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In this episode, I want to discuss what I did to come back leaner and COMPLETELY recovered from my recent vacation. The truth is that most people are worse off when they get back rather than better. Use these tips and tricks to maximize the recovery of your mind, body, and soul so you can come back and dominate! Make sure you leave us a rating and review if you enjoyed this podcast, and don't forget to subscribe as well so you are the first to know when the most cutting edge business practices are released -- and for a ton of free content on how to optimize your business practices, visit http://www.createfreedom.com

Grove Collaborative | Stu Landesberg, Co-Founder and CEO Ever heard of "wishcycling"? I hadn't -- at least, not until today's Authentic Avenue. Today, my guest is Stu Landesberg. He's the Co-Founder and CEO of Grove Collaborative, a now billion-dollar sustainable home brand. They provide, among other things...shall we say "cleaner cleaning?" Between shampoo bars, lotion sticks, hand soap sheets and more, there's so much I didn't know about Grove that Stu helped me to understand. He also helped open my eyes to the brainwashing going on in the world of recycling. News flash: it's not as helpful as everyone thinks. (It's still good!! But it's benefits are overblown.) That's why Stu has committed his brand and his purpose to going plastic-free. Completely plastic-free. On today's show, we also discuss that journey, and how it plays into the authenticity the business manifests for itself as a result. FOLLOW AUTHENTIC AVENUE, AND ADAM, ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LinkedIn (Authentic Avenue): https://www.linkedin.com/company/68049428/ LinkedIn (Adam Conner): https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjconner/ Email Adam: adam@authave.com Learn more at https://authenticavenuemedia.com/. Theme Song: Extreme Energy (Music Today 80) Composed & Produced by Anwar Amr Video Link: https://youtu.be/8ZZbAkKNx7s

Oh lord, prepare yourselves for this one. Today we have on two wonderful guests: author Alexia Knight and Mike The BullAlexia has written two autobiographical books (links below) titled "Tinderella" and "Tinderella 2: Going Deep" all about her numerous, real life, extramarital affairs. From Tinder hookups to swinger's club gangbangs, Alexia has decided to pursue all of her wildest sexual dreams..... behind her husband's back.Mike The Bull is involved in the cuckold community. No, he's not the guy whose wife gets fucked by another man; Mike is the other man. From the first time he was propositioned at the bar by a couple to relationships he had fall apart because of his "job", we dive deep into Mike's lifestyleAlso, we play The Dating Game for Alexia's heart..... and other organs.Shane and I recap our feelings on the Patreon exclusive bonus episode.https://www.patreon.com/worstfriendcast Alexia's links:https://www.facebook.com/alexia.knight.102https://www.instagram.com/tinderelladiary/https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TC8V5C9?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebookshttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096W5GX9M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_1&storeType=ebooksMike's email for questions or "bookings":MikeyTTN@gmail.comhttps://www.patreon.com/worstfriendcastSubscribe to our Patreon, which costs $1 a month and offers the following benefits:• Bonus episodes every week• Episodes released 3 days early • Our entire archive of every episode ever released• Completely commercial free episodes• https://www.instagram.com/worstfriendcast/• https://www.facebook.com/worstfriendcastMerch:• https://www.threadless.com/shop/@worstfriendcast

  Thank you to Tracksmith, Generation UCAN, and InsideTracker for sponsoring this episode.   Tracksmith is a Boston based running clothing company that truly cares about the quality and care of their running clothes. Running can be a demanding lifestyle for our clothes, they definitely go through the wear and tear to where we may be purchasing new clothes constantly. Tracksmith designers truly work with the finest materials and think of you as a runner in mind with spots for your keys, phone, and fuel. You can go here to check out my favorites! You can get $15 off your purchase of $75 or more, click here and enter code TINA15.   Thank you Generation UCAN, I have been talking about them for years and my ONLY source for fueling while I am training and racing. And without fail I have had a product of UCAN every day, whether it is a peanut butter chocolate bar or their delicious cookies and cream protein powder. I am also excited to share with you a NEW product, a gel! Completely fueled with superstarch and ready to go wherever you are headed off to. Use code TINAUCAN for 20% off of your order.   Have you not been feeling yourself lately? Gone down a lot of avenues but not really finding clear solutions? That is where Insidetracker can come in for you. I count on Insidetracker to help me decipher the science behind it all. I have trusted this company for years to help me show where I may be lacking and or if I just need a few tweeks here and there. I count on Insidetracker to help me decipher the science behind it all. Go here to get 25% off as a special for Running for Real listeners on their ENTIRE store.   Thanks for listening! We know there are so many podcasts you could be listening to, but we are honored you have chosen Running For Real. If you appreciate the work that we do, here are a few things you can do to support us: Take a screenshot of the episode, and share it with your friends, family, and community on social media, especially if you feel that topic will relate to them. Be sure to tag us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram If you are struggling through something a guest mentions, chances are, others are too, and you will help them feel less alone  Leave an honest review on iTunes or your favorite podcast player Your ratings and reviews will really help us grow and reach new people Not sure how to leave a review or subscribe, you can find out here. Thank you to Verna, we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the show.

The refrain throughout Lawrence Wright's evaluation of the first year the world faced the COVID-19 pandemic? Completely predictable. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Michele Cobb discuss this well-written title, narrated with a clear and documentarian approach by Eric Jason Martin. Wright frames the pandemic in historic terms while also exploring the challenges that made navigating the pandemic uniquely difficult in 2020. He doesn't shy away from the numerous bad decisions made and inequities in impact, and Martin is unwaveringly direct and clear in his excellent performance. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Random House Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO, dedicated to producing top-quality fiction and nonfiction audiobooks written and read by the best in the business. Visit penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/audiofile now to start listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Completely brand new to fly fishing?! That's great! We love to teach anglers and help them be successful on the water. If you are absolutely brand new to fly fishing, we hope this episode gets you started down the right path. If you are in our Puget Sound area, consider joining us for one of our classes. We'd love to hear from you. You can contact us through our website or social media. gigharborflyshop.com

We discuss a video of a large breasted man at a gas station getting told off by the white trash girl in SpongeBob booty shorts. Then we get into the Woodstock '99 documentary. Plus, Simone Biles vs Everyone That Hates Simone Biles: who should we hate?*Bonus episode on Patreon*https://www.patreon.com/worstfriendcastSubscribe to our Patreon, which costs $1 a month and offers the following benefits:• Bonus episodes every week • Our entire archive of every episode ever released• Completely commercial free episodes• https://www.instagram.com/worstfriendcast/• https://www.facebook.com/worstfriendcastMerch:• https://www.threadless.com/shop/@worstfriendcast

This week we listen to two (very different) early demo versions of Tell Me from The Black Swan, a COMPLETELY different version of another song from the same album, and a bonus unreleased song! Never go start to back; always go from 1 to Z. Don't let your mom pee on your vinyl collection. Portable bidet: is it just a little bottle you squirt your butthole out with? Terrified: sociopolitical commentary, or sexual ballad? Support Story of the Year on Patreon: patreon.com/storyoftheyear Follow Story of the Year on social media: Instagram twitter Dan: Instagram twitter Adam: Instagram twitter Josh: Instagram twitter Ryan: Instagram --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pageavenuecrew/support

Excited to welcome Beth Pascall on the show, who just finished 7th overall and first woman at the 2021 Western States endurance race. She placed a record as second fastest female ever on the 100-mile run with a time of 17 hours, 10 minutes, and 41 seconds. Beth is a British pediatrician and took time off from her job as a doctor and spent 10 weeks in the US training for Western States. Beth even got married a few days after her Western States finish.    Beth also recently won the Canyons 100K and holds the FKT for the Bob Graham Round with a time of 14 hours and 34 minutes.    “The mental preparation is just important as a physical preparation.” –Beth Pascall     In this episode we cover… The logistics Beth had to go through for training for Western States, the actual race, her wedding right after the race, and her work as a pediatrician.  How trying different sports helps you in athletic performance. For Beth it was trying rowing, cycle touring and triathlon, until she found ultra-endurance running.  “I don't think I ever really believed I could Western States until 2018 when I got picked.”  The importance of confidence. “I came to realize that I thought my confidence was affecting my results because I truly never thought I could do well in a race. Just having people around me that really believed in me and gave me that confidence.” She's done 250-mile distances which add the sleep deprivation element into it  “It's possible to keep going and also learning to listen to your body, that way you'll know what it feels like when you need to back off.”   Resources: Beth Pascal Instagram   Beth Pascal Website   Beth Pascal Twitter   Beth Pascal's Interview at Western States     Thank you to BEAM, Generation UCAN, and Tracksmith for sponsoring this episode.   A new product that I have been trying out is Beam. Where they try to help athletes with balance, performance, and recovery. Now I have tried performance and balance and the flavors were great and I felt the hydrating electrolyte energy powder formulated with beetroot, green coffee bean, and citrulline really helped me and I know they will help you too. Go here use code TINA for 15 % off your order.   Thank you Generation UCAN, I have been talking about them for years and my ONLY source for fueling while I am training and racing. And without fail I have had a product of UCAN every day, whether it is a peanut butter chocolate bar or their delicious cookies and cream protein powder. I am also excited to share with you a NEW product, a gel! Completely fueled with superstarch and ready to go wherever you are headed off to. Use code TINAUCAN for 20% off of your order.   Tracksmith is a Boston based running clothing company that truly cares about the quality and care of their running clothes. Running can be a demanding lifestyle for our clothes, they definitely go through the wear and tear to where we may be purchasing new clothes constantly. Tracksmith designers truly work with the finest materials and think of you as a runner in mind with spots for your keys, phone, and fuel. You can go here to check out my favorites! You can get $15 off your purchase of $75 or more, click here and enter code TINA15. Thanks for listening! We know there are so many podcasts you could be listening to, but we are honored you have chosen Running For Real. If you appreciate the work that we do, here are a few things you can do to support us: Take a screenshot of the episode, and share it with your friends, family, and community on social media, especially if you feel that topic will relate to them. Be sure to tag us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram If you are struggling through something a guest mentions, chances are, others are too, and you will help them feel less alone  Leave an honest review on iTunes or your favorite podcast player Your ratings and reviews will really help us grow and reach new people Not sure how to leave a review or subscribe, you can find out here. Thank you to Beth, we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the show.

Daniella's back from Italy with STORIES to tell! From COVID travel restriction to mad-packed streets of Florence after Italy's big win, Daniella does not disappoint. Barbaranne talks about the time she and Zakk got busted getting risque on a boat, Daniella decides to go topless. (Completely unrelated) Babaranne admits to the well documented sexuality of Scorpios and Daniella gets a very fancy facial. Of course, stick around for Barb's Bag of Tricks and get the skinny on this week's top beauty product picks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOPICS by TIMECODE1:59 Surprised? Media discovers PayPal is financially blacklisting people. Here's why it's NOT surprising (beyond the fact that it happened to me months ago). Microsoft, again, at the center of the government conspiracy to control/silence all speech FAR beyond what we've seen so far — C2PA12:26 ADL pushing financial blacklisting & American Jewish Congress demands punishing/cancelling of any one questioning “life saving medical intervention” — as in vaccine mandates and passports. They've become the Nazi monsters they fought21:13 ACLU says the 2nd Amendment is racist. No, Gun Control is SLAVERY. The ACLU's war on the Bill of Rights and individual liberty and how Reagan & NRA infringed on 2A. Then, cop who executed a man on his hands and knees is free because he “perceived” the unarmed man had a gun. And, gunman in Forth Worth, TX stoned to death after he shoots and kills49:42 Biden Gets Weird, Even for Biden.  “My butts been wiped”. Did he mean to say his brain or Hunter's laptop has been wiped? But then his promotion for vaccines becomes even stranger59:31 Why Didn't Trump Create a Soros or Antifa Investigative Committee? Why doesn't he speak out or financially help his 500+ followers who are denied due process as part of this inquisition denying due process?1:04:56 INTERVIEW Eric Peters: Make America V8 Again! From the Dodge Hellcat Red to the Fauci “Jonestown” Cult, Eric Peters, EPautos.com covers liberty & mobility now & in the near future1:49:00 “Horse punching” mainstream media trick. Worldwide protests (including one in Michigan by health workers) even as they don't even try anymore to present rigged stats — just “experts”. Listener shares the extreme measures being taken in Munich — underscoring the importance of what's happening locally2:05:44 “Experts” in White Lab Coats, “Delta” and other lies. Have you noticed how THE LIE has spawned so many variants? Delta Variant is a complete gaslighting of the public2:14:16: Biden declares “long Covid” a disability and brags about his connection to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) — but his mandates disregard disabled and have created tens of thousands more disabled2:17:28 It's not just restaurants and small business that are being crushed — massive shortages in food and soaring costs are coming thanks to broken supply lines that haven't recovered 500 days later2:34:33 SCAM: PCR Test Company Throws Swabs Into Trash. Completely fabricated “test results”.  Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughZelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 1323 Elgin, TX 78621

TOPICS by TIMECODE 1:59 Surprised? Media discovers PayPal is financially blacklisting people. Here's why it's NOT surprising (beyond the fact that it happened to me months ago).  Microsoft, again, at the center of the government conspiracy to control/silence all speech FAR beyond what we've seen so far — C2PA 12:26 ADL pushing financial blacklisting & American Jewish Congress demands punishing/cancelling of any one questioning “life saving medical intervention” — as in vaccine mandates and passports. They've become the Nazi monsters they fought 21:13 ACLU says the 2nd Amendment is racist. No, Gun Control is SLAVERY.  The ACLU's war on the Bill of Rights and individual liberty and how Reagan & NRA infringed on 2A. Then, cop who executed a man on his hands and knees is free because he “perceived” the unarmed man had a gun.  And, gunman in Forth Worth, TX stoned to death after he shoots and kills 49:42 Biden Gets Weird, Even for Biden.  “My butts been wiped”.  Did he mean to say his brain or Hunter's laptop has been wiped? But then his promotion for vaccines becomes even stranger 59:31  Why Didn't Trump Create a Soros or Antifa Investigative Committee?  Why doesn't he speak out or financially help his 500+ followers who are denied due process as part of this inquisition denying due process? 1:04:56 INTERVIEW Eric Peters: Make America V8 Again! From the Dodge Hellcat Red to the Fauci “Jonestown” Cult, Eric Peters, EPautos.com covers liberty & mobility now & in the near future 1:49:00 “Horse punching” mainstream media trick. Worldwide protests (including one in Michigan by health workers) even as they don't even try anymore to present rigged stats — just “experts”.  Listener shares the extreme measures being taken in Munich — underscoring the importance of what's happening locally 2:05:44 “Experts” in White Lab Coats, “Delta” and other lies. Have you noticed how THE LIE has spawned so many variants? Delta Variant is a complete gaslighting of the public 2:14:16: Biden declares “long Covid” a disability and brags about his connection to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) — but his mandates disregard disabled and have created tens of thousands more disabled 2:17:28 It's not just restaurants and small business that are being crushed — massive shortages in food and soaring costs are coming thanks to broken supply lines that haven't recovered 500 days later 2:34:33  SCAM: PCR Test Company Throws Swabs Into Trash.  Completely fabricated “test results”.    Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation through Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.com Cash App at:  $davidknightshow BTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Mail:          David Knight          POB 1323          Elgin, TX 78621

After a summer of no time for themselves, Americans are going to take advantage of this summer and get away. Completely unplugging from their jobs and the real world to relax and not worry about anything.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More from The most unprofessional DJ's in the Galaxy, Jackie Jackson & Master K.H.D. In Studio 5 On The Banks Of The Beautiful River Shuttle in the Garden Of England -Kent. Completely unscripted show as neither of us could be bothered this week, but as always we deliver 3 hours of Soul, Funk, Jazz-Funk, Reggae, Dance Floor House Classics, and loads of talking bollox from us. N-J0y - Jackie & Master KHD

STOP!  Don't listen to this episode before you listen to last week, Ep89 - "This or That Part 1".  This week we finish the game from the twisted mind of the Wild Card Wife which causes us to debate for things that we COMPLETELY disagree with. We also check into the Babylon Bee and find out what's #notforme. You can join the conversation @DroppingSunday www.droppingsunday.com

Karen in a Victoria's Secret. Dog porn and the people that produce it. The worst places to go to the bathroom.*Bonus episode on Patreon*https://www.patreon.com/worstfriendcastSubscribe to our Patreon, which costs $1 a month and offers the following benefits:• Bonus episodes every week • Our entire archive of every episode ever released• Completely commercial free episodes• https://www.instagram.com/worstfriendcast/• https://www.facebook.com/worstfriendcastMerch:• https://www.threadless.com/shop/@worstfriendcast

Great Bible Truths Podcast Episode 143 Lessons from their lives talk 9: David - When your problem could hardly be bigger! Welcome to talk 9 in our series, Lessons from their lives. Today our subject is David, and in particular the story of David and Goliath found in 1 Samuel 17:1-53. The story is well known, so I won't take time to read all 53 verses. As we've said many times in these talks, the victories won by God's people in the Old Testament serve as illustrations of how we can be victorious over our spiritual enemies today. As we shall see, the principles are very much the same as we have recently learned from the stories of people like Gideon and Jonathan. Today we'll be considering: The enemy (or the size of the problem) The person who defeated the enemy (or who solved the problem) The victory he accomplished (or the solution to the problem) The Enemy (vv.4-11) We'll begin by reading vv 4-11. A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armour of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; 6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him. 8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us." 10 Then the Philistine said, "This day I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other." 11 On hearing the Philistine's words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. In this passage we see: The size of the enemy The weapons he possessed The challenge he presented The persistence of his challenge and the effects it was having. The size of the enemy Goliath was over 9ft tall v4 – your problem could hardly be bigger! The weapons he possessed He was apparently invincible: V5 his armour weighed 5000 shekels (over 9 stone - 126 lbs) V7 his spearhead weighed 600 shekels (1 stone - 14 lbs) The challenge he presented v10 he defies God's people The persistence of his challenge v16 it lasted for 6 weeks. The problem wouldn't go away! The effects of the challenge V11   God's people were terrified In v24 they ran from the enemy. Contrast David (48) who ran quickly towards him. The person who defeated the enemy What was different about David? Why was he victorious? What can we learn about how to overcome our enemies? 1.   He saw the enemy for what he was – uncircumcised 26 Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" 2.   He saw God's people for what they were – armies of the living God Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" 3.   He saw himself for what he was: a servant (32) Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him. a servant with confidence in his own ability 17:34-37 34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. But note v 37 - The Lord who delivered me… God's chosen servant   1 Samuel 16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.' He was indestructible until his destiny was fulfilled a servant empowered by the Spirit 16:13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power 4.   He saw GOD for who He is: Living (36) Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. Deliverer (37)     The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. Saviour (47) All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands. Supernatural (47) – not sword or spear Curses of no avail (43)And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. Cf. How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? Numbers 23:8 Completely in Control (47) for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands. To be known by all the earth (46) and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. victory is not just for us The Victory 51 David ran and stood on him. He took hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from the scabbard. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. Simple…        sudden…        unexpected…            TOTAL! Stood on him Destroyed him with his own sword (cf. Jesus – Hebrews 2:11) Brought others into victory 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines                           

"This pod is the Devil... And it's gonna drag you down to hell with it" Join the gang while we break down a movie that REALLY makes you think.  Think about staying faithful. Think about following the good word of the lord. Think about how this movie COMPLETELY misses the fact that Harley is the villain of this movie and lets him do HORRIBLE stuff and is no worse off than he was when this movie started. Please Subscribe, Rate, and Review Romancing the Pod to help more people discover our community. Follow us @RomancingThePodShow: Facebook and Instagram Or RomancingPodSho on Twitter   Up next: The Cutting Edge (1992)  

