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Key extensions to Tauranga's wharf have been given the green light after a seven-year battle. A fast-track expert panel's issued a draft decision proposing to grant all approvals sought by Port of Tauranga. The development involves extending the Sulphur Point container berth by 385 metres and the Mount Maunganui wharves by 315 metres. Port Chief Executive Leonard Sampson told Mike Hosking it's been incredibly frustrating getting to this stage. He says in the scheme of things, it's minor upgrades to accommodate more container vessels. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us Fan Mail Getting rejected for your mental health can mess with your identity in ways people rarely talk about. We're joined by author Jeff Dalton, who shares what it felt like to be treated as “defective” after a bipolar disorder diagnosis and why the rejection hurt most inside the faith spaces where he expected belonging. We get honest about the loneliness that follows spiritual gatekeeping and the quiet way conditional approval can rewrite how you see yourself. We also name the damage caused by mental health stigma in church culture, especially when leaders speak like experts without training and reduce complex conditions to sin, weak faith, or something “demonic.” Jeff explains how those messages produce shame, fear, and silence, and why the most meaningful support often looks simple: showing up, staying present, and listening well. If you've ever wanted to help someone but didn't know what to say, this will reframe what real care can be. Then we move into the performance trap: what happens when your worth is tied to results, numbers, followers, or sales. Jeff connects a failed book launch to a deeper belief that he wasn't enough, and he shares how rereading the Gospels, including the Parable of the Talents, helped him redefine success as faithfulness rather than output. If you're navigating bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, or faith deconstruction, you'll hear language for rebuilding self-worth without pretending you're fine. Subscribe for more real conversations, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the one takeaway you're choosing to live this week. Note: This episode discusses one guest's personal religious beliefs and experience within a specific faith community, including his views on stigma toward mental illness in some religious spaces. These are his own opinions and experiences, not a general position on faith communities or a clinical perspective on mental health. Connect With the Guest: Facebook: facebook.com/JMDalton777 TikTok: @JeffDalton777 YouTube: @JeffDalton9906 Book: "Expressions of the Heart: Poems and Devotionals" (available on Amazon, digital and paperback) Our Protector Development Offer: $100 OFF ENROLLMENT | Code: ENROLL100 The Rooted Co-op 50% off the Nervous System Work: Be the Change Course! | Code: POD50 The Kloaked Signal Select for pre-order discount 10% | Code: podfans10 Focal Point Coaching of Oak Park Offer: First session FREE | Code: Mention "HealthyMind" in your email Royalty Coaching and Consulting Offering Coaching to help men go through the workbook and achieve freedom in all areas of life! Convergence Offer: 50% off | TRANSFORM50 Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the show Want to Be a Guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life?
Alli Alosa demonstrates how to use the 'Insert as JSON' feature in Airtable automations to reliably handle incoming data from external webhooks, such as Fillout. She explains why this method is more robust than traditional field mapping, especially when dealing with inconsistent data. The discussion covers a practical use case involving event feedback collection. By passing the entire payload as a JSON object, you can prevent automations from failing when certain form fields are left empty or missing from the payload. Finally, the team explores how to use this JSON data within a script action. Instead of manually mapping every individual field as an input, you can pass the entire object into a script, allowing for much more scalable and maintainable automation logic. ⏱ In this cut: 01:03 — Using feedback collection as a use case 12:38 — The benefits of using Insert as JSON 13:37 — Solving errors caused by empty field values 17:00 — Passing JSON data into a script action 25:09 — Conditional filters and advanced integrations
Wil Santiago, Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber, joins In The Channel to discuss the findings of the company’s 2026 Annual Threat Report – research grounded in thousands of real incidents investigated by Blackpoint’s security operations centre, not surveys. The headline finding: attackers are no longer trying to break in. They’re logging in. Using stolen credentials and commodity remote management tools, threat actors are walking through the front door, hiding in plain sight, and operating with system-level privileges – sometimes for days before anyone notices. Santiago walks through the key trends the SOC identified across 2025: ClickFix and fake CAPTCHA campaigns accounted for more than half of all identifiable incidents, with attackers abusing trusted infrastructure including Azure Blob storage and Cloudflare to deliver payloads. RMM abuse showed up in roughly 30 per cent of triaged incidents – threat actors installing their own version of the same tools MSPs use legitimately, then living off the land with god-mode access. And Adversary-in-the-Middle attacks are now routinely hijacking authenticated sessions even when MFA is in place, by abusing OAuth token handling. The conversation also covers Blackpoint’s detection philosophy: behavioral context over malware signatures. Understanding what normal looks like in an environment – who uses what tool, at what time, from where – is what allows the SOC to catch attackers before they act. It’s a philosophy that is producing results: Blackpoint disrupted 56 per cent of incidents before a payload was ever deployed. Santiago’s closing recommendation for MSPs is straightforward: start with an RMM audit. Know every remote management tool deployed across every endpoint and server you manage. You cannot protect what you don’t know exists. The 2026 Annual Threat Report is available for download on the Blackpoint Cyber website. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca and your host for the show. Wil Santiago is Chief Security and Trust Officer at Blackpoint Cyber, an MDR provider whose SOC monitors and responds to threats in real time across a large base of MSPs and their clients. And unlike a lot of threat research that’s survey-based or derived from external reporting, what Blackpoint publishes comes from live incident data, thousands of actual threat responses they’ve worked through in the SOC. Their 2026 annual threat report has a thesis that cuts right through it. Attackers are no longer trying to break in, they’re logging in, using stolen credentials and legitimate IT tools, the same RMMs, the same cloud platforms that MSPs rely on every day, to walk through the front door, hide in plain sight, and work their way towards payday. It’s a theme we’ve been tracking at ChannelBuzz.ca. If you caught our conversation with Tony Anscombe from ESET, that one dug into the mechanics of how MSP tools are being weaponized against the very clients they’re supposed to protect. This conversation is the data layer behind that story, and the detection philosophy that Wil and the Blackpoint team have built to counter it. Their SOC is disrupting 56% of incidents before a payload even deploys. We talk about how. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Wil Santiago. Wil, thanks for taking the time, I appreciate it. Wil Santiago: Thank you, Robert. Robert Dutt: For people who know Blackpoint primarily as an MDR provider, but maybe haven’t dug into the research side, can you give us a quick sense of what your SOC is actually seeing day to day? When you say this report is based on thousands of real incidents, what does that mean in practical terms, in terms of how you gathered this data? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question, Robert. It really starts at the core of what we focus on at Blackpoint Cyber. In 2025, we focused a lot of our detection efforts in the cloud endpoints, but what we realized is that at the core, at that identity layer, that’s the most important thing. But what we’re protecting at Blackpoint is the identity. What we observed in 2025 is this interesting shift where, yes, there’s vulnerabilities, there will continue to be vulnerabilities. However, threat actors don’t necessarily need to weaponize those vulnerabilities to gain access into an environment. They’re not really targeting customers or companies with any specific new zero-day technology or exploits that are novel. They’re just logging in using stolen passwords. We’re still at that pivotal point, but we’re still talking about the same things we’ve been talking about, password reuse, making sure you’re protecting yourself from phishing emails, so on and so forth. But the reality is that threat actors are getting in. They’re stealing credentials and they’re using legitimate tools to just log in, walking through the front door. Robert Dutt: Yeah, the headline from the report was very catchy with the attackers are no longer trying to break in. They’re just logging in, as you say. And that framing echoes what we’ve seen in other reports elsewhere. People are calling 2025 the year of the abuse of trust in terms of security trends, but your numbers are operational and not survey-based. I’m curious what trusted compromise looks like from where you sit. Is there really a shift away from what you were seeing a couple of years ago or three years ago, or has this always been the playbook and we’re only now measuring it properly? Wil Santiago: Yeah, so if I compare back to, let’s say, 2022, I think we at Blackpoint would still see a trend, the threat actors gaining access into an environment, usually using some type of exploit at that time. You can point to a number of Microsoft Exchange exploits that happened during that time. The Hafnium group was doing a lot of Exchange exploits. The reality is there came a certain time where we were detecting Cobalt Strike, a malware commodity tool, every single day in Blackpoint Cyber’s SOC. And then eventually it became once a week, and then it became once a month. So then we started to think, well, what’s happening with the shift of tactics with the threat actors? And what we found is instead of installing Cobalt Strike, they started to install legitimate IT tools. And that’s the trust component. When they’re installing tools that you use internally, they now can abuse those tools the same way that you use those legitimately. And so we have these threat actors that not only are abusing legitimate tools, but like I said, they’re abusing legitimate identities. So when you have what I call the keys to the kingdom, the passwords, I am you. I am now Robert, for all intents and purposes for this sort of webinar. I think the interesting part that we’ve seen at Blackpoint is that threat actors have really, really focused on leave-behinds. And those leave-behinds are commodity remote management tools. Why do they do that? Because EDRs don’t know how to detect them as malicious, right? These are legitimate IT tools that are being used to service MSPs and their customers. And a threat actor just installs their version of the same exact tool that you’re using legitimately. Right? And so the trust component is you go to review your assets and you see ScreenConnect installed in your environments because you use ScreenConnect, right? But then when you start taking a closer look, you start to realize, wait a second, there’s four different ScreenConnect IDs on this one machine. Now we have a more of a problem, right? And so the attack is a little bit of an invisible signature detection because it’s an authorized tool, right? And so we really have to get to this layer of identifying threat actor activity with behavior context. If you’re an AnyDesk shop, then why do you have TeamViewer installed on your file server that’s publicly facing, right? Let’s start to ask those questions and dig into that a little bit. Robert Dutt: Your SOC found that fake CAPTCHA and ClickFix campaigns accounted for, I think it was 50-odd percent of identifiable incidents. That’s a majority of attacks being driven by a technique that essentially requires the victim to step on the link to