Podcast appearances and mentions of daniel leit

Joana Marques volta ao Hell´s Kitchen, mas agora para falar sobre os seus concorrentes preferidos (e não sobre Daniel Leitão).

Joana Marques está contente porque finalmente foi feita justiça no Hell´s Kitchen e o Daniel Leitão foi expulso.

I denne episoden av Suksess med netthandel intervjuer Thomas Skavhellen, Michael Hughes-Espedal og Daniel Leitås fra Lettbutikk og Quickship. Vi dykker dypt inn i logistikkens verden og lærer hvordan disse to selskapene hjelper nettbutikker med å effektivisere sine operasjoner.Michael og Daniel forklarer forskjellen mellom Quickship, som tilbyr konkurransedyktige fraktavtaler og fraktrådgivning, og Lettbutikk som håndterer 3PL (tredjepartslogistikk) med sitt moderne autostore-lager utenfor Oslo. Vi lærer hvordan nettbutikker i alle størrelser kan dra nytte av stordriftsfordeler på frakt, redusere logistikkkostnader med opptil 35%, og frigjøre tid til å fokusere på vekst og utvikling.Episoden tar for seg praktiske temaer som:- Hvordan velge riktig fraktløsning for din nettbutikk- Når det lønner seg å outsource lagerhold- Fordeler med automatisert lagerløsning- Strategier for internasjonal ekspansjon- Håndtering av sesongvariasjoner og kampanjerDette er en viktig episode for alle som driver nettbutikk og ønsker å optimalisere sin logistikk og frakthåndtering!Relevante lenker:- Lettbutikk: www.lettbutikk.no- Quickship: www.quickship.no- Michael Hughes-Espedal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hughes-espedal-808774/- Daniel Leitås: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-leit%C3%A5s-7a022b138/---Sjekk ut din marketing score her: https://nettbutikk.scoreapp.com/Få en e-post hver gang det kommer en ny episode: https://www.moenco.no/podcast

Sempre pensou que os números seriam o futuro, mas Daniel Leitão acabou a dizer piadas. Primeiro no Canal Q, em "Altos e Baixos", ao lado da companheira de profissão e cônjuge Joana Marques. Pelo caminho fez stand-up comedy e foi mantendo sempre uma vida dupla entre a comédia e uma profissão verdadeiramente a sério. Em 2020 passou a dedicar-se totalmente à comédia e juntou-se à Rádio Renascença. Hoje é animador do T3, programa da tarde, onde faz a rubrica “Seja o que Deus Quiser” No Humor À Primeira Vista, com Gustavo Carvalho, relata a inaudita experiência de ir atuar a casa de uma fã, recorda o momento em que, com Joana Marques, foi processado por piadas ditas no "Altos e Baixos" e revela a importante mensagem do Papa no recente encontro com humoristas de todo o mundo, no Vaticano.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 18 – Counting Collections Guest: Danielle Robinson and Melissa Hedges Mike Wallus: Earlier this season, we released an episode focused on the complex and interconnected set of concepts that students engage with as they learn to count. In this follow-up episode, we're going to examine a powerful routine called “counting collections.” We'll be talking with Danielle Robinson and Dr. Melissa Hedges from the Milwaukee Public Schools about counting collections and the impact that this routine can have on student thinking.  Mike: Well, welcome to the podcast, Danielle and Melissa. I can't tell you how excited I am to talk with y'all about the practice of counting collections.  Danielle Robinson and Melissa Hedges: Thanks for having us. Yes, we're so excited to be here. Mike: I want to start this conversation by acknowledging that the two of you are actually part of a larger team of educators who really took this work on counting collections. You introduced it in the Milwaukee Public Schools. And, Melissa, I think I'll start with you. Can you take a moment to recognize the collaborators who have been a part of this work? Melissa: Absolutely. In addition to Danielle and myself, we are fortunate to work with three other colleagues: Lakesha King, Krista Beal, and Claire Madden. All three are early childhood coaches that actively support this work as well. Mike: So, Danielle, I wonder for some folks if we can help them see this practice more clearly. Can you spend time unpacking, what does counting collections look like in a classroom? If I walked in, what are some of the things that I might see? Danielle: Yeah, I think what's really amazing about counting collections is there might be some different ways that you might see counting collections happening in the classroom. When you walk into a classroom, you might see some students all over. Maybe they're sitting at tables, maybe they're on the carpet. And what they're doing is they're actually counting a baggie of objects. And really their job is to answer this question, this very simple but complicated question of, “How many?” And they get to decide how they want to count. Not only do they get to pick what they want to count, but they also get to pick their strategy of how they actually want to count that collection. They can use different tools. They might be using bowls or plates. They might be using 10-frames. They might be using number paths. You might see kiddos who are counting by ones. Danielle: You might see kids who are making different groupings. At times, you might also see kiddos [who] are in stations, and you might see a small group where a teacher is doing counting collections with a few kiddos. You might see them working with partners. And I think the beautiful piece of this and the unique part of counting collections within Milwaukee Public Schools is that we've been able to actually pair the counting trajectory from Doug Clements and Julie Sarama with counting collections where teachers are able to do an interview with their students, really see where they're at in their counting so that the kids are counting a just right collection for them—something that's not too easy, something that's not too hard, but something that is available for them to really push them in their understanding of counting. So, you're going to see kids counting different sizes. And we always tell the teachers it's a really beautiful moment when you're looking across the classroom and as a teacher, you can actually step back and know that every one of your kids are getting what they need in that moment. Because I think oftentimes, we really don't ever get to feel like that, where we feel like, “Wow, all my kids are getting what they need right now, and I know that I am providing the scaffolds that they need.” Mike: So, I want to ask you a few follow-ups, if I might, Danielle. Danielle: Yeah, of course.  Mike: There's a bit of language that you used initially where I'm paraphrasing. And tell me where I get this wrong. You use the language “simple yet complicated,” I think. Am I hearing that right? Danielle: I did. I did, yeah. Mike: Tell me about that. Danielle: I think it's so interesting because a lot of times when we introduce this idea of counting collections with our teachers, they're like, “Wait a minute, so I'm supposed to give this baggie of a bunch of things to my students, and they just get to go decide how they want to count it?” And we're like, “Yeah, that is absolutely what we're asking you to do.” And they feel nervous because this idea of the kids, they're answering how many, but then there's all these beautiful pieces a part of it. Maybe kids are counting by ones, maybe they're deciding that they want to make groups, maybe they're working with a partner, maybe they're using tools. It's kind of opened up this really big, amazing idea of the simple question of how many. But there's just so many things that can happen with it. Mike: There's two words that kept just flashing in front of my eyes as I was listening to you talk. And the words were access and differentiation. And I think you didn't explicitly say those things, but they really jump out for me in the structure of the task and the way that a teacher could take it up. Can you talk about the way that you think this both creates access and also the places where you see there's possibility for differentiation? Danielle: For sure. I'm thinking about a couple classrooms that I was in this week and thinking about once we've done the counting trajectory interview with our kiddos, you might have little ones who are still really working with counting to 10. So, they have collections that they can choose that are just at that amount of about 10. We might have some kiddos who are really working kind of in that range of 20 to 40. And so, we have collections that children can choose from there. And we have collections all the way up to about 180 in some cases. So, we kind of have this really nice, natural scaffold within there where children are told, “Hey, you can go get this just right color for you.” We have red collections, blue collections, green and yellow. Within that also, the children get to decide how they want to count. Danielle: So, if they are still really working on that verbal count sequence, then we allow them to choose to count by ones. We have tools for them, like number paths to help do that. Maybe we've got our kiddos who are starting to really think about this idea of unitizing and making groups of 10s. So, then what they might do is they might take a 10-frame and they might fill their 10-frame and then actually pour that 10-frame into a bowl, so they know that that bowl now is a collection of 10. And so, it's this really nice idea of helping them really start to unitize and to make different groupings. And I think the other beautiful piece, too, is that you can also partner. Students can work together and actually talk about counting together. And we found that that really supports them, too, of just that collaboration piece, too. Mike: So, you kind of started poking around the question that I was going to ask Melissa.   Danielle and Melissa: ( laugh ) Mike: You said the word “unitizing,” which is the other thing that was really jumping out because I taught kindergarten and first grade for about eight years. And in my head, immediately all of the different trajectories that kids are on when it comes to counting, unitizing, combining … those things start to pop out. But, Melissa, I think what you would say is there is a lot of mathematics that we can build for kids beyond say K–2, and I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about that. Melissa: Absolutely. So before I jump to our older kids, I'm just going to step back for a moment with our kindergarten, first- and second-graders. And even our younger ones. So, the mathematics that we know that they need to be able to count collections, that idea of cardinality, one-to-one correspondence, organization—Danielle did a beautiful job explaining how the kids are going to grab a bag, figure out how to count, it's up to them—as well as this idea of producing a set, thinking about how many, being able to name how many. The reason why I wanted to go back and touch on those is that we know that as children get older and they move into third, fourth, and fifth grade, those are understandings that they must carry with them. And sometimes those ideas aren't addressed well in our instructional materials. So, the idea of asking a first- and second-grader to learn how to construct a unit of 10 and know that 10 ones is one 10 is key, because when we look at where place value tends to fall apart in our upper grades. My experience has been it's fifth grade, where all of a sudden we're dealing with big numbers, we're moving into decimals, we're thinking about different size units, we've got fractions. There's all kinds of things happening.  Melissa: So, the idea of counting collections in the early elementary grades helps build kids' number sense, provides them with that confidence of magnitude of number. And then as they move into those either larger collections or different ways to count, we can make beautiful connections to larger place values. So, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands. Sometimes those collections will get big. All those early number relationships also build. So, those early number relationships, part-whole reasoning that numbers are composed and decomposed of parts. And then we've just seen lots really, really fun work about additive and multiplicative thinking. So, in a third-, fourth-, fifth-grade classroom, what I used to do is dump a cup full of lima beans in the middle of the table and say, “How many are there?” And there's a bunch there. So, they can count by ones. It's going to take a long time. And then once they start to figure out, “Oh wait, I can group these.” “Well, how many groups of five do you have?” And how we can extend to that from that additive thinking of five plus five plus five plus five to then thinking about and extending it to multiplicative thinking. So, I think the extensions are numerous.  Mike: There's a lot there that you said, and I think I wanted to ask a couple follow-ups. First thing that comes to mind is, we've been interviewing a guest for a different podcast … and this idea that unitizing is kind of a central theme that runs really all the way through elementary mathematics and certainly beyond that. But I really am struck by the way that this idea of unitizing and not only being able to unitize, but I think you can physically touch the units, and you can physically re-unitize when you pour those things into the cup. And it's giving kids a bit more space with the physical materials themselves before you step into something that might be more abstract. I'm wondering if that's something that you see as valuable for kids and maybe how you see that play out? Melissa: Yes, it's a great question. I will always say when we take a look at our standard base 10 blocks, “The person that really understands the construction of those base 10 blocks is likely the person [who] invented them.” They know that one little cube means one, and that all of a sudden these 10 cubes are fused together and we hold it up and we say, “Everybody, this is 10 ones. Repeat, one 10. What we find is that until kids have multiple experiences and opportunities over time to construct units beyond one, they really won't do it with deep understanding. And again, that's where we see it fall apart when they're in the fourth and fifth grade. And they're struggling just to kind of understand quantity and magnitude. So, the idea and the intentionality behind counting collections and the idea of unitizing is to give kids those opportunities that to be quite honest—and no disrespect to the hardworking curriculum writers out there—it is a tricky, tricky, tricky idea to develop in children through paper and pencil and workbook pages. Melissa: I think we have found over time that it's the importance of going, grabbing, counting, figuring it out. So, if my collection is bears, does that collection of 10 bears look the same as 10 little sharks look the same as 10 spiders? So, what is this idea of 10? And that they do it over and over and over and over again. And once they crack the code—that's the way I look at it—once our first- and second-graders crack the code of counting collections, they're like, “Oh, this is not hard at all.” And then they start to play with larger units. So, then they'll go, “Oh, wait, I can combine two groups of 10. I just found out that's 20. Can I make more 20s?” So, then we're thinking about counting not just by ones, not just by 10s, but by larger units. And I think that we've seen that pay off in so many tremendous ways. And certainly on the affective side, when kids understand what's happening, there's just this sense of joy and excitement and interest in the work that they do, and I actually think they see themselves learning. Mike: Danielle, do you want to jump in here?  Danielle: I think to echo that, I just recently was speaking with some teachers. And the principal was finally able to come and actually see counting collections happening. And what was so amazing is these were K–5 kiddos, 5-year-olds who were teaching the principal about what they were doing. This was that example where we want people to come in, and the idea is what are you learning? How do you know you've learned it, thinking about that work of Hattie? And these 5-year-olds were telling him exactly what they were learning and how they were learning it and talking about their strategies. And I just felt so proud of the K–5 teacher who shared that with me because her principal was blown away and was seeing just the beauty that comes from this routine. Mike: We did an episode earlier this year on place value, and the speaker did a really nice job of unpacking the ideas around it. I think what strikes me, and at this point I might be sounding a bit like a broken record, is the extent to which this practice makes place value feel real. These abstract ideas around unitizing. And I think, Melissa, I'm going back to something you said earlier where you're like, “The ability to do this in an abstract space where you potentially are relying on paper and pencil or even drawing, that's challenging.” Whereas this puts it in kids' hands, and you physically re-unitize something, which is such a massive deal. This idea that one 10 and 10 ones have the same value even though we're looking at them differently, simultaneously. That's such a big deal for kids, and it just really stands out for me as I hear you all talk. Melissa: I had the pleasure of working with a group of first-grade teachers the other day, and we were looking at student work for a simple task that the kids were asked to do. I think it was 24 plus seven, and so it was just a very quick PLC. Look at this work. Let's think about what they're doing. And many of the children had drawn what the teachers referred to as sticks and circles or sticks and dots. And I said, “Well, what do those sticks and dots mean?” Right? “Well, of course the stick is the 10 and the dot is the one.” And I said, “There's lots of this happening,” I said, “Let's pause for a minute and think, ‘To what degree do you think your children understand that that line means 10 and that dot means one? And that there's some kind of a connection, meaningful connection for them just in that drawing.'” It got kind of quiet, and they're like, “Well, yep, you're right. You're right. They probably don't understand what that is.” And then one of the teachers very beautifully said, “This is where I see counting collections helping.” It was fantastic. Mike: Danielle, I want to shift and ask you a little bit about representation. Just talk a bit about the role of representing the collection once the counting process and that work has happened. What do you all ask kids to do in terms of representation and can you talk a little bit about the value of that? Danielle: Right, absolutely. I think one thing that as we continue to go through in thinking about this routine and the importance of really helping our students make sense and count meaningfully, I think we will always go back to our math teaching framework that's been laid out for us through “Taking Action,” “Principles to Action,” “Catalyzing Change.” And really thinking about the power of using multiple representations. And how, just like you said, we want our students to be able to be physically unitizing, so we have that aspect of working with our actual collections. And then how do we help our students understand that “You have counted your collection. Now what I want you to do is, I want you to actually visually represent this. I want you to draw how you counted.” And so, what we talk about with the kids is, “Hey, how you have counted. If you have counted by ones, I should be able to see that on your paper. I should be able to look at your paper, not see your collection and know exactly how you counted. If you counted by tens, I should be able to see, ‘Oh my gosh, look, that's their bowl. I see their bowls, I see their plates, I see their tens inside of there.'”  Danielle: And to really help them make those connections moving back and forth between those representations. And I think that's also that piece, too, for them that then they can really hang their hat on. “This is how I counted. I can draw a picture of this. I can talk about my strategy. I can share with my friends in my classroom.” And then that's how we like to close with our counting collections routine is really going through and picking a piece of student work and really highlighting a student's particular strategy. Or even just highlighting several and being like, “Look at all this work they did today. Look at all of this mathematical thinking.” So, I think it's a really important and powerful piece, especially with our first- and second-graders, too. We really bring in this idea of equations, too. So, this idea of, “If I've counted 73, and I've got my seven groups of 10, I should have 10 plus 10 plus 10, right? All the way to 70. And then adding my three.” So, I think it's just a continuous idea of having our kids really developing that strong understanding of meaningful counting, diving into place value. Mike: I'm really struck by the way that you described the protocol where you said you're asking kids to really clearly make sure that what they're doing aligns with their drawing. The other piece about that is it feels like one, that sets kids up to be able to share their thinking in a way where they've got a scaffold that they've created for themself. The other thing that it really makes me think about is how if I'm a teacher and I'm looking at student work, I can really use that to position that student's idea as valuable. Or position that student's thinking as something that's important for other people to notice or attend to. So, you could use this to really raise a student's ideas status or raise the student status as well. Does that actually play out in a reality? Danielle: It does actually. So, a couple of times what I will do is I will go into a classroom. And oftentimes it can be kind of a parent for which students may just not have the strongest mathematical identity or may not feel that they have a lot of math agency in the space. And so, one thing that I will really intentionally do and work with the teacher to do is, “You know what? We are going to share that little one's work today. We're going to share that work because this is an opportunity to really position that child as a mathematician and to position that child as someone who has something to offer. And the fact that they were able to do this really hard work.” So, that is something that is very near and dear to us to really help our teachers think of these different ways to ensure that this is a routine that is for all of our children, for each and every child that is in that space. So, that is absolutely something that we find power in and seek to help our teachers find as well. Mike: Well, I would love for each of you to just weigh in on this next question. What has really come to mind is how different this experience of mathematics is from what a lot of adults and unfortunately what a lot of kids might experience in elementary school. I'm wondering if both of you would talk a bit about what does this look like in classrooms? How does this impact the lived experience of kids and their math identities? Can you just talk a little bit about that? Melissa: I can start. This is Melissa. So, we have four beliefs on our little math team that we anchor our work around every single day. And we believe that mathematics should be humanizing, healing, liberating and joyful. And so, we talk a lot about when you walk into a classroom, how do you know that mathematics instruction is humanizing, which means our children are placed at the center of this work? It's liberating. They see themselves in it. They're able to do it. It's healing. Healing for the teacher as well as for the student. And healing in that the student sees themselves as capable and able to do this, and then joyful that it's just fun and interesting and engaging. I think, over time, what we've seen is it helps us see those four beliefs come to life in every single classroom that's doing it. When that activity is underway and children are engaged and interested, there's a beautiful hum that settles over the room. And sometimes you have to remind the teacher step back, take a look at what is happening. Melissa: Those guys are all engaged. They're all interested. They're all doing work that matters to them because it's their work, it's their creation. It's not a workbook page, it's not a fill in the blank. It's not a do what I do. It's, you know what? “We have faith in you. We believe that you can do this,” and they show us time and time again that they can.  Danielle: I'll continue to echo that. Where for Milwaukee Public Schools and in the work that we are seeking to do is really creating these really transformative math spaces for, in particular, our Black and brown children. And really just making sure that they are seeing themselves as mathematicians, that they see themselves within this work, and that they are able to share their thinking and have their brilliance on display. And also, to work through the mathematical processes, too, right? This routine allows you to make mistakes and try a new strategy.  Danielle: I had this one little guy a couple months ago, he was working in a pretty large collection, and I walked by him and he was making groups of two, and I was like, “Oh, what are you working on?” And he's like, “I'm making groups of two.” And I thought to myself, I was like, “Oh boy, that's going to take him a long time” cause they had a really big collection. And I kind of came back around and he had changed it and was making groups of 10. So, it really creates a space where they start to calibrate and they are able to engage in that agency for themselves. I think the last piece I'd like to add is to really come to it from the teacher side as well … is that what Melissa spoke about was those four beliefs. And I think what we've also found is that county collections has been really healing for our teachers, too. We've had teachers who have actually told us that this helped me stay in teaching. I found a passion for mathematics again that I thought I'd lost. And I think that's another piece that really keeps us going is seeing not only is this transformative for our kids, cause they deserve the best, but it's also been really transformative for our teachers as well to see that they can teach math in a different way.  Mike: Absolutely, and I think you really got to this next transition point that I had in mind when I was thinking about this podcast, which is, listening to the two of you, it's clear that this is an experience that can be transformative mathematically and in terms of what a child or even a teacher's lived experience with mathematics is. Can you talk a little bit about what might be some very first steps that educators might take to get started with this? Danielle: Absolutely. I think one thing, as Melissa and I were kind of thinking about this, is someone who is like, “Oh my gosh, I really want to try this.” I think the first piece is to really take stock of your kiddos. If you're interested in diving into the research of Clements and Sarama and working with the county trajectory, we would love for you to Google that and go to learningtrajectories.org. But I think the other piece is to even just do a short little interview with your kids. Ask each of your little ones, “Count as high as you can for me and jot down what you're noticing.” Give them a collection of 10 of something. It could be counters, it could be pennies. See how they count that group of 10. Are they able to have that one-to-one? Do they have that verbal count sequence? Do they have that cardinality? Can they tell you that there is 10 if you ask them again, “How many?”? Danielle: If they can do that, then go ahead and give them 31. Give them 31 of something. Have them count and kind of just see the range of kiddos that you have and really see where is that little challenge I might want to give them. I think another really nice piece is once you dive into this work, you are never going to look at the dollar section different. You are always just start gathering things like pattern blocks. I started with noodles. That is how I started counting collections in my classroom. I used a bunch of erasers that I left over from my prize box. I use noodles, I use beads, bobby pins, rocks, twigs. I mean, start kind of just collecting. It doesn't have to be something that you spend your money on. This can be something that you already use, things that you have. I think that's one way that you can kind of get started. Then also, procedures, procedures, procedures, like go slow to go fast. Once you've got your collections, really teach your kids how to respect those collections. Anchor charts are huge. We always say, when I start this with 4-year-olds, our first lesson is, “This is how we open the bag today. This is how we take our collections out.” So, we always recommend go slow to go fast, really help the kids understand how to take care of the collections, and then they'll fly from there.  Mike: So, Melissa, I think this is part two of that question, which is, when you think about the kinds of things that helped you start this work and sustain this work in the Milwaukee Public Schools, do you have any recommendations that you think might help other folks? Melissa: Yeah. My first entry point into learning about counting collections other than through an incredibly valued colleague [who] learned about it at a conference, was to venture into the TED. I think it's TED, the teacher resource site, and that was where I found some initial resources around how do we do this? We were actually getting ready to teach a course that at the time Danielle was going to be a student in, and we knew that we wanted to do this thing called counting collection. So, it's like, “Well, let's get our act together on this.” So, we spent a lot of time looking at that. There's some lovely resources in there. And since the explosion of the importance of early mathematics has happened in American mathematical culture, which I think is fantastic, wonderful sites have come up. One of our favorites that we were talking about is Dreme. D-R-E-M-E, the Dreme website. Fantastic resources. Melissa: The other one Danielle mentioned earlier, it's just learningtrajectories.org. That's the Clements and Sarama research, which, 15 years ago, we were charged as math educators to figure out how to get that into the hands of teachers, and so that's one of the ways that they've done that. A couple of books that come to mind is the [“Young Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction in Early Childhood Education”]. Fantastic. If you don't have it and you're a preschool teacher and you're interested in math, get it. And then of course, the “Choral Counting & Counting Collections” book by Franke, Kazemi, Turrou. Yeah, so I think those are some of the big ones. If you want just kind of snippets of where to go, go to the Dreme, D-R-E-M-E, and you'll get some lovely, lovely hits. There's some very nice videos. Yeah, just watch a kid count ( laughs ). Mike: I think that's a great place to stop. I can't thank you two enough for joining us. It has really been a pleasure talking with both of you. Danielle: Thank you so much.  Melissa: Thanks for your interest in our work. We really appreciate it. Mike: With the close of this episode, we are at the end of season two for Rounding Up, and I want to just thank everyone who's been listening for your support, for the ways that you're taking these ideas up in your own classrooms and schools. We'll be taking the summer off to connect with new speakers, and we'll be back with season three this fall. In the meantime, if you have topics or ideas that you'd like for us to talk about, let us know. You can reach out to us at mikew@mathlearningcenter.org. What are some things you'd like us to talk about in the coming year? Have a great summer. We'll see you all in the fall.  Mike: This podcast is brought to you by The Math Learning Center and the Maier Math Foundation, dedicated to inspiring and enabling all individuals to discover and develop their mathematical confidence and ability. © 2024 The Math Learning Center | www.mathlearningcenter.org

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Meagan had chills throughout the entire episode as Danielle spoke and we know you will too!Sakara Life WebsiteDanielle's PodcastEat Clean, Play DirtySpirit Babies BookNeeded WebsiteHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details 03:51 Sharing your birth plans with others9:13 Danielle's first pregnancy with vasa previa11:29 A humbling birth experience14:09 Going into labor17:06 Danielle's C-section23:31 Connecting with your baby32:26 Surrendering36:06 Choices in birth39:14 The ripple effect of birth42:34 Ways to release fear53:02 Which risks are you willing to take?56:07 Nutrition and nourishmentMeagan: Hello, Women of Strength. We have an amazing guest for you today. Her name is Danielle and she is the co-founder of Sakara Life. It is a wellness company providing the tools to achieve optimal health and vitality. If you haven't caught on already listening to our Needed ads and other episodes, health is so important, and optimal health and getting the nutrients and the things that you need in your life is so important in how we handle life. She is a true pioneer in the health industry and launched the brand in 2012 with her best friend, Whitney. Creating their unique nutrition philosophy which merges modern science with ancient healing wisdom. Since its conception, Sakara has transformed millions of lives through its signature program, functional products, and supplements. Leading the global movement as an advocate for plants and medicine, Danielle became a nationally bestselling author with Sakara's debut cookbook which is called Eat Clean, Play Dirty, and is the co-host of the wildly popular, which I also am obsessed with, Sakara Life podcast. A certified holistic health coach, nutritionist, and expert in plant-based living and the microbiome, Danielle is currently pursuing her Master of Science in human nutrition and functional medicine. You can continue to see both personal and professional features of Danielle in things like Vogue, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Couverture– I think is how I say it- and Goop. She was born and raised in Arizona and Danielle is true to her Sedona roots while living in New York City with her husband, daughter, and son. She is joining us today to share with you her journey. She had a C-section and then went on to have an HBAC as well as giving us some more of her amazing wisdom. 03:51 Sharing your birth plans with othersMeagan: Hello, Women of Strength. We have an amazing guest today. Her name is Danielle. And did I say your last name? Is it Duboise? Danielle: It's Duboise. I think technically, Duboise is maybe proper, but we've always said Duboise. Meagan: Duboise. That sounds– I always sat it Duboise in my head because I think I just read it and don't– anyway. Welcome to the show. Danielle: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Meagan: Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. So so excited. Okay, we were talking a little bit before about HBAC, home birth after Cesarean, so she of course is going to share her Cesarean and her HBAC, but we were talking about how it's something that happens obviously but a lot of people don't talk about their plans to do it. They don't want to share it with people, so we will get into that but I'm curious how you felt about it when you were doing it. When I was pregnant and I had my two C-sections, I didn't want to tell anyone that I was planning on going out of the hospital because I didn't want the negative. Danielle: Yeah, I think there are layers. It's probably multi-faceted. Certainly, when you are pregnant and about to give birth, you have to be very protective of your space. I think people can't really control their fear. It incites fear in people who aren't even having children at that moment. It's crazy how much fear it brings up when you say you're going to have a home birth. When I was pregnant with my first, I was planning on a home birth and then I could get into the details of why I risked out of a home birth, etc., but before I risked out, I told a dear friend. It was a couple and they were pregnant with their second. I said, “Yeah. We are thinking about a home birth.” I don't think I said home birth. I said midwife and then later it came out it was a home birth and his response was, “You know your baby could die, right?” Meagan: Right? Danielle: I was 8 months pregnant. I was so emotional. Normally, it wouldn't have bothered me because I think he learned to put up barriers and that was the fear he was putting on me, but it was such an important reminder of how much you have to protect your space. I think every mother, mother-to-be, parent, and parent-to-be gets to define how they protect their space but I think one of the ways we do it is we don't talk about how we are going to birth. Meagan: Yeah. It sucks. We shouldn't have to hide how we want to birth especially if we are making that decision confidently. Danielle: Yeah. I think even after you give birth, it's still something that I shout from the rooftops because now, I think it has a way, same with prolonged breastfeeding, of making other mothers feel less than when it's just my story. It doesn't mean it's the best way to breastfeed. It doesn't mean it's the best way to birth. It's what worked for me. But I think inherent in the complexities of our birthing system, of our culture, the demands on women, me talking about a home birth might make another woman feel like she couldn't do it or didn't do it, so I'm careful about how I talk about it in the world too balancing both I want to empower women who want to make that choice and also empower women who don't want to choose a home birth. Meagan: Right. That's what we do here at The VBAC Link. We empower people who want to have a VBAC and women who were like, “This is what I want. I want this.” But then also, we empower those who are unsure and help them find what's right for them by also not judging anyone for just scheduling a C-section. Danielle: I think the most important thing and what I want for all birthing bodies is just an empowered birth. You get to define it, but inherent and empowered birth is you get to decide. You are in the driver's seat. You are in control. You feel supported. You feel safe. You can define what are all of the things that make you feel that way, but the point is that you get to decide. It's very easy to be a victim to the medical system and I'm careful to use that word, but I really think the way most of the medical system is set up is you can feel very bullied in it not even just in birth. If someone in a white coat comes up to you and says, “You have to do it this way, otherwise you are risking the life of your unborn child,” it's a pretend choice they are giving you. “You could do this. You don't have to, but your baby might die.” You're not giving a woman a choice. You're masquerading a choice. I think you can feel really bullied in those scenarios. That's the antithesis of an empowered birth. Meagan: I love that you pointed that out. I can connect to that just in my own birth and as a doula watching hundreds of people give birth, seeing that come in and happen. Danielle: Yeah, I bet you see that all the time. 9:13 Danielle's first pregnancy with vasa previaMeagan: Okay, so you mentioned that your first birth was a planned home birth and there were some things that happened that shifted, and obviously, it was a C-section. Tell us more about that. Danielle: Yeah, so I live in New York City where I would say home births are not maybe as popular as they are in other parts of the country. The insurance rates for midwives are pretty insane. Even just to decide I wanted a home birth in New York City was a feat and to find the right midwives. I had planned for it. I had a really great pregnancy, but then at around week 32, we went in for one of our scans and they found vasa previa. Vasa previa is kind of like placenta previa but it's where the veins, the fetal vein come out of the Wharton's jelly and is in the way of the birth canal. If I were to have gone into labor when that happened, then the fetal vein could burst and they say it's about seven seconds before the baby would bleed out. So I went from, I had this beautiful home birth planned. I had the bathtub. I had this midwife I loved to, “You have vasa previa. If it doesn't move–” it had to move a half a centimeter. “If it doesn't move in the next two weeks by the time you hit 34 weeks, you have to sit in a hospital bed until you are full-term and then we're going to induce you.” It was one of those moments where you just kind of watch reality melt in front of you. It went from my home birth to the most medicalized birth you could imagine. Meagan: Yeah. Danielle: I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I'm a deeply spiritual person and my husband and I were praying every single day. We were visualizing the vein moving. We were doing so many things. We had this little baby shoe that we would pray over and put all of our energy into just– it could make me cry. Just bring her here. Get her here.11:29 A humbling birth experienceDanielle: That's where you are very humbled. We can talk more about this later, but this idea that the most important thing is a healthy baby. I very much disagree with that. I think that's one of the missing pieces in this conversation of empowered births, but in that prayer was, “I want a healthy baby and I want a birth that we both need.” That became my prayer instead of the birth that I wanted. Meagan: Yes, that we both need. Danielle: That we both need. I was humbled. I was born C-section in the 80's and my mom didn't breastfeed. It was a different time then. She didn't breastfeed by choice because the doctors were kind of like, “You have a choice. You could breastfeed or you don't have to. You could just do formula,” and my mom chose formula because that was right for her. I had a lot of judgment. I had a lot of judgment that she didn't even try a natural birth. I had a lot of judgment that she didn't even try to breastfeed and I was very humbled. I was served a dose of humble pie. My daughter and I ended up with the birth that we both needed to work through that karma of this judgment I had. What ended up happening was I had to move from my home birth midwife to a hospital. I found these midwives in New Jersey about an hour away from my house in New York City. They had a birthing clinic that was in a hospital so I could go there. But you know, it's an hour's drive. It's New York City. You don't own a car so you have to rent. It was a whole thing just to get there. Just the change was so monumental to go from what really felt like this beautiful, safe place to give birth with these people I had built a relationship with and then I was thrown into this other practice. I didn't really vibe with the midwives there. It was so much more medicalized. I just started to feel really scared even before I was giving birth. I will say that my HBAC offered so much peace and forgiveness for myself because I realized in my second birth what I didn't have in my first and why I couldn't go to the places I went in my home birth in my hospital birth because I didn't feel safe there. The vein moved and so I went back to a no-risk, regular pregnancy, but I had already moved to the hospital and it was going to be too much to go back. My husband was kind of freaked out at that moment too like, “What if the baby moved a half a centimeter again? Let's just be in a hospital.” I understood that. 14:09 Going into laborDanielle: I went into labor and I think the fear hit us. We just went to the hospital too early. All of the things they tell you not to do that I think most first moms and first parents just do because it all feels so new. Meagan: Well, it does and it's like, “Well, wait. These signs mean I'm having a baby and I'm having a baby at this place so I should go there.” Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. I knew the moment I went into labor. I wasn't in active labor for a while. I could just feel waves, but they weren't painful waves. I was just a little crampy, so I stayed at home for 24 hours there. My water didn't break, but then it just started getting more and more intense. They started getting closer together, but my water still hadn't broken so we just decided to go to the hospital because it's also an hour away. You don't want to get caught in New York City traffic because it could have easily been three hours away. So we go. I also had to change doulas because the doula in New York City understandably wasn't going to travel. She had small kids. So it was just all newness. I didn't necessarily vibe with my doula. I didn't feel safe in her arms. She was kind of more like– and I always tell people that you have to find the doula that matches and is the yin to your yang. She just wasn't that for me. She was kind of small and fairy-like and very airy, but I'm very airy. I wanted a lioness that was just going to catch me and hold my hand and be really grounding for me. It just feels off the minute it started. It wasn't. It was right. It was exactly what was supposed to happen. I went and when I got to the hospital, I was only 2 centimeters. I had already been in labor for about 24 hours. It wasn't like I couldn't sleep, but I didn't sleep well. I was tired. They were like, “You can go home an hour away. You could get a hotel around here.” We decided to get a hotel and as I was leaving, my water broke and they were like, “Just stay.” Danielle: So God bless them, they let me do a natural labor for about 36 hours in a hospital setting. Meagan: That is impressive. Danielle: I'm really grateful. I chose that hospital because it was run by midwives. They definitely delivered. They let me really try. I hit this moment where I just ran out of steam and my contractions slowed. In retrospect, if that had been a home birth, I think they would have just given me some honey and helped me try and take a nap. Meagan: Got to bed. Danielle: Yeah, but that wasn't what happened. It was C-section time. I was so tired that I just said, “Okay.” 17:06 Danielle's C-sectionDanielle: We went off and it wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be. The scariest part was how heavy the medication is and I had been laboring. I think with emergency C-sections, I had been in labor for almost 48 hours and I was so tired. The toll of a C-section is big on anyone, but then especially if you had been in labor for as long as I had been. That was the hardest part and recovery is intense. Recovery, I think, was also emotionally heavy for me too just when you had planned– and they tell you don't plan for your birth, but of course you do. And then when you have the exact opposite of what you thought, it's hard not to judge yourself. It's hard not to wonder what you could have done differently. It's hard not to be sad and upset and mad and all of those feelings. So it took me a long time to look through those feelings and kind of realize that my daughter and I had the exact birth we were supposed to have. Meagan: That you needed. What did you feel like helped you get through those and walk through them? Was it time and processing and finding that, “Hey, I made these decisions and they weren't maybe what I thought I'd make, but again, that's what I needed to have this experience in the end,”? What helped you walk through that?Danielle: One book I always recommend to people is Spirit Baby. Have you heard of it? Meagan: No, I haven't but I'm going to write it down. We're going to put it in the show notes here. Danielle: It's a really powerful book about– it's written by this medium and he talks about sometimes mediums talk to spirits in the past. Sometimes they talk to angels. He realized that the spirits he was seeing and talking to were spirits that were about to come into the world so he called them spirit babies. The book is just this beautiful story after story of how he would talk to these spirits and then he would help couples talk to those spirits that they were about to bring in and he helped so many people who were having trouble getting pregnant, etc. It just reminded me so much of we think because we are here on Earth and I thought, “I'm pregnant. This is what I want to do. This is what I'm going to do.” I really forgot that I'm bringing a spirit into the world. I'm a vessel. I'm not the driver. We are driving together. It's the same thing. Then they are born and it's the exact same thing. You are not my child. You are not mine. You are a soul that came to this Earth and you are on your own path. We're just here to guide each other and help each other. That was a big part of what helped me. I remembered that she also needed a certain type of birth. It didn't have to be a mistake that we got there together and just trusted that that was what we needed, but also that maybe it was a lesson I needed. I'm not the boss of her, you know? So that helped. There's also something called havening you can work with. I don't know if doulas do it. I worked with a midwife, but it's physical touch to help you work through birth trauma. It's a lot of just rubbing the arms up and down, having someone just help you physically release the emotions around it. Meagan: Is it similar to tapping? Danielle: Kind of. It's like this, like rubbing. It can be a lot of different things. It's havening. It's creating a safe space for birth trauma. Meagan: Okay, I'm loving this. Danielle: So talking about it was really helpful and one of the ways I found my midwife for my home birth VBAC, there was not a single midwife in New York City that would do it, but I started making this relationship with this woman upstate about two hours away. She was in her 70's, this midwife, so she did the havening with me. She just was like, “Just tell me what happened, baby. Just tell me what happened. It's all right. I hear you. Just tell me what happened.” Just that safe space to tell my story to someone who so deeply knew the birth space and could understand and knew exactly how I was feeling and the safe space I needed and that I didn't have, it was really healing to talk to those havening ears of hers. Yeah, and she was in her 70's. She was my midwife for my HBAC and I was her second to last birth. She retired shortly after. Meagan: Wow. Danielle: Yeah. You hear the stories about midwifery and women with these powers and the history of how witches have been demonized and you start to see the connections because you start to see the magic. You're a doula. You have magic. There's no way I could have done what I did with the birth of my son at home without my doula and my midwife. I really think it's the most beautiful form of sorcery and magic to create that safe space because I had to go to another world to bring my son here. You have to cross the veil. You have to go somewhere else, so in order to do that, you have to have people holding a safe space for you where your body is and making sure your body is okay, that your soul is okay. Going through that experience was also very healing from my first birth because I was like, “Oh. This is what a safe space looks and feels like.” It's not what I had in the hospital, so okay. That's okay. I didn't have that with my first birth. If I had, I think she would have been born vaginally and that's okay too. It offered a lot of forgiveness. 23:31 Connecting with your babyMeagan: I love that you said that it offered a lot of forgiveness. That is something that is very, very, very difficult to do. A lot of the time, we blame ourselves for things like we were talking about, but the forgiveness. I forgive this experience. I recognize I had this. I accept that I had this. It isn't what I'm having now. I'm recognizing that, but I'm going to forgive that and I'm going to take that step forward and find that healing step in this right direction. Danielle: Yeah, and also I will say two things. One, when my daughter was born and my daughter is the one I had the C-section with. I melted into her. We melted into each other. We were just so connected. It's inexplicable. When my son was born– and with my daughter, I had the most medicalized birth. I was traumatized after the epidural. I had the worst shakes because I hadn't eaten so it was just really traumatizing physically, but then my connection with her was immediate. I had the most beautiful home birth with my son. Truly, he was born by a fireplace and my husband and daughter caught him. It was snowing the most beautiful, fluffy snow. It was literally perfect. I did not feel connected. It took a while to build a connection to my son. Meagan: Picture perfect. Danielle: I think also, we have these expectations of, “Oh, if I have this birth, then everything will be just perfect and I'll feel so connected to my child and my child will latch right away.” None of that means that. So also, releasing those expectations of that. The birth that you want is for you and I think the more you can get clear on that the better, then when you invite the soul of your child to have the birth that they need, that's when you start to really learn from each other. I don't know if the birth I had with my son was maybe what he wanted. I don't know, because it didn't feel like when he got here that he was ready to be here. He probably could have waited around for a little while. I almost feel like he participated in the birth that I really needed and that my soul really needed. Then he kind of made me pay for it. He didn't sleep for two years. I mean, he's the best. I have such a special connection with him now, but it took a while so it doesn't mean that just because you have the birth of your dreams that that's going to mean you have the connection of your dreams. There is so much within our power, but there is just also so much outside of it. Meagan: Yeah. Whoa. I just got the chills listening to you. It's so amazing to look at it that way because I think too a lot of moms that have had C-sections that maybe didn't have the connection, they are looking for it from a different experience or the same thing where you were like, “I had that immediate connection. I didn't have the experience that I was desiring or planning on, but I had that immediate connection.” It just differs from everybody. Like you said, what we need, what our babies need, what that journey is looking like, whatever that looks like for us, is usually what is going to unfold. Sometimes it's not exactly what our minds would write down on a piece of paper or draw. Danielle: Exactly. That's part of that forgiveness too. It's just– and this is just I think getting older now is what it's allowed me to think in this way because the younger me definitely wouldn't have. It's just to let things unfold as they are meant to be and trust that they are unfolding in exactly the way they are supposed to. Thank goodness, I had that after my son was born. I think that birth offered me a lot of space for him to be the little soul he needed to be. He wasn't the kid that was going to melt into me right away. So just letting him be him was medicine for me. It really was to allow him the space instead of me saying, “Oh, I have to have this kind of connection with my son immediately when they are born.” We are taught that. We are taught that equals how good your birth is or how good of a mother you are. That's not to say– he was a great latcher, but he was energetic. I could tell my son needed some space. He was like, “Let me figure out who I am. Let me figure out who I am.” Yeah. And just offering that I think to our children and to ourselves is such a gift. Meagan: When you were talking about birth plans and planning, if we have this thing in our mind where we absolutely have this plan and we think that we absolutely have to connect with that child or that child has to connect with us, but then we start doubting, “Well, why does that child not like me?” Like you said, “Am I not a good mom? What did I do to fail? Maybe my birth didn't go as planned and that's why we are not connecting because I failed my baby.” This is literally where our minds go so often and it doesn't need to go there. I think in a lot of ways, it's because the world tells us that that's what we have to have or that's what the movies are showing us or Instagram or Facebook is showing us. Danielle: Yes. Exactly. Exactly. None of those things can show your energetic connection. Meagan: No. Danielle: I think having a mantra– and this is a life mantra, but I mean as we all know and I imagine everyone listening is either a mother or going to be soon, but the mantra of– and I say this to my kids all of the time. We are right where we are supposed to be and I'm right here. Even in the middle of a meltdown. “Baby, we are right where we are supposed to be. It's all right. I'm here. I love you.” The more we can remind ourselves that too, in a birth we weren't ready for or didn't think we would have, just remind ourselves that we are right where we need to be. We are safe. This is all part of the cosmic lesson that each of us individually needs and trusting and surrendering. I mean, that is why women and bodies with wombs give birth because we are the feminine– forget gender– the feminine are the ones who know how to surrender. The masculine are the ones that go out and achieve and make things. They use their will. The feminine is the vessel. The feminine call things to it, so the more that you can deeply surrender to that, I think the more we can really embody whatever is happening in that moment instead of feeling like it is happening to us. 32:26 SurrenderingDanielle: It's just so true in birth too. Talk about the ultimate surrender. Meagan: Oh my gosh, yes. It can be so difficult to put ourselves in that next space of surrendering and accepting. I think a lot of people will say, “No, don't surrender. You have to fight.” I don't believe that if we are surrendering, we are giving up. Danielle: No, I think it's the opposite. Meagan: Yeah. But I think sometimes that's how it's looked. Surrender is like, “Here. Do whatever,” or just, “I'll surrender and I'll give this experience,” but I don't think it's that way.Danielle: No, surrender is when you become what you are calling in. If you are calling in an empowered birth, you become that empowered being that has an empowered birth so that you can have it. You surrender to being that empowered person. You don't surrender to, “Okay, whatever you say.” That is being a victim of circumstance which, by the way, we will also all do that too. I did that many times. Meagan: Sometimes it's natural. It just happens. Danielle: That's okay too. I was really grateful in that case to have– there was a part of me when my midwife said, “Okay, it's C-section time,” I was like, “You know what? Okay.” I think I probably could have fought, but I was just like, “You know what? Okay.” So it's not to say that– I think victim can be a bad word. I don't think it's a bad word. I think sometimes, you just need to fall into someone's very capable hands and be okay with that, but that is very different to surrender. Surrender is embodying what you want, calling it to you, and surrendering to your embodiment of it. Meagan: Absolutely. I think that is such a powerful message to this community specifically especially because of what a lot of the times we as VBAC moms are going through and where we are mentally through our prep and through our past traumas and through our doubt. A lot of the time we doubt because the world is telling us to doubt. Danielle: To all of the mamas and mamas-to-be out there, just giving birth to a human is the most miraculous, greatest thing in the universe but then to also be up against what we are up against in society and the medical community– and I'm not saying anything bad. I have very dear friends who are OB/GYNs and I love them. They have the best intentions, but that doesn't mean their actions are the best. As you know, I have a podcast and I had an incredible OB/GYN come onto the podcast and talk about how we have lost reverence for the birthing body, that it's so medicalized that we are constantly– just by being in a hospital, just by being medicalized, the birthing body is treated like this weird vessel that is just kind of in the way of the baby getting here so you just have to keep the vessel alive. That's it. You just have to keep the vessel alive and then get the baby out. That's really why I hate this idea of all that matters is a healthy baby. That's absolutely not all that matters. 36:06 Choices in birthDanielle: That's one of the things that you have to confront when you choose a home birth. You have to confront that. You have to confront that perhaps your choices will lead to outcomes that you don't want, but you have to choose. I believe that how you choose to birth impacts not just you but your child and not just your child in the moment of birth, but your child for the rest of your life, their imprint. Choose is a really important word there. It's not like everyone has to choose a home birth otherwise your kid will be messed up. It's how you choose to birth, how you choose to show up to that situation, how you choose to embody, and how you choose to feel empowered. Those are the makings of magic. I think when we say, “All that matters is a healthy child,” we are treating a woman's body like it doesn't matter. We are treating a woman's experience like it doesn't matter. It is a trauma that lives through generations. Even my grandmother was born via forceps. Her mother was put out using chloroform. Meagan: Yes. Danielle: We're not that far from it even today. Especially in America, we have so lost our way on how powerful women are and how powerful birthing bodies are. There have been studies that show the more women that are in the room with a birthing woman, the more positive outcomes there are. There is a magic to women gathering and lifting each other up so that's my hope for women. It's not that we have all home births or all one way of birthing. It's that we feel empowered and we let birth feel like the magical experience it can be even if you choose an epidural. It doesn't matter. The details almost don't matter. It's how you feel throughout it. I have a dear friend who had a very empowered C-section. She was like, “I chose it. I wanted it. I felt great.” She felt in control of her birth. That is an empowered birth. Meagan: Yes. Danielle: I think we can use the best of what the medical system gives us to help you have the birth you want, but the important thing is that you get to choose what you want for your body because your experience as the birthing body really matters. Meagan: Wow. Seriously, I feel like you could be on this podcast for hours and hours and hours. I just keep getting the chills over and over again. Danielle: The world's longest podcast. Meagan: It's like my feet are on a cooler or something because I can feel chills from my feet all the way up to my head. It's such a powerful message here. Danielle: This topic is so dear to my heart because I really felt like I was healing generational trauma. I could feel it. I could feel the trauma. My mom didn't even know what an empowered birth was, God bless her. She didn't even know it was an option. I want different stories for my daughter. 39:14 The ripple effect of birthDanielle: I don't know how out there you want to go, but I believe it's connected to our sexuality. I believe it's connected to the light within each of us, how we birth, how we choose to birth, the space we hold for birth. We tend to treat birth the moment the baby comes out and it is just so much bigger and broader than that in my opinion. It has such a ripple effect. Yeah, so it's important to me that women know what their options are. A lot of women don't even know. When I got pregnant with my first, I was like, “What's the difference between a doula and a midwife?” I didn't even know the basics. Meagan: Yeah, I mean, people still. It's 2024 and people will be like, “Oh, what do you do?” I'm like, “Oh, I'm a doula.” They're like, “Wow. How long did school take for that? How is catching babies?” I'm like, “No, no, no, no. I don't catch babies.” Even still today, doulas and midwives are completely confused. We don't even know now. We do have providers saying things and it just keeps carrying. I had one provider ask me after a client of mine had an unexpected, undesired Cesarean after she was holding baby. We got baby nursing which she was so happy about. She was getting some of the things she wanted and he said, “Is she over it yet? I mean, look. Everyone's healthy right there.” So to your healthy comment, there's so much more to all of this and like you said, it's a ripple effect. Where it starts, if we go all the way back to where the baby actually starts and how amazing and beautiful it is, and then all the way up to birth, but then even further and greater. There are so many things in our outside world today that can try to stomp these down and not help us find that empowerment or belief or faith in our bodies. It's hard to sometimes find that. Danielle: Yeah. I think most women I know are also the best copers I've ever met. That's a problem because I can promise you guys one thing and that's that your emotions don't just go away when you cope. They live inside of you and until you work through them and breathe through them and put them out and get them out and move them out and cry them out and talk them out and whatever you need to do to get them out, but if you had a traumatic birth and then you had a practitioner say something like that to you and then you told yourself, “Oh, yeah. No, it was fine because my babies are fine.” It's not fine. It's not fine. It's okay to let it not be fine and there are lots of people, doulas included, who can hold that space for you and let it not be fine. You know, I had to do that before I could even think about having a second and having a home birth because we all know if you don't work through your fears, they show up in birth. 42:34 Ways to release fearMeagan: Oh, yes they do. Danielle: I had lots of fears going into my birth so it's not like they all go away, but I had at least faced them. There were no dark corners. There was no, “Okay, I'm just going to pretend like this never happened and just go into birth,” because those are the things that show up. I think for my first birth one of the things that showed up was, “Okay, anything but a C-section. Whatever it is, episiotomy fine. Just not a C-section,” and then that's exactly what happened and that's exactly what showed up. You do have to– and that's part of back to our conversation about surrender. Surrendering is so hard because it means you had to face all of your fears. You can't surrender into the places that you won't go. Surrendering means you've made all of the space. You've faced your fears. My midwife with my home birth said– because I got to 10 centimeters with my daughter. I was at 10 centimeters for a long time and then it was too painful. I just couldn't release into the surrender. So because I had worked with her on a lot of my birth trauma, she knew very well about my first birth. She was like, “We're going to get to this moment and you're going to have to choose. You're going to get to 10 centimeters with me and you're going to have to choose. I'm going to hold your hand and I'm going to need you to choose yes. We're going to bring this baby boy into this world right here. I need you to choose yes.” That space– we had been through my deepest fears and my deepest fears were that I was going to lose him or I wasn't going to be able to do it and I was going to have to go to the hospital. We had talked through my deepest fears so I could just surrender into them instead of hide from them. I think that's why birth asks us to be just so, so brave because you can't fake your way through your fears. Meagan: You can't. Danielle: And insecurities and all the things when it comes to birth. It really does strip you down. Meagan: Yes. Have you ever heard of a mother's blessing? Have you ever heard of that? Danielle: Tell me what it is. Meagan: Okay, so one of my doulas wanted to throw me this mother's blessing. It was essentially a party for me, but it was very– I don't even know how to explain it. Danielle: We call it a circle, like a mother's circle. Meagan: It was very connecting. Danielle: That's what I call it, yeah. Meagan: Yes. So they called it a mother's blessing, so a mother's circle. We did. We got in the circle and we talked about these fears. These are the women within my birth that were welcoming in my birth or women who I was welcoming into my circle of trust along the way because I didn't feel like I could tell everyone I wanted to have a vaginal birth after two C-sections out of the hospital. Danielle: Wow. Meagan: We had this moment of connection where they asked me, “What are your fears? Let these out. Let these flow through you and not get bogged up.” Then we all connected and created this crazy bracelet. It was really, really amazing. Each one gave me more power in the bracelet and we would wrap it around. We were all connected then cut it and we all wore it together. It was the weirdest thing, but every time I looked down at this bracelet– we talked about it earliest, but the connection, the power, and the magic. I felt this magic of people who weren't even with me in that very, very moment, but they were so with me. It really helped me face some of those fears and remember that I've faced those. Danielle: Yeah. Meagan: They're still coming in my mind for a minute. Danielle: And you're not alone. This is the sorcery I'm talking about. This is why most of the “witches” that were burned at the stake were actually women in the birth space because it is magic. You have to have a cauldron and spells and blessings and magic to bring souls into this world. Yeah. I had a baby blessing. It was a baby/mama blessing that was just so beautiful. I wish it were more institutionalized versus a baby shower because you don't need a baby shower. You need a mama shower. Meagan: Right? I know I felt so uplifted. Danielle: You are the one that's bringing this baby. Yeah. Yeah. We did a birthing necklace so if anyone listening is wondering, you can Google mama blessings or mama circles. There are some really beautiful things that you can do. You have someone start a string for a necklace and you ask everyone to bring a bead. Meagan: Yep, I had that too. Danielle: You around and everyone puts a blessing and why they chose that bead for you and what they are wishing for you in your birth or in your motherhood and at the end, you have this beautiful necklace. I wore both of my necklaces during both of my births. There's another thing where all of the mamas who are in your circle are given a flower and they give you one piece of wisdom and then hand you the flower. There are so many beautiful things you can do. Meagan: There's the candle. Have you heard about the candles? Danielle: No, what did you do with the candles? Meagan: So the flower was the bracelet part and then I also had the beads. I actually have a picture of me in labor holding onto that and I just felt the power within my palm. We did this candle. Everyone has a candle and everyone gives really positive, encouraging words, or a mantra or something, then when you go into labor, you let your team and you let your circle know and everyone lights this candle. Danielle: Yes, they did this too. Yeah. The labor candle. Yeah, it's just so beautiful and it matters. It really matters so when you say, “All that matters is a healthy baby,” it's like, “No. How you get to the healthy baby also really, really matters.”Meagan: Yeah, I want to say, “No, duh. Of course, a mom that is alive and a baby that is alive and healthy matters. No brainer.” But why are we saying all that matters? Why is it all that? Why that?Danielle: There is a lot inherent in birth that is death. I think that really, really scares Americans and we don't confront it. We don't talk about it. We hide it. We hide away our elderly. They are not the wise people of our society that they actually are. We hide from death. If you hide from death, you hide from birth. I don't think you get to choose, so there is a reason that birth is treated the way it is and it's because there is a lot of fear around what it means to die in this country. Meagan: Yeah. Danielle: I think the part that just makes me the most sad in that conversation is that women are not taught how powerful and capable they are and their bodies are and how much wisdom our bodies have.Danielle: I was just talking to a woman the other day and she was like, “Oh yeah.” She is pregnant and she said, “My OB is worried because I have smaller hips.” I'm like, “When you go to the studies, literally, that is just bad medicine. That is like malpractice to make a woman feel like her body made a baby it cannot birth.” So inherently, now she has this seat of fear that her body can't do it, that her body is not capable, and it's terrible. I'm so grateful for the role of conventional medicine. I'm so grateful there is a 9-1-1 number you can call if you home birth is going the wrong way. We don't have to choose. Medicalized birth can be for emergency situations and thank God. Thank God for it. Meagan: Yes. Yes. Danielle: But until you get to that emergency, your body is so capable. Your body can absolutely birth your baby and the more you surround yourself with people that believe that too, I mean, trying to do that, trying to birth a human naturally and just to keep your soul, mind, and body in the face of someone who thinks you can't do it, might be impossible. It might be impossible. Meagan: That's what I was going to say. Not only does this woman have this seed of doubt in her mind, but her provider is doubting her before she even begins. It reminds me of that OB you said you had on the podcast on Sakara Life. We are losing this. We are placing doubt before we even get there and I'm going to tell you right now. That provider is probably not going to wait, probably not going to trust the body, probably not going to trust the process, and things are going to be pushed whether she has a C-section or not. I'm not saying that, but if someone doubts someone's ability before labor even happens that they can't get the baby out of the pelvis, that is a red flag that is an issue. Think about how many patients that provider probably has that is placing doubt. Danielle: I think connected to everything we are saying, our fear of death, our fear of– we have convinced ourselves that a medicalized birth is a risk-free birth or at least a lower-risk birth. Meagan: Safer. 53:02 Which risks are you willing to take?Danielle: We just know from the literature that's not true. In fact, it's the opposite, but even if it were true, I have a firm belief that for every action, there is a reaction. For every– and what I mean by that is in order to bring a human into this world, it's going to be hard. People are like, “I'm just going to do a C-section.” There is no world where a C-section is easy. There is no risk-free easy way out. We can tell ourselves that there are, but there is not. So back to this idea of the empowered birth are which risks are you willing to take? Which risks are you comfortable with? Which risks are you okay with for your body? Those are the questions we have to be asking. Not, “Oh, I'm choosing a home birth because I'm just a little bit more risk tolerant.” That's not what it is at all. Meagan: Exactly, yeah. Danielle: Or, “I'm choosing a C-section because I just want it to be easy.” That's not what it is at all. I've had a C-section. It's not easy at all. I think we fool ourselves in the conversation by making things seem safer, seem easier, and they're not. Meagan: Well, I feel like these things we are telling us is a way to justify our actions. A provider who is going to tell someone that they have CPD and their op-reports, it may be a way to justify the action of a performed Cesarean on their part. We say these things to soften what we are doing. Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I know. I'm sure you've had conversations around The Business of Being Born, but that's very real. Meagan: It's very real. Danielle: That's why, in my opinion, conventional medicine is perfect for acute, emergency situations because it is a business, and thank God they are there for those emergencies, but if you are not in an emergency moment which, by the way, birth is not an emergency, then I don't think– and this is true even outside of birth. I have my Masters in functional medicine and human nutrition. It's the same with nutrition. There's no role for pharmacology and conventional medicine when it comes to everyday health and wellness. Thank God that it's there if someone has a heart attack or God forbid gets hit by a bus or something like that. Thank God for conventional medicine, but they do not have the tools to help with chronic, everyday metabolic issues. What they are trained to do is give pharmaceutical drugs that mask symptoms or change physiology to mask symptoms, but it's not this “well care” that we need both in birth and outside of birth. 56:07 Nutrition and nourishmentMeagan: And nutrition is such a passion of mine and something that I would love to also have an episode in the future because there is so much to do with exactly what you were saying. It's not just birth. There is so much more and that's a big one. That's a really, really big one. Danielle: I like to talk about it in terms of nourishment because I think that nutrition is scientific and there is nothing scientific– Meagan: Nourishment. Danielle: Yeah, and to think of it that way because I think so many times women are taught from the lens of nutrition that this is what you should eat for your pregnancy and not eat and this is what you should eat postpartum and not eat. Do you feel nourished? Do you feel good? Do you feel whole? Nourishment is inclusive of your emotional connections with your partner, your emotional connections with your community, your connection to why are you on this planet, your spirituality, and your religion. Nourishment is multifaceted where nutrition tends to just be, “Did you get enough protein?” Meagan: Proteins and carbs and fats. Did you hit your macros today? Danielle: Yeah. It's such a boring conversation that we haven't been having for most of humanity. This is our small, small, small understanding of what the body needs and it's one lens into what the body needs. A lot of my work is trying to help people understand that through the eyes of nourishment, we can actually transform our health because they are thinking about both how we feel from not just a physical standpoint, but from an emotional and spiritual one as well. Meagan: Absolutely. I love how you were like, “It's just a small lens.” There is so much. There is so much. Danielle: I will tell you the deeper I get into literature, the deeper I get into scientific studies, and the deeper we go into the mechanics of the cell, we go one step farther and we are in quantum and then we have no idea what's going on, so it's just this constant reminder of how it's so cool that we can do heart transplants. That is so awesome and the geek in me and the scientist in me is so intrigued.I so love understanding the biochemistry of nutrition, what's really going on, and what our mitochondria need to function. I love that and it's so, so cool that our kids are starting to understand that and can make real changes in people's lives by understanding that, but also, we can't— I personally can't practice there without having reverence for how much we don't know and making sure that even though I can say, “Hey, after your labs and this questionnaire, I think you might be deficient in a couple of these things, so let's put you on these things,” if I don't then also have the conversation of, “How is your relationship with your mom because you've talked about some trauma?”Those conversations are so separate from conventional medicine. I hope the new wave of medicine is the whole person and there is a whole assessment. Meagan: Well, yeah. I know time is up, but I was having a conversation about this whole thing. Okay, maybe we are deficient in these areas, but how is our life? How is our sleep? How is our connection? How is our cortisol? What are we doing in addition over here? That's just not talked about a ton. Danielle: Yeah. I will say this as the nutritionist. I think soul health is way more important than any other health. The more you take care of whatever your soul needs whether it is deep breaths or a vacation or a mantra or a really good book by a fireside or some hot chocolate or a glass of wine or a bowl of french fries after a late night of dancing, answering those questions about what your soul needs, I think, are the most important and then once we can do that, we start to uncover, “Oh, you know what? I want to eat really well because I have this connection to myself.” The way we take care of ourselves is a reflection of our connection to ourselves so I think soul health as our first priority usually ends up being the thing that has the greatest impact because of the ripple effects. Meagan: Yeah, it helps us find the connectivity again because sometimes we are slightly disconnected then we find our soul and we find what we need, and then we flourish through there. Danielle: Yeah, it's like if you don't have that, then it's just another to-do list. “Oh, I need to check off meditating. Oh, I need to check off getting my greens today.” That's exhausting. Meagan: It is exhausting. I've done it. Danielle: Yeah. Meagan: I'm guilty right here. Danielle: We all have. We all have, then you just end up chronically stressed and you have adrenal fatigue and it's beside the point so it's trying to anchor people on those soul questions first. Meagan: Absolutely. Well, I encourage everybody listening to tune into your podcast. We're going to make sure that we have– it's Sakara Life. Again, that's how I say it. Is that how you say it? Danielle: That's right, yeah. Meagan: Sakara Life. We are going to make sure we have that link in the show notes. Don't forget about us here at The VBAC Link listeners. I'm just saying, don't forget about us. Danielle: No, you're work is so important. Thank you. Meagan: You're immediately going to be hooked. There's so much amazingness. I mean, everything on there. You guys just do such an incredible job. I'm so grateful for all that you are doing and all that you are helping, your line, and everything. We are going to have everything in the show notes so definitely go click around and go explore. Danielle: Yeah, and just in case people don't know, I have a company called Sakara. It was started over 12 years ago and it really started as a food company. We delivered the food that changed our lives. We started delivering it to people and then that turned into hundreds of people then thousands of people then millions of people. Meagan: Millions and millions, yeah. Danielle: Yeah, so now we offer fresh food delivery at your door. We offer it to every zip code in the United States. It's all organic. It's all plant-rich, really tasty, beautiful food. It's what I eat every single day. Yeah. Then just on this mission to put people in the driver's seat of their health to really help you understand what is the toolkit you need to really feel good, to really nourish, so our podcast is also part of that. One of the nourishing conversations we can have is, do you feel lit up at the end? Meagan: Mhmm. Oh, I love it so much. Thank you, seriously, from the bottom of my heart for coming on. I feel like my cheeks hurt from smiling just hearing you speak, feeling you speak. Oh, everything about you is magic. I know you are not the doula, but you have magic too. You are incredible. Danielle: Oh, thank you so much. Thank you and thank you for all the work you do. I told you this at the beginning that I didn't have your podcast when I was searching for how to have a vaginal birth after my C-section and I think these stories are so important so that we can remind women how powerful they are and that we do have the option and that the best intended medical caregivers who say, “We have increased of blah, blah, blah and rupture,” it's like, “Do you really understand your risk? Do you really, really understand how much more of a risk you're taking?” I will tell you the missing part of the conversation is all you are gaining by choosing the birth that you want, so yes. Yes. It's slightly, very slightly more risky post-C-section, but no matter how you give birth, choosing and feeling empowered is going to give you so much. That's often the part of the conversation that is missing. Meagan: I agree. Again, another mic drop here. I can't even. You are just– I need you in my life every day, so that's why I'm listening to your podcast because you are just so amazing. Again, thank you so much. Danielle: You are so sweet. Thank you. Meagan: We will talk to you later. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Muitas mensagens de amor, um extremamente agradável com a Joana Marques e o Daniel Leitão. E a surpresa do Toy, do Gilmário e do Nuno Markl!

A Joana Marques e o Daniel Leitão iinterromperam as férias para dizerem coisas agradáveis ao Vasco. A questão é: será que conseguiram?

Na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, o comentador Rui Miguel Tovar, os jornalistas Luís Aresta e Miguel Coelho e os animadores Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

->Workshop de Pensamento Crítico: sessões de Lisboa, Porto e online esgotadas! Inscreva-se aqui para ser avisado(a) de futuras edições. Episódio retirado do programa Remotamente Interessante, que gravei com a Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos em 2020. Joana Marques é humorista, guionista e autora. Escreveu os livros O Meu Coração Só Tem Uma Cor e Vai Correr Tudo Mal e criou, em 2012, com Daniel Leitão, o programa Altos & Baixos, no Canal Q. É uma d'As Três da Manhã, na Renascença, onde faz a rubrica diária Extremamente Desagradável. É um dos elementos da equipa de autores do programa Isto é Gozar com Quem Trabalha, de Ricardo Araújo Pereira, e escreve semanalmente na revista Visão. Índice (com timestamps): (2:20) Um bit de stand up como Daniel Sloss (9:56) Um filme de comédia como os franceses (ex: Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, “Bem Vindo ao Norte” ou Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu, “Que mal fiz eu a Deus?”) (16:25) Uma sitcom como “Family Ties” (“Quem sai aos seus”)  (22:40) Uma série como “Modern Family” (“Uma família muito moderna”) (31:06) Crónicas como os brasileiros Antonio Prata (livro “Meio intelectual, meio de esquerda”) ou Gregório Duvivier (livro "Caviar é uma ova")

Soul astrologer, Danielle Paige and I look to the stars and talk all things astrology this week. We discuss my recent Pluto transit, a period that represented the darkest night of the soul, and what it taught me about surrender, resilience, and re-aligning to my true soul purpose. We learn about Danielle's story of spiritual awakening and how it's forged into becoming one of her industry's top astrologers and spiritual guides.

A derrota do Benfica, a reação do FC Porto, o empate do Sporting e os confrontos de águias e leões com italianos na Liga dos Campeões e Liga Europa, respetivamente, foram os temas em análise na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Rui Viegas, Miguel Coelho, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

O arranque do apuramento para o Euro 2024, frente a Liechtenstein e Luxemburgo e com Cristiano Ronaldo a titular, e o regresso do campeonato foram os temas em análise na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Miguel Coelho, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

“Every single woman needs to understand their numbers in their business,” shares Danielle Hayden, CEO and founder of Kickstart Accounting. Today, Danielle discusses why she shifted away from her corporate finance career to become an entrepreneur and how changing your money mindset by befriending your financials can decrease burnout.    One day while Danielle was sitting in a board meeting, she realized that she could be using her expertise to benefit entrepreneurs, particularly women entrepreneurs. This catalyst led her to open Kickstart Accounting where she now employs 25 women in a male dominated industry who work primarily in helping other women entrepreneurs. She explains that understanding your numbers is crucial for success, and it is also best to be able to access that information in a non-judgemental space. People tend to shy away from talking about money and may have inherited a money mindset story from their parents, teachers, or peers. But by really analyzing and understanding the numbers, you can reform your money mindset so that handling your business finances does not send you spiraling into burnout.    Numbers do not have to be overwhelming. It is okay to talk about money and even spend money, but so many people are ashamed or just not confident enough to make monetary decisions. These feelings often stem from the money stories you grew up with and may not actually apply to your current life situation. When you get more knowledgeable about your finances, then you can approach money from a different perspective and feel more secure investing in your business.   Quotes • “Every single woman needs to understand their numbers in their business, how to read a profit loss statement, how to read a balance sheet, how to create a budget, and have that information in a space that's non-judgmental, that is safe.” (5:02-5:19 | Danielle) • “There are actually so many people who need to let go of their money because they're holding on for dear life.” (14:35-14:41 | Danielle) • “It's a really brave thing to become a business owner and we don't have to make everything so hard.” (29:14-29:21 | Danielle)  • “We're allowed as business owners to disrupt the industry, and we can break the mold and recreate it.” (32:25-35:30 | Danielle)   Links Connect with Danielle Hayden: Website: https://kickstartaccountinginc.com/ Kickstart Socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kickstartaccountinginc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kickstartaccounting/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kickstart-accounting-inc-/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KickstartAcct Danielle Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellehayden__oh/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-hayden-kickstartaccounting/   Connect with Lara:  https://drlarasalyer.com/catalyst Free Functional Medicine Checklist: https://healthinnate.activehosted.com/f/47 Website: https://drlarasalyer.com Instagram: @drlarasalyer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlarasalyer Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlarasalyer/ YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLaraSalyer TikTok: @Creativity.Doctor   Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

As vitórias dos grandes na jornada 24 do campeonato, a receção do FC Porto ao Inter de Milão e a visita do Sporting ao Arsenal, para Liga dos Campeões e Europa, respetivamente, e a convocatória da seleção nacional foram os temas em análise na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Miguel Coelho, Carlos Duarte Bastos e Daniel Leitão.

On this special episode of the Wealthy and Aligned podcast, Danielle is joined by her client, Julia. Julia is a 1/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator and has started her own healing business. In this episode, Danielle and Julia chat about Julia's story of becoming a Human Design coach, her experience as someone in the High Frequency Formula, and how she's growing as a CEO. Tune into this podcast episode to hear about Julia's beautiful life. Listen to Julia's Podcast, Vibe by Design HERE | Julia's Instagram | Julia's Website Book a Breakthrough Session with Noah Sign Up For the Aura Accelerator HERE Apply for Private Coaching with Danielle The High Frequency Formula Join the Wealthy and Aligned Vortex HERE Text 'WEALTH' to 833-942-5884 to sign up for channeled messages from Danielle.   KEY TAKEAWAYS (0:51) Welcome to the podcast, Julia! (2:42) Hear how Julia found Human Design. (5:57) Julia was looking for this when seeking out Human Design. (7:50) Here's how Julia originally started her business. You might be surprised! (8:57) Julia found her intuitive gifts when she was younger. See if you connect to her story. (10:58) Danielle and Julia share how they experience outer vision. (14:08) Hear how Julia became a Human Design coach. (18:36) This is the most challenging part of the High Frequency Formula according to Julia. (23:52) Here's how the HFF has helped Julia as a CEO. (28:05) Hear a story of what happened when Julia joined the HFF. (34:29) Julia's life is changing thanks to the HFF. Listen to hear how. (39:05) Here is what Julia is looking forward to most with her clients. (41:37) Julia shares what she would say to someone thinking about joining the HFF. (46:57) Hear some final words from Julia and her tips!   QUOTABLES “I'm evolving and I'm growing. It can be confusing to people in my life.” – Julia “I'm sticking to my integrity and what I know what I know is true.” – Julia “When someone is challenging you, remember, “The Universe is challenging me to double-down on it.” – Danielle “My income is up, my confidence is up.” – Julia “Money just comes to my clients.” – Danielle “It's so freeing to have that perspective.” – Julia   WEALTHY & ALIGNED OFFERS HD & Gene Key Masterclass Bundle Quantum Sales Page Solution Download the FREE Money Meditation Text 'WEALTH' to 833-942-5884 to sign up for channeled messages from Danielle.   SOCIAL Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | TikTok   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Create quantum business success with us in the following ways: Use the code "wealthyandaligned" for 5% off of MitoZen Meditation Spray Grab your Energy Oracle deck HERE

O clássico entre Sporting e FC Porto, a luta pelo pódio, a eliminação do Benfica da Taça de Portugal, os casos de arbitragem e a antevisão da jornada europeia foram os temas em análise na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

Welcome back! This episode is about knowing when to walk away; I share a newly created Instagram post. Feel free to follow along via the hyperlink below.   As always, sending love, Danielle   It's Time to Walk Away When.   Say hello: Email:  blueheartdef@gmail.com Instagram: @blueheartdef Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/blueheartdef Support the Podcast: CashApp: $BlueHeartDef   © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

A sucessão a Fernando Santos, com José Mourinho no topo das apostas, a Argentina campeã do mundo e as jóias do Benfica em discussão na Tertúlia Bola Branca, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Rui Viegas, Pedro Mesquita, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

O balanço da prestação da seleção nacional no Mundial do Qatar e o futuro do selecionador e capitão de equipa em discussão na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta semana, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Sérgio Costa, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

O insulto do capitão a Fernando Santos quando foi substituído frente à Coreia do Sul e respetivo encobrimento, as exibições de Portugal no Mundial 2022 e os perigos da Suíça foram os temas em discussão na Tertúlia Bola Branca, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Sérgio Costa, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

Os sorteios das competições europeias (com Porto, Benfica, Sporting e Braga), o arranque de época do Santa Clara e o "paso doble" de Fernando Santos com Rafa foram os temas discutidos na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta semana, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Luís Aresta, Sérgio Costa, Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão.

A nona jornada do campeonato e a jornada europeia de Benfica, FC Porto, Sporting e Braga foram os temas da Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com o comentador Rui Miguel Tovar, o jornalista Luís Aresta, e Filipa Galrão e Daniel Leitão. Com moderação de Pedro Mesquita.

Welcome back! This episode is about life and the complexities of the world. By displaying the letter c and different words that sound the same, my goal is to communicate just how easy it is for one to lose their way without knowledge, asking questions, and receiving the proper guidance. Enjoy and be well. Danielle “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass Say hello: Email:  blueheartdef@gmail.com Instagram: @blueheartdef   Donations appreciated: CashApp: $dh4kids

A goleada da seleção nacional na República Checa e o jogo com a Espanha, que decidirá o apuramento para a Final Four da Liga das Nações, o mau momento do Sporting e a próxima jornada do campeonato foram os temas da Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com o comentador Rui Miguel Tovar, o jornalista Luís Aresta, e Miriam Gonçalves e Daniel Leitão.

As cinco primeiras jornadas da I Liga e a estreia dos grandes na Liga dos Campeões foram os temas da Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com o comentador Rui Miguel Tovar, o jornalista Luís Aresta, e Miriam Gonçalves e Daniel Leitão.

Na Tertúlia Bola Branca desta semana, os jornalistas Rui Miguel Tovar e Pedro Azevedo analisaram o mercado de transferência dos três grandes. Daniel Leitão contou ainda o insólito de desporto.

A derrota de Portugal no último jogo da jornada de Liga das Nações e a transferência de Darwin Núñez do Benfica para o Liverpool são os temas em destaque da Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com os comentadores Rui Miguel Tovar e Pedro Azevedo. Moderação de Sérgio Costa, Daniel Leitão e Filipa Galrão.

O rescaldo dos jogos da seleção com Espanha e Suíça e a antevisão do encontro de quinta-feira com a República Checa são os temas dominantes da Tertúlia Bola Branca, com os comentadores Rui Miguel Tovar e Pedro Azevedo. Tertúlia moderada por Sérgio Costa, Daniel Leitão e Filipa Galrão.

Did you know that in South African private hospitals, where patients are better cared for, the C-section rate is 76%?! Joining us today all the way from South Africa is our friend, Danielle. She shares how she became part of that C-section statistic with her first birth, but also how she refused to let those numbers define her second birth. Though she fought an uphill battle, Danielle's successful VBAC was an achievement that changed the course of her life. Her strength has paved the way for others in her area to no longer become a statistic and to no longer fear natural birth. Additional linksNatural Birth With Great Expectations MidwivesHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull transcriptNote: All transcripts are edited to correct grammar, false starts, and filler words. Julie: Welcome, welcome. You are listening to The VBAC Link podcast with Julie and Meagan and we have a really special guest for you today. This is episode number 186. We have Danielle with us and Danielle is from South Africa. She had her C-section and her VBAC in South Africa. We were just chitchatting before we started recording the podcast. There are private and public hospitals and in the private hospitals, which is where you get the best care, the C-section rate is 76%. 76%!Meagan: It's so crazy to me. The crazy thing is that it's where you get better care, but then–Julie: –where you are treated better, I know.Meagan: Yeah.Julie: In public hospitals, the C-section rate is 24%. When you combine those two together– I mean, I guess it just depends on the population density that is giving birth in each of the hospitals and so I guess I can't really come up with an overall rate there for the country. Maybe Danielle knows when she will share her story with us. But that is very, very large. Danielle had quite the battle to fight during her pregnancies, births, and deliveries, but we are going to go ahead and let her share that with you after Meagan reads a Review of the Week for us.Review of the WeekMeagan: Okay. This is from Brittany and it was actually on Instagram. She sent us a message on Instagram. It says, “Meagan and Julie, I just wanted to thank you for your amazing podcast. I just had the VBAC of my dreams a few days ago and honestly could not have done it without the encouragement of you guys and the women who share their stories. I was hesitant in wanting a VBAC going into my second pregnancy, but you guys gave me the confidence to do it.”Crazy enough, we just got a message today from someone saying, “I am super hesitant. I had a C-section with my first. I didn't progress past a 3, so my provider is telling me I am not a good match for a VBAC. I don't know what to do. Is that possible? What do I do?” And that is exactly what this podcast does. It does. It empowers you. It encourages you. It educates you to make the best decision whether it be a repeat C-section or a vaginal birth. So congratulations, Brittany, on your VBAC. We are so happy that this amazing podcast and we could help you. If you guys have had an experience or anything like that with the podcast, we would love to hear it. Feel free to do Apple Podcasts or like I said, Instagram, or Facebook. Send us a message. We would love to read your review on the podcast someday.Julie: I love that so much. I just want to say that whenever people say, “Oh yeah. Your podcast empowered me” or whatever, I will be like, “Well, you had the empowerment in you all along. We may have helped you discover it and open it up a little bit, but you need to own that. You were empowered. You did it You took charge. We might have helped you discover that along the way, but give yourself some credit too because you are pretty awesome.” That's what I think every time I hear that. It's pretty cool. I love all of our listeners and I love everybody that takes the time to leave a review, especially. So like Meagan said, if you have felt like the podcast has helped you on your journey, please drop us a review on Apple Podcasts, Google, or on Facebook. We would love to hear from you.Danielle's StoryJulie: All right. All right. All right. I am really excited and we know that Danielle is really excited to share her story with us as well. So Danielle from South Africa, we are really excited to have you on. Danielle is a busy mom of two little boys and she is an English teacher. She teaches English to foreign learners all over the world online. I think that is a really fun thing to do. I bet you have a lot of stories on that side of things too. But why don't you come on and share your stories with us about your births?Danielle: Hi. Yes, thank you. Thank you so much for having me here. Okay well, I guess I will jump right in and share a little bit about my first birth. I had a really healthy pregnancy. I carried to about 40+5 weeks, so quite a long pregnancy there. The first sign of labor was my waters breaking. In a flurry, we rushed immediately to the hospital. I had lost my bloody show. I was pretty much hooked up immediately to monitors. They confirmed I was having mild contractions. I was in early labor. This was in the night and I kind of went to sleep and thought I'd be woken up by excruciating contractions, but I wasn't. So by the morning, labor hadn't progressed at all. I was given antibiotics because of the membranes rupturing, and then taken to the labor ward basically and given Pitocin to open the labor. The contractions got stronger, but they were pretty manageable. When they did an internal, they saw that I wasn't dilating. I was 2 centimeters.The baby went into fetal distress and I ended up in an emergency C-section. It's not an uncommon thing, this story. But yeah. It left me feeling rather upset and I definitely just did not want it to go down that way. So almost immediately after I gave birth– this was probably two months after the birth– I came across the option of a VBAC. You know, when you are on maternity leave with a baby laying on your chest all day long, you discover these things. I found an amazing Facebook group and started following along, picking up all of the terms, some advice, and key providers, and I got really into it. I knew this was what I wanted to do for the next baby. When I got pregnant a few years later, it wasn't exactly a planned pregnancy. It was a little bit of a surprise, being COVID and locked up is not really an ideal situation for a pregnancy, but nevertheless, it was a happy surprise. I knew immediately that I had a lot of preparation to do. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally because I had this dream of a VBAC that was now a reality and I knew it was time to go to work.The first thing I did was I contacted a doula who was recommended by a friend of mine. She was pretty shocked because I called her when I was only seven weeks pregnant. She said to me, “What are you doing calling me so early?” But she was amazing and she gave me some recommendations. I immediately started interviewing OBs and very quickly started to distinguish between a VBAC-friendly and VBAC-tolerant OB. I realized that unless the stars were going to perfectly align, I just wasn't going to get my VBAC in a hospital. I just knew that.So I met with Sarah and Elrika who are the midwives of Great Expectations. They are the VBAC dream team. As it is in South Africa, there is quite a stigma around natural birth. Going the midwife birthing center route is considered a little bit reckless and kind of like, “The hippies do it”. It is not really a common thing. So I was a little bit hesitant, but yeah. I went to meet with them. I also met with an OB who is very well known for being VBAC supportive. But still, I had some reservations. I was still very much afraid because we really are conditioned here to believe that natural birth is a scary thing. It's not a safe thing here. That's what we are taught.But I knew this time it was different because I knew if I wasn't happy with my caregivers that I would change the setup. But after every appointment with this team and with these people, I just felt more and more confident and definitely more at ease with my decision. I knew that I was surrounding myself with a really supportive VBAC team.And then I was referred by my midwives to a really wonderful woman called Sally. She is a birth counselor and just an all-around wonderful therapist. I still have session with her today just to deal with all of the struggles of motherhood. We spent about nine months working together because from the outside looking in, everything seemed fine in my first birth and it was okay physically, but emotionally, I was traumatized. I really, really was. So working with Sally was such a big part of the preparation for me. It was so empowering for me because I had to face a lot of heavy stuff. It was a lot of internal work. I really am so grateful that I was able to do that and have that resource because I know there are not a lot of women who do have that available to them. So we made really huge leaps forward, her and I. And of course, there were lots of speed bumps along the way. Even right until the end of the pregnancy, there were some speed bumps, but it was really important for me to get over this trauma. Apart from that in terms of the VBAC preparation, like I said, I was all in. I left no stone unturned. I went to an osteopath regularly. I did pelvic floor physio. Spinning Babies, I did that. I read birthing books. I read The Mama Bamba Way of Childbirth. I don't know if it's available in the states, but my doula recommended that one, and a bit of Spiritual Midwifery.I was listening to Solfeggio Frequencies on pain relief and did Epsom salt baths by candlelight. I was also even thinking of intentional things like, “Let me choose a candle that has a beautiful scent that I'm going to use in my birth,” and just holding up those resources that I could use in the birth. And then, educating myself. I was reading Evidence Based Birth articles. I watched the documentaries like The Business of Giving Birth.And then of course, at two months in, I came across your podcast. That, for me, also became such a huge part of my therapy. For about seven months, I would walk three to four times a week listening to the podcast, laughing and crying. I resonated so much with these stories because these women, what they were saying and the things they were feeling, they were my feelings too, so it was really such an important part of this journey for me.So I guess then fast forward to the VBAC itself. This pregnancy was no different. It was very healthy, thank goodness, and I carried quite late. I was about 40+6 when he arrived. We went into isolation about two weeks before the due date because this was the COVID protocol, and then for a few days, I was starting to lose my mucus plug a little bit. Then one night, I started having some contractions late at night. They were not that strong. I could sleep through them. But I remember it was a Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. when I woke up and they were still there. You just know in your body like, “Okay, something is really happening now.”So I told my husband, Dane, and he took our son Max to school. He came home and we got ready because we actually had an appointment with our midwives, just a routine checkup. They knew what was going down. They said, “Come through. Let's just have them look.” We went there. They were happy with how everything was going and they said, “Well, there is no need for you to check into the birth center right now. Go home and let labor take its course.” And I really wasn't sure. I mean, “Should I be walking up and down the halls trying to get this going?” Both of them and my doula said, “It's going to happen how it's going to happen. The best thing you can actually do is just rest and chill.” And so that's what I did. I lay in bed all day. I watched movies. I ate. I drank. I slept and the contractions were steadily there keeping me company all throughout the day. And I was just excited, really, because it felt so different than the first labor already. My husband was around. I told him to let the family know that things were going down. I was very specific about this though because I didn't really want anyone sending me messages or calling me because as it is, I am such a highly strung, anxious person. I am always in my head and I just knew that the pressure and those questions were going to derail me. It was almost like that big match temperament. I needed to go inside this bubble and just get my head right. So that's what I did. I stayed in this bubble all day radio silent basically.My mom came over around lunchtime. She was going to stay with Max when we were going to the birth center. By the evening, things were definitely intensifying. I went home and we were going downstairs and having some dinner with the family. I will never forget that it was chicken soup. I always think to myself, “What a fantastic pre-birth meal that was.” And then the midwives told me to get into the bath for about an hour and time contractions. So that's what I did. Again, using the same candles, the same music, the same space, and just resourcing on that safe space that I created throughout my whole pregnancy was really, really helpful I think.So my husband was putting Max to bed and my mom was with me while I was in the bath. We spoke a little bit just about random things, and we just sat beside each other. I squeezed her hand through all of the contractions. I have to say because I think it's a rule of thumb that you don't really have your mom around when you're in labor for various reasons, but I do have to say that it was such an unplanned thing, and it was such a lovely moment that we were able to have together for her to just be with me during this part of the labor. It was really, really special.And then, yes. The contractions were really strong at this point. Definitely, I was in active labor. So we called the midwives and told them that we were ready to come. We were on the way. And at this point, I could really barely get down the stairs. It was really tough to even walk. So my mom helped us get loaded in the car. I was in the backseat and I just remember feeling that shift. My moans and groans were getting louder. Dane was playing my VBAC playlist that I had created with all my feel-good songs and he was trying to amp me up, and I don't think I heard any of it. I was just in another zone.When we got there, we were checked into our room. It was so beautiful and so different than the bright lights of a hospital room. It's crazy. I had to do an internal upon arrival. I really told my midwives that I didn't want any unnecessary interventions or internals, but that's when I knew I had to do it, so I was prepared for it. It was really painful by the way. I couldn't actually believe how painful it was. We also had agreed that I didn't want to know how far along I was or how many centimeters I was dilating in case it would also derail me or discourage me. When Sarah, my midwife, finished the internal, she said, “Do you want to know how many centimeters?” And that, for me, was just everything because it was like she was really talking to me, not at me, which was what I had experienced before. I have so much respect for her for that. Really, I do. I said, “I only want to know if it's good news.” She smiled and said, “You are 6 centimeters.” I was so pumped.Julie: Yay!Danielle: It was so electrifying. It was really wonderful. And this was about 9:00 in the evening more or less at this time. So I lay there. My doula was there. Dane was setting up the room so beautifully getting the candles and the same music. Everything was familiar which was really, for me, what I needed. I lay on my side. That was the position I was most comfortable in, my left side. He read the birth affirmations to me that I prepared. They were filling the birthing bath as things were intensifying because I definitely needed something to help with the pain. The whole time, Dane was quite hesitant at the beginning of this whole process to have a doula in the first place and I am so glad that we did, and I think he was so glad we did because she drew him in in such a way that made him such a special part of this. She showed him things that I think he wouldn't have known and wouldn't have noticed. I mean, how could you? He'd never been to a birth before. Things like when I was leaning over the bed and I don't know what it's called, but there's a little bulge that appears in the lower back where you almost see the baby descending in the mom‘s pelvis. Just amazing things like that that she was able to show him which was really, really amazing.So yeah. I was told to empty my bladder before I got in the birthing bath. Again, it was so painful to even walk to the toilet and walk into the birthing bath. But I got in there and my doula just helped me through all of those contractions. I'll never forget, she kept telling me to open up my palms and not to clench them. It's quite an interesting thing going through these contractions and just remembering to keep my palms open. It was there that I really felt that transcendence. The one thing I didn't do was a Hypnobirthing course, but I read about it. It wasn't something I was aiming for, but I went into this really trance-like state. I really did. There were moments when Dane said to me– my eyes were closed pretty much the entire time– but there were moments when I would look at him and he said that it was like I was looking at him but I couldn't see him. My eyes were glazed over. That was such an added bonus for me because again, being such an anxious person, to be able to achieve that level of trance state was amazing and wonderful.I couldn't get it right in the birthing bath. I couldn't get into a good position. The contractions were coming hard and fast at this point. I even remember saying to Sarah, the midwife, “Can you give me something for the pain? Or is there anything you can give me?” and I think she said, “Darling, I want to do another internal before I give you anything.” I think I just scoffed at her because the thought of having another internal, I was like, “Uh no. No way. I will just deal with it.”So we continued with no medication at all. She couldn't really get a good reading of the baby at this stage, so I think they wanted me out of the birthing tub. It was just before I went out that the urge to push just hit me. Like, oh my goodness. It roared out of me and it was just this force that there was no stopping it. I just could not even believe how strong this urge was. But I got out of the birthing bath. I got onto the bed on my side again. I remember my doula whispering in my ear, “Okay. Just listen very carefully to everything Sarah is going to tell you and follow her instructions, okay?” I said, “Okay. I'm going to try.” I was in so much pain at this point. That urge to push just kept coming and coming and my midwife, her procedure or her method is quite slow and controlled. She tries to do it in such a way that is a bit slower but my goodness, that force was like it was bigger than me. I remember also that my doula, Liz, was saying, “Okay. Don't worry about keeping your palms open now. You clench. You bite. You do whatever you have to do to bear down.” My poor husband got the brunt of it. I was clenching his neck, poor guy.I remember that my hands were flailing above my head and both Sarah and Liz said to me, “Grab the inside of your thigh” or “Grab the back of your knee and pull your head down. Pull that energy downwards,” and my goodness, that made such a difference. I pushed. I think it was about 40 minutes of pushing.Meagan: That's not very long.Danielle: Not long at all. I know women in hospitals are sometimes told, “Don't push yet. Let's wait for the doctor,” and that was impossible.Meagan: Yes.Danielle: I could not have stopped it even if I tried. I really couldn't. He came out and I was so excited that I reached down and I grabbed him. The midwife was grabbing him and I was grabbing him, and I pulled him out and obviously wanted to put him on my chest. He had quite a short umbilical cord, so I think he only got to my stomach. But yeah. Then he lay there. Thank goodness, he didn't need any extra medical attention. The energy in the room was just so incredible. As I was getting cleaned up, we were all just talking, laughing, and crying. I think when you go through an experience like that with people– we'd been building this relationship throughout the pregnancy, but once you go through that moment, there's just this unspeakable connection that's created between you, the midwife, and the doula. It's really, really special.Meagan: Absolutely.Danielle: I remember once they had weighed him and I had a little rinse in the shower, I was lying skin-to-skin with him and Dane grabbed my face. I remember he kissed me and he said to me, “You did it. You did it.”Meagan: Aww.Danielle: He said, “I just want you to remember this moment right now. If ever there is something difficult or something you feel like you can't do, I just want you to remember that you did this.” I don't think he realizes how impactful that's been for me because it was such a huge hurdle to get through and I do. I think about how over the past year because it's almost been a year since the VBAC, and going through any tough time when I have this uphill battle, I do. I think back on those words, and what he said, and that experience and I let it fill me up, that feeling, because it's truly one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had, really.Meagan: That is so amazing. I love it so much and I love that he could say that. Like, “I want you to think about this and remember,” because it is. It's such an incredible moment. When you say that you go through all these experiences leading up to having the baby and then you have the baby and it's so much deeper. For me, my team, and the people that were with me that day, there are no words that describe how grateful I am for them and how much I love them and cherish them. I'm sure you will feel the same way forever. It's so special and it's so awesome to hear that you had such a great experience.Danielle: Thank you.Julie: Yes.Meagan: Yes.Danielle: It was amazing.Cesarean Rates in South AfricaMeagan: So I wanted to talk about a little bit at the beginning where we talked about how high Cesarean rates are. When you described your experience, I feel like you said this or maybe I said it in my head, but you were like, “This was not abnormal. This wasn't uncommon.” It's hard to hear that because it sucks. It sucks that it's not that uncommon. I hope that over time we cannot just be The VBAC Link, but that the world can make these experiences better because obviously, your body was very, very capable of having a vaginal birth.But yeah. I wanted to talk about some of the main reasons why a Cesarean should happen. Sometimes, Cesareans are very valid. They are very valid and we are grateful for Cesareans. But there are a lot of times when there are things that are said or done and it leaves questions.But I wanted to talk about some of the biggest reasons why a Cesarean may happen. One of them is failure to progress. The cervix isn't changing, the baby is not coming down, those types of things. It could be for a whole bunch of different reasons– being induced too early, overwhelming the body and not responding, scar tissue on the cervix, baby, and waters breaking early and maybe not coming down, those types of things. And then there are fetal heart problems where our babies' heart rates aren't in a safe zone anymore, so the best case is to have a Cesarean. Malpresentation or breech, meaning baby is not in the best position. On a podcast that we did just a week or so ago, she talked about how they confirmed right when they got there that the baby was OP, but then no one ever said anything about it the entire time, and then she pushed for three hours and they were like, “Oh, you have to have a C-section. Your baby is posterior.” And I am curious. I wish I could observe. I wished I could have come there and observed some of this birth to see what their reasons were and where they fit into these.Based off of friends, what are some of the biggest reasons why people are having C-sections in your area?Danielle: Yeah. Well, I am so glad you brought this up. This is such a big thing that I wanted to discuss because it's happening so much here in South Africa. Even moms that I know have reached out to me because they know that I had a VBAC and they recently had emergency C-sections. They didn't want them. They were led to believe it was the safer and better option and they were like, “Why has this happened to me?” So this is such a big part of why I want to share my story too. I really hope I can reach some people.So maybe just to give you a bit more background about what is going on in South Africa, you mentioned the C-section rates. A lot of women are actually having elective C-sections in South Africa. A lot of it is due to planning. They want to control the delivery date and a lot of this is based on fear and fearmongering by care providers. I mean honestly, we are led to believe C-sections are safer and better than natural birth. I mean, I heard on a couple of occasions women saying, “Oh, if you have a natural birth, you could really cause some brain damage to your child.”Meagan: Oh!Danielle: Honestly, this is our culture and I'm not even kidding. These are the conversations that I have been hearing and there's just so much misinformation about natural birth. Because we have perpetuated this culture of fear, it's taking over. It's being overused. It's been overprescribed for sure. Elective C-sections are even often routine to women, to mothers in their OB appointments. A lot of this has got to do especially with the insurance environment that OBs are working in and I am referring to the medical-legal costs which are extremely high in South Africa if you're in the private sector. This is definitely having a big influence on intrapartum decision making. There are even so many OBs who are going out of practice and only offering gynecological services, not even deliveries. Another big problem is there is such a lack of properly trained staff. There is a huge shortage of trained and qualified midwives in South Africa. Laboring patients in the hospital are often cared for by general nursing staff, not qualified midwives. OBs are getting so scared because of the high level of litigation that they are covering every base. They are covering every base. They are doing every test. Just to give you an idea, in my first pregnancy that was led by an OB, I had about 12 to 14 ultrasounds. 12 to 14.Meagan: Woah.Danielle: With the midwife, I had about 5 or 6. Just to give you an idea of how they are just putting everything on record. They don't want to miss a thing or miss a beat. I mean, it's standard now to have a test for gestational diabetes without any history of diabetes. So it's really, really interesting what is going on, I have to say. And a lot of the gynies– I know you call them OBs, sorry– we call them gynies.Meagan: It's okay. They're gynecologists too.Danielle: There we go. A lot of them, even though they themselves are pro-natural birth, they are operating in hospitals that have stringent protocols in place that are saying– in the hospital that I gave birth in the first time, I heard through the grapevine they are no longer doing natural births. They will not. They will not. They're only doing C-sections. I don't know how, but this is what I heard. I was digging around.So what's happening is, you know we talk a lot about interventions during birth and this cascade of interventions, but there are also a lot of interventions that are happening during pregnancy leading up to the birth. I'm talking about the kind of things that start to play on your emotions, like almost playing mind games with you. They really are. I mean, I know that I am, like I said, a typical case. My gynie was so pro-natural. Everything was cool. Nothing was wrong the whole pregnancy, and then the bait-and-switch started. That's what we call it, the bait-and-switch. You know, you start hearing things like, “The placenta is calcifying. Baby is not moving or descending. There are no signs of labor.” Again, routinely now, women are having internals done at 37 weeks pregnant. Something I didn't know at the time.Meagan: Is that an internal ultrasound?Danielle: No, just an—Meagan: Oh, a cervical exam.Danielle: Cervical exam, yeah.Meagan: Okay.Danielle: And of course, at that stage, do you expect any cervical changes at 37 weeks? Not really. You are not full term, you know? You are not full term. So those things start to discourage you like, “Oh no. Nothing is happening. Oh, maybe I am not going to go into labor or things are not right.” We've seen it. I have heard this in so many different forms where they say that giving birth is like making love for a woman. It's the feeling that she has to feel, the state of being she has to be in physiologically, mind, body, and soul to relax, give in, and let her body just be. And when your mind is being played in such a way, you can't get there. You cannot get there. That's exactly what happened to me. My body, I know, didn't do what it needed to do because it didn't feel safe to do so. It didn't feel safe. I was very afraid and I know that this is happening to so many women. It's quite a thing I have to say that's going on here. It's really, really quite a thing.Meagan: It's so interesting. It reminds me so much of Brazil. I mean, in different ways. They have different reasons why they do C-sections there because that's actually a sign of wealth which is crazy, right? It's a sign of wealth to have a C-section in Brazil from what we have been told.Danielle: That's crazy.Meagan: It's so crazy.Julie: Yeah, of privilege and being like you have enough money for people to take care of you, so you don't need to bother by–Meagan: –having a vaginal birth.Julie: –going through all of the trouble of having a vaginal birth. It's just a cultural mindset shift.Meagan: Yeah. It's fascinating to me. It really is. Like you said, I wonder how these docs are getting away with just scheduling C-sections, especially for first-time moms that have no previous C-sections. It's disheartening to hear and hopefully like I said, they will come around and one day here we will see a shift in the medical system.Danielle: I really hope so. And you know, I think that is why– I mean, a VBAC is not a common thing in South Africa because as you said in the beginning, you are working against the system. You really are working against it. But you know, as with any system, there are cracks in the system. You have got to find them, you have got to work around them, and you have got to fight to get the birth experience that you want because the odds are not in your favor, unfortunately. But I think the more women who push for it and fight for it, then the more we can normalize natural birth in this country.Meagan: Yep. Yeah. Well, it sounds like you are going to be a bigger impact than you even know in your community and I am so grateful that all of the people in your community have you. We are so grateful for your story and I am hopeful that people will listen to this and feel like they can find the tools that they need to get a birth that they deserve and that they want.Julie: Yeah. I absolutely love that. We appreciate you for sharing your story. It was incredible. We love the journey and my goodness, all the way around the world in South Africa. It's incredible. We appreciate you for being here with us today.Danielle: Thank you so much. This was great.ClosingInterested in sharing your VBAC story on the podcast? Submit your story at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Julie and Meagan's bios, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A jornada 30 da I Liga e a segunda mão das meias-finais da Taça de Portugal dominaram a Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Pedro Azevedo, Pedro Mesquita e Isabel Pereira. A fechar, o insólito de Daniel Leitão.

A jornada 28 da Liga, a semana europeia de clubes e sorteio da fase final do Mundial dominaram a Tertúlia Bola Branca desta segunda-feira, com Rui Miguel Tovar, Pedro Azevedo, Sérgio Costa e Filipa Galrão. A fechar, o insólito de Daniel Leitão.

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About DanielleDanielle Baskin is a serial entrepreneur and multimedia artist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, The New Yorker, WSJ, and more. She's also the CEO of Dialup, a globally acclaimed voice-chat app.Links: Dialup: https://dialup.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/djbaskin Cofounder Quest: https://cofounder.quest Personal Website: https://daniellebaskin.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? If not, check out Teleport. 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Netlify's Git-based workflows mean you don't have to play slap-and-tickle with integrating arcane nonsense and web hooks, which are themselves about as well understood as Git. Give them a try and see what folks ranging from my fake Twitter for Pets startup, to global Fortune 2000 companies are raving about. If you end up talking to them—because you don't have to; they get why self-service is important—but if you do, be sure to tell them that I sent you and watch all of the blood drain from their faces instantly. You can find them in the AWS marketplace or at www.netlify.com. N-E-T-L-I-F-Y dot com.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. It's always fun when I get the opportunity to talk to people whose work inspires me, and makes me reflect more deeply upon how I go about doing things in various ways. Now, for folks who have been following my journey for a while, it's pretty clear that humor plays a big part in this, but that is not something that I usually talk about with respect to whose humor inspires me.Today that's going to change a little bit. My guest is Danielle Baskin, who among so many other things is the CEO of a company called Dialup, but more notably is renowned for pulling a bunch of—I don't know if we'd call them pranks. I don't know if we would call them performance art. I don't know if we would call them shitposting in real life, but they are all amazing. Danielle, thank you so much for joining. How do you describe what it is that you do?Danielle: Thanks for having me. Yeah, I've used a few different terms. I've called it situation design. I've called it serious jokes. I have called what I do business art, but all the things you said, shitposting IRL, that's part of it too.Corey: It's been an absolute pleasure to just watch what you've done since I first became aware of you, which our mutual friend, Chloe Condon first pointed me in your general direction with, “Hey, Corey, you think you're funny? You should watch what Danielle is doing.” That's not how she framed it, but that's what I took from it because I'm incredibly egotistical, which is now basically a brand slash core personality trait. There you have it.And I encountered you for the first time in person—I believe only time to date—at I believe it was Oracle OpenWorld on the expo floor. She had been talking about you a couple of days before, and I saw someone who could only be you because you were dressed as a seer to be at Oracle OpenWorld. The joke should be clear to folks but we'll explain it later for the folks who are—might need to replay that a bit. I staggered up to you with, “Hey, are you Chloe's friend?”Let me give listeners here some advice through counterexample. Don't do that. It makes you look like a sketchy person who has no clue how social graces work. No one has any context and as soon as you said, “No,” I realized, “Oh, I came across as a loon.” I am going to say, “Never mind. My mistake,” and walk away like a sensible person will after bungling an introduction like that. I'm not usually that inartful about these things. I don't know what the hell happened, but it happens often when we meet people that we consider celebrities, and sorry, for some of us that's you.Danielle: [laugh] yeah, also in fairness to you I was probably fully immersed in character being my wizard self, and so I was not there to, you know, be pulled back to reality. For some context, I was at Oracle OpenWorld because I made a thing called same exact name, oracleopenworld.org, but it's a divination conference for oracles, for fortune-tellers, for wizards, for seers, and it happened at the exact same place in time, so there was a whole crew of people dressed up with capes, and robes, and tall pointy hats doing tarot readings and practicing our divination skills.Corey: Now, I could wind up applying about two dozen different adjectives to Oracle, but playful is absolutely not one of them. I would not ever accuse Oracle, or frankly any large company of that scale of having anything even remotely resembling a sense of humor. As someone who does have to factor in the not that remote possibility of getting kicked out of events that I attend, how do you handle that and not find yourself arrested?Danielle: Oh, we were kicked out every single time.Corey: Oh, good good good.Danielle: I've done this for four years. The first year we were kicked out just because we didn't have badges. I made up our own conference lanyard; of course, there's security issues with that. We were pushed out onto the sidewalk, but I wanted to be inside the conference and closer to the building.The next year I did a two-layer conference badge, so I put the real one underneath the fake one so that if security went up to us we had the right to be there. What sort of happened—so, like, the first year we got kicked out was because we were all distributed; maybe there was like 20 of us. Sometimes we were together. Sometimes we were having our own adventures. My friend Brian decided do a séance for the Deloitte team.Corey: Well, that's Deloitte-ful. Tell me more.Danielle: [laugh]. Brian has never done a séance before, but he is a good improv actor and also a spiritual person, so this is, like, perfect for him. As the Deloitte team if they wanted to do a séance they were, like, sure because I think they didn't have anything going—I mean, people are bored at this conference.Corey: Oh, of course, they are.Danielle: Especially if your boss flew you there to stand at your booth and you've been saying the same thing over and over again; you're looking for something interesting. So, he grabs the pillows from a lounge area and little tea light candles and makes a whole circle so that the team can sit down.He's wearing a bright rainbow cape and he stands in the middle and he could have a booming voice if he wants to. So, he just starts riffing and going—he just goes into séance mode, and this was enough to trigger security noticing that something really weird was happening. And when they went—Corey: They come over and say, “What the hell is this?” The answer was “Kubernetes.”Danielle: I had said everyone can blame—if you get in trouble just blame me just say, “I'm doing this with my friend, Danielle,” and have them talk to me. I wanted more people to come and be wizards. I don't want them to worry about it, so I will take all of the issues on me. He said that he should talk to his manager, Danielle, or I don't know.He said something that made it seem we were all part of a company. Which then makes it seem like our whole project was secret guerilla marketing for something. And we didn't pay for booth. We were not selling anything. We were just trolling. Or not troll—I mean, we were having our own divination summit. We were genuinely—Corey: You were virally marketing is the right answer and from my perspective—Danielle: Yeah, no, I wasn't doing viral marketing. They think anything that's unusual and getting people's attention has the ultimate goal of selling something, which it's not a philosophy I live by.Corey: No, it feels like the weird counter-intuitive thing here is the way to get the blessing of everyone from this would've—the only step you missed was charging Deloitte for doing it at their booth because it attracts attention.Danielle: Oh, sure. Oracle should have been paying us a lot of money for entertaining people. Actually, genuinely I had some real heart-to-heart conversations with people who wanted to have a tarot reading about how should they talk to their boss about not listening to them. This is something magical that happens when you are dressed up in costume and you are acting really weird people feel they can say anything because you're acting way more unusual than them, so it sort of takes away people's barriers. So, people are very honest with me about their situation.People had questions about their family. Anyway, I was in the middle of a heart-to-heart tarot reading, and security at Oracle was alerted to find anyone with a cape. Find the wizards and kick them out because they didn't pay to be here. There's some weird marketing thing happen.Corey: “Find and eject the wizards,” is probably the most surreal thing that they have been told that year.Danielle: Oh, yeah. And they didn't know why. The message why I did not transmit to all the security, but they were just told to find us. Two guards with their walkie-talkies in their uniforms went up to me and they had to escort me off the premises. Which means we had to walk through the conference together and I asked them, “Why?” They're like, “We don't know. We were just told to find you.”Corey: Imagine them trying to find you stopping and asking people, “Excuse me, have you seen the wizard?”Danielle: Exactly.Corey: It is hard to be taken seriously when asking questions like that.Danielle: Totally, totally. So yeah, unfortunately, we had to leave and that has consistently happened because I've done it four times. The final year I went, there was a message before the event even started that you're not allowed to wear a cape.Corey: The fact that you can have actual changes made to company policy for large-scale, incredibly expensive events like that is a sign that you've made it.Danielle: It doesn't even point to any particular incident. Yeah, it's cool to have this sort of lore. When I asked in the last year I went, “I asked why can't we wear a cape?” And one of the event organizer security, I don't know what her role was. She said, “There was an incident the previous year.” Which she was talking about me and my friends.Corey: Of course, but that is the best part of it.Danielle: It's just lore than something once happened with these, like, dark spirits that tried to mess up the Oracle conference with their magic.Corey: Times change and events evolve. Years ago I attended an AWS Summit with a large protest sign that said on it AMI has three syllables, and it got a bit of an eyebrow raise from people at the door, but okay, great. Then people started protesting those events for one of the very many reasons people have to protest Amazon, and they keep piling more on that pile all the time which is neither here nor there.I realized, okay, I can't do that anymore because regardless of what the sign says I will get tackled at the door for trying to bring something like that in, and I don't try and actively disrupt keynotes. So okay, it's time to move on and not get myself viewed through certain lenses that are unhelpful, but it's always a question of moving on and try to top what I did previous years. Weren't you also at Dreamforce wearing pajamas?Danielle: I did a few things at Dreamforce. One year I literally set up a tent. They spend millions of dollars on beautiful fake trees and rocks, and also Dreamforce gets taken over every time the event occurs. I did a few things. I thought I should make it seem like this is real nature so I brought camping gear and a tent and just brought a hiking backpack in.Set it up in the middle of the conference floor laying by the waterfall, but there were people in suits networking around me that did not ask me any questions. I just stayed in the tent, but then I decided to list it on Airbnb. So, inside my tent, I was making an Airbnb listing telling people that they could stay at Dreamforce and explore the beautiful nature there, but it took an hour-and-a-half to get kicked out.Corey: The emails that you must have back and forth with places like Airbnb's customer support line and the rest have got to be legendary at this point.Danielle: [laugh] I get interesting cease-and-desists. I wish there was more dialogue. With Airbnb I just got my listing taken down and I couldn't talk to a human, and even when I got kicked out of Dreamforce they wanted me to leave immediately. I totally snuck in; I didn't have a badge or anything. So, I guess they're in the right for that. The second year at Dreamforce I wore a ghillie suit so I hid. So, I stayed a little bit after the conference ended by hiding as a bush.Corey: That is both amazing and probably terrifying for the worker that encountered you while trying to clean up.Danielle: Oh, I mean often employees—like it depends. Some people find my pranks really delightful because it shakes up their day. Security guards also find this amusing. There's some type of organizer that absolutely hates my pranks.Corey: There's something to be said for self-selecting your own audience. One question that I—sure you get; if I get it I know you get it—where it's difficult for people to sometimes draw the line between the fun whimsical things that you do as pranks and the actual things that you do. A great example of this is something you've been doing for, I think, four years now, the decruiter.Danielle: Yeah. The decruiter a service that's the opposite of a recruiter so it is—Corey: At the first re:Invent AWS had a slide that was apparently he made the night before or something and they misspelled security as decurity. From that perspective, what's a decruiter?Danielle: Yes, I love decurity as a way to talk about infiltrating a space, like, “No I'm a decurity officer.” Yeah, decruiter is basically a service where you talk to us to find out if you should quit your job. Instead of finding out if you should work at a place or figuring out what opportunities there are, we discuss the unemployed life—or the inbet—like, being self-employed, between jobs, switching careers, it's a whole spectrum but there's a few recruiters and we're all like very experienced not having an employer or working for a company. And so, we ask people about how would you spend your free time. What's your financial situation? Are you able to afford leaving? It gets pretty personal, but it's highly specific therapy, but we also don't have a high acceptance rate. I've only decruited like 15% people that I've talked to.Corey: Most of them realize that, oh, there's a lot of things I would have to do if I didn't have a job and I'm just going to stay where I am?Danielle: Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people think that as soon as they leave their job a lot of other things in their life will magically transform, or they'll finally be able to do their creative project they've always wanted to do. This is true some percentage of the time, but I always encourage people to do things outside of work and not seek in their whole fulfillment through their job.There's plenty of time where you can explore other ideas and even overlap them to make sure that like when you quit you have things lined up. A lot of people don't know how to answer, “If you suddenly left tomorrow and could just float for three months, what would you do?” If people give me a good answer—and this is similar to an actual job interview I was like, “Why are you excited about working this company?”If people give me a good answer, that's a conversation. A lot of people have no idea, but they're just stuck in a situation where there's things they could do in their outside of work life that would make them feel happier. That's why it's sort of like therapy, but there's a lot of internal company issues that I talk about. A common reason that people want to leave is that they love their role, they love the company's mission, but they do not like their manager, but their manager is really good friends with the CEO and they absolutely can't say anything. This is so common.Corey: They always say people they'll quit jobs they quit managers and there is something to be said for that.Danielle: Yes, it's scary for people to speak up or who do you write a letter to? How do you secretly talk with your team about it? Are you the only one feeling that way? Typically the people that are the most nervous about saying anything are kind of young either in their early 20s and they feel like they can't say anything.I encourage them to come up with a strategy for making change within their corporation but sometimes it's not worth it. If there's tons of other opportunities for them it's not worth them fixing their company.Corey: It's also I think not incumbent upon people to fix their entire corporate culture unless they're at a somewhat higher executive level. That's a fun thing. The derecruiter.com we'll definitely throw a link to that in the [show notes 00:15:49] and I'll start driving people to it when they ask me for advice on these things. Then you decided, okay, that's fun.You're one of those people I feel has a bit of the same alignment that I do which is, why do one thing when I could do a bunch of things? And you decided, ah, you're going to do a startup. What is the best thing that you can do that really can capitalize on emerging cultural trends? That's right. Getting millennial to make phone calls to each other. Tell me about that story.Danielle: Yeah, and it's not just millennials, though I'm millennial. So, a lot of millennials use Dialup. I mean, Dialup started as a project where basically me and a friend set up a robocall between ourselves. So, like a bot would call our phones and if we would pick up we'd both be connected, but neither of us was actually calling each other. So, it was a way to just always be catching up with each other.So, many friends asked me if they could join the robocalls. That was sort of the seat of Dialup is getting serendipitous phone calls throughout the day that connect you to a person that you might know or might want to meet. Because there's overlap of interest or overlap of someone you know. It grew from me and 20 friends to now 31,000 people who are actively using it all over the world and these conversations can be really incredible.Sometimes people stay on the phone for four hours. People have flown out to meet each other. I get notes every day of how a call has impacted someone one. So, that's what I'm up to now, but I'm trying to do more interesting things with voice technology. I just like realized, oh, the voice as a medium it just transports you to other worlds. You have space to imagine.I mean, people listening to this podcast right now they're not seeing us, but they probably are imagining us, what our rooms look like, what we look like. They're imagining the stories that we're telling them without the distraction of video. I want to do more interesting things with intimate audio—not broadcast stuff. Not Clubhouse or Spaces or anything like that, but just more interesting ways to connect people in one-on-ones.Corey: Something I've noticed is that the voice has a power that text does not. It makes it easier to remember that there's a human on the other side of things. It is far easier for me to send off an incendiary tweet at someone than it is for me to call them up and then berate them, not really my style.The more three-dimensional someone becomes in various capacities and the higher bandwidth the communication takes on, I think the easier it is to remember that most people who don't work at Facebook wake up in the morning hoping to do a good job today. Extending empathy to the rest of the world, that's an important thing.Danielle: Yeah, for sure. It's incredible that humans can detect emotional qualities in a voice call. It's hard to describe why, but people can detect pauses and little mutters. You can sort of know when someone's laughing or when someone's listening even though you're missing all of the visual cues.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle Cloud. Counting the pennies, but still dreaming of deploying apps instead of "Hello, World" demos? Allow me to introduce you to Oracle's Always Free tier. It provides over 20 free services and infrastructure, networking, databases, observability, management, and security. And—let me be clear here—it's actually free. There's no surprise billing until you intentionally and proactively upgrade your account. This means you can provision a virtual machine instance or spin up an autonomous database that manages itself all while gaining the networking load, balancing and storage resources that somehow never quite make it into most free tiers needed to support the application that you want to build. With Always Free, you can do things like run small scale applications or do proof-of-concept testing without spending a dime. You know that I always like to put asterisks next to the word free. This is actually free, no asterisk. Start now. Visit snark.cloud/oci-free that's snark.cloud/oci-free.Corey: Taking a glance at dialup.com, it appears to be a completely free service. You mentioned that it has 30,000 folks involved. Are you taking the VC model of we're going to get a whole bunch of users first and then figure out how to make money later? Sometimes it works super well. Other times it basically becomes Docker retold.Danielle: I've been thinking about this a lot and I swing back and forth. Right now Dialup is its own thing, connecting strangers. It's free though I do have some paying clients because I do serendipitous one-on-ones within organizations. I've got a secret B2B page, and so that is a little bit of revenue. Right now I'm trying to sort of expand beyond Dialup and make a new thing, in which case I am leaning more towards building a sustainable and profitable company rather than do the raise-VC-money-until-you-die model.Corey: I think it's long past time to disrupt the trope of starving artist. What about well-paid artist? It seems like that would inspire and empower people to create a lot more art when they're not worrying about freezing to death. To that end or presumably to that end you are in the process of looking for a co-founder in what is arguably the most Danielle Baskin possible way. How are you doing it?Danielle: Oh, yeah. I could have done a regular LinkedIn post linking to a Google Doc, but that is not my style, and as a self-employed person I can't reach out to old coworkers and be like, “Oh, you're on my team a few years ago. What are you up to now?” So, I'm sort of under-networked and I thought I should make a game that sort of explains what I'm doing, but have people discover the game in an interesting way. So, I bought a bunch of floppy discs—I have a floppy disc dealer outside of LA.Corey: For those who are not millennials and are in fact younger than that—and of course let's not forget Gen X, the Baby Boom Generation, the Silent Generation which I can only assume is comprised entirely of people who represent big companies from a PR point of view because they never comment on anything. What is a floppy disc for someone who was born in, I don't know, 2005?Danielle: Oh, a floppy disk is how you would run software on your computer.Corey: Yeah, a USB stick with no capacity you can wreck with a magnet.Danielle: Yes, it's like a flat wide USB stick, but it only contains—Corey: 1.44 megabytes on the three-and-a-half-inch version.Danielle: I think some of them then went up to 2.88.Corey: Ohh.Danielle: You can't even fit a picture—a modern picture. You could do a super low-resolution pixel art.Corey: This picture of grandma has a whopping eight pixels in it. Oh, okay, great. I guess.Danielle: Yeah. More complex software would be eight floppy disks that you have to insert disk A, insert disk B.Corey: Anti-piracy warnings in that day of ‘don't copy that floppy.' It was a seminal thing for a long time.Danielle: I have it in my game; it says ‘don't make illegal copies of this game.' My game is not literally on the floppy disc. All floppy discs come with pretty interesting artwork on the label. There's a little space for a sticker, and because I have hundreds of floppy disks, I sort of looked at—I had a ton of design inspiration.So, I made floppy discs in the aesthetic of the other ones that say Cofounder Quest—like it's this game—and it leads you to a website. I scattered these in strategic places around the bay area, and I also mailed some to people outside of the bay area. If you stumble across this in person or on the internet, it leads you to this adventure game that's around seven minutes to play.It really explains what I want to do with Dialup, and explains me, and explains my aesthetic, and the sort of playful experiences that I'm into without telling you. So, you get to really experience it. At the end, it basically leads you to a job description and tells you to reach out to me if you're interested.Corey: I was independent for years and I finally decided to take on a business partner. As it turns out, Mike Julian, who's the CEO of The Duckbill Group and I go back ten years, he's my best friend. I kept correcting him. He introduced me as his friend. I said, “No, Mike, your best friend.” Then I got him on audio at one point saying, “Oh, Corey Quinn? He's my best friend.” I have that on my soundboard and I play it every time he gets uppity. That's the sort of nonsense it's important in a co-founder relationship. It is a marriage in some respects.Danielle: Oh, for sure.Corey: It's a business entity. Each one of you can destroy the other financially in different ways. You have to have shared values. The idea of speed-dating your way through finding some random co-founder as a job application, on some level, has always struck me as a little dissonant. I like the approach you're taking of this is who I am and how I go about things. If this aligns then we should talk, and if you don't like this you're not going to like any of the rest of this.Danielle: For sure. I'm definitely self-selecting with who would actually reach out after playing. I also understand. I'm not going to find a co-founder in a few weeks. I'm just starting conversations with people and then seeing who I should continue talking to or seeing if we could do a mini-project together.Yeah, it's weird. It's a very intense relationship. That's why people do end up becoming co-founders with someone that they already know who's a friend. It's possible I already know my co-founder and they've been in front of me this whole time. I think these sorts of moments happen, but I also think that it's cool to totally expand your network and meet someone who maybe has an overlap in spirit, but is someone that you would've never otherwise met. That there could be this great overlap or convergence there. I wanted to cast a very wide net with who this would reach, but it's still going to be a multi-month-long process or longer.Corey: It's not these one-off projects that are the most interesting part to me. It is the sheer variety and consistency of this. During the pandemic I believe you wound up having the verified checkmark badges for houses and fill out this form if you want one and for folks in San Francisco. Absolutely, of course, I filled that out. I read a fairly bad take news article on it of a bunch of people fell for this prank.No, absolutely not. If people are familiar with your work then they know exactly what they're getting into with something like this and you support the kinds of things you want to see more of in the world. I didn't fall for anything. I wanted to see where it led and that's how I feel on everything you do.Danielle: Yeah, you appreciated the joke.Corey: Yeah.Danielle: Yeah, I think people who are familiar with my work understand that I take jokes very seriously. So, it's not simply—like, usually it's not just a website that's like, huh, this was a trick. It's more of an ongoing theater piece. So, I actually did go through all of the applicants for the Blue Check Homes. Oh, for some context, I made a website where you could apply to have a blue verified badge and a plaster crest put on your house if you are a dignified authentic person that lives in the house.So, I'm interviewing—I narrowed it down to 50 people from all the applicants and I'm going through and interviewing people with a committee. I'm recording all of the interviews because I think this will make an interesting mini-documentary. I'm actually making one in installing one, but I'm documenting all of it.When I started it—for a lot of projects I don't have the ending planned yet. I like the sort of joke to unfold on the internet in real-time, and then figure out what the next thing I should do from there is and continue the project in a sort of curious exploratory mindset as opposed to just saying, “All right, the joke is done.”Corey: What is your process for coming up with this stuff? Because for me the most intimidating thing I ever see in the course of a week is not the inevitable cease and desist I get from every large cloud company for everything I do. Rather an empty page where it's all right time for me to write a humorous blog post, or start drafting the bones of a Twitter thread, or start writing my resignation and if I don't come with an idea by the end of it, I'll submit it. Where does the creative process start from with you?Danielle: Yeah. I rarely have creative brainstorming sessions. I'm a person who thinks of a million bad ideas and then there's one good one. My mind leaps to a ton of ideas. I rarely write down ideas. I don't do any sort of—you might imagine I'm in a room of whiteboards and post-it notes, workshopping things and doing creative brainstorm sessions, but I don't.I think I act upon the things that I feel just extremely excited about and feel like I must do this immediately. It's hard to explain, but with a lot of my ideas, I just feel this surge of energy. I have to do this because no one else will do it and it's funny at this moment. If I don't feel that way I kind of don't do anything and see if the idea keeps reemerging. With a lot of ideas I may be thought of it a year ago and it just kept resurfacing, but I don't really force myself to churn out creative projects if that makes sense. People have told me that my work reminds them of Mischief. It's like as a company that puts out a prank on a Tuesday every two weeks.Corey: Not familiar with them, but there have been a whole bunch of flash mob groups, and other folks who affected just wind up being professional pranksters, which I love the concept.Danielle: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I do churn out a lot of pranks and I even have my own prank calendar. I'm not strict with my own deadlines and I also think timing is important. So, you might think of a good idea, but then it's just the spirit of the zeitgeist doesn't want you to do it that week. I improvise the things that I want to launch. I mostly do things that I just feel are rich in something I could explore.Like, with Cofounder Quest I was always on the fence about it because it feels to me annoying to tell people you're trying to hire someone or to put yourself out there and be pitching your startup. So, I was kind of nervous about that, but I also thought if I leave a floppy disk in the park, and then put a picture on the internet it'll lead to something—there's something that it will lead to.It might lead to finding a co-founder. It might lead to meeting interesting people, but also I've never built an interactive game with audio and so I was interested in learning that, but yeah, I tend to land on ideas that I think are rich in terms of things I could learn. Things that I could turn into more immersive theater and things that keep resurfacing as opposed to keeping myself on a strict schedule of creative ideas if that makes sense.Corey: It makes a lot of sense. It's one of those things that it is not commonly understood for those of us who came up in the nose of the grindstone 40 hours a week, have a work ethic. Even if you're not busy look busy. Sometimes work looks a lot more like getting up and going to a coffee shop and meeting some stranger from the internet than it does sitting down churning out code.Danielle: For sure. I think that it is important to continue being in conversations with people. I think good ideas emerge while you're in the middle of talking, and you realize your own limitations and ideas when you have to explain things to other people. While something you're very clear in your head as soon as there's a person you don't know and they ask you, “What are you working on?” You realize, oh, there's so many gaps. It made perfect sense to me, but there's a lot of gaps. So yeah, I think it's important to stay in dialogue and also have to explain yourself to new people instead of just sort of making ideas in a vacuum.Corey: I want to thank you for being so generous with your time and talking to me about all the various things you have going on. If people want to follow along and learn more about what you're up to, where can they find you?Danielle: I post a lot of my projects on Twitter. So, I'm @djbaskin. If you want to play Cofounder Quest, it's cofounder.quest. That is an actual domain. I also have a website daniellebaskin.com, which has a lot of my projects, many of which we didn't discuss. I also do, similar to Oracle OpenWorld, I like to host popup events that involve lots of people trolling. So, if you want to get involved in anything you see I'm always happy to bring more wizards on board.Corey: We will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:31:10]. Danielle, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.Danielle: Oh yeah, thanks for having me. It was great talking with you.Corey: Danielle Baskin, CEO of Dialup, and oh so very much more. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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01:17 - Danielle's Superpower: Empathy & Communication 01:56 - Going From the Hospitality Industry => Tech * @CodeSchoolQA (https://twitter.com/codeschoolqa) / twitch.tv/thejonanshow (https://www.twitch.tv/thejonanshow) 04:58 - Education Technology (https://tech.ed.gov/) (EdTech) * Disruption = Reinvention 07:18 - Anthropology + Tech / Working With People * Anticipating Needs 10:25 - Making Education Fun + Inclusive * Cultural Relevance * Revamping Outdated Curriculum * Connecting With Kids 16:18 - Transitioning Into Tech 27:57 - Resources * Learnhowtoprogram.com (https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/introduction-to-programming/getting-started-at-epicodus/learn-how-to-program) * Documentation * YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/) * Community * #TechTwitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechTwitter&src=typed_query&f=live) * Virtual Coffee (https://virtualcoffee.io/) * Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/) 32:39 - @CodeSchoolQA (https://twitter.com/codeschoolqa) / twitch.tv/thejonanshow (https://www.twitch.tv/thejonanshow) 34:08 - The Streaming Revolution * New Opportunities For Connection * Hybrid Events * Introvert Inclusive * Accessibility * Reaching New Markets 39:45 - Making Tech Safe, Secure, and Protected * Greater Than Code Episode 252: Designing For Safety with Eva PenzeyMoog (https://www.greaterthancode.com/designing-for-safety) 44:03 - Advice For New Devs: Work on Technical Things Sooner Reflections: Mandy: The secret in tech is that nobody knows what they're doing! Danielle: Ask questions and lean into community. Tech needs you. Arty: Don't be afraid to reach out to community members for help. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: ARTY: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Episode 254 of Greater Than Code. I am Arty Starr and I'm here with my fabulous co-host, Mandy Moore. MANDY: Hey, everyone! It's Mandy Moore and I'm here with our guest today, Danielle Thompson. Danielle is a newly minted software engineer working in the education technology sphere of the nonprofit world, after making a major career change from working in hospitality and events for many years. As a code school graduate herself, she loves to help demystify tech for others with non-traditional backgrounds and works to open doors into tech with her friends at Code School Q&A, weekly on Wednesday nights at around 7:00 PM Pacific at twitch.tv/thejonanshow. Outside of work, she can typically be found with a nose buried in a book, hanging out with her doggo, and making delicious craft beverages. Welcome to the show, Danielle! DANIELLE: Thanks so much for having me, Mandy and Arty! MANDY: Awesome. It's great for you to be here. So before we get into the meat of our conversation, we always ask our guests the standard question of what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? DANIELLE: Totally. I think that my superpower is a combination of empathy and communication. I think I came by both pretty naturally—popped right out of my mom having both, I'm assuming. But both have definitely been amplified over the years by all sorts of experiences and hardships and just keep working to make them even more of a superpower. MANDY: That's really great. So I want to know about before we dive into your experiences as a new developer, I wanted to know about how you came into technology from your career change in hospitality, because I did the same thing. I was a waitress when my daughter was born 10 years ago and I was working for about a year before I was able to walk out. It was Mother's Day, my boss was being a complete jerk to me, and I was making enough money at that point that I just said, “You know what? I don't need this. I quit,” and I started my career in tech full-time. So I'm curious about your journey as well. DANIELLE: Yeah. Obviously, COVID has happened in the last couple of years and that was one of the major factors in me getting to this point of leaving hospitality and getting into tech. But I had already kind of been thinking about what comes next. I've been a manager for a few years and was trying to figure out how else I could grow and what new things I can learn and challenge myself with. And outside of ownership, which is a major headache, there wasn't really much that I could push further into, within hospitality. So when COVID happened and I lost my job because I was working as an events and bar manager for a local catering company, it was pretty obvious that things were not going to be coming back for the hospitality industry anytime soon and I needed to figure something else out then. And so, I started looking into different returning to education opportunities because I actually have an anthropology degree, of all helpful things that I could have gotten a degree in. But I found a code school in Portland, Oregon and jumped on that within a few months of COVID hitting to the full-time track and connected with a number of my cohort mates that we started doing the Code School Q&A on Twitch with the director of developer relations at New Relic and have been doing that for almost a year now and have officially made it in the industry as a software developer, too in the last few months. So you can do it, you can get into tech. [laughs] It's pretty funny, too because the type of job that I ended up getting is in education and technology sphere and I actually had a job in ed tech about a decade ago when I was still in college and had a remote job working with some family friends that got me hooked up with their company. And here I am doing something a little bit more in-depth technically than I was doing a decade ago, but it's funny how things come full circle. ARTY: Well, education in particular is something that also really needs some reinvention and innovation and with all the disruption, where do you see that area going? Just curious. DANIELLE: Yeah, absolutely. I feel that a lot of the changes that we've seen in COVID with remote work being such a prominent thing now and people wanting more balanced, more time with their family, more time with their critters, more time just not being miserable and commutes and stuff. I think that that's going to have a really long-term effect on how education happens and trying to make education more quality as well. I think it's really rad what the company I do works for. Our whole mission is to work to make education in America more equitable. So we do that by working very hard to work with experts in the curriculum sphere that ensure that our curriculum materials are as inclusive and culturally relevant as possible, that they are representative of a large and diverse group of people, and they even do a ton of anti-racism work as well and work to embed that within our internal and external culture, as well as the products that we create. So I hope that our company will continue to grow and make changes in the education world in America in general, because I think what we're doing is really, really, really important. ARTY: Definitely important and with all the change and stuff happening, I'm expecting some new and cool and exciting things that do make things better. One of the upsides of lots of disruption is it's an opportunity for us to sit back and rethink how things could be. DANIELLE: Yeah. ARTY: And one of the benefits of not being entrenched in the existing fields of the way things have been is it's also an opportunity to look at all the stuff we're doing with a fresh set of eyes from outside of that existing world and bring some new fresh insights to tech. Maybe my anthropology degree will come in handy in some different sorts of ways. I imagine some of those skills that you learned in that have some applicability in tech as well. Have you found your degree helpful in other ways? DANIELLE: It's funny. I think I ended up using my anthropology degree as a bartender far more than I ever would have as an actual anthropologist. That whole study of humans thing is something that is directly translatable to working with people no matter what field you're in. I feel that both my anthropology degree and my many years of hospitality experience have all led to a specific skillset that is very different from a lot of people that come into tech with more traditional backgrounds especially folks that go to college and get computer science degrees, and then they go to the tech industry and that's all they've ever known. I've known so many other experiences outside of that and my ability to think about what other people need and want, to be able to respond to that, and embed that in all of the work that I do as an engineer to really be thinking about the user and the people that are interacting with whatever I'm building and even just thinking about working on a team and how I have so many communication skills built up from what I've been doing for work in hospitality for many years. I think that it definitely gives me a very specific and unique way of moving through the world and way of being an engineer as well. That anthropologist hat definitely comes into play sometimes thinking about like, “Oh, like how do all of these dots connect?” and like, “How does this change over time and how do you see people like doing things differently now?” It's a definitely a fun lens to carry with me. MANDY: Yeah. Having been done hospitality, I'm just shaking my head because – [laughter] I know I've brought so many skills from being in that world for 10, 15 years at one point. DANIELLE: Yeah. MANDY: Just the way you talk to people and interact with teams and anticipate what other people need before they even know what they need, that's definitely a skill. DANIELLE: Yeah, definitely. I think that whole anticipating needs thing, too, it's like it can be both an internal and external benefit where you can think both about who you're building products for and also who you're building products with, and how best to communicate within teams, especially having management experience. That is definitely at the forefront of my brain a lot of the time, but then also thinking about like, “How can I make the best experience for somebody else that's actually going to be using this? How can I make this easy and intuitive and fun?” Especially within education, have to make sure that things are fun and interesting targeting kids that are K-12; it has to be meaningful, impactful, interesting, and engaging. MANDY: So how do you do that? What are some ways that you and your company make education fun for young kids? DANIELLE: I think I'm still figuring that out. We have many curriculum products that I'm still just touching for the first time, or haven't even looked at it yet and so, there's lots of fun, new things to discover. But I think the types of people that we bring on to work at my company, they're all experts in their field and renowned for the work that they do and so, I think that the quality of people that we bring into work with us and the kind of commitment that they have to work towards making education better and more inclusive, that is incredibly important. And how they also do an immense amount of work to make not just inclusivity a part of the major formula, but also that they work to make things culturally relevant. So like, thinking about how to tell stories to kids that actually means something to them today. I don't know, a weird example is thinking about some outdated curriculum that's talking about using a landline for a phone, or something. Kids are like, ‘What's that?” Actually integrating modern things like cell phones and things like that into the curriculum where kids actually touch that and use that every single day so it means something to them. Whereas, outdated curriculum that is just some story to them. It doesn't have tangible meaning. Being able to bring that into materials is really important to keeping things engaging and also, relevant and fun. MANDY: So the time when little Tommy was walking to the Xerox machine. DANIELLE: [chuckles] Yes, yes. MANDY: Somebody brought up a Xerox machine the other day. DANIELLE: Oh wow. MANDY: My goodness. DANIELLE: [laughs] Yeah, definitely. But I think it's just a constant looking at how we do things, and making improvements and making real connection with the people that are actually using our products to use. That both means working with teachers and getting a better understanding of what is helpful to them, what makes things easier for them, what helps them bring better quality curriculum to their classrooms? But then I think it's also connecting more directly with those kids that are engaging with our curriculum, too and figuring out what works and doesn't work for as many parties as possible. I think that's the anthropologist hat coming on again like, how can we bring as many people to the table as possible on the expert side, on the academic side, on the teacher side, on the student side? And even working to bring families to the table, too and looking at how families interact and not just parents, because it's really important to know that kids don't have just parents that are taking care of them—sometimes it's grandparents, sometimes it's foster families. And really thinking about a wider range of who is around these kids, and how to get them onboard and make things easy for them to interact. ARTY: It seems like getting into tech and these new tech skills that you've learned are also relevant in figuring out how to teach kids tech because we've got this new generation of kids coming into the world and learning how to code becomes more like learning how to read and write is fundamental skills move forward in the future. Are there ways that some of the things that you've learned through your own tech experiences you can see application for in education? DANIELLE: Absolutely. From what I've been seeing, I feel like there are a lot more resources out there for teaching kids how to code and teaching them more things about technology. I think that's amazing and should totally keep happening. I think having been a bit more focused on adults in my own outreach for helping people find their ways into tech I might be a bit more acquainted with reaching out to those folks. But I'm sure that that intersection of being in education for K-12 students and this passion that I have of helping to find their way into tech, or build more technical skills because they are skills that are so transferable in many industries. I'm in education, but I have a technical job. So there's lots of ways that those technical skills can be incredibly valuable and frankly, life-changing. The amount of opportunity and even just financial stability that can be found within tech is one of the main reasons that brought me to this industry and has really been a life-changing opportunity. It has opened so many doors already and I'm just like three months into my first developer job. Even before I was ever actually officially an engineer, I was able to find community and able to find an outlet for helping others and outreach to immediately turn around and hold a handout to try to help others make their way into tech as well. I hope to continue doing that work in more meaningful and impactful ways over time, and have wider and wider reach as well. ARTY: You had mentioned earlier about some of the difficulties of getting into tech and some of the challenges with finding resources and things that you were specifically missing when you actually showed up on the job. I'm curious, what was your experience like going through coding bootcamp and what were some of the gaps that you experienced that once you got on the job, you were like, “Oh, I didn't learn that.” DANIELLE: Yeah, definitely. Coding bootcamp was an incredibly grueling experience for me personally. I was on a full-time track six-month program and [chuckles] not having much technical experience whatsoever outside of editing my Myspace profile back when that was a thing and having [laughs] about a decade ago doing some basic HTML, CSS editing and maintenance for the company that I worked for an ed tech originally. That was what I was working with when I started coding bootcamp. So it was a real hard learning curve and a very fast-paced program for me to just dive into headfirst. My poor partner was like, “I basically didn't see you for six months. You were just a basement dweller at your computer constantly.” I would literally get out of bed, roll myself downstairs, get to my computer with a cup of tea in hand, and I would stay there until easily 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 every night just trying to keep my head above water. But a few months in, things started to click and I wasn't fighting with all of these computer puzzles [chuckles] trying to do this. Like, I always feel like learning coding languages is a combination of algebra and a foreign language. So at a certain point, my brain just started getting into that better and things started making sense. That was a very exciting moment where I got much less miserable [chuckles] in my code school experience and in the pace at which I had to move to keep my grades up and everything. But the gap in between finishing code school and actually getting that first job is also another often-grueling process. There's so many jobs open in the tech industry, but basically, it's mid-level and above. It's like, I think two-thirds of the industry positions that are available are for mid to senior roles versus one-third of roles that are for junior associates. That is a big struggle, especially if you're not able to lean into community and building real connections, just sending applications out to the ether and never even hearing a peep back from companies. I think that whole experience, it's really hard for yourself esteem, especially having put in many months around the clock of work towards this new career that you've been told that you can get, that you can achieve. It's almost as much as a process getting that first developer job as it is to actually build those tech skills. I think one thing that is so important to stress in that in-between time is to lean into community, to connect with as many people as you can that are already in tech, even if they don't exactly have a developer job. Like, talk to anybody that will let you talk to them—talk to people in QA, talk to developers, talk to managers, talk to project managers. That was one of the things that I felt I needed to do early on in my coding experience to really have a better understanding of what was even an option for me of getting into tech and what could all these different jobs look like, and then making that transition to actually getting the first job. Yay, hooray for first jobs and being employed again. But I think one of the things that has been most striking in that change for me is going from this incredibly grueling pace. 8:00 in the morning, or so until 10:00 plus at night, non-stop coding for the most part, and then going to a 9:00 to 5:00 job where I can also make my own hours and I can take appointments as I need to. Like, I can go and get a haircut if that's something on my schedule and it's cool. As long as I'm getting my work done and showing up and contributing to my team, things are fine. So that transition of like, “Wait, I don't have to be at my computer a 1,000% of the time?” [laughs] and the pace at which you learn things, too is just much slower because you can have balance. That transition of feeling like you're not doing enough because you're so used to this hefty schedule, that's been a major transition for me. I think also coming from hospitality, too where you have to be there in person and oftentimes, somebody is going to call out sick at least every other week, or so. So you might be working like a shift and a half, or a double. There isn't a lot of balance in the service industry, especially now with COVID adding so many extra layers of complication to how that job works. Being able to just be like, “I need to go make a doctor's appointment,” and can just do that. It's like, “Okay, cool. Just put it on the calendar. You don't really need to tell me. As long as it's on the calendar, that's great.” [laughs] That transition has also been very strange. And I think maybe just the trauma of [chuckles] working in hospitality and not being able to just be a human sometimes and now all of a sudden, I'm like, “Oh, I'm a human and that's allowed? Okay.” Still have to check in with my boss frequently about like, “You sure it's okay? You sure it's okay that I'm a human, right? Yeah.” [laughs] MANDY: [chuckles] That was one of the things that I really loved coming into tech was the scheduling, open schedule, making my own hours. DANIELLE: Yeah. MANDY: And you're right, it was very strange at first. When I was waitressing, it was just always a go, go, go kind of thing and you had to be there, you had to be on, and if you didn't have tables, if you had time to lean, you had time to clean. DANIELLE: [chuckles] Yeah. Always be closing. You know, ABCs. [laughs] MANDY: So yeah, sometimes I still find myself on a random Thursday. I'll have my work done and I'll just be sitting here and I'm like, “Why are you sitting at your computer? Go do something, then check it and if there's stuff there –” Like, you don't have to have your ass in the seat from 9:00 to 5:00, or 8:00 to 4:00. You don't have to sit here for 8 hours and just stare at your inbox waiting for work. It's totally asynchronous and it's totally okay. I find myself having to give myself permission to leave my desk and just go and do something and work that asynchronous schedule. So tech is a really big blessing when it comes to that. DANIELLE: I totally agree. I think also, not being neurotypical myself, I have ADHD, and so, being able to actually allow my brain to work in the way that is best for how my brain just naturally operates. Like, I can sit at my desk and fidget constantly, and it's not going to bother anybody because I work from home, [chuckles] or I can shift between sitting and standing and sitting on my bed, or sitting on my stool and just move at my desk as much as I need to. I can also step away and go clean some dishes if that's what's making noise in my brain. I can go and take my dog on a walk and get some fresh air. That whole shift of having balance and being able to be empowered to advocate for what I need and how I learn and people are like, “Yeah, cool. Let's do that.” I think that's also very much a part of the company that I work for and the ethos that we have, which is all about making education better. So why wouldn't that also translate to the staff and how can we help you learn? It's such a wonderful thing to be a part of a team that's super invested in how I learn and helping me learn. I think another thing that was a big, strange thing about my transition into tech was I ended up getting a junior engineer role in a tech stack that I hadn't worked with, which is pretty common from what I've heard from mid engineer on. Because once you have some of the foundational building blocks of a handful of programming languages and some of those computer science foundations, you can pick up most programming languages. But it's not so common as a junior engineer to get that opportunity to work with a full tech stack that you haven't really worked with before. So that was another big transition like, “All right, you trust me time to figure this out.” ARTY: So it sounds like you walked into another big learning curve with your new job, too. It sounds like you were also in a much more supportive culture environment with respect to learning and things, too. What was the ramp-up experience like at your new company? DANIELLE: In some ways, I still kind of feel like I'm in ramp-up mode. I'm about three months in. But because we have so much of our product that is built around very specific curriculum components, that has very specific contextual knowledge, it's just going to be a process to figure out which projects have what information and have certain numbers of records, and are tied to certain standards that are required in different states and for common core versus for some of the states that we work with, what that looks like. But figuring out a whole new tech stack was and continues to be a very interesting challenge. I have to remind myself when I have gaps in my knowledge that it's actually to switch gears back into learning mode, that that is a thing that's supported and encouraged even. I even have little sticky notes on my desk that say, “Start with what you know, not what you don't know,” and that tension of when I reached the end of what I know and then going and finding maybe not necessarily the right, or correct resources, because there's so much out there that's good. That can be helpful. I think it's more about finding something that does work with how my brain learns things and being cognizant of how I learn. But also, remembering to dig into that fate that is being a developer, which is constant learning and ever-growing evolution of how we do things, and what things we do within the sphere of the developer. So I've signed up for perpetual learning and that's pretty great. MANDY: What are your favorite resources that you used and continue to use as you're still learning, and finding community, and things like that? DANIELLE: Yeah. I have certainly continued to lean on the curriculum for my school. It's online and it's free and that's rad. It's learnhowtoprogram.com. It's all put on online from Epicodus in the Portland area. Anybody can access it and that's wonderful. I'm a big fan of really great resources being available for free and making that more accessible. So continuing to use platforms that have that kind of ethos in mind is pretty great in my opinion. Reading the documentation is another great way to keep learning what you need to learn and sometimes documentation can be kind of dry, especially as a new developer, you don't always know what exactly it is that you're looking for. So being able to parse through documentation and figure out what's most important, but then also filling in the gaps of some of the things that you don't yet know, or understand with YouTube videos, or deeper dives into like, what does this one specific term mean? I don't know, let's go find out and plugging in some of those gaps is really helpful. I think figuring out how you learn, too whether that be very hands-on, whether that be visually, whether that be with audio, getting lots of repetition in; it's super helpful to lean into whatever works best for your brain for learning. I think perhaps even more important than digging into resources that are online is lean into community. I really can't say it enough, build community. If you work with Ruby, like I work with Ruby, build community within the Ruby community. Connect to people online, get on Twitter, connect to tech Twitter, follow different people that work with the languages and the tech stack that you work with, and join places like The Virtual Coffee and other really rad developer spaces that are meant to help you find the answers that you need and to maybe do it in a way that's a little less arduous because you're with people that are like, “Yes, happy helper.” Like, “How can I make things easier for you?” It seems like a much easier way to go through tech when you can do it with others and remember, that there are human resources out there for you, too. MANDY: You also had mentioned that you were connecting with folks over Twitch. DANIELLE: Yeah. MANDY: Can you tell us a little more about that? DANIELLE: Absolutely. So a friend of mine in my Epicodus cohort, she reached out to the director of developer relations that had done a lunchtime chat with us at one point and she was like, “I don't know what I'm doing. I am so stressed out. I don't know if I can actually finish this school and let alone finish school, but actually make it as a developer and I have questions. Do you have some time for some answers?” And he was like, “Yeah, do you want to actually do this online on Twitch? And how about you bring a couple of friends and let's just ask lots of questions and I'm going to record it?” She reached out to me and another friend of mine and here we are many months later still answering questions online about how to get into tech and what even are some of these things that we're talking about technically, or let's look at other roles outside of just developer, or engineer, that you can get into. So that has been an ongoing theme of how can I help others? How can I help provide community for people that might not have been as lucky as I have been to already have a preexisting community with many of my friends and my partner that were in tech? How can I help create that advantage for others and how can I help reach more people and help them understand what their options are and connect them to the people that need to know to get jobs? I think Code School Q&A, we are super, super excited about open doors for people to whether that be better knowledge, whether that be real human connection; what's most important to us is just supporting people as they are making transitions into the industry like we've been doing over this last year and a half. MANDY: So what is the Code School Q&A look like when you join? Walk me through it if I were to show up, what would I get? DANIELLE: Absolutely. So there's generally four of us on the stream and we ask a handful of questions, whether that be from our own experiences of like, “Okay, I'm a developer now and I've got some questions about some of these transitions that I am experiencing.” But we also lean into the audience as well and see what kind of questions they have, whether that be folks that are still in code school, or folks that are thinking about maybe potentially going back to school, whether that be computer science in a university setting, or bootcamp, or even self-taught people. We even have a number of folks that are already in their careers, too that are there to reach out and chat and provide additional feedback and support. So I really feel like it's a bunch of friends just getting together on Wednesdays and that group of friends just keeps building and expanding. It is very much like a support group, but it's also fun. Like, our first question of the day is what are you drinking and how are you doing? Because we all hang out and chat, and drink while we're talking about how to get into tech and definitely try to make it as fun as we can and crack jokes and interrupt one another and it's a good fun time, but helping people is what's most important. MANDY: And this is all live? Unedited? DANIELLE: All live. Unedited. Yes, yes, and 7:00 PM-ish AV is a whole beast in and of itself. I just had to set up a Twitch stream for the first time in this whole time of streaming over the last year. I've been writing my princess pass and just shown up [chuckles] for every Twitch stream and now I know how much goes into that. I still had probably another few hours of set up to get past just a minimum viable product of we need to be online on the interwebs and you need to be able to hear and see me. Got there, but it's a whole thing. MANDY: Twitch is certainly interrupting the industry, I believe. DANIELLE: [inaudible]. MANDY: Especially since the pandemic. All of a sudden everyone's on Twitch. We're doing conferences live, we're doing like – how do you feel about the whole Twitch revolution and how is it different from how people traditionally came and connected in tech? DANIELLE: Yeah. Having been in events myself—that was part of what my role was within hospitality—I personally really love that there's now this whole new opportunity for connection. I think it also makes connection way more accessible because folks that were already living some kind of quarantine life because of autoimmune disorders, or disabilities, or whatever that looks like, they couldn't easily make it to those conferences and now they have a way to connect with those conferences because of hybrid events. I think it's a really rad innovation that we're seeing and it's a really wonderful way to even just as an introvert. I'm like, “I don't have to leave my house to be able to see my friends and have a good time? Yes! I am super interested in this.” I can – [overtalk] MANDY: [inaudible]. DANIELLE: Yeah. I can hang out with my dog and give him scritches whenever I want, and still see my friends and build community within tech. Heck yes. Very interested in this. I think that accessibility feature that it provides is just, it's really wonderful to know that more people can become a part of tech communities because there's now this whole online outlet for folks that couldn't otherwise afford a flight to get halfway across the country to make it to this conference, or couldn't afford to get in the conference. There's lots of ways that just makes things more accessible. MANDY: Do you think it's going to continue much beyond the pandemic? Like, do you think when it's all over, we're just going to be like, “Oh, we're back to conferences,” or do you think this is going to continue to the streaming and the slack chats and the live Q&As and things like that. Do you think that's going to continue? DANIELLE: I hope so and I think so. I think that even just from a business sense, you can tap into whole new markets by having this addition of hybrid events. You can reach a whole new subset of markets and I think quite frankly, it'd be kind of foolish to not take advantage of the new ways that we've figured out that we can still have meaningful and authentic community. [chuckles] There's definitely a way to monetize that and I'm sure plenty of people out there doing it, but I think it's also given voice to people that couldn't previously access those spaces and now they're like, “Don't take this away. This is community. This is this is what I've built,” and I think people are going to be willing to fight for that and I think that companies will see the business benefit of continuing to do both. ARTY: So anthropology question then. [laughs] DANIELLE: Great. ARTY: How do you think this will affect us as a society of connecting more virtually instead of in-person in that we're significantly more isolated now than we were before, too in terms of in-person connection? How do you think that's going to affect us? DANIELLE: One of the first things that comes to mind is infrastructure has to change. I think that support for higher speed internet across the states across the world has become much more of a priority that is striking to people, especially thinking about kids having to figure out how to do online school. All of a sudden, when COVID first hit, some kids didn't have access to the internet, let alone a computer, or a tablet, or a phone that they could go to class and do their homework on. So I think that we're going to be forced to make technology and the internet more accessible by building better infrastructure to support those things and I think it's only a matter of time before there is better social support for getting technology in the hands of kids, especially, but getting them devices. Like, I know there are a number of initiatives out there that are giving small grants and stuff for people to be able to get computers, or tablets, or whatever and I think that we're going to just keep seeing more of that. Hopefully, fingers crossed because it's super important to be able to keep connection moving and I think keep moving our society in the right direction. ARTY: So do you have any concerns about that as well as how –? We all get plugged in and are affected and in not so good ways, too. On the flip side of that, where do you see things going? DANIELLE: My partner is in InfoSec. He is a security person. So that's definitely my first thought like, how do we keep the things that are most important to us and that are now online? How do we keep those things secure and safe and protected? Figuring out how to fill the gaps that are inherent within the security industry right now of there's just not enough bodies to fill all the jobs and build all of the security that needs to be built and maintain those things. That's going to be a whole new ball game that tech has to figure out and it's going to take a lot of manpower to make sure that we can protect people and protect the things that are most important to them, and even just protect those communities, too. Make sure that those communities can continue to thrive and also, be carefully moderated and curated so that there is safety for people to interact; that there is less bullying happening online, that there is less hate crimes that are being perpetuated online. Creating safe spaces for people and providing agency for them online is a whole new ball game when we're not even really that great at doing so in real life, in-person. There are a lot of groups that are going to have to fight harder to be heard, to be seen, to feel safe, and I think that's just an ongoing thing that we need to work at being better at. ARTY: So we need ways to improve the connectivity community stuff and then also, need ways as we do those things to create safety in our communities. DANIELLE: Absolutely. MANDY: Yeah, we just had a really great discussion with Eva PenzeyMoog about two episodes ago. She wrote the book Design for Safety and it was an excellent, excellent conversation about ways that as designers and engineers, we should be building our infrastructure safe from the beginning and not just going back – [overtalk] DANIELLE: Yeah. MANDY: And doing it after the fact, but realizing who the most vulnerable people are and protecting them from the get-go. DANIELLE: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's actually something that my company works really hard to do while we're designing our curriculum products is designing from the most vulnerable within our communities and using that as a starting point for how we build things and how we continue to maintain them. Because if you can keep the folks that are most vulnerable in mind, more people are actually going to be allowed to be safe, allowed to have agency, and allowed to grow. It's a far more inclusive space when we can think about the folks that don't always have access, or don't always have safety, or don't always have agency and designing with those people in mind first. MANDY: And that's how we'll end up filling all these empty seats right now that are available in tech – [overtalk] DANIELLE: Exactly. MANDY: Is by not eliminating these people, designing a safe environment from the start, and attracting different kinds of people into tech because tech needs more diversity. DANIELLE: Tech needs more diversity. Yeah, absolutely and I think that's one of the reasons why I keep doing Code School Q&A is because I want to see more people that look like me in tech. I want to see more people that don't look like me in tech. I'm very excited to bring as many people to the table as possible because I think that's when we also get the most creative and innovative. When more tool sets are brought to the table, more diverse experiences are brought to the table, we build far more robust systems, products, and things just get better when we have more differences from which to pull and more experiences from which to learn. MANDY: As we said in the beginning, you're a fairly new developer. So I wanted to ask you the question: what was one thing you wish you knew, that you know now, that you would have known back then? If you could give Danielle advice a year ago, what advice would that have been? DANIELLE: I think that advice would have been to start actually working on technical things sooner; to start digging into the educational materials that were provided for me for free before I ever started school. I think that actually digging into those materials and having the courage to not just wait until I was in a classroom setting to be able to interact with coding languages and learning how to program, I would have had such a less fraught time getting through school and giving myself the opportunity to get a bit of a head start and more of a foundation before just diving in head first and hoping that I kept my head above water. But I think also, again, leaning into community and not being afraid to ask for help, not being afraid to advocate for myself because it took me a good 2 and a half months before a really felt like I could speak up and say what I needed. That's 2 months of time that I could have been getting more of what I needed, getting more help learning faster and more efficiently, and just being less miserable in the early stages of learning and entirely new skillsets. So don't be afraid to ask for help. Don't be afraid to advocate for yourself. I think especially as a woman coming into a technical space, there is some extra fears of not looking like I could do this, or not feeling like I belonged not knowing what I was doing. But the thing to remember was that nobody knew what they were doing; we were all figuring it out together in that school program. Being the one to be like, “Hold up, this is not making any sense to me. Can we start this over again? Can we dig into what's happening here?” Often times, other people were like, “Oh, I'm so grateful you said something because I also don't know what's going on.” MANDY: Well, with that, I think that's an amazing thing to end on and we can move over to reflections, which I can go and start off with right away is that's the secret. Like, nobody knows what we're doing in tech. DANIELLE: [laughs] Nobody knows, no. [laughs] MANDY: Nobody knows. DANIELLE: Nobody knows yet. MANDY: That's the secret. Ask questions. Lean on your community. There are so many people out there. I know you mentioned tech Twitter, #techTwitter. There are so many nice amazing people that will have your back if you just put those questions out there and even say, “Hey, tech twitter, anybody free? Do you want to pair?” They'll be like, “Yeah, let's hop on for an hour, or two,” and especially right now is when people aren't really doing much again. [chuckles] People are out there. So again, it's a secret. Nobody knows. DANIELLE: [laughs] Yeah. I think I am totally on board with your reflections for the day lean into community and don't be afraid to ask questions. I think it's so important to know that tech needs you. Whoever you are, tech needs you and whatever valuable skillset you bring to the table, whatever diverse experiences you bring to the table, it's needed. You need more people that aren't traditional and whatever that looks like. There is space and there is need for you. I think come and ask your questions at Code School on Wednesdays. We need generally every Wednesday, 7:00 PM Pacific time. We are happy to answer your questions and help connect you to the people if we don't know answers because none of us totally know the right answer most of the time. MANDY: And how can people do that work? What's the URL? DANIELLE: Yeah. Come visit us at twitch.tv/thejonanshow. We also have Code School Q&A is participating in Oktoberfest, too. So you can find us on GitHub by looking up the Oktoberfest hashtag tag and you can find us on Twitter at Code School Q&A as well. MANDY: Awesome. ARTY: I just wanted to add that a little bit with lean into community, I was thinking about Mandy, when you were mentioning your story, when I was learning electron new technology I didn't know. I had this code base that I had to learn. I didn't know what was going on, I was frustrated, I couldn't get anything working, and then I tweeted and asked for someone to pair with me. Lo and behold, some random person from the internet was like, “Sure! I'd be happy to help! Let's meet up air on this,” and I managed to get over the major hurdles I had with getting my environment to set up and getting unstuck, figured out how to run the debugging tools, and all those things really happened as a consequence of nothing afraid to reach out. Even when you might feel like you're struggling with these things alone, there really is a community out there and people that are willing to jump in and help and I think that's really great cool thing. MANDY: All right, well with that, I think we're pretty set to wrap up. If you want to join us you are in Slack. Danielle will receive an invitation to join us as well in our Slack community. It is a Patreon where you can fudge to support us monetarily on a monthly basis. However, if you're not comfortable with that, or do not want to, you can DM anyone of the panelists and we will get you in there for free. So with that, I want to thank you, Danielle, for coming on the show. DANIELLE: Thanks so much for having me for a great conversation. MANDY: Awesome, and we'll see everyone next week. Special Guest: Danielle Thompson.

O Daniel Leitão descobriu uma nova dupla humorística e revela-a no Zapping da Semana

Daniel Leitão trouxe uma surpresa para Joana Marques, 46 horas de emissão depois!

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Sónia Santos vs. Daniel Leitão na nova temporada do K.O.144667b5-e0

O Daniel Leitão fez 40 anos e a equipa do Turno da Tarde lançou-lhe 4 desafios

What We Covered:01:01– Introducing today’s guest, Danielle Zarcaro, who shares her entrepreneurial origin story, the importance of accountability and their stance on napping 09:04 – Danielle shares her experience of personal growth and self-discovery as an entrepreneur 11:19 – Advice Danielle would give to aspiring queer entrepreneurs 15:20 – Danielle provides her thoughts on the value of being a queer entrepreneur and working and collaborating with other queer businesses 16:49 – What it means for Danielle to be a leader in the web development industry 18:49 – Danielle and Michelle speak about their shared experience as queer entrepreneurs and why it’s important that they are well represented 23:43 – What Danielle would tell to those considering entrepreneurship but are slightly intimidated Tweetable Quotes:“It just feels so freeing to be able to make my own decisions about how I live my life and to be able to provide that to other people.” (03:21) (Danielle)“I think it’s really cool that it [entrepreneurship] can become this vehicle to explore yourself and dictate direction and make decisions.” (10:02) (Danielle)“If you’re your own boss, you sort of get to explore yourself in a way that is authentic to you.” (13:25) (Danielle)“It’s just empowering to be able to say, ‘Here’s what I am and here’s what I’m doing. You can like it or not but you don’t have to work with me if you don’t want to.’” (14:25) (Danielle)“I didn’t go into business because I’m queer and didn’t feel like I had an outlet. But how awesome would it be if I get to have relationships with a bunch of queer businesses? That would be so cool. And it’s not something you can control if you don’t run your own business.” (15:42) (Danielle)“I’m not necessarily shy. I don’t call myself shy. I’m introverted. I absorb. I observe and I take in all the data of what’s happening around me, and then I contribute when I want to contribute.” (17:30) (Danielle) Links Mentioned:Danielle’s LinkedInDanielle’s InstagramPaperback Web Development FacebookPaperback Web Development WebsiteMichelle’s Website 

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Qual será a primeira coisa que a Joana e o Daniel vão fazer a correr, assim que isto passar? Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão contam-lhe as peripécias de viver e trabalhar fechados em casa e como tudo isto pode ser extremamente desagradável.

In Big Money Stylist, we go over the following formula each month: Week #1: Power Week #2: Production Week #3: Profit Week #4: Protection In This Week’s Episode…..PROTECTION Point #1: The Show Must Go On Danielle’s twelve-year-old daughter, Bailee, loves to sing and perform. After a recent performance in her school’s talent show, Bailee called Danielle in tears, “Mom, they were laughing at me. This girl on the front row was snickering at me, rolling her eyes, and getting all the boys to laugh at me with her.” Danielle: It’s so different when you get up on stage in front of your peers. Just the idea of putting yourself out there is so scary. I think that happens, even as adults. And, I think, as adults, we are almost less willing to put ourselves out there there. QUESTION How do you protect yourself from the fiery darts of mean girls and haters? Point #2: Social Media Trolls “As adults, even when we do put ourselves out there, says Danielle, “there’s still the mean girls or the adult bullies that are trolls on social media. You can have 25 great comments, and then you have one asshole that says something so far out in left field.” “If you have a following,” adds Danielle, “you’re going to have critics. That’s just how it is. The more you put yourself out there, the more you’re going to have people disagree with you. It’s important to stay in your lane and just continue being your authentic self.” QUESTION How do you drown out or ignore the critics? Point #3: Sticks and Stones Danielle feels that the use of certain words can have a very different effect on people or situations. She suggests that, instead of telling someone that you’re giving them some critique, try using the word feedback instead, and watch how everything changes. Ani: At the end of the day, words only have the power that you’re willing to give them. People always ask why I use so much profanity. To me, it doesn’t really fucking matter. I choose not to give words power. QUESTION What are your thoughts about the words you use or hear? Do you give them power, or do you have power over them? Point #4: Get Back Up! Danielle: Sometimes you’re going to feel like you got knocked down, and the best thing you can do is get back up because when you get back up, you’re even stronger. I can count numbers times when I feel like I’ve been knocked down. I say fuck you, and I come back like Tom Brady. If you let it knock you down and you stay in that space, you can’t get any stronger. QUESTION Recall a time in your life when you got back up after being knocked down. How did you feel afterward? Point #5: Golden Nuggets Ani: Look, I get it. It’s not easy putting yourself out there, but at the end of the day, drown out the noise that does nothing for you. If people are sitting in the bleachers screaming at you and throwing tomatoes, guess what? They’re never brave enough to be where you are. And, at the end of the day, their opinion really doesn’t matter.  Danielle: You have to figure out what’s going to lead you to progression in your life. And know that inside of that, there’s going to be growth. Sometimes with growth, there’s going be a little bit of pain. Learn to have tunnel vision, go after your goals, and stay on that path. Ultimately, if you serve yourself, you will serve so many others around you. QUESTION How do you practice tunnel vision? Quote of the Week: “It’s easier to blame the tool than taking accountability that you didn’t do the work with the tool. –Danielle K White “If you’re willing to put yourself out there, in the field, front and center, whatever it is, don’t listen to people that sit in the bleachers. If you’re going to sit in the bleachers, you don’t have a right to critique me.” –Anianne Rivera

Welcome to the Big Money Stylist Podcast with co-hosts Danielle K White and Anianne Rivera. The conversation inside this week’s episode includes the importance of taking a stand in your life and also explores the ten top reasons why people don’t start something (business or project) even after feeling inspired to do so. In Big Money Stylist, we go over the following formula each month: Week #1: Power Week #2: Production Week #3: Profit Week #4: Protection In This Week’s Episode…..Power Point #1: SELF DOUBT Ani: When it comes to a dream or idea that you’ve always wanted to accomplish, it’s so freaking scary that instead of immediately thinking ‘I got it’ the first thought is usually ‘I can’t do that!’ When Garrett suggested to Danielle that she start a brand, what initially held her back was that the idea of a brand didn’t even live in the realm of possibility for her. “I could be inspired by others but never once considered it for myself.” QUESTION In what area of your life do you tend to experience the most self-doubt? Point #2: I DON’T HAVE TIME Danielle: The lazier I get, the less I’ll do, but if I’m super busy, the more likely I am to MAKE time. The thing is, there’s always time; it’s just a matter of prioritizing what to choose to do with that time. It’s a matter of consolidating and prioritizing and deciding what will push you forward, and what you value the most. As professional businesswomen with massive amounts of responsibility on their plates, Danielle and Ani have chosen to prioritize their life to include the things that are most important to them, including family time and time for themselves. QUESTION What can you do to prioritize your time in order to make room for what’s most important to you? Point #3: WHERE DO I START? When you’re beginning a project or wanting to start a business, it can seem so overwhelming in the beginning as you think about everything that you need to do, which stops many people from moving forward. And many women think that committing to something will take time away from their children, which is the opposite of what they want. Ani: Just because you have children, it doesn’t mean that you have to be with them – or that they even want to be with you – 24/7. Danielle: You can commit to being a mom AND doing something else; it all comes down to a choice. QUESTION What have you been considering doing as a mom with kids but have been putting it off? Point #4: TARGETS & PASSIONS Danielle: If you look at the big picture, which is a year’s worth of goals and targets, you’ve got to remember that you’re not going to accomplish these in a week. If you think that way, you’ll go nuts. The key is creating calendars and then setting realistic goals and targets each month, one week at a time. Ani: A lot of people have these big ideas and dreams of things they would love to do. But if it’s not your passion, that’s going to make it a thousand times harder. I’ve been here for eighteen months and yet it feels like I’ve been here for five years. The more moves you make – and the quicker you’re willing to make them – the faster that timeline moves. QUESTION What is one thing you can do today to begin creating realistic targets towards your dreams? Point #5:  LACK OF CONSISTENCY Throughout their careers, both Danielle and Ani have learned that staying consistent has been the key to their success. The thing to remember though is this: when you’re starting out at something, you’re going to be shitty. That’s just how it is. Danielle: It’s hard to be passionate about staying consistent when you know you suck at what you’re doing. But it’s through consistency that, over time, you realize how far you’ve come, eventually becoming an expert in your field. Don’t underestimate the small consistencies on a daily basis that ultimately can create huge wins in your life. QUESTION Where in your world do you lack consistency? Quote of the Week: “Don’t underestimate the small consistencies on a daily basis that can ultimately create huge wins in your life.” —Danielle K White “You just have to make a decision. Are you going to let these reasons hold you back? Or, are you going to acknowledge that you have no idea how you’re going to accomplish your dream… and then ask yourself, ‘What’s the first thing I need to do?’ Do that. Then take it step by step.” –Anianne Rivera  

Communication is the topic in this week's Date Your Wife episode where Danielle and Garrett discuss growth, conflict & collision, and how we all take on different characters and play different roles in our relationships. Every week married couple Danielle and Garrett J White share insights and perspectives from within their own lives regarding the following topics discussed each month: Week 1: Sex Week 2: Money Week 3: Parenting Week 4: Communication   In This Week's Podcast....COMMUNICATION Point #1: Activate the Gremlin Danielle is the owner of DKW Styling Salon and has created a hair extension system called Natural Beaded Rows. She and her team are basking in the afterglow of their most recent three-day convention, where they hosted 350 students eager to learn Danielle's system. Garrett: A comment came in from an associate of ours who was at the convention: "You know, Danielle is like a gremlin - cuddly, nice, sweet, and fun. And then you pour a little water on it and out comes the beast. I watched Danielle speak and train like I have never before seen her. Her gremlin was activated!" QUESTION: What causes the Gremlin in you to activate?   Point #2: Characters and Roles Garrett: I've realized that we as human beings have lots of characters and we play different roles. If you look at this from an acting perspective, you take on different roles and play different characters. Inside of a marriage relationship, there are a lot of roles that we are required to create and master. Danielle: In business, a true professional knows when to use each character in the different roles they are required to take on. As a woman, I have to know when to wear the work hat, when to wear the mom hat, and when to wear the wife and lover hat. QUESTION: What are the different characters and roles you take on in your marriage?   Point #3: Growing at Different Speeds Danielle: When we lost everything and Garrett was trying to discover himself, I was always telling him to just figure it out. He would want to share and connect with me, and when I didn't want to, he felt I wasn't growing. I decided I wasn’t going to worry about what Garrett was doing, but rather work on me and stay in my own lane. Garrett: We grow at different speeds and at different times. This changes our roles and makes communication difficult. The challenge becomes staying in your own lane. When you’re trying to communicate and you’re both in two totally diffident places, it can be very difficult. QUESTION: How do you handle growing at different speeds in your marriage?   Point #4: Choice vs Force Garrett: I got to the point where my power and my path were going to be about choosing me, choosing the path that I wanted, and inviting Danielle to come along with me. I told her this is where I'm going, I would like you to come with me, but if you don't want to come that’s okay - I’m still going to go. The more I took that stand, the better our relationship became inside of our communication. Danielle: It's because it became about me getting to choose and not feeling like you were forcing me or dragging me. For me, that actually feels better.  If you go to an event that’s all about self-help or self-awareness, you don’t want to come home to your spouse and say "by the way, you’re broken and you should probably come with me and get fixed." That's kind of like how it comes across. QUESTION: Are you more likely to force or to encourage choice in your relationships?   Point #5: The Control Factor Garrett: I'll have you consider that the worst thing that could ever exist inside of a relationship is one where there is no collision in communication. Collision must happen, and inside of that, control must be submitted at times. Danielle: In order to ultimately get what you want, you have to choose your battles. Sometimes when we’re fighting we realize we’re both on the same team, we let it go, calm it down, and then revisit that conversation. QUESTION: How do you handle collision in your relationship? Communication Challenge: How do you handle and resolve conflict in your marriage? Date Night Topic: What are you committed to as a couple in the area of growth? Quote of the Week: "When you’re growing, and your partner may not be growing at the same speed, you have to stay committed to what you want, move forward, and invite them into the picture." --Garrett J White "Learn how to communicate with your partner in that safe zone." --Danielle K White

No terceiro episódio do “Pod Arroz” conversámos com Daniel Leitão e Joana Marques, na Fábrica das Ideias com o espetáculo “Altos e Baixos” e com Vasco Cardoso, membro da produção do 23 Milhas. O episódio foi gravado na Fábrica das Ideias da Gafanha da Nazaré na tarde do dia 24 de março de 2018.

 Not only is the BMS Podcast #95 out of ALL of the podcasts inside of iTunes, it's Number ONE in Fashion and #5 in Arts, so we've noticed that the message being shared is making an impact on others. This week the BMS Team: Danielle, Garrett, Val and Ani talk about how to get beyond the slavery and bondage of being a stylist behind the chair, throwing in a little bit of a wizardry twist for safe measure behind it all. For Big Money Stylist, we go over the following formula each month: Week #1: Power Week #2: Production Week #3: Profit Week #4: Protection In This Week's Episode.....PROTECTION Point #1: Protect Your Mind From Outside Influences 60% to 70% of your success as an Artist - both behind and in front of the chair - comes down to protecting your own psychology. When you don't protect it and allow people's opinions and outside noise to influence you, there's a direct impact on your bank account. You have to have tunnel vision when it comes to the chatter and noise of others. Coach Val: I have to block out the outside noises and opinions of others because it can trickle down into everything, including what I produce behind the chair and how I feel about myself, which slows me down. I can't have that. It's super important to protect my mindset so that I can keep growing and get to where I want to be.   QUESTION: When you've allowed other people's opinions to impact or influence you about your own industry - and they're not even in the hair industry -  how does it actually affect you in the salon?  Point #2: Your Circle of Influence Matters Sometimes when you step outside of the 'acceptable' and unspoken parameters of your social or family group, people inside of these groups start questioning your actions and may even become embarrassed by you. Be willing to feel awkward in order to move forward in life, regardless of what your friends and family may think or say. After losing everything several years ago, Garrett was trying to find his voice again. In the midst of  the gossiping and 'shit talking' from close friends and family, Garrett and Danielle knew the only way they were going to pull this off and get their life back on track was to shut everyone out, which included blocking family and friends on social media and moving to another State.   QUESTION: Who is in your circle of influence?  Are they sucking the life out of you or are they assisting you in your growth? What changes do you feel called to make?    Point #3: Clearing the Path Protects Your Future There is another world that you cannot even fathom possible that exists in a different realm beyond whom you are currently giving yourself permission to be as an Artist and businessman or woman, where the excitement, abundance, experience, happiness and Purpose in your life is so much bigger. Oft times the only way for us to protect our future is to clear the path in our present moment with relationships and situations that no longer serve us. An advocate for growth and change, Coach Ani believes that you can't remain the same person. As hard as it was at the time for her to break off her long term relationship and engagement, she knew it was the right decision for her and her continued growth. She was willing to throw fucking caution to the wind and say, "Okay. I have no idea how this is going to play out, but I'm gonna fuckin' try it."   QUESTION: What hard choices are right in front of you that you need to give yourself permission to make?   Point #4: You Are Your Worst Enemy What do you do when the dark side of you wants to quit? Coach Ani remembers her WHY, she takes a step back to look at the bigger picture, and takes time to recharge herself. Val has found that by sharing her own pain and struggles with other stylists, it gives them permission to push forward, push a little harder and know they are worth making more of their lives. Danielle: It comes down to Purpose. I can't listen to those voices in my head anymore because I know how many people are impacted by what I am doing. QUESTION: What do you do when your own mind becomes your greatest enemy? What has become helpful to you as an Artist?   Point #5: Marketing is a Protection Game To protect your Empire, continual marketing is a must, whereas ceasing to market can cause the destruction of that same Empire. When you know your numbers you can go forward with an actual plan, as opposed to just throwing money away in hopes that what you want is actually going to work. Another way of protecting your business is by actually being fucking good at hair. Being an elite Artist is one of the greatest protection moves to a future building of your business and sustaining your current clients.   QUESTION: What area are you currently lacking in when it comes to marketing, knowing your numbers, or being an Elite Artist? What changes are you committed to making going forward?   Quote of the Week: "The marketing game is always changing, so you have to move with the trends. If you can figure out the marketing game and have success with whatever you're trying to promote, and have figured out that piece of the puzzle, then regardless of where the economy goes, you feel more protected because you know how to market and you know how to rebuild." -- Danielle White "You have to know how to market, but you have to have a skillset that you can deliver on a level that will keep a client coming back. Inside our Elite Mastermind, we have implemented something called Power Practice where the students have to make a commitment of practicing daily for 15 minutes. It may not seem like a lot, but what we've seen is that by doing that 15 minutes every single day, it elevates their skillset immensely. We are holding our students to a higher standard of work that is worthy of the NBR brand that Danielle created." -- Valerie Plunk "Every hard decision you [Danielle] have ever made has not just affected you, Garrett and your children - it's affected everybody. It affected Val and her marriage and family; it's affected every aspect of my life. Everything has come about because you had the strength to stand up one day, change everything about your life and say: This isn't enough. I'm doing more. I'm changing my life." --Anianne Rivera    Stay Tuned for Next Week's Topic....POWER   ____________________________ Every week you will get to hear from Danielle White, founder of Natural Beaded Rows (NBR), a revolutionary technique with hair extensions discuss Big Money Stylist (BMS) with her trainers Valerie Plunk and Anianne Rivera. Join your host, Garrett J White, founder of Wake Up Warrior and husband to Danielle in learning tools and techniques in bringing clients to the chair.    http://bigmoneystylistnow.com

For episode 7, we dive deep into Mysore style Astanga Yoga with Danielle DePompei, an instructor at Astanga Yoga Columbus. Danielle has such awesome energy and a cool story about how she found Astanga Yoga and made it to Columbus.  I feel quite honored to explore her story and what insights she's uncovering from her own journey. Personally, I have practiced this form of yoga for over 10 years (although, as a disclaimer, typically once a week... not as regularly as I'd like...).  Astanga Vinyasa yoga is itself a common base from many modern forms of yoga: vinyasa is about linking your body's movement with the breath. Astanga is the name of the yoga, as brought to the western world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois — a set of certain postures to improve circulation, develop a strong body and a calm mind. What sets Mysore style apart is a philosophy of independence.  (It's named after the place in India where it is taught.)  You learn your own practice, posture by posture.  While there are led classes to reinforce the series, most classes involve you showing up when you show up and start your practice on your own.  Teachers are there to guide you with adjustments, and new postures only as you are ready for them.  The room is usually quiet (except for maybe the thoughts in your head), and your practice fits your pace and abilities. Enjoy! Read Full Transcript [00:00:00] Adam: Welcome to the people helping people podcast where we talk about social change, social entrepreneurship and culture, and all great things going on in the world. I am very excited today to be talking with Daniel, the pump. A [00:00:23] Danielle: nice yes. [00:00:24] Adam: Who teaches yoga up at the Steiger yoga Columbus. Up on Indianola [00:00:31] Danielle: and Morris road. [00:00:32] Yes. Cool. [00:00:33] Adam: So welcome. And I'd just like to start off maybe asking you how you got into yoga, like how did your yoga journey start? [00:00:42] Danielle: Yeah, well, it started years ago and it was like 2008 and I was living with a friend and, well, for years, for like 15 years, I was a competitive figure skater. And when I moved to Columbus, I came to go to hair school, actually become like a cosmetologist. [00:01:02] And the girl that I was living with at the time that I moved in with who's now, like my, one of my closest friends, she was like, you should really try yoga. Like she had been going with like her mom or whatever, cause I haven't stopped sort of skating. I just like couldn't like find the time to get to a rank. [00:01:19] And she was like, you should try this yoga thing. So I was like, yeah. I dunno, I tend to like resist most things that people tell me to do. And so, which I'm getting better at, but not doing. But yeah, so I went to a yoga class and then I just like, I, I mean, I loved everything about it. Like I just, I really honestly, I liked the way that it made me feel and there was like a lot of connection in the like creative sort of movement and expression that I also found in skating. [00:01:46] But to be honest with like a lot less of the pressure of like the competitive, like figure skating world. Sort of [00:01:52] Adam: thing getting very competitive. [00:01:54] Danielle: It could be. Yeah. I think it definitely could be, at least for me, it started to like become less of fun and more about like always training through these life competitions. [00:02:06] So over time it sort of lost, its like I sort of lost the joy in it cause it was just like training to get somewhere, you know? And I didn't really kind of. I wasn't into that anymore. That aspect of it. Yeah. And then when I moved, it's just became like really expensive to be honest, to do the competing and coaching and all of that. [00:02:25] So, so anyway, so I got into yoga and just sort of like started dabbling in it for years, just like random classes. I would do it at home. In that time I was doing hair too, so I had like a full time job.

No episódio desta semana temos como convidados os apresentadores do programa do Canal Q Altos & Baixos. Eles são Joana Marques e Daniel Leitão e fizeram-nos uma visita ao estúdio para termos uma conversa boa onda. Temos também uma inovação bacano (um quizz) e os assuntos mais viralizados da semana em questão. Não se esqueçam […]