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends August  27th 2021. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:www.twitter.com/bernarddonoghuewww.linkedin.com/in/bernard-donoghue-0aa9b97www.twitter.com/alva_ukwww.alva.org.uk/index.cfmBernard Donoghue is the Chief Executive of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), the umbrella body for the UK's most popular, important and iconic palaces, castles, museums, galleries, heritage sites, stately homes, cathedrals, churches, gardens, zoos and leisure attractions. ALVA is a powerful advocate for the sector to Government, the media and business; it organises events, benchmarking, training, commissions research and the sharing of best practice for members across marketing, visitor experience, fundraising, public engagement, security, education, retail and a variety of other areas.In May 2017 he was appointed to be a member of the Mayor of London's Cultural Leadership Board and is the Mayor's Ambassador for Culture. He has been a member of the UK Government's Tourism Industry Council since 2014. In January 2021 he became Co-Chair of the London Tourism Recovery Board, to plan and deliver the strategic recovery of London's visitor economy and sits on the GLA's COVID Business Forum and various London Mayoral cultural and business recovery taskforces.Bernard has been Chair of the award-winning London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) since 2010, having been a Board member since 2005 and Deputy Chair between 2007 and 2010. In June 2021 he became Chair of the Board of the Bristol Old Vic, the oldest continually operating theatre in the English-speaking world. He is a Trustee of the People's History Museum – the Museum of Democracy, in Manchester, and will take over as Chair of the Board in November 2021.He is a member of the Cathedral Council of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and a member of the Exhibition Advisory Board for Two Temple Place and the Hoare Trust. He was Chairman of WWF-UK's Council for 10 years, until 2020, and is a former trustee of WWF-UK. He has been a trustee of Centrepoint, Kids in Museums, the Museum of The Home and the Heritage Alliance. He has been a judge for the Museum and Heritage Awards since 2003.In October 2020 Bernard was named by Blooloop, the world's leading online resource for professionals working in visitor attractions, as one of the world's 50 most influential people in the museum sector. Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I speak with Bernard Donoghue, CEO of ALVA. We discuss what the fast-approaching end of restrictions mean for attractions, how to balance digital engagement with an overseas audience and what these past 15 months have really been like for Bernard personally. If you like what you hear, subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Kelly Molson: Bernard, I am so happy to have you on the podcast today. Thank you so much for coming on and joining us.Bernard Donoghue: It is my absolute pleasure. It was a choice between you and a meeting with four MPs so here we are.Kelly Molson: Well, I mean, I have to say, I'm clearly the better choice here. Thank you. Okay. As ever, we're going to start off with our ice breaker questions. If you had a time machine and you could travel backwards or forwards, what year would you go to and why?Bernard Donoghue: Oh, good lord. Sorry, by the way, this reminds me of the brilliant line by Sandi Toksvig. She was in a café in York once and there was a sign saying we serve tea at all times so she asked for a tea in the Renaissance, and they didn't understand her.Bernard Donoghue: I don't know. Wow. I don't know. I think possibly in the 1920s because you're just at the cusp of so many things. You're at the tail end of the Edwardian period so you've got all of that and then you're at the cusp of electricity and technology and radio and aeroplanes so probably then.Kelly Molson: We're hearing a lot about it being like the Roaring Twenties as well, aren't we? Once we get through all of this too. It's probably quite current that you've chosen that as well. Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. Kelly Molson: Obviously, flapper dresses because all of those were completely beautiful. I mean, I would be down with that.Bernard Donoghue: No. Seriously, I do look good in beads. It's true.Kelly Molson: I could see that about you. You've got that look. Great. Okay. If you were a WWF wrestler, which I can see actually, I feel like you've got the look of a wrestler about you as well, maybe not in beads, what would your entrance song be?Bernard Donoghue: For years, by the way, I used to be a trustee of WWF UK and all of my friends just assumed that I had a sort of parallel existence in spandex somewhere and I had to remind them that actually, no, it was about conservation. What would it be? Something from RuPaul's Drag Race actually because they're always fantastic. Yeah. When they come back on the stage at the end, that's the music.Kelly Molson: Okay. Something really flamboyant I feel like.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. You know, you can strut ... I mean, I know strutting is not necessarily a WWF thing but presence is all.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. We can make it a thing. It can be whatever we want.Bernard Donoghue: Thank you.Kelly Molson: Okay. If you could give one piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be?Bernard Donoghue: If I was 20, I think my advice to my 20-year-old self would be to make the ... This sounds a bit professional. Just make loads and loads of connections, network, network madly, even though, and this will come as a bit of a surprise, even though, I'm an introvert, get out there and network because it suddenly dawned on me in the last few years, when I was in my twenties, I was a campaigner, I was a young lobbyist and I worked for disability charities and all the people who did the same kind of job as me then, are all chief executives like me now. Bernard Donoghue: Of course, that makes sense because you grow through the ranks so now I've got a peer group of lots of chief executives in lots of very varied, different spheres and realms. It's been brilliant because we've all come through the ranks together and in good times and bad and now we've got a ready-made oven-roasted peer group that we can all rely on. There's about six of us. I think that.Bernard Donoghue: And B, take your job seriously but don't take yourself too seriously.Kelly Molson: That's good advice. That's really good advice. The networking thing is really interesting, somebody asked me a couple of weeks ago what has been the thing that ... What's been the one thing that I've invested the most in over the last few years that has made the biggest difference to my business and I completely agree with you and I said it is about building your network and it's about getting out there and making those connections because such incredible things come from knowing such a variety of different people in all kinds of sectors. You just never know what kind of opportunities and doors are going to be open for you from doing that.Kelly Molson: Also, you just can't grow a business on your own or do anything on your own. You need that peer support around you. Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. You're absolutely right. The key to that is knowing people who are not like you and in businesses that are not like yours. In ALVA, for example, I hear it time and time again that museums and galleries don't actually learn much from other museums and galleries because they're all kind of in the same boats and cathedrals don't learn much from other cathedrals, but they will learn things from Zooms or Harry Potter or Warner Bros, so places that are very different to them and, therefore, come at an issue from a very different perspective. That's where you learn most.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. I completely agree with you on that one as well. That might come up later actually in our chat. Okay. Last one but it's your one, what's your unpopular opinion?Bernard Donoghue: I hate the phrases going forward, and very much, as in, "I am very much looking forward to it" or, "I am very much committed to this." I hate those phrases with a passion whereas it's clear other people don't. They would be capital punishments when I take over the rule. Bernard Donoghue: What's another unpopular opinion? I cannot see how people can watch Jeremy Clarkson. I don't get it. Absolutely don't get it at all. Oh, oh, here's one actually and it's only because it was his birthday last week, I have never understood Bob Dylan and his popularity.Kelly Molson: Wow. Gosh, that's quite a strong one.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. I don't get it. Kelly Molson: Okay. Bernard Donoghue: Glad he's around, glad he's there, not for me, thank you.Kelly Molson: I like that. Bob Dylan and Jeremy Clarkson was not a mix I was expecting to get on the podcast today.Bernard Donoghue: They're not a duo that has ever performed together as far as I'm aware, or likely to. It's probably just as well.Kelly Molson: It wouldn't make either of them even more appealing to you, though, would it? Not really.Bernard Donoghue: No. I think I would have to take out a restraining order if they decided that they wanted to come around.Kelly Molson: I love that. Well, let's see what our listeners think, Jeremy Clarkson fans out there? I don't know. It's not my cup of tea. Tweet us and let us know what you think about that. Kelly Molson: Now, Bernard, I don't even know where to start with this list so Mayor of London's Cultural Ambassador, CEO of ALVA, Co-chair of the London Tourism Recovery Board, Chair of LIFT Festival and Trustee of People's History Museum. Quite an impressive list that you've got going on there. What I want to know is where did it actually begin, though? Where did your connection with cultural heritage and attractions organisations start?Bernard Donoghue: I've always absolutely loved ... I'm kind of being paid for all the things that I would do at a weekend. Kelly Molson: Nice.Bernard Donoghue: You know, when I was a kid, my parents would take us around National Trust properties and English Heritage properties and stately homes and places like that so the first place that I went to was Waddesdon Manor, which if people don't know it, it's the maddest, most beautiful Loire valley style chateau but in the vale of Aylesbury, just outside Aylesbury. Built by the Rothschilds as kind of an entertaining pad. Absolutely beautiful, absolutely stunning.Bernard Donoghue: My first stately home ... Well, that's kind of a stately home. The first stately home is Blenheim Palace. I just got the bug. I just have loved history, heritage, visitor attractions since I was a kid. I went off to do political jobs and then back in '97 I joined Visit Britain as their first-ever head of government affairs, not quite a lobbyist because it's a government agency and so you're not allowed to be called a lobbyist, but it was all but a lobbyist. That just opened my eyes to tourism and then visitor attractions. Bernard Donoghue: On the culture side, the theatre side, the theatre has always been a complete passion so I stepped down this year as chair of LIFT London International Festival of Theatre after 11 years and I'm just about to go onto the board of the British [inaudible 00:09:15]. My theatre passion continues.Kelly Molson: I love that. I love what you said, I get paid to do all the things that I would love to do on the weekend. What a fantastic role to be in. Bernard Donoghue: It's absolutely true. I should show you my wallet actually. My wallet is full of membership cards, as in 30 of them, so occasionally I'll look at my wallet and think, "This is money laundering essentially." I'm being paid and I'm paying them back in return. This is just a circular economy.Kelly Molson: That's one of the things that you've done really well throughout the pandemic is you've been so supportive and you've been really proactive on Twitter about saying to people, "Look, if you want these places to still be around when we come out of this, buy the membership, buy something from their shop when their shops are open, or buy something from them online" and I think it's been such a positive message to send out the whole way through, so not money laundering, supportive. Being very supportive in your role.Bernard Donoghue: You'd have to talk to my bank manager because some days it was like money laundering.Kelly Molson: There are loads of things that I want to talk about going forward, even though you don't like that but what I want to go back to is a little bit in the past as well. I really want to talk about what it's been like for you personally. I think you have been a real kind of pillar of strength to the sector and huge support and I think that as wonderful as that's been, that can bring its own challenges on yourself as well. Kelly Molson: Ultimately, you're the person that's putting out this kind of positive message all the time and being really actively encouraging but I could imagine that's had a lot of pressures and challenges for you personally as well. What has it been like, the last 15 months? How have you motivated yourself to be upbeat and positive throughout all of this?Bernard Donoghue: Well, that's very kind, first of all. Thank you. I think I divide it between last March until Christmas and then sort of Christmas onwards. Last March until Christmas, there was a sense of really being able to cope because the adrenaline was getting you through. It was all novel and new and I've always thrived in crisis management. In all the roles that I've had over the last 20 years, crisis management has been at the heart of that, whether that's about actively managing crises or the corporate PR response or being a spokesperson or whatever.Bernard Donoghue: In some ways, I sort of thrived on all of that through adrenaline. It's been much, much more draining and exhausting since Christmas and I think that's probably the same for everybody actually. We've gone through it again and actually, it's no longer new and it's no longer novel and now it's just sapping.Bernard Donoghue: I have often felt on an almost kind of daily basis, and this is just honest, I'm not exaggerating, there's quite a lot resting on my shoulders and it feels quite lonely because the advice from the government has been so inconsistent and so unclear and often contradictory. There's a small group of about three or four of us in the tourism sector who have had to daily unpick all of that and interpret it for our respective sectors.Bernard Donoghue: I know that if I weren't doing that then it just wouldn't get done ... It would probably get done somewhere at somehow at some point but, as you know, I do a daily bulletin so it goes out every evening at six o'clock with the latest information. There's a real sense of I need to get this out and get it done every day. Bernard Donoghue: I've made a rod and back really because there was nothing that I would love more than stop doing these bulletins. That's not possible while we're still in a state of flux. It's been a bit lonely. It's been odd working from home when normally I would be a consummate traveller and visit loads of my members around the country. There's been a lot of pressure but the feedback from people about the vital nature of the information and the advocacy and all the rest of it, and the achievements actually, has been extraordinary.Bernard Donoghue: I don't think myself, my work has ever been more exposed than it has in the course of the last 15 months. Sometimes that felt scary and sometimes that felt brilliant.Kelly Molson: I think as well it's never been more celebrated as well because you have had so much support from the sector. There are a lot of people looking for you. Like you say, you're delivering daily bulletins, you've been doing incredible webinars with ALVA so regularly, you've opened those up to non-members as well so everybody can benefit from the knowledge on them. There's a lot of eyes on you as well. That's a lot of pressure. I think from a positive perspective, what I see being delivered back to you is nothing but encouragement. Everybody has been so incredibly supportive of what you're doing and so grateful for the things that you're doing for them. I think that's been really lovely to see.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. It absolutely has and, in particular, from those organisations and businesses who, as you say, are not members of ALVA, I mean, I took the decision on day one that although ALVA is a tiny organisation and people will probably be really surprised, there's me and one other member of staff.Kelly Molson: Wow. I'm surprised.Bernard Donoghue: We're just two people. Lucy is brilliant. She's our finance and business manager. She's living in Norwich and I'm here in London. It's just the two of us. It's a tiny organisation so we're spread very, very thin. But given the nature of our members and my role of years in getting high-level meetings with government and all of that, I just thought we're in a leadership role here, we should use that for the benefit of everybody, let's be generous, let's not be parochial.Bernard Donoghue: We made the decision to commission all the research and give it out for free, and that visitor sentiment research has just been vital. It was one of the best things that we did. Open up our webinars to everybody. If anybody wants a bulletin, they could go on the mailing list. Whether they're members of ALVA or not because there was the analogy, it's been used a lot of times but I think it's true, we're not actually all in the same boat. We're all in the same storm but we're in very, very different boats and some are bigger and more stable than others. We happen to be in a relatively stable, well-structured boat so I think it's beholden on me and us to try and help everybody as much as possible.Kelly Molson: I am absolutely gobsmacked that it's just the two of you. I did not know that myself and I think that's an incredible achievement, what you've been doing, just the two of you to organise all of that. Wow. Hats off to you both there.Bernard Donoghue: It's exhausting. I mean, look at me. I'm actually 47 in real life.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Me too. That's what I tell to everyone, Bernard. Gosh, that really has surprised me. Just go back because you said about you're a big traveller, you would be out and about all over the place and up and down the country, I'm sure, what do you think that you'll take away as a positive from the time that you spent working at home? Are there any kinds of changes that you'll make to your working habits? Kelly Molson: For example, I would commute to my office on a daily basis, I would often be out in London or all over the place doing meetings. Now I start to think, well, some of them I'm really missing but some of them are actually probably a bit unnecessary, we can cut down on the fuels that we're burning, we can cut down on the time that we have, and I've actually quite enjoyed having a little bit more personal time to do things like eating better because you don't eat that well when you're travelling or doing a little bit more exercise. Have you found that there are some positive things that you can take from this that you'd continue?Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. There's a number. I mean, one was we made the decision, we used to have an office in Somerset House on the Strand, a beautiful, beautiful room in grade one listed former palace. Absolutely gorgeous. Looking down onto the piazza, currently covered in trees. I couldn't justify the cost because Lucy, my colleague, went over to Norwich to be near her parents. We very sadly lost one of our colleagues. There used to be three of us in the office and we lost one of our colleagues last year to cancer. Bernard Donoghue: There were just the two of us and I thought I can't justify an office just for me, lovely, though, it is so actually we haven't had an office. We've given it up, which means that I am, for the foreseeable future, working at home. There are plus things to that ... Well, this is a plus and a minus, this is no particular priority order, we've got a cat, Tom, he's a badsy cat. I think he's going to go into trauma whenever we leave the house.Kelly Molson: Oh gosh. Yeah. Bernard Donoghue: We've been around 24/7. We are now more grateful ... When I say we, this isn't a royal we. This is me and my partner. We are now more grateful than we ever thought possible to have a garden in central London. That's just been fantastic. Bernard Donoghue: But I am looking forward to getting back to some degree of working normality because I have to say I've never worked longer or harder than I have over the course of the last 15 months. It's been exhausting.Bernard Donoghue: On a normal day, I would probably have five or six, at least, one-hour Zoom meetings back to back. And then write the bulletin at six o'clock in the evening. Typically, I'm working from about 7:30 in the morning until about seven in the evening. I was doing a bit of that pre-COVID but it's pretty unsustainable so I'd like to get back to a degree of normality.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Definitely. I think that the difference between having multiple face to face meetings during the day is very different to the Zoom meetings. I don't know about you but my diary gets crazy and I look and I think, "I've got four back to back" and there's no time to process in-between. It's that cognitive overload whereas if you had back-to-back face-to-face meetings you don't get the same kind of drained feeling. Yeah. I really feel you on that. It's definitely been longer working hours for us here as well. I really sympathise.Bernard Donoghue: Also, I mean, the meetings that I'm having, bluntly, you can't coast because either I'm the guest speaker so you can't wing it, or it's a meeting with ministers or SAGE or public health England and so it's serious grownup stuff. You can't step back, you can't just switch off, you can't think I'm going to coast this for half an hour, I hope that nobody asks me a question because they're not those kinds of meetings.Kelly Molson: No. You can't switch off your Zoom and quickly grab a cup of tea and a biscuit while everyone else is talking, can you? It's not the done thing. Bernard Donoghue: It's not really, no. Kelly Molson: That was a good segue into something that's going to happen today. We are recording this and it is the seventh of June. There are reports that Matt Hancock is going to give us another COVID statement this afternoon and, potentially, that is about the dates that we are due to be opening up with no restrictions.Kelly Molson: Now I want to ask you a little bit about what that means for attractions and what we could potentially now be looking at. We are hopefully coming through to the other side. The vaccine program is doing phenomenal things. What does this fast-approaching end to restrictions mean for attractions now? Do you think that we're going to see this extended?Bernard Donoghue: It's a really good question. I've been talking to about five or six chief execs over the course of the weekend just about guidance and advice. I think there are two very significant things and at first glance, they're in contradiction with each other. The first is that the longer we have social distancing measures and face mask use and mitigation measures in place, the longer it will take for the sector to recover.Bernard Donoghue: When we have businesses, whether it's a hotel or bar or restaurant, a theatre or an attraction when we have those businesses opening up one-third capacity, none of them is making a profit. Actually, they're opening for PR purposes and in order to achieve fuller visitor figures down the track so no one is operating profitably.Bernard Donoghue: Getting those backup and running is really critical but we know from all of our visitor sentiment that still 80%, eight zero, 80% of the British public are uneasy or cautious about those very mitigation measures, like social distancing and face mask use, being eased too early. Bernard Donoghue: Visitor attractions are faced with a real dilemma I think, which is if it's announced that on the 21st of June all social distancing measures are lifted throughout England and, therefore, visitor attractions can up the numbers, don't have to do face mask use measures, abandon social distancing, still the vast majority of their visitors won't like that and will feel uncomfortable and a tiny minority will think they're in bliss and think that they're liberated and all the rest of it.Bernard Donoghue: My advice has been to visitor attractions, you and your visitors have to be the ultimate arbiter of the visitor experience. It may well be that you have to keep social distancing and face mask use measures in a place way beyond the 21st of September because that's what the public wants so, even though, you are technically allowed to get rid of those things by government, actually, take your lead from the public because they're going to be the ultimate arbiters. Bernard Donoghue: Those things are potentially in contradiction with each other. One of the things I'm constructing literally this week is some ALVA national advice to visitor attractions so that front of house staff can basically say to an irate guest on the 22nd of June, "I know the government has just announced that but actually, we're adhering to ALVA national advice" in order that they don't get than that confrontational pushback from members of the public because I genuinely feel that the loudest voices are for liberation but the quietest voices are for care, safety, sensible precautions and we need to manage that really, really carefully.Kelly Molson: That's a really difficult challenge, isn't it? For front of house staff that will be in that position of having to push back on people. I can see it in my head happening. There's an encounter where people are angry about the fact they're being told that they still have to wear their mask, yet the government has said that they don't need to do this anymore. I can't imagine how difficult that's going to be so I think what you're putting in place is a really valuable kind of asset for the organisations to have.Bernard Donoghue: We saw some examples, relatively limited, but we saw some examples of poor behaviour on the parts of the public last year when attractions reopened for, frankly ... It's not an excuse but it is understandable. They, like us, we're tired, fraught, and quick to anger, end of their tether, and they just wanted to get out and be in nice places. We've seen some of that poor behaviour on the part of the public again this time round as indoor and outdoor attractions. Bernard Donoghue: Honestly, for every one person who pushes back saying, "Don't make me wear a mask. Don't manage my social distancing", there are nine others watching saying, "Well done, you. You're doing exactly the right thing." That, I think should be the barometer of safety.Kelly Molson: How does this work with ... What we want to see is attractions open and open at full capacity. But we, obviously, have got this challenge around overseas visitors and many of them not being able to come here, many of them not feeling safe to come here at the moment, understandably. How do attractions manage that? If they can open at full capacity, is the reality that they're not going to be at full capacity because we just don't have that influx of people that we need?Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. That's right. I mean, bluntly, there are some visitor attractions in the UK and just off the top of my head, they're places like the British Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower of London that are so heavily dependent on overseas visitors, inbound visitors coming from the rest of the world, that even the best ever staycation this summer won't help them repair their balance sheets. Bernard Donoghue: We've made it really clear to ministers ... I took the minister for London and the minister for tourism round four visitor attractions in London a couple of weeks ago to Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, London Transport Museum and the Royal Opera House and, at each one, showed them what a COVID safe welcome and visitor experience looks so they were comfortable with that but also made it clear to them that some of those, particularly, the Royal Opera House, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey are so dependent on inbound visitors that they will require additional support way beyond the rest of the sector to really recover sustainably because their visitors, their market won't come back in any meaningful numbers until next year.Bernard Donoghue: It was really to peg to ministers even if you lift all restrictions on the 21st of June, that's not the end of the story. Kelly Molson: Yeah. Yeah. You have to be prepared to give more support past that point as well. Those attractions, in particular, that do rely really heavily on overseas visitors, what can they start to think about putting in place at this point? I know there are many attractions that have put on lots of digital events or things that people can engage with online. Do you see that continuing hugely for the rest of the year and then into 2022 as well?Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. Yeah. I do. I mean, we've talked about this actually. At the VAC conference, one of the great achievements of last year was the explosion in digital content and not just the amount of it but the diversity and the brilliance and the innovative use of digital. I think because the last year has been sort of chaotic and odd and no holds barred, it's just liberated a lot of organisations to take risks with their programming and their content and their decision making in a way that they would never have conceived of before and to speed up some of their decision makings and just to think actually let's just do it and see what happens.Bernard Donoghue: I think the digital explosion has been absolutely phenomenal so downloadable jigsaws and recipe books and maps and behind the scenes tours and going up into the attic of buildings and into the archives, all of that, absolutely phenomenal. Bernard Donoghue: It hasn't particularly connected with audiences who weren't already interested in those buildings so it's had some public engagement successes but not massive but what it has made people do is get on the customer journey so if they're seeing the stuff online, they'll one day aspire to be there and stand there on the spot because it can't replace the actual physical experience of being there.Bernard Donoghue: In terms of digital output, the Bristol Old Vic, and the London Symphony Orchestra, they've both made decisions recently that in addition to their live performances, they're going to broadcast their performances on digital as well. If you're in Tokyo or San Francisco, you can subscribe to watch these performances, a bit like a Netflix subscription, so you buy a book of 10 performances at reduced costs.Bernard Donoghue: What this means, of course, is that those theatres, that orchestra is getting a whole new audience who are paying money that they never had before but they're also starting them on a customer journey so that person in Tokyo one day, hopefully, will want to stand in the Bristol Old Vic and see where David Garrick performed. You're getting them on that customer journey whilst also monetizing it as well.Bernard Donoghue: I think that's probably the biggest evolution and change to businesses in the course of the last year. You may have got round to it in about three or four years time but all of that has just been sort of contracted and sped up in an extraordinary way.Kelly Molson: It's what you said, it's about risk-taking. I can remember having this conversation with Laura Crossley from the National Football Museum. They came on the podcast to talk about their podcast and they said that actually, it was something they'd been talking about for ages, they were going to do it, and then things kept getting in the way. Ultimately, they just got to a point where they were like, "Let's just try it. Let's just throw something at it. Let's see if it sticks and let's just do it." Kelly Molson: I loved that attitude that has been taken by so many different organisations this year and it's propelled them forward in a digital sense because let's just try it, who knows what's going to happen? None of us had a clue what was going to happen last March. That whole attitude about risk-taking I think is really important and I'd really like to see that continue as well.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. Me too. I mean, two years ago, people would have thought it would be utterly impossible to run a business with nearly all of their staff working from home and even if they thought it was possible, it didn't sound particularly attractive because it just sounded too complicated and messy. Look where we are now.Bernard Donoghue: Things can be done. I think one of the things that we've done for years is collect all of the visitor numbers from all of our members and then publish them in the media in March. I've done some longitudinal research to look at are there common characteristics or behaviours on the part of those visitor attractions that sustainably and successfully grow their visitor numbers but also diversify their business numbers as well? Bernard Donoghue: I do a presentation and a workshop on this and, funnily enough, there are. There are common behaviours. You can absolutely see them. In that group of about six or seven behaviours, one of them is about the appetite for risk on the part of the board and senior management. The other one is about the confidence to foster creative partnerships with unusual suspects. Don't just work with the people who are your natural neighbours, either physically or theoretically, but actually, this is something we were talking about at the beginning, try and foster creative partnerships with people who are not like you and, therefore, they bring something completely different to the party.Kelly Molson: That's going back to what we talked about, about museums not learning from other museums and theatres not learning from other theatres because you're just in the same challenges all the time. Looking at that kind of wider sector communication of sector cooperation even and seeing where the boundaries overlap and what you can do that like you said, the theme park or the zoo down the road might be doing but you're a theatre. How can you embrace some of the things that they're using?Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. Yeah. One of my favourite examples recently is that I was down ... I've managed to get out of London a couple of times since September in the last three weeks and I was down at Bristol going to see the Bristol Old Vic. They're doing something really, really clever, which is they have just parted ways with their in-house catering company and they've just decided that they want to be a community showcase so they're getting in local Bristol restaurants and chefs to be their in-house caterer for a month and they have a different one every month.Bernard Donoghue: It's just blindingly brilliant because, A, they're connecting with their communities, they're showcasing the diversity of food in the local area, it's all five-mile menu stuff so it's all locally sourced. But it also means there's a new reason to come back every month, even if you don't go to the theatre to see a show, you'll go there to eat. I just think that was genius.Kelly Molson: It is genius.Bernard Donoghue: I've been sharing that with a lot of museums and galleries and heritage attractions saying actually if you're in-between contracts and you're thinking about an interim period between catering contracts, why don't you think about this?Kelly Molson: That is an absolutely brilliant idea because I love attractions but I'm a big foodie as well so, for me, I'd be looking and going, "Oh, well, I need to book a table at that place at least once a month now because I'm going to go back and I'm going to experience a different food" or, "I've really wanted to go to that person's restaurant, how amazing, I can combine eating that person's food with a show that's on at the same time." It's a genius idea.Bernard Donoghue: It really anchors the theatre in its community. We've seen over the course of the last year that the wreaking of your community and understanding your community and reflecting back who your community are through your work and your HR programs and your staff recruitment measures and all those kind of things, that's been absolutely key because if you lose your connection with the community, you're lost and wondering.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Completely agree. I think, for me, personally, that's one of the best things that have come out of this. As an individual, I've always been really keen on supporting local independents and shopping locally anyway but even more so since this happened because you can see the effect of what's happened so drastically on your own community. You want to be able to do as much to support that as possible. That is such a great idea. I hope everyone that's listening picks up on that because I just think that is awesome. Well done, them. Kelly Molson: We're coming to the end of the podcast interview but I can't not ask you what's next for ALVA? What have you got planned that's coming next? It's been a pretty full-on year. Are the webinars going to continue? Are your daily bulletins going to continue for the foreseeable future? Sounds like you might need a little bit of a break at some point.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. Well, the daily bulletins will certainly continue because I don't think anything is going to change significantly until September or such. The webinars are coming back. We took a month off from the weekly webinars so we had a webinar every Wednesday from the beginning of January until last month with over 50 case studies from across the UK. I mean, they were all amazing. Absolutely amazing.Bernard Donoghue: I think, by the way, that it's been through the webinars and also your work as well, that we've got to know what people are doing in a little bit more detail and from unusual suspects in a way that we didn't really before. We always used to rely on big annual conferences to get case studies and stuff. Now we're just full of case studies everywhere. I love that more generous, more open, more accessible, more sharing environment that we now inhabit.Bernard Donoghue: The webinars are coming back at the end of June. They'll probably be fortnightly and our first webinars will be the latest wave of visitor sentiment research so what are people thinking about now? Are they confident about going back into attractions? Are they confident about social distancing measures and those kinds of things?Bernard Donoghue: Also, we'll be doing case studies about post-21st of June, how visitor attractions are going to cope with that dilemma about being told, on the one hand, you can open with no restrictions, on the other hand, knowing well, that their visitors require and expect some degree of social distancing and protection of safety measures. How do you balance those two things? Those will be the first two webinars.Bernard Donoghue: Then beyond that, I suspect global domination. Kelly Molson: Of course. It's the obvious next step, isn't it?Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. I mean, I don't want to get Napoleonic about it all but I think we could be replicated around the world.Kelly Molson: Well, actually, on that note, what can people that are listening, what can our listeners do to support ALVA? Bearing in mind that I've had the bombshell that it's just the two of you that are doing all of these things. What can our listeners do to help you back?Bernard Donoghue: Oh, well, the most useful thing and I've said this a lot, honestly, it's been my complete saviour, is that we wouldn't have been able to achieve things like the reduced rate of VAT for visitor attractions, the continuation of furlough, the construction and the creation of the Cultural Recovery Fund, I mean, all of those critical measures for the tourism sector ... I mean, the tourism sector, by a long country mile, has been the part of the economy that's received the most financial support from the government. Bernard Donoghue: I think it's partly because we were hit first, hit hardest, and we'll take the longest to recover but it's also because we've had amazing data. I know data is a bit un-sexy but, honestly, we couldn't have got through the meetings that we've had with treasury and number 10 and DCMS and public health England and the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Ireland governments without the depth of really, really useful data that visitor attractions have been able to provide us, what their percentage of furlough rates are, where they've had to make staff redundancies in what areas, where their visitor numbers have been affected, the difference between the dependence on domestic and inbound tourism, conversion rates in shops, average transaction values.Bernard Donoghue: All of that kind of stuff has just been bliss to work with because it's really good, really solid, well-evidenced data and as a lobbyist, that's just gold. Keep giving us information, anecdotes, case studies, and experiences as well. Those case studies can often feed through to government ministers in a way that just a raft of figures can't. If you can bring it to life, particularly, in small kind of epithets like sanitise the site, not the visitor experience and you can't furlough a penguin. Really short, understandable, Sesame Street type lobbying, that works.Kelly Molson: I love that. Keep sharing, keep cooperating, keep helping others, and we'll get through the other side in the best position that we possibly can.Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. I'm confident of it. Absolutely confident of it.Kelly Molson: Good. I'm really glad to hear that. Last question for you, we always end our podcast by asking our guests for a book that they love or a book that's helped shape their career in some way. Can you suggest one for us today?Bernard Donoghue: Actually, if I'm going to be really, really honest I'm not sure that I'd be in my job today were it not for Lady Bird books, that I had when I was a kid. Everything from Marie Curie to the plant life of Africa through Joan of Arc through to Christopher Columbus. Honestly, those Lady Bird books ignited my curiosity and the more I got, the more I started just reading about heritage and history and sciences and those kinds of things. Bernard Donoghue: Yeah. I mean, it's not quite Brideshead Revisited but if I was going to be completely honest, it would be the collection of Lady Bird books that my parents got for me from car boot sales and secondhand shops when I was a kid.Kelly Molson: Oh, I love that. I can remember them all lined up on the bookshelf as well with all the different coloured spines. Beautiful. All right. We'll choose one. Let's have a think, off-podcast, and we'll choose one. Then as ever, if you want to win that book when we decide what it is if you head over to our Twitter account and you retweet this episode announcement with, "I want Bernard's book" then you're going to be in with the chance of winning it.Bernard Donoghue: Actually, I have got spare copies of the Lady Bird book of London from about 1960. I'm very, very happy to donate it.Kelly Molson: Oh my gosh. Well, that would be fantastic. If you're happy to do that then all right, listeners, get tweeting and you could be in with the chance of winning. That's a really lovely gift. Thank you. Bernard, I've loved having you on today. Thank you so much. You are our season finale as well because we're going to have a little bit of a break over summer and we're going to come back again in October once all of you listeners will be so busy over summer with plenty to do. You'll have more interesting things to do than listen to this podcast every day. Kelly Molson: I'm really delighted that you could be our season finale. Thank you. I know how busy you are and, even more so, having had a chat today. We'll put all of your contact details and everything into the show notes so people can find where you are. If you're not following Bernard on Twitter, then, one, you're a fool and, two, where have you been for the last 15 months? Because, for me, personally, if there's been anything that I've needed to understand about what the sector is going through or go and find, it's either speaking to people on this podcast or it's go and follow ALVA and Bernard on Twitter and I'll always find out the answer to what I want. Thank you for being such constant support and thank you for all of the hard work that you've been putting out there through this pandemic. Really appreciate it.Bernard Donoghue: Oh, no. It's my pleasure and for those of you who do follow me on Twitter, I can only apologise for my behaviour on Eurovision song contest night. I just got carried away and it was inappropriate.Kelly Molson: What goes on on Eurovision, stays on Eurovision, Bernard. Don't worry about that.Bernard Donoghue: Thank you very much.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps others find us. Remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by rubber cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

