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In episode 111 of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Michael Weaver, who is the Head of Global Real Assets with the Australian Retirement Trust. We discussed the role of real assets in the context of a multi-asset, pension portfolio, the ever-lurking threat of inflation, the return of office property and more. Please enjoy the show! Overview of Podcast with Michael Weaver, Head of Global Real Assets, ART 02:00 Role of real assets in a multi-asset portfolio 03:30 We don't call them mid-risk, but it is a similar philosophy 06:30 Inflation: what we are most worried about is unexpected inflation 08:00 We would expect to grow our infrastructure portfolio in Australia, but also internationally. 09:00 Benefits of larger scale, post merger 12:00 Massively expand the real asset team, no. But expand yes. 16:00 Retail and Office property: we are actively looking at new investments 20:00 Did Covid wobble your confidence in airports? Wobble is probably a good word. 25:00 Impact of data centres on power generators 27:30 Multi-family, build-to-rent property 33:00 Energy transition assets

My apologies for being so intermittent lately on publishing new episodes. I have one more week of a very demanding commitment to fulfill and then I'll be back to doing daily shows. Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to analyze the latest happenings. If you're having trouble keeping up with our gale force winds of change, you're not alone. All those admonitions about how wrong we were to doubt the 2020 election results are starting to make sense. Especially, as Michael Herman explains, when you realize that the D.C. machine faked an entire presidency. Article of the Day: It's still a bit shocking to realize how drastically our world was altered 5 years ago. J.B. Shurk asks a question worth considering: Did Covid nearly start a revolution? Sponsors: Life Saving Food Fifty Two Seven Alliance HSL Ammo Quilt & Sew

HIT Podcast, Episode 94 – Did COVID scatter your employees across the country? The remote work wave may have left you with team members in states where you never had a presence before. In this episode, we break down the top five things every employer needs to know when managing a remote workforce across multiple states. Tune in for a quick, high-impact discussion! About the Show:The H.I.T. Podcast (Powered by Montage Insurance Solutions): A thought leader in the space, curating the top news and information to deliver a brief, high impact overview designed specifically for the Human Resources professional, business person, and company executive.Find out more here: www.hitpodcast.comSpecial thanks to our Platinum Sponsors: TruHu AND Excel Health PlansThank you to Rula. Visit: www.rula.com/HITpodcastThank you to our Gold Sponsors: Kingdom Legacy Benefits (KLB) AND Cigna

Our guy Ed returns from his heart attack and he has reaction to some of the tidbits and White Sox storylines we uncovered in the past week. What is Luis Robert Jr's real problem? Who plays SS if Montgomery isn't ready? Did COVID really impact this year's budget? Chris Lanuti and Ed Siebert sit at his 9-foot homemade oak bar in a basement on the South Side of Chicago to discuss their favorite team - The Chicago White Sox in a podcast "For Fans, By Fans!" Listen. Subscribe. Share. Call 708-459-8406 and leave your comments and questions for the next episode! SUBSCRIBE NOW​ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SoxInTheBasement.com!

The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) is a non-profit medical research organization dedicated to the development and effective use of products like drugs, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies to address substantial global health concerns, for which investment incentives are limited, including malaria, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, and diseases that impact maternal, newborn, and child health.This week, our guest is Dr Claire Wagner, head of corporate strategy and market access at Gates MRI.Wagner has dedicated her life to global health. Her early years working in West Africa and East Africa – including five years working with the Rwanda Ministry of Health – were formative experiences for her. She helped document health sector outcomes in Rwanda and had a front row seat to the progress the country was making at the time, which led to her pursuing and obtaining an MD and MBA from Harvard.Her experiences led to her becoming one of the early employees of the Gates MRI, where she is on the executive leadership team and leads the institute's global access strategy as well as related engagement with commercial partners, financial institutions and multilaterals.She tackles the challenge of paving the way for the drugs, biologics and vaccines that the Gates MRI is developing – if they are successful in clinical trials – to be affordable and accessible to the people in low- and middle-income countries who would benefit most. In March 2024 the Gates MRI launched a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis vaccine candidate, and market access for this candidate is a top priority for Wagner.01:51-04:47: Background on Dr Claire Wagner04:47-06:24: Work in Rwanda06:24-08:40: Gates MRI08:40-12:50: Progress at Gates MRI12:50-14:06: Gates MRI R&D priorities14:06-16:26: The differences between Gates MRI and traditional biotechs16:26-18:40: Gates MRI partnerships18:40-22:52: The inequality of developing drug treatments22:52-25:45: Return on investment25:45-27:01: Did COVID increase global awareness?27:01-27:44: Other companies working on treatments27:44-31:48: Gates MRI pipeline and clinical trials31:48-34:51: Working on tuberculosis34:51-36:00: Treatment mode of action36:00-37:25: Future work at Gates MRIInterested in being a sponsor of an episode of our podcast? Discover how you can get involved here! Stay updated by subscribing to our newsletter

20% of women over the age of 50 are estimated to have osteoporosis and they just don't know it.  In today's episode, I'm sitting down with bone health expert, Belinda Beck - Director of The Bone Clinic, researcher and the brilliant mind behind the Onero program which is transforming the lives of osteoporosis sufferers around the world. Osteoporosis is typically referred to as ‘the silent disease' because there are no symptoms until you break a bone. However, there is more and more research that says we can fight back - even if you have osteoporosis. Whether you're worried about your own bone health, are wondering when your should let your son start weight training (I'm right there with you!) or simply want to know how to prevent fractures in the the future, this episode is for you. In this episode you'll hear: 02:09 - The biggest myths about bone health (are we steering our daughters in the wrong direction?) 04:36 - When's the right time for boys to start weight training? 07:22 -  Calcium and Vitamin D supplements: are they really doing anything for our bones? 10:02 - Did COVID lockdown quietly sabotage your bone health? 11:48 - Is it really possible to keep growing your bones? 13:00 - Osteoporosis is silent… how can you tell if it's happening to you? 17:09 - Your hormones might be doing more damage than you think… here's how to fight back. 19:25 -  Could this groundbreaking exercise regime hold the key to reversing bone loss? 25:11 - Tips on how to prevent osteoporosis 27:08 - Worried about falls? This tip could be a game-changer 28:28 - Could 30 minutes a week save your bones?  29:16 - The newest advancements and research happening in the bone space … and SO much more. Want to get in contact with Belinda? Head over to www.theboneclinic.com.au or email Belinda at reception@theboneclinic.com.au Watch the YouTube Version of the Podcast here. Ready to take a step in the right direction and look after future you? Check out the products that will keep your body in Synx here - www.synxbody.com And if you want to see more of the behind-the-scenes OR you loved the episode let us know over at @synxbody and @rachael.ferguson

Did COVID-19 make American higher education more close-minded and less receptive to challenging conventional wisdom?Keith Preston, Florian Ulrich, and Aleksey Bashtavenko return to El Niño Speaks to discuss how the COVID era increased the ghettoization of American institutions of higher learning. Critical thinking has largely exited the building. Buy My Book "The 10 Myths of Gun Control" TodayIf you're serious about changing the gun control status quo we live in, this book is a must.After reading this text, you will be able to hold your own in any debate with your anti-gun friends, family, or associates. No questions asked.And heck, you will have a solid foundation in championing issues like gun rights should you take your activism to the next level.Knowledge is power and the foundation for any worthwhile endeavor. With this next-level information at your fingertips, the sky is the limit.So make today the day you say NO to the gun control status quo by taking action NOW.The full retail price for The 10 Myths of Gun Control is $6.Get Your Copy TodayBookmark my Website For Direct ContactIn the era of Big Tech censorship, we can't rely on just one or two platforms to keep us connected. Bookmark my website today so you always know where to get the true, unfiltered information about the news and views that matter to you.Don't Forget to Follow me on Twitter @JoseAlNino This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit josbcf.substack.com/subscribe

Dominick Miserandino is the founder of one of the first online publications, TheCelebrityCafe.com, and over the past 30 years, he's worked with more than 100 different web properties and authored two travel books. Nine months ago, he became CEO of RetailWire.com at an interesting inflection point for the retail industry, which we discuss in this episode. Key Takeaways:- The state of retail in a post-COVID world- Why content is still king- The future of AI in online publishingEpisode Timeline:1:45 Is retail normalizing post-COVID?3:30 Did COVID unlock new possibilities for retail?6:45 What topics are connecting with people at Retail Wire?9:00 Affirmational content always does well12:10 The role of AI in online publishing14:00 Ad networks refuse to work with AI content17:00 Content is still king18:45 How to create a great pitch21:00 Is the AI boom like the Dot Com boom?23:30 Dominick's approach to thought leadershipThis episode's guest:• Dominick Miserandino on LinkedIn• RetailWireSubscribe and leave a 5-star review: https://pod.link/1496390646Contact Us!• Join the conversation by leaving a comment!• Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn!Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alicia Berberich has become passionate about helping others achieve their goals, especially women. Through her own experiences with a negative voice that she has learnt to overcome, she has been able to live a more vibrant life. She harnessed the power of manifestation to achieve a lifelong dream to live in Paris.In this interview Alicia shares her secrets to overcoming our internal negative voice and provides insights into the keys to manifestation - there is more to it than simply wishing for something!1:04 Introduction to what Alicia does.3:14 How did you get into this?8:40 Strategies to counter the negative voice.17:18 Due to society are we have more problems than in the past?19:26 How important is physical activity to our mental health?20:36 To what extent do the issues vary between male and female?23:00 How does manifesting work and control your negative voice?29:58 How long has Alicia been manifesting and what have been some of her notable achievements?31:54 Planning action steps to manifest your goals.34:29 The path to success is paved by failure!35:55 Tips for the young to develop good habits to achieve goals.39:25 Alicia's work.43:00 Did COVID change how Alicia operated?45:10 Goals for the future.For more great content, go to:https://www.isintosuccess.comhttps://www.instagram.com/insightsintosuccess/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRkDL7gZSP98vnVyZ5445ghttps://www.tiktok.com/@insightsintosuccessEmail us at: paul.d@isintosuccess.comThanks for supporting us in our journey to find the secrets to success!

In this revealing episode, we tackle the pressing question: 'Did COVID make home and work more difficult for women, or did it simply expose the realities of the working mother?' Explore the profound implications for families as we uncover the challenges, inequalities, and shifting dynamics brought to light by the pandemic.Follow Leah Ruppanner at https://www.instagram.com/prof.leah/Follow the MissPerceived Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/missperceivedpodcast

The 2019-2020 seasons for ASU Sports should have been pivotal, from Bobby Hurley and ASU Basketball being on the brink of a third straight NCAA Tournament appearance to ASU Football showing growth with Herm Edwards at the helm. Instead, the programs were halted by a worldwide lockdown and are still feeling the impact today. Join Shane and Erik as they discuss all of this and what could have been for ASU Athletics. 0:00 Intro 3:15 What happened to Herm and the football program when COVID hit? 22:30 Recapping ASU's recruiting violations 23:15 Did COVID destroy ASU Basketball's trajectory? 39:15 The pandemic may have hit ASU Women's Basketball the hardest 41:00 Softball and Baseball have yet to recover 44:25 ASU Hockey got stuck with all away games in 2020 An ALLCITY Network Production SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtube ALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports  PHNX Events: Get your tickets to PHNX events and takeovers here: https://gophnx.com/events/ Desert Financial Credit Union: Open a free checking account online with Desert Financial Credit Union and get $200 - plus your choice of three Arizona State University VISA® Debit Cards https://www.desertfinancial.com/ASU Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Circle K: Join Inner Circle for free by downloading the Circle K app today! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you! OGeez!: OGeez! is not your average cannabis-infused gummy. Head over to https://www.ogeezbrands.com to find where you can purchase. Must be 21+. Enjoy responsibly.  Four Peaks: Follow on social @fourpeaksbrew & @fourpeakspub! Must be 21+. Enjoy responsibly.  Shady Rays: Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to https://shadyrays.com and use code: PHNX for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people. Chicken N Pickle: Head to https://chickennpickle.com to see all the fun you can have at their Glendale location! PHNX will be hosting Trivia Nights and Pickleball Tournaments so stay tuned for info! bet365:Use the code PHNX365 to sign up, deposit $10 and choose between either: Bet and Get offer and place a bet of $5 or more and get $150 in Bonus Bets OR First Bet Safety Net offer by placing a bet up to $1000 and if your qualifying bet loses you receive a matched refund in Bonus bets Disclaimer: Must be 21+ and physically located in AZ. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-NEXT-STEP, text NEXTSTEP to 53342 or visit https://problemgambling.az.gov/ When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's episode of Dentology, Chris and Andy chat to Julie Dale, dentist and Global Sales Manager at Boutique Whitening. Julie talks about her dental career and how a short spell of work experience prompted her to decide that dentistry was for her. She chats about her time working in the NHS for some 14 years after qualifying, shares some of the highs and lows from this time and talks us through the steps she went through before deciding that there were other career opportunities in dentistry aside from the clinical work. She talks about her short stint at Dental Monitoring and how from there, moved on to work at Boutique Whitening and is now looking after global sales for the company.  She shares her thoughts on whether whitening can be used as a practice/profit builder and talks about future plans for Boutique outside of the UK.   Topics: - Tell us about your early career days - How did work experience help you decide that dentistry was for you? - Where did you qualify from and was your dental school experience good? - Working in the NHS – what were some of the highs and lows? - What steps did you go through to decide on a career away from the clinical work? - Did Covid create the reflection time to consider a new path? - Working at Dental Monitoring - Taking on the role of global sales at Boutique Whitening - Can whitening be used as a practice/profit builder? - Are there any global plans for Boutique outside of the UK?

We discuss the abrupt closing of Chrissie's alma mater, UArts, and whether it is indicative of a trend in higher education. Are "art" degrees (or most degrees) just useless anyway? Did Covid screw everything up for universities? Have schools invested too much in getting "fancy"? Plus, Chrissie discovers that Walmart has cheap prices, we have a few technical difficulties, and end on a hopeful note that maybe Temple will save the day in the end. Subscribe at https://jenkintownartsgarage.com to get JAG updates delivered to your email inbox so you'll never miss an episode, video, or anything else we cook up! If you'd like to support the show, please consider buying us a coffee at http://jenkintownartsgarage.com/coffee Please like, subscribe, and share the show so the algorithms will notice us! We appreciate you! ━ Episode Links ━━━━━━━━━━━ Philadelphia Inquirier article about UArts closing https://www.inquirer.com/education/uarts-closing-philadelphia-finances-higher-education-20240607.html ━ Chapters ━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Introductions 05:20 - UArts Closing Discussion (article) 12:17 - Higher Education Crisis Discussion 34:13 - Chrissie Discovers Walmart is Cheap 36:20 - UArts "The Big Shot" Discussion (photos) 39:47 - Will Temple Save the Day? 40:36 - The Wrap-Up 41:54 - Pod Theme Song ━ Show Links ━━━━━━━━━━━

Think about how well you're doing financially these days compared to in 2015, when the current federal government first took power. Are you doing better? Worse? Did COVID have a longstanding impact on your circumstances. Pollster Greg Lyle has been looking into these and other questions. He's the founder and president of the Innovative Research Group.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carly Reilly sat down with Andrew at the 2024 Hudson Valley Ideas Festival for a wide-ranging conversation on Universal Basic Income and alleviating poverty, political reform, and AI. How did an Onion article inspire his efforts to push for UBI? Did COVID stimulus checks really cause inflation? What did Andrew get wrong on AI, if anything? And at heart, is Andrew an optimist or a pessimist? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AkDMmrc9nW4 Follow Carly Reilly: https://x.com/carlypreilly | https://linktr.ee/carlypreilly Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the last decade, therapy has become the de facto solution to solve all sorts of problems for all sorts of people. Everyone has slowly accepted that therapy is normal and a net benefit to society. But instead of helping kids work through difficult circumstances, what if it's just making the problems worse? That's what Abigail Shrier thinks is happening, and in this conversation, she reveals some surprising reasons why. Shane and Shrier discuss the real reason therapy is "bad," how we got to this point of acceptance as a culture, and what you can do as a parent to get back to normalcy. Shrier also shares her experiences with lifelong therapy patients, who should actually be in therapy, and the one thing that makes someone a successful parent. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/theknowledgeproject/videos Newsletter - I share timeless insights and ideas you can use at work and home. Join over 600k others every Sunday and subscribe to Brain Food. Try it: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ My Book! Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results is out now - https://fs.blog/clear/  Follow me: https://beacons.ai/shaneparrish Join our membership: https://fs.blog/membership/ Sponsors: Shopify: Making commerce better for everyone. https://www.shopify.com/shane Protekt: Simple solutions to support healthy routines. Enter the code "Knowledge" at checkout to receive 30% off your order. https://protekt.com/knowledge (00:00) Intro (05:44) Inverse: How do we raise mentally unstable kids? (08:29) How we got to now (11:45) Bad therapy...or just social trends? (13:21) Being your kids' friend: good or bad? (15:55) The parenting type that raises the BEST kids (21:35) Is this all the parents' fault? (29:53) Is "Bad Therapy" a world-wide problem? (32:57) Talk to your kids' therapist about these things (42:09) The importance of facing adversity in childhood (47:06) Can we blame grad schools for all of this? (49:14) On technology and social media (51:03) Schools should "never" have gotten involved in mental health (54:43) Did COVID accelerate "bad therapy?" (56:07) How to return to normalcy (58:21) Why Shane shares negative YouTube comments with his kids (01:01:23) Shrier's experience being "cancelled" (01:04:13) On prestige media (01:07:47) Small steps parents can take to return to normal (01:11:02) Dealing with schools saying one thing and parents saying another (01:13:32) Why is the silent majority...silent? (01:16:32) If this continues, what happens? (01:18:19) What makes someone a successful parent?

Did COVID break voting forever? Tune in today to hear more. Topic: Politics The Public Square® with host Dave Zanotti thepublicsquare.com Air Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024

Do statins affect your Vitamin D production? Why do we have leap years? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Could we live on the moon of Titan? Did COVID come from a lab? What aspects of science can we still now answer? Could popping a pimple on your face kill you? How does wireless charging work? Dr Chris Smith and Clarence Ford have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Do statins affect your Vitamin D production? Why do we have leap years? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Could we live on the moon of Titan? Did COVID come from a lab? What aspects of science can we still now answer? Could popping a pimple on your face kill you? How does wireless charging work? Dr Chris Smith and Clarence Ford have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

TJ Hager is the Manager of Customer Success at Adobe and the creative mind behind MOPs Notes, a newsletter where he shares his insights and experiences in the tech and marketing industry. In this episode, TJ reflects on the challenges of working with a limited budget, the evolving expectations in customer support post-COVID-19, and the crucial role of marketing ops professionals in bridging the missing gaps in the market and driving business innovation.   Key Takeaways: [1:00] A little bit about TJ and his background in tech. [4:05] TJ looks back at 2023. It was definitely the year of “do more with less.” [7:45] Why did TJ start the MOPs Notes newsletter? [11:15] What are some of TJ's opinions on marketing operations roles and their very vast (and often unclear) scope? [13:25] What advice does TJ have for people looking to build an organic community the way he has with MOPs Notes? [15:20] How has TJ's newsletter helped with his career at Adobe? [21:30] Are companies striking a good balance between sales operations and marketing operations? TJ weighs in on his thoughts. [28:00] What keeps TJ up at night in his career and space? [28:55] Did COVID-19 change expectations on how we support customers? [30:30] TJ talks about what challenges will be coming up in the next 12 months. [32:30] Who truly owns customer success? [35:30] TJ answers some rapid-fire questions!  

Do you ever remember a Republican courting Democrat voters? Is this a fool's errand with Nikki Haley just wasting money?Did Covid give the left the opportunity to destroy people's lives and usher in the insanity we are experiencing today?"Defund the Police" advocate Cori Bush has hypocritically spent more than $500,000 of her campaign's money for her personal security.Can Taylor Swift wield enough influence to sway the vote with an endorsement for Joe Biden?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Rebecca Christie invites Chiara Criscuolo and Reinhilde Veugelers. The speakers argue that the current pace of innovation is too slow to face the challenge of climate change and that a range of barriers and market failures remain at the root of the problem. To resolve these, a mission-oriented industrial strategy for the green transition is needed. Relevant publication: Industrial strategies for Europe's green transition, Chapter by Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezlepretre and Guy Lalanne, Bruegel Blueprint (Sparking Europe's new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience), July 2023  Did COVID-19 accelerate the green transition? OECD paper, June 2023 Industrial policy and strategies, OECD project Quantifying industrial strategies, OECD project

Palaeontologists have discovered a new prehistoric cat species that roamed Spain about 15.5 million years ago. Mysterious object spotted in Milky Way. Countdown to Japan's ‘moon sniper' lunar craft landing. Submersible scientists discover four new octopus species.Also in this episode:‘Deep flaws' in generative artificial intelligence, says OpenAI boss Altman.Did Covid kill people's ‘happy hormones'?Google's first vast £800 million UK data centre Doomsday Clock update - how close are warring humans to midnight? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conventional wisdom is taking hold on the legacy of outgoing Mayor Jim Kenney. Did Covid and factors beyond his control really do him in?

Taylor Williamson and his celebrity dog Betty visit Josh and Kirsten at the Roach Motel in a not-sponsored-by-McDonald's episode of The Josh Potter Show.   Check out Josh's merch: http://www.joshpottermerch.com   Check out Taylor's new special, “Live At The Comedy Store”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DQtK6FM7jM    Featuring!   Los Angeles is no place to have a family… Taylor's dog Betty's celebrity friends David Spade, Caroline Rhea, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee… Taylor's new special, “Live At The Comedy Store,”… Early Josh Potter sports radio days… Local indie wrestling… Josh and Taylor as wrestlers… The NFL Tush Push/Brotherly Shove… Bill Goldberg spearing a guy at a Falcons' game and wrestling like a “real gorilla,”… Brett Hart's permanent injuries… Celebrating Goldberg for Hanukkah… Alpha Jews… A brawl over Pokemon Cards at a Canadian McDonald's… Josh assumes that McDonald's canceled the Happy Meal prizes… Reminiscing about The Little Mermaid prizes… Not knowing for weeks that Israel and Hamas went for war… Algorithms… Beanie Babies… Old school McDonald's secret menu items and hacks… Experiments about how long chicken nuggets and burgers lasting… The Pink Goo… How can meat be so inexpensive?… foreign McDonald's… Josh not getting a job at fast food restaurants because he doesn't speak Spanish… is Minimum Wage too high?… partying too hard at The Comedy Store's Christmas party… Is there any guest Josh would not be hungover for?… Did we all follow the quarantine rules?… dating multiple people in the quarantine off the apps… Did Covid really happen or was it just a prank on Josh?… Working on the road in Arizona, Texas, and Florida… financial health or physical health?… Was it sociopathic to ask friends to come see them perform?… A Kansas bank robber who wanted to get caught so he could escape his wife… Is going to jail better than being in a bad relationship?… Joining The Army to avoid abusive homes… How old is too old for The Army?… Josh talks about performing at Attica… Taylor talks about performing at Guantanamo Bay… Eating at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's… Taylor getting offers to perform in Iraq in 2005… USO shows…  Performing comedy in Afghanistan… Willem Dafoe doing yoga for the troops… Trump getting Taylor's trip cancelled… Economic imperialism… Did China already win the war?… meeting Trevor Hoffman at McDonald's… Taylor tells the best joke in comedy… Are ball-pits safe?… Josh's invitation to visit an “adult” ball-pit at a Britany Spears popup… Another student-teacher relationship… people tracking their significant others with their phones… John Macafee trolling then getting accidentally busted by Joe Rogan… Terrible things John Macafee used to do in Guatalama… The things that rich men in Dubai will do at parties… an Ohio attorney suspended after defiling a chips container and throwing it at people… Josh and Kirsten ruin Pringles for Taylor forever… strange chemicals in potato chips… PTSD is no joke… Taylor admits to being the first person to ever have a video on Youtube… and more!   ***   This week's music is “In Walmart'” by Craftmatics   ***   See Josh Live! December 22 & 23, Side Splitters Comedy Club, Tampa, FL January 12 & 13, Wiseguys, Ogden, UT https://linktr.ee/Josh_Potter   See More Taylor! IG: @taylorcomedy http://www.taylorwilliamson.com   *** Check out Josh's merch: http://www.joshpottermerch.com   Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheJoshPotterShow    Josh Potter's New Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpREVmHBIx4QIQLA5ZUx0wA    Josh Potter's New Email: joshpottershow@gmail.com    Josh Potter Links https://www.cameo.com/josh_potter    Twitch Streams are back! https://twitch.tv/josh_potter  https://twitter.com/j_potter  https://instagram.com/josh_potter   ***   SPONSORED BY:   NBA 2K Mobile Support the show & snag an exclusive Giannis Antetokounmpo Jade Tier card when you download NBA 2K Mobile & use the code: JOSHPOTTER

Naomi Wolf, author of Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. Wolf is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. Did COVID-19 Leak From a Montana Lab?

Former US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams bookCRISIS & CHAOS: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19Dr Adams talks:-How far we've come since 2020-People saying we overreacted -Take us back to March 6, 2020 – what was being discussed-China was not forthcoming with information-Appropriate public responses are very important -Did Covid-19 originate in a lab in Wuhan -Did he get his yearly flu shot and Covid vaccinePhoto Courtesy: IndyStar

What is a biblical marriage? Did Covid bring forward some issues in your marriage you and your spouse are still struggling with today? How do you resolve conflict without hurting your spouse? How do you maintain a healthy marriage and still focus on your own mental health? Today, we dive into a focus on healthy marriages and how we as Christ followers should approach our relationships and home life. We get to hear from Mark and Mary Ann, a couple who leads in marriage mentoring as well as our pastor for counseling, Brian Foster on topics that most married people are dealing with today. You'll also find out ways to take the next step building a healthy marriage through workshops, classes, activities, and counseling intensive opportunities.

Everyone has opinions on government overreach, but where should we as Christians draw the line? Did Covid give us a better idea of where we refuse to comply? How should we respectfully decline to obey governmental orders?

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In this episode, KJK Student Defense attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler talk with Andrew Fishman, licensed clinical social worker in Chicago, Illinois who works with clients to understand the impact of video games on mental health.  In this episode, they talk about the subject of kids socializing in video games.  Topics include why kids are using online games to meet people, what works and what doesn't work for balancing kids between the online and offline world, and simple strategies parents can use to ensure their kids are safe online. Links: Andrew Fishman on Psychology Today Show Notes: (05:16) Why kids are using video games to meet people (07:41)  Texting or Voice: How kids communicate in these virtual worlds (08:34)  Did Covid cause online meeting to explode? (09:18)  Stranger Danger: Can Anyone Talk to your Kids Online? (11:05)  At What Age Should You Trust Your Kids to Chat Online? (11:45)  Do Time Limitations Work? (12:46)  Why Some People Prefer Online Socialization (16:14)  Video Game Addiction: Is It Real? (16:59)  When Anything Could Be Classified as Addiction (17:47)  Dopamine Hits:  Overblown or Real? (19:13)  Simple Strategies Parents Can Implement to Get Kids Into the Real World (21:07)  Are Kids Even Interested in Reading Anymore? (23:12)  Roblox:  Friendly Game or Hateful Space (25:01)  How Parents Can Really Judge if a Game is Safe For Their Kids Transcript: Susan Stone: So I just got back folks out there in listening land from Portugal, and I haven't even told this story to Kristina yet. So one morning I'm at breakfast and I see a cute family, a mom, a dad, and a little boy. And I had noticed them the other day at breakfast and I actually had noticed them the evening before at dinner. We had landed at the same restaurant probably cuz the concierge always sends you to the same restaurant. Do you guys know that out there? Totally true. Totally true. And, The little boy is just being so well behaved. And I remember when my kids were little that it was really difficult in a restaurant to be kids. Kristina Supler: Oh, he has such anxiety going to a restaurant with these kids. Oh yeah.  Susan Stone: Yeah. Talking to the mother, she there, she's fascinating. She was really lovely. Fa. They're from the UK and I said, I cannot believe how well behaved your son is. I remember when my kids were little and you know how well they're doing on this trip to Portugal. While it was a lovely romantic vacation for my hus, hubby and I. I didn't really see it as a place for  Kristina Supler: kids families.  Susan Stone: Yeah. I mean it was, there were a lot of family, but when, I think when my kids were little mm-hmm. They just wanted to splish splash at the pool. Do kid stuff. I did a lot of kid stuff and she said,I really believe that to raise children, they need to be bored and come up with their own creativity. And in theory, I play by that rule too. Kids need to engage in imaginative play. But Kristina, the kid's face was glued  Kristina Supler: to a tablet, let me guess.  Susan Stone: To a tablet. I'm like, I saw where you were going with this. Ah, that is not imaginative play. In my days, I would give my kids blank paper, not even coloring books. And some crayons at a restaurant and say, Keep yourself busy, dude. And then they didn't, they misbehaved, but that stuck with me. Sure.  Kristina Supler: it's in this day and age when in any situation for kids, the minute there's like even a hint of misbehavior, you give them a device.  And even for adults, if you think about it in an awkward situation, you have time to kill. What do we do? We immediately turn to our devices versus looking around us talking to a stranger. Looking at something, on, on the street. It's just, we are so into our devices, whether it's kids or adults.  Susan Stone: Oh, how many times have you gone out to dinner with someone in their faces of, in their phone. And I've done it. And I'm not judging this parent because you know what? I didn't have that available when I raised my kids dad. Sure.  Kristina Supler: And I just also, as a working mom, I just have, I just think about you have a long day. You wanna enjoy an evening out with your family, with your kids. You wanna have family time. And then something starts to unravel or someone's a little cranky, or who knows what the situation is. It's, I get it. Like it's easy to just say, here, honey. Okay. Look at my phone.  Susan Stone: And so is the tablet, the older kid pacifier.  Kristina Supler: Sure. Look at that. I think so. yes. The tablet is the modern day Passy. There you go. There you go.  Susan Stone: There's your baby Bop. Or as Josh, I'm gonna embarrass you out there. He used to call him his baby ah. But why don't you introduce our guest.  Kristina Supler: Sure. So today we are really happy to be talking with Andrew Fishman. and we're gonna talk. Hi Andrew.  Andrew Fishman: Hello. I'm happy to hear here.  Kristina Supler: Welcome Andrew. Andrew's a licensed clinical social worker and therapist based in the Chicago area. He specializes in working with adolescents certified in treating video game addiction. Andrew is dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by young individuals in today's digital world. Passes everywhere. He actively contributes in the field that's good, in the field of video games and mental health by sharing his insights and knowledge through his articles on Psychology Today.  Andrew's expertise has garnered attention beyond the realm of therapy. He's been featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera. He's also given a host of Noteworthy speeches.  Today, what drew us to Andrew was an article that appeared in Psychology Today entitled, Why So Many Teens use Video Games to Meet others. And so this is a cool topic that we're gonna jump into. And again, Andrew, we're really happy to have you with us today. Welcome. Thank you again.  Susan Stone: So let's kick it off. Your article, which I have right here with me. Why so many teens use video games to meet others. Your premise is that the video games have become the new mall where kids meet. Can you, yeah. Talk about this and elaborate a little more.  Andrew Fishman: So kids really want to spend time with each other in person. But it's where can they go? They wanna hang out with each other in person. But they just there's nowhere to do it. When I was a kid, we had all sorts of places to go. That was 20 years ago. But all those places I looked at them, they're all closed, oh yeah.  Susan Stone: Or you don't feel safe sending them. My dad used to drop me off at the mall. Kristina Supler: I was gonna say, and my day, it was Camelot music. We all went and hung music store. So I, there's not a lot of places. For kids to go, I'm saying kids, but teens, young adults and people's houses. Susan Stone: Why not mm-hmm. The basement.  Andrew Fishman: Yeah. No, that's it. that's great. And that's one of the places that they have. I think part of the problem with, for my clients at least, is how do you get to those places? Mm-hmm. With both your parents now work. You're,and you don't have a car yet. You can't go to their, you can't go to somebody else's house. And a lot of the parents don't want their kids going anywhere during, on a school night, which makes a certain amount of sense, but that's now five sevenths of your week that you can't see other people. And so they're they come home on a Monday night and they're exhausted from school and they wanna see somebody else. They wanna talk to a peer. And their options are calling somebody on the phone, which nobody does, or they can,or they can text each other, which a lot of them do. Or they on, on Snapchat or something. Or they can have a long fun voice chat while sharing a game and that, so those, what they call third spaces, which is the place other than school or work or home, the malls, the bowling alleys, the churches, all sorts, the places we used to meet people. This has become their third place where you go home after school and you can go to a virtual third place and spend as much time with your friends as you want. And so it, it certainly makes sense that you would go there.  Susan Stone: How do you talk to each other? Or are you just playing? Explain how it works to this. Kristina Supler: Are people who are in these online communities only talking about the video games? Are these people talking about, I don't know, favorite food sports team's life?  Andrew Fishman: it depends on the game, but generally, yeah. People talk about all sorts of things when they're with friends. People talk about their day. They complain about teachers. They, do all the typical adolescent conversations and even if they're not, Talking about their lives outside of the games and they're just talking about it. I still think it's a positive experience.  Susan Stone: Wait, are they talking or is it texting?  Andrew Fishman: That's a, it's a good question. There's both. So some of the games, most games, if there's a multiplayer component, will have a text feature in the game. Some of them also have a voice chat, and there's also supplementary apps you can use. There's one that's really popular called Discord. It's a website and Yep. So it's for listeners, it's a website or app that you can use to communicate and build little virtual communities. I have, I, I met a few of them myself, and they're fun, but you, it also has a feature where you can just, make a group of friends and then set everybody up with a headset and then chat on this external app while playing a while, playing a game. Kristina Supler: Andrew, these online gaming communities,they're obviously extremely popular. Were they popular pre covid d or do you think Covid really caused the huge surge in, in the involvement of young people in these online communities?  Andrew Fishman: Actually, I think I, they've always been popular. I think that it's certainly, there, there was definitely a surge. And I think a lot of the surge was people much older than adolescents where I, I wasn't always online talking to people that's ing about adults,  Kristina Supler: I think. Andrew Fishman: Huh? Yeah. And so suddenly I was alone in my apartment. I just, I needed something to do. And I wasn't allowed to go outside for a lot of it. And so I could go to, somebody's virtual island in Animal Crossing and go run around and catch bugs there. And so that was just a nice way to spend time with other people. And so there was definitely a surge. I think the surge might have happened with our age kind of people though.  Susan Stone: Can, is it limited to your own friend group or can strangers infiltrate? Is this state?  Andrew Fishman: That's a really important point. So there are many people just talk to their friends. Some people only talk to the people on their team. If you're playing a team-based game, us versus them. And sometimes you're just open to anybody who's around. You can hear you talk and you can talk to them. They can talk to you.  I don't like that. I don't like that.  Right? And so and so that gets ugly really quickly. I hate that. I don't usually use it at all. Because as soon as I turn on a game, if I have what's called public chat on. There are slurs. There's derogatory comments made. There's ju offensive things said pretty quickly. I don't know that I've ever turned on and been turned on a game and really been happy with the conversation for the whole time. And so most of the time I just turn off the public chat option.  Susan Stone: I'm gonna ask you a question, Kristina. Sure. And then I wanna know what the expert has to think. Would you allow your youngest is how old for our listening?  Kristina Supler: almost 10.  Susan Stone: Would you allow your 10 year old to play this type of game? And I'd like to know what Andrew thinks about what age is appropriate.  Kristina Supler: Chatting and interacting with others. No. But Animal Crossing for example, is fairly benign. My son does play Animal Crossing and I watched it and it's a little animal game with the, the settings and the, age specification for, you know, the version we bought. But I mean, what do you think on that, Andrew? In terms of kids, let's say grade school, third, fourth, fifth, even sixth grade, and in these online games with the community interaction component in chatting? Susan Stone: Yeah. What age should you, what age is recommended in your professional opinion? Andrew Fishman: I think it depends on the kid and the level of maturity. So for public chat, I wouldn't let them use it until 16, 17 at the earliest. If they're old enough to, if they're mature enough to handle hearing some really heinous things. And they know how to handle them. For chat or chatting with their friends, that's a different story for me. if you would let them talk to their friends on the phone unsupervised, it's probably fine to have them talk to each other while playing a game. That doesn't bother me at all. But public chat even I turn that off most of the time. Cause it's bad in some places.  Susan Stone: Do you think we should put a time restriction on how long your, you let your kid play? Because you would let your kid go to the mall for hours? Andrew Fishman: And so there is some evidence that being on screens for too long every day is harmful. But it depends. I guess what the alternative is if they are, if they have the option to go to soccer practice, that's probably better for their physical health than their mental health is to be running around and being with people in person. But if not, if they would be sitting and playing a video game by themselves versus playing it with friends, that's, I wouldn't encourage with friends anyway. And if they're not showing any signs of video games doing harm to them. There's probably not much of an issue with sitting around and playing for several hours. Kristina Supler: Andrew, I can just imagine my peers, my friends, and Susan and I were based in Cleveland. And so though we're not in Chicago or New York, we're also not in a total social desert. And I can just hear people I know saying, why would anyone prefer this online socialization? I don't get it. So can you shed some light on why, in fact, some people do prefer online socialization?  Andrew Fishman: It's a lot easier for some people. It's, it might be the only thing that's possible for some of them. So take for instance, somebody who has depression. It is just by definition, really hard to get out of bed. You have low mood. It is hard for you to just find the energy to do anything. Let alone set up plans. And then leave the house and get dressed and showered, and then go out and get to the place and then have to use all this energy to socialize if you know the way you want to. That might just, that might literally not be possible for some people. You are,  Susan Stone: Would you say from a therapeutic perspective, the goal is to maybe use it for scaffolding? Or do you think it's enough for some people? Meaning would you say, if someone has severe depression, okay, why don't we start here, but I really wanna get you, so you're going to a party and not abstaining from a party. Or do you think, why are we, this works if it's not broken. And this person can socialize this way, who cares? What's the downside?  Andrew Fishman: And a lot of the time I do want to use it as a scaffolding, as a less bad option. Because it's research shows that it's not as good to be online as it is to be in person. I think we all, that's gonna be my question. Yep. And so it's better than not having a person to talk to for sure. But it is not as good as going out to a party if you're, if you have the ability to do. And so we're comparing, I think, three categories of people. One is the people who just can't. Who do not have the ability to make friends in person for a variety of reasons. People who can, but it's difficult. And then people who really it's a choice. they go out all the time and they also wanna supplement that with games. And so each one of those, I would encourage to be in person whenever possible. But it sounds like for each of those three categories and people, and for all of us, if you, if your choice is being isolated and alone in your place, or to be sharing even a virtual space with somebody else, that's probably better for your mental health, just as a social animal. Susan Stone: What about playing, having someone over and playing chess or Monopoly or Scrabble or banana grams?  Kristina Supler: I think though what I'm hearing Andrew say is that for many that's just not an option for potentially a variety of reasons. And so I think that, I don't know. Would anyone disagree that having a friend over to play a board game is preferred to online social interaction? Probably not. But maybe for whatever reason, you have an ill family member, you live in the middle of nowhere, who knows? maybe you can't.  Susan Stone: Andrew what? I, two good points. Kristina w  Kristina Supler: So we read a lot in the news and in magazines and newspapers about the negative effects of video games, video game addiction. The who?  Susan Stone: Yeah. Online addiction. You're your thing, right?  Kristina Supler: Yep. Or the, the predators trolling these online chat groups. And some. Really fear the internet in terms of allowing their children to have interaction with it. In your opinion, what are some of the red flags that parents should really watch out for in terms of gauging whether their child's use of the internet is becoming problematic? Susan Stone: And is video addiction a, is it real or is it just not? No limitations.  Andrew Fishman: That's, I think you're heading at the heart of something really important is that there isn't a psychological, there isn't a, a consensus yet. So there's a thing called the dsm. You may or not be familiar with it. It's what psychologists and psychiatrists use to diagnose people. Video game addiction is in there. But only in the back as a condition for future study. So they're, they're aware of it. They're researching it. They're not sure whether to put it in or not. But some of those criteria that they're suggesting might be in there are what you would expect.  The letting it interfere with your schoolwork or, professional life. If you're choosing to play a game, instead of hanging out with people in person. If you are choosing, if you're. Spending more money on games than you can afford.  Kristina Supler: Sounds like any vice really.  Andrew Fishman: Yeah, it is. Yes. Where if it is starting to affect the, your quality of life, it's affecting the way that you live and you have lost control over it. That it's like any vice. But this, it seems like this is, video games are intentionally made to be habit forming. So it does feel a little more specific, like a kind of addiction rather than, let's say eating or, golf. Because, you could have the same kind of problems with golf where you would go there instead of Thanksgiving. And you could choose to ignore other people and spend a ton of money on it. But golf isn't specifically made to be addicting like video games are.  Susan Stone: I read an article that people get little dopamine hits. When they play video games. Is that real?  Kristina Supler: Yes. So like the slots in  Andrew Fishman: Vegas Uhhuh. Yeah. So I think that's a little bit of a, it is technically correct. But I think that's overblown because technically anything you enjoy gives you dopamine. And so that's just the mechanism by which your brain tells you that something is fun. And so when people say, well, video games give you dopamine, and so does heroin, that's not a fair comparison. Eating something gives you dopamine too. Really anything that you, you know that makes you smile is gotta give you dopamine. And so for me, an ice cream Sunday,  Kristina Supler: I was just, yes, ice cream Sunday gives you, which I save ice cream Sunday might give. Not really because like it genuinely makes me happy.  Susan Stone: Oh my gosh. A little hot fudge and whipped cream and some salted pe. We've gotta go to Mitchell today. It is my birthday today. So I want a Sundae yay. Thanks. Thanks. I get to be with you Andrew. Now we're socializing right now. I'm getting to know you. Mm-hmm.  Kristina Supler: So what are your thoughts, Andrew, in terms of guardrails that parents can put in place to help their kids find the balance between, Okay. Online socialization, good outlet. But also, as Susan says, have a friend over for a board game or go play soccer with some classmates. Go ride your bike, whatever. What are your thoughts on parameters parents can put into place?  Susan Stone: Or walk The dog Love Dog  Kristina Supler: and the dog. Walk my kids to help walk the dogs. Walk the dog.  Andrew Fishman: One thing I often recommend to parents is to not take the games away. As much as add other things in. In their place. I love that. So if you're, if you're going to tell your kid, all right, you're playing too many video games, you should, we're gonna live at you to an hour a day and you haven't filled that time with something else, then they're going to want to play more and more. They're gonna complain. They're going want to do that. If you then say, all right, let's get your ballet lessons. That sounds fun. Let's do that two days a week. You have expressed interest in that. Let's get you going.  Kristina Supler: Wasn't it also human nature? The minute you tell someone they can't have something that's prohibited, it's all you want.  Susan Stone: Yeah.  I still remember Saturday nights at home when watching my lineup was Love Boat and Fantasy Island and you've just aged yourself. I just did, but and I would spend sometimes, and then Sunday morning cartoons, I could watch those for hours. Is this healthier than regular tv?  Andrew Fishman: There actually isn't very much evidence to suggest that it's any better or worse. Interesting that you are being more active while you're playing a video game. So if anything that aspect is, is better, but it's. would you rather be playing a game or watching somebody else play one or watching somebody else or just passively watching Netflix for several hours. Or engaging with your friends in a virtual space. Kristina Supler: That's a great point, Susan. Cause I hadn't thought about that in terms of, is playing a video game really all that different from just watching tv? Mm-hmm. Arguably not. And yet, some might argue that video games are unfairly vilified versus A kid plopped in front of the television on Netflix for three, four hours. Susan Stone: What I get concerned about though, is I'm a big pleasure reader. As are you. I am, I love to curl up with a good book and a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. I'm not that picky on my beverages. But do you think Andrew kids are just reading for pleasure anymore?  Andrew Fishman: I think yes. I think it depends on the kid and it depends on the environment they grew up in. I think that people watch their parents more than they realize. And so if you are the kind of person who is saying, you should be reading more and you mean it, but you are on your phone playing Candy Crush for several hours a day, they see that. Yeah. They see that. That's what people do.  Where if you are the kind of person who shows them through your actions of other things to do. If you are the kind of person who does dedicate time to reading, they might pick that up. If you read with them and or find books, go to the library, find books recommended for them. Find that ones that they would really enjoy. A lot of kids would choose a book  Susan Stone: Or cooking. I spent a lot of time with my 17 year old in the kitchen and we cook some wacky things.  Kristina Supler: But I love the, it's just food for thought for parents in terms of, no pun intended. There you go. The environmental influence, sometimes Susan and I deal with parents who all over the country are dealing with various issues tied to, you know, a child being in crisis and kids, students of all ages. And sometimes it's, we get these cases with these really big issues. and there's all these therapists and counselors and you name it with outside professionals involved.  And sometimes it's like the easiest, not easiest, but simple things shouldn't be overlooked. You want your kid to read, have books in your house. You want your child to do be more active. Ha spend less time online with video games. Provide other options. Have other stuff in the house available. It's just, I, as we're talking, I'm just thinking about like the importance of not overlooking basics. Susan Stone: I'm a big fan of KISS method. Keep it simple. So were any other parting thoughts? Is there anything we haven't asked you that you really need our listeners to know about what you do? Warning signs, benefits, the floors open. I'm gonna say take your best shot.  Andrew Fishman: I think one thing that I really want to address is the game Roblox. Because it's the most popular game. It's the most popular game for I think, five to 12 year olds, or was last year at least. It's a, it is a people misunderstand it. They think it is a game. it's a platform for building and playing games. So all of the games you look like a little Lego person running around. It's very blocky, very sort of Minecraft aesthetic. But you can make any game you want using this software. So I think there's, I think there are 4 million different games people to, for people to join. Like different, you can play tag or you can play a shooting game or you can raise pets. Or you can, there, there are millions literally of, different kinds of games you can play. And it is as complicated as that because it's so varied. They, the social environment in a game where people are gardening for fun is gonna be very different than one where people are playing something for doing something violent.  There was shooting, yeah, there was a really notorious example that they took down. But existed for some time. Was there was a on Roblox? on Roblox? Yes. Okay. So this was something you could go to, And join at least pub publicly for at least a while before they caught it and took it down. But there was a concentration camp simulator.  Kristina Supler: Oh my God. Oh my gosh.  Andrew Fishman: Which is, which is like the worst thing I could possibly think of for people to be going, I to be going and participating in. And this was not meant to be ed educational or anything. This was just for fun doing some really hateful things. And so the people in that community are gonna be very different than the people in the other ones. And so parents here, I'm going on Roblox, and they think, okay, Roblox is fine. Roblox is a catchall term for a lot of things. Some of which are great and some of which are really not. And so I think parents should be careful which games they're playing on Roblox to play with them to see what kind of game culture they're experiencing. There's voice chat in the game itself. So if they can turn that on, then anybody can talk to you if you set, if you have that set onto, if you have that, setting set on. So that's something to be really careful about. And more than anything, I'd recommend that parents try the games themselves and play with a play along with their kids. Just say, Hey, you can playing that a lot. let me, can you show me how to do that?  Susan Stone: That's tonight's dinner conversation. You know what I do with my, daughter every night? We Wordle. Awesome.  Kristina Supler: I love Wordle. My kids are big Wordlers too, but I'm not.  Susan Stone: Yeah, you're not a Wordler.  Kristina Supler: I'm not a wordler, but my kids like that. I love Wordle. Yeah.  Susan Stone: Yeah. I love world Wordle. And actually it's interesting because I learn things about my daughter every time I play Wordle in terms of strategy. She's far more strategic than I am I this roadblock though. Listeners out there,  Kristina Supler: good tip for parents. Really play the games with your kids. Know exactly what the games entail. That's, again, really straightforward advice, but excellent advice and.  Susan Stone: Ask questions. Wow. Wow. We packed a lot in 30 minutes. You did.  Kristina Supler: Well, thanks for joining us, Andrew. It was a real, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it was a good time chatting with you about these online communities and the gaming world. And I think that you've, demystified some points for us and I think helped us, you know, or hopefully helped our listeners recognize that there's some good in there too. And think about your own child and your circumstances and your family and just know what's going on with the game. So thanks.  Susan Stone: I'm still on Roblox I can't get off of it, but thank you.  Andrew Fishman: So I don't wanna vilify Roblox. There's a lot of good there too. There's a lot of safe communities for kids. But there's just be careful. Talk to your kids. Play the games with your kids. J. Make your own decision as a parent. Yeah. But thank you so much for having me. Bye-Bye. Thank you. 

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In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler are joined by Dr. Christine Whelan, and academic researcher in helping people find purpose and meaning in life.  Topics that they discuss are around a growing portion of young people not wanting to have kids.  The conversation includes how young women view having families versus having a career; Did Covid impact young adults on wanting to have kids; and how young adults can find purpose and meaning with or without having children. Links: Dr. Christine Whelan's Website Show Notes: (02:40)  The Ups and Downs of a Declining Birth Rate (03:43)  Historical look at Women in the Home (05:42)  How young women started looking at their careers versus family (07:42)  A different but accurate viewpoint of young girls looking at motherhood (09:26)  How women look at satisfaction from something meaningful and purposeful (11:34)  How Dr. Whelan balances work with raising a family (13:59)  Looking at the costs of raising a child (16:16)  Did Covid negatively impact young adults on wanting children? (17:58)  College students are becoming more socially awkward (20:04)  Is finding purpose in life done through having children? (21:12)  Are adults without kids happier?(22:36)  How one Harvard Study defines happiness (24:32)  How Dr. Whelan teaches kids about purpose and meaning (27:25)  Dr. Whelan's perspective on how her kids shaped her life after 25 years (28:34)  How parents can talk to their adult kids about parenting (31:45)  Teaching young adults who don't want kids about being pro-social (33:46)  Changing from young adults into older adults: the evolution of our nature (34:50)  A simple exercise for parents to use to help their kids find purpose and meaning Transcript: Susan Stone: Around a year ago, I started hearing high school and college kids tell me that they don't want kids. When the first college student told me this, I thought that the sentiment was particular to that student. However, since that time, I've been hearing this from a lot of different kids. Kristina, what the heck is growing up? I mean, I remember when I was a little girl, fantasizing, what? What am I gonna name my babies when I have them? And now nobody wants babies.  Kristina Supler: I don't know. It's a really interesting question, Susan, and I'm really excited to explore today. I understand wanting to put off having children to develop a career, to launch yourself professionally, but I'm still sort of struggling with hearing from young adults who just say, I, I don't wanna have a family at all. Susan Stone: This seems to become more prevalent since Covid. And I'm wondering if it's just a coincidence. I'm hoping our guest today is gonna help us explore why students don't want children. Is it new or has the thought only been? Has it thought been around for a long time and I we're just noticing? It might be new to us. Kristina Supler: We're pleased to be joined today by, Dr. Christine Whelan, a clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She's the author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, and Marry Smart, the Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love. She also wrote another book called The Big Picture, A Guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life. And it's really a small steps program to help young adults figure out what matters and how to make it happen. And I just have to mention, there's one other piece in Dr. Whelan's that I love. And that is that at the age of eight, she hosted a nationally syndicated radio show called No Kidding, A Health Talk Show for Kids by kids.  Susan Stone: Today would be a podcast, not a radio show.  Kristina Supler: Welcome, Dr. Whelan. We're happy to have you with us.  Susan Stone: Oh, and I love that you wrote about purpose in life. I'm gonna be 57 and I keep telling everybody that after my last goes to college, I wanna find my purpose at life. But let's just kick this off. Am I right? Students don't wanna start a family. They don't dream about being mommy or daddy.  Dr. Christine Whelan: So the birth rate has been declining for, quite a while now. And, and in a sense we're seeing some positive trends. We are seeing fewer people getting pregnant accidentally. And, fewer unwanted pregnancies. We are seeing folks waiting longer to have kids perhaps until they are stably partnered and financially secure. So on the one hand, we, we can see some positive trends there. On the other hand, what we are seeing is that the United States is below replacement rate at this point. Which means that there are more people growing old and passing away than we are replacing with new babies born here. Now certainly you can have folks, who come to the United States by other means like immigration.  But when we look at changes around the decision to have or not to have a child, I think it's kind of of important to like sort of take a step back in history a little bit. Because part of my own history is the beginnings of this discussion.  So in, even as late as the 1960s, It was assumed that a man and a woman would get married and the woman would have children. And there was this assumption that you didn't really have a choice as a woman. You definitely were gonna have kids.  My mother was an epidemiologist and she looked at all sorts of demographic factors, including the choice to have children or not. And when she and my father were considering what to do, they actually went to all these child-free meetings. And so for the first couple years of their marriage, they decided they were not gonna have kids. And that this was really a radical idea in the mid seventies that a couple could get married and not have kids. So that, but then along the way, My mom thought, huh, maybe I should talk to other people who are making this decision. And she wrote a book called A Baby, Maybe A Guide to Making the Most Fateful Decision of Your Life. And she interviewed all these women who were saying, Gosh, should I have a child or should I not have a child? Which was a new topic in the 1970s. Crazy, by the end of the book, crazy. By the end of the book, She made a decision and and here you are. And here I am. So I'm, I am the Baby Maybe. But these Do have, you have siblings? I don't. I am the one and only,they obviously broke the mold when they made me. But Right. But the Baby Maybe thing is wild. so this question was coming up even the seventies.  Susan Stone: That's great. And I didn't realize that, and I wanted to comment that I read an article and I believe it was in the Times, don't quote me that China is actually rethinking. Yes, it's policy because for so long it was a one child rule and now the country is below replacement rate. Who would've thought? Yeah.  Kristina Supler: So what's the cause or the reason why young adults now are reevaluating. Life goal?  Susan Stone: Is it worse? is has something changed since the seventies?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yeah. So first of all, in the seventies, the blame was placed on overachieving women who were not doing their responsible thing and staying home and having babies. And there was a lot of cultural commentary about these women who were getting too much education and wanted to work and weren't like, doing their part. How dare they. It became a sort of politically polarized issue. And,and what the role of woman was.  Then as we see, then as that began to fade, and especially as a nation, as we became,less religiously driven, and right, and more individually driven in our career choices. We then saw that in fact, those women who were highly educated and successful in their careers, we saw the tide turning. And it was those women who were in fact, more likely to get married, more likely to stay in stable relationships and more likely to have children. They were just doing so at a later age.  So in terms of lifetime childbearing, we were seeing women having children in their thirties and into their early forties, as a much more common occurrence rather than in their early twenties. And so that's what we began to seein the nineties and the early 2000. But unfortunately for, for those who are hoping for more of a replacement rate in the United States as that age of first birth kept getting pushed back and further back, yes, there were, there were advances in terms of in vitro fertilization and other treatments to help women have children, past normal childbearing age. But we also saw an increasing number of people saying, That ship has sailed. I have chosen to do different things in my life.  Susan Stone: So what's going on now? Why are younger kids, high school kids saying, I, I don't wanna do this. What's making them  Dr. Christine Whelan: think that way? A couple things. First, they watch their parents and how their parents are struggling. At one point, one of my kids, oh my God, mommy, that makes sense, mommy. It doesn't look like it's very much fun to be a mommy. You have to work, you have to do, all this stuff at home. You never rest or get a, abreak. This doesn't look like this is that much fun. And the mother in me, just cringes and says, oh no Ma, now I have to, on top of everything else I have to do now, apparently I have to make mothering look more fun. Otherwise I'm gonna raise a generation of kids who don't wanna do this. It. so I think first of all, kids are seeing the challenge of working motherhood. Second, we are really being raised in a very individualistic culture. And when it's all about me, me, me, and what makes me happy, parenting by its very nature, is a sacrifice, right? It is a giving of yourself. It is a generative thing, and that's not something our culture talks about. Kristina Supler: Totally agree. It's the ultimate act of selflessness in many ways because your life becomes about others.  Susan Stone: I, it's interesting because I am your statistic. I had my first child in 97 and my last child in the early two thousands, and I had three did my best to get them done with, but I will say age makes a difference. It's hard getting up the older you are in the middle of the night with that crying baby. And then you never sleep. Let's be real. You never sleep the same. I still am up at three in the morning thinking about my daughter who's 25. And so how do we present it in a way that's joyous? I think the joy comes later. Don't you think?  Dr. Christine Whelan: That is, yes. That is very true. And so in the academic world, we would say that it really, what you're talking about is Eudaimonic happiness. That's what Aristotle called the idea of,satisfaction from putting your all into something that is very meaningful and purposeful for you. And Eudaimonic happiness is really wonderful. Hedonic, happiness is happiness in the moment. And, I think we really need both. So what these young adults who are saying, I don't wanna have kids, what they're seeing is decades without any hedonic happiness in front of them. And, and so Eudaimonic happiness out in the distance doesn't seem quite as appealing as giving up all of your hedonic happiness right now. If that's the way society frames parenting.  And the reason I, in part, we frame it that way, is because we have this idea that you have to be a superwoman. You have to do it all. So you have to have a gr big career, and you have to, somehow be with your children all the time and leaving women feeling like they're failing all the time.  And interestingly enough, leaving the kids feeling like they are to blame for their parents overwhelm and discontent. And so then we wonder why kids don't wanna have kids themselves.  Kristina Supler: You have my thinking about the idea of it all. In essence, it all starts at home. I mean, when Susan and I are representing students across the country dealing with various form, Issues that are essentially crisis. So often the root of an issue, you know, you can trace it back to various family dynamics. And I'm just wrestling with this idea of children, seeing their mothers, struggle to balance it all and achieve professional goals. And it is a struggle.  But then also this idea and perhaps that, makes them not want to have kids. But then also you have to show, it's important to show your kids' happiness and joy. And I think it's important to, to have kids see both of that. But it sounds like there, there's risk in having your kids see moms struggle because it's hard to have it all and do it all. what are your thoughts on what the right balance is there? Dr. Christine Whelan: Man, I would love to know what the right balance is because I'm trying to figure it out on a day-to-day basis. I, there's that old adage that, you have to fill your own bucket before you can, before you can give to others. And so what I decided for myself is that I would not be who I am unless I did paid work of some sort At the same time, I also realized that I can't be who I am if I didn't spend a big chunk of my time with my family and, and mothering and engaged in all of the childcare activities. So what that meant is that I had to kindpull back in both and try to do a little bit in different, you know, at different times. Now it's not that I do 50 50 on a daily basis. There are some days where tomorrow I'm gonna be gone all day giving a guest lecture at Emory Law School. I will be gone all day and I won't see the kids in the morning when they get up or at night when they go to sleep. That's not a balanced day in terms of mothering. That's a day dedicated to my career. Sure.  But then there are plenty of other days where on Friday they're gonna be off school. I'm gonna be with them all day long. And so I think of finding the balance that works for you is important and also important for the next generation to see that there are choices that they can make to do things either differently than what I did, or differently than some of the other cultural messages that they're getting. Optionality is really what everybody wants, and yet not having, a clear path also stresses people out. So it's a double-edged sword.  Susan Stone: What is also stressful is just cost of raising children. Ugh, so expensive, and I'm not talking about the tennis lessons and the high price colleges. I'm talking basic copays for the pediatrician. They need medicine, all of it. Therapy, clothes, some people have kids that I have a really good friend, her son, she blinks and he needs new pants. And not everybody can afford that.  So the stress of economics has got to impact that choice. And then I hear students say, there's only so much to go around and I want that money that I make for me, is that selfish or realistic? Dr. Christine Whelan: I think it's quite realistic. So these students are also gonna be coming out with a whole lot of debt. So how do you think about adding another dependent person to your budget when you yourself are very much in the red?  My grandmother used to say that every baby comes with its own loaf of bread. And I, that was such a sweet expression and so not true. I was trying to sake,  Kristina Supler: I was pondering that. I'm like, wait, what?  Susan Stone: No. Even formulas expensive. Exactly.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Even formula diaper first. Sure. And and they're, and while there are ways to keep the costs down and to do sharing economy things. it's very difficult. The other thing that, that, by the way that is difficult is childcare. And because we have a generation of folks who, who are pursuing their careers, we also don't have a bunch of grandparents who are interested in giving free childcare to their grandchildren. And so that because they can't afford to do so. Susan Stone: Yeah, that's really interesting. I remember that when my daughter was in elementary school, that she had a project called Notable Woman, and she picked Indra Nui, who was the CEO of Pepsi. And we went to visit her. She shared that her dream would be that eventually when her children had children, she would give up this role of running a major conglomeration and help raise her kids because that was her culture that her parents helped her. Now, I was a single mother and boy, I could have used that help.  Kristina Supler: Oh yeah. you think about single parents and all the complicated dynamics that bear on child raising today. And,I'm just thinking to the comment about food and formula. And it popped into my head not that long ago, there was the formula shortage. Iwho would've predicted that? The stress of, oh my gosh, I literally don't know if I can give my child a bottle in two hours.  Susan Stone: That's scary. But do you think the pandemic and that the fact that more people can work from home, will that encourage maybe some rethinking of this issue? Dr. Christine Whelan: No. And in fact, I think it actually might make it worse. So what we're also seeing is young adults having first sexual intercourse at later ages. And while that is good from a disease and pregnancy, un unplanned pregnancy perspective, one of the things that we're really seeing is that the reason why young adults are not being physically intimate with each other is because they're not physically together. Yeah, a lot. And wow. You ha Yeah. So then you have a generation that's increasingly physically isolated. And the more that we physically isolate people, the less likely it is that you're going to create a family. As we delay marriage, as we delay,these kind of,these kinds of intimate partner bonds then obviously we're going to be delaying having children and, and making babies the normal way, right? So I worry that the pandemic actually is going to make things worse rather than better. And by the way, for all the moms out there who tried to raise their young children, during the, that, those early days of the lockdown, which is, youjust three years ago, we remember what it was like to try to do our jobs and have a toddler or two or three running around. So no work from home is not easier with kids.  Kristina Supler: I read some media interview you did where you were speaking about th this issue and the fact that there was no pandemic baby boom. Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed when we all come back together at some point and we're not so in this idea of working from home, although I'm assuming we will come back together, perhaps we won't. Do you expect though, eventually to see birth rates climb again?  Dr. Christine Whelan: I worry about this a little bit because with my college students, they are really still socially awkward. They don't have the same, social skills or even really the desire to hang out with other people that I would have expected young adults to have at this age. And if we see a shift more toward virtual worlds, more toward virtual interactions, then just basic, basic, physiology. If you're not there together, it's gonna be really hard to, to make babies and raise them in co environment. Susan Stone: I wanna shift a little bit because you've written a lot about finding your purpose in life. And I come from the philosophical belief that we're all here to correct our character defects through finding meaning and that we all have a unique gift.  But I gotta tell you, nothing holds a mirror to your face as to your character defects or your strengths then having children. When you see that kid, I both good and bad. You know my daughter, I love to cook and I watched my youngest this weekend create a homemade focaccia. And she's mom, I just wanna be a good cook like you are. You always make such beautiful dishes. You feel pride.  Conversely, I have a spitfire temper, and when I see my kids lose their temper, I know exactly where that came from and who's to blame? But it gives me an opportunity to work on myself and say, ouch, I don't like that character trait. This is something that I need to work on to be a better person. And the more I model the mistakes I've made and how I correct them, I feel like I'm fulfilling my purpose through children. What are your thoughts on that?  Dr. Christine Whelan: That is very beautiful and very, a very evolved way of thinking about it. It's not the way that everybody else often thinks about it. If we, if the other way you could be thinking about it is when you see your children acting in ways that you don't like about yourself, a lot of people lash out at their kids. And are, and are particularly angry at their kids because they are embarrassed that is also their behavior. And so if you can do some really good work around it. And grow from it. That would be ideal. But not everybody is there. I, the joke that I make with my kids is that I will know that I have been a good mother if they are in therapy for different problems than what I am in therapy for.  Susan Stone: yes. Kristina Supler: That, that is very funny. That is very funny. Let's be real. We're talking, having kids is not a walk in the park. It can, it's high highs and low lows. And teens in particular can really be particularly frustrating and challenging and also awesome. But are people, what does the research say? Are adults without kids happier?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yeah. So this is the, this is the tricky bit. is that, At the end of life, whether you have had a child or not doesn't really matter in terms of your happiness. It's not that adults with without kids are happier. It's that, and or that people with kids are less happy. It's that when I don't know any mother who look or father who looks at their children and says, I wish I had not had these children. We don't as humans, tend to have that feeling. So we make a choice one way or the other and we build a life around it.  And and it's one of life's, my, this was one of my mother's wonderful lines. She would say, it's just one of life's many options. And,and she, what she meant there was that we all have a lot of choices. But also there is that, that underpinning of that which is, and then those choices have consequences.  So if you are the type of person that does not wanna have children, and you know that about yourself, don't have children. Don't do it because somebody else wants you to or you think you should. And if you are the type of person that wants to have children and that, that really craves that, then don't worry about whether you're gonna be able to balance it all. Have the children. Create the family. Create the love. and you will. generations of us have figured it out. Live your life. I'm just gonna say it's live  Kristina Supler: your life it's what we tell our kids. Peer pressure. Don't succumb to it. You do you,  Dr. Christine Whelan: whatever it is, and  Susan Stone: whatever it is. If you want a baby, have a baby. If you don't You will find meaning in other ways. But we know from Harvard's happiness study And I love this study That the quality of relationships is what determines happiness. Absolutely. Yeah. it's not quantity. It is quality.  Dr. Christine Whelan: And you can have those quality relatations outside of your nuclear family. Those quality relationships very much can come from friends, from extended family. But often those quality relationships come in your intimate family from children, from partners. And that of course is the line with Ain't. If Mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy or you are only as happy as your least happy child.  Susan Stone: Yeah, I will say that I still remember that moment than when I had my first daughter. And Alex, if you're listening to this, it's about you. And I will say, when they handed that baby to me, it really was like a holiday Hollywood moment. I, I fell in love with her in a way that I have never experienced before. And yes, I fell in love with the siblings too. And you never did. You only  Kristina Supler: had  Susan Stone: that feeling once. Only once. No, but you do. When they hand you that baby. There is that euphoria that you get that depth of love. It's just different from other love. Kristina Supler: I'm gonna challenge you on that. That I think that is, I don't know that all women feel that. I think a lot of women hold that baby and they. Oh God, what now? or probably done.  Susan Stone: Yeah. that's a good point. Not ever. Some people feel depressed or overwhelmed.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Absolutely. And you can also have all of those feelings all at once. And you can have the love and the overwhelm and the terror. And those feelings will last throughout the lifetime. You know, we're all an experiment of one, right? This is, there is no one size fits all approach to this, which is why I really like teaching young adults about the idea of purpose and meaning. Because it's about asking questions of what are your core values? What are your strengths? Who do you wanna positively impact? What are the fears and anxieties that come up for you in a day? in a, when you are trying to tackle a big project or make a decision? And then how can you make purpose-based commitments one step at a time to do the things that matter to you? And what I, when I break it down for young adults like that, it really helps, I think, because these are huge topics that might otherwise emotionally paralyze us. And breaking it down hopefully demystifies it and allows people to make a decision that's right for them.  Kristina Supler: In that. In the introduction, we mentioned that you are a mother of five. And so if I may ask you personal question, tell our listeners what inspired you to have such a large family. Dr. Christine Whelan: I have a Brady Bunch family. I have my, okay, so we'll start with my, so I have a seven, nine, and 11 year old who are my biological kids. And then I am stepmom to twin 14 and a half year old boys. and. It is. and of course, because we had to be a Brady Bunch family, we also added a dog so who is a girl.  So now we have three girls and three boys, and we can do the whole squares. And we have a fabulous household manager who keeps me sane. So she's our Alice. and we have the full, you  Kristina Supler: really are the Brady Bunch. We,  Dr. Christine Whelan: we really are. Now. That's funny. The Brady Bunch Square thing going, and it's total chaos. I was an only child. I grew up in an apartment in Manhattan. I am now the mother of five and a dog with a minivan in the Midwest. And I often have those moments of, I have no idea how this happened. But yet I do because, the, I love the the energy, the chaos, the the joy and the laughter. And I, it is not at all what I expected. My life did not at all turn out how I expected. And yet it is so beautiful as a,as a teaching tool for me in terms of letting go of my otherwise type a personality and control freakness and wanting to everything to be just so, because do you know what, with five kids and a dog, It can't be perfect. It's not gonna happen.  Susan Stone: It depends how we define perfect. What is perfect for you might be just getting dinner on the table and having that really good conversation come up. I  Kristina Supler: agree. That's a good point. Iperfect is obviously very, it can be different for everyone and so  Dr. Christine Whelan: Absolutely. Now my 20 year old self would have defined perfect, in a much more organized and precise fashion. My 45 year old self would wanna give my 20 year old self a hug and say, it's gonna be a wild ride, honey. But, but you're gonna come out the other end of it with a lot of self-growth. So really to your point that children are wonderful teachers and mirrors into yourself and where you need to grow. Now, thinking about this from the kids' perspective, you also wanna make sure that you are supporting them in their own individual journeys. So that they can be a mirror to themselves and make good choices about their own future.  Susan Stone: Is it even worth having a conversation with young adults when they say they do or don't want kids? Because part of me thinks you just don't know until you are at that point in life. I remember in my early twenties, cuz I was, I waited till after law school to think about it. I wouldn't even really envision what that meant. And then all of a sudden, when you want that baby, it's like you see babies everywhere. Dr. Christine Whelan: pregnant women everywhere, and that's all you see.know, when I hear a young adult say, I do or don't want children, is it something that you just let them articulate and go? Mm-hmm. Because you and I know Man plans, God laughs and you just don't know until you know. Yes. And it's worthwhile to ask those questions because they can get at deeper issues. So if somebody says, I definitely don't wanna have children. Then explore why. What is it? Do you want to build a particular kind of life for yourself? And if you do, let's take some steps toward building a life that is going to fulfill those needs and those values, and use those gifts. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're not gonna have children along the way. If I could go back to myself with a, with an infant, the first time round, I would,would wanna remind myself and all young mothers that you can strap the baby to you and go do just about whatever you want. And, and that's a really cool, so by the time I had my youngest, he was just on me and I was off and gone. And it was great. Because you have more confidence of how the child can also incorporate into the life that you wanna have. But when you're young, you see it as an either or. and that kind of dichotomy scares people.  Kristina Supler: That's funny that you, you say that because I know with my first, there were times I was literally afraid to leave the house. Like I loved her so much. But I was like, okay, how am I gonna go to the grocery store with the baby, get the food I need, get it all in the car. And it just felt incredibly overwhelming. And of course, obviously you figure it out, but, you know that, that idea of strap the baby on you, go wherever, do whatever is, for first time mothers or just some mothers in general? it's, they just can't get there and they need a lot of support and encouragement to have that realization.  Susan Stone: I do have to ask a value-based question. I agree. Not everybody's meant to be a parent. And that's a perfectly wonderful choice for someone who has a vision of their life being different. Here's where I'm struggling. And maybe even being judgy. I'm gonna get a little judgey here. What be the first time? I struggle with this though. Maybe, Kristine, you're gonna give me a little soul correction. I don't have a problem with someone saying to me, I don't want children because I wanna pursue my passion for art, or I don't like children. Where it bites me a little bit is when I hear. It out of complete selfishness. Like I want all the money for me, me, me, me, me, me. It's not like I wanna volunteer or I wanna go into service, or I wanna go into government, or I wanna run for political office, or I wanna pursue a passion. But are we devolving as a sathi, as a society where it's just the hedonistic value? And should that be corrected when you hear it out of a teenager's mouth? Do you as a parent have to say, It's not always all about you. Yes. And why is that desirable?  Dr. Christine Whelan: Yes. And the answer doesn't have to then be kids. But I teach lots about agree, the importance of pro-social behavior. Pro-social behavior means doing something that benefits someone else. And the research is absolutely clear that we have, when we use our limited resources of time, of energy, of money in a way that is pro-social, that involves others and helps others, we as individuals are much happier.  And so to the person who says, no, I don't wanna have kids. I wanna spend all that money on me. That kind of self-focus is not a recipe for happiness. However, a when this is a person who potentially was raised not having the things that they wanted because they could see how much their parents struggled to put food on the table to make sure that their kids could get stuff, they might not want to repeat that.  And at this stage of their lives. So then maybe focusing on the idea of, then great, you're gonna have this extra money. What pro-social things are you going to do with it so that you can use your gifts in keeping with your values to make a positive impact on the lives of others? That's purposeful and doesn't have to involve kids. Kristina Supler: For what it's worth. Susan, I don't think that was a judgey question slash comment. I think it was a very good one.  Susan Stone: Thank you. Thank you. I, and I really love the way you frame that because it's okay to say I don't, like children. I don't want that path. But how are you gonna give back? What is gonna be your contribution? Dr. Christine Whelan: The one other thing that I will say though is that there are periods in your life that evolutionarily, and by their very nature and structure, are going to be more selfish than others. And that's okay.  So young adulthood is a fairly solipsistic selfish time of life. It should be that way because you are investing in yourself. You are, you're, do in your own education, in your future career. You're making decisions. You've gotta focus inward on you during that period. That's understandable.   As we get older, we tend to be more generative. We tend to wanna help other people more. We tend to wanna share our wisdom. And there is a sort of an arc and various religions and cultures have seen this,that, youthere is a, there's a time in life where you are focused on yourself a time in life when you're focused on others. And then potentially a time in life when you're focused on thinking and legacy. And, and then what comes next? If you have a selfish teenager, if you have a selfish, kid in their early twenties, yes talking about pro-social behavior is important. You can also put in that kind of pro-social behavior will make you as an individual happier if that's the language that they best understand. Kristina Supler: Last question, Dr. Whelan. What advice should parents give to their own children to help them find their purpose as they look to the future?  Susan Stone: She's asking for a friend. For a friend.  Kristina Supler: Asking for a friend. That's right. not my own two children. No.  Dr. Christine Whelan: listen, I do this with my own kids too, so I have this purpose statement exercise. It's free, it's on my website, on christine wheeland.com. You can download it.  But the but what I have my kids talk about, with me, and then for themselves is those questions of what do I value? What are the strengths I wanna use and who do I wanna help? And then what are the things I am anxious about and what are the goals that I can set? And these are five questions that are in this madlibs purpose statement.  I do it myself. And then I share mine with my kids. The teenagers absolutely roll their eyes. I'm not gonna sugarcoat that one. They think this is ridiculous. However, If I model purposeful behavior and I talk about how even by making a baked potato bar for the family, I am living on purpose and why that is using my values, why that's using my gifts and keeping with my values and how I'm positively impacting them. Honestly, you gotta model the behavior that you're seeking. And so we talk a lot about this, as a family. And it might be worth having a conversation about your family purpose statement for,for the week if you do a Sunday meeting or a,or a summer purpose statement and any way that you can get this idea of values, strengths and positive impact while acknowledging fears and anxieties, cuz that's a really important this. Otherwise this gets, of sugar coated too much. Acknowledging those fears and anxieties and then saying, you know what? I'm gonna do these things and I'm gonna feel good about myself when I do these. Have that conversation. See how it goes.  Susan Stone: I'm just gonna make a wish. I don't know. Is your mom still around?  Dr. Christine Whelan: She unfortunately passed away nine years ago.  Susan Stone: I am so sorry. Well, I won't get my wish because my wish would've been for Kristina and I could to create a trip and sit with a bottle of wine with you and your mom. So since I can't get your mom, I'm grateful that we could talk about your mom and hopefully one day I can have that wish and meet you in the flesh because I would love to sit down with some rosé with you and continue this conversation offline.  Dr. Christine Whelan: I would love that too. And my eldest daughter, Eleanor, who's nearly 12, would love to join in as well, because while I had my first radio show, She started, her Health is Everything, No Kidding podcast when she was eight and she never liked  Kristina Supler: her mother  Dr. Christine Whelan: like daughter. Oh, and mother, like daughter. She has lots of ideas on this topic as well.  Susan Stone: Let us know if she would like to be on our podcast because we had students talk to us.  Dr. Christine Whelan: I love it. Yes. I'll send you, I'll send you the link to her podcast and Okay. Do  Kristina Supler: well listen to that too. Thank you so much for joining us today. It was a real treat speaking with you and I'm, our listeners enjoyed it as well.  Susan Stone: This was a fun one. Thank you.  Dr. Christine Whelan: Thank you. 

Just days before Rosenberg makes his triumphant return to Dip-er-lago, Rosenberg, SGG, and a sleep-deprived Dip gather to discuss: The announcement that Rey Mysterio will enter the WWE Hall of Fame (3:19) Why this year's ‘WrestleMania' lineup makes Dip groan (21:27) What Rosenberg believes to be one of the most underrated story lines in pro wrestling right now (29:19) Expectations for Brock Lesnar vs. Omos (30:08) Did COVID-19 save Roman Reigns? Plus, mailbag (50:48), Montreal bagel opinions, and truff talk. Enjoy yourselves. Hosts: Peter Rosenberg, Greg Hyde, and Dip Producer: Troy Farkas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Did COVID-19 leak out of a Chinese lab? China has long tried to paint that as a false theory and it was once dismissed by many US health officials, including former White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. Now, just a week after FBI Director Christopher Wray said the theory was “likely,” House Republicans will be holding their first hearing today investigating the pandemic's origins. A Democrat who will take part in the hearing, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), joins the Rundown to discuss why she hopes politics are kept out of the probe, whether Dr. Fauci should testify, and why we can't let recent threats from China dissuade us from getting to the truth. Last week, four Americans who traveled to Matamoros, Mexico, were shot and abducted, and now the State Department can confirm two of those Americans are home safe on US soil, yet the other two were killed in the attack. This violence, suspected to be the work of Mexico's cartels, has sparked outrage from US political leaders on the right, like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is now pushing for legislation to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Former US Ambassador to Mexico Chris Landau joins the podcast to explain how cartel violence has made Mexico a dangerous travel destination, and he breaks down why designating these cartels as terrorist organizations could create more complications than solutions.   Plus, commentary from FOX News Contributor Joe Concha. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did COVID-19 leak out of a Chinese lab? China has long tried to paint that as a false theory and it was once dismissed by many US health officials, including former White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. Now, just a week after FBI Director Christopher Wray said the theory was “likely,” House Republicans will be holding their first hearing today investigating the pandemic's origins. A Democrat who will take part in the hearing, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), joins the Rundown to discuss why she hopes politics are kept out of the probe, whether Dr. Fauci should testify, and why we can't let recent threats from China dissuade us from getting to the truth. Last week, four Americans who traveled to Matamoros, Mexico, were shot and abducted, and now the State Department can confirm two of those Americans are home safe on US soil, yet the other two were killed in the attack. This violence, suspected to be the work of Mexico's cartels, has sparked outrage from US political leaders on the right, like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is now pushing for legislation to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Former US Ambassador to Mexico Chris Landau joins the podcast to explain how cartel violence has made Mexico a dangerous travel destination, and he breaks down why designating these cartels as terrorist organizations could create more complications than solutions.   Plus, commentary from FOX News Contributor Joe Concha. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? SHOW: 699CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainableGitOpsCon + CDCon Registration Code: PODCAST10 for 10% offCloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:Eps.499 - Did COVID change tech?Eps.552 - Developing New Habits in COVIDRemote Work Should be (Mostly) Asynchronous (HBR)GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIESHow long the pandemic would lastHow much this would accelerate cloud adoptionHow efficient remote work would make companiesThe future of in-person events vs. virtual eventsGOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNEDToo many companies assumed that late 2020 through early 2022 would be the new normal The cloud providers all grew very fast, but none of them launched industry-changing new services, and have since laid off peopleSaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off peopleRemove work hasn't become more efficient, and it's not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challengesWe've created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize themA new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Did COVID-19 leak from the Wuhan virology lab? This question is back in the spotlight after the U.S. Energy Department concluded that the virus mostly likely came from a lab leak. The report comes from new intelligence. Plus, we have a recap of China's infamous “bat woman” researcher from Wuhan and the lab's ties to China's military. ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

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We take a quick look at Kanye West, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump, but move on to important lessons from the Proverbs. As Kipling would put it, we limp up to explain it once more . . .--Here's the tale of 2 girls and a guy.--These were just kids, super self-confident kids who were able to dupe millions of people, including some of the most respected cabinet officials of the most powerful nation on earth. Have we become a nation of dupes---We don't recognize character anymore.--We don't recognize healthy economics, wisdom in the area of business anymore. . .We don't recognize good science, well-tested technology. . . anymore. . .-We can't distinguish any of this from sheer hype, youthful foolish energy, nice sounding platitudes, and empires built on sand.--This program includes---1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus -Court to Biden- Christian doctors won't do trans surgeries, CNN reporter died in Qatar after death threats, Did COVID-shot cause deaths of 1,080 athletes since 2021----2. Generations with Kevin Swanson

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Did you know that bats provide you with the services of pest control and plant pollination that directly benefit the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and even the liquor you drink? In fact, for example, the existence of tequila and mezcal is thanks to these mammals. Unfortunately, industrialized farming is endangering bats- and your favorite margarita. Renowned ecologist, Dr. Rodrigo Medellin, has a simple way to fix that. He has not only spent his life working to rectify the misunderstandings surrounding these important animals but also has found effective ways for us all to help conserve them.HighlightsWhat makes bats indispensable to humans?What's the connection between bats and agave?Did COVID-19 come from bats?What do we have to be conscious of in our transition to renewables so that they aren't a threat to bats? What YOU Can DoAsk your local liquor store, bar, and restaurant, to stock Bat Friendly™ tequila and mezcal. And choose it for home as well!*Talk to your friends, family, and colleagues about the amazing things bats do for us.Connect with bat protection organizations in your area to do citizen science.Buy a bat detector to learn what species of bats are flying in your area.   Put up a bat house on your property. They'll take care of pest control for you!*This suggestion is meant for responsible adults of the legal drinking age. We do not advocate overconsumption or the abuse of alcohol. ResourcesFollow Dr. Rodrigo Medellin on Instagram & Facebook    Watch the Bat Man of Mexico narrated by David AttenboroughMore about the Bat Friendly™ Brand Tequila Interchange Project on Instagram & Facebook     Want a free guide to help you become a force for nature? Get it HERE!If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, rate, and review it! This helps to boost its visibility.Hit me up on Instagram and Facebook and let me know what actions you have been taking. Adopting just one habit can be a game-changer because imagine if a billion people also adopted that!What difference for the world are you going to make today?Check out the new The Healthy Seas Podcast on your favorite podcasting app and meet those doing all they can to ensure our oceans and seas thrive!

Today I'm interviewing Sherille Cummings. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica. A married mom of 3, she's a minister and Gospel Playwrite: TORN BETWEEN TWO MASTERS. She has a master's degree in Christian ministry and pastoral leadership from Grand Canyon University, is a member of Changing A generation, serving in the nursing home ministry and street evangelism. Topic: Are you looking for our own answers, trying to survive life on your own terms?Are you seeking a RELATIONSHIP with God, instead of towing a RELIGIOUS LINE, with all its faults and legalisms, trying to survive life on your own terms?How to create a happier, healthier relationship with God, full of hopefullness and connection.Did Covid, a bad relgious experience or church closures created new habits that set us on a different path?  Perhaps  we are trying to go it alone. And do life without God. We can discuss the reasons why people often walk away from their roots. ~ Results of doing life without God: the struggles. ~ As humans, we want to belong, to have identity and purpose. We are looking for something to cling to. ~ We are meant to have connection and community: walking through life alone creates isolation, fear, a disconnect, anger.~ Connection creates: hope, opportunity. We are better together. Partnering with Christ. Scriptures: I can do all things Thru Christ who gives me strength. That doesn't mean that whatever we ask will Come out in our favor, but it does mean that we don't have to go it alone. That there is something greater than us in this world.  Phil 4:13No weapon formed against me shall prosper and all those that rise up against us shall fall.Isaiah 54:17That God has a plan for your life, to give u a future and a hope. Jere 29:11Stephanie's Bio:Stephanie Pletka is a motivational speaker, author of Living Your Best Life and radio show host of Motherhood Mindset on Faith Talk Radio 1360 in Phoenix. She produces a weekly podcast to help women navigate the messy parts of motherhood.Get ready for entertaining stories and 3 actionable steps to finding the goodness in the hard places. It's time to be encouraged to chase your dreams and write your story.Grab a copy of Living Your Best Life or download your audible for moms on the go.Subscribe to stephaniepletka.com for mom hacks, tips and upcoming events.@stephaniepletka IG   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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