execute it themselves. Why is that scaling so fast right now? And especially for an MSP who tends to think, you know, my technicians are too smart to do that. What’s kind of the honest answer for what they need to be looking for and protecting against? Wil Santiago: Yeah. And, you know, ClickFix is such an easy attack when you really get into the root of what it does. But it starts with social engineering. You’re enticing someone, again, just like with phishing, to visit something that you’re going to tell them to do an action. And most of the time, they’re going to do that action. Now, why this is so effective is we’re seeing techniques that really enable the threat actor to deliver the payload. And how do they do that? Search engine optimization, right? These SEO links at the top, when you go look for an OBS installer, because you need your camera to look well, or you get a Google sponsor result. Threat actors are just buying those sponsored results and delivering their payloads on there. You click on it thinking you’re going to download OBS, and then it tells you, hey, wait a second, you have to make sure that you are human. Verify that we’re used to verifying we’re humans to download something. So we go and we click it. But then it says, hey, open up your Windows Run command and maybe run this command on us, on your computer for us. And what happens? Threat actors go and they put the commands on a website. They have this watering hole spread out all throughout infrastructure that’s globally distributed. Google, Microsoft, all these sort of cloud infrastructure hosting providers that exist. Threat actors use those. So when you’re looking at your firewall logs and you’re seeing your internal team going to Microsoft.com, hey, it’s Microsoft, right? But the reality is, it’s likely an Azure Blob site that’s just being hosted on Microsoft, that is a threat actor that’s actually hosting it. And so they’re abusing that trust function to say, hey, you need this OBS installer. You Googled it. I didn’t tell you to go Google that. You were the one that did that. And then they found my link, which I posted a malicious payload there. And so again, that abuse factor is all the things we’ve taught our employees, our customers, our MSPs to do, right? Go to Google, make sure you identify the link. Make sure you look for Microsoft. Make sure you see the end of a URL or domain. Validate that. Well, the adversary goes, okay, they want to play that game. I’m just going to host this on Cloudflare. And now we’re back to this gate where now someone clicks on something. Well, what’s this Cloudflare? That’s a legitimate service. I know that to be true, right? It’s very true. The reality is the infrastructure is very, very easy to set up. And it doesn’t require a lot of action. It just requires someone to take a command and put it on their machine. And all the background work happens in the background, right? And so beyond that, we used to see a lot of threat actors use this sort of technique to download malware onto machines. But again, going back to what I mentioned about RMMs, now they’re just downloading an RMM. And that just looks like a legitimate process to an EDR. Robert Dutt: Right. So for an MSP, especially when training or making sure their technicians are aware, is it just as simple as making sure they’re aware of this threat landscape and this wrinkle in it? Or is there something more that’s sort of the advice there on how to protect yourself as best you can? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question. And really, you know, I would say any MSP watching this show, starting today or tomorrow, the first thing that I always tell people, audit your RMM inventory. Asset inventory is the number one thing that customers should be doing, right? You cannot protect what you don’t know exists. And so every single remote management tool that’s deployed across every endpoint you manage, every server you manage, you need to audit those, right? Like you’re giving direct access to a system. And most of the time, those RMMs run in the system context, which means they have the permissions and privileges of any admin, right? And now you have this adversary that has a foothold. They can deploy tools using admin privileges and permissions. So you have to audit your RMM inventory, right? Making sure that you understand what’s happening across those production servers. And forcing MFA, that’s a big one. We see a lot of incidents that source from RMM abuse because they log into the MSP’s RMM console, the cloud-based consoles. Some of those don’t have MFA involved. Again, keys to the kingdom, MFA everywhere, that needs to be a reality. Then we need to start moving into what I call more resilient engineering, right? Conditional access policies, preventing individuals from logging in from untrusted sources, locations, right? There’s ways that you can lock down access to an RMM and assume a threat actor is able to steal credentials because they maybe installed an info stealer on a user’s machine, stole their browser credentials. They reuse the same credentials for Gmail that they do for their corporate environment. Well, now a threat actor just perusing finds their credentials and says, “Oh, I’ve got IT Glue permissions now. I’m going to go log into this and restore all these configs in IT Glue or whatever tools out there.” Well, now the threat actor has access to that. And so that’s how they’re pivoting across these environments. They’re going from cloud to on-prem, on-prem to cloud. One of the things that we caught at Blackpoint recently, and this was a really cool response, but the threat actor compromised the cloud environment first. They then took that cloud access, deployed an RMM using Intune to the devices, and then they used that on-prem access to go to those machines and do their own work directly from that console. I called it overkill. They didn’t have to do that because they had the cloud environment. But because they did that, that sort of prompted this investigation for this MSP to approach us and say, “Hey, we believe something is happening. We investigated and quickly saw the Intune process was the responsible process for deploying some of this malware. So we told them, “Hey, deploy our cloud response suite. We want to understand what’s happening in your cloud.” And sure enough, seven global admins were compromised. So again, limiting scope is important here, right? Least privilege. Why do we have so many people with admin privileges and permissions? I think there’s 192 admin roles or something like that in Microsoft, but we default to just, you get global admin, you get all the permissions. And so now an adversary compromises a Microsoft 365 tenant. Well, now they have the permissions of a global admin. And unfortunately for us, when we shifted from the on-prem strategy to the cloud strategy, we just started pushing everything in the cloud and we say, “Oh, it’s fine. It’s in SharePoint.” We didn’t realize though that that’s only being protected by a password and an MFA token, both of which can be stolen, right? So the protection is not really there. That’s why we have to move to that resilient engineering. And so it’s moving from that reactive alerting to that posture alerting, right? Why is someone trying to log in from France? We have nobody in France. Robert Dutt: So your report showed almost a third of triaged incidents involved RMM abuse. And that’s something, that kind of trend line is something that we’ve seen in other reports. You know, one of your peers is talking about a 200 plus percent spike in abuse of RMM in attacks. I’m curious, especially since you’re sitting in the SOC there, what does RMM based intrusion actually look like in the SOC here? You know, I’m guessing curious, is there a moment where it’s genuinely hard to tell, you know, is this actually a tech doing a routine task or is this an attacker? And if so, what kind of breaks the tie and causes you to go, “No, no, that’s not right.” Wil Santiago: Yeah. Well, there’s kind of two ways to look at it, right? We have threat actors that are compromising MSP RMM tools. These are tools that are owned, managed by the MSP. They’re usually protected with some cloud login, whether they self-host it or they have the vendor host it for them. Threat actors can log into those systems with a password and a username, right? So we see a lot of brute forcing of those systems, especially if they’re self-hosted systems, they usually don’t have the protections of the vendors. They don’t put a WAF in front of them. And so they’ll try to brute force them and just log in, right? Those are few and far between, to be quite honest. We don’t see those as often, but what we do see often is, again, they gain access into an environment, usually by compromising a VPN. Now they’re on the network. Now they can move throughout that network as they’re on the VPN, and they’ll usually find a foothold. And if they have a credential like a local admin, they’ll take that one foothold and then they’ll distribute their RMM across that entire fleet of the network with one command from that foothold. So for us, when we’re looking at RMM deployments, MSPs deploy RMMs in a certain manner and format. They’re not deploying an RMM at two o’clock in the morning on a Saturday when they’re a US-based company. And oh, by the way, they just logged in from a Chinese-based IP, right? So again, there’s indicators that are very clear cut of like, okay, this deployment of RMM tools absolutely malicious. Most of those cases come to the case of, you know, we have application control within Blackpoint that allows us to alert when someone is installing a new application that’s unauthorized. And so what we tell our MSPs to do is, hey, set up your policies that if you’re a Ninja RMM shop, you cannot have any other installations of any other RMM. ScreenConnect is not going to be involved. And so that allows us and affords us the ability to do is, when we get that alert that says someone’s attempting to install a ScreenConnect, we can go back and sort of recreate the path of how do they get here. And what that allows us to really get into is, again, that response, right? And that response is preventing the installation of the RMM, eradicating the threat actor by isolating the machine, making sure you remove their footholds, getting those SSL VPNs off of the public facing internet, and having that exposure management reduced, right? And so when we look at RMM abuse in practice, once they get that RMM installed, again, they’re living off the land with system privileges. System privileges is something that most people tend to understand, but it’s just keys to the kingdom. You are God mode at that point. You can do whatever you feel to deploy and ultimately spread your access with that level of access, right? And so they’ll use it for backdoors. And oftentimes, they may compromise the environment and say, “You know what? I’m busy.” We’ve actually seen this over the holidays where they go take their breaks. Just like everyone else does. It’s Christmas. I’ve done a lot of hacking. So they leave their leave-behind tools and they come back. That’s their access factor. Again, it’s one of those things where they’re hiding in plain sight. Robert Dutt: You touched on MFA a little while ago and the report flagged the use of adversary-in-the-middle attacks. AiTM attacks that let threat actors hijack authenticated sessions, even when the MFA is there. So I guess what’s the message to MSPs who are thinking, “All right, if we just get MFA everywhere, we’re good, we’re covered.” Wil Santiago: Token protection, right? MFA is great. You have to have it. But understand that there’s flaws in the way that MFA communicates to servers. And so the whole way that an adversary-in-the-middle attack works is by abusing OAuth. And OAuth is a standard protocol of just making sure that we understand how systems should communicate for authentication. And what’s really nice about that is we can take that offensive research and then make defensive practices towards that. And so token protection is really huge there. There are a lot of built-in protections in Microsoft that allow you to invalidate session tokens after a certain period of time. Every hour you could refresh these tokens. You now, again, when you get to this resilient engineering, you start to push the adversary to be a little bit more aggressive. And that’s your detection mechanism. When you allow an adversary to move unfettered throughout a network, they’re going to move unfettered throughout a network. But