So under the headline of “not surprising,” I feel comfortable admitting that I am NOT an artist by any stretch of the imagination.  If you needed a portrait, you'd get a stick figure. If you needed a melody, you'd get me tapping on the steering wheel out of rhythm. And God forbid you needed me to sing….  That's why this week's interview was both incredibly exciting and COMPLETELY different from anything we've ever done on Legal Grounds.My guest this week is Patrick Boylan, an actor, musician, and a true renaissance man. We discuss how he caught the acting bug, what it means to grind, and how sometimes life can lead you in directions you never expected. I think the thing I appreciate the most about this conversation is how candid, or perhaps RAW, the dialogue was. Be warned, there's some ‘strong' language. Enjoy the show! 

In this episode, CEO of Performance Physical Therapy, Michelle Collie, talks about the business of physical therapy. Today, Michelle talks about the lack of business knowledge of physical therapy graduates, the belief that marketing and sales are bad, and the importance of encouraging entrepreneurship. How do we change the public's understanding of our roles in health care teams? Hear about the challenges Michelle has faced, how she maintains her company culture, and get some great advice, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast. Key Takeaways “I do think that it's our responsibility for the well-being of our profession that we do include some basic business information.” “People don't know what we do. We don't do a good job of explaining the value.” “Any way we can support small businesses is going to be helpful for the future of our profession.” “You definitely have to work on yourself a lot, and be very mindful of what you need as a person if you want to be a leader in an organisation.” “How you act at a holiday party or social event, is going to have a big impact on what your organisation is like.” “Get comfortable with the word ‘money'. It's not a bad word. Just think of money as one of the things that helps us be able to evolve as a profession and serve more people in our communities.” “Be curious about learning more about business.” “Believe in yourself earlier, and address the fears that you have of your lack of knowledge and your inability to do things. Make your mistakes earlier.” More about Michelle Collie [caption id="attachment_9677" align="alignleft" width="150"] headshot of Michelle Collie[/caption] Michelle Collie PT, DPT, MS is the CEO of Performance Physical Therapy, a privately held practice with clinics in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Celebrating 21 years since it was founded, Performance employs over 230 people, with ongoing growth plans, including 2 new clinics opening this month. Performance PT has celebrated many accolades including being the recipient of the APTA-PPS Jane L. Snyder Practice of the Year, and 7 times, Rhode Island best places to work award. Michelle currently serves as the president of the RI chapter of the APTA and chair of the PPS PR and Marketing Committee. She was a member of the PPS Covid Advisory board and is a two- time recipient of the PPS board service award. Michelle is a board certified orthopedic clinical specialist. Suggested Keywords Well-being, Knowledge, Business, Physiotherapy, Culture, Marketing, Sales, Money, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Healthy, Wealthy, Smart, APTA, PPS, Therapy, Recommended Resources August 20th Graham Sessions: https://ppsapta.org/events/graham-sessions Marketing Resources: https://ppsapta.org/practice-management/marketing-resources.cfm To learn more, follow Michelle at: Website:          https://performanceptri.com Facebook:       Performance Physical Therapy Instagram:       @performanceptri Twitter:            @performanceptri LinkedIn:         Performance Physical Therapy RI YouTube:        Performance Physical Therapy BizPT Round Table Talk Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:               https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Full Transcript Here:  Speaker 1 (00:03): Hey, Michelle. Welcome back to the podcast. I am so happy to have you here for this month, where we are talking all about the business of physical therapy. So welcome. Speaker 2 (00:13): Thank you, Karen. It's great to be here. Speaker 1 (00:15): And I mean, you and I have talked business in the past, like I said, in your intro, you have several offices within your business and you've really grown your business into a really great place to work. And I think that that's so important. It seems like your employees are happy. You're happy, and that is not an easy thing to do these days. So kudos to you for that. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted you to come and be part of this discussion this month, because you are a physical therapist with multiple locations. You're not just a solo preneur, right? So how many people before you go on, how many people do you employ, just so that people can get an idea of, you know, the, the breadth and width of your practice. Speaker 2 (01:04): We currently have approximately 230 employees. Now we've got openings case. Anyone's looking for a job, but as I know, everyone else is looking for employees as well. This is a common problem throughout the nation at the moment, but yes, 230, but still growing. Speaker 1 (01:21): Yeah. Which is amazing. I mean, that's, so I always think about that as they're in, like you're helping 230 people grow their wealth, improve their families, keep their lives going. I mean, it's a big deal. It's a lot of responsibility. Speaker 2 (01:37): It's a great point. And I kind of guess I love that opportunity to do that because people often say to me, oh, do you miss treating patients? And I am like, well, I do. But now I feel like I get to somehow have a larger impact on a whole lot more people. And I, yes, I love to treat patients. I love the care that we provide as physical therapists, but I do love knowing that I'm helping to provide a place for an employment for lots of people to work. And I especially felt that through COVID and the way that we were actually able to keep all of our stuff on, we did have to furlough for some of our administrative staff, but then ultimately we're able to bring everyone back. And and that was something that helped me get through the pandemic actually, knowing that I was able to have a positive impact on the fiscal sanity of all, for lack of a better term for many of the people in our community. Speaker 1 (02:32): Yeah. Which is amazing. And now, you know, this month we're talking all about business, you have a growing thriving business. So how much of the business of this business knowledge did you get when you graduated as a physical therapist? How much did you learn in PT school? Well, Speaker 2 (02:48): Probably about the same amount that every PT that's graduating these days you know, and to be fully transparent and clear, I took over performance. I actually purchased from the original founder. I was a clinic director there. It was a smaller practice with 16 employees and I was very pregnant, eight months pregnant. So I thought I was invincible. And through a seller finance note and an SBA loan, I somehow ended up with this practice and a lot of debt. And the first day that I officially owned it, which was I think three weeks before I had my first son, I walked into the office manager and said to them, don't tell anyone this, but people keep talking about financial statements, but I don't really know what they're talking about. So I prided myself on being a good PC and really loved that the value of physical therapy and what it provided to our community and patients. But when it came to actual business knowledge, especially those off to do with the financial management of an organization, and even thinking about things such as marketing and human resources, I would say I was completely ignorant and didn't have one scrap of knowledge. Speaker 1 (04:04): Right. And so this is obviously a huge deal challenge for our profession, right. So what can we do should, should these topics be included in school? Speaker 2 (04:16): I mean, I, of course I'm a proponent of it for a number of reasons. And I do, and I really respect those folks had in academia and I bought them, challenged them. You know, why don't you include some more business information and the curriculum. And the response is usually I revolve around time. We don't have enough time. And the other one is, is that always students don't want to learn that they want to learn physical therapy things. However, I do think that it's Sarah, truly a responsibility for the wellbeing of our profession, that we do include some basic business information. And that's not just because some people will want to go and start a business or be part of the business. So yeah, it will help those folks. But I do think for, let's say the staff PT, if a staff PT has a little bit more understanding of, let's say what marketing is, then they suddenly are better at advocating and speaking to their patients about the value of what we do. Speaker 2 (05:17): If someone is able to understand some of the communication skills that align with marketing and even sales, then we will suddenly see word of mouth referrals go up. When someone understands financial management a little bit more, they have a better understanding of how to code, how to negotiate your salary, the meaning of different kinds of salaries and what they mean in the longterm. So I think having some basic business information seats up every individual, no matter what setting they're working in to be a better manager and better, better more knowledgeable for the career and the longterm. We hear so often PTs talking about burnout. We hear them talking about lack of reimbursement and not getting paid enough and obviously student loans. But I think with empowering our graduate San UPTs with some bitter understanding of business and how it works, it actually gives them some foundational knowledge. So they actually can do something and make a difference rather than just this overall overwhelming complaints we hear, oh, we're not paid enough. Reimbursement keeps going down. Student loans are too high. We have at least problems with their proficient, but we need to empower our next generation to have some business knowledge. So they can ultimately help do something about this crisis that we're headed into. Speaker 1 (06:44): Yeah. And, and I think even being able to make a financial statement for yourself, it doesn't have to be a business. You don't have to own a business, but you should know, well, how much money are you bringing in? What are your costs after that money comes in? What are your debts and your liabilities? And you can look at that and, and make a budget. It may help you be able to better budget yourself to be able to pay off those student loans or, you know, do the things that you want to do. I mean, I find, I found that learning all of that has just been so eyeopening for me. Speaker 2 (07:19): Yeah. I couldn't agree more. And especially these days, we, you see different compensation packages coming out, different kinds of variable salaries. Oh, you know, if you work per diem versus full time, or maybe I do wanna, you know, have a side hustle, but understanding the long-term financial implications of those decisions can be really important and again, and how you to make the decisions that are best for your career. So you can actually work in the seating and provide the kind of care that you truly want to, and being out of balance out the money side of it and in the clinical side of it. Yeah. Speaker 1 (07:55): I couldn't agree more, I think, and I, you know, I do hope that at the very least when it comes to teaching business courses, I mean, at least help therapists understand the financial aspects of a business, whether that be a hospital, a skilled nursing facility, an inpatient facility and outpatient facility. I just think understanding that will give them a better idea. Like you said, of salaries negotiations, how much are you getting paid? Whether it be per code per patient, like you said before, you started a little, a little tweak and what you code and how much you code can compound exponentially. Speaker 2 (08:35): Exactly, exactly. Very small changes in your coding changes of business. But I also think speaking to that, having a knowledge of the kinds of employers that are out there, and that's a side of businesses as well, understanding the difference between for profit nonprofit, understanding the difference about PE and corporate owned and public on versus privately owned. There is not one that is better than the other at all. There a great PTs who are in corporate practices. There's also crappy PTs and corporate practices, same thing for private practice. It's all over the place. However, if individual PTs have a basic understanding of the, those different businesses and how they're set up, it gives them a more well-rounded approach to being part of that team, no matter who they decide to work for, or at least they want to go out in the business on their own. Speaker 1 (09:30): And, and I don't know if you have the answer to this, but do you have, can you think of off the top of your head, any resources that may be practicing PTs or new graduates can utilize to help them understand? Let's say to be more financially fluent in the physical therapy world. So let's say you didn't get it in school, which odds are you probably didn't. Where do you have any resources that people can learn more? Well, Speaker 2 (09:57): The one that's out there, which we don't actually do, I don't think a good enough job of messaging and marketing and here's, I can do that right now, but obviously the private practice section or, you know, and maybe it should be called the business section because it does have all the resources there for, for business. And again, that doesn't matter if you're a pediatric or orthopedic or in a hospital or in home care, the business of PT is everywhere. And I think the private practice section has tremendous amounts of resources for that they have, for instance, a whole series called finance 1 0 1, which is multiple videos, just on finance marketing 1 0 1. So educational opportunities, webinars, all of those, there's a huge amount of resources through the private practice section, their annual conference, and many, many people who work in all kinds of different settings come to get a through that chapter of the AP TA. So I would say for anyone with any business interests, it is a very non-threatening welcoming chapter for peoples that people at all different times in their career and all different kinds of practices to come to. Speaker 1 (11:09): Yeah. Excellent. All right. Thank you for that. So now you've said it a couple of times marketing and sales, and I know you're on the marketing committee, so we are going to dive into that. So what about the belief that marketing and sales is bad? Like it's icky. It's like people should know what we do. Why do we have to go out and market ourselves and be like, quote unquote used salesman, used car salesman, not use salesman. Speaker 2 (11:38): So incredible. I tried to flip it and say that to me, marketing and sales, we should call it advocacy because what it is is actually advocating for who we are and what we do. I was speaking to a student the other day, actually. And I love speaking to students because it's really interesting to hear when and how they learn their sort of opinions and biases. And this student was telling me about their clinical affiliation and that he couldn't understand why all doctors weren't telling their patients about direct access and we have direct access, but doctors don't tell their patients. And I see this, I say to the student, I see, did you, did you, does your mother know what [inaudible] is? And he goes, no, I had to explain it. And I see it. So let's first of all, stop using this word direct access because no one understands what it is we like to use it. Speaker 2 (12:36): But first of all, we have to be able to communicate and let people know. And then I said, do you think that the average doctor healthcare professional knows that you could see us without a referral? I don't know that because we never tell them how are they supposed to know that? So I think what it is is when we're marketing is really about advocating or educating people don't know who we are and what we do Magento here's my random guests is that 40% of PTs. And I just made that number up. But I asked a lot of people, 40% of PTs got into the field of PT because they were injured as teenagers. And they learned about the field and I was one of them. And I, I would love to know what percentage of PTs out there had ACL tears, because there is every second PTI made is like, yeah, I told my ACL when I was like 15 and I fell in love with my PTs. Speaker 2 (13:28): And I realized what a difference it made to my life. And then I decided I want to be a PT. Like, why do we have to be, you know, we experienced it. That's how we found out about it. But yet we don't want to tell other people about it. We think it's icky for some reason. So I just always try and push people. People don't know what we do. We don't do a good job of explaining the value. People have biases and think, oh, you just helped someone after they've had a stroke to walk things like that. But I think it's time that we don't just say, yes, we take care of all different kinds of people. Get them back to their life and doing what they want to love. We actually have to take it a step further and say, no, no, we're actually a major solution. When it comes to the issues with MSK, MSK ailments are a huge problem in our society. And we have the ability to keep people moving so we can decrease those downstream costs, such as knee replacements, hip replacements, chronic illnesses, your diabetes, your obesity, your hypertension. So the value in Walt we can do and create is way, way more than even what we message on a day-to-day basis at this stage. And we have to do a bit, your job of it. Speaker 1 (14:40): How do we do a better job? That's the question, the million dollar question, great. Speaker 2 (14:46): How do we do a better job? You know, I've worked at PPS and we've tried to pull PR committees and PR companies to help us with it. But I think at the end of the day, what we've found most useful is is doing grassroots advocacy work, ensuring that every student comes out and understands how to describe and how to talk about and the meaning of it. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 (15:14): And, and I, like, I always tell people, if you want people to know what you do, what we do as physical therapists and you have to put yourself out there to do it. So it's not just talking to each other within the profession. We know what we do. You know, I always encourage people like you know, pitch yourself to your local newspaper, get a column, right. Like I said, this too, like in my PPS talk that was online last year. I went step-by-step and taught people how to do that. And then a couple of weeks later, I got an email from a woman who watched it and she said, I, I, I was able to get a column with my local newspaper Speaker 2 (15:59): Colson. Exactly. You put yourself out there and don't think I just have to be a PT in the clinics. I like you do a podcast. Mine's very different. My podcasts I do with different healthcare providers in our community, including PTs. And we discuss things such as how to stop running or picking your right running shoes, or what do you do if you've got back pain or how did you manage through COVID, but putting out information so that people in the community see, you see you as experts in movement and health and wellbeing and not just the clinician that your primary care doc seems to you once they don't know what to do with you because of your ongoing back pain. We're a whole lot more. Speaker 1 (16:44): Yeah. Yeah. And I think physical therapists in general, this is just my opinion, but they really need to get off the sidelines and start taking control because a lot of this, like, is it up to the AP TA to do all of this? No. You know, as an individual physical therapist, you have to put yourself out there as well. Speaker 2 (17:03): You really do. And I, I do get a little frustrated when I see people on social media bashing the, a PTA about all the things that a PTA should be doing. I think what we've seen in the year, we've seen changes in our profession such as, Hey, we're all now doctors, a PT thinking that this label would suddenly change how the public and how healthcare providers perceived us a new title, a new label, or a fancy ed doesn't change who we are. It's how we behave. So we have to behave like professionals. We have to stop being on the sidelines and actually get in and play the game. When it comes to health care, sit at the right board tables, be confident and comfortable calling out local docs, countable care organizations, insurers, and letting them know the role and the value that we provide. Speaker 1 (17:57): Yeah. Perfect. Couldn't have said it better. Excellent. Now, you know, this whole month is all about small business or not small business, but about businesses, entrepreneurship. And, you know, in speaking, before we went on the air, we were saying how important small businesses and entrepreneurship is to I think bringing back this country after hopefully as COVID starts to recede. So can you talk a little bit more about that? Speaker 2 (18:27): Yeah. I mean, you see it in every industry, that's entrepreneurship, these are where the new ideas, the crazy ideas and small businesses have the opportunity, the luxury to be savvy and make quick changes in what they do. COVID sore that, I mean, who were the first folks to suddenly provide telehealth services? It wasn't the big corporate or hospital run facilities. It was the savvy small businesses who were able to flip their operations overnight and suddenly implement telehealth. And of course that led the way for everyone else being able to follow. So I think COVID helped to prove it and show that that is the way that the world works. Entrepreneurship, small businesses seems to drive innovation. I think now in the world of physical therapy, we are seeing major challenges with reimbursement and payment. I personally, and a big fan of my moving towards value-based payment. Speaker 2 (19:24): I really despise the whole, you know, the more you do, the more you get paid, I would much rather the, we are paid to keep or get our patients healthy and have good outcomes and just find the journey to get there. But I think it's small businesses that had the opportunity to, to take on risk and try different ways, whether it's with employers or whether it's with healthcare insurance, healthcare insurance companies like go to these different organizations and pitch, then pitch different ideas. Now you're going to get turned down probably 90% of the time. That's okay. But then you're going to find little pilots and you're going to find opportunities. And even when I look around the country, now I hear from colleagues and peers who are like, oh, I'm in this kind of financial model where we're doing health screenings and we're just taking care of the lives. And someone else says, oh, we've got a subscription paced program to keep people moving. So there's different pilots going on. And it's small business that has the ability to be innovative and do those that then we can ultimately model after. So I think any way we can small support small businesses is going to be helpful for the future of their proficiency. Speaker 1 (20:39): Yeah. And I love that. You said they could be more innovative and nimble and, and that's true. That's true. Most entrepreneurs because they don't have to go through a million different boards and get approval from XYZ. They could say, well, this is what I'm seeing in the market. This is what our clients want. So let's try it. Speaker 2 (20:59): Exactly, exactly. And you can do it at a clinic level. You can do it at company level. You can do it with, oh, let's try this program at this clinic and see if it works. And yeah, you can be very savvy and very timing and get these things done quickly. It's small business might not have all the resources and may not have whether that's financial or brains like people power, but usually entrepreneurs are pretty savvy about finding solutions to some of those challenges and problems. And that's where the likes of PPS and a PTA can be really helpful because it's pretty easy to find other people with that business or entrepreneurial ship desires that can come together and help each other. Yeah, Speaker 1 (21:41): I agree. And now, you know, as we're talking about business and you have a thriving business at this point, but what were the challenges of your business and a view as an entrepreneur now, I think you mentioned one of them earlier being, having no idea what financial statements were, I'd say that's a challenge. But for people listening for who might be maybe wanting to dip their feet into the entrepreneurial pond, so to speak, what are some challenges that came up for you and what did you do to overcome them? Speaker 2 (22:21): As you said, that I started writing out a list of challenges because I've made a lot of mistakes. I've had many challenges. I heard an interesting quote. I read an interesting quote today, actually. If I could have my time again, what would I make? All the mistakes, same mistakes. Yeah, I would, I would've just done them a lot sooner. So I could've got the mistakes out of the way earlier, but I think some of the challenges, a lot of the challenges were with delegation and leading things go, it's very hard to step away from patient care when that's something that you're very comfortable with and you think you're good at so managing time and I hear that coming up a lot with business owners, how much, you know, should I treat patients or not, not, there's no right answer there. You know, it depends what makes you happy. Speaker 2 (23:06): And it depends what you enjoy doing. So delegation was a big pot. Someone else told me the other day, I liked this quote as well. You know, you're delegating enough. If you want to have a growing business that if three times a day, you cringe now you cringe because you had given something, a project or a task or something to do at work to someone else so that they have the opportunity to grow and evolve. But you cringe because you look at them doing it and thinking, oh, I could do it a little bit faster. I could do it a little bit better, or I might do it a different way, but that's okay. And you have to get to that stage of going like, you know, you could call it 80 20 rule, but that rule of going like it's, it's actually a gift to be out on power and allow other people to grow and evolve. Speaker 2 (23:53): So learning how to manage that can be had the culture things interesting. When you've got a very small practice, the culture just happens automatically and you have this amazing culture as a practice grows and evolves. You have to become much more disciplined and diligent about how to actually execute on maintaining and having a great culture. So something you have to be aware of putting the systems in place as you grow and evolve, the more systems you have in the place in place, the smoother things can run. And it creates actually a structure, a structure that actually allows innovation and allows people to be creative, but they've got the walls and the guidelines of how to do that in a safe way. So I don't know, those are the key things that came to mind for me. You know, it really comes back to managing your time, how you delegate, how you let go of things. Speaker 2 (24:47): You got to keep becoming more and more humble that every year I realized how much I don't know. And it just seems to be almost, it's like my list of things I don't know, actually is increasing. So I'm not sure if I'm just getting older and losing my memory, or if I'm just becoming more aware of how clueless I am, but I guess I'm comfortable owning that at the stage. So I think, and being comfortable with who you are and your own skin, you definitely have to work on yourself a lot, take care of yourself a lot and and be very mindful of what you need as a person, if you want to be a leader in an organization. Speaker 1 (25:20): And what is your advice to maintain culture as your company grows? Because that's like you said, I'm really glad you brought that up because people join your company because of the culture. And if you grow and you let it go, or something happens, then people are going to leave. So how did, how did you do that? How did, what is your company culture and how did you maintain it? Speaker 2 (25:44): I liked the question. What is your company culture? Because I mean, I think of our culture is a very much like work hard, play hard, definitely a lot of fundraising up a lot of philanthropy, a lot of giving back to the community. Now, maybe what would happen 15 years ago, it would have been like, Hey, let's all dress down this month for this great organization and get together and do a 5k for them. And they will go out to her via what's. The net would stay the same for a great culture and getting to know people as individuals now, as with a larger organization, we have to be much more diligent about or more mindful about hearing from all of our people who should we dress down for and choose carefully based on the feedback and then communicated appropriately, have some PR involved the social media, making sure everything's much more streamlined. Speaker 2 (26:38): So all of the good happens, but it just takes a lot more work. It just doesn't happen quite so easily. So you just have to put the work into it determining what kind of feel you want it, social events, what kind of behavior expect again, you know, speaking your late leadership, how you act at a holiday party or at a social event is going to have a big impact on what your organization is like. And if you want to dress up like a pirate and dance around, which is what I do then yeah. You're going to create a different kind of culture to someone who's going to come across in a different way. So you just gotta be really mindful that as you grow, people are watching you and how you behave and that's going to drive it a lot of the culture. Speaker 1 (27:20): Yeah. I think that's thanks for elaborating on that because I feel like that's a piece of the entrepreneurial pie that often doesn't get addressed. Speaker 2 (27:30): I agree. I think especially if you have a smaller company as that grows, you think you can, it's easy to forget about culture because it almost seems fun and that is fun. And it almost seems like, is it silly that we're talking about what events or what we're going to do to build culture, what team building things, but it's really, really important because your people are everything. And if we're, I always just say to my stuff, sometimes people say to me, what do you actually do? And I'm like, really my job is to keep you all happy. That's really all it comes down to because when you're happy, you'll give good care. If you're miserable, the care you give sucks. If you're happy, you give good care. And if you happy you'll stay. So my job is to keep everyone here simply saying Speaker 1 (28:16): You're the C H O chief happiness officer officer. Exactly. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, that's a great title. Actually. You should put that on your cards. Bring that up to PPS. Ask how, asked how many businesses in PPS have a chief happiness officer. Yeah. And see, see what we can see what shakes out on that one. But yeah, I, thanks for elaborating on that. I just really wanted the listeners to understand that your business is more than dollars and cents Speaker 2 (28:48): Completely, completely. And if it was just business dollars and saints, it would be kind of boring. I do think it's wonderful. Seeing the PTs, who own practices, they do it with no matter what the size you do. It, we all love people and making people happy and better. And whether you're their employer or their physical therapist, it's not that much different. Speaker 1 (29:09): Right. Absolutely. And now before we wrap things up, what are the key takeaways you want the listeners to come away with with R D from our discussion today? Speaker 2 (29:19): I would say that get comfortable with the word money. I know I'm going to go straight to business. It's not a bad word. It's not a bad word. And as PTs, we don't like talking about it. Oh, I don't want to talk about my salary or I don't want to do this, or I think I should get paid more, but I don't really want to understand it. Like, it's just, just think of money is just one of the things that helps us actually actually be able to evolve as a profession and serve more people in our communities. I don't know if that came across very professionally or not, but I do think people should be comfortable with it. Be proud of what you do. And when someone at the local bub you're a barbecue, or when you're grilling with friends, complaints to you about your back, their back pain, help them and tell them what you do and make sure they get the care they need. And don't sit back and, and let them have to try to figure it out on their own. And and just be curious about learning more about business. It's not scary and it will help. The more you understand, you'll have more control over the decisions you make. And I actually think you become a better clinician because you're more mindful of the value of the services that you're providing. Speaker 1 (30:32): Excellent. And where can people find you if they want to get in touch? Do they have questions? They want to learn more about your business? Speaker 2 (30:39): Pretty easy to find live up in little road, mighty Rhode Island. We like to call it. So email's the easiest way. You've I, and through my practice, performance PT, R i.com. You'll find me on Facebook and on Twitter as well. I'm not as savvy on social media, some of you, but I love getting emails from people and helping other PT students, practice owners, different kinds of business owners out there. Speaker 1 (31:06): Great. And we'll have the link to your website at our website at podcast at healthy, wealthy, smart.com in the show notes for this show. So people can one click and get straight to your website to see what your business is all about. And if they have any questions, like Michelle said, highly encourage you reaching out to her and emailing her to ask questions. That's what we are here for. And Michelle before. Last question is knowing where you are now in your life and career. What advice would you give yourself as a new grad? Speaker 2 (31:39): Well, that's a good question. What advice would I give myself as a new grad who as a new grad, I would just as a new grad, I would say, believe in yourself earlier and address the fears that you have of your lack of knowledge and your inability to do things. So, yeah. Maybe make your mistakes earlier. Michelle is what I want to say. Speaker 1 (32:06): Excellent advice. Well, thank you so much for coming on for our month of business. And of course, we'll see you in a couple of weeks at our business round table, which will be on the 27th of July. Think at 8:00 PM Eastern standard time where it will be you and Eric and mellow and Josh funk and Shantay Cofield AKA the movement. Maestro people probably know her better with her Twitter, with her Instagram handle than her actual name. But I'm really looking forward to that. I think we'll a really robust conversation because we've got just like PPS, we've got those four different personas, totally nailed down. We've got your solo preneur, we've got your more traditional PT practice, which is Michelle's. We've got a newer grad with an, a growing practice in Josh and we've got a non traditional PT. So working as a physical therapist, but not with patients in Shantay. So and that was total coincidence. I didn't even know that when I plan this out. Perfect. So I'm really looking forward to it. Speaker 2 (33:15): So, and I just think it's really cool when you get these different kinds of business owners who are PTs and all different kinds of businesses. It's awesome. Yeah. Speaker 1 (33:24): Yeah. We'll have a nice, a nice step meeting of the minds. So everybody definitely sign up for that. And the link for that is also in the show notes for our round table. So Michelle, thank you so much for coming on and I hope to see you hope to see you soon. I hope to see you too. Speaker 2 (33:41): Karen. Thank you so much. Of Speaker 1 (33:43): Course. And everyone, thanks for listening. Have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.  

Rae returns to discuss two landmark albums with Jared and KP. Fishman's final performance, their 1998 live album, and Tyler, The Creator's new record Call Me If You Get Lost! Completely different records but the guys found a lot to discuss in both.

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Today's episode is being brought to you by Ritual Shelter… A Magickal Place To Shop & Hold Space located in heart of Homewood, AL or online at ritualshelter.com. As this podcast goes to air, we are opening up to a full moon in Capricorn next week. This energy can help you with your focus and motivation. It can help you keep a little bit more self discipline. It's a great time to set some new routines, structure or even boundaries. It is also a time to go within and understand your core essence. The full moon can shine light on you for this.   Now is the time to live your purpose.. your passion.. to know what that is for you.. and begin that new story for your life!    All of these cosmic forces and energy alignments I talk about on my Energy Focus for the Week, which you can find live on Sunday nights on Instagram and Facebook. Join me. Schedule a Spiritual Upgrade Breakthrough call with me and let's talk about how my programs can help you. Click here. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Empowered Spirit Tarot! We have made the initial goal and will be printing! The deck will officially be out by late summer! Much gratitude to everyone!   In today's episode, I speak with Holistic Sha'Medium Tonya Dee about a near death experience that happened to her at the age of 7 and how it shaped her life and the work she does today. We talk about energy, light, beings, other dimensions, chromatherapy, shamanism and loving the Being that you are.   Before there was any online intuition or guidelines, she was on her own Highway – an Inter-Netted – Subtle Body, Spirit Space, commonly known as the “Etheric Highway” where she does most of her Energetic work. She has a plethora of stories – but none of them include a smooth ride into the World of Spirit. She never had High Corporate Ideals or College aspirations. She was on a COMPLETELY different Pathway… An Energy Highway. She Sensed, Saw, Heard, and Felt most of the Outer World influencing the Inner World of Being. Now, who would you tell that story to? When she finally got the “it's,” the trivial pursuit of the traditional world Highway was on a Curve – it was time to get “Out of my Toe and Into my Skin.” Messages from other Planes and Dimensions lead her to the place she is at now.  Website: club.tonyadee.tv https://www.youtube.com/c/TonyaDee, IG:@thetonyadee, FB: What's Up Tonya Dee?, TikTok: thetonyadee Podcast Series: Musing with Tonya Dee   At the age of 7, Tonya was run over by her neighbor not once, but twice.  She had a near death experience (NDE) which helped shape her life as it is today. It opened the door to the Spirit World.   Modernized Shaman from the Ancient World, Malidoma Patrice (teacher), helped her to learn and discover her path.  The Cowry Shell Divination  - A powerful and Ancient Shamanistic Divination. It provides a timeless view of the energy you currently carry and offers a clear pathway for you to achieve your Dreams and Aspirations.   As Tonya says, a lot of what happens to us is actually for us. It's those mixed up, messed up steps that happen for a reason that got her to be on her “Pathway.”  She works to holistically shift the perspective of human thought, incorporating “Prescriptions” that are of the Other Worldly kind. She assists people in "Climbing Into their Skin," to Live their Life with Purpose.   Be sure to check out Tonya's work.   Reach out to me to schedule an energy session to help you live and be the Spirit for who you really are. Check out my website or Instagram bio for all my upcoming Summer programs. Thanks again for listening. To your Spirit, Terri PS… Schedule your Spiritual Upgrade Breakthrough call with me and let's talk about how my Empowered Spirit programs can help you. Click here.   Join Terri's Facebook Group  Follow Terri on Instagram Find her on LinkedIn     Episode Credits: Sound Engineer: Laarni Andres https://www.linkedin.com/in/laarniandres/ https://www.facebook.com/laarni.andres.7

Hey Broomheads, #DEEEMP is back with THE YEARBOOK! Big spoiler alert, though, the famous Hollywood actor Tim Robbins stops by the show and COMPLETELY spoils the movie Mystic River full bore, so skip his appearance if you don't want a twenty year-old movie spoiled.   No time stamps for the Yearbook episode, but we spend the first 15 minutes talking about classic rock, so skip ahead to 16:15 to get into the episode.   Patreon: DEEEMP Email: everyepisodever@gmail.com Instagram: @sparklespazz28 Facebook: DEEEM Podcast Facebook group: Dope Monkeys and Broomheads

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Richard Sherman was arrested this morning in Redmond on suspicion of burglary domestic violence which followed a hit-and-run incident on 520 at around 1am. If you aren't up to speed on the story, we've got all of the details as we know them so far. Completely switching gears, were you bothered by the uniforms in last night's All Star Game? The NHL has announced the draft order for next week's Entry Draft, though things could change again with possible trades. Lastly, we hear from Redmond Police and the Washington State Patrol with more details on the Richard Sherman incident form early this morning.

Intro Background (1:40) Rogue created by Chris Claremont and Michael Golden in Avengers Annual #10 (August 1981) Born Anna Marie in Mississippi, her parents disappeared when she was young, and she was raised by her strict aunt - she rebelled as a teen, earning the nickname Rogue After kissing a boy named Cody, her latent mutant abilities manifested, sending Cody into a coma - she discovered any skin-to-skin contact with a person would cause her to absorb their life force, and in some cases their memories - she covered herself up to avoid touching anyone ever again Mystique found Rogue and began mentoring her, eventually bringing her into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - she was sent to attack Carol Danvers - during the fight, prolonged contact caused Rogue to permanently absorb Carol's powers, and gave Carol amnesia - the Danvers identity would remain with Rogue for many years, eventually causing Rogue to seek out Professor Xavier for assistance She eventually joined the X-Men, slowly earning their trust and becoming a valuable teammate, even as Danvers continued to control her in periods of stress or unconsciousness - after losing her powers in a battle with Master Mold, she discovered the Danvers identity was also gone As her powers returned, she also began an on-again/off-again relationship with Gambit, but her lack of physical intimacy and his dishonesty caused friction for a long time - after a battle with Destiny robbed them both of their powers, they left the X-Men and moved in together to explore their relationship After another battle with Mystique where her foster mother tried to kill her, she absorbed Mystique's powers and left her for dead - went to the Australian outback to figure out how to control her powers - with the help of Xavier, she was able to control her absorption for the first time in her life Eventually started a relationship with Magneto, although it was largely long-distance, as they both had other commitments Originally stayed neutral during AvX, but joined the staff at the Xavier Institute after a fight broke out on campus and She-Hulk inadvertently injured some children Turned down a marriage proposal from Magneto, and ended their relationship Joined the Avengers Unity Division as a mutant representative, eventually becoming field leader Restarted her relationship with Gambit, and after Kitty Pryde broke off her engagement to Colossus at the altar, Gambit proposed to Rogue on the spot, and they were married instead - got transported to the Mojoverse for their honeymoon, since Mojo wanted a famous couple for his new show Issues (6:15) Authoritarian upbringing caused her to rebel Inability to touch anyone caused problems in her relationships, both romantic and platonic (18:26) Broken relationship with Mystique, where they alternate between trying to kill each other and trying to work together (27:06) Break (34:36) Plugs for BetterHelp, Grief Burrito, and Chris Claremont Treatment (36:11) In-universe - Use other mutants to help transmute the energy flow as a result of contact and help her move past that Out of universe - (40:06) Skit (49:22) Hello Rogue, I'm Dr. Issues. - Hey there, sugah. So, what can I do for you? -I don't know, what can you do? *sarcasm* Hardee har har. I have the ability to listen to what you have to say, synthesize that dialogue in a way that may have some benefit to you and your relationships, while monitoring for any signs of a formal diagnosis that needs more focused treatment. -Shoot, I thought you were gonna get all flustered like most guys do when someone like me talks coy with them. I got over that a long time ago. -Must be nice Meh. -*pause* Well, I guess that's my way of saying I'm stuck. I either push people away too quickly, or I dive in and get myself into stuff I can't just walk out of. Why not? -That's a really easy one. Do you know about my powers? I do my homework, sure. -Well, imagine if your first chance at a physical connection, you destroy their life...I mean, REALLY destroy it. You don't get over that. There's no amount of talking that can fix that. *pause* I'm terribly sorry. From the tone in your voice I can tell it wasn't intentional. -But it doesn't stop there. I was led to do some horrible things to people and I didn't know the consequences. That's the type of thing that some people can't ever live with themselves over. Do you get what I'm saying? Hmm...has it ever gotten to that point for you, where life wasn't worth it anymore? -No! Well, not like that, but to disappear, to not hurt anybody, that's the type of thing I wish for sometimes.  This next question is meant to get to something deep here, so please don't think I'm trying to lead you...why haven't you disappeared? -That's like trying to hide the Juggernaut in a kiddie pool. That dog won't hunt. Besides, every time I did walk away, my past came back to bite me. So I gave up on tryna run. So anonymity doesn't work, but your powers are a huge factor in any basic intimacy...wow, I have to say, I'm impressed you've continued to persevere as well as you have. -Thank you...not many people see it that way besides you. I'm glad to hear that there's more than just me. -Are you always trying to see the glass half full? I try to see the glass with whatever amount is inside, the contents, the condition of the glass, the -I get the point. No stone unturned. Does that mean you want to know who sees the good in me? -Of course! -Let's start with Remy number one. That man...there's something about that man, it's hard to describe. He just...lights me up inside.  Aww, that's sweet! -Hold on, ah don't want it to sound all peaches and cream. Ah mean, when it's good, it's finer than frog hair. But he's got a real stubborn streak. When he doesn't get his way, he doubles down on how he feels. Shucks, I think sometimes he argues with me just to watch me burn up! Maybe; I don't want to speculate on him since I don't' know him as well as you do. But you're the one who says he makes you feel that way. That type of bond doesn't happen overnight. -Damn right it doesn't! How many people get told they have to wait for the right time, and that time might be never? Well, he was there for all of it. Even when I went my own way, he came right back to me no matter what.  As with most relationships, that sounds like a two-way street. However you got to the point that you are on a similar wavelength, I'm genuinely happy for you. To be honest, if you're doing okay with that aspect of things, maybe there's another part of your life that is challenging you. -Everything.  I see that's your style of response, but can we please drill down a bit? -Can we not and say we did? Rogue, I'm really not a hardass. You don't have to be scared of a psychiatrist. -*laughs* Oh sugah, I'm not scared of you. I'm scared of what I'll say to you. You probably lock up half the people you see just for speaking their mind. I only look out for the safety of my patients and the rest of society. Having emotions is not a risk. It's what you do with those emotions that counts. As long as you are not a danger to yourself or others, this is completely confidential. And if it's in the past, then I would never put you through “double jeopardy.” -So if I told you that my second mama wanted to kill me after I had made up with the women she had me nearly kill and take her life, you're not gonna arrest me? *dramatic gulp* Well, I didn't quite expect that, but...no. My main concern is how that -*sarcasm* How did it make me feel? HOW DO YOU THINK?  A lot of people have that reaction...which is why I was going to ask HOW DID THAT AFFECT THE PEOPLE INVOLVED. -*pause* Son of a gun, nobody really asks that. I suppose Carol was really pissed off...wait...I KNOW she was pissed off ***that bitch tried to control me! Do you know what it's like to have your own head telling you all sorts of history that you shouldn't know or even came close to giving a shit about?*** and Mystique was mean, but she always said it was because she cared. I think that's true, she really cared about me in her own sorta way. She should really talk to you, if you'll have her. I'm always an open mind and ear for anyone within reason -The “reason” part might be a problem.  So what's your goal with those relationships? -I'm not a goals kinda gal.Where the wind blows, I'll be there, good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise. Unless I don't wanna go, that is. Aaaaaand hence the name. There's nothing wrong with riding the tide and going where nature follows, and there's nothing inherently wrong with bucking a trend, either. But the balance of those two can get out of whack. It's obvious to me that you have the ability to go wherever you please, but so many times, you've been the center of attention for others because of your talent. Why not take the impulsive energy and combine it with a modest bit of forethought and live the more comfortable, less stressful life that you deserve? - Believe it or not, Doc, I actually did have some good come out of all of that we were just talking about. Carol doesn't hate me...not anymore. And when things are good with Mystique, we work well together. I'm not as dumb as you think I am just because my nature is to fight with whatever everybody says. *insulted* I NEVER thought that -Ah, there's the flustered part that I always look for when I meet someone new. *pause* Touche. Now that you've made it clear you can create any social outcome you want, how much are you willing to focus on making them enjoyable for everyone involved?. -One thing at a time Shug, one thing at a time. We good here? -That we are. - Thanks for the chat, then. See ya ‘round. And if you ever do talk to mah mama, tell her I said hi. Well, maybe see how she reacts before bringin' me up… could be a bad time for you... Ending (57:08) Recommended reading: Mr. & Mrs. X, Uncanny Avengers Next episodes: Dr. Doom, Jocasta, 5 from Umbrella Academy Review read - Justalittlepodcast - I just started listening, but I am hooked. Completely blown away. Such a great podcast that portrays mental health in a revolutionary way. The exploration and deep dive in comic book characters is fantastic. The conversations between these to gentlemen is refreshing, honest, and genuine.  Keep up the great work! Also I really enjoy the skits. 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Look, no body wants to be that person...the one that causes the wreck INSIDE the car wash, but I was almost that person the other day. Completely unintentional of course. In today's show I explain what happened, I talk to the newly crowned Miss Kansas, I call out Kane Brown and more. Thanks for listening.,

This is our podcast episode Being My True Authentic Self. During this global health pandemic, it's truly challenged us as human beings to see within ourselves what we're capable of and how we are able to navigate through all the current events impacting our communities. The life as we knew it before the pandemic hit the United States has COMPLETELY changed! I hear some people say during these extraordinary times, there is an awakening of minds in a lot of us. It's no longer the same old routine. People are making changes for the better or some may want to remain the same. As the saying goes, Change is good. There are some people who are coming into their own; creating a space to be heard and to be their true authentic selves while maintaining their mental health. Our guest today is the Founder of the Austin Trauma Therapy Center in Austin, TX. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; a Clinical Therapist and a Trauma-informed Yoga teacher, working with incarcerated individuals/juveniles and grassroots organizations around the criminal justice system. We'll find out what she's up to in helping others cope and adapt to the daily stresses of life. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Ms. Diana Anzaldua.Austin Trauma Therapy Centerhttps://atxtraumatherapycenter.com/therapist-austin/about-me-2/ Music for PodcastGroove Grove by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-groveLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Original Broadcast: (08/03/2020)

This is our podcast episode Being My True Authentic Self. During this global health pandemic, it's truly challenged us as human beings to see within ourselves what we're capable of and how we are able to navigate through all the current events impacting our communities. The life as we knew it before the pandemic hit the United States has COMPLETELY changed! I hear some people say during these extraordinary times, there is an awakening of minds in a lot of us. It's no longer the same old routine. People are making changes for the better or some may want to remain the same. As the saying goes, Change is good. There are some people who are coming into their own; creating a space to be heard and to be their true authentic selves while maintaining their mental health. Our guest today is the Founder of the Austin Trauma Therapy Center in Austin, TX. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; a Clinical Therapist and a Trauma-informed Yoga teacher, working with incarcerated individuals/juveniles and grassroots organizations around the criminal justice system. We'll find out what she's up to in helping others cope and adapt to the daily stresses of life. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Ms. Diana Anzaldua.Austin Trauma Therapy Centerhttps://atxtraumatherapycenter.com/therapist-austin/about-me-2/ Music for PodcastGroove Grove by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-groveLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Original Broadcast: (08/03/2020)

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Today on the podcast Mason chats with naturopath, nutritionist, medical herbalist, and best-selling author Helen Padarin about kid's immunity, nutrition, Liver and Gallbladder flushing, and the seriously empowering works she does with kids, families, and remote indigenous communities. A big running theme in all of Helen's work as a practitioner is empowerment. Whether it be through supporting indigenous communities to continue their traditional ways of eating or her courses that focus on remedies, and hands-on tools to keep parents and children healthy; Helen is giving people the right building blocks and bridging the gap between disempowered and empowered health. Her passion is teaching people to come back to themselves, trust their intuition, and get back to centre so they can thrive in health. With 20 years' experience as a practitioner, Helen brings so much wisdom and experience to this conversation. Helen and Mason hone in on kid's immunity, nutrition, gut health, and why not suppressing fever in children is an empowering act that builds resilience and teaches us to trust our immune system. Helen takes us through the courses she runs and the full function/protocol of Liver and Gallbladder flushing; Why we do it, the basic preparation, and how it improves thyroid function. Tune in for health sovereignty and empowerment. . "I'm passionate about getting kids thriving, and through tools and inspiration, I take the weight out of health and healing and replace it with joy. My work is always in a way that is going to elicit an experience that's felt, that will then provide inspiration and curiosity to continue".      Mason and Helen discuss: Seasonal eating. Vitamin D and Zinc deficiency. Liver and Gallbladder Flushing. The Thyroid Gallbladder connection. Kid's immunity and nutrition. Fever and neural development. Looking at fever as a valuable process. Fevers in children; How to handle them. Carnivore and Paleo eating; How they can support the body. How current reference ranges of blood test results are limited. Foraging, hunting and gathering in indigenous communities. Supporting indigenous communities and their traditional ways of eating.  How non-indigenous Australian's can learn so much about connection and belonging from the ancient wisdom of indigenous people.   Who is Helen Padarin? Naturopath, nutritionist, medical herbalist, and author Helen Padarin has been in clinical practice since 2001. She works from one of Sydney's most highly regarded integrated medical centres alongside GP's, a pediatrician, and other practitioners. Helen is passionate about conscious living, real food, vital health, and empowering individuals, families, and organisations to find the joy in being well. Helen gains constant inspiration from seeing clients make conscious changes to their physical health and finding that it benefits their emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing as well. She loves working with other health professionals, community groups, thought leaders, and game-changers to provide truly holistic approaches to health, and creating supportive communities. Through her work Helen aims to promote awareness, and provide education about the treatment options available for immune disorders, digestive disorders, and neurological disorders. Her mission is to educate and promote awareness about a truly nourishing diet and lifestyle for everyone.  Helen was called on to write a chapter on pediatrics and ASD for a peer-reviewed clinical textbook published by Elsevier in 2011, has co-authored the book 'BubbaYumYum' with Charlotte Carr and Pete Evans, co-authored the 'The Complete Gut Health Cookbook' with Chef Pete Evans and has written several articles for health magazines. Since 2011 Helen has been a regular presenter and ambassador for the Mindd Foundation and has presented for Health Masters Live and ACNEM, providing post-graduate education for GP's, naturopaths, nutritionists, and other health care professionals. While living in NZ for over 4 years, Helen also lectured anatomy and physiology for the NZ College of Massage at the NZ Institute of Sport. Helen holds a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences (Naturopathy), advanced diplomas in nutrition, herbal medicine, massage, and has completed extensive post-graduate training in treatment for metabolic, neurologic, digestive, and immune disorders.   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Poop chart  Together Retreat Helen's Facebook Helenpadarin.com Bubba Yum Yum book The Complete Gut Health Cook Book     Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:01) Hey, Helen. Thanks for joining me.   Helen Padarin: (00:03) Hey Mason. Great to be here at long last. Hey, we've made it.   Mason: (00:06) Well, I'm glad you made it. I don't know how many years of hearing your name around the traps, the health community from grassroots days to just around Instagram and seeing your trips that you... I don't know if you are still running the trips out to, was it Arnhem Land?   Helen Padarin: (00:24) In Arnhem Land. Not since COVID that's for sure. So I'm hoping to get up there in July, just personally, but not work-related at this point, but that's been a very rich experience.   Mason: (00:39) What were you doing up there exactly?   Helen Padarin: (00:42) So I was partnering up with an organisation up in Elcho Island, started by Kama Mico, was Kama Trudgen, now Kama Mico. And she started this organisation with a Yolngu woman. So Yolngu are the indigenous people of that part of Northeast Arnhem Land, Elcho Island. And basically looking at supporting them to bring in more of their traditional ways of eating again, which essentially in that part of the world is very much what we would call paleo. And because they've got a really low lifespan there. Forties is generally where a lot of them are passing away, unfortunately, and it's just really due to a lack of education and resources and understanding. And likewise, us [inaudible 00:01:40], us non-indigenous have a hell of a lot to learn from them as well. So it was about learning from each other in this world where we're so disconnected from each other and ourselves and nature and ancient wisdoms and things like that, that really give us a sense of belonging and anchoring and place in the world and actually really simplify a lot of things as well.   Helen Padarin: (02:02) And so, as a result, a lot of us in this Western culture are feeling separated and isolated and stressed and alone, and the sense of not belonging and it's creating all sorts of depression, anxiety, and chronic illness. So we have a lot to learn from each other. So we had set up a world first really bringing indigenous and non-indigenous together for a two week retreat to learn from each other. And it was amazing.   Mason: (02:36) Far out.   Helen Padarin: (02:36) So I would love to do more of that work when the time and space and opportunity allows, but really beautiful work   Mason: (02:47) I love talking about diet and lifestyle. I really love watching, I'm always tuning into your stories, especially because I'm fascinated by practitioners who know how to hold that space really tightly, but there's an invisible bridging from the clinic over into the culture that we've got within our families and within our lifestyle. And you really, you've got a strong flame in your own personal culture. You're cooking out, you're talking a lot about your sourcing and I really like it because it's like it's a real authentic path that you have. And I don't see that a lot in practitioners. I see a lot of practitioners are in a colonised clinical mindset, which is awesome. And we need that. Just not that bridging.   Mason: (03:40) So since you're in that space, creating a diet no longer is about rules and following any crap like one thing. So you, I'm interested. So the way I see diets forming is you hold we're pillars of what we value. And for you, there's this again, for lack of a better word, there's a paleo esque energy around the way that you go and that you're getting a lot of the macro nutrients so on and so forth taking advantage of these whether it's like, I think your pork ribs yesterday?   Helen Padarin: (04:12) Pork belly.   Mason: (04:14) Pork belly. What's that farm again, that you-   Helen Padarin: (04:17) Gregory Downs Organics. So they're a regenerative farm in Young, which is about four and a half hours south west of Sydney. Amazing meat.   Mason: (04:26) I'm going to have to get onto that. I think that deliver. I think they send it-   Helen Padarin: (04:29) They're trying to get further afield. They do make drops in Sydney and Wollongong, and I think as far north as Newcastle, but they're yet to get up to Northern-   Mason: (04:40) [crosstalk 00:04:40] I can't complain, but so it's like there's that element of sourcing local, emulating the basic philosophy of based on the evidence of how we've eaten for thousands of thousands of years, but it's very much as you can as you know it's like okay, cool. We've got animals and a lot of vegetables that aren't endemic. Is that the right word? Anyway, that aren't native to where we are, but it's necessary. We do the best we can. Not many people go and then hold like, all right, now what about all the... I'm just curious what wisdom about, what pearls of wisdom when you go on that retreat, whether it be the food, the foraging, the insights around how you do have a family culture, what is there in that pillar that's marrying up with all these other pillars and values that you have?   Helen Padarin: (05:36) Well, everything in that culture is about relationships first and foremost. And the perspective and vision and way of seeing the world is utterly different. It's like being in another world literally then what we see it. So it can take quite a bit of adjustment to get your head around and how you relate to other people is based on your relationship with them or the relationship with animals or plants or a location or an element. It is literally all about relationships. So there's so much richness and beauty in that. And I see it taking life from being relatively 2D and black and white to being this Technicolour bazaar of richness. There's just so much more nuance in there and detail in there, which is really beautiful. And then it was really interesting from a food front because yes, I use paleo. I don't even really like labelling anything because I certainly don't agree with saying I am paleo because I am not paleo. I am a human. I'm Helen. And there are ways in which I eat that support my physiology best from my own experience. And so when I came across paleo, I was essentially already eating that way by way of experimentation since my teens of what works for me. Because I grew up feeling crap basically. Lots of immune stuff going on, depression, polycystic ovaries, just recurrent infections, pneumonia, shingles, you name it, asthma, eczema been there.   Mason: (07:24) The whole shebang.   Helen Padarin: (07:30) Yes. So I don't know what it was that drew me on this journey really. I know there were a few turning points, but for whatever reason, there was something innate in me that made me look for things that made me feel less crap. I wasn't even really looking to feel well because I didn't actually know that I didn't feel well because that was my normal. So I was just trying to avoid the things that obviously made me feel worse. And as years went on and that was refined. And then I started studying nutrition and naturopathy and it kept further being refined. And then I started seeing patients. And then for a lot of the first decade of my practise, I was really focusing a lot on working with children on the autism spectrum. And they like me, typically have a lot of digestive issues.   Helen Padarin: (08:23) And so going on this journey to heal my own digestion and working towards healing theirs, and it was like this amalgamation of nourishing traditions and gut and psychology syndrome and the body ecology diet and bringing all these things together. And when you overlay those elements, a lot of essentially what it came down to was paleo without knowing it. And then when I found out about paleo, I was like, "Huh, that's like what I'm doing." So it wasn't like a thing to latch on. And I encourage this for everybody is working towards what works best for you. And we go through different seasons in our life. And at different times we might need to eat in different ways to support ourselves through that phase as well.   Helen Padarin: (09:10) But what I found really interesting. So even when I'm eating paleo, my perception or my approach was always really highly plant-based. So it was still like 80% of my plate was veggies. And then there hasn't been meat and plenty of good fats, love fats. And then I started hearing about carnivore diet and [crosstalk 00:09:38] this ties into what I'm about to talk about up north. So I am getting somewhere with this.   Mason: (09:43) I completely trust you. I sometimes don't. I try, I'll admit, trust my guests and I'm like, "I'm going to remember that we've got a stake in the ground over there," but for you, I'm like, "I know you know what you're doing."   Helen Padarin: (09:56) Awesome. So when I first heard about carnivore, gosh, it must've been, I don't know, five, six years ago, something like that. And I was like, "You've got to be kidding me, right? That's a bit of a stretch." It was so far from my perception and my understanding at that point in time that I really couldn't reconcile with it at first. But then the more I started reading about it and the more I started researching and the more I was looking at a bit of the anthropological side of things and our history with hunting and gathering and the more I was looking at research and the more I'm working with restoring gut microbiomes and all this stuff. And I started meeting some people who were on that path and it was a massive turning point in them really upleveling or really nurturing and nourishing their health to a point that they hadn't yet been able to achieve prior.   Helen Padarin: (10:58) So I was starting to think, "Okay there's something in this." And then I started working with a few patients myself and experimenting just myself, but only in short little stints that actually felt really good on it. And patients who were bringing it in as well were typically really benefiting from it as well. And I typically maybe there might be rare cases, but I don't necessarily think it's a forever thing, but it's certainly a very helpful tool at times. But then what I learned when I was going up north was going hunting and gathering. It's really bloody hard to find plant foods, really hard. It takes out a lot of energy and a lot of effort for very small yield and that yield doesn't cover the expenditure of energy that it took to get it either.   Helen Padarin: (11:57) There's some amazing phytonutrients in there that have other really valuable physiological effects. But in terms of energy balance, it didn't add up at all. And yet to go and get a turtle or a goanna or whatever was actually relatively easy. And then you had something really filling and nourishing to share with the community. So that really started to shift as well my understanding. Because I've known over the years it's really important to prepare plants properly because they don't have teeth or claws. So their defence mechanisms are compounds within them that put animals off eating them because it might make them sick or die. And so we need to prepare those foods properly.   Mason: (12:47) Can I just say, just watch your hand. I think it just hits every now and then that mic.   Helen Padarin: (12:51) The microphone.   Mason: (12:52) I think it was just your hand brushing over it, but yeah. Sorry, go for it.   Helen Padarin: (12:58) No worries. So where was I? We really need to be able to prepare those plant foods properly so that we can digest them and utilise the nutrients in them adequately, which in our society of busy-ness, convenience, get things done quickly, that just doesn't tend to happen. So to have a healthy plant-based diet really takes a lot of conscientious effort. So time up there really helped me to consolidate that and really helped with my broadening my perspective. And again, it depends on what climate you're in, what season of life you're in, what your demands are at the time. All of those things come into play as well, but there really is time and place for all sorts of different ways of eating, including being vegan.   Mason: (13:54) I love this conversation so much. And I feel, if you're happy because I like what you're talking about there, it's just, it's bursted a bubble of perception that you had. And then from the way that you're talking about it, I'm going to keep to myself really questioned based I'm really just curious. And I'm in a real gooey thinking about this. You talked about seasonality being a factor. And for me more and more, as soon as you brought that up, it took me straight out of the black and white way of things. I still, if people say carnivore and straightaway in my mind, I'm like, "If you start it, there's going to be an intention to do that as long as possible, see how long that's going to be beneficial for you." And it's a real 2D way of approaching diet, which is fine, especially if you're in a clinic and especially if you're using veganism or carnivore as a healing tool. And you're very aware of other variables that may be doing gut microbiome testing, whatever it is.   Mason: (14:59) As soon as you mentioned seasonality, you've put colour and more of a 5D 6D way of thinking about how diets are going to slot in. And I started just thinking of gorging. It's of course like the same three square, although there's say and sorry for rambling here and sorry for rambling everybody because you tuned in for Helen, everyone. [crosstalk 00:15:25] I'm going to ramble a little bit, but we'll make sure we go long so we get all the wisdom out of Helen as well, but I'm going to indulge and process. I love contradictions. And again, I keep on thinking about this Scott Fitzgerald quote of the sign of true intelligence is your capacity to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and still function and hold them and watch them play pong back and forth.   Mason: (15:52) And so the three square meals. I'm like if you look at Chinese culture and the longevity factor of having consistency, same food, same nice warming food prepared in very similar ways, changing slightly during the seasons in cooking method. But having that real consistency for the body, I'm like, "That makes sense." And then you look at the ancestral element and it's like, well, for an Eskimo, you're going to, at some point in winter, you're going to be gorging on meat. And then I got brought to my attention. I'm like, yeah, but in the springtime, they actually have access to a shitload of berries and plant matter and they're going to be going hard over in that way. And they needed to because that's the way the world presented itself. And so there was this fluidity and this dance, which we need to learn how to integrate that.   Mason: (16:43) Even though we do have the convenience of civilization that could give us say the people who are best at taking advantage of civilization from a health and in other ways perspective is say the Chinese. And so they do that really well. So I'm like, cool, take that, but then don't forget your roots. So on and so forth that creates this gooey potential. If you can, for me, you say burst that bubble of like, "I know what it is. I know where I attribute my health to." It's this diet, because you've got to discover, I guess at the moment it must be trippy for you having a clinic and taking people through healing diets and then attempting to convey the ongoing, never-ending nature of finding an optimal diet in this crazy privilege that we have in this world.   Helen Padarin: (17:31) We definitely are in an incredible place of privilege that we do have so much choice and I think it's because we do have so much convenience and comfort. And convenience and comfort can really be thorns in the side of progress as well. So we really need to, I mean, I personally get really sick of going to, even if it's the organic supermarket and it's the same vegetables all year round. There's five things you can choose from like, "Oh my God, give me something else." I need to go foraging to have some variety or something. So we would be... Simple I think is good because we can very much over-complicate things. And the seasonality thing is an environmental thing and also an internal thing because internally we've got seasons too. So we are going through our lives, different stages of growth, different hormonal stages, stages of disease, stages of recovery and recuperation.   Helen Padarin: (18:38) We've got the four seasons of the year that we are... You know a lot about this. You can speak more on that, but throughout both our lives and our environments, there's always these shifts. And I think that's where we run into trouble when we attach ourselves to any ideology, because then there's that risk of sticking to it, no matter what, even if it isn't actually serving you anymore. So I think always having some flexibility and yet being able to dance with the seasons and know that things aren't stagnant. It's like when things get stagnant, that's when we get ill. So we need that flow happening throughout all elements of our life and food is one of them.   Mason: (19:27) And you brought up the different seasons of your life and that really strikes me. I haven't heard it come up in a while, just in a distinction around this, but brings the... And I can feel in that it's like you're going to evolve and have different seasons and you've only got the... That maybe doesn't necessarily loop around like the seasons of the earth, perhaps [crosstalk 00:19:56] and that's the only time you're going to have that hormone ratio or deployment, or that con symphony of those secretions. I'm just interested, have you got any in your own life? On that, just how that helps you like...   Helen Padarin: (20:14) Affected me the most is always staying curious. It's also affected me in that I'm a terrible meal planner. I won't plan a meal because I don't know how I'm going to feel on any given day. So on the day I want to go, "What do I need today? Okay. I'm going to have..." And I'm very fortunate that I've got that choice. There's a lot of people around the world who wouldn't. So that is definitely coming from a place of privilege, but I guess in different seasons for me, let me have a little think and feel. Well, I've actually just got some adrenal results back and I know I really need to go into some adrenal restoration for myself at the moment because there's been quite a few years of really depleting them basically.   Helen Padarin: (21:03) And I guess because I have all the pieces in place in my diet and lifestyle otherwise, I'm able to carry on pretty well. So I was quite surprised when I saw those are low. So I was like, "Okay, that's a little bit of a reality check for me as well." Stress is a big one for me. And I know that I've got this global high activation of my nervous system running in the background. So there can be, particularly during times of overwhelm for me, then I really need to make sure that I am, I don't know. There are times where I might have a bit more carbohydrate than normal and other times, for example, carbs just really don't suit me and make me feel tired. But other times it's something that's actually going to nourish me and nurture me and give me more energy and make me sleep better. And all of those kinds of things. So there's little tweaks like that in my diets.   Helen Padarin: (22:05) And then lifestyle wise, I'll be making sure that there's time to actually switch off and have quiet time. And over the years I've said one of my biggest goals in life is to get bored because I think there's not enough opportunity for that these days. And that's the place where creativity and imagination really comes to play. So that for me has been one of my big life lessons, because it's a little trap when you love what you do as well, because it doesn't necessarily feel like work, but you still got to really have that quiet time and rest, or I should say, I really still need to have that quiet time and rest. So they're the seasonal things for me that I'm feeling most at the moment anyway.   Mason: (22:57) Boredom. I really, I use that word in a very... I have used it. That's when I was like, when I was-   Mason: (23:02) I use that word in a very.... I have used it, like... I was like, when I stopped being vegan, it was because I got bored shitless with myself. And it's a very different kind of way of approaching that, like slipping into those states of boredom. I feel it's like an almost kind of, I can feel when you're saying that the context, there's a harmony and a sereneness in the cruising, which I think is yeah, definitely... If you look at the way, old Taoists, look at the heart, and being like, you know, full yang's all active, yang, celebration, love, but the yin is serene. And so you look at... This is someone, we just don't associate with that in the west, like that person's full power, fire, heart element, and they're just cruising.   Helen Padarin: (23:44) Yeah. And we definitely... Yeah. We really celebrate that yang in this culture. Right? And yeah, there's, I don't know who first said it, but you know, he who fails to go within goes without. We really need that time to nourish. And for me, boredom is just like an open space of nothingness, which is really, really beautiful. And more, I find, more and more challenging. Or not more and more challenging, I have just found it challenging, to spend time in that space. And I think I really feel that for kids these days as well, especially because they're growing up with so much stimulation and, you know, even we had as kids growing up. And I think that's a whole nother challenge that they're going to have to work their way through throughout life. Yeah.   Mason: (24:42) Mm-hmm (affirmative). I'd love to talk about kids a little bit. I'm like, I was so stoked when I saw you were doing a kid's immunity course. I feel because there's a lot with... There's obviously so much on adults' immunity because adults are so screwed. And kids have got...   Helen Padarin: (25:05) And that's the point, you know? Like often adults are so screwed because of what happened when we were kids. And so it's like, let's just stop that train now. Yeah? And turn it around so that when they're adults, I don't have to deal with all this hardship that we're dealing with because we didn't have that information or those tools or those resources when we were young. So yeah, it really breaks my heart to see kids in the clinic. And I know, because as I said before, I can relate to it, when I was young I didn't know that I didn't feel well until I felt better. And then it was like, holy shit, I can't believe I felt that bad for so long. You know? And so when I see kids now who are, you know, maybe not even five years old and already chronically ill, or even teenagers who have just had chronic ill health throughout their life.   Helen Padarin: (25:55) And a lot of it is gut and immune mediated. And they don't even know that they don't feel well. And I can see that, but they don't know that. And someone telling them isn't going to change that for them. Really, it's one of those things, I think most of the time, you don't really know until you experience it. And when you're feeling like that, gosh, it really... You know? It can tend to put a lens over how you see life and what your prospects are in the world and your hopefulness or hopelessness and all of this kind of thing. And so one of the things that I really wanted to be able to do with the kids immunity course is like, get kids thriving, you know? And it empowers whole families because when kids are ill, it puts stress on everybody as well. It puts a stress on other siblings who might not be getting the same amount of attention, it puts stress on parents.   Helen Padarin: (26:58) You know, if you look at, in the ASD community, for example, around, you know, there's about a 80% divorce rate because it's just so stressful when you're with kids with high needs all the time. But there's also, on the lesser end of the spectrum, asthma, allergies, eczema, but it disrupts sleep. And there's all these doctor's visits and there's this constant application of creams and antibiotics and steroids and all these kinds of stuff that, you know, you don't realise how much of an impact it's having on you sometimes until you're not having to do that anymore. And sometimes the idea of changing, like humans in general aren't great at change. And we'll tend to see it like Mount Everest and then we'll do it. And we're like, oh, that was actually an anthill, that wasn't so bad.   Helen Padarin: (27:51) So it's just a matter, I don't know. It's a matter of providing inspiration. Tools and inspiration. I'm really not a fan of motivation. Motivation takes a lot of energy. It takes discipline, but it takes a lot of energy. And sometimes you need that to make a first step. To go, okay, I'm going to do this. However, the way that I like to go on that adventure, to see what else there is. Yeah. So, and to bring some joy to it because of health and healing as well, it can get really weighted too. And you're always focusing on, you know, what's wrong or what else you've got to fix, or, you know, how can you do it better or how can you be better and all that kind of stuff. It's like, actually, let's just get curious and go on a bit of an adventure here and then feel bloody great as a result.   Mason: (28:53) I mean, I'm really excited about it for, you know, myself. Because I, you know, although I feel like we've got kind of like a real good foundation for understanding, you know, what the little ones need, obviously, you know, I've been in the industry and use your eyes like really, really healthy, but I feel like there's a lot of nuance perhaps that I have... Like I could probably upgrade with. So I'm really, I'm looking forward to it for myself for that reason.   Mason: (29:17) I'm pretty excited for the community based on what you just, like, everything you were just alluding to. That it's not just going to be like, stop doing this, you know, it's really harmful to do that and you should feel bad about that. You know, like I just remember the last time I heard someone really tuning into kids health and immunity, years ago, and they were like, basically, you know, giving gluten to a child is essentially, I'm sorry to say it and I'm trying to be gentle, but it's basically child abuse. And I was like, that's such a... You may think that, but that's such a... Like, you're perfectly within your rights, so hardcore to say that to someone, and you've alluded to all the realities of having a family and the fact making it, you know, for me, it's like, creating inspiration, a kinetic connection, an emotional connection to why we're going to do this. If the dad or the mom isn't onboard, you know, perhaps some space to allow everyone to find their own way to engage with this.   Mason: (30:12) So it's not them, and your awareness of the stress that this process can put through. I like, I can feel you really being like a... I mean, a shepherd implies that you've got sheep, but like, you know, a real custodian of like, that can really walk with people along that path and, you know, knowing that it's going to be really unique. I'm really excited for everyone on that. Would you mind jumping into some of the principles, the little tidbits around kids' immunity. Simple, complex that, you know, may be obvious, you know, may be not. And in that, like I was going to bring up maybe like fever as well, because I saw you doing a live on fever the other day. So maybe, I wouldn't mind just like a tiny little download on how you relate to fevers in childhood.   Helen Padarin: (31:07) Yeah. Well maybe we can start there. Yeah. Fever's really important, first of all. Right? So it is an essential part of an immune response. And if we are experiencing a fever, it's showing that our immune system is acting appropriately in the face of an infection or in the face of having to get rid of something in the body from an immune perspective. Okay? And so these days, one of the problems that I find we run into most frequently is where in a culture that is really adverse to discomfort, and fever's not comfortable. Yeah? And so whether it is a headache or whether it is a fever, we're very quick to pop a pill for that and to suppress that. But what we're then doing, if we're suppressing fever, is not actually allowing the immune system to carry out the functions that it needs to.   Helen Padarin: (32:04) And so then as a result, often the illness is either prolonged or it can even be more severe or recurrent. Yeah? Because the infection was never really properly addressed. And a lot of this just comes down to, you know, poor availability of information as well. We all are doing the best that we know what to do with the information that we have at the time. And generally speaking, the advice from most doctors and paediatricians is, if you've got a fever, have some paracetamol or something like that. Yeah? [inaudible 00:32:39] So it's not a... Yeah, it isn't about pointing fingers, going, you know, that's a bad thing to do, don't do it. And there are times and places for those things as well. But to be used really judiciously.   Helen Padarin: (32:54) And so there's a few fascinating things about fever too. And one of the ones that I find really interesting, and Rudolph Steiner talks about this quite a bit too, is how fever is actually really an important part of child development as well, neural development. And you will often notice that if a child has a fever and they're allowed to go through it, they're supported through it, then when they come out of it, it's like, whoa, when did you suddenly grow up? You know, have you noticed that yourself at all? Yeah.   Mason: (33:28) Hundred percent.   Helen Padarin: (33:29) Yeah, yeah. There's this big shift, but that doesn't tend to happen if we suppress the fever. Yeah? Why exactly that happens, I don't know the mechanism. But it is just something that you see happen all the time. Time after time. So that's really important. And there's also a resilience piece in there as well because when a child is supported to go through a fever, they know that they're capable of doing so. And they're also learning that it's okay to be uncomfortable, and discomfort passes too. So that's going to help them as they age because there's always going to be things in life that are painful and uncomfortable. We can't avoid it. And unfortunately we try to, but often in doing so create more. So it's that whole thing in a way of what we resist persists.   Helen Padarin: (34:27) And it's really empowering when you know that you can support your child. Because there's a lot of fear around fever too, yeah, it's like there's fear of febrile convulsions, for example. But the research shows, and clinical practise shows, that generally speaking, febrile convulsions aren't dangerous. There's a point to which, you know, fevers might need to be treated. And it's generally around the 40, 41 degree mark. Or if the child has symptoms like going really floppy or listless or something like that. But generally speaking, even for quite high fevers, there are a lot of safe practises that you can employ to support your child through it.   Helen Padarin: (35:10) And so in the course, we talk about what they are and we also do demos in the kitchen of home remedies and things that you can make to bring into play as well. And you know, what herbs can be useful for helping to moderate or break a fever and things like that if need be. So, yeah, I think fever is something... You know, it's important to monitor and manage, but I think generally speaking we tend to be way more fearful of it than what we need to be. And it's a really valuable process to go through.   Helen Padarin: (35:47) And we've had families in the course going through it. And since starting their course, their kids had an infection and like just the feedback we get after their child has an infection is so cool because you can hear it in their voice and feel it in their tone. They're just like so stoked and feeling so empowered that they actually knew what to do, and were capable of doing it at home. It wasn't this having to outsource all the time. And that I'm really passionate about as well, because I think we have in this society been kind of conditioned to hand over so much of our own power and responsibility. And if we can learn, actually, we've got this, we can do this. We'd be in a lot better place in so many ways.   Mason: (36:38) I love it so much. I love that, like, you've just articulated in a way that is incredible and perceivable. And I don't think people realise the impact. It's like when people don't know that they're not feeling that great, people don't realise just how disenfranchised they are, how disconnected they are from their own sovereignty and something as simple. And I'm excited because, you know, at times I float off into, you know, my very busy periods in the business and, you know, like... And I just, I kind of forget about just tending to the home fire and upkeeping those skills, and trusting in myself and believing myself. Lucky to have a wife that's like very, very good at that. But it's like preparing your own meals and then just having those remedies and watching... Knowing the protocols, you know, and not going to a clinician, oh my god, that's why you need to be teaching this mindset to practitioners, I think.   Mason: (37:41) It just makes me smile so much. And I just, I love practitioners that have that awareness because I think it takes a lot to embody that world of healing, clinical healing, facilitating people who would be out of their depth, which happens regularly. And thank god, you know, we have clinicians for when we are out of our depth. Entering that world, it's such a shedding of the skin and taking on a whole nother path to then venture out of that safe cocoon of I'm a know-it-all, and I'm the one that delivers the healing. To delivering what you are. I really value it. I don't have a word coined for what that type of practitioner is, but I'm going to say a good one. And so..   Helen Padarin: (38:32) [inaudible 00:38:32].   Mason: (38:33) But I love it, yeah.   Helen Padarin: (38:36) No, I get it. It's a big theme in my practise as well. I guess it is more about, you know, the whole teaching a man to fish thing, rather than giving out the fish. Because there's no point, otherwise we're just building other co-dependent relationships rather than being able to really trust and rely on ourselves. And yeah, again, one of my biggest passions, come back to yourself, free a connection with self, trusting that intuition, trusting your inner voice, knowing how much wisdom you do have, knowing how capable you are, and knowing how much resilience you have. Because so many things throughout our life can just like chip all that stuff away from our belief in ourselves that we have these totally warped views of what we are actually capable of. So yeah. Getting back to centre, getting back to self.   Mason: (39:30) So good. What are some of the other principles that you cover for kids' immunity?   Helen Padarin: (39:36) Yeah. So we start off with nutrition and immune function, which is actually really important when we're dealing with kids, because nutritionally speaking, kids aren't just mini adults, right? They're going through the most rapid rates of growth and development in their lives. So their requirements for nutrients are very different per kilo, for example, than it is for adults. Yeah? So we look at the key nutrients that are required for immune development and for gut function in particular, because as you know, most of the immune system is in the lining of the gut wall. And so while we start off with talking about nutrition, because of course every cell and hormone and neurotransmitter and immune molecule in your body is made up of the nutrients that you eat. So if you don't have those nutrients coming in, you don't have the building blocks to be able to build those things.   Helen Padarin: (40:31) And therefore your function is going to be impaired. So, we start off there with the building blocks. There's also the fact that during times of greater need, we need to make sure we have more of those nutrients. So if there are asthma or chronic allergies, or if there is an acute infection, the requirements for those nutrients also increases from baseline. So in those times, what do we want to focus on? Making sure there's plenty coming into the diet. Yeah? And we focus mostly on foods, but of course at times, you know, supplements can be helpful, but in the big scheme of things, we want foods to be medicine as much as possible. Yeah? You can't supplement away a shitty diet. You can't get all those building blocks because food is so much more than nutrients as well. Yeah. It's information and we can't get that information from supplements. So from there we go on and look at gut health and a little bit of a, not a big, deep dive, but a bit of a dive into the microbiome. Because as I just mentioned before, most of your immune system is in the lining of your gut wall and how your immune system responds to different triggers is very much dependent on what kind of microbes are growing in your gut. So we look at the integrity of the gut wall. We look at microbiome diversity. We look at what the gut needs to actually function well, what nutrients are required for gut health as well. So looking at that side of things. We have a whole module on fever. There's seven modules in the course. So yeah, there's a whole module on fever. And we've got an interview with Dr. Marsha Trait, who's a paediatric neurologist in the States and she's shared some beautiful information on fever and microbial diversity and all of that kind of thing in there. So that's got a lot of gold in it.   Mason: (42:38) Amazing. I think all of our people are going to be really stoked to know that you're, you know... I knew you would be, but just know that you're having like that micro, that diversity conversation. I think it's like everyone's starting to click on to that being such a good way to...   Helen Padarin: (42:54) [inaudible 00:42:54].   Mason: (42:54) Yeah. Awesome.   Helen Padarin: (42:54) For sure. Yeah. Then we have sessions in the kitchen. So each module's got PDFs and videos. And so yeah, you come into the kitchen with us as well and we do recipe demos of some really core foods to include for immune function. We have another module on home remedies as well. So again, come into the kitchen with us so that you know how to make them. They're super simple, but you know, like me, I'm a visual and kinesthetic person. So it's easier to learn that way.   Helen Padarin: (43:29) We do include in there overarching support for the whole family as well. Because just like the gut microbiome, the family unit is a bit of a microbiome itself as well. And so the impact of each member of the family affects the other. So we're looking at that kind of organism as a whole. And what else we've got. I feel like I'm missing one. We've got a whole bunch of additional resources in there too. And we include PDFs to research papers and stuff like that. So if you want to geek out more, you can go down that line. And then if you want to keep it really practical and just go, I need to know what to do now, then you can look at it from that point as well.   Mason: (44:18) Can you give me a sneak peak of some type of like nutrients, whether it be one that we like, you know, if you want to be finding it in food or supplementation, that you see as like a key one that's deficient in most diets, maybe don't, leave the hook thing and in the course we'll show you how to get it into your diets.   Helen Padarin: (44:34) I'm okay to share some. So yeah, I guess two of the big ones in Australia, well, not just Australia actually, Australia, America, Europe, and New Zealand, vitamin D and zinc, for sure. And one thing that's really important, I think, for people to understand as well is how limited reference ranges of blood test results are. Or rather how they are determined. Because a lot of people go, yeah, I had my vitamin D tested or I had my zinc tested or my whatever tested and it's all good. It's all fine, it's all in the normal range. But what's important to understand is that reference ranges through pathology labs are based on 95% of the results that go through that lab.   Helen Padarin: (45:29) So that means that generally speaking, it's sick people who are going to get tested. So it's 95% of the results of sick people, generally, not 95% of the results of healthy people. And so it can vary from lab to lab as well, depending on the demographic of the area that the lab is in. And I, as of this year, have been in practise now for 20 years.   Mason: (45:54) Whoa.   Helen Padarin: (45:54) I know, it doesn't seem possible, but apparently it is. And so I have seen over the years as our populations metabolic health.   Helen Padarin: (46:03) I've seen over the years, as our population's metabolic health has gone downhill, our reference ranges have changed along with that. So now where we're seeing, oh, it's in the normal range, 10 years ago, that would not have been in the normal range. So normal range doesn't actually really mean anything, okay? We want to actually look at the ideal range.   Mason: (46:21) What a way to decimate the genome and take us on a completely different dependent evolutionary path.   Helen Padarin: (46:29) A hundred percent. There's a Krishnamurti quote I love, now I need to remember it.   Mason: (46:38) I love it and that's all.   Helen Padarin: (46:40) And that's it so look him up. Here it is, basically, he's saying there's nothing healthy about being well adapted to a profoundly sick society, which is what we have been really doing quite well.   Mason: (46:59) Very well.   Helen Padarin: (47:00) So if we look at vitamin D, for example, in Australia and New Zealand, to be determined to be vitamin D deficient, you would have a rating of 49 nanomoles per litre or lower. But we know that even at 75 nanomoles per litre, you have a 50% increased risk of viral infections. That's at 75, but most people could have their blood test results come back at 51 and the doctor's like, "You're fine." And they're like, "Oh my God," going through the floor. So typically for vitamin D, we want to see... And it also increases risk of things like autoimmunity and allergies and eczema and gut issues as well because of course our nutrients are used for multiple functions throughout the body. So low or suboptimal levels. So there's deficiency and there's sub-optimal level and the sub-optimal level will have many impacts around the body.   Helen Padarin: (48:06) So really you're looking for levels of more than a hundred at least, but ideally between 130 and 200 nanomoles, the numbers are different in the States because they have different measurements so you have to do the conversion, but yet in Australia and New Zealand, that's what you're aiming for. So that is really not often achieved because while we're in this sunny country, we've also learned over the years to slip, slop, slap a bit too much and be too fearful of the sun. And so it's very rare for me to see good blood test results for vitamin D.   Helen Padarin: (48:42) And if we don't get our blood levels up by the end of summer, it's really hard to maintain them throughout the rest of the year, because particularly the further down the latitude or further up the latitude you go, the less months of the year, you're actually going to get rays from the sun that you get vitamin D from. So then you really need to make sure that you're getting it from your food. So, yes, vitamin D from food is really important.   Helen Padarin: (49:10) And so zinc, our soils in Australia and New Zealand and quite a few other countries are very low in zinc so it comes down to you're not just what you eat, but you're what you are, what you eat. So whether you are eating plants, you need to make sure that they've been in good soil. If you're eating animals, you need to make sure they're in good soil and eating good plants, and that's going to affect the nutrient density of the food, which is why I'm passionate about sourcing food as best as possible as he can, which isn't always possible, you just do the best with what you can and that's it. There's nothing else, no more to it, that's the best you can do. So yeah, there are a couple of the nutrients that are most commonly deficient. Yeah, and has a huge impact.   Mason: (49:59) Huge impact, yeah. Maybe it's good thing that I have a four year old always asked for a chunk of butter for herself to how down on in the morning,   Helen Padarin: (50:10) Yeah, that's it. So pasture-raised animal fats, so really the best source of vitamin D, which is one reason why I love my Gregory Downs Organics pork and their pork belly. So those fatty cuts of pork because pork fat is one of the highest sources of vitamin D. Or you could even get some pasture-raised lard and cook with that, pasteurised egg yolks, liver, cod liver oil, they are all good sources of vitamin D.   Mason: (50:37) Cod liver oil, an easy one to get into the kids.   Helen Padarin: (50:40) Most of the time, it actually is, it's only us adults that have psychological issues with them.   Mason: (50:47) Yeah. I'm damaged, I'm damaged from taking it. But we dosed Aiya up when she was a little one before she was tarnished.   Helen Padarin: (51:03) And that's one thing, if you are introducing foods to kids, it's monkey see monkey do, right? So if you are wanting them to have a particular food and you're giving it to them going, "Ah, that was gross," then they're going to go, "Ah, that's gross," because they're mirroring you because that's how they're learning. So this just goes across the board. Again, embrace that attitude of curiosity and adventure when you're trying new foods, whether it's yourself or your kids, and remember to give your kids the gift of finding out for themselves rather than basing their opinion of yours, yeah. So yeah, give them the opportunity to choose for themselves. And remember that humans are creatures of repetition, especially kids, and usually the magic number for trying new foods is 10 before you make an actual opinion about something. So just having things on offer that you can try a variety of different things.   Mason: (52:12) That's a good one. Yeah. Gosh, I'm looking forward to doing this course and I'm looking forward to everyone... I think we've got a lot of parents listening to this podcast, I think they're going to be stoked as well. Do you have any particular times when you open it up?   Helen Padarin: (52:27) Well, it's open all year, but now that we're going into the Southern hemisphere winter, we're doing more live chats and spending more time. There's a private Facebook group so you get to connect with other like-minded families as well, which is really great. And so yeah, times of year like this, we're spending more time in there to engage and make sure everybody's really resourced up as we go into the cooler months of the year. So yes, now is a good time.   Mason: (52:57) Oh, that's such a huge resource having a practitioner led course that's revolving around remedies and keeping yourself healthy is very different a lot of the time to where I've kind of come from, which is that super counter-culture grassroots health community, which it's like there's an experimental remedy for everything and a lot of the time they were impervious to structure. Some of them nail it and do it really well, most of the time not. So it's nice to know, especially when it comes to kids, they just have such a grounded resource, grounded admins helping.   Helen Padarin: (53:37) Yeah. And with the Q&As as well, the live chats, it's such a good opportunity to engage personally as well and ask specific questions about what's going on for your child or your family or yourself. Yeah, so there's the foundational work with all the course material and a lot of specifics in there for different kinds of conditions or symptoms, but then, yeah, the live chats are a great way to go deeper, basically.   Mason: (54:12) Amazing. I mean, what an investment. I mean, when it all gets a bit hard for me and I'm like, "I'm too busy," I kind of really start re-evaluating, especially... I mean, if I look at I'm investing in a house and working my ass off and I can feel how that kind of setup is going to be so beneficial. It's just as easily I feel the microbiome of my child, I'm like, "No," all of a sudden I'm not too busy. I just feel like getting that world into my world and I go, "Oh my gosh, what an investment," just how much easier life is going to be for that child, for me.   Helen Padarin: (54:50) Yeah, for the rest of their life and your life as well, because we know that the health in our childhood and how many courses of antibiotics we've had and that kind of thing has lifelong impact as well. So again, that's why I'm so passionate about it and why I wanted to focus on kids because it's a real opportunity to change the future. Or rather than change, have it empowered, strong, resilient future generations. And I can't think of a better gift to our kids in that sense than that really, because then they've got more freedom to do and choose what they wish to.   Mason: (55:33) It's huge. You do just see some people are just naturally born with a shitload of Jing, like Keith Richards, but there's other there's kids, there's families and they were just on the broths and organ meats, just real good source veggies. And you just look at that like the good stock, really good stock, strong knees.   Helen Padarin: (55:59) Absolutely. And I see that with my friend's kids. And so often they just get stopped all the time, going, "Wow, your kid's just so alert and so engaged and so vibrant," and yeah, it does make a huge difference how they start out, yeah, on all levels, physically, mentally, and emotionally, spiritually. Yeah.   Mason: (56:22) What an incredible opportunity to learn these things and to share them out as you said going up, getting on country and sharing that with mob. You can see something really amazing getting created here. It's not just run of the mill. All right. Everyone just jump onto that course, by the way, if you're in the Northern hemisphere get on, get onto it.   Helen Padarin: (56:46) Yeah. Even if you get onto it now you're prepared for your winter, but yes, you can sign up any time, but again, we're on there now.   Mason: (56:56) Prepare for flu season, although we don't have the flu anymore, it's gone. It's all gone. There's no flu season this year.   Helen Padarin: (57:03) Prepare for viruses, can't even say it. Actually, if anybody wants to help this cause for stronger future generations, just with all the censorship going on at the moment, anything that even smells of immunity just is really hard to get much reach. So if you do feel that this is important, then yeah, we would be super appreciative of just sharing it with friends and family and anyone you think might be interested out there.   Mason: (57:38) Yeah. So I'm really happy to share this out there. We've had that as well with all the COVID censorship, even just wanting to do an ad, right? You look at the crazy ads that people put out there from the pharmaceutical company and the crazy... We've talked about vaccines once on this podcast, especially the COVID-19 podcasts so it was with a doctor who, she's rad and she's worked on vaccines and she was explaining her process about all of why she wanted to do it. And I was like, "Great," it was a great conversation. And I really am seeing the opportunity to have some real open table chats on this podcast. And it's the same way with diets, start popping the bubble as much as possible and start looking at each other and feeling each other's process to approaching this whole thing and acknowledging our own ignorance at the same time.   Mason: (58:34) So in saying that, maybe we talk about it, maybe we don't, let's see how far we go down, but just talking to the immunity thing, look at how that's been advertised, celebrity endorsements, all that kind of stuff. There's no kind of real accountability there. I've got a product that's now a TGA listed medicine so it's on the same kind of level of scrutiny as a drug basically and we've got clinical-backed data, we're allowed to say, "This is to build your immune system, this is to support your immune system." And if I try and advertise that it gets denied by the big wigs, because I'm not allowed to advertise my thing that I paid a lot of money to have as a listed medicine here in Australia and is clinically-backed and acknowledged it is traditionally backed to support the immune system. So it's a lot of bullshit.   Helen Padarin: (59:32) Yeah. I feel It. Yeah, that's a whole other thing, isn't it? It's crazy, yeah, how much is being censored at the moment. And I kind of wanted to emphasise as well one thing that you said earlier and then kind of it came up then is that ability to hold contradictions. I mean, all of life is a contradiction, right? Contradiction is everywhere, nothing makes sense really, if you want a black and white yes or no kind of thing. And I just think it is really important that we do kind of let down our guards and defences a bit so that we can get curious and have conversations and not need to pretend that we know it all and be open to learning new information and hearing other people's points of views without becoming supercharged about it. I mean, I know it can be challenging at times, but rarely is the truth at either end of the spectrum, it's usually there's somewhere in between I think. But either way being open to more than one point of view I think is important for health as well.   Mason: (01:00:45) That contradiction you just brought up a real nuanced skill that does show intelligence there because I feel like it's a very slippery one and I do see a lot of people who are speaking out about having the vaccine forced on them going, "Hey everyone, please, you need to listen and learn," and I see the distinction and skill there is going, "I've done a lot of research on this. I have a view that is going against the common narrative and I want to share that and I'm going to ask you guys to be open to sharing," that's the skill. To be like that and have real conviction in that what you're talking about and still then holding this opening and this desire to learn and really dead set letting go of your "I'm a know-it-all, I'm right and I've got all my talking points that make it so that even though they're convincing," I've been there and been like, "No one will ever sway me on this. Look at that, I'm too good at gathering..." Whether you're on the pro or anti or whatever you want to call yourself side, having that ability to lay it down as you know it and staying completely open and curious at the same time, huge sign of intelligence.   Helen Padarin: (01:01:59) Imagine if we could all do that, imagine the state of affairs and society and the world if we even just had a little bit more of that going around. I think that's one of the medicines we need, yeah.   Mason: (01:02:15) I'm going to say something very non-woke now, but going through a fever, going through an experience that is not comfortable and being supported, but being allowed the right to be uncomfortable and work your way through that kind of helps you not become such a snowflake is how I'd put it. But I think what you're talking about, having an open affair, having conversation with someone and really trying to go down a rabbit hole with creating tension around, "I'm sharing what I kind of know, and I'm going to let in and acknowledge you know some," provided the person does, and they're not just a bloody, you know what I'm about to say, rambling idiot. It's very uncomfortable to hold that space and be in that space, that vulnerability of having conviction and really desiring to grow and evolve beyond where you are. And I think it all goes down to fevers, we didn't allow these people to have fevers now they're bloody snowflakes and they won't be uncomfortable in that tension space.   Helen Padarin: (01:03:28) That is so true. That's it. And that tension, there's negative or bad, not good enough words for it that I have anyway, but there's bad tension and good tension, right? To simplify things. And I think that is a good kind of tension. That's like creative tension, that's a space that allows new things to grow from because there is this discomfort. And if we're comfortable, we don't tend to grow because it's just too comfortable, right? But if we can be in that space where we've come from a particular perspective or belief but we can be open to others and again, be curious with someone else who can also meet you there and be curious because it's very hard to do that... Still possible actually, but it's nice if you can do it with someone who can meet you there, then that's where innovation comes from and creativity comes from and how to make things better. So, yeah.   Mason: (01:04:37) Oh, amen. A-bloody-men. I'm aware time is getting around us a little bit, before we bring it home. I just want to quickly get your download on liver flushing because it's your other offering. It's been a little bit since I've done my own liver flush, I do like the idea when Southern hemisphere springtime comes around, jumping on and I guess just being a part of a community and then doing it with you guys in that way. But do you want to just quickly give the down-low? There are a lot of people here who might not have actually heard of liver flushing, where it comes from in terms of the old school herbal tradition and folk remedy, what the point is, what the benefits are, why it's a good idea to in the beginning maybe be professionally advised and led?   Helen Padarin: (01:05:35) Absolutely, yeah. So this is a programme we run a couple of times a year and I guess one of my simplified philosophies of life and health is that disease comes down to two things, too much of something and not enough of something. So what we're wanting to do is nourish and cleanse basically to create and maintain our health. And we're in this environment these days where we are inundated with exposures that as a human race, we've never been exposed to before since World War Two, there's just been an explosion of chemicals in our environment, in our food. And so our livers and our thyroid for that matter get very heavily affected. So our thyroid is really sensitive to a lot of environmental toxins and our liver and gallbladder function are heavily affected by our thyroid, I'd love to know the TCM connection here actually.   Mason: (01:06:39) I was literally just thinking, I wish I had like a Jamie, like a Joe Rogan Jamie and I'd be like-   Helen Padarin: (01:06:45) "Look that up for me."   Mason: (01:06:47) Yeah, just bring that up. I'm going to wobble the video a little bit guys. I'm like, I think I've got a book here, I'm not going to go into it. It's not here, but I have a book that basically is that, a TCM practitioner booklet. Yeah.   Helen Padarin: (01:07:03) Yeah. So there's thyroid receptors throughout your body, right? And your gallbladder needs thyroid hormone to be able to empty bile from the gallbladder. And you also need a good functioning liver to... The word's escaping me at the moment. To transfer your T3, sorry, your T4, your inactive thyroid hormone to active thyroid hormone, T3. That conversion mainly happens in the liver. So you need good liver function for your thyroid hormone to work properly. You need that thyroid hormone for your gallbladder to empty properly and for a gazillion and other things as well.   Helen Padarin: (01:07:49) So we do this liver and gallbladder flush to help out the liver, the gallbladder, the gut, the thyroid kind of everything, basically. So the liver is where we produce our bile, it gets stored in the gallbladder and then when we're eating fatty food, you get a squirt of bile out of the gallbladder to emulsify. It's kind of like a detergent and emulsifies the fats so that your lipase and your enzymes that break down fat can break that down and you can get your essential fatty acids and you

Hey, it's Adam here. A quick podcast update for you as we near the end of the first week of July, 2021. Here's a snapshot of what's happening behind the scenes. I have two conversations recorded that are yet to be edited. The first features Joanne Borzakian Ouellette. Joanne worked with Reebok for over 16 years. From 1985, as a Marketing and Promotions Manager, before assuming the role of Global Marketing Director NBA Basketball in 1992 – where she spent almost ten years building long-term industry relationships and friendships with some of the biggest names in the game, including Hall of Famer, Shaquille O'Neal. Her family are candidates for the title of Greatest Boston Celtics fans ever – their lineage stretches back almost five decades. We had a wonderful chat about Joanne's remarkable life in basketball. The second recording is part one of my conversation with Wali Jones. He starred in college at Villanova, before entering the NBA and earning an All-Rookie selection in 1965 and winning an NBA championship in 1967 as a key member of one of the most-dominant teams in history - the Philadelphia 76ers. Wali discusses his memories of being teammates with the iconic Wilt Chamberlain and much more. Numerous topic-based episodes are also in the works. Fans of Tom Chambers would be wise to keep an eye on the podcast feed over the coming months. Plus, upcoming episodes will feature authors discussing a range of great basketball books. In the not-to-distant future, I'll be updating my website. It will also offer the ability for fans of the show to support the podcast monetarily. Completely optional, of course. You will be able to make PayPal donations, sponsor episodes, or visit an affiliate link - at no cost to you - to basketball-related retailers here in Australia and the USA. Listener support will help offset some of the costs involved in producing the show, which incredibly is approaching its ninth full year. Remember, you can always reach me via e-mail. All the best and thanks once more for being a listener of the show.   Sign-up for Adam's FREE monthly newsletter - receive exclusive details on upcoming podcast episodes and future guests to appear on the show. I appreciate all feedback and welcome ratings and reviews of my show via your podcast app of choice. Follow: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Overcast Feedback: e-mail (audio welcome)

When I first became an investment advisor back in 1981, interest rates were a lot different than today. For example, you could earn nearly 20% on a safe, secure money market fund. You could earn 12% totally tax-free on a AAA rated municipal bond. Completely risk-free, three-month Treasury Bills were paying north of 15%! Doesn't that seem impossible? It's true, though. Back then, nobody was wondering how they could earn more interest on their savings, because nobody needed to. Fast-forward to today and that's all investors talk about. And no wonder: If you're attempting to live off the interest on your savings, best you have a ton of savings. If you've got a million bucks in the bank that's only earning .1%, you're only making a thousand bucks a year in interest: Good luck living on that. On the other hand, if you could earn 10% on that million bucks, you're earning $100,000. That's more like it, right? Unfortunately, there's no free lunch. Only a liar or a fool would try to convince you that you could earn 1,000 times more interest with no additional risk. But, just maybe, you can earn 1,000 times more interest without taking 1,000 times more risk. That's what this week's "Money!" podcast is about. Today we're going to discuss a bunch of ways to earn 10% or more on your savings, while also examiniting the risks involved. Want more information? Check out these resources: How to Earn More Money on Your Savings Barron's: It's Been a Hard Time for Income Investors. Where to Find Yields of 7% or More Now Kiplinger: 35 Ways to Earn Up to 10% on Your Money Money Talks News' savings account search tool Subscribe to the Money Talks News newsletter Take our course The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need Take our course Money Made Simple Miranda Marquit's website Become a member: https://www.moneytalksnews.com/members/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrepreneurs hire Erin Pheil to help them rapidly and permanently eliminate their most frustrating mental roadblocks holding them back so they no longer feel stuck in business or life. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You will see quick and exponential success if more people focus on eliminating the barriers and roadblocks along their way rather than adding more information, strategies, and tactics. 2. The actions you are taking every day are based on your feelings, and those feelings are there because of your thoughts. 3. Change does not have to be complicated and does not have to take a long time. When you do it right, and you get to the root level instead of just coping, change can be easy, and it can happen fast, and it can happen for you. Completely eliminate the mental roadblocks holding you back from achieving what you KNOW you're capable of - Mind Fix Group Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: When you post a job on ZipRecruiter, their matching technology finds qualified candidates and invites them to apply! Try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com/fire. HubSpot: Listen, learn, and grow with the HubSpot Podcast Network at HubSpot.com/podcastnetwork!

Entrepreneurs hire Erin Pheil to help them rapidly and permanently eliminate their most frustrating mental roadblocks holding them back so they no longer feel stuck in business or life. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You will see quick and exponential success if more people focus on eliminating the barriers and roadblocks along their way rather than adding more information, strategies, and tactics. 2. The actions you are taking every day are based on your feelings, and those feelings are there because of your thoughts. 3. Change does not have to be complicated and does not have to take a long time. When you do it right, and you get to the root level instead of just coping, change can be easy, and it can happen fast, and it can happen for you. Completely eliminate the mental roadblocks holding you back from achieving what you KNOW you're capable of - Mind Fix Group Sponsors:

Paul extols the benefits of taking time off. Show Notes  Don't wait! Get that vacation on the calendar. To enjoy it to the fullest, take a couple of days before your vacation to get into “vacation mode.” Completely unplug from work. Get out of the environment that causes you stress. You'll come back reinvigorated, but you still need to take a day to organize your newly formed goals and get acclimated once again. *** Learn more: https://www.theqandasalespodcast.com. Click here to pre-order a copy of Selling Through Tough Times! Click here to purchase the latest edition of Value-Added Selling! Thanks to our production team at The Creative Impostor Studios! Click here to book a complimentary consultation with Strategist and Producer, Andrea Klunder, to find out how to launch, produce, and grow your company's podcast. *** Thank you for tuning in. Our show is updated weekly with the questions you ask. So, please go to the home page to ask the question that you want answered. Be sure to follow our show in your favorite podcast app and share this episode with a colleague or friend. And most importantly...make it a big day.

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Completely off the cuff, unedited episode while Kurt is on vacation. Due to missing a connection Kurt was unable to make it back in town in time to record our regularly scheduled program. Shoutout Brett Grubbs for coming in clutch and co-hosting this weeks podcast. This episode is brought to you by MicRentals.Com - check them out for all of your audio needs! For all of your Convo march needs check out theconvokc.com. Follow the  guys on IG - @kurtkanhai, @coltondutymusic, @theconvokc, @broker.rick

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Evidence Photos @ Talkmurder.com/Anatoly-MoskvinDolls usually take on as much life as possible with their masters talking to them, dressing them up, and making them feel less inanimate. Completely normal behaviour for our human species. But when does doll collecting cross the line of rational to extreme and unhealthy?For Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian historian turned body-snatcher, it was probably when he first began dreaming of a world where he could bring back the dead, at least the 29 found in his apartment, dressing them up to bring them life.

Women often feel insecure, guilty, ashamed and even secretive about the health/weight/body goals they have or WANT to have. Women also experience SO MUCH fear and worry of judgement or rejection about health or weight related choices they make for themselves- particularly in social settings. (ie. when you're gonna be the only one NOT having a piece of cake. What will people think? yikes!) The struggle is real. Trust me. I've been there personally, and I've coached hundreds of clients on their very real fears of judgement and rejection (we coach on this almost weekly! never fails to come up. It's a classic.) THIS truly is such a 'classic' element of sooo many women's ongoing experience of a struggle. THE GREAT NEWS: Just because it's been this way, doesn't mean it needs to feel this way forever. It's COMPLETELY possible for you to actually feel TRULY unapologetic and EVEN PROUD. I've been able to transform my experience in this area of my life from feeling: deep painful shame and constant insecurity to now feeling: TOTAL CONFIDENCE (...and yes, even pride!) Life coaching isn't about everyone's life and life choices looking the same... (hell to the naw) THE LAST 10 approach with life coaching is about YOU as a totally unique individual (one-in-a-billion!) becoming FULLY equipped to create and live your life YOUR WAY. This episode is a must listen. You'll learn about HOW YOU can transform this area of your life so that you can feel unapologetic confidence and even- PRIDE! To learn HOW TO BODLY CREATE, LIVE & ENJOY the life, lifestyle and results you're wanting- LISTEN NOW. #HappyMonthofPride xo Brenda   To lose your ‘last 10' using my proven method JOIN THE LAST 10™ Program- GET ALL THE DETAILS HERE: www.brendalomeli.com/thelast10

"It's one thing to say that I'm an entrepreneur, it's something else to go through hell and say 'I still want to be an entrepreneur.'" -Chris Michael Harris Chris Michael Harris is the founder of Startup U and the Startup U podcast. He has started and grown multiple Seven Figure businesses. We will hear today how he build and then lost his first seven figure business, how Chris dealt with a debilitating health crisis during the most stressful part of losing that business, and how he healed himself, ad came back stronger to start his next venture. What you'll learn in this episode: How Chris Built multiple seven figure businessesThe Secret to getting in touch with busy and important influencersHow Chris healed himself from debilitating physical conditionsThe exact tests and companies Chris uses to track his healthThe future of social media and online marketing Quotes "I love marketing but I love marketing psychology better." -Chris Michael Harris"It's going the extra mile in doing the things that people other probably aren't going to do; that's your biggest area of opportunity." -Chris Michael Harris"The further you immerse yourself into a market, the more disruptive ideas you have." -Chris Michael Harris"When your gut starts to shut down, you gotta deal with it soon or you're gonna have big problems." -Chris Michael Harris"During my health crisis I had to trust God completely. Completely. And I had never done that before." -Chris Michael Harris"It's one thing to say that I'm an entrepreneur, it's something else to go through hell and say 'I still want to be an entrepreneur.'" -Chris Michael Harris"We can't assume to always know how God is using us." -Chris Michael Harris"I was astounded to learn that over 80% of items in the grocery have added sugar." -Chris Michael Harris"Some of the most educated people in health and wellness are chiropractors." -Chris Michael Harris"Health and wellness starts in the gut." -Chris Michael Harris"Just make sure that you're introducing counterbalance in your life." -Chris Michael Harris"The magic happens when you're in the extremes." -Chris Michael Harris Continue the adventure: Chris Michael Harris My Interview on Chris' podcast: EP 319: The Superconductors of Success w/ Derek Loudermilk You'll also love these episodes: David Wood | Master Coach and Super Learner | How to Train Yourself to Train Others Nik Wood | Global Goals | How to Heal and Create the Future We Want as a Species Darin Olien | Superfoods, Sustainability, Sovereignty, Systems, and More Andrew Henderson | The Nomad Capitalist on Building Wealth, Multiple Passports, Geopolitics, and Freedom

--On the Show: --Republicans block debate of a massive voting rights bill, not only opposing the bill itself, but opposing mere discussion about the bill --Eric Adams and Maya Wiley come in first and second in the New York City mayoral primary, with Andrew Yang finishing fourth --Newsmax invites radical right wing radio host Michael Savage for an interview during which he claims teaching critical race theory is equivalent to the Holocaust --Leaked documents show that the US government considers socialists "terrorists" alongside neo-Nazis --Donald Trump's COVID-19 pandemic sabotage is brutally exposed in a new book --Former Trump confidant Roger Stone implicates the Secret Service in the latest new conspiracy theory about the January 6 Trump riots --It is revealed that Donald Trump wanted Saturday Night Live investigated for making fun of him --Donald Trump accidentally confirms the story about wanting Saturday Night Live investigated during his presidency in a statement meant to deny the story --Completely unhinged voicemail caller reminds us of everything wrong with the United States of America --On the Bonus Show: Mosquitoes with West Nile virus found in Texas, Morgan Stanley banning unvaccinated workers, Russia wants to send cosmonauts to Chinese space station, much more...

We look back at a great show heading to the Great American Bash 1986. It's a short one and the matches are VERY short as well, but it was not your typical two-hour broadcast. Ivan and Nikita Koloff ramp up the verbiage heading to the best of seven for the US Title. The Four Horsemen do something that not many, if any, can say...they COMPLETELY lay out the Road Warriors leading to Ric Flair vs Hawk in Philadelphia to kick off the summer. And Big Bubba "no sells" the famous chair shot from the American Dream Dusty Rhodes. Get ready, folks! The Bash is almost here! Support us on Patreon, get this show early and ad free, plus TONS of BONUS content: patreon.com/WHWMonday Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/WHWMonday Check out all the new cool merchandise at BoxOfGimmicks.com Buy a shirt at LoisRules.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/whw Save thousands at Savewithconrad.com

There's a hot NEW diet pill! It’s called a toxic relationship - and you probably already take it daily!  We have a new Sloot in town! This week Sofia is joined by her FAVORITE cousin Anto, who happens to be producer Alex’s older sister. Together the girls open pandora's box by unleashing stories from their most TOXIC relationships. Anto tells us about the time her impoverished ex stole her car and made her perform X-Games moves outside of a Wells Fargo. Sofia then tells us a tale about one of her former Prince Charming’s and a not-so-sweet threesome they had...some real notebook-esque sh*t going on here. The girls then let us in on TWO new hacks about how to achieve your BEST selfie yet, and how to COMPLETELY compromise your partners Instagram. We never said we were the healthiest b*tches out here, but we’re definitely helpful.  Follow Sofia on Instagram and Twitter @SofiaFranklyn Find merch HERE: https://sofiafranklyn.com/   Episode promo codes: Better Help: http://www.betterhelp.com/SOFIA Earnest: http://www.earnest.com/SOFIA MeUndies:  http://www.meundies.com/SOFIA Hello Fresh: http://www.hellofresh.com/12sofia Stitch Fix: http://www.stichfix.com/SOFIA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices