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This podcast is made possible by our listeners and viewers. If this show has brought you value, you can support it by becoming a member of The Way Forward, our platform designed to help you find the health and freedom community (people, practitioners, schools, farms, and more) near you. Your membership directly supports the podcast and the work we do.America's history was completely rewritten, and no one is talking about it.My guest in this episode is known online as The Archivist, an independent researcher who spends his time reading newspapers from the 1700s through the early 1900s and archiving what the accepted history books left out.A motorcycle accident and near-death experience twenty years ago set him on this path. Since then, he's built the Anomalous America series, going state by state through old articles about buried cities, giant skeletons, canal systems lined with radium-impregnated ceramics, petrified forests, and mummies pulled from caves and mounds in the middle of the country.Our conversation moves through the collapse of the standard American narrative. The insane asylums that dwarfed every Capitol building. The tunnels dynamited during construction of the St. Louis bridge. Lovelock Cave and what the natives kept telling settlers about the giants they had warred with. Philadelphia City Hall and why they couldn't afford to tear it down.If the history you were handed has started to feel thin, this one gives you something real to explore.You'll Learn:[0:00] Introduction[5:12] Radium-laced ceramics in Arizona's canals may have supercharged ancient crops[10:45] The old maps and biblical narrative that point to America, not the Middle East[21:34] Where the Archivist diverges from Graham Hancock's timelines[39:43] The philanthropic institutions given a dictate to rewrite history[46:18] The biggest buildings in 1800s America were insane asylums in the middle of nowhere[1:07:38] The three layers of burials and how they reveal separate lost civilizations[1:15:22] Newspaper clippings on Texas's petrified forests, ancient walls, and a lost race[1:23:53] The Smithsonian became the highest bidder for dragons, sloths, and mummies[1:47:09] The Kandahar giant and Lovelock Cave, and whether giants still hide underground[1:58:32] The little season and millennial reign that explain a completely inverted world[2:17:22] They couldn't tear down Philadelphia City Hall without bankrupting the country[2:32:32] The near-death experience that set the Archivist on this pathFind more from The Archivist:The Archivist | YouTube | X Find more from Alec:Alec Zeck | Instagram | XThe Way Forward | InstagramDonate to The Way Forward here.The Way Forward is Sponsored By:Want to grow your podcast but not sure what's actually working? Podigy helps me produce The Way Forward. Take their free assessment to get clear on your next move—and a chance to win a call with their founder.Get 10% off your Heart & Soil order with code THEWAYFWRD at checkout. Shop Heart & Soil here.Eating well shouldn't be complicated. Dr. Cowan's Garden makes it simple to increase your daily nutrient density with their signature vegetable powders, clean pantry staples, and pasture-raised products. Family-run and committed to "beyond-organic" quality.* Offer: Use code THEWAYFORWARD for 15% off your first order.* Shop: Dr. Cowan's Garden

Paul Solomon shares a lesson on self-talk, awareness, and what he calls waking up. In this thought-provoking talk, he reveals what research says about the average person's inner conversation, the one subject almost nobody talks to themselves about, and why we spend decades making a living without ever making a life. This episode will challenge you to start listening to the voice you've been ignoring.Book for improving self-talk:The Structure of Magic by Bandler and GrinderPatterns for Problem Solving: The New Structure of Magic by Richard BandlerWhat to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Dr. Shad HelmstetterSource: Paul Solomon: "Self Talk"Hosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I tried Pilates for the first time this weekend, and what I found on that reformer machine was one of the most honest pictures of how life actually works. The hidden springs underneath determined everything, and from the outside you could never tell who was carrying the heaviest load. That hit me hard, because we do the same thing to people every day. I also learned something about the pulses, those tiny movements that seem simple but wreck you faster than the big jumps, and that became a message I had to share about where real consistency is won and lost. Key Takeaways You cannot judge anyone's progress without knowing what resistance they are carrying beneath the surface. The harder your springs are in life, the stronger you become for the moments when everything levels out. Adding voluntary difficulty now is preparation for the real pressure you did not choose. The small, repetitive actions are harder than the big moments and matter more than most people admit. Trying new things builds perspective that opens doors you would never have found staying comfortable. Action Steps Identify one area of your life where you have been avoiding the small, monotonous tasks and commit to doing them consistently this week. Deliberately add one layer of challenge to your current routine, something that stretches you beyond your comfortable baseline. Before you judge someone's struggle or ease, remind yourself that you cannot see the springs they are carrying. Notable Quote The hardest steps in life are the little bitty ones. If you can handle the pulses, you will be ready for the big jumps.

On a road trip, tackling a summer cleanup, or just catching up on podcasts? QDT has you covered with Summer Saturday encores from your favorite shows. See the full Summer Saturday lineup on Spotify and enjoy this episode, which first aired in November 2025.When your ADHD child is struggling, do you worry they're acting out on purpose? In this episode, Dr. Nanika Coor unpacks the concept of executive function deficits in young people, and how shifting your perspective from "won't" to "can't" can help you respond to big emotions and challenging routines with more compassion and connection.Related Project Parenthood Episodes:Should you punish your ADHD child?How to reduce parental stress with mindfulnessBrain Boosters: powering up your child's executive functioning Dr. Coor's Related Blog: Crush Your Parenting Overwhelm: Better Communication With The People You LoveFind a transcript here.Find Project Parenthood on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the Quick and Dirty Tips newsletter for more tips and advice.Project Parenthood is a part of Quick and Dirty Tips. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BURNHAM'S DELIBERATELY MISSING THE POINT! STOP MOVING ILLEGALS — STOP THE BOATS!  #COBRA #UKPolitics #NigelFarage #ReformUK #BorderCrisis #JonGaunt #AndyBurnham #StopTheBoats #IllegalImmigration  Andy Burnham is playing a blinder — because once again the political and media conversation is focused on the WRONG QUESTION. We're being encouraged to argue about WHERE illegal migrants should be housed. Cities? Towns? Rural communities? Hotels? Camps? But I'm asking something much more fundamental: WHY ARE THEY STILL COMING ACROSS THE CHANNEL IN THE FIRST PLACE?  Successive governments have failed to control Britain's borders — and now ordinary communities are effectively being told they have to "do their bit" and accept the consequences. No! POLITICIANS NEED TO DO THEIR BIT. Secure the border. Stop the boats. Process claims rapidly. Remove people who have no legal right to remain. And create a system that actually deters illegal crossings rather than endlessly managing them after they've happened. That's why I believe Burnham is deliberately missing the point. By turning today's argument into a row about whether migrants should be moved from cities into rural areas, the debate shifts away from the enormous political failure at the heart of this crisis: BRITAIN HAS LOST CONTROL OF ITS BORDERS.  And before somebody inevitably starts screaming "racist" or "far-right", let's be absolutely clear. Wanting secure borders isn't racist. Wanting immigration laws enforced isn't racist. Wanting failed asylum seekers removed isn't racist. And believing governments should plan properly instead of constantly firefighting crises isn't extremist.  The same principle applies to our prisons. We don't want dangerous prisoners released early simply because politicians failed to provide enough prison places. When the controversy involves men convicted over the killing of PC Andrew Harper, the public understandably wants to know why the system reached this position. Governments know roughly how many prisoners they have. They know roughly how many people are entering the asylum system. SO PLAN AHEAD! BUILD THE CAPACITY! CONTROL THE BORDER! And then, to cap it all, Burnham is reportedly calling a COBRA meeting over the hot weather. IT'S AUGUST! Where's that emergency mentality over the Channel? Where's the COBRA-level urgency over prison capacity? Where's the detailed plan to stop illegal crossings rather than simply deciding where people should be housed once they're here? Today I want to know what YOU think. JOIN ME AT 3.30 TODAY

How should we talk to God in prayer? I haven't been very kind to others lately, and I wonder if I'm really saved. Some people say the message of God's grace is antinomianism. What is that? And what about the "sins of the high hand"? What does it mean to "strengthen our limbs" in Hebrews 12?

This is a Wednesday Wins Q&A, with Larry joined by his longtime co-host and friend of nearly a decade, Joe Bailey. The two open up about the Bible study they've been doing together before digging into two listener questions that hit at the heart of hands-on fatherhood. First, Steve asks how to prepare his three year old daughter for a new baby sister arriving in a few weeks, and how to keep the first child feeling seen. Then Brad from Florida sends in a question that lands hard: his wife says that even when he's home, he's not really there, and his 11 year old recently cut off a story with "never mind, dad, you're not listening anyway." Larry and Joe get practical on capacity for love, protecting margin, and the exact tools they use to actually be present. If you've ever been physically home but mentally somewhere else, this one is for you.   Timeline Summary [1:02] – Larry and Joe celebrate nearly a decade of friendship and their ongoing Bible study [3:09] – Steve's question: transitioning a three year old into big sister life [4:57] – The fear of not having enough love to go around, and why it's unfounded [5:19] – The Love and Logic lesson: what a new sibling feels like to a toddler [7:05] – Kids spell love T-I-M-E, and why one on one time matters most [9:36] – Joe on quality over quantity once you can't match the same hours [11:39] – Becoming a subject matter expert in whatever your kid is into [13:03] – Inviting the older child into the role of big sister without pressure [14:14] – Watching for behavioral cues before jealousy goes full fledged [14:34] – Being depth on the bench for your wife and beating the guilt monster [15:37] – Larry's chapter on raising daughters and leaning on Meg Meeker's work [16:26] – Chris Berry's daddy-daughter dates and setting the standard sky high [18:01] – Why three years old isn't too early to start dating your daughter [19:19] – Brad's question: present in body, absent in mind [21:03] – Why perception is reality when your family feels you're not there [22:16] – The name cue: teaching your family to signal when they need you fully [23:26] – Being relentless about creating margin and hard stops for work [25:24] – Larry on notifications as the window that steals your presence [25:43] – The Gary John Bishop river metaphor for the past, present, and future [28:28] – Larry's Full Presence Training and grounding through the five senses [31:07] – Joe on great expectancy with no expectations   5 Key Takeaways Your Capacity for Love Isn't Fixed — Every parent fears they can't love a second child as much as the first. Both hosts describe the same surprise each time: a fresh reserve of love shows up that you didn't know you had. Quality Beats Quantity — With more kids, you simply can't give each one the same number of hours. Get intentional instead: enter your child's world, learn what they love, and make the time you do have count. Perception Is Reality — You may feel like you're present and carrying the load, but if your wife and kids experience you as checked out, that's the reality you have to address. Validating their experience comes before defending your own. Protect Margin With Hard Stops — Decide when work starts and when it ends, and hold the line even when customers call at night. Give your family a simple cue, like saying your name, that signals you'll drop everything and give full attention. Ground Yourself in the Five Senses — When your mind drifts to the past or the future, you miss the present entirely. Deliberately noticing what you see, hear, feel, and smell in a moment with your kids pulls you fully into it.   Links & Resources Episode page and all links: https://thedadedge.com/1513 Dad Edge Day with the Arizona Cardinals (November 15, Cardinals vs Rams, State Farm Stadium): https://thedadedge.com/nfl Meg Meeker episode: https://thedadedge.com/meg-meeker/   Enjoyed This Episode? If Brad's question hit a nerve, or if you've got a new sibling on the way like Steve, take one idea from this episode and put it to work this week. Set a hard stop on work tonight, or ground yourself in the five senses the next time your kid is talking to you. If the show keeps delivering, follow, rate, and leave a review so more fathers can find these conversations.

The saga over a cancelled $35 million government project continued this week, with Labour MP Phil Twyford appearing before the committee. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Most commercial real estate principals build an agency that depends on them being physically there. But what would happen if you deliberately designed a business to operate without you? In episode 281 of Commercial Real Estate Leadership, Darren Krakowiak shares how he built more freedom and flexibility into CRE Success while continuing to grow the business every single year since 2020.  From restructuring his calendar and batching content to delegating inbox management and designing programs that require less of his input, Darren explains the practical decisions that reduced his business' dependence on his constant presence to keep on growing. The goal for principals isn't necessarily to travel as often as Darren does. It's to build a commercial real estate agency that gives them greater choice over how they spend their time. You'll learn:

Lords: Gabe https://store.steampowered.com/app/4076590/GAARL__Gabes_Action_Arcade_RogueLike/ Andrew https://pancelor.com/ Topics: Building your own synthesizer will not save you any money Clipboard proprioception The latest podcast description length drama Fig, 6. “I I I Strong Stronger Strongest” Braggadocio Rap Rerebrace, by Douglas Kearney https://poems.com/poem/fig-6-i-i-i-strong-stronger-strongest-braggadocio-rap-rerebrace/ Esper says: "Comic lettering is certainly done digitally these days, but there's a lot of traditional and even hybrid lettering too. A whole world out there." Conversations in real life vs. discord Having “over a decade of experience in the interior design industry” Microtopics: Gabe's Action Arcade Roguelike. Spelunky with less secrets and more upgrades. Randomized item behavior. Tasteful Pranking. Using earbuds as earplugs in a pinch. The short but wrong description. Timed Mashing Games. A building that exists continuously. Why would you pay someone else to do something that you can do yourself? A 70%-complete noise maker. Deliberately building your modular synthesizer to be incompatible with every modular standard so you're not tempted to buy any modules. Synthesizers as folk instruments, every one unique and owned by a weird uncle. SDL taking your sine wave and making it pretty. An online MIDI thing which is pretty annoying. Video: it has so much more data than audio. How to make your audio engine samples play at the right time. Electricity: it just happens. Hitting undo on the breadboard when you blow up some capacitors. Making a synthesizer by drawing a circuit with a graphite pencil. Being old enough to have once seen a PCB that was laid out by hand. Having something important in your clipboard and knowing you'd better put it somewhere soon before it's lost. Sending files to your phone over the local Wi-Fi. Parts of your body you doing trust. Prodding the clipboard until it reluctantly copies the text like a surely teenager. Emailing support and slowly realizing that support is actually the guy who makes the decisions. What life could be like if venture capital didn't exist. Putting a warning on the 4001st M&M. How to send an edible arrangement without knowing someone's address. Inventing something that already exists. Inventing a process and thinking "that's too simple to work" but later you find out it does and has a name. Getting sick of using a rhyming dictionary to write poems so you just cut and paste a list of rhyming words right into the poem. A poem that it feels wrong to read aloud. What is a line break but moving to a new place where the next word starts? A poem that is approved by the Comics Code Authority. How all the comic book letterers came to have the exact same handwriting. A word that starts with a through e and ends with song. Talking online vs. talking in person. Trying to quietly talk to your neighbor in discord voice chat. Why Discord doesn't allow you to place voice chats participants in Dolby 7.1 space. Tuning your proximity happening settings. Three people pairing off and having two conversations at once. The next talk show guest coming out and everybody moving one chair over. That time Andy Richter tried to have a side conversation with Norm MacDonald while Conan O'Brien was talking to the next guest. That thing where two people are hard to tell apart because their voices are similar to each other. Your e-commerce platform giving your image a random four digit number. Choosing guests based on whose voice compliments yours. Being on a weekly video game podcast and realizing you'd better play some goddamn video games this week or you won't have anything to talk about. Changing topics when there are three minutes left on the show. Trying to finish recording the show when your laptop is at 7% battery life. An incredible way to pull rank. Telling the airline employee that you work in aerospace and you deserve more leg room. Promising your Kickstarter backers to go to Denny's for lunch. Bluesky handles that are a palindrome of themselves.

“When You Long for God: A Psalm of Desire” Psalm 63 Week 4 of “Summer Psalms: Ancient Songs for Modern Hearts” We've spent three weeks exploring Psalms that meet us in crisis, in waiting, in uncertainty. This final week, we explore something different: longing. Not crisis. Not waiting. But a deep ache for God's presence. A spiritual thirst. A heart that says, “I need more of God than I currently have.” Summer is a season when we can feel this. Slower pace. Time to think. Time to notice what we're missing. Time to feel the gap between who we are and who we're called to be. Some of you know this feeling. You remember when your faith was alive. When prayer felt real. When God felt close. And somewhere along the way, it faded. And now you're feeling the absence. You're longing for what you've lost. This is when you need Psalm 63. David wrote this psalm in a wilderness season—literally fleeing for his life, camping in desert places. And in that wilderness, in that loneliness, something awakened in him. A desperate hunger for God. A longing for God's presence that was stronger than his physical need for food or water. “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:1). That's the heart cry of this psalm. Not need. Longing. THE PSALM: LISTEN TO DAVID'S DESIRE FOR GOD Psalm 63:1-2, “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have beheld You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.” Notice the language. “My soul thirsts.” “My flesh yearns.” This is not intellectual. This is visceral. David's entire being—soul and body—is reaching for God. Then verse 3: “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, I will praise You.” This is the central declaration of the psalm. God's lovingkindness is better than life itself. Better than comfort. Better than security. Better than anything else. Then verses 5-8: “My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. Because You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy. My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.” David is in the wilderness. Physically uncomfortable. Possibly hungry. But spiritually satisfied. His longing for God has been met, and that meeting satisfies more than food could satisfy. THE REALITY: SPIRITUAL THIRST AND THE WILDERNESS Here's what most of us don't talk about: Many of us have drifted from real faith into routine faith. We still go to church. We still pray (maybe). We still believe (sort of). But there's no fire. No longing. No passionate seeking. We've settled for less than what's available. Maybe it happened gradually. Life got busy. Kids. Work. Responsibilities. Mortgage. The grind. And somewhere between the busyness, the intimacy with God faded. Prayer became obligation instead of conversation. Worship became routine instead of real. We show up, we go through the motions, we leave feeling like we've checked a box. Or maybe it happened because we've experienced disappointment. We prayed and God didn't answer the way we wanted. We trusted and felt let down. We gave our whole heart and got hurt. And now, to protect ourselves, we've backed away. We keep our distance. We believe in God intellectually, but we don't long for God emotionally. We've built walls. Or maybe we've just gotten comfortable. Our faith became comfortable. Manageable. Safe. And somewhere along the way, we forgot what it felt like to actually hunger for God. To want Him like we want food and water. To seek Him like a person lost in the desert seeks water. But Psalm 63 invites us to something different: passionate faith. Living faith. The kind that says, “My soul thirsts for You. My flesh yearns for You.” And here's the beautiful part: this longing often awakens in the wilderness. Not in comfort, but in hard places. In loneliness. In disappointment. In seasons that strip away the comfortable surface and show us what we really need. I think of a woman I know who grew up in the faith. Church every Sunday. Youth group. Christian college. The whole package. But somewhere along the way, it all became mechanical. Prayer was something she did in the morning because it was routine. Worship was something that happened on Sunday because that's what you do. Scripture reading was a check mark on a discipline list. But there was no fire. No joy. No longing. Then one season, she got honest with God. “I don't feel anything,” she said in prayer. “I've lost my passion. I've lost my longing for You. What happened to me?” And instead of pretending everything was fine, instead of beating herself up, she started seeking. Real seeking. She read Scripture differently—not to check a box, but asking God to speak. She prayed differently—out loud, honest, raw. She started going on prayer walks. She joined a small group where she could be real about her struggle. And gradually—not all at once, but gradually—that longing came back. Not because her circumstances changed. Not because a crisis forced her to seek. But because she stopped settling for routine and started pursuing real intimacy. APPLICATION: THE WILDERNESS AWAKENS LONGING One reason Psalm 63 is so powerful is that David wrote it in the wilderness—in hard circumstances. Not in comfort, but in the dry and weary place. And in the wilderness, something awakened. His longing for God. The text says, “my soul thirsts for You; my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” The wilderness wasn't a detour from his spiritual journey. It was the place where his spiritual passion was rekindled. Sometimes we need the wilderness to wake us up. Not the crisis that demands rescue. Not the waiting that teaches patience. But the loneliness that makes us realize what we're missing. The wilderness that shows us how thirsty we actually are. C.S. Lewis wrote about this. He talked about “the sweet poison of false security.” When life is comfortable, when everything is fine, when we have enough security and enough entertainment and enough success, we stop seeking God desperately. We're satisfied with the surface. We're content with routine. But when comfort is stripped away, when we're alone in the wilderness, when the things we thought satisfied us don't, the real longing surfaces. And that's actually a gift. Your dissatisfaction might not be a sign that something's wrong with you. It might be the Holy Spirit beckoning you back. It might be the beginning of a deeper journey into intimacy with God. THE DISCIPLINE: PURSUING GOD DELIBERATELY Notice what David does in the wilderness. He doesn't just experience longing passively. He pursues it actively. He doesn't wait for God to force intimacy. He reaches out. “Thus I have beheld You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory” (verse 2). He's remembering encounters with God. He's meditating on God's presence and power. He's calling to mind the times when he experienced God's character firsthand. In the middle of the desert, he's remembering what God looked like in the sanctuary. “When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches” (verse 6). He's being intentional. In the quiet hours when he can't sleep—and you know, if you're camping in the desert and your enemies are hunting you, you're not sleeping well—he's choosing to think about God. To remember. To meditate. To rehearse God's faithfulness and character. Have you ever woken in the middle of the night, your mind overcome with the burden of worry or anxiety? I have, I have been there many times myself. What to do? Where to turn? “I meditate on You in the night watches.” “My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me” (verse 8). He's clinging. Holding tight. Desperately grasping. Not distantly believing, but closely holding. Not going through the motions, but actively, physically, emotionally clinging. This is the practice. Deliberately seeking. Meditating. Remembering. Clinging. It's work. It's intentional. It's not passive. In our comfortable lives, we can drift without noticing. Without intention. We wake up one day and realize the fire is gone. But if we want to recover a passionate faith, if we want to feel that longing again, we have to be deliberate. We can't expect it to happen to us. We have to cultivate it. We have to carve out time. Time to pray without an agenda. Time to read Scripture not looking for a quick answer, but wanting to know God. Time to worship not because it's Sunday, but because we're hungry. Time to sit in silence and just be present to God. We have to remember. Deliberately recall the times when you knew God was real. Meditate on God's past faithfulness. Let memories of encounter stir your heart. We have to confess our drift. Get honest. “I've settled for routine. I've kept my distance. I want more. I want to long for You like David longed for You.” And we have to persist. Because recovering spiritual passion isn't always immediate. It takes time. It takes practice. But it's worth it. THE INVITATION: TASTE AND SEE Here's the profound promise at the end of Psalm 63: “My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness” (verse 5). David's thirst has been satisfied. His longing has been met. And the satisfaction is complete. “Better than life,” he says about God's lovingkindness. And that's the invitation Psalm 63 extends to you: Taste this. Experience real intimacy with God. Let your longing be satisfied. Not in the future. Not when circumstances are better. But now. Even in the wilderness. Even in the mundane. Even in summer when you have time to notice what's missing—that's when you can discover what's available. HOW TO PRAY THIS PSALM First: Pray it in quiet moments. Psalm 63 is a meditation. It's meant for early morning or late night. The times when you have space to think and feel and long. Second: Be honest about your longing (or lack of it). If you've drifted, admit it. “O God, I've lost my thirst for You. Awaken it in me again.” Third: Remember encounters with God. Think back to times when you knew God was real. Times when prayer felt alive. Times when His presence was tangible. Let those memories stir your longing. Fourth: Meditate on God's character. “Your lovingkindness is better than life.” Spend time thinking about what that means. What does it look like to choose God over everything else? Fifth: Practice spiritual disciplines. Read Scripture. Pray. Worship. Sit in silence. These aren't meant to be legalistic. They're meant to be pathways toward intimacy. Ways of saying to God, “I want more of You.” Sixth: Cling. Don't hold back. Don't keep God at a distance to protect yourself. The promise is that His right hand upholds you. You're safe to pursue Him desperately. THE GIFT OF DESIRE Some of you have never lost this longing. Your faith has always been alive. Your heart has always reached for God. You're the kind of person who finds joy in worship, who experiences real connection in prayer, who feels God's presence tangibly. That's beautiful. Treasure it. Keep pursuing. Keep clinging. Keep letting Him satisfy your deepest thirst. And please, help the rest of us remember what we're aiming for. Others of you have lost it. The fire has faded. The intimacy has grown distant. Maybe it was gradual. Maybe it was sudden. But you can feel the absence. You remember what it was like to know God intimately, and you grieve the loss. Psalm 63 is an invitation to remember. To seek again. To let your soul thirst for God like it once did. The longing can return. The fire can be rekindled. It takes intention, but it's possible. And still others of you are in the first awakening. You're beginning to feel the longing. You're beginning to notice what's missing. That restlessness you feel? That's not a sign of crisis. That's a sign of spiritual health. That ache is the Holy Spirit calling you back to intimacy. Don't dismiss it. Don't medicate it. Pay attention to it. Let it lead you toward God. CONCLUSION As we close this summer of Psalms, we've journeyed through crisis, through waiting, through uncertainty, and now to longing. Four different seasons of the soul. Four ancient prayers that speak to modern hearts. But Psalm 63 reminds us of the heart of it all. Everything else—the rescues, the waiting, the guidance—it all points to this: a soul that longs for God. A heart that says, “Your lovingkindness is better than life.” That's the invitation of summer. Not just to survive the season. But to rediscover what you're longing for. To let the slower pace awaken your heart. To feel the thirst. To take steps toward intimacy. And to taste and see that the Lord is good. Because when you've tasted, when you've known real intimacy with God, you realize: this is what you were made for. This is what satisfies. This is home.

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This episode started with a simple observation about my dog's paws burning on hot concrete, and it cracked open something much bigger about leadership, preparation, and who you let speak into your life. I talk about why the people who have never walked your road simply cannot give you directions, and why listening to them is one of the fastest ways to derail your progress. More than that, I get into why rising to the occasion is a myth and what elite performers actually do to stay standing when life pushes hardest. When the heat comes, and it will come, you only have two choices: melt or adapt. Key Takeaways People who have never been in your position cannot understand the decisions you face, so stop letting their opinions steer you. You do not rise to the occasion under pressure. You fall to your default level of preparation, so raise that level now. Hope is not a strategy. Controlling what you can control is the only reliable path through adversity. Deliberately putting yourself in difficult situations in practice is what makes real adversity feel familiar instead of fatal. When conditions change and you cannot push through, the move is to adapt, not fold and not melt. Action Steps Audit the advice you are currently taking and ask whether each source has faced real pressure or adversity in any capacity before accepting their input. Identify one area of your life where you have been hoping things go well instead of actively preparing, then build a concrete preparation plan for it this week. Deliberately create a harder version of your current practice or training environment so that the real challenge feels like familiar ground when it arrives. Notable Quote Don't just go through life hoping it's not hot today. Hope is not a strategy. Prepare, be ready, and adapt when necessary.

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Your dreams about flying. Your childhood experiences of flying. Your curiosity about ETs. The ET encounters you had. The out of body experiences. The levitation, remote viewing and astral travel. It's all real. Your Soul planted every single one of them. Deliberately. To prepare you for exactly this moment in human existence — so you would arrive here without fear. By the end of this episode you will understand why your flying dreams and ET experiences were not random — your Soul has been preparing you so you would be free of fear when it arrives. You will discover why humans are not separate from nature but part of the ecosystem of nature itself, and what restoring that relationship does to your central nervous system. You will learn what grounding actually is at the level of magnetic charge, and why the chemical reactions happening in the earth under your feet right now are directly related to your ability to fly. You will understand why your central nervous system has been in a constant state of fight or flight, and how rebuilding your relationship with nature begins to heal it. And you will know why building muscle is directly connected to your ability to fly, along with the specific breathing practice to begin right now. This is where remembering how to fly moves from understanding into action. If you are ready to remember how to fly through the wisdom of Universal Beings, join us here: michellevickers.com/how-to-fly This is Part 144 of The Story of Creation, a live recording of Michelle Vickers having conversations with The Creator, The Soul of The Universe, Gaia, Pan, nature spirits and other Universal Beings, recorded in front of a live audience. No script. Just pure universal truth direct from the source. Join The Authentic Human Collective for a front row seat: michellevickers.com/community Learn more about the 9 Fundamental Energies: michellevickers.com/believe-book Watch The Story of Creation from the beginning: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtY9aRgn79cba9wSRRx-vkT1crKnyBotq The Authentic Human Podcast | The Story of Creation | EP220 | Part 144 0:00 Where The Story of Creation went from sharing the hidden origins of humanity to reclaiming human gifts and abilities 1:30 Why your flying dreams and ET experiences were planted by your Soul — and what they were preparing you for 4:25 Michelle's doctor told her she was depressed — what was actually happening and why millions of people experience the same thing 6:23 Why humans are not separate from nature — and what restoring that relationship does to your existence 12:07 The Sacred Journey begins — feel your feet in the earth and the magnetic charge of what is alive beneath you 19:35 What the Universal Beings want you to do over the next few days — building your relationship with nature, air and water 29:27 Why building muscle is directly connected to your ability to fly — and the breathing practice to begin right now

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Most of us have heard sermon after sermon, message after message, telling us that we shouldn't sin. That instead, we should repent and live a godly, holy life. That's great – but the real question is HOW?   STIFF-NECKED GENERATION I was never much of an accountant but I do remember learning about double-entry book keeping systems. They were really important back in manual accounting systems because they provided a double check to make sure that the accounts balanced. Basically, here's how it worked. Every financial transaction in the accounts had two entries – hence the name double entry. A credit entry and a debit entry. And the whole point of that was the double entry provided a double check. And it's not just in accounting that you find this approach. You find it in physics too. Newton's third law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In other words – whenever a body exerts a force on a second body, that second body exerts an equal and opposite force on the first body. Maybe that's something we should have learned at school. And it's not just in accounting and physics that we see this two sided approach to life, we also find it in the spiritual dimension. Absolutely we do. Every spiritual transaction has two sides to it. Every spiritual action in one direction creates an equal and opposite action in the other direction. So what's the point? Well in this double-sided mystery lies our rubber-hits-the-road solution to overcoming stubborn sin – which is the thing that we're talking about in this series, "Eliminating Stubborn Sin Once and For All". And it's a powerful solution indeed. Last week on the program we saw that each one of us finds ourselves with at least one stubborn sin in life that we can't seem to overcome. Now it's different for each one of us – anger, temper, sexuality, greed, self esteem, pride … the list goes on. And somehow that one particular sine comes back again and again to defeat us. But whilst sin is all too common, it's not normal – and God's intention is to set us free from that sin. Not only His intention – it's His plan, it's His will and it's something that He has the power, the divine power to do. Last week on the program we looked at this particular passage, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5: For the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ. Every proud obstacle in our hearts that sets itself up against the knowledge of God – and that's what the strongholds are that the Apostle Paul's talking about here – can be destroyed by the weapons of warfare which are not human, they're divine. God's divine power. And it's a power that God delights in exerting right in the moment our of our weakness – so that it's His power and not our strength that overcomes sin. Here's Paul again. We looked at this last week too, 2 Corinthians 12:7-9: To keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Don't you just love this. Instead of just taking the messenger of Satan that was tormenting Paul away – God instead gives Paul the opportunity to discover God's perfect power – the power of Jesus Himself – in His own experience in overcoming Satan. But it's one thing to know that whilst we all have a stubborn sin and even though it's God's plan to wield His divine power to overcome that sin in our lives – well, all that's one thing. But what you and I really need to know, beyond that wonderful liberating truth – is how! HOW to lay hold of God's power and how to overcome the stubborn sin that's been wracking our bodies for a lifetime. Well today, right now, I want to take you deep into God's Word and show you God's how. Not my how. Not the world's how. But God's HOW! Now I've heard this Scripture we're about to go to have a look at quoted often – but only half of it, only one side of the transaction, and not the other side. And a half truth is as good as an untruth because a half truth can easily be made into a lie. It's something the devil does all the time. The half truth – the part of this Scripture that's most often quoted – goes like this, James Chapter 4 verse 7: Resist the devil and he will flee from you. And so a whole bunch of people set about resisting the devil. Problem is that the old enemy's been around much longer than you and I have, and he's seen it all. He's wily, crafty and deceptive and he'll go to any length to catch us in his snare. He'll wait to till the most opportune moment, until we're tired or weak or distracted or frustrated or all of the above – and then he'll pounce. 1 Peter Chapter 5:8: Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. Lions wait in the long grass until they see a weak animal or a young animal or a slow animal separated from the pack – and then they pounce on their prey. The devil's the exactly the same. And what we discover when we set about resisting the devil – is that working hard just doesn't work. We don't need human weapons in this spiritual battle, we need weapons full of divine power. And it turns out that the way to access and wield those weapons involves a double-sided transaction. The half truth from the Scriptures that I gave you before – let me give the whole thing to you now – and you'll see what I mean. James Chapter 4:7-8 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Do you see the two sides of the transaction involved in defeating the devil – in overcoming stubborn sin? The first is, submit yourself to God and then resist the devil – two sides – and the result of that is that he will flee from you. When we submit ourselves to God, we rebel against the devil. When we submit to the devil – we rebel against God. It's a double sided entry, it's a double sided transaction. But some people have a foot in both camps – they want to honour God but they want to go with the devil and they're the ones who are double-minded, the ones who have to cleanse their hands and purify their hearts. We're going to look at some intensely practical examples of this after the break – but just for now think back to Adam and Eve in the garden. When they were living that perfect life prior to the fall – they were submitting to God (and getting all the benefits) – but on the other side of the ledger, they were resisting the devil. The tree in the middle of the garden, the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it was there all the time, they just didn't eat of it – and so they lived in the benefit of God's blessing. BUT – the moment they submitted to the devil – on the other side of the ledger, they were resisting God, they were rebelling against God – in that very first, terrible, double-sided act of rebellion. Submission to God = rejecting the devil. Submission to the devil = rejection God. And in this double-sided transaction lies the practical truth of overcoming stubborn sin. If we try to do it by resisting the devil, as we've already seen – that's a half truth and it doesn't work. The answer is first to submit to God, to draw near to Him, because in so doing, He will draw near to us. And since He's the one with the power – He's the one with the weapons of warfare that have the divine power, the first thing that we need to do, is to submit our selves to Him. Resisting the devil is what flows out of that.   RULES DON'T WORK Stubborn sin – that sin that we just can't shift, sin that keeps on keeping on long after we'd hoped that we would have defeated it – is a fact in many, many people's lives. And over the last couple of weeks on the program, we've seen that not only does God understand that, but He wants to give us His weapons full of His divine power, right in the middle of our weaknesses defeat the sin. Jesus died and rose again to give us victory, to give us a new life – and so whilst stubborn sin is commonplace, it's not normal and it's not what God means for our lives. In fact, this is something that God takes so seriously – that He sends not only His Son just to die to pay for all our sin on the cross, but to rise again to give us a new life. 2 Corinthians 5:17: that if anyone believes in this Jesus, then that person is a new creation – old things have passed away and look all things are new. So, whilst many a Christ-follower is convinced that their particular brand of stubborn sin is just a fact of life, just something that they have to live with for the rest of their lives here on Earth, that's a luxury that the Gospel of Jesus Christ doesn't afford us. Jesus came to set us free from every sin. And right now we're going to continue our look at this practical "how to" – how do we lay hold of God's divine power to allow ourselves to be set free, by God – of this sin and, and it's painful consequences. Now this is something that frankly puzzled me for a long time. First, I thought I had to do it all. And so I fought against the devil and I tried and I tried and I tried to resits him and overcome these temptations … but as strong willed an individual as I am, that just didn't work. I ended up lying bloodied and beaten and discouraged and dejected and defeated on the battlefield. OK ... OK ... OK that didn't work. So, what I'll do is I'll leave it all up to God. I'll sit back and let God do it all. But let me tell you – the old "spiritual couch potato" model didn't work either. And it wouldn't amaze me at all to know that you've been there too – right? So the question is, how do we make it work? What's God's part, what's our part? Come on – how do we break free from the power of stubborn sin?? Well, before the break we discovered that not only do accountants have double entry book keeping, not only did Isaac Newton discover that in physics and in nature, every action has an equal and opposite reaction – but when it comes to defeating sin, this spiritual transaction too is double-sided. And, it's in the double-sidedness of the transaction that we discover our role and God's role. If you were with us before the break you'll have heard this Scripture, James 4:7-8: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Do you see its double sidedness? This is really important – that's why we're covering this ground again briefly. It's not just about racing on and resisting the devil – that's something we can't win on our own. First, first submit yourselves to God – that's the God side of the ledger, and then, on the devil's side – resist him and he will flee. That's because when we submit to God, we lay hold of His power, and we have the power to resist the devil – and once he sees that power at work – he's on his bike and out of there because he and all his demons have to submit to the name that is above all names – the name of Jesus Christ. Now the danger is that we leave it there and we don't get down and practical enough to give us something to take away to implement. So I want to go deeper into the "how to" so that each one of us knows how to live out this submission to God AND resist the devil, so that the devil will flee from us. That's how you overcome stubborn sin. This first example is one that jumped out at me in a Bible study group. Have a careful listen, it's the Apostle Paul on death row, writing to his friends in Philippi – telling them how not to worry: now listen and see if you can pick up the double-sidedness of God's solution to worrying, Philippians chapter 4:6-7: Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. I remember sitting in this Bible study group and we talked about worry and people hedged around this and they were prepared to move on from it without taking God at His Word. Worry is a sin – people with their trust in God needn't worry. Worry falls a long way short of living the life of abundant peace that God purchased for us on that cross. What this passage says is – look, here's the solution to overcoming this sin of worry. Instead of worrying – instead of spending your time doing that, replace that with praying and giving thanks to God and telling Him your needs. First submit to God – see that's what's going on here. This is God's way of dealing with the problem, the sin of worry. First submit to Him, do it his way. Pray and give thanks. Let your needs be known to God. If we take the time that we would have spent worrying … and instead we used it to do it God's way – to pray. The devil loves throwing doubt in our minds. He loves it when we're discouraged. How to deal with him?? We submit to God, we do it God's way – and the promise is that when we do that, "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus". What's just happened here? God's weapons of divine power have been brought into play – we have a confidence that comes from God, because we did it His way in faith – and so the devil ceases to have any power over us to make us worry. Now, now stand in this newfound power from God … and watch the devil flee. The secret is in proactively replacing the bad with the Good, proactively stepping into this space and saying – No, no – no, no! This worry is from the devil. My only answer is to submit to God. Now I discover His divine power in my weakness. Now I can resist, now the devil must flee. Let's have another quick look at another practical example. It has to do with the things that we say that hurt other people. So many of us have a problem with that don't we – always grumbling, always pulling other people down. Have a listen again to the double-sided solution, Ephesians chapter 4:29: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. How do I stop this addiction of evil talk coming out of my mouth. Do I just sit there and try to hold my tongue. No! – God's saying – instead of doing that, proactively replace it with my way – instead of speaking the things that are only going to hurt people, speak only what is useful for building other people up as there is need. Replace the bad with the Good. Deliberately step out with God and do it God's way and not our way. So when we feel like cursing people with our words instead we go "No! God's way is to bless them". The devil's got nowhere to go. He's lost his power. Then, having submitted to God, then we simply stand and resist the devil in the power of God because we've done it God's way. And let me tell you – they way I've learned this is simple. I sat down and thought about my weaknesses. I identified them. And I had more than my fair share. And I looked through the Bible and found a simple verse to tell me - when I'm in a situation where I'm prone to live out this particular stubborn sin – what is it that I CAN DO, to submit to God in my actions and my thoughts and my words, right there and then how can I submit to God. And so when I found myself in that place, I knew God's word, I knew how to submit to God. And you know what happened, little by little – God changed me. And the devil, well, he had no choice. He just had to flee. And when you think about it – this isn't rocket science. This is something that we can apply to any sin in any situation. It'd be just like God to make it that simple, wouldn't it? In fact next week on the program, we're going to look at some more specific details – common stubborn sins that people have in their lives, – to help each one of us stop sin dead in its tracks.   THE POWER TO CHANGE Over the next couple of weeks on the program, we're going to be looking at some very common stubborn sins that people deal with – anger, sexual immorality, selfishness, low self esteem – and how to overcome each of those. But as we come towards the end of our time together, I want to share with you perhaps the most important thing that I know about overcoming stubborn sin in my life. In fact – there's no maybe about it. It is the most important thing that I know. And it's this – that prayer works. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says very simply that we should: Pray without ceasing. Can I tell you something – that verse has stuck with me over and over and over again as God's done His work in me to overcome the stubborn sin in my life – and let me tell you, I had more than my fair share – and this is what I've found. When I was in that time of overcoming anger or overcoming selfishness – God dealt with them one at a time in me – I discovered that on those days when I specifically and deliberately prayed about that sin in my life first up in the morning – and got focussed on those handful of scriptures that God gave me – perhaps only a five minute investment each day – but when I made that investment I didn't sin. But somehow when I didn't quite get around to it, didn't have time, you know what it's like– those sins just got the better of me – time and time and time again. And still today, if I don't spend that time with the Lord each morning in prayer and reading His Word and letting Him have sway in my heart – I tell you - those stubborn sins will find their way back into my life. To put it very succinctly – PRAYER IS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS. I can't make it any simpler than that. And even through the day, when I was in a situation where that sin was prone to come out of me – just a quick prayer under my breath – LORD HELP ME – that's all It takes. Pray without ceasing – because prayer works. I'm always taken by the time that the disciples were trying to cast a demon out of a boy while Jesus was up on the mount of the transfiguration – they couldn't do it. And Jesus came down – cast the demon out no problem and later the disciples went to Him and said, "So Lord, how come you could do it but we couldn't?" And Jesus said the most surprising thing to them, Mark 9:29: He replied to them, This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting. Now just stop and think a minute – He's been up on the mountain, He's walked down into this farce where there's a crowd and the disciples are trying to cast out a demon and the demon's not going and instantly Jesus casts out the demon. Let me ask you – did Jesus have time for prayer and fasting right at that moment? Not at all – He was talking about his normal, every day prayer life, He was talking about the fasting He'd been doing before that. And when I scratch around looking at the original text of what Jesus said – recorded in Greek not English – the deep sense of what He's saying here is this – nothing but prayer and fasting has the power to cast out the stubborn demons such as these. – The stubborn demons. The sort that wont go – like our stubborn sins. The power is in the prayer – Jesus was incredulous when He saw what was going on – He said "How long must I bear with you, you faithless and perverse generation?" Pretty strong language. He was expressing His frustration - why is it that you people still don't get it? My friend if you would defeat the stubborn sin in your life – it will only happen by prayer. And the odd bit of fasting isn't going to hurt either I have to tell you. Pray without ceasing. Pray every day. And little by little that stubborn sin will be gone – so out there in the heat of the battle, with the crowds looking on – that hidden prayer life will bring its rewards. That hidden prayer life will bear the fruit that others see in your life. That hidden prayer life will bring the power of God to bear in overcoming the most stubborn sin in our lives that we could ever imagine.

You are meant to fly. Flying is an innate part of your nature, and it was hidden from you. Not lost. Not forgotten. Hidden. Deliberately. In this episode Michelle, The Creator and other Universal Beings explore the Universal Intelligence that reveals exactly how this ability was taken from you — and what you need to do right now to start reclaiming it. By the end of this episode you will understand the foundation of reclaiming your ability to fly — and why it's nothing like anything your mind is currently expecting. You will discover the three most important relationships in your existence, what they are and why they determine everything. You will know why humans were never meant to age and what actually introduced aging into human existence. You will understand why your cells are programmed to self-heal so you can continue for as long as you wish in this life. And you will know why you have the potential to live forever — and why you already know on a soul level that you came here for a reason. If you have ever felt that you came here to do something extraordinary that the world hasn't seen yet — this episode is your first step toward it. For personal guidance on your flying journey, join PURE: michellevickers.com/pure This is Part 141 of The Story of Creation, a live recording of Michelle Vickers having conversations with God, The Creator, The Soul of The Universe and other Universal Beings, recorded in front of a live audience. No script. Just pure universal truth direct from the source. Watch The Story of Creation from the beginning: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtY9aRgn79cba9wSRRx-vkT1crKnyBotq The Authentic Human Podcast | The Story of Creation | EP217 | Part 141

What does it look like when fifth-generation farming meets modern food entrepreneurship? For Sue Heward of Singing Magpie Produce in Monash, South Australia, it looks like sun-dried Smyrna quinces, semi-dried black and white figs, vine-ripened Shiraz grapes dried on the vine, and artisan gift boxes that tell the full story of the Riverland. In this rich, grounded conversation recorded on the Heward family orchard, Tawnya Bahr sits down with Sue and her father Frank - a man who has farmed this property for over 60 years - to trace 105 years of family growing history, the birth of Sue’s business, Singing Magpie Produce nearly a decade ago, and the hard-won lessons of building a value-added food brand from the ground up. What You'll Hear in This Episode 105 years on the land - Frank traces the Heward family's growing history from the original quince trees to today's pecans, figs, quinces and grapes The fruit fly reality - How Queensland fruit fly regulations have reshaped what the Hewards can sell fresh, pushing them further into value-adding and manufacturing supply for Maggie Beer and Beerenberg The grape glut crisis - With Riverland winegrapes unwanted by the market, Frank explains how Sue turned the problem into "Dad's Vine Ripened Shiraz" - sun-dried Shiraz with a flavour that tastes like eating wine How Singing Magpie began - Sue returned from 16 years in Melbourne, swapped a career in health prevention for commercial cookery, and spent her first year back picking figs and figuring out her next act The first product and a Champion Award - Starting with 50 kilos of preservative-free, semi-sun-dried black figs sold on Facebook, the brand grew fast. The Smyrna sun-dried quince - made from her mother's recipe - won Champion at Sydney Royal Fine Foods in its first year The sticky quince syrup - A zero-waste product born from the poaching liquid; reduced for seven hours until it's sweet, tart and just on the edge of caramelised. Works with cheese, duck, lamb and dessert equally The full product range - From sun-dried mangoes to persimmons, jujubes from Black Sheep Produce in Loxton, locally sourced Medjool dates, and Solomon Gold vegan chocolate hand-tempered in the Riverland The spectacular diced fruit mix - Deliberately sultana-free; packed with black and white figs, peaches, pears, apricots and candied lemon (the very same lemon used in the quince cooking process, wasted by no one) Breast cancer and the business - Sue shares how a diagnosis at 50, followed by five months of chemotherapy, forced her to step back from the day-to-day - and accidentally prompted the team expansion and systems thinking that made the business stronger Tasting Australia 2026 - A marquee event for 50-60 guests on the quince orchard, in collaboration with Temperance Restaurant and Hotel Renmark, in 65mm of unexpected Riverland rain. It was magical. About Singing Magpie Produce Singing Magpie Produce is an artisan dried fruit and specialty food brand based in Monash, South Australia, in the Riverland. Founded by Sue Heward, the brand grows from a fifth-generation family orchard and sources exclusively from Riverland producers to create premium, preservative-free dried fruits, sun-dried quinces, quince syrups, specialty gift boxes, and seasonal products. Singing Magpie is a multi-award-winning producer. Their sun-dried Smyrna quince won Champion at the Sydney Royal Fine Food Competition in 2017, and the brand has since collected Gold and Silver medals at the RAS NSW Royal Fine Food Show and Australian Food Awards, appeared on MasterChef Australia (2018), have twice won the SA State title at the delicious. Harvey Norman Produce Awards (2019 and 2025), and in 2025 became a National Finalist in the Sun-Dried Fruits - From the Earth category. Their products are stocked and supplied to food service clients across Australia through their collaboration with Straight To The Source. People & Places Mentioned Frank Heward - Sue's father; fifth-generation grower; 60+ years on the Monash property; innovator (mushroom tunnels, dried fruit, pecan planting) Petty Orchards - Frank's grandmother's family orchards in Doncaster-Mitcham, Melbourne; a well-known horticultural name in the region Maggie Beer Products - 24-year supply relationship for figs and quinces for manufacturing Beerenberg - Current manufacturer customers for Heward Orchard Black Sheep Produce - Heidi and Dave, Loxton; growers of jujubes (Chinese red dates) supplied to Singing Magpie gift boxes Solomon Gold - Vegan chocolate sourced from Sydney; hand-tempered by the Singing Magpie team Almond Co. - Riverland almonds used in Singing Magpie gift boxes Tasting Australia - Festival platform that brought guests from Adelaide, Mildura, Mount Gambier and Inverloch to the Monash orchard Temperance Restaurant / Hotel Renmark - Collaborators on the Tasting Australia orchard event Straight To The Source - food consultancy; 10-year relationship with Singing Magpie; connected the brand to chefs and food service nationally Sydney Royal Fine Food Competition - Premier national food competition (Royal Agricultural Society); Singing Magpie's Smyrna sun-dried quince won Champion Award in its debut year delicious Produce Awards: Multiple award winner, including most recently 2025 From the Earth South Australian National Finalist Resources & Links Singing Magpie Produce - Find their products and gift boxes online Sydney Royal Fine Food Competition - rasnsw.com.au Tasting Australia - South Australia's premier food and drink festival - tastingaustralia.com.au Breast cancer awareness - Check your breasts monthly. National Breast Cancer Foundation - nbcf.org.au About Straight To The Source Straight To The Source brings you closer to the chefs, producers, growers and makers across the entire food chain, the people shaping where food is headed and why it matters. Hosted by food experts Tawnya Bahr and Lucy Allon. Follow, rate and review Straight To The Source to help more people discover the stories shaping Australia’s food and hospitality industry. You can find us: Straight To The Source Food Podcast: https://lnk.to/jBCTBE Straight To The Source Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/straight_to_the_source/ Straight To The Source Website: http://straighttothesource.com.au Tawnya Bahr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tawnyabahr/ Instagram: @tawnyabahr Email: tbahr@straighttothesource.com.au Lucy Allon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyallon/ Instagram: @lucy_allon Email: lucy@straighttothesource.com.au Keywords: Straight To The Source Podcast, Straight To The Source, Sue Heward, Frank Heward, Singing Magpie Produce, Riverland, South Australia, Australian food producers, family farming, generational farming, Australian figs, semi-dried figs, Smyrna quince, quince products, Riverland Shiraz, dried fruit Australia, artisan food products, value-added agriculture, food innovation, Australian produce, provenance, regional Australia, food entrepreneurship, farm to table, producer stories. @straighttothesourcepodcast: https://www.youtube.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unwind, let go of the day's stress, and drift into a deep, peaceful sleep with Chapter 9 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, titled The Mock Turtle's Story. Beautifully narrated by clinical hypnotherapist Martin Hewlett for the "Books at Bedtime" series, this episode follows Alice as she leaves the chaotic croquet grounds behind to meet the melancholic Mock Turtle and the eccentric Griffin. Listen as they recount their bizarre, whimsical school days at the bottom of the sea, highlighting playful sea-puns like "reeling and riding," "distraction," and lessons that "lesson" from day to day.Deliberately read with a slow, hypnotic cadence, this comforting narration acts as a natural sleep aid to quiet your racing mind, slow your breathing, and settle your nervous system for the night. This series offers a special preview of the premium bedtime audiobooks and immersive sleep tools engineered for the upcoming Anchored mobile application. Settle beneath the covers, close your eyes, and let this whimsical underwater tale carry you effortlessly into a restorative slumber.

A dashcam SD card that was most likely recording during the final moments of the Aaron Spencer case disappeared from police custody. Investigators handled it in violation of their own department's procedures. A judge reviewed the evidence — or what was left of it — and concluded the pattern of failures gave "the appearance of a coverup."That language came from the court, not the defense. Special Judge Ralph Wilson found that law enforcement conduct was "so egregious" that the second-degree murder charge against Spencer had to be thrown out entirely. Spencer had killed Michael Fosler after reportedly spotting the man with his daughter — the same girl Fosler was accused of victimizing, the same man who'd been released on bond and allegedly gained access to her again.The political layer makes this harder to dismiss as incompetence. Spencer was running for Lonoke County sheriff against the incumbent, John Staley. The agency that lost the SD card belonged to the man Spencer was trying to replace. The original judge assigned to the case was removed twice by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Investigators, prosecutors, and the initial court all appeared to be moving in one direction — against the father, not toward the truth.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke join Tony Brueski to dissect what the FBI is trained to look for when multiple people in positions of authority all appear to be protecting the same outcome — and what a federal investigation into this department would actually look like on the ground.The murder case is over. The questions about what happened to that evidence are just beginning.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AaronSpencer #LonokeCounty #MichaelFosler #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #CoverupAllegations #EvidenceLost #ArkansasCrime

The leap from boutique fitness studio founder to multi-unit CEO demands a different playbook. Scaling successfully requires changing how you think, lead and plan.  Start with four non-negotiables every enterprise CEO must address early. Alina Cooper and Lisa Taylor walk through them in Episode 733: What Fitness Enterprise CEOs Must Plan For. Become an architect: Shift from operator to planning for your future business needs Create capacity: Identify personnel and infrastructure requirements for growth Clarify capital: Know what you need, when you need it and what each dollar is for Engineer culture: Deliberately reinforce values, feedback and accountability  Anticipate change: Forecast market shifts, industry evolution and consumer pivots Your business is only as scalable as you are, so invest in your personal leadership development and always be learning. Get the essential framework in Episode 733. Catch you there, Lise

Palace insiders reportedly accuse Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of timing personal announcements to compete with major royal engagements, with jokes of a secret “hijacking diary” circulating behind palace walls. Plus, Meghan faces online scrutiny over viral appearance comparisons, new claims she may try to build bridges with Queen Camilla, and Frogmore Cottage could be renovated to erase the last traces of the Sussex era.Get episodes of Palace Intrigue by becommming a paid subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Click the button that says uninterrupted listening.  Just $5 a month, and that includes many ofther shows on the Caloroga Shark network.A new season of King William is available now.Our royal newsletter written by Deep Crown is available for free.Royal Books:Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors by Tom BowerWilliam and Catherine: The Monarchy's New Era: The Inside StoryThe Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana

Had an AHA or Insight? Share it:Tarkan Salar on Living Inside an Unfinished TransformationTarkan Salar did not lose his business. He dismantled it. Deliberately, painfully, over eighteen months, canceling contracts, unwinding supplier relationships, letting go of nearly 2,000 employees, absorbing millions in losses, all while his marriage fell apart, his father died, and the people closest to him told him he was making a mistake.He had built a $50Mill dollar fashion company supplying H&M and major European retailers. Family members were on payroll. His identity, his relationships, his entire world was wrapped inside that company. He walked away from all of it because he could not do it anymore. He had no plan. He had a one-way ticket to Bali and left it all behind.The hustle part is done. What has not arrived yet is everything else.The people he thought were friends turned away the moment he stopped being useful. The family members he had carried for years are still angry. And Tarkan is in what he calls the void, no identity, no clear purpose, no confirmation that any of it is going to lead somewhere worth going. The next chapter is not here. He is living in the gap.In this conversation, Tarkan shares what it looks like to be inside that gap right now. The Sufism framework that helps him make sense of why everything was taken away. The 5am Club audiobook that cracked something open in Bali. The 12,000 hours of self-development that have compounded into something he is still learning how to bring into the world. And the honest admission that he does not know what comes next.Beate brings her own rawness to this one. Two people in the exact same spot, on different parts of the world, mapping the terrain of an unfinished transformation together.About Tarkan Salar.Tarkan Salar, is a consumer brand strategist, inventor, and operator with 26+ years building and scaling global fashion and consumer goods brands.Connect with Tarkan SalarWebsite| LinkedIn |Instagram_____________________We appreciate you, thank you for listening. Let us know in the comments what resonated in this episode, we want to hear from you. Leave a comment, like, share with one person who needs to hear the message our guest shared. Take our QUIZ and find out what your talent is worth in this market:  What's Your Talent Worth (http://WhatsYourTalentWorth.com)Follow us on Instagram:Check us out on Tik Tok: Work With Us

God does not simply call people. He positions them. Deliberately. Strategically. Often silently, long before their placement makes any sense.For example, Daniel was not in Babylon by misfortune. Joseph was not in Egypt by betrayal. Esther was not in the palace by coincidence. Nehemiah was not at the king's table by accident.This Sunday, we locate ourselves within the deliberate architecture of God's design and we will recover what we are each responsible to build from where we have been set.

- Ask for help in changing your mindset - Deliberately choose to focus on good things - Regardless of what might seem to go wrong, believe that God will make it work in your favor - We aren't promised perfect circumstances, but we have strength to handle what comes and can choose to be content - God will provide anything you truly need, when your focus is on Him - Be thankful (in general) - A cheerful attitude attracts God's help - Be patient in affliction, and don't give up - Watch what you say - Watch what you think, so you will watch what you say Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The government has delivered its third Budget pointing to an earlier return to surplus, but with no election-year lolly scramble. Political reporter Giles Dexter pores through the books, and looks at the looming debate over superannuation.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

In this week's episode, we share five tips & tricks for writing believeable ways characters can overlook the obvious. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Talons of the Sorcerer, Book #6 in the Dragonskull series, (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store: TALONS2026 The coupon code is valid through June 8, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 304 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is May 22nd, 2026, and it's our first new episode in two and a half weeks, so that is exciting. Today we'll be talking about how writers can believably write characters who miss the obvious or fail to notice important facts without exasperating the reader. We also have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. So let's start off with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Talons of the Sorcerer, Book #6 in the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store. That is TALONS2026. As always, the links to my Payhip and the coupon code will be available in these show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through June 8th, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook for your summer travels, we have got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. Since I recorded the last episode on May 6th, I'm pleased to report that Dragon-Mage, the sixth book in the Half-Elven Thief series, is done. You can get it at Amazon and Kindle Unlimited since Half Eleven Thief is my Kindle Unlimited series (until it is finished). It's doing quite well and thank you all for that. Now that Dragon-Mage is finished, my main project is now Blade of Thieves. And as of this recording, I am 29,000 words into it. I think the rough draft will be 100,000 words or so, give or take. I hope to have this out in June, though it might slip to July (depending on events). My secondary project is Cloak of Frost, which will be the 15th book in the Cloak Mage series. I am 2,000 words into that and I am hoping to have that out towards the end of July, though of course that by slip to August (depending on events). So that is what I am working on right now. In audiobook news, since I recorded the last episode, we had two audiobooks mostly come out. Cloak of Illusion (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is available at Audible, Apple, Google Play, and all the other audiobook stores. Blade of Wraiths (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is also finished. I believe as of this recording, you can get it at my Payhip store, Google Play, and Kobo (though Audible and the other audiobook stores should be following along before too much longer). As for Dragon-Mage, Leanne Woodward will be recording that in July (if all goes well). So that's where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:38 Main Topic: Perception Failure Mode for Writers Now let's go to our main topic, how to write characters who miss the obvious in a way that's believable and doesn't exasperate the reader. When writing a story, it's sometimes useful to have a character miss the obvious. Of course, if done badly, this can sometimes inspire exasperation in the audience, like the cliche of the woman going alone into the basement with a flickering candle to reset the circuit breaker while a serial killer is on the loose and you get bonus cliche points if she's wearing a bikini. The trick is to have the character miss the obvious in a believable way that matches the circumstances. The obvious might be obvious, but it is often obvious only in hindsight. For example, here is a story about the time I failed to notice the obvious. In the morning, I typically get up, use the restroom, and then get dressed to go to the gym. I normally sleep with earplugs and don't usually remove them until I get dressed. While using the restroom, I will bring my phone or my tablet, depending on which is closer at hand and play chess puzzles to help my brain wake up. Now this detail is important. My tablet is an iPad, but my phone is an Android. Gradually, I began to notice that whenever I started the day, I could hear a woman talking very loudly outside the window. At first, I thought nothing of it. The house is fairly close to the sidewalk, so I often hear people talking as they walk past. However, as the days passed, I noticed I frequently heard exactly the same woman whenever I went into the bathroom. That started again on my nerves, so I glanced out the window to see who it was, but I never saw anyone nearby. For that matter, it didn't happen every day. Then a very strange fact occurred to me. This only happened on days when I had my phone, not my iPad, and this led me to discover the truth. The chess app had been updated to have the virtual chess coach talk to you as you played chess. My iPad and my phone were on mute, but on Android, apps can sometimes override the system mute setting to make noise. So my phone was talking to me as I did chess puzzles, and because I still had my earplugs in and hadn't enjoyed my morning coffee yet and my brain wasn't working, I failed to realize that my phone was the source of the voice. I had failed to notice the obvious. So once I had turned off the voice on the chess app, this got me to thinking. My specific example is so implausible and convoluted that it would be impossible to use in a novel since it would seem contrived, but how can you have characters in a novel fail to notice the obvious in a way that doesn't annoy the reader? I think there are five ways you can do it. #1: The character fails to notice something because of reasonable circumstances. Human perception is quite fallible and more so when we are stressed. It's common knowledge that if five people witness a crime, there will be five contradictory accounts of what happened based on what the individual in question happened to notice. For example, if you see a car accident in front of you, that will dominate your attention and cause you to miss background details, like the color of a nearby parked car or a nearby house. A character can also miss important details when he or she has no good reason to notice these details. There's a reason that in real life many spies try to be unremarkable as possible. The brain sort of slides over the unremarkable and makes it into part of the background. This can also work in mundane settings. For example, if a character is an electrician, he won't know what accounting software his clients use because he has no reason to know or care, especially if he gets paid on time. Stress is also a good way to have a character fail to notice something important. Job loss, an illness, a bad day, lack of sleep, and other things might mean the character is not operating at his or her best and may fail to notice important details. #2: Missing information causes you to miss the obvious. Insufficient information can cause a character to come to the wrong conclusion. Here's another example from my own life. Earlier this year, I drove a 2,000 mile road trip in a few days and towards the end, my right foot and leg started to hurt. The explanation for that I thought was obviously that I'd driven 2,000 miles in four days and put too much unaccustomed strain on my right foot. Once I got home, I would take a few days to rest and it should be good. Except when I got home, the pain got worse. I developed a fever and an uncomfortable swelling on the side of my right foot. I didn't have tendonitis or muscle strain. I had actually developed cellulitis for some reason. If you haven't heard of cellulitis, it's a potentially serious infection of these subdermal skin layer. A trip to the doctor and some antibiotics later, it was better. But this is an excellent example of coming to a reasonable, nonetheless wrong conclusion based on the available facts. Considering the amount of driving and walking I had been doing, it was perfectly reasonable to assume that I had strained something in my leg, but that wasn't what was happening at all. All the facts I knew were correct, but I was missing the key fact, the infection, and so had come to the wrong conclusion. This is a technique you can use in fiction quite easily and it's common in detective and mystery novels. It's common for the protagonist to construct a theory about the crime only for it to be proven wrong by a single piece of additional information. #3: All the information, wrong conclusion. Sometimes you can have all the correct information, but you draw the wrong conclusion from it. Here's another example from my life. As you may know, I have a lot of audiobooks available on Spotify, so if you're a Spotify listener and want to use your audiobook hours, I have some for you. So this naturally means I get a tax form from Spotify every year. During the run up to the 2026 tax season, I got an email from Spotify saying that my tax information was wrong and needed to be updated, which was baffling because my tax information had not changed. So I logged into the dashboard, but nothing seemed amiss and I saw no notifications about it there. Then I realized the truth, the email was fake. It had been sent to a different email address than the one I actually used for Spotify. The email was a very clever and very well written phishing attempt. The habit of never clicking on any link in an email (instead going directly to the dashboard in question) had served me well here. I had all the facts before me, but I arrived at the wrong conclusion because it was tax season and so it was reasonable to expect to get an email like that. Now this can be used in fiction in multiple ways. Probably the most famous example is how Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy come to the wrong conclusion about each other's motives in Pride and Prejudice. They both have all the facts but draw wrong assumptions from them. #4: Deliberately deceived. A character can also come to the wrong conclusion or fail to notice the obvious or if he or she is deliberately deceived. The phishing attempt I mentioned earlier was an example of this. Having a character be believably deceived and indeed deceiving the reader as well is a very useful technique in fiction. Agatha Christie was very good at this in her mystery novels. For example, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, and Murder on the Orient Express, the characters and the readers are operating under assumptions for most of the book that turn out to be the result of deceptions on the part of some of the characters. Granted, using this method can be kind of a rug pull for the reader. However, there's nothing wrong with a rug pull if it's done well. As I mentioned earlier, it's a common saying that the obvious is only obvious in hindsight. If you have the characters believing the deception for reasonable reasons only to have them realize the truth later, if you do it well and make the book all the more satisfying if there were subtle clues and foreshadowing about the truth earlier in the story. That kind of rug pull is a bit like garlic in cooking. You don't want to overdo it, but it's highly effective when used in the proper amount. #5: Something more important is happening. Sometimes you don't notice something that would otherwise be obvious because something more urgent is demanding all of your attention and focus. I think this is one of the biggest reasons people miss the obvious and it's very relatable. In my earlier bout with cellulitis, I didn't realize the obvious truth that I was getting cellulitis because I was focused on something more important at the time, namely not accidentally driving my car into an overpass embankment for the next thousand miles or so. People have varying attention spans, but every individual person has only so many things they can think about or worry about at any given time. You can use this to cause your characters to miss things they might otherwise have noticed. For example, imagine a village in a fantasy book. There's an evil wizard living incognito in the village and he's summoning tribes of goblins to destroy the village. The protagonist is busy trying to fight off the goblins, so he overlooks the subtle hints that one of his neighbors is an evil wizard because all his attention is on fighting and he's tired enough that he's missing things he might otherwise catch. In this example, the problems are linked. The goblins are attacking the village because the evil wizard is summoning them. Having linked problems like that can help drive the plot forward and provide narrative tension as the character gradually realizes the truth or stumbles across clues pointing to the truth. So those are five tips and tricks you can use to have your characters believably overlook the obvious, but there's one bonus reason that has developed in the last 15 years or so and that bonus reason is number six: stop looking at your phone in public. In recent years, I've become amazed at how many people allow themselves to be utterly mesmerized by their phones in public. I suppose I'm old enough that it's a generational thing. I didn't have my first smartphone until I was well into my 30s, but it still surprises me every time I see it. That said, for all that you hear about crime and disorder on the news in the United States, you can tell that the US still is by and large and for the most part a pretty safe country because people are so comfortable focusing on their phones in public and ignoring their surroundings. Safety experts will tell you that the number one thing you can do to keep yourself safe in a public place is to maintain situational awareness and yet an astonishingly large number of people simply don't do that in favor of looking at their phones. So if you are writing a book set in the modern era, a quick and easy way to make sure a character doesn't notice something is to have him or her looking at [his or] her phone. Granted, you can overuse this, but this makes for a very believable technique for making sure that a character misses a detail or an event. Conclusion It's annoying when a character is all-knowing, but it's equally annoying when a character fails to notice the obvious because it's convenient for the writer. Hopefully these five tips and one bonus tip will help to create plausible reasons for characters to overlook things and miss things they would [have] otherwise noticed. Used well, this can help you create a compelling story for your book. So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com, often with transcript [transcripts are available for episodes beyond Episode 228]. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on our podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and we'll see you all next week.  

Welcome back to ADHD-ish™, where we're kicking off a five-episode series reframing the most talked-about ADHD traits as tools for entrepreneurial success, starting with hyperfocus.Forget the myth that hyperfocus is a rare, unpredictable gift. ADHD-ish™ host, Diann Wingert, reveals that the most successful ADHD entrepreneurs create the conditions for hyperfocus rather than hoping it just shows up.Here's the game-changing insight:Hyperfocus is a state, not a fixed trait—and you can stack the deck to get into it on demand.3 Key Takeaways:Engineer Your Hyperfocus: Don't wait for the muse—set up conditions like real deadlines, novel environments, meaningful rewards, supportive sensory cues, and a nourished body to invite focus on demand.Body Doubling is a Real Strategy: Working alongside others—friends on Zoom, coworking sessions, or even a busy coffee shop—provides social accountability and can reliably spark focus.Stack Conditions, Not Guilt: Hyperfocus isn't about willpower; it's about stacking multiple supportive factors. Even intentionally stacking just two of these can create momentum in your business.Hyperfocus can be a genuine business asset—if you learn to direct it. But, there are hidden costs to hyperfocus, too:Mental exhaustion and decision fatigueNeglected relationshipsOther parts of your business are left idleRemember: Hyperfocus is a power tool. Use it wisely—and plan for the comedown.What's My Hyperfocus Setup? In my own business, I decide, ahead of time, exactly what needs my hyper-focused attention and how much time I'll devote to it.The routine is precise: comfortable clothes, a high-protein breakfast, natural light, a pre-game ritual of exercise, sunshine, and social connection. And hydration throughout the hyperfocused state. No brain jerky for me.What's not in my routine: willpower, white-knuckling, bullying myself or shame. The environment is repeatable, the stakes are real, and the body, mind, and brain are primed and ready. After it's over? Rest, recalibration, and reconnection.Hyperfocus as Skill - Start Here:Pick one 90-minute block of business-critical work.Deliberately create at least two of the five conditions above.Do the work—and observe the impact on your focus.Don't be an overachiever and do all five. Start small, track the effect, and iterate. It's not a productivity contest—it's your personal hyperfocus experiment.Resources mentioned in this episode:Focus MateFocused Space (affiliate link)Zoom Spotify playlistsYour ADHD-ish ™ host, Diann Wingert Diann Wingert is a business strategist, coach, serial entrepreneur, former psychotherapist, and passionate thought leader at the intersection of ADHD and entrepreneurship.In addition to hosting the ADHD-ish ™ podcast, Diann is the creator of The ADHD-ish ™ Method, a practicing Buddhist, dog mom, and relentlessly curious human.Diann explains neuroscience in a relatable way. Through her accessible storytelling, Diann empowers others to understand their brains, manage their energy, and show compassion to themselves as they navigate the demands of being a business owner and in their everyday lives.Want more strategies for time blindness, novelty chasing, object permanence issues, and procrastination? Make sure you don't miss the next episodes in this “Reframing Your ADHD Traits as Business Strategies” series. Subscribe/Follow ADHD-ish on Apple or SpotifyWant my help to build your business with ADHD in mind? Schedule a free consultation to explore expert ADHD entrepreneur coaching with Diann Wingert© 2026 ADHD-ish™ Podcast. Intro music by Ishan Dincer / Melody Loops / Outro music by Vladimir / Bobi Music / All rights reserved.

Welcome back to ADHD-ish™, where we're kicking off a five-episode series reframing the most talked-about ADHD traits as tools for entrepreneurial success, starting with hyperfocus.Forget the myth that hyperfocus is a rare, unpredictable gift. ADHD-ish™ host, Diann Wingert, reveals that the most successful ADHD entrepreneurs create the conditions for hyperfocus rather than hoping it just shows up.Here's the game-changing insight:Hyperfocus is a state, not a fixed trait—and you can stack the deck to get into it on demand.3 Key Takeaways:Engineer Your Hyperfocus: Don't wait for the muse—set up conditions like real deadlines, novel environments, meaningful rewards, supportive sensory cues, and a nourished body to invite focus on demand.Body Doubling is a Real Strategy: Working alongside others—friends on Zoom, coworking sessions, or even a busy coffee shop—provides social accountability and can reliably spark focus.Stack Conditions, Not Guilt: Hyperfocus isn't about willpower; it's about stacking multiple supportive factors. Even intentionally stacking just two of these can create momentum in your business.Hyperfocus can be a genuine business asset—if you learn to direct it. But, there are hidden costs to hyperfocus, too:Mental exhaustion and decision fatigueNeglected relationshipsOther parts of your business are left idleRemember: Hyperfocus is a power tool. Use it wisely—and plan for the comedown.What's My Hyperfocus Setup? In my own business, I decide, ahead of time, exactly what needs my hyper-focused attention and how much time I'll devote to it.The routine is precise: comfortable clothes, a high-protein breakfast, natural light, a pre-game ritual of exercise, sunshine, and social connection. And hydration throughout the hyperfocused state. No brain jerky for me.What's not in my routine: willpower, white-knuckling, bullying myself or shame. The environment is repeatable, the stakes are real, and the body, mind, and brain are primed and ready. After it's over? Rest, recalibration, and reconnection.Hyperfocus as Skill - Start Here:Pick one 90-minute block of business-critical work.Deliberately create at least two of the five conditions above.Do the work—and observe the impact on your focus.Don't be an overachiever and do all five. Start small, track the effect, and iterate. It's not a productivity contest—it's your personal hyperfocus experiment.Resources mentioned in this episode:Focus MateFocused Space (affiliate link)Zoom Spotify playlistsYour ADHD-ish ™ host, Diann Wingert Diann Wingert is a business strategist, coach, serial entrepreneur, former psychotherapist, and passionate thought leader at the intersection of ADHD and entrepreneurship.In addition to hosting the ADHD-ish ™ podcast, Diann is the creator of The ADHD-ish ™ Method, a practicing Buddhist, dog mom, and relentlessly curious human.Diann explains neuroscience in a relatable way. Through her accessible storytelling, Diann empowers others to understand their brains, manage their energy, and show compassion to themselves as they navigate the demands of being a business owner and in their everyday lives.Want more strategies for time blindness, novelty chasing, object permanence issues, and procrastination? Make sure you don't miss the next episodes in this “Reframing Your ADHD Traits as Business Strategies” series. Subscribe/Follow ADHD-ish on Apple or SpotifyWant my help to build your business with ADHD in mind? Schedule a free consultation to explore expert ADHD entrepreneur coaching with Diann Wingert© 2026 ADHD-ish™ Podcast. Intro music by Ishan Dincer / Melody Loops / Outro music by Vladimir / Bobi Music / All rights reserved.

When Lena started dating Jesse, nothing about it felt complicated—until he told her what happened when he slept. At first, it sounded like stress or night terrors, something easy to dismiss. But the first time she saw it for herself, that explanation didn't hold. Jesse didn't just move in his sleep—he reacted, like he was fighting something no one else could see.Then the marks started appearing. Slowly. Deliberately.With Travis as a witness, it became impossible to ignore that whatever was happening wasn't just in Jesse's mind. And when the activity didn't stop, they made the only decision that made sense—he left.That should have ended it. Instead, something else began. Because whatever had been there… didn't go with him.#RealGhostStories #SleepParalysisOrWorse #ParanormalAttack #UnseenEntity #ShadowPresence #HauntedRelationship #SomethingFollowed #ParanormalEncounter #ItDidntStop #EntityAttachmentLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

When Lena started dating Jesse, nothing about it felt complicated—until he told her what happened when he slept. At first, it sounded like stress or night terrors, something easy to dismiss. But the first time she saw it for herself, that explanation didn't hold. Jesse didn't just move in his sleep—he reacted, like he was fighting something no one else could see.Then the marks started appearing. Slowly. Deliberately.With Travis as a witness, it became impossible to ignore that whatever was happening wasn't just in Jesse's mind. And when the activity didn't stop, they made the only decision that made sense—he left.That should have ended it. Instead, something else began. Because whatever had been there… didn't go with him.#RealGhostStories #SleepParalysisOrWorse #ParanormalAttack #UnseenEntity #ShadowPresence #HauntedRelationship #SomethingFollowed #ParanormalEncounter #ItDidntStop #EntityAttachmentLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

This week, we explore the invisible boundaries that shape our work, our relationships, and our own sense of what's possible. We open with the story of the four-minute mile: for nine years, no one could break it—until Roger Bannister did, and the floodgates opened. What changed? Not the runners' bodies, but their sense of possibility. This episode is about those frames we rarely question—the ones that quietly dictate how high we reach and what doors we see as closed.We're joined by Tom Rath, bestselling author of What's the Point?, who shares practical ways to bring purpose and curiosity into daily routines. He challenges the myth that purpose is something lofty or rare, arguing instead for small, conscious actions that compound over time. We also talk with Dr. Claude Steele, social psychologist and author of Churn, who uncovers the hidden cognitive cost of navigating difference—and the power of trust and curiosity in building genuine connection.This episode is for leaders and ambitious people who want more than surface-level inspiration. We unpack the non-obvious, often-unspoken barriers to creative impact, and offer mindsets and tactics to do our best work in a world of uncertainty and change.Five Key LearningsPossibility follows perception: The true barrier is rarely our capability; it's the mental frames we accept as facts, often inherited from others or from outdated stories about what's realistic.Purpose is built, not found: Purpose isn't a grand concept reserved for a chosen few—it's a practical orientation, shaped by the daily question: “What's the point?” and, more specifically, “Who do I help?”Exposure gaps limit potential: Most of us only ever glimpse a fraction of what's really possible in our careers or lives. Deliberately widening that aperture—seeking out new experiences and perspectives—creates new options.Difference comes with cognitive overhead: Navigating diverse teams or situations requires extra energy—what Dr. Claude Steele calls “churn.” That bandwidth tax is real, but understanding it is the first step in reducing its effect.Trust is the antidote to churn: Building trust—through curiosity rather than defensiveness—turns anxiety into opportunity. Leaning into difference, rather than simply managing it, can unlock creative and relational breakthroughs.Get full interviews and bonus content for free! Just join the list at DailyCreativePlus.com.Mentioned in this episode:To listen to the full interviews from today's episode, as well as receive bonus content and deep dive insights from the episode, visit DailyCreativePlus.com and join Daily Creative+.The Brave Habit is available nowMy new book will help you make bravery a habit in your life, your leadership, and your work. Discover how to develop the two qualities that lead to brave action: Optimistic Vision and Agency. Buy The Brave Habit wherever books are sold, or learn more at TheBraveHabit.com.

He arrived in Abu Dhabi in 1981 when roads turned to soft sand and ceilings collapsed because villas were built with saltwater cement. He came for six months. He never left. Forty-five years later, he just took his company public at a $1.5 billion valuation and he's 71 years old with zero plans to stop.  In this episode, Spencer sits down with Fayez Ibbini, founder of Alpha Data, one of the UAE's most enduring technology companies. From coding assembly language for the Kuwait Stock Exchange on 16-hour days, to pivoting from IBM mini-computers to PCs, to riding every wave from networking and the internet to cloud, mobile, big data, IoT and now AI. Fayez has been at the frontier of technology in this region for nearly half a century.  But this isn't just a business story. It's a story about passion over comfort, about the cost of obsession, about what it really means to build something that outlasts you. He'll tell you that if you haven't started a business by 40, don't bother. That retirement was invented to push you out. That AI is not another wave - it's a tsunami. And that the most expensive lessons in business are almost always about people.  Whether you're an entrepreneur at the start of your journey, a leader navigating the AI revolution, or someone who wonders what it looks like to still be curious and hungry at 71. This conversation will challenge everything you think you know about success, technology, and time.   Timestamps:  00:00 – "A golden cage": why Fayez came for six months and stayed 45 years  01:28 – Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai and the mind-boggling speed of UAE transformation  06:34 – From electrical engineering to poultry imports to farming — finding what actually excites him  11:20 – Coding the Kuwait Stock Exchange in assembly language and the moment he realized talent has value  12:29 – His first client in the UAE: a video rental library, a 2,000-dirham cheque, and why he never cashed it  15:54 – Seeing every stand at CeBIT with a PC and making a decision that changed everything  17:17 – The seven waves of technology: mainframes to AI — and why AI is the tsunami, not the wave  21:36 – Why Alpha Data's greatest asset isn't talent — it's 2,200 relationships built on trust  23:00 – Life only makes sense in the rearview mirror: navigating the fog of action  26:00 – The three ingredients for success: passion, innate ability, and demand  28:00 – His controversial take: if you haven't started a business by 40, don't bother  29:24 – Why Fayez took Alpha Data public after 44 years — and the succession problem that forced his hand  34:00 – Deliberately leaving money on the table at IPO and why that was the smartest move  38:00 – The stock market chief's warning: "The sleepless nights start after the birth"  41:40 – Alpha Data's three core values: care for people, no red tape, and speed  45:15 – Overcoming introversion, shaking knees, and the demon in your brain that tries to protect you  50:00 – On giving back: why his model is teaching people to fish, not handing them fish  57:00 – AI compared to electricity: we are at the very start of it invading every aspect of our lives  1:00:25 – What AI can never replace: trust, the handshake, and the look in someone's eyes  1:02:40 – Quickfire: what money really means, the hardest decision he ever made, and a belief he's completely abandoned  1:04:24 – Why most people fail and his single biggest leadership lesson  1:09:11 – Why retirement is an invention of the industrial age — and what he's learning right now at 71    Follow Spencer Lodge on Social Media  https://www.instagram.com/madeindubaipodcast/?hl=en  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586194260076  https://www.instagram.com/spencer.lodge/?hl=en  https://www.tiktok.com/@spencer.lodge  https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerlodge/  https://www.youtube.com/c/SpencerLodgeTV  https://www.facebook.com/spencerlodgeofficial/    Follow Fayez Ibbini on Social Media  https://www.linkedin.com/in/fayez-ibbini-28382717/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-data_2/  https://www.instagram.com/alphadatauae/ 

SEASON 4 EPISODE 80: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: Nobody is at the wheel of Trump's war in Iran. Is the Strait of Hormuz open or is it closed? Are there peace talks with Iran in Pakistan TOMORROW… or nah? Is Jayvee Vance going? Is Iran going? Has Trump scheduled peace talks where we’re the only ones there? Will it make any difference if we’re the only ones there? Doesn’t “blowing a hole in the engine room” of an Iranian cargo ship yesterday mean we aren’t honoring Trump’s own ceasefire he boasted about? Are we paying 20 billion dollars for the Iranian uranium and hostages? The same uranium and hostages Obama bought for 400 million and Trump called him a traitor? Or is that a no? Don’t ask Trump – he doesn’t know. But that won’t stop him from answering anyway. Yes. Then Nope. Then Yes again. Then: All of the Above. in 48 hours he went from 13 posts congratulating himself on winning, to insisting he would stop being “Mr. Nice Guy” and blow up all of Iran. By the way, eactly when was he “Mr. Nice Guy”? We are LOSING the war in Iran and as of today a total idiot is still president and commander-in-chief. He gets questions about the pointless war he started to divert attention from Epstein and the economy he crashed, so he orders the reporters out of the Oval Office, and sits there with hapless munchkin Little Joe Rogan standing behind him, the shine off his cueball noggin blinding cameras and journalists alike. Trump has set off a chain of events over which he no longer has any control – except to withdraw and flee – and to withdraw and flee is to acknowledge he screwed up. And this man would jump off the roof of the White House before admitting he screwed up. The Trump “Administration” has so UTTERLY jumped the shark, that the truthers are coming out from inside MAGA: Alex Jones now insists Trump has done all this DELIBERATELY, because he has made a “deal with the deep state to throw the election to the Democrats." Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the Trump Assassination Truthers and Trump himself has floated a kind of conspiracy theory ABOUT himself… he wrote ‘Praise Be To Allah’ on Easter morning to “seem as unstable and insulting as possible.” He wanted to seem as unstable as possible? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, Trump! You’ve finally done something you promised! B-Block (28:30) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Before the year is out, Major League Baseball will threaten to lock the players out and cancel the season in 2027 because the smaller market teams can't make enough money to compete. One of those teams just sold for $3.1 billion more than it did in 2012. New York's hockey teams support a) Trump putting his name on public buildings or b) legal funds for cops convicted of killing unarmed civilians. Vivek Ramaswamy dismisses his opponent talking about being raped as a child as her "complaining." And Lauren Boebert thinks Congress is too horny and she won't remain, uh, hands off. C-Block (45:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Netflix stock took a huge hit, supposedly after the co-founder Reed Hastings announced he was bowing out. But I think it might've been another announcement that did it. They are going into news podcasts with - Brian Williams? The story of how he imploded at NBC, while I was literally an eyewitness to his public self-destruction, and the advice I gave his bosses that could have saved him (and them) if they hadn't ignored it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Paranormal Activity: Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom dives into two deeply unsettling listener encounters that don't just feel paranormal… they feel intentional.First, Daniel shares a chilling experience from the Lake District, where a converted 18th-century cottage appears to be quietly rebuilding something left behind. Objects don't just move: they arrive. Carefully. Deliberately. Forming patterns that suggest purpose, not chaos. But what happens when the house isn't just active… it thinks something has been taken?Then, Sophie recounts a hauntingly different kind of experience in Malaysia, inside the historic Cheng Hoon Teng Temple. No shadows. No figures. Just an overwhelming, undeniable feeling: she wasn't meant to be there. A space not of haunting—but of balance… and awareness.These aren't your typical ghost stories.There are no loud bangs or dark figures lurking in corners. Instead, something far more disturbing: control, intention, and the sense of being recognised.What happens when the paranormal doesn't just appear… but responds?And more importantly… what happens when it notices you?Producer Dom reacts, unpacks, and explores the darker, more folkloric theories behind these encounters.Where ritual, energy, and unseen forces may be far more active than we realise.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They Banned A Dictionary Definition. Here's Why.Dr. Bryan Ardis returns. 90 minutes of the stuff they really don't want you to see.This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making any changes to your health regimen.Nine months ago I sat down with Dr. Bryan Ardis and we did an interview that generated somewhere north of 140 million views across my platforms.The Australian government's TGA (the equivalent of the FDA in the US) sued Meta to have a nine-minute clip removed from Facebook inside Australia. The clip wasn't about vaccines. It wasn't about COVID treatment protocols. It wasn't about anything you'd expect regulators to lose sleep over.It was about a dictionary definition.The word virus.That clip had an average watch time of two minutes and fifteen seconds on a three-minute video. People watched it almost all the way through. Over and over. Because it cracked something open in them that couldn't be shut again.So when Bryan reached out and said he had more to share, I cleared my calendar.What followed was 90 minutes that I believe will change the way you see your food, your medicine, your government, and your own body.Here's what we covered.Why That Clip Had To Come DownThe word virus is not an English word. It is Latin. For four centuries, from the 1600s through to the modern era, it has carried one definition.A poison. Especially of snakes. Venom.That is not conspiracy. That is etymology. You can look it up yourself in any pre-modern dictionary.Now here is why that single fact is so threatening to the pharmaceutical industry.From the moment you are born, you are told you need vaccines to protect you from viruses. In America, within 24 hours of birth, before your baby can leave the hospital, it receives a hepatitis B vaccine. Bryan points out that the medical profession's own explanation for how hepatitis B spreads is through unprotected sex with multiple partners or sharing syringes. He asks a reasonable question: how many newborns in a hospital nursery are doing either of those things?The deeper issue is this. If a virus is venom, and that is what the word has always meant, then the narrative that viruses spread between people falls apart completely. Venom doesn't transmit person to person through the air or through contact. It has to be introduced. Deliberately. Through a delivery mechanism.Once you know that, you stop asking "how do I avoid catching this?" and you start asking "how is this getting into me, and who benefits?"That is why the TGA made the call.The Paris Research Nobody Talked AboutIn April 2020, four months into the pandemic, two researchers in Paris ordered spike proteins of COVID from China and the UK. They wanted to understand a paradox being reported around the world by scientists and doctors. Smokers appeared to be largely immune to COVID symptoms.They ran the proteins through a DNA sequencing machine to find what they were identical to in nature.The result was what Bryan describes as an aha moment. The two spike proteins, S1 and S2, were found to be identical to venom proteins from two snakes. The King Cobra toxin and Bungarotoxin from the Bungarus snake in China. Both are classified as neurotoxins. Both specifically target the nerves that control breathing, which explains the respiratory symptoms. They also bind to nerves responsible for taste, smell, hearing, and memory. That explains every other major COVID symptom.The switches these venom proteins target on your cells are called alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The N in that name stands for nicotine. Tobacco users already had nicotine occupying those receptors, keeping cells functioning. The venom proteins couldn't get a foothold. That's why smokers weren't getting sick.That's why four weeks after Bryan released this research in his Watch the Water documentary in 2021, Australia, New Zealand, America, and Canada held a meeting and announced a global health agenda to ban all nicotine and tobacco products by 2030.The 26-Year SetupBryan walks through what he believes is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. It starts in 1994.In April of that year, the seven CEOs of America's largest tobacco companies were summoned before Congress. Under oath, under threat of perjury, every single one of them declared that nicotine is not addictive.Four months later, the FDA published a warning that nicotine is highly addictive and mandated warning labels on all tobacco products.In 1994, 56% of American adults used tobacco products. By 2020, that number was down to 11%. Bryan's argument is that this 26-year propaganda campaign was not accidental. It was a deliberate reduction in the population's natural protection against the biological event that was coming.By the time COVID arrived, 90% of the American population had no nicotine in their system. 90% of people were, in his words, ripe and ready.The Tobacco Panacea They BuriedHere is something the medical profession has known for centuries but does not advertise.From 1492 to 1860, the medical profession maintained what is called the Panacea Doctrine. A formal list of what was considered the single cure for all human diseases in any given era. For four hundred years, there was only one plant ever given the designation "panacea of all panaceas."The tobacco plant.Bryan has the medical textbooks. He has the case studies. Tobacco has been published by conventional medicine to be antibacterial, antifungal, anti-parasitic, antiviral, anti-Alzheimer's, antihypertensive, and powerfully anti-inflammatory. The cardiac glycosides in tobacco (the nutrients that keep arteries elastic and blood pressure stable) are the same compounds cardiologists now prescribe in synthetic form as prescription drugs.Ozempic, the second highest-revenue drug in the world last year, is Gila monster lizard venom. Bryan points out that tobacco has been published in medical journals for 400 years as a hunger regulator and obesity preventative. Every beta cell in your pancreas that produces insulin requires nicotine to activate it. No nicotine, no proper insulin release. That is not his theory. It is published.They cannot patent the tobacco plant. They can patent synthetic versions of what is inside it. That is why it had to be demonised.What's In Your Food That Nobody Told You AboutThis was the part that stopped me cold.Bryan shared a 2021 research study titled Applications of Venom Biodiversity in Agriculture. He pulled up a chart mapping five sources of venom being deliberately inserted into the seeds of genetically modified crops worldwide. Snake venom, spider venom, scorpion venom, bee venom, and wasp venom.The crops on the list: melons, cabbage, soybeans, lettuce, beans, celery, rice, stevia, potatoes, wheat, peppers, tomatoes, corn, watermelons, radishes, squash, cucumbers, canola oil, sunflower. The companies holding the patents are agricultural biotech giants. Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, holds the majority.The justification given in the research paper is that if venom is infused into every part of a plant from seed to fruit, insects that eat the plant die from the venom. No need to spray pesticides externally. The paper states that "agriculture, environment, and society are benefiting from this use of venom biodiversity."Bryan's question is simple. If this benefits society, why has no one been told?The number of patents for venom-laced crop seeds grew 490% between 2002 and 2004 alone. It has continued growing. There has been no independent research published on what those venoms do to humans consuming them long term.What does venom do in the human body? It depletes zinc and copper from every cell. Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup, also owned by Monsanto) does the same thing to the soil. That means the plants you eat are already stripped of the minerals you need before the venom in the seed adds another layer of depletion. The result is a population that is both mineral-deficient and being low-dose poisoned daily through the food supply.Gusty's StoryI want to share this because it needs to be heard.A man named Gusty jumped onto one of my Facebook Lives in mid-January. Four hundred pounds. Stage four lung cancer. Six months to live. Forty-nine years old, six kids, nine grandchildren.He didn't want chemotherapy. We talked. I encouraged him to make a declaration. Not medical advice, just a commitment to his own healing. He got on soursop, ivermectin, nicotine patches, and the carnivore diet. He switched from 60 commercial cigarettes a day to 20 American Spirit organic cigarettes because he couldn't afford the full 60.Twelve weeks later he FaceTimed me from his oncologist's office. Sixty pounds down. Cancer free.Bryan's explanation: commercial tobacco contains 599 FDA-approved chemical additives including arsenic. That's what causes the harm, not the plant itself. Organic tobacco is antibacterial, antiparasitic, and antiviral. Nicotine occupies the same receptors that venom blocks, releasing the grip on cells and allowing the body to shed excess tissue. The carnivore diet stopped feeding whatever parasitic or cancerous mechanisms were running. The body did the rest.In 20 years of clinical practice, Bryan found 80% of cancers were actually parasitic infections. Since COVID, roughly half are parasitic and half appear to be driven by venom proteins, either from the virus itself or from components he identifies in the COVID...

Joe opens the show with a chilling cold open: a Georgia library is stripped of its polling station and residents are now directed to vote inside a mosque. He then drops the hammer — the leadership class is purposefully driving America toward war. From CAIR's celebration of Hamtramck, Michigan's new law allowing religious animal sacrifices in residential backyards (passed by an all-Muslim city council) to Florida and Texas designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations while Washington does nothing, Joe exposes how foreign ideologies hostile to Western values are being imported and empowered. The Founding Fathers never envisioned this, yet special interests now hijack the Constitution while Americans are treated like visitors in their own land.The assault continues in the schools and culture. Joe highlights disturbing AP U.S. Government textbooks that paint Barack Obama as a “right-wing authoritarian,” equate Hillary Clinton with George W. Bush, and cast Donald Trump as virtually indistinguishable from Hitler. He plays clips of activists declaring White people have “no culture” and should stop enjoying sports or ethnic restaurants, while a Georgia Democrat running for state house openly says Trump voters should lose internet access for four years. Add the demographic reality that over half of U.S. babies are now born to non-White mothers, fueled by open borders and subsidized living, and the replacement playbook becomes impossible to ignore.In the guest segment, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch joins Joe to discuss leaked information that nearly ended his campaign and why he sees Vivek Ramaswamy as a globalist Trojan horse. Joe closes by calling out the same division tactics inside Colorado's Republican Party, where infighting serves the same chaos machine. From mosques as polling places to textbooks rewriting history, the message is unmistakable: the elite are engineering conflict because division equals power. Joe makes it crystal clear — until Americans demand accountability and secure our elections and borders, the march to war will only accelerate.

In today's story AITA story OP - who has a strained relationship with her dad - decided to deliberately pretend to forget his birthday, leaving him to spend the day alone. After years of tension and feeling unappreciated, OP says she just didn't have it in her to fake it this time. But now, some family members are calling her cruel and immature for ignoring him on purpose. So now she's asking - AITA for finally giving him a taste of how he's treated me all these years?0:00 Intro0:20 Story 13:17 Story 1 Comments / OP's Replies9:24 Story 1 Update11:39 Story 214:59 Story 2 Comments15:46 Story 2 Update 119:20 Story 2 Comments20:29 Story 2 Update 221:09 Story 2 Update 322:18 Story 2 Comments23:07 Story 2 Update 425:19 Story 2 Comments Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Homily of Fr. Mike O'Connor from Mass on March 31, 2026 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. Readings Isaiah 49:1-6 John 13:21-33, 36-38 If you would like to donate to OLG and her livestream ministry, please go to https://olgchurch.net/give

It wasn't an old building. It wasn't creepy. It was the kind of professional office where nothing strange was supposed to happen—especially not in broad daylight.At first, it was only small things. Sounds that didn't quite match the space. Objects left just slightly out of place. A hallway that felt fine on paper but somehow demanded to be passed through quickly, without stopping.Being alone there became routine. And slowly, that routine began to feel noticed.Whatever was present didn't rush or threaten. It moved carefully. Deliberately. As if it had time. As if it was learning the layout, the schedule, and the person who stayed late and arrived early.Even when the activity stopped, the feeling didn't completely fade. Some spaces remember who spent the most time in them.#RealGhostStories #WorkplaceHaunting #TrueParanormal #HauntedOffice #SomethingWasThere #UnexplainedActivity #ParanormalExperience #Haunted #BeingWatching #ParanormalPodcastLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

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