the moment that you give them that sort of, “Eh, stop here. Let me see your ID.” Then they start to get a little uneasy. They’re like, “Wait a second. I don’t know how to move anymore.” And so specifically in MFA, when we talk about session hijacking and session tokens, the token protection aspect is really important because that’s a conditional access policy that you can implement. And most people do not implement those conditional access policies. Now, there’s a slew of them that work in conjunction with each other. But the idea here is your tokens will likely be compromised at some point. If you are duped into clicking one of these phishing links, it’s very easy to steal a session token. So we have to move past that. Now that we know that’s going to happen, how do we prevent the adversary from actually using those session tokens successfully? And that’s where invalidating the sessions comes in, having the session protection, conditional access policies, protected devices, things of that sort. That prevents them from being able to use those session tokens. Robert Dutt: A stat that I keep looking at in the report was that you guys managed to disrupt in the SOC 55, 56 percent of incidents before a payload was deployed. It’s a real number. That’s pretty significant. I guess what is disrupted before the payload hits mean operationally? And what does it tell us about where the detection opportunity actually lives? Because it sounds like the window isn’t did malware execute? It’s something a lot earlier. Wil Santiago: That’s exactly right. When we look at the cyber kill chain, we want to start pushing our adversaries as far left of boom as possible. Right. And so when you hear about this whole right of boom concept, basically, you’ve met your match. And now boom, you’ve now been impacted. Right. And so there’s a lot of indicators of compromise that we can start to hone in on. That will give us an understanding of whether this is legitimate or illegitimate. Right before an adversary even types the command. And again, that’s the context. And the context is what the SOC is really understanding of a customer. Where do they operate? What are their hours of operation? Where are they globally distributed? What’s the infrastructure they use? What are the tools they use? How did they use those tools? Did they deploy tools every Thursday at 2 p.m.? So there’s this constant checklist that they’re doing every single day to understand this. And so when we talk about living off the land, threat actors are trying to execute commands. Right. They’re just trying to sit there. We’re typing on a keyboard command line. Hey, I’m not going to introduce any new factors to my intrusion. I’m just going to live off the land. Ultimately, they want to deploy a payload at the end of all of that. But if they deploy a payload too early in their kill chain, they risk getting caught. Right. And so what they’ll do is they’ll stage everything. They’ll compromise an endpoint. They’ll add a persistent backdoor user. They’ll deploy some small scripts to enumerate the network. Just to get an understanding of what’s happening. But they’ll usually stage those in like a C:UsersMusic folder. And that’s their staging environment. So you can catch them. And we’ve caught at Blackpoint a number of threat actors where their toolkits are still on the machine because we caught them so early left of boom that legitimately all they did was log into a machine, try to mount a share, but it failed. And then that failed share mount is like, wait a second. They have never tried to mount a share on this file server ever. And then you call the MSP and they’re like, yeah, Monday through Friday, our hours are from eight to three and it’s seven p.m. at Thursday. Right. Well, now the context of the intrusion starts to become a little bit more apparent. And so we have to do this very quickly. The reality is for us, behavioral context, it matters more than ever. That is the true bread and butter for stopping threat adversaries is understanding the behaviors in the context of which they employ to compromise the network or compromise an endpoint. And so we focus a lot of our threat intelligence and our adversarial intrusion analysis based off of what hack or tradecraft is. We always say this internally, you cannot protect what you don’t know how to hack. So we spend a lot of our time recreating these attacks, understanding where do we catch them? And one of the things that we found is in those early development cycles of understanding the behaviors of an adversary, we found key indicators of like, wait, that is a very high fidelity indicator that before an adversary even gets on a keyboard, we’ve already caught them. They don’t know that yet. Right. And so that’s a little bit of our secret sauce there. But the reality is that secret sauce was created because we thought like threat actors and we sort of recreated what they did in controlled environments and testing environments to then to make sure the detection and the efficacy of what they’re doing is caught within our product. Robert Dutt: So this is a bit of a sidebar, but it was a new term, at least to me. You flagged Etherhiding in the report, attackers embedding malicious logic and blockchain smart contracts to manage compromised sites. Can you walk me through that real quick? And how real is this in terms of how widely it’s being deployed today? And why does it matter for detection purposes? Wil Santiago: It’s a newer term. You know, I would like to say that we have way too many terms in security and security, you know, sort of like we’re trying to be cool. The reality is this is a technique that leverages transactions on a public blockchain to basically retrieve malicious payloads. Right. And so this is another sort of trend that an adversary is using where they’re just retrieving a payload from something that is trusted. In this case, cryptocurrency. A lot of people trust cryptocurrency. A lot of people trust public blockchains. And so the idea here is that, you know, threat actors are usually going to utilize some type of social engineering and then that social engineering is going to get you to come to like a WordPress site through that WordPress site. They’re going to basically have scripts that you’re going to download and ultimately run. Innocuously. Now, when that happens, you download something that you think is OBS, like the example I gave earlier, it’s actually a JavaScript payload. Well, that JavaScript payload goes and reaches out and it pulls a malicious payload from the ether blockchain. Right. And so that’s that aspect of there’s function calls that we’ve identified within Blackpoint that are related to that remote management of pulling payloads from that blockchain. My personal opinion of this sort of technique is, you know, it gives a lot of advantage to the threat actors in terms of stealth and flexibility. But it is one of those techniques that is complicated for majority of what we see at Blackpoint. Most threat actors are not getting to that complicated level of compromising. They’re just hosting malware on a compromised WordPress site of a legitimate company that they’ve co-opted the passwords for. Right. And again, we see threat actors from different angles. 90 percent of what we see sort of today is cybercrime related. Right. So you have a lot of the fake CAPTCHA, the ClickFix lures, the Etherhiding stuff. The reality is at the end of that payload, we see everything from Etherhiding to Cobalt Strike to ransomware and compromise. The way that they get to that sort of compromise is kind of the same, though. Robert Dutt: Last one for me, if an MSP is listening to this and they’ve just absorbed that, you know, more than half of the attacks they’re going to see start with legitimate credentials, their own tools are showing up in about a third of incidents. MFA isn’t necessarily a guarantee. Where do you start? You know, what’s the one thing they probably aren’t doing today that would meaningfully move the needle for them in terms of making sure things are as locked down, as protected as is possible? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question. I like to say we should probably be spending most of our time right now really focusing on posture and posture management, reducing the attack surface. Right. How do you how do you start? Where do you start reducing the attack surface? This is where frameworks really come into play. And there’s some really great frameworks that are really prescriptive out there. One of them is the Center for Internet Security Controls, CIS version 8.1. It’s very prescriptive and it starts from the very top, right? External facing assets and applications. How do you lock those down? Cloud assets and applications, internal assets, user accounts, passwords, right? And it gives you a prescriptive way to deal with incidents. Beyond that, there’s kind of this like practical implementation groups that they have, right? And so you can start by implementing the CIS Controls with implementing one Implementation Group, right? You don’t have to implement them all. And so I think there’s a subset of Implementation Groups that can be used, but it’s about identifying, you know, what of these sort of subset groups will really resonate with your organization and your maturity level, right? And so I tell most people, look at IG1, start with the essentials. If you’ve already fit the bill on that, then move to IG2, right? But the reality is IG1 is going to give you that foundational security for organizations. And then IG2 and IG3 are going to be a little bit more advanced for more complex things. Most people are probably in that IG1, but they probably could benefit from some of the things in the IG2, the Implementation Groups there. That’s really going to help you really target your defenses against ransomware. That’s going to help you sort of approach a risk-based approach. That’s another thing that, you know, all risk is not the same, right? Risk is treated differently. And it’s important for anyone running a security team to help understand how should I prioritize my risk, right? Where is my risk going to really give me issues if a threat actor gets into it? And therefore, I always say, start there. We all know what keeps us up at night. So that’s the areas that we need to focus on. Robert Dutt: All right. Some sage advice and some sobering numbers as well. I appreciate your taking the time and walking us through some good stuff. Wil Santiago: Thank you, Robert. I really appreciate it. Robert Dutt: There you have it. Wil Santiago from Blackpoint Cyber. I’d like to thank Wil for his time today and for bringing some real energy to what can sometimes be pretty dense subject matter. And of course, I’d like to thank you for listening. The data in this conversation is worth thinking about. More than half of the attacks Blackpoint’s SOC starts with someone simply logging in, using credentials that were stolen sometimes long ago, and that users are still reusing across platforms. A third of triaged incidents involve RMM tools, the same tools your techs are using right now to manage endpoints. And MFA, as much as we’ve come to rely on it, is no longer the finish line it once appeared to be. The antidote Wil describes is behavioral context, understanding what normal looks like in an environment so you can spot when something legitimate is being done illegitimately. Not “Is this malware?” But “Is this person, using this tool at this hour from this location, doing something they’ve never done before?” That’s a fundamentally different way about thinking of detection, and it’s why the human element in the SOC still matters. And I’ll add one thing that Wil mentioned after we wrapped the recording. It’s a dimension of this fight that doesn’t get talked about often enough. Blackpoint’s work doesn’t stop at detection and response. They’re actively working to identify and disrupt adversary infrastructure, notifying law enforcement, including, he noted, Canadian authorities, with the specific goal of making cybercrime economically painful. The logic is straightforward. If your infrastructure gets taken down every time you try to run a campaign, the math of operating a criminal enterprise starts to change. That’s offense, and it sounds like they’re playing it. If you’re finding the show valuable, I’d encourage you to follow or subscribe to the podcast. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, all the major directories. A rating review always helps. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.
Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower is taking 2026 to read through and preach through the Bible using the "One Story That Leads To Jesus" Bible reading plan (created by "The Bible Project"). To this end, Pastor Nate and Pastor Dan are recording their usual "sermon prep" conversation as a podcast so you can get a bird's eye view of the process, and perhaps grow in your own understanding and faith. This conversation is rough and unfinished, and not everything we talk about will make its way into the final teaching. But it hopefully gives you some additional food for thought. You can find the Bible Project here https://bibleproject.com/ You can find Cornerstone's Bible reading plan on YouVersion at bit/ly/bible2026 If that link doesn't work, try this one: https://bible.com/reading-plans/63058/together/77575397/invitation?token=2fhhVCf64-7PERhIujBwQA&source=share Or you can scan the QR code on the Podcast thumbnail!
How would you say in Japanese? --- "If you buy two, the third one is free (Buy two, get the third one free!)."[✐3.Moderato] conditional と(to) sentence]“When you pull this, the emergency door will open.”[00:08]Hello, everyone. How are youdoing? If you practice speaking Japanese every day, all of sudden, your Japanese will get better one day.Repeat after me[00:22]1. When you press here, the door will open.(= Press here and the door will open.)2. When you press here, the door will close.3. When you press this, the light will turn on.4. When you press this, the light will turn off.5. When you turn this, the sound gets louder.6. When you turn this, the sound gets quieter.7. When you touch here, it will make a sound.8. When you pull this lever down, the chair will move (you can move the chair).9. When you put money in here, a ticket will come out.10. When you pull this, the emergency door will open.(hijou doa = emergency door)[03:03]Now, makea sentence as follows.push here, door, open→ When you push here, the door will open.Ready?[03:17]1. here, push, close→ When you push here, the door will close.2. this, push, air conditioner, turn on→ Wne you press this, the air conditioner will turn on.3. this, push, computer, turn on→ When you push this, the computer will turn on.4. this, turn to the right, sound, gets louder→ When you turn this to the right, the sound gets louder.5. this, turn to the left, sound, get quieter→ When you turn this to the left, the sound gets quieter.6. this lever, pull down, recline a seat/backrest→ When you pull this lever down, the seat can be reclined.(semotare = back of the chair)(semotare wo taosu = recline)7. push this, chair, get higher→ When you push this, the chair gets higher. (= you can raise the chair)8. put money, the game stars→ When you put money in, the game will start.=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=「これをひくと、ひじょうドアがあきます」[00:08]みなさん、こんにちは。おげんきですか。まいにちにほんごのスピーキングを れんしゅうすると、あるひ、 とつぜん、にほんごがぐっとじょうたつしますよ。では、はじめましょう!Repeat after me[00:22]1. ここを おすと、ドアが あきます。2. ここを おすと、ドアが しまります。3. これを おすと、でんきが つきます。4. これを おすと、でんきが きえます。5. これを まわすと、おとが おおきくなります。6. これを まわすと、おとが ちいさくなります。7. ここに ふれると、おとが でます。8. このレバーをたおすと、いすが うごきます。9. ここをおすと、いすが ひくくなります。10. おかねを いれると、きっぷが でます。11. ここをおすと、えきいんと はなしが できます。12. これをひくと、ひじょうドアがあきます。(ひじょうドア= Emergency Door)[03:03]では、つぎのようにぶんをつくってくださいここをおします ドア あきます→ ここをおすと、ドアがあきます。いいですか。[03:17]1. ここ おします ドア しまります→ ここをおすと、ドアがしまります。2. これ おします エアコン つきます→ これをおすと、エアコンが つきます。3. これ おします コンピューター つきます→ これをおすと、コンピューターが つきます。4. これ みぎに まわします おと おおきく なります→ これをみぎにまわすと、おとが おおきくなります。5. これ、ひだりにまわします おと、ちいさくなります→ これをひだりにまわすと、おとが ちいさく なります。6. このレバー たおします せもたれをたおします→ このレバーをたおすと、せもたれをたおすことができます。(せもたれ = back of the chair)(せもたれを たおす = recline)7. これをおします いす たかくなります→ これをおすと、いすがたかくなります。8. おかねをいれます ゲームがはじまります→ おかねをいれると、ゲームがは じまります。Support the show=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=Need more translation & transcript? Become a patron: More episodes with full translation and Japanese transcripts. Members-only podcast feed for your smartphone app. Japanese Swotter on PatreonNote: English translations might sound occasionally unnatural as English, as I try to preserve the structure and essence of the original Japanese.
In this episode of the Tactical Living Podcast, hosts Coach Ashlie Walton and Sergeant Clint Walton talk about a struggle that lives in the space where faith and first responder work intersect — the quiet, disorienting experience of watching your belief in God become conditional on outcomes you cannot control and cannot always make sense of. This is not about losing faith. It is about the version of faith that survives the calls where everything went wrong, the deaths that made no sense, the prayers that felt unanswered, and the outcomes that changed you in ways you are still trying to understand. This episode is an honest conversation about what happens to belief when the job keeps providing evidence that is hard to reconcile with the God you thought you knew.
Who Am I Without the Hustle?What happens when you strip away the degrees, promotions, job titles, accomplishments, and constant productivity?Who are you then?In this deeply personal episode of Let Me Fix My Crown, Regina gets honest about achievement addiction, productivity guilt, and what it feels like when your identity becomes more connected to your résumé than to the woman underneath it all.For years, Regina's hustle was fueled by survival, family responsibility, ambition, and the desire to create a life that looked different from the one she grew up seeing. Every degree, promotion, and opportunity represented growth—but somewhere along the way, constantly achieving became the norm, and slowing down started to feel uncomfortable.Now, as she prepares to enter a new decade of life, Regina is asking herself a different question:Am I chasing purpose—or am I trying to prove that I am worthy?In this episode, we're talking about:✨ Achievement addiction and why success can become difficult to stop chasing✨ The pressure to immediately move on to the next goal✨ When your identity becomes tied to your career and accomplishments✨ The emotional side of promotions, degrees, and professional growth✨ Productivity guilt and why doing nothing can feel so uncomfortable✨ How survival mode affects rest, silence, and the nervous system✨ Conditional self-worth and the belief that you must produce to matter✨ Becoming a softer, more intentional version of yourself✨ Learning to separate who you are from what you doConditional self-worth happens when you only feel valuable while you are producing, helping, fixing, achieving, or succeeding.But your worth was never supposed to depend on your productivity.Your accomplishments may change. Your titles may change. Your career may change.Your value does not.Take out your journal and answer this question:Who are you without mentioning your job, degree, income, relationship status, motherhood, or accomplishments?Do not rush the answer. Sit with yourself. Come back to it more than once if you need to.Then ask yourself:What am I unlearning in this season of my life?Maybe this week, instead of asking, “What do I need to accomplish next?” ask:“Who am I becoming?”Because titles change. Careers change. Promotions come and go.But the woman you are becoming?She is the real accomplishment.Listen now, complete the reflection exercise, and share your answer with Regina on Spotify or Instagram.Until next time, protect your peace, honor your healing, and do not forget to take care of the woman behind the crown.
Warum suchen manche Menschen ständig den nächsten Kick, während andere vor allem in emotionalen Momenten Entscheidungen treffen, die sie später bereuen? In dieser Folge von Betreutes Fühlen schauen Leon und Atze auf die vielen Gesichter der Impulsivität: Sensation Seeking, emotionale Impulse und die Frage, warum manche Menschen besser innehalten können als andere. Eine Folge über die Kunst, sich manchmal treiben zu lassen – und manchmal besser nicht. Fühlt euch gut betreut Leon & Atze Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leonwindscheid/ https://www.instagram.com/atzeschroeder_offiziell/ Mehr zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/betreutesfuehlen Tickets: Atze: https://www.atzeschroeder.de/#termine Leon: https://leonwindscheid.de/tour/ Quellen Berg, J. M., Latzman, R. D., Bliwise, N. G., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2015). Parsing the heterogeneity of impulsivity: A meta-analytic review of the behavioral implications of the UPPS for psychopathology. Psychological Assessment, 27(4), 1129–1146. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000111 Chase, H. W., & Ghane, M. (2023). Seeking pleasure, finding trouble: Functions and dysfunctions of trait sensation seeking. Current Addiction Reports, 10(2), 140–148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-023-00484-5 Fisher-Fox, L., Prestigiacomo, C. J., & Cyders, M. A. (2024). Urgency theory in the context of broader emotion theories: A conceptual review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, Article 1403639. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1403639 Mallard, T. T., Tubbs, J. D., Jennings, M., Zhang, Y., Gustavson, D. E., Grotzinger, A. D., … Sanchez-Roige, S. (2026). Characterizing the pleiotropic architecture of impulsivity and its links to psychopathology and neurodevelopment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 183(1), 31–47. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240382 Maples-Keller, J. L., Berke, D. S., Few, L. R., & Miller, J. D. (2016). A review of sensation seeking and its empirical correlates: Dark, bright, and neutral hues. https://doi.org/10.1037/14854-008 McCabe, C. J., Louie, K. A., & King, K. M. (2015). Premeditation moderates the relation between sensation seeking and risky substance use among young adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 29(3), 753–761. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000075 Psychology Today. (2000, November). Are you a risk taker? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200011/are-you-a-risk-taker Reuters. (2026, July 1). Two people unfurl peace banner from New York's Empire State Building spire. https://www.reuters.com/world/two-people-unfurl-peace-banner-new-yorks-empire-state-building-spire-2026-07-01 Sperry, S. H., Lynam, D. R., Walsh, M. A., Horton, L. E., & Kwapil, T. R. (2016). Examining the multidimensional structure of impulsivity in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 153–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.018 The Guardian. (2024, July 16). Skywalkers: A Love Story review. https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/16/skywalkers-a-love-story-review Verma, A. K., & Chivukula, U. (2023). The effect of affect, sensation seeking, and premeditation on risky decision-making: Conditional process analysis. PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0281324. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281324 Wormington, B., Imms, P., & Derks, E. M. (2026). To lump or not to lump: Evidence for impulsivity as a multidimensional construct. American Journal of Psychiatry, 183(1), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240382 Wüllhorst, V., Lützkendorf, J., & Endrass, T. (2024). Validation of the German long and short versions of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 80(10), 2099–2116. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23724 Reaktion: Julia Ditzer Produktion: Murmel Productions
Episode Summary Evan shares his story as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness whose family joined the organization during a period of marital vulnerability. After his father died of HIV-related complications when Evan was just three years old, the family faced intense judgment and stigma within the congregation, leading them to relocate to a rural "compound" in North Carolina for a fresh start. Growing up, Evan was fueled by the "resurrection hope"—the promise that if he remained obedient and "did more" for the organization, he would eventually be reunited with his father. The episode explores the heavy psychological toll of this upbringing, including the "bloodguilt" placed on children to convert their peers and the "reverse parenting" Evan performed while his mother struggled with severe mental health issues. Evan details his transition from a socially unprepared "clip-on tie" child to a rebellious teenager leading a double life, which eventually culminated in a judicial committee and his expulsion at age 20. Now 40, Evan reflects on his journey of rebuilding his own identity, the "superpower" of personal autonomy, and how he created a "chosen family" outside the walls of the Kingdom Hall. Key Takeaways Resurrection Hope as Leverage: The organization uses the grief of losing a parent to "double down" on a child's commitment, making their future reunion dependent on constant religious performance. The "Cage" of Protection: Evan deconstructs the common JW illustration that the organization is a protective "cage" in a shark-infested ocean, arguing that a cage is still a restricting cage regardless of the perceived safety it provides. Autonomy as a Superpower: Leaving the organization provides a "clean slate" where an individual can finally choose their own morals, circle of friends, and identity without institutional permission. Institutional Gaslighting: The organization's culture is designed to make members doubt themselves and their own perceptions, effectively teaching obedience over identity. Financial and Emotional Retaliation: Even after leaving, members may face continued attempts at control, such as Evan's mother attempting to commit tax fraud involving him or demanding rent from her "checking out" teenage son. Direct Quotes "Autonomy is the coolest thing in the world. And once you have it, it never stops." "You learn obedience, not identity." "Conditional love is not love. Everything in the organization is conditional." Resources Mentioned ExJwHelp.com (Cult recovery coaching and resources). patreon.com/shunned (Bonus content and guest connections). shunnedpodcast.com (Merchandise and story submissions). thisjwlife.com (The host's original podcast story). becomingjehovah.com (The host's book, Becoming Jehovah). My Book of Bible Stories (Referenced regarding childhood trauma and violent imagery). "Kingdom Melodies" tape. Revelation—Its Grand Climax at Hand! (Referenced regarding fire and brimstone imagery). Guest Bio Evan is a 40-year-old former third-generation Jehovah's Witness and business owner who successfully reclaimed his life after being shunned in his early 20s. He is a musician and advocate for inner-child healing who believes that personal autonomy is the ultimate superpower for those recovering from high-control environments. Support the show and get bonuses as well by donating to the cause on our Patreon page, Patreon.com/shunned Are you struggling in some area of life? Feeling stuck? Need an accountability partner or some encouragement? Need to talk to someone that understands cult life? Reach out and let's talk. I have affordable programs to help as a certified life coach with a focus on cult recovery. Click HERE for more information. Want more resources? Go to my other website exjwHelp.com Leave us a review on iTunes Find shunned podcast on Youtube, including new VIDcasts here. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. You can listen to the Shunned Podcast Spotify playlist here for all of the songs chosen by guests of the show. This podcast was made possible by my original podcast This JW Life. You can find it on any podcast app. It is a 9 part series about life as Jehovah's Witnesses designed to help you understand how it worked in one comprehensive story and to help you process your own if you came from that environment. Read my FREE online book, based on This JW Life, called Becoming Jehovah, in both English and Spanish by clicking here An ExJW podcast and ExJW YouTube Channel
The Michael Yardney Podcast | Property Investment, Success & Money
Right now, thousands of Australian property investors are being drawn to off-the-plan properties like moths to a flame. And I understand why. After the 2026 Federal Budget changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, new properties are suddenly looking very attractive. The marketing is glossy, the tax benefits sound compelling, and the salespeople are convincing. But here's what those salespeople won't tell you. Signing that contract is the easy part. What happens over the next two years - and at settlement - can financially ruin you. Today, I'm chatting with Dorian Traill, Senior Wealth Strategist at Metropole, who walks us through exactly how the finance side of these deals works, and more importantly, all the ways it can go catastrophically wrong. If you or someone you know is being tempted by an off-the-plan purchase right now, you need to hear this episode before you sign anything. And even if you're not interested in buying off the plan at present, there's going to be some great tips from Dorian to help you as a property investor. In this episode, we discuss the hidden risks of buying off the plan in today's changing market. We unpack why glossy marketing, tax incentives, and pre-sales can make these projects look safer than they really are. We discuss how long settlement timelines expose buyers to finance changes, income shocks, and valuation gaps. We explore why lender caution, oversupply, and shrinking loan ratios can derail a deal at settlement. We also look at how contract clauses, design changes, and delayed builds can leave investors trapped in risky commitments. Takeaways • Off-the-plan sales help developers secure bank funding by proving enough pre-sales. • Buyers often commit years before completion, increasing exposure to changing circumstances. • Conditional finance approvals usually expire long before settlement arrives. • Lenders may reject loans in oversupplied postcodes or high-rise buildings. • A lower valuation at settlement can force buyers to find extra cash. • Oversupply can push rents down after temporary rental guarantees end. • Small apartments often attract fewer buyers and weaker resale competition. • Contract variation clauses can reduce apartment size or alter finishes materially. • If a developer fails, buyers may remain trapped in limbo. • Tax benefits cannot rescue a poorly chosen property or weak location. Links and Resources: Answer this week's trivia question here - https://www.propertytrivia.com.au/ • Win a hard copy of How To Grow A Multi-Million Dollar Property Portfolio In Your Spare Time. • Every entry receives a copy of a fully updated Michael Yardney Property Report. Get the team at Metropole to help build your personal Strategic Property Plan. Click here and have a chat with us Dorian Traill – Senior Wealth Strategist at Metropole. https://metropole.com.au/expert/dorian-traill/ Michael Yardney – Subscribe to my Property Update newsletter here Get a bundle of eBooks and Reports at: www.PodcastBonus.com.au Also, please subscribe to my other podcast Demographics Decoded with Simon Kuestenmacher – just look for Demographics Decoded wherever you are listening to this podcast and subscribe so each week we can unveil the trends shaping your future. About The Michael Yardney Podcast | Property Investment And Wealth Creation Australia Success in property investment isn't just about numbers - it's about mindset, behaviour and decision making. In The Michael Yardney Podcast, we explore the psychology of wealth, the habits of successful investors, and how to think strategically during uncertain market conditions. Regular topics include: • Psychology of money and wealth• Investor behaviour and market cycles• Rich habits vs poor habits• High performance mindset• Risk management thinking• Decision making under pressure• Long-term investing discipline• Overcoming fear in property markets• Building wealth through strategy, not speculation If you want to avoid common investor mistakes and develop the mindset required to build lasting wealth in Australia's property market, this podcast is for you. More resources at:https://propertyupdate.com.auhttps://metropole.com.au
Send us Fan MailConcern is one of the most socially approved forms of anxiety, and that's exactly why it can be so hard to see. We talk about the moment “I'm just worried about you” stops being love and starts becoming pressure, projection, and control. When concern turns into rumination, diagnosing, or mentally rehearsing what someone should do, it doesn't deepen connection. It quietly wedges the ego into the relationship and steals the ease that makes love feel safe. We also get concrete about how this shows up in real life: snapping a correction that carries irritation, spiralling about money and logistics, judging health choices, or building rigid protocols that create inner battles. Using an A Course in Miracles frame, we explore a simple practice: treat any upset or disturbance as a signal that the mind needs correction, not proof that the world is dangerous. That shift is not bypassing feelings. It is learning what feelings are actually for. From there we zoom out to bigger fear narratives including politics, rent, media programming, and the urge to “save the world.” The invitation is direct: you are sustained by the love of God, not by circumstances, and nothing outside you has power unless you give it power. We end with a way to live this without perfectionism by choosing “happy games” over fixing and letting everything you perceive become useful for returning to peace. If this helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend who over-cares, and leave a review with the biggest place you're ready to drop concern.Support the show
