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Deciding whether to move forward with deep brain stimulation can feel like a huge step.In this episode, we talk with Kelly Geyer about his Parkinson's journey, what led him to start considering DBS, and how he worked through the decision. Kelly shares what the evaluation process was like, what he hopes DBS will improve, what it can't fix, and some of the emotional questions that come with making a decision like this.We also talk about device options, surgery, long-term maintenance, personality changes, expectations, and why having a medical team you trust matters so much.If you're considering DBS—or just starting to wonder whether it could someday be an option for you—Kelly's experience offers a really honest look at what goes into that decision.Chapters00:00 – Meet Kelly and His Parkinson's Story03:18 – When Medication Wasn't Enough05:40 – When DBS Entered the Conversation06:37 – What the DBS Evaluation Really Looks Like08:28 – The Emotional Side of Saying Yes to DBS11:15 – What Kelly Hopes DBS Will Change12:40 – Understanding What DBS Can—and Can't—Do18:49 – Surgery, Device Options and Battery Life24:58 – Kelly's Advice for Anyone Considering DBS25:24 – Finding Support in the Parkinson's CommunityThis episode was brought to you by Changing Parkinson's. If this podcast has meant something to you, consider making a gift to help keep it going. And join our PDNextSteps Home Workout Series with over 100 custom workouts delivered to your living room. Visithttp://changingparkinsons.org to give, get moving, or join our newsletter.#Parkinsons #ParkinsonsDisease #ChangingParkinsons #Neurologists

How do you know if you actually have a drinking problem? You make rules about when you’ll drink. You negotiate how many you’re going to have. You promise yourself tonight will be different. You replay last night trying to figure out exactly what happened. You take breaks, make new rules, Google questions, take quizzes, compare yourself to other people—and somehow alcohol keeps requiring more and more of your attention. At some point, that’s worth looking at. In this episode of Addiction Unlimited, we’re getting away from arbitrary drinking counts and labels and looking at something far more revealing: your actual relationship with alcohol. In this episode, we’re getting away from labels and arbitrary drinking counts and looking at something far more useful: your actual relationship with alcohol. Is it really a drinking problem? The surprisingly revealing question that has nothing to do with how much or how often you drink Why taking 30 days off alcohol may not prove what you think it proves The difference between having a plan for the night and actually being in control of what happens When researching your drinking stops giving you answers—and starts becoming part of the answer And after all the research, analyzing and comparing—you already have enough information—you just have to be willing to do something with it. Because sometimes the amount of work you’re doing to prove alcohol isn’t a problem tells you more than another quiz ever will. You don’t have to decide what to call yourself today. You don’t need the perfect label or one more piece of evidence. You can simply acknowledge that your relationship with alcohol isn’t working anymore—and let that be enough truth to take the next step.   Links mentioned in this episode:  Book A Call Here: addictionunlimited.com/call Sober Society Membership: addictionunlimited.com/membership Related Episode:  Why Am I An Alcoholic – the Bio-Psycho-Social Truth About Addiction Follow me on Instagram: @addictionunlimited Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/addictionunlimited     Prefer to read instead of listen? Here's the full transcript of this episode. 455 Transcript Angela (00:07.374) Hello, my friend. Welcome back to the Addiction Unlimited podcast. I’m your coach, Angela Pugh. How do I know if I actually have a drinking problem? This is probably one of the most common questions people ask themselves when they start getting uncomfortable with their drinking. Am I really an alcoholic? Do I actually have a problem? Or am I just drinking a little too much right now? Maybe I just need to cut back. Maybe I need to take a break.Maybe I should stop drinking during the week and only drink on weekends. We will create an entire strategic plan around drinking before we’ll sit down and ask ourselves the most obvious question. What the hell is going on with me and alcohol? And here’s the first thing I want you to understand. I am not going to give you a diagnostic quiz today. I’m not interested in do you drink X number of drinks on X number of nights? Have you had X number of consequences? Check seven boxes and congratulations, here’s your label. That’s not how I look at this. And I never tell people. Angela (01:52.102) And I never tell people they’re alcoholics. First of all, way too many people can’t handle that word. We have some very delicate sensitivities these days. And I’m a little different about that stuff. I am a no BS human. Tell me the truth so I can figure out the solution. I don’t need you to beat around the bush or hold my hand or find the softest, prettiest language possible. If I’m trying to fix a major problem in my life, I just let’s get on with it. I don’t particularly care what we call it. I care about how I’m fucking up and what I need to do to stop fucking up. I also understand that not everybody feels that way. So when somebody says to me, I don’t know if I’m an alcoholic, I think maybe I just drink too much sometimes. The first thing I notice is that they’re asking the question. at all because that tells me something has shifted. Angela (03:02.24) You are questioning your connection with alcohol because somewhere along the way you felt that relationship start to change. You probably can’t even pinpoint exactly when it happened. You just know you’re thinking about alcohol more than you used to. You’re relying on it in ways you didn’t before. You’re planning around it, recovering from it, wondering about it, worrying about it. And there’s this little voice in the back of your head saying. Something about this doesn’t feel right anymore. And that’s usually when we start asking the question. Then here’s what happens next. Almost immediately after someone tells me they’re wondering if they have a drinking problem, they start giving me all the reasons they don’t. I don’t drink every day. I’ve never had a DUI, I don’t drink in the morning, I have a good job, my kids are taken care of, I don’t hide bottles, I can go days without drinking. And I’m just listening. Because here’s the thing: if an idea is completely preposterous to you. You don’t have to build a defense against it. If somebody said to me, Angela, I think you might secretly be a six foot four professional basketball player. I’m not gonna spend the next three hours Googling the average height of WNBA players and gathering evidence to prove I’m not, right? I’m gonna say that’s absurd. And then I’m gonna move on with my life. When something happens, Clearly doesn’t apply to us. We don’t usually have to convince ourselves that it doesn’t apply. So when you’ve built an entire defense around why you’re definitely not an alcoholic, I’m interested in why you need the defense in the first place. And I think part of the reason people fight this so hard is because they’re not only fighting a conclusion about alcohol. Angela (05:07.69) They’re fighting what they believe that conclusion says about them. To a lot of people, the word alcoholic means, I’m not even really sure, weak, I guess, broken, irresponsible, a bad parent, a bad partner, a failure, somebody who can’t get their shit together. So sometimes when you’re fighting the possibility that you’re an alcoholic, you’re not even protecting alcohol. You’re protecting your identity. You’re saying I’m successful, I’m responsible, I’m a good person, I take care of my family. I’m not that. And somewhere along the way, you’ve decided that being a person with an alcohol problem is incompatible with all those other things. I don’t see it that way at all. I wear the label alcoholic as a badge of honor. Angela (06:06.112) I wear the label alcoholic as a badge of honor. I have a tremendous amount of pride in being an alcoholic because to me, the word represents something I survived, confronted, and overcame. I’ve dealt with something that most people aren’t equipped to handle, recognize, and least of all have the balls to actually do something about it. And I’ve always been a little different in that way. Even when I was drinking, I knew I was an alcoholic. There was nothing normal about how I drank. But I lived in Los Angeles for many, many years. There were sober people everywhere, successful people, powerful people, celebrities. I had plenty of evidence around me that being sober didn’t mean your life was over, and being an alcoholic didn’t mean you were a loser, right? So I wore my alcoholism as a badge of honor. Angela (07:12.556) What embarrassed me wasn’t that I was an alcoholic. What embarrassed me was that I couldn’t handle my life. I was high functioning too. I could work, I made money, I could show up and perform and take care of all the things. But emotionally, I wasn’t growing. I couldn’t cope with my own feelings. I wasn’t advancing in life. Like I was just stuck. And drinking was the thing I used. So I didn’t have to deal with any of it. That’s why I’m not particularly interested in convincing anyone to use the word alcoholic. I love the label. You don’t have to. The label isn’t the fucking point, right? The point is what is actually happening in your life, and are you willing to tell yourself the truth about it? Because I think one of the reasons people stay. Angela (08:20.962) Because one of the reasons people stay confused about this for so long is that we’re looking in the wrong place. We’re obsessed with quantity. How many drinks do I have? How many nights a week do I drink? How many drinks does an alcoholic have? Can an alcoholic go days without drinking? Can an alcoholic only drink on weekends? Can an alcoholic do dry January? And those questions can give you information for sure. But they don’t tell me nearly as much as people think they do. I want to know about your relationship with alcohol. How much mental real estate is it taking up? How much of your time is spent thinking about drinking, planning drinking, actually drinking, or recovering from drinking? Because I had three stages of life. I was thinking about it, doing it, or recovering from it. There wasn’t much room for anything else. And that’s what I want you to look at in your own life, because maybe you don’t drink every day, but you’re thinking about it every day. Maybe you’re making rules about when you can drink, breaking the rules, creating new rules, counting drinks, checking how much wine is left before people come over, wondering whether you need another bottle just in case. Angela (09:40.748) Maybe you wake up the next morning trying to reconstruct the night before. Like, how many did I have? Was it five or was it six? Did anybody notice? Was I too loud? Did I say anything stupid? And then by afternoon, you’re already negotiating with yourself about tonight. I’m not drinking tonight. Except you’re going out. So maybe you’ll have two. You’ll be good tonight. You’ll drink water between drinks, you’ll leave early. And now you’re conducting a forensic investigation into Friday night while simultaneously negotiating the terms of Saturday night. Look at how much work that takes. Angela (10:23.052) Because all the things sneaking, minimizing, planning, counting, defending, negotiating, recovering, making rules and renegotiating new rules, those are not isolated behaviors. They’re an ecosystem. Alcohol has become important enough in your life that you’re having to manage your relationship with it. That’s what I want you to look at. Not whether somebody on the internet says six drinks makes you an alcoholic and five doesn’t. Look at how much of your life revolves around managing alcohol. And if you want an interesting comparison, watch somebody who genuinely has an uncomplicated relationship with alcohol. These fucking weirdos don’t think about it at all. They’re not obsessing about whether or not they’re gonna drink tonight. They’re not freaking out about dinner with friends because they don’t know what they’re gonna drink. They’re not looking at the restaurant menu three days in advance to make sure they have mocktails. They simply don’t care. What’s in their glass? If somebody offers them a drink and they don’t want one, they say, no thanks, and that’s it. No internal crisis, no elaborate explanation, no concern about whether everybody is gonna think they’re weird. They don’t want to drink, so they don’t have one. Angela (11:55.894) And here’s another thing these weirdos do. They don’t finish their drinks. Like, what the fuck is that? They sip. They leave half of it sitting on the table. They forget about it. Meanwhile, we’re watching the level in the glass and calculating whether the server’s going to be back here fast enough because we’re going to need another one. They’re not wondering whether there’s going to be alcohol at the party or the neighborhood barbecue or the camping trip. They go camping to actually camp and enjoy their friends and family, not as an excuse to sit and drink in a different location. Alcohol has no gravitational pull for them. It doesn’t require management because it simply isn’t that important. Angela (12:56.854) And that is a much more interesting thing for you to examine than whether or not you drank three nights or four this week. Angela (13:07.98) And there’s another piece of this that I think is even more important, and that’s control. Because people love to tell me they can go days or weeks without alcohol and not even really think about it. Okay, a lot of us can stop for periods of time. We are fairly defiant people by nature. And especially if somebody tells us we can’t do something, boy, nothing will make me act like a toddler. faster than feeling like somebody’s telling me what to do. So if your spouse gives you a little shit about how much you drink, it doesn’t surprise me at all that you would go, okay, bitch, watch this, and quit for months, even. Because we are defiant and rebellious and we’re control freaks. So if you tell me in some way that you’re paying attention to my drinking, which means you’re trying to control how I’m drinking, of course I’m gonna do something major to prove you wrong. Honestly. A decent amount of my resolve in sobriety came from spite because it was me against alcohol and I wasn’t fucking losing. Period. Angela (14:24.586) One of the realizations I had in my own rock bottom moment was that alcohol was controlling me. It was controlling my choices, my behavior, my chaos and consequences. And that pisses me off. I don’t like being told what to do by anyone. And as soon as I understood that alcohol was running the show, that fueled my fire in a huge way to stay sober because I am the boss of me, not alcohol. So, yes, you may absolutely be able to decide not to pick up the first drink for thirty days or sixty days or however many days, but that’s not the only kind of control. Angela (15:11.17) But that’s not the kind of control I’m interested in. I want you to think about Angela (15:21.868) I want you to think about the last few times you drank before you had the first drink. Maybe you told yourself how you wanted the night to go, right? We love to do that. I’m only gonna have a couple, I’m gonna leave by 10, I have a workout tomorrow. So I’m definitely not gonna get crazy tonight. And here’s what I want you to notice. How much confidence do you actually have in that plan? Not how badly you want it to happen, not whether you’ve successfully done it before. But when you put that first drink to your lips, do you know with certainty how the night’s gonna end? Or are you just crossing your fingers? Because those are two very different things. Are you having one drink? Or are you having a drink and hoping everything goes okay? Because hope is not control. Maybe tonight you have two and go home. Maybe tonight you have six. Maybe you’re home by 10, maybe it’s two in the morning. Maybe you remember everything, maybe there are fuzzy parts. Maybe you’re perfectly pleasant all night long. Maybe you get a little too loud and develop a little attitude with somebody you secretly don’t like. Maybe you get home, wash your makeup off, get everything ready for tomorrow, get to bed, and make your workout in the morning. Or maybe You wake up with a headache, cancel everything you planned, and spend half the day trying to piece together the night before while guilt and anxiety eat you alive. The question isn’t whether the worst case scenario happens every time. The question is whether you know which version you’re getting before you take that first drink. Angela (17:18.786) The question isn’t whether the worst case scenario happens every time. The question is whether you know which version you’re getting before you take that first drink. If you don’t know, that’s the part I want you to pay attention to. That’s the loss of control I’m talking about. And frequency doesn’t answer that question. But I only drink on weekends. Okay, but what happens when you drink on weekends? I only drink a couple times a month. Okay. What happens those couple times a month? You could drink once a year. And if every time you take that first drink, you have no idea whether you’re gonna have two or 12, whether you’re home at 10 or 2, whether you remember the whole night or wake up wondering what the fuck happened, that’s worth paying attention to. Not quantity, predictability. And while you’re looking at that. Stop using other people’s drinking to answer questions about yours. I hear this stuff all the time. My husband drinks way more than I do. My sister drinks every night. My friend gets way drunker than me. At least I’ve never blacked out. Okay. I was a raging alcoholic. I didn’t black out either. You can count on one hand the number of times I blacked out in 15 years of daily drinking. I didn’t drink alone. I didn’t drink in the morning. And it took me 14 years to get a DUI. If I had picked any one of those arbitrary behaviors as the offensive Angela (19:03.798) If I had picked any one of those arbitrary behaviors as the official benchmark for alcoholism, I could have built a very compelling case that I was doing just fine. And I wasn’t. How much or how often somebody else drinks has absolutely nothing to do with your relationship with alcohol. There are probably plenty of people around you who have drinking problems. It’s really none of your business. Your business is your drinking problem. My mom doesn’t drink at all. Oddly, that had no impact on how much I drank, right? So stop looking sideways and just look at yourself. Angela (20:04.856) So, how do you know if you actually have a drinking problem? If you’ve been asking this question repeatedly, you’ve probably done some research. You’ve Googled it, you’ve taken the quizzes, you’ve read the articles and listened to the podcasts, and you’ve looked up how many drinks qualify as alcoholism. You’ve compared yourself to people who drink more than you do. And here’s what I want you to notice about that process. What happens when you get an answer? You don’t like? Do you stop or do you keep searching? Because last week we talked about resistance. Angela (20:52.908) Because on last week’s episode, we talked about resistance and how when we don’t like the answer we’re getting, we just keep searching for a different answer. And this is what resistance can look like in real life. It doesn’t always look like somebody sitting on the couch saying, I refuse to deal with this. Sometimes resistance looks incredibly productive. You’re researching, you’re reading, you’re listening, you’re analyzing, you’re busy as hell, but you’re not moving. The searching looks like problem solving, but it’s really procrastination dressed up as problem solving. Because think about it, if somebody finally looked at you and said, with everything you’ve told me, If somebody finally looked at everything you’ve told them and said, nope, you’re fine. You absolutely do not have a drinking problem, would you believe them? I don’t think you would. Because somewhere underneath all the noise, you already know the truth. Even if you’re a master of denial, you know when something isn’t right. That’s why you’re Googling it in the first place. Angela (22:09.304) People who have an uncomplicated relationship with alcohol aren’t repeatedly searching, am I an alcoholic? Because alcohol doesn’t have enough presence in their lives for them to wonder whether it’s out of control. So when you’re sitting in a pile of evidence and continuing to search for more evidence, eventually we have to ask, what are you actually looking for? Angela (22:40.588) Because sometimes you’re actually stalling. Because knowing creates responsibility. So as long as you’re still quote unquote figuring it out, you can stay exactly where you are. You can keep drinking while telling yourself you’re researching. You can stay in the comfort zone. You can stay in denial. You can stay in avoidance. Angela (23:09.41) But once you finally say this isn’t working anymore, well, now you have a decision to make. And that’s why underneath the question, Am I an alcoholic? there’s another question. And that question is is this bad enough that I actually have to do something about it? Because if the answer is yes, it’s like, fuck, now there’s another thing you have to fix. And I understand that. You’re already exhausted. You’re working and parenting and running a household and trying to exercise and pay bills and managing relationships. You’re taking care of everybody. You already need an extra three hours in every day. And now the thing you’ve been using because you’re overwhelmed is apparently another fucking problem you have to solve. Of course, your brain wants to keep researching. Your brain is like, well, maybe. We should make absolutely certain first. Let’s take another quiz. But there’s also a problem with the belief that recovery is. Angela (24:30.484) Of course, your brain wants to keep researching. Your brain’s like, maybe we should just make absolutely certain first. Let’s take another quiz. But here’s another problem. There’s a real problem with the belief that recovery is going to require all this time and energy you don’t have. We’re pretending drinking doesn’t already require those things. We talk about recovery like it’s this enormous additional expense, another thing requiring time and money and energy and attention and inconvenience. But we’re making a huge error in that calculation. We’re treating drinking like it’s free. It’s not. Think about what you’re already spending to maintain your relationship with alcohol, not just money, although God knows we’re spending that. But think about your time. The evenings that disappear, the mornings you lose because you don’t feel good, the workouts you skip, the hours of anxiety replaying what you said. The emotional energy it takes to negotiate with yourself about whether or not you’re drinking tonight, or how much you’re gonna have, or whether you’ve been drinking too much, or whether you need to take a break, whether you have a problem, whether you need to quit. Think about how much of your life is already being consumed by this thing you’re telling yourself you don’t have time to address. You’re already paying. Angela (26:06.518) Recovery isn’t suddenly asking you to find resources you don’t have. It’s asking you to start redirecting resources you’re already spending. I had to be equally committed to my recovery as I was to my drinking. That means I did my recovery when I was tired because I drank when I was tired. I did my recovery when I had a bad day because I drank when I had a bad day. I drank when I didn’t feel good. I went to the liquor store or the bar when the weather was bad. So when it was time to recover, I couldn’t suddenly decide that being tired or having a bad day or the weather being shitty meant I couldn’t show up. Angela (26:53.814) If it’s snowing out and you don’t want to go to a meeting, ask yourself a simple question. Would the snow have stopped you from drinking? Would the snow or the rain or whatever have stopped you from going to the liquor store or the bar? No. Then apparently snow isn’t the barrier. We will tolerate an unbelievable amount of inconvenience for drinking. We’ll spend the money we don’t have. We’ll sacrifice tomorrow morning. We’ll be hungover. We’ll miss the workout. We’ll be impatient with our kids. We’ll lose an entire day. We’ll tolerate anxiety and guilt and embarrassment and making apologies. Then recovery asks us to be inconvenienced. And suddenly we’re like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s not get crazy. I don’t have time for all that. But here’s what I need you to understand: doing nothing isn’t the free option. Angela (27:54.142) One path costs you time, money, energy, and comfort and takes you straight into a dead end. The other path costs you time, money, energy, and comfort and gives you a path to freedom. You’re gonna spend the resources either way. The question is, what are you buying with them? The dead end or freedom? So let’s go back to the question we started with because I don’t want you to get to the end of this episode and think I never actually answered it. How do I know if I actually have a drinking problem? I’m not gonna tell you it’s because you drink four nights a week instead of three. I’m not gonna give you a number of drinks or tell you which consequences officially qualify you. I’m gonna tell you to look at the relationship. First, how much mental real estate is alcohol taking up? How often are you thinking about it, planning it, negotiating with yourself about it, doing it, or recovering from it? If alcohol requires that much management, if you are constantly creating rules around it, worrying about it, thinking about whether there’s enough, promising yourself you’ll do something different next time, that’s a clue. Second, what happens to your control after the first drink? Not whether you can quit for a week or do dry January, but when you have that first drink, can you reliably predict what’s going to happen? Do you know you’re having two and going home at 10? Or are you hoping you’ll have two and go home at 10? Because hope is not control. Angela (29:39.064) Third, what are you doing to protect your drinking? Are you minimizing it, hiding it, sneaking it, defending it, comparing yourself to people who drink more, looking for all the reasons you can’t possibly have a problem because you’ve never had a DUI or you don’t drink in the morning or you’ve never blacked out? If you’re working that hard to prove If you’re working that hard to prove alcohol isn’t a problem, I want you to ask yourself why you need such a strong defense for it in the first place. And fourth, what is alcohol costing you? Not just catastrophes. I don’t care whether you’ve lost your house, your marriage, or your job. What is it costing you today? Your mornings, your energy, your workouts, your patience, your presence in your family, your confidence in yourself, your emotional growth, hours of your life spent recovering, days spent feeling anxious and guilty about the things you said or did. You don’t need a catastrophic rock bottom. before the cost counts. Angela (30:54.01) And finally, why are you still asking the question? If this is the fifth article you’ve read, the tenth podcast you’ve listened to, the 20th quiz you’ve taken, what answer are you still looking for? Because at some point the searching becomes part of the answer. The obsession with proving you don’t have a problem becomes evidence that something isn’t right. People who have an uncomplicated relationship with alcohol don’t spend this much time trying to figure out whether their relationship with alcohol is complicated. Angela (31:47.138) Deciding or understanding you have a drinking problem is a very personal decision that you have to make for yourself. But I can tell you that if alcohol is taking too much space in your brain, if you can’t reliably predict what happens after the first drink, if you’re constantly managing and defending your drinking, if alcohol is costing you things you care about, and if you keep coming back to this question over and over again. You have enough information to stop dismissing what you’re seeing. Angela (32:24.022) You don’t need to figure out the perfect word for it before you’re allowed to do something about it. Maybe today all you’re ready to say is my relationship with alcohol isn’t okay anymore. That’s enough truth to start with. And then get out of your own head because your head is not a reliable source of information. It’s what got you into this mess. Go find a sober community. Start listening to people. And I mean actually listen. Don’t walk into the room and immediately start scanning for all the reasons you’re different. Don’t look at what they’re wearing, what they do for a living, whether they drank more than you or less than you, or whether their story looks exactly like yours. Listen to how people think. Listen to the rules they made, the negotiations they had with themselves. Listen to the guilt. Listen to how much space alcohol took up in their lives. Listen to what happened inside their brain after that first drink. Because that’s where you’re going to hear someone who is successful and accomplished and married and raising kids and running a company and doing all the things. And suddenly you’re going to think, fuck, she thinks exactly like I do. That’s what you need. Perspective. Angela (33:49.824) You need to see that you’re not the only high-functioning person on the planet who ended up with a fucked up relationship with alcohol. Not everybody has some desperate, catastrophic, rock bottom moment, and you don’t need one. You need people who are further down the road than you are so you can see what this looks like on the other side. And if you don’t have that community, that’s exactly why I created Sober Society. We have meetings every week. with real people having real conversations about sobriety and life, the feelings, relationships, triggers, growth, all that shit that happens when you stop using alcohol as the answer to everything. Just get out of isolation and start hearing from people who understand the conversation happening in your head. And if you want to join me, you can find sober society, addictionunlimited dot com forward slash membership. That link is also in the show notes, addictionunlimited.com forward slash membership. And whether you join us or you find another sober community that feels right for you, I want to leave you with this. Angela (35:05.184) Out of millions and millions and millions of sober people, there are people just like you too. You are not the one special case that no one has ever seen before. There are people who drank like you, who thought like you, who were successful like you, who were scared like you, people who sat up at night Googling the exact same questions you’re Googling. Angela (35:33.12) And there are people who found their way through it. Maybe you don’t need one more quiz or challenge or one more definition, one more comparison or consequence or one more terrible morning. Maybe you already have. Angela (35:58.243) Maybe you already have enough information. Maybe the next step isn’t finding another answer. Maybe it’s finally doing something with the one you already have. I love you, my friend. I hope you’re having a fantastic day, and I’ll see you next week.

How can you build a reputable name for yourself in hospitality and real estate? In today's episode, I'm joined by investor Gideon Spencer. We're taking a look into his journey of building a real estate portfolio and rockstar team, plus how he is developing AI technology to help with his business and investments.Time-stamps: Meet Gideon (1:12)Starting a rental portfolio with a 4-plex (3:36)Gideon's recommended reading list (8:07)Deciding to invest in commercial real estate (10:43)Bringing value to potential partners (14:39)Building a rockstar hospitality team (20:45)20% off Lodgify (24:51)Raising capital the first time and beyond (25:56)The value in having a personal brand (30:56)From boutique hotels to micro-resorts (35:13)Using AI to improve deal flow (41:51)Keeping up with AI technology development (45:45)The AI side of Gideon's business (50:40)Mentioned in This Episode:Use code BMPOD20 for 20% off yearly and bi-yearly Lodgify plans: lodgify.com/?afmc=ea1Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate by Brian Murray: amazon.com/dp/B01N6DKA10Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth by Avery Carl: amazon.com/dp/1947200445Connect with Gideon:Instagram: instagram.com/gideonspencer_The Hunt for Incredible Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hunt-for-incredibleConnect with Ali: Website: brandandmarket.coInstagram: instagram.com/brandandmarket.coBook a discovery call with Ali: brandandmarket.17hats.com/p#/schedulingHave a question, an episode idea, or some feedback for The Brand & Market Podcast? Text me anytime at (919) 626-2517—I'd love to hear from you!

How Do You Coach a Blowout (on the wrong end) https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ TITLE What Do You Say When Your Team Is Getting Run Off the Floor? SUBTITLE The game is decided, there are twelve minutes left, and how you handle them says more about your program than the final score. SHOW NOTES Every coach gets one. Down twenty five, the other team is still pressing, and your bench has stopped looking at you. This episode is about what to actually do with the rest of that night: what to say in the huddle, what to say after, and how to keep a beating from turning into something your team carries into next week. What we cover: Deciding early that the scoreboard is no longer the point What to give them to compete for when the game is gone Handling the huddle without lying to them or crushing them The locker room afterward, and the one thing not to do Turning the film from a loss like this into something useful This week's challenge: Decide now what you will say in that huddle, before you are standing in it. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Deciding whether to have an “ours baby” is deeply personal, and in a blended family, the decision can carry some unique complexities.We know because we've lived it.When we were building our life together, Mike felt certain that he wanted the opportunity to have a biological child, while Kim had already reached a place of contentment raising her one child. As our relationship grew, so did our conversations about what we each wanted, what concerned us, and what adding a baby might mean for our marriage and for Annika.In this episode, we share four important questions that can help you navigate this decision with greater honesty and clarity.  We also share some of our own journey of welcoming Phoebe and Jacob into our family. Their arrivals brought incredible joy, but they also reminded us that even careful preparation can't predict exactly how the story will unfold.The goal isn't to rush toward a yes or a no. It's to create enough safety and honesty for both of you to fully engage in the conversation, understand what's at stake, and ultimately move forward as a united couple with realistic expectations, caring for everyone in the family.You'll Discover:Four important questions to explore before deciding to have an “ours baby”Why a baby shouldn't be expected to fix marital struggles or automatically unite a blended familyHow finances, fertility, support systems, family logistics, and previous parenting experiences can shape the decisionWhy couples need to talk honestly when their hopes don't alignHow the emotional security of your current children should factor into how you prepare to grow your familyReady for some extra support?We all need some extra support along the blending journey.  You can connect with us for a free coaching call to see how we might help you experience more clarity, confidence, and connection in your home.  Schedule your free call here:  https://calendly.com/mikeandkimcoaching/freesessionSubscribe or Follow the Show Click here to subscribe on YouTubeClick here to follow on Apple PodcastsClick here to follow on SpotifyLeave a Review in Apple PodcastsIf you're feeling extra helpful, we would be so grateful if you left us a review over on Apple Podcasts too. Your review will help others find our podcast — plus they're fun for us to read too! :-)  Just click here to Review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and then select “Write a Review” — let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is.  Thank you, we really appreciate your feedback!

This week, I talk with Diego Perez—better known as Yung Pueblo—about healing, self-awareness, and what it takes to become lighter as you move through life. Yung shares how a period of drugs, alcohol, and numbing nearly cost him his life, and how learning to feel his emotions, tell himself the truth, and move his body helped him begin again. We explore how meditation reshaped his relationship with pain, what he's learned from sitting silent retreats for up to 60 days, and why healing yourself may be one of the most important ways to help heal the world. We also talk about his wife Sarah's early belief in his writing, the role intuition has played in his career, and why creating more space—not more commitments—has helped him reconnect with what matters most. This is a conversation about inner freedom, meaningful work, and becoming more compassionate along the way. Let's get to it! In this episode: (00:00) - Intro (00:47) - Trusting intuition and making room for new relationships (02:41) - Hitting rock bottom (05:28) - Growing up longing for peace (07:07) - Losing the support of community in college (10:48) - Yung's first steps toward changing his life (16:15) - Becoming a friend of the present moment (18:31) - Meeting his wife, Sarah (23:52) - Learning from his meditation teacher (27:10) - The value of wise elders (31:45) - Psychedelics vs. meditation (35:16) - Acceptance as the path to letting go (40:00) - Inside a 45-day silent meditation retreat (50:12) - Deciding to become a writer (53:22) - Betting on a creative career before there was proof (55:50) - Following your intuition into the unknown (58:41) - Turning inner work into creative work (01:00:26) - What it means to be a “young humanity” (01:07:09) - Rediscovering the joy of writing (01:09:21) - Redesigning life to make room for creativity (01:10:50) - Using values, intuition, and your nervous system to make decisions (01:14:45) - How solitude changed Yung's life and work (01:17:20) - Focusing your energy on what matters most (01:18:22) - Can compassion be good business? (01:20:28) - Working with his wife and building a life together (01:22:58) - Becoming world-class at listening to intuition (01:24:17) - Yung's most beautiful future (01:25:41) - Who Yung is becoming Get full show notes and links at ⁠https://GoodWorkShow.com⁠. Watch the episode on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@barrettabrooks⁠.

If there's a proposal sitting on your desk, a hire you keep circling back to, or a pricing decision you know is broken but haven't touched, you're not stuck. You're carrying decision debt, a backlog of unmade choices that's quietly draining your energy and capping your revenue. In this episode, Andrea breaks down the three hidden taxes decision debt charges you, financial, identity, and opportunity, explains why more permission or more confidence won't fix it, and walks through the FLY filter, a repeatable way to make hard calls fast, even when you're tired, triggered, or overwhelmed.IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSSWhat is decision debt, and why isn't it a time management problem?Decision debt is the backlog of choices you haven't made, the hire you're circling, the price you know is wrong, the proposal still sitting there. It's not about needing more hours. It's a structural gap: you have the information to decide, you just haven't. Time never fixes debt. Deciding does.What does an unmade hiring decision actually cost you?Every month you delay on a hire you've already vetted, you're not saving money, you're losing the capacity that hire would have added. Andrea puts a real number on it in the episode, roughly $10,000 a month in lost capacity, which she frames as a 100 percent interest rate on hesitation.Why does "let me think about it" quietly cost you your team's trust?Every time you tell your team you'll get back to them, you're teaching them that nothing moves without your sign-off. That's not caution, it's a slow downgrade of your own leadership, one delayed answer at a time.What's the opportunity cost of decision debt, and why can't you see it?While your attention is stuck monitoring a weak hire or a shaky service line, you're too mentally full to notice the real openings in front of you. Andrea calls this the most dangerous tax because it's invisible, it costs you the future, not just the present.Why doesn't giving yourself more permission fix this?Permission was the right tool earlier in your business, when you needed space to be seen or to charge more. At a higher revenue level, permission is too slow and too dependent on how you feel that day. What you need instead is a repeatable way to decide, not another pep talk.What is the FLY filter, and how does it help you decide faster?FLY stands for Future, Love the logic, and Yield. Future asks whether the choice serves who you're becoming, not who's comfortable today. Love the logic asks whether the math holds up, regardless of how you feel. Yield asks whether the decision closes a loop or opens three more.What's the real choice this episode is asking you to make?Stay in decision debt, carrying the backlog and the always-on brain that comes with it, or liquidate it: run your maybe list through the FLY filter and start making the calls that are already logically clear. Andrea's case: the cost of staying stuck almost always outweighs the cost of the decision you're avoiding.QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE"You don't have a time problem. You have decision debt.""Every unmade choice sitting on your desk is a high interest payday loan you've taken out against your future self.""I don't really care how you feel about the move. I care if you love the logic.""The five million dollar version of you doesn't monitor a bad hire for six months. She decides in six minutes."RESOURCES MENTIONED- Episode 65, giving yourself permission- Episode 152, decision fatigue- Episode 271, the capacity audit- She Thinks Big Collective, www.andreaslinks.com- Book a Strategic Fit Call, www.andreaslinks.com- The ONE Decision workshop, October 1 and October 29, 2026, www.andreaslinks.comDON'T JUST LISTEN, IMPLEMENT ITIf this episode named something you've been sitting on, the next step is a Strategic Fit Call with Andrea, twenty minutes, no pitch, just an honest look at where you are and whether Builder or Visionary is the right fit. Book at Andrea's links.Andrea's also running a live workshop this fall, The ONE Decision That's Made Me Multiple Seven Figures, October 1st and again October 29th, seventy-five minutes on Zoom, forty-seven dollars. Register at Andrea's links.

Managers are expected to handle everything from one-to-ones and development conversations to absence, performance issues and disciplinaries. Yet many step into management without having been properly taught how to deal with these responsibilities. For HR and People professionals, finding a way to build managers' knowledge and confidence without overwhelming them can be a real challenge.In this special bonus episode of HR Coffee Time, Fay Wallis is joined by Amy Critchley, Head of People at Indigo Networks. Amy explains how she created a management development programme from scratch after joining an organisation that had not previously had a dedicated HR or People team.Amy shares practical ideas for combining essential HR knowledge with wider management development, making potentially dry subjects more engaging and helping learning stick. She also explains how the programme strengthened relationships between managers and changed the way they worked with the People team.What You'll Learn How to decide which topics to prioritise when creating a management development programmeWhy combining practical HR knowledge with wider management skills can make training more effectiveIdeas for making subjects such as absence, investigations, disciplinaries and employment law more engagingHow to accommodate different learning preferences without relying on lengthy presentations or uncomfortable role playWays to support learning beyond the workshop through e-learning, workbooks, drop-in clinics and People Partnering sessionsHow real-life scenarios, discussion and peer learning can build managers' confidenceSigns that manager training is working, including stronger peer relationships and a more positive relationship with the People teamChapters [00:00] Introduction: Why managers matter[01:14] The challenge of developing managers[02:02] The Workforce Success Stories Summit[02:49] Meet Amy Critchley: building a management development programme[04:11] How Amy identified the need for manager training[05:47] Deciding on the training content[08:28] Combining HR knowledge with management development[09:50] Designing engaging, brain-friendly training[13:27] Wraparound support: e-learning and drop-in clinics[15:28] From drop-in clinics to people partnering[17:46] Measuring success: executive buy-in and manager engagement[20:18] Changing the perception of HR[24:16] Making learning stick: worst-case scenarios and one-to-ones[29:06] How the programme changed HR's perception in the business [[32:43] Book recommendation and wrap-upUseful Links and Resources Learn more about the Workforce Success Stories SummitConnect with Fay Wallis on LinkedInLearn about Fay's Inspiring HR Leadership ProgrammeTreat yourself to a copy of The Essential HR PlannerBook Recommended in This Episode The Trainer's Toolkit: Bringing Brain-Friendly Learning to Life, by Kimberly Herr and Larry ReynoldsAmy recommends this practical resource for ideas on keeping training real, recognising the different needs of people in the room, creating multisensory learning and managing the state of the group.Helpful Episodes to Listen to Next Episode 129: Five Essential Techniques to Become a Great Manager, with James RoseThis episode is a helpful next listen if you would like further practical ideas for developing and supporting managers in your organisation. Search for HR Coffee Time in your usual podcast app to find it.Enjoyed This Episode? Don't Miss the Next One! Sign up for the free weekly HR Coffee Time email for useful HR resources, ideas and new episode updates to support you in your HR career.

https://teachhoops.com/ What are you actually trying to find out at tryouts? Most tryouts sort kids instead of learning anything about them, and that is a choice you make before the first whistle. SHOW NOTES Steve opens with a cut he still regrets: a kid who had one bad Tuesday and went on to start varsity somewhere else two years later. The problem was not the kid. The problem was a tryout built to confirm what Steve already believed instead of teaching him something new. This episode is about treating tryout week as an information event, designing drills where the trait you care about cannot hide, and handling everything that happens after you post the list. What we cover: •   Why sorting feels productive and teaches you nothing •   Deciding your actual criteria on paper before you walk in the gym •   Full court one on one, watching kids off the ball, and giving them more than one Tuesday •   Ranking by role and fit instead of averaging every kid into a six •   Who belongs in the gym evaluating with you, and who never does This week's challenge: Before you run a single minute of tryouts, write down exactly what you are going to say to the last kid you cut. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. EPISODE DETAILS Runtime: 10 minutes 1 seconds LINKS https://teachhoops.com/ https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ https://heysammi.com/ What Are You Actually Trying to Find Out at Tryouts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest episode of Breaking Balls, Mazz breaks down who should start Game 1 in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Steve Guberman is the founder of Agency Outsight, where he helps agency owners build the business of their dreams—with clarity, purpose, and profit. A former agency founder who successfully exited his own firm, Steve now guides creative, marketing, and digital leaders through growth, positioning, and the complex decisions that come with scaling or selling an agency. Drawing on his experience as both a coach and M&A advisor, he helps owners understand what truly drives long-term value—financially and personally. As host of the Agency Bytes podcast, Steve shares real stories and lessons from top agency leaders to help others grow with intention.Steve and I talk about what happens when agency owners chase what he calls "copycat goals"—revenue milestones and lifestyle markers borrowed from other people's social media feeds—instead of deciding what they actually want their business to give them. That question turns out to matter whether or not you ever plan to sell: the same work that makes a business sellable (reducing owner dependency, diversifying client concentration, building real systems) is often the same work that gives an owner back their time, their confidence, and a life that doesn't revolve around a business they secretly resent. Steve is candid about building himself a "job" rather than a business early in his career, and about the client concentration crisis and personal upheaval that eventually pushed him to sell.Steve and I discuss:[02:17] – How Steve defines "agency," and why specificity matters when describing what you do[04:07] – What led him to start his own agency after working in-house and at other firms[05:03] – Winning an outsized contract, doubling in size, and the client concentration problem that followed[05:45] – How a divorce and losing his largest client collided in the same week[06:08] – How he approached selling the agency without any M&A experience, and why he chose the offer he did[07:28] – Why he now advises other agency owners going through the same journey[07:52] – Why so many owners have built a job with little market value rather than a sellable business[08:26] – The trap of building a new boss for yourself that you can't fire[10:13] – How long it typically takes to make a business valuable to a buyer[11:00] – Why Steve is at peace with his own current business not being sellable[11:48] – The main "discount factors" buyers look at: owner dependency, client concentration, and cash flow[14:05] – "Copycat goals," and why adopting someone else's milestones can work against you[15:01] – Optionality as the real payoff of optimizing a business, whether or not you sell[16:30] – Why business size isn't the real obstacle to delegating[17:26] – The owner's audit: identifying what you shouldn't be doing yourself[18:37] – Using freelancers, offshore talent, and AI to delegate affordably at any stage[19:00] – The mindset shift—letting go of control—that has to happen before delegation works[20:17] – How peer support and community help owners follow through on delegation and mindset shiftsLearn more about Steve at: agencyoutsight.comagencyoutsight.com/podcastwww.linkedin.com/in/agencycoach______________________________________________________________About Smashing the PlateauSmashing the Plateau features candid conversations with experienced professionals who are building businesses around their expertise and creating greater control over their work and their lives.Each episode explores the decisions, challenges, and opportunities that come with independent work, drawing on the experiences and perspectives of people who have navigated them firsthand.Take the Next StepBetter decisions begin with seeing your situation more clearly. Get the free SMASH System™ Self-Assessment at SmashingThePlateau.com/clarity.

Welcome to the Komen Health Equity Revolution series on Real Pink — where patients, advocates, researchers and community partners come together to talk honestly about what's standing in the way of breast health equity and what we're doing to change it. I'm your host, Adam Walker. This month is Hispanic Heritage Month, and we're honoring it by talking about something a lot of young women don't expect to be part of their story this early: Needing to have a mammogram as a young adult. Our guest today is Yaleska Sosa, a senior at Northwestern University studying biological sciences and global health, and a Komen College Ambassador. During a routine appointment, doctors found a mass and referred her for a mammogram — an experience that, combined with her family's history of cancer, turned a scare into a mission: making sure other young women, especially in the Hispanic/Latino community, have the information she wishes she'd had. Yaleska, welcome to Real Pink. Takeaway Breast cancer can affect people at any age, even those who consider themselves healthy. Knowing your body can help you notice changes and take action sooner. Family history and cultural experiences can shape how people understand their health. Sharing accessible health information can help young people feel more informed and empowered. One conversation or small act of awareness can have an impact beyond what we may ever see. Chapters 00:01 — Yaleska's unexpected mammogram 06:00 — Deciding whether to tell her mom 06:47 — Knowing your body and your culture 09:39 — Discovering the impact of breast cancer 13:55 — Encouraging young women to know their bodies Learn more at realpink.komen.org and komen.org Real Pink, by Susan G. Komen, shares real stories and expert insights to support people navigating breast cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship.

Most creative strategists treat audience research as a box to check before the real work starts.Karina Tukanova, freelance creative strategy consultant, treats it as the actual work.Karina is a freelance creative strategy consultant working with health, wellness, fitness, and lifestyle apps. She made the jump from performance marketing manager to creative strategist right around the iOS 14 shift, back when creative strategist wasn't even a defined role.In this episode, Karina breaks down how she found an entirely untapped audience for a stretching app by scrolling TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit instead of running customer interviews, why the comments section is the most underrated research source most teams ignore, how she uses AI as a second brain to store and surface insights, and how AI uncovered a hidden script formula running across hundreds of UGC ads that would have taken forever to spot by hand.We also get into why she thinks Meta's push for constant net-new creative volume (the Andromeda era) isn't sustainable on a human level, why handing 100% of ad production to AI just produces slop, and where she thinks AI genuinely earns its place in a creative workflow versus where a human still has to sit in the loop.Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:27 The iOS 14 shift and the rise of creative strategy as a role 04:12 The stretching app that found a new audience in older users 07:21 How to surface real audience insights without endless customer calls 08:39 Why ad and organic comments are an underrated research goldmine 09:39 Using AI as a second brain to store and surface creative insights 10:44 How AI spotted a hidden script formula across hundreds of UGC ads 13:22 What makes UA and creative teams work well together 16:17 Deciding what's worth making before you spend anything 18:34 The Andromeda craze and the myth of 100 new concepts a week 20:19 Fighting Meta's sameness penalty with visual variety 22:18 Where AI should and shouldn't touch ad production 24:31 Advice for bridging the UA/creative skills gap 26:44 Closing: how to find and work with KarinaConnect with Karina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinatukanova/About RocketShipHQ: Newsletter: https://intelligentartifice.kit.com rocketshiphq.com Full episode and transcript on the Mobile User Acquisition Show: https://mobileuseracquisitionshow.com/episode/how-to-win-with-deep-customer-research-for-mobile-ad-creative-strategy-user-acquisition-without-focus-groups-or-calls-with-karina-tukanova-freelance-creative-strategy-consultant/

A desire to simplify, an upcoming move, a remodel, and general overwhelm are among the many reasons we are called to rightsize our lives. The things that occupy our closets and shelves have all sorts of memories and hopes attached to them. Those same things can also be obligations or burdens. Deciding what to shed and how to go about it can be overwhelming in its own way.  That's where life organizer Debra Baida comes in. For close to 20 years, she has been empowering and guiding people through their life transitions. She is an empathic facilitator with a focus on making the paring-down process as navigable and sustainable as possible. Creating space while simultaneously holding space are among her superpowers. Deb is also a go-to resource for donating and rehoming unwanted items. Keeping useful things out of landfill is essential to her work ethic.  About the Speakers Debra Baida is a life organizer and founder of Liberated Spaces, which she opened in 2007 after two decades working as a picture editor. Her award-winning company has been a San Francisco Green Business since 2008 and became the fifth certified Green Business Innovator in California in 2018. Deb has been a featured guest on KQED's Forum and a presenter at Stanford d.school. She appeared in a "PBS Newshour" story about San Francisco's zero-waste goals. Her organizing tips have been included in media outlets including Reader's Digest, Food Network, San Francisco Chronicle, and Homes & Gardens (UK). Nigel Poor is an artist and podcaster whose work explores the ways people leave behind evidence of their existence. In 2011, Nigel got involved with San Quentin State Prison as a volunteer teacher for Mount Tamalpais College. In 2017, she co-founded the prison-based podcast, "Ear Hustle," a Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Peabody Award nominee. Her work as a visual artist has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be found in museum collections, including the SFMOMA and the M.H. deYoung Museum. Nigel is a professor of photography at California State University, Sacramento. She's the author of The San Quentin Project, published by Aperture, and co-author of This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life. ORGANIZER Denise M. Michaud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Failed IVF? Low AMH? High FSH? Told donor eggs? Book a free Functional Fertility Second Opinion before your next fertility decision → fabfertile.com Your AMH is 0.2 ng/mL. Your FSH is 40. Another IVF cycle has failed, you've experienced another loss, or donor eggs are now on the table. So you research. You ask ChatGPT fifteen versions of what should I do next? and every answer gives you five more things to investigate. You have more fertility information than ever, and you're still terrified of making the wrong decision. Information and certainty are not the same thing. No one can guarantee another IVF cycle, a different protocol, PRP, or donor eggs will work. You don't need to know your decision is going to work. You need to know why you're making it.  In this episode, I walk through when you genuinely need more information after failed IVF, recurrent pregnancy loss, low AMH or high FSH, and when research has become the thing keeping you stuck. We look at what has actually been investigated for both partners, including autoimmune history, inflammation, food sensitivity, bloating, skin changes, male bloodwork and sperm DNA fragmentation beyond a semen analysis that came back  And instead of asking what else should I research? I give you a different question: What information would actually change my decision? Whether that's IVF number four, trying again after loss, continuing with your own eggs, or moving to donor eggs. Preparing is not the same as being evaluated. CHAPTERS 00:00 AMH 0.2, FSH 40 and fifteen versions of the same question 01:20 When you do need more information 02:20 What has actually been investigated, for both of you 05:20 What information would change your decision 08:10 Fear about time, fear of choosing wrong, and certainty FUNCTIONAL FERTILITY SECOND OPINION Book with your partner and load your labs into the secure portal. We look at your history, your bloodwork, what you've already tried and your current plan, and talk through what has not been investigated and how to work on it alongside your clinic, in parallel. It is not IVF or your health. It is both. Book here → https://fabfertile.com/pages/second-opinion ABOUT THE HOST I'm Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile and host of Get Pregnant Naturally, a podcast with over one million downloads. My functional fertility team works with couples navigating low AMH and failed IVF, reviewing functional lab results, gut microbiome, food sensitivity, vaginal microbiome, nutrigenomics, HTMA, DUTCH, toxin testing, and bloodwork alongside nervous system work, to help identify patterns that may not have been considered. We work alongside your medical team, not instead of them. Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile, host of Get Pregnant Naturally (1M+ downloads), and author of Fabulously Fertile.

Eliot Clough and David Eickholt hare thoughts after rewatching Iowa's 20-19, last-second victory over Michigan on Saturday in The Big House. How it all took place and what we missed live, what's next for Kirk Ferentz and the Hawkeyes, plus more.(00:00) - Initial Thoughts from the Enormous Win, How Iowa Got it Done(13:30) - Tyler Brown Injury(?)(18:15) - DJ Vonnahme's Tip Catch(20:55) - Hank Brown's Performance(29:14) - Belief in Braeden Jackson and how the rest of the running back group could shake up(31:22) - Deciding to kick the field goal on 4th and 6(38:20) - Punting on 4th and 1 early, Plus Boston Everitt(40:45) - More on the run game, why Eliot isn't concerned, last thoughts on offense(50:55) - Landyn Van Kekerix and Jaylen Watson getting picked on, Watson's three PBUs(56:22) Zach Lutmer looked like himself, final defensive thoughts

Lords: Esper https://ourbroadcastday.com/ Mitch https://topiclords.com/tags/mitch Topics: Making a daily show https://www.youtube.com/@MagicEveryDaywEQ https://www.youtube.com/@Twinbeard_ Beatspell (Rhythm Heaven Groove) The Topic Lords IMDB page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30527870/episodes/ Dad are you at bus stop riding on a bus at work https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116884326841775088 Oops! 45% of tumblr users don't read the plaintext above a poll before participating in the poll https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mDCGI0uSScqGUNiSM82C3d6KK0Orkijj98qabIE8FTE/edit?gid=1797283451#gid=1797283451 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccEEQQsI_5El_rWwru7czngN34fgx3Gb9CVzUjyhtP7GXfWg/viewanalytics Microtopics: Plugging purposes. Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn. August 3rd until the end of linear time. If you like moving pixels entering your eyeballs, you'll love this Youtube series. Dulcet apple pie. The Super Mario Wiki Mario Awards. Everyone's second-least favorite Mario thing. Calling a thing mediocre when you don't want to admit that it's good Using a botnet to convince everyone that "dogshit" is a laudatory word. Words more laudatory than "perfect." Stealing an idea from someone who also stole it. Playing exactly one Mario level a day. Youtube banning a certain kind of video because it's too cool. Personally knowing everyone who watches your Youtube channel. How hard it is to get Youtube to show you channels with less than 20 views a day. Rhythm Heavens: there are five of them now! A rhythm roguelike where you fight enemies by dancing at them. How to play Rhythm Heaven if you don't have a Switch. The Rhythm Heaven Groove developers apologizing about latency issues and then doing nothing to fix them. Rhythm games with excellent lag calibration facilities. The screen reader robot getting morose and depressed when you turn it off. Blind people playing Rhythm Heaven Groove. Blind-accessible video games. Lesbian Beatspell lore. Dodging the time warp and ending up in the future. Making the show more lovable so listeners spontaneously do thankless rote data entry tasks. Explaining to grandma what a podcast is every time you see her. Shoutcast stations. Going to bat for vods. Incidental line breaks. A poem that's a poem in the same way that an open-faced sandwich is a sandwich. Come on, thankless Topic Subject! The 55% of Tumblr users that read a poll before answering it. Being on your way to go to a building. Explaining important context in tiny text. Maintaining a list of alternative titles of Mario games. Survey techniques that come off as condescending. Super Mario DVD menu games. Hiring people to localize your gimmick Mario survey into EFIGS. Mario the blunt object. The Paper Mario Sticker Star inflection point. Whether the Japanese Super Mario Portal would classify Fire Emblem as an RPG. Coming up with examples of things that aren't video games but also aren't funny to call a video game. The Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive DVD. Whether Black Mirror Bandersnatch is a video game. Whether mayonnaise is a video game. Quest for the Rings for the Odyssey 2. Asking someone to make you a sandwich without specifying what kind of sandwich. Deciding that you like video games and therefore video games that you don't like aren't actually video games. Smashing binaries. A film is something that has Freddie Krueger in it. Gamers vs. Moviegoers.

In the latest episode of Breaking Balls, Mazz breaks down who should start Game 1 in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Deciding to move your child into another school in the state of Colorado could be a good option to get a student with a disability's needs met. But, it's important to make sure you understand the process, options for specialized schooling, and realistic expectations of the school districts.   In this THINK+change podcast episode, Austin Doyle, Child & Family Advocate from ADVOCACYDENVER (Denver chapter of The Arc), gives his perspective on what families should know about the school choice system. With many years of educating across different types of schools, Austin has some great advice for how school choice can be utilized for special education.

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Federal bid strategy is often reduced to "lower your price," but David Rambhajan explains why he refused to do that even while losing job after job early in his career. In this clip, David breaks down the timing strategy he used bidding on VA hospital contracts in Chicago: letting competitors with less capacity race to the bottom early in the fiscal year while he waited for his margin. He also covers how he evaluates subcontractors, why the cheapest sub is rarely the most profitable choice, and how a strict scope review protects a project's real profit. Key points discussed: - Why David kept losing VA hospital bids early in his career despite advice from other contractors to lower his price - The fiscal-year bidding pattern: most federal budgets clear after the new year, so competitors with less financial capacity bid low early and burn through their bonding capacity - How winning as the third or fourth bidder still landed David the job at the margin he needed, because earlier bidders got disqualified or ran out of capacity - Why David evaluates certifications and programs using a "resources, risk, return" framework rather than pursuing every certification available - How David chooses subcontractors: prioritizing subs who can follow his process and cadence over the cheapest bid, even when that means a longer scope review - Why David considers a rigorous scope review, not a cheaper sub, the real source of protected profit and reduced project risk CHAPTERS 0:00 - Losing early bids on VA hospital contracts in Chicago 1:10 - The pressure to lower your bid to win work 2:10 - Deciding the margin mattered more than winning early 3:15 - Understanding the fiscal-year bidding cycle 4:20 - Waiting out competitors with less bonding capacity 5:00 - Winning as the third or fourth bidder 6:05 - Evaluating certifications with resources, risk, and return 7:40 - Why the cheapest subcontractor isn't the safest choice 8:55 - Scope review as the real source of protected profit   Mindy gives you the federal opportunities, agency signals, recompete intel, and pursuit briefs that tell you not just what contracts exist, but which ones to chase and how to win them. Sign up for free Daily Alerts and get opportunities delivered to your inbox before the day starts. 

Lauren (Kort) Starek and I met through my husband, Zach, at F45 in Carmel — and this year we finally got to run a race together, running the Indy Mini with Ainsley's Angels.During this episode, sponsored by Huug, we talk about:[1:00] How Lauren and I met through Zach at F45[3:00] Running her 5th New York City Marathon, including the 2012 Superstorm Sandy cancellation and the view from the top vs. the bottom of the Verrazzano Bridge[9:00] Growing up in Colorado Springs, her parents' Pikes Peak Ascent/Marathon tradition, and finding her competitive stride on the high school swim team after hating running as a kid[15:00] The extra-credit campus 5K that got her hooked, and signing up for her first half marathon on "maybe I could just do a marathon in six weeks" logic[19:00] Studying nutrition at the University of Dayton, and how dramatically sports fueling has changed since 2007–2008 (25 grams of carbs an hour was the goal back then)[25:00] Being the first of her siblings to run a marathon — and her brother's all-treadmill training plan for his first[27:00] Her second marathon, Chicago 2008, run as a Boston qualifier — working with a coach and her dad meeting her at mile 25[35:00] Running Boston anyway after getting injured 10 days out, with her mom meeting her at mile 15 [39:00] Her parents' continued athletic life — her mom's move into cycling and triathlon, her dad's Pacific Crest Trail hikes[40:00] Learning to love open water swimming in San Diego — the Alcatraz swim, the current-assisted 10K Bridge to Bridge swim, and her surprisingly casual relationship with sharks[51:00] How she met her husband, Greg, on a dating app and three years of long distance while both worked remote during the pandemic[56:00] Greg's career jump from the 49ers to the Colts, and deciding to move to Indianapolis on days' notice[1:04:00] Her two-year wait for Canadian dual citizenship, and finding out it finally came through via an email she opened at Costco[1:07:00] Taking seven or eight years off from marathons after getting a puppy, then coming back to New York with a coach and a hard-won understanding of her own training limits[1:09:00] Running the Indy Mini as part of an Ainsley's Angels team and meeting Angel rider Laney and her family, who traveled from Louisiana[1:16:00] An honest conversation about mental health — losing her uncle and her cousin to suicide[1:20:00] Deciding to have a full wedding and her wedding-morning run wearing her mom's veil[1:23:00] Getting married the same weekend as Taylor Swift — down to the same signature drink [1:26:00] Adjusting to her new last name, and keeping "Kort" on as her new middle name[1:28:00] Her go-to mantra, "no stress pace," and her next finish line: the 2026 New York City Marathon[1:30:00] The reveal at the very end that she's also quietly run a trail 50KPrevious Guests MentionedCarolyn Coffin - Episode 171Larra Overton - Episode 61Anthony Privitelli - Episode 174Lindsey Hein - Episode 100Tammy Mills - Episode 165Hallie Patel - Episode 141Sponsor DetailsHuug - Use ALLYB for 15% off (combinable with Buy 3 Get 1 Free)Other LinksGet your ticket to our Monumental Weekend celebration event with Athletic Annex and Brooks Running — use code FLAMS for $10 offFree shakeout run — Friday morning at the Bottleworks Hotel, open to anyone local or in town for MonumentalFollow me on Instagram @allytbrett_runsSubscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletterThis is a SandyBoy Productions podcast.

How did a brown ale score 97 out of 100 to become the best beer in the country? Plus: learn exactly what its brewer put into it.Kishwaukee Brewing Co-Owner and Head Brewer Dan Payson and Co-Owner Cara Payson (marketing, customer service,and self-described “Jill of all trades”) share how a laid-off Seattle architect turned homebrewing into a pro career, thanks in part to a hockey challenge against legendary brewer Skip Madsen. Dan explains what separates a Kolsch from a Pilsner, why a hybrid yeast gives Kestrel Kolsch its citrus-rind finish, and what makes Bufflehead, an American-style brown ale, different from its English cousin. Plus: how Bufflehead went from a single pilot keg to World Beer Cupsilver and a 97-point rating as The Beer Connoisseur's 2025 Best Beer of the Year, why opening during the pandemic made Kishwaukee a bottles-only brewery, and Cara's case that “hazy is lazy.”0:00 Inside Kishwaukee Brewing in Woodstock, Illinois3:20 The Seattle Craft Beer Scene in the Early 2000s5:48 Did Beer Bring Dan and Cara Together?7:23 Why an Architect Started Homebrewing During the Recession10:24 Learning Beer at Bottleworks and Fremont Brewing12:08 Dan's First Homebrew: A West Coast IPA13:43 Remember 22-Ounce Bomber Bottles?14:39 Deciding to Go Pro (and a Hockey Story Tease)17:29 Scoring on Skip Madsen: The Hockey Challenge That Built a Brewery22:36 Brian Noonan vs. Brian Noonan: A Blackhawks Mix-Up25:40 Beer break25:47 Brewer's Choice: Kestrel Kolsch From a Mug Club Brew Day27:47 Kolsch vs Pilsner: What's the Difference?28:10 What Is a Kestrel? The Story Behind the Bird-Themed Beers30:17 Why the "Original Six" Beers Don't Get Names33:37 Why Kolsch Has a Citrus Finish (Hybrid Yeast Explained)34:43 How a Pilot Beer Earns a Permanent Spot35:54 How to Pick a Beer When You Want "Beer-Flavored Beer"37:15 Sandhill Lager: A Dry-Hopped Lager38:08 Traditional German Pilsner With Soft Bitterness38:38 Bufflehead: The Beer Connoisseur's 2025 Beer of the Year39:35 American Brown Ale vs English Brown Ale41:20 Why the Hops Hit at the End42:04 What "Fully Attenuated" Means and Why Brewers Are Yeast Herders43:58 What Sets Bufflehead Apart?44:54 From One Pilot Keg to World Beer Cup Silver47:08 Rated 97: Learning Bufflehead Was the Best Beer of 202550:17 Why Kishwaukee Only Packages Beer in Bottles51:04 Building and Opening a Brewery During the Pandemic52:17 Bottling Line vs Canning Line: The Cost Decision53:07 The Short Pour: Rapid-Fire Questions54:54 The Biggest Mistake People Make When Judging Beer55:30 A Hoppy Red Ale for People Who Don't Like Hoppy Beer57:46 The Weirdest Ingredient Ever Added to a Tank58:34 Are Pumpkin Beers Fading Out?59:50 "Hazy Is Lazy": Why Kishwaukee Rarely Brews Hazy IPAs1:05:39 The Final ToastAbout Kishwaukee Brewing Co: Located in Woodstock, Illinois, Kishwaukee Brewing Co. brews award-winning takes on traditional German, English, and West Coast styles in a taproom built for meeting friends and making new ones, located in Woodstock, Illinois. Learn more on their website athttps://www.kishwaukeebrewing.com/—Learn more about Crafty Brewers at https://craftybrewerspod.com Support Crafty Brewers on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/craftybrewersCrafty Brewers is a production of Quantum Podcasts, LLC, an enterprise podcast growth and attribution consultancy. Learn more at https://quantum-podcasts.com/Our executive producer and editor is award-winning podcaster Cody Gough. He insists that we tell you that in this episode, you'll learn about: Breakaway IPA, AmericanBrewing Company, Seattle Craft Beer Week, Elysian Brewing, Köln German beer styles, cold fermentation, Canadian two-row pale malt, Munich malt, caramel malt, Newcastle Brown Ale, kettle hop additions, yeast viability, India Pale Lager, Imperial Red Ale, pumpkin spice beer, green beer on St. Patrick's Day, New England IPA, The Alchemist, Kishwaukee River Valley, and McHenry County craft beer.

For some reason, Kash Patel goes to Congress to defend beastiality? This is the US gov't in Trump 2.0. Trump speaks at the UN and wonders aloud if he should murder 90 million people.

Send us your admissions questions!What does it look like to leave a successful career in book publishing and build a new path to medical school? In this episode of Accepted's Admissions Straight Talk, Dr. Valerie Wherley speaks with Sarah Shirley, an osteopathic medical student at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, about her journey from English and comparative literary studies to book publishing, premed coursework, and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) school.Sarah shares how hospital volunteering helped her test whether medicine was the right fit, why career changers need to take their doubts seriously without letting fear make the decision for them, and how she built a med school application around authentic experiences rather than a “checkbox” list. She also discusses letters of recommendation, the value of staying fully present while shadowing, and the journaling habit that helped her make stronger recommendation requests.The conversation also explores osteopathic medicine, including what drew Sarah to the DO philosophy, how osteopathic manipulative medicine shaped her understanding of patient care, and why applicants should learn the tenets of osteopathy before writing their secondary essays. If you are a nontraditional applicant, a humanities major considering medicine, or a premed wondering whether your path is too different, this episode offers practical advice and honest encouragement.00:00 Meet Sarah Shirley: From Humanities to DO School03:21 Finding Medicine Through Hospital Volunteering05:14 Deciding to Pursue the Premed Path08:10 Self-Doubt, Failure, and Changing Careers14:34 Building a Meaningful Med School Portfolio22:29 Asking for Strong Letters of Recommendation30:30 Why Osteopathic Medicine Was the Right FitRelated EpisodesFrom Med School Reapplicant to Current M1 [Episode 609]Inside COMP: What the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Looks for in Applicants [Episode 625]How to Get the Most Out of Your Premed Shadowing Experience [Episode 620]Follow UsYouTubeFacebookLinkedInContact Uswww.accepted.comsupport@accepted.com+1 (310) 815-9553

In this episode, Steve and Dan Fouts explore the profound quote by John Burroughs, “Leap and the net will appear.” By using the Teach Different Method, they discuss risk-taking, support systems, and self-confidence. They also share some personal stories to unpack the power of taking leaps of faith. Chapters00:00 - Introduction to the metaphor 'Leap and the net will appear'02:00 - Risk-taking as faith and trust in support systems04:00 - Support networks in education and personal growth05:51 - Building self-confidence as a personal net07:54 - The role of kindness and authenticity in support09:00 - Support in sports and everyday life10:49 - When falling is part of learning and growth13:04 - Deciding when a leap is worth taking15:00 - Self-confidence and perseverance as internal nets15:56 - Encouraging others to take their leapsImage Source: https://picryl.com/media/john-burroughs-1837-1921 

How do you get a pay rise? Should you join that start-up that promises to go to the moon, or should you simply buy your first home a lot sooner than you had planned?In today's show, we cover: Career Control - The finances of career navigation Catching up - Investment tips for the late starter Your career and your SMSF - Getting business to pay you rent Sweat equity - Deciding if you should jump to a start-up Adviser and author, Jacqui Clarke, joins Associate Editor, James Kirby, in this episodeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deciding the moral compass in Rochester Talking on the phone or watching videos without headphones in public has an official name… It's called LOUDCASTING So now the question is, it ever okay to go headphone free in public? Do really old or really young people get a pass?

I've been away for a minute, so this one starts with some life updates before we get into it. Long distance girlfriend in Vancouver. A new apartment I still haven't really moved into. My New York Giants getting destroyed on Monday night. That's been the last few weeks.But here's why I actually sat down to record. Weekends. I see this pattern with almost every client I've ever coached. Nutrition's dialed in Monday through Thursday... and then Friday hits, and it's like a completely different person shows up. You're not a special butterfly. This happens to basically everybody, including me, back when my whole week of grilled chicken and whole wheat pasta would end in a large specialty pizza, a pint of Ben & Jerry's, and a full night of The Walking Dead.So in this one I'm breaking down why it actually happens... no weekend routine, eating in groups, alcohol quietly cranking your appetite up by 30%... and then the exact three things I have my own clients do instead. One anchor. Deciding what you're eating before you're standing in front of it. And understanding that it's never one meal that wrecks your week. It's the story you tell yourself about that meal.Consistency doesn't mean perfection. A rough Saturday doesn't mean starting over on Monday. It just means making the next best choice. Let's get into it.⭐ Please leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to this podcast

It's heartbreaking to see what our brothers and sisters in Nepal are going through. With the little network we've built through this channel, I'm sharing a Relief Fund donation link for those who would like to extend their support. I request you all to contribute in whatever way you can, through your time, your prayers, or your financial support.https://www.sukha-ev.de/aktuelles/hilfe-nach-der-flut-an-der-tibetisch-nepalesischen-grenze/Deciding to undergo Panchakarma is only the beginning. What happens once you arrive at the retreat can be just as important as the treatment itself.In this episode of Ayurvedic Healing & Beyond, Dr Vignesh Devraj explains what to expect during a 14- or 21-day Ayurvedic Panchakarma retreat, from the first consultation and the initial days of observation to preparation, treatment, recovery and returning home.He explains why the treatment is not necessarily decided on the first day, how the body may respond differently once you settle into the retreat environment, and how the three R's - Relax, Reduce and Rejuvenate - help determine what an individual actually needs.The episode also explores the role of food, sleep, reduced stimulation, preparation therapies such as Snehapanam, the importance of investigations when clinically relevant, and why recovery and aftercare are essential parts of the process.Most importantly, Panchakarma is not about following the same protocol for everyone. Two people can spend the same 14 or 21 days at a retreat and receive completely different programmes based on their individual needs.Episode HighlightsWhat To Expect At A RetreatThe First Few DaysRelax, Reduce & RejuvenatePreparing For PanchakarmaWhen Purification BeginsRecovery & RejuvenationTaking The Changes HomeTimestamps00:00 – 02:50 – Arriving At A Retreat02:50 – 05:41 – Why Your Treatment Can Change05:41 – 09:48 – Relaxation, Food & Daily Routine09:48 – 13:36 – Preparing For Panchakarma13:37 – 15:05 – Rejuvenation & Recovery15:06 – 18:03 – What You May Experience18:03 – 19:32 – Taking Panchakarma HomeAbout Dr Vignesh DevrajDr Vignesh Devraj is a fourth-generation Ayurvedic physician and the founder of Sitaram Retreat, Kerala, a space for authentic healing. He is a committed practitioner and researcher of Panchakarma.One-on-one Ayurvedic consultation: https://calendly.com/drvignesh/30-minute-session-with-dr-vignesh-devraj-md-ay-istFree Ayurvedic consultation for those who are economically challenged: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd29nHcrC1RssR-6WAqWCWQWKKJo7nGcEm8ITEl2-ErcnfVEg/viewformBALANCING THE MIGHTY VATA – ONLINE COURSE NOW AVAILABLEVata governs Prana, the nervous system, movement and emotional well-being. This comprehensive online course includes over 6 hours of practical teachings, downloadable notes and tools that can be integrated into everyday life.Link: https://vigneshdevraj.com/balancing-the-mighty-vata/For further information, kindly visit: www.vigneshdevraj.com and www.sitaramretreat.comInstagram – @sitarambeachretreat | @vigneshdevrajTwitter – @VigneshDevrajDisclaimer: The content discussed in these episodes should not be used as medical advice or as a substitute for professional medical care.

Dr. Carole Keim explores the many ways families can build their childcare village right at home, from mother's helpers and babysitters to professional nannies and au pairs. She begins with practical guidance for welcoming anyone into your home to care for your baby, including communicating family rules and boundaries, reviewing safe sleep practices, preparing for emergencies, and considering health precautions. Dr. Keim also explains why infant CPR and first aid training can be so valuable for parents and caregivers, especially as babies begin eating solid foods and becoming more mobile.Dr. Keim then welcomes Carson Wagner, founder of Lifetime of Love Nannies, to explain how professional nanny care can be customized around a family's schedule and needs. Carson discusses consistent and backup care, sick-child care, newborn overnight support, care for children with additional medical needs, and the ways nannies, family assistants, and household managers can take child-related and household tasks off parents' plates. Later, former au pair and local childcare consultant Marion Marcotte joins Dr. Keim to explain how the au pair program works, including work-hour limits, living arrangements, childcare responsibilities, screening, and the matching process. Marion also shares why communication, family dynamics, cultural exchange, and realistic expectations are so important when choosing an au pair who will live with and become part of a family's day-to-day life. Key Moments00:00 Mother's helpers, babysitters, and finding an extra set of hands02:29 Setting family boundaries, safe sleep expectations, and household rules03:42 Health considerations when caregivers and family visit your baby07:23 Infant CPR, first aid, and preparing caregivers for emergencies10:44 Meet Carson Wagner and learn how professional nanny care works14:20 Creating consistent care for families with regular or changing schedules15:57 How nannies, family assistants, and household managers can help21:25 Newborn overnight care and support for children with additional needs27:05 What is an au pair? Understanding live-in childcare and responsibilities29:16 Deciding whether an au pair is a good fit for your family31:22 Screening, driving, background checks, and au pair program requirements35:13 Finding the right match through communication, expectations, and personality__About Carson Wagner:Carson previously worked in childcare and with special needs children, where she noticed a huge demand for childcare that accepts ALL children, no matter where they come from or what their capabilities are. She started Lifetime of Love Nannies to give families quality, consistent care they can trust through her team of highly trained nannies. She would like to implement the prior knowledge she gained through her background in behavioral therapy and take the term "nanny" to a whole other level. All of the Lifetime of Love Nannies have different backgrounds and qualifications to meet your family's needs and give your kiddos the best care. 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Dipali Dalia wanted to be a barrister at fourteen, became a periodontist instead, and then went back and trained as a barrister anyway, in her forties, while still practising three days a week. She joins Payman as a specialist periodontist at Emsworth Specialist Practice near Portsmouth, having qualified as a dentist, specialised in periodontics at Guy's, and then, nearly two decades into a successful referral practice, gone back to college to sit alongside twenty-somethings doing a law conversion course.She's honest about why the second career never quite happened. A scholarship from an Inn of Court, a year of criminal law that suited her better than the dry civil procedure rules, county court advocacy work to build experience, and still no pupillage by the time her father died of dementia at the end of a long, hardworking life. That loss changed everything, and Dipali talks with real clarity about the Hindu philosophy she leaned on afterwards, focused on the action rather than the outcome, and about coming back to periodontics with a settledness she didn't have before.Anyone considering the same leap gets something to work with too: referral relationships, the loneliness of the bar versus the immediacy of a dental chair, and Dipali's own conclusion that failure is better read as a redirect than a verdict on your worth. In This Episode00:00:50 – Introduction00:01:56 – Choosing dentistry over law00:14:53 – Maxillofacial training00:17:57 – Deciding to specialise00:24:52 – Becoming a periodontist00:28:12 – Referral relationships00:34:47 – Peri-implantitis management00:46:31 – The itch to become a barrister00:52:17 – Training as a barrister in her 40s01:00:17 – Comparing dentistry and law01:10:27 – Losing her dad01:17:56 – Failure as redirection01:22:20 – A happier periodontist now01:29:23 – Fantasy dinner party01:38:08 – Women in dentistry and law About Dipali DaliaDipali Dalia is a specialist periodontist at Emsworth Specialist Practice near Portsmouth, having trained at Guy's after an early spell in maxillofacial surgery. In her forties, she trained part-time as a barrister, completing a law conversion course and the bar course while continuing to practise periodontics, before returning to dentistry full-time.

Pip hasn't slept well worrying about the child-free wedding policy. Deciding to invite Seren and Nova, Stella passes on the news to a delighted Natasha. However when Pip tells Rosie, she's stroppy as Rosie finds them annoying – can't they invite her best friend Maddie, Lottie's daughter? Stella and Pip think this would be ok, but then what about Xander? And Stella's family's children? They jokingly suggest eloping.Anna shares with Alan that she feels responsible for her mother's death. If she hadn't put the bat outside, Carol wouldn't have gone to look for it and fallen. Plus she pushed too hard to make Carol consider The Laurels. Anna's feeling alone but accepts Alan's help as a sounding board for planning the funeral. She knows her mum had strong feelings about some funerals so knows what she wouldn't want. She thinks a nature based ceremony, with perhaps a Wiccan celebrant would fit. She'd love Alan to speak at the funeral, not in a religious capacity, but as a friend to Carol. Anna doesn't know what they'd have done without him. Lynda and Robert are viewing a beautiful cottage with an eye to downsizing. Although it's perfect in many ways, and they'll put in an offer tomorrow, their hearts aren't in it. At home, Robert can't stop thinking of ways around moving, and returns to the idea of a dog exercise field. He thinks if they find the right one, plus one or two extra income streams, they can stay at Ambridge Hall. Lynda is ecstatic.

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Anna Wells is a mountaineer, former doctor, and outdoor instructor based in Inverness, Scotland. Her life has been shaped by a deep love of the mountains, beginning with indoor rock climbing at the age of 12 and growing through years of study, sport, and exploration. Although she followed a traditional academic path—studying maths and medicine and later working as a doctor—Anna eventually realised that her true passion lay in the outdoors. After time spent living in Chamonix and working as a mountaineering instructor, she made the decision to leave medicine behind and pursue a life more aligned with her values and love of adventure. In this episode, Anna shares her journey from medicine to the mountains, including her time competing in ice climbing, navigating injury, and rethinking what a fulfilling life looks like. We dive into her incredible Winter Munro Round in Scotland, inspired by Martin Moran, where she took on the challenge of climbing all 100+ Munros in winter conditions over just a few months. She talks about the realities of spending long days in the mountains, averaging multiple Munros per day, dealing with weather, injury, nutrition, motivation, and the mental challenges that come with endurance adventure. Anna also reflects on the kindness of strangers who supported her along the way, and the importance of flexibility, self-belief, and listening to your body. More recently, Anna has stepped into a new chapter of life as a mother, exploring how adventure, skiing, and time in the mountains can evolve alongside motherhood. Listen to this episode to hear what it takes to leave medicine for the mountains, how a Winter Munro Round pushes both body and mind, and why thinking outside the box can lead to a life that feels truly your own. ***  New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast drop every Tuesday at 7 AM (UK time)! Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the inspiring journeys and incredible stories of tough women pushing boundaries.  Do you want to support the Tough Girl Mission to increase the amount of female role models in the media in the world of adventure and physical challenges? Support via Patreon! Join me in making a difference by signing up here: www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast.  Your support makes a difference.  Thank you x *** Show notes Who is Anna 36 years old  Based in Inverness in Scotland  Currently on maternity leave Her love for adventure and being outside  Growing up in Inverness and not coming from a particularly outdoorsy family  Starting indoor rock climbing at 12 years old and falling in love with the sport  The Girl Guides and the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme  Being addicted to rock climbing and feeling everything click Her progress in the sport  Meeting more like minded people at university in Aberdeen  Being a student for 9 years - studying Maths for 4 years and doing a medical degree for 5 years  Deciding to leave medicine after 2 years of working as a doctor and moving in a different direction  Spending 2 years living in Chamonix  Deciding to give up her license to practice medicine  Wanting to focus on ice climbing competitions  Dealing with a shoulder injury and not being able to climb that hard Take a year and don't force yourself to make any decisions Starting to consider a career in the outdoors Wanting to live a life that makes you happy Thinking more about confidence  Working as a mountaineering instructor for a number of years Wanting to do the IFMGA but deciding against it Wanting to climb the Munro's in Scotland  Moving to Edinburgh and working in a bank as a data analyst A Winter Munro Round…. Inspired by Martin Moran  who was the first to do this over 1984/85 Starting to think about getting 3 months of unpaid leave Deciding in the October and starting in December  Figuring out the first 100 munro's Doing 65k and 4,400 m of ascent and being out for 19 hours Doing an average 4.4 munro's per day Putting out a message on social media looking for help with accommodation The kindness of strangers Having a lot of self confidence with navigation, make sensible decisions and look after herself Wondering if she would keep wanting it Injury, weather and not wanting it anymore  Feeling low on motivation during her menstrual cycle Dr Stacy Simms on the Tough Girl Podcast  Dealing with the low moments and keeping on walking  When your mood is low - walk with friends Finding it logistically a lot easer to be on her own  Having a few foot issues The magical moments from the experience  Writing her book - Breaking the Snowline Nutrition and eating on the mountains  Getting addicted to Lucazade  Gear and making risk based decisions  Having an emergency bag - that went with her everyday  Working with Alpkit Wearing trainers and waterproof socks and why it worked for her Motherhood, mountains and adventuring with a new baby (Fergus)  Having different parameters for what a day in the mountains looks like Getting back to skiing and the mountains quickly How to connect with Anna online Final words of advice for other women who want to spend more time in the outdoors Start thinking outside the box    Social Media Website: rocksandtrails.com  Instagram: @rocksandtrails To buy my book: shop.rocksandtrails.com  

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Why does calling yourself a "woman who is becoming" actually keep your dream stuck in the future forever? In this episode, Jo breaks down why she's stopped using the words "becoming" and "future self"—and what to do instead if you want to stop revolving around the idea of becoming and start living your vibrant flow now, not later.Jo unpacks how your brain structures your sense of self, your identity, and your feeling of safety around the story you keep repeating to yourself. When you keep saying "I am becoming," your mind has no option but to keep that thing — the marriage, the money, the pain-free body, the thriving business — in the future, because that's what keeps your identity coherent. This can lead straight into unconscious self-sabotage: that cycle of pain and frustration, that burning desire that feels like it's burning a hole in your heart, that idea of staying stuck that haunts you at night.You'll learn:— Why "future self" visualizations can work against you— How your brain processes over 11 million bits of information a second, but less than a hundred consciously — and why that matters for what you create— Why vague affirmations and "vain repetitions" don't work, and what to do instead— How to decide what life is like for you, right now, instead of waiting for circumstances to change first— What it means to be a "beauty bringer" who creates within what she wants to see without— How to get ridiculously good at beautifying your inner world and drenching your mind with sincere gratitude, so the vibrant flow becomes your lived experience, not a future conceptJohanna hosts free monthly workshops in both Finnish and English grab the link below to save your seat or catch the replay. And if you're ready to turn years of waiting and frustration into months of luscious feminine transformation, book a call with Johanna to see what coaching packages are available.

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When is it right to cut off contact with difficult in-laws? In this Q&A, Pastor Heath Lambert pushes back on today's popular "no contact" culture and turns to Scripture for a wiser way forward. He shares what the Bible actually calls us to aim for in strained family relationships, along with some practical wisdom for setting healthy boundaries. It's an honest, grace-filled look at one of the hardest questions families face today.0:00 – The question0:48 – Today's "no contact" culture1:51 – What the Bible calls us to2:25 – When it's not that simple3:49 – Setting ground rules6:17 – Deciding your response ahead of time6:58 – Leaving the door open7:50 – Closing thoughts

Ben and Tom preview UN General Assembly week including the Greenland security pact signing, Trump's Iran decision, and pre-summit optimism on the Trump-Xi talks, plus Germany's political collapse and Amazon blocking Meta's Muse AI shopping agent.Join our live YouTube stream Monday through Friday at 8:30 AM EST:http://www.youtube.com/@TheMorningMarketBriefingPlease see disclosures:https://www.narwhal.com/disclosures

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President Donald Trump says he's in “deciding mode” on Iran as Tehran lays out conditions for renewed negotiations and the U.S. weighs its next move in the war. Plus, an ICE officer shoots and seriously wounds a Venezuelan DoorDash driver in Austin, prompting overnight protests and calls from city leaders for a broader investigation. And Trump heads to Gracie Mansion for his third meeting with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, putting the two face-to-face for the first time in New York. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Monday, Sept. 21, 2026.

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Former Bad Boy rapper G. Dep sits down to tell one of the most unbelievable stories in hip-hop history. Growing up in Harlem during the height of the crack era, G. Dep went from hustling in the streets and battling drug addiction to landing a record deal with Bad Boy Entertainment and becoming one of the label's rising stars. But behind the success, the music, and the fame was a secret that continued to haunt him. In 1993, at just 18 years old, G. Dep was involved in a fatal shooting in Harlem. He was never arrested for it and eventually moved on with his life, signing with Bad Boy and building a successful rap career. But nearly two decades later, the guilt became too much. In December 2010, G. Dep walked into a New York City police precinct and confessed to the crime — 17 years after it happened. In this episode, G. Dep opens up about growing up in New York City, selling drugs, getting arrested repeatedly, discovering hip-hop, signing with Bad Boy, working around Diddy and some of the biggest names in rap, battling addiction, and the incredible decision that ultimately sent him to prison. He also explains what was going through his mind when he confessed, why he was willing to face the consequences, his trial and prison sentence, the road to clemency, and what it feels like to finally be free and making music again. This is the story of G. Dep — from the streets of Harlem to Bad Boy Records, prison, redemption, and a second chance at life. Go Support G. Deb! IG: https://www.instagram.com/gdepofficial/ YouTube: @gdepofficial TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gdepofficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trevell.g.dep.coleman Merch: https://lovethehustler.com/collections/g-dep This Episode Is #Sponsored By The Following: Kalshi! Download the Kalshi app and use code MITCHELL to get $10 when you trade $10. 18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. Prices, values, and available markets may differ from those mentioned. For more information see kalshi.com/regulatory. Cloaked! See if your SSN is for sale right now. My sponsor Cloaked will tell you for free in 2 seconds at https://cloaked.com/CONNECT. Hims! To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, and more, visit https://hims.com/connect Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow 0:00 Intro: Why G. Dep Turned Himself In 6:24 Growing Up in Harlem During the Crack Era 12:03 Breakdancing, Early Rap & Becoming G. Dep 18:00 Selling Drugs & Early Drug Use 21:59 This Episode Is Sponsored By Kalshi 23:05 Drug Cases, Jail & Hearing About Tupac 34:20 Escaping an Undercover Arrest 42:19 This Episode Is Sponsored By Cloaked 43:50 The Song That Led G. Dep to Bad Boy 52:14 The 1993 Shooting 1:01:36 This Episode Is Sponsored By Hims 1:03:13 Police Question G. Dep the Next Day 1:07:22 Living With the Secret & Growing Guilt 1:14:22 G. Dep's Relationship With Diddy 1:19:48 Writing Lyrics for Diddy 1:26:03 PCP, Fame & Coping With the Murder 1:33:16 Bad Boy Parties & Addiction Taking Over 1:40:29 Reconnecting With Diddy After Bad Boy 1:48:54 Deciding to Turn Himself In 1:56:24 Walking Into the Precinct to Confess 2:02:07 Arrested After a 17-Year-Old Confession 2:09:53 Taking the Murder Case to Trial 2:15:27 15-to-Life, Clemency & Coming Home 2:20:34 Life Today, New Music & What's Next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marine Staff Sergeant Tony Storey served 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including combat deployments to Somalia and Iraq. At just 21 years old, he led Marines into Somalia during Operation Restore Hope, survived a bullet striking the sandbag beside his head, and later endured a monsoon that flooded his fighting position with human remains.In this episode, of Urban Valor, Tony shares what it was like entering Mogadishu, serving as an 0311 Rifleman, training Iraqi security forces, and carrying the memories of combat long after coming home. 

Sexless marriage recovery has a limit, and hypergamy explains why some relationships stay dead no matter how much frame, game, or self-improvement a man puts in. This excerpt from Get Her to F*ck You Again covers why attraction is dynamic, not static, why a checked-out woman won't respond to your growth, and how to recognize when you've hit the point of no return instead of chasing a spark that isn't coming back.➡️ Grab a copy on Amazon or Audible: https://mybook.to/GHTFYA

In this story episode of Unashamed, Unafraid, guest Paul Claverie opens up about navigating profound life crises, career shifts, personal accountability, and emotional healing. From managing his daughter's cancer diagnosis to dealing with an unaddressed congenital deformity and performance-driven shame, Paul shares how pornography became an isolated coping mechanism—and how taking ownership of his health, finances, and personal agency ultimately helped him rebuild his life on solid ground.Make a donation and become an Outsider!Follow us on social media! Instagram, Facebook & TikTokSubscribe to our YouTubeCheck out our recommended resourcesWant to rep the message? Shop our MERCH!  For more inspiration, read our blogDo you have a story you are willing to share? Send us an email! contact@unashamedunafraid.comTimestamps:00:00 – Podcast intro and mission02:10 – Early career and background06:15 – Overwhelming work and school08:30 – Daughter's cancer diagnosis10:45 – Losing heavy equipment job16:20 – Pressure in aviation career23:34 – Marital intimacy struggles25:10 – Corrective surgery for deformity28:30 – Overcoming pornography dependency31:15 – Physical fitness in recovery36:42 – Miscommunication regarding spiritual advice38:50 – Accidental discovery of email44:20 – Financial overhaul and independence48:30 – Deciding to pursue divorce52:08 – Song: Love Me At My Lowest by Nash Blackwood

Fantasy Football True or False: What Should We Believe After Week 1? Week 1 gave fantasy managers plenty of reasons to overreact. Garret Price and Andrew Mott put some of the biggest early-season takes to the test and decide what is real and what needs more time. Listen to This Episode: