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In this insightful episode, Dr. Kevin Mailo and Dr. Wing Lim engage in a profound conversation about self-control in time management. The discussion unfolds with a reflection on the evolution of time management concepts from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional approaches.Dr. Wing Lim introduces the audience to the Franklin Covey time management matrix, emphasizing the importance of not just handling urgent tasks but also allocating time to nonurgent yet crucial activities. He delves into the concept of significance, urging listeners to consider the long-term impact and purpose behind their actions.The episode further explores the notion of creating more time tomorrow by investing time today. Dr. Wing Lim introduces the concept of a "permission funnel," comprising permissions to eliminate, automate, delegate, procrastinate strategically, and concentrate on essential tasks. The episode concludes with a powerful reminder of the preciousness of time and a preview of future discussions, including an upcoming episode on delegation—a key component of effective time management. Overall, the conversation serves as a guiding light for physicians looking to regain control of their time and live a more purposeful and fulfilling life.About Dr. Wing LimIn 1993, Dr. Wing Lim embarked on his journey as a family physician, facing immense challenges in his first year. Despite putting in 100-hour workweeks, financial struggles, a receptionist issue, and the threat of eviction were formidable obstacles. Rather than retreating, Dr. Lim embraced these challenges, teaching himself Practice Management and transforming his approach.This resilience and newfound expertise turned his practice from that of a struggling "lone wolf" to the founder of one of Alberta's largest medical clinics. Dr. Wing Lim's story is a testament to overcoming adversity, highlighting the transformative power of learning and adaptation in the dynamic landscape of healthcare.Resources discussed in this episode:Stephen Covey: StephenRCovey7 Habits of Highly Effective People: franklincovey.comDragon Dictate: dragondictations.orgRory Vaden--Physician Empowerment: website | facebook | linkedinDr. Wing Lim/Synergy Wellness Centre: website | linkedin | Synergy Wellness Centre--Transcript:Dr. Kevin Mailo 00:01Hi, I'm Dr. Kevin Mailo, one of the CO hosts of the Physician Empowerment Podcast. At Physician Empowerment, we're dedicated to improving the lives of Canadian physicians, personally, professionally, and financially. If you're loving what you're listening to, let us know, we always want to hear your feedback, connect with us. If you want to go further, we've got outstanding programming, both in-person and online. So, look us up, but regardless, we hope you really enjoyed this episode. Dr. Kevin Mailo 00:35Hi, I'm Dr. Kevin Mailo, one of the CO hosts of the Physician Empowerment Podcast, and you guys probably already know that, because that's how I introduce myself every single time I'm on the show. And today, I've got my fellow co-host, Dr. Wing Lim, and again, I think most of you know who Wing is and what he does. And he's the one that leads our master class and does a phenomenal job teaching the ins and outs of high-level tax planning, wealth creation strategies, real estate investing. But there's a lot here with Wing. And that's why I look to you Wing like a mentor because I've learned so much from you, in so many facets of my personal and professional life. And one of the things in my personal life that I learned from you is the notion of time management. And so that's what we're going to cover today. And I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on how it is you've achieved so much in real estate development, full-time practice, a family, travel, you've done so much. And a lot of this comes down to not only goal setting but time management. So, why don't you talk and share some of your thoughts on this? Because I'm very interested to hear about it.  Dr. Wing Lim 01:49Yeah, thank you, Kevin, for a very kind introduction. And I say when people talk up on you, you wish you would live up to it. And so I love doing this because every time we share with our colleagues, we're more alike than different whatever your specialty, and now listenership is not just in with MDS, right, they're out of medical professionals that they're dialling in. So, we all dealt with this problem that we're time broke, right? And at first time I heard this term, this is like 25 years ago, maybe, what does time property mean? Well, because there are people who trade time for money, and that's us, right? We trade time for money. You don't have trade time, you have no money, right? So, you keep trading time for money. And then the problem is, then very soon, you run out of time, right? So, you and I went through gruesome training, we all did, right? 120 hours way back residency, when we did one in two calls, one in three calls, 36 hours straight. Right? And even when I started my practice, 100 hours a week, so you pretty soon run out of time. So, then we take these time management courses, we pay for it way back? And then what do you get? Right? So, I think all of us understand that we need to manage time. So, I think all of us would at least have a to-do list. You know, we have this to-do list every day you put down, right? And then I learned as I go and then I learned that that doesn't work. How many of you and I will look at the to-do list and we actually get better? In fact, what you're doing on a to-do list is just bumping, right? You're just doing it based on urgency. So then, some 10 years later, decades later, the thinking and time management's like medical journal, right, like medical thinking, it's changed. So, that's called a one-dimensional time management. And you've just bump things, in fact, nobody could control time, time is a commodity that you cannot control. Time goes on whether you do it or not. And the truth is, most of us can do the urgency, but time management or event control, let's call it better event control. It's a very emotional base thing. Right? You and I have said, Okay, I gotta get these charts done. I gotta do that stupid medical legal report or WCB report. And you were so stressed out, that you ended up clicking on a mini-series six episodes later of the Netflix. Right? Ya know. Dr. Kevin Mailo 04:12No, It's true. And a lot of it is we feel overwhelmed by how much we have on our plates. And so then it becomes very easy to procrastinate or distract ourselves. And it can even be distracting ourselves, not just with like idle leisure, but even distracting ourselves in work. Right, that rather than doing the hard stuff, you know, maybe we go do some errands around the house or, you know, get some shopping that's not urgently needed to be done. Even just going to work and doing more paperwork. Dr. Wing Lim 04:44Yep. And then we just keep being busy, right? But keeping busy doesn't mean keeping being productive. Right, so I'm the perfect Master of this. I have 15 things on my to-do list today and I only got four done, right and every day you just keep bumping it right? So, that's called the first dimension. There's actually different dimensions, polly dimensional. So, dimension one is the to-do list, and it's based on urgency. Okay, which one do you bump? And we know that that's not adequate. Now then comes the 80s and 90s. And then there's a guy, Franklin Covey. I don't know how many of you heard of Franklin Covey. I used to have a big binder, called Franklin Covey binder, but that's how you organize the life, and Covey “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, right, he's the guy.  Dr. Kevin Mailo 05:31Oh, Stephen Covey. Dr. Wing Lim 05:34Stephen Covey? Yes. Dr. Kevin Mailo 05:35No, I got you. No worries. Dr. Wing Lim 05:37Yeah, yeah. So, there are two companies that join, right? So, Frank. Anyways, the two companies and so that's called Franklin. I used to have these big Franklin folders. And they go into the urgency and importance, right? This is called a time management matrix, where some of you have heard it from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, right? So, you have the urgent, nonurgent, important, not important, then you got four possibilities, right? And most of us still deal with urgent/important things. This is actually people who, like you'd practice within ER, you're dealing with urgent, important things, right? But nonurgent, and not important things get ignored. Right? And that's why they say, why do people not read more? And the Maestro says because books don't ring? Right? You will always answer to the phone, to the urgent things, but they're important things that we don't deal with. So us physicians and medical practitioners, are no tourists dealing with more urgent stuff, and we push the important things away. And then it fights back, I have literally met colleagues that forgot to file taxes for seven years. And the CRA came to the door and garnish their wage. How do you do that? Right? Because you keep doing the urgent one, right? And you forgot about it? So, this Time Matrix thing helps people to do okay, I need to apportion the time, right? Dr. Kevin Mailo 07:00Well, I was just gonna say even if you don't internalize it, so rigidly and for anybody that has not read Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I strongly recommend reading it, but even just to be able to have that mental pause, when something comes in front of you, whether you hear about it, or you read about it, or somebody you know, you're reminded of it in your head, say, is this truly urgent? Is it distracting me from what's important that I have to get done to move ahead on this project with this goal? Sorry, please continue. Dr. Wing Lim 07:34So, it's absolutely important exercise. So, for those of us who are still stuck with this linear thing called the to-do list, you need a second now y-axis to create the importance. And so you and I need to apportion our days, that the toughest one, or the nonurgent, but important things. Buying tax return, doing your tax planning, right, you know, those things are super important. If you don't invest in these relationships then relationships blow out, right down the row. And so definitely, that is important. But then at the end of the day, you are still juggling different things. And the biggest thing and the motive here, the MO is to do more things, right? But there's still not enough time of the day, right? You still don't create time. So, then I attended a leadership conference, I think during COVID or pre-COVID. And the guy said there's a third dimension, oh, what is the third dimension? The third Dimension is called significance. Right? You don't just deal with what is there, you deal with what is the long-term significance. The longer significance is not just what is important, is way beyond that. I went to a leadership conference way back a big 20,000-people thing in the States and they talked about legacy, what you're left with, and after that, that conference, that's how I gave birth to, dug up my dream and gave birth to Synergy Wellness Center. But these things are life-changing. What is significant to you, what is the endgame? And so when you throw in the X, Y, and Z axis, it changes what you're going to do. It may change your priority and change what you do. You've been doing things for so many years for decades. Isn't why you're still doing it. Right? You need to ask why? Why am I doing this? You're running on a treadmill now for 10, 20, 30 years, trading time for money, right? We're talking a lot of colleagues and say, I'm like 40 some year old practitioner. I got X number of dollars in debt. I can't afford to retire. Why am I doing this? Right, and a lot of people have that midlife thing awoken and say this is getting nowhere and that's why there's so much attrition people walking out of the profession. Right, so until we find out why we don't know what we're doing. And then there's this guy call. I forgot his name. Now, Rory, somebody, Rory Haun there we go. Rory Haun, give him the credit for doing this. And he says there's this funnel that you can help create time. Right? You really you can create time? You mean like other than the Avenger Timestone? You can create time? And the question is what can you do today, to create more time tomorrow? Wow, that's absolutely amazing. How do you create more time tomorrow? Well, are there things that you can do today? So, that you don't have to do it tomorrow? Okay, give you an example. Right. And you and I do charts, do things every day, right? We have chart work to do. If you have a way to let's say, create a macro in electronic medical record system EMR, it does the template for you, or those of you dictate, Dragon Dictate. Kevin you've tried that, right? Things that could save you time, right, then you get this ROTI, return on time invested. So, what can you do today that invest a little bit more time so that you reap the benefit? And the equation that I got was 30 times 30. So, whatever tasks you want to give up to make it disappear, you invest 30 times the time you spent. So, for example, a five-minute task, you invest 150 minutes, okay, simple math. What is the five-minute task, something that your staff could do? And so the problem that we have is we are our top enemy. We're the worst enemy because we want to do it. If you do want to do right, do it yourself. The more years we spend in tertiary care settings, the more we don't trust people, right, we just trust ourselves. I have, especially colleagues, if you refer them, they redo all the investigations all over because they don't trust anyone. So, this mistrust becomes difficult for us to delegate. And that's a different session we're going to talk about it's just delegation. But to delegate, you need a process, but the time we're talking about time management here, event control is a five-minute event you want it disappear in your daily life. It could be doing a chart, doing something that your clinic work. Invest 30 times 150 minutes to teach, delegate one of your staff to do the job for you. And then poof, you're earn five minutes per day. What if is an hour, 30 times, invest 30 hours. And that could be learning EMR. By learning EMR, what shortcuts can I do, so that I make these stupid things disappear? Right, prescription refills, you name it, and you invest 30 hours. I have colleagues who would not have 30 hours to get for anything. But you know what, if you invest the 30 hours, you earn one hour a day. And why don't we do it? Dr. Kevin Mailo 13:02It pays for itself in a month, and you still have your career to run.  Dr. Wing Lim 13:06You want to make more money and you might keep a relationship that you cherish or sports or some hobby that you don't have to kill. Dr. Kevin Mailo 13:14You know, I mean, even just reflect like in, you know, in our personal lives, the parallel is children. I mean, you can sit there and you can clean up after your children. But at some point, you just need to teach them how to scrub floors, and tidy up the house and do their laundry, even if it's like you said, 30 times that it takes you to just do this task yourself. But you realize that ultimately you're creating more time for yourself and less stress, Right? And so this dovetails with every aspect of our lives. It is just willingness to put in a little bit of front-end investment in time to make our lives easier and simpler. Moving forward. Dr. Wing Lim 13:58Right, exactly. So, let's just end this episode with a funnel, okay, this funnel is called the permission funnel. We need to give ourselves emotional permission, okay? I can give myself emotional permission but once you give yourself emotional permission, then you can move forth. So, the first question, the first permission you give yourself is to eliminate. Elimination that's one. Can I do without this? Okay, can I do with all these things? Say no. Say no, no, no no for people like me who was a yes man, mostly, it's a very difficult thing. But if we want to get on top of this time management thing or more control, event control thing. We have to say no, can I do without it? So, the first permission is the permission to say no and exit out. I don't want to do it. Permission number two is can we all automate. Right? We're in an automation world. AI is gonna run the world. AI can read CT scans, better than we could, right? So can we automate? If you can automate, you're done. But the automation is not just AI, just technology. Automation means systemization. Can you have a system in your workplace, in your practice, in your finances, in your home life? Is that something that can be systemized? Right? And, of course, that's a different topic altogether. Can you systemize it? Or can you use technology to do it? Once you can automate, you're done. The third permission is permission to delegate. Okay, and we're going to have a whole talk about delegation. Can we delegate that away? And the fourth permission is, can I procrastinate? So, you thought procrastination is a bad thing. Yes, it is. Procrastination is the assassination of motivation, as somebody once said that, but there are things that we should procrastinate because we have a finite amount of time, right now. So, things that don't fit that grid, X, Y, & Z grid. You need permission to procrastinate, to go back to the funnel, okay? So, you either procrastinate, or you number five, concentrate. And whatever goes into the concentrate is like the filtration. You put all your time, energy, effort, you and your team into the concentrate, and get it done. And that's how people move and shake the world. Right? Dr. Kevin Mailo 16:33It's very powerful. Dr. Wing Lim 16:33And it's never been to me, I've lost so many people right in this space. But this actually did it for me, this crystallizes everything.  Dr. Kevin Mailo 16:48Very powerful, very powerful. You know, I'm reflecting on when we were in Mexico in 2021, teaching with Physician Empowerment. And I remember coming across some wisdom that you shared as well, Wing because I think I actually had to deliver that talk. But I know that it was your wisdom and your knowledge in this space of time control. But one of the key elements here is that it's not actually time control. Because like you said, time is passing us by. It's truly self-control. It is self-control. It's knowing your priorities, setting them, and then sticking with them, even if that means saying no. And it's not just no to external requests on your time, your staff, your colleagues, your family, friends, whomever is asking for your time, but it's even that internal voice telling you, oh, but go do this, it's easier, right? Or this is important now. When it truly isn't, if you're honest with yourself, and that's about, again, self-control, not time control. And I think that's very powerful. Because when you look at people who have achieved enormous things, you know, heights in, you know, reached enormous heights, in business, politics, athletics, whatever. Fundamentally, they have the same number of hours in a day, as we do. Chosen, like you said Wing, to concentrate and focus. And it is fundamentally self-control, whether you're an athlete, a performer, you know, a business or political leader, or you know, even just a great dynamic physician, it comes down to self-control. And I think that is so, so powerful. And so key. That's certainly what I've taken away from listening and reflecting in this space. Dr. Wing Lim 18:40Mm-hmm, exactly. So, if we could apply these simple principles in every facet of our life, then we can have some freedom. But at the end of the day, we yeah, we only live one life, right? And we're getting older one day at a time, right? So, the sooner we get this in our brain, the sooner we reorganize our life and control our life. Then you get your life back and have more freedom. Dr. Kevin Mailo 19:10The only other reflection I really had was just how precious time is. And I did not appreciate this 20 years ago when I was a teenager. But I blink and a decade has gone by, I blink and another decade has gone by. And so the challenge is to ask yourself, what am I doing right now, with the time that I have, especially realizing that we don't know how much of it we actually have here. And I think that allows us to focus down and say, Okay, this actually isn't a priority. And I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to that meeting. Or I'm not doing that, you know, answering that email, because, frankly, it's not going to be something I'm going to remember a year from now, let alone a decade from now in my life, right? And so, again, just recognizing how precious these years in our lives are and that these years are comprised of a million small moments and countless hours that do drift by if we don't exercise that self-control. Dr. Wing Lim 20:13Mm-hmm, exactly. Exactly.  Dr. Kevin Mailo 20:16Yeah. No, it's It's a wonderful topic. I think we could go on and on about it. But we are going to do a future episode where we cover delegation, right, which I think is the key to effective time management. Is being able to hand tasks off, or as you said Wing, we automate a process. Yup. So, we'll cover that in a later episode. And I'm really looking forward to it. Because again, these are the things I think speak to all of us regardless of specialty, regardless of stage of career, I think we all feel too busy. And we want a way out, we want things to be better, and they can be unconfident in it. Dr. Wing Lim 20:58Exactly. So, imagine you could go home at five o'clock, six o'clock, whatever, and be done with work, wouldn't that be a dream? Dr. Kevin Mailo 21:06True. Totally done. Yeah. Awesome. Thanks so much. Dr. Wing Lim 21:12Thank you, everyone.Dr. Kevin Mailo  21:15Thank you so much for listening to the Physician Empowerment podcast. If you're ready to take those next steps in transforming your practice, finances, or personal well-being, then come and join us at PhysEmpowerment.ca - P H Y S Empowerment dot ca - to learn more about how we can help. If today's episode resonated with you, I'd really appreciate it if you would share our podcast with a colleague or friend and head over to Apple Podcasts to give us a five-star rating and review. 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Kelly Brakenhoff is an author of six books and an ASL interpreter from Nebraska. She has served as an interpreter for deaf and hard of hearing persons now for over 30 years. You can tell how much she likes her chosen professions by listening to her as you get to do in this episode.   Kelly is especially excited by a series of books she has started involving Duke the Deaf Dog where she introduces readers to ASL, American Sign Language. She is working to help readers, especially children, better understand the deaf and hard of hearing community. On top of everything Kelly has done, she has used the crowdfunding program, Kickstarter, to help fund her newest book. It turns out that another famous author also used this program to fund their efforts. You get to hear all about it.   I very much hope you enjoy our episode this time and that you will give us a 5 rating. Thanks for listening.   About the Guest:   Kelly Brakenhoff is an author of six books and an ASL interpreter from Nebraska, US. She divides her writing energy between two series: cozy mysteries set on a college campus, and picture books featuring Duke the Deaf Dog.  Parents, kids, and teachers love the children's books because they teach American Sign Language using fun stories. And if you like a smart female sleuth, want to learn more about Deaf culture, or have ever lived in a place where livestock outnumber people, you'll enjoy the Cassandra Sato Mystery series.   Social media links:   kellybrakenhoff.com and follow her social media or blog by using this link: https://kellybrakenhoff.com/quicklinks/   About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:21 Hi, and here we are once again with unstoppable mindset, the podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected me. And the unexpected, as always, is the fun part of the podcast. We love to carry on different kinds of conversations with people learn about them. And you know what I'm going to say once again, for any of you listening out there, I'd love to have conversations with you. I'll bet you have stories that we should talk about. So definitely reach out. Michael hingson.com/podcast or Michaelhi@accessibie.com. And I'd love to chat with you. But for now, we have Kelly Brakenhoff, who is here with us. She is an author, and ASL interpreter, and a Kickstarter campaign runner par excellence. But does that elevate you are what Kelly Welcome to unstoppable mindset. How are you?   Kelly Brakenhoff  02:18 Hi, I'm great. Thank you for having me. today. I'm really excited to be talking to you.   Michael Hingson  02:24 Well, I'm really excited to have a chance to chat with you and learn all about you and and learn why you're unstoppable. When I started this podcast, because we think that everyone has a story to tell, we all have had challenges in our lives and, and we've overcome them. And it doesn't need to be a huge challenge. But still a challenge is a challenge. And when we overcome it, that's great. And when we recognize that we did something that we didn't think we can do, then I think we fall into this concept of being able to move toward a mindset of unstop ability. And so we started unstoppable mindset, and we have a lot of fun with it. Well, why don't we start with your story a little bit? Why don't you tell us about you kind of growing up or anything about that that you think we ought to know?   Kelly Brakenhoff  03:12 Well, sure. Um, yeah, I'm a fan of your, your mindset, your your podcast, I think this is just the coolest thing. So like I said, just super excited to be here today. Um, I've been an ASL interpreter for more than 30 years, and an author for just over three years. So although I'm a veteran interpreter, I'm still a baby author and publisher. I learned new things every day. So I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. I guess. I've moved around. One thing that's interesting about me as I've moved around quite a bit. I grew up in Connecticut. I've lived in Nebraska, Boston, Hawaii, Seattle. And then now we've been in Nebraska for quite a while since Austin. Last Boston, Boston. Yes.   Michael Hingson  04:01 So can you say it pack your car and have a yard? Of course.   Kelly Brakenhoff  04:07 My uncle is from South Boston and so he married my aunt who's from upstate New York and listening to the to talk was so fun. I lived with them for a summer in college. And and I just had such is such a fun time, especially if they like had a little discussion or something you know, and they they get the voices raised and they'd start going in their accent they revert.   Michael Hingson  04:35 I lived in Winthrop, Massachusetts for three years and spent some time in the in the Boston area before then and back a little bit but I love the accent but I love Massachusetts. I love New England in general. And my wife and I have a story about Mr. Connecticut. We were going there for something and And I don't even remember what it was. And we were we were traveling the right way but we were traveling a lot further than we thought we needed to to get to Mystic So ever since I've been saying that one of the things about mystic is it moves around and doesn't stay in one place. So I'm sticking   Kelly Brakenhoff  05:17 to memory of mystic is going there on probably a sixth grade field trip. And you know afterwards, the field trip they take you through the gift shop and I bought a little pewter whale. Yeah, sure. I still have it somewhere in the bookcase somewhere in my house.   Michael Hingson  05:39 We stopped at a restaurant there. The second time we went to mystic and I'm still convinced it wasn't in the same place. It was the first time we went to a restaurant and sat right along the river and watch the drawbridge coming up, which was   Kelly Brakenhoff  05:55 that is really fun. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  05:57 definitely. Yeah. We love New England. And I hope that we get a chance to go back there. I have all sorts of stories about Boston. We went I went a lot over to Daniel hall into Quincy Market and ADA Durgan. Park. Have you ever eaten there?   Kelly Brakenhoff  06:13 I have it in there. Yes, I love Faneuil Hall.   Michael Hingson  06:16 I don't know whether Durgin Park is still open. I've heard it. I've heard that it is. But I'll have to tell you. Well, I'll tell you the story about Durgan Park. It's a Durgin Park, for those who don't know, is a restaurant that if it's still there, serves food family style, and they have tables along the side. That will seat for people. But you have to have four people, if you want to sit at one of those tables. If you have three, you sit at the long tables in the middle. If you have too long tables in the middle. They're very snotty about it. In fact, waitresses and waiters are hired to be snots. It's all an act, but they're supposed to be absolutely obnoxious. They're just what some people would say the typical clothes New England style of of being, if you will, but anyway, we go into the restaurant one night, and it was me and two other people and my guide dog Holland, who is a golden retriever with the most luscious eyes in the world. And the hostess said, you know, I'm just going to let you guys sit at one of the tables for four. So she seats us and the waitress comes over. And she says what are you people doing here? You can't sit at this table. And I said, well, the host has put it put us here. No, she didn't you just snuck in here. You can't sit at this table. And she yelled at us. And we said no. We got to sit be seated here because we have a guide dog under the table. No, you don't I don't believe that. You're not going to fool me with that. You can't sit here and she just went on. Then she goes away. And she comes back and she said you can't sit here I said, look under the table. Finally she looks. There's these eyes just staring back at her. And she just melts. And the next thing we know she goes away. One of the things about Durgin Park is that they serve a when they serve prime rib. It's a huge piece of prime rib that takes the whole plate. She comes back with this plate. She said somebody didn't eat much of their prime rib. Can I give it to the dog? And oh, it was great. But it's just fun memories of all over Boston. So I'm glad you had a chance to be there. Well, enough about me in that. So you've lived all over?   Kelly Brakenhoff  08:29 We have we've moved a lot and you haven't moved a lot recently. But when when I was younger, I moved quite a bit.   Michael Hingson  08:35 Yes. What caused you to be moving around. Um, we   Kelly Brakenhoff  08:39 grew up in Connecticut. And then in high school, my parents decided my mom's from Nebraska so and my dad's from upstate New York. So when I was in high school, we moved our family moved to Nebraska. And then when my husband and I first got married, he worked for a construction company who moved us to Hawaii for five years that works. That worked. That was a great honeymoon, We'd only been married six weeks. And so that was that was a five year honeymoon. That was awesome. Our first couple of kids were born there. And we decided that we after a year or so they really didn't get to see their grandparents very often. So he decided to move back to the mainland and we made a stop first in Seattle and then we came back to Nebraska. So we've been in here for quite a while but I really enjoyed getting to experience all the different cultures and all the different places and I also have a very soft spot in my heart for New England to   Michael Hingson  09:35 Well, it's great to live in various parts of the US shows what a wonderful and just incredible country we are with all sorts of different cultures that can really blend and meld together to form what we get to experience if we only keep the culture going as as really we are the melting pot and that just makes it so Great when we get to see that,   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:01 I totally agree i Yeah.   Michael Hingson  10:04 So how old are your kids now?   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:07 They are grown up. We have four kids, three boys and one girl. And so the oldest is 21 going to be 29. And our youngest just graduated from college last year. So he's 22 in Nebraska, and Nebraska. Huskers everybody's a Husker.   Michael Hingson  10:28 Go Huskers Go Big Red. Yep.   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:31 So um, but we have four grandkids too. So that's a lot of fun. And we're really lucky. They all live in town, so I get to see them quite a bit.   Michael Hingson  10:38 That works. So you see you fix it up. So you now have this this Braden half ghetto, if you will,   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:45 yes, my Twitter handle is actually in Brockville. Because one of my friends quite a while ago used to tease me that I was trying to create my own village. So we call it in Brock anvil.   Michael Hingson  10:59 There you go, that works. Nothing wrong with that. Well, so I know you're an author. And I know that you are an ASL interpreter, and so on, tell me how you got into being involved with ASL. And a little bit more about all that.   Kelly Brakenhoff  11:16 Sure. Um, I in high school, I volunteered at a camp for deaf kids. My parents wanted me to do something in the summer and stay out of trouble. So they kind of sent me to go volunteer. And at this camp. In the end, I didn't know any sign language. So I got a book. And I started trying to figure out a few signs before I first went to this camp. Of course, the first few weeks I was there, I had no idea what anyone was saying, because they were all using sign language. And I didn't know it. But by the end of the summer, I had learned quite a bit and I had made some really good friends. And I just kept learning during the school year, when they went when they were all gone. I kept taking classes and reading more books. And it actually turned out to be my, the language that I took when I was in college, it counted as my foreign language. And I just kept learning and hanging around with Deaf people. And eventually, my mentors in ASL, the deaf people that I was friends with, invited me to try interpreting for them. And I didn't, if I had known, I wasn't very good, but they were very kind. And they they asked me to interpret so I did and it just ended up kind of something I fell into. It wasn't something I intended to do. But it's become my whole life's work, and I really like it.   Michael Hingson  12:40 So is that kind of a full time job? Or are your vocation then?   Kelly Brakenhoff  12:43 Yeah, I would say it, it's my Well, it's hard to say what's my vocation because I also really love being an author, even though I haven't been published until recently. But I've been a writer my whole life in college, I actually majored in English. And I always wanted to be a writer, it just, I guess the interpreting thing just kind of was a very long detour. But I always wrote even when I was interpreting and so in raising my family and stuff, so once my kids started getting into high school and college, and I started looking around for something to fill some of my empty hours. That was when I really got serious about finishing my first book.   Michael Hingson  13:27 Well, from from an ASL standpoint, and interpreting it certainly is something that's, that's a little bit different. What have you learned about deafness and disabilities and so on from being involved in all of that,   Kelly Brakenhoff  13:41 oh, my goodness, we don't have enough there's not enough time in the day to talk about it's just changed my whole mindset, like, like, you've talked about that. I think it's just a way of looking at the world. Like a lot of people think that people who are deaf and hard of hearing, it's about your ears being broken, but it's really just a different way to move through life. So instead of a hearing world do like they have a visual world, so everything is visual. So it's like the opposite of what you experience now. So it's, it's just a way of moving through the world, you know that. And so instead of being like broken and something that needs to be fixed, it's just kind of a way of life. I guess. I just have a lot of respect. I've worked a lot in at the University of Nebraska. So I work with a lot of college students. And I've over the years done just Gosh, 20 Something different majors. I sit in on all the classes. I interpret what the teachers seen at the front of the class, and the discussions that the students do. And so I've gotten to learn a lot of things just by osmosis over the years and I have a really deep respect for the students because you know, their classmates sitting in the same room with them, they can listen to the lecture, write notes, you know, go online and do stuff all while this is all going on, whereas the deaf student has to sit there and watch me. If they want to take their own notes, they kind of have to look down and take their own notes, but then still keep an eye on me. And then if there's a PowerPoint, they're trying to watch that. And if there's a video, they're hoping that it has good captions, and so like, there's so many things going on, that it's amazing that they can get as much as they do out of the classes. And then of course, they have to study so much more afterwards, because a lot of times, they have to go back over the notes or back over the reading to see what they missed, because they were just, you know, a lot of their attention during the class is on me. So it's just given me a really healthy respect for how intelligent and how hard workers the students are. And I've just kind of seen that in all walks of life. I've interpreted for a lot of different situations, and different businesses and all kinds of things. And I just, I'm always in awe of how, how hard workers, the deaf students and just deaf adults in their job, or   Michael Hingson  16:13 how did the students then really get the job of notetaking done? Do they oftentimes have people who take notes for them? Or are they successful enough at taking notes themselves,   Kelly Brakenhoff  16:26 it really depends on the student and their preference. You know how some people don't mind having someone else take the notes, because then they can pay more attention to the interpreter and the PowerPoint and the teacher. But then other people maybe don't, you know, when you take notes, we could listen to the same speaker and your notes would be different than mine. And so some students don't really trust that another student is going to write down the same things that they would have written down if they were taking their own notes. So it really is a personal preference. But luckily, now, with the technology, I have a couple of students who, so they're deaf, and they use ASL and they use interpreters, but they also use cart, which is the captioning service. And so they'll have a laptop, or they also use like an otter, which is an app that the teacher wears a microphone and then it, it makes a transcript of everything that the teacher has said, and then they can save it. So I have a few students who even though they're, you know, pretty much dependent on the sign language for comprehension, they still use the transcript, because then they can go back later and like highlight the parts that they thought were important. And then it's kind of I think more in their control. Or if sometimes, like an English word has, you know, five different signs for it. And so if I do a sign, and they want to know what the exact English word was, they can look at the transcript and see oh, okay, that's the word that, you know, I need to remember or that's the word that I want to know. So I think it's great that they have all these tools. Because, gosh, back in the day, when I first started, none of that existed. And a lot of times, they would just have someone else take notes for them. And if that person wasn't a good note taker, they were kind of out of luck.   Michael Hingson  18:25 We use otter actually to do the transcribing of all of these podcasts. So that one unstoppable mindset is published. There's a written transcription as well. So we use otter to do that. And oftentimes, I will use otter to transcribe a meeting, or make it possible, make it possible for for people to come into the podcast, and listen and watch if you will in real time, which makes a lot of sense. So I found that otter works really well.   Kelly Brakenhoff  19:00 Yeah, I've tried several different apps and different services, because I have a thing to like you, I really want to make my website as accessible as possible, and my appearances as accessible as possible. So I get transcripts made of all the podcasts that I do whether the provider does or not. And so I've tried several different services, and I do agree that I think otter is a it produces a good product, and the price is good, too. So   Michael Hingson  19:33 I certainly right, you're right, the price is certainly right. But also, it does a good job and it's improving over time. Some people have said they're better systems than otter and I haven't really tried other services. And the people who help with the podcasts have looked at various things and we all end up settling on otter it really works well.   Kelly Brakenhoff  19:54 That's good to know. That's good to know, because a couple of years ago I tested several and I haven't read rechecked back into it. And the last six months, it's great. I think the one of the good benefits of the pandemic has been, how everyday people have realized that speech to text. And other, just things that we used to think of as being accessible for people with disabilities are now helpful for like everyone. And people have just come to realize that with all the Zoom meetings, and all of the the work from home solutions, so things that used to be just in the realm of special are now every day and they're all getting better, because we all demand that they get better. So the AI captions and everything are so much better than they were even just a few years ago.   Michael Hingson  20:47 Well, and then look at that you bring a very good point to light, which is that oftentimes, there are things that we use, that when other people start to use them first of all makes them much, much more affordable. But also, that will cause them to improve a lot more than otherwise they would have look at Dragon Naturally Speaking that started out as Dragon Dictate and did okay. And now Dragon is a lot better. I don't think that it transcribes as well as otter does in terms of plugging in punctuations, and so on. But I'm not surprised or wouldn't be surprised if that improves over time. But when you look at what otter does, it's pretty incredible.   Kelly Brakenhoff  21:31 It is it really is. And the What's incredible to me is the the short amount of time that it's gotten better. So I think that's great. But like you said, I think I guess it's sad to me that it takes it took a pandemic for enough people to use the tools that we've all been using for years to you know, demand a higher quality and a lower price. But I guess you know, if that's one good thing that comes out of all this, and that's great.   Michael Hingson  22:02 I think we tend to just get locked in to doing things one way and we, for whatever reason tend to be very slow at looking at other options. And you're right, the pandemic has made a significant difference and look at how many people are using zoom as opposed to pre pandemic, yet, Zoom has been there. The other thing that we've noticed along the way with Zoom is that they have deliberately and absolutely focused on accessibility and inclusion. So when a person who is blind encounters a problem with zoom in something is working right. There is a process to report that and we find that very quickly, it gets resolved, because they have a whole team working on issues to make sure that Zoom continues to be very inclusive.   Kelly Brakenhoff  22:55 Yes, I agree. Because I think when we first started with Zoom, the there was no, the only way you could have captions was hiring a person to do the captions. And then once they started making them automatic and everything that that was huge. That was that was huge. That's I'm glad to hear that they have a team doing it. And I agree, their improvements have have been amazing.   Michael Hingson  23:23 I don't want to put zoom on the spot, but have you compared otter with, if you compare it to otter with the zoom, automatic closed captioning,   Kelly Brakenhoff  23:31 um, I have, I guess if I just stop and think about it, I think they're pretty similar. What's actually kind of funny is when I will do a large meeting on Zoom, where I'm one of the interpreters. So I'm one of the little heads in the Brady Bunch group of people on Zoom. So I'll interpret for some of the deaf people in the meeting. And what I'll do sometimes is I'll turn on the captions because, you know, occasionally I might have a hard time hearing someone talking, or I might miss something or whatever. And so I can look at the captions and see if you know try to correct myself or, you know, check my accuracy. And yeah, so I have seen some pretty bad interpretations on our transcript on on Zoom and on otter, where things just don't come out. Right. It's, it's definitely for people who speak like standard slow American English once you have any kind of an accent or any kind of, if you speak too quickly, then the captions pretty much everywhere are a lot harder to understand. But they like I said, I still think they've gotten a lot better, which   Michael Hingson  24:48 I only asked that just out of curiosity because I know that the service is there to do automatic transcription or captioning. And I've never, never asked anyone exactly how well it does, except I've heard that it does a good job, but I've never compared it to like otter or something. And I bought otter for teens. And the reason I did that is so that it is now set up and integrated with Zoom. So it automatically starts when I opened a Zoom meeting. And what I do usually is unless there's a need to I will stop it. But it automatically starts when I come into a meeting that I that I initiate, and that's great, because then I don't even have to think about it. And it's a an effort of volition if I want to stop it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  25:42 Oh, yeah, that's great. I didn't realize you can set it up that way. That's awesome.   Michael Hingson  25:45 Yeah, the otter for teams. Home, I think, unless the price has changed, it was like $240 a year. And if you're a nonprofit, or whatever, it's half that. So it's not even a lot of money to do it, which is what's great.   Kelly Brakenhoff  26:00 That is That's awesome. Well, thank you. So the more users that use things, then the cheaper the price for everyone. And I think that's what we're seeing now with a lot of these tools.   Michael Hingson  26:12 It is ironic that we have to go through something like a pandemic to see things become more available, and for people to start to see that maybe some of the tools that say a person who is blind or low vision, or a person who is deaf or hard of hearing uses might very well be relevant for the rest of us. I'm still amazed that in driving with people using cell phones, we don't find more automatic use of the verbal technology voiceover for Apple and talkback on an Android, I'm surprised that we don't see more use of those verbal systems. In the driving experience, there's no reason not to do that, and do more to keep people's eyes on the road. Unfortunately, we're going the other way, we're getting more driving experiences with touchscreens, which means somebody's got to watch the screen, or look down and then quickly look back at the road. Why should that even have to happen today? Because we have such good voice technology. And we can also have good voice input technology to go along with it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  27:21 That's an excellent point. That's, that's so true. Yes, there's definitely you know, all the fancy touchscreens. But when I got my latest car, I had to sit in the driveway with the owner's manual for an hour just to figure out how to reprogram the clock. So you definitely don't want to be doing any of that while you're on the road. Well,   Michael Hingson  27:42 if you and I, I love Tesla's and I think that the technology is great, it is demonstrating the state of the art technology that's out there. But it's all controlled by a touchscreen, which means a blind passenger, I can't even do what a passenger would do to tune the radio or turn on a podcast or turn on whatever the services are available, much less anything else, because it's all touchscreen. And there's no reason for that today, we should be able to keep people's eyes more on the road. Even if you have the Tesla copilot function, which can take over a good part of the driving experience. It's not an autonomous vehicle software, but it can help with the driving experience. People should be keeping their eyes on the road not watching a touchscreen. And I'm still amazed that we're not seeing more people recognize the value of audio input and output.   Kelly Brakenhoff  28:36 I did not realize that I wrote in my first Tesla just a few months ago, and it was really neat, but I didn't I guess I just assumed that they had voice input things. I mean, wow, that's that's really shocking. as fancy as that whole system is that is very surprising. Well, let me let me rephrase that Ilan and say, hey,   Michael Hingson  28:59 well, let me rephrase it a little bit. There is availability of voice input for some things, but it's not an automatic process. So you have to invoke it, then you have to do something, I think to make it work every time you want to use it. What I'm saying is, it should be as much a part of the driving experience as anything else. And I'm saying it should be more part of the driving experience than using a touchscreen, it should be automatic. And we don't do that. We're too young to eyesight and we think that eyesight is the only game in town. Just like I'm sure that people who are deaf and hard of hearing would say that most people think that hearing is the only game in town. And in the in reality is neither is true. Exactly. I've said for years that I've said for years that people with disability, well, people who have eyesight, have their own disability and that is their light dependent. They can't do things without light Thomas Edison as the Americans with Disabilities Back would define it developed a reasonable accommodation for light dependent people when he created the light bulb. Let's get real, and I and I don't have the stitches. Lee it's true. You know, it's it's unfortunate that people are so locked into doing things one way that they're missing opportunities to make driving safer. But there you go.   Kelly Brakenhoff  30:22 I love that. I love that idea. I love that idea. I think that should be used to make that a thing as a political movement. I love that.   Michael Hingson  30:31 Yeah, well, we got to get Elon to go along with it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  30:34 Well, you know, he's kind of busy with Twitter right now. So maybe that all wrapped up, then he can he can focus his brain power on this?   Michael Hingson  30:43 Well, once he gets it set up, and if he's gonna do Twitter, then we'll start doing tweets. Oh, there you go. There you go. What a world we live in right now. So you said that you've done a lot of writing, you've been very much involved in writing, since college and so on. Why do you like writing so much?   Kelly Brakenhoff  31:07 Honestly, I don't know. I think it's just how I think how I process things. It's communication, talking to people talking to people like you. That's just kind of how I think it's just, just what I do is is who I am. That's a pretty simple answer.   Michael Hingson  31:26 We'll put Hey, it works. It works. So you said you just pretty recently got involved in starting to actually write books?   Kelly Brakenhoff  31:36 Yeah, I think it was 2014. I joined NaNoWriMo for the first time, which for people who haven't heard of that, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it's in November, where, gosh, by this day, by last year, I think it was around 750,000 people around the world, try to write 16 167 words a day for 30 days, and you come up with a 50,000 word manuscript by the end of the month. And that was signing up for that challenge was because I'm kind of competitive. So if I sign up for a challenge like that, I'm gonna do it. So that was like the thing that broke the barrier for me of just having ideas and just wanting to write and whatever and actually finishing a manuscript for the first time. That's what kind of gave me that push to actually do it.   Michael Hingson  32:33 So what did you publish your own books? Are they published through a publisher or what?   Kelly Brakenhoff  32:38 Yes, they are. They're self published, I tried for about a year to publish my firt, or to find an agent and all of that for my first one. And then at the same time, I was also checking into self publishing. And I don't know I think just a lot of factors kind of all converged. And I just decided at the end that self publishing was was the way to go. I'm kind of a control freak. And I like to, I like to have the my input into how to make you know, I hire my whole team. So I have an editor and a cover designer and and proofreaders and all of that stuff. And I get to decide what the finished product ends up to be. And it turns out that, yeah, I'm kind of bossy I guess.   Michael Hingson  33:23 You have a publicist who helps with the PR, and all that. I do.   Kelly Brakenhoff  33:27 I do. It's a it's called creative edge is the one that I use. And, and they've really, I've really enjoyed being part of that group.   Michael Hingson  33:37 I met Mickey a couple of months ago, actually, for the first time, he was introduced to me by someone else that we interviewed on the unstoppable mindset podcast. And she said, you know, he works with a lot of authors who might very well have interesting stories for you. And so that's how we met him. And we've actually started working with him as well. We're just getting started. But having written thunder dog, which was, and we're blessed by the fact that it was a number one New York Times bestseller, and then was published by Thomas Nelson part of HarperCollins. Now, but then we self published our second book, which was called running with Roselle, which was kind of more for youth, but more adults by it than then kids do. And it's the story of me growing up and Rozelle growing up. And then how we met after she became a guide dog in training, and she became my guide dog, and you know, kind of went from there, but I love writing, but I haven't done that much of it. We are starting to work on a third book, and that'll be a lot of fun. And we just got a book contract for that as well. So that's pretty exciting.   Kelly Brakenhoff  34:46 That's great. Congratulations. I didn't know that. That's awesome.   Michael Hingson  34:51 But But I'm curious. You've written I guess basically what two different kinds of books children's books and mysteries. How do you do mystery How do you come up with a plot? And how do you? Do you make it all come together? Because I think mystery writing has to be if you do it well, it has to be a real challenge to come up with a not only a plot, but create all of the scenes, do all the things that you need to do. And essentially, keep the solution hidden until the end of the book unless there's some value in presenting that earlier. And it's really how you get there.   Kelly Brakenhoff  35:30 Yeah, that's a funny question. Because I definitely write in extremes. I mean, I write 70,000, word mysteries, and then I write 500, word picture books for the children's books. So very different, very different approaches. But yeah, the mysteries and thrillers are kind of the things that I have always read my whole life. So I thought when I wanted to do that first NaNoWriMo challenge, I decided to kind of mash up all of my experiences. Like I said, I've lived in Hawaii and Nebraska, the East Coast, Seattle. So I kind of took all of those different elements working at a college and I put them all together into this murder mystery. And I got about two thirds of the way through and realized exactly what you said that writing a mystery is hard. It's actually one of I think, the most difficult genres to do because exactly for the reason you said, you want to make that mystery puzzle complicated enough that it can't be solved too early. Mystery readers are very smart people. And so it's very challenging coming up with enough suspects and clues to keep people guessing until the end. I guess I just love a challenge. I think it's it's fun, but it's also just what I love to read and write. So a read so it was kind of the most natural thing to write.   Michael Hingson  36:59 I think you just hit on it. Essentially. mysteries are puzzles and puzzles are as good as it gets. Who are your favorite mystery writers?   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:10 Oh, I have so many.   Michael Hingson  37:12 Yeah, me too. Yeah.   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:15 I think like my, you know, the ones I kind of grew up with was like Sue Grafton. So that letter A is for those Jana Ivanovic. There's Stephanie Plum Siri   Michael Hingson  37:27 plum. Hey, come on. We all love diesel, but that's another story.   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:30 Oh, yeah, diesel's awesome, too. Well, I'm sure being you live. You said you live in New Jersey, right? Oh, yes. Yeah. So you're very familiar with tenants. Definitely. Trenton definitely fun. And then I also just love like John Grisham and James Patterson and Michael Connelly. I mean, gosh, I just, that's all. I haven't really met very many mysteries that I didn't like.   Michael Hingson  37:54 Yeah. My my favorite still is Rex Stout with the neuro wolf series. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they I've never solved any of his books before the end. And I worked at it. I love Mary Higgins Clark. But I was able to basically figure out all of the, the mean people in that before the end of the book, still, they were fun to read   Kelly Brakenhoff  38:20 is fun, right? I mean, as long as it's a good story, even if guests are having an idea of did it by the end, as long as the character still keep you in it. And a lot of times this setting is kind of a character to then I don't mind, you know, reading to the end to confirm that I was right. I think what's funny since I became a writer, and I don't know, you can tell me if this is true for yourself. But since I became a writer, an author, I kind of ruined for reading, like I read a lot. But I read now to learn and to see what when I read a really good book, I love to pick it apart and and see why it's good. And not just the structure of it. But like if I if that paragraph was beautiful, I'll go back and read that paragraph several times and try to figure out what is so great about that paragraph, or when someone throws a twist or a turn in or I thought I knew who it was. And then at the end, I find out it was someone else. I just love that. That thrill of like, oh, you fooled me, you know, and I really like to think about all of that. But that means that a lot of times I'm not really enjoying the book. I'm like studying the book. And so I have found that if if I really get so sucked into a book that I am not doing that, that means that it's a really, really good book because if it took me out of my analysis into just enjoying it, then that's a me that's the mark of a very good book.   Michael Hingson  39:53 Sue Graf passed away from cancer did her last book ever get published? Because I don't think she finished it, did she?   Kelly Brakenhoff  39:59 It did not odds are one of those.   Michael Hingson  40:01 Zero Yeah,   Kelly Brakenhoff  40:03 yeah. The sad things. Is it never it's, it's not finished. I don't even know how far she got in it. But it wasn't finished enough to be published. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  40:12 yeah, I guess that's kind of what happened. But her mysteries were definitely some of the best. And we read them all. And some twice, which is always fun if I if I want to read a book a second time. And I don't have that many hours in the day that that's easy to do. But if I want to read a book a second time, then I know that there is something about it that I must have enjoyed. And we read here, a lot of books on audio, audible and other sources. The reason we do is that instead of watching TV, we pipe books through the house, my wife has learned to listen to audio. So we listen to books together. What I've been occasionally finding are editor mistakes where they said something and then later on referring back something, they say something different. Somebody messed up in editing it, and I don't see it often. But I do occasionally see it and I always find them. Which is a fun.   Kelly Brakenhoff  41:15 It is it's i It's funny, because, you know, even though my books are self published, I work really hard not to have those kinds of errors. Yeah, they go through an editor, at least one editor, numerous BETA readers, numerous proofreaders. And then, you know, six months after I published it all open it up, and I see a typo. And it's like, at first I used to get so frustrated at that. And then now I saw something one time on Facebook, it was like, cheers to you, you typo you made it through three rounds of editing, 10 proofreaders and you still made it you you go, you know,   Michael Hingson  41:58 I when I was in college, we used in freshman and sophomore physics, a series of books called the Berkeley physics series, because it came out of there. And I had a dorm mate, who looked in detail at every single book, looking for a mistake, because he said a lot of books, there are editing mistakes. And he said he finally found one in one of the Berkeley physics books, but he said it was so fun looking just to see any error. And he couldn't find them in the Berkeley physics series. It was just incredible that he spent that time. On the other hand, he was an excellent student. So I guess he learned from it as he was reading.   Kelly Brakenhoff  42:43 Have a niece who's a doctor and they actually some textbook company paid her. I don't know if she just got free books. Or if she actually got paid her last year of med school, they they paid her to go through the as she was going through the textbook to note down any errors that she found.   Michael Hingson  43:03 See, it's always good to to read as much as possible and proofread as much as possible. And you're right. There's nothing like a good editor to help.   Kelly Brakenhoff  43:12 Right, exactly, exactly.   Michael Hingson  43:14 So how hard was it to write your first mystery? Oh, must have a lot   Kelly Brakenhoff  43:22 of courage. And it was a lot of it was a lot of I think I must have gone through 10 or 15 jobs. It took me five years to finish it, it was ugly, there was a lot of tears. But you know, you just learned so much I kind of consider it like getting a master's degree. I just did it at home with my, my own process. But you know, I just had to learn a lot. You have to be humble, you have to be willing to accept criticism and advice from other people. But I feel like it taught me a lot. And of course, then the second book teaches you even more and the third and you know, each one you do, I think you just learn more, either about yourself or about writing. I'd love to read books about writing craft and how to do better. You know, I want every single book that I write to be better than the last. I think most authors are that way.   Michael Hingson  44:15 They get easier the more you write. That's a   Kelly Brakenhoff  44:18 funny question, because I'm right in the middle of writing my fourth mystery right now. And I've been stalled for quite a while. And what it's taught me is just about myself and my process and what I thought my process was versus what I'm finding. I thought I could speed it up, but it's actually making me slow down. So that means that I was not speeding it up correctly. If that makes sense.   Michael Hingson  44:46 Yeah. Well, and I don't know whether it becomes easier or not. I have been very blessed when we did thunder dog. I had someone to collaborate and help with it Susie Florrie And that happened because she actually found Me, because she was writing a book called Dawn tales, which was 17 stories about dogs who had stories. And she wanted to include Roselle in that. And she did. But as we discussed my story, she said, You should really write a book. And so we got started down that road. And I met her agent who became my agent, Chip McGregor on thunder dog. And we, we had a good time and collaborated well. And I think that there was a lot of value in that for me, because I know that I don't have the writing experience as such. But I know what's good when I read it. And I also know that I can add value. So we really had a very collaborative process of writing thunder dog, a lot of it is hers, and a lot of it is mine directly. And we blended the two which was great. Now with the third book that we're getting, which is getting ready to do, which is going to talk about fear and controlling fear and people learning that they can overcome fear and not let it blind them, if you will, to being able to make decisions. The working title is a guide dogs Guide to Being brave, and I'm doing that with a friend of Susie's Carrie, Carrie Wyatt can't. Because Suzy is in a Ph. D. program. Yeah, we love the title. We'll see what the publisher does. We've got a contract for it. We'll see what the publisher does with it over time. But so far everybody likes it. That was a carry creation, because I was going to call it blinded by fear, which was more accurate in some senses. But I think a guide dogs Guide to Being brave is a lot better title.   Kelly Brakenhoff  46:35 Yeah, it reminds me of that one. Is it the Art of Racing in the Rain? Yeah, yeah, it kind of reminds me of something like that, where it's it's a little off of what the theme of the book is, but it's still engaging, and it makes you want to know more about it.   Michael Hingson  46:54 It was a good book. And so   Kelly Brakenhoff  46:57 you said something that really resonated with me, you said, I know, it's good when I read it. And I think that's a big obstacle for beginning writers. And is that usually, if you're a writer, you're a reader first. And so I've read tons and tons of great books, and I know what great literature is, and I know what a great story is. And then when I write my first one, it's not very good. So you kind of have that, that huge gap between what you know is good and what you've produced. And so it's, it's, it's hard, you have to overcome that, that feeling of, of my stuff is really bad, you know, and then you have to work really hard to make it as good as, as you want it to be, you know, as good as it is to be able to actually share with the world, you know, to get up to that level of what your your bar is the bar that you've set. And so I think that's something that stands it's a barrier to a lot of people. And that's where I think a good editor comes. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  48:05 Yeah. Well look at John Grisham. You mentioned earlier the first book he wrote If I recall was a time to kill but it was the third one published the first one that he wrote, and it was published was the firm and then I'm trying to remember what the second one was. Was it the Pelican Brief the Pelican Brief right? And then A Time to Kill, which was the Jake Brigantes initiator, if you will. But if you look at all of them, you can see how the the books evolved over time in his writing style. So it's it is a natural progression. And I mentioned Rex Stout, a Nero Wolf, if you go back and read fair to Lance, which was his first book, and you compare it with especially much later writings, you can see changes, but you can see where everything is starting from and you get engaged in in fact, fair Lance was not the first mirror wolf book I read. by a longshot. It wasn't the first, but having gone back and read it. Even though everyone in the book all the characters developed a fair amount and since then, and his writing style improved. It was engaging. Mm hmm. Well, tell me about your mystery series,   Kelly Brakenhoff  49:26 sir. Um, it's about a college administrator named Cassandra Sato and she lives in Hawaii. She gives up her her life in Hawaii to move to Nebraska because she wants to accept her dream job at a tiny college called Morton college in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska. And she and her eventual goal is to become a college administrators or college president. So she thinks this is you know, the Path is gonna get her there. But of course, moving from Hawaii to Nebraska is a very, very large cultural, cultural shift. And so she encounters all kinds of problems, discrimination, barriers, everything. And a few months into her job, a student turns up dead on campus and see has to be part of the group of people who figures out what happened to the student and then find justice.   Michael Hingson  50:28 Yeah, come on. Cassandra really did. And she's been hiding a whole series. Yeah, that's   Kelly Brakenhoff  50:33 the end of the series. It was Cassandra.   Michael Hingson  50:35 That will come later on about the hundreds book, right. That's awesome. When Karen and my wife and I are talking about who did it in various books, we, we usually do things like that. We've been reading a lot of the JE NACHA as well, we read a chance to but the JD Robb books, the in depth series, have you read those. And so I read very many of those now, we we oftentimes will spin a story how Eve Dallas really did it. Or Roark did it and had just a lot of fun with it. But again, a great series of books is there's a lot of sex in those books, but they're still taking Ross. Yeah, they're great mysteries.   Kelly Brakenhoff  51:20 Yeah, a lot of times people like the ones that I write well, obviously, I have four kids and grandkids. And my kids would cringe if I if they had to read a sex scene that I wrote. So, you know, my kids were like, high school and college age when I started writing. So I decided all the sex in my books, there's gonna be behind closed doors, and yeah, nobody, nobody wants to have their mom. Yeah, no.   Michael Hingson  51:46 I've, I've talked to several authors who say that who, one who said I would never any more, I would never let my daughter or my wife, wife read the books, or I changed the sex so that they could read them. But the value of having them read them as they're great critics, and so it's worthwhile. But yeah, it is fun to to see how people react. But, you know, a mystery. Doesn't need to have all the violence thrown at you right out in the open, which is why puzzles are so great. At James Patterson tends to be a little bit more violent, but not nearly as violent as he could be. So we we've always enjoyed Of course, the Alex Cross series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  52:33 Yeah, it's there's such a huge variety in Yeah, the violence level and all that stuff. I myself, I have a pretty vivid imagination. I don't really need people to spell some of that stuff out for me. My mysteries are technically like cozy mysteries, which kind of means that there's no like blood on the page. There's no swearing, there's no sex. So like, even you know, high school kids can read them and, and that kind of thing. So I guess that's just, I just write what I like. So that's only because I like to read. So that's what I like to write.   Michael Hingson  53:12 Come on. That's only because Cassandra is trying to hide everything, but we know the truth.   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:18 That's right. She's really Voldemort.   Michael Hingson  53:21 Yeah, she's really Voldemort. Speaking of another good series of books   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:28 that's that's a whole different ballgame.   Michael Hingson  53:30 But but you know, looking at the Harry Potter books, again is another one where going from Book One through Book Seven, just how it evolved. And they're so fun.   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:42 They are they're definitely one of my I, I like all genres. So yeah, I loved Harry Potter Lord of the Rings, Narnia. I mean, you name it, it's I thought during the pandemic that I would just read all day every day but it turns out I actually have to do other stuff too.   Michael Hingson  53:59 So I hate it when that happens.   Kelly Brakenhoff  54:02 There is no laundry fairy I hate to be the person to tell you this but there is no laundry fairy,   Michael Hingson  54:07 I haven't found one either. And I get to do the clothes washing at our house which is fine. So for me, I love the brainless activities on Sunday. So there are three tasks that well for that I do on Sundays. It starts with doing the laundry or starting the laundry. Another is we I take the cat box out we use a litter called litter one it's not sand, it's all pine kernels. And you buy them and they come in a disposable box. So we just use in different new box every week. And it's about the same as using regular sand that you buy in the in the store. But at the end of the week, you just throw the whole box out and put a new one up and the cat is very demanding when it comes time to change the box. So that happens on Sunday. I take the trash out on Sunday. And then we have a little If we do get housecleaning help during the week, Karen's in wheelchairs, he has been in a chair her whole life. So it's kind of hard for us to do some of those things. So we do have a housekeeper that comes on Thursdays, in fact, and today's Thursday. So Jeanette is here, but we have a robot vacuum and I do the vacuuming again on Sunday with the robot in our bedroom, because that's also where Alamo my guide dog sleeps. So we get all those. So those are my four tasks on Sunday. And they're they're all pretty brainless in a sense. So I can read while they're going on, which is fun. And Karen is a quilter. So she's usually in sewing. And and she's reading the same thing I read. So it's a question right now, who finishes which JD Robb book first?   Kelly Brakenhoff  55:44 Yeah, that is definitely the the good thing about audiobooks is being able to multitask on some of those things that you don't have to pay so much attention to.   Michael Hingson  55:54 Tell me about your dupe the deaf dog ASL series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  55:58 Well, that is the second series that I started after I finished the mystery novels, I kind of had a moment where I realized that I, you know, I started my own publishing company. And I just had a thought, I mean, it's kind of cliche, it was actually a dream that just came to me of like, what I could do with this publishing company, if I just kind of unleashed it. And so I came up with the idea of, of this orange, English spaniel dog who is deaf and all of the people in his or all of his family can hear. And so it's just about different experiences that he has as the only person in a family of hearing people, and trying to get deaf and hard of hearing children to see themselves and their everyday life experiences on our pages of our books. But I also want kids who can hear to understand what it's like to hear differently. We just finished the third book, and I'm actually actually we just finished the fourth book, the third book just came out. But the fourth book is in production right now. And I had no idea when it started, what it was going to end up being but it's actually turned out to be more successful. And I would say even more fun than my mysteries, the mysteries are kind of like my thing that I enjoy. As far as, like you said, creating the puzzle and, and the challenge of it, but the Duke, the deaf dog ASL series, is kind of what I feel like I'm taking my 30 Whatever years of interpreting and hanging around with really cool Deaf people, and then like sharing that with the world.   Michael Hingson  57:49 So it's not a mystery series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  57:53 No, it is not. They are picture books. So they're only like less than 500 words. And each one is a different situation that do gets into so there's like a different message. And each one more than 90% of children who are born deaf or hard of hearing have parents that can hear I did a lot of research to before I started the books, and there's very few books for young children that have deaf and hard of hearing characters. Once you get into like high school age, or even beyond, there's more books that have deaf and hard of hearing characters. But at the kindergarten, first grade age, there's very few books. And you know, my kids had lots and lots of choices of books to read. So I feel like deaf kids did have lots and lots of choices, books that have characters like them in there. So each book has a different message like the first one was called nevermind. And the message is that everyone deserves to be included in conversations. I mean, how many times do we tell people nevermind when they ask us to repeat ourselves? Or maybe we have, like a older parent or spouse who doesn't hear well, or even like someone who's just a little bit slower to act, or to understand a lot of times we just get impatient and say forget it. I'll explain later. And this book like after I published that first book, I've had so many deaf people come up to me and tell me stories of times when they've been told nevermind. And they thanked me for sharing their stories because they want hearing people to understand how hurtful those words are and what it feels to be left out. So I have a pretty long list of situations I've seen throughout the years that I plan to incorporate into the books and I I'm only stopped by my amount of time and and money to hire illustrators at this point.   Michael Hingson  59:55 Back to mysteries. Of course there's the cat who series Lily and Jackson Brown and also Rita Mae Brown and sneaky pie Brown. But in thinking of the cat who books, why not have a Duke, the Duke, the deaf dog series, solving mysteries, and also deal with all the frustrations that Duke has of trying to get his humans to listen? And how he has to figure things out, not being in a hearing world himself.   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:00:27 Yeah, that's a good thought. I'm actually like I said, I have so many ideas that it's really limited by my time and money, but um, the picture books are more like so Duke's a dog. Right? It's more like he's like a pitbull, like, they stand on their hind legs. And they kind of like even his dad wears like a tie. So they kind of are like human, but they're dogs. But it's a nice way to be able to show diversity and like breeds of dogs and colors of dogs and abilities and body types and stuff without actually having like different children in there. So it's kind of like, like, I don't know, if you remember the Mercer Mayer series, little critter. That's kind of what I thought of, as I   Michael Hingson  1:01:13 was able to read them. Yeah,   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:01:15 that was like my, my model, I guess of who I thought of it's like, so Duke is more just like a character, a fictional character. But I do have a couple of other ideas for series for like middle grade age kids. And those would be mysteries, and those would use some characters. I have a couple of young characters in the Cassandra Sacco series. I did a Halloween short story last year called scavenger hunt. And that two of the main characters in there were 10 year old kids. And so I think I want to do a separate series with them and have those be mysteries because I agree, I think I can incorporate a lot of the things that I know about the Deaf community and Deaf culture and ASL into a mystery, and they get kind of fun that way. And   Michael Hingson  1:02:05 it's great that you're using this opportunity to teach people more about deaf and hard of hearing. And not only as a culture, but as just as much an included an inclusive part of society as everyone else. I am concerned when you're talking about do looking like a character and looking a little bit like people. I just don't want to see a new book coming out about do the deaf dog ASL series goes to Animal Farm just saying. But Duly noted. So So you you did one of your books. As a Kickstarter campaign?   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:02:43 We did. Um, the the most recent one that just published in January, I did my first Kickstarter campaign.   Michael Hingson  1:02:51 Now why did you do that? What brought Kickstarter into it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:02:54 I went to this conference last fall in Las Vegas, and I met some authors who publish their books first on Kickstarter, before they release them more widely and other stores. And listening to them made me realize that Kickstarter might be a good way for me to reach new readers. The nice thing about Kickstarter, which I think you said that you've supported a couple of campaigns, honestly, before I had gone to this conference, I did not think starter was something I needed to do, I hadn't really gone on there, I hadn't pledged sponsored anybody else's project. So I just kind of went into it blindly. But I realized that the cool thing about Kickstarter is you get to develop a direct relationship with people who want to buy your product. So in my case, it's a book, but I've gone on there. And since then, I've supported all kinds of different projects. I've done a board game, and a coloring book and a purse. And I mean, there's so many neat, creative ideas that people come up with and put them on Kickstarter, just to see. So then the the customers can come on and pledge money towards that product and say, Yes, I think that's a great idea. The world needs that. And I'm willing to plunk down my money to pre order that thing that you want to make. And so if enough of those people say that they'll pre order the product, then the project is successful, and it funds and then the person who listed the project goes ahead and makes it. So that's been really exciting. But you have this direct relationship where the creator is sending you messages and keeping you updated on the progress like, okay, you know, we're finished in publishing, you know, in the case of publishing, you say, Okay, we finished the illustration and we're waiting for them to be printed and then I actually personally boxed everything up and mailed them to the people with personal note and some extra stickers and everything. So I think I'd really enjoy that contact with people and that communication because it goes both ways, then people can actually respond to me. If I just sell stuff on Amazon or in the local bookstore, I don't really know who buys my, my books. And so the Kickstarter has been a really cool way to just kind of, I guess, learn more about what people want and what people like about them. And it's kind of a neat way to have this direct relationship. It made me I funded my first project successfully, we raised $2,500, which was enough money to buy some hardcover books. In the past, I haven't been able to afford doing those books, as a small publishers. So it's great to be able to order those books and get those into people's hands they came with, they're very well done on nice thick paper with really vivid color illustrations. And then there's photos on each page of different ASL signs. And the photos are really clear. So it was definitely worth I guess, the experience. So I'm actually going to be doing another one in July for the, for the next Duke book. But as a person, like you said, you you have a contract to do your next book. And so you get a lot of times authors will get paid in advance, this is kind of almost the same thing where I'm making this idea. And then I'm, like pre paying some of the costs that it cost to produce the book, like, you know, the illustrating, or the printing, or all the different things that are associated with making the book, it's like a way for me to almost get like an advance except this directly coming from the customers instead of from the publishing company.   Michael Hingso