Our trio are on the old remote tricast today and John is, again, incredibly keen to emphasise just how well he is getting on during Operation Heatwave. But it's also hot hot hot broadcasting as we hear of tupperware audits and controversy in the Dads Race. Does Elis remain unbeaten? Also, sound the Heartwarming Radio Bell as one of the team shares a delightful addition to his week. Fancy dropping us a line? Well it's hello@elisandjohn.com if you do!And check out the latest Adventure of Elis and John: Station to Station.For lots of exclusive EJJR #content, join our Patreon at patreon.com/elisandjohn.For weekly visual highlights, head to youtube.com/@elisandjohn.For everything else, head to elisandjohn.com.The Elis James and John Robins Show is a Significant Production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sleep Calming and Relaxing ASMR Thunder Rain Podcast for Studying, Meditation and Focus
Episode 47 — You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Loved A gentle reminder that the people who truly love you aren't looking for perfection — they're looking for you. In this episode, we explore where the myth of earning love through being "good enough" comes from, and how to start letting yourself be seen as you really are. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHOW NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Opening — You don't have to be perfect to be loved [01:10] Settling In — When was the last time you messed up and felt shame? [03:00] The Theme Part One — The myth of earning love through performance [05:30] Breathwork — In for 4, hold for 4, out for 6 [06:50] The Theme Part Two — Letting yourself be seen, imperfection creates connection [09:00] Affirmations Part One — I am worthy of love exactly as I am [09:45] Affirmations Part Two — I am perfectly imperfect and that is enough [10:20] Closing — You already have your place, you always did ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STORY SUMMARY Many of us grew up learning that love was conditional — something you earned by being good enough, easy enough, quiet enough. This episode gently dismantles that myth and explores how our perfectionism was actually a survival strategy that kept us safe but also kept us from being truly known. Through breathwork, affirmations, and honest reflection, we learn that real love doesn't require performance — it requires presence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOST Your Quiet Moment — A gentle space for your heart to rest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOPICS • Perfectionism and self-worth • Conditional vs unconditional love • Vulnerability and authentic connection • Letting go of performance • Self-compassion and grace • Breathing through shame • Being seen as you truly are ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Follow for a new moment of peace every day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are struggling, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional.DISCLAIMER
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Episode 50 — You Don't Have to Earn Your Place Here Do you feel like you belong? In this episode, we explore the exhausting cycle of hustling for worthiness and discover the radical truth: you were born worthy. You don't have to earn your place here — you already have it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHOW NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Opening — Do You Feel Like You Belong? [01:15] Settling In — Permission to Just Be [03:00] The Theme Part One — The Hustle for Worthiness [05:30] Breathwork — Grounding Breath Pattern [07:00] The Theme Part Two — Belonging Is Not a Reward [08:00] Affirmations Part One — I Belong Here [08:45] Affirmations Part Two — I Am Already Enough [09:00] Closing — You Belong Here, Always ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STORY SUMMARY A gentle reminder that your worth is not something you have to earn through productivity, performance, or proof. You belong because you exist — period. This episode explores the hustle for worthiness, the myth of conditional belonging, and the quiet power of knowing you are already enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOST Your Quiet Moment Host — A warm, grounding voice for your daily moment of peace. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOPICS • Belonging and inherent worth • The hustle for worthiness • Conditional vs unconditional acceptance • Taking up space without apology • Self-compassion and rest • Affirmations for self-worth ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode spoke to you, hit follow and share it with someone who needs to hear it today. Leave a review — it helps more people find their quiet moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice. If you are in crisis, please reach out to a qualified professional or crisis helpline in your area.DISCLAIMER
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What does it truly mean to make a promise that cannot be broken? In the opening broadcast of this powerful weekly series, hosts Shelley and June Volk dive deep into a word that is often missing from our modern vocabulary but remains central to the heart of Scripture: Covenant. While our 21st-century world treats agreements as disposable contracts easily dissolved by civil courts, June breaks down the ancient, biblical definition of a covenant. Unlike human contracts, God’s covenants are deeply personal, historically sealed with sacrifice, and carry no expiration date. Together, Shelley and June challenge a widespread modern doctrine, reaffirming that God has never turned His back on Israel, and outline how both Jewish and Gentile believers participate in His grand redemption plan. Key Takeaways from this Episode: Contract vs. Covenant: A look at the 6 distinct differences between a legal contract and a spiritual covenant that binds two parties together personally. The Conditional vs. Unconditional: Why ancient biblical covenants rely entirely on the unwavering faithfulness of God rather than human performance. A Covenant-Keeping God: Addressing the false doctrine of replacement theology, confirming that God's promises are uniquely tied to Israel and fulfilled through the Messiah. The Sons and Daughters of Issachar: A call for modern believers to gain spiritual discernment, understand the prophetic times we live in, and know what to do. One New Man: How entering into God's covenant structure breaks down walls and brings a true spirit of unity between Jew and Gentile under the Messiah, Yeshua. Scripture References & Study Links: Prophetic Insight: 1 Chronicles 12:32 (KJV) — The sons of Issachar, who had understanding of the times. Kingdom Shift: 1 Chronicles 12:23 (KJV) Unity in the Messiah: Ephesians 2:14-16 (KJV) — Understanding the "One New Man." Support the show: https://shellyandjunevolk.com/product/partner-with-us-psalm-127-fund/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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1. Strait of Hormuz Situation Iran claimed multiple times that it has closed the Strait of Hormuz. However, actual shipping traffic continued, including oil and LNG tankers. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated: Iran does not control the strait Passage remains open and monitored Data cited: ~55 merchant ships transit per day ~17 million barrels of oil moving through 2. Maritime Risk & Behavior Ships are: Turning off AIS tracking systems for safety Operating cautiously due to military tensions Traffic has: Fluctuated (e.g., 26 ships one day → 5 the next) Not returned to “normal pre-conflict levels” 3. U.S.–Iran Negotiations (MoU) A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed: Covers nuclear issues, sanctions, and broader conflict Includes: Potential release of frozen Iranian funds Conditional progress requirements Key issue: Concern over how Iran will use funds Oversight mechanism proposed via Qatar Funds may be used for: Food purchases (e.g., American soybeans) 4. Nuclear Program Concerns Iran has: Agreed (in principle) to allow inspectors But: U.S. officials express skepticism Historical distrust is repeatedly emphasized 5. Economic Implications Oil prices: Declining (~$74/barrel) due to optimism Markets: Near record highs Strait stability is linked directly to: Global energy supply Economic stability Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the The Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. And don't forget to follow the show on Social Media so you never miss a moment! Thanks for Listening X: https://x.com/benfergusonshowYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, we discuss Paubox Forms' new conditional logic feature, the Conduent breach affecting 62 million people, and critical findings from controlled tests revealing Amazon SES may transmit PHI in plaintext despite documentation claims. We also cover recent ransomware incidents at Mt. Baker, Northwest Radiologists, and Singing River Health System, along with key takeaways from the June Zoom social mixer on AI tooling and vendor management strategies for small IT teams.
What if the voice urging you to binge isn't really you — and you could learn to talk back to it? This week, Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Glenn Livingston, whose unconventional path from Fortune 500 food industry consultant to food compulsion researcher led him to develop one of the most distinctive frameworks in recovery: Never Binge Again. Glenn shares how his own 80-pound weight loss journey — and nearly 2,000 clients later — shaped a method built on structured food rules, cognitive refutation, and understanding the neuroscience of cravings extinction. In This Episode: Why Glenn left lucrative food industry work and what he saw from the inside about how hyperpalatable foods are engineered The "inner pig" framework — and why separating from the voice that drives bingeing is the foundation of his approach How his self-funded study of 40,000 people shaped his thinking (and why the results surprised him) The four food rule categories: Never, Always, Conditional, and Unrestricted Why 1 in 3 people genuinely need abstinence — and how to tell if you're one of them The extinction burst: why cravings often get worse before they disappear (and why this is actually good news) The "screw it, just do it" response — what causes it and how to address it with self-regulation Commit with perfection, forgive with dignity — how to handle slips without derailing recovery Abstinence vs. moderation: where Glenn agrees with food addiction models, and where his philosophy diverges His take on GLP-1 medications and how they fit into the bigger picture The difference between his original Never Binge Again and his newer book Defeat Your Cravings Resources Mentioned:
Within traditional educational and parenting paradigms, behaviorist strategies such as token economies, behavior color charts, and positive reinforcement models are frequently treated as standard mechanisms for human development. However, these compliance-driven metrics often collapse under long-term evaluation, obscuring the critical psychological friction they introduce. Alfie Kohn, a prominent educational theorist and author of Punished by Rewards, joins the program to systematically critique the reliance on traditional behavioral modification systems, including school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). Emily and Alfie break down the critical neurodivergent intersections of these models, explore the hidden psychological cost of praise, and discuss ways of shifting focus away from surface-level behavior modification and toward the collaborative cultivation of student-led problem-solving. TAKEAWAYS Behaviorist interventions like rewards and punishments function as temporary methods of external control rather than sustainable catalysts for authentic development. Extrinsic rewards actively diminish intrinsic motivation by shifting focus away from the task itself and toward the acquisition of the reward. Conditional rewards and continuous verbal praise implicitly communicates that fundamental human worth is tethered to performance and utility. Applied behavioral modification techniques often target observable surface actions while systematically ignoring the underlying physical, emotional, and sensory needs driving those behaviors. Cultivating a child's authentic self-regulation requires shifting from unilateral adult control to active, collaborative decision-making processes. Check out our continuing education courses for educators through our online platform, the Neurodiversity University! Find them here and here. Alfie Kohn is a prominent author, lecturer, and progressive education advocate whose work challenges traditional frameworks in schooling, parenting, and human behavior. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He has authored 14 books, including seminal titles such as Punished by Rewards, The Schools Our Children Deserve, Unconditional Parenting, and The Myth of the Spoiled Child. Described by Time magazine as perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades and test scores, Kohn's insights have significantly shaped the practices of educators, parents, and managers worldwide. His work has been profiled in major publications like the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including The Today Show and two appearances on Oprah. Based in the Boston area, Kohn lectures extensively at universities, national education conferences, and parent organizations while maintaining his comprehensive digital archive at alfiekohn.org. BACKGROUND READING Alfie's books, website, Twitter/X The Neurodiversity Podcast is on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, and you're invited to join our Facebook Group. For more information go to www.NeurodiversityPodcast.com If you'd like members of your organization, school district, or company to know more about the subjects discussed on our podcast, Emily Kircher-Morris provides keynote addresses, workshops, and training sessions worldwide, in-person or virtually. You can choose from a list of established presentations, or work with Emily to develop a custom talk to fit your unique situation. To learn more, visit our website.
James Brierton and Greg Fishel sat down for a fascinating chat with Evan Bentley, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC). If you've looked at the SPC severe weather maps recently, you might have noticed some big visual updates.The SPC has officially rolled out its new Conditional Intensity Groups (CIGs)—often referred to as "Intensity Levels"—to Day 1, 2, and 3 convective outlooks.Here is a quick look behind the scenes at what this change means and what James, Greg, and Evan discussed to keep you ahead of the storm:
Richard Epstein examines the 14th Amendment's opening clause, distinguishing the robust rights of citizens from the conditional privileges of aliens. He argues that naturalization was historically a federal prerogative, noting that early statutes, influenced by Thomas Jefferson, included explicit racial exclusions for persons of African or Asian descent.18751
(00:00) — Pre-k graduation and "I want to be a baby doctor": Where the idea of medicine first appeared for Riya.(01:07) — Seventh-grade biology and Hashimoto's thyroiditis: The classroom moment that made medicine feel like a real possibility.(02:24) — Hospital volunteering in high school: First clinical exposure, patient interaction, and what sparked genuine interest.(04:57) — Discovering combined BSMD and BSDO programs: How Riya and her mom researched programs in eleventh grade and decided to pursue them.(06:45) — Reflecting on the accelerated path: Whether finishing undergrad in three years meant missing out.(07:15) — The MCAT decision: Why avoiding the MCAT was a meaningful factor in choosing a program.(09:12) — Applying to 23 schools: The breakdown of combined versus traditional applications and getting into four programs.(10:05) — Choosing between programs: Family proximity, location, and the DO philosophy as deciding factors.(10:54) — Why DO over MD: What the osteopathic mind-body-spirit philosophy and hands-on technique meant to her personally.(12:22) — Conditional acceptance pressure in undergrad: Carrying valedictorian stress into a three-year sprint.(13:42) — The hardest semester: o-chem, biochem, and anatomy simultaneously with three concurrent labs.(14:45) — Physical planners and time management: How Riya stayed on top of classes, tutoring, and two research projects.(15:33) — Finding The Premed Years on a two-hour drive: How the podcast became part of her routine.(17:10) — Medical school versus premed undergrad: Why the schedule now feels more manageable.(19:14) — Finding your own study method: Why copying what works for others often backfires.(24:19) — Menstrual health app, a thousand-dollar prize, and a TikTok research project: How curiosity led to unexpected opportunities.(26:54) — Words for the stressed premed: Gratitude journals, getting back up, and holding on to small happy moments.Riya knew she wanted to be a doctor before she could fully explain what that meant. By eleventh grade she was researching combined BSDO and BSMD programs with her mom, and she eventually applied to around fifteen of them alongside traditional schools. She got into four combined programs and chose a three-plus-four DO pathway that let her stay near family during undergrad before moving states for medical school. The cost was real: she finished prerequisites in three years, took organic chemistry, biochemistry, and anatomy in the same semester with three concurrent labs, tutored classmates, and ran two research projects simultaneously. She also drove two hours home most weekends and, on those drives, found this podcast. Now in medical school and studying for Step, Riya reflects on choosing DO over MD, what the osteopathic philosophy genuinely gave her, and why she has no regrets about any of it. She talks honestly about the stress of a conditional acceptance, the trial and error of finding a study method that actually works, and how keeping a gratitude journal got her through a brutal first semester away from family.What You'll Learn:- How combined BSMD and BSDO programs work and what it actually takes to stay in one through undergrad.- Why one student chose a DO program over MD programs she was also accepted to, and what that decision has meant in practice.- How to manage an overwhelming premed course load using intentional time planning rather than sheer willpower.- Why finding your own study method matters more than copying the approaches that work for classmates.- How following genuine curiosity across research, hackathons, and extracurriculars can open doors that a straight-line approach would miss.
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Jason Zigelbaum is the solo founder behind Zigpoll—the zero-party data platform trusted by Sony, HP, Kraft Heinz, and Hallmark. Zigpoll collected over 100 million survey responses and counting. Third-party cookies are going away. Ad platforms are losing signal. Brands that don't collect first-party data are flying blind. Zigpoll fixes that. Zigpoll makes it dead simple to launch contextual surveys that ask the right questions, at the right time, in the right channel so brands can stop guessing and start knowing. How brands use Zigpoll: - Discover how customers found you with post-purchase surveys - Improve products with real customer feedback - Boost sales with on-site CRO surveys - Recover lost sales with abandoned cart & exit intent surveys - Segment audiences by demographics and psychographics for higher-ROI campaigns What makes it easy: - No code. Installs on Shopify in seconds - Surveys in any language with built-in translation - Conditional logic and follow-up questions that dig deeper - Triggers for post-purchase, abandoned cart, fulfillment, exit intent - Deliver via SMS, email, or on-site - Pipes data directly into Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Gorgias & more In This Conversation We Discuss: [00:00] Intro [02:31] Starting with what you already know [04:35] Uncovering your business blind spots [07:38] Lowering mental friction for your users [09:06] Eliminating the guesswork from strategies [11:07] Callouts [11:07] Catching errors with your users' feedback [13:35] Segmenting buyers to understand habits [17:24] Using AI as a powerful force multiplier [22:21] Testing concepts without real users Resources: Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube Survey & feedback platform.zigpoll.com/ Follow Jason Zigelbaum LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/jason-zigelbaum If you're enjoying the show, we'd love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews!
Click on Fan Mail link and give me feedback. Thanks Explore the deeply personal journey of healing childhood wounds, the impact of adoption, and practical steps for emotionally present parenting in this heartfelt episode. Host James Moffitt shares insights from his decade-long experiences and offers guidance for parents aiming to foster unconditional love and support.Key topics: The lasting emotional impact of childhood trauma and neglect The hidden wounds of adoption and feeling different or chosen The importance of emotional presence in parenting How conditional love shapes a child's sense of belonging The dangers of obedience driven by fear versus unconditional acceptance Strategies for parents to provide emotional support and validation The role of fathers in creating a sense of safety and belonging The significance of forgiving past parenting mistakes to foster healing Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome to Growing with Grace: Building healthier parent-child relationships 00:27 - James's childhood in the 70s and the purpose of sharing personal stories 00:47 - How childhood experiences influence adult parenting styles 01:17 - Adoption experiences, feeling chosen yet different 02:01 - The physical and emotional healing journeys of adoption 02:37 - Growing up with medical challenges and feelings of being different 03:08 - Conditional love and the impact of performance-based acceptance 03:37 - The emotional distance and conditional love often experienced by adopted children 04:06 - The importance of unconditionally loving children regardless of performance 04:27 - Childhood rights: playing, exploring, and natural curiosity 05:01 - The damaging effects of rigid, punishing environments 05:11 - The longing children have to belong and feel accepted 05:32 - Parenting out of fear versus unconditional love 05:50 - The significance of emotional presence and understanding in parenting 06:20 - Practical ways to connect emotionally: listening, storytelling, validation 06:56 - Respecting children's emotions and providing physical needs 07:21 - Creating a sense of safety and belonging to prevent children from seeking it elsewhere 07:51 - The role of fathers in emotional presence and making children feel valued 08:25 - Encouragement to continue growing, healing, and loving with graceResources & Links: Book on Emotional Intelligence in Parenting (search for relevant titles) Growing with Grace Series (link to series homepage or relevant resource) James Moffitt on LinkedIn | Twitter Parenting Adult Children Call To Action Support the showSocial Media Links https://www.youtube.com/@abcparentingadultchildrenhttps://www.instagram.com/parentingadultchildren125/ https://www.tiktok.com/@chiefpropellerheadABC's of Parenting Adult Children Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581576308055 r/parentingadultchildrenFeel free to subscribe to these channels and share the links with your social media portals.
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Ep. 196 On this episode of The Zen Effect Show, we unpack What Men want, What Women want and what modern Love Now requires.How people communicate.How people build trust.How financial stress affects emotional connection.And how relationships are evolving in real time.I DISCUSS...Emotional language & why men and women communicate differently.Why “talk to me like my homegirls” isn't the full story.Love vs. financial reality in today's economy.Debt, trust, and the pressure to “be perfect before partnership.How social media arguments mask deeper relational wounds.Conditional love vs. conscious partnership.What modern relationships actually need to survive right now.Self-inquiry questions to build a healthier connection.Connect with The Zen Effect Show
Most of the world believes that mankind is unconditionally immortal, persisting after death in the spirit realm in some way. But the bible tells us very differently, that immortality is conditional and dependent upon faith in Christ. Today we will see yet another important, biblical reason why this is the case. * 00:00 - Introduction* 05:48 - What is Conditional Immortality?* 41:01 - Refuting the Objection of Physicalism* 54:09 - The Spirit as the Source of Eternal Life* 1:15:09 - Final Thoughts This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.danceoflife.com/subscribe
SummaryThis episode covers Apple Lockdown Mode's effectiveness against spyware, the Phantom Device attack exploiting Azure AD, and best practices for securing device registration and conditional access policies.----------------------------------------------------YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/g68OMWYIc0k----------------------------------------------------Documentation: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyware/https://cyberpress.org/azure-ad-security-bypass-exploits-phantom-device-registration-and-prt-abuse/----------------------------------------------------Contact Us:Website: https://bluesecuritypod.comBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bluesecuritypod.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluesecpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlueSecurityPodcast-----------------------------------------------------------Andy JawBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ajawzero.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/Email: andy@bluesecuritypod.com----------------------------------------------------Adam BrewerTwitter: https://twitter.com/ajbrewerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/Email: adam@bluesecuritypod.com
In this thought-provoking episode of the Secret Life Podcast, host Brianne Davis-Gantt delves into the hidden payoffs of caring about what others think of us. Drawing from her extensive experience in recovery, Brianne candidly explores the intricate relationship between our self-worth and external validation, revealing how this dynamic can lead to a cycle of anxiety and self-abandonment.Throughout the episode, Brianne breaks down the psychological mechanisms at play when we seek approval from others, highlighting the false sense of control it provides and the temporary safety it creates. She discusses how this behavior can distract us from our own internal work, ultimately leading to a loss of identity and clarity. Listeners will gain insight into the costs associated with this pattern, including the erosion of their true selves and the energy spent on managing perceptions.Brianne encourages listeners to loosen their grip on external validation and to start prioritizing their own thoughts and feelings. By learning to embrace discomfort and allowing themselves to be misunderstood, individuals can reclaim their voice and authenticity. This episode serves as a powerful reminder that true freedom comes from within, and that the opinions of others are often reflections of their own fears rather than accurate assessments of our worth.
SummaryThis episode covers Apple Lockdown Mode's effectiveness against spyware, the Phantom Device attack exploiting Azure AD, and best practices for securing device registration and conditional access policies.----------------------------------------------------YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/g68OMWYIc0k----------------------------------------------------Documentation: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyware/https://cyberpress.org/azure-ad-security-bypass-exploits-phantom-device-registration-and-prt-abuse/----------------------------------------------------Contact Us:Website: https://bluesecuritypod.comBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bluesecuritypod.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluesecpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlueSecurityPodcast-----------------------------------------------------------Andy JawBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ajawzero.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/Email: andy@bluesecuritypod.com----------------------------------------------------Adam BrewerTwitter: https://twitter.com/ajbrewerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/Email: adam@bluesecuritypod.com
What happens in the room when a therapist with Type 1 diabetes hears the same fear over and over, that everyone else has their numbers under control, and you're the only one who doesn't? Rob sits down with Christine Keown, a registered psychotherapist and T1D since age four, to have the conversation that doesn't get nearly enough airtime. Recorded right in the middle of the Diabetes and Mental Health Conference, this one covers a lot of ground and goes places most diabetes content never does. Christine shares what she calls her “meta-analysis” of her clients: the common threads she sees across every person with diabetes who walks through her door. The fear of judgment around numbers. A fractured sense of identity after diagnosis. The compounding spiral of healthcare avoidance. And high-functioning burnout, the kind that looks completely fine at work and only shows up at home. Rob opens up, sharing what a recent diabetes meditation retreat revealed to him about conditional joy, self-compassion, and why he's been sitting with the uncomfortable truth that he's not nearly as in control as he'd like to be. One of the standout moments is Christine's live demonstration of an ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) exercise using a literal piece of paper. The idea: we exhaust ourselves pushing our fears away. What if we just put them down instead? Rob couldn't stop laughing, and neither could we. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt like they're failing at diabetes, quietly avoided the endocrinologist, or thought everyone else has it figured out except them. You're not alone. Not even a little bit. As Christine and Rob both land on: we're all just doing our best, every single day. Chapters: 00:00: Rob introduces Christine Keown, registered psychotherapist 01:46: Recording live at the Diabetes and Mental Health Conference 02:26: Why people seek out a therapist who also has diabetes 04:01: Fear of judgment keeps people away from community 05:45: When the endocrinologist becomes the threat 06:44: Diabetes distress and physician-related avoidance 07:58: The compounding loop: wanting care, avoiding it anyway 08:58: The therapist's privilege: normalizing what everyone feels 10:27: The meta-analysis: what every T1D client shares 11:11: Fear of comparison and the myth of perfect control 12:36: Conditional joy: happiness gated behind blood sugar 13:37: Christine's pre-podcast low and the reality of T1D 15:13: The messenger matters more than the message 16:23: A joy shared is a joy multiplied 17:42: Identity shifts after a chronic illness diagnosis 18:15: Christine's story: leg muscles, mountains, and Costco 21:07: Rob on learning to ‘be' instead of always ‘do' 21:31: Grief, anxiety, and diabetes pulling us from the present 23:51: ACT therapy: the paper exercise for carrying fear 28:03: Naming the fear instead of making it the main character 30:18: Chronic illness and the desperate need for control 31:08: High-functioning burnout: invisible to everyone around you 32:43: Signs at home no one at work will ever see 34:49: Distraction through overwork and the “next thing” trap 35:30: A call to curiosity, self-compassion, and getting help Resources: * Christine Keown on Instagram: @your_health_therapist * Diabetes & Mental Health Conference: Session recordings still available at dmhconference.com
There are many times the Bible informs us of conditional blessings. These are places in Scripture where God says, “If you will, then I will.” We need to pay attention to the conditional blessings listed in Scripture because there are quite a few of them.Main Points:1. Sometimes, as a father, I bless my children simply because I love them. I do things for them, I surprise them, and I'm generous with them for no reason at all but that it gives me joy. I'm confident God does this, too.2. We should also pay attention to the conditional blessings of God. Be watching for where the Word of God says, “If you will, then I will.”3. Meditate on this truth today: The obedient life is a blessed life.Today's Scripture Verses:Proverbs 16:20 - “Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.”Deuteronomy 28:1-2 - “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.”Psalm 1:1-3 - “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.”Quick Links:Donate to support this podcastLeave a review on Apple PodcastsGet a copy of The 5 Minute Discipleship JournalConnect on SocialJoin The 5 Minute Discipleship Facebook Group
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In this technical deep dive, Jesse pulls back the curtain on one of the most commonly cited tools in retirement planning—Monte Carlo analysis—explaining what it actually does, how it works under the hood, and why its outputs are often misunderstood. He begins by contrasting Monte Carlo simulations with simpler "static" retirement calculators and deterministic cash-flow projections, showing why modeling thousands of randomized market paths provides a more realistic stress test of retirement outcomes. From there, Jesse walks through the mechanics of Monte Carlo itself—from the concept of running massive numbers of random trials to the different ways simulations generate returns, including historical sampling, block bootstrapping, and statistical distributions like the familiar bell curve. But the heart of the episode focuses on interpretation: why headline numbers like "success rate" and "average wealth at death" can obscure the real story, how sequence-of-returns risk dominates retirement outcomes, and why most Monte Carlo tools fail to capture the dynamic decisions real retirees would make when markets turn against them. Drawing on research from Karsten Jeske ("Big ERN"), Jesse introduces the idea of conditional success rates and explains how early retirement market performance dramatically alters future probabilities. He closes by offering practical ways to read Monte Carlo results more intelligently—examining percentiles, studying failure scenarios, and avoiding modeling mistakes like mishandling inflation—so listeners can use simulations not as crystal balls, but as powerful tools for understanding risk, flexibility, and the wide range of financial futures that retirement may hold. Key Takeaways: • Monte Carlo simulations model thousands of possible market paths rather than assuming a single average return. • Simple retirement calculators often rely on static assumptions that ignore market volatility. • Success rates can be misleading because they hide how close many outcomes come to failure. • Poor assumptions lead to "garbage in, garbage out" results. • Conditional probability shows how early retirement outcomes influence future success chances. • Reviewing individual "failure" scenarios can reveal what adjustments might save a plan. Key Timestamps: (01:30) – Monte Carlo Basics (06:49) – Monte Carlo in Practice (12:12) – Garbage In, Garbage Out (19:49) – Under the Hood Methods (28:59) – Why Bell Curves Fail (33:39) – Key Inputs: Volatility and Correlation (37:56) – Success and Failure Is Gray (43:01) – Conditional Success Rates (48:51) – Percentiles and Ranges (52:48) – Common Mistakes Key Topics Discussed: The Best Interest, Jesse Cramer, Wealth Management Rochester NY, Financial Planning for Families, Fiduciary Financial Advisor, Comprehensive Financial Planning, Retirement Planning Advice, Tax-Efficient Investing, Risk Management for Investors, Generational Wealth Transfer Planning, Financial Strategies for High Earners, Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs, Behavioral Finance Insights, Asset Allocation Strategies, Advanced Estate Planning Techniques Mentions: https://bestinterest.blog/e121/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_distribution https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/05/normal-approximation-to-laplace-distribution/ https://earlyretirementnow.com/ https://earlyretirementnow.com/2020/07/15/when-can-we-stop-worrying-about-sequence-risk-swr-series-part-38/ More of The Best Interest: Check out the Best Interest Blog at https://bestinterest.blog/ Contact me at jesse@bestinterest.blog Consider working with me at https://bestinterest.blog/work/ The Best Interest Podcast is a personal podcast meant for education and entertainment. It should not be taken as financial advice, and is not prescriptive of your financial situation.
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A listener asks about alleged changes to Logical Reasoning that an LSAT YouTuber has reported. Ben and Nathan push back, maintaining that the test hasn't meaningfully changed and that the so-called “new” question types have been around for years.Also in this episode:- A listener successfully secures a GPA change on their transcript.- Whether to use a letter of recommendation from a university president- What's going on at Vanderbilt LawStudy with our Free PlanDownload our iOS appWatch Episode 548 on YouTubeCheck out all of our “What's the Deal With” segmentsGet caught up with our Word of the Week library0:00 Conditional Scholarships 11:00 Getting GPA Changed16:35 Letter of Recommendation from the President22:22 New Demon Plans28:04 Tips from Departing Demons37:50 RC Speed47:15 Updated LR Questions?1:01:48 What's the Deal with Vanderbilt1:25:34 Word of the Week — diminution