Podcasts about Craigslist

In November 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis sat in the backseat of a musty Buick–traveling on a rural highway in the Ohio Appalachia. He thought he was on his way to a gig as a farm caretaker, a job he secured on Craigslist. But it was a murderous trap, laid by a psychopathic serial killer named Richard Beasley. Beasley had already murdered three men during a four-month stretch before he encountered Scott. After the shooting, Beasley remained armed, dangerous and on the lamb. Would police be able to find him before the death count mounts?Apartments.com - To find whatever you're searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place.Progressive - Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/survived and take your retail business to the next level today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

*Time stamps are approximate* 0:01 Podcast intro with Dave & Chuck "The Freak" 0:00 - - - AD MARKER - - -6:16 AM 0:00 Waking up early being unnatural6:18 AM 0:02 EMAIL: Their family also brings their own maple syrup out6:22 AM 0:06 EMAIL: Responded to Craigslist ad for guy who wants his hair washed and blowdried6:31 AM 0:15 EMAIL: Ad from woman selling shower head 6:41 AM 0:25 Crispy pasta salad food trend6:49 AM 0:33 NEWS6:49 AM 0:33 Guy traveled across the country to flash women6:51 AM 0:35 Heat wave may set records out west6:54 AM 0:38 Women escape from attempted car jacking6:56 AM 0:40 Safety net stopped a car from going the wrong way on a freeway7:00 AM 0:44 Guy spotted in the middle of stealing gas7:03 AM 0:47 Amazon expanding into rapid delivery options7:06 AM 0:50 America has more spas and gyms than stores for the first time ever7:08 AM 0:52 Seal goes viral for his love of rubber duckies7:12 AM 0:56 - - - AD MARKER - - -7:25 AM 0:59 CELEBRITY DIRT7:25 AM 0:59 Prison inmate phished NBA and NFL players posing as a porn star7:29 AM 1:03 Vote to expand NBA7:37 AM 1:11 First round of March Madness starts7:43 AM 1:17 Baywatch star arrested after rescuing beagles from dog breeding facility7:46 AM 1:20 Afroman's trial verdict7:49 AM 1:23 Ratings from the Oscar's7:51 AM 1:25 Woman found the Oscar's red carpet in the trash7:54 AM 1:28 A.I. will have Val Kilmer appear in a movie a year after his death7:56 AM 1:30 Dune or 3 and Avengers Doomsday hitting theaters at the same time8:02 AM 1:36 - - - AD MARKER - - -8:13 AM 1:38 Needing reminders on your phone8:15 AM 1:40 PERVERT OF THE DAY8:15 AM 1:40 Guy caught maintenance man on camera peeing into his sink8:29 AM 1:54 Woman said a maintenance guy appeared over her while she was in changing room8:34 AM 1:59 A couple of guys fired guns after getting kicked out of a strip club8:41 AM 2:06 Guy lead police on chase after cops smelled weed in his car8:44 AM 2:09 Police chased down suspect on paddle boards8:46 AM 2:11 Guy entered a hippo enclosure8:49 AM 2:14 Model as earned more money in first 2 months on adult platform than a year as a CEO8:56 AM 2:21 TIMES OF INDIA8:56 AM 2:21 Farmers dressing up as bears to protect crops from monkeys9:01 AM 2:26 - - - AD MARKER - - -9:10 AM 2:27 Teacher busted doing cocaine in classroom9:14 AM 2:31 Teacher caught running hooker parties out of his house9:19 AM 2:36 Car crashed into a family's house9:22 AM 2:39 GrubHub's drone food delivery program9:25 AM 2:42 Robot buser started breaking dishes9:28 AM 2:45 Data centers are being protected by robot dogs9:31 AM 2:48 Peacock roaming a neighborhood9:01 AM 2:18 - - - AD MARKER - - -9:47 AM 2:55 NEWS9:47 AM 2:55 DARK SIDED9:47 AM 2:55 Person died after ski lift gondola crashed to the ground9:52 AM 3:00 Hospital files lawsuit against patient who refuses to leave9:55 AM 3:03 Flight prices are increasing9:58 AM 3:06 - - - AD MARKER - - -10:08 AM 3:08 Hair dresser accused of pulling gun on customer10:09 AM 3:09 Woman saved a dog with CPR10:13 AM 3:13 Eating like a baby to lose weight10:16 AM 3:16 Roadside mannequin display10:20 AM 3:20 - - - AD MARKER - - -10:30 AM 3:22 IDIOT CRIMINAL10:30 AM 3:22 Resident in villages in thong sitting in suspicious vehicle END OF SHOWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1995: Tyler Tervooren highlights how successful side businesses grow from focused, high-impact actions rather than huge amounts of time. By pivoting quickly when strategies fail and even leveraging resources from your day job, you can accelerate progress on a side project despite a busy schedule. These practical stories and tactics show how small, intentional steps can turn limited spare time into real entrepreneurial momentum. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.riskology.co/craigslist-method/ Quotes to ponder: "When you're busy working on other things, you don't have the luxury of spreading your energy over a lot of different fronts." "You have to find what works and hammer on it. When that stops working, you have to shift your strategy and do it all over again." "The real lesson from these stories is that success doesn't depend on how much time you have but on what you do with that time." Episode references: Odeo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeo TOMS Shoes: https://www.toms.com

*Timestampys are approximate* TIME TOPIC 0:01 Podcast intro with Dave & Chuck "The Freak"0:01 - - - AD MARKER - - -0:01 Intro from O'mara's live broadcast0:03 EMAILS: Pics of a new happy ending spa opening in Canada?0:07 EMAIL: Place called Tropical Touch Massage0:17 EMAIL: Shared his dong farts experience0:21 EMAIL: Went on vacation, locked all of the toothbrushes in the safe because of the show0:24 EMAIL: Was looking for jobs on Craigslist, sold home theater systems to randos in parking lots NEWS0:30 The UP got 30" of snow overnight last night, 70mph spins0:32 Spring break chaos, people thought they heard gunfire 0:36 Woman accused of trying to kill her boyfriend with anti-freeze0:37 2 deaths at the same Meijer over 3 days0:40 Guy busted robbing 2 businesses including a lingerie store0:42 Guy died after kayak turned over in water0:45 Mysterious poop odor seeping into home0:48 153 people became sick on board a cruise0:49 Bridge for sale for only $10:51 Guy invented a backup camera lense cleaner0:54 - - - AD MARKER - - -0:56 Broadcast info from O'Mara's0:57 Yankees star called security when he found spider in his locker 1:01 NCAA basketball tournament1:03 Meghan Fox came out a bi-sexual1:05 People left out of the in memorium section of the Oscar's1:06 Perfect movies with no bad parts in it1:10 Kids characters that scared the crap out of kids1:18 Production stopped on Secret Wives of Mormon Wives1:21 James Hatfield proposed to girlfriend underwater during shark dive1:23 Vinyl record sales hit high since 1980s1:31 - - - AD MARKER - - -1:33 Broadcast info from O'Mara's FLORIDA'S EFFED UP1:34 Kraoke rage: shooting incident after guy became upset after being upset about the music1:41 Woman went crazy on a pair of seniors during flight causing and emergency landing1:44 Guy tried to steal a septic tank1:50 Guy was accidentally shot by roommate after an argument1:52 Male sex toy train heist2:00 OnlyFans creators are risking serious injury after using knockoff ED meds/Have you taken off-brand meds and what happened?2:11 Treasure hunter found gold coins, refused to tell authorities where he put them, got arrested2:17 Update on a woman who groped an 18-year-old in the sauna WHAT'S UP WITH THE ASIANS2:20 Robot gets arrested after scaring an old woman2:25 - - - AD MARKER - - -2:28 Cort does a cold plunge2:34 - - - AD MARKER - - -2:36 Recap on Cort doing the cold plunge2:40 Driver crashes on bridge, driver ejected, truck flipped over2:42 Man's car blew tired, send car down canyon, guy survived2:44 Guy injured after pulling over to get his jetski that fell off trailer, got hit by a passing car2:45 Massive black market weed operation gets busted2:47 Guy busted with $21k worth of Whole Foods stolen goods2:48 Tourists injured after hot air balloon crashed in Mexico2:50 Debate online about the correct way to wear earbuds2:54 Guy is record holder for longest gravedigging career 2:56 A Flaming Hot Cheetos shaped like a Pokémon sells for almost $88k at auction3:00 Whic is correct, St Pattys or St Paddy's? 3:02 The best cities in USA to celebrate St Paddy's Day3:03 National Corned Beef and Cabbage day3:04 The green dye that Chicago puts in their river has been changed to be safer3:08 - - - AD MARKER - - -3:11 Party hat shaped object spotted on Mars3:14 A guy who will negotiate a good car price on your behalf3:20 - - - AD MARKER - - - BITCHS TRIPPIN3:22 Woman counted out loud for 70 straight days END OF SHOWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 1994: Tyler Tervooren shares how massive businesses often start as small side projects, highlighting how Craig Newmark quietly grew Craigslist while still working a full-time job. By focusing on existing skills and starting with a simple idea, anyone can begin building a business in their spare time. Tervooren reveals practical lessons that show how small, strategic beginnings can grow into something far bigger than expected. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.riskology.co/craigslist-method/ Quotes to ponder: "More importantly, there are millions of successful businesses you've never heard of that were built in someone's spare time." "The skills you need to build it should already be in place." "How simple can a business be before it ceases to be a business at all? Pretty simple, it turns out." Episode references: The Yankee Candle Company: https://www.yankeecandle.com Craigslist: https://www.craigslist.org

In November 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis sat in the backseat of a musty Buick–traveling on a rural highway in the Ohio Appalachia. He thought he was on his way to a gig as a farm caretaker, a job he secured on Craigslist. But it was a murderous trap, laid by a psychopathic serial killer named Richard Beasley. Beasley had already murdered three men during a four-month stretch before he encountered Scott. After the shooting, Beasley remained armed, dangerous and on the lamb. Would police be able to find him before the death count mounts?Apartments.com - To find whatever you're searching for and more visit apartments.com the place to find a place.Progressive - Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/survived and take your retail business to the next level today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We scoured the back pages of Craigslist to find the best (or is it worst?) entries from their Missed Connections section! Whether you're a hopeless romantic or just plain hopeless, this might be the place for you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's on Craigslist 3-16-2026 … Thumb Wrestler will take on all comers …50 Shades of Shades …Who did I make-out with? …Who wants a Gas Nozzle right off the pump?

