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Thomas is known for being a doubter, but he should be honored for his honesty! In the midst of his struggle between faith and experience, Jesus appears to him and the disciples and invites Thomas into an experience with him. Thomas said, "Unless I can see the nail marks in your hands, I will not believe." We want to meet Jesu,s and sometimes that meeting happens in the 'unless' moments of our life.  Life Group Questions1. Begin your time by discussing how your rule of life is going. How can you be praying for one another this week?2. Read John 20:24-29. Can you identify with Thomas? If so, how? Where has Jesus met you in the 'unless' moments of life?3. Can we get too caught up in the experience side of faith? What does that look like?4. End your time together praying through the 5 steps of the examen: A) What brought you joy today? B) What challenged you today? C) What did you need to confess to God today? D) What did God teach you today? E) How can I serve others better?

Glutathione, the body's master antioxidant, plays a crucial role in detoxification, energy production, and overall health. Yet, many struggle with low glutathione levels due to modern lifestyles, environmental toxins, and poor dietary choices. Curious about the benefits of glutathione and how to naturally increase your levels? Today's guest, Dr. Nayan Patel, has dedicated over two decades to researching glutathione and developing a revolutionary transdermal delivery system. His patented Glutaryl spray allows glutathione to be absorbed intact, providing superior results compared to oral, liposomal, or IV forms. In this episode, Dr. Patel explains the critical role of glutathione in fighting oxidative stress, detoxifying heavy metals, and preventing chronic diseases. He discusses the pitfalls of various glutathione supplements and introduces his groundbreaking Glutaryl spray. Dr. Patel also shares practical tips to maximize glutathione production through diet and lifestyle.   “When your demands are so high that your body cannot produce enough [glutathione], there's always a gap. The gap is what I would like to close." - Dr. Nayan Patel   Today's Episode Explores: - Dr. Patel's extensive research on glutathione - What is Glutathione? What is its role in detoxification? - Why most people need to supplement with glutathione - Forms of glutathione - transdermal vs. oral vs. liposomal vs. IV glutathione - The risks of overdosing on IV glutathione - Benefits of Glutathione: Energy, Detoxification, Brain Health, Anti-Aging & More - Glutathione recycling and the importance of vitamin E - How does glutathione help with diabetes? - Glutathione & heavy metal detoxification - Can glutathione help with brain health? - Glutathione & skin health: Dr. Patel's antioxidant skincare line - More benefits of glutathione: mitochondrial energy, sleep, liver health, and more - Dosage, consistency & importance of mental wellness For more information, visit https://www.myersdetox.com    What is your body's burden of heavy metals? And how are they affecting your health? Take my quiz to find out! https://www.heavymetalsquiz.com    Products Mentioned in This Episode: - Glutaryl Transdermal Glutathione Spray: Visit https://aurowellness.com/?ref=672 and use code WENDY10 for 10% off your first order. - Pure Body Extra Zeolite: Visit https://myersdetox.TheGoodInside.com to get your bottle and start your daily detox journey today.   About Dr. Nayan Patel: Dr. Nayan Patel, a renowned pharmacist, wellness expert, and industry thought leader, has been collaborating with physicians since 1999 to develop customized medication and design patient-specific drug and nutrition regimens. His expertise has made him the go-to pharmacist for celebrities, CEOs, and physicians themselves.  With over a decade of clinical research on the master antioxidant, glutathione, Dr. Patel and his team have revolutionized the field by developing a patented technology for topical glutathione delivery, which he discusses in his comprehensive book, "The Glutathione Revolution: Fight Disease, Slow Aging & Increase Energy." This groundbreaking technology has also led to the creation of The Auro GSH Antioxidant Delivery System, a skincare line that delivers antioxidants more efficiently and effectively than ever before. You can learn more about Dr Patel's work and get his patented transdermal glutathione at aurowellness.com   Disclaimer The Myers Detox Podcast was created and hosted by Dr. Wendy Myers. This podcast is for information purposes only. Statements and views expressed on this podcast are not medical advice. This podcast, including Wendy Myers and the producers, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from using the information contained herein. The opinions of guests are their own, and this podcast does not endorse or accept responsibility for statements made by guests. This podcast does not make any representations or warranties about guests' qualifications or credibility. Individuals on this podcast may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to herein. If you think you have a medical problem, consult a licensed physician.

In this week's episode, Chef Mareya Ibrahim-Jones (aka the Fit Foodie) shares about her journey with food and how we can all start looking at fueling our body from a place of self-love. Connect with Chef Mareya:Buy her book - Eat like you Give a ForkInstagramWebsite7-day Brain Reboot ChallengeAbout Mareya:Mareya Ibrahim, The Fit Foodie, is a nationally recognized food expert, and author of the #1 release book, “Eat Like you Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive" Mareya is a chef, holistic nutrition coach, author and award-winning entrepreneur and inventor and is the founder of Grow Green Industries, INC. and the co-inventor of the eatCleaner® line of food wash and wipes. Mareya is a signature chef to the NY Times bestseller “The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life” by Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman and a contributor to Recipe Rehab "The Fit Foodie", has appeared in Edible Orange County Magazine since 2011. Mareya is also the host of the podcast "Recipes for Your Best Life", was a featured chef on the Food Network, eHow.com, Livestrong.com. and the Emmy-nominated cooking show, Recipe Rehab. Want to activate your healing journey? Follow these 5 steps:1. Get on my email list for the latest details on new free masterclasses, upcoming offerings and in-person retreats! PLUS all the unfiltered & uncensored 4-1-1 that 's not safe for socials. SIGN ME UP!2. Follow my socials @lesliedraffin OR @thelightwithinpodcast3. Join my online community The Sanctuary. This is for you if you want to awaken your power & purpose through connecting with pleasure, healing your womb, embodying your divine feminine & expanding consciousness through mindful microdosing. JOIN HERE & GET ONE MONTH FREE WITH CODE: THELIGHTWITHIN4. Book a free 1:1 discovery call with me if you're ready to dive deeper BOOK A FREE 1-ON-1 CALL WITH LESLIE NOW 5. Download my free microdosing guide CLICK HERE( Includes: eBook & guided meditation. )

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This week's guest is Kimberly Fisher, who is a professional freelance travel writer, blogger, journalist, and on-camera host. In this episode, we discuss the below topics: - Relationship with NYC started with moving for a guy but staying for herself - Jumping and embracing the unknown and seeing obstacles as growth - Finding ways to reconnect with yourself when you're off track and prioritizing small quiet moments - Power of raising your vibe, prioritizing mindfulness and practicing gratitude -Putting end to the debate that that New Yorkers are rude and confirming that we are in fact very helpful and caring Feel free to leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode and be sure to share this with a friend. You can also email any questions or feedback to thecityconfessions@gmail.com ABOUT KIMBERLY FISHER: Kimberly Fisher is a professional freelance travel writer, blogger, journalist, and on-camera host. She specializes in lifestyle and luxury travel, including art, beauty, culture, destinations, fashion, food, fitness/wellness, events, hotels, lifestyle, sailing, sustainability, wine & spirits. Kimberly has over 600 articles published in 44 different outlets. She is currently a contributor to Pursuitist and JustLuxe. Her writing has appeared in print magazines like Food Wine Travel, Disarray, GC, Luxe Beat, NiteGuide, Ocean View, Play (Philippines), ReLiving Magazine and TravelWorld International. On the web, you can find clips at eHow, Elephant Journal, Examiner, Fetch, Huffington Post, Medium, JustLuxe, Luxury Lifestyle, Pursuitist, Sherman's Travel, The Daily Meal, The Upcoming, Travels.com, Style Blend and USA Today.She has been featured in Huffington Post, AMB Magazine, Breakaway Daily, Luxury Branded, and Showbiz Watch among others. Currently, she has traveled to 67 different countries and every US state except for The Dakotas. Some of Kimberly's favorite assignments have been participating in the Nevis regatta, staying the night at an ice hotel in Canada, bird watching on Anacapa Island, sailing the French Riviera, dog sledding in Charlevoix, and relaxing in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecityconfessions/support

HERE WE GO! This is Brandi Mechele; our Intuitive + Happiness Coach & Energy Healer. Her focus is working with successful women (entrepreneurs or not) who have reached "success" but don't feel fulfilled. Brandi has a deeply unique and tangible process to work through your blocks, obtain success and finally feel HAPPY. In this episode, we talk about: How can we be happy?What does it really mean to be happy?What does happiness mean to me?Everyone's different version of happiness How Brandi listened to the subtle call in her intuition instead of hitting rock bottomBrandi's unique program, B.A.S.EHow to respond when people say, "I just want you to be happy?" Why is it so easy to fall off track?How can we get back on track?WORK WITH BRANDIwww.brandimechele.com/thejoyblueprintwww.brandimechele.com/alexandrahttps://www.instagram.com/brandimechele/WORK WITH MEhttps://www.themodernmedium.co/BOOK REIKI HEREBOOK A PSYCHIC MEDIUMSHIP READING HERE BOOK SOUL PATH SESSIONS HEREBOOK A DISCOVERY CALL (YOU'RE MAGICAL AS F*CK, SERVICE, ETC.)BOOK 1:1 MENTORSHIP DISCOVERY CALLEMAIL ME HELLO@THEMODERNMEDIUM.CO TO SECURE YOUR SPOT FOR MAGICAL AS F*CK

Did you watch the Miss America pageant growing up? If you did, did you see anyone on the stage who looked like you? For many women, the answer to that question is “No”.  On today's episode, I have a conversation with Maria Cade. Maria is a beautiful, intelligent and curvy woman who is currently serving as Miss Butler County 2023. She shares with us about her experience in the Miss America organization and the work she is doing through her Miss America Community Service Initiative “Be V.I.S.I.B.L.E”, which focuses on representation and inclusion for all. I was so encouraged by my conversation with Maria, and I know you will be, too.  (Scroll down in the show notes to learn more about Maria and where you can connect with her on social media.)  Today's Episode Includes: My interview with Maria Cade Discussion of how the Miss America Organization has changed to become more inclusive of all body types Maria's advice for those struggling with self-confidence  Maria's community service initiative “Be V.I.S.I.B.L.E” How you can join me later this month for increasing peace this holiday season About Maria Cade Maria Cade is a native of New Castle, Pennsylvania and currently serves as Miss Butler County 2023. She works as a TV News Journalist for Central Pennsylvania's CBS Affiliate Station, WTAJ-TV News, Maria joined WTAJ in February 2022 as a multimedia journalist in the State College bureau. Maria is a 2021 graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied Media and Journalism as well as vocal performance. After graduating from UNC, Maria moved to New York City to work with ABC News as an intern for the third hour of Good Morning America. She brought community news to the national level, sharing stories highlighting people making a difference every day.  Through her Miss America Community Service Initiative, Be V.I.S.I.B.L.E., she advocates for representation and inclusion for all. By advocating for the amplification of underrepresented voices, Maria hopes to inspire the next generation to be empowered to succeed in any way they choose, no matter who they are or where they come from. Maria is teaching the leaders of tomorrow to embrace their unique qualities through this initiative. Connect with Maria Instagram: @MariaCadeTV & @MissButlerCounty2023 TikTok:@MariaCadeTV Facebook: @MariaCadeTV WANT MORE GOODNESS? Register for my Masterclass: From Grilling to Family Gatherings Join my Intuitive Health Reboot Group Coaching  Book a Free Call with me HERE Hang with me on Instagram  Join my Private Community on Facebook  Submit a Question you would like me to answer on the Podcast  Check out my website for full show notes and a transcript of this episode Email me at podcast@theintuitiveeatingmama.com to ask your questions about intuitive eating and my approach to body image work 

Are You Wrong About These Health Trends? – The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 183 with Kevin David Rail Kevin David Rail is a Fitness Nutrition Specialist with certifications through ACSM, ACE, NASM, and AFM, and he has a BS in Sport Management/Fitness and Wellness.  He has over 25 years in his field and is highly sought after. He has been featured in two critically acclaimed documentary films, Fasting and The Motivation Factor for his expertise as a health and fitness professional.  Kevin is the co-creator of My Inferno Body, a health and fitness app and has done content production, videos, reels, blogs, and exercise programs for such companies as ProLon, FastBlast Smoothie, Life Fitness, Livestrong.com, eHow.com, Wild Warrior Nutrition, and GarageFit. Kevin has helped thousands of people transform their lives and businesses through expertly designed fasting protocols, meal plans and training programs to maximize fat loss, strength, mobility, and brain function. He is also a barefoot runner, specialist and educator, and can be seen any warm summer morning running around town unshod. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, mountain biking, slacklining, playing music and training for his next physique competition.  Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Kevin David Rail about the validity of current health trends.  Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How you should be asking yourself how your workouts are going to benefit you outside of the gym. - Why getting outside sounds more fun and is more accessible to most people. - How cross body patterns train your core and your body more than traditional forms of working out. - Why it's important for people to enjoy the movements they are partaking in. - How even engaging in one different exercise a week can make a difference in your life. Connect with Kevin: Guest Contact Info Twitter@TrainerRail Instagram@fastingfitness_pro Facebookfacebook.com/kevin.rail LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/krail/%20 Links Mentioned:fastingforfitness.health   Connect with Steven: Website Xeroshoes.com Jointhemovementmovement.com Twitter@XeroShoes Instagram@xeroshoes Facebookfacebook.com/xeroshoes

"Mindful forgiveness is your mental decision to consciously choose to disempower the resentment by energetically releasing the incident from your thoughts, rendering it powerless so you can move forward for your inner peace, happiness and healing."Kelly BrowneFive-time best-selling author Kelly Browne joins Leah to discuss the power of mindful forgiveness. How can we do it? When should we do it? What's in the way of forgiving others, and ourselves?This conversation is meant to open your heart and your mind to what is possible in the next steps of your healing journey. Five time best-selling author, Kelly Browne is the go-to gratitude expert on thank-you note etiquette for adults and kids. She lives in Los Angeles, using social media to promote the “magic of gratitude" and "mindful forgiveness." Her advice has appeared in Parade, The Wall Street Journal, eHow, Tinyprints, and Jezebel—among many others—along with TV and podcast appearances. You can find more about her work here. Leah is the author of 3 self-care books translated into four languages, including Overcoming Toxic Emotions; A Practical Guide to Building Better Relationships with Yourself and Others. You can find more about her work here. Thanks for listening! Follow leah on IG, FB & TK @leahguylive for more!

Mindful forgiveness and paying attention to who we want to be in the world is essential to a healthy relationship with self and others. This episode tackles the topic of forgiveness and how to mindfully explore it through a different lens. Whether you are apologizing or asking for forgiveness, being mindful of your intention to create healing is key. Los Angeles native, Kelly Browne grew up in the entertainment industry, and attended California State University Northridge - School of Cinema and Television Arts, earning a Master of Arts degree in Communication/Screenwriting. She was awarded the Presidential Medal for Personal Achievement in Screenwriting working in various acting, production and development roles in the Entertainment Industry. Her credits include the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Glory, the Emmy-winning series, Moonlighting, Malcolm & Eddie as well as many others. Kelly is the go-to gratitude expert on thank-you note etiquette for adults and kids. She is also the author of the bestselling book series, 101 Ways to Say Thank You with her fifth book, 101 Ways to Create Mindful Forgiveness: A Heart Heart-Healing Guide to Forgiveness, Apologies, and Mindful Tools for Peace, already out now. Her advice has appeared in Parade, The Wall Street Journal, eHow, Tinyprints, and Jezebel—among many others—along with TV and podcast appearances. A mother of two, her mission is to spread the “magic of gratitude” and how to heal the heart with “Mindful Forgiveness.” What You'll Learn in This Episode: How a need for forgiveness is experienced in everyone How bitterness and grudge-holding gets in the way of forgiveness How to create mindful forgiveness in our lives The importance of finding joy in our lives Kelly's best-selling books and how she got started Links Mentioned in This Episode: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Linked In  

Nick, Jermaine, Eric and special guest Nevada close out the week with another mega edition of the podcast! This time up we have the NHL also wrapping their regular season play and getting ready for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The room discusses what they saw during the regular season, including award winners and discusses what they expect when the playoffs role around giving you some of their best teams to bet on. Communion with E: How much money would it take for you to do something weird? So come on down and step into the room.

It's been 2 years, 2 months, and 4 days under legitimate if stagnating, leadership. The Biden administration has knocked a few out of the part, but 2023 hasn't been super promising so far. Regardless, there's a lot of cool tech news and DJT wasn't arrested despite his prediction. Other Titles Considered Knee How Everybody Activated Mobilization PedoBytes Local Scabs 513 Special Show Links: The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E How a Single Democrat Stopped the Anti-Trans Wave https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/democrat-machaela-cavanaugh-stopped-anti-trans-nebraska-bill.html Idaho Republicans block free tampons for public school students https://boingboing.net/2023/03/23/idaho-republicans-block-free-tampons-for-public-school-students.html Lindsay Lohan and Jake Paul hit with SEC charges over crypto scheme https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65046882

We discuss how awful annual reviews can be.Our Christmas Song: Oh Bad EmployeeOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow Crazy are your anticsOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow Crazy are your anticsYou're never at, work on timeYou always leave, a mess behin'Oh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow Crazy are your anticsOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeAnswer our prayers and qu'itOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeAnswer our  prayers and qu'itYou make meetings, such a painWhen all you do, is complainOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeAnswer our prayers and qu'itOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeTake your drama elsewhereOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeTake your drama elsewhereYou're the one, who stirs the potBut a clue, you have notOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeTake your drama elsewhereOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeYou think you know it a'allOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeYou think you know it a'allYou get butt hurt o'er everythingWhen you leave, all will singOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeYou think you know it a'allOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow dumb can you be-eOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow dumb can you be-eHow the hell did you get hiredI cant wait to say that you are firedOh Bad Employee, Oh Bad EmployeeHow dumb can you be-eSupport the showWant to:* Share a dumb employee question* Share a crazy story* Ask us a question* Share a best practice * Give us feedback Our Link Tree below has links to our social media sites, Patreon, Apple podcasts, Spotify & more.Please leave a review on your favorite podcast player and interact with us online!Linktree - https://linktr.ee/jadedhr

Two years after its onset, the world's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic will be generational event studied for years. It is a reminder that tail risk events happen more frequently than we think. Pandemics have been a feature (not a bug?) throughout the American experience. POLLY PRICE's new book sheds light on the US government's response to epidemics throughout history- with larger conclusions about COVID-19 and reforms needed for the next plague. Polly J. Price is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and is also Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. A public health law scholar as well as a legal historian and citizenship and immigration law expert, she has published, lectured, and taught widely about immigration and citizenship, public health law and regulatory policy, federalism, property rights, and the judiciary. (She also had the "joy" of having me in her Legal Methods class when I was at Emory Law!) Her new book: PLAGUES IN THE NATION https://www.amazon.com/Plagues-Nation-Epidemics-Shaped-America-ebook/dp/B09CD2WDFC/ A) Tell us about your background B) What prompted you to write the book? C) A quick rundown of America's Pandemic History 1 America's First Plagues2 Yellow Fever and the Shotgun Quarantine3 Black Death on the West Coast4 The 1918 Great Influenza5  Confronting Tuberculosis6 The Fight Against Polio7 The AIDS Epidemic8 Ebola in Dallas9 A Coronavirus Pandemic D) How do you evaluate America's efforts with COVID? E) How did the speed of information affect efforts?  The Global nature of the spread? F) Federalism- What did we learn about the interaction between the Federal Government and State Government Responses? F) What should we do differently?  What are the lessons learned? G) How do we stay in touch? PROF. POLLY PRICE's BIO POLLY's TWITTER PLAGUESINTHENATION.COM https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Actually-Intelligent-Decision-Making-1-ebook/dp/B07FPQJJQT/

Greetings, this was a difficult podcast for me to produceAs I was finalizing my Journey to Healing program, once again, for six week I dealt with this nagging sense  that my mother, the woman who gave birth to me, was dying.   She died last week and I don't know how to grieve.I hadn't seen or spoken to her since 2007. I spent two long hurtful weeks in 2007 with her. She was in early stages of Alzheimer's yet she was still controlling, lethal,  and master of manipulation.I hadn't seen in at least 10 years prior to the  painful 2007 debacleI'm 73 years old and the most intimate one on one time I spent with her was the 10-11 hours she was in labor with me. If I combine  all the minutes, hours,  days, weeks, and months of my 73 years  together, the most we spent 3 years of pure hell, of constantly being reminded she abandoned, rejected, and bragging that she never changed my diapers or feed me.How do I grieve for a woman who  the one and only time time she had to sign a permission slip for me to go on a filed trip, ask me how did I spell Theresa with a H or EHow do I grieve for a woman who as a small child I craved for her to look at me, to comb my hair, to touch me, to kiss me to do the things I saw my friend's mothers do.  I wanted  her to know my favorite cookies were oatmeal raisin, my favorite color was blue, and praise me for being in a gifted program at  small.  For the first 14 years of my life we lived with 3 blocks of each other and  we ignored each other.  I stop calling her Mama by the age of 9, she was just Jeri, a woman I refused to speak to.How do I grieve for a woman who had no problem rejecting me, who would when speaking of her daughters she would tell me, not you, she only considered two younger sisters as her daughters.As I child I longed for her, to see, her, to have her touch, hold, kiss or even acknowledge me in some form of kindness. At best she grunted at meThere is no pain greater  than  living your entire life as a Motherless Child.It makes you doubt everything about yourself. What was so wrong with me that own mother didn't want me.This is a woman who handed me over to my father, a pedophile. This  man  screwed or attempted to screw   four Willard girls and women.  He  married the eldest, attempted to rape the middle sister, had transactional  sex with my 14 year old mother for a coat, and at 14 he began raping me.  She willingly handed me over to him to do with me as he pleased.The results, he raped me for 3.5 years and impregnated me with my eldest son.How am I grieving, I'm not, all I feel is numbness 

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NannyCast 45: Holiday Bonus Gifts // download or play episode // subscribe to NannyCast //Show Notes and Resources:Gay Wise of Wise Financial (WF001) // https://youtu.be/gJ_IRWzQ3iwSamantha F (EHow001) // https://youtu.be/241mkUR0OukHR Over Coffee (HR360) // https://youtu.be/oKyaLYMc5FoAlex S (CPA001) // https://youtu.be/-cV6o_Te6METhe Jill on Money Podcast (DGT) // https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/jill-on-money-with/what-to-do-with-bonus-fDn39_pYyBv/NannyCast 22: Employee (mis) Classification // https://nannycast.com/post/184389227001/nannycast-22-employee-mis-classification-am-iIRS Publication 525 // https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-525Facebook Post Soliciting Questions // https://www.facebook.com/NannyCast/posts/5027126464004940Transcript:(CPA001 cold open)If this sounds like you, first, happy holidays. Wait, but NannyCast episodes are evergreen. How did we know that you are listening to this around the holidays? Because of the topic of course! Today's episode is all about that holiday bonus … or is it a gift?As with so many of our financially related episodes, this one is only truly applicable to nannies working in the United States of America. If you are working in a different country, you are going to have to ask your tax professional about how your country approaches additional compensation at the holiday season and so we'll see you in the next episode.For the rest of us, let's proceed on! For that cold open you heard …(CPA001 introduction of self)Also on this episode are going to be the voices of …(WF001 introduction of self)(Ehow introduction of self)(HR360 introduction of self)(DGT introduction of self)… as well as computer-voiced questions sent in by our listeners. To find out about our open calls for questions, you will need to follow our Facebook page over at Facebook dot com slash NannyCast and make sure not just to like the page but to set it to show posts in your feed. We don't post often, less than once every two months, but when we do it is always something to pay attention to.(Question 1 by Nanny A)Unfortunately not. If you remember back to Episode 22 on Employee (mis) Classification, we learned that despite what we want to tell ourselves, the IRS usually has some pretty stringent rules about things. Well, the same applies here too. By the way, if you haven't heard Episode 22, there will be a link to that in our show notes over at NannyCast dot com or hopefully appearing in the app that you use to listen to podcasts; give it listen.According to the US Department of Labor and the IRS, whose sources are cited in the show notes, any payment made in addition to the employee's regular earnings is a bonus. (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/56c-bonuses)(HR360 clip introducing bonuses.)And further …(HR360 clip about bonuses being a gift)… employee bonuses are always taxable to employees as an employee benefit, no matter how or when they are paid. (https://www.thebalancesmb.com/giving-employee-bonuses-know-the-tax-implications-397631)(bonuses have tax implications for the giver and receiver @ HR360)(bonuses are taxed no differently than regular salary @ CPA001)(nowhere in IRS codes that say bonuses are cheaper tax or tax free @ CPA001)(uncle sam doesn't care whether your income was a bonus or a base salary @ CPA001)“If you are paid your holiday bonus in a separate check from your regular pay, your employers should be withholding a flat 22% .” (https://www.thebalancesmb.com/giving-employee-bonuses-know-the-tax-implications-397631)(Question 2 by Nanny N)Sad news Nanny N. This one is going to also be taxed even though it isn't cash.(IRS Publication 525 rules on all gifts from employers whether they are taxable or not @ EHow001)(why the IRS cares @ EHow001)Did you hear her just mention gift certificates? Yeah. That's in the IRS's Publication 525 which we will link to in the show notes of this episode.(so many things about the tax code don't make sense @ DGT)But there is hope.(nominal gifts are not taxable @ Ehow001)(de minimus fringe benefits aren't taxable @ HR360)What on earth is a “nominal” or “de minimus” gift, anyway?(explain what “nominal value” means to make EHow001 make sense // actually a clip in the sound file so roll with it @ EHow001)(if we receive $100 in money that's a taxable benefit @ WF001)So cash is taxable, a bonus, and not a gift. A gift certificate is taxable, a bonus, and not a gift. And anything that can be easily converted to cash – whatever that means – is taxable, a bonus, and not a gift. That eliminates a lot of what is usually gratitude-posted to the nanny support networks. However, we did get this very interesting question from an employer who listens to our show, and yes employers, we know you are part of the listening audience:(Question 3 by Margaret)(and I can answer that question for you @ WF001)(there are many ways to give a gift to employees @ WF001)(for meals only allowed to comp $100 of food and drink combined per employee but tax deductible as a business expense for employer (WF001) and employee doesn't have to report as taxable income)(can have six such (above listed) events per year @ WF001)So that means our employers can spend up to $100 for NNRW and $100 for our nannyversary and $100 for nanny's birthday and still have 2 other meals that are fully tax deductible to our employers and also not going to cost us anything in taxes. Sweet!(we can get a nice gift worth up to $500 per year so long as it isn't a taxable benefits type gift such as a gift certificate without having to pay taxes on it @ WF001)(can receive a “long service award” of up to $500 but only every five years @ WF001)Pardon the music overtaking the end of the aforementioned words, but that is the way the audio came.(if you are going to get a gift from your employer, food is the way to go @ EHow001)(the gift of time @ HR360)Let's talk now about those bummer posts on the nanny support networks where a nanny was looking forward to or counting on a holiday bonus, as we now know the cash payment to be, and the employers don't pay one that year. The following audio is provided for employers, but it helps us to know what their best practices are.(what parents should do if they aren't going to give a bonus @ HR360)So that tells us that we can completely ignore the advice to be grateful for any bonuses we do receive and so not mind the leaner years. We are fully entitled to our feelings of ingratitude if we aren't compensated as usual, especially if it happens without communication from our employers. To anyone saying to suck it up, send them to this NannyCast episode … number 45 for reference.(Question 4 by Nanny E)(Jill on Money Podcast gives places to spend a bonus for someone without sufficient savings. @ DGT)That previous audio came from the Jill on Money podcast which introduced themselves at the top of the show. Their podcast is entirely financial advice so if this portion didn't help you, you can always write in to them to get your own personalized advice.(our email address is @ DGT)And we are out of questions and material for this episode. If you would like to get in touch with us to have a robot read out your anonymous question, head over to NannyCast dot com and click on contact us and type in your question anonymously. If you have a question and are brave enough to use your own voice, then the Send a Soundbite is the option for you.(wash your hands @ DGT)We look forward to seeing you next time with our next episode that is more useful Nanny Human Resources material. And happy holidays. All of them. Every single holiday. May they all be happy for you.

