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In this episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater and Russell Case are joined by David Swenson, one of the most respected and beloved Ashtanga Yoga teachers in the world. With over four decades of practice and teaching, David shares stories from his new book, "Why Only Dead Fish Go with the Flow," offering a candid look into his life, his family, and his journey through the world of yoga.   David's insights are both humorous and profound, covering his early years in Texas, his connection to Ashtanga Yoga, his experience with the Hare Krishnas, and his reflections on life, death, and personal growth. He also shares stories of resilience, from his family's struggles to his own journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening.   In this Episode, You'll Learn:   * Why David Swenson believes only dead fish go with the flow. * The struggles and triumphs of his early life, from family challenges to spiritual exploration. * How David inspired many yogis through his teaching of Ashtanga Yoga. * His thoughts on balancing discipline and freedom in yoga practice. * The surprising stories behind his new book and the wisdom he gained along the way.   Listen now to hear a rich and inspiring conversation with David Swenson.   Mentioned in this episode: Get David's book Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow Ancient Breathing 2.0 begins May 18 – Register HERE Connect with David Swenson David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidswensonashtanga David on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@davidswensonashtangayogapr4920 Connect with Us (We love to hear from you!) Harmony Slater's Website: http://harmonyslater.com Finding Harmony Community  https://harmonyslater.com/harmony-slater-coaching Find Harmony on Instagram⁠ Follow the Finding Harmony Podcast on IG ⁠Two Minute Breathwork Session⁠ Book a Clarity Call with Harmony: https://harmonyslater.as.me/Clarity-Session Find your Spiritual Entrepreneur Archetype! Take the Quiz! 

Renowned Ashtanga yoga teacher David Swenson talks to Adam about his new book, 'Only Dead Fish Go with the Flow.' They explore the development, adventures, and inspirations behind his memoir, which offers a candid look into Swenson's life and yoga journey. Swenson shares anecdotes from his early life in Texas, his struggles and successes, his deep dive into Ashtanga yoga under legendary teachers, and his diverse pursuits including surfing and the Hare Krishna movement.  The episode also covers his teaching philosophy, his challenges with the mainstream Ashtanga community, and his unique approach to life and yoga. Listeners get an intimate view of Swenson's personal and professional evolution, and the episode concludes with insights into his future plans and the continuing influence of his book. Book Link: https://onlydeadfishflow.com/  Get 15% off during Presale with Code ODF15 (May / June 2025 Delivery) IG: @davidswensonashtanga LISTEN ON PODCAST Apple podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keen-on-yoga-podcast/id1509303411 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iM9lcw52JskHUZ2eFvVxN WATCH EPISODES ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@keenonyoga SUPPORT KEEN ON YOGA Subscribe, like and share our videos Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoRf Patrons €10 per month: https://www.keenonyoga.com/patrons/ FOLLOW ADAM https://linktr.ee/Keenonyoga Website: www.keenonyoga.com Instagram:  @keen_on_yoga | @adam_keen_ashtanga          

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This week on episode 510, we share a conversation between Ben Inker of GMO and Greg Dowling of FEG Investment Advisors on contrarian investing, deep value stocks, and the rise of passive investing. David introduces the episode by sharing his key takeaways from the discussion.FEG Investment Advisor is David's former institutional advisory firm, where he worked for 17 years, before founding Money for the Rest of Us. Greg Dowling is Chief Investment Officer of FEG, and David's former business partner and colleague.Topics discussed in the episode include:How experienced professionals can have a significant influence on one's career, such as the impact Jeremy Grantham and David Swenson had on Ben's careerThe impact of the rise of passive investingInvestment opportunities in quality and deep value stocksThe distinct risks of the high concentration in large cap tech stocksSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Discover a fresh perspective: Ben Inker of GMO examines market trends and potential investment strategies for 2025.On this episode of the FEG Insight Bridge Podcast, we are joined by Ben Inker, Co-Head of Asset Allocation and Portfolio Manager at GMO, in a conversation exploring market trends and investment strategies for 2025. Ben and FEG CIO Greg Dowling discuss the impact of market concentration, the role of quality and value in portfolios, and the effects of passive investing. Ben provides insights into the performance of U.S. large cap growth stocks, the state of Japanese small caps, and the potential importance of diversification in uncertain times. Ben also shares his career journey at GMO, highlighting lessons learned from industry leaders like Jeremy Grantham and David Swenson.Tune in for key insights on market concentration and the evolving dynamics of today's investment landscape.You can find every episode of FEG Insight Bridge podcasts in one place and sign up to receive our other publications here.

In this special Christmas Eve episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater and Russell Case reflect on an emotionally charged year in the Ashtanga Yoga community. With warmth and sincerity, they honor the lives and legacies of three pivotal figures: Nancy Gilgoff, Rolf Naujokat, and Sharath Jois. Through heartfelt conversations and shared memories, this episode pays tribute to the profound impact these teachers had on their students and the global yoga community. Guests featured in this episode include: David Swenson, sharing humorous and heartfelt reflections on decades of friendship with Nancy Gilgoff and his memories of Sharath Jois. Emma O'Neill, recounting her life-changing journey through yoga, including time spent with Nancy, Rolf, and Sharath in Goa, Mysore, and Maui. Sebastian Arbondo, offering personal and touching insights into his experiences with Rolf Naujokat. Sasha Regier, reflecting on over 17 years of practice with Nancy Gilgoff and the profound lessons she imparted. Iain Grysak, recalling his transformative experiences practicing with Rolf and Sharath over nearly two decades. Kate O'Donnell, discussing her years living and practicing with Nancy Gilgoff and her deep gratitude for the teachings of Rolf and Sharath.   Key moments include: Harmony and Russell's candid reflections on grief, legacy, and the power of community. Stories from David Swenson and Emma O'Neill that capture the essence of the Ashtanga practice and its transformative power. Sebastian Arbondo's deeply personal anecdotes, including a spiritual encounter with Rolf Naujokat. Harmony and Kate's discussion on the energetics of practice and the lasting gifts left by these guiding lights of Ashtanga.   As you celebrate the holidays, this episode serves as a reminder to cherish the simple, magical moments that shape our lives. Whether you're wrapping presents, reflecting on the year, or practicing yoga, this is a tribute to the beauty of life, legacy, and the power of presence.   Connect with our guests: David Swenson  https://www.instagram.com/davidswensonashtanga/?hl=en  https://www.ashtanga.net/  https://www.facebook.com/davidswensonashtanga    Emma O'Neill  http://www.mysoreto.com/  https://www.instagram.com/mysoretoronto/  https://www.facebook.com/mysoretoronto/    https://emmaoneillvo.com/  https://www.instagram.com/emmaoneill  https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaONeillVO  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmaoneillvo/    Sebastian Arbondo  https://www.facebook.com/sebastian.arbondo/  https://www.instagram.com/sebarb/?hl=en    Sasha Regier  https://www.facebook.com/groups/8583498469/  https://www.instagram.com/stregier/    Iain Grysak  https://spaciousyoga.com/iain-grysak/  https://www.instagram.com/iain_grysak  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC53DHdqxcjiiVFgOl26P7ng  https://www.facebook.com/spaciousyogaashtanga/    Kate O'Donnell  https://healwithkate.org/  https://healwithkate.org/book-tour  https://www.instagram.com/kateodonnell.ayurveda  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_7q5okagCbDMuGFKVBzBQ  https://www.facebook.com/AyurvedaBoston  Connect with Harmony! Find your Spiritual Archetype! What is your Spiritual Entrepreneur Archetype? Take the Quiz! Sign up for the Free Spiritual Entrepreneur Class! https://harmonyslater.as.me/Spiritual-Entrepreneur-Archetype-Class Connect with Us (We love to hear from you!) Harmony Slater's Website: http://harmonyslater.com Finding Harmony Community  https://harmonyslater.com/harmony-slater-coaching Find Harmony on Instagram⁠ Follow the Finding Harmony Podcast on IG ⁠Two-Minute Breathwork Session⁠

David Swenson is ceramist and instructor from Clearwater, MN.  In 2009, David moved to Minnesota from Rhode Island, and works in the Twin Cities area teaching workshops and ceramics in community education.  David's work is embellished with motifs and techniques inspired by history, folk arts, textiles, and medieval art, while maintaining a modern aesthetic.  https://ThePottersCast.com/1089

If you're feeling upbeat about markets as we head into 2025, you're not alone. 41% of investors that participated in Livewire's Outlook Series Survey said they are feeling optimistic about markets right now, well ahead of the following most popular response with 30% of survey participants saying they are feeling anxious. The responses are not surprising, given the decisive run in equity markets in recent years. The S&P 500 is on the cusp of racking up consecutive years of 20%+ returns. A feat only achieved four times since 1926.  The other instances occurred in 1927-1928 before the great depression, in 1942-1943 during World War II, from 1995-1999 there were unprecedented gains with five 20%+ years and more recently in 2017-2018. Investors are likely feeling optimistic given the strong returns on offer, whilst it is natural that anxiety is growing and a recognition that the good times won't last forever.  Unfortunately, history provides little solace for those investors looking to the past in the hope that it might give some clues as to what 2025 might hold. The returns in the years following the four historical precedents are ambiguous, with a 50/50 split between negative and positive returns. However, the drawdown years were smaller than when markets continued to rally.  So, how does this information help us, and what should investors think about as we head into 2025? To answer this question, we drew on the expertise of top-rated financial adviser Paul Burgon, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner at Lipman Burgon and Partners. Paul has decades of experience allocating capital on behalf of his clients and was ranked #6 in 2024 on Barron's list of top financial advisers. Even with his experience, Paul acknowledges that predicting the future is fraught with danger and a recipe for disappointment. However, over his career, he has developed a set of ten principles that he believes can underwrite investment success.  These principles draw on the renowned endowment model of investing developed by David Swenson and are now widely adopted by many leading investment institutions, including Australia's Future Fund.  Yale's endowment fund returns under Swenson are compelling, having delivered annual returns of 14% over 35 years.  Summarising the underlying objective of Burgon's philosophy is relatively simple. He is seeking to remove or dampen the influence of emotions on investment decisions. In 2024, access to extensive research, institutional-grade investment models and improved access to private markets make it possible to achieve more consistent returns, reducing the prospect of poor decision-making at times of peak emotion.  While few of us will be seeking to replicate the allocation of global endowment funds, I'm sure most of us would like to bank the healthy returns of recent years and dampen the impact of any impending market dislocations.  “If you can have more reliability of outcomes in your equity allocation and more consistency of returns that is a much better way to allocate capital than trying to chase the next high-performing manager.” In the final episode of The Rules of Investing, we hope to leave you with valuable asset allocation and portfolio construction insights from one of Australia's top financial advisers. And while we'd all love to see another 20% + year from the S&P 500, it makes sense to ensure your portfolio can withstand the chance that 2025 could be a down year. Better to be safe than sorry!

David Barreto es de origen venezolano pero reside en España. Tiene más de 15 años realizando clases, talleres y retiros de yoga. Su formación es muy extensa en varios estilos de yoga, como hatha y acroyoga, también ha estudiado ayurveda, pero su foco principal es el Ashtanga Yoga. Empezó con Ashtanga en el 2005 practicando con amigos de manera autodidacta y en el 2009 hizo su primer entrenamiento en India con el maestro Viswanath. En el 2010 y 2011 en Argentina con Lino Miele. En 2015 en Barcelona con David Swenson y en el 2018 con Peter Sanson, Michael Schabort y Sharath Jois. Más recientemente sigue bajo la guía de Borja Valdespino en Madrid y viajando a Mysore para practicar con Sharathji. También tiene una shala (@hanumanyogaschool ) en Castellón, España donde dan clases mysore junto a @laurayoguearte Su instagram es @davidbarretoyoga --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mysoreando/message

Our latest episode features a fascinating interview with Barbara Zvan, President and Chief Executive Officer at University Pension Plan Ontario. Responsible for 39,000 working and retired members across four Ontario universities and 12 sector organizations, UPP manages $10.8 billion in pension assets. Our discussion covers Mrs. Zvan's experiences in the pension plan world, David Swenson's approach to alternative investments, and UPP's investment philosophy.Hosts: Loic Meunier⁠ & Mathis Grandchamp

How powerful of an effect can yoga in schools have on children?? Join me as I chat with Holly. Bustle from OneLove.Yoga and hear how it is impacting children across the metro.Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine and author of The Chair Yoga Pocket Guide. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.comFollow me on: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter         Today's guest is: Holly BustleAs a co-founder of onelove.yoga, Holly has a passion for people and connection. Naturally, when she found yoga, it was love at first breath. Since then, she's completed her 200 E-RYT & 300 RYT, and 40 HR Ashtanga Training with David Swenson and she's been formally teaching for almost 12 years now. Holly embraces teaching, leading workshops, leading Yoga Teacher Training and helping many individuals develop tools through their own practices. She strives to cultivate a personal sense of love, connection and encouragement through each class she leads & connection she makes. When she isn't teaching yoga in the community, Holly can be found on an adventure with her family, or caring for her mini farm, giant garden or plethora of houseplants at home.  www.onelove.yogaConsider supporting the podcast for $5 though BuyMeACoffeeSupport the show

This week, Clay Jenkinson's conversation with occasional guest host David Horton about the origins of the Thomas Jefferson Hour and the purpose of changing the name and focus of the program to Listening to America. Clay sings the praises of two hosts, Bill Crystal, now of Virginia, and David Swenson of Makoche Recording Studios in Bismarck, North Dakota. Clay recalls incidents that have occurred in his long career in tights and buckled shoes, and particularly the way in which Jefferson's hypocrisy on race and slavery has been addressed by members of Clay's audiences. Plus, what we can expect from Listening to America over the next few years as the United States reaches its 250th birthday.  

Lotta Sebzda, a 57 year old Swedish Ashtanga yoga practitioner and hairdresser, shares her love for Ashtanga yoga and her journey with the practice. She discusses the benefits of a consistent practice, the importance of listening to your body, and the joy of teaching workshops. Lota also talks about the evolution of social media and its impact on the yoga community.Follow Lotta on Instagram at @lottasebzdayoga https://www.instagram.com/lottasebzdayoga/Key Takeaways:Ashtanga yoga is a consistent practice that can be done anywhere and provides different experiences each day.Age is just a number in yoga, and it's never too late to start or continue your practice.It's important to listen to your body and modify poses as needed to avoid injury.Social media has made yoga more accessible and allows for connection and inspiration within the yoga community.Thanks for listening to this episode. Check out:

Can you remember day 1 of your yoga journey? How compelling the practice was even when your body was exhausted? That's dedication, right? In this episode, world-renowned and trailblazing yoga teacher, David Swenson, reminds us that the essential awareness of push and pull with yoga can be almost non-existent at the beginning, especially if you're like David who likens his younger yogi self as an overly-keen labrador… While it can be hard to distinguish the line between pushing on and pulling back, a good teacher will empower you to think for yourself and develop enough body awareness to make the call. And to lean ever so slightly more inward, let's also not forget that the ultimate goal of yoga extends beyond physical abilities.  We are not merely our bodies and part of the yogic path is about avoiding self-identification with external achievements. Instead, yoga offers the chance to cultivate humility, empathy, and the willingness to share the positive energy gained through practice–if you listen carefully enough.  Throughout this conversation, we explore both perspectives found within a yoga class and emphasise that students should have the intention of respect for the teacher's expertise and the discipline of yoga. While the student may be on a seeker's journey, the path of a yoga teacher is not always easy either…   Start the journey now with your free 30-day membership on Omstars.com. Use code: PODCAST. Keep up with us online @omstarsofficial or follow me on Instagram @kinoyoga. Visit my blog at Kinoyoga.com to learn more. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at info@kinoyoga.com. If you want to share what you've learned on your yoga journey, you could be invited to guest spot on The Yoga Inspiration Podcast.  

In this episode with a Red Sun Yoga studio owner Sarah Morgan discusses her experience with ClassPass and the challenges she faced in building a membership-based business with it. She found that community-building events and adding value to her services were more effective strategies to attract customers. When she encountered issues with ClassPass, such as not receiving contact information for clients and having clients cancel at the last minute, she decided to terminate her contract with them. She also emphasizes the importance of customer service and shared her experience with MindBody's Messenger AI, which she uses for automated receptionist services._______________________________________________About Sarah:Sarah Morgan is the owner of Red Sun Yoga. She has practiced yoga for nearly 20 years.Sarah earned her RYT 200 in 2011 as part of Full Circle Yoga's inaugural Yoga Teacher Training program. She began teaching at Red Sun Yoga in January of 2012. Her experience was so inspirational that she bought in as a partner in 2014. As she helped build the community over a few short years, she realized this was her calling. In October of 2021, Sarah became the sole owner of Red Sun Yoga. From that point on, her sole purpose has been to build a community for her teachers, students and all those who are seeking to learn more about how yoga can be a catalyst for healing body, mind and spirit.Prior to swapping Louboutin for Lululemon, she spent almost a decade in the oil and gas industry, helping build critical infrastructure around the country. Feeling the need to build her own outlet, she co-founded KDMG and spent nearly a decade working with some of the most important business in Central Florida, including multiple Fortune 500 companies, helping with their marketing strategies and campaigns.Sarah is an E-RYT 500, having studied with many international teachers such as Bryan Kest, David Williams, David Swenson, Max Strom, Tiffany Cruikshank, David Regelin, Joe Barnett, Robin Rothenberg and Judith Lasater.Red Sun Yoga: https://redsunyoga.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redsunyoga/Tools Mentioned:Mindbody OnlineClassPassMessenger.AIPeerfit_____________________________MICHAEL JAY YOGA & CONSULTINGAND YOGA BIZ CAMPMichael Jay is a yoga studio business consultant and podcast host with a background in marketing and over 13 years of experience owning a successful yoga studio. As a certified business consultant, Michael specializes in helping businesses open, purchase, and grow profitable and sellable yoga studios. Whether you are just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level, Michael can help you navigate the challenges and opportunities of the yoga industry. Michael is committed to helping businesses build productive yoga communities and develop effective systems for driving growth. With Michael's expertise and guidance, you can be confident that you have the support you need to succeed in the competitive world of yoga studios. In addition to consulting, Michael also hosts the Yoga Biz Camp podcast, featuring conversations with successful studio owners and industry leaders. www.YogaBizCamp.comInstagram BOOK A FREE STRATEGY SESSION WITH MEwww.YogaBizCamp.com Instagram @yogabizchampMichael's software resources

February 27, 2023 | David Swenson In this alumni spotlight episode of Engage360, David Swenson, MA in Theology, co-founder of Thrive Tutoring...

Over the past several decades, asset management has transformed from a small industry with a few experts competing against a majority of amateurs in the market to a market saturated with well-equipped and highly resourced experts competing against each other.   When I think about my pantheon of all-time great investment thinkers and writers, our guest today stands out as one of the industry's legends. Charley Ellis has played the most significant role in how I think about the investment industry, and I can't think of anyone better to talk about the industry's evolution.   Dr. Charles D. Ellis is the founder and former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, an international consultancy where he advised large institutional investors, foundations, and government organizations in more than 130 financial markets across the globe. Through that lens, he has been a keen observer of what works in organizations and markets for the last half-century. For nine years, Charley was chair of the Investment Committee at Yale, his alma mater, where he worked closely with its legendary Chief Investment Officer, David Swensen. He also served as a director of the Vanguard Group from 2001 to 2009. Charlie is a Harvard Business School graduate and has taught advanced investing courses at both Yale and Harvard. The CFA Institute recognized him as one of the twelve leading contributors to the investment profession, and along the way, Charlie has published nineteen books.   In this episode, Tano, Charley, and I discuss what inspired him to found Greenwich Associates, what goes into identifying the right questions to ask, how the industry has shifted from a winner's game to a loser's game, the massive changes in the asset management industry since the founding of Greenwich Associates, lessons from the Yale endowment model, Charley's book recommendations, and so much more!       Key Topics:   Welcome Charley to the show (1:13) How Charley's early experience at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette inspired the concept for Greenwich Associates (3:07) Structuring research and gathering the right kinds of questions (7:51) How Charley developed a passion for sharing insights with the public at large (10:00) The dual roles of academia and the industry itself in the evolution of the asset management industry (11:46) Simon Ramo and The Loser's Game (13:33) Massive changes in the asset management industry since Charley founded Greenwich Associates (19:07) Why it was much easier for active managers to beat the market in the early days of the industry (25:03) Understanding the relentless pace of competition (29:35) The importance of actively determining the right investment strategy for you (32:44) Charley's perspective on the legacy of Vanguard's Jack Bogle (37:26) Why Charley cites John Neff as the best active manager of his time (43:27) David Swenson's capacity for innovative thinking (46:51) Lessons from the Yale endowment model (51:02) Highlights from Charley's book, Capital (58:38) Essential elements of creating and perpetuating a great culture (1:00:06) Why the willingness to address problems head-on is crucial in sustaining excellence (1:02:30) Charlie's excitement about our education system (1:06:19) Which overlooked issue does Charlie wish garnered more attention? (1:07:07) Charley's book recommendations (1:12:09) And much more!       Mentioned in this Episode:   Charley Ellis' Books Figuring It Out: Sixty Years of Answering Investors' Most Important Questions Inside Vanguard: Leadership Secrets From the Company That Continues to Rewrite the Rules of the Investing Business Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World's Greatest Professional Firms Charley Ellis' Articles The Loser's Game In Defense of Active Investing Burton G. Malkiel's Book | A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy Neil deGrasse Tyson's Book | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry     Thanks for Listening!   Be sure to subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line at valueinvesting@gsb.columbia.edu.   Follow the Heilbrunn Center on social media on Instagram, LinkedIn, and more!

David Swenson (www.ashtanga.net | @davidswensonashtanga) David is teaching his first ever workshop on yoga short forms over Zoom with Keen on Yoga, details of the workshop are here: https://www.keenonyoga.com/events/david-swenson-ashtanga-short-forms/ In this podcast David talks about Pattabhi Jois short form | Western students driving for more | All or nothing mentality | Permission to shorten practice | 10-minute practice can be enough | What time is accessible? | Asana families | Intelligence behind sequences | Something is better than nothing | Being Doctors of our own body | What is happening today? | Feel good about yoga ***************************************************************************************** This episode is sponsored by Momence, the booking system we use and highly recommend. Momence facilitates online, in-person and hybrid classes and events, and there are packages to fit self-employed teachers to multi-site studios. With Momence, you can: · Manage your class and workshop schedule Organize your appointment types and availability Create marketing and win-back campaigns Organize your on-demand videos and courses See exactly how your business is doing through insightful reporting. Have customers self-check-in via kiosks Sell products and services with a fully integrated point of sale   With live support by chat, phone and email Momence is easy to use for yourself and your customers. 2 MONTHS FREE TRAIL: for more information click on the link https://www.keenonyoga.com/momence/ or book a demo and quote “Keen on Yoga” ******************************************************************************************  Support Us Donate: https://keenonyoga.com/donate/ Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/infoRf Become a Patron:  https://keenonyoga.com/membership/  Exclusive content, yoga & lifestyle tips, live Zoom meet-ups & more.  €10 per month, cancel at any time. CONNECT WITH KEEN ON YOGA Instagram Keen on Yoga: https://www.instagram.com/keen_on_yoga/ Instagram Adam Keen: https://www.instagram.com/adam_keen_ashtanga/ Website: https://keenonyoga.com/      

Clay Jenkinson and host David Swenson talk about the Thanksgiving holiday this week. They discuss the history of Thanksgiving and why Jefferson didn't endorse it, and also take time to recognize how grateful they both are for the listeners of the Jefferson Hour. Subscribe to the Thomas Jefferson Hour on YouTube. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch.  You can find Clay's books on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted and portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson.

As yoga evolves, there's a risk of over-complication and self-centredness. In this episode, Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, David Swenson, takes us on an exploration of yoga observations from almost 50 years of dedication.  To him, what's changed the most over the decades is the way people show up to yoga. For some there's a drive to ‘complete it' while others can be overly fixated on anatomy. Too much of this and we can be distracted from the basic yet powerful benefits of the practice. But there's also the beauty in watching yoga evolve. David has witnessed ashtanga branch off into different forms such as vinyasa and power yoga. So whether attitudes change or sequences morph into something new, the bottom line is that yoga evolves with the world around it.  And that's all fine–on one condition: we keep showing up to our mat and share the love we gain from our practice with the world. That's our duty. Start the journey now with your free 30-day membership on Omstars.com. Use code: PODCAST. Keep up with us online @omstarsofficial or follow me on Instagram @kinoyoga. Visit my blog at Kinoyoga.com to learn more. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me at info@kinoyoga.com. If you want to share what you've learned on your yoga journey, you could be invited to guest spot on The Yoga Inspiration Podcast.

Monday, October 3, 2022 - We visit with Christopher Vondracek, author of “Dancing with Welk: Music, Memory and Prairie Troubadours.” It's a cheeky retelling of Lawrence Welk's story, blending memoir, travelogue, and cultural history. ~~~ Kevin Locke, the renowned storyteller, musician and hoop dancer passed away Saturday at age 68. We hear an excerpt of a Storycorps recording Kevin did in 2018, and we visit with David Swenson of Makoche Studios in Bismarck, who worked with Kevin on a number of projects.

Clay Jenkinson speaks with David Swenson about the ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore and her work with the Lakota in the Dakotas beginning in 1911. David has spent the last year working on The Densmore Repatriation Project, recataloging and restoring her wax cylinder recordings. Subscribe to The Densmore Repatriation Project on YouTube to hear the songs and interviews. At Standing Rock in 1911, Frances Densmore met with dozens of tribal elders and recorded traditional songs on wax cylinder. Densmore documented this work in her book Teton Sioux Music which became a touchstone for learning about Lakota/Dakota culture. The Densmore Repatriation Project reintroduces the songs with new recordings made by contemporary Native singers. Clay will be performing as Theodore Roosevelt in Downers Grove, IL on October 22nd. Subscribe to the Thomas Jefferson Hour on YouTube. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch.  You can find Clay's books on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

Our guest today is Ranji Nagaswami, Managing Director, Chief Strategy/Commercial Officer at SVP Global. Headquartered in Greenwich, CT. SVP is a global investment firm focused on distressed debt and private equity opportunities. Founded in 2001, SVP has over $18 billion in assets under management, 4 offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia and has ~140 employees and over 60 investment professionals. Ranji is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and is also the Founder and Lead Moderator of the Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellowship program. She has served as trustee and member of several boards, including the Yale University investment committee with David Swenson, the UAW VEBA investment advisory council and the Curtis Institute Investment Committee. Last, but certainly not least, she is a CFA Charter Holder. In today's episode, we start with Ranji's experience as the youngest ever MBA student at Yale, discussing the positive impact that studying dance as a child had on her. We then discuss some of her career highlights, including her time at Alliance Bernstein, Mayor Bloomberg and as the CEO of Hirtle Callaghan. We then take a deep dive on private credit investing. Last, we discuss her involvement with the CFA Institute and the wonderful work she is doing at the Aspen Institute. Our hosts today are Steve Curley, CFA and Chris Cannon, current board members (and Past Presidents) of CFA Society Orlando. Please enjoy the episode. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

David Swenson speaks with President Jefferson about the cost of the American Revolutionary War, the aid France provided to America, and Jefferson's position on aiding other nations in their struggles for freedom and liberty. Mentioned on this episode. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch.  Subscribe to the Thomas Jefferson Hour on YouTube. You can find Clay's books on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

Friday, May 27, 2022 - With North Dakota's primary approaching, there's a scramble underway to address a poll worker shortage. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe visits with Burleigh Co election manager Erika White. ~~~ As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, we share a story from Harvest Public Media about roadside attractions. ~~~ Memorial Day is often seen as the beginning of summer. And summer can bring severe weather. In an episode of TellTale: Dakota Folklife and Stories, we hear about a tornado strike in 1946, narrated by David Swenson. ~~~ Dave Thompson joins us for a deeper look into some of the week's news. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Men,” a horror film starring Jessie Buckley.

David Swenson speaks with President Jefferson about Plato's Republic and American democracy. This program originally aired in 2016.  Clay will be performing live as Thomas Jefferson on May 14th in Newport News, Virginia at the Ferguson Center for the Arts. Mentioned on this episode: "Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic" by Andrew Sullivan Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch. You can find Clay's books on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

David Swenson speaks with President Jefferson about the American character, both as citizens and as a nation. This program originally aired in May of 2017. Mentioned on this episode. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our merch. You can find Clay's books on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

From the very young age of 13, Doug Swenson began his study of yoga in 1964. He has studied and practiced with many amazing teachers including Ernest Wood, the highly respected British Yoga Master, theosophist, and Sanskrit scholar. Doug's other mentors include Pattabhi Jois, Ramanand Patel, BKS Iyengar and Swami Satchidananda. Many of Doug's students have become highly celebrated teachers, including his younger brother, David Swenson. Doug is a master yoga practitioner, philosopher, poet and dedicated health advocate. He has incorporated influences from several different yoga systems along with his passion for cross-training, elevated nutrition and healthy lifestyle. Over the years he has authored four books and 23 videos on Amazon. The book list includes: Yoga Helps, Power Yoga for Dummies, Mastering the Secrets of Yoga Flow, and Pioneering Vinyasa Yoga. His educational videos, for all levels of practice, include topics of Yoga practice and philosophy, enhanced nutrition, and cross-training between challenging and more restorative yoga styles.  Doug's Sadhana Yoga Chi is a holistic balance between learning and teaching, power and softness, intellect and fitness.  The goals of Sadhana Yoga are achieved by striving to create a body of enhanced health and fitness, a mind with pure clarity, true intellect and focus, all woven together with a heart filled with peace and harmony. Sadhana Yoga Chi does not restrict your intelligence, or put limits on expanding your knowledge. Instead, we encourage the freedom to study and practice positive aspects of other different holistic techniques. This includes other systems of yoga and alternate body and mind expansion concepts. Doug is one of the original yoga teachers in the West and has quietly been living as a yogi for decades.  You can find him on his website    

— “Since yoga entered my life, this theme of wanting things and not getting them, and instead getting the opposite has been one of my great enlightenment lessons. Using the 8 limbs of yoga to process these situations is what I consider "climbing the mountain," on the journey to enlightenment and peace of mind.” — says Lara  Valeria Teles interviews Lara Moon — She is Yoga And Meditation Teacher, The Creatrix Of Chilltown Yoga, Writer And Speaker Lara Moon is the creatrix of Chilltown Yoga, a mobile and online yoga studio she founded at the Barrow Mansion, a historic landmark in downtown Jersey City, in 2016. Born and raised in Manhattan, New York, she has made Jersey City her home for the last 25 years. She gave up a 20-year career in media to teach yoga full-time. Her training as a journalist inspired her to share her yoga and meditation insights via her blog, Seed: The Mindfulness Guide. A 500-hour E-RYT Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher and continuing education provider, Lara has been practicing yoga for 30 years. She specializes in teaching Ashtanga Yoga and Yin Yoga, as well as providing meditation instruction. Lara offers yoga to everyone because she feels yoga can be practiced by everyone, no exceptions. Her motto is: Move, breathe, be. Lara can teach all shapes, ages and ability levels how to move body and breath with precision to comfortably embody yoga poses, avoid injury and meditate with ease. She has studied Ashtanga Primary and Intermediate Series with David Swenson and David Williams. Lara certified in Ashtanga Yoga with Multi-Dimensional Yoga School NYC, Yin Yoga with Corina Benner, Chakra Yoga with Anodea Judith, and Yoga of Awakening with Seane Corn. She learned meditation styles and methods through yoga and as a practicing Buddhist. Lara focuses on teaching how to practice yoga consistently, safely and with devotion to achieve physical well-being, emotional balance and personal transformation. Her classes emphasize serenity, ease and fun, with enough meditative space to achieve peace of mind. To learn more about Lara Moon and her work, please visit: chilltownyoga.com and laramoon.com     — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

Do you have a clear vision for every department of your life? I mean a clearly articulated, written vision. In this first episode in 2022 it is only fitting that I am joined by my wife Jolie to talk about our experience architecting the life we truly desired. We share some personal stories and experiences that we hope will help you going into 2022 as you look at what you want to create for yourself and your family.   What You'll Learn in This Episode:   How your frame of reference may affect your ambitions Exercises to visualize your ideal future Personal stories from Chris and Jolie on the power of clear vision The necessity of balancing core values and what that looks like Getting in alignment with your partner How your pace of life affects your experiences Does outcome override passion Why does filling up someone's cup supersede “success”     Bio for Chris Yonker   Chris Yonker is a father, husband, martial artist, and world-leading resource for high achievers. Family has always been a top priority for Chris and he knew early on that he wanted to be the creator of his life. By building a business that worked for him, Chris has been able to create amazing experiences with his family, and has helped others do the same.   With over twenty -five years working at 3M leading teams in sales and driving change , coupled with ten years in the consulting arena specializing in Conscious Leadership. His alchemy helps clients move beyond the illusions that are hindering this self-realization and allows them to take quantum leaps in their transformation.   Chris and his team work with family businesses, entrepreneurs, athletes, and celebrities. As a seventh- degree black belt, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, and thought-leader on Personal Performance, Chris has created a one-of-a-kind methodology that helps clients achieve extraordinary results that become permanent.   Many of Chris's clients say the process of working with him leads to profound healing, deep peace, better relationships, and higher levels of happiness in their lives.   Bio for Jolie Yonker   Jolie Yonker is the Founder/Director of East Coast Yoga Club. She is known for her adaptability to the variety of practitioners who attend her classes, the inclusive nature of her teaching, and her authenticity. As a lineage-based teacher, Jolie has deep reverence for traditional yoga and presents it in a way that is adaptable for the modern day yogi. Known for her light-hearted approach to teaching, Jolie creates a welcoming environment for all who attend her classes. She thrives on finding ways to integrate challenging postures and sequences in a safe and accessible way, providing multi-level options in every class.   Jolie began practicing yoga in the1990s before finding her first yoga hOMe with Mimi Loureiro at O2 Yoga in 2000. A dedicated practitioner, she eventually became a certified yoga teacher in the Ashtanga lineage, completing her training with David Swenson and Shelley Washington. Jolie continues to expand her knowledge base by attending a variety of classes, workshops and trainings on a regular basis. Not only does this enrich her personal practice, but also informs her teaching. Jolie continues to find this practice to be a humbling, challenging and dynamic gift and loves to share it with her class participants       Resources:   Facebook: www.facebook.com/Chris Yonker Instagram: www.instagram.com/chris_yonker Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/chris yonker Websites:www.chrisyonker.com (Hierarchy of Fulfillment can be found under “Blog” tab Email: Chris@chrisyonker.com Jolie's Yoga Website: eastcoastyogaclub.com

With more than 55,000 residents, York County has become one of the fastest-growing counties. York County Economic Development CEO & President David Swenson joins Kara & Burnie to talk about the Carolina Panthers' commitment and relocation of their headquarters and practice facilities to Rock Hill, SC.

Yogi Aaron is the owner, operator, and lead yoga facilitator at Blue Osa. During his 30 years of study, Aaron has developed an intrinsic understanding of yogic philosophy, anatomy, and the subtle body having studied under yogic masters such as Alan Finger, Bryan Kest, Genny Kapuler, Rod Stryker, Swami Rama, and David Swenson, among others. Throughout his journey, Aaron has made several pilgrimages to the Himalayas where he sought a deeper understanding of the Vedic tradition and Tantric pathways. These experiences blessed him with the opportunity to mentor under several spiritual masters and inspired him to create a yogic community in the lush Costa Rican jungle. And so, Blue Osa was born! Creator of Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation, Aaron brings three decades worth of study, mentorship and experience into his teachings, with a strong emphasis on yoga therapy and alignment. In this episode of the Fall In Love With Fitness Podcast, Aaron and I discuss how and why he discovered yoga, why so many people believe the notion that yoga is all about flexibility, and how daily yoga practices can completely transform your life. Grab Yogi Aaron's FREE Muscle Activation course here https://www.yogaonlinebyblueosa.com/become-pain-free-applied-yoga-anatomy

Ted Aronson of AJO Partners joins me for a candid discussion about Vanguard's plans to bring private equity to the masses and their addition of actively managed funds to their Personal Advisor Services (PAS) program. We begin with a tribute to David Swenson, the late OIC of Yale Endowment and the founder of the Yale Model, commonly known in the investing world as the Endowment Model. David was outspoken about why individual investors should avoid private equity, and how difficult it is to pick active fund managers who will outperform the capital markets.    Ted joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1974 while still a graduate student. He was a member of the Quantitative Equities Group, which managed the Revere Fund, the first actively managed fund registered with the SEC to employ Modern Portfolio Theory. Prior to forming AJO, Ted founded Addison Capital Management. Ted was past chair of the CFA Institute and the Association for Investment Management & Research and is a CFA charterholder. He is also a trustee of Spelman College and chair of its investment committee.    This podcast is hosted by Rick Ferri, CFA, a long-time Boglehead and investment adviser. The Bogleheads are a group of like-minded individual investors who follow the general investment and business beliefs of John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group. It is a conflict-free community where individual investors reach out and provide education, assistance, and relevant information to other investors of all experience levels at no cost. The organization supports a free website at Bogleheads.org, and the wiki site is Bogleheads® wiki.    Since 2000, the Bogleheads' have held national conferences in major cities around the country. There are also many Local Chapters in the US and even a few Foreign Chapters that meet regularly. New Chapters are being added on a regular basis. All Bogleheads activities are coordinated by volunteers who contribute their time and talent.     This podcast is supported by the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, a non-profit organization approved by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity on February 6, 2012. Your tax-deductible donation to the Bogle Center is appreciated.  

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE with Host Lori Anne Casdia chats with guest Lisa Bondy, Lead Wellness Instructor at the Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine and the Director of Yoga, Teacher Training and Quality. Lisa Bondy is a devoted yogi and meditator for over 35 years, with over 15,000 hours of teaching experience, Lisa is a master yoga teacher who inspired many over two decades of teaching on Long Island to become practitioners and to train with her to become yoga teachers.Always a student Lisa studied Hatha, Vinyasa, and Ashtanga yoga with some of the best teachers in the world including David Swenson and Shelley Washington, Tim Miller, Dharma Mittra, Eddie Stern, Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, Shiva Rea, Alan Finger, and Pattabhi Jois. Among her specialty certifications, Lisa teaches Cardiac Medical Yoga, Laughter Yoga, Yoga Kids, and Baby Yoga. Lisa is currently working toward certification in Yoga Therapy through the Kundalini tradition with Guru Dharum.Lisa's teaching style is masterful and empowering. She inspires all of her students (from teen elite athletes to fabulous octogenarians) to move beyond the bounds of the mind and expand into an experience of authenticity and self-realization. Lisa's intention and expertise lie in her ability to lead students on a healing, transformational journey—body, mind, and soul.In addition, Lisa is a natural gourmet and macrobiotic cook who has been part of the organic and holistic health lifestyle movement for the past 30 years. Her passion is clean living/eating and detoxification/ cleansing, believing both enhance a greater & direct experience of vibrant living and robust health.To Contact Lisa Bondy, E-RYTLisabyoga@gmail.com(516) 398-7632www.NorthwellCWIM.comhttps://www.instagram.com/northwellwellness/https://www.facebook.com/NorthwellWellnessCntr/Lori Anne Quotes:"Play a Higher Role, Serve a Higher Purpose Show Up for You And Show Up Big!" ~ Lori Anne"All of our Success Codes are already within us when we are born. We need to tap into ourselves and that success code to achieve our fullest potential. Let's work together so you can Soar to Success!" ~Lori Anne Please email us at HealthyLifestylewithLA@gmail.com Follow us on social media @healthylifestylewithLALinks www.LDCStrategies.com@LDCStrategies (FB/IG))@Healthylifestylewithla (FB/IG)Our Goal at Healthy Lifestyle is to inspire, educate and empower you to fulfilling a healthy, emotional, spiritual and physical life, so you can feel empowered to live the life you have always wanted and dreamed. We are here to lift each other up with encouragement and positivity. To serve one another.ABOUT OUR HOST:Lori Anne De Iulio CasdiaLife & Business Transformational Success CoachPerformance CoachBusiness & Marketing Strategist Founder of LDC StrategiesFounder of Monarch LuminariesFounder of Soar to Success ProgramMotivational Speaker/Inspirational SpeakerEmcee/ModeratorMaster Mindset MentorLaw of Attraction PractitionerCertified Herbalist Certified Aromatherapist Certified Life CoachCertified Kundalini Meditation Yoga CoachCertified H'oponopono PractitionerCertified Canfield Train the TrainerYoung Living SENIOR STARAwarded the 50 Top Most Influential Women in 2018Awarded Mentor of the Year 2020Nominated Bethpage Best of LI Best Business Coach 2021Nominated Bethpage Best of LI Best Business Coach 2022Lori Anne's personal philosophy is “We are all here to serve others and lift each other up. Be the best you because everybody else is taken.”You can also Listen to Healthy Lifestyle with Lori Anne on your favorite app: I Heart Media | iTunes (Apple Podcasts) | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Spreaker | Sound Cloud | TuneIn | YouTube

In this episode of Tap into Tax, Julie Allen and Margie Dhunjishah interview David Swenson, a partner in PwC's National Tax Services and former global Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution Leader about the controversy environment, focusing on current audit activity, the tactics and approaches taken by tax authorities during audits, and the key drivers for increased audit activity. The trio also discuss steps companies can take to avoid potential controversy, the dispute resolution mechanisms available, as well as how governments reach agreement in an environment of increased pressure to offset deficits resulting from the pandemic. Speakers:Julie Allen,  National Tax Services Market leader, PwC USMargie Dhunjishah, Tax Reporting & Strategy leader, PwC US David Swenson, Global Network Leader, Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution, PwC US

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.The whole team was aboard for this recording, with Grace and Chris behind the scenes, and Danny, Alex, and Natasha on the mics. We had to cut more than we included this week, which should give you a good idea of how busy the startup and VC worlds are of late.Make sure that you are following the podcast on Twitter, where we post all sorts of memes and cuts and, perhaps, the occasional video here and there. That aside, here's the rundown:Investing legend David Swenson passed away.Twitter is buying Scroll (neat, very cool) as part of its subscription push, but also killing Nuzzel in the process (bad, very uncool). Natasha and Danny fill us in on why Nuzzel will be missed. Alex has thoughts on why Twitter-Scroll is good.Epic bought ArtStation and cut its marketplace take rate. This is the future, says Danny, who throws his own estimates in, too.Sony and Discord are tying up after the Microsoft-Discord deal fell apart.Edtech is doing the edtech thing in which it raises money and consolidates, as shown by Kahoot's latest scoop.A friend of the pod, Jomayra Herrera, is joining Reach Capital as its first ever outside-partner hire.Uber is teaming up with Arrival for ride-hailing designed electric vehicles. We're pretty bullish on the idea. Also Alex likes to say "microfactories."IVF startups are raising venture capital, and this time its Alife Health that we're talking about. WorkBoard raised again. Alex once again made us talk about OKR-focused startups. He needs to get a life, and so does the rest of the Equity team which fought to do the transition into this segment.To end, we spoke about Leda Health, a new startup focused on at-home rape kits for sexual assault survivors. It's a controversial company, and we discuss critiques and opportunities,And that's our show! No private equity deal can slow the Equity team down, so we'll see you Monday!

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.The whole team was aboard for this recording, with Grace and Chris behind the scenes, and Danny, Alex, and Natasha on the mics. We had to cut more than we included this week, which should give you a good idea of how busy the startup and VC worlds are of late.Make sure that you are following the podcast on Twitter, where we post all sorts of memes and cuts and, perhaps, the occasional video here and there. That aside, here's the rundown:Investing legend David Swenson passed away.Twitter is buying Scroll (neat, very cool) as part of its subscription push, but also killing Nuzzel in the process (bad, very uncool). Natasha and Danny fill us in on why Nuzzel will be missed. Alex has thoughts on why Twitter-Scroll is good.Epic bought ArtStation and cut its marketplace take rate. This is the future, says Danny, who throws his own estimates in, too.Sony and Discord are tying up after the Microsoft-Discord deal fell apart.Edtech is doing the edtech thing in which it raises money and consolidates, as shown by Kahoot's latest scoop.A friend of the pod, Jomayra Herrera, is joining Reach Capital as its first ever outside-partner hire.Uber is teaming up with Arrival for ride-hailing designed electric vehicles. We're pretty bullish on the idea. Also Alex likes to say "microfactories."IVF startups are raising venture capital, and this time its Alife Health that we're talking about. WorkBoard raised again. Alex once again made us talk about OKR-focused startups. He needs to get a life, and so does the rest of the Equity team which fought to do the transition into this segment.To end, we spoke about Leda Health, a new startup focused on at-home rape kits for sexual assault survivors. It's a controversial company, and we discuss critiques and opportunities,And that's our show! No private equity deal can slow the Equity team down, so we'll see you Monday!

Haydar Acun is the Founder and CIO of Marmara Capital, an Istanbul-based asset management firm. Marmara is a value-oriented fund focused entirely on Turkish Equities. As a long-only stock picker, Haydar has been able to generate remarkable returns despite the unprecedented volatility in the Turkish Lira. In this episode, Haydar talks about his deep value roots, love of music and run-in with legendary investor David Swenson. "It's important to know how management is aligned with shareholders." - Haydar Acun. "Volatility creates enormous opportunities." - Haydar Acun. To learn more about Haydar please visit www.marmaracapital.com.tr/en/. To learn more about Richard please visit www.thinkaen.com.

On this edition of Iowa Press, economists Ernie Goss of Creighton University and David Swenson of Iowa State University discuss the potential economic impact here in Iowa of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Package and the current state of the Iowa economy. Joining this week’s moderator Kay Henderson at the Iowa Press table are Erin Murphy, Des Moines bureau chief for Lee Enterprises, and Clay Masters, morning host and reporter for Iowa Public Radio.

You can join us on our next trip in Southern Utah in March by going to epicmantrips.com We get the chance to sit down with David Swenson and chat for a little while. David is so inspiring and always such a good hang!

When you think about it, David Swenson has been distance teaching Ashtanga Yoga for decades with his VHS tapes and books. He recognised long before anyone else that students might not always be fortunate enough to be in the same room as their teacher — whether that was due to geography, personal circumstance or now … read more The post triyoga talks episode 38: ashtanga yoga in the age of Covid appeared first on triyoga.

David Williams has been practicing yoga daily, without interruption, since 1971. In 1972 while he was at Dr. Swami Gitananda's Ananda Ashram in Pondicherry, South India, he met Manju, the son of K. Pattabhi Jois, and saw him demonstrate the Ashtanga Yoga Primary series. In 1973, he began learning Ashtanga Yoga from K. Pattabhi Jois at his home in Mysore, India. David was one of the first non-Indian students to be taught the complete Ashtanga Yoga system of asanas and pranayama directly from Jois and became one of the first to be certified to teach the Ashtanga Yoga asanas. He was also one of the very few people ever certified by Jois to teach the Ashtanga Yoga pranayama. In 1975 David, along with Nancy Gilgoff organized and sponsored Pattabhi Jois and Manju’s first visit to Encinitas, California and introduced them to America and the western world. David is responsible for teaching the Ashtanga Yoga system to many of the world’s leading teachers and practitioners, including David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Danny Paradise, Cliff Barber, Batiste Marceau, Bryan Kest, Jonny Kest, Clifford Sweatte, Tracy Rich, Chuck Miller, Maty Ezraty, Kathy Cooper, and Andrew Eppler. David is 65 years old. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has lived on the island of Maui, Hawaii, since l976. His book My Search For Yoga was 10 years in the making and is his story as a yoga detective from the age of 20. Focusing on the years between 1970 and 1977 throughout Europe, two overland trips to India, and the early days in the Carolinas, Florida, California, and Maui. It includes crazy stories that he has shared in his classes over the years. and highlights the characters who were a part of his journey. The book contains 132 rare color images including photos, original documents of the Ashtanga syllabus and 12 letters from Pattabhi Jois.

Justen Caron's background spans years of practice before ever stepping unto the teaching podium.As we sat outside a local coffee in the warm sunshine, it was incredible to hear his story, going from a mutual bet between him and his partner Hallee.Now he found himself in a Bikram Hot Yoga Room and she bought a bicycle.Today they both continue to share both hobbies, yet together.Be sure to listen to the PodCast Below!Their 4 months old son Kirby is in for some incredible moments.Through tips and ideas for students and teachers I discovered that Justen took his first Teacher Training course with David Swenson, and the insights he has from practicing for so many years I know you will find invaluable.Come check Justen classes in Southern CA at David Andrew Ashtanga and RA Yoga Studio.Justen schedule can be found on his social media account at: https://www.facebook.com/justen.stimmler

David Swenson is someone in the Ashtanga yoga circle who needs no introduction. He began his journey of Yoga in 1969 when he and his brother Doug were arrested for stretching in a small park at the end of their street in Houston, Texas. There were few sources for yoga at that time so they practiced from whatever books they could find. He tells us about how he met David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff in Encinitas, CA in 1973 following in brother's spiritual yoga-surf journey. This naturally flowed into making a trip to Mysore, India, in 1977 to study directly with Pattabhi Jois, after subbing classes for David and Nancy in Maui. We ask David about the behind the scenes of writing his book and making The Practice videos, from which he became recognized as one of the world's foremost practitioners and instructors of Ashtanga yoga. We ask some questions about his early experiences with the practice, and the reason why he continues to practice yoga each day, even after 50 years! David has been traveling and teaching workshops around the world for the past 30 years, and he is a genius for making the practice accessible to all levels. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DAVID SWENSON WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM I FACEBOOK The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case. A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who've generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. Your contributions have allowed us to keep our podcast ad and sponsor free. Creating, editing and producing each episode takes a lot of time. It is a labor of love. And would not be possible without your kind support. If you've enjoyed today's podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review! ❤ Leave us a 5★ rating! We love to read and respond to your comments - So drop us a note in the comments below and give us a shout out on IG! Opening and closing music compliments of my dear friend teaching Ashtanga yoga in Eindhoven, Nick Evans, with his band “dawnSong” from the album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Simply Click Here. To purchase your own copy - Click Here.

Thursday, December 3, 2020 - A “State of the Economy” virtual conference was recently held by North Dakota State University. One of the presenters was Dr. Ryan Yonk, a lecturer in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics. The title of his presentation was “The Importance of Policy Discussions for the Economic Outlook of North Dakota.” He discusses economic development in the time of COVID and the role of the Legacy Fund. ~~~ We share another story from TellTale: Dakota Folklife and Stories. Today’s episode is titled “Small Town Wisdom,” narrated by David Swenson. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here for Main Street Eats. Her topic this week is Christmas cookies.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - On this Veterans Day, we share episodes from TellTale: Dakota Folklife and Stories that feature veterans. TellTale is a project of the North Dakota Council on the Arts. Joining us are state folklorist Troyd Geist, and Makoche Studios producer David Swenson. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay on antler development.

Sunday, October 25, 2020 - We begin with a pandemic update from Dave Thompson. ~~~ We visit with NDSU assistant professor of history, Donald Johnson, author of ”Occupied America, British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution.” The book chronicles the everyday experience for people under occupation as the British sought to end the revolution. ~~~ “ Tell Tale: Dakota Folklife and Stories ” is a new project from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. It’s a collection of narratives describing the shared personal experiences and lore of life on the North Dakota plains. Employing interviews with senior citizens, it’s part of the Art for Life Program, which seeks to improve the emotional and physical health of elders through art and artist interaction. Joining us are state folklorist Troyd Geist, and Makoche Studios producer David Swenson.

#019: Laruga Glaser Scott talks to Laruga Glaser on her life as a yoga student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She also shares her experience as a woman of colour in the yoga industry.     On 3rd June Laruga shared a 52:39 face to camera Instagram post on her experience as a POC in Ashtanga yoga. The majority of her conversation (with Scott) references Laruga's post. It would be highly beneficial to watch this whole share. It is beautiful, powerful and raw.... Laruga Glaser was first drawn to yoga in 1996, and after coming across Ashtanga in 1998 she fully immersed herself in the method and now has over 20 years of dedicated Ashtanga yoga practise. She made her first trip to Mysore to study at KPJAYI in 2007 and has returned every year ever since. A committed student, an advanced practitioner and a Certified teacher, Laruga endeavours to pass on the tradition of Ashtanga yoga. Laruga shares the teachings of Ashtanga yoga as an act of deep love with which she aspires to create an open, challenging and inspiring space in which each individual who comes to her can realise their full potential.  Laruga leads the Ashtanga Yoga program at Yogayama in Stockholm, Sweden and teaches workshops and retreats around the world. You can find out more about Laruga's teaching schedule here.   Leaning in to Vulnerability - Laruga Glaser.  Scott and Laruga have a beautifully open conversation on Laruga's life as a student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She shares how she left a corporate life to become one of the most recognised faces in Ashtanga Yoga. She also shares how she has had to struggle as a woman of colour in the world of yoga and push hard to get to where she is. Scott and Laruga also talk about how to make yoga spaces more diverse.  In this inspiring conversation Laruga shares: The ways that yoga has landed for her many times in her life, right from the very first time -  a series of ‘aha’ moments, of finding inner stillness. How she began practising by following Iyengar-inspired videos by Patricia Walden and Rodney Yi, which helped her to release back pain and encouraged her to carry on practising.  How she started learning Ashtanga from David Swenson’s videos and books, which she considers to be her first virtual teacher  That despite ‘doing things wrong’, like not holding the drishti or poses for long enough, she still felt a shift, another ‘aha’ moment How Ashtanga felt ‘complete’ to her Her sense of finally feeling at home when she found yoga, that she was in her space, where she’s supposed to be. That while she was at university in Ohio she found an ad in the student paper for 90 days of yoga for $90 - she went every single day. That she found Laurel Howdry, her first Ashtanga yoga teacher, in her last year of university,  How her dedicated Ashtanga practise kept her sane and grounded while she was on a corporate career path. That when she found herself at a crossroads between her career and yoga, she decided to follow yoga. When she made her first trip to Mysore in 2007 it was to be a student, to go and study at the source. How she began teaching internationally after that first trip to Mysore, when a fellow student invited her to teach in Taiwan.  About her 14 trips to Mysore and how the energy in the new shala still remains the same The importance of being a student. The strong energetic pull she felt that led her to share in depth on about the lack of diversity in Ashtanga yoga, and how it was a vulnerable thing for her to do. About how it finally felt like people were collectively willing to listen to her experience, despite having been speaking out on individual level for years That she spoke out for the people who didn't feel they fit in  About having to deal with microaggressions from within the yoga community, and how she’s been the one who’s had to do the work unpacking these. That these uncomfortable moments have pushed her to a place of confidence, having transformed toxicity into something positive. That she’s nurtured a culture of diversity in her Mysore room, making all people feel welcome and comfortable. About feeling overwhelmed by the response to her video, with many people of colour sharing their experience that yoga spaces don't feel conducive to people from diverse backgrounds, and that the practise feels elitist in a socio-economic sense. How she challenges organisers when she teaches in countries where people of colour are the majority but not represented in her workshop.  Her experience of resistance within the Ashtanga yoga community to discuss uncomfortable things. How she’s experienced dismissiveness from her peers, a sense of being ‘put in her place’  About her relationship with her father, a white European, who’s done the work and who sees diversity as a beautiful thing That she’s learned more from her dad through seeing example than the yoga teachers she used to look up to  That we don’t need to look so far outside ourselves for these lessons.  What it means to her to live a contemplative life.     ‘'This conversation with Laruga was so valuable to have. She shares so openly about how she has had to navigate the yoga world as a woman of colour and how she has created a diverse and mindful yoga space in her home of Stockholm. Her courage and strength in speaking out is so inspiring. We are left with how we can find ways to navigate open conversations that matter. To listen... Scott Johnson - September 2020  If you enjoyed this podcast then you might also enjoy Scott’s conversations with Wambui Njuguna Räisänen, Deepika Mehta and Ann Weston.    

Join me for a candid conversation with Ashtanga Master, David Swenson. In this episode we discuss the current state of yoga around the world during the pandemic and tackle one of the big questions of "are we all equal?" David is a gifted teacher full of inspiration and insight. Please visit him at his website Ashtanga.net and Ashtanga Yoga Productions. This is a discussion you won't want to miss!

Anthony "Prem" Carlisi has been practicing and teaching Ashtanga yoga for over 40 years. He learned directly from Pattabhi Jois in 1978 for several months in Southern California. In 1979, he was amongst the first small group of Western students to study with Jois in his home town of Mysore, India. He is considered one of the American pioneers of Ashtanga yoga, along with David Williams, Nancy Gilgoff, David Swenson and Tim Miller. Prem was certified to teach the primary, intermediate and advanced series of Ashtanga yoga in 1994. He also completed a four-year course of ayurvedic study in 1984 with Dr. Vasant Lad and has been studying tantric techniques since 1990. In 2007, Prem published his first book, The Only Way Out Is In, which is his commentary on the synergy of the three life sciences of Ashtanga yoga, ayurveda and tantra. He and his partner Heather "Radha" Duplex are now based primarily in Ubud, Bali for 6-8 months of the year, and 3-4 months in Kauai, Hawaii with Pineapple Yoga. They offer daily Mysore classes in both locations, as well as trainings for teachers, intensives and workshops that deepen the understanding of Ashtanga yoga, ayurveda and tantra.Show Notes1.40 First spiritual experiences with psychedelics5.50 Intersection with psychedelics and traditional spiritual practices 10.00 The practice of dying while living23.00 Tapas and purification29.30 The sudden death of Prem’s daughter and how he dealt with the grief37.30 How Prem lost his way and found it again39.30 Siddhis40.50 Advice for his younger self42.00 Importance of meditation practice50.00 Surrender and the Buddha’s “middle path”54.00 Eight limbs are a foundational practice57.00 Pranayama and when to do it60.30 Wim Hoff techniquehttps://www.ashtangayogabali.com/

Conversation with David Swenson about the economic impact of Covid-19. Dave Swenson is a Research scientist in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. He is also a lecturer in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the The University of Iowa. https://www.econ.iastate.edu/people/david-swenson --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-dasilva/support

In this edition, Steve Adams interviews Iowa State University economics research faculty member David Swenson about the effects of COVID-19 on Iowa's economy. Mr. Swenson also discusses the future outlook for various sectors of the Iowa economy as well as his views on the speed with which he believes the economy will recover from the pandemic. 

David is a legend within Ashtanga yoga.  Probably the inventor of the ‘yoga in nature’ photo with his seminal book Ashtanga Yoga Practice Manual’, he has been a shining light of inspiration spreading Ashtanga yoga across the globe for the last 30 years or so. He is well known for his formidable ability in practise, but equally so for the way he makes the complex and demanding practise of Ashtanga yoga appear possible, even fun. Speaking as one of the earliest students to arrive in Mysore, he is remarkably non-dogmatic about the tradition he learnt so early on. He refers to himself instead as an ‘asana waiter’ bringing students the help they need in the postures as opposed to following rigidly to rules.

Marcus came to yoga for the physical fix but soon found the magic went deeper. With a degree in philosophy he spent his 20s mostly exploring the good life as one half of the Loose Cannons DJs, remixing, recording and touring the world, living the high/low-life. Off-stage, he first came to the mat through martial arts- combining the self-discipline and control of ninjutsu with the freedom and flow of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The yoga came as a way to recover from lingering injuries picked up along the way. But the need to properly heal the body coincided with a sneaking desire for change in the mind. Maxing-out every studio intro-offer in London, and trying any style of yoga available, he finally landed on dynamic vinyasa and more specifically, the Ashtanga-inspired Rocket system, which satisfied his undying urge to fly. Going on to teacher trainings with The Yoga People, David Swenson, David Kyle, and Jason Crandell, he also studied in Yin Yoga too, complementing the daily yang of London city-life with a deepening appreciation of meditation, stillness of mind and yoga beyond the asanas that originally drew him in. In 2015 he co-founded the Dead Yogis Society, a karma yoga movement to wipe the gloss off the lips of #instayoga and return to the breath, sweat and rawness of the practice. He has also co-written two books with Hannah Whittingham: on yogic philosophy, “Greed, Sex, Intention- Living like a yogi in the 21st Century” and postures in the age of social media, “How To Win at Yoga.” As well as running their own teacher trainings through The Good Life Yoga School in London. Follow Marcus Veda at @goodlordveda and https://www.marcusvedayoga.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lcyogi/message

In this episode, we have our first guest on the show, a special guest, my Dad - C. David Swenson. We talk about his unique story coming from a small town in Mississippi to being the Tom Brady of his profession and how he persevered through it all.

A really fun interview we did before the Mastermind.com launch. On today’s special episode Russell interview Tony about a new course coming out with Tony, Russell, and Dean Graziosi. Here are some of the incredible things you will get to hear on this episode: Hear a little bit about Tony’s humble beginnings and his road to becoming who he is today. Find out how Tony got started with mastermind groups. And find out what kind of things will be included in this new course. So listen here to see why Russell, Tony, and Dean Graziosi have created a course, and what it will be. ---Transcript--- Good morning everybody, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Today I want to share with you guys something that I’m really excited for. And this is an interview that I did with Tony Robbins. A lot of you guys know, depending on when you’re listening to this, we are in the middle of the Mastermind.com product launch. And it’s kind of an interesting back story. I was at a big mastermind group with Dean Graziosi, and on the flight home we happened to be sitting next to each other, and during that flight he told me about this project he was working on. He said, “It’s kind of like masterclass.com except for masterminds.” I was like, “Dude, do you own mastermind.com?” He’s like, “No.” I’m like, “Oh you should buy it.” He’s like, “It’s not for sale.” So I remember when I got off the plane I looked at it, and mastermind.com the person on the home page was holding a Two Comma Club award and I’m like, “This is one of my funnel hackers who owns this.” So we messaged him and negotiated and ended up buying the domain and then giving it to Dean and Tony as a gift for their launch. We spent a lot of, I don’t know if I’m allowed to say how much money, but it was over half a million dollars on the domain name, gave it to those guys as a gift. And then they said, “hey thanks for the gift, in exchange we’d love to have you as a partner in this business.” And I’m definitely the minority partner in this business. Tony and Dean own the majority of it, but it’s been so fun to be able to work with them behind the scenes on this project and the product and the product launch and all these things that have been so cool. And I know that Dean’s been killing himself, really been putting everything together, Tony as well. And what’s cool is I had the chance to actually interview Tony about the concept. So what you’re going to be learning in the course and things like that. And about self education and about masterminds and a whole bunch of other things. So you know, I think I’ve had a chance now, twice in my life, to interview Tony and he’s interviewed me once. It’s just every time it’s the coolest thing ever. So I wanted to share the interview with you guys. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to queue up the theme song here, and when we come back, we’ll have a chance to hear the whole interview here behind the scenes of it. And after you listen to it, what I recommend doing is if you want to get my bonuses, I have no idea if the launch is still open at the time you’re listening to this, but if the launch is still open, I’ve got a whole bunch of bonuses if you buy it through my affiliate link. And if you go to secretsmastermind.com. So secrets (plural) secretsmastermind.com, you’ll have my affiliate link there and you can go and see all the bonuses and stuff through buying from me. So with that said, we’ll intro the theme song and when we come back you’ll have a chance to listen in behind the scenes with the interview with me and Tony Robbins. Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I’m so excited to be here with you guys today. I am here with probably one of the coolest human beings on planet earth, Tony Robbins. How are you doing today Tony? Tony: I don’t know about that introduction, but thanks brother, good to see you. Russell: Great to see you too. I think my audience is obviously super familiar with you because I talk about you so much, you’ve spoken at our events twice, which has been one of the coolest things in the world. And you’ve been someone who’s had such a huge, profound impact on me, so many ways that I don’t even think you know. Both in my personal life, in my marriage, in my business, I could go on and on telling stories. Maybe I’ll do that after the interview because I don’t want to waste those stories now when I have you in front of me. But you’ve had such an impact on me and my life and I’m just grateful to have a chance to first off, be interviewing you, second off, be kind of part of this project you and Dean put together. And I’m just so excited to be here with you. Tony: I just want to say to your audience, the feeling is mutual. I’m sure anybody that’s already dealt with you, they already know who you are. But when I looked at people in this industry who are really, I look at it as the knowledge business really, and you’ve shared so much but you’ve done it with such integrity, brother. You always have such a sincerity to you and a generosity to your spirit, how you deal with people. No bull, not blowing smoke your way. Anybody who doesn’t know who this man is, Russell is the real thing. He really cares and you over deliver, and that’s my signal as well. So I gotta add more value than anybody else does in the business and you always do that. So it’s always a pleasure to be with you, my friend. Russell: Thanks, I appreciate that. Well very cool. Today we’re going to be talking about something which I think is something very true to my heart and your heart as well, is a concept of masterminding but also I think even a step deeper is just self education. And I know for me, growing up, and I think a lot of people who follow me, we’re entrepreneurs who our brains go a million miles an hour and we get into this school system where we’re supposed to be sitting and listening to a teacher talk and we’re twitching. And I’m looking out the window at the playground and there’s things happening and I’m getting in trouble and they’re yelling at me. And I honestly thought I was a dumb kid until I was in college. I always assumed I was dumb. I didn’t know any better. And I think a lot of people that do follow me have been in that same situation. And this whole concept of self education was the first, when I started learning for the first time about something I was passionate about, I remember the first time I read a book there was something that grabbed me and I was like, “Oh my gosh, I see how this is something that’s helpful to me.” Then I became obsessed and I read way too many books, which is interesting. But I want to kind of start, before we go into that, when I came to the very first UPW, which was over probably 11 or 12 years ago now, which was one of the coolest things in the world. I don’t know if I ever told you this, I didn’t know what UPW was. I knew it was a Tony Robbins event, so I showed up with my backpack and my laptop thinking I would be sitting there taking notes. I walk in and people are jumping and dancing and I was like, where am I? I have no idea what’s even happening. That night we were walking on fire, and it was just, you know, it was not what I was expecting. And just something that shifted my life forever. But one of the concepts you talked about that had a profound impact on me. This was before I really got deep into my whole journey of all this stuff. You talked about the concept that you called Decade in a Day. I’d love for you to kind of tell our audience about that, what that is, and how that works. Because I think when they realize that it’s so empowering of like, “Oh my gosh, I can figure out all these different things because of it.” Tony: Well I would just say that it’s all about self education as you said. You know a standard education you get standard results. And if you look at the average American, I mean today, 60% of Americans haven’t saved a thousand dollars for retirement. 40% of Americans living in the best economy in the history of the world say that if an emergency came up, they couldn’t raise $400. So it’s insane, that’s why there’s this conversation about socialism coming up, because so many people own an iPhone, but they’re not an entrepreneur, they don’t even own Apple. They use Google every day, but they own a piece of Google, they don’t think that way. So I grew up in a really poor family, with four different fathers, it was a pretty rough environment. But I had the privilege of going and hearing Jim Rome when I was 17 years old. And I went, I was working as a janitor, I was going to high school, I was working part time also at a TV repair shop. And I just remember sitting in this room and I remember the guy I was working for on the weekend, I was doing moving for him. And the guy had become pretty successfully financially buying and flipping homes in Orange County, California, it was like 1977 to give you an idea. And I remember my parents said, “This guy used to be such a loser.” My dad said. And now he’s really successful. So as a kid, you get by with this stuff, but at the end of the day I worked my ass off and he really liked me. And I said, “Listen, before I go, my dad said you used to be such a loser and now you’re so successful, how did you do that? He goes, “Your dad said that?” I was like, “Yeah.” He goes, “Well…” he told me this story. He went to this seminar and he didn’t know what a seminar was and I said, “What is a seminar?” and he said, “well it’s a man who’s got 20, 30, 40 years of experience, he figures out the best of what he’s learned and he teaches it to you in 3 or 4 hours.” And I said, “I’d like to go to that, could you get me in?” and he said, “Yeah.” And I said, “Well, will you?” and he said, “No.” I said, “Why?” and he goes, “Well because if you don’t pay for it, you won’t value it.” And I said, “How much is?” he said, “$35.” And I’m making $40 a week as a janitor. I was like, “That’s a week’s pay.” And he’s like, “Okay, learn on your own and take decades.” So I scraped it together, and that was when I started to realize that in one night I learned more about how to improve my life in 3 or 4 hours from this man who had 30 years of experience that I didn’t have, he compressed those decades into days. And that’s what locked in my mind. So I took a speed reading course and I said, “I’m going to read a book a day.” And I didn’t do that. I read 700 books in 7 years all in the area of human development, psychology, physiology. So everything in my life, I have such a passion for the power of self education. It is a power that is available to any human being today, especially because of the internet all over the earth. It never existed before. You could learn from people you’d never be able to learn from. You can find the best experts on earth from wherever you are. Versus you know, the university system we’re in right now where the greatest debt we have in this country, 1.5 trillion, more than consumer debt, is college debt now. And anybody who is one of your listeners that’s a millennial or a z generation coming up, this is what they’re all worrying about. This is what they’re all dealing with. And they think, “How am I ever going to get through this piece?” But what’s really amazing is we’re guaranteeing all that through this lousy education. Very often professors even at the best universities have never done what they’re talking about, they’re just telling you. And the information is gone. Even a medical doctor. The half life of medical education is two years. That means two years after you leave, 50% of what you learned is worthless. Now the pharmaceutical salesman’s gotta do it. So for me, I wanted to know those answers and Rohn used to say, “Success leaves clues.” If someone is truly successful at anything, they’re not lucky. If they do it once, maybe they’re lucky. Get rich, anybody can get rich. Can you stay rich? Can you become wealthy? Can you add enough value to stay there? That requires a different way of thinking and being. If somebody lost weight and kept it off for 30 years and kept it off, they’re not lucky. He said, “find out what rich people do and do that.” He said, “Find out what poor people read and don’t read it.” He said, “I don’t just mean financially poor, emotionally, spiritually poor because whatever they’re feeding their mind, that’s where it goes.” So he embedded this drive in me. I don’t know, the drive was probably there, but the system in me of saying, “I’m going to learn about other people’s experiences.” Every great investor knows, other people’s money, an OPM is a leverage tool that can grow you geometrically financially. Every great wealth has used some of that. But I’ll tell you what’s more valuable than other people’s money, other people’s experience when the other people’s experience is the best in the world. So they may have taken 20 years to figure something out, and with the tools I’ve learned to model to extract it out of them, we can pull out the best that they’ve learned in maybe a few hours, a few days, a few weeks at most. Maybe a few months if it was super complex. So now, what Dean and I have done, we decided to partner together along with you and say, “how do we help a mass audience of people to do that?” Because I have had the privilege of doing something I love. I was a kid from a zoo set, who didn’t have enough money for food. Now I feed a hundred million meals a year in the US, this year we’re going to get half a billion. We’ll be a million meals within five more years.  I mean, I have the privilege of traveling and helping millions of people. I don’t have to work another day in my life. I’ve got all the toys people say they want, but I have something more. I have meaning. I have this sense that my life matters because I have the information and tools that can add more value than anybody else because I’ve never stopped learning and I keep adding it. So Dean and I now, our focus is how do we take the 60 years between us and then your history and then say, how do we take that to as many people as possible and say, “Look, if you want to be a person and you’ve got some knowledge base…” Let’s say you’re, you cut great hair, I know a woman who makes $250,000 cutting hair, and most people make $60. I remember talking to her going, “You’ve got to share this. I mean so many other people are struggling.” And she got excited about it and now she does these workshops and she makes all this money on the side while she still does what she does. She makes almost as much teaching as she did cutting hair, but she has all these people that love her because their business has grown because she shared her knowledge. So my skill is extracting that, showing people how to do it. And then Dean’s great skill, like yours, is also turning that into a technology or into software so that we got the combination. Or if somebody wants to be like, I started out as what I would call a knowledge broker. I didn’t have the skill. I had people I knew were brilliant. I wanted to bring them to other people. But then gradually I also developed another skill, which is extracting that knowledge not only on myself but on other people. So when I did Money Master The Game, I interviewed 50 of the smartest people in the world financially. Warren Buffet Ray Dalio, Carl Icon, Paul Tudor Jones, and I was able to extract things that no one thought I could extract and put it in a book where now, it’s crazy. I don’t say this to blow my horn, I say this because it blows my mind. I’ve now, I was at JP Morgan’s billionaires conference, you have a billion dollar net worth to be there, and I’m the head speaker for this piece. You know, worth magazine just named me for the fourth year in a row as one of the 100 most influential people in global finance. I’m up there with the same guys I interviewed. And it’s not because of me, it’s because I extracted the best of what they’d done, but I’ve also been able to share, and then I built several multi billion dollar businesses in the last 5 years in that industry. Took one business from 16 billion as a partner, not just me, but to 38 billion AUM, another one from zero to 4 billion, another one from zero to a billion in 2 years. It’s because I applied what I learned from the best. So I am so effing passionate learning from the best. That’s why I’m passionate about you, because you do that same thing. You’ve modeled those marketing skills and you systematized them and shown people how they can take advantage of those in Clickfunnels, better than anybody I know of in the business. And you’ve done the same thing, so I honor you. Russell: Thank you. It’s interesting, you know, I look at my path and it’s been fun because what you just did in the financial space, it’s interesting because four years ago you were not in that world at all, right. But you went and did that, extracted all this stuff, built this engine, this book, this everything that’s now blown up. And I didn’t realize how many billions, which is insane, that’s a lot of B’s. But it’s all about that. I think when I got in this business too, the marketing stuff, I didn’t know a whole bunch of it, but I had the initial spark of “oh my gosh, this is cool.” But I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t go to school for that. So I was like I gotta find out people who are doing this. And then just like you I went and found the best people. In fact, my first business was me interviewing all these people that I wanted to hire for coaching but I couldn’t afford them. So I was like, what if I just call and see if I can interview them for this thing that I was doing. They didn’t know nobody was listening, but most of them said yes.  And I had a chance to interview these minds in marketing that you know, I remember the late Gary Halbert, one of the greatest marketing minds that’s ever been on this planet, before he passed away I had a chance to interview him for an hour, getting him to tell me all these amazing things. And it’s just like, man I got this man’s wisdom who spent how much of his life learning and mastering and doing these things and spending tens of hundreds of millions of dollars marketing and testing and coming back and be like, this is what I found. And it’s just super powerful. Tony: By the way, just one thing about this. If you go for a standard education, you’ve got a great one. You know, we’ve got 110 universities now that have over a billion dollars set aside. You know, Harvard just raised 9.5 billion the other day. My buddy at Yale University is one of the top financial investors in the world. David Swenson, he took them from 1 billion, they have 24 billion at Yale. But what’s the education? 27% of the people that come out of college actually say they’re applying what they learned in their job. In other words, 73% it’s been worthless. And they spent 50, 100, 200 thousand dollars, 100 thousand dollars a year, maybe 3, 4, 5 hundred thousand dollars, over 4, 5, 6, 7 years and they got nothing to show for it. What we really have out there is a bunch of hedge funds that have universities attached to them. We call them universities now. And we pay for all that. We guarantee all that. So you don’t want to be, I don’t want to say you don’t want to be part of that, that’s education too. But if you want to have domain knowledge, you gotta go to the people that are doing it, that are alive, that are perusing the result today. You want to go to the best. Because someone says, “Well I got ten years of experience.” I often say, “Bullshit. You’ve got one year of experience you’ve done 10 times. You grew the first year, and do the same shit for 10 more years.” You’re looking for people that are absolutely the best in the business, and if you have even a part of that in yourself, you gotta figure out extracting. Because often we’re unconsciously confident, meaning we don’t know how we do it. But if you can figure out you can do it. Then you can teach others and now it doesn’t just become your benefit, it becomes something you can spread to the world. And you can structure that as a part time or full time business and have an extraordinary income, but doing something that feels meaningful, not just selling a widget. Nothing wrong with selling a widget, but it’s a hell of a lot more when you feel like your life is actually making a difference. Russell: So cool. This morning I was preparing for this, and this concept of mastermind and I was like, where did this initially come from? And I know it came initially from the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I went and found my copy and I’m reading it and trying to find the section on masterminds to refresh my mind. And I remember I found the section and Andrew Carnegie is the one who had Napoleon Dyn..Napoleon Dynamite! Napoleon Hill go write this book. And what’s interesting, Andrew Carnegie, I wrote this down so I could have it. He said that, “Any time there are two minds that come together, it creates a third mind, which is an invisible mind, or a mastermind.” And later in this quote, another thing I was reading, your initial mentor was Jim Rohn, he said, Jim Rohn said, “You’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” I think it’s interesting, you look at that. The mastermind is all about bringing groups of people together, when you do that the synergy between them, everything grows bigger. I know that I’ve been running mastermind groups for the last 6 or 7 years now inside the marketing industry, which has been really fun. But the first time I really heard about any kind of groups like this was at the original UPW that I was at and you started telling this story about the scorpions group, I think was the unofficial title. But I would love if you told that story because I think there’s so many cool things that came from that, that I would love people to understand some of the background of how it happened for you in your business. Tony: Well thanks. It actually changed my life radically. It started as getting a letter and a beautiful leather jacket that was for batman from Peter Guber who was at the time the chairman for Sony and Columbia pictures. He created the first big movies like that, that ever created. He had 52 academy award nominations. I mean, just a genius. And at the time, I knew of his name obviously because he was famous, but I get this letter saying, “You’ve changed my life and I want to have lunch or dinner with you, please come to the studio.” And long story short, we became, we hit it off from the very beginning. You know there’s some people you can pitch to, but again, one of the things I love about you brother, is we can pitch and catch to each other. I don’t just pitch, you can throw the ball back. And Peter is that way. And we had this, just ignited relationship. So he calls me a couple months later and says, “Tony, I’ve been thinking so much about how you changed my life, and I told all my friends about you.” And he says, “Listen, I have this group of people, it’s the most valuable thing in my life. That’s saying a lot, out of all of the beautiful things in my life. I’m not saying it’s more valuable than my family, but for my growth the most valuable thing.” He said, “I got this group of about 11 guys, 9 to 11 guys and we meet three times a year. We go on these incredible trips. It’s not the trips, the trips are gorgeous. We do these amazing things. But what happens in the conversations on that trip between us, it sparks something. All it takes is one idea and the whole trip is worth it.” And he goes, “We haven’t, all these guys are probably you know, 18 or 20 years your senior just like I am. But l told them about you and how special you are, and we never let anybody else in the group, but they want to have you come on one trip and if they like you Tony, you can do this ongoing. It will change your life more than anything you can imagine.” And I said, “Well, who’s on the group?” and he said, “Well, the greatest NBA coach.” Which was Pat Riley at the time, and he’s a dear friend obviously, to this day.  And he says, “There’s another gentleman but I’ll keep his name private, but he’s the richest man in Canada.” And he goes through this list, like wow. And he goes, I said, “What do you thinking of?” and he goes, “Well, we’re going to do this trip. We’re going to fly to China. We’re going to do this thing on the great wall and then we’re going to go to Cambodia, then we’re going to Vietnam.” And he does this whole thing, and in my mind he knows that I was a business operator. I wasn’t an owner. So if I wasn’t there, nothing is going on. If I wasn’t there I’m stressing out. And I’m thinking, how long is this thing. And I said, “I’m curious, how long is this.” He said, “I don’t know, it’ll be 14, 15, 16 days. You know, 12 days. Something like that.” And I’m like, “Oh.” And in the back of my head I like, “Holy shit, I can’t take that many days off.” And the next thing, I said, he goes, “Yeah, we fly on private jets the whole way. It’s exquisite.” And he goes, “Yeah, we just all divide it up.” And I’m in my head going, you know, we’re going to fly a couple of Goldstreams to china and Vietnam and Cambodia, like 40 hours of flying and 3, 4 thousand dollars an hour, whatever it was back then. I’m like, holy shit, that be like 3 quarters of a million dollars. I said, “Well how many of, what do you think my part…” He goes, “Oh don’t worry about. It’ll only be 30, 40, 50 thousand something like that. Probably 30-40 thousand.” I’m thinking, 30 thousand in 12 days. 30 thousand in 12 days, holy shit. And he goes, “So the dates on, everything else.” And I said, “Well, let me check my calendar.” And there’s this long pause and he goes, “Check your calendar?” Excuse my French, but that’s what he said. He said, “Did I hear you correctly? I’m inviting you to be with 11 of the most brilliant people on the face of the earth for 12 days that you can learn from and you….” And I said, “No, no, I’m putting it on my calendar.” I said, “I’m putting it on my calendar.” So I hang up the phone and I’m like, holy shit. I gotta commit to this. So I blocked out the days, and the economics. And I get on the plane with these guys and those days, I wouldn’t even take an aspirin, and these guys all take an Ambian and they’re going to be sleeping for 14 hours. And there weren’t enough beds so the owner of the plane is a good friend to this day, he says, “We’ll alternate beds.” I go, “No, no. I’m going to stay up. I have to work.” He goes, “Tony you’re not going to stay up for 14 hours.” I said, “No, I’m busy.” So they all go to bed. I’m sitting there rocking in my head for 14 hours going, oh my God, 30-40 thousand dollars, 12 days, what the hell am I doing here? I was miserable. So we finally get there and we go through Cambodia and Shangri La and all these places, and I don’t know, we’re probably three days in and we just did a bike ride through Vietnam and we get on a plane, we’re about 3 or 4 days into it. I’m still miserable. And the guy who is the richest man in Canada sits next me, it’s his plane, and he’s reading the paper. I’m reading the paper, and he’s reading the paper and all the sudden I get this smack on my paper and I pull it down and he smacks it again. He goes, “I want to talk to you.” I’m like, “Okay.” He says, “I’m pissed.” I said, “You’re pissed?” I think, shit. I pissed off the richest man on the trip, it’s his plane. He goes, “Everywhere we go, everywhere we go, people we don’t know, people don’t speak English, ‘Tony ah! Love Tony! Love Tony!’ We’re in China, we’re in Cambodia,” he goes, “you know how much I’m worth? I’m the richest man in Canada. You know how many businesses I have? I’ve never had somebody look me in the face and say, ‘I love you’ I’ve provided income for their kids, everything else.” He went on and on and he seemed so intense and then he smiled. And I realized he’s messing with me. He said, “I have the impression you don’t think you deserve to be here. That you’re not one of us.” And then he said, “Tony, you know what I’d give (I was 30 years old) to be 30 years old? When I was 30 I had made my first million and lost it. I was broke. You got this you got that.” I said, “Yeah, it’s not the things for me.” And he asked me my goals and at the time I thought someday I’d serve in the political environment, I’d run for president on my own, my own money, my own standards. Not my goal now. I’ve served more presidents and I have a very different view of the political system today. And I want to be independent in what I’m doing. And he said, “Well if you want to do that, Tony, you need to understand one of the most important principles of wealth.” And this is what I got out of the whole trip, it was worth the whole trip, it was just one phrase. “proximity is power. Right now, if you wanted to make a movie…” and I hadn’t done Shallow Hal, but I was in 25 movies. He goes, “You know so many people in the movie business, producers, directors, writers, they’re all your fans. You don’t do anything and they put you in all these movies. If you want a script you like and they said it was decent, you’d have everybody in it. You’re in proximity to them. They want to put you in the movies. They’re doing it all the time. You could make your own film.” He said, “But if you want to do a deal with IBM, do a deal with them, no disrespect, you’d have a hard time because you don’t know anybody at IBM. If you want that kind of wealth, how many investment bankers do you know?” and I said, “I don’t know, a couple dozen.” And he goes, “how many do you spend time with?” I said, “Not many.” And he said, “you need to go spend time with them.” I said, “Yeah, but I want to give them something and I don’t have a plan.” And he goes, “Just get in proximity. If you’re around them they’re going to want to know you, want to do a deal with you.” So I did because of this, and I became part of this group and I’m still part of it, to this day. We do two or three trips a year. But what was great was, you know, the first 3 or 4 months I did this, I went probably to New York, and probably met with, I don’t remember, 5 or 6 different of these top financial guys, investment bankers and I came back the next trip and he’s like, ‘Hey dude, how’d you do.’ I said, “Well, I’m around these 7.” “7? You call that massive action?” He just gave me shit, so I kept doing it for 3 years, 2 ½ years. And the woman in my life at the time was like, “Why are you going to New York again, it’s such a waste of time.” I said, “No, I’m just going to keep doing this.” And one day I got a deal that made me $30 million in a month. And I’d not made $30 million in my life at that point. And then I got a deal that made me 400 million dollars, I took the company public in 3 months. And then I also lost most of that when the stock market crashed in 1999, but it taught me the power of proximity and that became my fundamental mastermind. Now today, my mastermind is larger than that. I’m constantly working with people, sometimes it’s one or two but it’s the best in the world at what they do. I coach them, and I’m not dumb enough to think I should only be learning, I should be teaching them. I gotta learn from them too. So putting masterminds together, that’s what I do now. I took my original group, you know, we call ourselves the scorpions, our little song, our Aerosmith song, dude looks like a lady, we tease each other mercilessly. We got our little scorpion symbol and stuff, and its’ a really unique group of people. But I created my platinum partners and my lions and I bring them together and I compress decades in a day. I share the best of what I learned, but I get them to teach each other. This last weekend I got a group of 44 of them, that are my highest donors to my foundation, so I honored them by doing a place at my home in Palm Beach here, and I had here, like last year I brought in Tom Brady. I brought in Michael Phelps, you know I brought in the greatest of all time. Michael Phelps has got more gold medals than anybody in history. Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback in history. This year I brought them Kevin Hart, I think the greatest entertainer, hardest working man in the business, he’s made 45 movies in 15 years. How the eff do you do that? We found out how he did it. How has he built his brand from nothing? How has he done this? And saved all that time, the guys’ a genius. He’s smarter than almost anybody you know in the business. You know I brought in Mike Tyson because I wanted to show them, you can be the best in the world, and success is not a vaccination against suffering. He was in such pain before. And then how he changed. Then I brought in Conor McGregor, who says he’s retired, but I’ll be coaching him on his next fight. You know, he’s just a genius. He’s ready, he’s ready to do this thing, but he’s got to get his right price. He’ll retire until they pay him the right amount. He’s a guy that willed himself from nothing. You know, he’s got no money, he’s got his car, working as an apprentice plumber, 12 hours a day, and he learned how to take control of his mind. He taught us all the things he did, where he literally created himself being the best, and you’ve seen of course, did it in two different belt levels. Two weight classes simultaneously. No one’s done that in history. So learning about other people’s experience is the ticket. There is nothing that you can do that comes even close. I don’t give a damn how great your education has been, you need an education that’s current from the people that have done it, and you gotta learn how to extract it, that’s what we do. That’s what Dean’s done for 20 years, what I’ve done for 42 years, so between us 60 years. How many years for you now? Russell: Well I’ve been doing the business for 15, so I’ll give you guys a little bit in there. Tony: 75 years between the three of us, I think we got a few things we can share with you, if you really want to go to the next level. Russell: So cool. Well, one last thing and then we’ll kind of wrap this. Because I think people understand the power of self education about masterminds and groups. But I think probably the biggest thing I think people are going to be thinking is, “Of course you can do it, Tony. You are Tony.” Or “Russell, you’re Russell.” Or “Dean…” or whatever. But I know we’ve been working on this project, you guys have found a lot of people that are doing this that aren’t, it’s not just like you want to be a Tony Robbins or Russell Brunson or whatever to go and create something like this. This is happening at all sorts of levels, to all sorts of people, in all sorts of industries. And I know, I can share a couple of, but I’d love to see if you’ve got some as well that are just people that are… Tony: I want to tell you how simple it is. It’s like I was talking to a woman a few years ago, she makes, the average person who cuts hair makes 60 grand a year, this woman makes 350 thousand dollars a year. I remember saying to her, first of all, I was blown away, and you know, you feel her presence. She’s just an extraordinary human being anyway. But I just said, “What is it that has really given you this gift?” and I started interviewing her and pulling things out of her and I said “You’ve gotta teach this. There’s so many people who love what they do but they make so little income.” So we started talking with her and Dean started talking with her, and sure enough she started to create these little classes for herself. Little workshop mastermind, she shares and they do the mastermind together and she not only still makes all the money she does there, but she makes as much money in her little classes as she did in anything else. But she feels this meaning, another level of meaning that’s like, “Out of all these people that love me,” she said, “Because I’ve helped them grow their income by 10 fold, 5 fold, 6 fold from where they were.” She goes, “It’s made my life feel even more joyous.” So she has the meaning and she has the money. I think that’s the difference. But literally you can do this in any industry. You can be in sales, and you have some expertise. You’re a good negotiator, you’ve got some expertise. You know how to write software, you’ve got some expertise. Anything where there’s expertise can be modeled, but again, a lot of times you don’t realize all you do. I’m really good and Dean’s really good at extracting it to. Like what is it that really works, and systematizing it. And then putting in software that does it for you. And then also, it’s like what we’ve done for these people, I realized, they can even extract it, but they need to know how to structure a course. Whether it’s a workshop or just going to be a mastermind, or whether it’s going to be a membership group that’s ongoing. There’s many different ways of doing it. And they could be big, I do 10, 15, or even my biggest ones this year are 50,000 person events, football stadiums. But you know, you could do it with 5 people, 25 people. It could be the mastermind, it could be the workshop. You might want to be somebody that extracts it from other people. That’s how I started. I was kind of a knowledge broker promoting other people and then like Money, Master of the Game, I went and pulled all that knowledge out. Once I learned it I became an expert in that field. So really what we’re talking about is it doesn’t matter what you do for a living, whether you have an expertise or you want to go get it from other people, we could try to do it and then systematize it, and then most importantly, like you, market it. Because between Dean, myself, and you we’ve got 75 years of marketing and we know one headline can change your income or your return by 2 thousand, 5 thousand, 10 thousand percent without spending one more penny. And we’ve systematized that. So this is both the software that we’re putting together and the course and then that’s when people get the opportunity to learn about it. It can be done with anything. Russell: yeah, I’m so excited for this. Tony: Give some examples of what you’ve seen, because I know you’ve worked with so many. Russell: We’ve got so many fun ones. We have one lady who’s a boudoir photographer and was doing that as a thing for a while and then eventually people got, her other photographer friends were like, “How are you charging…” because I don’t know exactly the fees, like $100 a session for a regular photographer, versus like a thousand for a boudoir photographer. So she started doing these little groups and bringing people together. “This is how I do what I do.” And later that became courses and books and stuff like that for her. But a lot of times people think if they’re going to get into the education business, it’s like I have to write a book, which I’m writing my third book right now and it’s the most painful process I’ve ever….I think it’s, my wife gets mad when I say this, but I think it’s worse than giving birth. There’s more pain I think than that. Tony: Don’t say that. Russell: I shouldn’t say it out loud. But it’s so painful and I think a lot of people think that’s what they have to do if they want to share their information. And it’s like, maybe eventually, maybe eventually you’ll do a course, but the fastest way is to get people in the room, put them together and share it like that. And it’s like the fastest way to do it. Tony: Every time you do it too. Because I want to address something you just said a minute ago, if I may, because I don’t want to let this go by. The “I’m not a Russell. I’m not a Tony. I’m not a Dean.” Bullshit. I created this guy Tony Robbins. He’s me, don’t get me wrong, but the tempo which I speak, the way I live, it’s a result of all that I’ve learned. The reason I speak like this, with this intensity, is because I have so much passion because I have so much knowledge. I didn’t have any of this to start with. I wasn’t this guy. I trained myself to be this guy. Part of what I do in the course is I give all the knowledge and we could give you all the skill and you still won’t follow through, it’s still dealing with the fear that stops people. It’s the fear of rejection, it’s the fear of failure. So part of our course is doing what I did to myself to literally condition myself, and I know you’ve done the same Russell, to get yourself to follow through. I mean you use some of your athletic ability because you used to train yourself as a wrestler, I remember.  I trained, I was an athlete too, but the training I did with my mind in this area, and my emotion in this area was more important than anything else I learned. And if you don’t get that training, then you’ll just be another person taking another damn course. So I told Dean from the very beginning. I said, “We’re going to give them the best tools, we’re going to give them the best technology, we’re going to give them the best follow-up coaching, give them the best blue print. We’re going to give them the best tools, literally online tools and computer tools, software, but we gotta make sure we give them the best emotional tools.” Because 80% of success is psychology and learning how to change that.  You’ve done that to yourself, you’ve sculpted yourself. You weren’t always this guy, I wasn’t always this guy, and Dean wasn’t. So I don’t want people to negate that. Plus you don’t need to go out and do something that can hold 10 or 15 thousand people at a time. All you need to do is be somewhere that can hold 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 or not even hold anybody. Develop a mastermind where the mastermind itself brings that energy into the group. So don’t undersell yourself, please, because so many people do that. All you gotta do is do what’s next. Do what’s next, do what’s next. And before you know it, I always tell people, most people they overestimate what they’re going to do in a year, and they underestimate what they’re going to do in a decade. And a decade goes that fast. 10 years from now, Jim Rohn used to say, “10 years from now you’ll surely arrive. The question is where.” And if you get started now, you won’t believe where you are. For me, this is my fourth decade, 42 years doing this. I started when I was 3 of course, but you get the idea. Russell: So cool. Well, I appreciate you Tony, jumping on and doing the interview with me today. I just think this will be super huge for people. And when we jump offline I’ll tell everybody a little bit more about exactly what’s included in the program and the software and the training and all that kind of stuff, so they can get deeper and jump into it. But I just wanted to thank you so much for your time and spending time doing this. And also, this project. I know this is the first big course you’ve put out like this for how long? It’s been quite a few years, hasn’t it? Tony: This course is completely different, and I’m excited about it because, also I’m excited about working with you and working with Dean, it’s fun to do something synergistically. Usually I carry the whole thing on my own back. It’s nice to all do it together and bringing the different flavors and insights for people. I think people will be deeply touched. It’s just, it’s meaningful. It’s meaningful for me to have the privilege today to do, to know where I’ve come from, to know where I get to be today and it’s all this path. And we’re showing people the exact path of how they can do it, self starting from wherever they are. Blessings to all of you, thanks for having me on. Russell, I’ll hope to see you soon, brother. Russell: Awesome, thanks Tony. Appreciate you man. Tony: God Bless.

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In this podcast, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Sue Brake, Senior Investment Consultant for Willis Towers Watson, about the importance of governance in asset management and the real cost associated with bad governance. Daniel also manages to get Sue to play a game in which he asks her to respond to quotes by David Swensen, CIO of Yale, about asset consultants. Overview of podcast with Sue Brake 2:00 Changing careers, from banking to investing 3:30 Banking is about implementing smart mathematical solutions, while investing is about effective decision making 5:00 Executive retreat told me that there is no winning 8:00 Embrace the mess; there is no straight line to becoming a president or CEO 9:30 The longer you are in the market, the more you realise that humility is good. 10:10 Failure is result of process not people 11:30 Being smart doesn’t get you the whole way, you have to be curious and humble 12:00 Founding my own gourmet food company 14:00 Fortuitously I sold the company in 2007 16:00 Working at New Zealand Super 22:00 The reference portfolio is a governance tool 25:00 Simple reference portfolio beats most Australian pension funds 26:00 The reference portfolio can show you the difference between good governance and poor governance 27:30 Why does currency matters? 29:00 You have periods where currency fluctuations really can make or break you. 31:00 Is being far away from financial centres a positive or a negative? 34:30 Working at the IMF 38:00 What aspect of investing are universal? 39:00 Boards are like the Little River Band: there are no original members 40:00 Organisational efficiency 42:00 Investment cultures that have a competitive edge 44:00 Putting a price on governance 45:30 Less than 2 per cent of pension funds get the AAA rating for governance 46:00 The 12 factors of good governance 47:00 ADD LINK OF CLARK AND URWIN PAPER ON 12 FACTORS 50:00 Changing nature of asset consultancy 53:00 Are asset consultants gatekeeper? 54:00 Does the ownership of a consultant matter? 56:00 Do consultants need more skin in the game? 58:00 David Swenson says, Sue Brake answers

Shea and Maddie are joined by the official Camp Adulthood consort aka Shea's boyfriend, David Swenson! The three discuss cohabitation, personal vs professional instas, WeWork struggles, Queer Eye, dog instagrams, obesity, cremation, becoming a father in your 20s, dating apps, charter schools and adult friendships! Links to Things Discussed in the Episode: Shea finally settled on an Instagram handle so follow her: @sheakeats Best dog Instagram account: @weratedogs Millennials are the fattest generation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/watch/new-study-reveals-millennials-are-the-fattest-generation-ever/vi-BBJEBgs Water cremation (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation/ Connect with David Online: Send him a LinkedIn request at David D Swenson! Connect with Camp Adulthood Online: Website: campadulthood.com Twitter/Instagram: @camp_adulthood Email: hello@campadulthood.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campadulthood/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Patreon (WE HAVE TSHIRTS AND OTHER ITEMS FOR PURCHASE): https://www.patreon.com/camp_adulthood

"I'm just thrilled to see that people can still have intelligent and thoughtful conversations and walk away still feeling friends." — Rick Kennerly We speak with three friends of the Jefferson Hour this week: Rick Kennerly, who talks tomatoes and why they don’t taste as good as they used to, Pat Brodowski, Head Gardener at Monticello who speaks about the gardens and upcoming events at Monticello, and Beau Wright, Director of Operations at Protect Democracy. In this week's podcast intro, we discuss Keeping All the Pieces, the new documentary film from Badlands Conservation Alliance, produced with David Swenson at Makoche Studios. You can watch the film in its entirety at BadlandsConservationAlliance.org. Find this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog. Learn about Clay's upcoming cultural tours and humanities retreats by visiting Odyssey Tours. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

On today's show we talk to Ted Seides. Ted is a graduate of Yale and Harvard university and he comes with multiple decades of experience in finance. For people not familiar with Ted, most might recognize him has the gentlemen that took the opposite side of Warren Buffett’s bet with the hedge fund industry. We talk to Ted about this friendly wager, how it came about, what the results were, and what he thinks about the chances of beating the S&P 500 moving forward. Something else that’s interesting about Ted is that he has extensive experience working for the famous investor, David Swensen. Swensen has been the chief investment officer for Yale’s endowment for decades and his average return for the past 20 years is 25% annually. At the end of the interview we talk to Ted about Swensen’s greatest strengths. We also ask Ted to compare David Swenson and Warren Buffett (who Ted has become friends with through the years). Click here to get full access to our show notes.In this episode, you'll learn:Why anyone would make an investment bet against Warren BuffettWhy Warren Buffett wanted to trade stock tips for a football playbook The untold drawbacks of investing in index fundsThe simple secrets to legendary investor David Swensen’s outperformanceAsk the investors: What is the best approach to teach your kids finance?

Creating Big Sky Yoga Retreats with Margaret Burns Vap. We discuss her move from a corporate career in NYC to starting a yoga studio in DC to forming Big Sky Retreats in Montana. You'll learn the hardest and best parts of running the business and how her practice has evolved over the years. Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #399: Creating Big Sky Yoga Retreats    Upcoming Events Writing in the Woods in West Virginia: October 6-8 Yoga, Mindfulness + Creativity in Costa Rica: February 17-24 Yoga + Art in West Virginia: May, 2018 TBA Featured guest: Margaret Burns Vap Margaret is the founder of Big Sky Yoga Retreats and creator of Cowgirl Yoga™. Her relationship with yoga began more than a decade ago, when she began attending Jivamukti Yoga and took up the practice in an attempt to balance her hectic New York City lifestyle and corporate career with cosmetics giant L’Oréal. A few years and several hundred down dogs later, she traded in her designer duds for yoga pants – and moved to Washington DC to open her own studio. She combined her business background and passion for fitness to create Georgetown Yoga, which soon became one of DC’s most popular studios. She practiced at Jivamukti London, when her family relocated to the UK for six months, and studied Ashtanga Yoga under Richard Freeman, David Swenson, and Dave Oliver. Margaret also completed a 200-hour training program with renowned California/New York-based Yoga Works and traveled to Hawaii for Baron Baptiste’s Level 1 Teacher Training Bootcamp. Margaret’s students have included celebrities and DC luminaries to wheelchair-bound seniors, beginner yogis to other experienced yoga instructors – and everyone in between. Her belief that yoga can benefit anyone was part of what excited Margaret when her family relocated to Bozeman, Montana in early 2007. Alongside her husband David, daughter Morgane, and two Boston Terriers, she quickly embraced the laid-back-yet-vibrant town, its outdoor fitness focus, and breathtaking 360-degree mountain views. It wasn’t long before Margaret felt called to combine her love of yoga with her new-found love for Montana. Her fresh approach to teaching and natural gift for creating nurturing, safe spaces for people to practice yoga inspired the formation of Big Sky Yoga Retreats. With the help of her close-knit team, especially her first Head Wrangler Janice Cartwright from Montana Horse Sense, Margaret developed a one-of-a-kind retreat experience that welcomes women to enjoy calm, refreshing, and vigorous yoga with an unforgettable Montana backdrop. Big Sky Yoga Retreats has been featured in numerous publications and has received impressive press coverage since its inception.  Margaret earned her B.S. from Georgetown University and her MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. She speaks French, Spanish, and un po d’Italiano and has traveled extensively across the U.S. and abroad. She and David make the most of Montana’s endless outdoor activities and love watching their daughter Morgane grow up on the ski slope and on horseback. She’s also proud ‘mom’ to English Mastiff Lili and her equine herd – Dude Boy and Java. Tranquility du Jour Savvy Sources Find Margaret Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Mentioned in Podcast Blog post about Yoga + the Animals Pigs & Pugs Project Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes Social Media Eye candy on Instagram Pin along with me on Pinterest Let’s connect on Facebook Follow moi on Twitter Watch via YouTube Tranquility Tips + Tools Shop slow locally-made, eco-friendly fashion: TranquiliT Browse my 5 Books New to Tranquility du Jour? Peruse the FAQs Tranquility-filled E-courses Download the Tranquility du Jour Podcast App: iPhone and Android Sign up for Love Notes and access Tranquil Treasures Read about my passion for animals Request Pen a review on iTunes and/or share this podcast via social media, s‘il vous plaît Pen a review of my books on Amazon or Goodreads. Techy To listen, click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes. New to podcasting? Get more info at Podcast 411. Do you have iTunes? Click here and subscribe to the podcast to get the latest episode as released. Get the Tranquility du Jour apps to download the podcast "automagically" on iOS or Android  

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Felix Price is an inspirational yoga teacher who has designed classes to uplift and inspire strudents to develop health, vitality and self-awareness. He has his unique style of teaching and also hold a 200hr Yoga alliance certification under David Swenson. Felix normally teaches across london where he offers classes, private tution or workshop and also some times Message therapy. Beside this he is a passionate artist, has education background in UCL. Also he run a restaurant named Wild Food Café is a “High-Vibe” enterprise, whose chief principles are appreciation and celebration.

In this episode, we discuss the 2010 decision of Citizens United v. FEC, the rise of PAC's, the rules and loopholes governing American election cycles, and what can be done to draw elections back into the hands of the people. We speak with the following individuals about the current climate of campaign finance: JC Welton, a restaurant owner in Des Moines Iowa. David Swenson, a community economics educator at Iowa State University. Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a professor of law at University of Chicago.

Are you willing to stand up for your values? What if you knew it was going to cost you your job and put your family in financial hardships that you may not recover from? That's just part of the story Hans Hageman shares with you today. Paying it forward and Standing up for others is a large part of who we are at Men of Abundance. [spp-tweet tweet="What's the one thing I can do right now to make this situation better?"] Hans Hageman is an irreverent and maverick leader who has impacted lives around the world. Hans grew up in Harlem, NY. He was raised at Exodus House, a pioneering residential drug treatment center started by his father. His parents were his first teachers in the importance of service to others. He went on to attend Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law. His law practice included work as a prosecutor, chief counsel to a U.S. Senate subcommittee, and as a defense attorney. In the ‘90's he shifted his mission to working with under-served children. This led to the creation of the East Harlem School at Exodus House. His work there was honored with an Essence Magazine award and The Robin Hood Foundation Heroes Award, among others. It also brought him national media coverage from CNN, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/25/nyregion/putting-new-twist-family-tradition-sons-drug-program-founders-focus-harlem-s.html?pagewanted=all (The New York Times), People Magazine, and all the major television networks. Hans went on to found two more schools. One that worked with teens who had left the public school system, and another in India that educates poor Hindu and Muslim girls. During this time, he also worked as a consultant with the Baltimore Police Department where he created programs in leadership and communication skills. He most recently took on the challenge to serve as interim executive director for Jitegemee, Inc., a program that works with homeless children in Kenya. His term ended in June 2015. Hans is a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Reiki master, trained as an Ashtanga Yoga teacher under David Swenson, and the holder of multiple coaching certifications. He is now using all of these experiences to inform his work as a small business consultant. He works with startups, creatives, and businesses that support the Three P's of People, Planet, and Profit. Get in on the conversation in our https://www.facebook.com/groups/menofabundancecommunity/ (Men of Abundance Community)You can Time Travel... well kinda. Click on the timestamps below to travel directly to that part of the show. Hans' Kick in the Gut Moment: [spp-timestamp time="5:50"]Paying it Forward [spp-timestamp time="30:34"]Action Steps [spp-timestamp time="32:33"] Determine what your top three values are... Creativity Freedom Service Take responsibility for everything that happens in your life. Answer the questions... Is what I'm doing right leading to a richer and more meaningful life? [spp-tweet tweet="Take responsibility for everything that happens in your life."] Daily Habits [spp-timestamp time="34:57"] 16 oz of cold water with pinch of sea salt first thing in the morning. Writing three things that I'm grateful for. Get moving Recommended books [spp-timestamp time="36:15"] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1626340463/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1626340463&linkCode=as2&tag=menofabundanc-20&linkId=e106ef9ec3afd2064e902b8d8c6e7cb6 (The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness) - Jeff Olson https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961444401/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0961444401&linkCode=as2&tag=menofabundanc-20&linkId=894d5f2c4783b041900fa9a101b821af (We're All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free) - Bo Losaff... Support this podcast

Join Tina and Sara in conversation in the last episode of the Women's Entrepreneur Series.  Phone lines open 516-387-1936 Sara Intonato (E-RYT 500, Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga),  took her first yoga class as an 18 year old college student in Boston, Massachusetts. She fell in love with yoga and began practicing daily. By the time she graduated from Boston University in 2003, Sara had already completed her 200 hour Hatha Yoga certification and begun focusing her practice and teaching in the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition under the tutelage of David Swenson. In 2005 Sara made her first trip to Mysore, India to study under Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and deepen her connection to the Ashtanga Yoga lineage. She continues to make annual trips there, furthering her practice with R. Sharath Jois, Guruji's grandson whom has guided the tradition since his grandfather's death in 2009. Sara received her level one authorization to teach from R. Sharath Jois, director of the KPJAYI in Mysore in 2013. She was given her level two authorization in 2014. She is honored to perpetuate the lineage of Ashtanga Yoga. While in India, Sara studies chanting with Dr. M.A. Jayashree, PhD and Sri Lakshmish. In New York, Sara remains connected to the tradition as a student of senior teacher Eddie Stern. She humbly dedicates her practice and teaching to her late Guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his family. If you are looking for Ashtanga Yoga in Long Island, New York contact Sara today Sara is grateful to her husband and two children for supporting her on her spiritual path.

[coolcastplayer id="62"] Hans Hageman is a maverick and visionary leader who has started and led organizations for underserved children in Harlem, New York, Kenya, and Lucknow, India. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law. He is also a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Reiki (Ray-kee) Master, and received teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga from David Swenson. He has taken this experience and training and now puts it to use for small businesses and individuals who support the Three P’s of People, Planet, and Profit. Hans is here today to share some powerful insights. The post 071: Awareness, Responsibility & Redefining Success – Hans Hageman appeared first on The Positivity Effect.

[coolcastplayer id="63"] Hans Hageman is a maverick and visionary leader who has started and led organizations for underserved children in Harlem, New York, Kenya, and Lucknow, India. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law. He is also a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Reiki (Ray-kee) Master, and received teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga from David Swenson. He has taken this experience and training and now puts it to use for small businesses and individuals who support the Three P’s of People, Planet, and Profit. Hans is here today to share some powerful insights. The post 070: Intuition Is Crucial – Hans Hageman appeared first on The Positivity Effect.

Join us as Beryl Bender Birch sits down with David Swenson to share the insights he’s gained over 40 years practicing and teaching yoga. David discusses hitting plateaus in our practice, where we think that nothing is changing and we lose sight of how good we feel. He explains how for him, “Carrying on is a tool” for doing yoga, and for the rest of his life. For David, yoga is not meant to be selfish: “Feel good, but then go and make the world a better place any way you can by sharing the positive energy.” You’ll get to hear David describe the joy he’s gotten – and the spiritual lessons he’s learned – from teaching yoga to those who are blind. And you’ll learn how he started his journey by reading yoga books with his brother Doug Swenson in Texas – and how they were nearly arrested in a Houston park for practicing what unenlightened neighbors saw as “Devil Worship.”

What do we experience when we look inside? Where do we place our confidence? Do we believe that we have mind? In this episode Professor Thurman discusses the power of questioning, the necessity of digging deeper in order to understand mind and its power. The episode is an excerpt from the the “Buddha and Yogis” retreat at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by David Swenson, John Campbell & Robert Thurman on July 31, 2015. Misplaced Confidence : Buddha & The Yogis – Ep 35 Photo by Vicky Sim on Unsplash. This week’s episode of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us.

Tantric Buddhism is known as the fast path, meaning that it is possible to become enlightened in one or a few lives, instead of millions. In this podcast, Professor Thurman discusses how we can use our dreams to compress the virtue of many lives into one dream. He also speaks about the role of compassion, ethics and wisdom on the path. This episode was recorded on June 8, 2011 at the “Buddha and Yogis: The Vajra Body” gathering at Menla Retreat, taught by David Swenson, John Campbell & Robert Thurman. The Fast Path : Buddha & The Yogis – Episode 34 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Image of Gyurme Dorje from the Tibet House US Repatriation Collection via www.himalayanart.org. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us.

In this episode, Professor Thurman discusses visualization practice and meditation. He explains how the context which you assume will determine how much progress you can make. When you create an imagined enlightened universe, you are making vivid to yourself a preferable image, as well as loosen your own sense of yourself as being limited and incapable of change. This episode was recorded on July 31, 2015 at the “Buddha and the Yogis” retreat at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by David Swenson, John Campbell & Robert Thurman. Visualizing an Enlightened Universe : Buddha & The Yogis – Ep. 33 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Image via www.himalayanart.org. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us.

This episode is a continuation of last week’s episode on The Heart Sutra. In this episode, Professor Thurman discusses the questions: How does free will work? What does it mean that we are all effected by causes and conditions? He also discusses how shunyata, or voidness, is a scientific discovery, not just a mystic philosophy. This episode was recorded on July 27, 2015 at the “Buddha and the Yogis” retreat at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by David Swenson, John Campbell & Robert Thurman. Heart Sutra : Part 2 – Episode 32 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Image by Miles Neale. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The songs “Trance Tibet” & ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

The Heart Sutra is one of the most profound and widely studied texts in the Buddhist canon. In this episode, Professor Thurman reads the Heart Sutra, and explains the meaning as he goes along. This is the first of a two-part episode on the Heart Sutra. This episode was recorded on July 27, 2015 at the “Buddha and the Yogis” retreat at Menla Mountain Retreat, taught by David Swenson, John Campbell & Robert Thurman. Heart Sutra : Part 1 – Episode 31 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Image by Miles Neale. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the monthly support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York. Listen to more archive recordings from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The songs “Trance Tibet” & ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

What Is Special About Jessica It seems to me Yoga choose Jessica rather than the other way around. She had a great job in Paris in IT, she travelled all the time, and she was making money. But a workshop with David Swenson and meeting Pattabhi Jois in London between 2000 and 2002 changed everything. She could not believe how people would show up early in the morning to "sweat together", and practice this dynamic form of hatha yoga. And she liked it. So she started practicing and traveling to Mysore and meeting people and ... She  joined Yoga Thailand in its early stages as a teacher and by invitation! and met Tiwari who is one of the most serious and advanced practitioners of pranayama in the world today. That, meeting Tiwari, is something I envy her for (in a good way of course) because she got to study under direct supervision from him... they still talk on the phone. What We talked About Jessica's life in the corporate world, working for IT and traveling most of the time How she started getting into yoga slowly Her workshop with David Swenson clarifies things for her Her visit to London to take Pattabhi Jois's tour classes India An Invitation to Teach and "take over for a few months" Yoga Thailand!!! I mean. Wow. Her yoga sabbatical, and did she fear running out of money? What is it like to learn directly from Pranayama World Authority Tiwari? Opening her own studio in 2008 in New Orleans Getting married and having a baby The delivery story - It was painful but not as crazy as some videos women get to watch... How the studio is doing today What took Jessica a long time to understand. Books Jessica Recommends on The Podcast Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution (Your Ayurvedic Constitution Revised Enlarged Second Edition) Paperback - by Dr. Robert Svoboda Prakriti It means "nature" in Sanskrit. Dr. Svoboda, says Jessica, is a great writer, very entertaining, very clear and practical.  He is a teacher and a yogi. Ayurveda The Science Of Self Healing by Vasan Lad.  Jessica says this one is for those of us interested in learning more about the pulse, and a good introduction. Ayurvedic Nutrition - By Atreya Smith, one of Jessica's teacher. This book is  clear on diet and the benefits of it. ANOTHER BOOK WE MENTION IN THE PODCAST: The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People by Dan Buettner (Here is the interview James did with Buettner on living to 100) About Jessica Her Studio in New Orleans Her book: Yoga Thailand's Healthy Lifestyle Cooking  I've tried recipes from this book for the past five years, in between visits to Ko Samui, and they are delicious and packed with nutrition. A Meal Plan to eat healthy she is offering for free Twitter Facebook Instragram Youtube Samahita Retreat - or Yoga Thailand Transcript Claudia A. Altucher:   Hello and welcome to the Yoga Podcast. Today I have for my guest Jessica Blanchard. She is the founder of Balance Yoga and Wellness in New Orleans. She is a trained yogi for years, authorized by Pattabhi Jois in the Ashtanga yoga tradition. She has also studied at Yoga Thailand under Paul and Jutima Dallaghan, and also Master Tiwari, one of the most authoritative authorities in Pranayama in the world. And Jessica has an interest in Ayurveda. She is a member of NAMA, the national organization which governs and protects Ayurveda here in the United States, and she studied at the European Institute of Vedic Studies and Ayurveda as well. She's a co-author of Yoga Thailand's Healthy Lifestyle cookbook, which is in Amazon, and Jessica had the life I think I wish I had when I was in the corporate world. Jessica, welcome to the Yoga Podcast. Jessica Blanchard:      [Laughter] Thank you, Claudia. Claudia A. Altucher:   It's great to have you. So I want to ask you – I'm insanely curious. You started practicing around '99, 2000 – is that so? Jessica Blanchard:      That's right, yeah. Claudia A. Altucher:   And you had a job. Jessica Blanchard:      Oh, yeah, yeah. I worked at Accenture, which is a big consulting firm, multinational. And at that time I was based in Europe Claudia A. Altucher:   Where in Europe? Jessica Blanchard:      Well, in southern France. Officially my base was called Sophia Antipolis, which is close to Nice, so – but I was traveling a lot because most of the clients were in other places. It was kind of a pan-European office, so I would travel to, say, Dublin, Ireland – that's actually where I was when I first started Ashtanga yoga, and… Claudia A. Altucher:   Uh-huh. So do you speak French? Jessica Blanchard:      Yes, I do. Claudia A. Altucher:   So were you born in France, or – Jessica Blanchard:      No, no, I was born in Louisiana, and there's a strong connection between South Louisiana and France 'cause it was originally settled by the French. So I always had a fascination with France. My grandmother spoke French; she spoke Cajun French. Claudia A. Altucher:   Oh. Jessica Blanchard:      Yeah, but I learned it in school, maybe starting when I was 13, and I did spend some time over in France when I was in university, in eastern France, in Noce, which is a small place not too many people go to, but it was great because I learned to speak really well 'cause there weren't too many foreigners. I made very good friends there. Claudia A. Altucher:   That's great. But let me ask you – so did you live in Paris with your job because you were living there, or did they hire you, or how did that happen? Jessica Blanchard:      That happened – they hired me in New York, and – Claudia A. Altucher:   I see, and you spoke French. And your job was IT, right – IT related? Jessica Blanchard:      Yes, it was. It was very different, and I really didn't know what I was getting into when I started. I was a sociology and French major, in a small school outside of Philadelphia, an all-women's college. And I managed to do well in the interviews – I don't know how – 'cause I didn't – Claudia A. Altucher:   That's great. Jessica Blanchard:      Yeah, and I – Claudia A. Altucher:   But you know, the thing is, I also had a job in IT, so I remember reading your bio – it must've been 2006 or so – and going, “Oh, my God, she is like what I want to do.” It's amazing. I mean, I think you were in Dublin one day and you take a workshop with – well, tell us. Who did you take a workshop with? Jessica Blanchard:      Well, this was actually – first it was just a yoga teacher. I am having trouble remembering her name, 'cause she doesn't teach Ashtanga anymore. But my first Ashtanga classes were with her – her name was Paula; that's right – and then soon after that I took a workshop with David Swenson. He was probably one of the first – the first ever yoga workshop I took, and that was in early 2000, I think January of 2000. I still remember it was very cold and dark – Claudia A. Altucher:   Yeah. Jessica Blanchard:      ______ Dublin, and it was ______ gym. But there were all these people. I was surprised because it didn't seem like many people did yoga. There were no yoga studios. All of the classes were in very cold church halls or gyms. We would push the equipment out of the way. The first time I met Paul was at this very funny gym; there was carpet on the floor and he was traveling and teaching there. But – Claudia A. Altucher:   And David Swenson is like a huge – is like – within the Ashtanga yoga world, probably everyone has seen his book because he teaches both the primary and the intermediate series in that book with modifications. So for those of us who can't get into the pretzel, he has sort of like side images so that you feel like, okay, yeah, I can do this, and it's very reassuring. Jessica Blanchard:      Yes, and he's a very – yeah, he makes yoga very accessible, so it's been – yeah – nice. Claudia A. Altucher:   And something happened to you there, like you caught the Ashtanga bug. You liked it Jessica Blanchard:      I loved it. I really did. I can't exactly say why. I think it's a constellation of factors about it: the moving, the breath, the fact that it does require – because it's physical, you concentrate. It requires concentration. And there was less talk and fluffiness and I think – Claudia A. Altucher:   Yes. [Laughter] Jessica Blanchard:      And it's interesting 'cause in Europe I feel like yoga was less fluffy than it is in the US since – you know, now I moved back in 2007, but Ashtanga – to me it seems like it's a little more popular in Europe than it is here in the US. 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Rolf is certified by David Swenson to teach Ashtanga Yoga. He's also certified at the 500hr level witih Embodyoga. Rolf has studied also studied with Ana Forrest, Dharma Mettra, Beryl Bender Birch, Tias Little, Pattabhi Jois, Richard Freeman, and Rodney Yee. In this Show, You'll learn: The importance of the vagus nerve for relaxation and life balance How yoga, breathing, and mind-body practices stimulate your nervous system—in a good way! The often-overlooked science of yoga The physiology of emotional dysfunction and how yoga can help

Jim gets involved in a deadly Christmastime mystery at a Boston department store. Jim Nolan, Private Eye was created by Mike Murphy and Arlene Osborne. Starring our regular cast: Russell Gold as Jim Nolan, Joyce Bender as Gladys Nolan, Brian Bedard as Lt. Walter Carmichael and Katie Dehnart as the Narrator. Guest starring in this episode: JOE STOFKO as Charles Murdock, JOANIE DEHNART as Kid #1, VICTOR GATES as Man #1, LYN CULLEN as Woman, AMANDA FITZWATER as Lucille Ballard, HAILEY LYNN STOFKO as Kid #2, BRIAN M. OLDHAM as Man #2 CHLOE DEHNART as Kid #3, JIM PATTON as Dr. David Swenson, KATIE DEHNART as Miss Ellen Landers, PAUL LAVELLE as Sgt. McManus, PETER KATT as Dr. Norden, H KEITH LYONS as Joe Blackmore, and KIM GIANOPOULOS as Helen Bagley. “Ho, Ho, Homicide” was written by Mike Murphy. Jim Nolan, Private Eye Theme: Composed and performed by Vivian Doskow. Please visit her web site to listen to more of her wonderful music. Producer: Capt. John Tadrzak Assistant Producer: Mike Murphy Mixer: Tasos Kostopoulos Script Editor: Arlene Osborne Webmaster: April Sadowski We would also like to thank Capt. John Tadrzak of Misfits Audio for airing this show. Mike Murphy, the […]