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Send a textWe lay out a simple, repeatable plan to find distressed properties, lock a clean contract, and assign it to a proven buyer for a fast, ethical profit. Along the way, we share where the best leads hide, how to build a buyer list in days, and why six parties win on one deal.• wholesaling defined and why it pays fast• 10% target assignment fees by price point• pulling 90‑day foreclosure lists at the courthouse• using Craigslist for hidden motivated sellers• helping homeowners exit foreclosure with dignity• using state contracts without a license via equitable interest• finding buyers at REIA, on social, and through title companies• crafting win‑win‑win outcomes for sellers, buyers, and lenders• low‑cost marketing that beats expensive ads• door knocking mindset and scripts for conversionsTake my 5‑minute quiz at dwanderful.com to book a free 45‑minute strategy session with me personally. Leave me a five‑star review, like, follow, and please share. Follow me on Instagram and Facebook at Dwanderful. The truth is in the red letters. Support the showThanks again for listening. Don't forget to subscribe, share, and leave a FIVE-STAR review.Head to Dwanderful right now to claim your free real estate investing kit. And follow:http://www.Dwanderful.comhttp://www.facebook.com/Dwanderfulhttp://www.Instagram.com/Dwanderful http://www.youtube.com/DwanderfulRealEstateInvestingChannelMake it a Dwanderful Day!

In this solo episode, Axel reflects on the 10-year anniversary of his very first real estate deal, a 3-unit property he found on Craigslist back in March 2016 and extracts four powerful lessons from that experience. While the deal didn't go as planned, the education it delivered shaped every successful investment that followed.Axel also walks through the specific challenges that deal presented: private utilities, financing complications, the realities of self-managing as a first-time investor, and the emotional difficulty of embracing uncertainty. He frames each setback as a teachable moment that applies whether you're buying your first duplex or scaling to 100+ units.This episode is designed to help both new and experienced investors think more strategically about exit liquidity, debt structure, professional leverage, and the mindset required to grow through uncertainty.Join us as we dive into:Why Axel's first deal — a 3-unit FSBO found on Craigslist — didn't go as plannedThe hidden liquidity trap of private utilities (dug wells, undersized septics) and how they shrink your buyer poolWhy you must understand your takeout financing before you close — especially with private or bridge debtThe real cost of self-managing too early and why hiring a property manager on deal one can actually accelerate your learningHow to embrace learning on the fly without letting perfectionism delay your first (or next big) moveWhy even a "bad" first deal can be the foundation for everything that followsAre you looking to invest in real estate, but don't want to deal with the hassle of finding great deals, signing on debt, and managing tenants? Aligned Real Estate Partners provides investment opportunities to passive investors looking for the returns, stability, and tax benefits multifamily real estate offers, but without the work - join our investor club to be notified of future investment opportunities.Connect with Axel:Follow him on InstagramConnect with him on LinkedinSubscribe to our YouTube channelLearn more about Aligned Real Estate Partners

This week on the podcast we're joined by husband-and-wife photography team Andrew and Mashaida, the creatives behind Mashaida. Known for their deeply relational approach to weddings, their work is rooted in a simple belief: great photographs are the byproduct of great relationships.In this conversation, we talk about building a photography business around people rather than algorithms, cultivating real relationships with clients and planners, and why curiosity may be one of the most underrated skills in business.Andrew and Mashaida share their unlikely start — from photographing their first wedding for free after answering a Craigslist ad — to building a career defined by connection, service, and long-term relationships. Along the way, they unpack how spending real time with clients transforms the work, why networking should never feel transactional, and how their belief that strong marriages can change the world shaped the heart of their brand.If you've ever wondered how to stand out in a crowded industry without chasing trends, this conversation will remind you that the most powerful differentiator might simply be caring more about people.What We Cover:How Andrew and Mashaida built their business from a $120 first wedding to a globally recognized brandWhy great photography is often just the byproduct of great relationshipsThe story behind their first Craigslist clients and the relationship philosophy that followedWhy spending real time with couples (not just questionnaires) transforms the workThe myth that luxury clients don't want relationships with their vendorsHow curiosity and meaningful conversation build stronger connections with clientsThe difference between networking to “use people” vs. building genuine relationshipsWhy social media should be a tool for connection, not the center of your marketing strategyHow service — not status — creates long-term success in the wedding industryConnect with Andrew & Mashaida:Website: https://mashaida.co/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mashaida.co/Connect with Us:Apply for the Mastermind Program: https://learn.bradandjen.com/mastermind-coachingJoin Purpose & Profit - A Roadmap to 10k Weddings:https://learn.bradandjen.com/purpose-and-profit-courseInstagram: @bradandjeneducation @bradandjenFix Your Pricing Guide:Pricing Guide Template:https://learn.bradandjen.com/brad-and-jen-pricing-guideKeywords:wedding photography business, client experience, relationship marketing, luxury wedding photography, photography branding, networking for creatives, curiosity in business, storytelling photography, documentary wedding photography, relationship-based business, photographer client connection, creative entrepreneurship

What's on Craigslist? 3-9-2026 …My stupid son left behind his collection of Empty Pringles Cans …Looking for 2 Fit Men to dress like Dragon Ball Z Characters …Looking for a Cannonball Run Partner …Do Not Shake the Box

Clay drops a hard warning after a nightmare story out of Memphis/North Mississippi: a dad and his 11- or 12-year-old daughter were lured to a back road and shot to death over a PlayStation they were trying to buy on Facebook Marketplace. The family's now calling on the Latin Kings for street justice — we might be watching a gang war kick off over a few hundred bucks.   Clay's message is crystal clear: Never, ever meet strangers off Facebook Marketplace. Not at their house, not on a back road, not even in Jackson. Do it at a police station, fire department, or somewhere public with cameras and law enforcement everywhere. He's seen too many push notifications about people getting robbed or killed the exact same way.   His personal rule? Sell your car, truck, side-by-side — anything valuable — straight to a dealership like Ellis AutoPlex. They cut you a check on the spot and you walk away alive. Your life (and your kid's life) is worth way more than saving a thousand dollars or haggling with some Craigslist maniac.   Clay even admits he left the car business partly because he couldn't stop cussing out the rude, lowballing Marketplace idiots. Now he's got a full axe to grind and jokes about one day building the perfect fake profile just to troll them with OBS Tahoes and cat-eye Chevys until they lose their minds.   Common sense PSA: If the deal seems too good to be true or the buyer is way too eager with no negotiation… run. Raw truth from the Clay Edwards Show — don't be stupid, don't be next.

"Do you know what I did to your sister?"Amanda Barthelemy was fifteen when she received that call. From her sister Melissa's phone. From a man who called seven times to taunt her about what he'd done to one of the Gilgo Four.Today we break down the alleged Long Island Serial Killer's hunting methodology—the burner phones, the victim selection, the taunting, and the cell tower evidence prosecutors say ties the Gilgo Beach Killer to every crime.The seven victims share a pattern. All sex workers. All petite. All advertised on Craigslist. All allegedly contacted via burner phones. All allegedly disappeared when the alleged LISK's family was out of town.According to court documents, investigators found no instance where Heuermann's personal phone was in a different location than burner phones used to contact the Gilgo Beach victims. The FBI traced calls to cell towers inside "the box"—a small area of Massapequa Park.Rex Heuermann's house was inside the box.Suffolk County court documents also allege fake email accounts under names like John Springfield and Thomas Hawk—used to create Tinder profiles and contact sex workers. Under one alias, according to prosecutors, "thousands of searches" were conducted for violent content.Even in 2022, investigators watched the alleged Long Island Serial Killer add money to burner phones. The alleged methodology never stopped.And the taunting allegedly continued beyond phone calls. Prosecutors say LISK searched obsessively for the Ocean Parkway investigation. For photos of victims. For photos of their families.DA Tierney: "His intent was specifically to locate these victims, to hunt them down, to bring them under his control, and to kill them."Rex Heuermann has pleaded not guilty. The Gilgo Beach trial is September 2026. Part 4 of 5.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #TrueCrimeToday #LongIslandSerialKiller #GilgoFour #BurnerPhones #TauntingCalls #GilgoBeachMurders #OceanParkway

Part 4 of 5: How prosecutors say the alleged Gilgo Beach Killer selected, contacted, and killed his victims along Long Island.July 2009. Amanda Barthelemy, fifteen years old, received a call from her missing sister's phone. A man's voice asked: "Do you know what I did to your sister?"Over the following weeks, the man called seven times. He described what he'd done. On August 26, he said: "You won't see her again. I killed her."In this episode, we examine the alleged LISK hunting pattern that prosecutors say links Rex Heuermann to seven Long Island murders over three decades.The Gilgo Four and other victims share characteristics. All were sex workers. All were petite—the planning document allegedly notes "small is good." All advertised on Craigslist. All were allegedly contacted via burner phones. All allegedly disappeared when the alleged Long Island Serial Killer's family was traveling.According to court documents, investigators found no instance where Heuermann's personal phone was in a different location than burner phones used to contact the Gilgo Beach victims. The FBI traced calls to "the box"—a small area of Massapequa Park.Heuermann's house was inside the box.Suffolk County prosecutors also allege fake email accounts under names like John Springfield and Thomas Hawk—used to create profiles and contact sex workers. Even in 2022, investigators watched the alleged Gilgo Beach Killer add money to burner phones.And the alleged taunting went beyond phone calls. Prosecutors say LISK searched obsessively for the Ocean Parkway investigation. For photos of victims. For photos of their families.DA Tierney: "His intent was specifically to locate these victims, to hunt them down, to bring them under his control, and to kill them."Rex Heuermann has pleaded not guilty. The Gilgo Beach trial is September 2026.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RexHeuermann #GilgoBeach #LISK #GilgoBeachKiller #LongIslandSerialKiller #GilgoFour #BurnerPhones #TauntingCalls #GilgoBeachMurders #OceanParkway

This week on the Boys Lie Podcast, Tori and Leah are coming to you live from Tori's bed! We dive into one of the most unhinged listener submissions including a story about a man who managed to crash two cars, go to jail twice, steal a truck, drain a debit card, secretly hook up with men from Craigslist.... and she still stayed. Yes. You read that correctly. Then we get into another listener story involving the dreaded “Hey girly…” message that exposed everything. Some men will absolutely drain every ounce of kindness you give them. Buckle up!Send us your Boys Lie Story by submitting anonymously here. Watch us on Youtube! If you want to stalk us, you can find us here: @boyslie, @reptar @leahomalley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sofía Gómez Villafañe is a leading American gravel cyclist who broke through with a win at Unbound Gravel 2022 on her first attempt. The result cemented her place among the top gravel racers in the United States after a nontraditional start that began with a used bike her brother found on Craigslist. Sofía shares how her success is driven by clear goal setting, small process driven steps, and a systematic approach to long term performance. Connect with Sofia:  Instagram Outside Days Eearly Bird Pricing Explore the REI and Intrepid Travel collections Thank you to our sponsors:  Capital One and the REI Co-op® Mastercard® Teva Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How do you build a creative life that spans music, writing, film, and spiritual practice? Alicia Jo Rabins talks about weaving multiple creative strands into a sustainable career and why the best advice for any creator might simply be: just make the thing. In the intro, backlist promotion strategy [Written Word Media]; Successful author business [Novel Marketing Podcast]; Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Bookstore; Bones of the Deep – J.F. Penn This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer, as well as a Torah teacher and ritualist. She's the creator of Girls In Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about biblical women, and the award-winning film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. Her latest book is a memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights, and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Building a sustainable multi-disciplinary creative career through teaching, performance, grants, and donations Trusting instinct in the early generative stages of creativity and separating generation from editing Adapting and reimagining religious and cultural source material through music, writing, and performance The challenges of transitioning from poetry to long-form prose memoir, including choosing a lens for your story Making an independent film on a shoestring budget without waiting for Hollywood's permission Finding your creative voice and building confidence by leaning into vulnerability and returning to the practice of making You can find Alicia at AliciaJo.com. Transcript of the interview with Alicia Jo Rabins Joanna: Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer, as well as a Torah teacher and ritualist. She's the creator of Girls In Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about biblical women, and the award-winning film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. Her latest book is a memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. So welcome to the show, Alicia. Alicia: Thank you so much. I'm delighted to be here. Joanna: There is so much we could talk about. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you've woven so many strands of creativity into your life and career. Alicia: Yes, well, I am a maximalist. What happened in terms of my early life is that I started writing on my own, just extremely young. I'm one of those people who always loved writing, always processed the world and managed my emotions and came to understand myself through writing. So from a very young age, I felt really committed to writing. Then I had the good fortune that my mother saw a talk show about the Suzuki method of learning violin—when you start really young and learn by ear, which is modelled after language learning. It's so much less intellectual and much more instinctual, learning by copying. She was like, that looks like a cool thing. I was three years old at the time and she found out that there was a little local branch of our music conservatory that had a Suzuki violin programme. So when I was three and a half, getting close to four, she took me down and I started playing an extremely tiny violin. Joanna: Oh, cute! Alicia: Yes, and because it was part of this conservatory that was downtown, and we were just starting at the suburban branch where we lived, there was this path that I was able to follow. As I got more and more interested in violin, I could continue basically up through the conservatory level during high school. So I had a really fantastic music education without any pressure, without any expectations or professional goals. I just kept taking these classes and one thing led to another. I grew up being very immersed in both creative writing and music, and I think just having the gift of those two parts of my brain trained and stimulated and delighted so young really changed my brain in some ways. I'll always see the world through this creative lens, which I think I'm also just set up to do personally. Then the last step of my multi-practice career is that in college I got very interested in Jewish spirituality. I'm Jewish, but I didn't grow up very religious. I didn't grow up in a Jewish community really. So I knew some basics, but not a ton. In college I started to study it and also informally learned from other people I met. I ended up going on a pretty intense spiritual quest, going to Jerusalem and immersing myself after college for two years in traditional Jewish study and practice. So that became the third strand of the braid that had already been started with music and writing. Torah study, spiritual study, and teaching became the third, and they all interweave. The last thing I'll say is that because I work in both words and music, and naturally performance because of music, it began to branch a little bit into plays, theatre, and film, just because that's where the intersection of words, performance, and music is. So that's really what brought me into that, as opposed to any specific desire to work in film. It all happened very organically. Joanna: I love this. This is so cool. We are going to circle back to a lot of this, but I have to ask you— What about work for money at any point? How did this turn into more than just hobbies and lifestyle? Alicia: Yes, absolutely. Well, I'm very fortunate that I did not graduate college with loans because my parents were able to pay for college. That was a big privilege that I just want to name, because in the States that's often not the case. So that allowed me to need to support myself, but not also pay loans, which was a real gift. What happened was I went straight from college to that school in Jerusalem, and there I was on loans and scholarship, so I didn't have to worry yet about supporting myself. Then when I came back to the States, I actually found on Craigslist a job teaching remedial Hebrew. It was essentially teaching kids at a Jewish elementary school who either had learning differences or had just entered the school late and needed to be in a different Hebrew class than the other kids in their grade. That was my first experience of really teaching, and I just absolutely fell in love with it. Although in the end, my passion is much more for teaching the text and rituals and the wrestling with the concepts, as opposed to teaching language. So all these years, while doing performance and writing and all these things, I have been teaching Jewish studies. That has essentially supported me, I would say, between 50 and 70 per cent. Then the rest has been paid gigs as a musician, whether as a front person leading a project or as what we call a sideman, playing in someone else's band. Sometimes doing theatre performances, sometimes teaching workshops. That's how I've cobbled it together. I have not had a full-time job all these years and I have supported myself through both earned income and also grants and donations. I've really tried to cultivate a little bit of a donor base, and I took some workshops early on about how to welcome donations. So I definitely try to always welcome that as well. Joanna: That is so interesting that you took a workshop on how to welcome donations. Way back in, I think 2013, I said on this show, I just don't know if I can accept people giving to support the show. Then someone on the podcast challenged me and said, but people want to support creatives. That's when I started Patreon in 2014. It was when The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer came out and— It was this realisation that people do want to support people. So I love that you said that. Alicia: It's not easy. It's still not easy for me, and I have to grit my teeth every time I even put in my end-of-year newsletter. I just say, just a reminder that part of what makes this possible is your generous donations, and I'm so grateful to you. It's not easy. I think some people enjoy fundraising. I certainly don't instinctively enjoy it, but I have learned to think of it exactly the way that you're saying. I mean, I love donating to support other people's projects. Sometimes it's the highlight of my day. If I'm having a bad day and someone asks for help, either to feed a family or to complete a creative project, I just feel like, okay, at least I can give $36 or $25 and feel like I did something positive in the last hour, even if my project is going terribly and I'm in a fight with my kid or something. So I have to keep in mind that it is actually a privilege to give as well as a privilege to receive. Joanna: Absolutely. So let's get back into your various creative projects. The first thing I wanted to ask you, because you do have so many different formats and forms of your creativity—how do you know when an idea that comes to you should be a song, or something you want to do as a performance, or written, or a film? Tell us a bit about your creative process. Because a lot of your projects are also longer-term. Alicia: Yes. It's funny, I love planning and in some ways I'm an extreme planner. I really drive people in my family bonkers with planning, like family vacations a year in advance. In terms of my creativity, I'm very planful towards goals, but in that early generative state, I am actually pure instinct. I don't think I ever sit down and say, “I have this idea, which genre would it match with?” It's more like I sit on my bed and pick up my guitar, which is where I love to do songwriting, just sitting on my bed cross-legged, and I pick up my guitar and something starts coming out. Then I just work with that kernel. So it's very nebulous at first, very innate, and I just follow that creative spirit. Often I don't even know what a project is, sometimes if it's a larger project, until a year or two in. Once things emerge and take shape, then my planning brain and my strategy brain can jump on it and say, “Okay, we need three more songs to fill out the album, and we need to plan the fundraising and the scheduling.” Then I might take more of an outside-in approach. At the beginning it's just all instinct. Joanna: So if you pick up your guitar, does that mean it always starts in music and then goes into writing? Or is that you only pick up a guitar if it's going to be musical? Alicia: I think I'm responding to what's inside me. It's almost like a need, as opposed to, “I'm going to sit down and work.” I mean, obviously I sit down and work a lot, but I think in that early stage of anything, it's more like my fingers are itching to play something, and so I sit down and pick up my guitar. Sometimes nothing comes out and sometimes the kernel of a song comes out. Or I'm at a café, and I often like to write when I'm feeling a little bit discombobulated, just to go into the complexity of things or use challenging emotions as fuel. I really do use it as a—I don't know if therapeutic is the word, but I think it maybe is. I write often, as I always have, as I said before, to understand what I'm thinking. Like Joan Didion said—to process difficult emotions, to let go of stuck places. So I think I create almost more out of a sense of just what I need in the moment. Sometimes it's just for fun. Sometimes picking up a guitar, I just have a moment so I sit down and mess around. Sometimes it's to help me struggle with something. It doesn't always start in music. That was a random example. I might sit down to write because I have an hour and I think, I haven't written in a while. Or I do have an informal daily writing thing where I'll try to generate one loose draft of something a day, even if it's only ten pages. I mean, sorry, ten words. Joanna: I was going to say! Alicia: No, no. Ten words. I'm sorry. It's often poetry, so it feels like a lot when it's ten words. I'll just sit down with no pressure, no goal, no intention to make anything specific. Just open the floodgates and see what comes out. That's where every single project of mine has started. Joanna: Yes, I do love that. Obviously, I'm a discovery writer and intuitive, same as you. I think very much this idea of, especially when you said you feel discombobulated, that's when you write. I almost feel like I need that. I'm not someone who writes every day. I don't do ten lines or whatever. It's that I'll feel that sense of pressure building up into “this is going to be something.” I will really only write or journal when that spills over into— “I now need to write and figure out what this is.” Alicia: Yes. It's almost a form of hunger. It feels to me similar to when you eat a great meal and then you're good for a while. You're not really thinking of it, and then it builds up, like you said, and then there's a need—at least the first half of creativity. I really separate my generation and my editing. So my generative practice is all openness, no critique, just this maybe therapeutic, maybe curious, wandering and seeing what happens. Then once I have a draft, my incisive editing mind is welcome back in, which has been shut out from that early process. So that's a really different experience. Those early stages of creativity are almost out of need more than obligation. Joanna: Well, just staying with that generative practice. Obviously you've mentioned your study of and practice of Jewish tradition and Jewish spirituality. Steven Pressfield in his books has talked about his prayer to the muse, and I've got on my wall here—I don't talk about this very often, actually — I have a muse picture, a painting of what I think of as a muse spirit in some form. So do you have any spiritual practices around your generative practice and that phase of coming up with ideas? Alicia: I love that question, and I wish I had a beautiful, intentional answer. My answer is no. I think I experience creativity as its own spiritual practice itself. I do love individual prayer and meditation and things like that, but for me those are more to address my specifically spiritual health and happiness and connectedness. I'm just a dive-in kind of person. As a musician, I have friends who have elaborate backstage rituals. I have to do certain things to take care of my voice, but even that, it's mostly vocal rest as opposed to actively doing things. There's a bit of an on/off switch for me. Joanna: That's interesting. Well, I do want to ask you about one of your projects, this collaboration with a high school on a musical performance, I Was a Desert: Songs of the Matriarchs, and also your Girls in Trouble songs about women in the Torah. On your website, I had a look at the school, the high school, and the musical performance. It was extraordinary. I was watching you in the school there and it's just such extraordinary work. It very much inspired me—not to do it myself, but it was just so wonderful. I do urge people to go to your website and just watch a few minutes of it. I'm inspired by elements of religion, Christian and Jewish, but I wondered if you've come up against any issues with adaptation—respecting your heritage but also reinventing it. How has this gone for you. Any advice for people who want to incorporate aspects of religion they love but are worried about responses? Alicia: Well, I have to say, coming from the Jewish tradition, that is a core practice of Judaism—reinterpreting our texts and traditions, wrestling with them, arguing with them, reimagining them. I don't know if you're familiar with Midrash, but just in case some of your listeners aren't sure I'll explain it. There's essentially an ancient form of fanfic called Midrash, which was the ancient rabbis, and we still do it today, taking a biblical story that seems to have some kind of gap or inconsistency or question in it and writing a story to fill that gap or recast the story in an interestingly different light. So we have this whole body of literature over thousands of years that are these alternate or added-on adventures, side quests of the biblical characters. What I'm doing from a Jewish perspective is very much in line with a traditional way of interacting with text. I've certainly never gotten any pushback, especially as I work in progressive Jewish communities. I think if I were in an extremely fundamentalist community, there would be a lot of different issues around gender and things like that. The interpretive process, even in those communities, is part of how we show respect for the text. When I was working with the high school—and I just want to call out the choir director, Ethan Chen, who has an incredible project where he brings in a different artist every two years to work with the choir, and they tend to have a different cultural focus each time. He invited me specifically to integrate my songwriting about biblical women with his amazing high school choir. I was really worried at first because most of them are not Jewish—very few of them, if any. I wanted to respect their spiritual paths and their religious heritages and not impose mine on them. So I spent a lot of time at the beginning saying, this project has religious source material, but essentially it is a creative reinterpretive project. I am not coming to you to bring the religious material to you. I'm coming to take the shared Hebrew Bible myths and then reinterpret those myths through a lens of how they might reflect our own personal struggles, because that's always my approach to these ancient stories. I wanted to really make that clear to the students. It was such a joy to work with them. Joanna: It's such an interesting project. Also, I find with musicians in general this idea of performance. You've written this thing—or this thing specifically with the school—and it doesn't exist again, right? You're not selling CDs of that, I presume. Whereas compared to a book, when we write a book, we can sell it forever. It doesn't exist as a performance generally for an author of a memoir or a novel. It carries on existing. So how does that feel, the performance idea versus the longer-lasting thing? I mean, I guess the video's there, but the performance itself happened. Alicia: I do know what you mean. Absolutely. We did, for that reason, record it professionally. We had the sound person record it and mix it, so it is available to stream. I'm not selling CDs, but it's out there on all the streaming services, if people want to listen. I do also have the scores, so if a choir wanted to sing it. The main point that you're making is so true. I think there's actually something very sacred about live performance—that we're all in the moment together and then the moment is over. I love the artefacts of the writing life. I love writing books. I love buying and reading books and having them around, and there's piles of them everywhere in this room I'm standing in. I feel like being on stage, or even teaching, is a very spiritual practice for me, because it's in some ways the most in-the-moment I ever am. The only thing that matters is what's happening right then in that room. It's fleeting as it goes. I'm working with the energy in the room while we're there. It's different every time because I'm different, the atmosphere is different, the people are different. There's no way to plan it. The kind of micro precision that we all try to bring to our editing—you can't do that. You can practice all you want and you should, but in the moment, who knows? A string breaks or there's loud sound coming from the other room. It is just one of those things. I love being reminded over and over again of the truth that we really don't control what happens. The best that we can do is ride it, surf it, be in it, appreciate it, and then let it go. Joanna: I think maybe I get a glimpse of that when I speak professionally, but I'm far more in control in that situation than I guess you were with—I don't know how many—was it a hundred kids in that choir? It looked pretty big. Alicia: It was amazing. It was 130 kids. Yes. Joanna: 130 kids! I mean, it was magic listening to it. And yes, of course, showing my age there with buying a CD, aren't I? Alicia: Well, I do still sell some CDs of Girls in Trouble on tour, because I have a bunch of them and people still buy them. I'm always so grateful because it was an easier life for touring musicians when we could just bring CDs. Now we have to be very creative about our merch. Joanna: Yes, that's a good point because people are like, “Oh yes, I'll scan your QR code and stream it,” but you might not get the money for that for ages, and it might just be five cents or whatever. Alicia: Streaming is terrible for live musicians. I mean, I don't know if you know the site Bandcamp, but it's essentially self-publishing for musicians. Bandcamp is a great way around that, and a lot of independent musicians use it because that's a place you can upload your music and people can pay $8 for an album. They can stream it on there if they want, or they can download it and have it. But, yes, it's hard out there for touring musicians. Joanna: Yes, for sure. Well, let's come to the book then. Your memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. Tell us about some of the challenges of a book as opposed to these other types of performances. Alicia: Well, I come out of poetry, so that was my first love. That's what I majored in in college. That's what my MFA is in. Poetry is famously short, and I'm not one of those long-form poets. I have been trained for many years to think in terms of a one-page arc, if at all. Arc isn't even really a word that we use in poetry. So to write a full-length prose book was really an incredible education. Writing it basically took ten years from writing to publication, so probably seven years of writing and editing. I felt like there was an MFA-equivalent process in the number of classes I took, books I read, and work that went into it. So that was one of my main joys and challenges, really learning on the job to write long-form prose coming out of poetry. How to keep the engine going, how to think about ending one chapter in a way that leaves you with some torque or momentum so that you want to go into the next chapter. How many characters is too many? Who gets names and who doesn't? Some of these things that are probably pretty basic for fiction writers were all very new to me. That was a big part of my process. Then, of course, poets don't usually have agents. So once it was done, I began to query agents. It was the normal sort of 39 rejections and then one agent who really understood what I was trying to do. She's incredible, and she was able to sell the book. The longevity of just working on something for that long—I have a lot of joy in that longevity—but it does sometimes feel like, is this ever going to happen, or am I on a fool's errand? Joanna: I guess, again, the difference with performance is you have a date for the performance and it's done then. I suppose once you get a contract, then for sure it has to be done. But memoir in particular, you do have to set boundaries, because of course your life continues, doesn't it? So what were the challenges in curating what went into the book? Because many people listening know memoir is very challenging in terms of how personal it can be. Alicia: Yes, and one thing I think is so fascinating about memoir is choosing which lens to put on your story, on your own story. I heard early on that the difference between autobiography and memoir is that autobiography tries to give a really comprehensive view of a life, and memoir is choosing one lens and telling the story of a life through that lens, which is such a beautiful creative concept. I knew early on that I wanted this to be primarily a spiritual memoir, and also somewhat of an artistic memoir, because my creativity and my spirituality are so intertwined. It started off being spiritual, and also about my musical life, and also about my writing life. In the end, I edited out the part about my writing life, because writing about writing was just too navel-gazing. So there's nothing in there about me coming of age as a writer, which used to be in there, but that whole thing got taken out. Now it's spiritual and musical. For me, it really helped to start with those focuses, because I knew there may be things that were hugely important in my life, absolutely foundational, that were not really going to be either mentioned or gone deeply into in the book. For example, my husband teases me a lot about how few pages and words he gets. He's very important in my life, but I actually met him when I was 29, and this book really mainly takes place in the years leading up to that. There's a little bit of winding down in the first few years of my thirties, but this is not a book about my life with him. He is mentioned in it. That story is in there. Having those kinds of limitations around the canvas—there's a quote, I forget if it was Miranda July, but somebody said something like, basically when you put a limitation on your project, that's when it starts to be a work of art. Whatever it is, if you say, “I'm taking this canvas and I'm using these colours,” that's when it really begins, that initial limitation. That was very helpful. Joanna: It's also the beauty of memoir, because of course you can write different memoirs at different times. You can write something about your writing life. You can write something else about your marriage and your family later on. That doesn't all have to be in one book. I think that's actually something I found interesting. And I would also say in my memoir, Pilgrimage, my husband is barely mentioned either. Alicia: Does he tease you too? Joanna: No, I think he's grateful. He is grateful for the privacy. Alicia: That's why I keep saying, you should be grateful! Joanna: Yes. You really should. Like, maybe stop talking now. Alicia: Yes, exactly. I know. Marriage, memoir—those words should strike fear into his heart. Joanna: They definitely should. But let's just come back. When I look at your career— You just seem such an independent creative, and so I wondered why you decided to work with a traditional publisher instead of being an independent. How are you finding it as someone who's not in charge of everything? Alicia: It's a great question. The origin story for this memoir is that I was actually reading poetry at a writing conference called Bread Loaf in the States. This was 16 years ago or something. I was giving a poetry reading and afterwards an agent, not my agent, came up to me and said, you know, you have a voice. You should try writing nonfiction because you could probably sell it. Back to your question about how I support myself, I am always really hustling to make a living. It's not like I have some separate well-paying job and the writing has no pressure on it. So my ears kind of perked up. I thought, wait, getting paid for writing? Because poetry is literally not in the world. It's just not a concept for poets. That's not why we write and it's not a possibility. So a little light turned on in my brain. I thought, wow, that could be a really interesting element to add to my income stream, and it would be flexible and it would be meaningful. For a few years I thought, what nonfiction could I write? And I came up with the idea of writing a book about biblical women from a more scholarly perspective, because I teach that material and I've studied it. I went to speak to another agent and she said, well, you could do that, but if you actually want to sell a book, it's going to have to be more of a trade book. So if you don't want an academic press, which wouldn't pay very much, you would have to have some kind of memoir-like stories in there to just sweeten it so it doesn't feel academic. So then I began writing a little bit of spiritual memoir. I thought, okay, well, I'll write about a few moments. Then once I started writing, I couldn't stop. The floodgates really opened. That's how it ended up being a spiritual memoir with interwoven stories of biblical women. It became a hybrid in that sense. I knew from the beginning that this project—for all my saying earlier that I never plan anything and only work on instinct, I was thinking as I said that, that cannot be true. This time, I actually thought, what if, instead of coming from this pure, heart-focused place of poetry, I began writing with the intention of potentially selling a book? The way my fiction writer friends talked about selling their books. So that was always in my mind. I knew I would continue writing poetry, continue publishing with small presses, continue putting my own music out there independently, but this was a bit of an experiment. What if I try to interface with the publishing world, in part for financial sustainability? And because I had a full draft before I queried, I never felt like anyone was telling me what to write. I can't imagine personally selling a book on proposal, because I do need that full capacity to just swerve, change directions, be responsive to what the project is teaching me. I can't imagine promising that I'll write something, because I never know what I'll write. But writing at least a very solid draft first, I'm always delighted to get notes and make polish and rewrite and make things better. I took care of that freedom in the first seven years of writing and then I interfaced with the agent and publisher. Joanna: I was going to say, given that it's taken you seven to ten years to do this and I can't imagine that you're suddenly a multimillionaire from this book. It probably hasn't fulfilled the hourly rate that perhaps you were thinking of in terms of being paid for your work. I think some people think that everyone's going to end up with the massive book deal that pays for the rest of their life. I guess this book does just fit into the rest of your portfolio career. Alicia: Yes. One of the benefits of these long arcs that I like to work on is, one of them—and probably the primary one—is that the project gets to unfold on its own time. I don't think I could have rushed it if I wanted. The other is that it never really stopped me from doing any of my other work. Joanna: Mm-hmm. Alicia: So it's not like, oh, I gave up months of my life and all I got was this advance or something. It's like, I was living my life and then when I had a little bit of writing time—and I will say, it impacted my poetry. I haven't written as much poetry because I was working on this. So it wasn't like I just added it on top of everything I was already doing, but it was a pleasure to just switch to prose for a while. It was just woven into my life. I appreciated having this side project where no one was waiting for it. There were no deadlines, there was no stress around it, because I always have performances to promote and due dates for all kinds of work. It was just this really lovely arena of slow growth and play. When I wanted a reader, I could do a swap with a writer friend, but no one was ever waiting for it on deadline. So there's actually a lot of pleasure in that. Then I will say, I think I've made more from selling this than my poetry. Probably close to ten times more than I've ever made from any of my poetry. So on a poetry scale, it's certainly not going to pay for my life, but it actually does make a true financial difference in a way that much of my other work is a little more bit by bit by bit. It's actually a different scale. Joanna: Well, that's really good. I'm glad to hear that. I also want to ask you, because you've done so many things, and— I'm fascinated by your independent film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. I have only watched the trailer. You are in it, you wrote it, directed it, and it's also obviously got other people in, and it's fascinating. It's about this particular point in history. I've written quite a lot of screenplay adaptations of my novels, and I've had some various amounts of interest, but the whole film industry to me is just a complete nightmare, far bigger nightmare than the book industry. So I wonder if you could maybe talk about this, because it just seems like you made a film, which is so cool. Alicia: Oh yes, thank you. Joanna: And it won awards, yes, we should say. Alicia: Did we win awards? Yes. It really, for an extremely low-budget indie film, went far further than my team and I could ever have imagined. I will say I never intended to make a film. Like most of the best things in my life, it really happened by accident. When I was living in New York— I lived there for many years—the 2008 financial collapse happened and I happened to have an arts grant that gave a bunch of artists workspace, studio space, in essentially an abandoned building in the financial district. It was an empty floor of a building. The floor had been left by the previous tenant, and there's a nonprofit that takes unused real estate in the financial district and lets artists work in it for a while. So I was on Wall Street, which was very rare for me, but for this year I was working on Wall Street. Even though I was working on poems, the financial collapse happened around me, and I did get inspired by that to create a one-woman show, which was more of a theatre show. That was already a huge leap for me because I had no real theatre experience, but it was experimental and growing out of my poetry practice and my music. It was a musical one-woman show about the financial collapse from a spiritual perspective, apparently. So I performed that. I documented it, and then a friend who lives in Portland, Oregon, where I now live, said, “I'm a theatre producer, I'd like to produce it here.” So then I rewrote it and did a run here in Portland of that show. Essentially, I started to tour it a little bit, but I got tired of it. It was too much work and it never really paid very much, and I thought, this is impacting my life negatively. I just want to do a really good documentation of the show. So I wanted to hire a theatre documentarian to just document the show so that it didn't disappear, like you were saying before about live performance. But one of the people I talked to actually ended up being an artistic filmmaker, as opposed to a documentarian. She watched the archival footage, just a single camera of the show, and said, “I don't think you should do this again and film it with three cameras. I think you should make it into a feature film. And in fact, I think maybe I should direct it, because there's all this music in it and I also direct music videos.” We had this kind of mind meld. Joanna: Mm. Alicia: I never intended to make a film, but she is a visionary director and I had this piece of IP essentially, and all the music and the writing. We adapted it together. We did it here in Portland. We did all the fundraising ourselves. We did not interface with Hollywood really. I think that would be, I just can't imagine. I love Hollywood, but I'm not really connected, and I can't imagine waiting for someone to give us permission or a green light to make this. It was experimental and indie, so we just really did it on the cheap. We had an amazing producer who helped us figure out how to do it with the budget that we had. We worked really hard fundraising, crowdfunding, asking for donations, having parties to raise money, and then we just did it and put it out there. I think my main advice—and I hear this a lot on screenwriting podcasts—is just make the thing. Make something, as opposed to trying to get permission to make something. Because unless you're already in that system, it's going to be really hard to get permission to make it. Once you make something, that leads to something else, which leads to something else. So even if it's a very short thing, or even if it's filmed on your phone, just actually make the thing. That turned out to be the right thing for us. Joanna: Yes, I mean, I feel like that is what underpins us as independent creatives in general. As an independent author, I feel the same way. I'm never asking permission to put a book in the world. No, thank you. Alicia: Exactly. We have a vision and we do it. It's harder in some ways, but that liberation of being able to really fully create our vision without having to compromise it or wait for permission, I think it's such a beautiful thing. Joanna: Well, we're almost out of time, but I do want to ask you about creative confidence. Alicia: Hmm. Joanna: I feel I'm getting a lot of sense about this at the moment, with all the AI stuff that's happening. When you've been creating a long time, like you and I have, we know our voice and we can lean into our voice. We are creatively confident. We'll fail a lot, but we'll just push on and try things and see what happens. Newer creators are struggling with this kind of confidence. How do I know what is my voice? How do I know what I like? How do I lean into this? So give us some thoughts about how to find your voice and how to find that creative confidence if you don't feel you have it. Alicia: I love that. One thing I will say is that I always think whatever is arising is powerful material to create from. So if a lack of confidence is arising, that's a really powerful feeling to directly explore and not just try to ignore. Although sometimes one has to just ignore those feelings. But to actually explore that feeling, because AI can't have that, right? AI can't really feel a crisis of confidence, and humans can. So that's a gift that we have, those kinds of sensitivities. I think to go really deep into whatever is arising, including the sense that we don't have the right to be creating, or we're not good enough, or whatever it is. Then I always do come back to a quote. I think it might have been John Berryman, but I'm forgetting which poet said it. A younger poet said, “How will I ever know if I'm any good?” And this famous poet said something like—I'm paraphrasing—”You'll never know if you're any good. If you have to know, don't write.” That has been really liberating to me, actually. It sounds a little harsh, but it's been really liberating to just let go of a sense of “good enough.” There is no good enough. The great writers never know if they're good enough. Coming back to this idea of just making without permission—the practice of doing the thing is being a writer. Caring and trying to improve our craft, that's the best that we can have. There's never going to be a moment where we're like, yes, I've nailed this. I am truly a hundred per cent a writer and I have found my voice. Everything's always changing anyway. I would say, either go into those feelings or let those feelings be there. Give them a little tea. Tell them, okay, you're welcome to be here, but you don't get to drive the boat. And then return to the practice of making. Joanna: Absolutely. Great. So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? Alicia: Everything is on my website, which is AliciaJo.com, and also on Instagram at @ohaliciajo. I'd love to say hello to anyone who's interested in similar topics. Joanna: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Alicia. That was great. Alicia: Thank you. I love your podcast. I'm so grateful for all that you've given the writing world, Jo.The post Creative Confidence, Portfolio Careers, And Making Without Permission with Alicia Jo Rabins first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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Gaming can of course be an addiction. Like all things in life, balance is important and we ourselves are not above playing the occasional computer game as we all need a little escape here and there. In spirts and not letting it take over our life of course. Amongst other more creative things, one of our rituals we do for fun with our daughter is watch anime or game together. And recently we did an extremely rare acquisition and bought a new but used off Craigslist graphics card. By the way, we highly recommend the book "Chip War" on the subject of microchips and the massive importance of two companies on the planet, one of which is called ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials) which does extreme ultraviolet photolithography, creating the world's only machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced microchips, and the other is called TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and is the company that manufactures the majority of the world's microchips using ASML hardware in Taiwan and is why that is such a crucial small country in the Earth realm currently. Right around the time of this new GPU acquisition a new game had recently been released which caught our eye and was an excuse to try out the new hardware. ———An Infinite Path podcast official URL http://www.aninfinitepath.comSpotify | iTunes | YouTube | Overcast FM | Stitcher | Player FM

Hey There! Would you like to participate in the postcard exchange? It comes with a free ATRD Sticker! Just Send a post card to the following... Lucas/Raven PO BOX 8198 Rochester, MN 55903 Today, on the 214th episode of the As The Raven Dreams podcast, we have 10 True Chilling stories. These stories come from the shadowy corners of reality, where everyday life takes an eerie twist & ordinary people experience the extraordinary. Today we will be diving into Scary Craigslist stories, Small town horror stories & Scary Family Gathering Stories. Today's episode was partially written by Tom K, Find his other works here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBVX81W7 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to like or rate the podcast, and leave me a comment with your thoughts if the platform your on supports it! I upload episodes every 3 days, so there are 2 days between new uploads. The podcast consists of new scary story collections, Glitch in the matrix collections, and also what I call the "Dark Dreams" collections (which are older stories, remastered and layered with rain sounds). If you have a story to submit, would like to find where to listen to the podcast, or want to find me on social media platforms, all of that info can be found at https://www.astheravendreams.com You can also send stories into my subreddit (r/theravensdream) or email them to me at AsTheRavenDreams@gmail.com Want to check out some ATRD Podcast Merch? ➤ https://teechip.com/stores/astheravendreams Or for signed merch ➤ https://ko-fi.com/AsTheRavenDreams I wrote a novel, "The Insomniac's Experiment" by Raven Adams! Check it out on amazon (Or you can email me for a signed copy!) Join Patreon to get early access and support the Podcast! ➤ https://www.patreon.com/AsTheRavenDreams Check out my gaming channel with my pal Ghost_Ink ➤ @superNefariousBros On YouTube Thank you to all of the authors that have stories in todays episode... PityForPat, Millenial-In-A-Box, PortlandWannabe, Chef'sChoice, GL11, GraceIsOk, Lori, 2007, Tom K As Well As Any Author That Has Requested Anonymity. TimeStamps… Ad breaks after Story 1 & Story 6 1 ➤ 00:57 2 ➤ 18:22 3 ➤ 29:45 4 ➤ 42:40 5 ➤ 53:46 6 ➤ 58:31 7 ➤ 1:10:55 8 ➤ 1:22:11 9 ➤ 1:35:15 10 ➤ 1:47:05 ----- Disclaimer ➤ Episodes include a content warning for language and sensitive/disturbing content. Listener discretion is always advised. ALL Audio and visuals on this podcast are copyright of AS THE RAVEN DREAMS / RAVEN ADAMS and may not be duplicated, in any format. Bless This Mess. None of my audio is AI Generated, I am a real person reading real stories into a real microphone. Note: The podcast nor the host endorses any advertisements played during the podcast, ads are not chosen by ATRD or Raven Adams, they are chosen automatically by the advertisement systems by the platforms that host the podcast. I do not endorse, support, or promote any opinions or statements made in any adverts played during the show. #ScaryStories #UnexplainedMysteries #GlitchInTheMatrix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HITM: Jamie's horse arrived and of course there is a story! We continue with Breeds of the Alphabet as we speak with Jen Vanover, owner of Maplewood Warmbloods, discussing the history, traits, and development of the elite Oldenburg sport horse breed, along with a look into her breeding and training facility. Plus, some Realli BAd Adz, listen in....AUDITOR POST SHOW: No Post ShowHORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3894 – Show Notes and Links:Hosts: Jamie Jennings of Flyover Farm and Glenn the GeekJamie and Glenn's Amazon StorePic Credit: Maplewood Warmbloods and Watercolor WesternTitle Sponsor: Kentucky Performance ProductsGuest: Jen Vanover , Owner at Maplewood WarmbloodsGuest: Florelle from Watercolor WesternGiveaway: $100 gift card from Grace 'n Grit, use coupon code HRN for 10% off your next hat.Giveaway: A $250 Gift Pack from Watercolor Western, use coupon code HRN for 20% off for the month of February.Additional support for this podcast provided by: My New Horse, Equine Network and Listeners Like YouTime Stamps: 01:19- New Andalusian buckskin arrival saga13:09- Daily Whinnies14:12- Podcast vs radio listening stats18:48- Breeds of the Alphabet: Oldenburg intro20:00- Oldenburg history & registry background24:06- Warmblood types, colors & breeding choices32:46- Temperament, suitability & price of warmbloods35:00- Losing major breeders & industry changes37:07- Watercolor Western artist interview45:00- Really Bad Ads segment begins1:02:28- “Instant wife” Craigslist ad & reactions

How to Revolutionize Local FoodIn this Episode Dana Choquette, the Executive Director of the Western North Carolina Food Coalition, shares how a first-generation regenerative livestock farmer became a regional leader in local food system infrastructure. From backyard sheep during COVID to coordinating 12 food hubs and 9 food councils, Dana explains how small farms can transform local economies, reduce food insecurity, and strengthen community resilience. This episode explores food hubs, policy innovation, hunger relief, and why collaboration—not competition—is the future of regional food systems.Our Guest:  Dana Choquette is the executive director of a 19 county community coalition that works to strengthen the local food system in western North Carolina. She mobilizes projects to help people in all corners of the food system from those experiencing hunger to those building viable small farms. All while building local food distribution infrastructure. She's a first generation regenerative livestock farmer, and particularly loves working with sheep and cattle.Key Topics & EntitiesWestern North Carolina Food Coalition (WNC Food Coalition)Dana Choquette's transition from urban life to regenerative livestock farmingWestern North Carolina's 19-county food systemFood hubs as aggregation and distribution infrastructureWNC Food Hub Collaborative (12 independent hubs collaborating regionally)Grow Where You Live Policy (community gardens in high-density housing)Food councils (9 hyper-local councils across WNC)Community-based food pantries and 24/7 open-access pantriesManna FoodBank partnershipWarehouse aggregation and distribution modelInstitutional food purchasing vs. national distributorsCarbon footprint and local food sourcingFarmer viability and consistent market outletsChris Smith's book The Whole OkraKey Questions AnsweredHow did Dana transition from urban living to farming and food systems leadership?Dana had no farming experience until nearly age 30. After relocating from Colorado to Western North Carolina during COVID, she and her husband started with backyard sheep. What began as a trial experiment quickly evolved into expanded livestock, leased land, and a deep commitment to producing food for their community. That hands-on experience led her into food systems work and ultimately to leading the WNC Food Coalition.What is a food coalition and how does it function regionally?A food coalition coordinates local stakeholders across the food system—from hunger relief to farmer support to policy advocacy. In Western North Carolina, the coalition serves 19 counties through 9 hyper-local food councils, each responding to the specific needs of its community.What is a food hub and why is it important?Food hubs are brick-and-mortar aggregation and distribution centers that purchase food from local farmers and redistribute it to consumers, institutions, CSAs, retail outlets, and food pantries. They create consistent market outlets for farmers, reduce distribution gaps, and help keep food dollars circulating locally.How do food hubs differ from national distributors?National distributors aggregate global food at scale, often prioritizing cost efficiency. Food hubs prioritize local sourcing, fair farmer compensation, shorter supply chains, and lower carbon footprints. They also strengthen local economies and improve freshness and nutritional value.How is the WNC region addressing hunger right now?The coalition partners with Manna FoodBank and operates 24/7 open-access community pantries, direct home delivery, and snack bag programs for unhoused individuals. Their approach blends immediate relief with long-term systems change.What is the Grow Where You Live Policy?A proposed Asheville policy requiring new high-density housing developments to include at least 5,000 square feet of community growing space, along with long-term maintenance support.What was the coalition's biggest failure and lesson learned?Early on, the organization tried to solve too many food system challenges at once. They narrowed their focus, strengthened core programs, and built capacity before expanding again.What is the coalition's biggest success?Bringing 12 independent food hubs together into a collaborative network focused on regional impact rather than competition.Episode HighlightsDana began farming with Craigslist sheep and YouTube tutorials during COVID.Western North Carolina's terrain forces farmers to be scrappy and innovative.Food hubs offer consistent year-round markets for small farmers.The region supports 12 collaborating food hubs and 9 food councils.The coalition operates a central warehouse to aggregate donations and distribute food across multiple counties.24/7 open-access pantries remove barriers to food access.Local food improves freshness, nutrition, and taste.Dana's driving motivation: building a resilient food system for her daughter's future.ResourcesWestern North Carolina Food Coalition — https://www.wncfoodcoalition.orgInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/wncfoodsystemsBecome a Member — https://www.wncfoodcoalition.org (Join for as little as $1)Show Notes — https://urbanfarm.org/WNCFoodCoalitionBook Recommendation — The Whole Okra by Chris SmithNeed a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg or choose one of the senior members of our Urban Farm team to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more! *Disclosure: Some of the links in our podcast show notes and blog posts are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase, we will earn a nominal commission at no cost to you. We offer links to items recommended by our podcast guests and guest writers as a service to our audience and these items are not selected because of the commission we receive from your purchases. We know the decision is yours, and whether you decide to buy something is completely up to you.

HITM: Jamie's horse arrived and of course there is a story! We continue with Breeds of the Alphabet as we speak with Jen Vanover, owner of Maplewood Warmbloods, discussing the history, traits, and development of the elite Oldenburg sport horse breed, along with a look into her breeding and training facility. Plus, some Realli BAd Adz, listen in....AUDITOR POST SHOW: No Post ShowHORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3894 – Show Notes and Links:Hosts: Jamie Jennings of Flyover Farm and Glenn the GeekJamie and Glenn's Amazon StorePic Credit: Maplewood Warmbloods and Watercolor WesternTitle Sponsor: Kentucky Performance ProductsGuest: Jen Vanover , Owner at Maplewood WarmbloodsGuest: Florelle from Watercolor WesternGiveaway: $100 gift card from Grace 'n Grit, use coupon code HRN for 10% off your next hat.Giveaway: A $250 Gift Pack from Watercolor Western, use coupon code HRN for 20% off for the month of February.Additional support for this podcast provided by: My New Horse, Equine Network and Listeners Like YouTime Stamps: 01:19- New Andalusian buckskin arrival saga13:09- Daily Whinnies14:12- Podcast vs radio listening stats18:48- Breeds of the Alphabet: Oldenburg intro20:00- Oldenburg history & registry background24:06- Warmblood types, colors & breeding choices32:46- Temperament, suitability & price of warmbloods35:00- Losing major breeders & industry changes37:07- Watercolor Western artist interview45:00- Really Bad Ads segment begins1:02:28- “Instant wife” Craigslist ad & reactions

“Every artist has a story where they didn't charge enough, the question is whether you let it break you or build you.” - BrandiWho knew we were practically neighbours? In this episode, I sit down with Canadian artist Joshua Harnack (Some of you might know him as the guy who got a storage locker with 6000 paintings in it) from Edmonton, and we get real about what it actually looks like to start an art career.We talk about the scrappy early days — Craigslist jobs, frat houses, popcorn ceilings, and charging $300 for a mural that probably should've cost ten times that. Josh shares how his very first mural in Vancouver (yes… in a University of British Columbia frat house) ended up costing him nearly all the profit in supplies and mistakes — but also opened the door to his next, better-paying commission.We dive into managing commissions wisely (hello boundaries), using inquiry forms instead of chasing every opportunity, and embracing the “feast and famine” rhythm that so many creatives quietly navigate. I also share how I've been bringing art into the hockey rink, because in Alberta, if you can't beat the hockey culture… you pack your art bag and join it.This one is about resilience, humility, learning the hard way, and trusting that even the messy jobs are building something bigger.Two Takeaway Tips1. Build a commission system that protects your creativity.Use inquiry forms. Only take projects when your schedule allows. Not every opportunity deserves a “yes.” Sustainable creativity requires structure.2. Your early mistakes are tuition — not failure.Undercharging, wrong materials, awkward jobs — they're part of the path. The key is to learn fast, adjust, and keep going.

David Huntsberger and Jeff Fox are here to hear about a momentous happening in one of my fish tanks. We also discuss the hobbies we're passionate about, Dave's refusal to purchase the thimble he so clearly needs, a bad Craigslist encounter, skiing, surveillance video hacks and so much more. We also guess my irrational fear, do a round of Snack Chat and a round of JMOE, HGFY and Podcast Pals Product Picks. Get yourself some new ARIYNBF merch here: https://alison-rosen-shop.fourthwall.com/ Subscribe to my Substack: http://alisonrosen.substack.com Podcast Palz Product Picks: https://www.amazon.com/shop/alisonrosen/list/2CS1QRYTRP6ER?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_aipsfalisonrosen_0K0AJFYP84PF1Z61QW2H Products I Use/Recommend/Love: http://amazon.com/shop/alisonrosen Check us out on Patreon: http://patreon.com/alisonrosen   This episode is brought to you by FACTOR. (Use code alisonrosen50off for 50 percent off and free breakfast for a year) Buy Alison's Fifth Anniversary Edition Book (with new material): Tropical Attire Encouraged (and Other Phrases That Scare Me) https://amzn.to/2JuOqcd You probably need to buy the HGFY ringtone! https://www.alisonrosen.com/store/ Try Amazon Prime Free 30 Day Trial

In May 2010, 24-year-old escort Shannan Gilbert vanished after a frantic episode in Oak Beach, Long Island, captured on a bizarre 911 call where she claimed people were trying to kill her. Her disappearance prompted searches that uncovered the remains of multiple women along Ocean Parkway, including the "Gilgo Four" (Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello) and others, revealing a suspected serial killer targeting Craigslist escorts.   Shannan's skeletal remains were found in 2011; authorities ruled her death accidental (likely drowning/exposure), but her family and an independent autopsy argue for homicidal strangulation. The case exposed police bias against sex-worker victims, corruption under Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke (later imprisoned), and slow progress.   In 2023, architect Rex Heuermann was arrested and charged with seven murders (Gilgo Four plus Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack, Sandra Costilla), based on DNA, burner phones, hair evidence, and planning documents. He awaits trial in 2026. Shannan's death remains uncharged to him, with ongoing debate over whether she fits the pattern. Her mother, Mari Gilbert, became a fierce advocate before her tragic 2016 murder by her daughter. The Netflix film Lost Girls highlights the families' struggles and societal biases in the case.   This month's Branch of Hope sponsored charity is:   The Parents of Murdered Children. POMC provides ongoing emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy, and awareness for survivors of homicide victims, while working toward a world free of murder. It is the only national self-help organization specifically focused on the aftermath of murder. It emphasizes helping survivors reconstruct a "new life" after acute grief and dealing with the criminal justice system. To find more information go to pomc.org     Sources: New York police ID woman and child whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach. (2025, April 23). ABC7 Los Angeles. https://abc7.com/post/gilgo-beach-murders-nassau-county-police-reveal-id-victim-peaches-toddler-tanya-tatiana/16230830/?userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_a_control-1938,abcn_news_for_you_exp-528*variant_c_bptt-2205 Ostby, I. (2024, July 9). Is “Lost Girls” Based on a True Story. Netflix Tudum. https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/lost-girls-release-date-news-true-story Gallagher, E. (2025, April 8). How Gone Girls compares to Lost Girls & what the documentary adds about the Long Island serial killer. ScreenRant. https://screenrant.com/gone-girl-the-long-island-serial-killer-documentary-lost-girls-movie-comparison-reveals/ Tucker, E. (2024, September 16). A timeline of the Gilgo Beach serial killings case and the investigation that led to a suspect. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/gilgo-beach-murder-case-timeline   Fequiere, R. (2025, April 23). The Long Island Serial Killer victims: Names, ages, photos, news. Netflix Tudum. https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/gone-girls-the-long-island-serial-killer-victims     Join The Dark Oak Discussion: Patreon The Dark Oak Podcast Website Facebook Instagram Twitter TikTok Youtube This episode of The Dark Oak was created, researched, written, recorded, hosted, edited, published, and marketed by Cynthia and Stefanie of Just Us Gals Productions with artwork by Justyse Himes and Music by Ryan Creep  

How do you start a marketplace when you have no customers? Or a dating app with no users? This is the classic chicken-and-egg problem every platform faces: you need both sides to attract either side. In this episode, I break down six proven methods successful platforms used to solve this problem, including: How Amazon converted from a pipeline business to a platform Airbnb's controversial (but effective) Craigslist strategy Why dating apps create fake profiles in the early days How Facebook started with just 500 Harvard students The $100M offer Joe Rogan received to switch platforms You'll learn exactly how to get your first users when you're starting from zero. This episode is part of a series on platform businesses. Listen to the full series: Episode 90: What makes platform businesses so successful Episode 92: How to get people to be nice to each other on your platform Episode 93: Lessons from the Netflix C Suite Episode 94: Learning effects: why getting more users isn't the only key to success Resources mentioned: Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - And How to Make Them Work for You (Book) Full transcript: https://www.techfornontechies.co/blog/292-how-to-launch-a-platform-when-you-ve-got-no-users-rerun

Another round of Missed Connections from Craigslist! These just keep getting creepier! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re breaking down a list of accomplishments people swear are impressive… until they realize everyone else has done them too. We also bring you a new round of JUST HANG UP, where listeners confess whether they truly have a favorite child. Then we revive MISSED CONNECTIONS from Craigslist, and somehow each one is stranger than the last. Plus, Kincaid reveals the everyday task he only learned how to do at 49, which leads us to share the things we all learned embarrassingly late in life. It’s honest, it’s funny, and no one gets out unscathed. As always, we’ve got the latest pop culture updates in DALLAS' DISH, the wildest headlines in BUT WAIT, MY LITTLE SECRET, ARE YOU SMARTER THAN KINCAID?, and so much more! ► YOUTUBE: KincaidandDallas ► TikTok: @KincaidandDallas ► Instagram: @KincaidandDallas ► Facebook: KincaidandDallasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send a textThis week, Ed welcomes Hawaii-based real estate developer and educator Fuzzy Jardine to Real Estate Underground. Fuzzy shares his background growing up in Hawaii, getting into trouble with drugs and alcohol, going to prison, and using that time to educate himself with books like Rich Dad Poor Dad. After struggling to find work as an ex-con, he took multiple jobs, then invested $26,000 in real estate education after hearing about Fortune Builders, and learned to find deals through strategies like bandit signs and Craigslist ads. He explains how taking action led him from deal-finding to partnering with a local developer and eventually building 100+ affordable homes for local families on a more rural island, typically priced around $300K–$425K. Fuzzy talks about “The Pono Way,” emphasizing respectful, ethical investing, illustrated by a deal where a distressed homeowner was helped with housing, a car, and additional funds while the investors still profited. He also describes co-founding the Hui Mastermind with Asha Smith, including webinars, bus tours showing the full build process, meetups, and master classes teaching how to get started in real estate and fund deals without traditional bank financing. In a lightning round, Fuzzy says family is his main purpose, shares advice about being on time and owning mistakes quickly, reflects on saying yes too often and taking responsibility for a project headed toward a loss, and names motivators he follows on YouTube and podcasts. Check out Fuzzy's book, “Out of Paradise: How to Build Wealth Investing in Real Estate the Pono Way,” and shares where to find him online: fuzzyjardine.com, huimastermind.com, Instagram @hifuzzy, and YouTube “Investing in Hawaii.”00:00 Take Action Mindset00:11 Show Intro and Opportunity00:52 Meet Fuzzy Jardine01:54 From Prison to Real Estate05:58 Why Building Homes08:33 Finding Deals and First Partner10:03 Working Three Jobs to Learn12:30 The Pono Way Ethics15:58 Hui Mastermind Origins19:15 Lightning Round Purpose20:28 Mentors and Hard Lessons23:21 Books and Writing His Own24:43 Defining Success and Fun26:40 Where to Find Fuzzy27:24 Final Thanks and Call to ActionThis week's book: Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert KiyosakiElevista - Speed as a Service™Elevista Connect is the first AI-powered lead conversion system built for real estate investors. Heads up: If you find this week's book intriguing and you buy using our link, we receive a small commission that helps support the show. Thank you!

In this episode of Property and Paper Live, Dawn Rickabaugh breaks down a real-world note deal she sourced from Craigslist and explains how understanding seller financing, time value of money, and human dynamics can turn an “uninvestable” situation into a high-performing asset.If you'd like to take advantage of the limited time offer for 50% off her book, 'Note Investing for Newbies' click HERE and use the code NEWB50 at checkout.

In this episode of Official Success Formula, we sit down with Logan Taylor, a 28-year-old entrepreneur who turned a childhood of hustling on a prune farm into a diverse portfolio of real estate, RV parks, and a crop dusting company.Logan shares the invaluable lessons learned from watching his grandfather flip deals and his father build slow, stable wealth. He takes us through his journey of buying and selling cars on Craigslist as a teenager, navigating the brutal California real estate market, and making the leap to buy a multi-plane aviation business with zero industry experience.This is a masterclass in taking action and managing risk. Logan gets brutally honest about the partnerships that cost him, the mobile home park deal that haunts him, and why he still has roommates to fund his next investment.We cover how to spot opportunities that others miss, the hard truth about partnerships, why cash flow is king, and the mindset shift from all-in risk taking to strategic portfolio management.If you are looking for the inspiration to finally take that first step in business or real estate, this episode is for you.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/guy_taylor/Tune in every Tuesday at 10 AM for another inspiring success story, along with the proven formula to help you achieve your own goals. Don't miss out on the insights that could change your life!Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

We scoured the back pages of Craigslist to find the best (or is it worst?) entries from their Missed Connections section! Whether you're a hopeless romantic or just plain hopeless, this might be the place for you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Restarting that Three Mile Island power station is getting mixed reactions from locals. In order to contend with overcrowding in shelters, Philadelphia has passed a bill temporarily banning unlicensed puppy breeding. More single women in their 40s are having babies. Also, Craigslist is alive and well in some circles of society.

What's on Craigslist 2-23-2026 …I will pay someone to take my Son's Rock Collection (Rocks as in real rocks) …Free Anime Babe Painting …Attention Train Model Collectors …M seeks someone to pretend we've been friends for years

We sit down with Chris Sulak aka CJ the DJ and dry camper Ron Alvarez to talk about a new initiative petition in Oregon, the 1847 Colt Walker, mailing a handgun to yourself, Ozempic, Bill Gates Butter and Sprinter Vans. And as a public service CJ the DJ delivers three Craigslist missed connections from Springfield and Salem, Oregon. And before you listen, we apologize.If you want to support free speech and good hunting content on the Information Superhighway, look for our coffee and books and wildlife forage blends at https://www.garylewisoutdoors.com/Shop/This episode is sponsored by West Coast Floats, of Philomath, Oregon, made in the USA since 1982 for steelhead and salmon fishermen. Visit https://westcoastfloats.com/Our TV sponsors include: Nosler, Camp Chef, Warne Scope Mounts, Carson, ProCure Bait Scents, The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce, Madras Ford, Bailey Seed and Smartz.Watch select episodes of Frontier Unlimited on our network of affiliates around the U.S. or click https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gary+lewis+outdoors+frontier+unlimited

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In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Toshio talks about those chess players at Powell and Market and other early impressions of The City before they moved here. Having grown up in Orange County, with its underfunded public transit system, Toshio always wanted to live somewhere that had a subway. Being able to walk was important, too, in contrast with SoCal, where you pretty much need a vehicle to get anywhere. SF and The Bay checked those boxes. Like Part 1, this episode is rife with sidebars. I guess that's just what happens when you get two people together who both like to talk. The first one in Part 2 is about running any sort of independent media within the larger framework of late-stage capitalism, especially when the content you create is inherently anti-capitalist. You know, light stuff. I try to get us back to Toshio's story of moving to San Francisco, then I can't help myself—another sidebar, this time about Craigslist, which of course Toshio used to help find a place to live in San Francisco. They were able to get work, as we've mentioned, but finding housing was much harder. Their first two places were in the Mission. They left the first one after only one month, thanks to a fire. Their next spot was at 24th and Bartlett, close to BART. Toshio splinters off to talk about some of the other spots they looked at and open houses they went to. "Oof," they say. In 2013, they were able to move into a below-market-rate apartment near Civic Center (the very home where we recorded this episode, in fact). Toshio is their own landlord, something I congratulate them on. Sometime after they moved in, they met their boyfriend. They also got exposed to more and more leftist politics in SF during this time. They talk about coming to terms with the fact that the world they want to see will probably not come about in their lifetime. That's a hard pill to swallow, but it's probably best to accept that and then fight like hell to overcome it. Toshio's light-green living magazine job afforded them the opportunity to write for further left-leaning publications like Truthout. When Al Jazeera opened its US office in The City, they got work there. They've also written for Them and Vice. It all served as background for Toshio to launch their own outlet—Sad Francisco. We go on a sidebar about the corporate takeover of the news, and how local outlets and indie operations like our own have stepped in to try to fill that void. Toshio mentions some newer publications that they're excited about, including Bay Area Current, The Phoenix Project, and Coyote Media. (Ed. note: Look for an upcoming episode with Coyote Collective founding member Soleil Ho.) Sad Francisco started (and continues) as an effort to fill the massive gaps left by said corporate media in the Bay Area. Toshio was curious about the podcast medium, and kicked things off reading and riffing on versions of 2,000-word pieces they had already written for traditional media. They mention that we're at a point now where every journalist, no matter the medium or the employer, should probably be diversifying the distribution of their work. I couldn't agree more. Sidenote: I've been witnessing Toshio's move to self-facing camera reels, with them laying out whatever issue is on their mind, then expounding on it. It's a delivery mechanism I see more and more of, in my limited social media consumption. My wife, Erin (of Bitch Talk Podcast), has begun doing more of these as well, and they seem to resonate with folks. I haven't yet decided whether or when to do them myself for Storied. But I digress … Toshio feels that in 2026, people are looking for authenticity. They don't care so much if your media product is polished. They're more interested in substance, which would be a gain for society, if true. When I ask them how folks can find, follow, and support Sad Francisco, Toshio mentions the podcast's Patreon page. Follow them on Instagram @sadfrancis.co. And check out their website, sadfrancis.co. They're also available on most podcast apps and YouTube. Another sidebar here about how much I used to love Twitter (RIP). We end the episode with my asking Toshio how they do it, how they report so well and so relentlessly on the vast amounts of sketchy shit going down in San Francisco and The Bay. Their answer involves their various journalistic jobs and gigs over the years, and how that work trained them to package up complex ideas and explain incredibly complicated scenarios in a simple, easy-to-understand way. Then Toshio and I indulge in a lovefest for 48Hills.org before wrapping.

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What's on Craigslist 2-16-2026 …Piano Free to someone willing to break their back …For Free: Crappy Rumba …Man in search of “Gently Used Fleshlights”

21 year old Ryan Zimmerman had been looking into transitioning into a female while living with her parents in Kentucky. Ryan placed a Craigslist ad that read she would like to be in a relationship as a submissive female. A husband and wife in Columbus, Ohio answered Ryan's ad and invited Ryan to come live with them and their 27 year old trans female room mate in hopes to create a loving polyarmorous foursome.True Crime Quickie is from Australia in 2025 & 2026.https://www.patreon.com/c/rainbowcrimesPromo for True Crime ConnectionIntro: Shire Girl by David FesilyanOutro: Beating Heart by David RendaResources:https://www.pghlesbian.com/2024/04/brutal-2015-murder-of-a-young-trans-woman-in-columbus/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/indiana-woman-sentenced-2015-murder-231314969.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAExV7Ggu3Pq3xkhMDZr0EluPb6QwkHxcPMjCKQ5IDEhRYm5Cax5xq7lIMOLG_e87Lc4WJbw8Kbbb-WxE13Mf3ywpTuYayuCFGW_V8O30A-GTK3yvTPuf-IAKJIbMuG8Vr0bsilfo6NzBHmWpREx_dovYxYFMoE_v_TL0vbf-flWNhttps://www.whio.com/news/miami-valley-murder-mystery-details-revealed/HHHFBGDSH5D3RKEUFNWXTGPNN4/https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/sarah-buzzard-sentenced-in-brutal-murder-of-ryan-zimmermanhttps://www.wane.com/news/crime/mercer-county-sheriff-to-share-substantial-update-on-ryan-zimmerman-homicide-case-thursday/https://www.limaohio.com/archive/2021/10/22/death-penalty-looms-over-mercer-murder-case/https://uk.infonasional.com/goulburn-woman-dead-lovers-trianglehttps://www.facebook.com/AustralianFemicideMap/posts/%EF%B8%8Fthey-matter-shayne-cook%EF%B8%8Fdecember-30-2025-shayne-cook-was-allegedly-stabbed-to-d/1188816946571723/https://region.com.au/two-charged-over-stabbing-murder-of-goulburn-woman/940197/https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/woman-charged-with-murdering-her-female-expartner/news-story/0dcb79ca0e0c273813c5704e2a2b4e0aBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beyond-the-rainbow-podcast--4398945/support.

The girls have taken over, and John is the only guy brave enough to stay for the podcast. Wendy, Jo and the Kerry's came to town for a fun weekend of riding the PCH, dirtbiking, good food, shenanigans and spending the day in the garage with the Misfits. They share their experiences riding the Niken, Ibex 450, TTR125 and Kerry reviews her brand new WR125R dirtbike. They also share some of their experience and frustration teaching new riders how to ride in the dirt. Stumpy John is back from Cuba, and talks about what they are riding there. Emma talks about big twins; why a Harley, BMW and KTM sound and perform so different when they are all two cylinder bikes. Then we talk about the Mecum auction and what trends are selling big, and what bikes are going for Craigslist prices. With Sophia, Liza, Stumpy John, Jo, Wendy, Kerry 1, Kerry 2, Miss Emma and Bagel. www.motorcyclesandmisfits.com motorcyclesandmisfits@gmail.com www.breakingawayadventures.com/shop/p/mi…-rally-v4 www.patreon.com/motorcyclesandmisfits www.zazzle.com/store/recyclegarage www.youtube.com/channel/UC3wKZSP0J9FBGB79169ciew womenridersworldrelay.com/ motorcyclesandmisfits.com/shop

We scoured the back pages of Craigslist to find the best (or is it worst?) entries from their Missed Connections section! Whether you're a hopeless romantic or just plain hopeless, this might be the place for you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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