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Julianne Miles is CEO and Co-Founder of Women Returners, the European experts in enabling professionals to return to work after an extended career break.  Since 2014, Women Returners has partnered with over 80 forward-thinking organisations to lead the rapid growth of the returner programme market in the UK & Ireland. A social business, Women Returners also runs the Women Returners Professional Network, providing free advice and support to 6,000 women on career break. Julianne is a Chartered Psychologist with an INSEAD MBA and a background in corporate strategy and marketing. She was awarded an MBE for services to business & equality in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2019, recognising her role in changing the landscape for returning professionals. She is a frequent speaker and media commentator on returning to work and co-wrote the “Returner Programmes: Best Practice Guidelines for Employers” for the UK Government Equalities Office. Contact Details: Email: julianne@womenreturners.com Website: womenreturners.com Twitter: @womenreturners https://twitter.com/womenreturners Instagram: @womenreturners https://www.instagram.com/womenreturners/?hl=en Facebook: @WRPNetwork https://www.facebook.com/WRPNetwork/    Topics that we talked about: 2:50 Begin of Women Returners 4:58 Returnships 8:56 Cross company returnship programs 13:42 Covid19 & returners 18:58 Men as returners? 22:55 How to start a returnship? 29:59 Virtual returner conference

Episode 127: Social Media: yes, no or sometimes? with Jamie Elmer Major Points: It is a given that we use social media to market our business. Is this a good decision for everyone? Does is feel right? Does it bring in clients, students, etc. ? Is it an effective use of your time? Does cutting back on social media have a deleterious effect? Or does curating your posts give you produce more engagement? Jamie’s found that a human connection through meeting people and having them on her email list feels more authentic to her. If someone doesn’t have an email list, social media can be a good place to start. But it must feel like a natural, authentic thing for someone to do. Is it fun? Is it something you dread? You have to find the path that feels good for you because you won’t continue if you don’t.   00:00                                     This is changing the face of yoga and this is episode 127 and this is part of the yoga teacher support theme. I'm speaking to Jamie Elmer and Jamie is an experienced RYT 500 teacher. She also provides continuing education through her streaming site. We'll get into that a little bit more. She has been teaching yoga and movement therapy full time, which is impressive for over 18 years. She specializes in alignment, applied anatomy and healing injuries. Jamie travels to teach teacher training, continuing education immersions, retreats, sees students online and has an online streaming video membership site for teachers or for students and as a continuing education resource for teachers. Jamie, thank you for coming on. I really appreciate, your sharing with us on this podcast. Is there anything else you want to add to that particular introduction? 01:18                                     No, thank you. Thanks for having me. I think that about covers it. 01:26                                     The reason I asked Jamie to be on the podcast, especially on this theme of yoga teacher support as you can tell, she's very busy. She's doing lots of different things, which probably requires marketing. Either to other yoga teacher trainings, people or to students or for her video streaming site. But she had posted about she was really looking at social media and how that was supposed to support her efforts. And so I know I've had several business coaches and they always tell you have to be on all these social media sites It's really, really important. But I think we should think about it. And since Jamie has thought about it, I asked her to come on and to talk a little bit about it. So, I assume Jamie and I could be wrong, that you have used social media to, in part, market your offerings and are now thinking about, I suppose the efficacy of it, if that's true. So I just like you to kind of set the stage for where you were and why you decided it needed more thought. 02:52                                     Well thanks. yes, for seeing that on social media and I did think it would be a good topic to bring up because, I too have worked with some coaches that have been great and I've been encouraged to use social media. I also feel like I've come up as a teacher as social media was coming into our life and it was just a given that of course we were going to  use social media and of course we needed to be on Facebook and of course we needed to be on Instagram. And it's just a given that that's what you do, without really even thinking about is this natural for me? Does it feel right? Is this really where I'm getting my clients? is this really where I'm putting my students and is it an effective use of my time?                                                  I don't, I in no way hate social media. I enjoy it, but I've learned that I need to enjoy it and want to enjoy it in moderation, both just personally and professionally. Because I am the first to admit that I started going down this rabbit hole probably about a year and a half ago where I was really trying to build my business.                                                 As I was launching the streaming site and traveling more than ever and really were quote unquote working more than ever. But most of my work was all behind a computer screen at my desk, not teaching. I went down that rabbit hole of I kind of took the bait thinking I need to be on social media as much as possible. And I started out with posting four times a week and had a whole grid and the theme and the blah, blah, blah of all right, this is what I do at 8:00 AM on Tuesdays and this is when I do it, noon on Tuesdays and  I started spending so much time on this thing that really I don't enjoy spending that much time on. It's not natural for me.                                                 And a year and a half into it, I realized that the people that are still connecting with me, the people that still respond to my newsletter, the people that still come on a retreat, the people I'm seeing for privates, these people, most of them I'd say 99% of them are all people that I've worked with in person and are on my mailing list. 05:33                                     I'm not like the next YouTube, 20 something year old model on Instagram that people are just going to start to follow, that’s just not me, never me. And I'm not the type of person that idolizes people like that either. And so for me trying to put on this presence, it was suggested to me that I actually get an acting coach to help me for my social media posts. And when I got, when I heard that on the other end of the phone, literally in my mind, something just clicked and I was like, I'm out. I'm done. It's not me. Just not me. And there's only so much time on the day, you know? It's a medium that I do enjoy. 06:41                                     I think it's useful to remind people, Hey, I'm still here, out there doing this if you're interested. And I've cut back to about once a week that I post on Instagram and Facebook and that feels good. I like sharing an event. I like sharing some helpful tips. and I think people like it for me at least, they like hearing from me in moderation. instead of, Oh Jamie is going to like post 5 or 8 times today. I'll catch her next time. You know? And it just, it was so unnatural. I can't even describe it, let alone just a total energy and time suck from actually what's most important in my life, which is not to become an Instagram star. Like that's not even a possibility anyway. So why try, 07:41                                     You say that you're really getting your clients and your students from your mailing list and, and how do you build that mailing list if you don't use social media? 07:52                                     Well, I would say that the majority of people that are on my mailing list are people that I have worked with in person. And I think that people connect in different ways. I think that we gravitate towards different people in different ways. I'm not someone, even though I have a streaming site, as I mentioned, I'm not someone that people are going to see on screen or see in a photo shoot and be like, wow, I want to be her. I mean, I connect more with people in person.                                                  I mean I think the reality is that most of us do, I mean we see someone like in a movie or in a photo shoot and it's different. And so I've built my mailing list through working with people in person and then once in a while I'll put out a post on social media about, if you want to be part of my mailing list, click here. And a few people will sign on. It usually is that human connection that's been made and not a stranger browsing the internet or browsing social media and connecting with me that way. That happens once in a while, but not very often. 09:13                                     Okay, you've actually done some analysis of where your new clients, students, opportunities are coming from and social media is not contributing a whole lot to that. Is that a fair statement? 09:33                                     Yeah, and I would say the people that stay in touch with me via social media, the people that comment, the people that like, the people that repost a post of mine, usually those people also are people that I've worked with at some point in the last 20 years in person. So the social media crowd, that interaction is still most of the people that are on my mail, my email list. 10:04                                     Okay. 10:06                                     And, and I'd say the same goes with YouTube. I had a YouTube channel and really worked that for awhile and I have paused it right now basically. because I also find that people that are going to get content from YouTube, they're going to  stay YouTube users, they're going to stay the users that want something for free. And it doesn't actually drive people to anything that, requires more of a financial commitment.                                                 10:36                                     No, that's, that's a good thing. Good thing to know because, I agree with you, it can be a real time suck that you just spend so much time getting posts ready and stuff. I just put out one post a week on whatever my newest podcast is and that takes time. You have 20 years of experience behind you. Obviously you've made lots and lots of contacts over your teaching and video streaming and your students and your clients. But if someone is brand new and really doesn't have a lot of those contacts and doesn't have a mail list, do you think that there's some value there in social media? 11:30                                     Yeah, I definitely think so. And I really think that it has to do with what feels right for you. Some people it's fun, it's natural, they enjoy it. And I'm not saying I don't enjoy social media and even creating posts for quote unquote work posts. But I think for other people it's actually even more fun. And if that feels like the thing that's natural to you to connect with people and get the word out, then you should go with that. I mean I worked with a couple people a few months ago in Germany and there were a couple of women teachers in the training - lovely teachers, we connected, they wanted to stay in touch, but they were like, you know what? I don't do email. I just am on social media. That's how I connect. I didn't want to be on any mailing list or anything. 12:32                                     I'm like, okay, that's your thing. And I really think that if you don't have a mailing list, social media can be great as long as it really in your gut feels like it's a good fit for you in a way to communicate with other people. I don't necessarily even think that that's an age thing. I think it's just a personality thing. And, I would much rather write out an email newsletter and write someone back or response through old fashioned email, then have direct messages in my Instagram account and messages and Facebook that I know are hanging out there that I haven't responded to. And to me it just gets to feel really messy and it starts to scramble my brain, but for other people, again, just if that feels like a natural, easy means of communication, then it's probably going to work for them more. It doesn't feel natural and it feels forced. It's probably not in the end going to work. 13:43                                     Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I do think though that your take on analyzing where your, clients and students came from is important because just throwing it out there is, and even if it does feel good, that's great. But if you're actually expecting to get something back out of it, I think it's important to kind of track that and say, yeah, it is working or it isn't. And you can try some new things if it's not working. But just to think about, is this really worth my time? Because a business takes up a lot of time and you really have to put your energies and resources into whatever you're trying to achieve. I know everybody's different. 14:42                                     I mean I think there's two important things. Also, it's got a feel. It can't feel like a burden. If you're going to keep up writing a newsletter. If you're going to keep up doing a once a week post on social media or 10 posts a day, it's got to be something that you can actually sustain both timewise, energy and that you look forward to. Don't put off and don't procrastinate. And I think for me too, most of the people that I connect with and that are my students and clients are not 20 and 30 something year olds. They're 40 and up, which I think is also, you got to look at that demographic and most of them are not on social media or so as social media savvy as someone in their teens or twenties. So that's a big reality also. 15:40                                     That's true. So what's your market in and who are you trying to attract? Because that's going to make a difference. Although I have heard that with Facebook and I don't know if it's true, the others, I think maybe they've all migrated to something else. But it's really over forties becoming the majority on Facebook and that the young ones are leaving. I don't know quite where they're going, but that's okay. Because I don't mind my group is not young either. If you were to give some advice to just starting now, how, and given that you've said, Hey, it has to feel good, it has to feel right for you. What do you think is been the best return on investment to use one of those businessy terms for you and might be for someone else? 16:42                                     In terms of advertising? 16:44                                     Yeah. Yeah. 16:48                                     I mean for me it's hands down a mailing list for sure. No doubt. And I, thankfully, I don't even remember who it was, but it was probably 16 years ago where I barely used email and yeah, it was longer ago than that I guess, but maybe about 16 years ago that someone suggested to me to start a mailing list. And I thought like, why do that? I teach at the studio. I wasn't thinking five or 10 20 years down the road.                                                  And thank God somebody suggested that to me because it's really interesting and it's a bit of a Murphy's law type of thing. In my experience whether it's on social media or mailing list, there's the people that you meet that are like, I'm coming to your next retreat and I'm signing up for the streaming site and I want privates with you and I'll be in touch and you never see that person again. And then there's the people that were always in the back of your class that were on the mailing list 15 years ago, that you hear something like once every five years and they're still on your mailing list. And they comment on, having stayed watching for however many years and you just never know, who those people are really going to be and who's going to just all of a sudden show up at a retreat and be like, Oh my gosh, you've been on my mailing list for 15 years. I never hear from you. And here you are.                                                  And the people in my experience, the people that you know talk about like, Oh, we're coming into this and I'm going to do this. you never hear from him again. And it's, there's something about people actually in person writing down, with pen and paper, their email that is become, I think more intimate than someone is scrolling through their phone and on their screen just being able to like this and that and comment. But it's not, it's not as much as an investment in some ways. So anyway, point being whoever it was at first told me to start gathering emails, I think them. And that has been hands down the best thing for me in terms of staying in touch with people. And marketing by far. and I actually just talked to the couple of new teachers that, one guy got 22 people on his mailing list and he's like, should I start a newsletter? I'm like, well, sure, if that is, he enjoyed the writing, he enjoys the actual process of it. you get two people on your mailing list, 22 people, and if you feel drawn towards that and you actually enjoy connecting with people through writing and typing, then go for it. But even if you don't enjoy the email thing, I'd say there's no harm in building an email list. Even if you don't use it five years from now, you could have a hundred, 200 people on it and you just never know when you might need that or that it might really help you. 20:03                                     I think that's, that's good advice. I have, an email list and a newsletter that goes out and I'm always amazed that people stay on the list. I agree with you. I think it is more intimate if they've stayed on that list years and years and years, whether they've ever commented or gave you any feedback at all. but they know it's going to come out once a month or every six weeks or whatever your particular schedule might be. I think it is much more, there's just not as much noise in that. It's very much the person that wrote it. 20:54                                     And it's interesting. I recently did send out an email. My emails are different. I've really tried to stick with a format and follow a plan and it just doesn't really work for me. It has to feel more real and inspired following a format. And so sometimes my newsletter is very short. This is what's coming up due to the three things going on this summer. Hope to see you at one of them, period. Done. and then sometimes like this two newsletters ago, I was just, I felt inspired to sit down and write a newsletter. I told people that I had family issues going on. I told people I'm a little bit more just more personal things while protecting my family's privacy. I don't gush too much or anything like that. I had a couple of people that are very close to me respond and say, I think you made a mistake and I think you put yourself in a corner. And that was a little much. I had two people respond like that.                                                 And I also looking back through Mail Chimp, cause they can track how many people respond and open and read it and all. I had more response to that newsletter than I've had in any newsletter in literally over a decade because it was real this is what's going on, this is what I want for you. Hope to see you, it's more than that. But it was the most real and open newsletter I had written in a very long time.                                                 And I got the most support back from it and it was a really good reminder and lesson that, yes, I'm running a business but, essentially I am selling myself. So if I just keep it all very businesslike, that's not, that's not what I do in the moment. That's not actually what's going on while we're teaching and connecting with people. And it's one thing if I were writing the newsletter for a studio facility, but I'm writing it just as me and it was a good reminder that it's, that it's good and actually helpful to be open in our newsletters and social media, I think, to a degree. 23:31                                     I agree. I think your point that basically you're selling yourself and people have to feel that they know you. I've been in business things where, people say, Oh, I'm supposed to be vulnerable. And I am supposed to tell you that yes, I am a business coach, but that doesn't mean I'm perfect. And it always embarrassed me quite frankly. But over the years I've thought - that's right - to know that they have problems too and that they haven't solved everything. It can be a bit daunting if you don't have a really big background in business; I came from a different world entirely. So it's been quite an experiment and that's why I think I was so fascinated by what you were saying that, we get all this advice but it really does come down to what do you feel like, what makes you think it's authentic when you're talking to people? Is it through a post? Okay, cool. That's fine. Or is it an email or whatever or in person, it's that connection. 24:45                                     I think that that is the part of, I mean obviously when it comes to teaching, I've really gravitated in my teaching towards things that are technical and, and a little more scientific. Although a lot of my background is in dance and improvisation and, and the arts. And I think that that really comes out in the, in how we feel comfortable marketing ourselves.                                                  Because I know for me, even though I may be promoting a technical video on how to access your transverse abdominals, I cannot, or maybe I'm just not willing to follow a system of, okay, Jamie, at eight o'clock on Monday morning, you're doing educational posts and at 6:00 PM on Mondays you do an intimate fun posts. And at Tuesdays at 9:00 AM you do an advertorial posts. And I'm, I'd like that to me, I can't do it. It's a structure, which is, I like structure and it's good for us, but it doesn't feel authentic in the moment. And I think again, for, at least for me, social media has to feel just kind of like fly by the seat of my pants in the moment. And those again are the posts that get the most interaction and feedback and that are things that I personally, I can't, I can't plan and still feel inspired to do. 26:23                                     I agree. I've seen that formula, you have to have a funny one, an informative one.. .  And I did it for a while, but it just kind of went by the wayside. So I'm pretty sure it wasn't anything I was really excited about. 26:45                                     That's the kind of the proof, I think that this is not working for me. 26:50                                     I'll do that tomorrow. Yeah, I know it's not on the schedule but I'll do it tomorrow. What I was shocked at, and I realized this is probably just my inability to see clearly, but what the podcast was doing was providing connections and I hadn't ever thought of it as being that kind of media. I just thought of it as being informative and trying to get out the word that there's a lot more to yoga than maybe you see in an ad.                                                  And what I got back was people saying, I'm in an isolated area and it's so nice to hear other yoga teachers talking. And I said, wait, Whoa, wait, wait, wait. This is wholly different than what I thought it was going to be. And, it's just been kind of an interesting process, that it's really the connection that people appreciate as well as what everyone does. I think that goes on in social media. It has to be the connection that you're looking for. And if it's not there or it's not authentic, then I think it's probably important to think about whether that's really an important thing to be doing. 28:16                                     Right. And I think people feel it. I mean, I think we even know it when we're posting or, like trying to get a picture for a certain post or we're writing a post and it just isn't coming out right. I think we know when it feels forced. And I think you're right that social media is all about connection. Hopefully. whether it is, well, it has a different theme or not from post to post or person to person or whatever your business is. It is about connection and, and people feeling a part of an online community. we feel community in so many different ways.                                                 It's like people, really so often why people go to a yoga class, it's more about the community than anything else. People go to church, that's why when we're looking at Instagram or Facebook, from our phone and we're home or somewhere alone, it makes us feel like we are a part of. A few months ago we had, we, meaning my husband and I, we had just a series of events that were really disruptive. And I along with that I was spending all this time too much time on work, spending too much time on social media and I committed to taking a week off of social media.                                                 And that's when I knew it was really a problem for me was when I said to take a week off. It seems like a long time. And the first couple of days I felt like I was missing out. I felt lonely. I felt like the world was moving on without me. It made me agitated. it gave me anxiety. Like, if I don't log in and like, or comment on somebody's comment or whatever it is, people are going to forget about me. The first few days were really hard as if I felt I felt lost from my life out there.                                                  And that was a really good lesson to observe. Like wow, this is a problem. And that's when the week off it turned into, I don't know how like five weeks. Cause once I kicked the habit, I put all of my social media apps on my iPhone, I put them on the last page. They're not just like on the homepage of the phone. And then I made designated times like, all right, I'm going to do this at this time and this at this time. And that's it. I had all sound and visual notifications turned off on my phone for everything. Texts, everything including social media. And there's just designated times now that I check it. But actually once I took the break from it, it was hard to get back into it. I was like, Ugh. This is a drag and this is just so silly - like what are we doing? and how much time was I spending doing all of this? 31:51                                     It's a little, if you actually sat down and thought, kept a log of how much time you were on, I think it might be a bit shocking for everyone. Not you personally, but all of us, you know? 32:06                                     Yes. I think you're right. I mean even those of us that now spend some time once or twice a week, I think it would still be shocking if we really added up the time, where you check those comments or do a couple of likes while you're in the bathroom. If you added up all those moments, it can be a shocking amount of time. And is it how I want to spend my life and if you're doing it for work, is it really helping? 32:45                                     Yes. Is it, and it's not easy to measure, but at least you should have some idea, because it does take up a lot of time. I agree. okay. So, Jamie, I will give you the opportunity if you would like to either talk about something that we haven't talked about at all that you think is important and, or you'd like to go into depth into a topic that we, we discussed a little. So I'll give you that opportunity to kind of say whatever you'd like to the listeners. 33:15                                     Hmm. Wow, okay. Let's open that. Rein it in. Well, I guess not that I have, decades and decades of experience in this, but I guess what I feel like is that for me now that I do think is important to pass on is it is good to ask for help in terms of business coaches and asking people that are doing what you want to do, asking them, how did you do it?                                                 Did you build an email list? Do you use Facebook or do you use Instagram or do you use LinkedIn? Or, and really looking at, not just taking advice from people that say they're good at giving advice, but really people whose life reflects something that do you want to be like, and especially when it comes I think to teaching yoga. I've just recently changed my business name to movement therapy company and taken the name yoga out of it. It's very intimate what we do and as time goes on, we learn more about how we best connect with people.                                                 To observe what works best for you, what your real nature is and not that we shouldn't challenge ourselves and not that, if we are yoga teachers, it's not that we're going to be able to do the business side. Great. And vice versa. We can't wear every hat and be a Jack of all trades and great at all of those things. But if you're an independent teacher or if you teach at studios or you see privates or you're a yoga therapist, I would say more than ever with so many resources we have on line, in social media, through newsletters, really notice like what do you sit down and feel excited to do when it comes to your business and go that route and take advice from other people and try it on.                                                 Don't just say like, Oh, that's just not me. I'm not going to do that. Try it. You may surprise yourself and there's some things like, our monthly accounting or whatever it is that we just have to do because that being a grownup and that's being an adult and we have to do it regardless. But when it comes to how you connect with people in your work, in our work, don't necessarily try to do it like somebody else just because they're a coach or they're a business professional. Because I think people can feel when it feels forced, they can feel when you're holding back or it's contrived, Whether it's through writing or whether it's through a video or whether it's through, a post on Instagram. And I've, in my streaming site, I've had the site less than two years and it's been one of the greatest and hardest things I've ever done personally. Because I'm a trained modern dancer so I'm used to being on stage playing a role. My teaching is, was hard for me for many years at first because I had to be myself and that's super vulnerable and scary and my God been seeing myself on film. It was a massive leap for me in the last couple of years. And what's interesting is I try to sometimes get behind the camera or get in front of the camera and get all professional and have my little script and it just, it looks cheesy. It's hokey cause I'm not just being natural. And the days that I put on the camera and I do a practice of how to strengthen your feet and ankles wearing jeans and I got my dog in the background. The video quality is good, it's great content, but I'm being myself and it all works out, a thousand times better.                                                 How we market, how we run our business and how we teach all go hand in hand where we need to continue to teach. Just like you have to step into the front of the room and be yourself or you go to somebody's house and work with them one on one. You have to be to yourself. Try to find a ways of marketing and connecting with the community online in person through writing that still feels like you so that you don't feel like you're trying to have different personalities. It's all one big yoga process including how we market and really pay attention to that because if it feels forced, you're not going to be able to sustain it. 38:34                                     Yes. I think that's a very good point. If it doesn't feel right for you, you just can't force yourself to do it for any length of time. Well thank you so much Jamie. I want to give your contact details so that people will know how to contact you. Her email is info@movementtherapyco.com and the website is the same. Okay. Facebook is movement therapy company as is Instagram. So I will have all those in the show notes. But thank you so much Jamie. I think you really put the marketing in a context that probably feels better for all of us instead of all these things that we're supposed to do, but really looking at what is authentic for me. Because that's the only way I can continue to do this kind of stuff.  So thank you so much. I appreciate you coming on. It's been really interesting. 39:47                                     Thank you so much Stephanie. I really appreciate it. Fun, fun stuff to discuss and ever changing. And for those of you up there that have listened to this, thank you for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Contact Details: Email: info@movementtherapyco.com www.movementtherapyco.com FB and Insta: movement therapy company  

Major Points:                                 5:15       Things that usually bring you joy no longer do so is a sign of burnout. Ask yourself why this no longer gives you pleasure.                                                 7:12        There is a mindset associated with burnout that may present as mental, physical, or emotional issues or a combination. Changing this mindset is key to addressing the burnout but professional help may be needed if the mindset is difficult to change.                                                 14:19 Finding purpose: What are the three words that you would want others to use to describe you and what is you intention to elicit that description?                                                 00:01                                     This is Changing the Face of Yoga and this is the 124th episode of this podcast. And my guest today is Susie Bischovsky and Suzie is an expert on protection from and prevention of burnout. I think that that is and can be an issue with yoga teachers and yoga therapists since we give so much of ourselves. I wanted to talk to Susie about this. Suzie is also a yoga teacher and she has her own podcast called Keep Your Candle Lit and she also works in public school education. She embeds what she learned in yoga into her classroom and she teaches gentle yoga at a yoga studio. You could call it extra, extra gentle yoga. We might look into what that means. She's also taught her school colleagues and students at her middle school and she incorporates mindfulness and burnout prevention in the practice. Her ideal client is someone who doesn't think yoga is for them and leaves the class realizing that it is. Welcome, Suzi. Is there anything else you'd like to add to that introduction? 01:30                                     Wow that after listening to that introduction, I'm exhausted, I'm tired. No. 01:38                                     It is an extensive list. I listened to some of your podcasts and one of them really threw me because I thought I knew what burnout is, but given what you said, I don't. I saw burnout was just being so stressed and having so much to do and that you just can't keep going. But what you said, and I'd really like to talk about this, is that if you don't have purpose in your life, passion for what you're doing and vision, that's the cause of burnout many times. So could we just kind of start there and talk about what the causes might be and why you believe this is the cause of burnout? 02:29                                     Yeah. So thank you for that question. as far as that being the cause, maybe it's more like causality or more along the lines of if we sit down and we look at ourselves and we're asking ourselves these questions, what is our purpose? What is our passion? What is our vision? If we can't answer those questions, that could point us in the direction of possible burnout. 02:55                                     Okay, so what we're looking at is not so much a physical overwhelm as kind of being lost. Is that a fair thing to say? 03:08                                     Yeah, I think so. I mean, I feel like the interesting thing for me about burnout is when I was going through my coach training, I didn't recognize that I myself had gone through burnout because it was never framed that way to me. We talk about depression, we talk about anxiety, but at that time, burnout wasn't that thing. Other than like people would say, I'm feeling really burntout or I'm feeling tired. My key was I would say, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired. Or if people wanted to do something, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy. It was like that idea of a hamster wheel, but now it's 2019 and the world health organization itself actually cites burnout as a condition to be mindful of and aware of. They do pretty much pigeonhole it towards the workplace, but we see people talking about caregiver burnout and all other things. So I feel it's something that we're still on the cusp of understanding. 04:08                                     So you said that you didn't realize that you had burnout. What would be something to be looking out for if you feel that you may be either on the cusp of burnout or actually burned out? 04:26                                     So if I can add to that question, just the idea of like how is it different or similar to depression or anxiety, specifically depression, because I think someone could very easily say, Oh, I'm burned out and maybe not even recognize the signs of depression. So I also just want to advocate for the importance of having our own wellness team, like your audience, they're familiar with yoga, right? So a lot of us embody yoga as a physical, mental, spiritual practice. For some people it is physical. So what do other people have in their life that guides them to recognizing when something within is calling out to them. So to go back to that original question of how do we know when we're being burned out? Wait, was that the original question? I'm sorry, 05:13                                     That was it. Yes. 05:15                                     Okay, thank you. My brain just went loo la loo. Oh, so to go back to that original question of like how do we know when we're burned out? I think that sometimes people can see it within us before we can see it within ourselves. And one of the things I think to be mindful of is: if the things that normally bring you joy no longer bring you joy, what's underneath that? Or here's an example that seems very like benign, right? So I'm an avid reader, whether it's paper copy or an e-copy, I can sit and I can read and I can read and I can read. And you know what's wrong with that? Reading is a good thing, but if I sit and I don't do anything else for hours and for days for me that pleasurable activity has become either a substitute or a coping mechanism for something else. And sometimes I need someone to kind of say to me like, Hey, so you've been on the couch coma for like a week, what's going on to point that out to me? Or even for yoga practitioners, if yoga is the thing that brings you joy and release and you're avoiding your mat, or you're avoiding yoga on your chair or yoga on your couch or yoga in your car, you're like, we all do yoga all over the place, right? So when you start to run away from that thing that brings you joy or brings you release, I think that's another indication that we need to look at something. 06:41                                     Okay. So that's, that's really very different from what my interpretation of burnout used to be. It's not really so much, if I'm understanding this, a physical tiredness as much as a mental, not an issue, but a mental problem that you may or may not be able to recognize. 07:12                                     I think that's a really good question. When we think about burnout, it could be physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion, right? Or someone might even have a change in attitude or become negative or unconcerned or disconnected. However, from talking to my clients and supporting them through their own burnout prevention, or even recovery at the heart of it, generally speaking, there's like a mindset. And if we can shift the mindset, we can then go after the physical, the emotional, the mental exhaustion. However, if the mindset can't be shifted or can't be unpacked or can't be uncovered, then I think that's when it's time to talk to a traditionally trained professional, like a therapist or a doctor. And talk a little bit more about, is this burnout? Is it something deeper and what are some things that I can do? As an example? one of the things that came up for me years ago was that I was vitamin D deficient and I was like, all right, whatever. 08:11                                     And then as soon as they started to give me the prescription vitamin D, at that time, it was like someone shot sunshine into me. And I was like, wow, is this what it feels like to not be exhausted all the time? So that wasn't necessarily a burnout piece, but that adjustment to what was coming into my body certainly changed how I showed up and presented myself. When I was burnt out, I didn't know that I was burnt out until I wasn't burnt out anymore. And then with the learning and the knowledge that I did, hindsight's everything right? I look back and I went, Oh, that's what was happening. Oh, that's why I took a piece of chart paper and wrote on it all the things that I had to do and wore it like a badge of honor. And that's why before I understood what values were, when I made a list of all the things that I had to do and that were important, my friendships weren't on there, my family wasn't on there, my husband wasn't on there. It was just all very task-oriented. I think that now a days there is still a stigma with mental health. I like to call it mental wellness for some reason. When you say mental wellness, people listen to a conversation differently. I feel that as the conversation has shifted and evolved and has grown, we do talk about this a lot more. Back then I was just, your average really busy really to hired person who thought everything that she was doing was so important and it was not. 09:38                                     So you said that you are in burnout prevention and I like that. What would you recommend to people, the listeners what is important when you’re thinking burnout could be an issue for me. What is the preventative things that you might be able to do? 10:08                                     So one of the things that I like to incorporate into my coaching practice, as well as yoga, and in the classroom when my students allow, for a second, a three words to describe yourself in the present moment without attachment, without judgment, without trying to change something, without trying to analyze it. Like just pausing, taking a breath, really scanning the body and what are three words that describe how you are in this moment? And then at the end of something I like to do a ticket out or I ask people to check again. And the misconception is I'm looking for you to take your quote unquote negative words and shift them into positive ones. I'm not.  I don't like when we label the words as positive or negative, but if that's what someone needs to do. Like if you go into something and you're like calm and peaceful and you come out of something and you're angry or anxious, there's a reason why. So being mindful and truly connected to how we're feeling without trying to sugarcoat it or hide it is important. One of the things that I've advocated for people to do is like to find a ritual to do it. So maybe when you're brushing your teeth or you put your hands on your steering wheel or you unlock your door, something that you do every single day. Like I tell the students, hopefully it's when you put on your deodorant because we want to keep our friends close, right? So something where you can check in and identify that. Another thing that I like to do, and I'll be honest here, when I do it, it's awesome. When I forget to do it, I run into trouble. The simple step of gratitude. 11:37                                     Yes. It's very powerful, isn't it? 11:42                                     And notice we both paused after that word came up, right? Yeah. There's something about gratitude that makes us pause. it can take your breath away if you're having the moment of anxiety, a situational anxiety, taking your breath, noticing your breath, thinking about what you're grateful for. And when we're having our worst moments, the answer is nothing. I'm grateful to breathe. I'm grateful to be alive today. I'm grateful that I have resources at my disposal. I'm grateful that the sun is shining. I'm grateful that there's rain for 40 days, not so much, because the flowers grow. Like what is it we can find grateful for? And I often invite people to just trick your brain. If you're truly not grateful, find something that you can say that you are or practice something until it becomes your truth. Because eventually it will come very organically and naturally.                                                 Another simple thing that I would say is figure out if you like quiet or music. So when I meditate or I relax, I try a variety of things. Sometimes I need nothing. Sometimes I need focused silence. Sometimes I need a candle, a crystal. Sometimes I need music. Sometimes I need an Ohm chant. Sometimes you need a mala. Experiment. I think too many times we try something and it doesn't work so we move on to the next thing as opposed to trying the thing multiple ways and you don't have to do it the same way. You don't fail at it, right? Like there's no report card that says you failed this, you can't do it anymore.                                                 So whether it's any of those three things that I mentioned or just other things, finding something, trying it and finding a way to make it into a ritual. You mentioned that I'm a school teacher, I have been teaching for 22 years. My summers, I'm quote unquote off. And if any of your listeners are teachers, they understand what I mean by the air quotes of being off. But summer does grant me some more freedom and flexibility with my schedule. And this summer I was super, super careful to cultivate for myself some practices that I could then transfer over during my busy season and not go, well that was summer Suzi, false. Suzi can't be mindful, can't relax. She can't find the thing because she's too busy. Like I think a lot of us, whatever our professions and roles are, we fall into these seasons and we find something that works for us, we run out of time and then we let it go. So I really advocate for super simple, short practices. Okay. 14:19                                     I'd like you to explain a bit more about your thoughts on, purpose, passion and vision. I think those are such fundamental things that many of us may not really consciously think about. I at one point not anymore, had a retirement podcast and that was the theme of that was having passion and purpose, because you are reinventing your whole life and so it can be difficult.                 I think it's equally difficult just not with any major changes in your life, but really kind of knowing who and what you are and what you want to achieve.                                                 When you said retirement, I sat up a little straighter. I'm not close to retirement. I did indicate that I was teaching for 22 years. And to be perfectly honest, I don't know if I'll retire in 10, 15, 20 or 25. But for me, I'm being mindful of my own purpose, passion, and vision. So when I do transition, I can transition into that which I love and not transition into a hamster wheel.                                                 So in answer to that about purpose. I invite your listeners to think about purpose as what's your intention? How do you want to be? How do you want to show up in the world? Maybe purpose is: if you are eavesdropping on people, talking about you, right? What three words would you want them to use to describe you and then what's your intention to earn that? What actions are you taking each day?                                                  And I'm not thinking about smart goals or measurable outcomes, but more about like what is it you want to do? so for me, my purpose varies, but generally speaking, my purpose is to be kind. Yes, I'm publishing a book in the fall, yes, I'm going to release an online course. Yes, I'm going to do these things, but my purpose is to be kind. Before our call I was reviewing old text messages. And ironically I took a picture of one and the person reached out to me and said, I just wanted you to know that when I think about you, I picture you smiling and I can't say the same about everyone else. And I thought, that's awesome because this person has seen me cry, scream, rant, all the things. But when they think of me, they think of the smile and I think that speaks to the kindness. Am I kind 100% of the time? My students would challenge that, right? My husband would and when we just had the discussion about the air conditioning today very loudly. I feel like I can, I keep saying I feel like. Because I feel that that's where purpose is. It's our intention. It's our feeling. It's our heartbeat. My goal is to be kind. My goal is to walk in peace and my goal is to support people in finding their light, whether they're children or adults or any other variation.                                                  When I think about passion, to me that goes back to your motivation to stick to your purpose. So the name of my podcast is Keep Your Candle Lit and that's because of the light within us. So what is it that we do? What is it that you do that keeps your flame ignited? How do you stay lit? And then on the other side of that is what dims your light? What dims your light?                                                 A heartbeat of the work that I do is this expression, our self-talk becomes our life walk; our self-talk becomes our life walk. So if you are negatively talking about yourself, that's going to dim your light and then you're going to walk in that manner. Think about someone who like gets a compliment and then they walk with their head held high and then think about someone that gets verbally berated and they walk with their head down low. There is a difference there. So what is it that we're doing that keeps us lit? What are we doing or what happens that dims our light and even the people around us, right? Like who are the people that are stoking our flames and who might be trying to distinguish us or I'm sorry, who might be trying to extinguish us? But I like to distinguish us. That's nice. Friendly, right? Head over the people that distinguish you, not extinguish you.                                                 And then, finally on that purpose, passion, vision train. The idea of vision is of course, how do you see yourself? But it's the alignment of your purpose and passion. Like in our best life, those two integrate, right? Like we can live the life we want, walk the path we want and have it all integrate either in the short term, in the long term, it can be action oriented. But truly for me it's like how I want to be. So if my intention is to be kind and I know that taking 10 minutes a day to listen to calming music keeps me lit and I know that engaging in negative self-talk or shoving donuts in my mouth, which is my easy go to dims my light, right? If I make the good choices so I can be kind, then when people leave my presence, they walk with their head held a little bit higher. When people leave my presence, they feel warm. When someone walks away from me and they seem more stressed than when we started a conversation, that's when I know that perhaps I'm not being 100% myself.                                                 And I recognize that that is also about another person. I get that, it's a two way street there. For me with students, with adults, I want people to know that they're heard. I want people to know that they're seen. And I want people to know that they're valued. And that's why for me, when we do talk about yoga, I don't do headstands as a part of my practice. I love people that do. I think it's magical. I think it's amazing. It's not part of my practice. I can't twist myself into a pretzel. The majority of the people that I work with, they're looking for the release on the mat and if they one day can get to the twisted pretzel and the head stand, that's awesome. But I want the people that say yoga isn't for me, so I can show them how it's not only a physical practice. 20:46                                     Let's talk a little bit more about that. You said that you do extra, extra gentle yoga. What would that really look like when you call it that? 21:01                                     In full disclosure, at the end of August I'll still be doing yin yoga training, because I kind of feel called toward that. I'm wrapping up Yoga Nidra training as well because I felt called to that. When I teach yoga, I don't even like to say the word teach. I know that I'm the teacher when I facilitate, when I support, when I offer yoga. One of my first classes that I ever taught beyond karma classes, so I was like working for the studio. Here we go. One of my friends came and like she never did yoga and she was like, I'm not doing that for all the reasons why. And she came and at the end she's like, that was the equivalent of a really good massage. Thanks. And she has since gone off to do yoga at a whole bunch of studios, she jumps around, she lost weight, she has more flexibility and I think she has more peace of mind is my understanding, which to me is more important than all the other things.                                                 When people enter a class, I offer them time, like we all do to get settled in and find something that they're comfortable with, a nice comfortable position. And then of course we do breath work and we do body scans and all the beautiful things, but I try to offer some sort of an embedded burnout prevention tip. It could again be a gratitude or the three words, something along those lines or it could be something a little deeper, especially as I get to know some of the yogis that are in the room. I would say my yoga class is anti-flow, meaning instead of inhaling and exhaling into poses like a flow class, we might hold a pose or hold the action of getting into a pose for several breaths before we transition into the next piece. I feel that we do less postures, more holding, more breath work sometimes with props, sometimes without, and as far as it being extra, extra gentle, I have discovered a trend of late that I do more groundwork then standing poses, although I do incorporate them because I understand we have to like bring in the balance of all the things. Mountain pose. Oh my gosh. Do you love mountain pose, Stephanie? 23:22                                     Some days. Some days it seems not worth it. 23:33                                     I will say that I love a mountain pose. And when we do Tadasana. If you can picture this. First, we start in the traditional with the hands releasing to the earth and generally eyes are closed or they're invited to have eyes closed and we take breaths and we breathe and then I ask people to check in with their fingers pointed to the earth, what are they releasing? And then after a couple of breaths, we raise our arms. So they're shoulder height, hands, extended palms facing one another. And I invite them to consider what they're reaching for. And then after that hands go above the head, pointing toward the sky, what would you like to express gratitude for? And then after that hands come to chest. What are you hoping for or some variation of that. So, we can take a pose like that. And play with it a little bit and incorporate some language that really invites reflection. Maybe it invites reframing a negative thought that we had during the day or negative self-talk. Something along those lines.                                                 Oh, and I just want to give a shout out for child's pose. Oh my gosh. I think I just kind of described how I am, right. That just pigeons me. I feel like child's pose is such a delicious release and I love using props to bring the earth closer. And I love witnessing people do child's pose with a variety of adjustments that they make themselves and watching people's faces when they come out of child's pose is like my favorite part of the practice. I absolutely can include sun salutations or moon cycle, but when I do, they're done slow as well. Right? So stepping into one of the postures, holding it, stepping into the next one. So I guess you could say extra, extra gentle is just super slow and mindful.                                                 I don't think anyone's going to break a sweat necessarily, however, I think that they're going to get increased flexibility. And a release from stress and tension. I'm also known, this is so embarrassing, but I think it's just become my thing. Like my brain goes a hundred miles a minute and I have to slow it down during my own practice of yoga as well as when I'm teaching and facilitating. I've definitely called the ankle - foot wrists - so many times that it comes out of my mouth almost all the time without even thinking about it. I'm definitely the kind of person that if you're not interested in laughing during a yoga class, I might not be your cup of tea. Cause generally people are laughing at me in a very nice and gentle way. But I think it, it all comes from wanting to be of service to people, right? Like no one becomes rich becoming a yoga teacher. We all have something that calls us to teach yoga. And for me, I never wanted to be a yoga teacher. I just wanted to deepen my own practice and understand it more teaching was an accident. 26:52                                     But I do like all of the things that you're incorporating. I mean I think I can really like Tadasana if I had all those cues to really reflect while I'm doing it. I mean I can understand that. And yet you've said previously those are really good cues, really good things to be thinking about, especially in the context of burnout and looking at it from a preventative point of view. I'm wondering if slow yoga, we'll call it that or we could call it extra gentle, gentle yoga is kind of the opposite. The pendulum has swung from the very, very athletic, physical aspects of yoga and now people are maybe starting to talk about some other aspects of yoga. They aren't sometimes as accessible as the physical and yet they are equally, if not more, important. I think I would enjoy an extra gentle, gentle yoga class with you. I would like the reflection part of it, because that, especially when you're teaching, I think it's, it's difficult to be reflective of your own practice. You are working out poses and all that kind of thing. I think that's a really good offering. If you were going to tell the listeners anything that we haven't talked about or that you would like to talk about in more detail, what would that be? 28:52                                     So I love the title of your podcast and when I think about changing the face of yoga, I want children to understand that yoga can be athletic like you've said. Right? But that yoga can also be a way for them to chill out, decompress. And even if they have to go onto technology to access a yoga class, it's okay for them to step away from the technology and, and take a break to do something along those lines. When I've incorporated yoga in the classroom, not systemically, I like to do a little more systemically this year I've had some sections that are more receptive than others and sometimes it's a chair, sometimes it standing, but it's certainly more relaxing than athletic cause we have some space considerations and safety issues to consider. But when they do like a half moon pose or tadasana or even a simple twist that's slow and they're breathing, that change in them and the change in the environment after. It just makes sense.                                                 So for people that are listening, if they are yoga teachers, encouraging them to find a way, if their schedule allows just to do a, maybe a voluntary drop in at a school somewhere, someone was receptive to that or if someone has a studio, I'm sure that there are people that are doing yoga classes for kids. I would love to see more of yoga with parents and children, specifically adolescents because that can be such a time where adolescents and parents are butting heads. And I think a yoga experience could be a nice way to bring people together, especially around a real beautiful theme. So I would just invite your listeners to just to consider, to think about how the world would change and how the way we all engage with each other would change if our children could find ways to be mindful and prevent their own burnout. Hmm. 31:11                                     Well thank you. That's a lovely thought. I taught seniors and yes, yoga is very, very beneficial for them. But, when you teach children, hopefully you're teaching them some lifelong skills and giving them tools that will help them. I think that's a lovely thought. So thank you so much. I want to thank you for coming on. Suzi is going to be part of yoga teacher month where we're going to talk about issues, opportunities, those kinds of things for yoga teachers and one of them is burnout. I've learned quite a bit cause I obviously had the wrong idea about it, which is okay. 31:59                                     Can I jump in on that one thing? I don't think that you wrong idea. I think everything you said or thought is valid and it's what's out there too. I just invite us to think about it on an additional level because I think sometimes, if we say that it's a physical piece, there's a difference between being tired and tired, right? If there's an emotional piece, well I'm really fine, right? Fine is the worst F word that's ever been created. And if it's mental exhaustion and mental exhaustion or mental fatigue, like who wants to talk about mental health, right? So if we can look at it from that lens, like you said, and thank you for listening into that episode. I appreciate the feedback that you gave. It could be safer to think about purpose, passion and vision, and that could then lead to deeper conversations that support people and understanding the difference between being tired, being exhausted, being burntout and being depressed. So, please, I absolutely think your interpretation and understanding is correct. I just think we can also add more to it as well. 33:02                                     I think that that's important because if you feel stressed because you're doing so much, you may or may not have the opportunity to change that. But if you look at it from a differently - a different lens, you can certainly look at what your passion is and what your purpose might be and how you achieve that. So I think that's a very positive way that everybody can do. It's really part of yoga, isn't it? The reflection part. We really think a little more deeply about some things. So thank you so much, Suzi. I really appreciate you coming on. I think that this has been very, very informative and I agree with you, a very different way to look at burnout and, and hopefully, getting a little more into the burnout prevention mode than we've been before. So thank you again for coming on the podcast. 34:03                                     Thank you for the invitation. Contact Details: Email: suzie@suziebichovsky.com Website: www.coachucation.com Insta: coachucation Facebook: coachucation

Episode five of "Let's Talk Loyalty" discusses an award-winning loyalty programme in the education sector in the Middle East region. Today I chat to its creator, Manav Fernandez, a loyalty consultant based in Dubai who developed the entire strategy, identity, value proposition, platform solution and communications strategy for "GEMS Rewards" programme - developed as a unique way to help offset the costs of private education for families. The programme won the "Loyalty Magazine" award for the BEST loyalty programme in the Middle East and Asia region in 2018. Show notes of useful links/assets mentioned by Manav: Online Learning: - Coursera - Lynda.com - Udemy.com - https://www.edx.org/   Books:  - Sapiens by Yuval Harari https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens/ - Hitmakers by Derek Thompson  https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Makers-Science-Popularity-Distraction/dp/110198032X   Contact Details: Email: mf@qbfconsulting.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manav-fernandez-3a12655/    

Delighted to speak with Rachel Bamber this week; Rachel is one of my guests speakers at the Neurolanguage Learning Conference and an experienced professional Executive/Business/Life brain-based coach. We had a super conversation about how coaching can help the learning process and in particular how brain based coaching can help.About Rachel Bamber PGDip PCC - the Brighter Thinking ExpertRachel Bamber is an expert in using powerful, brain-friendly strategies to deliver peak performance. She has helped people all over the world to work with their brain to get what they want, faster and with zero stress. Among the pioneering adventurers who have worked with her include people in the public eye, elite sport, corporate leaders and super-ambitious small business owners. A nominee for the GLE Rising Star Award in business, Rachel is the first person in the world to be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership.Contact Details: Email: info@rachelbamber.com

Dayna Culwell – Yoga for Chronic Pain 1:30 Introduction to Dayna Culwell 3:08 Using yoga to interrupt the pain signals. Alert from brain that there is pain and something be done. Sometimes the pain signals become mixed and that the wound that originally caused the pain is healed but the pain continues. The brain needs to be reset. Start with grounding and breathing. Can redirect the pain signals if you can learn a strong focus through yoga; readjust pain signals so that you don’t notice them (as much) or reset so that the brain stops sending false pain signals. Reground: pain makes us lose perspective, power of pain is very strong (survival mechanism). Reground: connecting with the earth (i.e., child pose). 13:00 Chronic Pain Programs in Hospitals: Dayna’s teacher developed and taught the physicians of the hospital. Seeing the value, the physicians helped implement the program. Leads to better recuperation because yoga can address the changes due to the emotional impact of the illness and treatment. Program includes grounding and breathing based on the kosha model, start with physical body and then go through the rest of the koshas. 20:00 Has started meeting 60+ women in their homes and them yoga to meet the student’s goals. Together they create a yoga space in the student’s home so that they have a place to practice. Discuss things like where can you keep your props, do you have a clear wall space, how will the space work? This increases compliance with the practice that Dayna designs for each student. She is also seeing clients in nursing homes and working with people with dementia. She uses music, talks softly, has a kind expression and the students start to positively react to that and follow her movements. Caregivers at the home may also take the class next to their client which is beneficial for both. 29:00 Dayna is very interested in and wants to interact with others on the subject of yoga for scoliosis. She would like to hear from others that may want to do a project on using yoga to help those with scoliosis. Contact Details: Email: yogawithdayna@gmail.com Website: yogawithdayna.net FB: yogawithdayna  yoga

It’s that time of the month again and we present to you the 40th episode of our ALS podcast, and as usual, we have a jam packed show for you guys. On Mix-A we have Cue Master, on Mix-B, Mlindo Kev keeps us going with his ever so chilled vocal mix and dj Hlex is on Mix-D keeping it deep. On the guest mix we have a very dope producer, who’s not a stranger to our podcast as he features at least once a year. Dj Roque. For any bookings contact us on bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com and for comments or queries please drop us a mail on djmlindo@gmail.com. Please like our facebook page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsounds for all our updates. ENJOY… Addiktive Local Sounds 040-C (Guest Mix by Roque) 1. Fistaz Mixwell feat. Aimee Sophia - Voices (Roque Remix) 2. Roque feat. Charma - Friday (Original Mix) 3. Ocean Deep - Raw Insight 4. Roque Feat.Lungelo - Smile Keeper (2017 Remix) 5. Roque Feat.Charma - All my love (Original Mix) 6. Roque – Untitled (Instrumental) 7. Roque feat. Mr Smith - Papi is here (Instrumental) 8. Walkman Alkhebu Warrior - My equal (Main mix) 9. Roque - Kasi (Witbank Ikas'Lam) 10. Roque - Young People (Main mix) Contact Details: Email: bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com Facebook: Mlindo Kev II || Hlelokuhle Hlex Madondo || SBura Cue Master KHoza Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsounds Twitter: @mlindo_kev @ChilliHlex @CueMasterKhoza @ALS_Podcast Instagram: @mlindo_kev Whatsapp: +27 72 737 8989 Artwork by SupaxGodesign Facebook: www.facebook.com/godesigncapture Instagram: @supax_godesign

We’ve been MIA since March but we are back with your monthly dose of the Addiktive Local Sounds podcast. We have another jam packed episode for you with mixes by Cue Master on Mix A, Mlindo Kev is on Mix B, blazing some soothing vocal tracks as per usual and DJ Hlex is on Mix-D, yes the D stand for the deepness. On the guest mix we have Soul Varti, founder of Under Pressure Records and I can assure you that he’s bringing heat. He’s always killing it and this time he’s showing the ALS listeners what he’s made of, I trust you’ll enjoy his guest mix as much as we did. For any bookings contact us on bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com and for comments or queries please drop us a mail on djmlindo@gmail.com. Please like our facebook page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsounds for all our updates. ENJOY… Addiktive Local Sounds 038-A (Mixed by Cue Master) 1. Gebeza – Jam 17 (Original Mix) 2. King Verti – If I Could (Original Mix) 3. S.A.N – Train Smash (Raw Tech Taste) 4. Ca Voke & GMI – Reaching Stars (Chronical Deep Remix) 5. Nicky Deep – Air In the Midst (Ree-Touch) 6. Urban Musique - Untitled 7. Rabs Vhafuwi feat. MrMo – Walking Away (T-Drum’s Rooted Mix) 8. Unknown Artist – On my Way 9. Beebar - War 10. TekniQ feat. Royalty – My gift Contact Details: Email: bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com Facebook: Mlindo Kev II || Hlelokuhle Hlex Madondo || SBura Cue Master KHoza Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsounds Twitter: @mlindo_kev @ChilliHlex @CueMasterKhoza @ALS_Podcast Instagram: @mlindo_kev Whatsapp: +27 72 737 8989 Artwork by SupaxGodesign Facebook: www.facebook.com/godesigncapture Instagram: @supax_godesign

On the guest mix we have a producer that’s no stranger to y’all as we’ve featured many of his tracks on our previous mixes. Nash La Musica is a Zimbabwean born House Music producer from Witbank Mpumalanga. He only started producing house music in 2012, specialising in Afro house and Nu jazz. Last year his 1st 4 track Ep was Released under 6996 Music where he featured local producers like Kingruves and Cue Master, reaching as far as the top 10 on the traxsource Nu Jazz charts. His musical journey has just begun and he is here to bless you with nothing but home brewed local music. For any bookings contact us on bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com and for comments or queries please drop us a mail on djmlindo@gmail.com. Please like our facebook page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsoundsfor all our updates. ENJOY… Addiktive Local Sounds 036-C (Guest Mix by Nash La Musica) 1. Nash La Musica - The Have Nots 2. Vox - what you want (Nash La Musica Broken Mix). 3. Nash la Musica feat Infinity flows - One and Only (Instrumental Mix) 4. Nash La Musica, AllCity Musique & Pure - Good Times 5. Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive (Nash La Musica Remix) 6. KKT feat. Puse - Want It All (Sonique Infusol Remix) 7. Junior J - Keep it Coming (Nash La Musica Remix) 8. Vox - Go Deeper (Nash La Musica La Perspecto) 9. Nash La Musica - Origins (Original Mix) 10. Nash La Musica - Edge of Infinity (Afro Mix). 11. Nash La Musica – In Time (Original mix) Contact Details: Email: bookings@addiktiveentertainment.com Facebook: Mlindo Kev II || Hlelokuhle Hlex Madondo || SBura Cue Master KHoza Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/addiktivelocalsounds Twitter: @mlindo_kev @ChilliHlex @CueMasterKhoza @ALS_Podcast Instagram: @mlindo_kev @cuemasterkhoza @hlelokuhlemadondo Whatsapp: +27 72 737 8989 Artwork by SupaxGodesign Facebook: www.facebook.com/godesigncapture Instagram: @supax_godesign

In 2015 there were 42.2 million Americans living in food insecure households...that’s a nice way of saying that they didn’t know where their next meal would come from. That’s 13% of all households* At the same time a new study from the USDA: (Released in February 2014) reported that “in the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion pounds of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels in 2010 went uneaten** Houston, we have a problem. Wouldn’t it seem that if all of this food already exists, but is just thrown away, that it should be simple to give it to the people who need it the most? It’s pretty obvious that government solutions aren’t working and waste is much less prominent in the Free Market. Leave an iTunes Review and help out the show! Rate Liberty Entrepreneurs on iTunes and get a shout-out on the next show plus, I’ll send ya $5 in Bitcoin! Tune in to hear the full offer: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/liberty-entrepreneurs/id1057809945?mt=2 Enter Jason King’s Unsung.org (503c non-profit) Jason got started feeding the hungry in 2013 within the Bitcoin community. All of a sudden a lot of people had some serious gains in the new crypto-currency and the Bitcoin community is VERY GENEROUS. Jason decided to raise money (in Bitcoin) to follow through on his mission to feed the hungry. I previously interviewed Jason on Episode #21 back in February 2016. At the time he had feed only a couple hundred people but the concept was working. Fast-forward to Oct 2016 and he’s already feed >10,000 and created an iPhone app to help communities self-organize and bridge the gap between food waste and hungry people. Simple but genius. http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/02/le21-jason-king-how-you-can-become-an-unsung-hero/ This is the true mindset of an Entrepreneur. Identify a problem in society Get creative about solutions then start telling people about your plan Recruit like-minded people who will want to help your cause It’s a short interview today ~20m and I hope you make it all the way through. The EXODUS.IO Team is HIRING: Javascript Developer The Exodus Team (www.exodus.io), which offers a free Crypto-currency wallet is looking to HIRE an experienced Javascript developer who considers him/herself to be liberty-oriented. If you (or someone you know) has experience as a Javascript developer and wants to work in the exciting crypto-currency space, please send your resume and relevant information to support@exodus.io. The position is remote and this could be your opportunity to become a digital entrepreneur! Tell them that you heard about the job on Liberty Entrepreneurs Podcast. Jason’s Contact Details: Email: jason@unsung.org Twitter @UnsungOrg Instagram: www.instagram.com/unsungorg/ Podcast Resources: Unsung.org iPhone app available on Oct 21st in the Appstore. Wired.com article about Jason running across the US to raise Bitcoin for the homeless. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/bitcoin-run-jason-king/ *http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hunger/hunger-and-poverty/hunger-and-poverty-fact-sheet.html **http://endhunger.org/food-waste/ Until next time, Ashe

My guest today is Matt Miller, Founder and President of School Spirit Vending, a vending machine company that helps schools fundraise internally rather than asking children to go door to door. In today’s episode, we discuss: What it felt like to be so poor that he was declined for a payday loan. How $100 opened the door to a million dollar business The importance of homeschooling and how parents are an essential (and often missing) ingredient to help children understand entrepreneurship and basic business skills. How you can quickly get started building your own vending machine empire Matt was concerned with the current fundraising model of selling magazines and popcorn and decided to do something about it. His idea was to create a vending machine business to literally keep the kids off the streets, but still allow schools a way to fundraise. Matt was a corporate guy and his parents taught him to go to school, get a job and work a 9-5 so that he can retire. Like many of us, this quickly seemed unfulfilling. He dreamed of being his own boss and could no longer stand the idea of selling his time to someone else. He HAD to become his own boss. When Matt lost his job, he was in a very difficult financial position. He had a wife and several children to support, but very little means to do so. Collecting aluminium cans only went so far. One day, in church, Matt was chatting with a friend who had recently bought a few simple gumball machine. Matt was surprised to hear that these gumball machines were actually generating noticeable revenue. Quarters can still add up quite substantially and he had to know more. After a few weeks of scouting the Internet to learn as much as possible, he and his daughters jumped in the car to purchase a single gumball machine for $100. This was the start of Matt’s appreciation and love for vending machines which is now his passion and business. He went from being broke (and not being eligible for a payday loan) to franchising a vending machine company and helping entrepreneurs and schools all over the nation learn how to generate wealth. Join us to hear more about Matt’s journey and why vending machines may be a good opportunity for you to build the lifestyle that you desire and deserve. Matt’s Contact Details: Email: matt@ssvbusiness.com Twitter: @ssvbusiness Facebook: www.facebook.com/SSVBusiness Download Matt’s free ebook “Live Your Dreams: Top 10 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Vending Business”: www.ssvbusiness.com/liberty Podcast review links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/liberty-entrepreneurs/id1057809945?mt=2 Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibertyEntrepreneurs Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/liberty-entrepreneurs-podcast