You've heard of branding and marketing and sales. But have you heard of micro-weirding? Well, buckle up because that's what we're diving into today. Have you ever stopped to think about how you decide where you're going to spend your money? Yes, a special eye-catching graphic or creative reel may lead you to discover a new brand. But more than likely, this weekend you're checking out the deals from companies you already know and support. How did that happen? How did they get on your favorite list? And even more importantly, how can you get on other people's favorite list? It happens through a strategy called Micro-weirding. Spoiler alert – it is like concocting a potion that magnetically attracts sales. Yep – you definitely want to make your business Micro-Weird. Denise is CEO and co-founder of The S3 Agency, a creative agency specializing in Brand Elevation. She's worked with clients like BMW of North America and Eight O'Clock Coffee. A self-proclaimed "battler of boring branding," Denise believes that differentiated brand positioning is critical to sustainable sales growth – because when marketing is rooted in this positioning, customers make decisions based on differentiation vs. lowest price. Denise is an inductee in the Advertising Hall of Fame of New Jersey and has won hundreds of awards for her creativity. Beyond agency life, she spends as much time traveling and experiencing the world with her husband and teenage son as possible. How To Use Micro-Weirding Give people a reason to give you their https://giftbizunwrapped.com/episodes/email-marketing-process (email). Get that valuable connection through the value of what you offer. Customers want a  personal connection with the person behind the brand. Have a pillar of authenticity that's relevant to your audience. Don't always define yourself by price. https://giftbizunwrapped.com/episodes/emotional-branding-for-small-business (Branding) isn't what you tell people.  It's how you change their minds about what you sell. Creating a differentiated brand will attract people willing to pay more and give you a competitive advantage. If you don't have a brand you're just a commodity (examples: Starbucks, Apple). Communicate to people why you're different and better. Find many ways to connect with your audience that are differentiating and meaningful for your sales. If you make something many others make, differentiate by going ALL IN on something different and unexpected. It can be whatever you want as long as you're consistent with it.

WE ARE BACK!! After a bit of a hiatus (September-October), we're starting to record episodes again and making big plans for 2022. Meet Jocelyn Rivas, the new Guinness World Record Holder for Being the Youngest Person to Run 100 Marathons, as of November 2021! We have been following Jocelyn's journey for a while now, and are so excited to welcome her on the show. Questions we ask Jocelyn include: - You have quite the list of accomplishments, including setting the Guinness World Record for the youngest person to run 100 marathons! What are you most proud of yourself for accomplishing? - What sparked interest to work in the STEM / computer science field?- E - How did you get started in running? - What has running and the community taught you? - What are areas of the running community/sport that you'd like to see change? - Along your 100 marathon journey, what were some of the highlights? Low points? -With having 30 marathons canceled during the pandemic, how did you adjust and adapt to continue to meet your goal before your 25th birthday? - What was one of the best races that you ran during your 100 marathon journey? - What's a race you hope to run in the future? - Is there any advice you would give your younger self? - What does being a Strong Runner Chick mean to you? Connect with Jocelyn: @joselinthewarrior on Instagram! Like this episode? Please share and follow us @strongrunchicks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/strong-runner-chicks/support

