaningful Life is now available for pre-orders!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Key Takeaways: Small actions create big change; if they're low resistance and consistent. Real transformation isn't about intensity. It's about doing what you can actually sustain over time. Change is not a character trait, it's a skill. If something isn't working, it's not because you're broken. It's because you haven't found the right strategy yet. Most of our struggles happen at “choice points.” The tension between what we want now and what we want most determines the direction of our lives. Your mind is constantly creating meaning, and it's often wrong. Learning to question your interpretations can dramatically reduce unnecessary suffering. The inner critic isn't the enemy, it's a misguided protector. When you learn to relate to it with curiosity instead of resistance, it loses its power. The language you use shapes your emotional reality. Extreme language (“always,” “never,” “this is unbearable”) intensifies distress more than the situation itself. For full show notes:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you enjoyed this conversation with Eric Zimmer, check out these other episodes: Why Willpower Isn't Enough: The Tiny Habits Method Explained with Dr. BJ Fogg How to Make Lasting Changes with John Norcross By purchasing products and/or services from our sponsors, you are helping to support The One You Feed, and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you! This episode is sponsored by: Rocket Money Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at rocketmoney.com/feed. Pebl – an AI-powered platform that helps companies hire and manage global teams in 185+ countries. Get a free estimate at hipebl.ai David Protein bars deliver up to 28g of protein for just 150 calories—without sacrificing taste! For a limited time, our listeners can receive this special deal: buy 4 cartons and get the 5th free when you go to www.davidprotein.com/FEED Brodo Broth: Shop the best broth on the planet with Brodo.  Head to Brodo.com/TOYF for 20% off your first subscription order and use code TOYF for an additional $10 off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices