Podcasts about Danu

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Reclaiming Life: Coleen Caraway's Mental Health Journey On this new season of the Make Mental Health Matter Show, Kelli starts a new season with live in-studio episodes. The first live guest is Coleen Caraway. Little bit about Coleen's story from her: “I own Danu's Wardrobe, a fantasy-style bookstore and event space, where everyone can find adventure. Currently, we are looking for a new physical location and looking to collaborate with other businesses with the same dream. I want to speak on my experience with my Borderline Personality Disorder and the journey from being adopted, childhood trauma, and my journey into adulthood. At the end of 2024, I was re-assessed by my therapist and we discovered that with my daily techniques for a little over 2 years, I no longer fit the diagnosis of BPD. I hope to share my story and give people who have been diagnosed with BPD, hope.” Short bio: Coleen Caraway, originally from the Dallas, Texas area moved to Colorado on a whim in 2018. She fell in love with the mountains and decided to stay. She owns Danu's Wardrobe, an independent bookstore and event space, where everyone can find adventure. She enjoys creating community, reading, and working with other local businesses. In Coleen's spare time, she enjoys reading, creating themed dinner parties, and hanging out with her cat. This episode is sponsored by Danu's Closet. Find out more about Coleen here: Website: www.danuc.net  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089982183456  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danuwardrobe  Buy new books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/Danu_Wardrobe  Want to find out when the next incredible episode of Make Mental Health Matter show is dropping? Sign up for the Make Mental Health Matter newsletter for special tips, and insider only offers. Click HERE to sign up today! Need more resources? www.makementalhealthmatter.org  https://linktr.ee/makementalhealthmatter

The above title does not do Dan Swift justice. Dan also has his own podcast, successful Youtube channel and he has released seven music albums. Talk about being unstoppable! I met Dan when I appeared as a guest on his podcast, Time We Discuss and I knew he would contribute to a fascinating story here.   Dan grew up with an interest in music. For a time he thought he wanted to write music for video games. Along the way he left that idea behind and after graduating from college he began working at designing websites. He has made that into his fulltime career.   As he grew as a website designer and later as a supervisor for a school system coordinating and creating the school sites Dan took an interest in accessibility of the web. We talk quite a bit about that during our time together. His observations are fascinating and right on where web access for persons with disabilities is concerned.   We also talk about Dan's podcast including some stories of guests and what inspires Dan from his interviews. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I.       About the Guest:   Originally wanting to write music for video games or become an audio engineer, Dan Swift graduated from a small Liberal Arts college with a degree in Music Composition (Bachelor of Arts) and Music Recording Technology (Bachelor of Music).  Dan went on to release seven EP albums between 2003 and 2024. Most recently, "Parallels" dropped on Leap Day, 2024.  Dan has always had a passion for shaking up genres between Eps writing classical, electronic, and modern rock music.   While creating music has always been a passion, Dan took a more traditional professional path as a web developer. While on this path, Dan had a lot of experience with accessibility standards as it relates to the web and he values accessibility and equity for everyone both inside and outside the digital workspace. Having received his MBA during COVID, Dan went on to a leadership position where he continues to make a difference leading a team of tech-savvy web professionals.   In early 2024, I created a podcast and YouTube channel called "Time We Discuss" which focuses on career exploration and discovery. The channel and podcast are meant for anyone that is feeling lost professionally and unsure of what is out there for them. Dan feels that it is important for people to discover their professional passion, whatever it is that lights them up on the inside, and chase it. So many people are unfulfilled in their careers, yet it doesn't have to be this way.   When not working, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids. They are a very active family often going to various extracurricular events over the years including flag football, soccer, gymnastics, and school concerts.  Dan's wife is very active with several nonprofit organizations including those for the betterment of children and homelessness.  Dan enjoys playing the piano, listening to podcasts, and listening to music.  Dan is very naturally curious and is a slave to a train of never-ending thoughts.   Ways to connect with Dan:   Time We Discuss on YouTube Time We Discuss on Spotify Time We Discuss on Twitter/X Time We Discuss on Instagram Time We Discuss on BlueSky   Time We Discuss Website Dan Swift Music Website   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi everybody. Welcome once again. Wherever you may be, to unstoppable mindset, I am your host, Mike hingson, sometimes I say Michael hingson, and people have said, Well, is it Mike or Michael? And the answer is, it doesn't really matter. It took a master's degree in physics and 10 years in sales for me to realize that if I said Mike Hingson on the phone, people kept calling me Mr. Kingston, and I couldn't figure out why, so I started saying Michael Hingson, and they got the hinckson part right, but it doesn't matter to me. So anyway, Mike hingson, or Michael hingson, glad you're with us, wherever you are, and our guest today is Dan Swift, who has his own pine podcast, and it was actually through that podcast that we met, and I told him, but I wouldn't do it with him and be on his podcast unless he would be on unstoppable mindset. And here he is. Dan is a person who writes music, he's an engineer. He does a lot of work with web design and so on, and we're going to get into all that. So Dan, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Dan Swift ** 02:25 Michael, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me. I am. I'm super excited.   Michael Hingson ** 02:30 Well, looking forward to getting to spend more time with you. We did yours time to discuss, and now we get this one. So it's always kind of fun. So, and Dan is in Pennsylvania, so we're talking across the continent, which is fine. It's amazing what we can do with electronics these days, telling us not like the good old days of the covered wagon. What can I say? So, So Dan, why don't you tell us a little bit about kind of the early Dan, growing up and all that.   Dan Swift ** 02:57 Oh, geez. How far   Michael Hingson ** 02:58 back to go? Oh, as far as you want to go,   Dan Swift ** 03:02 Well, okay, so I am, I am the youngest of five. Grew up just outside of Philadelphia as being the youngest. You know, there are certain perks that go along with that. I get to experience things that my parents would have previous said no to the older siblings. And you know how it is with with, you know, if you have more than one kid, technically, you get a little more relaxed as you have more but then I also had the other benefit of, you know, hearing the expression, there are young ears in the room, I will tell you later. So I kind of got some of that too. But I grew up outside of Philadelphia, had a passion for music. Pretty early on. I was never good at any sports. Tried a number of things. And when I landed on music, I thought, you know, this is this is something that I can do. I seem to have a natural talent for it. And I started, I tried playing the piano when I was maybe eight or nine years old. That didn't pan out. Moved on to the trumpet when I was nine or 10. Eventually ended up picking up guitar, bass, guitar, double bass revisited piano later in life, but that's the musical side of things. Also, when I was young, you know, I had a passion for role playing games, Dungeons and Dragons, was really big when I was a teenager, so I was super excited for that. Yeah, that's, that's kind of those, those memories kind of forced me, or kind of shaped me into the person that I am today. I'm very light hearted, very easy going, and I just try to enjoy life.   Michael Hingson ** 04:30 I played some computer games when computers came along and I started fiddling with them, the games I usually played were text based games. I've never really played Dungeons and Dragons and some of those. And I I'm sure that there are accessible versions of of some of that, but I remember playing games like adventure. You remember? Have you heard of adventure? I have, yeah. So that was, that was fun. Info con made. Well, they had Zork, which was really the same as adventure, but they. At a whole bunch of games. And those are, those are fun. And I think all of those games, I know a lot of adults would probably say kids spend too much time on some of them, but some of these games, like the the text based games, I thought really were very good at expanding one's mind, and they made you think, which is really what was important to me? Yeah, I   Dan Swift ** 05:21 completely agree with that too. Because you'd be put in these situations where, you know true, you're trying to solve some kind of puzzle, and you're trying to think, Okay, well, that didn't work, or that didn't work, and you try all these different things, then you decide to leave and come back to and you realize later, like you didn't have something that you needed to progress forward, or something like that. But, but it really gets the brain going, trying to create with these, uh, come up with these creative solutions to progress the game forward. Yeah, which   Michael Hingson ** 05:43 and the creative people who made them in the first place? What did they? Yeah, they, I don't know where they, where they spent their whole time that they had nothing to do but to create these games. But hey, it worked. It sure. Did you know you do it well. So you went off to college. Where'd you go? Sure,   Dan Swift ** 06:02 I went to a small liberal arts college, Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. It's near, it's near Hershey. It was, it was weird in that my the entire school was about half the size of my entire high school. So that was very, very weird. And then you talk to these other people. And it's like, my high school was, you know, very large by comparison. But for me, it was like, well, high school, that's what I knew. But yeah, it was I went to, I went to 11 Valley College near Hershey. I studied, I was a double major. I studied music composition and music recording,   Michael Hingson ** 06:35 okay, and, oh, I've got to go back and ask before we continue that. So what were some of the real perks you got as a kid that your your older siblings didn't get?   Dan Swift ** 06:45 Oh, geez, okay. I mean,   Michael Hingson ** 06:49 couldn't resist, yeah, probably, probably   Dan Swift ** 06:51 some of the more cliche things. I probably got to spend the night at a friend's house earlier than my oldest brother. For instance, I know my parents were a little more concerned about finances. So I know my oldest brother didn't get a chance to go away to college. He did community college instead. And then, kind of, my sister was a very similar thing. And then once we got, like, about halfway down, you know, me and my two other brothers, we all had the opportunity to go away to college. So I think that was, that was definitely one of the perks. If I was the oldest, I was the oldest, I probably wouldn't have had that opportunity with my family. Got   Michael Hingson ** 07:24 it well, so you went off and you got a matt a bachelor's in music, composition and music recording. So that brought you to what you were interested in, part, which was the engineering aspect of it. But that certainly gave you a pretty well rounded education. Why those two why composition and recording? Sure.   Dan Swift ** 07:43 So if we talk about the music first at that time, so this is like the the late 90s, early 2000s any kind of digital music that was out there really was, was MIDI based, and anyone that was around that time and paying attention, it was like these very like, like that music kind of sound to it. So there wasn't a whole lot going on with MIDI. I'm sorry, with music as far as how great it sounded, or I shouldn't say, how great it sounded, the the instruments that are triggered by MIDI, they didn't sound all that great. But around that time, there was this game that came out, Final Fantasy seven, and I remember hearing the music for that, and it was all, it was all electronic, and it was just blown away by how fantastic it sounded. And And around that time, I thought, you know, it'd be really cool to get into writing music for video games. And that was something I really kind of toyed with. So that was kind of in the back of my head. But also, at the time, I was in a band, like a rock band, and I thought, you know, I'm going to school. They have this opportunity to work as a music engineer, which is something I really wanted to do at the time. And I thought, free studio time. My band will be here. This will be awesome. And it wasn't until I got there that I discovered that they also had the music composition program. It was a I was only there maybe a week or two, and once I discovered that, I was like, Well, this is gonna be great, you know, I'll learn to write. Know, I'll learn to write music. I can write for video games. I'll get engineering to go with it. This is gonna be fantastic. Speaking   Michael Hingson ** 09:07 of electronic music, did you ever see a science fiction movie called The Forbidden Planet? I did not. Oh, it's music. It's, it's not really music in the sense of what what we call, but it's all electronic. You gotta, you gotta find it. I'm sure you can find it somewhere. It's called the Forbidden Planet. Walter pigeon is in it. But the music and the sounds fit the movie, although it's all electronic, and electronic sounding pretty interesting.   Dan Swift ** 09:37 Now, is that from, I know, like in the 50s, 60s, there was a lot of experiments. Okay, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 09:45 yeah, and, but again, it fit the movie, which was the important part. So it certainly wasn't music like John Williams today and and in the 80s and all that. But again, for the movie, it fit. Very well, which is kind of cool. Yeah,   Dan Swift ** 10:02 I'll definitely have to check that out. I remember when I was in school, we talked about like that, that avant garde kind of style of the the 50s, 60s. And there was a lot of weird stuff going on with electronics, electronic music. Um, so I'm very curious to see, uh, to check this out, yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 10:14 You have to let me know what, what you find, what you think about it, when you get to chance to watch it, absolutely or actually, I I may have a copy. If I do, I'll put it in a dropbox folder and send you a link. Fantastic. So you graduated. Now, when did you graduate?   Dan Swift ** 10:32 Sure, so I graduated in 2003 okay,   Michael Hingson ** 10:35 so you graduated, and then what did you do? So,   Dan Swift ** 10:41 backing up about maybe 612, months prior to that, I decided I did not want to be a I didn't want to write music for video games. I also did not want to work in a recording studio. And the reason for this was for music. It was, I didn't it was, it was something I really, really enjoyed, and I didn't want to be put in a position where I had to produce music on demand. I didn't want to I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to lose my hobby, lose my passion in that way. So I decided that was out. And then also, when it came to working in a studio, if I wanted to be the engineer that I really wanted to be, I would have to be in a place where the music scene was really happening. So I'd have to be in like Philadelphia or Los Angeles or Nashville or deep in Philly or something like that. And I do not like the cities. I don't feel comfortable in the city. So I was like, that's not really for me either. I could work in like a suburb studio. But I was like, not, not for me. I don't, not for me. So when I graduated college, I ended up doing freelance web work. I had met through, through a mutual friend I was I was introduced to by a mutual friend, to a person that was looking for a new web designer, developer. They lost their person, and they were looking for someone to take over with that. And at the time, I did a little bit of experience doing that, from when I was in high school, kind of picked it up on the side, just kind of like as a hobby. But I was like, Ah, I'll give this a shot. So I started actually doing that freelance for a number of years after graduation. I also worked other jobs that was, like, kind of like nowhere, like dead end kind of jobs. I did customer service work for a little bit. I was a teacher with the American Cross for a little bit, a little bit of this and that, just trying to find my way. But at the same time, I was doing freelance stuff, and nothing related to music and nothing related to technology,   Michael Hingson ** 12:29 well, so you learned HTML coding and all that other stuff that goes along with all that. I gather, I   Dan Swift ** 12:35 sure did, I sure didn't. At the time, CSS was just kind of popular, yeah, so that. And then I learned, I learned JavaScript a little bit. And, you know, I had a very healthy attitude when it when it came to accepting new clients and projects, I always tried to learn something new. Anytime someone gave me a new a new request came in, it was like, Okay, well, I already know how to do this by doing it this way. But how can I make this better? And that was really the way that I really propelled myself forward in the in the digital, I should say, when it comes to development or design.   Michael Hingson ** 13:05 Okay, so you ended up really seriously going into website development and so on.   Dan Swift ** 13:15 I did. So I continued doing freelance. And then about five years after I graduated, I started working as an audio visual technician, and also was doing computer tech stuff as part of the role as well. And while I was there, I ended up developing some web applications for myself to use that I could use to interact with our like projectors and stuff like that. Because they were on, they were all in the network, so I could interact with them using my wait for it, iPod Touch, there you go. So that was, you know, I kind of like started to blend those two together. I was really interested in the web at the time, you know, because I was still doing the freelance, I really wanted to move forward and kind of find a full time position doing that. So I ended up pursuing that more and just trying to refine those skills. And it wasn't until about about five years later, I ended up working as a full time web developer, and then kind of moved forward from   Michael Hingson ** 14:09 there, iPod Touch, what memories? And there are probably bunches of people who don't even know what that is today. That   Dan Swift ** 14:16 is so true, and at the time that was cutting edge technology,   Michael Hingson ** 14:21 yeah, it was not accessible. So I didn't get to own one, because was later than that that Steve Jobs was finally kind of pushed with the threat of a lawsuit into making things accessible. And then they did make the iPhone, the iPod, the Mac and so on, and iTunes U and other things like that, accessible. And of course, what Steve Jobs did, what Apple did, which is what Microsoft eventually sort of has done as well, but he built accessibility into the operating system. So anybody who has an Apple device today. Troy actually has a device that can be made accessible by simply turning on the accessibility mode. Of course, if you're going to turn it on, you better learn how to use it, because the gestures are different. But it took a while, but, but that did happen. But by that time, I, you know, I had other things going on, and so I never did get an iPod and and wasn't able to make it work, but that's okay. But it's like the CD has gone away and the iPod has gone away, and so many things and DVDs have gone away.   Dan Swift ** 15:31 Yes, so true. So true. You know, just as soon as we start to get used to them   Michael Hingson ** 15:35 gone. I think there is, well, maybe it's close. There was a blockbuster open up in Oregon. But again, Blockbuster Video, another one, and I think somebody's trying to bring them back, but I do see that vinyl records are still being sold in various places by various people. Michael Buble just put out a new album, The Best of Buble, and it's available, among other things, in vinyl. So the old turntables, the old record players, and you can actually buy his album as a record and play it, which is kind of cool. Yeah, they've been   Dan Swift ** 16:07 very big with marketing, too. It's been kind of a marketing, I don't want to say gimmick, but in that realm, you kind of like, hey, you know, this is also available in vinyl, and you try to get the people that are like the audio files to really check it out. I never really took the vinyl personally, but I know plenty of people that have sworn by it. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 16:25 I've heard a number of people say that the audio actually is better on vinyl than typical MP three or other similar file formats. Yep,   Dan Swift ** 16:35 yep. I had a friend growing up, and actually, I shouldn't say growing up, so I was already, like, in college or post college, but a buddy of mine, Craig, he was all about vinyl, and he had, he had the nice, the amplifier, and the nice, I think even, like, a certain kind of needle that you would get for the record player. And you know, you'd have to sit in the sweet spot to really enjoy it, and and I respect that, but um, for me, it was like, I didn't, I didn't hear that much of a difference between a CD and vinyl. Um, not very. Didn't have the opportunity to AB test them. But now I will say comparing a CD to like an mp three file, for instance, even a high quality mp three file, I can tell the difference on that Sure. I would never, you know, I'd use the MP threes for convenience. But if I were to have it my way, man, I'd have the uncompressed audio, no doubt about it, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 17:27 wave forms, yep, yep, yeah. Obviously that's that's going to give you the real quality. Of course, it takes a lot more memory, but nevertheless, if you've got the space it, it really makes a lot of sense to do because mp three isn't going to be nearly as high a level quality.   Dan Swift ** 17:43 Absolutely, absolutely true. And that the way I rationalize it to myself. It's like, well, if I'm going to be though in the car or probably walking around and listening to music, I'm going to be getting all kinds of sounds from outside. Anyway, it kind of offsets the poor quality of the MP justify it.   Michael Hingson ** 17:56 That's true. Well, you know when and mp three is convenient if you want to put a bunch of stuff in a well on a memory card and be able to play it all, because if you have uncompressed audio, it does take a lot more space, and you can't put as much on a card, or you got to get a much bigger card. And now we're getting pretty good sized memory cards. But still, the reality is that that for most purposes, not all mp three will suffice.   Dan Swift ** 18:26 That is true. That is true. And I think too, you have a that the next battle is going to be mp three or a streaming,   Michael Hingson ** 18:33 yeah, yeah, that's going to be fun, isn't it? Yeah? Boy. What a world well. So one of the things I noticed in reading your bio and so on is that you got involved to a great degree in dealing with accessibility on the web. Tell me about that.   Dan Swift ** 18:55 Absolutely. Michael, so I've very strong opinions of accessibility. And this really comes back to, you know, I was, I was at my job, and I was only there as a full time developer. I wasn't there all that long, maybe a year, maybe two, and my supervisor came over to me and she said, you know, we want to start to make things more accessible. And this is like, this is like, 1012, years ago at this point, and I was like, okay, you know, and I did my little bit of research, and there wasn't a whole lot going on at the time. I don't think WCAG was a thing back then. It may have been. I can't remember if 508 was a thing at the in the Bible. It was okay, yeah. So I was doing my research, and, you know, you learn about the alt tags, and it's like, okay, well, we're doing that, okay. Then you learn about forms, and it's like, okay, well, they need to have labels, okay, but, but the turning point was this, Michael, we had a person on staff that was blind, and I was put in touch with this person, and I asked them to review like, different, different web applications. Applications we made, or forms or web pages. And the one day, I can't remember if he volunteered or if I asked, but essentially the request was, can this person come into our physical space and review stuff for us in person? And that experience was life changing for me, just watching him navigate our different web pages or web applications or forms, and seeing how he could go through it, see what was a problem, what was not a problem, was just an incredible experience. And I said this before, when given the opportunity to talk about this, I say to other developers and designers, if you ever have even the slightest opportunity to interact with someone, if they if, if you meet someone and they are using, let me, let me rephrase that, if you have the opportunity to watch someone that is blind using a navigate through the web, take, take that opportunity. Is just an amazing, amazing experience, and you draw so much from it. As a developer or designer, so very strong opinions about it, I'm all about inclusivity and making things equal for everyone on the web, and that was just my introductory experience about a dozen years ago.   Michael Hingson ** 21:07 And so what have you done with it all since? Sure, so   Dan Swift ** 21:11 with our website, we went from having about a million success criterion failures, and we've gotten it all the way down to, I think my last check, I think was maybe about 10,000 so it was huge, huge change. It's hard to get everything as because as content changes and newspaper, as new pages come online, it's hard to keep everything 100% accessible, but we know what to look for. You know, we're looking for the right contrast. We're looking for, you know, the all tags. We're looking for hierarchy with the headers. We're making sure our forms are accessible. We're making sure there aren't any keyboard traps, you know, things that most people, most web visitors, don't even think about, you know, or developers even thinking about, until you know, you need to think about them   Michael Hingson ** 22:00 well and other things as well, such as with other kinds of disabilities. If you're a person with epilepsy, for example, you don't want to go to a website and find blinking elements, or at least, you need to have a way to turn them off, yeah.   Dan Swift ** 22:13 Or or audio that starts automatically, or videos that start automatically, yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 22:19 So many different things, or video that starts automatically, and there's music, but there's no audio, so you so a blind person doesn't even know what the video is, yes, which, which happens all too often. But the the reality is that with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it's it's been interesting, because some lawyers have tried to fight the courts and say, well, but the ADA came out long before the internet, so we didn't know anything about the internet, so it doesn't apply. And finally, the Department of Justice is taking some stands to say, yes, it does, because the internet is a place of business, but it's going to have to be codified, I think, to really bring it home. But some courts have sided with that argument and said, Well, yeah, the ADA is too old, so it doesn't, doesn't matter. And so we still see so many challenges with the whole idea of access. And people listening to this podcast know that, among other things I work with a company called accessibe. Are you familiar with them? I am, Yep, yeah, and, and so that's been an interesting challenge. But what makes access to be interesting is that, because it has an artificial intelligent widget that can monitor a website, and at the at the low end of of costs. It's like $490 a year. And it may not pick up everything that a body needs, but it will, will do a lot. And going back to what you said earlier, as websites change, as they evolve, because people are doing things on their website, which they should be doing, if you've got a static website, you never do anything with it. That's not going to do you very much good. But if it's changing constantly, the widget, at least, can look at it and make a lot of the changes to keep the website accessible. The other part of it is that it can tell you what it can't do, which is cool,   Dan Swift ** 24:16 yeah, that's a really good point. You know, there's a lot of tools that are out there. They do monitor the stuff for you, you know, like we on our on our site, we have something that runs every night and it gives us a report every day. But then there are things that it doesn't always check, or it might, it might get a false positive, because it sees that like, you know, this element has a particular color background and the text is a particular color as well. But there's, you know, maybe a gradient image that lies between them, or an image that lies between them. So it's actually okay, even though the tool says it's not, or something like that. So, yeah, those automated tools, but you gotta also look at it. You know, a human has to look at those as well.   Michael Hingson ** 24:52 Yeah, it's a challenge. But the thing that I think is important with, well, say, use accessibe. An example is that I think every web developer should use accessibe. And the reason I think that is not that accessibe will necessarily do a perfect job with with the access widget, but what it will do is give you something that is constantly monitored, and even if it only makes about 50% of the website more usable because there are complex graphics and other things that it can't do, the reality is, why work harder than you have to, and if accessibility can do a lot of the work for you without you having to do it, it doesn't mean that you need to charge less or you need to do things any different, other than the fact that you save a lot of time on doing part of it because the widget does it for you. Absolutely, absolutely.   Dan Swift ** 25:47 That's that's a really, really good point too, having that tool, that tool in your tool belt, you know, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 25:55 yeah. And it makes a lot of sense to do. And there are, there are people who complain about products like accessibe, saying artificial intelligence can't do it. It's too new. You gotta start somewhere. And the reality is that accessibe, in of itself, does a lot, and it really makes websites a lot better than they otherwise were. And some people say, Well, we've gone to websites and accessibe doesn't really seem to make a difference on the site. Maybe not. But even if your website is pretty good up front and you use accessibe, it's that time that you change something that you don't notice and suddenly accessibe fixes it. That makes it better. It's an interesting discussion all the way around, but to to deny the reality of what an AI oriented system can do is, is really just putting your head in the sand and not really being realistic about life as we go forward. I think that is   Dan Swift ** 26:52 so true. That is so true, and there's so many implications with AI and where it's going to go and what it will be able to do. You know, it's just in its infancy, and the amount of things that that the possibilities of what the future is going to be like, but they're just going to be very, very interesting.   Michael Hingson ** 27:05 I interviewed someone, well, I can't say interview, because it's conversation. Well, I had a conversation with someone earlier on, unstoppable mindset, and he said something very interesting. He's a coach, and specifically, he does a lot of work with AI, and he had one customer that he really encouraged to start using chat GPT. And what this customer did, he called his senior staff into a meeting one day, and he said, Okay, I want you to take the rest of the day and just work with chat, G, P, T, and create ideas that will enhance our business, and then let's get together tomorrow to discuss them. And he did that because he wanted people to realize the value already that exists using some of this technology. Well, these people came back with incredible ideas because they took the time to focus on them, and again, they interacted with chat, GPT. So it was a symbiotic, is probably the wrong word, but synergistic, kind of relationship, where they and the AI system worked together and created, apparently, what became really clever ideas that enhanced this customer's business. And the guy, when he first started working with this coach, was totally down on AI, but after that day of interaction with his staff, he recognized the value of it. And I think the really important key of AI is AI will not replace anyone. And that's what this gentleman said to me. He said, AI won't do it. People may replace other people, which really means they're not using AI properly, because if they were, when they find that they can use artificial intelligence to do the job that someone else is doing, you don't get rid of that person. You find something else for them to do. And the conversation that we had was about truck drivers who are involved in transporting freight from one place to another. If you get to the point where you have an autonomous vehicle, who can really do that, you still keep a driver behind the wheel, but that driver is now doing other things for the company, while the AI system does the driving, once it gets dependable enough to do that. So he said, there's no reason for AI to eliminate, and it won't. It's people that do it eliminate any job at all, which I think is a very clever and appropriate response. And I completely agree   Dan Swift ** 29:29 with that, you know, you think of other other technologies that are out there and how it disrupted, disrupted different industries. And the one example I like to use is the traffic light, you know. And I wonder, and I have no way of knowing this. I haven't researched this at all, but I wonder if there was any kind of pushback when they started putting in traffic lights. Because at that point in time, maybe you didn't have people directing traffic or something like that. Or maybe that was the event of the stop sign, it took it took away the jobs of people that were directing traffic or something like that. Maybe there was some kind of uproar over that. Maybe not, I don't know, but I like to think that things like that, you know. It disrupts the industry. But then people move on, and there are other other opportunities for them, and it progresses. It makes society progress forward.   Michael Hingson ** 30:06 And one would note that we still do use school crossing guards at a lot of schools.   Dan Swift ** 30:11 That is so true, that is true. Yeah, yeah. And especially, too, like talking about idea generation. I was talking to ginger. I forgot her last name, but she's the the president of pinstripe marketing, and she was saying that her team sometimes does the same thing that they they use chat GBT for idea generation. And I think, let's say Ashley, I think Ashley Mason, I think was her name, from Dasha social. The same thing they use, they use a chat GPT for idea generation, not not necessarily for creating the content, but for idea generation and the ideas it comes up with. It could be it can save you a lot of time. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 30:48 it can. And you know, I've heard over the last year plus how a lot of school teachers are very concerned that kids will just go off and get chat GPT to write their papers. And every time I started hearing that, I made the comment, why not let it do that? You're not thinking about it in the right way. If a kid goes off and just uses chat GPT to write their paper, they do that and they turn it into you. The question is, then, what are you as the teacher, going to do? And I submit that what the teachers ought to do is, when they assign a paper and the class all turns in their papers, then what you do is you take one period, and you give each student a minute to come up and defend without having the paper in front of them their paper. You'll find out very quickly who knows what. And it's, I think it's a potentially great teaching tool that   Dan Swift ** 31:48 is fascinating, that perspective is awesome. I love that.   Speaker 1 ** 31:52 Well, it makes sense. It   Dan Swift ** 31:55 certainly does. It certainly does. And that made me think of this too. You know, there's a lot of pushback from from artists about how that, you know, their their art was being used, or art is being used by AI to generate, you know, new art, essentially. And and musicians are saying the same thing that they're taking our stuff, it's getting fed into chat, GPT or whatever, and they're using it to train these different models. And I read this, this article. I don't even know where it was, but it's probably a couple months ago at this point. And the person made this comparison, and the person said, you know, it's really no different than a person learning how to paint in school by studying other people's art. You know, it's the same idea. It's just at a much, much much accelerated pace. And I thought, you know what that's that's kind of interesting. It's an interesting   Michael Hingson ** 32:45 perspective. It is. I do agree that we need to be concerned, that the human element is important. And there are a lot of things that people are are doing already to misuse some of this, this AI stuff, these AI tools, but we already have the dark web. We've had that for a while, too. I've never been to the dark web. I don't know how to get to it. That's fine. I don't need to go to the dark web. Besides that, I'll bet it's not accessible anyway. But the we've had the dark web, and people have accepted the fact that it's there, and there are people who monitor it and and all that. But the reality is, people are going to misuse things. They're going to be people who will misuse and, yeah, we have to be clever enough to try to ferret that out. But the fact of the matter is, AI offers so much already. One of the things that I heard, oh, gosh, I don't whether it was this year or late last year, was that, using artificial intelligence, Pfizer and other organizations actually created in only a couple of days? Or moderna, I guess, is the other one, the COVID vaccines that we have. If people had to do it alone, it would have taken them years that that we didn't have. And the reality is that using artificial intelligence, it was only a few days, and they had the beginnings of those solutions because they they created a really neat application and put the system to work. Why wouldn't we want to do that?   Dan Swift ** 34:23 I completely agree. I completely agree. And that's, again, that's how you move society forward. You know, it's similar to the idea of, you know, testing medicine on or testing medications on animals. For instance, you know, I love animals. You know, I love dogs, bunnies. I mean, the whole, the whole gamut, you know, love animals, but I understand the importance of, you know, well, do we test on them, or do we press on people, you know, you gotta, or do you not test? Or do just not you like you gotta. You gotta weigh out the pros and cons. And they're, they're definitely, definitely those with AI as well.   Michael Hingson ** 34:56 Well, I agree, and I. With animals and people. Now, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, we ought to be doing tests on politicians. You know, they're not people. Anyway. So I think when you decide to become a politician, you take a special pill that nobody seems to be able to prove, but they take dumb pills, so they're all there. But anyway, I'm with Mark Twain. Congress is at Grand Ole benevolent asylum for the helpless. So I'm an equal opportunity abuser, which is why we don't do politics on unstoppable mindset. We can have a lot of fun with it, I'm sure, but we sure could. It would be great talk about artificial intelligence. You got politicians. But the reality is that it's, it's really something that that brings so much opportunity, and I'm and it's going to continue to do that, and every day, as we see advances in what AI is doing, we will continue to see advances and what is open for us to be able to utilize it to accomplish, which is cool. I   Dan Swift ** 36:04 completely agree. Completely agree. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 36:06 so it'll be fun to see you know kind of how it goes. So are you, do you work for a company now that makes websites? Or what is your company that you work for? Do, sure.   Dan Swift ** 36:16 So I'm still in the education space, so I'm still, I'm like, in a state school managing a team of web professionals.   Michael Hingson ** 36:23 Okay, well, that's cool. So you keep the school sites and all the things that go along with it up at all that   Dan Swift ** 36:31 is correct. And we have lots of fun challenges when we start to integrate with third parties and got to make sure they're accessible too. And sometimes there's dialog that goes back and forth that people aren't happy with but, but it's my job to make sure, that's one of the things that we make sure happens, especially since I'm sure you've been following this. There's the Department of Justice ruling back in April, but I think it's anyone that's receiving state funding, they have to be. They have to follow the WCAG. Two point, I think, 2.1 double A compliance by April of 26 if you are a certain size, and my my institution, falls into that category. So we need to make sure that we were on the right path   Michael Hingson ** 37:06 well. And the reality is that has been around since 2010 but it took the the DOJ 12 years to finally come up with rules and regulations to implement section 508. Yep, but it's it's high time they did and they do need to do it for the rest of the internet, and that's coming, but people are just being slow. And for me personally, I think it's just amazing that it's taking so long. It's not like you have to redesign a box, that you have to go off and retool hardware. This is all code. Why should it be that difficult to do? But people throw roadblocks in your way, and so it becomes tough. Yeah, it's   Dan Swift ** 37:47 interesting, too. I remember reading this article, oh, gosh, this is probably, this is probably about a dozen years ago, and it said that, you know, the original web was 100% accessible, that it was just, you know, just text on a page pretty much. And you could do very, very simple layouts, you know, and then it got more convoluted. People would start doing tables for layouts, and tables within tables within tables, and so on and so forth. Like the original web it was, it was completely accessible. And now with, with all the the interactions we do with with client side scripting and everything like that, is just, it's a mess. If   Michael Hingson ** 38:19 you really want to hear an interesting thing, I like to look and I've done it for a long time, long before accessibe. I like to explore different sites and see how accessible they are. And one day I visited nsa.gov, the National Security Agency, which, of course, doesn't really exist. So I could tell you stories, but I went to nsa.gov, and I found that that was the most accessible website I had ever encountered. If you arrow down to a picture, for example, when you arrowed into it, suddenly you got on your screen reader a complete verbal description of what the picture was, and everything about that site was totally usable and totally accessible. I'd never seen a website that was so good contrast that with and it's changed. I want to be upfront about it, Martha Stewart Living. The first time I went to that website because I was selling products that Martha Stewart was interested. So I went to look at the website. It was totally inaccessible. The screen reader wouldn't talk at all. Now, I've been to Martha Stewart since, and it's and it's much more accessible, but, but I was just amazed@nsa.gov was so accessible. It was amazing, which I thought was really pretty cool. Of all places. You   Dan Swift ** 39:41 know, it's interesting. Before I started my my YouTube channel and podcast, I actually thought about creating a channel and or podcast about websites that are inaccessible, and I thought about calling companies out. And the more I thought about it, I was like, I don't know if I want to make that many people angry. I don't know if that's a   Michael Hingson ** 39:58 good idea. I'm. Would suggest going the other way, and maybe, you know, maybe we can work together on it. But I would rather feature websites that are accessible and tell the story of how they got there, how their people got there. I would think that would be, I hear what you're saying about making people angry. So I would think, rather than doing that, feature the places that are and why they are and and their stories, and that might help motivate more people to make their websites accessible. What do you think about that as an idea?   Dan Swift ** 40:28 I actually thought about that as well, and I was going backwards between that and and the other the negative side, because I thought, you know, bring that to light. Might actually force them to like by shedding light on it, might force them to make their site more accessible, whether what or not or not, no, but I definitely thought about those two sites.   Michael Hingson ** 40:45 Yeah, it's, it's, it's a challenge all the way around. Well, what was the very first thing you did, the first experience that you ever had dealing with accessibility that got you started down that road.   Dan Swift ** 40:58 I think it was like I said, when I work with that, that blind person, when I, when I first had that opportunity to see how he used the different web applications, we had the different web pages, and he was using a Mac. So he was using VoiceOver, he was using the, I think it's called the rotor menu, or roto something like that. Yeah, yep. So then after that happened, it was like, whoa. I need to get them back so I can, like, learn to use this as well and do my own testing. So the IT department had an old I asked them. I said, Hey guys, do you have any any old MacBooks that I can use? I was like, it can be old. I just need to test it. I need to, I need it to test for accessibility on the web. They hooked me up with an old machine, you know, it wasn't super old, you know, but it was. It worked for me. It gave me an opportunity to do my testing, and then I kind of became like the person in the department to do that. Everyone else, they didn't have the interest as much as I did. They recognized the importance of it, but they, they didn't have the same fire on the inside that I had, so I kind of took that on, and then like that. Now that I'm in the position of leadership, now it's more of a delegating that and making sure it still gets done. But I'm kind of like the resident expert in our in our area, so I'm still kind of the person that dives in a little bit by trying to make my team aware and do the things they need to do to make sure we're continuing, continuing to create accessible projects. You   Michael Hingson ** 42:20 mentioned earlier about the whole idea of third party products and so on and and dealing with them. What do you do? And how do you deal with a company? Let's say you you need to use somebody else's product and some of the things that the school system has to do, and you find they're not accessible. What do you do?   Dan Swift ** 42:42 So a lot of times, what will happen, I shouldn't say a lot of times. It's not uncommon for a department to make a purchase from a third party, and this is strictly, I'm talking in the web space. They might, they might make a purchase with a third party, and then they want us to integrate it. And this is a great example I had. It was actually in the spring the this, they had essentially a widget that would be on the on their particular set of pages, and there was a pop up that would appear. And don't get me started on pop ups, because I got very strong opinion about those. Me too, like I said, growing up, you know, late 90s, early 2000s very, very strong opinions about pop ups. So, but, but I encountered this, and it wasn't accessible. And I'm glad that in the position I'm in, I could say this unit, you need to talk to the company, and they need to fix this, or I'm taking it down. And I'm glad that I had the backing from, you know, from leadership, essentially, that I could do, I can make that claim and then do that, and the company ended up fixing it. So that was good. Another example was another department was getting ready to buy something. Actually, no, they had already purchased it, but they hadn't implemented it yet. The first example that was already implemented, that was I discovered that after the fact. So in the second example, they were getting ready to implement it, and they showed us another school that used it also a pop up. And I looked at it on the on the other school site, and I said, this isn't accessible. We cannot use this. No. And they said, Well, yes, it is. And I said, No, it isn't. And I explained to them, and I showed them how it was not accessible, and they ended up taking it back to their developers. Apparently there was a bug that they then fixed and they made it accessible, and then we could implement it. So it's nice that like that. I have the support from from leadership, that if there is something that is inaccessible, I have the power to kind of wheel my fist and take that down, take it off of our site. Do   Michael Hingson ** 44:31 you ever find that when some of this comes up within the school system, that departments push back, or have they caught on and recognize the value of accessibility, so they'll be supportive.   Dan Swift ** 44:45 I think the frustration with them becomes more of we bought this tool. We wish we had known this was an issue before we bought I think it's more of a like like that. We just wasted our time and money, possibly. But generally speaking, they do see the. Value of it, and they've recognized the importance of it. It's just more of a when others, there's more hoops everyone has to go through.   Michael Hingson ** 45:05 Yeah, and as you mentioned with pop ups, especially, it's a real challenge, because you could be on a website, and a lot of times A pop up will come up and it messes up the website for people with screen readers and so on. And part of the problem is we don't even always find the place to close or take down the pop up, which is really very frustrating   Dan Swift ** 45:30 Exactly, exactly the tab index could be off, or you could still be on the page somewhere, and it doesn't allow you to get into it and remove it, or, yeah, and extra bonus points if they also have an audio playing or a video playing inside of that.   Michael Hingson ** 45:44 Yeah, it really does make life a big challenge, which is very, very frustrating all the way around. Yeah, pop ups are definitely a big pain in the butt, and I know with accessibility, we're we're all very concerned about that, but still, pop ups do occur. And the neat thing about a product like accessibe, and one of the reasons I really support it, is it's scalable, and that is that as the people who develop the product at accessibe improve it, those improvements filter down to everybody using the widget, which is really cool, and that's important, because with individual websites where somebody has to code it in and keep monitoring it, as you pointed out, the problem is, if that's all you have, then you've got to keep paying people to to monitor everything, to make sure everything stays accessible and coded properly, whereas there are ways to be able to take advantage of something like accessibe, where what you're able to do is let it, monitor it, and as accessibe learns, and I've got some great examples where people contacted me because they had things like a shopping cart on a website that didn't work, but when accessibe fixed it, because it turns out there was something that needed to be addressed that got fixed for anybody using the product. Which is really cool.   Dan Swift ** 47:07 Yeah, that's really neat. I definitely appreciate things like that where, you know, you essentially fix something for one person, it's fixed for everyone, or a new feature gets added for someone, or, you know, a group of people, for instance, and then everyone is able to benefit from that. That's really, really awesome. I love that type of stuff.   Michael Hingson ** 47:22 Yeah, I think it's really so cool. How has all this business with accessibility and so on affected you in terms of your YouTube channel and podcasting and so on? How do you bring that into the process? That's that's   Dan Swift ** 47:37 really, really good question. I am very proud to say that I take the time to create transcripts of all my recordings, and then I go through them, and I check them for for accuracy, to make sure that things aren't correct, things are incorrect. Make sure things are correct, that they are not incorrect. So I'll make sure that those are there when the when the videos go live, those are available. Spotify creates them automatically for you. I don't know that you that I have the ability to modify them. I'm assuming I probably do, but honestly, I haven't checked into that. But so that's that's all accessible. When it comes to my web page, I make sure that all my images have the appropriate, you know, alt tags associated with them, that the the descriptions are there so people understand what the pictures are. I don't have a whole lot of pictures. Usually it's just the thumbnail for the videos, so just indicating what it is. And then I just try to be, you know, kind of, kind of text heavy. I try to make sure that my, you know, my links are not, you know, click here, learn more stuff like that. I make sure or they're not actual web addresses. I try to make sure that they're actual actionable. So when someone's using a screen reader and they go over a link, it actually is meaningful. And color contrast is another big one. I try to make sure my color contrast is meeting the appropriate level for WCAG, 2.1 double A which I can't remember what actual contrast is, but there's a contrast checker for it, which is really, really helpful   Michael Hingson ** 49:00 well. And the other, the other part about it is when somebody goes to your website again, of course, accessibility is different for different people, so when you're dealing with things like contrast or whatever, do people who come to the website have the ability to monitor or not monitor, but modify some of those settings so that they get maybe a higher contrast or change colors. Or do they have that ability?   Dan Swift ** 49:28 I They do not have that ability. I remember looking into a tool a while ago, and it was and actually, you know, at the school, we thought about developing a tool. It would be like a widget on the side that you could adjust on different things like that. You could do, you could remove images, you could remove animation, you could change color, contrast, that sort of thing. And it just be like a very predefined kind of kind of settings. But in my research, I found that a lot of times that causes other problems for people, and it kind of falls into the the arena of. Um, separate but equal. And there's a lot of issues with that right now in the accessibility space when it comes to the web. So for instance, there was a company, I forget what the company name was, but they had one of their things that they did was they would create text only versions of your pages. So you'd contract with them. They would they would scrape the content of your site. They would create a text version, text only version of your pages. So if people were using a screen reader, they could just follow that link and then browse the text only version. And there was litigation, and the company got sued, and the the person suing was successful, because it was essentially creating a separate argument.   Michael Hingson ** 50:34 And that's not necessarily separate, but equal is the problem, because if you only got the text, pictures are put on websites, graphs are put on websites. All of those other kinds of materials are put on websites for reasons. And so what really needs to happen is that those other things need to be made accessible, which is doable, and the whole web con excessive content. Accessibility Guidelines do offer the the information as to how to do that and what to do, but it is important that that other information be made available, because otherwise it really is separate, but not totally equal at   Dan Swift ** 51:11 all. That's absolutely true. Absolutely true. Yeah. So it   Michael Hingson ** 51:15 is a, it is something to, you know, to look at well, you've been doing a podcast and so on for a while. What are some challenges that someone might face that you advise people about if they're going to create their own podcast or a really productive YouTube channel,   Dan Swift ** 51:31 be real with yourself with the amount of time you have to dedicate to it, because what I found is that it takes a lot more time than I originally anticipated I thought going in, I thought, you know, so I typically try to record one or two people a week. When I first started out, I was only recording one person. And usually I would do, you know, record one day, edit the next day, you know, do the web page stuff. I would go with it, you know, I can knock it out in like an hour or two. But I wasn't anticipating the social media stuff that goes with it, the search engine optimization that goes with it, the research that goes with it, trying to so if I'm if I'm producing a video that's going to go on YouTube, what's hot at the moment? What are people actually searching for? What's going to grab people's attention? What kind of thumbnail do I have to create to grab someone's attention, where it's not clickbait, but it also represents what I'm actually talking to the person about, and still interesting. So it's a lot of a lot of that research, a lot of that sort of thing. It just eats up a lot a lot of time when it comes to like the transcripts, for instance, that was those super easy on their number of services out there that created automatically for you, and they just have to read through it and make sure it's okay. I know YouTube will do it as well. I found that YouTube isn't as good as some of the other services that are out there, but in a bind, you can at least rely on YouTube and then go and edit from that point. But yet, time is definitely a big one. I would say, if anyone is starting to do it, make sure you have some serious time to dedicate several, several hours a week, I would say, upwards, you know, probably a good, you know, four to 10 hours a week is what I would estimate in the moment. If you're looking to produce a 30 minute segment once or twice a week, I would estimate about that time.   Michael Hingson ** 53:11 Yeah, one of the things I've been hearing about videos is that that the trend is is clearly not to have long videos, but only 32nd videos, and put them vertical as opposed to horizontal. And anything over 30 seconds is is not good, which seems to me to really not challenge people to deal with having enough content to make something relevant, because you can't do everything in 30 seconds exactly,   Dan Swift ** 53:41 and what I found too. So this was very this was a little bit of a learning curve for me. So with, with the YouTube shorts that you have, they have to be a minute or less. I mean, now they're actually in the process of changing it to three minutes or less. I do not have that access yet, but it has Go ahead, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so. But what I'm finding Michael is that the people that so I might create this a great example. So I was interviewing a comedian in New York City, Meredith Dietz, awesome, awesome episode. But I was talking to her about becoming a comedian, and I made about four different shorts for her from her video, and I was doing a new one each week to kind of promote it. And the videos, for me, they were getting a lot I was getting anywhere between maybe 315 100 views on the short for me, that was awesome. For other people, you know, that might be nothing, but for me, that was awesome. But what I found was that the people that watch the shorts aren't necessarily the same people that watch the long form videos. So I'm or, or I might get subscribers from people that watch the shorts, but then they're not actually watching the video. And in the end, that kind of hurts your channel, because it's showing, it's telling the YouTube I'm gonna use air quotes, YouTube algorithm that my subscribers aren't interested in my content, and it ends up hurting me more. So anyone that's trying to play that game. And be aware of that. You know, you can't get more subscribers through shorts, but if you're not converting them, it's going to hurt you.   Michael Hingson ** 55:05 I can accept three minutes, but 30 seconds just seems to be really strange. And I was asked once to produce a demonstration of accessibe on a website. They said you got to do it in 30 seconds, or no more than a minute, but preferably 30 seconds. Well, you can't do that if, in part, you're also trying to explain what a screen reader is and everything else. The reality is, there's got to be some tolerance. And I think that the potential is there to do that. But it isn't all about eyesight, which is, of course, the real issue from my perspective. Anyway.   Dan Swift ** 55:41 Yeah, I completely agree. I think what YouTube is trying to do, and I believe in getting this from Tiktok, I think Tiktok has three up to three minutes. Actually, there might be 10 minutes now that I think about it, but, but I think they're trying to follow the trend, and it's like, let's make videos slightly longer and see how that goes. So be very curious to see how that all pans out.   Michael Hingson ** 55:58 Well. And I think that makes sense. I think there's some value in that, but 30 seconds is not enough time to get real content, and if people dumb down to that point, then that's pretty scary. So I'm glad to hear that the trend seems to be going a little bit longer, which is, which is a good thing, which is pretty important to be able to do. Yeah, I completely   Dan Swift ** 56:21 agree. Because like that, the trend right now, it's, you know, people, they want stuff immediately, and if you don't catch them in 10 seconds, they're swiping onto something else, which is which is very challenging, at least, especially for me and what I do. Who's   Michael Hingson ** 56:32 the most inspiring guest that you've ever had on your podcast?   Dan Swift ** 56:37 Michael, this is a good one. This is a good one. So the video for Ashley Mason. She is a social media marketing she created a social medi

In this episode, I sit down with Nyk Danu to explore her inspiring journey from a professional hairstylist and hair color educator to a successful yoga teacher and business mentor for other yoga teachers. Nyk shares the pivotal moments that led her to embrace yoga, the challenges she faced, and the strategies she developed to not only sustain but thrive in her new career. We dive deep into the benefits of registered series versus drop-in classes, the importance of niching for yoga teachers, and how to build a supportive community both in-person and online. Nyk also offers practical advice for yoga teachers looking to transition to a more sustainable business model, including marketing approaches and leveraging technology for administrative tasks. Get To Know Nyk: Nyk Danu is a certified Yoga Therapist, Yin Yoga Teacher Trainer, Yoga business mentor, and host of A Yin Yoga podcast. She's a fiercely independent Sagittarius, misfit, introvert, bookworm, cat charmer, crow whisperer, Buddhist, seeker of truth, and a long-term pro-activist who's not-so-secretly out to save the world. Nyk lives in the magical city of Victoria on the enchanted Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada. In her weekly public classes, she teaches Therapeutic Yoga to MisFits. Gen Xers (and sometimes Y) who don't feel at home in mainstream Yoga circles: the rebels, underdogs, introverts, neurodiverse, geeks, and bookworms. As a Yoga Therapist, her specialty is helping MisFits with Back Pain and Anxiety. Nyk has been practicing Yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004. In 2007 she fell madly in love with Yin Yoga and has since done 500+ hours of Yin Yoga training with Paul Grilley. Her passion for Yin Yoga sparked a deep resonance and curiosity for Traditional Chinese Medicine. This then drew her to study 2300 hours of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific Rim College. In 2017 She received a 800 hour of Yoga therapy certification from Ajna Yoga College in Victoria BC. Nyk has since combined her Yoga Therapy Training, Yin Yoga Training and, Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge to create a unique Therapeutic Yin Yoga teacher training program that has gotten rave reviews. When she is not teaching Yoga you will likely find her on the beach with a book or curled up with her fella watching Star Trek or Anime. Links:  Claim your OfferingTree Free trial + 50% off your first three months or 15% an annual subscription. Head to https://allmatstaken.com/tree to grab your discount. Sign Up to The Newsletter to Get on The All Mats Taken Yoga Business Summit Waitlist: https://allmatstaken.com Connect with Adrianne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrettdigital  Connect with Nyk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nykdanuyoga/ and https://www.instagram.com/yinyogapodcast/  Check out Nyk's website: https://nykdanu.com/teachers/  Grab this freebie from Nyk: So You Think You Can Niche Workshop: https://nykdanu.com/teachers/yoga-business-mentorship/workshops/#signup 

Nick Danu, host of the Yin Yoga Podcast, returns to talk with J about navigating the yoga profession in a post-pandemic time. They discuss the importance of email lists and independent Online platforms, courses vs drop-in classes, resumes and teaching jobs, alternative spaces, communities, transitioning students to registered series, enforcing cancellation policies, administration of weekly schedule, group check-ins, normalizing human experience, customization of lesson plans, podcasting, and what makes the challenge feel worth while.   To subscribe and support the show… GET PREMIUM.   Check out J's other podcast… J. BROWN YOGA THOUGHTS.    

Digitalizace, čistá mobilita, konkurenceschopnost, dovednosti a rovné podmínky, to je pět pilířů, na kterých Evropská komise postavila akční plán pro automobilový průmysl. Na jedné straně změkčuje emisní limity a pokuty, na straně druhé ovšem ponechává rok 2035. „Vítám to,“ chválí europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN). „Rozložení pokut a emisních cílů pouze do tří let je problematické,“ odporuje jí europoslanec Ondřej Krutílek (ODS) v Pro a proti.

Brusel dá dvě miliardy eur na podporu výroby autobaterií a zmírní pokuty při nesplnění emisních cílů. Dál ale trvá na tom, aby nová auta měla v roce 2035 nulové emise. Je takový plán cesta ke konkurenceschopnému evropskému automotivu? V Pro a proti se Karolína Koubová zeptá europoslankyně lidovecké frakce Danuše Nerudové z hnutí STAN a europoslance z frakce konzervativců a reformistů Ondřeje Krutílka z ODS. Moderuje Karolína KoubováVšechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Digitalizace, čistá mobilita, konkurenceschopnost, dovednosti a rovné podmínky, to je pět pilířů, na kterých Evropská komise postavila akční plán pro automobilový průmysl. Na jedné straně změkčuje emisní limity a pokuty, na straně druhé ovšem ponechává rok 2035. „Vítám to,“ chválí europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN). „Rozložení pokut a emisních cílů pouze do tří let je problematické,“ odporuje jí europoslanec Ondřej Krutílek (ODS) v Pro a proti.Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Krustpunktā Brīvais mikrofons ar izdevniecības "Žurnāls Santa" žurnālisti un redaktore, Ganta fonda brīvprātīgo Danu Sinkeviču.  

Danu Ardhata believes that living in two completely different worlds has always fueled his creative ventures. Born in Chicago and raised in Jakarta, the Indonesian-American graphic designer and brand strategist recently earned his master's degree at ArtCenter College of Design, California. He talks about his upbringing, learning software on his own, and why The Intern is such a special movie.-Danu Ardhata first discovered graphic design in the 12th grade, but long before that, he was already captivated by the visual storytelling of movie posters and the immersive branding of events, from promotional materials and stage designs to merchandising. He's been recognized by PRINT Magazine, the 2024 Community Choice New Visual Artist Winner, and 2024 New Visual Artist 15 under 30, alongside accolades from Graphic Design USA, Core77, and Graphis.https://www.danuardhata.com/about-me https://www.instagram.com/danudanari/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/danu-ardhatahttps://www.printmag.com/new-visual-artists/print-new-visual-artist-community-choice-winner/ -The Intern (2015)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3Xban0Y6A https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/intern-movie-set-design https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/movies-set-in-brooklyn-intern-bridge-of-spies/ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-the-intern-review-20150925-story.html

Svaki dan, sa svim što jest, dobar jer je Božji neprocjenjiv dar, jer tek u njega stane život, jer je moj i tvoj i jedini izvjestan koji imamo i koji živimo.

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Prezident Petr Pavel v novoročním projevu stejně jako před rokem rozvířil debatu o přijetí společné evropské měny. „Tohle je takové netéma. Jestli je na něčem shoda, tak na tom, že euro už dávno není ekonomický projekt, ale projekt politický,“ upozorňuje pro Český rozhlas Plus poslanec Patrik Nacher (ANO). „Veřejný prostor jsme dlouho nechávali ideologickým demagogům a nikdo nevysvětloval pozitivní efekty přijetí eura,“ kritizuje europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN).Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Our guest, Nyk Danu, shares her journey with yin yoga and how it has become a refuge for her as an HSP. Nyk is a certified yoga therapist, yin yoga teacher trainer, and yoga business mentor who specializes in teaching therapeutic yoga to students who don't feel at home in mainstream yoga circles. She combines her extensive training in yoga therapy, yin yoga, and traditional Chinese medicine to create a unique approach that prioritizes the nervous system and accessibility. If you've tried yin yoga before but found it uncomfortable or challenging, either because of the long holds, the quiet space, or the thoughts and sensations that arose, this episode is here to provide valuable insights and tips to help you deepen your practice. Nyk shares how therapeutic yin yoga can help HSPs build reserves, move energy, and find a soothing balm for their overstimulated selves.For everything else, get full show notes here: https://erikabelanger.com/255 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is an EPIC conversation with my friend Nyk Danu about the question of if, when, how, and why we use yoga props in Yin Yoga. Nyk is the host of A Yin Yoga Podcast, and she reached out to propose this crossover episode to share on both of our shows, because the no-props-in-Yin myth is a topic near and dear to both of our hearts. So what you'll hear here is less of an interview and more of a back and forth, or “fireside chat” (as Nyk calls it) where we really unpack this sometimes-controversial Yin subject. As you'll hear, the question of whether (or how) to use props in Yin Yoga touches on issues like accessibility, able-ism, trauma-informed teaching, and all kinds of cultural conditioning that sneaks into our practice. We talk about what it means to be true to a style or lineage, and how we align with the principles that make a Yin practice “yin.”  As we explore where the anti-props misnomer comes from, Nyk and I also reflect on our experiences training with the founders of the Yin Yoga style, and how the functional approach to yoga requires that we adapt poses to individual bodies. We also give several specific examples of how props have helped our students get more from the practice, and debunk the assumption that you'll outgrow using props as your practice advances.  There are also some practical suggestions for situations where minimal props are available, or where propping is too complicated or unable to solve a student's challenge with a pose. So, pull up your favorite blankets and bolsters, get comfy, and enjoy this fun and informative Yin Yoga conversation!  ---------- Guest Bio: Nyk Danu is a certified Yoga Therapist, Yin Yoga Teacher Trainer, and Yoga business mentor. She's a fiercely independent sagittarius, misfit, introvert, bookworm, cat charmer, crow whisperer, Buddhist, seeker of truth, and long term pro-activist who's not-so-secretly out to save the world. In 2007 she fell madly in love with Yin Yoga and has since done 500+ hours of Yin Yoga training with Paul Grilley. Her passion for Yin Yoga sparked a deep resonance and curiosity for Traditional Chinese Medicine. This then drew her to study 2300 hours of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific Rim College. Nyk has since combined her Yoga Therapy Training, Yin Yoga training and Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge to create a unique Therapeutic Yin Yoga teacher training program, and she is also the host of A Yin Yoga Podcast. ---------- For more links and resources mentioned in this episode, find the show notes at movedtomeditate.yoga/podcast. Holiday Sale: Use discount code HOLIDAY24 before December 24th to take 24% off the 8-hour Yin Yoga Poses + Props Training (normally $149)! To learn more about Nyk's work, visit her website at nykdanu.com, or check out her Yin Yoga Podcast!  Follow Nyk on Instagram at @nykdanuyoga  Feel free to reach out through my website with any episode requests, topics you'd like to hear about, or guest interview suggestions. You can also connect with me on Instagram or Threads at @addie_movedtomeditate (for mindfulness, movement, pictures of Pacific Northwest nature, crocheting projects, and my adorable kitty, Mustache).

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com               Copperplate Podcast 300                                   presented by Alan O'Leary                        December 2024                                  www.copperplatemailorder.com 1.Danu:  The Garsun Who Beat His Father.  All Things Considered. 2. Mick Conneely & David Munnelly:         P. Flanagan's/Hughie Traver's/Spoil the Dance.   Tis' What it is3 Carlos/Sweeney/McCartin: John Joe's/The Ladies Step Up to Tea/Byrne's Hill. The One After It 4. Garadice: Keep It Up/Cloone Reel/The Old Schoolmaster/The Missing Reel.  Garadice 6. Eleanor Shanley & Garadice: Wild Mountain Side.  Garadice 7. Laoise Kelly:  All Alive/Malcolm's New Fiddle/The Battering Ram.       Ceis  8. John Wynne & John McEvoy:      The Dancer at the Fair/Smash the Windows. The Dancer at the Fair 9. Johnny Connolly: Na Ceannabháin Bhána/Páidin O'Raifeartaigh.                 The Swallows Tail 10. Hughie Gillespie & Frank Kelly:                   Ah Surely/Dublin Reel. The Sparkling Dawn 11. Mick O'Brien & Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh: Farewell to Ireland/The Maid in the Cherry Tree/The Mistress of the House.   Deadly Buzz12. Tony Reidy:   The Boy in the Gap.   A Rough Shot of Lipstick13. Johnny Og Connolly: Tommy the Norman/Fitzharris Fling.                Fear Inis Bearachain  14. John Carthy & Mike McGoldrick:                The Groves HP.   At Our Leisure15. Dave Sheridan: The Hut in the Bog/Tom Dowd's Fave/The Trip to Cullenstown.  Drivin' Leitrim Timber 17. Garadice:  2 Mile Gate/Brigid McRory/Woods of Caol Ruadh.          Sanctuary 

Jakmile Moskva začala využívat pomoc severokorejských vojáků, povolili Američané Ukrajině používat jimi dodávané dalekonosné střely i na ruském území. „Padlo tabu – vojáci dalšího cizího státu vstoupili do války,“ podotýká pro Český rozhlas Plus europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN). „Vytvořila se koalice mezi Ruskem, Severní Koreou a Íránem,“ dodává její kolega z Evropského parlamentu Ondřej Knotek (ANO).Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Ve výborech Evropského parlamentu pokračují třetím dnem slyšení s kandidáty na členy nové Evropské komise. Ta se přitom nyní bude muset připravit na nová jednání s Donaldem Trumpem, který podruhé zvítězil v amerických prezidentských volbách. „Je potřeba Trumpovi vysvětlovat, že obchodní války nikdy nikomu nic dobrého nepřinesly,“ vysvětluje v pořadu Dvacet minut Radiožurnálu europoslankyně a ekonomka Danuše Nerudová (STAN).

Ve výborech Evropského parlamentu pokračují třetím dnem slyšení s kandidáty na členy nové Evropské komise. Ta se přitom nyní bude muset připravit na nová jednání s Donaldem Trumpem, který podruhé zvítězil v amerických prezidentských volbách. „Je potřeba Trumpovi vysvětlovat, že obchodní války nikdy nikomu nic dobrého nepřinesly,“ vysvětluje v pořadu Dvacet minut Radiožurnálu europoslankyně a ekonomka Danuše Nerudová (STAN).Všechny díly podcastu Dvacet minut Radiožurnálu můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Copperplate Podcast 299                                   presented by Alan O'Leary          November 2024                    www.copperplatemailorder.com 1.Danu:  The Garsun Who Beat His Father.  All Things Considered. 2. Garadice:  2 Mile Gate/Brigid McRory/Woods of Caol Ruadh.   Sanctuary 3 The Drunken Gaugers: Padraig O'Keeffe's/The Broken Windscreen/The Sailor's Cravat. The Drunken Gaugers 4. Mick O'Brien: Statia Donnelly's/I Will If I Can/Patsy Geary's.                   May Morning Dew 6. Eleanor Shanley & Garadice: Jock of Hazeldene.  Sanctuary 7. Laoise Kelly:  Little Jame's Hame/The Spey in Spate.  Ceis  8. Michael Sheehy:  The Worn Torn Petticoat/Scattery Island/The Kaiser.   The Cat's Rambles 9. Mike McGoldrick & John Carty:               The Gold Ring/Star of Munster.  At Our Leisure10. John Wynne & John McEvoy:                 The Piper's Despair/Mullingar Lea. Pride of the West 11. Donal Clancy: Whiskey, You're the Devil.   On The Lonesome Plain12. Gerry O'Brien:   Iniscealtra/Tonn Teine/Ormond Sound.                   No Place Like Home13. Dan Brouder: Eddie Kelly's/The Sailor's Cravat/Miss Thornton.                The Lark's Air  14. Helen Roche: The Lisburn Lass. Shake the Blossom Early 15. Dezi Donnelly & Mike McGoldrick:  Humours of LIssadel.Queen of May/Sweeney's Dream.  The Dog in the Fog16. London Lasses: Martin Wynne's #4/The Curlew/Nana Jo's. LL2517. Garadice:   The Ballintra Lasses/The Rock Reel/Silver Blessings/The Border Collie.   Sanctuary

Are you ready to redefine your yoga journey? Join Alysa as she chats with the inspiring Nyk Danu, a certified yoga therapist who has carved a niche for misfits, rebels, and introverts in the yoga community. Nyk's unexpected journey into yoga, sparked by a friend's invitation, led her to question the stereotypes surrounding mainstream yoga circles. Her passion for creating an inclusive space is fueled by her love for punk rock and a desire to resonate with those who often feel out of place.Discover the power of feminine marketing and its role in reshaping business practices for personal sovereignty and success. Their conversation tackles the frustration with traditional, aggressive marketing tactics and highlights the beauty of authentic, heart-centered approaches. They dive into metaphors of flowers attracting bees and the steadfastness of a lighthouse, illustrating how embracing your true nature can empower your business endeavors. This insightful discussion encourages embracing ethics and authenticity to foster genuine client connections and business growth.Explore the importance of balancing service and self in business with our discussion on mindful marketing and resonance. They challenge the language of traditional business terminologies, opting for a more thoughtful, client-focused approach. Nick shares personal experiences, emphasizing the significance of ensuring a good fit and providing alternative solutions when needed. As they wrap up, they reflect on personal values, the journey of discovering one's niche, and the impact of building meaningful relationships in business. Tune in to learn how to thrive in a saturated market by staying true to your values and vision of holistic entrepreneurship.Website: https://nykdanu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nykdanuyoga/Follow Alyssa on IG: @thealyssastefanson

Kad uzzināju, ka Linda Apse ir uzrakstījusi grāmatu par šaha lielmeistari Danu Reiznieci - Ozolu, nevarēju vien sagaidīt, kad tikšu pie grāmatas, lai to izlasītu, un kad varēšu runāt ar Danu. Mani fascinē cilvēki ar jaudīgu stratēģisko domāšanu, apbrīnojamu izturību un augstu meistarību jomā, kas viņus interesē.Grāmatā par Danu mani aizrāva stāsts, kā viņa, paralēli savam ikdienas darbam, šahā uzvarēja tā laika pasaules čempioni šahā. Sarunā ar Danu gribēju no viņas dzirdēt iespējami daudz - kā viņa domā, kā trenējās, ko no šaha ir pārnesusi uz savu darba dzīvi un politiķes karjeru, kas no viņas pieredzes un zināšanām var noderēt citiem, pat ja šahs nebūtu mūsu ikdiena.Danas meistarību un darba spējas atzinīgi novērtē arī šaha spēles augstākajās aprindās. Noķert viņu uz sarunu nav vienkārši - Dana bieži ir ceļā, jo sacensības, kurās viņa ir iesaistīta, notiek visā pasaulē. Arī uz šo sarunu viņa ieradās pa tiešo no lidostas. Dana ir Starptautiskās Šaha federācijas (FIDE) rīkotājdirektore un tur pilda arī valdes priekšsēdētāja vietnieces pienākumus.Vairāk informācijas sarunas lapā.KĀ TAPA ŠĪ EPIZODE:1) To ierakstījām ar atbalstu no Pasiekstes Vējdzirnavām, kurās ir iedvesmojošs stāsts par cilvēka jaudu, kas pozitīvi aplipina arī dzirnavu viesus – mani tai skaitā. Dzirnavu krogā var garšīgi paēst, bet namiņos nakšņot mājīgā atmosfērā. Dodies uz Pasiekstes vējdzirnavām, ja gribi atpūsties, svinēt un iedvesmoties!2) Epizodi mēs ierakstījām mūzikas grupas Instrumenti studijā. Īpašs paldies Jānim Šipkēvicam, kurš ne tikai rada un spēlē unikālu mūziku, kuru vari dzirdēt koncertos, bet ik pa laikam arī sūta interesantu vēstuli par dzīvi. Arī tu vari to saņemt, ja pieteiksies Jānim viņa saitē.3) Epizodi samontējām ar atbalstu no dalībniekiem mūsu jaunākajā programmā „Jaudīga Partnerība“. Šo programmu Laura un Mišels izveidoja, lai Cilvēkjaudas faniem būtu vēl foršākas attiecības ar mīļoto cilvēku un lai partneri ir spēcīgāka komanda, kurā katrs gan sasniedz savus mērķus, gan arī ikdienā gūst vairāk prieka.Ja šīs tēmas ir aktuālas arī tev, tad šomēness piedalies programmā Jaudīga partnerība. Tā tu izdarīsi divas labas lietas vienlaicīgi – tu gan parūpēsies par savu attiecību kvalitāti, gan arī palīdzēsi mums turpināt Cilvēkjaudas podkāstu.SARUNAS PIETURPUNKTI:0:00 Ievads2:44 Kam radās ideja rakstīt autobiogrāfisku grāmatu par Danu Reiznieci-Ozolu4:11 Kā pieredze politikā palīdz pildīt Starptautiskās Šaha Federācijas (FIDE) valdes priekšsēdētāja vietnieces pienākumus8:03 Kādēļ šaha spēlēšanu Dana šobrīd ir nolikusi otrajā plānā9:28 Kurš ir labākais vecums, lai sāktu trenēties spēlēt šahu11:58 Pats grūtākais lēmums Danas dzīvē14:40 Iemesli, kādēļ sievietes šahu spēlē vājāk kā vīrieši20:57 Kādas grāmatas Dana ieteiktu izlasīt katram28:39 “Man ir ļoti paveicies, ka esmu piedzimusi Latvijā”30:47 Grūtās un vieglās lietas, dienot Zemessardzē34:31 Kā laba fiziskā forma ietekmē šaha spēles meistarību42:38 Netīrie paņēmieni šaha pasaulē, un kā noteikt, ka cilvēks krāpjas51:39 Par ko cīnās sportisti “lielajā šahā”55:37 Kādi pienākumi ir šaha tiesnesim59:28 Kuras spējas, kas tika izkoptas spēlējot šahu, palīdzēja Danai politiķes karjerā1:08:50 Kādēļ ir tik svarīgi mācīties zaudēt1:10:13 Kādas dzīvei noderīgas īpašības ieslodzītajiem palīdz

Casa Danu is a sustainable womenswear brand focused on vibrant, chic, and print-forward clothing (think caftans, kimonos, and matching sets) that has 1 goal: to help as many women as possible, especially those impacted by cancer, feel beautiful, empowered, and full of life. Casa Danu was born out of Kristen's own cancer journey and every purchase goes towards donating a garment to a much deserving cancer patient. Shop at https://casadanu.com/

In episode 103, Kristen Chester shares the beautiful moments and the uncertain realities of growing a fashion brand. She started Casa Danu after surviving breast cancer which transformed the way she thinks about clothing. Her mission with the brand is to help women feel more alive and more like themselves no matter what they are going through. Tune in to hear how Kristen makes decisions about production, materials, and profitability in alignment with this mission. Kristen is the founder of Casa Danu, a sustainable womenswear brand focused on vibrant, chic, and print-forward clothing (think caftans, kimonos, and coordinated sets) that has 1 goal: to help as many women as possible, especially those impacted by cancer, feel beautiful, empowered, and full of life. Kristen started the brand after being diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 years old and 6 months pregnant. During this time, when she was at her lowest physically, mentally, and emotionally, she longed for comfortable clothing that helped her feel put together, beautiful, and ALIVE. Today, Casa Danu exists to uplift women going through similar challenges, cancer or otherwise, who feel that they have lost a part of themselves. Every Casa Danu purchase helps donate a beautiful garment to a deserving woman impacted by cancer, spreading a little extra joy where it's needed most. In this episode, you'll learn: Why joy and color became integral aspects of the Casa Danu brand What transformed Kristen's perspective on clothing Why Kristen wanted to start her brand “right” and what “right” meant to her How Kristen finds the budget to donate one product for every product sold The ways Casa Danu has helped Kristen reconnect with herself and helped other women connect with each other How Kristen makes decisions that are values-aligned in her business People and resources mentioned in this episode: Casa Danu website Casa Danu Instagram Let My People Go Surfing book by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard Factory 45 - sustainable fashion brand accelerator Masala Threads - ethical manufacturing consulting agency Do you want fashion business tips and resources like this sent straight to your inbox? Sign up for the How Fitting newsletter to receive new podcast episodes plus daily content on creating fashion that fits your customer, lifestyle, and values.

I v dnešním Briefingu pokračoval názorový posun Michala Půra. Už nechce elektroauto. Probrali jsme celý vývoj portfolia pro Josefa Síkelu. Byla to větší hra, než se může na první pohled zdát. Ursula von der Leyenová chtěla vrátit do hry Danuši Nerudovou, pro Česko měla Vědu a výzkum, to ale Petr Fiala odmítl. Skončili jsme tak s portfoliem International partnership, které bylo určeno Bulharsku. Podobně zdrcují esej, jako napsal Mario Draghi o konkurenceschopnosti EU, napsal Václav Smil o cílech západního světa na uhlíkovou neutralitu. Co říká? Do roku 2050 nereálné a přidává řadu argumentů. Celý text najdete na vaclavsmil.com/…/HALFWAY.pdf

Ještě před týdnem to vypadalo, že Jozef Síkela bude eurokomisařem pro obchod, na což se bývalý bankéř těšil. Jenže ministr průmyslu za hnutí STAN musel zkousnout velké zklamání, když nakonec na něj zbylo portfolio s názvem „mezinárodní partnerství“.Jak se to mohlo stát? Co se změnilo v předvečer oznámení složení nové komise, že její předsedkyně Ursula von der Leyenová telefonovala do Prahy nečekanou zprávu? A proč vysněný obchod dostal slovenský komisař Maroš Šefčovič, nominovaný stranou SMER premiéra Roberta Fica, který je v Bruselu v nelibosti?„Vládní politici se teď navenek legračně snaží vysvětlovat, že mezinárodní partnerství je přesně to ekonomicky silné portfolio, o něž jsme usilovali. Ve skutečnosti jsou sami zaskočeni a zklamaní,“ říká v podcastu Lucie Stuchlíková.I když tato funkce pro Síkelu není právě tím, oč Česko usilovalo, není to ani vyložený propadák. Podle lidí z Bruselu eurokomisař pro mezinárodní partnerství odpovědný za vztahy s třetími zeměmi skýtá do budoucna obrovský potenciál. Záleží, jak svou roli Jozef Síkela uchopí a využije.„Řekl bych, že kdyby vláda nominovala Danuši Nerudovou, tedy ženu, kterou požadovala Ursula von der Leyenová, dostalo by Česko lepší portfolio. Bylo to mimo jiné cítit i z jejího rýpnutí, kdy Síkelovi uložila za úkol dbát na genderovou rovnost,“ připomíná Václav Dolejší.Kolik tisíc úředníků musí mít silné ekonomické portfolio? Jakou velikost pohorek má Jozef Síkela? A jaké portfolio má Jaroslav Soukup? Poslechněte si aktuální Reaktor Vlevo dole!----Vlevo dole řeší politické kauzy, boje o vliv i šeptandu z kuloárů Sněmovny. Vychází každou středu v poledne.Podcast pro vás připravují Lucie Stuchlíková (@StuchlikovLucie) a Václav Dolejší (@VacDol), reportéři Seznam Zpráv.Další podcasty, ale taky články, komentáře a videa najdete na zpravodajském serveru Seznam Zprávy. Poslouchejte nás na webu Seznam Zpráv, na Podcasty.cz nebo ve své oblíbené podcastové aplikaci. Své názory, návrhy, otázky, stížnosti nebo pochvaly nám můžete posílat na adresu audio@sz.cz.  Sledujte @SeznamZpravy na sociálních sítích: Twitter // Facebook // Instagram.Seznam Zprávy jsou zdrojem původních informací, nezávislé investigace, originální publicistiky.

Ever wondered how a hair stylist transforms into a yoga therapist? Join us as we sit down with Nyk Danu, a certified yoga therapist, whose fascinating journey from the salon to the yoga mat is nothing short of inspiring. Learn how yoga helped her manage her anxiety and alleviate the physical stress of her hairstyling career. Nyk shares her experience with yoga, going from initial reluctance to discovering a passion that drove her to teach and heal others.We uncover the  benefits of Yin Yoga as Nyk recounts how a workshop with Paul Grilley brought her a sense of peace and spaciousness. From Hatha to Yin,  Nyk's journey through yoga is filled with rich insights on how these practices promote flexibility, mobility, and stress reduction. Understand the power of functional poses and the importance of transitioning from 'fight or flight' to 'rest and digest' modes for internal awareness and grounding.But that's not all—Nyk's journey doesn't stop at teaching. Discover her path to becoming a yoga therapist, specializing in classes tailored for individuals with serious spine issues and anxiety. Learn about the rigorous training involved, the integration of trauma-informed practices, and the ethical considerations of incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine principles. Nyk's personal anecdotes and reflections on functional anatomy underscore the importance of adapting teaching methodologies to create a supportive and empowering environment for all students. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone interested in the transformative power of yoga.Send us a Text Message! Support the Show.PLEASE VOTE FOR ME! I'm thrilled to announce that I am a nominee in the Women in Podcasting Awards! Please vote for me in the Health & Wellness category. Go HERE to vote between August 1st to October 1st:Join me for my Free Monthly Workshop EMPOWER YOUR ENERGY! An hour with some Reiki, Qigong, Discussion and great energy! Register HERE! Connect with Rose!Rose's WebsiteIG: Rose WippichYoutube: Rose Wippich WellnessEmail: rose@rosewippich.comRose's Recommendations New Energy! New You! Create a New Journey towards your most authentic self. Energies of the Wood Dragon: Free Ebook

Danuše a Miloslav Novotní k sobě chovají lásku už 58 let. „Padesátiny jsme měli v covidu, takže oslavy nebyly. Měli jsme lístky na operu Nabucco do Státní opery, ale o to jsme přišli,“ svěřuje Danuše.

Danuše a Miloslav Novotní k sobě chovají lásku už 58 let. „Padesátiny jsme měli v covidu, takže oslavy nebyly. Měli jsme lístky na operu Nabucco do Státní opery, ale o to jsme přišli,“ svěřuje Danuše.

In this episode of Creations Paths, Charlie, a non-binary sci-fi fantasy writer, along with their husband, explores the transformative image of Mary as the Tree of Life. Charlie shares their personal journey through faith, the struggles of growing up neurodivergent in an evangelical household, and finding solace in the teachings of Saint Louis de Montfort. The discussion delves into various interpretations of the Tree of Life across traditions, the compassionate and non-judgmental nature of Mary, and how this imagery provided a refuge and deeper connection to the divine. This episode offers powerful insights into practical mysticism and spirituality focused on embracing the divine presence within everyday life.Support us on: https://ko-fi.com/cedorsettBecome a patron of the arts patreon.com/cedorsettFor Educational Resource: Wisdoms Cry https://wisdomscry.comFor all of the things we are doing at The Seraphic Grove go to Creation's Paths https://www.creationspaths.com/BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/creationspaths.comThreads https://www.threads.net/@creationspathsInstagram https://www.instagram.com/creationspaths/Transcript:Charlie- New: [00:00:00] When I was a kid, and I mean kid, I had a lot of struggles. I was undiagnosed with a lot of my neurodivergences. I knew I was different but I didn't really know what queer was and when I did start realizing what that meant I lived in a culture and in a household where that was wrong and I struggled with a lot of things.Faith was one of those things. I've always had a deep and abiding love for the divine, for Jesus in particular, but I always felt like I was never good enough. And then one of my great aunts gave me a copy of The Secret of the Rosary by Saint Louis de Montfort.Everything changed. Then I read The Secret of Mary and True Devotion to Mary and all of his other works. I've read everything that is available from him in English. But one of the most powerful thoughts that he ever put into my head is the image of Mary as the [00:01:00] tree of life. So let's talk about that today on Creations Paths.Intro hello everybody, my name is Charlie. I'm a non binary sci fi fantasy writer and I'm joined today with my husband. Brian - New: Hello. Charlie- New: When we talk about the Tree of Life, there are a couple places that your mind might go to. You might go to the Kabbalistic Tree of the Sephiroth. That's awesome. You might think about the Crann Bethadh, the Celtic Tree of Life. You might think about the Garden of Eden. You might think about St. Bonaventure's wonderful book, The Tree of Life, which is kind of his retelling of the life of Jesus. And yeah, for me, my mind goes to all those places. But primarily, to this image [00:02:00] of Mary. As the tree of life. And this image is born out of the Hail Mary, out of the Ave Maria. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Which, by the way, used to be where the prayer stopped. So if you've ever prayed the Ave Maria and thought, it should stop there. It used to, and often when I say it, it still does. This image of the fruit of Mary, Jesus is the fruit of Mary, St. Louis de Montfort into this wonderful mystical theology of Mary as the tree of life and Jesus as the fruit that grows on that tree. The fruit of life, the food of life that gives us everlasting life. And so, in some of the more mystical passages of his writing, he tells us that we are, at the beginning of our faith, granted a seed for the tree, that we [00:03:00] plant within us, and we water it, we cultivate it, we help to remove the weeds from around it, so that Mary might keep growing.That eventually the tree will bear fruit. And Jesus will be born within us. this imagery saved me as a kid. I don't know if you, um, I grew up in the kind of evangelical cult world that I did. Evangelicalism is a cult. It is a high control group that shuns people who leave it. Trust me, I know.But perfectionism is so strong in these groups. You have to be perfect. You can't have made any mistakes. You can't have done any of the things that they classify as mistakes. They seem to be minting new mistakes that you can make all the time to help keep people in line and subservient. It's a dangerous, dangerous practice they have.The image of Mary, my prayers to Mary, [00:04:00] learning to say the Ave Maria, learning to pray the Rosary, really did root me. Into the divine in a way that I never had before. The image of Mary as the tree of life was so powerful for Because, like I've said a million times, I love Jesus. Jesus is my Ishta Devata.Jesus can be kinda hard to identify with, depending on how you want to put it. conceive of this person. In most schools of Christianity, this is a divine being born into the world to save it.I am not a divine being born into the world to save it. And I hope, in a lot of ways, none of y'all will. Consider yourself to find means for it in the world to save it. That's a, that's a lot of pressure. In many ways, that's too much pressure to put on any person.But that's hard for me to identify with. Mary, on the other hand, is a woman. Just a woman. We can talk about the doctrine of the [00:05:00] Immaculate Conception and how I think the visions of the words made that meaningful to me. It is not meaningful to me in any other way because I do not believe in original sin. So I don't believe that Mary had to be born without original sin. We can talk about that when the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes approaches in more detail. But Mary's relatable. She was just a girl going to the well when she got her call. Brian - New: She was a mother of a difficult child. We will just put it like that because, you gotta be honest. Even to sit back and go, Jesus is the perfectly behaved child, this is still a child that is not going to necessarily do what the parents tell them to do. This is not perfect in the construct of perfect in a parent mind as the child is not bothering me with questions at this point in time, or, disrupting the flow of cooking, or whatever it is. They were still a child. They still had questions. They still evoked thought. So yeah, they're still a mother.They still have motherly things. What is the [00:06:00] child up to? There is even a story in the Bible where Mary has a panic moment because her child is missing. And later finds him at the temple he runs off to the big city.He disappears in the big city like You know, you know, he's up to and even at the temple. He's still up to trouble. He's still causing a ruckus He's still disrupting life, you know Charlie- New: I'm just gonna bring that up because within the non canonical Gospels. We have all kinds of infant stories of Jesus where he, yes, very much a divine troublemaker.Very, very much a trickster figure in those stories. And I have a sweet spot in my heart for quite a few of them. But even in the canonical Gospels, like you were saying, we have only one story of Jesus's childhood in the canonical Gospels. And it's, he snuck away from his family. When they show up, he backtalks them. Well, where did you think I would be? Brian - New: The easy way to phrase this Problematic isn't necessarily a moral judgment of good or evil. It is [00:07:00] Problematic in a sense that's still disruptive, still does things that are unexpected Whether joyful or sad or whatever, you know any other later moral Attributions are given to it. It's still trying it's still testing. It's still challenging As all the mothers out there know.Charlie- New: We fly to your patronage, O Holy Mary. Never has it been known that anyone who asked anything from you had ever been turned away empty. Brian - New: One of the things that I found that helped make Mary and God so much more approachable. it is instinctual for us to be able to go to our mother, to be able to turn to our mother, and the concept of this is the mother, the mother of mothers, to be able to approach with problems, or questions, or concerns, and to know that they're going, like hopefully mothers do, they will Listen, and try to make it a teaching moment, and try to just comfort, and just, give [00:08:00] you that hug, without judgment.Charlie- New: Mary is the only figure that is mentioned at being there through all of the major events of the Gospels. Mary is of course there at the Annunciation and the birth, she's there at his baptism, she's there when he's preaching. She's there at several of the miracles. She's there at the crucifixion.She's there at the resurrection. And even in the book of Acts, the last time we have a canonical reference to her, she's there at the day of Pentecost with the apostles. She's there for all of it. She is this wonderful stand in for us as we're trying to learn this lesson of we are co creators with God.Because when you call Mary mother of God, people have Strong reactions to this. How could a human be a mother of God? But no, that, that's the point. We are here to live Christ, we are here in this world to be the body of Christ, to be that agent of justice and healing and peacemaking and [00:09:00] compassion and wisdom.That's what we're here for. Jesus says this over and over and over and over again. These are the things that we are called to do. To love our neighbor as ourselves, mary is the living embodiment of that. as St. Louis points out in his books, we have very few words from Mary. One is a beautiful prayer in which she talks about God throwing down all those who think that they are powerful and all the rich and Elevating those who are of lower estate in their eyes.Viva la revolution. She also shows up at the wedding at Cana . Whatever my son tells you, do it. There are very few quotes from her. The ones that we have are powerful. So what does it mean for us? You know I like my practical mysticism. I like my practical spirituality. Brian - New: For me, one of the things that it means, Mary Tree of Life, when realizing that and matching that with that symbolism, back to the Garden of Eden, you had the tree of the knowledge of good and [00:10:00] evil, and then you had the tree of life.The tree of life is without judgment. It is separate from knowing good and evil. So therefore it is separate from judgment. There is no judgment. And recognizing it's that mother figure that is accepting, teaching, informative, but all without judgment. When you look at her life and the stories and where she fits in the stories, she is there without judgment.That is so important, so powerful, and so helpful because so many of us experience Christianity from a more fundamentalist experience. Even the imperial experience is still with judgment. We're all damned sinners. We're going to go burn in hell. Therefore come join us. Or burn in hell.That's such a judgy statement. That's judgment. We're taught original sin. We're taught all these things about judgment and it makes Christianity itself so unapproachable. [00:11:00] That's what was so powerful for myself because in my journey, I was raised Christian, but I had fallen away from it because of all the judgment, because of a lot of the hypocrisy that I was seeing, because you're supposed to be following Christ's teachings, but then I looked at what the various churches I was involved with were doing, and the members of the church, and I was like, you're doing none of the stuff that Christ taught.Like, most of the things you're doing are opposite of that. And so, by that point in my life, I was just like, oh, this is all BS, a control thing. St. Louis, the Tree of Life, Imagery, and Mary made all that approachable again, That's that first thing when you think about approaching God and adding God back into, at least in my experience, back into my life.I was afraid because I didn't want all that judgment. If there was judgment, then I wasn't worthy, just in judging myself, the things I had done and, and were up to in my life. by those judgment standards, I wasn't worthy, but [00:12:00] through Mary, through the tree of life. There was no judgment, so I was able, it gave me that safe space where I could go and start having those conversations and move beyond and realizing the illusion, the Mara that was standing there, yelling at me, keeping me from moving forward and realizing that there was no Mara there in the first place.Charlie- New: I see a lot of discussion over Mary as a goddess. One of my favorite kind of devotional books to Brigid refers to Mary as a goddess in there. I'm not opposed to that language. I think that we are all part of the Elohim. We are all part of God in that way that I don't find that phrase offensive, but Mary is the mother of God.if we're going to go back to older pantheons, Mary is more akin to Danu or to Jebele than to just a goddess. She is the mother of God. She is the mother of [00:13:00] Elohim, right? She's the mother of the gods. she is the matrix in which we are formed into the image of Christ and really come into our Christhood.She is the one that forms us, this to me is where I see the Tree of Life image so powerfully, in so much of my own personal faith, Mary is the Shekhinah. Mary is the glory of God, the Shekhan, the tabernacle that covers. That's actually where the word Shekhinah comes from. The feminine aspect, the divine presence of God.It comes from the Hebrew word Shekhan, which literally means tabernacle. It's the tent that you would go into to pray. And that is Mary. Mary is that glorious presence of God. She is that shelter, that refuge that we go into. She is the tree of life under whose boughs we seek refuge. And even more than that, [00:14:00] the Shekhinah is one of the names for the 10th sephirot.On the Tree of Life there are the 10 circles, if you've seen the pictures of it. And the 10th one is sometimes called Malkuth, or Kingdom. But sometimes it's called Shekhinah. The Divine Presence.that is Mary. She is the root of the tree. She's also Kether. She's crowned, she is the top of the tree. Crowned in glory, queen of heaven, queen of the angels, queen of all hearts. She is the queen who opens the divine treasury so the graces of God may flow. As saint louis points out very beautifully in his books, No grace comes into this world except by her hands. And for those who are Christ only people, I know that phrase sounds frightening, scary, out of place. But remember, Christ's hands were formed in Mary. Those are the hands that came from our mother.We are [00:15:00] told that whoever follows the path is Jesus sibling, sister, brother, or mother. And this is the thing that we're learning when we're sitting under this glorious tree. This font of wisdom. This fountain of all graces. That is Our sweet Maria. Our Mari Stella. Our star of the sea.Everyone is equal in God. In the one life that flows throughout all the cosmos. We're all equal. No one is greater or lesser. Jesus tried to explain this to the sons of Zebedee when they were arguing over who would be first in the kingdom. And we will sit. At your right hand, in your kingdom.And Jesus answered very simply, Whoever wants to be first, will be last. And whoever wants to be greatest, must be servant of all.There is no hierarchy in the kingdom. The imperial [00:16:00] church really tries to cover this up and hide it and create all manner of hierarchy.But Jesus is making this very flat kingdom. There is no hierarchy here. So when we say Mary is Mother of God, that is a great gift of hers. It's also a great gift of ours. That's why this image of she is the tree of life planted within us, is so powerful. It reminds me, not only, of Jesus.Our sweet and blessed mother. But, that this is my calling as well. This is your calling. We are here to live God, to live Christ into the world. As Paul said, I struggle with you and labor my children until Christ be formed in you.That's the point, right? We're here to bring Christ here, not to go there. This to me is the greatest lie of the Imperial Church, right up there with original sin. That our goal and all of our labors [00:17:00] are for the afterlife.They're for here. They're for now.We need to bring the fruit of the tree of life here now. In this world. Not in the next. In this one. In whatever small or great ways that we can.We do that in Mary, with Mary, through Mary, and by Mary, which I've talked about before on this podcast a long time ago.But we do that through her hands. So we sit under those beautiful, beautiful bows that Our moving in the wind of the Holy Spirit. The leaves rustling gently over our heads. The divine light of God shining through, almost making the tree crystalline, glowing, full of life, rooted deep into our ground of being, rooted deep down Into the one life from which we all [00:18:00] came and to which we will all return.Hail Mary full of grace. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. And that's the power in this moment. That's the power in the entire practice. In everything that we do, we're watering that tree so that it will grow. But we're not just watering it with our kindness, with our joy, with our awe, our wonder, our letting go and letting be, our creativity, our celebration.Our justice making, our peacemaking. But we also go there to drink the waters of life that are ever flowing from its roots. We're told in the Book of Revelation that there is the tree, there is the tree of life, and the river of the waters of life pour forth from its roots.And that's where [00:19:00] we go to find that nourishment, to find that life. To find that meaning, that purpose.In my druidic practice, we often meditate and go into the sacred grove within. And right there, in my grove, every time, is that tree of life. It's one of the many trees around the circle. I can't tell you that it's an oak tree, or an olive tree, or a pine tree, or a cedar. Maple or Dogwood. It is the tree that it is when I go in there.But I always know it. It's the one that is filled with life. And often with light. It's often almost glowing. That's the one that I go and I sit down in front of. Or I stand near. Or I meet one of my guides or guardians at. It's a powerful image for visualization and meditation. It's one that really helps us understand our purpose and function in this world. Those deep [00:20:00] roots. Those high branches reaching up into the heavens.And that strong, sturdy trunk bridging the gap between them.It's a powerful image to me. And it's one that really means a lot.If it's not one that you're familiar with, I highly recommend that you play around with it. I really like the Latin, Prayer, Ave Maria, Mater misericordia. If you prefer English, Hail Mary, Mother of Mercy, Mother of Compassion. We really don't have a good translation for misericordia. It literally means Suffering Heart. Which to me is closer to our English word compassion to suffer with, to labor with. To me it's closer to compassion than mercy, butAve Maria, Regina Caeli, Hail Mary, Queen of Heaven. Whatever connects with you most, make up your own prayer. Don't say a prayer at all, just say it.See it in front of you. Or if you have trouble seeing it, go [00:21:00] outside and find a tree that just says, I am alive just sit with that tree in real space for a while.And just ponder The magic of its existence, its roots digging deep into the earth, and its branches reaching up to the heavens, and the strength and of its trunk. As it carries. The waters of life up. Into the branches. And the power of the light of God. Down. Into the. I hope that. This is an image that resonates with you. It's one that I. I have such a strong fondness for. One that I use a lot. If this episode has meant something to you and you. No somebody that you think would like it or. Get something out of it, please. Share. That helps us out. A lot to let people know that the podcast exists. Also, if you're listening to us on a platform [00:22:00] that lets you leave a rating. Or the podcast that helps out. Immensely. You make sure that you get everything that we're doing by. Following or subscribing or whatever. You do on the various apps that this podcast is on. You could also head over to. To https://www.creationspaths.com/ and there. You can subscribe to our newsletter and get an email. Every time a new episode goes out. Notifications about all the things that we're doing. And also, if you have a few dollars that you could. Pass our way. You could subscribe over there and that really does help us. Keep this coming to you. And you'll also be getting. The classes first. Before they go out to the general public. Thank you so much for supporting us and. For helping to give us the motivation to keep going. And as always. And you find blessings in the light. Amen. Amen. [00:23:00] Get full access to Creation's Paths at www.creationspaths.com/subscribe

Rozhodnutí vlády v Budapešti usnadnit Rusům a Bělorusům vstup do Maďarska znepokojilo ostatní evropské země. „Maďarsko se musí zaručit, že dostatečně prověří lidi, které sem pustí, aby neexistovalo riziko, že jsou to ruští agenti,“ říká europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN). Podle frakce Patriotů pro Evropu je ale reakce sedmadvacítky přehnaná. „Maďarská víza určitě nepředstavují vyšší riziko než ostatní schengenská víza,“ říká europoslanec Ondřej Knotek (ANO).

Rozhodnutí vlády v Budapešti usnadnit Rusům a Bělorusům vstup do Maďarska znepokojilo ostatní evropské země. „Maďarsko se musí zaručit, že dostatečně prověří lidi, které sem pustí, aby neexistovalo riziko, že jsou to ruští agenti,“ říká europoslankyně Danuše Nerudová (STAN). Podle frakce Patriotů pro Evropu je ale reakce sedmadvacítky přehnaná. „Maďarská víza určitě nepředstavují vyšší riziko než ostatní schengenská víza,“ říká europoslanec Ondřej Knotek (ANO).Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Send us a Text Message.Danu is an author, teacher and traditional Celtic wise woman, who was called to Glastonbury many years ago to work with Gwyn, who is said to dwell in Glastonbury Tor and the Black Mountains of Wales. Danu offers Celtic Fairy Tradition Courses and Natural Magic Courses online.Having researched a series of recently reported encounters here at The Modern Fairy Sightings Project with the figure known as Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the Fairies, Lord of Annwn (the Welsh Otherworld) I chat to Danu Forest, author of, Gwyn ap Nudd: Wild God of Faerie, Guardian of Annwfn about her understanding of him, how she came to be a dedicated priestess of Gwyn and what he offers to us, in encountering him.We also discuss the secrets held within the hollow hills of Glastonbury Tor!✨ SHOW NOTES:https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-84-danu-forest-and-gwyn-ap-nudd-king-of-the-fairies/Content warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. Some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.Join us on Patreon for lots of bonus content and our beautiful communityPodcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall StudiosPlease like, share and subscribe and if you can, please leave a review

Spor ve vládě o to, kdy a koho Česko vyšle jako kandidáta na eurokomisaře, dopadl půl na půl. STAN dotlačil premiéra k ukončení jeho „zdržovací taktiky“, ODS si zase prosadila, že do Bruselu pošle jen jedno jméno: ministra průmyslu Jozefa Síkelu.Politici STAN přitom do poslední chvíle chtěli, aby se kromě Síkely šéfce Evropské komise nabídla i Danuše Nerudová. Sázeli na to, že řada zemí nominovala jen muže, a Ursula von der Leyenová zakládající si na genderové vyváženosti by mohla nominaci ženy ocenit.„Zvítězil ale názor ODS, že je to naivní a že je lepší jako sebevědomá země nominovat jen jednoho kandidáta. Mimochodem den poté, co Česko řeklo, že nominuje pouze Síkelu, dorazil dopis do Ursuly von der Leyenové. V něm opakuje svoji prosbu, aby každá země vyslala dva kandidáty - muže a ženu,“ říká v podcastu Lucie Stuchlíková.Vláda už alespoň dospěla k výsledku. Zatímco Petr Fiala říkal, že je na nominaci dost času, politici STAN se obávali, aby Česko nepropáslo příležitost. Na výtky v tomto směru prý ale premiér reagoval značně nelibě.„Nelíbí se mu to a bere to jako zpochybnění svých schopností. Říká, že má svoji taktiku, a připomíná svůj dobrý vztah s der Leyenovou. Ta sice Česku vděčí za podporu, podobné služby jí ale prokázaly i jiné země,“ dodává Václav Dolejší.Klapne premiérův plán? Podvedli Starostové Danuši Nerudovou? Jaké portfolio by Češi měli dostat? A máte na zahradě portfoliovník? Poslechněte si čerstvý Reaktor!----Vlevo dole řeší politické kauzy, boje o vliv i šeptandu z kuloárů Sněmovny. Vychází každou středu v poledne.Podcast pro vás připravují Lucie Stuchlíková (@StuchlikovLucie) a Václav Dolejší (@VacDol), reportéři Seznam Zpráv.Další podcasty, ale taky články, komentáře a videa najdete na zpravodajském serveru Seznam Zprávy. Poslouchejte nás na webu Seznam Zpráv, na Podcasty.cz nebo ve své oblíbené podcastové aplikaci. Své názory, návrhy, otázky, stížnosti nebo pochvaly nám můžete posílat na adresu audio@sz.cz.  Sledujte @SeznamZpravy na sociálních sítích: Twitter // Facebook // Instagram.Seznam Zprávy jsou zdrojem původních informací, nezávislé investigace, originální publicistiky.

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All about the energies and magic of July plus a few July holidays to highlight. Zodiac Signs + Correspondences: Crystals: turquoise, ruby  Animals: dog, loon, woodpecker, salmon  Flower: Larkspur, waterlily Deities: Demeter, Luna, Mercury, Danu, Parvati  The sun is in Cancer until July 22. Cancer is a cardinal water sign. Moon Phases July 5: new moon in Cancer July 13: second quarter moon in Libra July 21: full moon in Capricorn July 29: fourth quarter moon in Taurus Ancient July Celebrations: Ludi Apollinares (Games of Apollo) Tammuz (Mesopotamia) Hephaestia (Greece) Heliacal Rising of Sirius (Egypt) Festival of the Toad (China) July 1: Canada Day (Canada) July 4: Independence Day (United States) July 14: Bastille Day (France) July 26: Summer Olympics --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/witch-wednesdays/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/witch-wednesdays/support

V posledních týdnech je předseda STAN Vít Rakušan v centru vládní politiky. Nejdříve prosadil dva návrhy na jmenování nového člena Evropské komise, což - zdá se - nebude jeho favorit Danuše Nerudová, ale Jozef Síkela. Zároveň hledá nového ministra průmyslu a obchodu, který bude klíčovou osobou při vyjednávání o stavbě nových bloků jaderných elektráren. Zatím preferuje loajalitu ke své osobě, a proto v zákulisí mluví o nominaci prvního místopředsedy hnutí STAN, Lukáše Vlčka. Jestli do tohoto rozhodování nevstoupí premiér, těžko říct, do čeho vstoupí, protože před novým ministrem budou těžká rozhodování, která ovlivní českou energetiku na desetiletí dopředu. Jmenovat do této funkce nezkušeného místostarostu malého města je čisté šílenství. Z vedení STAN se také ozývá, že pokud nebude navýšen rozpočet ministra školství o 38 miliard, což by znamenalo nejvyšší nárůst v historii, chce STAN odejít z vlády. A do třetice se ve středu schází mimořádná schůze sněmovny k závěrům vyšetřování ohledně prosincového masakru na filosofické fakultě. Řadě lidí se zdá, že šéf pražské policie Matějček nepravdivě informuje a ministr vnitra Rakušan mlží. V tomto bodu si autoři podcastu opravdu nerozuměli. Naopak v hodnocení plukovníka Šlechty, který zneužívá smutek pozůstalých, přičemž sám má tuny másla na hlavě, si rozuměli velmi dobře.  Kompletní hodina a půl o všem možném na Forendors.cz

Eurovolby jsou za námi. Hlavním překvapením je, že ze dvou neparlamentních uskupení (Stačilo!, Přísaha/Motoristé) se stal třetí a čtvrtý nejsilnější subjekt politické scény. Jasně, volební účast sice byla na evropské volby vysoká (36,5 procenta), ale stále o třicet procent nižší než do Poslanecké sněmovny a tam se nejspíš hlasy pro tato uskupení rozředí. I tak to něco naznačuje - lidé volí protestně, ale vybírají si nové politické formace. Neoficiálním králem voleb se stal Filip Turek, který získal druhý největší počet preferenčních hlasů (152 tisíc), což je o devadesát tisíc víc než jeho velká kritička Danuše Nerudová, jejíž STAN získal rovněž dva evropské mandáty. Jedno je jasné: Babiš získal dva potenciálně nové koaliční partnery (Stačilo!, Přísaha/Motoristé sobě). Současně se objevily dvě formace, které mu v budoucnu budou brát hlasy. A jak dopadla vládní koalice? To se dozvíte v novém dílu podcastu Kecy a politika. 

Narcissus was born in Ancient Greece, and was one day warned that he would live a long life as long as 'he never knows himself.' As he reached his teenage years, the handsome youth never found anyone that could pull his heartstrings, instead, he left in his wake a long trail of distressed and broken-hearted maidens. Then, one day, he chanced to see his own reflection in a pool of water and, thus, discovered the ultimate  in unrequited love and fell in love with himself. Naturally, this one-way relationship went nowhere, and Narcissus, unable to draw himself away from the pool, pined away in despair until he finally died of thirst and starvation. Immortality, at least of a kind, was assured, though, when his body turned into the flowers which, thereafter, bore his name. Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts.  My guest today is Danu Morrigan. We've all met that person who is a little to self-absorbed. The world must revolve around them, whether they have to cry or scream or be silent to get their way. But what exactly is wrong with them? Danu is here today to teach us all about the sneaky Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD. She'll tell us what it is, what it means, what it's like to be raised by someone with it, and ultimately how to go no contact. It's a far cry from the fable of Narcissus who was so entranced by his own beauty that he died, but in some ways that story still feels kind of accurate. ( Www.DaughtersOfNarcissisticMothers.Com ) ( https://a.co/d/8AV1hoI will take you to: Www.Amazon.Com "How to go no contact with your narcissistic mother" ) Let's not be self absorbed people! Do you know any narcissists? I've certainly known a few, and it makes me wonder if I went no contact far later than I should have. Tell me your experience and maybe we'll have successfully learned together! In other news, June is officially here and the rankings are all new: 1. The United States, led by New York, New Jersey, and California. 2. Australia, with New South Wales leading them to the number 2 spot. 3. Scotland of the UK. That's certainly a shake up. 4. Ghana. Who did end up beating South Korea last month. 5. Canada, with Ontario barely keeping them in the top 5. That's it for this week! Have a great week, a great weekend, and I'll see you all back here next week for another new episode! Until the next episode, pretty please do all the things to help the show: rate, review, like, and subscribe.  Reach out to DumbEnoughPodcast@Gmail.Com or on any social media if you want to reach me personally. Most importantly, Stay Dumb!

Spolu v neděli přicházelo do volebního štábu natěšené na vítězství, hnutí ANO naopak svazovala nervozita z další prohry v řadě. Emoce ve volebních štábech ale byly těsně před půlnocí přesně opačné.Příznivci lidovců, TOP 09 a ODS vybuzení posledními průzkumy smutnili nad druhým místem. Nakonec je pro ně ale úspěch, že volby dopadly aspoň takto - vzhledem k nepopularitě vlády.„Minimálně ve dvou koaličních stranách teď přemýšlejí, v čem je kouzlo spojování, když dohromady nedáte ani původní mandáty. Mimo záznam mi ve štábu říkalo několik lidí, že je vlastně dobře, že nevyhráli, protože je to alespoň přinutí víc zabrat,“ popisuje náladu ve volebním štábu Spolu Lucie Stuchlíková.Naopak u ANO těsně po třiadvacáté hodině propukli v jásot. Nejen že Babišovo hnutí zvítězilo, ale připsalo si o jeden mandát víc než konkurenční Spolu. A to přesto, že jelo kampaň spíš na půl plynu.„Euforie tam byla opravdu ohromná, nečekali to a báli se, že je přeskočí Spolu. Je to určitě i úspěch pro Kláru Dostálovou, která to nedostala zadarmo, protože fanoušci ANO to prostě hodí Babišovi. V kampani působila na voliče velmi dobře,“ myslí si Václav Dolejší.Podle něj jsou hlavními poraženými voleb Piráti, kteří mají jen jeden mandát: „Fakt velký neúspěch. Nedělali pořádnou kampaň a na voliče to působilo, že se hádá vedení kolem Ivana Bartoše a Mikuláše Ferjenčíka s europoslanci. Projevilo se to, že vedení chce něco jiného než členská základna.“Lucie Stuchlíková považuje za největšího losera SPD: „Naprostý výprask, kdy se lídr Petr Mach ani nedostal do europarlamentu. Politika Tomia Okamury se vyčerpala a jestli chce ještě uspět, musí rychle něco změnit.“A jak se eurovolby promítnou do sněmovních voleb? „Dělal jsem si legraci, že by tady byl premiér Andrej Babiš a vicepremiéři Kateřina Konečná a Filip Turek. A přesně to bude strategie Spolu do dalších voleb - strašit tímto scénářem,“ dodává Dolejší.Uvědomí si dinosauři, že jsou dinosauři? Prohrála Danuše Nerudová souboj o eurokomisaře? Kdo teď zařadí větší turbo? A kdo měl ve štábu nejlepší catering? Poslechněte si dvojreportáž Vlevo dole z eurovolební noci!----Vlevo dole řeší politické kauzy, boje o vliv i šeptandu z kuloárů Sněmovny. Vychází každou středu v poledne.Podcast pro vás připravují Lucie Stuchlíková (@StuchlikovLucie) a Václav Dolejší (@VacDol), reportéři Seznam Zpráv.Další podcasty, ale taky články, komentáře a videa najdete na zpravodajském serveru Seznam Zprávy. Poslouchejte nás na webu Seznam Zpráv, na Podcasty.cz nebo ve své oblíbené podcastové aplikaci. Své názory, návrhy, otázky, stížnosti nebo pochvaly nám můžete posílat na adresu audio@sz.cz.  Sledujte @SeznamZpravy na sociálních sítích: Twitter // Facebook // Instagram.Seznam Zprávy jsou zdrojem původních informací, nezávislé investigace, originální publicistiky.

Hnutí STAN se dlouhé měsíce hřálo představou, že v eurovolbách stane nejsilnější vládní stranou. V závěru kampaně Starostové zjišťují, že vysoký potenciál spousty voličů, kteří o nich uvažují, nedokážou proměnit ve skutečné hlasy.Jako kdyby se opakovala situace z voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny v říjnu 2021 - i teď je znovu nejsilnějším motivem Antibabiš. Lidé, kteří chtějí zabránit očekávanému vítězství hnutí ANO, se začínají přiklánět ke koalici Spolu na úkor Starostů.„Tohle je nějaké know-how hlavně ODS, vedoucí síly ve Spolu. To, jak umí načasovat kampaň a soustředit se na závěr, kdy se lidé rozhodují. Prostě chápou, že je to maraton a nehroutí se jako ostatní na 30. kilometru, když je berou křeče, protože do cíle je daleko. V závěru pak v klidu předběhnou ostatní, kteří jsou vyčerpaní přepáleným startem,“ myslí si Václav Dolejší.Aby zabránili dojmu, že souboj se vede jen mezi lídrem opozice Andrejem Babišem a premiérem Petrem Fialou, rozhodli se Starostové pro riskantní krok. Vyslali svou jedničku na evropské kandidátce Danuši Nerudovou do televizního duelu s Filipem Turkem, lídrem Motoristů.Výsledkem byl vyhecovaný souboj dvou naprosto rozdílných světů a zároveň lidí, kteří jsou velmi silní na sociálních sítích a oba bojují o mladé voliče.„Danuše Nerudová sice vyhrála, když z toho tvrďáka udělala uplakaného chlapečka, který dokola opakoval já nic, to jsem byl ještě malý nebo to maminka. Ale popravdě řečeno pochybuju, že zadupáním nevýznamného Turka do země dokázala Nerudová přetáhnout nějaké voliče Spolu nebo Pirátům,“ říká Lucie Stuchlíková.Kdo se podle podcasterů dostane do europarlamentu? Kdo z nich udělá rozhovor s Filipem Turkem? A kolik máte doma starožitností s hákovými kříži? Poslechněte si čerstvou epizodu Vlevo dole a využijte poslední šanci (do čtvrtka 6. 6.) svůj oblíbený podcast podpořit hlasem v anketě Podcast roku. Děkujeme!----Vlevo dole řeší politické kauzy, boje o vliv i šeptandu z kuloárů Sněmovny. Vychází každou středu v poledne.Podcast pro vás připravují Lucie Stuchlíková (@StuchlikovLucie) a Václav Dolejší (@VacDol), reportéři Seznam Zpráv.Další podcasty, ale taky články, komentáře a videa najdete na zpravodajském serveru Seznam Zprávy. Poslouchejte nás na webu Seznam Zpráv, na Podcasty.cz nebo ve své oblíbené podcastové aplikaci. Své názory, návrhy, otázky, stížnosti nebo pochvaly nám můžete posílat na adresu audio@sz.cz.  Sledujte @SeznamZpravy na sociálních sítích: Twitter // Facebook // Instagram.Seznam Zprávy jsou zdrojem původních informací, nezávislé investigace, originální publicistiky.

V duelu Kateřiny Konečné a Jana Farského se s železnou pravidelností střídaly okamžiky až přátelské atmosféry a absolutního střetu. Nechyběly útoky na KSČM, ani uznání, že lídryně Stačilo je, co se zájmů českého průmyslu týče, nejaktivnější europoslankyně. Z druhé strany na oplátku přišel šťouchanec, zda místopředseda STANu po zvolení do EP neuvažuje o dalším stipendiu.  Střet se vedl o podobě migračního paktu, Danuši Nerudovou i směřování EU. Je třeba více nebo méně Evropy? Jak posílit konkurenceschopnost a není s tím zákonitě spojena i soběstačnost? Výsledek byl až pohádkový, oba kandidáti se těší, že spolu budou v Evropě hájit český průmysl. Chcete si s námi popovídat o tom jak evropské volby dopadly? Přijďte za námi na akci do CAMP v Praze - https://goout.net/cs/bruselsky-insider/szuaffx/ Partnerem podcastu je advokátní kancelář ROWAN LEGAL, síť základních a středních škol AMERICAN ACADEMY. Sledujte nás:

News; debut directors, Geoffrey Rush and “Pig Slaughter” set for Karlovy Vary film festival; concert performance of Libuše to mark Smetana's 200th anniversary at Prague Spring festival; interview with Mayors and Independents EP election leader Danuše Nerudová

Nikdo neudělal pro veřejnou debatu o odborném publikování v akademickém světě tolik jako Markéta Pekarová-Adamová. Díky kandidatuře bývalého rektora Tuleji se český svět dozvěděl, co jsou tzv. predátorské časopisy a jak si někteří akademici zjednodušují svůj život. Do jámy, kterou předsedkyni TOP 09 vykopala, však záhy spadla i Danuše Nerudová a Karel Havlíček. Začala divoká hra ve stylu "odstupte, nic se vám nestane." Na útoky vůči TOP 09 reagovala tato strana výzvou k rezignaci Nerudové a ministra Beka. Do toho povstal Miloš Zeman české pravice, Miroslav Kalousek a teatrálně se za výzvu šéfky parlamentu omluvil. Důsledkem je, že vzrostly šance Jozefa Sikely na funkci eurokomisaře. Sněmovna rovněž schválila novelu zákona, který stanovuje pravidla pro nakládání s látkami typu kratom a konopí. Jeden z autorů podcastu, Petros Michopulos, se domnívá, že ministr zdravotnictví Válek zákon, který chce regulovat nakládání s psychomodulačními látkami, svými zásahy znehybní. Zároveň se v těchto dnech schvaluje závěrečná podoba migračního paktu. Všichni do něj kopají, i když je to po letech pokus jak řešit migraci z mimoevropských zemí. Petros Michopulos soudí, že řešení musí být systémové - stabilizace prostoru od Libye k Maroku, to by však stálo obrovské prostředky a expediční vojenskou akci, do níž se nikomu moc nechce. 

Najživlja tema koja ovih dana intrigira sve Bosance i Hercegovce je usvajanje Rezolucije o Srebrenici u UN, kojom bi se 11. juli proglasio Međunarodnim danom sjećanja na genocid počinjen u Srebrenici 1995. godine, i kojom se želi sačuvati sjećanje na srebreničke žrtve, spriječiti negiranje genocida, kao i veličanje ratnih zločinaca. O širem značaju usvajanja Rezolucije govorio je dr. Hariz Halilović, redovni profesor antropoloških studija na RMIT Univerzitetu u Melbourneu.

Join me as I chat with Danu Morrigan. She is the daughter of a narcissistic mother and the author of five books on the topic of daughters and narcissistic mothers. *'You're not crazy-it's Your Mother' *'Dear Daughter of a Narcissistic Mother' *'Notes From Your Inner Mother' *'How to go No Contact' *'Become a Boundaries Badass' She is also the founder of the wildly successful website: https://www.daughtersofnarcissisticmothers.com/ It is a wonderful hub of information no matter where you are on your journey. Be sure to check it out to learn more about Danu, order her books and even take a quiz to see if your mother is narcissistic. She strives to give understanding, information, and validation to other daughters of narcissistic mothers. In case no one has told you lately, it's not you, never has been, you don't have to fix it and you are not alone. Be sure to check out the website: https://characteroutspodcast.com/ Email me at characteroutspodcast@gmail.com Join the fun and snark over on the 'Gram: https://www.instagram.com/characteroutspodcast/

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com              Copperplate Podcast 292                                  presented by Alan O'Leary                           April 2024                     www.copperplatemailorder.com Danu:  The Garsun Who Beat His Father.  All Things Considered 2. Mulcahy Family: John Kelly's/Rip The Calico/New Line to Loughane.          The Reel Note. 3 Macalla: Cobbler's/ Strop the Razor. Women of Ireland 4. Cillian Vallely & David Doocey: Eilis Kennedy:   The Worcester Reel/St Ruth's Bush/Gay Cassidy's. The Yew & The Orchard5. Eilis Kennedy: The Saucy Sailor.  Westward 6. Michelle Mulcahy:    Scatter the Mud/An Buachallain Bán/The Sweet Note.  Lady on the Island 7. Danu:   The Connemara Hornpipe/The Leverette.     10,000 Miles 8. John Carty & Mike McGoldrick:  Kelly's Grove/Lilt of the Landscape.                   At Our Leisure 9. Nioclás Tóibín:   Cití na gCummann.  Amhráin Aneas10. Crawford/Farrell/Doocey:                   Kilmurray's Flags.   Music & Mischief  11. Mick O'Brien & Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh: The Lass of Carracastle/The Morning Dew/Geese in the Bog.   Deadly Buzz 12. Peter Horan & Gerry Harrington:        The Corkin Cross Polka/The Lakes of Sligo/Memories of    Ballymote.   Fortune Favours the Brave13. Goitse:  Green Fields of Canada.  Rosc                              14. The Outside Track:   Hurry Up & Wait.   Light Up the Dark 15. Open the Door for Three: The OlChurch Hill. The Joyful Hour

Series classes deepen your relationship with your students, helps them commit to their practice, and provides financial stability for you as the teacher. Nyk Danu, a certified yoga therapist and business mentor, shares her insights on creating a sustainable yoga teaching business through a registered series. Listen in to hear practical advice on setting up your series, handling logistics like space rental and insurance, and filling your series classes. Nyk also touches on considerations for yoga studio owners thinking about transitioning to a registered series. If you value teacher-student connections, consistency in practice, and control over your teaching environment, this episode is for you! EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: 00:52 Meet Nyk Danu: Yoga Misfit and Mentor 06:09 Why yoga classes shifted away from the registered series model 09:59 How to Start Your Own Registered Yoga Series 20:11 Finding the Perfect Space for Yoga Classes 22:04 Essential Tools for Running Yoga Series: Registration and Communication 24:40 Essential Policies for your Registered Series 28:21 Priority Registration for Existing Students 29:20 Starting Small with Class Registrations 30:15 Engaging Older Students with Simpler Technology 31:18 Handling Minimums and Cancellations 31:47 Leveraging Workshops to Fill Series 33:30 Setting Minimum Attendance Numbers 36:16 Choosing the Right Duration for Your Series 37:40 Make-up Classes and Free Sessions 40:09 Finding Your First Group of Students 46:02 Utilizing Email Lists for Growth 48:58 Transitioning Studios to Registered Series 50:14 The Benefits of Running Pre-registered Series 55:43 Concluding Thoughts and Resources EPISODE LINKS & RESOURCES: Nyk Danu Yoga Follow Nyk on Instagram @nykdanuyoga LINKS AND RESOURCES: Follow YTR on Instagram @yoga.teacher.resource  Join the Yoga Teacher Resource email list Join the Yoga Teacher Resource Facebook Group Learn more about the Impact Club Leave a review on iTunes Ask a question for the podcast on the Yoga Teacher Resource website or on SpeakPipe

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This week, we have a special episode for you! There has been so much talk about AI over the last year or two, but not a lot of explanations. What is AI? What is the difference between AI and Machine Learning? How do they work? David sat down with Danu Mbanga, Director of Generative AI Solutions at Google, to get to the bottom of it all. This talk switches between a general overview of AI and an in-depth discussion about the meaning of intelligence. Danu has years of experience in this field so we hope you learn as much as we did! Enjoy. Links: Attention Is All You Need Paper: https://bit.ly/attentionisallyouneed IBM k-nearest neighbors: https://ibm.co/3S6hdtm Follow Danu Mbanga: Threads: https://www.threads.net/@devchiral X: https://twitter.com/dmbanga Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Instagram/Threads/X: Waveform: https://twitter.com/WVFRM Waveform: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David Imel: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices