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The episode you’ve been waiting for. Did Melissa survive the kibbutz in the Catskills? Listen to find out which Beck family member couldn’t hang. Want to support Amanda and Melissa, the strangers behind your favorite new podcast? Join our Patreon! It’s AMAZING if we do say so ourselves (and we do). There you’ll find bonus content, episodes that never made air, IG Monday Night Lives you may have missed, a newsletter, private Discord chat server and so much more. You can join the club here! You can also support the show by buying your very own Imperfect Strangers merch! We have a very cool website! Go there now! We have a PRIVATE Facebook Group too. The Imperfect Strangers Podcast theme song is written and performed by Justin Beck. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imperfectstrangers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/imperfectstrangers/support
Melissa played a round Minnesota Themed STS and it came down to a tie game. Did Melissa go with a flip of the coin or the Tie Breaker question? Play along and if you can get more than two right answers you'll be Smarter Than Staci today.
It's the 2nd pod-versary of Making Your Impact and Melissa is celebrating by looking back at the very first episode! Does the initial vision for the show hold up? Did Melissa achieve her objective of creating a community of people encouraging each other in making their impact? Listen to find out! Feature: The Leslie Knope Corner! CONNECT WITH MELISSA: Listener Voicemail (answer the Question of the Ep or ask Melissa a question!): 405.456.9010 Website: www.melissaeick.com Twitter: @mjeick Instagram: @melissaeick Email: hello@melissaeick.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/making-your-impact/support
What is Connor's unpopular opinion? Did Melissa go and see the picture of the wee woman? And just what flavour is brown sauce? Follow us on Instagram - whatshappeninpodcast E-Mail us - whatshappeninpodcast@gmail.com
Does Abby love the pregnancy pillow? Did Melissa ever have her baby? What is Abby naming her baby? How do we process fears towards labor? LISTEN IN TO FIND OUT!
In this episode, Frank & Thierry welcome Team Canada Medical Coordinator and Athletic Therapist Melissa Healy to discuss the role of an athletic therapist, common injuries, prevention strategies and more. (1:23) - Which teams from the national men's program was Melissa overseeing this past summer? (3:10) - What were some of the major challenges Melissa had to deal with this past summer? (4:31) - Is dealing with injured athletes a challenge or a stressful situation? (5:45) - What are some differences between summer programs and the National Excellence Program in regards to athletic therapy? (7:55) - Did Melissa play volleyball growing up? (8:50) - How did Melissa's passion for athletic therapy develop? (12:25) - What are some of the main differences between physiotherapy and athletic therapy? (14:15) - How do an athletic therapist and a physiotherapist collaborate with national team athletes? (16:00) - What are some of Melissa's guiding principles when it comes to treating a condition? (18:20) - How does Melissa deal with some of the national team athletes that have practically no off-season? (23:20) - What are some common injuries that an athletic therapist must deal with? (25:45) - What are some of Dan Lewis' tips in terms of prevention and maintenance to extend an athlete's career? (28:20) - How long should a pre-practice routine be for a club athlete? (33:22) - Should it be integrated within the practice time with younger teams or if time before or after practice is limited? (34:00) - Any other general prevention tips? (36:30) - What are some ways to accelerate the rehabilitation process or to work around some injuries? (44:00) - Should an athlete that is dealing with a chronic injury still be involved with a summer program or should healing the injury properly with rest and rehabilitation be the priority? (47:15) - How should a coach handle an injury situation during a critical match? (50:10) - What are a few exercises or stretches that athletes should do in regards to the shoulder? (53:00) - What are a few exercises or stretches that athletes should do in regards to the knee? (54:05) - What are a few exercises or stretches that athletes should do in regards to the ankle? (56:10) - Is having an athlete lead the pre-practice protocol a good strategy? (57:15) - Any final general tips for coaches to consider?
In this episode we cover different types of dating dynamics: hooking up, spiritual solitude, dating around and being fully committed. Find out why Corion gave up his life in these streets to become a man with boundaries. Did Melissa get any dates from last week’s insta story?
Did Melissa go over-the-top as a mother in regards to her son's Valentine's Day school project? Also, she's in the middle of moving and Melissa explains why she feels overwhelmed but glad she's made this decision. And have you ever rented your clothes?
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How much does the Life TK audience know about being a professional dominatrix? That was one of the first questions my interviewee—the remarkable Melissa Febos—had for me when we recorded today's episode. I don't have that data, unfortunately, but it's a fair question because Melissa is the author of the amazing memoir Whip Smart, about the time in her twenties she spent as a college student and professional dom, one of the best books I read last year. Whip Smart is about so much more than the world of domming; it's about power, desire, control, and Melissa's struggle with drug addiction. Get it. Read it. Love it. Also one of the best books I read last year: Melissa's powerhouse essay collection Abandon Me, which chronicles an emotional, intimate, fraught long-distance relationship she had with a lover, and her reconnection to her birth father. Abandon Me was named one of the best books of 2017 by Esquire, Refinery29, BookRiot, Electric Literature, The Cut, and more, and The New Yorker said that the "sheer fearlessness of the narrative is captivating." What I love about Abandon Me is not only does the subject matter invoke this incredible feeling of vulnerability, but also Melissa is a master of form. A lot of the essays are braided and the prose is amazing, dipping into religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture—this is a book that will turn you inside out emotionally and intellectually, and leave you wanting more. So here's some more: Today Melissa and I are talking about the process of writing, how Whip Smart poured out of her—and how Abandon Me was different. Whip Smart started as a five-page memoir assignment for a nonfiction survey class, and when Melissa handed in hers, about her first session as a dom, her professor recognized she was on to something. Melissa was told to drop everything and write this book. "Anyone who finds the work they are called to do will recognize this feeling," she told me. "When I started writing that story, it just—it was writing me. It just came out. It wasn't easy, but there was an engine in me for it, and the story wanted to be told." If you're wondering, like I did, whether Abandon Me felt just as urgent to write, it did—but it was different because Melissa was still living through some of the experiences she was writing about. She didn't know how the book was going to turn out because she wasn't sure, well, what she was writing to. "I just knew I had to examine it in order to move through it," she said. As I often do on Life TK, I asked the million-dollar question: Did Melissa ever feel like giving up? Here's what she told me: "Oh God, I felt like giving up yesterday. It's so lonely sometimes. I can't really speak for other kinds of writers, but because I'm writing memoir or work based on my personal experience, I spend a lot of time alone, re-living and examining the most painful, sort of incoherent parts of my experience. Which is a lot. It's not required. It's not even recommended for a lot of people. It's really painful. I have often wanted to give up. ... In my early twenties, when I had graduated college and I wasn't writing and I wasn't reading and I was an active drug addict working as a dominatrix, I was like, 'I feel so far from the life that I thought I'd be living, and from the person I am.'" But how did she get through it? By getting quiet, she told me, and listening to the inner wisdom that's underneath the fear we all experience. "For me, even in those times when I felt incredibly hopeless, far from where I needed to be, if I got really quiet, I could hear it. It's like those moments when I was like, 'You have to get clean.' 'You have to quit this job.'" Speaking of, one of my favorite parts of Whip Smart is when Melissa, wanting to use her degree, takes a break from domming and starts a new job working in editorial...and it blows, so she quits. You know I'm the A-number-one fan of hanging in there, but Melissa's confidence made me think twice about my "no quitting" policy. We talk about how she knew that job wasn't the right fit, and what she did after she left (dog walking, assistant to a really rich lady). And finally, I ask Melissa for her advice for Life TK listeners. Keep going, and call yourself a writer even if you don't write for a living (which most of us don't, btw). "Tell people about your work, even if your heart is broken out of rejection, send it back out again," she said. "It doesn't feel good, it feels like the wrong thing to do, but we have to do it anyway." This episode was produced by Erin McKinstry. Our music, from Blue Dot Sessions, is called The Zeppelin, Drifting Spade, and Vulcan Street. This interview was recorded with the help of Google Hangouts. Logo by Theresa Berens of Boss Dotty.
This week's special episode is a follow up to our previous episode where Melissa shared her Life Between Lives (LBL) regression with hyponotherapist Nancy Canning. If you have not yet watched/listened to the previous episode, you might want to before watching/listening to this one (to gain the most). Find it in the show notes below. Melissa goes into more detail about her afterlife journey in this episode, and we answer questions like: Do we plan our life-threatening diseases before we're born into this life? Are we really greeted by our loved ones when we cross over? Did Melissa not have a spirit guide? Why did Melissa seem to take key parts of her afterlife journey so "casually" during this LBL? And was the regressionist asking leading questions in this LBL regression? We really got some great questions from you, the audience — so thank you! Little inside info… Melissa’s photographs on this episode are from our mini-vacation to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor, Maine. I must say it was one of the most beautiful and romantic long weekends we’ve had in 40 years. We had 70-degree weather in October. If you watch the photos on YouTube, you’ll see a crow that visited us on Cadillac Mountain and a sunset on that mountain that was breathtaking. Just watch each sunset photo in order and you’ll witness the sun going down. We also saw the sunrise one morning. Just imagine the sunset in reverse. I hope you enjoy this special follow up episode, and if you have any comments, feel free to leave them on AfterlifeTV.com, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Much love, Bob Olson ~ AfterlifeTV.com & BobOlson.com SHOW NOTES: THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: Best Psychic Directory http://www.bestpsychicdirectory.com Melissa's Life Between Lives regression - Glimpse Into The Afterlife – Life Between Lives Journey Recorded MICHAEL NEWTON'S "JOURNEY OF SOULS” BOOK https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ BOB'S BOOKS: The Magic Mala: A Story That Changes Lives https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mala-Story-Changes-Lives/dp/0965601919/ The Magic Mala Audiobook is now available! https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Magic-Mala-audiobook/B073RN5266?qid=1499712941&sr=1-1 Magic Mala Moments - Share your stories and read others' experiences: http://bobolson.com/stories/ Answers About the Afterlife http://www.answersabouttheafterlife.com/ BOB'S AUTHOR WEBSITE Answers About the Afterlife & The Magic Mala http://www.BobOlson.com .......................................... AFTERLIFE TV NEWSLETTER - Join and get notified of new episodes! http://eepurl.com/jZiyb ASK BOB A QUESTION for Afterlife TV: http://www.afterlifetv.com/question TELL YOUR STORY for Afterlife TV: http://www.afterlifetv.com/story iTunes PODCAST (leave a review of the show): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/afterlifetv-with-bob-olson/id529018781 Get an INSTANT READING - No Waiting (Bob Olson’s site): http://www.bestpsychicdirectory.com/instantreadings.php