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Episode Summary I have had the honor to interview many guests since beginning Unstoppable Mindset. No guest has demonstrated a greater ability to be unstoppable than this episode's guest, Ian Walker. Ian learned at a fairly early age that he happened to have ADHD. He also demonstrated a great aptitude and love of music. His love of music won as he will tell you in in our interview. Ian also has worked at other jobs in his life. He will tell you about them as well. Ian's insights about music and ADHD especially will show you and anyone you bring to our podcast that we can use our inner strength to overcome any challenges we think we have before us. As you will hear, Ian is also a successful author and is even creating a play. Join Ian and me and be moved.  Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com.   About the Guest:  In Stirring My Soul to Sing, Overcoming ADHD Through Song,_first- time Canadian author W. Ian Walker, ADHD survivor, musician, author and speaker tells his story of lifelong struggles with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and how he found relief by leaning into the music and his Christian faith during his successful 30-year career in music and the arts. Walker's book continues to grow in distribution and is listed on _43 international bookseller websites and stores. _ In his gritty and moving autobiography published in 2018, Walker offers "hope" for families and individuals facing an ADHD diagnosis. Walker is a classically trained musician, singer (baritone) and arts manager. He shares stories about how music (with an emphasis on vocal and choral music) brought him joy, success, and fulfilment in a life that was marked by a constant battle with ADHD. Walker credits his musical experiences and profoundly personal faith with mitigating and overcoming the potentially devastating impact of the disorder. He explains how, for 35 years, he used vocal and choral music to help him stay  focused, achieve goals, and meet deadlines, in conjunction with his ADHD.  Mr. Walker will be speaking at all online conferences for 2022 on “Overcoming ADHD with the Arts and Music Therapy”  A Long Road from the past until now... Although Ian was told he was “hyperactive” and had a learning disability in the early 1970s; he was not formally diagnosed with the disorder until 1996. In the intervening years, Walker experienced verbal abuse, school bullying, poor academic performance, employment instability, financial hardships, and failed relationships.  Despite these challenges, Walker persevered and now holds a _BA in Theater and Film, from McMaster University and a Post-graduate Certificate in Fundraising and Volunteer Management, from Humber College, Toronto and is a successful Arts Consultant.  W. Ian Walker is an in demand speaker and has recently spoke at ADDA/CHADD International OnLine Conference in 2020 & 2021. He also involved in many local community projects and is in preparation to lauch his first vocal performance and tour of a “Cabaret Evening with Ian” in 2022.  Walker is touring, speaking, and singing in support of the book. He has also produced eight videos.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXUoGfVMOrt6BtsrZiPtbg?reload=9  For Contact: wiw@emliancommunications.org/shop or to purchase the book. Please call: 1-289- 700-7005  About the Host:  Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:19 Welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Thanks for being here. I hope that you enjoy what we have to talk about today. We have a guest who I've been looking forward to for quite a while and circumstances keep causing us to have to delay getting together but we finally made it didn't we Ian?  Ian Walker  01:42 Yes, exactly. Nice to be here, Michael.  Michael Hingson  01:45 Thanks. And it's good to have you here. Ian Walker has a very interesting background. And I'm going to say up front, one of the interesting things about en and one that I'm really anxious to learn more about is that he himself has what people would classify as a disability. And that's fascinating to me, needless to say, so why don't we start there? You You say that at some point in your life, you since you were different? Can you tell us about that?  Ian Walker  02:15 Yeah, so um, I was raised in a very musical family. And music and the arts were really important. And especially for me, when we found out that I was diagnosed later on in my life with ADHD, but being a kid from the 1970s, they used to, you know, call me hyperactive. And so ADHD wasn't, you know, wasn't diagnosed wasn't used then. But I basically had all of the elements of, you know, dealing with ADHD. And so that's Attention Deficit hyper disorder, we're for people that don't, don't understand the disorder. And so, you know, I dealt with a lot of stuff. My mother, my grandmother, and my mother were very musical, and they acted as my, my mentors. And so, you know, once we sort of found out that I wasn't in your MOS, I wasn't your average, you know, person here that was going through the regular school system. My, my grandmother suggested to my parents that I'd always love to sing and that I should take singing lessons. And that opened up a huge, you know, door for me a level of confidence, and self esteem. And, and then, you know, I had to deal with all the bullying that went on, because I was a young young man who wanted to sing. Michael Hingson  04:09 When did this occur? When did all this occur?  Ian Walker  04:12 So, I was born in 1960. Okay, and by around 1970 1971, I, you know, I'd already been a boy soprano.My grandmother really trained me very well. And as a result, people come up to me all the time and say, Oh, II and when you sing, you have great diction. Yay, Grandma, you know, Ian Walker  04:39 oh, well, about your D's and T's and that you want to be heard at the back of the hall or the back of the church, you know? And that was the days before amplification right where amplitude vacation is used so much now. So, so I got all of the the great beginning sings and grandma would work with me on the piece and the finesse and the phrasing, and the and, you know, the diction, and mom would help me with, with rhythm. You know, sometimes my rhythm wasn't always right on track. And then she'd also helped me with, you know, the finesse more maybe about dynamics and, you know, interpretation of the songs. And so, you know, this being the early 70s, there wasn't a lot of great selection out there to, for a young staff to learn to sing. And so I'd be and because I was raised in the church, you know, I sang a lot of early boy soprano stuffs, a lot of Easter pieces of hallelujahs. And, you know, a lot of those kinds of wonderful thing is a great training, a great training, you know, I really, really wished we had recorded my voice as a young soprano, I don't have a boy soprano. I don't have any, you know, except vague little memories every once in a while, sort of, you know, pops in my head. But so then, around 1971 72, I was in grade four, grade five. And they determined that I needed to go and deal with my ADHD issues. So it being the 70s, they took kids out of the regular school system, this is here in Canada, they took kids out of the regular schools and put them into a special school for disability issues. Well, I was always really good on all of my, you know, English, geography, history, all of the main core, you know, subjects, but my weakness was math. And so as now probably what they would do is just, you know, have a special tutor for me, but anyways, I had to be taken out of the school system. Put two years behind, you know, and, and, thank goodness, in my second year, we had an amazing teacher, who was a background of the military was a left handed Colonel here in Canada. And he, when you were in his class, you were like, in the army was it and so we classmates almost saluted when we came into. And, but he was very, very good with me. And he recognized and said, This boy's intelligence, he's got, you know, English and history and, and geography and, you know, an interest in science, what's he doing here? So, he made a special, you know, presentation to me to the, you know, to the board or whatever, and said, Ian needs to be put back into the regular classroom curriculum. And so, I did grade six, and then to grade eight, back in the road rotary system, but I was two years behind, you know, my peers so so, you know, still continuing on with my music. You know, it was in a lot of different shows. At that time. They had a kid's version or student version for the pirate No. Gilbert and Sullivan's not pirates, but the other one. pinafore pinafore, HMS Pinafore, and I got to play the captain and you know, Michael Hingson  09:13 you are not the model of modern major model of the modern Ian Walker  09:17 meeting general No, no. That's a wonderful twisting song. Oh, my goodness, it's, you know, takes a long time to learn all the lyrics in that song. Yeah, Michael Hingson  09:32 but you know, yeah, go ahead. Ian Walker  09:35 So there's a little bit about, you know, dealing with the disability stuff. Michael Hingson  09:39 So do you regard yourself as a person with a disability today? Yeah, why? Why? What do you think about that?  Ian Walker  09:51 Well, because of Okay, so, it took me 27 years to get my BA And a lot of the hindrances, that when, you know, I gone through high school, and did, you know did some other sort of other some other courses along the way to, you know, check out, see what I really wanted to do, but I really wanted to have a degree in music. And when I got into the program at the University of Western Ontario, very good school, for singers, and choral people. I just couldn't handle the program, I could handle all the artistic, all the creative stuff, but I couldn't handle the academics. And that's where we really found out that I had a disability with my writing, that there was some some problems that I'd leave out words that, you know, my sentence structure was in great. I couldn't do syntax from one paragraph to the other paragraph. And there was just some other, you know, other stuff along the way that I really, it was really determined to me that I did have a disability, as you know, as an ADHD student, Michael Hingson  11:18 how did you deal with that, then, in terms of addressing the issue of word gaps and so on?  Ian Walker  11:25 Well, before you know, voice activated software, right, I would have to read my papers over, like, you know, and that was part of the chore as getting the work done way before the the deadline was, you know, was required. But then when voice activated software came in, I use Dragon Naturally Speaking in the early years. And so then, eventually, it could read it to me. And then I went, Oh, my goodness, you know, I've left out a verb here, I've left out an adjective there, or, you know, the sentence didn't make sense. Or, and then, you know, as I learned more about syntax from the next paragraph to the next paragraph. Yeah, it was difficult. And I still got some of my papers. From those some of the early beginnings before I was officially diagnosed with ADHD. And I go, Oh, my goodness, like look at the mistakes, you know, as well as spelling mistakes and things that now you know, software can grammerly Naturally Speaking, no grammar, grammar, Grammarly. I like Grammarly. It really, it really punches up my my work. I haven't checked Michael Hingson  12:53 lately but for me, Grammarly has been somewhat inaccessible, which is a little bit of a problem. But it doesn't at least I haven't found that it works with screen readers well, but I again, I haven't looked at it now. And in a couple of years, so maybe there have been some improvements. But I do agree with you and appreciate the concept that software helps us a lot. If we're open to using I remember Dragon Dictate back in the very early days. Ian Walker  13:26 And yeah, and there. Michael Hingson  13:29 Well, and it wasn't overly accessible and Dragon wasn't overly accessible. There is a product now I use a screen reader called JAWS that verbalizes whatever text comes across the screen, and a gentleman over in England has created a product called JC which is sort of a bridge between dragon and jaws, and actually makes the combination a lot more accessible. So it's very easy now to use Dragon Naturally Speaking and use it effectively. And voice input software like Dragon has made such a difference. I think to so many people. It's so much easier to compose now as you point out. Ian Walker  14:15 Mm hmm. And, and I love it. Like you know, I'm generally a Microsoft guy. So you know, I yeah, I tried Mac and it just it's just too complicated for my brain. Michael Hingson  14:30 Mac is great for graphics. Yeah, and a lot of and a lot of people use it but I too tend toward windows. Ian Walker  14:38 Yeah, yeah. And so you know, now that when I'm writing and stuff, I just love it that AI can either use dictate or you know, or just click on the Grammarly and clean up some stuff that need may need it Michael Hingson  14:55 has Grammarly ever said You dumb bunny. Aren't you ever gonna figure that out, oh, no, just checking, just checking. Ian Walker  15:06 They may say, Huh, you might have another, you have two or three other options. Michael Hingson  15:13 That's my wife would say that though. But that's, that's what wives do. Well, you know, you, you talk about your grandfather being a preacher or pastor, how did? How did his influence affect you? Ian Walker  15:31 Okay, so this is great grandfather. So I had two great grandfather's on my dad's side, who were Baptist preachers. So faith has always been very important in our family. And, you know, and then along with, with the music and stuff, my grandmother that the one that was my, my vocal coach, everything, she was a music director for 25 years, and her Baptist Church and director, choirs, as well as all, you know, musical events. So, so between both my mom and dad had both strong faith and, and I was raised in the Baptist Convention of Ontario, and Quebec, or Baptist of Canada. So our faith has always been very, very important. And that's a really good point. Because in my later years, as I, you know, was learning more about the disorder and a whole deal, when I would be really frustrated, I could just, you know, I could just turn to my faith, I could turn to God, and just, you know, say, God, I need strength here. And I need help, I need support. And, you know, and, and then the thing was, I had lots of people in the family praying for me as well, genuinely, all of them on both sides of my mum and dad side are a lot of, you know, secure Christian, so they had been Christians for a long time. And they they, so I would really say on both my mom and dad side generally is we're a family of faith. And that made a huge, huge difference in actually tell you another story. When I was going through some really bad bullying, in so this is public school, just before third grade, seventh grade, sixth grade seventh, my mom formed a prayer group for children that were having disabilities, mostly boys. Were there were some girls in in the group. And that prayer group continued, I think they got together like, once or twice a month, that prayer group continued for a good 10 years. And I know that I'm walking out of the blessings of that prayer group, because of the faithfulness of my mom and her, her friends that prayed me for strength to get through the issues that I needed to get through. And Michael Hingson  18:17 they pass that on to you. Mm hmm. Which is pretty cool. I think that faith is a very important thing. And I think that it is very relevant for us to have faith, however we express it, that inner strength is is very important to all of us. And, and I'm sure that you, especially when you're talking about bullying, and so on, clearly you, you've had a lot of tests of that. And, you know, at the same time, you know, as well as I that a lot of the bullying comes simply from ignorance and people just don't understand. And you you can choose either to hold a grudge and create a lot of animosity, or you can move beyond that. Ian Walker  19:11 That's right. Well, I think what happened was, you know, when I got to a point, kind of just sort of before my 30s and I just didn't like all of the excess baggage that you know, the that I was still having, I was having, you know, bad dreams of these experiences and stuff. And just just right around there, I was starting to have some, some marital ish issues with my first wife. And so I got into some really good Christian counseling. And, you know, we had to go deep, deep deep down the well, you know, To deal with this stuff, but once we got it out, and as they will talk about it. And the other thing was to learning how to forgive those who had really, you know, hurt me, like, as in the Bible, you know, Jesus says, you know, forgive those who may not know what they've done, right? And, and so once I was able to do that, oh my goodness, a huge burden was lifted from my heart and my whole presence. And I just, you know, I was able to carry on, and I think a lot of the blessings that I've had over the last, say 10 or 15 years is because I've gotten rid of that, those burdens of, you know, of not of those burdens of unforgiveness still holding on to those those issues. So I'm, I'm grateful that, you know, I learned that experience relatively young in my life. Michael Hingson  21:05 You have written a book I have, that I'd love to hear more about. Ian Walker  21:12 Okay, so I'm holding it up here. So it's called stirring my soul to sing, overcoming ADHD through song. And it's available on Amazon. It's available on Barnes and Barnes and Noble, and you can find it on a lot of other you know, platforms. Michael Hingson  21:34 Is there an audio version of the book? Ian Walker  21:36 Not yet. This is that I'm just starting to think about that, too. So when we were getting it, you know, published and my resources didn't include in the budget to do an audiobook, but I'm, I'm thinking about doing one very soon. So, yeah, Michael Hingson  21:55 it won't earn you money, but you might explore in Canada. I'm not sure what the process is. But you might reach out to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, there is a program. In most countries, it used to be called Talking Books. It sort of still is, I guess, to some of us who remember those terminologies. But yeah, we're blind people are in books created for blind people are exempt from standard copyright laws. And so in the in the United States, contacting the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, print impaired or print disabled, however you want to call it, readers, they record books. Now, it's only available to blind and other print challenged people. But it is also a place where you might look at going. But did you did you publish the book yourself? Or was it? Ian Walker  22:55 I went through through a Christian Faith Based publisher in Canada called Word allied press. Okay, so yeah. And I would Michael Hingson  23:07 think that they should be able to help you get the book out on programs like Audible. Ian Walker  23:14 Yeah, well, that's, that's kind of in the works. So we're just just setting up the time, then, you know, the studio time to be able to do it. And I'm hoping I'm hoping to have it done. You know, probably by the fall, so yeah. Michael Hingson  23:31 Well, when we did thunder dog back in 2010, and 2011. It was published by Thomas Nelson sets, the largest Christian publisher, now part of Harper Collins. Yeah, I didn't read it. They actually had someone else read it. But they did make that part of the process. And I kind of encouraged and someone insisted that it needed to also be an audio book. As it turns out, the Library of Congress has also produced it along with our second book running with Roselle so that they're directly available to blind people. Of course, you know, it's always nice when people buy it through audible, as opposed to the Library of Congress because these poor starving authors, dogs, and our dogs make a little bit of money. So you know, Alamo my guide dog always says, whenever we travel, please tell people to buy books because we're running low on kibbles. You know? Ian Walker  24:25 That's great. Michael Hingson  24:28 But, but tell me more about, you know, the book. Okay. Ian Walker  24:30 And so, um, so for the longest time, you know, I was really thinking about should I write a book and just, just sort of sitting down and thinking about the process and, you know, like, this is, this is my first effort. I've had other you know, other pieces published in different sort of music publications and things like that, but So, um, but I just went, Oh, can I do this? So I sat down, and I just sort of came up with potential chapter, you know, like, chapter titles. And then and, you know, wanted to start at the beginning and, and sort of worked my way through. And that's how I started to do it. And so it took about five years to write. Some things were very easy that just flowed really well. Some of the other real difficult issues took a long time, one particular chapter, in dealing with the relationship with my ex wife, I wrote at least 50 times, and, and then I sent it to my publisher, and, you know, I got it back with lots of red ink and crossbow this and, and, and said, No, in, we've taken your chapter, we've added it now. And if you want to publish with us, it has to be this way. And, and I went, you know, and when I read it, and I'm like, Oh, my goodness, like, why did this take me so long to you know, but it's the process of getting it out. Right, the good as well as the bad. And, and so I was really, really happy, you know, when I read their sort of version of that particular chapter. And, and then, you know, different things just started to come along way. So the first part is about the difficulties of dealing with ADHD from a from a child to, you know, to early 20s. But the other part is about the success of my career is working in arts management, in choral and, well, choral arts management, and I've done some orchestral, but most of my career, so I've worked with some major choral organizations in Canada. And, you know, I've worked with some incredible artists. And so I'm not sure if you're familiar with marine forester, she's an amazing classical vocal artists, she was, you know, big in the 40s. To, to the early 2000s. And she had an opportunity to sort of work with her, and she sort of took me under her wing. I'm an alumnus of the Tanglewood Institute program for actually called Boston University Tanglewood Institute. And so when I was down at Tanglewood, in 1981, I got to spend 20 minutes with Leonard Bernstein, and had an amazing conversation with him about one of his choral pieces. And, you know, the other one who comes to mind is like, an over 10 year relationship with Sir David Wilcox that's he's the conductor for or was the conductor for King's College, Cambridge. You know, what Christmas times Christmas from Kings is usually broadcast and Oh, my goodness, that, you know, well, so David was just one of the most amazing and generous people I've ever met my life. And so we, you know, became friends. And then we emailed for over 10 years, you know, right up to Lee. He was in his early 80s, then right up to his early 90s. And he lived to be 95. And, you know, so I wanted to talk about the other side of my career, which was still having a disability, but basically getting to do what I wanted to do, which was to work in music. And, you know, I talked about some of the teachers that I, I worked with, and, you know, choral experiences. And Ian Walker  29:23 so I it's, it's genuinely an arts book, for that arts person in your family who you don't know what to deal with. Michael Hingson  29:34 Yeah. So when you went, by the way when you were done and tinker with Did you ever get to sing with the Boston Symphony? Ian Walker  29:40 No, because our program was a young artists vocal program. But, but we had all kinds of speakers coming in throughout the summer. We were there for eight weeks. And it was an incredible program. and no says You didn't come and speak to us. But we could go at any time, you know, with the student card and go and listen to rehearsals all the time. And our, our, our choral director just recently passed away Leonard Atherton, who used to be a part of University of Muncie, Indiana. But he was a Canadian first. And he did some work up here, like just not very far from where I live in Hamilton, Ontario. And so I was just amazed, choral people that he knew, and that I knew, and then, you know, we come down to dangle wood, and, you know, it becomes International. So, so it's wonderful. And our group are has stayed together this summer, this coming summer, we'll celebrate 41 years, that and we've got composers, we've got conductors, we've got singers that had had incredible careers. And so we're just, you know, through the wonder of the internet, that we're able to still, you know, stay connected. We've got about three reunions throughout the years to that's pretty Tanglefoot. Michael Hingson  31:22 How long did it take you to act? How long did it take you to write the book? Ian Walker  31:27 Well, it was about five years. And then I was looking for the right publisher, and I was going to publish with one in the States. But there was some problems with, you know, the price of the book then and having to add the tariff coming back on and, you know, for a paperback it was going to be like between 35 or $40 for, you know, who would pay that. So. So, I'm connected with a very wonderful group here called the word guild, for Christian writers, and Christian folk who write for, you know, for Christian media. And so some of my friends said, Ian, why don't you check out word alive press. And it's been a very good, you know, association being connected with them. So they, they really helped me get the book out there. And now it's gone into 43 International bookstores on website, I am just, it's gone all over the world. The last it was in China, and it was being looked at in Russia, I was just totally blown away. So Michael Hingson  32:45 exciting. It is. Ian Walker  32:47 And, you know, I'm working on a second book right now. So but it's not gonna have you know, I've already told my story, you know, now, it's time to finesse and, and have some fun. Michael Hingson  33:03 Yeah, we're, we're sort of in the same boat, Thunder dog having been publishing it, and it tells my story. And we have talked in previous episodes of unstoppable mindset about working on another book, and I interviewed Carrie Wildkin, who I'm working with who's collaborating with me on writing it. We also had Susie Florian, who's the lady who wrote and helped me write. She's a professional writer, and she helped me write thunder dog. She is also very involved with Christian writers on the west coast. So we should probably introduce the two of them. That would be wonderful. All right, yeah, I'll do that this afternoon. But we, but we are now getting ready to write another book. And this one's going to be more about fear, and learning to better address and control fear and make it more of a positive thing then, when something happens and you just become so blinded by fear that you can't move forward or do any do anything. So our tentative title is the guide dogs Guide to Being brave me having worked with a guide dogs, and you're just about to have a contract signed on that, which is really exciting. So we'll be awesome. We'll be telling people about that as it moves forward. But I I'm with you the stories out there. So now it's time to be able to branch out and do other things. Yeah, but Ian Walker  34:33 that's really interesting that you you're, you know, looking at writing a book about fear because I've really felt in the last little while that a lot of ADHD issues, open the door to fear. And I was thinking about writing a book on fear, but but I just I've seen it, you know, time and time again, and I A lot of like, part of, you know, part of my journey has really also been to just break down the doors and say, I'm not going to be held by fear anymore. And, you know, I mean, it took me 27 years to get that degree and I was bound and determined that I was going to get it. I, you know, I didn't think it was going to take that long. But there, you know, and there were elements of fear that I had to break through and just say, No, I'm not going to I'm not going to let that, you know, just one little element stopped me from achieving my goal. Michael Hingson  35:37 Hence, the concept of unstoppable. Exactly, yeah. Let me ask this. I'm just curious, have you have animals been a part of your life and help you and moving forward in any way? Ian Walker  35:52 Yes, we growing up, we had an amazing Labrador, and her name was shadow, black lab. And when I would have bad days, she would always come near me, and sit with me. And just she sensed that you know, that I'd had a bad day or had been bullied or whatever. And we had a tent trailer. So sometimes, if it was a really bad day, I'd go out underneath one of the beds and sit with her just, you know, for half an hour or 45 minutes. And she just helped me to really calm down. And then, Elaine, and I, my second wife, we have a Shih Tzu have a niece and her name is Faith. And oh, my goodness, she is such a good dog. And I recently had some health issues. And she came and sat with me almost every day, you know, while I was recovering. And, yeah, so Oh, yes. I love animals Michael Hingson  37:05 very well, we, Ian Walker  37:08 I'm not a cat person. They're the only thing I like we Michael Hingson  37:15 we are now going to draft you to be interviewed for the book. Great. So I think there's, there's a story there. And I think it will be fun to make it part of the book because we will be talking to other people. And Ian Walker  37:33 I would love to write a story for that. That'd be wonderful. Michael Hingson  37:36 Well, we'll get we'll get you interviewed, and we'll be working on that. Definitely. Okay. But, but you know, it's it is interesting animals have such a positive effect on all of us. If, if we allow that. And I understand you're not a cat person. We do have a cat. Yeah. Okay. And she is the most verbal creature. I think I have you ever known. She talks to us all the time. We rescued her. And it took her a couple of months to decide that maybe we were reasonable creatures to have in her house. You know how cats are. So, so we we do have a great relationship with her. And she's good. She's on reason. Ian Walker  38:21 I don't like taxes. I'm allergic to them. Michael Hingson  38:24 So yeah, I understand that. Ian Walker  38:27 You know, a couple of my friends have some tolerable cats that Michael Hingson  38:34 we had. When we lived in many years ago in Mission Viejo, California. We had neighbors, whose kitchen faced our kitchen, and they discovered that from time to time, I would drag out my ice cream freezer and make homemade ice cream. We actually had okay, why we actually had wireless intercoms between the two kitchens. And whenever they looked through their window and saw the freezer going, they would announce that they'd be over with bowls and spoons about 630 or seven o'clock. And sure enough, Alan Linda would show up with bowls and spoons. We also had to we also had two cats. They were sisters. Yeah. Al was not a cat person. These two cats every time he came over, would jump up on the couch where he was sitting and they would wrap themselves around his head and purr and purr and you knew that he was a little bit uncomfortable. But what's funny is what's what's really funny is eventually there was a cat in the neighborhood that would occasionally go to their house and he fed the cat and suddenly the cat adopted him. And he became a cat person, which was really hilarious. Ian Walker  39:49 That's funny. Michael Hingson  39:51 But But animals are a part of our lives in so many ways. So you took five years to write the book was published in 2018. And it's doing Yes. Hmm. Let me ask this. So you come from a musical family, obviously. Yes. Your, your parents and so on. Do you have any, any musical relatives that maybe some of us would have heard of? Ian Walker  40:19 Yes, I do. So on my grandmother's side, my great uncles and everything, generally, we're all very artistic, loved music or arts or, or. And so my third cousins are Jonathan and Jordan night from the New Kids on the Block. So, and we got to see them in concert, because I'm about 10 years older than they are. So Michael Hingson  40:54 that's why there's a new kids. Ian Walker  40:56 That's right. So we got to see them in concert in, I think it was around 2014 or 15. And I understand they're coming to Toronto again in the near near future, I think. I think this coming June or something anyways. Yeah. So. So they're, you know, that that's pretty amazing that but vocal and choral music have been a part of my mom's side of the family. I have other cousins, second cousins or third cousins that have also been in some international choirs and, you know, sang in church choirs as well as you know, community when cousin, she's sung in the Toronto Mendelssohn choir for a number of years. So which is 160 voice choir? Michael Hingson  41:49 You were part of that for a while, weren't you? Ian Walker  41:51 I was I was in the Toronto Mendelssohn youth choir. And that was wonderful. And as a result, Robert Cooper, who has been my good friend and mentor, he was the artistic director of that, that program, and oh, my goodness, we, we had wonderful, wonderful years wonderful training. And I have still about, you know, good 10 or 15. Friends from from those years that we've still stayed in touch, and that's also at least at the 40 year mark, too. So. Michael Hingson  42:29 Well, I have to ask, do your third cousins acknowledge you as members of as a member of the family? Ian Walker  42:36 Oh, yeah, they know, checking? Yeah, they know who I am, what you see their grandmother was my favorite great aunt. Okay. And so, she is mentioned in the book quite a lot. And, and she was an amazing painter. I have like five or six of her paintings in my house. And, and so the eldest, Jonathan knew her fairly well as the Jonathan Jordan was a couple years behind. And so, you know, he didn't get to spend as much quality time as, as Jonathan did, to, you know, connect with her. They were living in Boston, so yeah, so, but she was wonderful. Oh, my goodness, I love spending time with my aunt all of Michael Hingson  43:35 Well, obviously, ADHD was something that you you dealt with very well, but even so, and music helped that, but help you deal with that. But was was your ADHD ever a problem when you were dealing with music singing or studying music? Ian Walker  43:54 And that's really interesting, because some other people have asked me that, no, you know, and the, like, the only thing that I have a problem with right now, maybe it's partly age, but is memory. And so when I'm memorizing words in with music, there's no problem. When I have to memorize like, you know, written script part. It is, it's a real difficult time unless I sort of have worked out some, you know, some steps along the way, like, Okay, I'm telling this part of the story, and this is what it means in depth. So that, you know, and it's kind of like I have to sort of like do a, a plot analysis. But when I'm learning music, with lyrics and music together, there's no problem. And I would love to, to see an MRI of my brain to trying to do one or the other, just to you know, to understand what what's going on. out there, why what, you know, problems. Michael Hingson  45:06 But it's interesting that you can use that as a breakthrough to really, in a lot of ways get beyond the absolutely HD. Ian Walker  45:15 Yeah, yeah. And also, they say after 50 That your ADHD, you know, lessons, and mine certainly did. But the other thing that I wanted to stress too is I've chosen since I was 12 or 13 years old to be non medicated. So I have used music as my therapy. So I have a catchphrase music versus medicine. And that has worked so well for me. Michael Hingson  45:53 So you sing that great thing. Yes. Do you Do you play any musical instruments? Yes. Besides kazoo Ian Walker  46:03 No, I don't play kazoo, but I cannot play because you know, but I play flute accordion and piano and as well as voice Michael Hingson  46:11 Yeah. Well, then you can work on because you could work on kazoo. Ian Walker  46:16 I could work on kazoo. Yeah. Michael Hingson  46:19 That that should go well with football I would think. Ian Walker  46:22 Yeah, the right part. I'm going to be a new what's his name? Bobby. You know that. Don't worry. Get Don't worry. Be happy. Yeah, some? Yeah. That well, he is an incredible musician, incredible singer. And so he can think like he can hum and sing Mozart parts and and then I love it when people come and we'll sing harmony with them or whatever. Oh, it's really mix Aaron Bobby McFerrin. I know, even Ferran Michael Hingson  46:57 right. Yeah. We we are great fans here. My wife and I have acapella music. We listen a lot to groups like Straight No Chaser. Are you familiar with them? No, don't know them. They're a group of 10 students who went to to college in Indiana, formed a group saying some then didn't do anything. And then later got all got back together. Now they have a number of of albums. And it's all acapella. Which is really wonderful. And the harmony is great. And they, they, they sing one of my favorite Christmas songs who spiked the eggnog, you have to hunt it down and listen, oh, that's it. It's really cool. It's really clever. And, but but, you know, music is so much a part of all of our lives. And I'm glad that for you, it really is able to, to mean so much and do so much. So from a professional standpoint. You graduated from college? And then what did you do? Ian Walker  48:10 Well, then I worked a lot in different arts organizations. So in now, like, you know, because it took such a long time to get the degree and, you know, get myself established and because I'm an arts consultant, so I deal in public relations, marketing and fundraising. And I've had a various number of clients, you know, throughout the years. Now, with COVID, some things are starting to, you know, pick up again, but it's me time, I've wanted to really do a cabaret evening. So I've just started working with this amazing music director, her name's Don Martens. She's here, right here in the Hamilton area. She's so talented, and I just love working with her. So our plan is, for September, we're going to do a backyard concert to you know, try it out, we're going to do six to eight or eight, eight to 12 songs or so. And then we'll we'll try it out her husband does all the sound and the lighting. And then we'll see how it goes. And if it's ready to be, you know, shipped, then we can start promoting it when I also do other book signing events. Michael Hingson  49:34 How many people will be involved in that? In terms of singing? Yeah, Ian Walker  49:37 yeah. Well, I've tried to do something different with my book signing events. I've tried to always sing. So you know, do three or four pieces. And, and that's all gone overwhelmed with people that you know, don't know me. But the other exciting news is I'm working on an album. So so this is the first time You can find me on the internet. And, you know, I've just done a whole Christmas community thing with the Dundas Baptist Church, which was our home church, we, my family was there for over 50 years. But Don put together this wonderful sort of community program during COVID. And so I've got a good, good piece on there. So and now we're going to be we're going to be putting together six songs to to, you know, to start an album, so I'm really excited about that. That's been, I've wanted to do an album for a long time. And so we're gonna have the gospel, inspiration, style and one Christmas song. Michael Hingson  50:52 Where can people find out? Where can people find your singing today? Well, Ian Walker  50:55 as soon as I yeah, you can go to my website. And if you can sign up, I do a newsletter vote every, you know, either once a year or six every six months? And do you want me just to tell you the new website, Michael Hingson  51:14 or Sure, we'll, we'll do it later as well. But sure, go ahead. Ian Walker  51:18 So it's Emily in E M, Lian, communications plural.org. And if you go to that website, and there's a, you know, become a friend, join my website, just give us your name and your email address, we'd love to have you, you know, come on board, and then you'll be able to see my, my events. So but the other odd other real exciting big news is, I've written a play about the book. And I taken seven characters, and created a 60 minute play about dealing with ADHD, and using music therapy. So and it's going to be called stirring my soul to sing. And we're going to be premiering it in July here within the Greater Toronto Area. We're just waiting for confirmation. But I think it's going to be done as Baptist church because they have a wonderful sanctuary area, that will just work perfectly. We're going to kind of do it, what I refer to as opera and concert style. So music stands with scripts, and it's gonna kind of like an old time radio show, we're going to begin to try that, that format out. And so I'm really, really excited about that and information, how to get tickets, as all my will be on my website very soon. Michael Hingson  53:02 Cool. Well, that's pretty obviously pretty exciting all the way around in terms of the things that you've accomplished. I'm interested to know a little bit more about what it means to be an art consultant. Ian Walker  53:14 Oh, well, you know, I've worked in, in that position. And as for 30 years, so you know, working with different arts organizations, you learn a multiple level of skills. And so excuse me, when I started off, I was working in marketing, and I loved marketing. And then, you know, you as part of, because I was in an apprenticeship program, so we had had to move around, you know, and learn so many skills. So then I was taught, I think I was like, a month or so in the box office. So I learned box office skills. And then, you know, some of the events that I was working on in marketing promoted me to learn more about PR. And then also that summer I learned fundraising as I was on the phone selling tickets for, you know, for the orchestra. So all of those Ian Walker  54:17 skills became a what's what I call now an art consultant. So I have, I've raised $2.5 million for Arts and Social Sciences. Ian Walker  54:30 And before I'm done when I'm ready to retire I'm aiming for my goal is going to be 5 million. So, so I got another 2.5 to go. You can do it. I think I can do it. Yeah, cuz I'm not ready to retire yet. And I'm just in my early 60s. So Michael Hingson  54:47 there Yeah, there you go. Yeah. So in addition to being an arts consultant, what are you doing to help prepare the next generation whether it's a In art, or I'm more curious to hear what you would say about helping people in the future dealing with ADHD. Ian Walker  55:08 Absolutely. And my whole thoughts is, you know, I want to be able to give back. So I'm, I'm, as we're just starting to, you know, put things together for the production, I'm going to have two or three students, that will be learning stage managing, or, you know, and I'm hoping that these are kids that have some disability issues, you know, if it's a DD ADHD or a DD to be able to see how to use your energies, you know, is really important, and to have the right people there to help steward you, you know, in that, in that process is really important. So, so we're going to do that. I've been speaking to Chamber of Commerce, you know, in the within the community, as a, as a public speaker, and talking about ADHD, and disability in in the classroom, and how important it is that the shaming stops blaming, and the shaming stops, you know, and that disability is part of our lives, as artists as, as whatever that, you know, we continue to grow, and to have tolerance for people that have a difference, you know, then then, then the normal person. And so those are really important things. And, and I had built that into my company that we will have students or we will have assistants that have ADHD, or whatever. And that, you know, we will be working with with adults of disability, in our projects that we're doing into the future, Michael Hingson  57:09 will is clearly a person who has a lot of knowledge about ADHD, especially from the first person's point of view. Have you found? Have you found challenges using websites and the internet? Being a person experiencing ADHD? Ian Walker  57:28 Um, sometimes, like, I'm just because we're, you know, coming out of COVID now, and just bombardment of emails, like, you know, I mean, I get over, sometimes, like, over 150 emails, now I gotta start going through, get rid of the sales stuff. Michael Hingson  57:48 But that takes care of 149 of them. But go ahead. Ian Walker  57:51 See, there you go. Right. And, and so the thing is, I just, I get exasperated, I get tired. From Michael Hingson  58:01 websites. Have you had challenges on going to visit web pages? Ian Walker  58:06 Not so much? No. Because I've just discovered now, and I love this, especially on, you know, on the Kindle books, whatever, that those kinds of books and web pages can read back to you. You don't have to read everything. And I love this. And so. So now with the upgrade and you know, software through Microsoft web pages, if I'm tired or at it, you know, they can can voice activate and read to me, which is wonderful. Michael Hingson  58:44 One of the reasons that I asked the question is that is you may know, if you've looked at me a lot, I work for a company called accessiBe, which is a company that manufactures products that make webpages and websites accessible and accessiBe. It deals with a variety of disabilities and actually allows you to activate profiles to address specific issues like in terms of ADHD, a lot of noise on websites and other things like that. And AccessiBe has a profile specifically intended to deal with websites that can be a challenge for some people with ADHD to make them much more usable. So if you get a chance, you might check it out. It's, Ian Walker  59:33 I wouldn't use it. Yeah. Michael Hingson  59:37 Yeah, I will A C C E S S B E, I will I'll send you some information. Because it might very well be that there is a great partnership that can evolve from that around the wonderful accessiBe likes to work with people who have disabilities and who know more than than we do. So yeah, it's it's good to establish that but the way it works is that there are a number profiles that accessiBe be deals with and ADHD and, and other cognitive disabilities are profiles that can be activated. So it certainly makes sense for us to get you and some of the folks that accessiBe together. Ian Walker  1:00:16 Awesome. Michael Hingson  1:00:18 Well, we have been doing this a long time. And we could go on and on and on. But we both probably have lots to do. But I'd like to do this again. But I really, thank you for your time being here today to talk about a lot of this. And I'd like you to go through again, if people want to get a hold of you not sending you sales emails. Okay, how can they reach out to you? Ian Walker  1:00:45 Okay, so my website is www.E M L I A N communications. So C O M M U N I C A T I O N S .org Emliancommunications.org. Now, there's an easier way to remember if you just Google Walker, or Stirring Walker ADHD, it will also bring up all the information that you need to know about me and the book. Michael Hingson  1:01:30 And if people want to email you, Ian Walker  1:01:33 you can email me at info@Emliancommunications.org. Michael Hingson  1:01:41 Well, thank you very much for being here. I know it's taken us a while to get together. But I am so glad that we finally were able to do it and have a chance to really chat. I've got to ask, do you do a podcast? Ian Walker  1:01:56 I do. And I just started it. It's called the arts report music for the ADHD brain. And it's on Spotify. It's on a couple others, you can find it on my website. We're going to be adding some more to it. It's just been, you know, time to I've got some programs in the can that just have to be edit it. And well, thank God I have somebody who's amazing that does that. I don't have to do that. That's not my that's not my, my specialty. Michael Hingson  1:02:33 You do? No, that's Ian Walker  1:02:34 not what I do. Well, I like being able to have a producer say hey, what do you think about this? And Michael Hingson  1:02:41 do you deal with some of the PATA Palooza folks? Ian Walker  1:02:44 Just starting to get into that. So in been very grateful of the new connections that we're we've made there. So of course, you're one of those. So that's, that's wonderful. Michael Hingson  1:02:59 Well, again, what's the name of the podcast? Ian Walker  1:03:02 So it's called the arts report music for the ADHD brain. Michael Hingson  1:03:09 Well, if you ever need a guest to come on and talk about something esoteric or another, let me know we'd love to do Ian Walker  1:03:16 that because we want to talk about disability as well. So you know and overcoming disability so love to have you on Michael when we can can schedule that. Michael Hingson  1:03:27 Let's do it. All right, in locker thanks again for being here. And I want to thank you for listening to us today. I hope you've enjoyed your time within reach out to him. I am sure that he won't treat your email as a sales email. He's he's responded to mine pretty well. So I guess he he liked me can distinguish between what's real and what's not. But I want to thank you all for listening to unstoppable mindset. We sure appreciate a five star rating wherever you are listening to this podcast. And if you'd like to reach out and talk to me possibly be a guest on the podcast or just share your thoughts. You can go to www.Michaelhingson.com/podcast that's www.M I C H A E L H I N G S O N.com/podcast or email me at Michaelh M I C H A E L H I at accessiBe.com accessiBe is spelled A C C E S S I B E. And again, we mentioned the concept of accessiBe dealing with a variety of disabilities. If you want to learn more about accessiBe , please visit www.accessibe.com. But again, thanks for listening and Ian, thanks very much for being here today. Ian Walker  1:04:53 Thank you so much, Michael. It's been great hanging out with you today. Michael Hingson  1:04:57 It's been my honor as well. Thank you Michael Hingson  1:05:03 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. 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Voice technology is so prevalent, I'm giving a disclaimer on this episode that we'll refer to some voice assistants by name, so smart-speakers or digital assistants within earshot will, you know, notice.   Many of us may be users of voice recognition, but few of us know how to use it for marketing our companies. Coming up with applications is hard, with a platform whose interface is invisible. Few of us are exposed to the artificial intelligence behind it, so we can't picture what we'd do with it. As the Steve Jobs quote goes, "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” To help us with this, we'll talk with a company that launched a voice AI tool, and is happy to peel back the curtain on how this all works. Our guests are both from UCLab, a  software development firm in Ottawa, where Debra is a Partner and Justin is CEO.  Listen for how this technology began with simple single-word commands, to where it can now process whole paragraphs containing advanced grammar structures. You'll learn how it goes beyond turning itself on or off, to interacting with calendars and documents. They will share  how AI monitors which points someone brings up on a call and whether it was said in a positive or negative way, so before you talk again, you're ready for that objection. Also hear how detecting different human voices lets it assist with meetings by pulling out of the discussion, email them to people action items. Bound to be some good ideas here for how to use this in your marketing or your work life.  People/Products/Concepts Mentioned in Show VOICE TECHNOLOGY, A BRIEF TIMELINE 1950s: computer program Audrey created, it understood numbers 1-10 1985: stuffed animals that take voice command, like Teddy Ruxby, enter marketplace   1990: Dragon Dictate launched 2011: Apple releases Siri  2011: IBM Watson won on Jeopardy  2013: Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant enter the marketplace 2013: Movie HER released Nielsen ratings Xbox Kinect IVR - Interactive Voice Response GPT3 Company Debra and Justin are part of, UCLabs Debra Workman on LinkedIn Justin Hacker on LinkedIn Episode Reboot: check out UCLabs' meeting assistant, BlueCap   For 

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SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

SonicWall Zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited University of Minnesota suspends research project after students submit intentionally vulnerable code Microsoft acquires Nuance for $16 billion Palestinian hackers tricked victims into installing iOS spyware Tech spending climbs as digital business initiatives grow Washington State legislature voted to end restrictions on municipal broadband A new Facebook bug exposes millions of email addresses Justice Department launching a ransomware task force Secure Silicon: DARPA's initiative to make processors even more secure Lil Roberts, CEO and founder of Xendoo on accounting in the cloud with real people behind it Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Lil Roberts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: enterprisetech30.com Bandwidth.com/Enterprise canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Nuance Communications is on a mission to put the human voice at the heart of every organization! Forget what you think you know about voice assistants and those hopelessly dumb 'bots you run into when you call into some companies. Nuance is a company that pretty much invented voice recognition and voice-to-text back in the days when such tech was so new and amazing it was like magic to mere mortals!Technology never stands still, and the field of voice tech is no exception. How can voice combine with proven AI techniques to help businesses in 2020 and beyond? The answer comes in the form of conversational AI, the closest thing to a truly proactive virtual chat you'll get, useful in many different areas of the enterprise, from the help desk to the call center and further afield. In this Tech Means Business podcast, we talk to Robert Schwarz of Nuance Communications (Managing Director, Enterprise & Mobile ANZ) about how voice technologies and smart, conversational AI have multiple uses in any business, like voiceprint recognition, voice-to-big-data, smart real-time help for any professional, and even prevention of large-scale fraud. The host of the show, Joe Green, recounts his own use of Dragon Dictate and asks how Nuance Communications has transformed its technology and its platform's functional areas, where voice assistance (and assistants) makes critical differences to customer experience, safety, and ease-of-use. As ever, there was on the day too much to talk about, but the podcast will let you see some of the possibilities conversational AI offers and will, we hope, inspire your own voice-centric journey. - Voiceprint as part of 2FA or MFA (multi-factor authentication). - Interactive voice recognition that can respond intelligently when calls go "off-script." - Omnichannel call center operations that help customers and agents alike. - Mapping out conversations and strategies to drive customer satisfaction. - Smart assistants that help specialists (like physicians or IT support staff) in real-time. Nuance is pushing the boundaries of the technology it helped invent and is still driving the possibilities in multiple verticals. Find out how, who, where, what and how. Robert Schwarz on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-schwarz-4872185/Your host's one nod at the new-fangled social medias:https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/

Writing through chronic illness and other challenges, with Karen Lock KolpThis writing thing often feels hard. A common text among the three of us (Jess, Sarina and KJ) goes like this: OW OW OW OWOWOWOW. Our brains hurt. But for this week’s guest, Karen Lock Kolp, it’s more than that. Because of a rare tendon condition, Karen does all her writing and online work—and we do mean all—using her voice. That means that when it comes to both dictation and writing through big challenges, she’s a pro, and her advice in this episode was solid gold on both counts.Episode links and a transcript follow—but first, a preview of the #WritersTopFive that will be dropping into #AmWriting supporter inboxes on Monday, September 2, 2019: Top 5 Things to Remember When Writing is REALLY Hard. Not joined that club yet? You’ll want to get on that. Support the podcast you love AND get weekly #WriterTopFives with actionable advice you can use for just $7 a month. As always, this episode (and every episode) will appear for all subscribers in your usual podcast listening places, totally free as the #AmWriting Podcast has always been. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it with the shownotes and a transcript every time there’s a new episode. To support the podcast and help it stay free, subscribe to our weekly #WritersTopFive email.LINKS FROM THE PODCASTThe Solopreneur Hour with Michael O'Neal Joanna Penn's The Creative PennKaren's Dictation Software Choices: Dragon Dictation, Chrome Browser, Dragon's Transcription Button.MouseGrid video on YouTube: How to Use the Dragon MouseGrid (as it turns out, it’s focused on navigating in Facebook with Dragon, but still a great video)It's a Long Way to the Top, AC/DC#AmReading (Watching, Listening)Karen: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado PerezThe Purloined Paperweight, P.G. Wodehouse Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913, Daniel WolffKJ: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, Abbi WaxmanJess: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America, Lyz Lenz (Hear Lyz on the podcast here.) #FaveIndieBookstoreJeff Kinney's An UnLikely Story in Plainville, MAKaren Lock Kolp is the author of Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics: Key Tools to Handle Every Temper Tantrum, Keep Your Cool, and Enjoy Life with Your Young Child and 10 Secrets Happy Parents Know: How to Stop the Chaos, Bring Out Your Child’s Good Behavior, and Truly Enjoy Family Time (Your Child Explained). Find out more at Karen's website: We Turned Out Okay. Listen to her podcast here. Her popular episode Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics is here. This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingfor details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template.Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.Transcript (We use an AI service for transcription, and while we do clean it up a bit, some errors are the price of admission here. We hope it’s still helpful.)KJ:                                00:01                Howdy writers and listeners. August is basically over. September is here and this is the very last time I can invite you to join us in Bar Harbor, Maine for the Find Your Book, Find Your Mojo retreat from September 12th through 15th of 2019. It's a fantastic chance to get some one on one time for your project with me or Author Accelerator founder Jenny Nash, and then dig in with all your might in a gorgeous setting surrounded by your fellow #AmWriting word nerds, including Serena Bowen, who's going to talk about indie versus traditional publishing. There will be bonding, there will be writing, and knitting and artistic renderings of words of the year and all kinds of festivities and I for one can't wait. Find all the details@authoraccelerator.com/am writing.KJ:                                00:55                Go ahead. This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone and try to remember what I was supposed to be doing.Jess:                             00:59                All right, let's start over.KJ:                                01:01                Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers.Jess:                             01:04                Okay.KJ:                                01:04                Now one, two, three. Hey, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia.Jess:                             01:13                And I'm Jess Lahey.KJ:                                01:15                And this is #AmWriting with Jess and KJ. #AmWriting is our weekly podcast about all things writing, be they fiction, nonfiction, some bizarre intertwined creation, short stories, proposals, essays, long pieces, short pieces. And most of all, the one thing we always are is the podcast about getting the work done.Jess:                             01:46                And I'm Jess Lahey. I'm the author of the Gift of Failure and a forthcoming book about preventing substance abuse in kids. And you can find my work at the New York Times and the Washington Post and recently at Air Mail, which is a new venture by Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair. And that was kind of fun to write for someone new.KJ:                                02:06                I am KJ Dell'Antonia. I'm the author of How To Be a Happier Parent and the former lead editor and writer of the Motherlode blog at the New York Times where I am still a contributor. I'm having a freelancing break while I work on what will be my second novel and my first novel, The Chicken Sisters will be out next year.Jess:                             02:24                So exciting.KJ:                                02:26                That's who we are. That's why you should listen to us. Today, we have a guest that I think you are also going to want to listen to. I want to welcome Karen Lock Kolp. She is a child development expert and a parenting coach with a podcast, a thriving online community, and she is the independently published author of 10 Secrets Happy Parents Know. But we are not going to talk about anything parenty because what we are gonna talk about is getting all that work done because Karen is also a woman who lives with chronic illness. She has a tendon disorder that she'll describe to you later, but it has made her an expert in the use of her voice, both as a podcaster and in dictating her writing, which I know you're all going to want to hear about. And it's also made her an expert at keeping her butt in the chair sometimes whether she wants to or not, and getting her work done anyway, even when it's really, really hard. And that's why you're here. So thank you so much for joining us.Karen:                          03:28                Oh, thank you. It's really wonderful to be here. This is very exciting for me. Your podcast is one of my favorites. It is one of the few that survived my recent digital reset. Yours was one of the few that I brought back in because it's incredibly valuable.Jess:                             03:51                Oh, that's so nice. We survived a purge. That's so exciting.KJ:                                03:56                I purged lately too, although I partly purged just because I get so frustrated with the iTunes podcast app and switched and then once I switched I realized I hadn't brought everything with me and some of it I didn't miss.Jess:                             04:08                I had that moment where iTunes said, you seem to have not downloaded this in awhile. Do you still want to listen? And I thought about it and I said, well, no, actually I'm done.Karen:                          04:20                That's really cool. I did that.KJ:                                04:22                So Karen, so what I really want to talk about today is the specifics of writing with chronic illness, but also more on a general note, just the challenges of writing when it's hard. I think that we all have times when we feel like this is impossible and you have written through moments that I think most of us would define as actually impossible. So, start by telling us where you stand and how this started for you.Karen:                          04:56                Wow. It's, it's quite a story. So, actually first of all, I think I just want to say that I was well into writing my second book before I would dare to call myself a writer. So there's that as well. I was like, I'm a podcaster, I'm not a writer. You know what I mean?KJ:                                05:14                Yeah, no, we all have that. Yeah. I mean it's always, well, I wrote for the New York Times, but only online, you know Nobody, none of us thinks we're a real writer yet. Yeah, except maybe Salmon Rushdie, he thinks he's a real writer.Karen:                          05:34                Thinks he's a writer. Yeah, exactly. A real writer. I was midway through the second book and I was like, I said to somebody, Oh, I'm a writer. And I was like, wait a minute, I actually am a writer. I'm like, that's pretty cool. For me, it all started eight years ago, more than eight years ago now, I contracted a tendon disorder. And the way that I did it was I got a gastric disease called diverticulitis, which I would not wish on my worst enemy. And I took some (this is the nearest that my doctors and I can figure out) I took a really strong course of antibiotics to get rid of it. And they had a thing in them called fluoroquinolones. And since that started, since I went down this rabbit hole, it's been discovered that fluoroquinolones cause tendon problems largely in kids, but caused these problems anyway. And the rheumatologist told me, probably four or five years in that like I'm one of the lucky few who it stuck around for it. There's like a third of people who get this that they get it and get better right away. And then there's a third who sort of get it and it sticks around for a couple of years. And then I'm one of the ones who's, you know, it's gone on for a really long time.KJ:                                06:42                That's just annoying.Karen:                          06:45                I mean, isn't it?KJ:                                06:48                The truth is that in a single hand card game, odds don't matter and it’s either going to stay or it's not and if it stays those odds just make you mad.Karen:                          06:57                Yeah. And I, I, it took me a long time to get here, but I, I would say that what I've done is I've kind of gone through a real metamorphosis, you know, before I was a caterpillar and then this was my chrysalis and now I'm a butterfly. Like I truly understand the meaning of differently abled in a way I never, ever did before. For the first couple of years, the focus was really on my legs. I lost almost complete use of one leg in particular (my right leg) because of some of the tendons in it. And then there was a sort of very long rehab. But while I was going through that, I needed a wheelchair. Whenever I left the house it was a mess. And when that got better, then my thumb tendon started to go. And I'm still basically really still recovering from that. The legs are much better than the upper body. So all my writing is done online, and I do it with a speech recognition software. But, I want to even go further back than that, if it's okay.KJ:                                08:04                Yeah.Karen:                          08:05                Because I, the whole reason that I started to do anything is because I wanted, it sounds, it may sound silly, but I wanted to give a TED talk. I was, I remember watching TED talks and loving them and laughing at them. Like I couldn't move, I was stranded in a chair. And I remember thinking, you know what I could do, I could do a TED talk in a wheelchair. I want to do a TED talk. And so what, I, I haven't done one yet, I'm still hoping to, but this whole thing started because I was like, well, I want to do that. So my husband especially helped me try to figure out like, how could you do that, because at the same time as I wanted that I was also feeling incredibly useless and a total burden at home. We had two young kids and I couldn't be the house wife, and I couldn't be the cook. And I couldn't be the laundry and I couldn't be the chauffeur. So I really was feeling very down, like not quite suicidal, but if you got hit by a bus it wouldn't be a problem kind of thing. I had to learn first that there is value in me even if I can't use my hands or my legs. Once I learned that, my family was like, we need you, we need you to be the brains, which is how we define it around here. Then I could sort of look outwards from that. And that was when I really decided, I think I want to do a TED talk. And that has led to so much cool stuff. And even if it's not ever a TED talk, I'm so happy.KJ:                                09:33                Well, I mean, you know, it's kind of cool that it started from that, right? And, and it remains as a goal, but now you have, you know, you have so many other goals that you have achieved in the meantime.Karen:                          09:54                That's a very good thing to know. I mean, I, it's nice to have that validation, you know.KJ:                                10:01                Yeah.Karen:                          10:02                Thank you.KJ:                                10:02                I almost don't even know where to go from that, but so you've picked a topic and you took it from there. It's sort of hard to list all the things that you have, but you have this thriving online community, you have a coaching business, you have a lot going on now. What came first?Karen:                          10:28                So first came the podcast and that came about in a really interesting way too, because my husband wanted me to have an iPhone. So part of my problem, part of the hands per happened because I was doing too much texting on a phone that had those nine buttons, you know what I mean, where you'd have to like cycle through the number one to get to a and all those sorts of things. And that really blew up with the thumb tendons and my husband's like, okay, we're gonna get you an iPhone because it's playschool. You won't ever have to worry about like anything. You know, there's no, you don't have to choose between apps. Like it's just, it's there for you, there's no worries with an iPhone, which my family has since they've gotten Androids and there are times where they want to throw them out the window, you know what I mean? But I still have an iPhone because I need it. And that was when I really first discovered podcasts and one of my favorite podcasts was done by an entrepreneur who teaches other people how to start an online business. And I really wanted to start an online business.KJ:                                11:34                You need to name the podcast, by the way.Karen:                          11:37                Oh, that podcast is called The Solopreneur Hour podcast with Michael O'Neal. So I got into his podcast and I started trying to do something. I made a horrible, horrible website with my husband's help that I'm so glad it's gone, basically. Because I just needed to start and I knew I wanted to do something for parents of young children. I have a master's degree in early childhood education, I've got a bachelor's in human development and family relations, I've got nine years as a preschool teacher in an industry standard, state of the art, absolutely wonderful town-run preschool program. The town I grew up in actually. And I wanted to help parents cause I couldn't be in the classroom anymore, so maybe I could, you know, I could at least help them that way. So, I'm developing this pretty awful website and I'm doing it listening to Michael O'Neal's show. And I wrote to him at one point to basically say thank you because what he was doing was making me feel like I could do this, like this was attainable by me. And I explained my tendon condition and he read my letter on the air and he gifted me three months in his coaching program. I just want to take a moment to send up a silent thank you to him because I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't had him. But I mean, what, he's just a wonderful guy.KJ:                                13:08                Say a thank you to you because if you didn't reach out, do you know exactly when he would've come and knocked on your door if you hadn't written that letter? Never.Karen:                          13:17                Exactly.KJ:                                13:19                Yeah. You know, we often are like, yeah, I was really lucky because, but you made your luck.Karen:                          13:24                Yeah, that's very true. And I remember the feeling of like, this is really happening. Like, Oh my gosh. And his real jam, the thing he's really good at helping people figure out is what's your brand. And so we went through, as I said, he took one look at my goofy website that I had been working on and he was like, Oh, you know, this isn't going to fly. Yes, not this. Exactly. And then we spent, I would say probably a good part of those first three months coming up with the concept and the brand. And I, I will never forget the day after trying three or four, you know, names, when I said to him, you know, what I've been really thinking about and pushing around is the idea of a podcast called we turned out okay. And he was like, that's it. He goes, that's it. And then he goes, you know what your tagline is? It's the modern parent's guide to old school parenting. I was like, yes. And it was just so much fun. So the whole process was fun and like he made it fun and he made me feel like I could do this, you know? Whereas at home I was sort of getting a little bit of like, are you sure? Do you really want to take this on? This is a lot for somebody with, you know, with the conditions and the problems that you've got. And it was so motivating and such fun to be in that program, so I'm grateful to him. Very grateful.KJ:                                14:43                Well, and it's cool that it came about that he offered that to you, but this is also sort of a moment to recognize that getting some coaching can be super helpful. I think a lot of us are really reluctant to spend money on our dreams and, and also we have this feeling that if we were really capable, if we could really do it, we could do it on our own.Karen:                          15:08                Exactly.KJ:                                15:10                If I were a real writer, I wouldn't need an editor's help. If I were a real entrepreneur, I wouldn't need a coach to guide me through finding my brand. And that is, that's just, that's just not true. We all need to learn where we're going and getting in with an expert can can cut your time in half, it can inspire you, it can help you see exactly what you saw, which was that it might not look to people on the outside like you were ready to do this, but you wanted to prioritize it. I think that's cool, too.Karen:                          15:45                Yeah. So that's how I got started. That's a really long story for how I got started.KJ:                                15:51                Okay. We accept long stories. So at this point, you're podcasting and then you must at some point have sort of decided, well, I need some blog, I need some writing to go with this podcast. Let us know how you figured out how to do that, especially given that you were gonna need to dictate.Karen:                          16:15                So I think one of the, one of the things that a lot of people overlook I guess or don't want to hear maybe, is that you've got to start it before you know what it is. You have to start it before it's fully formed. And I started the podcast in 2014 or 2015, it's just over four years old. So 290 episodes in, in four years and counting. I got to maybe like 56 or 57 and I did an episode called Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics and people went nuts for it. Like I started to get emails from people and that got downloaded more than any other episode I'd ever done. People really responded to the idea that, wait a minute, there are these little Ninja tactics I can do to make my home life better? It's super easy, but things that I know as an early childhood professional that maybe, a parent who's not, wouldn't know, you know what I mean? So things like, how to make no sound like yes was one of those first Ninja Tactics. What I did from that was I decided to write a book called Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics. And I wanted to be able to talk about it in written form as well. You know, there's this idea you should have an email list. I've been taking a lot of time to try and figure out what my email list is going to be and I've gotten to 2019 and I figured it out and I love it. And people again are really responding to it. It's a weekly newsletter now, where I always get to vary it. But, I started it as, Hey, if you want to get notified when Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics is available, then I'll put you on this email list and you can find out and that really grew from there. For me it's been a lot of experimentation and exploring my burnout rate. So I used to do a six episodes in a month. And I realized that after the second year that that was not working for me. It was too much. I couldn't concentrate on my coaching clients if I was spending that much time on the podcast. Instead, I started doing these biweekly live members only calls for the people in my community. And, and if I did that twice a month instead of this extra podcast, I suddenly, I wasn't burned out anymore. I was focusing my energies in the right place because the people in the community could then say to me, here's my question about this. And I could go, Oh my God, people who listen to the podcast need to hear about that too. So I'm serving my clients first and then being able to bring these cool things to the listeners.KJ:                                19:08                Right.Karen:                          19:09                So, then I started listening to Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn podcast. And I started to sort of reframe myself as not just as a podcaster, but as an author as well. And what she does is so cool because she's all about like write books that are really professional and well written and fantastic at giving good advice and keep writing them. And I was like, you know what, that's something I could do. And so I've been working on that.KJ:                                19:43                So wait, wait. You're saying that's something I could do, but you don't type.Karen:                          19:50                No, I don't type, exactly.KJ:                                19:53                First of all, we want to know how you actually do it, but how did you get over that mental block of, you know, I'm going to write, but not with a pen, not with a keyboard, and not with a pencil.Jess:                             20:07                I'm especially waiting to hear about that because I have tried.KJ:                                20:11                We want the mental block first, then we want the tools.Jess:                             20:15                I just can't. I've tried so hard, so I'm dying to hear how you do all the dictation.Karen:                          20:20                Can I just say that it was not without many temper tantrums? I mean, I think this is necessity as the mother of invention. There was no way for me to do this without the speech recognition software. So I had to form a truce with the speech recognition software. So for me over these years now I've spent, I don't know if I've gotten my 10,000 hours in or not yet, but I would say probably. But the way that I got there was by doing it. So, I work much better if I can read something that is printed. So, my husband printed out the entire user manual for speech recognition software. So I was learning the commands - because there are these interesting commands that you can use. So you can tell it to click here, you can tell it to click save, you can bring up a mouse grid. I think if you guys are looking for the tool that has been a lifesaver for me. It's this idea of a mouse grid. So I want you to envision your computer screen and you say the words mouse grid. And what happens is a grid of nine blocks comes up on your screen. Say I want to click something in the lower left corner, that that happens to be the number seven. So I would say seven. And then the mouse grid would reappear, but the whole mouse grid is now where the number seven used to be. And so it's a little more focused now in that corner.KJ:                                21:57                And where do you get something like that?Karen:                          22:00                Where do you get the mouse grid?KJ:                                22:02                Yeah.Karen:                          22:02                Well, I use Dragon Speech Recognition software, so it's a component of that. But I'll tell you, I learned how to use that properly by watching the most beautiful and just heartbreaking video on YouTube. I mean you think you've got problems, right? And then you Google how to use the Dragon mouse grid and the person describing it to you is a person who not only has lost the use of his arms and legs, but also has speech difficulties and they are describing to you how to use this mouse grid and then they are using the mouse grid. By the time he gets to the small enough place in the grid in this video, I am crying. I mean my thought was if somebody like that can not only do that, but teach me how to do it, there is nothing that will stop me. Like what a good, incredibly good example of someone who's making it work no matter what, you know?KJ:                                22:56                Wow. All right, we're going to find that. We're going to link it.Karen:                          22:58                So, the mouse grid is a huge tool. I've discovered that Dragon plays very well with Chrome and not very well with Firefox, for example. So there have been times where I have felt like I was drowning and that I just couldn't get a breath. I wish I had a better description. Like, I will sit down and I'll be like, alright, I'm going to write a blog post and I use the speech recognition software to open Google Chrome and then I use it to navigate. to the inside of my website, not the outside pages everybody sees, but the sort of private admin pages and I get to the correct post.KJ:                                23:56                And you're doing all that using the Dragon Dictate?Karen:                          23:59                I am, yeah.KJ:                                24:00                So we think of Dragon Dictate as something that lets you dictate a story, but you can sort of basically set it up to run your whole...Karen:                          24:09                You can, yeah. You can use their voice commands for all of this. But what I've learned to be more patient with what used to kill me so bad was I would get three quarters of the way through that process and then I would open the dictation box, but sometimes Dragon can't see and doesn't know what you're trying to do. I don't know how else to describe it - it won't write anything. You'll say something and it will say, we can't recognize that speech or something and you're just like ugh. So I would get all the way to that point and then the app would crash or something like that. Talk about temper tantrums! But I just kept playing the song It's a Long Way to the Top by AC DC. I kept thinking to myself, there's no other way. Like it's either this or you go throw yourself in front of a train, like what's it gonna be here honey? And, I knew I wasn't going to do that, so I was gonna have to keep doing this basically. Does that make sense?KJ:                                25:15                Oh yeah, no, it totally, it totally makes sense. So now you're writing a book via Dragon Dictation and all of the challenges that that entails and then you're editing it the same way.Karen:                          25:33                I am. And, and I have learned - this was such a breakthrough for me. So, say if I'm going to write the title of a chapter and have Dragon sort of recognize it, I can now make a recording for my podcast, get my microphone out and my headphones and stuff like that. And I can say the following. So, here's the title of my book that dragon will recognize. OK. are you ready?KJ:                                26:04                Yeah.Karen:                          26:05                Cap educating cap. Happy cap kids, colon numeral nine cap ways to cap help cap your cap, child cap, learn cap to cap and joy cap learning, something like that. I can't remember it exactly, but I'm, that's the book I'm working on right now.KJ:                                26:19                So, you're fluent in, you're fluent in punctuation.Jess:                             26:24                There really is a whole other language.Karen:                          26:26                It's a whole other language. But what's neat is you can get into the flow of it in a recording sense. So like I can record 15 minutes of language that sounds like that. And, and I can, there's a transcribe button in Dragon and it will take that and put it on paper but legibly so that it can be read. It just says educating happy kids. Nine ways to help your child learn what they need to know. And it's like such a mirror every time this, every time I see this appearing, I'm just like, yay!KJ:                                26:59                I need to quickly hop in and apologize for only naming your most recent book cause I knew that you had more. But in the intro I, for whatever reason just threw out the first one. We will be listing them all.Karen:                          27:10                Oh, thank you. No worries. I mean, I appreciated that you listed any of them. I mean this is the one that I'm currently working on, so this is the one that my brain is like really thinking about. So I just today, today I sent it off to my editor for final revisions, so yay.Jess:                             27:31                It was funny when you said the thing about how if you want to do this thing badly enough, you can figure it out. But when we were interviewing Shane recently about the fact that he uses his two thumbs to type entire books on his iPhone and Oh my gosh, you know, KJ and I used to have a segment in the show called Ow It Hurts, but it was always like it hurts. Like, Oh, I don't really want to write this, but not like I have to write an entire book with my two thumbs. If Shane Burcaw can write three books with his thumbs, I think I can figure out the intricacies of how to use dictation software.Karen:                          28:17                If you want to, if it's a real goal of yours. I think a lot of times that I would not be a podcaster or an author without the tendon disorder. Like I was, I was too invested in my own life. I guess. I remember sort of having this yearning, like I remember being 38 about a decade ago and just saying to my husband, like, you know what, isn't there anything else? I mean, I love you and I love the kids, but isn't there anything else? I think had I not gotten the tendon disorder and, and had all of that other stuff kind of stripped away from me, I'm not sure that I would've had the guts even to try something different. Even now I will walk into a Christmas tree shops and I get tired, so I often need to find a seat so you'll find me sitting on the bird seed. This happened just recently. I was in line of Joann Fabrics and the line was so long that I literally sat down on the floor and crossed my legs and apologized to everybody around me and said, this is just what I have to do. I mean, once you've been through things like that, those are really socially embarrassing situations and it's like, well, I can do anything if I can do this.Jess:                             29:36                I just am fascinated. I've never, I'm fascinated. My brain is stuck on the line that I wouldn't be a writer without my tendon disorder. I think, you know, the thing, the very thing that makes that more difficult for you is the thing that made it happen. And I find that really wonderful and fascinating and complicated.Karen:                          29:54                Yeah. Thank you for recognizing it. When I think metamorphosis, that's really what I think of. And I came to our conversation today with a couple of points that I wanted to make sure to cover. If anyone is trying to work in difficult circumstances that, that I thought they might want to know, this is what's worked for me and the first one is to just own it, to say to yourself, this is what I want to do. Like it can be so easy for us to get caught up in I've got to get dinner on the table and I've got all these duties that we have in our day and there can be some guilt around backing away from work or family and saying, I'm taking this time to do this thing that I really want to do. And for me that had to come first.KJ:                                30:44                Yeah. I mean, if, if you are in a situation where you have limited resources, be there physical or mental to put them into this thing that at that moment is only for you is really hard. You know, it's very easy to say to yourself, well, you know, if I'm going to have like an hour of, of like sort of on time today because I'm suffering from exhaustion or because I get physically tired, I should put that into my kids' school meeting or dinner or you know, something. So I think that's really important.Karen:                          31:21                Yeah. That's what's worked for me. I remember lying in bed one morning just before I wrote to Michael O'Neal, just before I started to like come up with this website. And I remember lying in bed one day and every day I had been thinking, you got to get busy living or get busy dying, which is from a movie, it might be from the Shawshank Redemption. I literally would lie in bed going, are you going to get up now cause you got to get busy living or get busy dying. And on this particular day I sat up in bed and I said out loud, I am doing this and I'm not even sure that I knew what this was yet. But like it was this idea of I am breaking free of the sort of constraints. Whether they are because I feel guilty that I can't do very much or because like my time really ought to be spent on this other thing. And I was basically like, I got no hands. So like I'm going to do this, whatever it is.KJ:                                32:21                I was just going to say, okay fine. If you can get your mental head around it. And it also sounded like you had had partner support, which is great, but sometimes we have to go on without it.Karen:                          32:34                Yup. Yup. Yup. It was huge. So Ben used to say to me, he's actually the producer of my show. And what's funny is he has a day job, he goes off to work every day and that doesn't have anything to do with audio. But he went to school for sound engineering and his friends from college are people who work on the Today Show or who have won Grammy's and stuff like that. And he basically decided that his life was going to take a different path, but we used to joke, we'd pass a radio station in the car and I'd be like, Hey, let's move here and I'll be the talent and you can be the producer. And like that's kind of what's happened, which is so interesting. So he gets to feed his audio soul a little bit. He gets to geek out over, you know, making the show sound great and like all the cool, you know, little audio things that he couldn't do before. So support is really important. But I will say this, too. Ben is the one who, he was like, he used to say like, we need to get you with your friends because you're so much happier when you're like with people. He would say, I've seen you come alive today. We went to a party or something and cause it's just so hard to be sitting alone and you know, only feeling like you can't do stuff. So, when I said to him, I think I'd like to try starting a a business, he was like, yes, please. I'm glad because you need something to do with your mind. So he was always very, very supportive from the beginning. I didn't think to put that on the list, but I think that's probably pretty important.KJ:                                34:05                Well, it's, it's hard to be the partner because you can think to yourself, you know, if I were in that position, I would do such and such. Well, and first of all, you don't know what you would do, but secondly, you can't actually do it. So, you know, you can look at your partner and see, well I, she really needs to get out there and, and do stuff with her friends. But it's not like he can pack you into the car.Karen:                          34:25                Yeah, exactly.KJ:                                34:28                To be them too. All right, well what comes next?Karen:                          34:29                Alright. So next for me was the idea of just starting small, like small habits have won the day for me. When I first started, and even sometimes now, I have a version of your open the document, you know what I mean? And I always felt like, so if you've got 5% use of your hands, what can you dedicate that 5% to? And sometimes it was twirling spaghetti and that was all I had, you know. But if I've got 15 minutes, if I can take the next 15 minutes and dedicated to writing something like, and then I don't do anything else for the rest of the day, that's fine. I put one foot in front of the other today. I took one step. So really small habits that you do repeatedly. The next thing I think, cause you can say to yourself like, it's too big. I can't, I just can't. But, but if you try to break it down to like the smallest step, the step, the step that you feel like, okay, I can do that, I will do that. And then you're done for the day and you come back to it the next day. So small habits are fun and good. The next one that comes up for me is celebrate the wins. Even the tiny ones like - so actually, I've been writing a fictional book one minute at a time, which I know sounds crazy, but it worked for Neil Gaiman so I feel like it's gonna work for me.KJ:                                35:57                It's really the only way to do it. It's just a question of whether they're consecutive minutes or not.Karen:                          36:02                Yes, exactly. I just don't have the time to commit to even 15 minutes a day of fiction writing, but I can open a notebook and it's actually, it's hand strengthening practice too is how I look at it. I can open a notebook and I can write a sentence. And what I've been taken to is I'll write a full sentence and then I'll make the next sentence be like the beginning of the next sentence. So the next day when I come back, I've got a writing prompt basically. And I have found that it's enough to keep this story alive for me. Like, so I had the idea for the novel and I did a lot of work around who's who, what's the main character dealing with? I have a dear friend who lives in Maine and the property next to her dream property has been taken over by a jerky landlord who insists on bringing like people from away who shoot off guns and bring bands in and they're raising a family. And so I'm writing this to give her some hope, basically. I've been having a ball with it, one minute at a time. So that's one of my one minute, like that's one of my tiny habits. I can't do more than that. So that's what I do. And when I do it, I celebrate that win, like I did this today. Yes.KJ:                                37:20                Yes. All right. Keep going. Do you have time to?Karen:                          37:25                I got two more, two more. I think my most important resource is energy. When my energy level is gone, it is gone and I have to go to sleep for eight hours to get it back. So, I tend to work in projects and the way I think of it is like I'll do so quarterly, I'll look at this each quarter anew and my project for the first month of the quarter is recording the podcast episodes and getting those show notes done so that for the whole quarter. So now I've got two other months that I can keep writing or I can do other cool stuff. This August we're gonna have a staycation. So I get to do that because I planned in July for August. So I'll get that project completed and then work on the next project. So, for this quarter it's been educating happy kids has been really my next project. That and rest.KJ:                                38:24                That's your next book, right?Karen:                          38:25                Yup. That's my next book. I have found that is a really great way to manage my energy level because I can see progress as I'm working through a bigger project. For me that really, really works. It may not work for everyone. Some people might like to sort of get a little bit of something done every day repeatedly, but I like to be able to say, okay, that project is finished and now I can move on to the next one. So I've been doing that. And then the last one, and this is probably the most important one, is the idea of trying again tomorrow. So like if today is a blowout, if you cannot do it, if, if everything has gone wrong today, you still have the choice to get up and try again tomorrow.KJ:                                39:11                Cool. Yeah, no, that's, that's great. I love it.Jess:                             39:14                We've also observed in the past, this happens to me with writing and it happens to me with teaching that some of my very worst teaching and writing days have been followed by some of my best. So that's a good reminder for me that no matter how crappy things go on one day it can turn around completely the next.Karen:                          39:33                Yup. Yup. And as I think as a part of all of this, there's this idea of support.Speaker 3:                    39:39                Like we talked about that a little bit with my husband, right? But you guys are such a support for me. The #AmWriting Facebook group is one of the only places I go on Facebook. I go there and I go into the group of We Turned Out Okay listeners that I have developed over there,KJ:                                39:55                It is the only place I go.Jess:                             39:57                It's literally true. KJ and I, what we did was we made it so that the group is our bookmark for Facebook. So if you're going to go on Facebook, you have to go there.Karen:                          40:07                No way.Jess:                             40:08                Yeah.KJ:                                40:09                You can, that you could have two bookmarks, one for our group and one for your group and then you never have to risk being caught up in something

Morgana Best is the best-selling author of over 40 Cozy Mysteries, and she joins us in the SPA to tell us everything she knows about writing Cozies. From word counts to reader expectations, and even her writing process - which involves using Dragon Dictate, and is totally fascinating - Morgana gives us insider information on how to put together a bestselling Cozy Mystery. She also talks about her daily schedule, her marketing techniques and how she chooses her victims... If you love Cozy Mysteries, or you've ever thought you'd like to write a Cozy Mystery, this is the episode for you!

Morgana Best is the best-selling author of over 40 Cozy Mysteries, and she joins us in the SPA to tell us everything she knows about writing Cozies. From word counts to reader expectations, and even her writing process - which involves using Dragon Dictate, and is totally fascinating - Morgana gives us insider information on how to put together a bestselling Cozy Mystery. She also talks about her daily schedule, her marketing techniques and how she chooses her victims... If you love Cozy Mysteries, or you've ever thought you'd like to write a Cozy Mystery, this is the episode for you!

On this week's episode, Zach and J. flip the script on their Choose Your News segment, putting J. in the driver's seat and having him read headlines to Zach. And in the main topic, they go over their favorite productivity tools.Thanks to our newest Patron: Chad Lutzke, Philip Harris, Kevin G. Summers, Leenie BrownGet exclusive bonus content by supporting The Career Author Podcast on Patreon at www.thecareerauthor.com News Links:The Skull and Bones of YouTube https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/authors-can-take-advantage-of-piracy-via-youtube5X the Fire and Fury http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/13/media/a-higher-loyalty-publisher-book-sales/index.htmlAI – Amazon Internet https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17249090/amazon-internet-web-browser-app-android-indiaAmazon vs. Comic Book Man https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/76598-comics-retailers-are-optimistic-despite-market-changes-sales-declines.html Interesting but not newsworthy: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/04/red-hot-chili-peppers-bassist-flea-is-publishing-his-memoir-this-fall/ Our Favorite Tools:Slack - http://www.slack.comGoogle Drive - http://drive.google.comJ.'s free Google Calendar and Gmail guide - http://theauthorcopilot.com/calendarScrivener - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/Bookfunnel - http://www.bookfunnel.comVellum - http://www.vellum.pubDraft2Digital Formatting - https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/draft2digital-introduces-professional-quality-ebook-templates/Dragon Dictate - https://www.nuance.com/dragon.htmlGrammarly - http://www.grammarly.comZach's Noise Canceling Headphones - https://amzn.to/2JVWvH7Zach's Ergonomic Keyboard - https://amzn.to/2Hc1QZbZach's Ergonomic Mouse - https://amzn.to/2Ha1ZfCZach's iPad Keyboard Case - https://amzn.to/2H9ZwWvZach's Laptop Cart - https://amzn.to/2qJ0nClOther Links:The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield - http://books2read.com/u/4NRKg6Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts by Ryan Holiday - http://boo

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I'm an old man mentally I've always been kind of that yeah man I used to hang out what were my best friends five years older than me used to hang out like hotel all older references yeah culture what the Seinfeld cheers references off God and I was like yeah see I thought of affairs yeah I'm an old man to but like you do make me feel young should you complain about is pretty old mannish arthritis that's not funny Ovaltine got a stock no my jitterbug phone doesn't work, go to sleep on my dad's does it is rock and I like know how dumbfounded he just looks at it like he's an old man jitterbug style I don't know what that means this is to go to word to use jitterbug use it it's my go to it's my go to when I'm talking to about old people yeah want to retain I'm sponsored for him to slow down this autopilot honor or camera so when God given you a barn were useless with this thing I don't know I don't how to use it but I do know I do know that it's tax season watch out for liberty tax Statue of Liberty's out there trying to get you to pull over do your taxes over there you can do on your own you can do all your books in your own you got her side hustle you are saying you dip your selling your own 3D printed at home flashlight business right right up you don't need an accountant do you not need one no I mean unless you start to get some real dirty sales yeah clock Gallagher the ROI yes like that in the meetings you know you're overusing Kirsty Wentworth to lose its meaning if you use it if you apply to everything enough well I would plan to get things on apply it to fresh books fresh books Marlys or Judith 30 day free trial if you go to go fresh books.com/sweat like sweat equity like a sweat but not like 90s R&B style baby face with sweat wet sweat go fresh books.com/sweat it helps show all the cash comes in gets reinvested in the show what is I do that helps us you know even just clicking on it gives us a little some some yeah just do it just do it to be nice or if you have a friend you know you have that friend that's like complaining about he keeps his stuff in Excel Google docs yet you go to cheese are you you go to five books you blog you do all the stuff you like it is credit card number you put it in her to put the sweat equity working there and then just do that all your friends are really help us out so go fresh books.com for such sweat in for listening this way Dragon will put it in the description of the episode like we always do to help you out here that'll refute that's what the point of this podcast is do to do is like were trying to help people out mattering to help you here like one thing one little thing we should do like up to copy Pete Holmes podcast I think we should do like a free shot up he calls Pete's pics I like that I like doing little shot out to read we were to be used so many apps and like productivity things that I I came across trim you know what trim is a OEA that is a dad is yeah when you called buffer trimmed in total dad like you can sum up breath yeah I'm a divorced dad will know what that means dad that trend I think it's from.co want to say but basically it's a bot that it scans through your yet to input all your accounts so I did with our business credit card okay what it does is at the main hook that got me and was like will look at your your Internet provider deal and will see if we get you better deal oh right planning on about the states and maybe something everybody's doing so they get a cut of the commission if they make a deal right it's it it's like all artificial intelligence stuff it's just a bot and are they negotiating quote unquote up a new deal on whatever because that's all that stuff isn't like a salesman thing it's like these Internet providers or any company they just go we can give a promotion of this if the customer asked for right I love how it's always like all we can do that you totally can do that easily right type it in your little computer there you totally cancel it it's cool I I like this kind of stuff up and focusing on personal finance a lot lately so it's it's helping in that direction words like you're paying a lot on this credit card you may want to think of these options which a lot of people might think is intrusive but I I volunteered to get that can help there's no one called Ernie with FICA not IE but a Y okay but Bert I link it up to my it to link it up to Amazon my Amazon account business account is an account and it will show us if we got worked on a price it can go back and try to get that lower price you get that refund oh if you paid too much on something right we pay for new Meebo camera which we need to do at some point) the price goes down in the next like 60 days and they give a 60 day guarantee it'll hook that up in that's like a bot as well it's like that old Circuit City commercial remember that with a kid brought that you bought the Walkman and then he brought it back in music in this later it was this militantly given the cash yeah and I don't brothers trying to do that it was like now. Now that you even get here ethic the boss what no I did I wrote my puffy 5 miles is pretty dangerous is to present Veria. Like friendly by the city in the 90s were your parents they don't know where I so we'd be getting a little hottie toddy and if you want to close your eyes we getting up pad it daddy it's a sweat equity podcast that was that was good I'll take a shower when that if I gave you a shorter one this thing II couldn't I know you look like you had a rough day I've doing a lot of coding oh my God computer codes are so stupid nothing makes sense really hard to learn on the fly we get that analysis paralysis, then going all really try to make a rule in office or if were working on something like intensely for 45 minutes we take a break and try to talk to the other person yeah the problem is like that's good if you you're not making any progress all I need is a little bit of a little knowledge of progress okay now I can get back into it and it's just that's never ending yet but we had a look back and goes that the best way to do it I know you saying like that's enough to get me godly nose drive me crazy to not get the puzzle figured out the Callaghan opiate addict looking for Vicodin you little bit like okay you know that guys mom got some in his house let's go steal some and you just here to keep your on the mat here on the make mad crickets probably at Circuit City right now yeah well you know it, back to do not what Circuit City is the why I know that's crazy why is it of recognizable brand everything from the 80s and 90s is going to come back because we go all auto that yeah because then people our age are the ones were certain make money and then we can spend that money was twice yummy shed reboots right is like oh this is familiar that's bankable I don't know what Circuit City's and a BS in entity I just I read something on LinkedIn is light Circuit City's using Brandon to come back what if it was a circuit city act like a city they could go visit and visit its glow to circuit its merger inside really on granite right that would be need roller coasters address the people dressed up like no computer chips walk around what was its is RadioShack still around I feel like 10 years ago you like now and now they been around for so long someone told me the way they stood around because I've never seen anybody buy anything from RadioShack since maybe 95 and we are FICA done 10-year-olds right I think they made money off like warranties like that was their jam yeah if you bought something there is gone forever it was always weird like a lot of remote control stuff like for like cars and airplanes and all that stuff which it it should emerge with Spencer's gifts and just become like the Virgin store forever it does have a topic of weird creepy feel to it stuff that they're selling nothing that you really want but you could use it but they saw the website looking at right now pretty awful well I mean as silly as it is these things have brand equity like yeah we were talking about him and I bet people are listening right now they're like yeah our budget right I was around I had my LA gears on is running in their Ellie Geer could make light of any my addressing batteries on was the old joke that every standup told you had something to touch on before you get into the did you wanted productivity stuff oh will I was a saying we could talk about her oh yeah personality questionnaire thing again just because it's not something that we just didn't know and it went away once we started to like talk about it and think about it's like man is so much more to this thing than we realize yet so it's for those that don't know go back you can listen to the episode probably about two months ago Eric and I took the advance personality questionnaire it's basically like an employment assessment test right would say our mentor with co-mentor urges to do it I don't know well he dispenses advice and we take that's true about light on I have more I don't think he and he accepted that role yet but were to calm that for now latching on Sage I don't know what I know he's giving us advice and taken it right he's successful the route we we took it man's foot down and I probably thought about every day since you yeah I mean once we figured out exactly what it was doing in overall what it's doing is teaching you what church telling you what you're good at and what your bad which sounds obvious but when you can start to take what you're good at and put more energy into that instead of worrying about improving something that your personality is not necessarily going to allow you to be good at you know like for us it was administrative things neither of us want to do that could we suck at it and there it right what yeah it so it's like so if your manager are your own of business this is a really good cheat code because it's it's a pretty reliable exam you been around for a long time now might Mike my big beef with it is just because I don't love doing it or have a proclivity for administrative does mean I can't do it right right so I think it's kind of a long term, looking at employee hiring right I might hire might hire someone that sucks that like us at the administrative but they can do it right yeah but I know down the line the third really good a project managing yeah but I'm sure this does two things are related but I don't think you to be good at one without being good at the other probably but yeah it's it's it's definitely something you can use to target specific if you have a very specific job that needs to be done that requires a certain personality trait you can have these results look at them and you'll see somebody who's good at it you know and and we can target them more than another person there's variations of this test there's there's there's another one I'd I just took for fun these recently does 138 questions the one the that a PQ the one were talking about that we took that once 40 right thing was more than that sounds 8080 yeah and then like the first the first 20 were like aptitudes so it was like some basic arithmetic staff were like it was like this persons in line Mary's in line this person's ahead of him this person is behind him where is worst jab yeah you like all right I guess I'll write this out like a falcon for traders and then it has the wrong with writing it out you write it out was it was it timed that one turned the AP Q was time I believe yeah so that stress that always stresses me out because I don't read very well well that's part of the test my reading comprehension was always love songs like I would sweat that out to connect to a minimum of time to read it because I read a lot of stuff without reading the whole thing later everyone's emails if you want to email us at law Atoka works Ellie WTO CO WR Katz or Eric Atoka works TOC owed WORKS.com to get some emails and I get bullet points are nice notes bullet point for us so AP Q it's like you answer is your actual self and a question and you answer as like the best job interview version of you right you answer in a way that you think a job interview were would want them right minutes are right if that makes sense yeah like what what what the biggest brown nose right because I did exactly and that was where we were discussing legal we couldn't we never matched up with the brown nose leaves me I don't think my answers I don't remember honestly we both scored highly independent yeah we have is just good but right now we could use some Soviet teamwork taking taken thumb through it thumps are a bunch of sales profiles at thumbs through a bunch of a bunch of management profiles right right I'm looking at what what was yours like what was your best one I think I know my worst one was I think project-management was like in 19 but it's, like I guess I don't know I don't I don't find myself hating it like I hate admin for sure right client my highest was the need to serve at a 95% yeah which is to make sense yeah it makes sense for somebody like me I'm not exactly driven by money like a more driven to make somebody else happy or you know help out in a way sort of thing that's good it's it really shine the light on these things that you might not even realize about yourself it's tough youth because you have confirmation bias up obviously going into it right I'm stubborn when I get notes about me doing anything so it's tough it was tough for me to cut it bite my tongue and just take will take this test and what the results were back yeah it's weird because I think for both of us humor or creativity like is like a big part of who we are yeah thing is that it doesn't really count for that you know ethic yeah I'm in I can say now what is its intensity drive is is a good way to put the drive is like drive is incentivize right so like I guess no work ethic it doesn't need to be incentivized the drive is like all selfish usually but why are you working hard it's to make yourself feel better in the end right whether you're making money or building at table I believe that's called psychological egoism maybe I don't know how to be will have to look that one up that that I'm pulling out of a psych class from college from like 10 years ago yeah I probably got that wrong definite but it is it is like it's a good Chico I think it gives you if you if you have to if you hire quickly Adam at a higher level I think it's a good way to go okay this person probably better for this long-term yeah this I mean that if you're using it for hiring again use it higher level situation for sure you're not you McDonald's employees aren't necessarily doing this test you will need to now it's like that but for yet for somebody you invest a lot of money and definitely worth 150 bucks yet because I mean that's mean that hiring secret cost that people don't realize I think they just think every office eventually just sucks over time and I think the tech people kinda get it in a way I don't like the ping-pong tables and ship but I like that they are good about the psychology of making good work environment what's the most efficient what's the best flex hours or you know you can have as many days off as you want as long as you get work done I think you're seeing a lot more of that stuff so I think a lot more of this is due to be commonplace going forward even though this is 100-year-old tester some of that right will I mean it's getting easier to quantify things that in the past have not been quantifiable you know like your personality or whatever you and those been around for hundred years but something you will come along you know I don't know what they do at Google were phone companies whatever you read Google questions now David will do that maybe next pod that those questions are like there's no right answer kind of thing is how you figure figuring it out eight those are difficult my wife is tell me some of them when she had my job interview she's like I've heard these other guys like cheating yeah you know you know how to answer this if she's doing for fun but I guess if you're proactively doing for fun you're not ready ready to win score high on the nerd right scale, yeah your near my boo love you and are it so I I was hit you up on Friday because I was like oh I didn't even look through every one of these job titles and the highest when I had was what we were looking to move her mentor is scared straight on who we are basically and it was that thing of like I think we skipped one and I don't know if it's on purpose or if it was a or if if it just was a skeptic is going really quick but my highest score was 88 with the dynamic CEO yeah and I got a lot of stuff works like I'm a best fit for ops and I was like yeah I mean okay yeah I get it I get it's one of the center it's hard to take that and go I yeah sure right you can't just be a CEO couldn't do the other jobs first my conservative Seo score was 69 and then conservative that high six never the yet we didn't even realize we first talked about this the different things that it it rate you want in terms of it'll it'll break down what kind of different managers there are and how you would work as that sort of manager I knew got really bummed because you thought you scored so vanilla light will I scored low basically I should be homeless that I shouldn't have a job there's nothing this like that's not true at all you got bunkers of the crosshairs right there for the four quadrants right expressive communicator direct driver whatever they are with us to more but yeah I mean you got Scott I know what were going with this in it then in the middle you're just kind of a good your good average of all of those which is good right that's a good and it's accurate to I would consider myself adaptable I think that's the biggest thing for digital services in consulting by far can you come in learn it on the fly and learn to work with people to that you don't know that well yeah become fast friends with them and figure out how to extract what you need from them yeah I me for what I'm doing now is it's perfect because I'm sit here googling stuff every day that I have no idea how to do it until I figured out right in adapting and that should get it gets easier to to figure out how to find stuff because you proactively go when you're looking up something else you might find an answer that to something you may need in the future kind of thing yeah and you'll start checking them off because it just saves you so much time speaking saving time do you have anything more on the snow by letting people should take something like this one of these tests I'm sure there's a free version out there of something something close to this it's not were not completely off-topic with this because you can take the time to take this test and streamline either yourself or you know what you're doing or if you're hiring somebody can streamline that way so it all comes together a lot of the stuff you need to take time in the beginning to sort it out and then it'll help your life later on if listeners to have taken this test tell us what you got what you got back in what you do actually doing now like I did that become interested yet for sure what were doing Facebook group thing we need to start engaging little bit more I think that be fun I want to engage with the listeners I did this being an interactive show eventually would be I think out be something that so interesting to cut be able to because will talk to everybody if it's a good question you know yeah that's a weird thing about podcasts is not a lot of interactive with listener podcasts it's a lot of you could talk that and then maybe you sent something and then the next show they're talking about a sort of thing but we need to think about that yeah I mean I would love a slack group is there there are I know I push like a lot but there's a lot of slack like groups that are just for chatting about stuff like this yeah so maybe one day that but right now Facebook groups is easiest because we can just add all her friends know once if we want working to get you you can't room from then pages may be dying a little bit so I think I talked to a bunch of people I was in the is a pirate in what Tempest, Mardi Gras code Gasparilla and you know what's funny is I talked to probably three people individually that like I listen to every episode what you never told me that all your friends, so I would tell them tell your friends and all helps we've got some good inertia we can't talk about it with the show but some stuff that may happen that's big or may take us a lot of sweat equity in a couple years to yeah he's the titular yes phrase in their to get to that next level so we could get it soon with a little oomph for me all you want to know the chief code rate review five-star write funny but funny one it will read it I look like that your name me I look like Nicolas Cage and Conair like you can write that do it my job I look like I might Joe Pesci after he gets his hair blown off in a blowtorch and Malone nice yeah, the patchy yeah or Michael Stipe when he had days the DM is run all well I wasn't doing insults for you so love man it's all love so ticket I got to hug the Stanley Cup and then I yell talk to people wire which is so drug like thank you for thank you for like listen that's awesome but what you tell me where doesn't tell other people like us like rambling so let's get into this new little list of the productivity stuff okay make work life little bit easier you been working with Zap here yeah that's a good one that beer connects different apps that don't normally connect so go on their Z API AER.com they have a whole list of I haven't come across an app that I can't find on there that like in need 500 yeah in the directory right all the big guys yet it acts as a if this happens then do this sort of thing so it will connect your different accounts like we have a forms account that we use cold cognitive forms and Chuck are due in the you can connect when somebody submits a form middle go through that beer and then it'll go to another for example sales lead company forward bore everybody look to set the cell on this is how much of your time on this blue marble do you want to spend doing duplicate of ship that's all I got about half that's why get back to the like just do it a little take time in the beginning and then it will be streamlined later on yeah don't you can't automate everything in your life for your business what you can do a lot of stuff that's like okay forms are a big one for us so if you have a website it's like whatever your intake form is whatever you just signed someone and they gotta fill some out anything that has some kind of interaction were you don't need to be there right the customer client can fill it out on their own I called Dana routing I don't know if that's right long-term sense but they fill out the form and instead of it just be in the form that it all that data goes to you can take it and integrate it with like your email system like MailChimp right so to pull that email out and now it's going to this form that you needed this intake form and MailChimp and it's going to snow the phone numbers going over your CRM like salesforce or write pipe drive we use as a sales and marketing CRM so my thing about this is twofold with the forms on on websites a big on these because a people that use paper forms just the flicking convoluted all right you printed out you signed a list to send it back it's yet your Creole else is half and others and in the ADD era like if you don't get them right then on the phone doesn't work on the phone like it's good it slows you down many of the double back yeah her hatred for admin actually helps with this so or the other part is less human error yet we had a lot of law firms that do paper intake forms and then there fill them out and like you can't be the person tailoring the left yeah like talk yet 09 pages in it and then transcribing it to so it was error there are two Yep it mean anything that is tedious and small you can almost always find a way to streamline an online can't streamline playing with your kids but not yet up that's you know well we get that a RVR so zap your it's you make zaps and there like you can make a recipe yeah I think they call respite or to triggers I believe so just yeah it's it's it's that programming language if I do this this will happen right so zappers more business associated some people like to do a lot of the Google's G sweet stuff connects with all that stuff you it it's just one of the century like if you're frustrated by like administrative staff this is kind of the best thing for it wheat we should be utilizing a little bit more on the communication so if someone comments on any social media we should have is that the taking slideshow yeah I mean we do for clients but notes one of the things where we should be utilizing slackers or communication hope for all these things, right and then you have I have TTT and that's gonna work and life stuff stands for if this then that yeah that one has an app on iOS I don't think Zappa has a nap early which Dixon shouldn't be a big deal but Connie is as I do a lot of that I have TTT stuff like kinda like the kids are font to sleep but I can't get up yeah so I can like about have my phone on me for 20 minutes I'll try to do something productive and so like I have the Phillips smart home stuff yeah so if the fire goes off our smoke detectors go off those those hues will turn red which is like little stuff like that you can do yeah super handy I need to do it I have one set up that stupid home every screenshot I take it'll back it up over Evernote and notebook so it's nice to cousins like my wife lost her phone and didn't save everything and even if you your good about saving stuff you know sometimes it just hasn't backed up yet yeah and you take a picture you got kids pictures and stuff and I don't know it's it's a good thing to have backup systems like that coverage will they do of the iCloud so give it sometimes doesn't sink as you decide my steps to full of like old-school porn I download all my yeah Brighton does a lot of video lot of hard drives around out to be surprises VHS is they don't they don't compress it they the pink ones especially rim of the pink cassette die never meet either on me neither a VHS I had good parents who about what I watch so I didn't ever get access to that always went to the parent the kids that had should he parents house they always have the cool Lego cards and like yes it does let you just do whatever you want only that helmet to do nunchuck fights all day okay just don't bother me yes so the real thing wish I could get there mentally rewatch glory your nine years old the outside the school glory sounds nice using Lori know it's pretty pretty gruesome Who's Who stars and that Dinsdale Mike 90s movie about Civil War swimming Denzel Washington yeah but it didn't cells are there exactly so I would say zap your the take away from this episode should be like go check it out we don't work for zap your eye if TTT were trim or Ernie or Asher's strategies that does the personality quiz were just trying to get stuff right yet check out a mean if you are starting a business and you had a bunch of different apps you wanted to play with go to zap your first and see what because if you're going to if your goal between one app or another that to the basically the same thing check it out on here check out the integrations that has an upbeat zap your integrations but just see if it's compatible and then choose add that into your your line of thinking yeah I do that I do that was slack if it if it purely integrates the slack it's like a reverse engineering yet okay we need a we need a cloud accounting software like I don't know should be used fresh books let's see if it integrates only to slack Delphic exactly or we know we need a project manager I did I I trimmed it down to the ones that already integrate with slack because that evolve so much stuff going back and forth I didn't want to have happier in their so it was, that thing but we can use after your put it in their to like it like be monkey in the middle and cut a pull out stuff as well yet for coverage but like we chose Reich and I haven't learned it's easy to learn is to take the time to do it got it diners on the one that's the problem Rose internally funded better one will wonder this is great for tasks I was using is and do but once it blew up once I didn't once I didn't stay on it for like a week it was so hard to read it was so hard to regroup everything really yeah I just the way that at work because it was like for some reason it kept everything you did in their and I was like I had to like chat message the guys is like and we cannot reset this how do I do this like a charts blow it up start over Leica we keep it all and then I had it for another couple months of sitting there and subscription land in trim, cut it off, and I hate to use this she's is a lot actual these for for the listeners but like all this stuff is like yeah you got it's like you want to be healthy the first two months going over the flock and suck right you want to be more productive and streamlined ship it's going to be like a couple nights of just sitting down and trying to hammer out like sitting there watching YouTube videos to save you time later yeah we call the ski slope of hours work more pitching hours were like a retainer it was a huge ski slope and then it kind of peters out right because of all or all the most the hours are dedicated in the beginning to on sort of organizational things yet we want to learn the client when on boredom and then we got a set you up and it's a lot of set up work and then fades out same thing with almost everything everything you do in life is like that right yet you set it up in the beginning your you're better off I don't know if you have a hankering to bow hunt like I do but I know it's going to suck really bad what does it have to suck and was in suck about it I just cannot be very good and somehow to put a lot more time into it when I really get into it yet because still it cannot suck and you can still be bad at it you know yeah yeah I'm in special your first time you go out with a positive attitude what was your optimism score on the test 7% 77% my was 95 what she truly is the highest thing I had on there so between the two of us we cut aïoli I feel like I I had to have a contrarian kind of mindset when I take about 10 and I was like I thought I was optimistic that what was surprising to me I think there's like questions like do our people born bad or do they become bad or some like that or they inherent our people are inherently good yes like old philosophical questions yeah but I swore I answered it that they are inherently good maybe it makes with maybe that's what got you to seven you got that one was for that one question so you got anything else anything on your mind now not really we got a heart out anyway as I got I got a leave in two minutes oh yeah yeah time flies I hope this helps so let's let's talk later let's engage on the internets hit us up you can email us for other stuff if you want work in guest requests a lot not really sure what to do with those consume I'll be like all right let's not send up there like can't do that day I know what we were doing why you just me some dates yeah exactly I did the best was I had a PR PR company and one of like the wraps found this podcast and she was like oh we have all female CEOs the great I got a get I get to get them back on but like she was awesome because you just like boom let's have all five of them they will have five clients was a deal but yeah let's get all five of them in interviews like yeah yeah so will get will get them back on if you want to go back in the archives you can check those episodes out really interesting stuff from each one of those CEOs and I think anything else rate review all that good stuff and you know will do better next time maybe maybe let's let's get this champions: hey okay go out and kick ass today everyone you can help you within the some positive guys can do it I believe in the doughboys cash I believe in you it's time to be productive this time to streamline so to put that hard work that hustle and that's what equity okay get some

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One American Group And We've Grown to These Groups to 20,000+ People Just like Interested in Time Travel And You're Not Here Doing This on the Side for Find That You Got a Baby Yeah but We Just Had a Baby My Wife and I Just Had a Baby in December All you Share it with others that's that's a good post will i debate doing that sometimes is this blowouts and my thinking is posting about it and all the parents i will care we can do it first time it happened so that i laugh sounds like you had some diarrhea but i guess that's my ultimate goal is the one day prove my wife you can actually make a ton of money time trouble stuff but that's my subproject i mean it's is that your your branding and marketing look good so far from what i've seen high school super and super witty to established what is an established 2042 i thought that was like i was like damn that's that's it's like when i see it, another community are joking or like that's i wish i i thought a clear think about it but that's right there and it's a good you know, wink nod i was like that logos and branding stuff the bus the simple high test two-headed gator right and so you put hourglass in the middle of that which is just good negative space man love it or think it is been doing a lot of logo concepts lately so your needs later on about how good i absolutely hate the other thing that what i found interesting because i'm turning on linkedin and i haven't really been figuring out how to get more organic reach out there but you have a lot of people that commented on that site i got to see what how here's my impression of linkedin's newsfeed it's like it's like a recruiter going like hey i got a $55,000 job of law and then the next person i want to do a sketch that were on a bar basically the next one it's there's a story about failure and redemption but it's a real humble rag marketing thing since i two years ago i lost everything in picture this my eye was the breadwinner in my house my my wife and kids my parents were living with us i it was all on me and then two years later i figured it out and i want to show you how to do it to him like rights that's next thing after that some might nonsense business coach and then after that another quote and then another failure story and that's like basically the whole feed i don't know if it's the same for you but i guess it depends on your network.you see a lot of you see especially be the new thing i just i think is again a way to game the algorithm but it's like want to text with a hook because it cuts off the rest the taxes like click on the hook and then that makes you appear more people search yeah i try to do that it's like i try to asterix stuff if i need like put more detail into it but i want as people last night i try to figure how to do it and is like zero people commented on it but i wanted to see how i really have like a stick up my ass about people getting ripped off with digital services and it really is a really funky bothers me that this industry it is very snake oil-ish i would say hey were going to get you this amana trafficker this amount of revenue for this amount of leads and there's a subject gap education gap of the staff which we try to go way overboard educating clients but man i'm about to go like wwe wrestler like just calling out the shed does that mean there's a ton of its i think it's carryover from my way back down on you guys a bit individual but like dear member have these like add rotators so gunmen advertisers would pay for impressions maddie's whole like click or not click public impression for and is the same thing now i've heard of some people using lean even wilmington pay to play where they have like a group of people they all growing up however much and then everybody, thereby suppose but like what's the point what's the endgame that's gonna get you mean i think if you have a book something that is some kind of product you can sell i don't have a final and you get i get a lot of life marketing funnel funnel for the final list that you do add here's my free e-book and then you click on it's like all upsell affiliate link to click funnels are yeah yeah if you knew how to do it all the time why are you doing it to other marketers i really see a lot of words like the coach you on how to a million cells just let me sell to you right right weren't you doing what you're supposed be doing return to tel aviv to do it and i tell clients know this stuff elliptically or from what notice to you right like type there is little real estate guys to do that like to teach and sell real estate flipping come to my seminar it's like marion holiday inn express 9 am free continental breakfast that they give them about those one down update so i try to explain everything in old-school terms to people to clients that are not tech savvy at all and i might like but were not the online world is not that original if anything it's way more repetitive than anything else in the world a copy it's like copy business whatever someone's doing overhearing a copy that do it in a different little bit different way the faster yeah i just i haven't spoken i was thing about the other nights can really test like how many people we talk to that almost everybody that comes to us has had a bad experience already and like oh yeah this sco company they promised me a lot of traffic i got nothing and i paid him 50 grand a year and it's a like a local business like a lot of money for that's a lot of money but generally company under just you messing them up like and in the shockingly bad as the clock the client that just blindly sign with these people we never get the first time around give us a blind sign when i know well send the sins of the grant here will yeah we we can do so much for directors of local business but it's one of the things were i figured centering the digital marketing world and guess you had a similar thing going on so basically what i have going on is just type them in like attitude towards a lot of that story is like a decent guy the few times we talked nebulous about you but i think the so under the law rachel my posters because i try to create authentic connections an interesting concept so you know i'm not trying to sell business coaching services to business coaches or anything like open something about time travel up there for all a good example is one of the things i'm working on now if you have told you about its just let me know what when you got here for about 50 mentors are not connected that out but concise yet that's good all but one thing working right now is trying to figure out what makes people say yes i why the people convert like if he is her conversion rate optimization so there's a lot of companies out there that can assail their formula and that's place to do this i got my start in marketing in jacksonville and that is crazy formula that was nobody's ever to remember it was i remember it but it's c equals 4m plus 3v -2 it's long i had of the variables being built just like conversion motivation to write down conversion motivation incentive friction anxiety and another company called washing wonderful to have a similar one the lift model the value proposition is is a airplane is growing your you're right your likelihood to convert but i can one called the crave methodology and so basically some sexy pain i got market marketing should be set to rise in the market in the marketing stuff you're doing should have good marketing terms like turkey burgers logo in the mm's fire so close on the name of all that is good nobody ever gets it right will everything wrong you know how to help you i don't know what held up her yeah i don't know how to read we should talk about me always a little about what i mean is indian tribes is like who knows so little white man's literal work go in the temperate temperament sticks of fire hence the fire look so end and we sit around like run a campfire, planning should out that's that's a whole brand world figure depreciated renting thanks man but the credit methodology so you've got a situation where you want somebody to say yes or to do some certain actions like your example you the postop and you want to get some feedback from written so there's each letter has elements of art is a reason what's the what's the reason that the person is in that decision-making mindset why are they only did what was the reason her motivation for being there yet understand that the next element is action and what's the action that you want them take asking them to do it so is a clear all in the v is the value proposition slight what's in it for them i'm writing this down okay i think it's fine if that's all right i was what is at work on the book but it will probably take me 12 years her head hits a fly onslow hide a lot of projects in the far right but all that is experience like everything else on linkedin's know it's is it spelled correctly formatted right stuff to catch their all for web conversion it's no it doesn't work the father but on so like what's in it what was see so see so first first of all you get those for you can have something that gets people raving about what you're doing on see is that connection so that authentic human connection that's what i say makes people crave were you doing and come back again and again i feel like that is a lot of youtube celebrities are very good at that right after making the site i don't of log is still term but there it looks like there there looking there i line is directly at the lynn's so it looks like you're talking to the persons like you have a friend right it's digital but it feels authentic yeah except i like watching tv it's different when they're talking at you but wish to look at the camera i mean i can if you want you didn't like close-ups is automatically doing it so that's good sometimes it will just hit that like that paying of me when us to yeah yeah man pretty good pot but by god you listeners break but you know the whole thing out i guess the the value in it formulated so it's a way to analyze what you're doing yeah what you're putting out there and you can visit with clients as well but how do you how you analyze like you know i give value proposition similes are hard to quantify right yeah here's a good example this is just a heuristic it's a mental shortcut for whatever you're trying to make the situation happen so let's say you're in a bar and your goal on how they were all married but was pre-college years okay all your daydreaming now they drew his time trying to serve her time traveling back in time the precollege hop if a company go to the bar and there's a young lady that you're interested in all your conversion goal is also to get her home so you can get to know her better so far first c is for consent so are you first learn to you have suffered enough from the universe and what to reason to be there to pick up on different cues like notice from initial conversation as she can look around to see what she wants to meet other people in my garden with a wall of her friends when offense of line is that exactly all that is left to shape the new how easy it is to pursue this this pickup i guess you say yeah all and in the value light what is what i think now you okay my favorite baby in a what what is she valuing it just as she introduced both new skills to finally go for me for the wrong prospect okay on experiencing a is there is orval drunk in its back in time before ever existed lower even to get home when there's a number of different things that you can analyze the situation to figure out what you need to influence to i just kind of funny ifi would try to run through a method be like that yeah in my panties that were certainly the analytical warrior like in other scenarios because i don't feel like this is out when you actually applied mcclure maybe didn't design articulated i mean it this probably is spent sitting in your craw for a while the way to you that you're looking at this right because again online is not that different from off-line i don't think it will you explaining it to us is not the same as you running through it in your head speed because you're used to doing you know i got the same thing because we have no idea what you're getting to yes i guess that's the thing is that it's heuristics are like that because you can run through quickly so it's probably largely explain in person and it is run through yeah it does it would make you feel over analytical or whatever yeah i mean we can talk about that without using the cool term heuristic but it's just like what can we do and have snapshot kind of decision-making, working on that slowly you know, get dashboards that just okay here's were at today just know the lifeblood of the company kind of stuff and that's similar kind of thing and in a way because not to tell us exactly how good we are it's good to give us, were in between the nautical beacons three premade decision sort of failure it's like yeah will in the situation we already know this is what to do sort of thing yeah the fit lessening the variables what do you see in the digital marketing universe connect what you think anything you think about augmented reality staff virtual-reality stuff what you think the next kind bigger thing will be i feel like amazon google facebook have such a stronghold over most of the internet it's really interesting to come to see the corporate consolidation of everything but well from a digital marketer standpoint what he thinks it'll be like the next, platform to conduct market either advertisers that kind of holistic marketing approach like coat craves more of that figure strategy kinda meets tactics idea of i think the i think it was all just launch there go stores yeah like yesterday's yellow line was, ironically around the block away from people don't go to the grocery store that does have is supposed to not have any lines but had a fecund my thinking yank the guard because years but nice and everything censored as you pick it up it'll john michael charge you as you walk out with amazon pay or whatever is but i guess that i see that being one of the for the big shifts that we see in marketing is how do you you go ahead have the friction moment in a transaction and how to go and set that up with a customer so it doesn't exist anymore looking that's with her after where are you going to the store you get what you want to leave you doing think about the purchase you will have that awkward buyer's remorse and so maybe you get your credit card bill it's good way to think about that or you have the talking i hate i hate the underselling i sign it i'll add mad jack audio drop buttons and find dad mad him out of the stew i bet when you're the grocery store and the like and you can't get test right there at the grocery store you checking out there like would you like to donate a dollar to kid to click pallets in life will i look i'll do it on my own because i want the tax write off i have said this before just like yeah and after the railroad job i mean i hate that light but it then you feel it should if you don't do it is not i don't do a better thing i'm over that i do my own journey by cantilever troops in my words what the fark i know you were no troops worse than that there is like some visitors restored my wife is from germany and she gets like really a quotable man is merely small talk some of the grocery store there like buying anything super you tonight you talking well you have said about my time some bad ass chocolate cakes at her no never had german chocolate cake i bet it's not a business setting from germany what i have no idea pogo asked but that seems like the sort of thing the unit implementing because if there's a german bakery in south tampa is wrong with this home but anyway so that's the key to jennings are trying to get rid of curves that whole awkward because that's part of the experience part of the crate methodology it's it's those moments where it's like you have and you have the likelihood to turn around and say i want to do this i will like if you're a person a client were there some way that you can just make it where they don't have to sign the paperwork and sounded online, that's always an excuse but there's there's new digital ways to to get around that light mover for example like they set it up at the beginning and after that you just the cx line experience customer trip on experience yeah we think about that a lot but at the same time art are big thing as i see it going forward his transparencies in this industry can happen i think a lot more especially with pricing like it's wild west out there that's that's part of the reason people can get ripped off all the time because they don't know how much stuff cost and should cost german chocolate cake was made by samuel german and american i went there to determine bakeries right all adults start backtracking now i totally called it the way you look at every meal german chocolate cake the guys name was samuel german was determined doesn't matter so much american chocolate maker but you know alex guys back me up okay folks from the united states he found on reddit drink on wikipedia yeah you read it it's like the national archive i found a fortune which i know that i must've i don't know maybe you were there already and and maybe maybe the way to get that fourth dimension is love for talking just to bring in interstellar chicken scotch interstellar the cake i digital marketing wise i feel like transparency is getting to more more to me morally i feel like it's kind of our duty to really even though reply lose a lot now you know in the early stages of this firm but i feel like long-term debt that will pay dividends and buy trust a lot of people mi things like i can't sleep before ripping someone off to anything but i feel like a lot of people dislike batson 1790 does it yeah is a big deal for the business but w is a good point i think it's even like thinking of surveys conversion rate optimization company that's a relatively new digital marketing field but a lot of them though approach big corporations mostly well we can run a test and get you a lift can we just had 10% of that lives because that's you know it's pretty transparent there's a deal but let's say they get an extra million dollars that would've been there there's a new 10% of a big chunk of change that's that's a sliding scale tombs based on performance on the think performance-based results are to be a lot bigger in the future site as they should be should been all along i think standardization of terms these happen somehow that that's the hardest part of communicating all the stuff like what is a conversion meeting so like some people don't understand like knowing your lead though someone filling out a form as a lead that your conversion that i yeah but we didn't didn't give us any money that i know that's not the main objective for you as a service business for marketing people on my email so it's that it's tough it's tough because i talked a lot of people go how much you how much does it lead cost you and the like no other idea like i have an interesting marketing like it in so i will go crazy when dad show you my totem pole kind of idea how to look at all.i finished this this yet it's pretty it's it's all up in this this five had fallen under the san antonio whole maybe to do a better job of explaining that i did my craig wrote now that is way more convoluted again located yes pants off every time as well that i get sweaty sweat equity yet the legs will blank you were that all the powers from right so you know i get really hot and like little feverish and then i have to close off so that's what happens anything else dana point people to anything i forgot to bring up all of them you can follow along with the time trouble stuff it time travelers.org right now is that my passion project try to learn audiences because like i don't know anything about doctor who leslie one of the biggest groups so this like sunday in tampa florida thursday tom ward fist so volunteered with i just want to check this world out did you gotta come back on my next month yet i want to hear about like you have an open invite by the way my legs were down the street to cool this is the show's messy pragmatic business advice a lot of it is digital marketing stuff to do because a lot of people if they're doing their side passion thing you know i make in an antique store that they need advice in that direction so next to me, me will will do like a mailbag or some butter but yeah i mean i want to hear the progression of this truth i know the last thing i want to ask about is a facebook group so we we need to do it for our sweat equity page because i think that be a good area to drum up discussion and if you invite people they automatically get added right so there will be careful of what why that one is the one you want to make a lot of people how we talk about the christmas party is yeah i mean by now through all my friends on their been doing comedy for 12 years promoting shows and stuff i think they know i'm kind of a horror with all the stuff but at the same time i.e. was it the other people that are like i know you're doing it that you like i feel like this is all i post about anything so it's tough but another the group is absolutely the way to go because everybody is a page of yeah i don't know if you saw the recent news and digital facebook it is much making it almost impossible to reach your audience through your page without paying for the post so groups is going the last holdout that's where everybody's got them migrating their strategies but they've already doubled back on that according to iphone cat how i don't if you see her she's like a facebook advertiser it she's a good person to follow because shall give an update every week of the stuff that's going on so it's like a i like it she could for me to come to know what what's going on already know how to do a lot of that advertising but you know what that something changes everything is but i usually don't have people with a huge following anyway so we usually have people that have a small following we go ads like crazy but the groups it creates engagement what have you seen out of it because some of the ones in there really trying to sell you something sneak them in their now let's let me that's the whole experience part two you you have to have interesting topics that your people in that community are in the audience are interested in and you can't just say oh way i could easily with those 20,000 people say about his t-shirt about time travel every third poster something but like that's cannot alienate people and eventually is going to kill the engagement from the group yeah i think you're seeing the whole movement of like like good content is habitat for your blog or social outlets all that stuff always goes back to the content every time you just try to try to do don't try to game the system that's what this can i see a guy strategy is the size of a marketing company mounted the consulting back in the day all and articles golden rule marketing do onto others as you 72 years and that's something that's a good rule about i agree i think we'll see more kind of a meeting to get to net neutrality which i kind wanted to but will do it another time we've been we've been shoving it off for months why fight it, it's not, it's going away what i meant yeah what is it me talk about it a little bit but what are you got you got a ball, but we got some other work to do things coming on and i we went to church and how we can both teachers in our get-together targeting is one okay running to be what about the people listening they were to pay for so were so one of the parties work on is the one time travelers.org were to be launching a online time trouble museums or interstellar billing to all the things we talked about will have a breakdown but also store speak about the impress your friends with your knowledge and you do rent double unity big cartel not they were working to do is probably to start our lives was a cold printable or think yeah this way it's basically an order it'll dropship it in the print windows just don't get the hands pvt please do not always go straight alternative apparel yeah yeah you nice that's it yeah i only reason i wear the shirts write every day of my life american apparel center seven of them some good i think for, no man and you know i can't wait defection time travel i'm excited she can can i just have to maybe earned it so i suit you did there did they really get into that more is you did do a more fun

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I'm definite that only put online put on Facebook love nice from turbine consulting I feel like we don't give a shout out for a business on here to the idea so were small medium business consulting company mixed with the digital agency so that's our business toco works.com solving how is her hashtag speaking of which I heard Owen Benjamin funny comedian buddy of mine talk about the me to campaign and he's like is anybody realizing they're gone this the pound me to look at what he calls it how I was the mother is a funny little like a golden #Leo G have that guy is so smart and so funny I loved working well when I get is yeah so shout out to Owen Benjamin shout out to our sponsor which I guess will be which will be done with regard fresh books write books for going afresh but going on Facebook it's tax season right I am doing our taxes right now like I literally have I have to reconcile accounts right now it's a nightmare and not write off strippers rough I am looking at are not that I'm looking at right now it is not meals and entertainment what counterweight no other consultants let meals and entertainment) I think they mean they may want to do branding so literally every conversation we have comes back to some kind of work with what were doing in this office so we got write-offs and I need fresh books to make that happen but tell me about your insurance will I pull up profit code is important to bring my spiritual strippers with my spirit fresh books if you can mix the two that would make yeah, well you know he's getting his it is a thing that people realize that it strippers are independent contractors and bites by default the clothing that they buy even though it's a very skimpy clothing is actually a write off so they could actually put just like you would write off a suit for a new job you connect to write off clothing if it pertains to your work so for all of you out there in the adult entertainment industry if you're not using fresh books to you know write off your heels your Skippy clothing and other such items then you're missing out you actually able to know yeah claim some stuff on taxes you want to do cash business all the time when it could claim something on taxes that way when it comes to buying a car or a house you can show some sort of income that thing is important to you to strippers so sorry so many that you might think they they put You know that I found in IRS and will work it in man-hours it is not yet filibustered nicely I would say as he scribbled will straightfaced mind with the straightlaced entire time go fresh books.com/sweat that's go fresh books.com/Iguess you don't see/and more/sweat like he sweat keeping you groovy our listeners get a discount you get a trial of 30 days you get the hook up it helps the show even if you're not gonna maybe zero Geyer QuickBooks guy just click on the link in the in the in the description is it all, helps us out you know anything you gotta promote to get the contract stuff so you know I'm here with Julie monkey representing all the graphics and video people out there are animations and zones of what we have our new intern Jordan from destitute of Tampa who is switching today for Salerno Jordan he is not you might not say much to say hi hi there apology and advance the switching of very new interface me but it's going well yeah don't worry about it just just make sure when people are watching that they want to barf switch a lot as fast as you go yeah yeah probably won't hear much from him the rest of the episode as we do give them but they didn't want to really build these off-camera he's having a bad hair day yeah he's well you know it's not our splitting is you said that walking in right oh well I heard it on this and I'm saying is that you're not a good hair day that thing is just backwards perfectly yet looks like it's like bed had made it site made to be messy can I think you know what people listen to podcasts love is talking about stuff the cancer well sorry about this, accountable what we were were not just a really nice really give it varies or why I'm really good a given description I can give a very descriptive please use your words were podcast in streaming show I want to make that declaration right now we were both its word and most podcasts are gonna be doing that to you know all the big got all the big dogs got have video at some point that's true that's an that I actually have time to listen to a video podcast and listen to in my car so I could make Lance down and see something but I'm really listening to it more than it right right so what you turn on a video podcast and then just listen to the audio while there are some of my pockets are only on like YouTube video so I don't really gotcha I guess accent didn't have that party your podcast working to get you on audio soon yes we are its embryos it will start recording the audio to that we have so many is it said that a video production company that has all the bells and whistles doesn't extract the audio from behind It was tough Type that's can be Jordan's job mean it's super easy but it's like how many administrative things can you do at some point you gotta have someone qualify the Jordan to help out with that it is super it if you need to know how to do it you can download anything you do on Facebook live or YouTube live streaming you can re-download that video let people don't know that and then if you have a Mac going quick quick time file export audio pitch there you go that's all I do because the audio that comes through our lifestream it's all mixed already zones are it's all good yeah it no one knows anybody is not that are you'll have have super high quality audio well I don't know we've I've I've gotten somehow apparently I was popping he told me to stop and will be a hassle telecast place the lemminglike audio nerds will tell you there very sensitive about that right but most people are not audio nerds third even okay with a pop every once in think about it like we do yeah yeah but when it when it especially start mixing video video and audio is very important we have people that sound like an empty room evolves and if I started something like this hey so our habit I was a writer on this podcast yeah so what will like that it will reduce really do many podcast and I'm gonna throw it out there without talking to Eric about it first shuffled to another will do another mini one early next week to kinda Joel make it kind of a full our of sorts just because were pressed for time today but I want to go for contracts is if you like a talk to a lot of freelancers and a lot of agencies a lot of firms about this and I want to give the advice straight that I got after going through a suit with the client at one point couple years ago and it's it's pretty easy to follow but it again administratively this is a lasting want to do in the business development process is really worry about your contract usually get started if your small business or if you're doing your side thing or you know you don't want to have to double back and be like that's that actually the part that takes me out of flight the energy of like getting it going you know my gosh I got a right three today that's I guess that's where this kind was bubbling in my head anyway and so when you have your contract a don't get your friend that's an attorney that does real estate to do your contracts it will get them to do a template for you get a business attorney people think attorneys are just you're an attorney you can do everything and if so specified especially now might be the most specified learning of medical field probably the second-most great segment of what they're even batlike. Bill knows more medicines like are you cold is your lymph node so they know the questions asked Dr. usually attorneys they said I don't want to know what you have business attorneys you know even business attorneys some are good and employment and some are good at mergers and acquisitions you really need to con a Nero that feel down to like who's done a lot of start ups or who's done a lot of small businesses were you kinda doing your own thing what provisions can they help you put in there so you don't get screwed so like if your graphic designer my heart goes out to the good graphic designers out there you got a lot of animators and stuff because what happens is they end up now it's tough because a lot of them are flakes to but they end up getting screwed a lot because design a by client is never recognized for what it should be and then be like design is tough original design is really tough but like there's a lot of iterations that happen behind the scenes the client is know about and I feel like there's a lot you always need to declare all right were making a logo there's three rounds each round has the first run has five concepts and then we whittled down each time you hear that days we meet for these notes I need feedback from you so the way we do like a logo design is a go three rounds five concepts six concepts whatever and in between each round we give a little bit of breath so let's call it six weeks which is still pretty quick Chris would like that but like books when I round one on this on the to show you the we shown in person or via video because unless your instant reaction round two and three healthcare because of we just need feedback and then on I'll give you three days to give me more notes because I want you, digest it but on that third day we show you on Monday on Thursday you have to get us feedback if you want it if you want to submit feedback you have to be the strict about her osteophyte right right yeah well I mean your movies go as is even tighter it's the same thing to me whether with the design as design iterations or iterations and feedback is the one in the things that can slow down the project to a crawl especially when you're in the creative state whether you're doing a character design or you're doing a costume design or doing a logo design when you're trying to basically I must take the words that you tell me turn that into an image of some sort and give you that image and then take more words if you tell me and and convert that into an image again were really basically trying to read minds and figure out that image that that perfect image that's in your head and even that that the ideas that no not every client comes and sit with the perfect image most clients with the table the concept and then they basically by either by a committee of one or committee of many try to decide does this feel right at this look right where are we getting the right response from this particular image logo in this case and if that's the case what's our feedback but that feedback takes if you guys are making a decision and that decision takes three weeks to come to a conclusion the NUI case so I know this project left with only four weeks it took us three weeks to make a decision on this one round crystal get in time for the fourth week that then become is a problem it's like translating I was going to say a link from a whole other language with like doing it to in one language and then another one because like the law says you want to see somebody's visceral reaction then your reading their body language then you gotta process all that on your end you know you're getting feedback there and most the time people we've done podcasts about this words like they really don't know what they want they just know what they don't want annexes like was like get that's good because also say there's three episodes we try to keep these podcast episodes a little bit evergreen I might have a hacking reference to like Sica or something you know so if there little old like that that's why but open music of the will and maybe heads yeah sprinkle only at night it had thought that was going what if I make a reference that stated like Anthony Weiner for some like that you know it's yet that started that out throw that out we try to meet the vice is you know is good for a couple years as we can make it and or Evergreen or whatever you want to call it so go back if you want to search and sweat equity's episodes for Steve and Teddy use our power business attorney he we break down the basics of getting the legal going and I go through every dumb question you house you don't have to ask your guy or gal the other one is how to get creative notes back which is my lease everything I try not to lose my ship is when I click free of notes that I just don't give me something I don't like that yeah just to say I want to go back and listen how angry we were where doing this when I want to have you gotten this note better right. So then I go what's better is it that the shape is it the 2D or 3D version of this is a the color or what screen are you looking at dishonoring on your phone or just better than last yet so I keep going I keep digging like an attorney, does it just keep going okay so what were how are you looking at what kind of just Opry on right now is the retina screen like mine or is it kind of the old school Dell what are you working on it's it's a computer so what kind of computer we working with I think it's a PC PC alright so we talking gateway from the 90s shall throw in a little shady joke like that so that gets their year like oh I didn't know the Roebling today but okay again and propped up on time I got you it's yes and if you want me to take over for the better questions while there is a well known the masque of this question my company gave it to me by the waves I can see your screen because we have the technology to be able to track that so yeah yeah if you want to look at boomerang for your emails to track if people open your emails that's a little helpful advice right there if you're sending contract via email which I don't recommend I did send them via doc you sign or some other cloud-based service like that it's worth it because it will send them a copy immediately after done on that ship but we use boomerang from Gmail so if if you guys want some to go it is Fokker actually open his email up it's like 15 bucks a month you can track the idea of it was starting with if they don't open or you can have a drop down if they don't open reply click or something else we actually read it it'll figure out if they read the email it will boomerang it back to them as a new email whatever today's whatever you want nice suits we actually save you a lot of time and if were efficient you break out doing your emails like throughout the day but you only send him they only go out is that the end of the day her stomach that don't ask this because in for a long time I was the only point of contact for my business and my clients is my clients is when clients – which I did you ever like your machine did you ever find yourself in a position where you're sending out a contract Eric and that you are like momentum built such a great relationship with this person I was the person who introduced him I got them all light wet and ready and now got hit with the legal document does that ever find your fine hesitation how to get past the barricade of crap I gotta get real with these people will so what were doing now law does all that Tillich that this part of that that I'm glad that I don't want to deal with that sort of thing because it is like no matter what the lawyers involved people just get weirdly getting tightened up if you don't know that person's like little man was that mean what is it me for later they train early recording you are now like what that sort of thing so I personally haven't had a lot of at least in this business was doing videographer you know I would get into the contracts and stuff little bit but that was all basically copy and pasted standard videography contract that I never bothered will, I mean I looked at it you know to make sure wasn't saying that we set ourselves on fire at the end of the night or something weird but you know it I never had a problem with it if the deal done sending a contract out I mean that's all the paperwork people usually build yet mutant and no one wants to really get lawyers involved I try to do my best to not with any of these but there's an old saying is like your contracts is only as good as it is specific right yes is a loose contract where you just go well the logos doing whenever it's done that's how you get boned on on the on the work side is the contractor so what do you what what advice would you give to someone who maybe has some downloaded contract from the Internet in order that don't ever do that for me that's the first in the graduate nursing anyone other than to go to like sums LegalZoom or some crank out not only goes over there in a little bit of contracts right so so go to LegalZoom to get your LLC started if he have done it that way right right that little zoom can be useful THE LEFT AND YOU'RE DOING I WROTE SOME I LIKE TO TALK TO GRADING AGREEMENT WRITING GENERIC DUMB TIME GENERIC WORK FOR HIRE CONTRACT FOR VIDEO GRAPHICS OR WHATEVER I'M OUT THERE I'VE GOT MY OWN LITTLE BUSINESS I JUST STARTED UP, AND I NEED A CONTRACT BECAUSE I GOT A CLIENT WHOSE IDEA YOU FIND THAT BUSINESS ATTORNEY AND YOU SEE IF YOU CAN KIND OF TRADE SERVICES WHAT OKAY SO WHAT COULD WHAT SHOULD A BUSINESS ATTORNEY GO AHEAD GO FOR FROM PAYING CASH AND WASH UP WHAT WOULD BUSINESS ATTORNEYS GO FOR FROM TRON TRADE SERVICE IT'S DIFFERENT EVERY STATE IS DEAFLY DIFFERENT IN SCOPE BUT FOR THIS EXAMPLE I'LL TRY TO SAY LIKE YOU KNOW IT'S WORTH BUT FEW GRANDBABY TO DO IT AND I THE WAY I DO A BURGER BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS WE WORK WITH AND I TRY TO THAT YOU KNOW THE NURSE THERE IN THAT IMMATURE PHASES I CAUGHT UNDER THREE YEARS AS A BUSINESS JUSTICE YOU WERE ABOUT TO GET TO THAT THREE YEAR MARK IF WERE NOT ALREADY I DON'T KNOW WE TECHNICALLY STARTED BUT LET'S JUST SAY WERE THAT IMMATURE ZONE AS A BUSINESS AND I'D SAY OKAY ARE OUR RATES ARE HUNDRED AND 8650 AN HOUR YOURS IS AN ATTORNEY IS TWICE THAT SO WILL DO TWICE THE HOURS TO DO YOUR WEBSITE IF YOU HELP US DO CONTRACTS OR WHATEVER IS LEFT OVER WILL PAY FOR THAT WE FIGURE IT OUT BUT YOU KNOW WITH VIDEO AND ON THE MARKETING SIDE THAT COULD BE OF THAT CAN GO ON FOREVER TO MAKE UP FOR THAT AND THERE'S ALWAYS ATTORNEYS THAT NEED HELP WITH THAT TOO SO I WOULD SAY THAT SCENARIO THAT'S THE WAY I PLAY IT THAT'S KIND OF THE PRAGMATIC ADVICE THE REAL-LIFE ICE IF YOU WANT TO DO IT LIKE MY DAD WOULD GIVE HER SUPER CONSERVATIVE YOU KNOW JUST PAID FIND THAT ATTORNEY THAT IT'S AT THE YOUNGISH LEVEL NOT DON'T GO THE BIG FIRMS BECAUSE IT CAN BE SO EXPENSIVE DO THE ONES THAT YOU KNOW AROUND YOUR AGE THAT WILL DO IT BUT PAY YOUR FRIEND THAT'S A BUSINESS ATTORNEY COUPLE GRAND WHAT YOU NEED IS OPERATING AGREEMENTS YOU NEED YOUR LLC DECLARATION WHATEVER DOCS SO WHO HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE OR ON THE LLC WHO IS A MEMBER WHO'S A MANAGER'S MEMBER MANAGER AND THEN IF YOU DO ANY IT WILL AND STUFF WITH THE STATE SEE NEED TO GET STUFF DONE LIKE FEDERALLY STATE AND THEN YOU JUST NEED THIS CONTRACT STARTED DO NOT GO ONLINE TO GET IT BECAUSE YOU YOU BASICALLY YOU'RE WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THAT MINDSET IF YOU'RE GOING OFF ON TO FIND A TEMPLATE BUT YOU JUST WHAT WE JUST BACKTRACK TO YOU JUST MADE YOURSELF OPEN ENDED BECAUSE IT'S NOT IT'S NOT SET UP FOR YOU BUT THE WITH IT FULLY CREATIVE PEOPLE THEY'RE NOT INTO ADMIN STUFF LIKE THAT SHIRT AND IT'S LIKE THEY ALL WANT TO GO THAT WERE TO SAY I DON'T WANT TO GET IT DONE MOVE ON OR WHATEVER I TELL THAT CRATE A PERSON RIGHT NOW I'M TALKING SO NEW ON THE CLOSE MINDS AND TALK AND WRITE TO YOU RIGHT NOW I KNOW THAT FEELING YOU'LL ALWAYS STAY A FREELANCER ALWAYS ALWAYS BE A FREELANCER WILL NEVER GET OUT OF THAT HOLE YOU'LL NEVER GET TO THAT NEXT LEVEL IF YOU DON'T PUSH YOURSELF TO DOING THAT MINISTRY AND I'M SAYING THIS MYSELF THIS TIME AND I'M TAGGING ONTO THE YOU THAT'S HOW YOU LOSE $10,000 IN CONTRACTED BUSINESS IN YOUR FIRST ONE OR TWO YEARS EASILY THAT I'VE LOST MONEY BECAUSE THE CONTRACTS DIDN'T STATE CERTAIN THINGS AND BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT QUITE LITERALLY MY PAYMENTS EOB NOW LIKE FIVE GRAND AND GUYS LIKE WILL THE CONCERT WAS FOR 2500 MIKE YEAH BUT YOU KNOW YOU DID THIS HE DID THAT EXIST BUT THAT'S NOT IN THE CONTRACT YEAH BUT YOU KNOW I HEAR WHAT HE MEANS IS WITH US THAT THIS THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT YOU INTERPRETED AS BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT AND IT CAN'T FIND MY NEXT THING I THINK IS TO TURBOTAX OR CONTRACTS A LITTLE BIT YEAH I LOVE TURBOTAX I THINK WHAT THEY'VE DONE UNIT WHAT GO FRESH BUT DOESN'T SAY IT OUT LOUD NOW IT'S FINE FOR THE SAME THING FIRST BOOKS IS MORE PUBLIC HOUSING YEAH TURBERVILLE TAXES HIS TRIP TO CUBA KNOW I KNOW I AM GONE SO I USE TURBOTAX IS A REALLY IN AN LEGALZOOM TO A DEGREE OF THIS THEY HAVEN'T DONE IT IS TURBOTAX IS DONE THE BEST JOB OF TAKING WHAT SUPER COMPLICATED AND TAXES MAKING IT SO SIMPLIFIED THAT ANY BONUS AT THIS TABLE CAN DO ARE INTACT IT'S REALLY ANNOYING WHEN YOU SEE HOW MUCH THEY'VE SIMPLIFIED IT AND THEN YOU SEE THE PAPERWORK THAT THEY SPIT OUT A THING LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME LIKE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THAT OUT ON THEIR OWN EXACT WITHOUT THIS WHILE I LIKE THIS IS A TINFOIL HAT SO KNOCK IT AGAIN TO SAY LIKE EVERYTHING I HAD TO BE HARD YEAH FOR SURE NO ONE'S VIEWING PEOPLE IN A FIGHT THAT ACCOUNTANTS AND ACCOUNTANTS WANT THEY LIKE IT WANTED TO BE HARD SO BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEIR JOB AND THEIR ALLY WITH RIGHT SO EXACTLY SO SO MY THING IS LIKE HOW CAN I TURBOTAX ARE CONTRACTS OR CLIENTS UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON TO AND I THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO GET TO EVENTUALLY IS LIKE SOME KIND OF INTERFACE MAY BE THROUGH TYPE FORMS OR INCOGNITO FORMS THAT YOU KNOW IT SPELLS IT OUT IN A VERY BASIC MANNER AND THEN HERE IS ACTUALLY THE LEGAL JARGON UNDERNEATH RIGHT NOW WILL BOTH KNOW THAT OUT THE HAVEN BUT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST IS FAMILIAR WITH BUILDING THOSE KIND OF FORMS AND WANTS TO DO A LITTLE SWEAT EQUITY TRADE AND WHEN HELP US OUT WITH THAT TO ME WILL WORK ON YOUR MARKETING AND AND THINGS THAT NATURE AND YOU COULD HELP US, WITH THE WAY THAT WE CAN CREATE A UNIVERSAL CONTRACT THAT IS EASY ENOUGH FOR SOMEONE TO PLUG IN ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND SPIT OUT A CONTRACT THAT WORKS WITH EVERYBODY I'LL GIVE YOU THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS WILL IT'S ALSO KNOW IT'S MORE ABOUT AND THEY WILL HELP MARKET THAT AND THEY WILL RESELL IT AND WILL BE A PART OF IT AND THAT WE MOVE ON FROM THERE IT'S PART OF THE BUT IS ALSO THE CLIENT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY SIGNED SOME OF THE TIME AND SO IT'S I DON'T WANT AN ITUNES TERMS AND AGREEMENT WERE WERE JUST TRYING TO GET HIM TO SCROLL THROUGH EVERYTHING AND CLICK YES I DON'T REALLY WANT THAT BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SIGNING TO BUT I CAN'T BUT YOU ALSO IT DOES NOT MATTER ALSO LIKE I CAN'T GO BACK AND GO OVER INDEMNIFICATION FOR AN HOUR WITH THAT BECAUSE I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY I CAN TELL YOU LIKE I DID I WAS BILLED NONATTORNEY I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT A DIFFERENT LOCATION ON OUR PART WE DON'T WANT YOU TO HAND OVER ANYTHING COPYWRITTEN THAT WE PUT OUT THERE THAT WE GIVE BACK TO YOU OR WE MARKET FOR YOU AND THEN WE GET BONED ON THAT WE GET SUED ON THAT WE DON'T WANT THAT ARE YOU ESPECIALLY HAVE TO DO A SPECIAL VIDEO IF YOU HAVE A STUFF LIKE OH YOU KNOW HAVE THESE CLIPS AND THIS THIS FOOTAGE FROM OUR LAST VIDEO LIKE ALL THOSE MACDONALDS CLEARLY PRESENT IN THIS VIDEO AND YOU'RE SAYING SOMETHING IT'S A VIDEO AGAINST THE SAME BURGER GREASER IS A VEGETARIAN PUTTING VIDEO IN A BIG MAC FOR EXAMPLE YEAH BUT EXACT SHOT AGAIN JOHN JACOBS FF FF PRESENT MCDONALD'S LOGO ON HIS OUTLETS AS WELL OR DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT SON THAT CASE I UNITED BUT I I PERSONALLY CAN'T MISS IT I HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT COMES AS A EAM AND PUT THIS UP THAT WAY BUT IF DONALD COMES AFTER YOU AND I DON'T HAVE A DAY YOU NEED TO PUT DOWN I HAVE THAT I GUESS I DON'T TRUST THAT ARE WE GOING TO SHUT THIS THING DOWN BECAUSE I'VE GOT A HEART OUT AND YOU GUYS HAVE GOT A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON ANY LAST WORDS BEFORE WE TELL PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE RATE REVIEW TELL A FRIEND TELL THAT LOVE ONE COWORKER ABOUT THIS PODCAST SEND US A MESSAGE IT'S NICE TO PEOPLE FITNESS UP THIS FILE IS NICE I WAS I GOT SOME LINKEDIN WERE TO DO MAILBAG TRY ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY GLOBAL NICE SO I GOT IF YOU WANT TO WRITE WHAT SHOULD MAKE THE EMAILS I ANSWER I ANSWER STUFF ON LINKEDIN ABOUT YOU THERE'S A THING CALLED BIKE GIVE PEOPLE ADVICE OR SUMMIT THAT AND SO I DON'T THINK ANYBODY LIKES DEVICE HAVE BEEN GIVEN BUT THE CONDO ADVICE CORNER IF ONLY TO ANSWER THOSE IN THE INTERIM ON HERE AT LEAST ELISE WILL GET SOMETHING OUT OF IT IN THE MENTOR WERE BOTH WEARING THE SAME PANTS TODAY RANDOMLY YET IT LIKE THAT HELLO LEVANT THAT MET THE GIRL YOU SEE THAT NOT ALL AMERICANS WENT TO SICK GUYS AND ALSO BETWEEN TWO CIGARS WERE IN THE SAME PAN IT WILL OVERNIGHT IN THE SAME PAIR PAN WE WILL INCLUDE SEPARATE PAIRS OF PANTS THAT ARE THE SAME DESIGN WHATEVER NOT WALK AROUND THE DINNER KIND OF DAD ON KEYS I DID THE DEED IS NAVY BLUE WERE KIND OF THE DAD YEAH I GOT MY KIDS LIKE ROSEVILLE ATHLETIC BUT I'M COMFORTABLE AND SAME FAMILIES IN THE WEARING SWEATPANTS MY DADDY'S WERE HOSPITAL PENCILED ALL SCRUBS WHILE HAVE THE ULTIMATE DATA'S MOVE I MIGHT I MIGHT START ADOPTING A LITTLE IT WAS ETHEL'S COUNTY SCHOOL THAT I THAT'S IF I CAST FOR ERIC DAMIEN ON LAW AND OH INJURY OFF OFF CAMERA SUBSCRIBE RATE REVIEW COMMENT DO SOMETHING IF YOU DO A COMMENT YOU CAN TALK SHIPPED JUST AS LONG AS IT'S TRYING TO BE FUNNY THAT'S THAT YOU CAN TALK SHOW ABOUT US ON CARE BUT THIS TRY TO MAKE AWAY YES THAT'S IT FOR NOW YOU KNOW THAT YOU NOT IN THIS THING THREE PRESS THE RED BUTTON THE DRAGON IS LIGHTED RIGHT

Sam “RONIN!” Tripoli is a stand-up comedian, host of the podcasts, Tin Foil Hat and Punch Drunk Sports.    episode description copied-and-pasted from Tin Foil Hat's post   "Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli. This episode is live from the Cigar City Studios in Tampa and Sam welcomes to the show from the Sweat Equity Podcast Law Smith and Eric Readinger,, Comedian John Jacobs and from 208 Monkeys Damian Alpizar! On this episode we discuss.....  1) Bitcoin  2) Tor Dark Web  3) The Onion Routing  4) Search the Dark Web  5) Comedian John Jacobs's new comedy album "Summer at Soundsides" which is available at summratsouthside.com for free!    Thank you for supporting the show. Please remember to subscribe to our youtube channel Youtube.com/SamTripoli and rate and review on iTunes if you could please. Thank you for your support!"   recorded in the Cigar City Podcast Studio inside Tocobaga Consulting   Dark Web, Dark Web, Fake Followers, Fake Likes, TOR, VPN, Dream Market, BitCoin, Silk Road, DuckDuckGo, IP Chicken, MaxMind, Reddit, Ybor City   Transcript via Dragon Dictate   Welcome to tinfoil hat guys were doing a very special episode here in Tampa in the home of the roosters guy things to know and you know I am you know I'm here to do I'm hit a rock joining me in this like this this food you call this this is our so how's school club now this is the evidence is this is that where the debate the minds of come together spares around table yet conspiracy roundtable I did that joining me here is of a good friend of mine know how I'm I known you for when we meet on Craigslist like seven years ago seven years ago do 40 flowers this guy got we are okay to check out Chris Leslie's woke up from sweat equity my good friend lost Smith everybody hello and joining us is this cohost of his coat of sweat equity Eric read Bangor painting or reading or almost that it exerted with satellite equity it was what I could in the trial so it's what equity input hustling to some we we so were inside our office took a bucket consulting and so we do a lot of digital nerd work a lot of small business consulting were given a lot of advice so it was kind of like why don't we just have a podcast for interview people about hustle discipline to get that like comedians are good or good kind of indicator of that because you're your own business you've gotta do you go to do a job that makes negative money for about 15 years right and then you start really making money that you make a little money for another five right when you struggle and then you get a couple divorces in all who have hiked and it's his way of not paying yeah yes I perfect surface what equity Breaux is a talk as right it's it's the titular side of what's going on it so what I like it because it Brooke I have a little bit of comedy with it so there's always Dick jokes but try to give advice like talk about how to like to work smart not work hard necessary but work smart well I could nerd out on this for a while but it gets her voice out their podcasts and I love the video it's you know it's a one-way conversation, like stand up but it feels like a dialogue is business to I love when I go into different towns I love doing local podcasts I love it I think it's this writer is this right there with you I just love it because I love that you can be anywhere now and do your own thing that's why left LA only to be here all day when you to mount you pay for this office was strict only like to grant real hey how is it ungodly with also joining us is from 208 monkeys Damien L bizarre everybody close enough help is a hot hot bizarre elbows are out peas are Althea's are what is what it was with me tonight what is up to 208 monkeys were just a little bit of production visual effects company we have fun with it really go to a monkeys for various reasons but have you today and it is like to have fun so we wouldn't have a phone so you do animations you editing you are you and what what are some the projects you like to work up what we do a lot of stuff with it especially comes to like products so weird mundane shift okay like to make exciting like doorstop are you know you have all the vacuum or door stopper like how we make that look like death Star and I get people registered and buying the stuff that they probably really really need its next level marketing I so do a lot of web stuff to me that like six second ads are the thing always knocking on our door always try to lose their children which will sweat equity I am I am the pusher I'm the push I push all kinds of things in household I'm the reason why you have a garage. You don't perfect. I didn't know I had a garage but I did know was full of useless shift that's amazing that's all I think editors are kings I tell people it's like you know sometimes like I I think about like maybe I should just take a break from Doucet and just learn to get a black belt in editing because I feel like that skill will never go away you can do a lot with your own stuff you like, you like that yeah I think that I'll put them out you got them now you know yeah you don't need Hollywood prices boom that is good for you get you get Eastern European prices at Western European business – via video you have got to start your premium prices that you want to take you and check prices you get you got them here I totally cool that that's that's that's amazing to me like I would totally move here if you guys and have hurricanes and serial killers I would totally live here why do I know that is your call so yeah I will leave you guys are no other tab I had a serial killer that was at McDonald's which makes sense because the Burger King would never do that to you but working wants love you I don't ever try to sell her house and it happened or it was having her neighborhood all that heavy forest fog and laborers they would show a map on the news with laws house house right in the grid I like what now dad selling his LA appraiser news you know me very nice we had we lost about 35 grand really Sonia's beaver likes freaked out and then by the time you caught on its holiday season here showing your show your house you like that kid located just walking on a dead body) just will I do for fun that's fuss yeah I would like the logo yeah what so what was that that other voices help for you want me to bring a man John Jacobs John Jacob he worked with me New Year's Eve at the Tampa in Padre to impact empty house was intact and it was empty great a great first show was funds second show was great in my opinion I really enjoyed it yet he's got a new album coming out called summer at the Southside tells Lobato last summer at Southside for each Frank comedy music hourly track if you like weird Al if you like lonely island if you like tenacious D those the guys we get compared to the Mus the most I am and I we want to admit that and who do it does a comparison your mother grab everybody even plans was been getting great feedback I'm so happy about it okay the best thing about it on my life okay so you were to pay a little bit of at the end of the show go out on your favorite you what your favorite song glory hole, who doesn't like it is that you whistle to another over the dark twist in the song I have I give too much away and we will have a hard time getting what I guess it's not you know the glory hole stories you hear always nice you now is because it always hangs a button you know I like how could it has it has ever been a source of his Dick gets ripped off Hope you would've just got a report on that you're probably embarrassed that nobody log me like her for sure that I have a dog you got me like you have some happened yeah I may gotta grab the guy that did it will Hopewell there's a wall between you and how you can have it that means you have you gained in the will probably still not going to write an elephant try and I'll get your difference although I had a full rent has her leg today will reach their little ear seminaries again Lori holds everybody yeah a very glorious thing either where the glue what I mean it's just that you feel good getting through it is that you're getting you heading in your own time it is a risk you know you on the other side the guy getting it but you you gotta be Ted at its beginning you Shane audience through the whole afternoon done how does job what if there's been a marriage after going home. Like I put the ring for the whole yeah oh my God I don't know if this is conspiracy to don't know if this is on-topic for the park and sat on holy on topic areas the topic it's all on topic real quick next week this coming up today is today's second it's coming out January 9 it is comedy chaos live at the main room of the comedy store we've got Russell peters Tiffany had a wish Jesse May Peluso and Jimmy door and Brandon shop is there and I think you might be heading right that's a funky line of the food we just do murder in the cottage it's the main room consort is 400 seats MSL that Russell peters what top three in the world yes yeah and Tiffany had-ish is the black unicorn and she is great I just want to lay so smoking hot dog watch lady strip which is really good she's good that's been her since I've known her no-show me and she was like she carried that whole movie by far click the check hangover I would die wooden should have its business get it she's she's the best thing in it by far and she carries that movie and then were doing a naughty show January 17 third expert is again in the main of God sort that lineup will be out soon and that is the business that's off today we get into this topic and we're kind of need your intro music no this is that the new replay no he didn't play the intro music I thought this is all set up to to do this although I check you can add post yeah me and we'll figure it out so we are he played it my bad so listen I you hit me up on you like a man that I don't even know let's I go let's podcast right yeah, I was I listen the tinfoil hat do I subscribe a five star it I even reviewed it yeah you have about 500 five-star reviews on that I'm trying to get more trying up to thousands the slip that in there that's the marketing side of my head hurt yeah that's at Slackware is not active people don't know that's the cheat codes if you listen to this take deposit the five star write a little something is that you need that to not even care if it's a snake and be negative but give me them five stars homeboy like that guy I we tell people funniest review will probably send you some or give you a shout out yeah that's what we do on our so we we read him at the end than the normal episode but yeah dude I'm in so I've started I was listen to the crypto currency one and you were it was really interesting you deal song at the same and I know you're coming in town outside oh dude if you want it see the dark web I mean we know how to get on their yet working on it have you ever laid on the dark web see I don't even know what you really mean when you say dark well okay so that's a great thing that you kinda something that we want to get into because not everybody knows the dark web visitors all this kind of this like this kind of like mystery with the dark when you say Doug up I think like the videos of people getting murdered and address the ongoing tiling that I really saw this stuff I mean there is I think there's I think the dark web is kind of like a lot of finger post like the black Marshall does not assume it's a black target and Zork webs I think this whole dictate where it's going to confuse its Mobb Deep member delights yet that's what it is right now is for them it's been the dark web and deep when I look I'm not an expert with any of this I just really Eric and I were bored one day about down to nine months ago were like we watch that Alex winter documents excellent adventure documentary yet used something I don't like eon if the reason narrates it and it is that other guy from Bill and Ted that's not Keanu who benefited you about the garden web exec I still live by the way I thought they got past the way nice computer DT directed this great documentary about it, really explains the basics of white like what the chart what was was called diving was called dark web okay web one of them when watching on Amazon prime I would yells Watson up and attention to it one for your school we were like we were curious does like being comics you know you you're always curious like wonder how hard that is to get on their site we went on YouTube finish see what it within an hour for your website don't win.amazing I like you could literally learn everything and yeah that's almost like the matrix wears like I know kung fu yet you just like it out yeah dude yeah that's well-meaning that's what we do here we don't know everything about digital services but like if you get stuck there's always some nerd somewhere that needs a little bit of glory hole you little glory in his life slicker and mold and Harris will how to find a glory hole YouTube yeah do you hope maybe rate them like iTunes on 05 star that but I would say you know it is there some nerd somewhere that needs a little attention, like comics due to the validation yet you feel good yeah I've looked at view count is similar to people laughing at a show I just file much and I find that if you are anything you do if you're not mining the you mining YouTube yeah I'm putting out your product no matter what that product is you are wasting just this opportunity that is kind of somewhat new to right now you know you two been around for a while but this I am maybe profiting from it for you or just imagine like umbrellas you to read so many people because you know Netflix and YouTube are the television of the world I mean it didn't click until I was in Damon's office he's got some younger cats in there and they literally work while you write you hands like tiny ones yeah the very town today I got trainable going on are you more than just you know… It's the keep well I only know you cannot animation her like cheap labor for me, they hit the pause button and all is passing how did you dad okay all day so but I want to donate literally they turn on you to before anything else and I was like a kinda close like a year ago and I cite associate with we gotta get on top of this because everybody 3530 are under negative you to first yeah everything is willing to bet anything about the trend of like a bunch of little kids like younger like 10 and under watching people just play video games when I was doing anyway so it all to you like it watch videos of adult opening toy package yet and talk online and in doing the category videos Lovett 31 million views people make $1 million of your logs and shoes right now grown up time what I find is that there's some people look at that I like where all kind of like you're like okay that's stupid but look what they're doing and how many views are doing why aren't you doing that we were not arguing I'm angry at myself I didn't write ale so easy it's okay rejection anyway yeah yeah there's two makeup artist in the Tampa area that are through the top YouTube celebrities ready and they make bank like there are now three in the month they just do and we looked at it to me and I looked at it were like I what's the formula okay this just hit a ring light okay yeah that takes the same he can explain all that stuff but like as I okay and then the videos are like how to get this kind of rouge on you one for complex or something that and it was like the ship and then you look at the description it's all affiliate links to all the beauty products not as ugly women look good while you know he's like so Frank is a bunch of female cops are due by feel like that markets a little saturated right now because everybody's trying to do it but the second most bought thing on your phone is makeup sure it's such a huge huge huge when I go golf tonight all at the meeting were my government to do a nice store is everybody so insecure was away will make up because they're women and that's what they do and it will is and I forget the name of the day the the singer but she's like we ladies join me when I stop wear makeup are you a dry man and women alike yeah really no limit will turn their back really bad at you do meeting how do you know what makeup does you know what the these behind makeup is no makeup is fertile it's supposed to give women the look of when they have when they're having sex I like, I heartily places hello yeah I is all that stuff I will go to see how they look really and that's how that hundreds of chillingly yeah opportunity yeah so my red lips little face this is your fertile Fabian okay for tomorrow when we look at him like he's having sex yeah how was it your little I was in that industry Damien has some clients who kinda still notice everything about you, you never will be important for the station's prostitution is one reason that we have a line is a short talk about on this yeah yeah I know you're naming a client same office same office is going to ask you number two given beauty industries all dudes that own all these companies are the heads of its dance craze I love cosmetics industry because it seems that when the only industry based on the idea that your flawed and you need to look better yeah you're ugly and you a money with yourself for that is that is straight up commercial Yahoo watch commercials and will get back to what were talking about but if you watch commercials you watch like all here's a family here's the husband hears the kids all here's the mom and the mom is about three years older than the kids right now yeah that is the make women say home going all her kids at that age yet write my kids the same age and she looks she was way younger than me all I gotta buy that big knife then I look like her and it's all we hear women talk about psychological warfare that they go through it is 100% to marketers whole thing is and in particular I to say but it's in particular white women most of your commercials are geared toward white women because they are the largest time related word I mean yeah you could visit 100% top of the face they are the largest group in America there is more white women in this country than any other demographic curse and they have more disposable income than any other age demographic or sex or or or race more people spent and am just women in general regardless of your race from the ages of like 13 to like 32 or 30 more disposable income is spent on that group than any other group out there in particular especially white women are just like more money spent on that because it date they think of it as a legacy brand so the way that works is if they get you hooked to brand you pretty much in your lifetime right so they can get you when you're really young if you're into Maybelline or what I don't know maybe some somehow maybe if you know that's one of Moroccan but I don't know that's one that goes for your whole lifetime to some go for like I think there's stuff that is like fun for girls that are 13 but it's not under that same umbrella I think stuff like Moroccan oil for Harris) now only one baby 21 forever let me add me some yeah why do you think Starbucks sells like kids drinks like Osler present as a hook of me on it have for him if yes my first coffee drink was in Starbucks yes that's right go the only place I know your millionaire everywhere all the layouts the same everywhere you go either way Ybor only part of the world that has no Starbucks failed Starbucks it once to fail here then you shall be one in Ybor city the Cuban copy for people that have never been a templates, like the Bourbon Street meets the needs rapid and autoexec way this is Wes how it meets Compton it is like this amazing yeah combination of like some like Jan I wish you know with out so I'm nice gave I'd say a nice ring to do right now yeah I mean do we are walking on three in this this like 6 foot five young black ice just doing torque videos why studying for you think back over on all that like go forward yeah it was beautiful gentle like the wire season three is a new Amsterdam selection just let it happen right here and put some cones up tomorrow did you see what did you say you got my favorite guy's return our college football podcast last night triple option thank you for doing it the option yet the Tripoli option and will did you see you talk about the shoe liquor outside yeah that that's it that's a conspiracy I guess if that guys allots is it not what I actually thought conspiracy because one it's one guy considers these two people conspiring and to he actually does it there I he'd lick my shoe oh yeah yeah you like when you go to Boehner and I as I can that's okay is okay we all anything I just celebrate life never get them off poor guy out what what's the deal with the guy with the signs that he is a bullhorn and he has like five signs stacked on Jeanette's cousin every cent of of interview this guy a few times so for the listeners it's like all right there's a senses like Jesus saves and then it's like God forever and then it's like it's a sign that literally like two stories high and gets progressively damning in the near like what team is this guy on Izzy for God or is against it you can't tell and I see this in LA I seen this kind guys and a bullhorn I love best witness Alyssa got about will this guy just wants to convert enough to show people the way the book give people were that says which wasn't Christian but bad for Jesus because nobody gets worse representation than this to drag on me like crazy any better Pam hanging out on them examples like I represent true that you are now thought Jacob has a song about a sports fan solution when one part I don't think you knew about me Melanie is there's a huge Scientology play so yeah this is a talk about how you been to keep trying to work honey I might just pray I don't want to lean to you I have no interest in this but that you check it I'm like I don't I listen I appreciate your effort they were drawn out I guess I no I'm not I'm trying not to be rude to you I don't want to do this but I'm I'm going away have you had a Scientology episode before going to get into them and then somewhere talk about to the real estate believe in such get back to this I mean I'll tangent all day so so you were you've listen to podcasts you heard about a talk by crypto which is interesting because we had at the end of it that I think it involves AI because you can't hack in to the block chain which is very interesting right yeah and the basically the whole thing is that the the bit coin came from the need to have currency that you could do illegal activity from that's where lava come from that's where it gets most of its value effort is it was used on the dark web to buy whatever weird shape that you do want go through traditional system mostly bank is like hey Perry hey Chase I'm trying to buy these you know 15 sex slaves can you you know green like this purchase and I like and I don't mean to make like that because it's a lot dark should go now that so my apologies but you're in a safe space are the notes I'm not that I just like there's a lot of weird chick going on that does involve sex trafficking and there's a lot people give effect I don't get anybody was taken from you that I know Mike but I okay just for my side and I don't get function of a room for myself I don't I don't want to shoot on that stuff because it got you I got super tragic so people would use this bit coin to do transactions without have to use you know normal monetary system so that they don't trigger the police and you know I mean Brian my cohost shut out Ryan Ryan is sickish at right now so and he's on the other side countries are can be here he said he seen some crazy stuff on the dark web ad which I'm I don't want to see any that but I'm interested in how do we how do people find it dark web what is that shark webpages are going fine. It's not illegal to look yeah it's not a legal organic a transaction that's when it items different I like that I don't think you should be able to look you think is not able to also as well America man yeah but you know must really not America it's well early submission to the rural planning planner situation on this and I used to get on senior tour browser I should do this when I was doing some crazy Facebook I campaigns back in the day right right now about 778 years ago I was learning from some guys that I was put on my resume know so little with you till Facebook set up stuff from what they are meeting yeah why that there is right so there's two ways to cut it hold do you pick one it's to be anonymous right right and technically now it's not what you been the what I've learned about bitcoin is it is meant to be nice but the same time it's meant to be where every transaction that happens anybody can see it yeah will know how if not last of the block chain is a ledger yeah that's way which is a larger that nobody can hack into by the way right which is why we buy things but AR when you say stuff like that how can like we be 100% sure you can't hack this because hackers have said they've tried to hack into it and they cannot get it this is where it gets tricky is it's tough to reference because some attackers are going to the Washington Post like what we try to have younger I mean it this is work on it gets a little vague but it the idea is that it's so complicated and it's a peer to peer, system that you can't hack it because there's so many think of art the idea of our government has three parts as a checks and balances now par set out to about 3 million checks and balances that's kind of the idea of him to send the ideas like in the history of time has the really been any technology that we've never been able to him and if that is why they're saying it's AI that is artificial and tell it ridiculous that I mean I think they've had to have as they had people fundamentally isolate so AI can exist and you can't make an AI that just algorithmically learns to change its own every rhyming thing I would have a notorious for have created at a Isa talk to each other in a language that they had no friends and had shut it down yeah I saw was great so the reason that some people might think it's a eyes because they been trying to do digital currency for ever and no one ever was able to make it away needed to be in all of us on this amazing or not once not amazing but all of a sudden this this this crash happens this financial crash happens in this opportunity this unknown Japanese guy Yamasaki my Komodo or whatever his name is comes in days like I have bid, and then everything it's like it's reason I like is that they can't find this guy had on my rose card all it saw the guy from CA Saxons this guy in Australia when the Honda creeps me out is that this somebody invented this in its anonymous which is why like if you and you have to this would you be learning this they say you said you they think it's a isolate people don't know how that works his way down they don't know all we got a honey do they know they know how clear that they don't know how how I me because people start creating their own digital currency based upon what they've learned from this but like up to that point nobody could make it and then nobody can like did this big knowing every transaction that has ever happened with a big coin is on this block change okay meaning and all the shady ship many if you did some shady on it and you like I'll flock everybody's looking it's been going Jane I want to get this off whoever can take something off that is going to make a lot of money okay but nobody can't nobody think of it like a big gold chain yet it's official SOI which I've said turnover change – a Miami and Miami wandering into the golden so someone takes a link off that change yes bank there's only 16 links right 16 with 16,000 yeah what you honey what's the find other Safari nine when Alan Milliam bit going yeah be that the top mezzo tops so no big coins are made no figure found out was just Joe right so the weight like we have inflation right a dollar now isn't what a dollar was 40 right right so we inflate a dollar so the way that works is what we can create cash as the as a government sure Federal Reserve can do that it puts everything up that's a whole other thing but with bitcoin there's a finite amount and then it goes backwards you do my .00001 reverse ablation right and the yeah so just don't budget decimal points of your by some right now what happens the bit: how to get rid of well on his return to the third of you somebody might disappear forever you can sell them to me or you go to market I am showing why does that make him disappear I said I don't it is clearly everything is like a blanket out no it just decimal point some to send there's just a finite amount yeah that and then if you wanted to buy today right 15 grand up a coin what you like I went down to 11 I think they went down to 11 but nobody knew why and that's another reason why people are really like why did they going just drop to 11,000 and nobody knows why and that's what I think makes people nervous daredevil it's not backed by anything that's why don't really invest in it that much is like it and then it is the one the New World order done that the one world monetary unit that everybody scared about what was that which is that you know forever the JV did the deep state whatever you want to say the family of certain anything in the world will currency committee of 300 whoever you think runs everything wants to have one world currency yes and I you know for a while that you know you they have the you're out there is a thought that they were going to make the a marrow okay which was going to be Canada United States and Mexico and that was a big deal because if you made us one thing our Constitution goes out the window yeah that that's what's up a lot of stuff going to the dollar but only set about coffee they said that when Qaddafi got murdered that well that's what how Drew and I will happily when RH others live slave auction saw live slave auctions in Libya and as direct result of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton assassinating Moammar Qaddafi because he want to get off the petrodollar and start his own monetary unit he want to trade oil and gold and now there's like slave track trades thought it was a weird Armand Damien/I only know Mike I want to get that information does so we understand that the that the euro didn't think the merit would but it's thing what exactly is the argument against one world because too much control too much control and what you do is you get rid of you you allow people to rewrite laws that would would take away personal freedoms like if we throughout the Constitution right now rights to privacy which you wonder if we actually still have these rights of privacy is the you know the things that the government isn't just allowed to do like they're not supposed to do search warrants you know you're not that is not supposed to search list warrants searches where they can't just go in your house and all that should so there's a lot of that stuff everybody you know I'm on for like I love travel world I love everybody I love the diverse you the world but there's is something that every place has its own rules and Psalm laws in the you want to respect that when you go down to one all the so you have one group ruling everybody monopoly but that's the argument power to coin is that it decentralizes not one person yes overseeing all that I don't mean it is also you don't have to like if I your you're in Africa and I'm in Canada and I want to send you money I have to go through the systems and then there's taxes and fees and all they stop where bitcoin is peer to peer where I I sent to you and nobody's taking a piece out that now they're trying to do this would be going which is going against whole point there now trying to put transaction fees and all the stuff on there because people want rake some people want regulation because it feels nice you know like some people want you don't hear anything and I want get back to the web at the you know regulations when we say hey man there's regulations people while I do we don't need these regular and likely already have a lot of why do we use the word what I think it's more energy this is totally Jimmy doors thing but protections if they call the protections would people be flip in the flock out now I know and I've had I been libertarians on my show we've had arguments in the you know therefore like I want less government likes but will what is that mean yeah but then you're just running to corporations and they're the ones who manipulate government to meet government is just a series of thoughts it just paradigms in which we all agree.it's the enforcement of those those thoughts that is the problem okay so like we get pulled over drugs on us right like this cop determines whether our life is going to be shared or not when we talk it will get pulled over with with what okay see you set it up a crack crack crack K it would bring a high crash if you lets us go we our life is okay if he if he throws in jail yes there are those laws with that guy when forces along with the real flock powder to get what I'm saying James yet Jacobs can get off he got pulled over got off by doing some standard for, I got out who I got yeah and I got recognized by a cop certificate from the MTV show writ well hello are you the one she knows it a lot younger I know you know you're the one facing it was the likely resume the hold on music you want if I can show that guy is in charge of people and I want to know that MKV tires me out hot-swap watching MTV and that he called another cop on scene just to show him other cop was not happy about that okay that makes you doing unabated is like what legal you now here is that why my Iraq the web but has a high of the and not the high but towards the end was the first both Ashton Kushner show honked I would like the first two seasons of punk like MTV was like killing my friend Stephen is easy with honor yeah and we had gone to Guam together and like to do and if you never been to Guam just know it's like where that like the biggest military likes one the biggest military base of the US has is at Guam and they fly just strippers out there may stripper signed like six-month contracts would be just callow live out there for six months and man when we walked in which the run is easy and they saw a guy from MTV was there it was like I just walked in what Elvis felt like sex I mean one of the best times of my life so you have free the league he was on yeah this is pretty bleak yeah yeah is freely okay so we get back to be what it what are the I just I thought this is funny from your Instagram that you posted I'm so blessed we have wonderful guests I've wonderful fans I wonderful friends have wonderful Ronan that love on the this podcast and they sent me interested me and somebody sent me this this crap I guess you call it what would you call this flowchart close logo sure how the world works and all the company to find out put it in the hood for reference it is interesting to please wrap everything up to date to like up until like only couple weeks ago and should like that so very interesting stuff so that so I've always wondered about the deep web and all at seven I normally get pounded I listen to talk about the three men say it's a conversation so talk to me about this onion what is you have a little foreplay before you get right into it you know you can't just speak into CS yeah you gotta get in there that's what I we can either log my paying for you so you solicit what is the okay what is the difference between the deep web in the dark of the dark web is a small part of the deep web the part of the web it's not indexed by Web search engines although sometimes discuss these terms get confused so but enough yet if you don't you can Google it right okay you cannot Google be cited right at what makes it the deep is it a separate entity from the then net that we know pretty much up from behind yeah for most people yeah yeah like taking a exit off the V Internet freeway going to dark town going to dark web town yeah I mean that's it's that's kind of the idea right that's come over did not visit the search engines that choose not to listeners of the websites that choose to be unlisted yeah what book were not experts in this I was just like I can get you there now it's on Jerry or I can be assured that no card and I don't know how this shouts like we put the information out and parable can look more into it calling about themselves all and now actually what is missing in this thing is not just that it's also the height you can actually post unregistered IP's within IP's that what you're asked what you know what your address united warehouse inside of a building is a single building as it is you all events are a great whaler house is obviously like what the host server – yeah okay whatever that hide IP switch IP so another was at one point exists on lost computer I also did if number of your computer okay was just year ago Sean my address yes I can't think San Diego know I really know so so this is the IP address of the onion teaching what a fun website VIP tickets if you have is fun and you get anyway if you want to get this get the go get a tour browser you can Google that how do you get it to our browser Google it you go to Google tomorrow our browser and it stands for the onion on your router I think in the idea of this is the the military uses so when there pinging information you can find their IP it'll it'll Ping and IP around the world so IPP S guys like that protocol went back to Google take you here they won't get very dirty and have to interpret so I sound like interference is because of you do this you know about this incident Google is kinda like the like the walking you with a weird villager will be like I will take you to put that went on for tonight so I get you for you go in there go to get from two of you will go sorry I'm a sensitive my bad I do V logs, break subscribe now and want to follow-up or talk about Logan that that kid and I can pile logo all I mean just given more really listening to Pitcairn for two actors that failed and thought and had you can do it Logan media so what are you looking up right now so I'm sure it it it's lower that's the deal because you're pinning around the world basically sits a lot slower when using it if you want to do Jim thinking so it wasn't me like so it's it's not pulling from our IP address here it's pulling from try to fight figure out the kind on snitch on him to know it will be different every time he opened up so you said you right now that's almost what they do in your new ATM cards and credit cards with that that little chip on their it's always changing's dynamic so it's always change so sewing it's very hard for them to use credit card fraud because the cards actual whatever Jim thing changes yeah changes so it's like this yes okay was illegal I didn't know that but you say so they said hey that's a great idea you are doing is you hearts the bank should you mother daughter I was doing it forever and for some reason the United States took forever to want to do it so if you if you want to try this at home you browser and then doing IP chicken it'll tell you right there they put an IP chicken you, I am the last one and then there's a site called Mac's mind that you can look up your IP and it will be like oh you're swing out your you mentioned that if you wanted to do illegal things theoretically you would want to use a 40 90 that you yeah into your computer you wouldn't want to do this over Wi-Fi why I don't know I will get it but yet we thought we do something where you get the rundown gathering so you want to be PIP ends another way to kinda protect yourself to be anonymous or VPNs like a like a computer in the sky think of that way like what do you have it they have them in China when you go to China they like of you want to because it's it's so censored over there like just download this VPN right and you'll be able to surf whatever is virtual private network so that that'll give you an IP and that's in the Netherlands I want whenever they're sauté there's a bunch of companies you can Google search that so I paid for subscription to VPN I got it in the Netherlands and then through that computer I'm doing all this okay so that's a first step if you want their legal reasons you would want to use this like you say like if you need to limit your order if hey what if me and if you see if you're staying somewhere sometimes there's a lot of business conferences that try to steal information okay that's happened before and what if I get for your spouse and the really nosy that's how you get some sort of flag on IP chicken of people likewise the sky keep using this tour browser like building what is best for browsers the thing that creates the new IP so they can never know if you write it yeah it it changes every time yeah that's why some browsers and app it's not the website yeah I have certain others it's like Rome that usually input and what is that on present downstairs I hear that I hear more noise I'm scared guys so you can certainly don't know show me on .com that my my IP's anonymous proxy nice so there you go if you want check it right since the legal all that all this is still legal so duct outgo is the search engine for all the stuff you can use that on Cromer Internet dog ago supposedly evade the big things that they don't keep your data, they're not monitoring you which I'm dying to see that's really real right that's a great way the CIA go to your dad I would know mine are your data views… Feeling like I was the one C I heard about the darkness that it's all run by the government I wouldn't doubt it anything in the world stars run by cops naming W so perfect people to upload no evidence everyday that's so funny to be popular I wind up if I were you started you know where my house as you shouted in Ethan 20 say hey I have been so made jokes about world starkly had people just stare at me I'm like how is that no world started I say those might be the last words you hear world start.the so so the thing with hey you guys are giving way too much credit for the government gets it done like that okay wait they wait on stuff posted I take then they go for I don't know about that right I invested very early into Google into use my move into Facebook outbreak at the higher level for sure for sure there's something going on but I would say lower-level ship detective should they wait for the phone rang like the serial can you hear or Dennis RR Leary up so that we did what we had Larry on capillary son okay… For go back he's basically do that mean the CIA used MK ultra that while they encounter what they used they basically used the Grateful Dead to spread hippie culture and to spread acid across because they realize P1 people that acid they were much more domicile so there their thinking and had Verlag we believe where we are yeah and it's very interesting it's taken so I'm all the timing is perfect so so what we did when we first look at this is where we watch that silk Road documentary we returned a little bit ago and now supports gonzo other marketplaces start popping up yeah that's that yes what happens to so remarket there's a bunch of them that it popped up we don't know all of whom we no one country market so what we do is but but that the onions the onion changed the onion URL it changes sometimes sometimes it's too many people on there and it gets overloaded so you have to use a bunch of different URLs but also interest why you wouldn't hear what wouldn't think you're going to read it, a lot of what you put in to get to this browser I just open it up this is the onion browser what you put on you and you can go to the browser and download IN your browser okay okay cool all shadow concern placement got All I got an okay okay now got out of the country yeah I let me get it now I got it okay so it's like chrome it's like Explorer okay so right it's the place I know of the people look I'm trying to get Merck from right it's a place where people go on and cannot talk about this stuff so that's we can come to find information because of my love read it it will be censored really love her and sometimes I'm on Reddit for like three hours all right and I have that I own a thousand kata stair you ever say that like I don't thousand cats that's how I feel. Knowing I think it's always knew it's always the way scratch what is it well you know I mean like you know where it where conspiracy theory pockets I called spiritual skepticism but 99% of my discussions with nonbelievers is it is conspiracy talk versus propaganda and I feel that like writing is a great place get news because you use your brain and your past history your past experiences to apply to whether you think this makes sense or not it makes sense of it but if it fits a pattern of how she does going on then you should you explore and you do so more and more like investigation into it whereas if it doesn't fit the pan you like that makes no sense and I can file by get to do it whereas other people beta-1 do that search they want turn the TV and they want to have Rachel Maddow just give you propaganda Christians get $30,000 an episode she's going to tell you what the people who sign her checks wants her to tell you if the difference between being fed information and research community anymore like I argue with people I argue research versus emotion I am literally I go how much research I did on the go now and I golf so I'm just arguing enter emotions at that point your hunch like that's ever your policy really like I like what you know I life Elise always go yes people you asked me what percentage of conspiracy and I talk about the slideshow angle I don't believe because your clumping conspiracy right out of my right is like a belt system I think it talked about the seven night white to to black this onstage no-no in the green room football guys got PowerPoint hold out what got Disick later work ever you find out how much people enjoy conspiracy talk I know I love and I really amazed when I heard you do this Parkinson's like that's awesome that's perfect it's it's interesting it's always interesting to hear people talk about what started as one thing and now it's it's more like what I think vice everybody thinks vice is compared to what it actually is when you get will find persons owned by Fox know and as a whole bunch of other George Soros or Marley's underlying hey dude you see like multiracial nerds investigate something that makes nosing out that's what you tune into two I thought I got there the best journalists and my buddy broke it down is photographer in New York Sen. Brian Thomas is one of the best ones out there but she he was light now do their marketing company you'll get it they're not sure they're not the pure journalist you you think they are in my but once you take what I have documented some of it to me look at the onion got bought by universe universal you know yeah right before the vision Univision which is a clever way of not let everybody know universal bodily threat want to join companies own every no just got corporate consolidation shown consolidation is a crazy thing I mean that's kind of why I'll try to dovetail back into this but that's why that's why bitcoin can about right we have big banks right you you have the illusion of choice you don't it's all the saying I was talking to someone about Internet getting an Internet provider the illusion of choice so that I can know with Verizon working go with get to fighting the Comcast race was driving the whole cost bond matrix I mean everyone wants an illusion of choice but how much choice we actually have when it comes to anything that Québec it's organize that and that large at that certain extent someone has to control that using that map of like the food companies it's like seven food companies owned 95% of the market of everything so I am using were that the argument would then neutrality everyone's like free market I'm like whoa dude I only have two choices down in LA now I only have one choice of Internet and that's can be a huge pain in the ass my only hope is that it maybe it's the thing that gets her but out the phones that it was complete and I will know that okay so where we outgrown our own Reddit I've typed in a winter I went on the tour browser put in Reddit dream market transparency sometimes go to buy fake like sometimes go to buy fake followers for some clients of well mom well-versed I would hundred euros to build you in on me I only are the only ones who don't that comedians like Noah go to Cuba for a bike by Instagram models are like they all have the exact same number of followers ever know Sago inscriptions one thought 150,000 follow you you all have the exact thing on the same budget we don't do it for everybody some people need video views spot so it gets this tickets a little clump going so you look legit and then when you advertise the look better yeah I don't care doesn't bother me I sleep fine things like go for right so I'm on the Reddit, dream I we in the deep web right now you are technically were were on tour so it's not just anonymous right now okay just read it right so once we get once we get to this parts because it still.com right here right right right so when you get to the measly originator on the right-hand side there's Alston ends with.onion Ghanaian is the darknet in so on the go on the backups well why because these been flooded as I was try to look it up before start of the show these were flooded with too much traffic so here's the here's what it looks like Craigslist basically yeah I so I got it twist this back everything law when you are you login you have years of darknet login yet what Mr. monkey pants 47 strategy so you like most-reasonable like my username and my hello he's been hacking I would hack him out of here my shyness so long now I even want to go would like Apple not put it like to how long is your talking Passover is ridiculous ever change your passwords on your on your on your servers anymore I don't hate Romeo well otherwise it's like do so this markets been around since 2013 what is news on the front yeah you can mail publication it's all about security stuff Seminole, here's her approval here's a referral code if I wanted yes I can convert if I like to invite my friends I get I get a piece of that action I invite your friends the deep with sorting of the shop good shot check out I we own a look at how it's so funny I got because of you I just thought the deep web was going to be like when 11 goes to the other world you ever see that I like nice go off automatically every jar here is walking around his and I go to like Nicholas Cage an 8 mm one night it's a flight tonight health professional is it's my polite it's like a very basic Amazon and what that means like Christian rocket I should house like this crazy yet it feels like everything will talk with Tony second is there some crazy sheet you get on here the digital goods. This is where we live but you we've looked over here what we believe it will revisit its interest no drugs yeah you will know no drugs services in the and everything that could be a whole lot that you could buy quality cocaine correct that are yeah all ketamine right there what helmet do any known emotional offer to get the proposal offer a quality cocaine batch so what's much is you so old school business tactics promos sales were almost out of stock same for everything go okay yeah that's why crazy how you guys are from New York used to be this guy called crazy daddy way back to Davie would sell electronically to just Matthew Hargrave's face only those on one thing Eric and I noticed that's funny is that some stuff that's totally legal here but you can't get in some Muslim countries or some like that so is like weight loss supplements like you can't get that everywhere so can we list up on this and you could if but not hunger not you not through anything related to me saying you can only listen to the podcast where where these vendors located now we don't unite MA let's look that up okay okay is $31 seal it it'll convert it for you it looks like ship this to your house Netherlands see it shows I want to come out presumably yeah and presumably will not know that it's okay because it's presumably in the Netherlands doing think you be bouncing things off arrives as well so really as long as it shows up that exterior door right or UPS or who cannot recommend her name is getting in their draft tonight and then there's an escrow. Dropping it off and she hears a super professional that should Kevin exist in Amazon and the marketplace is on misers escrow system so if rebuying additional good there's no real tangible property. There's nothing in the mail right but were buying likes for some is Facebook page with to start a brand's Facebook page I it's it's it's in escrow until we say okay to orders finalized until they did with the Swiss do and then we give a review just like just how are you not in dark web films well that's my joke about how her drug dealers having what's five IL system having yelp window to instructors at EL. But they do they do so let's look at it you just you bought it in the existence of fairness bow and every 100 everyone is that backwards like they do you because think about it because if you're buying right you want someone that has better reviews than someone that distorted or is people will serve as an awkward conversation going regular cocaine guy with a history of abuse a Huffy what is written here is our picture to hell right down there that you yellow is for use scope review of almost 5 stars all like he puts the paper with his username below the bag a coat that's his brand yet really ideal so right of any dorsal zoo is that we saw that they'll throw in like bonus drugs yeah I'm going to join Gloria but you get a day for you however we gotta come down you got it now yeah i know what it is well that is probably vendor it probably gets you probably if i go you know like when the point was that we knew affiliate marketing the bill yeah he's doing like yeah we got some miles you really think he's know he's building a brand loyalty he wants you to keep coming back over this cutters and about you every time it's like it's an infomercial two-for-one so you know so interested you in the same business model but what is just stuff that's okay more but yet exactly the capitalism takes over immediately ethanol seo services is looking to get alex to get weird after we had it like pictures of hookers and shatter what is that like throwing off lack that money looks to pumpkin super counterfeit money for all and i encounter one night a counterfeit that's a great idea what i can actually ever doing the abduction okay phone to burn money in a movie yeah might want to buy some dinner and on for no money at a strip club how does money cost though it would actually be using for the getting a design and set designer pride to do it right it would be if you're doing production ring on moving it is that it going simple gotta be like all the ratios that actually use that for illness goes burning money illegally of yeah it is so vibrant a bunch of money i want to counterfeit and i know where to get the word rest of you for i don't know what is that was that i click right there with his ego rely on time horn premium account you could just buy me a recipe for selling other people's accounts and stuff on here so this is probably not the good stuff when i real pastoral stuff i guess yeah finally be a spine having five different passwords to make micro victims of an international man i wonder if a misconception is that there's like roast stuff happening on here why i think there is girl are you going i just love interests of on the left law are subcategories on would you want hacking id and passwords money other cash out i am so dead on the inside from stand up that noted this like hello even if it was hashing one of the having is is not is canadian and then it goes down to sex oh lol real sweet and exchange-rate yeah i see you click – what's the exchange rate this can be like a 4x thing i think right that's so at me like the other to certain currency the side of the overnight nurse to call sex ed servers and better service of the changeover in like 30 blow jobs out i wasn't sure okay that's how they pay you hit what is her what is other moves è say this is where we are good that they have analyses, how we got to the rear is a close and watch i was just a marketplace counterfeit goods you and your other hundred figure oath i love this now how this so i guess it's like just like it's just ebay for like shady has shipped very much like it that's amazing by the way that a form of this is kind always been around since i remember being like a computer nerd in high school like i remember just like you can youtube i should online craigslist used to be of spot that you you would do this before people got on yahoo chat i guarantee you there's a super nerd who uses this to buy like not like a porn password not only is not that big a deal if we got a software on your grazing on jackets and she is as yet active outgoing realize we bought a key generator for software i won't say which one but because this is a comedy shows and relatedly so you can buy these this is how you support like i'd i'd get a legal illegally download programs when bittorrent was paid right use you can think of the key generator you download that so when the software came up it would figure out the key to get the software now everything's cloud basis of really tough to do though i final draft right right that's the one that you can't really cracked i was like the hard one yeah because they i think they paint it before everybody also it would go to their headquarters whatever I bit because it was on like anything cloud-based now Microsoft office I had that free like until like I do have a legit company] and it like a college and Stephanie need that yeah all day so that's amazing you have any amazing so let me let's do it so anybody got a more questions I think this is pretty cool what about the stuff like help people get people killed and stuff like you want overhead I don't know that stuff you know how to know are you doing me I like. I like my list I reviewed my sources killing people or doing as you know yeah you have somebody in mind also let me just do this through okay, I can say what you think I like cute names Dr. go IP chicken onion like good things like turtle you like to dole the mind making it like more childish law why does every commercial have have like a mascot I should write you clearly said were children and we need Q was every carrier and aloof in every commercial every man is of the blue fall because you geared toward real filings yeah yes or no real tour checked so what I want you real quick and then we file thoughts from everybody is can you start is from a again just because I know people to be like you guys are all well know dog can you just start from the beginning and just to step-by-step and ready to get us ready to go to Google go to Google your to go down with the tour browser team OR write the onion router okay then you're going to go down to the need to download that open it up if you want to check the IP stuff go backwards in this episode that if they don't want to pause and then go backwards to find a laying on the dark web 5+ argument working to put this in Dragon dictate and I'll get all the keywords are this other guy who can let it straight to the NSA that way yet even much yeah they will shut out all the CIA and I say that are listening hot big fantail hey we I'm a big fan I sleep very safe at night the guys but so then you go on the tour browser you can it'll it'll take you to… Go think automatically is your default search engine and then you go to read it just type in Reddit dream market okay question so this is one site right like are they all kind of marketplaces like those that I don't know I don't I don't know that much I was just like shows like Sam I heard the last podcast you're in town bring it up I guess how to show you what I know and how to get there and I'm sure so I know I'm not interested you as I think the fact I see cocaine being sold makes me happy talking makes me laugh like I'm like these this is why political correctness Rachel the 2828 are you millennial yes I believe you know yeah I listen that I love you hate millennial's I don't hate millennial's I really don't that there like breeding last there having less children you know there I don't I don't hate him the one thing that annoys us about them is this political correctness thing and it ended the reason they are like that is because they have everything I mean I mean like yes racism is imperfect right now but people get along a lot better than me severe going to have these crazy old people think crazy. So Jacobs was in a flophouse or that you have a class do you think I me like everybody's lazy interracial dating let the right no way back to that back in the day when I was young a white chick were walking with black and it was a what's going out with her shoes but you don't think age white girls in Internet and interracial porn from like the 80s like those girls work trailblazers lay it all on Jeff walking line right there you know him say like those were flocking stop women right there like you know that's not the same anymore and it's in how people can handle the girth you and now now you get Dragon belly when get jobs everywhere if you're gay became I going to get the shed so all they really have left right now is we all need a war we all need something we need to fight back against it's just like the civil rights movement forever you know and I don't think local correctness has anything to do the civil rights I think it's the exact opposite but that's fine but don't we all have we need a war to fight and now that they have everybody gets along everybody get married everyone but now all they have left our words they have to give Matt but now their warriors on words they have to have something to fight against because that's the joke liberals are in the censorship yet it doesn't make any sense right at the opposite of what you should be telling they just don't get that because like then you can apply that to like how is your censorship of bad you any different than the censorship of the gay lifestyle that happened for Ater Heather would like will freely feel about you that's from your point of view what what happens when someone else comes on the line and censor something you don't like Yahoo or you decide was all right wrong yeah that's the Hammurabi so definitive right yeah right but we see drugs on people so like this blows my I mean I am 45 years old I've never seen this my my G there's a moment on this video I light up childhood by Coke on my right is my old same Tripoli didn't find this Los Angeles how to it would be like the Dr. Seuss would be your group 5 yeah yeah five sizes okay beating for go to virtually Google download tour browser or browser search Reddit dream market inside this should be a bunch of onion links and then that'll get you to the dream mark the actual marketplace and then make an account and when you talk to anybody on there there's a messaging system for the buyers and sellers just like eBay election interesting to make sure you do and how did know this first time the second encryption PGP or semi that you cannot click that box on otherwise your message is public so you have to click that about someone was like the first time I try to buy likes or someone here that the guy was like always always always quite semi-like a bassoon like a dice read it like a stern dad like always always always encrypt all the messages as I you know where is America how do you encrypt them it just hasn't little checkbox right next to you just let you don't know when you're new you don't know anything you dislike guys don't forget to do the encryption yeah check the box there in theirs to factor often take often to get it off the dictation you don't say were you if you want to double check your if you're putting a lot of money into your account I would do that but which do it as is as old interesting all right well finally rots Eric final thoughts thanks ravenous man tend don't buy anything bad on on the deep well don't go to those I don't blame us you know yeah and God let Joni or a milestone don't say we told you do this this was just an interesting voyage into the site and check of the Internet and if you know just fine the learn don't buy people or hurt people or do any that stuff that's now with this bow is just fun to see what all this should is if you buy drugs on here you by bad ship bad chicken happen to you okay this is it 100% you know anonymous proof you got it don't do dumb stuff yes I'm joking about the laugh that coping

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Who now are going I can see that face was live feeling good how are you feeling Eric Readinger real good yeah really it you get the show going on mean we gotta squeeze one last one in before 2017 goes out I know hopefully get the bonus content common when we pretend that where a dog is initiate next year and then get caught up in the life of your days later I hate New Year's resolutions I don't I don't like hey I don't like people telling me their words without me asking Jeff I mean II know I'm annoying I give out a lot of free device known as for but you do it all your law right Lisa consistent with the exact path but like the thing with plus I always heard here's a little here's a little advice sweat equity advice goals New Year's resolutions essentially goal right losing weight is a New Year's resolution but it's not a good goal July your lifestyle good goal do you know why though nonspecific will is you just write I'm girl and there's no light quantifiable thing is a need it so instead of going on the lose weight and 2018 have to go like by June I'll lose 25 pounds whatever is everybody's resolution should be understood actually be real with myself instead of I'm going to lose weight and then when people ask you about it like we some pictures at New Year's is get real talk when you get real lack landlady real talk in the pocket you just need to be real with yourself a 12 team you know that's what it is people tell themselves stories make it all good so everybody around them here's what their convincing themselves of how I like I been guilty of this as well where you go on the to do this to keep myself accountable right yeah have to sign works have timed doesn't sound like my dad take it all back as I've done that before to know me at what we all have its it's annoying if you 0400 for whatever 100 with your friends or family about it like I go on the run a marathon that I said that at one point last year think and then I didn't predict an injury and then once 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once a month really shouldn't be a year yeah it's weird it's it takes easier for people to grandma look at myself with it are things going good for Maren okay and by October your different person I will eat like a fat pig from Christy Easley from Christmas to New Year's like no big like Burger King all day son yeah everybody that is that's a pretty standard thing or is it yeah to go worse than normal now I do it to the holidays you you do ketogenic will I do but I don't Christmas hello I mean I Brian you get at Iquitos yeah but I can get my bag and okay it's a gimmick around our house these next day you're right Rita is mental but Seattle get the hang agrees like some people do I know I don't usually but I feel like anything I have so little to hold onto his advice that I feel like I would if I do right now you would have been angry as if you win and I dress Onassis yeah I have to do a blood test tomorrow for health insurance incentives which means you can't eat associate today and I isolate this morning because you got to get like a pure sample or whatever and and cholesterol so they give you incentives if you like a reward if you're decent I can't going all stressed out a is one time I failed and I to go back and do it I was like one of many to walk out what your blood pressure is yeah and I was like no Isaac as I rushed over here to get to this thing and went right into it and I'm thinking about work let me go outside only to walk in the hallway for like 10 minutes I came back fine and that weird that's weird I did that recently the doctors to had to get in there real quick and on-site and don't let yeah the Dilip having high blood pressure worry give you high blood pressure that's another contract so I try not to let it psyche out I assume you got into the cholesterol one which is you know I don't know what's good cholesterol bad cholesterol but are you going to do that task so you do bunch of those things which is actually interesting because they make you do this app called rally we go to we rally.com it's actually I wanted to shed all over it because I might man I want I don't want to have to have this thing you tracking stuff the health insurance companies making use that now make you it's it's what I'd like a strong incentive but that's how they measure stuff they think you have to do like certain certain things of the blight but I got to go to Qwest labs and that will knock out like four of the rewards you can get okay as you get likes I can get 600 bucks back basically one was like you get 50 bucks for filling out a survey that's just like how many drinks you have it's like the basic general practitioner you know little questions I would ask you do you sleep well do you eat well all that stuff this is also the app yeah you answering this question is cool but then I tied it you can tie it into your so I have the Apple watch yeah that's about that yeah while I don't know how to use it yet I got it and I haven't had time to like yeah get to know this baby you gonna love it will I just wanted just to be able to jog with and not I have the old iPod that I have to load manually nice real nice real nice right I write if I am ever like I am assuming those like 10 years and my yeah but it's so cumbersome that I forget like I don't when I get a chance to run it's like oh you got yeah I I'll get the kids for 30 minutes you go for running like okay what I need everything to stick 10 minutes that I just can change and get out the door yeah and then getting music ready to go to site and it's not happen so the reason I like this is just I'd have streaming stuff because it has its own phone number I guess oh you got the a data plan yeah oh nice yeah so you can do the air pod headphone yes I'm a good goalie asked well basically I have flown on my watch and I have my air pods that you can't see my ears which I wanted to hook up to this but I think it would ruin the Bluetooth with the video yeah that's that's that's what's future ship well it's only acyl because light to my wife because she won't know they're in now I used to keep it that the ones under my shirt the the corded headset right so at least you can see that a lot of the time but now you just you can't see it all you could use these giant headphones is like holders for your air pods cut the cords because they fall out of my ears hey what these are your pod covers I had to buy these so they don't break not I but I've been falling asleep of those things in which is not good probably for my ears because I feel like I mean Felix's summer jam to pencil in there if I sleep on my side but it doesn't wake you up when I when I go to sleep all hit it hard but I wake up really easily anyway the thing with that is like all this stuff is to be more efficient anyway because I can arty feel that your pods like you can get about 30 feet away from your phone and it still plays whatever podcasting listen to music whatever 80s background with new wrapper genre music I like to listen to like that Eminem song but it's that thing of you know saving trips from going back your phone for something what I can charge the phone or not tethered to or I'm not I'm not going without listening to something for 30 minutes which is trust that but I can make calls and still it's weird it's it's it shouldn't be that big of a difference but it's talking also in the the watch I when I had a Fitbit which were super ugly come like they're ugly they're ugly looking this I got a get a new band on it but I got that ship and you got the big boy version I got the lady lady says I actually pilot pulled my hair out on accident because the rubber because when it gets to that I was going like that I head back head head hair and ended if I took a few with it so not feeling good but what I'm saying is I like the tracking of the stats because I like how much do I stand up during the day how many I do like that stuff I don't care big brothers watch me yeah I've also noticed that the Stan Golson it is not that I can I reach my standing goal laying on my ass okay so does it mean stick to stand really mean are you up I don't know I I think it met like I think discounts if you're awake sell real okay is it going around yeah because right now price as I'm standing right in my heart rate a little bit because were trying to multitask on air oh that's the other job I loved going on stage doing standup and seeing what my heart rate would be while on stage yeah you could try check the time and stop it'd be lower way lower they just normal onstage you weird yeah but both euros off before would spike about 10 to not be three-minute more which isn't really a spike but it would it would get up because you can't anxious your light will bit smug and run over and then when I'm on stage at site cruise control cleared it weird and did did for stand up last Friday which felt good had a really good set which is I forgot how good of a feeling that is when you're so nervous about getting up because I'd been that nervous price seven years yeah dude I mean you and how many months for five months. This podcast helps the mean I tried it I I pitch a lot of podcasts to our clients go look it's a good way you gotta do it like we wish we've been shoehorning in episodes last couple weeks just because it's just been nuts around here holidays baba but we didn't plan ahead like we can plan ahead by the quarter kind of thing like we should but like it's a good cathartic it it's a little bit of therapy it's a little bit of like I try to write some jokes for it right ideas yeah like what is our creative outlet for sure it is him is sometimes the only time we talk during the day but also it's like it's it does have to be polished obviously and it it's another way to get her voice out there for people to digest when they can handle it now one thing I I did come up with while running the other day and this will tie into how to be more efficient is I got a term I want to coin officially calling on the go so we've got some lingering projects that just that become like big picture ideas I feel like a lot of people have this unit maybe you want to do in addition on your house were you know you try to figure out how to save enough money to buy a ring for your lady were you would don't do that though but stupid if she's in the wedding rings and she got the girl for you what if you have a family ring by all means do that whole you can do that yeah don't don't be full by tapirs okay it's at this so many diamonds out there manually many the world look at the history of all that she is talking crazy you know it's all made that's why like advertising yet will I mean it's going to its settings going away you think the holy I don't I think it's to both I think with a lot of things it's going down but the other sides can imagine will I think the wedding industry of like having bad ass wedding that's going up the ring with the precious stones is not as big a deal anymore speaker wedge event coordinators for weddings or secretly like the worst coordinator like of anything you know what a millionaire not about to let yeah I've dealt with a lot of event court wedding coordinators of the site you do this for a living right like wool I brought all I brought all the reclaimed wood like furniture and Mike Horton Mike hey yeah they always focus yet have one thing that's her focus and talk about the farm theme and then it's like okay that's one part you have a schedule of when the wedding starts will know you have to fires right back yeah we are our buddy Damien is what employer just left yeah why would she stay for the wedding that's crazy I mean it was just like what it was a point where it's like I shouldn't be the most organized person at this wedding for what's about to happen it was like it's so crazy how people do not take their job seriously like that's Ivan Mike seriously that's just like basic level stuff that's that I don't care how anxious you get or how you're worried you are like showing up is half the battle if additional forethought either live like maybe this will happen and I'll have to do this anyways I cut you off about being efficient while you're running or something oh so we think of like big ideas right now have the everybody goes I want to do this when you learn another language this year or some like that and then becomes is over you never get to start a lot a lot of that is to start just just go okay and turning everything off 20 minutes after to start and it doesn't matter when whenever that 20 minutes is over or I I find it a break then that'll be it but a lot of people don't do that part and so you get to this overwhelming idea you've had in your hand we've got to do a pitch deck that this is why this is where I came up with that window pitched Atkins become this this huge snowball] but what I don't want to be is a Florida snowball will eventually just melts you never do it that that's the terms the term is Laura snowball however bad okay for look for businesspeople it's like murders but but I have come join us for economy sake it's not that funny that that witty but I'm saying like find me a better term for that I got your diet is as we've had a lot of that we want we want to do a lot of improvements for the show and it's like yeah when we want to get a wife or behind us we would have a digital we want to have a screen over here we can see our live reads or any of that stuff and then have a playback monitor so we can see ourselves but like you don't have to redo the 1000 other Arabia comes this thing that you never get to and so it's it's tough yeah and the longer you go the bigger it seems in sunny bigger than exacerbated in the beginning exactly that's what the snowball and then support a snowball because it just it just don't do it ever yeah you know we we we get a lot of stuff done to all of say objectively we get a lot of stuff done that we do say working to try to do it takes a while but at the same time I listen to so many people because we have so many startups and immature businesses and people asking for advice on time wheat we did have a lot of people that just never ever never ever get around to it some more efficient so how do we do that just starting that are this that but that's my advice for a lot of stuff that you even if you're just curious about some just try to start doing it yet all be afraid of the unknown I think I think you don't know what's coming with their big project you may dislike off while I don't I don't need to know any of that because it's too scary but once you go get into it and you can lay it all out front yourself and you always know what you're up against yeah and and suck at something and try that light all the time right like I want it I do want to go shoot bows for some reason I think I'm going the opposite direction to some keyboards off now I know I've I have a hankering for I want to I want to race cars only not dry stick in a and I want I like to occur I want to go bow hunting like legit bow hunting one day like the shipper you have to be awesome shape to do it yeah like you have to run mountains carrier pack into the woods right right sleep there I don't know why though I've never done I've race like go carts when I was little but neither really I don't have any experience with I just really hit your primal instinct kicking in yeah because them the software I'm getting this note and paler as you can see on video sitting in the office you know of the more I want to go to the other thing yeah go play football now I hear you it's weird that you like I do feel like I do weightlifting for that sort of adrenaline's worship but even that's like wearing on me now righteously I get it done it does have the same endorphin rush that used to go it is used to it that would be the number one thing I'd say if you want to be more efficient you should try to get in shape just like whatever that is for you you want to get like talking II think people do the four snowball word you get this thing were like I've got to get to this kind of yeah body build and when you don't get there after March I think I think Jim's make most of their money in January February oh it's my favorite time of the year seeing all the new faces that come in next week and then by spring break their own, yet each way before that if you had a month yeah because I mean you know I I'm going to the same gym at the same time almost every day I see the same people would you go funk at 5 AM so it's like that that's us different commitment to like yeah but I just don't like being around it's only been in the crowded gym like having to wait on things really you know having a lot of people around yeah what's not really I mean if she if you want at 5 PM and be to be a zoo the worst yes you know and that's what a lot of people do the word about how they're looking at the gym but if you like as cheesy as it is it is good to throw down some goals and like really be specific about it like no for me I need to be able to get I need to stretch and I need to get more flexible and I need to do like yoga once a month at least yeah if not once a week yeah stretching is the number one thing for you making yourself feel good right and I that I know it and I don't do it and it's really it's a comedian self-destructive kind of mind to not go yeah I know but only to just sit in the chair all day yeah it's that they need the stretching desk used applicable to believe they got I think you got some bites I mean no just I just need to not be an acyl and then take 20 minutes and go do it I mean you've got the 20 minutes I know you are it's there the panic sets in I got to get stuff done I can get it while I would get everything done over the long haul if I feel better yeah Chris's days were your body hurts so bad that you're not it is not efficient yeah and the 20 minutes you're using to stretch is not necessarily productive 20 minutes maybe it's something that you're to mess around if you know you have 20 minutes I want to take this a bit picked that right right out due to many an afternoon of design if you get down that rabbit hole like just moving it up and down like to position something yeah with a layer on Photoshop or something you can do that for an hour I know I've been trapped in the matrix for a week on the same ship what I do now is I just go I Fokker what am I trying to do here and then will I been using my watch I literally got yes my doing put your timer on your watch then when it goes off will vibrate at the hands on that another thing I but I think one of the things to be efficient other sleep hygiene's huge I don't like calling it that what we do sleep hygiene I've never heard that oh yeah I've only heard it in my brushing teeth before bed is that of podcast commercials for Casper Leah has for what's up yes going on what you you and Squarespace need to get you should together special Squarespace, Squarespace clearly woo hoo leaving Unilever sites I can reel off right now maybe that's why the wood was pitch about them not being a spy know we never went out we got it to say what's up hey hey hey keep saying Squarespace over and over in the Dragon dictate will pick up on it yeah if you do like these episodes are try to find some keywords were we do try to drop the audio files in Dragon dictate and put in the blog post will get better at it one Suite 120 once we calibrate yes or floors leases it'll be a lot better but for now it is what it is anyway sleep hygiene that's a made-up term by right that's the old yeah that's marketing copy but it's now I've heard it I heard their first in the nets, sleep down well like that is it is it just get enough sleep is that what they're talking so with that rally app it has like little baby goals you can do and I will send you notifications like remember to have like a regular bedtime I will have that remember to shut off all devices like you can and you can check got away with it you can well it will keep you up and it's and I know like I'm trying to think about outside I wonder how many good hours I have in a day like what's my peak right six on like on my laptop you know firstly beer for work and like what's diminishing returns .0 yeah working so it's like if I'm on more than six maybe eight I'm probably it's probably not can work yeah get it in your brain will that's why I try to get on the spin bike or due or work out I'll try to answer emails because at least it feels like I'm doing some claim emails or can be asked anyway you know a lot of it's like yeah Guido hey were here whenever yes you want to meet up it's a lot of that kind of stuff that I try to follow up on but that I need to be more efficient that's one of my things like cluster all these nonurgent if you heard of I is I think Scott Eisenhower it may have to look this up Eisenhower matrix okay if I get this right out on the field very very very business smart basically you put things in the four buckets indigo is a real thing yeah sweet alright so I did learn some business school so you have important and urgent if you have non-urgent and important you have urgent not important which I don't one of those two I don't get in that urgent not important doesn't make sense like what would be urgent that you don't like the sun born that's I think that's when I get conversions of bathroom so my dad I thank you again for like listening to the price of examples and then not important not urgent and you I always forget like to state the power of note, stuff like you got put some stuff in that bucket right a lot of that stuff doesn't matter like trying to like trying to go on fiber and getting something we are done to embarrass my fantasy football friend yeah that I used to do this but is that not important for your mental health but it doesn't it's a waste of time a lot of the time it takes like an hour like a better hour I can spend in some else but doesn't make you happy marginally knows what's the risk reward right so this is all business, logic basic business logic basic pitch business logic real talk but but like it is doing some of the fight OMG I'm constantly, think about like am I wasting this is my best our right we always talk about with clients ago trite working try to get your whole group at the best dollar per hour the rat right right this does make sense for the boss to be doing some of these little things unless that's the only person you know that can really do you so like you have a small business the boss may be the person that actually comes in and cleans up stuff because they're managing everybody else doing the actual work you know I just think about that a lot I don't I don't I don't know the answer what I know that's up to can always come to think about what's my best dollar per hour in this discounts at home to like what's the but you know is it worth watching Netflix do I need to watch it right you know yet to fall asleep when I just turn off and try it out trying to sleep earlier yeah but then you won't know how picky blinders ends than what PT finds it's been on there forever unlike you all get to that year and I'll get to that now I'm still stuck on the punisher and I lie liked it the punisher of all my God I had a plan in the background for like a day and I was traumatized yeah the little violent exactly yeah yeah that's the punisher dialogue kinda sucks to it's and yeah it's a lot of cheesy ship yeah I mean it's going to be that the guy the guy who plays Frank Castle is pretty good yeah he's a good I didn't want to like him but he was on the walking dead so never so yeah don't that's this is my wife's litmus test for if you're a good judge of TV like the walking dead PCS really yeah dude it's not good anyways I out I want to see Dunkirk that's more me I want to see that stuff you haven't seen it real life stuff so be more efficient 2018 how about some productivity apps release can do that right some so you get the Apple Lodge maybe you got some, smartwatch I think Samsung has a good one now I don't know all the ins and outs of it if anybody does have any hacks send it our way or comment on this post I mean just the stuff that comes with the Apple watch timers and things for stretching I use the time countdown timer all the time yeah all that stuff masturbation right where you get caught kind of things conventional yeah oh you will get it to the point hold it building to something called hope it's like what's the is it I don't Braveheart hello Canada hello been doing a lot of war movies may be maybe Troy thinking of but either way like wheat we been doing you got a live scribe pen and notebook the other Bluetooth pen you like and it yeah is in the during the call we are on a day so my phone's dead so have you linked it up though so it can discover your text learn change your handwriting into text yeah it's all that's I mean mine is standard with that I guess here's a little bit older mines an older model but it the software doesn't now my handwriting's like a ransom note so it's kind of tough I got a calibrate that between Dragon dictate and that in in this because I do like right I like writing it will help me memorize stuff I don't I also don't want to write too much in a meeting because of not avoid paying attention so try to write like you know bullet points Rob Eli: let me write this down right now go yeah the writing of the net with your hands to even if I want to call Illinois like I have things I can write down Evernote you like I can write it that you type it in but is not the same as writing it with my hand for some reason and will not just for me either one thing I got back to is and this is a little bit duplicative and I need to figure this out is hey I want to find an app to do list app that my wife and I can see it just reminds us of certain stuff yet get wonder list W you and is not good you're so I don't so I don't know if that's good for home right will like we have our grocery list on there it's linked up if you have sent me an even bigger store but put it on there you have a referral code that's another thing for if were given out stuff you might as well you know if you go in your app the Avenue for a friend white check that out about our syllabus for you but you got all kinds of goods I want to get down to the point were nonessential grocery items I want those to come in automatically through we have shipped here I want my dog food baby formula I liked him diapers all these things that we know we need we could probably your mark every enough three weeks we need this and then I don't worry about it Lucian do you want to go the grocery store yeah you can do Amazon subscription services we do for diapers or yeah we we might we might do that just because it is like those things that set like milk those things that that site where symbols or kinases on me when I get or meat that you will look at if I go to the grocery store but yet all the other ship but it's yeah it's that when you don't have drivers it's T-shirt time yeah and the guessers T-shirts are using dads but I mean like it's that thing of okay what are these little hats I can do it at half at home in the office to help out I don't like the Alexa she oh shoot you she she will gotta pay Alexa baby she doesn't like ISR she's up to sleep with one eye open always you know I don't want one of those at my house honestly yeah how was freaking out my family over Christmas tone of my in like dirt there is already news articles that these things are orb taken the data of what you're saying to put into advertise hell yeah they are I mean if you think that if you think it doesn't listen until you say hey Lexa how did you hear you say hey Alexa it's listening before like what what yeah I'm here real talk pretend I'm truly been the we have back pain we even paid $50 for that it it's either that technology is either worth like a thousand to five straight up or it's like I did know Samsung phones the whole business model is so that Google can get all that data to try to target you yes that's what the phones are so cheap yeah all that technology so cheap yeah I heard I heard that on want to say Rogan's podcasts talking some someone with tech guys like this month but it was like oh yeah that makes perfect sense why would Samsung dominate the market for cell phones that's like the 660 6065% now between women Apple and like 00 they lowered the price in there to make it up in the backend and no one realizes yeah apples do the same thing but they they don't have the straight line date to Google you know apples they love the same infrastructure yet to capitalize on rule yeah right the immediate civilian way right today sent streamlined right into their own entity but anyways I don't have a wonder list referral sales then we give you I don't know all these hello anyway here's here's another little thing pretty much any app you use if you're given and now they usually have a refer a friend discount so if it's one of these monthly subscription you pay for apps I I had to train myself to do this but like all we oh for sales the business development if you want to like a good dashboard you should check out this Pipe Dr., Apple use it gives you visual kind of a marketing funnel that you know who's interested who you talk to you're trying to close on and I just like that visual and I got a hold on let me go get that referral code not send it out as it is being like yours that you know yeah and then you get a month off or whatever Lumley Weber will if we find one I'll put it in the notes a wonder list that's good for home I'd say because I rumor checking for business insight on the distal do what I needed to do yeah I mean it's it's a straightforward passage projects right yeah with before I forget with live scribe you can ping it to Evernote the idea was to take a bloop Bluetooth painter talk about correct thinking live scribe and then you and there's moleskin notebooks if you like those by the way the Bluetooth notebooks never thought about that the hardbound ones but I may have ever thought about if I like moleskin you don't pull some people like him I used to write all my jokes and those because they that they had the how many moles had to die a lot when cares man don't make don't make it what is it two don't make a molehill and no mountain mountain and moleskin sober song or draw an arrow to Evernote an elephant never forgets that's their logo so what you can do is it'll transfer your handwriting into text and you can make a punch list that can automatically go to is Indu which is our business test manager that we haven't been using this once I got offkilter at that it is hard to we can afford so they they do turn it it's you get ADD with apps is always one better well yeah if you never learn how to use more than 25% of then it's not really smart but then you can take that punchlist and you can also hit it over to our project management system which is right WRI K which also can communicate to all these can communicate slack because Slack isn't just for chatting that should be our communication hub notifications all that stuff you so now we have now rebuilding this kind of like coverage in case something messes up right see what I if I heard this I would think men adding four apps would be more efficient and it sounds like it's it's overwhelming itself is not efficient but if you spend a little bit of time and get it right then it's automated from there on out and your love what I write philosophically a look at this way right like we got to figure this out to get and I was talk that always tell us what clients were doing like operations permittivity stuff it's going to be a little bit harder before it gets easier right right so it's gonna suck right now what we should what you and I should be doing is creating a map over our whiteboard in figuring out this like efficiency I want to do it, right after we get off in a couple minutes so at least we just started the Sally called back later no doesn't the right it was amazing call back just start will just started her money word-of-mouth is that we can't be dispensing advice and disco funk it's theater of the mind law is a joke it do it anything else to be more productive in 2018 anything that's been on your mind yeah okay so the other app that I use a lot I used to wonder list for dislike my daily I got to do this today I have a today list do this this is right then I have an app called habit list and that one allows you to just put in something like stretching you put in stretching I want to do I want to stretch be very times a week yeah and then when you do it that they the little button and it's in there and it keeps track of whether or not you're you're keeping up with your habits so I use it for all kinds lifting weights running in all the stuff that it's like you can cut and get away from you to Billy was last time I did do that and then you might pray five times a day right things pop an awful time you know it's easy to get away from your habits and remembering what you what makes you feel good you know way if you can't quantify it really none I members I need to quantify I was thinking of anytime I sit here make me feel good that I think of a monstrous ball don't know you Halle Berry I remember telling Bob Thorton yeah maybe feel right yeah nailed it I hope that I hope that production meeting Ernest Billings brush notes in the tally very low what would what would you know that I don't know do it with a male voice like you don't know it's a like gritty draining yeah what habit list is good I I've tried that at one point again I need vocalize almost outside like externally and go okay I'll get it download this app only use it yet is almost like 19 knee was a 90% of apps or something that or downloaded open once never used again see the good thing about habilis I think it pay for things like two or three bucks even then should shoot in the sky man I was looking at all the subscriptions I had for here in home this week and was like on to here's a user one trim if you're that yeah it's not sample site but it is no it basically you know if you're comfortable with putting in if people like mint were you can kind aggregate all your transactions and it'll note, more or less over time as you check things off it's good for your taxes to it'll be like you're spending way too much in meals I and so that's a good kind – four for that trim will look up your cable bill in all your stuff so you got put in the your banking account I did from this place are checking in our credit card for here and it was little go oh you're paying too much for frontier yeah a little one we negotiate some better for you oh yeah and so dates for you so they make a little vague if they get that negotiation okay that's out that's how they make money and it does it all on its own how does it I don't know I haven't gotten to the point were were actually negotiating but that that's the big cell and apparently like you guys know the deal with all the cable or Internet providers you basically especially with cable TV you can basically talk a minute like given it to you for a dollar yeah if if use if you're tenacious enough and I guess this cuts, cuts that yes yours with I'm done with you and then the negotiations begin hey want one thing you should get from your Internet provider and that's on my punch list is better router because these things suck after like a year of use and they become outdated so you can call Bob Ingo hey I need to upgrade the router and the going anyone in the you be like well Wi-Fi is now a lot better yeah and they probably want that because they've got a deal with the router company Macon Chittenden Nate takers back recycle it yeah making money will the region have to ask is because you don't they don't want you to use more bandwidth than you have to probably so I would say the reverse I would say like because if you look at your upload download speed that states you pay for hundred and hundred whatever that deal is your upload speeds always a lot slower on Wi-Fi and most people on Wi-Fi free hardline that's the only way we get 100 hundred yeah so like so I don't think it behooves them to be able to move more data from here like net neutrality is, that the whole thing yeah but the new router might be more efficient on the island and they can listen to your calls bitter over where the hell yeah yeah that to thanks the dirty side of them probably want to stop greater routers yeah the mean there's there's this as it will never get the answer to that herself utilize 100 other stuff in coaxial cables that can listen you now you know that I didn't know the rest will have those yeah will you have to have the cable to get I guess at coaxial cable to get the Internet in your house a lot of time and then people either have like old ones left there from last person or but I don't know where that is in that I don't think it's around like very prevalent I just think it's a plague in South Korea where everything is technically and I terms and conditions man those things are to get something to happen with that because there's just too much sneaky ship that people are signing up for an advantage of everybody it's great that there needs to be a law enacted that says it can only be this long or whatever which I think they try to do a couple times and they work around it was too long with thrilling and that's about all politicians do they just go what is this you can you write you guys read this for me yeah you're right actually need law to make that will to make laws shorter and then once that's in than they do for some time as a country okay well look we had glory years here in the US this is a sad day for good we had a good run what's what's get some music going out Remer at tax time is coming up hit up hello freshman school fresh books.com/let like you sweat to get hooked up but you feel good and you want to say anything to the peeps have a happy new year people don't make a New Year's resolution just try to be good take a lifestyle every day wonder list habit list all that list we'll see Israeli

Monica Leonelle is a best selling fiction and non ficiton author. But she wasn't always slinging words and publishing multiple books a year. Her career path took her to a safe and stable corporate software engineering job. While taking the path of least resistance Monica knew she was made for more. Listen in and be inspired by the twists and turns of Monica's story and writing journey. You can find Monica at: http://proseonfire.com Key Highlights (how to write faster): Keep track of your word counts. Write for twenty five minute bursts and take a break (Pomodoro Technique). Try dictation for more speed. Resources Mentioned: Write Better Faster- Monica's book on building speed. Dragon Dictate- dictation software (best out there). 5 Day Mini Course- writing hacks to get you unstuck!

For journalism and photography, there are a lot of choices when it comes to equipment. Kate and I have found a couple of items that are really essential to doing our jobs well. We wanted to take a minute and talk about them and explain how they help us. This post contains some affiliate links.  Essentials – The Gathering Interviews Process 1.     Recorder a. Brand vs Function – Kate's Must Have Items i. Features to look for: Plug in to computer via USB ii. Speed up or slow down the recording 2.     Audio File Storage / Backup a.     Abigail opts for storage in iTunes & uses Backblaze and DropBox.  i.     DropBox is good to send files to editors, when talking about images. b.    Kate stores them on the computer and on Google Drive. c.     Eternal hard drives! 3.     Additional mics for listening and recording: a.     Abigail uses an Olympus Telephone Pick-Up Mic for recording with a digital recorder on her cell phone. b.    Kate uses her phone's Bluetooth to record while driving, if necessary, or uses the phone in speakerphone mode.   Essentials – The Photo Process 1.     Shooting a.     Abigail & Kate both shoot RAW instead of only JPG to allow for added editing options. (For more on the difference between JPG and RAW: HERE) b.    Multiple camera cards i.     Some cameras have both an SD and CF card option now and will record images on both. Having a back-up is ALWAYS the best option! 2.     Cameras a.     Abigail shoots with 2 Canon bodies: i.     1D – top quality, low light action; older model but still great  ii.     5D Mark iii – great for all but action; super beautiful images b.    Kate shoots with 2 Canon bodies:  i.     7D – bought to use for photos and the video function ii.     5D Mark iii – portraits mainly c.     Having two camera bodies allows for faster change-out of images 3.     Lens a.     Kate:  i.     Owns: 10-20mm, f; 24-70mm, 2.8; 70-200mm, 2.8; carries a spare Sigma 35-300mm for riding out on horseback.   ii.     The 24-70mm is most versatile. iii.     Prefers the 70-200mm on the 7D for action shots. b.    Abigail: i.     Owns the following: 50 mm, 1.4 lens; 70-200mm, 2.8 zoom lens; 300mm, 2.8 lens; 16-35mm, 2.8 wide angle. ii.     Loves her 70-200mm, 2.8; Allows for flexibility with action shots.  iii.     She has a 300mm, 2.8f fixed lens.  The look of the photo is elevated; big & bulky  iv.     For people portraiture – not horses- she prefers the 50mm, 1.4f. **     For horses, Abigail says you need at least a 100mm for portraits to minimize distortion. 4.     Flash vs Reflector a.     Kate prefers a reflector, though she has external flash. She loves the warmth of the reflector. She has a zebra and white, similar to THIS. b.    Abigail has a hot shoe, external flash and the gadgets but discusses the length of time needed to set them up. Abigail also prefers a reflector. 5.     Carry Pack a.     Kate has a photo back pack from Timbuk2.  i.     Cameras, computer slot that can be used for reflector. Pockets for spare recorder, batteries & notepad. ** UPDATE: Kate now has a ThinkTank, the Airport Advantage Carry On Roller (YAY!) b.    Abigail carries two Kelly Moore bags. Both are leather, and one is purple.  i.     Kelly Moore Hobo: One camera body and two lens (not the 300m, it has its own suitcase).  ii.     Kelly Moore Libby: Larger, fits two bodies plus a computer and notebook, and a reflector could go in the computer spot. **Abigail just got a ThinkTank bag--copying Kate! Going for a test drive this week.  6.     Saving Images a.     Kate culls and renames using Photo Mechanic. i.     Download program from the internet. One price to purchase. Has cull, sort, categorize, rename, resize, etc. functions.  ii.     She processes in Lightroom or Photoshop. (Find Adobe products HERE) iii.     Always back up – Kate backs up to Google Drive and an external drive. iv.     She sends images via a download link to her private Google Drive. b.    Abigail also uses Photo Mechanic.  i.     She previously pulled images up in Preview, but it was time consuming. ii.     She edits in Lightroom or does detailed touches in Photoshop.  iii.     Abigail backs up to her external drive & Backblaze. iv.     She sends images through DropBox or an FTP program. Essentials – The Writing Process 1. Transcribing a. Abigail uses Dragon Dictate. i. She listens to her interview and says out loud the recorded audio, then Dragon Dictate transcribes what she says. Ideal for profiles without “horsey terms.” b. Kate transcribes in the morning. She listens to her interview and types the interview with notes. Quick Notes: o   Tools of the Trade include magazines! Know what is going on in the industry, review writing styles and find unique ideas – they don't have to be horse related. Get inspiration from fashion magazines, find new photo poses, and more. o   F8 is a “pause” button on listening to a recording o   Save interviews and images in at least 2 locations. o   Always back up ASAP when you gather photos or interview files o   Double check gear so you don't leave a reflector! o   Though your gear could all fit in a backpack, watch the weight on your back! o   Use your eyes to find that perfect photo. o   Writers can pick up on nuances during an interview and dig further into a topic. o   Tools don't necessarily mean spending money on gear. o   Abigail reminds listeners to be curious and look for that perfect light. View Abigail's photography and writing at abigailboatwright.com. Kate's work is available at katebradleycreative.com.      

In today's episode, Pilar talks to Joanna Penn about writing and self-publishing in the 21st Century and being an indie author.  Introduction Check out the recordings of the Working in Virtual Teams webinar series. http://virtualnotdistant.com/webinars/ Check out Pilar's books: www.pilarortigarces.co.uk/p/e-books-by-pilar.html Virtual not Distant Bitesize 04:50mins Today's bitesize is dedicated nurturing team creativity in virtual teams. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Saros Virtual Team Practice Follow this link to register with Saros Research. 10:35mins "We like to share refreshments at a team meeting and set a calendar reminder 15 minutes warning before a hangout, so everyone can get their coffee and biscuits ready wherever they are." 16:10mins Working Out Loud - extracts from "Co-Writing a Book" the book by Joanna Penn and J Lyons. Learning about each other through sharing our work process. The Conversation with Joanna Penn We're in the Renaissance of the creator. 20:15mins Joanna puts "authorpreneurship" in context. Indie authors are a natural evolution as we change the way in which we work. The long tail and low-cost of self-publishing. The author is no longer a lonely creator... Audio and foreign sales. We talk about how much we love the Kindle! I couldn't run my business without technology. If anyone wants a great piece of software to write books in, use Scrivener. Joanna mentions Dragon Dictate. Joanna's fiction work and how she has changed as a writer. You are the wrong person to trust your work. The shift in mindset from a hobbyist to professional. Joanna's virtual collaboration with J. Thorn. The future of writing. Self-Publishing Success Course Check out Joanna's blog and podcast for information and inspiration! www.thecreativepenn.com/

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An apple watch free episode as I'm glad I didn't order the aluminium with white strap. You can contact the "show" via http://essentialmac.co.uk/contact-us/ Links Dragon Dictate 4 Instead it's a weekend of Dragon Dictate 4 on Mac seeing as it's had a price drop. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Everyone knows that to succeed as an entrepreneur (and just to be productive) you have to learn to delegate. However, in this episode I make the case for why it's preferable to automate a task rather than delegate it, when possible. I provide some examples of how I use automation to help my own productivity, such as: Text expansion (automated reuse of blocks of standard text) using TextExpander File manipulation (automating your own procedures for naming, changing and filing documents using Hazel Dictation and transcription using Dragon Dictate and Siri Scripting using AppleScript,  Automator and Keyboard maestro for mac. I also provide links to some resources that I use for learning about automation: Mac Power Users podcast Screencasts Online (tutorials for mac software) Show Notes: Episode 108: Three Ways To Delegate  

Don and Ben revert back to their old Skype issues with the perceived blame being on Ben, but it was actually Don. Don announced that there will be help for people like Ben who aren’t so good at time and attention at IAFP 2014 the infamous Merlin Mann will be there. About 0.1% of IAFP annual meeting attendees will be excited to see him - including Ben and Don. Ben mentions his excitement that Professor Dr. Donald Schaffner, PhD was name checked on Back to Work Episode 173. The first mention of The Wire comes at 12 minutes which the guys then give a shout out to Baltimore resident Manan Sharma who mentioned that that’s his favorite part of the show. In follow-up from Episode 61, friend of the show MDD says that there are not rats in Alberta Ben and Don remark while there may not be any snakes in New Zealand and Ireland (although Ben thinks that Don is thinking of potatoes) there are rats in small pockets in Alberta While Alberta has had a rat eradication program since the 1950s, a colony of Norwegian rats, of Roanoke Island proportion, was found in Medicine Hat in 2012 and 2014 Ben tells Don that he wears big pockets, because of the rats issue and on a pilgrimage to Edmonton to see a statue of The Great One his pockets were not checked. The guys then talk about a question from IAFP’s Dina (not Dinah). Dina asked the guys to discuss their thoughts on a recent JFP paper about non-intact steak cooking using temperature, flipping/turning and different cooking methods. The practical, take-home message (as dictated using Dragon Dictate that flipping and covering with a lid (which allows cooking to occur both through conduction and convection heat) and using a thermometer for all cuts of meat helps reduce risk. Ben talked a bit about some future work that his group is doing looking at mechanically tenderized beef messaging, perception and behavior- including cubed steak (which is sometimes two pieces of meat slapped together and run through the cuber- although not by wikipedia). The discussion then went towards steak eating preferences as detailed by FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver’s cadre of numbers nerds who dissect a lot of pop culture and sports questions. The guys then both talked about message variability projects they have going on. Ben’s group is looking at cook book recipes (and how the messages and instructions in the culinary world often are not evidence-based). And Don’s group is looking at messaging on handwashing signs, something that his second favorite graduate student, Dane, is undertaking. In outbreak flashback the guys talked about 1854’s Broad St. Pump cholera outbreak. Using a map and analyzing cases of human disease, John Snow, largely recognized as one of the founders of epidemiology, created a blueprint for the next generation of disease hunters. Removing the handle on the pump was recognized by ending the outbreak except that modern epi-curve analysis suggests that the outbreak was already on the decline. Ben’s favorite part was what one of his undergraduate professors, Anthony Clarke talked about in class 15 years ago: the monks in a local monastery did not get sick because they didn’t drink the water, just home brewed beer. The guys then ended the show talking about an outbreak linked to food service hamburgers made from Wolverine Packing (or Wolverine’s Packing with adamantium slicers and grinders) beef. It’s unclear whether illnesses are linked to undercooked burgers or cross contamination - although anecdotally undercooked burgers have been reported. One of Ben’s graduate student’s Ellen Thomas has been working on a project related directly to this type of product, where secret shoppers have been speaking with servers at burger-serving family style restaurants throughout the U.S. The results of the project will be shared at IAFP in Indianapolis. In after dark the guys chuckle and guffaw about Ben’s Beatles references and Time and Attention and Tony Robbins who Ben thinks is in prison. But he’s

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Have you broken your New Year's resolutions yet? Most people have-my estimate is that over 90% have. So what do you do now? I'd say it's time to get serious about planning your year. And on today's episode I'm going to show you how to do it in less than one hour. Also coming up… My top three productivity apps for 2014. Why what you say has spiritual power. Your invitation to a one-day mastermind with me. Now let's get on with it… Announcements: Thanks to all who have left a review of the podcast in iTunes.  I'm going to start publicly acknowledging those who have done so, if I can identify you (sometimes the usernames in iTunes make that difficult.) This week I would like to thank:  Kingsley, Hope Dispenser… Cindy Bidar… Missouri Broker… Corbin 111… Jim Munchbach… Phil Drysdale… Robert Plank… Ernie Lansford… Carmen Manrique… Nick Douglas… Jeff Brown… Jeff Sanders… Rick Butts… Ryan Eidson… John Tiller… Liz Dugger… Todd Brown… Chad Meisinger… Bob Shoe… Rob Metras…  and Eric Graham. Every person who submits an audio question for the podcast will receive a free gift (if, and only if, we use your question on the podcast). Click here to submit your audio question. Meanwhile, if you would be interested in the possible one-day mastermind with me and 11 other people, where we make radical progress in your business… And if you're not just “interested” but you already know you want to do it,  fill in this form. If it looks like you would be a good fit, I will call you myself.  (If you just want the “details”, listen to the podcast. I explain all the “details”.) Conferences where I will be attending and/or speaking: NAMS 11 February 7-9, 2014, Atlanta, GA Social Media Marketing World, March 26-28, 2014, San Diego, CA JV Alert: The Perfect Game April 24-27, Denver, CO SCORRE Conference May 5-8, Orlando, FL Tip Of The Week  My top three productivity apps probably will not come as much of a surprise. But I have made a shift, so here they are: Evernote. I think of Evernote as my “magical filing cabinet/notebook/backup brain”. I really couldn't function the way I do without it. Nozbe. It took a strong recommendation from Michael Hyatt to finally get me to try a different task management system. I had been using OmniFocus for years.  Now, after just a couple of weeks, I can't imagine going back. Dragon Dictate.  I have finally taken the time to learn the nuances (pun intended) of using the software. I don't know of anyone who can type faster than they can talk. Other than dictating and having your words recorded by transcriptionist, this is the fastest way I know to write. Copywriting Corner If you ever get stuck writing copy, and find yourself staring at a blank page, here's a quick tip that will get the copy flowing again. Just start writing up the offer. Describe the “stuff” you'll be selling. If even that requires too much creativity, try just writing up the guarantee. In other words, write what I call “the stupid parts”. I don't mean that these parts the copy are unimportant, or that you should be careless about the final draft of these sections. What I do mean is that you can write this kind of copy even if you are in a “stupid state”. I usually find that fairly soon the creativity starts to flow again, and I can start writing “the smart parts”. And yes, I also go back and rewrite the parts I started with, because all of your copy needs to be “smart parts”. Spiritual Foundations I believe that as followers of Christ, we have the very Spirit of God living inside of us. I believe because of this, the words we speak have power. Thus, saying negative things (“I can't do this”… “Why does this always happen to me”… “It always turns out like this”… and so on) can have a powerful adverse impact on our lives. By the same token, saying positive things brings about good things in our life. This is not “positive thinking”. It is absolutely not “The Secret”, which is a new age religion not compatible with following Christ. Some people wonder if my belief in “positive declarations” is Biblical. It certainly is. And here are 3 biblical reasons why you should only declare good things about yourself, your loved ones, and your life. When we speak or hear life-giving declarations, grace is imparted. “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29) The words we speak can either bless or curse our lives. “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:37) Perhaps the most powerful Scripture on this topic is also the simplest: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (Proverbs 18:21). Feature Segment: How To Plan Your Year In Just 1 Hour By now it's likely your  New Year's resolutions are broken. Most people's are. I believe the reason behind this is the same force that was behind my experience while hiking recently.  I got so focused on the length and height of the mountain we were trying to climb, I wanted to give up.  It was only when I learned to focus on short-term and intermediate points on the path that I found the strength to continue the hike. (For the full hiking story,  you need to listen to the show!) This is the problem with New Year's resolutions. I have a different plan in mind for you. Here's how to plan your entire year in an hour or less, and it matches up a lot more closely with what you already do naturally anyway. First, plan your days off. 52 weeks means 52 Saturdays and Sundays… Which really should be 104 days free from work. Add in 10 days for actual vacation, and 10 more days for holidays, and you have a minimum of 124 free days. Put those in your calendar, and protect them like the treasure they are. Next, plan the important personal events that you simply must attend. Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and family reunions come to mind. I would also include here any important church or mission functions. Now, plan any seminars, conferences, or other learning events you are going to attend. Don't fool yourself; you have a limited number of these events you can attend. You probably know the most important ones already so plug them into the calendar. Any weekends or other free days that get eaten up by these events must be replaced somewhere else in your calendar. At this point, in my own planning I realized I had only about 165 days left before I even started the year. That means out of the entire year, I only had 23 weeks to “work”… less than half the weeks in the year. This is a powerful realization, because the things that I have listed above are going to happen to you… whether you put them on the calendar or not. The only exception might be that, because of a lack of planning, you sacrifice your “free days”… meaning you are sacrificing time with family, time recharging and resting, time to re-create. Big mistake. So what do you do when youre remaining 23 weeks (or whatever number you came up with)? First of all, I don't recommend working 12-15 hours a day to try and make up the difference. In fact, I recommend you limit your work day to about six hours. That's all the productive time you're going to get out of the day anyhow, whether you admit it or not. This leads us to a very important realization… we can now calculate the value of an hour of our work. Here's how to do that… Decide how much money you want to make this year. Let's say, just for the sake of example, your target income is $200,000. You have 165 days to work,  And I think it's pretty fair to say that a third of those days will be spent doing administrative and preparatory work (in other words, not the actual stuff your paid for). This leaves you with about 110 full “workdays”-days when you perform the actual work that gets you paid. Let's suppose you're going to work seven hours per day (and if you can actually squeeze seven productive hours out of a day, you are performing at a higher level than 95% of everyone else on earth… congratulations.) Seven hours per day times 110 days yields 770 hours. Which means you're being paid $259.74 per hour in order to make your $200,000 this year. So what's the point? I haven't describe anything unrealistic. In fact, I may have just given you the first realistic picture of what your year actually looks like you've ever seen. Perhaps right now you're having a revelation of why you never made the money you want to make, or achieved the things you want to achieve. It's because you have less time available to work than you think you do. This is not bad news. It simply means your primary question should be: “Is what I'm doing right now worth $259.74 per hour?” If the answer is no… stop it. You're probably already ahead of me. You're probably thinking about all the other things I haven't plugged into your schedule… doctor appointments, unexpected illnesses, pleasant surprises… even the possibility that you want to make more money than what I mentioned. My point isn't even that you need to have a perfect plan. It's that you need to put the big pieces of the puzzle in your calendar first, the ones you know that are beyond choosing, the ones you know that are important (like those free days), and the ones you know you have little control over. It means you need to get a realistic view of how many hours you actually have available to you this year to accomplish your goals, to be intentional about how you use them, and most importantly… to not be surprised at the end of the year, when you could've planned a different outcome. I suppose if I had a summary message it would be this: I believe you can do almost anything you want this year, but you almost certainly cannot do everything you want. What To Do Now If you enjoy the podcast, I would consider it a great favor if you subscribe (and leave a review) in iTunes. This helps new people discover the show. You can also find the podcast on Stitcher. Question: how do you plan your year? Click here to leave your comments.

Merry Happy Holidays! Not like our usual episodes. This is all about fun and heart and the last episode of The Feed for 2013!!! Rob and I get together with Ken Ray from Mac OS Ken as well as through time and space with the awesome Mignon Fogartyfrom Grammar Girl. We discuss all things gadgets, tech, gifts, wants and fun, just for sheer delight. Community. Heart. Support. But before the discussion begins, I share with you a new project that is arising. One that necessitates a community that chooses to participate. A call to action, to those that want to give, grow and simply support a fellow human being. Give, that which is the most treasured to you - your time, your genius!!! It's the 10% Collaborative Podcast Project for Mark Newman. Make sure you listen to the episode OR check this out. Oh! And you still have a few more days to participate in the #LibsynMerrySelfie giveawaywhich will is still going on until 11:59pm December 25 2013! The Podcaster Wishlists Mignon List $99.95 SleepPhones Wireless $24.49  PowerLine PowerCup $99.99 Logitech Wireless Headset $159 Dragon Dictate 3 $29.99 Wireless Remotes for Electrical Outlets Roku $88 (especially good with Amazon Prime) Where to find Mignon: Grammar Girl Podcast QDNow Network (Quick and Dirty Tips) Ken List $36.99 - Targus 16” Groove Laptop Backpack $49.99 - Pencil Digital Stylus for Paper iPad App by Fifty Three $39.99 - Leather iPhone 5s Case from Apple $49.95 - Belkin WeMo Switch $129.99 - BioLite Stove - Holiday Bundle for $224.85 Where to find Ken: Eye Chart Magazine Mac OS Ken Mission Log Podcast Rob list $50 - RECAP 2 $25 -  iRig Mic Cast - $95 - Yeti Mic $10 - BossJock App $75 -  STM Velo 2 Messenger Bag -  Laptop Bag $15 - Newer Technology - 15A-TR Power2U iPad Mini Retina or iPad Air with Cellular -  T-mobile version to get the free 200 MB per month for life offer $99 Apple TV and Netflix Elsie list $60 The SmartLav by Rode Microphones $29.95 Great Big Wall Calendar $699 iPad Mini with Retina Display 128 GB $149 SLXtreme iPhone case $129.95 Force™ Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband The BookBook by Twelve South and there IS ONE FOR THE IPAD!!! and the iPad Mini. Just awesome The Nessie by Blue Microphones $75 POWERBreathe PLUS All about my brother Luis Escobar! Trying to make up for my FAIL on the podcast ;) The Art of Draw-Fu (Beginner Beginners Bundle) The Drawing Website The Luis Escobar Blog The Corner Booth - The Ultimate Animation Podcast (sorry for forgetting!) HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share #TheFeed with your twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! If you dug this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe!

Merry Happy Holidays! Not like our usual episodes. This is all about fun and heart and the last episode of The Feed for 2013!!! Rob and I get together with Ken Ray from Mac OS Ken as well as through time and space with the awesome Mignon Fogartyfrom Grammar Girl. We discuss all things gadgets, tech, gifts, wants and fun, just for sheer delight. Community. Heart. Support. But before the discussion begins, I share with you a new project that is arising. One that necessitates a community that chooses to participate. A call to action, to those that want to give, grow and simply support a fellow human being. Give, that which is the most treasured to you - your time, your genius!!! It's the 10% Collaborative Podcast Project for Mark Newman. Make sure you listen to the episode OR check this out. Oh! And you still have a few more days to participate in the #LibsynMerrySelfie giveawaywhich will is still going on until 11:59pm December 25 2013! The Podcaster Wishlists Mignon List $99.95 SleepPhones Wireless $24.49  PowerLine PowerCup $99.99 Logitech Wireless Headset $159 Dragon Dictate 3 $29.99 Wireless Remotes for Electrical Outlets Roku $88 (especially good with Amazon Prime) Where to find Mignon: Grammar Girl Podcast QDNow Network (Quick and Dirty Tips) Ken List $36.99 - Targus 16” Groove Laptop Backpack $49.99 - Pencil Digital Stylus for Paper iPad App by Fifty Three $39.99 - Leather iPhone 5s Case from Apple $49.95 - Belkin WeMo Switch $129.99 - BioLite Stove - Holiday Bundle for $224.85 Where to find Ken: Eye Chart Magazine Mac OS Ken Mission Log Podcast Rob list $50 - RECAP 2 $25 -  iRig Mic Cast - $95 - Yeti Mic $10 - BossJock App $75 -  STM Velo 2 Messenger Bag -  Laptop Bag $15 - Newer Technology - 15A-TR Power2U iPad Mini Retina or iPad Air with Cellular -  T-mobile version to get the free 200 MB per month for life offer $99 Apple TV and Netflix Elsie list $60 The SmartLav by Rode Microphones $29.95 Great Big Wall Calendar $699 iPad Mini with Retina Display 128 GB $149 SLXtreme iPhone case $129.95 Force™ Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband The BookBook by Twelve South and there IS ONE FOR THE IPAD!!! and the iPad Mini. Just awesome The Nessie by Blue Microphones $75 POWERBreathe PLUS All about my brother Luis Escobar! Trying to make up for my FAIL on the podcast ;) The Art of Draw-Fu (Beginner Beginners Bundle) The Drawing Website The Luis Escobar Blog The Corner Booth - The Ultimate Animation Podcast (sorry for forgetting!) HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share #TheFeed with your twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! If you dug this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe!

Présentation rapide de Dictate version 3, avec l'utilisation du micro distant et de la transcription.

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D.Lee Beard reviews and demonstrates the software options for speech recognition where you can stop typing and let the computer type what you say. Nuance speech recognition software MacSpeech for computers and Dragon Dictate for mobile devices like the iPad are review and demonstrated. (13 min. 6 seconds)Click Here to Play Episode 132