About NatalieNatalie is the Director of Marketing at the Duckbill Group. Her background includes marketing roles in the localization and SaaS industries. In her free time, she teaches yoga, creates beadwork, and tries to keep up with her toddler. All of which impacts how she approaches growth and storytelling. Natalie resides in Missoula, Montana with her husband, daughter, and two wild corgisLinks:Twitter: https://twitter.com/natveiswilliams TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part my Cribl Logstream. Cirbl Logstream is an observability pipeline that lets you collect, reduce, transform, and route machine data from anywhere, to anywhere. Simple right? As a nice bonus it not only helps you improve visibility into what the hell is going on, but also helps you save money almost by accident. Kind of like not putting a whole bunch of vowels and other letters that would be easier to spell in a company name. To learn more visit: cribl.ioCorey: And now for something completely different!Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Periodically, it seems that I've misunderstood the fundamental concept of marketing and interpret it through a lens of aggressively shitposting on Twitter and other places. I have since been informed that what I do is less about marketing and more about creative stunts in public, which are apparently close, but not exactly the same thing. This led to a natural evolution of the Duckbill Group's understanding of what marketing is, and effectively culminated in our hiring, earlier this year, of Natalie Williams, who joins me today to tell me what a Director of Snarketing might actually do that differs from my ridiculous nonsense. Natalie, thanks for joining me.Natalie: Thanks, Corey. It's great to be here.Corey: At a high level, something that is one of the most misunderstood concepts across the board is what marketing even is. So, before we proceed down the barrel of inevitable, ridiculous commentary I'm about to levy at you, what is marketing?Natalie: Marketing is a way to attract the audience that you're looking for and to frame your services, your content, whatever you're selling, to your audience in a way that makes sense to them. And I think that another piece of it that's important is, everybody has a pain point; you really have to be able to find the emotion behind what you're selling in order to attract your audiences.Corey: So, fundamentally an authenticity story more than anything else.Natalie: Yeah, it's finding that—yeah, the authenticity in what you're selling, and meeting your audience with their pain point.Corey: So, many times, it seems like the next follow-up question for most companies would be, “Great. So, what emotion is it exactly where people reflexively reach for their wallet and hand all the cash in it to our company?” It tries to be combined with aspects of sales; it tries to, on some level, wind up doing the entire job, in some cases of not even having a decent offering in the first place, but if the marketing story is strong enough, it'll sell. Is that overly cynical?Natalie: I don't think so. I think that marketing, it's challenging in this time, we have so many options, so many choices there, our attention spans are so short. And so I don't think it's cynical because there's a lot of noise to cut through, and I think what's important is to think of your audience as—or what you're selling to your audience in a way that, how can I make their lives easier? I think that's what's going to, like you said, get people to pull the money out of their pocket and give it to you. What can you do to make their life easier and how can you show them that what you're selling is going to make their life easier?Corey: There's a recurring trope that engineers, developers, whatever we're calling ourselves this week—anything except DevOps is fine—that we don't like marketing because no one likes being marketed to et cetera, et cetera. And I feel like that, in many cases, is because most marketing is terrible at its job. It comes across as smarmy: if I were to talk to people in person the way that marketing talks to people, I'd get punched in the mouth a lot. And I feel that is not an accurate view. It's almost like looking at salespeople through the lens of the worst experience you've ever had buying a used car. And I feel like by judging an entire field by some of its worst examples, people are prone to prematurely dismiss a very challenging field.Natalie: Absolutely, I think that it's very easy to pick out that dishonesty, like you said, the slimy marketing sales tactic that just feels, it feels like it's too much. I think people are very, very good at being able to see that. It's like the spam that you get in your email or your LinkedIn direct messages. It's just this constant barrage of tactics to try and tell you what you need without actually getting to know what you need, what you're looking for, and how it can help you. So, I think there are a lot of those tactics that really give marketing and sales I think, too, a bad name.An easy way to cut through that is just to be human about what you're doing. Think of your audience as human beings and not just a target or a persona that isn't a real person. And so I think, like you said earlier, the authenticity piece of it; it's not difficult to… well, I don't think it's difficult to be human. I think it's easier to take the emotion out of it and just try and put a sales pitch or a marketing pitch together that hits on all the points of the services you provide, and, you know, “I'm so great, and this is what we do,” without being able to talk to the people that you're marketing to as the humans that they are.Corey: It feels almost like I became a marketing person of sorts without ever intending to. When I started this company as an independent consultant, I was finding my initial source of clients to my personal network, as most small independent consultants do. And one thing that almost came by accidentally was that newsletter, Last Week in AWS, that took on an additional series of—it gets a different level of meaning to the ecosystem, and it turned out, sort of, growing like a weed. At which point, great, now it turns out that is marketing, although I didn't realize it at the time. And at least from my perspective, I didn't consider it marketing, which meant that I built it the way that I would want to receive things because, as it turned out, I was a relatively close match to the people that I was going to be emailing every week.And as a result, I didn't do a bunch of scammy nonsense that would alienate people; there's never any tracking put into it in the form of, “Oh, if you click on a link, that implies that you're going to be interested in what I'm selling. We're now going to fire off drip campaign number 17.” We stepped away from a lot of that because I've been on the receiving end of it, and it always rings hollow and strange. When we were interviewing to fill your role, we made it a point very early in the interview process to make clear that, yeah, this is not going to be one of those scenarios where you walk in and effectively get to instrument everything with all of the latest marketing technology and the rest. Okay, yeah, we have a list now of almost 27,000 subscribers.We don't mine that for leads. Now, should we? Maybe in an idealized sense, but it turns out that the reputational management of people trusting us not to do skeezy things far outweighs any temporary benefit we get from doing things like that. Now, that wound up driving an awful lot of people away, which is why we mentioned this in the early stages; it didn't drive you away. You decided to say yes; you actually showed up on Monday for your first day, and then continued to show up every day since. What was it about, I guess, that statement that would drive some folks that we spoke to away, but it wasn't a deal-breaker for you?Natalie: I remember clearly that part of the interview, and I remember it feeling like a bit of a breath of fresh air. I think that when you get into all the tech, all the marketing tools, there is that trade-off of losing a little bit of that human touch with your audience where all of a sudden they're not humans, they turn into data points, they turn into the demographics about themselves. And all of that stuff is important and has a role, but when you lose that personal connection of the storytelling piece of it and you're just driven on a lot of these metrics, which I think it's very easy to almost paralyze yourself by looking at too many metrics and getting all this set of data versus just what are the most important pieces? What does our audience need? And you know that by knowing your audience, and so I think that's why it was such a good point when you talked about, you know, you didn't really know you were doing marketing, but you were having success with it because you were doing it in a way that was genuine to your mission and to your audience, and you weren't doing it with the intent of how do I get X number of subscribers?You were doing it in a way of how do I provide something that I think is beneficial to people like me. You had that pain point and you filled that pain point, and it resonated with your audience. And so, yeah, in the interview, when we were talking about those things, I just—it excited me to be able to have that connection with my audience and not be so focused on the data and the intel. Which, I'm not the kind of person that wants everybody to know every single thing that I do online anyway. I think that some of those tactics are, quite frankly, a little bit terrifying. So, knowing that wasn't a push of knowing every single thing that you could possibly know about all of your audience was something that was very refreshing to me.Corey: One of the things I built fairly early on was my own custom click-tracker because sponsors demand this, on some level, but I also found it useful for my own purposes in the aggregate. Specifically what I built is something that shows me the number of people that click on a given link in a particular issue, but it doesn't tell me who any of those people were. It dedupes it, so it isn't one person clicking a link 500 times winds up inflating the count, but that was as far as I went. And I use that data to periodically put together a best-of issue when there's a slow week, when Amazon, I don't know, winds up in a super-contentious company-wide argument about what is the absolute worst name to give something, and then there's not a whole lot of releases that week.Great. I can go back and highlight things that people found interesting and useful in the past because no one reads everything, and even if I've talked about it before, it's new to someone. And that took a surprising amount of work because every time I would talk about what I was building with folks in the space it was, “But yeah, then don't you want to track the people who click it as they move through your website, and as they wind up moving across the internet so you can start putting them into cohorts and the rest?” And no. First, I don't have the patience to wind up doing that sort of tracking; I don't speak Excel that fluently.And also, it's somewhat marginal as far as the ability to improve any meaningful business outcome. We don't tend to manage by a whole bunch of iron metrics here around things like that. When I wind up doing ridiculous stunts, like a music video making fun of some Amazon exec or whatnot, I do it because I think it'd be funny and it will probably resonate, but there's no business case behind it. It's, “Ehh, why not? Worst case, we learn something.” And I get the sense, talking to folks, that is increasingly rare.Natalie: I think it is, too, but I like the approach. I think the click-through rate, what's important there is the success of your content. If people are clicking through it, your content is resonating. And I think that people really underestimate people's ability to decide if they want to move forward and reach out to become a customer or go further down in the funnel. I think people are pretty smart.Just because they clicked on a link, you don't need to berate them with 15 more touchpoints to say, “Hey, are you ready to make this purchase? Are you ready for this?” I mean, all of these things, people can get there, and if you frame your funnel in a way that makes it easy for them to get to point A and point B, really shouldn't have to have that much involvement in their journey. And some marketing people might not agree with me on that, but I think as long as you make it easy for them to get what they need, to find what they need, to learn as much as they can about your service before they purchase, you don't need to have all of those touchpoints, you don't need to know that they clicked on all of these things. And I think, too, as a user, if I know that if I click on a link, I'm going to get a barrage of emails selling a service if I'm not ready for it, it's going to make me hesitate to click a link.And so I think that that approach is just a more user-friendly approach, and it really just makes the experience of the user that much more smooth knowing that there's kind of a mutual trust there. I'll let you know when I'm ready and you can help me get there, but don't try and do it for me.Corey: The piece that I've always found surprising was that everyone talks in the ad tech space as if without this data, our businesses will wither and die on the vine. But the ability to track people as they move across the internet and go through their lives is a relatively recent horrible invention. Companies existed and sold goods and services phenomenally well for millennia before the advent of any of these things. And does it improve around margins? Of course, it does; I'm not saying the industry is built on fraud. I'm just saying that it winds up making a trade-off that I'm not comfortable making myself, and therefore I'm unwilling to ask my audience members to make similar trade-offs themselves.Natalie: Yeah. And it's like, at what point do you get to be too much, where you know too much about your audience? And like I said before, people are smart; we don't need constant advertisements across all of these platforms to remind us of something we thought about or we looked about. I mean, it's good; there's certainly a time and a place to have a reminder come through or be retargeted in a way that isn't creepy, but I mean, it's those things where I think about something and all of a sudden I see an ad, those still freak me out, so I think that people don't need this over-advertised approach to make a purchase. Like you said, people have been purchasing things for a very long time, and I think that people are capable, people are smart, people know where they're at in the journey better than, really, anybody else.And so there is a time and a place for it, but there is also—it seems to be moving in too much information, too much interruption in people's lives and it is certainly—yeah, if I don't want it, I'm certainly not going to—or if I don't want to be targeted that way, I'm not going to do it to anybody else either.Corey: Turns out there's an entire seedy underbelly to the web, and as soon as you have a website that has a little bit of traction, you wind up getting exposed to countless piles of spam about it. There's the standard SEO stuff of how to optimize your results in search engines. I have this ancient approach that seems to serve me pretty well, which is, I write fun, engaging original content and then put it on the website, and then it sort of takes over from there. I don't write with an eye towards, “Well, use the following phrase more than 20 times but less than 50 in the course of the next month.” It's, “no.”But then you wind up with folks guaranteeing, “Oh, use us for search engine optimization,” which I always think is the weirdest pitch because let's face it, if I want someone to do my search engine optimization work, wouldn't you think I would just type the word search engine optimization into Google and then click the number one result? Seems like they have the proof and no one else would. But there's also this sea of folks asking if they can pay me to put a guest blog post on the website. And the answer is no. When we have guest blog posts—usually on Fridays—that comes from people that we pay to write them.It's not some random thing that's only tangentially tied to what we do but includes a suspicious number of links to some other third-party website. It doesn't make sense for me to just start devaluing the experience of the reader like that. I try to be as respectful of people's time as I can be when it comes to content creation.Natalie: Right. And I think I'm becoming a broken record on this point, but I will say it again: people are smart; they can see through those tactics. And yes, there are certain things that will help your content rank better: where you put your keywords, having a title and a meta description, and all those things are important, but at the end of the day you need to write for your audience and not for the search engines. They're getting smarter, right, the search engines are getting smarter, but they are still not the humans and so if you overstuff your keywords, if you put in a bunch of links, it's going to look like you're doing it solely for the search engine and people will see that, they'll recognize that, and they won't value your content because they will feel like they're being sold to. And they won't get what they need out of it; they won't see it as a thought leader that's genuinely producing content in order to help inform them and it'll be devalued.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: It's disturbing in some ways to see the number of companies losing their collective minds [unintelligible 00:16:29] there's a Google algorithm change, and suddenly, as a web browser myself—as in the person, not the software—when suddenly I'm no longer seeing a bunch of eHow links or whatnot dominating search results, or the godawful Experts Exchange site for a while where they would pretend to have a paywall, but scroll down far enough and they have the full text of the thing to keep within Google's rules. And Google got better at these things with time. If a single change to a search engine algorithm can destroy your business, I wonder how sustainable business is in the long term.Natalie: Right. And I think that, like you said, it's—I mean, it's a game, right, and the game constantly changes, it constantly involves. The search engines are getting smarter, but if you just try and constantly keep up with the rules of the game in that way, you're going to lose because it's just going to be a constant change. I think the most important thing is to just show up consistently and write good content. I mean, when SEO became a thing, if you put in five million keywords, you're going to rank well, but it's not any value.And so if your intent is just to always produce good content, be aware of the rules of the game and apply them when it makes sense to, and figure out what the ones that are most important to you are, you will do well, but it's just that consistently showing up, producing good content, and having your readers in mind is what's going to help you go forward. If you're just focused on the algorithms and making it fit in that, it's going to look that way and you're never going to be able to catch up.Corey: For me, the big indicator that I'm doing something right is periodically, because it is a collection of links, I'll link to some site that has some sort of attack malware on it, usually from an ad network that was compromised somewhere—surprise; it's just a thing that happens—and as a result, some companies will start blocking it or will start putting it in the spam folder. And when you wind up with larger outside spam folks reaching out to you because of the number of complaints they're getting from their customers about it being blocked, that's my indication that we're probably doing something kind of right, as opposed to it being incumbent on us to track that down from our side.Natalie: Yeah. And like I said before, I mean, the users know what—they also know the rules of the game, too, right? Or they're at least aware of it, and so they can recognize that. But like I said, it's just having the goal of informing your audience and producing good content that you know is going to resonate with your audience. It's just a smart way to go. I mean, having the user in mind always, and not it as a way to see them as just a dollar sign or a number, but knowing how can I really help them learn about this topic or share what I know, is going to always benefit.Corey: The piece that I think resonates in some respects as well is what I'll periodically do even on this podcast, where it's, I will ask people about what they're good at and listen to the answer, and then ask follow-up questions. It's not exactly a pioneering technique; it's just storytelling. And for whatever reason, it seems that marketing—the way I view it—is always tied back to storytelling. It's about understanding who your audience is for anything that you're working on, understand what action you want them to take. Maybe it is to fix their S3 bucket permissions.Maybe it's to reach out and ask me about AWS bill consulting. Whatever it is, understand who the audience is and what the expected outcome is, and then just tell a story around that. It's not that compellingly difficult, but for some reason, it seems like it's the most novel thing in the world to some companies. I always equated marketing with storytelling. Is that rare? Am I wrong on something?Natalie: Not in my book. I mean, that's how I think about it as well, too. I think that some companies get so focused on talking about themselves, and this is what we do and this is why we're the best. But they miss that storytelling piece of it of why it matters to the audience. You can talk about your company until you're blue in the face, but if you don't connect it to your audience, they aren't going to know how it helps them.And maybe you have a service that they don't know that they need yet, but by producing content and telling them a story of how what you're doing is going to make their lives easier, you're going to resonate with them. I mean, that's why people look for services: because they have a problem. And maybe it's not identified, or they don't know how to fix it, but if you frame your content in a way that takes them through a journey of, this is where you're at, this is how we can help you and then—or this can ask, how can you make your life better, and this is where you'll be at the end of it, it's going to resonate with your audience. And so yeah, I think that if you're focused on shouting the benefits without connecting it to the emotion of why it matters, it's going to come across that way. And so I think, yeah, storytelling, having the audience, their perspective, who they are, what they need, and telling the story in a way that is a good experience for them, is always the way to go.Corey: For whatever reason, it seems like the folks that are the worst offenders of that tend to be the big cloud companies themselves, where, “Okay, here's a service we built.” “Great, how am I going to use that to solve an actual business problem that I have?” “Next up, we have a guest speaker from Netflix to tell us what they did with it.” “Cool. Maybe I have problems that don't look like Netflix-scale problems, maybe I'm just trying to contextualize this thing that you've released with the 200 other things that you have, and figure out what component that will replace, or extend, or what feature it will grant inside of my existing environment. Or even if it's something new, it'll give me ideas for different directions to move things in.”And they never do that. They talk about features, they talk about capabilities, they talk about how innovative they are, and they just completely abdicate the entire role of telling a compelling story around this. I mean, Jeff Barr's blog posts are a terrific counterexample to this. I think it's the only time that AWS actually tells a story of, “I'm going to set out to build this thing to do this. Here's how I do it, and here's how it works.”And it's incredibly engaging, it has a distinct voice—because Jeff has a personality and can express that personality—and I get the sense, at times, he's the only person at Amazon allowed to do that. Everyone else just winds up falling into these same somewhat tired tropes of, “Here's a bunch of feature announcements.” The release feed doesn't even let you include images, so wind up—people trying to describe the layout of a new console page to you. And it just doesn't resonate or make sense. I mean, half the value of building the audience that I have is, whenever something comes out, people's immediate question for me is—they'll tell me that it's out by, “Can you explain this to me because Amazon, once again, has failed to do so.” I didn't show up here, due to the express purpose of being the de facto head of AWS marketing; it just kind of happened because functionally, it feels like it's a pretty empty seat.Natalie: Yeah, and I think that those are all really important points because they put out all this information about their services and their features, but they don't complete the cycle to say how it affects the user, how they would use it, and so it's like you're not finishing the race there. And so you also have to acknowledge that you might target a similar set of companies, so maybe you're targeting a bunch of companies in one space, but everybody's pain points are going to be a little bit different, so if your audience can't relate to how you're implement—or how you're telling them to implement a service or a feature, they're not going to feel that. And so you have to tell your audience how what you're doing is going to improve their life, but also doing it in a way that is going to apply to them. And so that's part of understanding your audience and understanding the different pain points associated with each of your target audiences. And so that's why it's important to have some of those intel on your audience, but finding out a way to resonate it across all of the companies that you target and make it relatable is what's going to be success.Corey: It's always strange to me that when we talk to sponsors who are—they want to wind up telling people about, great, I try to have conversations with them; imagine that? And understand, okay, how does this differentiate from, for example, an AWS service that does something very similar? And the answer is often, “Wait, that's a real thing that exists?” If people in that market aren't aware that there's an AWS release that does the thing that they do, what hope do customers have? None.Natalie: Right.Corey: It feels like it's not just a matter of will AWS launch a service that competes with you it's, will they do an even passable job of telling a story around it so people know it exists? They tend to do everything very frugally, which means that they can release things that are competing with, in some cases, many billion-dollar companies out there. And great, okay, so you've got a 60-person team or whatnot, trying to compete with a company with a $30 billion valuation. Yeah, my money is on not Amazon for stuff like this, until they start trying to do things that reek of anti-competitive acts. I'm not super worried about Amazon as a competitor for a lot of these upstart services.Natalie: Yeah. And I think another thing, too, that you touched on was having conversations with your audience and really understanding how they are perceiving what you're selling. I think if you get caught up in, “This is what we're going to push; this is how we're going to say it; this is what we're going to do,” but you don't have that touchpoint of how are they perceiving it, are they aware of this? There's a big missed opportunity there. Because if something's not working, there's a disconnect; there's a miscommunication. So, being able to have some kind of engagement with your audience, where you're surveying them, or whatever, to see how their perception of what you're selling is vital in shaping your marketing story.Corey: You really would think that this wouldn't be anywhere near as challenging as it has clearly become.Natalie: Mm-hm.Corey: But here we are.Natalie: And I think people, they try and make things more complicated, I think, from time to time. I think that just going back to the reason why you're selling things: the reason why you're providing a service is to help your audience fill a need, hit a pain point. And so I think that it can certainly get over complicated quickly and you can forget, really, the mission behind a lot of what you're doing.Corey: I wish more people shared your viewpoint. I guess, so far, all we can do is set a good example and hope the rest of the industry follows us wherever we're going.Natalie: Right. And I mean, you know, like I said, there's always kind of moving in that direction of a lot of tech, a lot of these big things that are supposed to make your life easier in marketing, but I think it'll always come back to the audience, it'll always come back to the storytelling, it'll always come back to the user experience. And so, it's just riding the waves, and seeing what's going to happen, and how things evolve. Because marketing and everything, it's just a constant keeping track of the trends and the evolution of it.Corey: And it never seems to hold still. If people want to hear more about what you're up to and how you think about these things, where can they find you?Natalie: You can find me on Twitter at @natveiswilliams.Corey: I will, of course, put a link to that in the [show notes 00:27:31]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me.Natalie: Yep, Thanks, Corey. This was wonderful. I really enjoyed it.Corey: Natalie Williams, Director of Snarketing here at the Duckbill Group. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an insulting comment telling me exactly which features on the checklist this episode should have had instead, phrased in the worst way possible.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need the Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

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LindaJoy Rose, PhD is a therapist, author, professional speaker, international trainer, and Academy founder with over 25 years of experience. The author of eight books, she was a regular Healthy Living contributor to The Huffington Post and has frequently starred as a Healthy Living Expert on eHow.com and Tampa NBC affiliate Daytime TV. As a former Director of International Development for the American Board of Hypnotherapy, she is a pioneer in subconscious dynamics and clinical hypnotherapy worldwide.. She also spearheaded a healthy lifestyle retraining program with an Astra-Zeneca Foundation grant at one of the nation's largest clinics. Dr. Rose developed her practical and delicious eating philosophy to overcome a debilitating auto-immune disorder, which she combined with her background in psychology to launch the Academy's coaching program. "From training therapists internationally in the fields of psychology and hypnotherapy to being an online mentor for two West Coast Universities, to founding the Natural Wellness Academy, teaching has always been my passion. I enjoy nothing more than informing and inspiring prospective coaches and therapists."  She resides in Tampa, Florida and currently working on her 9th book – this time a metaphysical, historical novel. __________________________ In this episode of the RTTW Podcast, we explore to understand Subconcious Dynamics, Hynosis & Hypnotherapy and it's role in Past Life Regression work.  Subconscious dynamics are simple procedures designed to communicate in ways that enhance your chances for getting more positive and permanent results, directly to the deeper recesses of your mind. Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy: essentially tells your consciousness to take a backseat and lets you turn your attention inward to that deeper sense of the unconscious self, temporarily suspending the mind's critical faculties. Just like how you can zone out and daydream without actually seeing what's going on, hypnosis allows you to direct your thoughts without actually engaging your mind.  Past life regression is a technique that attempts to use hypnosis in order to recover memories from previous lives.   Check out the Natural Wellness Academy and the wonderful courses offered at: Naturalwellnessacademy.org Here is the link to Dr. LJ's Book, Your Mind: The Owner's Manual https://www.amazon.com/Your-Mind-Linda-Joy-Rose/dp/1895383099/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=your+mind+the+owners+manual&qid=1612800017&s=books&sr=1-4

"There's two types of contractors, those that want to get the job and those that want to do the job." -Monica D. Higgins    Today I am interviewing Remodeling Expert Monica D. Higgins. She is the Co Founder and Project Manager of Garagify, a company that specializes in helping people build ADU's including complete build to remodeling. Garagify oversees a project from start to finish where Monica and her team provide consulting, plans, and designs all the way through to obtaining permits. She has been featured on outlets like This Old House, HGTV, eHow and Entrepreneur. She is also a best selling author of Remodel Success: Home Remodeling Done Right, On Time and On Budget.    Monica D. Higgins: Was involved in real estate most of her life. Her parents both renovated and managed distress properties for a living. Her passion for managing construction projects stems from an incident that she witnessed her mother go through dealing with a contractor. 20 years later, Monica has made helping people a priority by providing outstanding service from the beginning of a remodel or build to the end.    TOPICS COVERED IN THE EPISODE: How did Monica start Garagify and what motivated it  What are some of the most common issues people experience with working with contractors  Why Monica felt the need to bring the commercial approach to residential  What are backyard homes  What law changed in 2017 that made ADU's acceptable  How do you vett your contractors  Why you should follow your intuition  What communication style are you comfortable with when working on a construction project  Are contractors underpaying themselves  How do you manage timelines  What is the critical path method  What is a rough contractor vs a finished contractor  What are the legal liabilities for an ADU Why you need to know the law regarding your build  Using phantom space  Why Monica and her team use 3D rendering  Using ADU's to generate passive income Why Monica's financial freedom is to work because she wants to and not because she has to   Listen now on Spotify or Apple iTunes or watch on Youtube to find out how Monica found her Real Estate Breakthrough! The Real Estate Breakthrough Show with Christina Suter is where we talk about the reality of real estate, the mindset you need and the tips and tricks to get you moving forward in investing. Join us every week and learn everything you need to know to invest in real estate education and create real wealth for a lifetime.   Find out more about Monica here:  Website GaragifyNow.com Phone 800-944-4024

Learn the ins and outs of starting your own podcast with our host, Jason Mudd. Jason is the managing partner of Axia Public Relations.Five things you'll learn from this episode:The four questions to ask yourself before you start your own podcastThe steps to building your own podcastThe three steps to launching your podcastHow to monetize your podcast10 podcast pro tips to those just starting outQuotables“Podcasting builds awareness, understanding, trust, and decision.” -@jasonmudd9“To monetize your podcast, there are three steps. The first one is promotions and conversions. The second one is guest relations, and the third is sponsorships.” -@jasonmudd9“Consciously or subconsciously, people know that if a podcast has not produced 10 episodes, it might not make it, or it might already be dead upon arrival.” -@jasonmudd9If you enjoyed this episode, would you please share it with others and leave us a review?About Jason MuddJason Mudd, APR, is a trusted adviser and dynamic strategist for some of America's most admired brands. Since 1994, he's worked with American Airlines, Budweiser, Dave & Buster's, H&R Block, Hilton, HP, Miller Lite, New York Life, Pizza Hut, Southern Comfort, and Verizon. He founded Axia in July 2002.Clients love Jason's passion, innovation, candor, commitment, and award-winning team. In an increasingly tech-forward world, Jason's grasp of technological demands on companies provides his clients in multiple sectors a unique advantage toward reaching their top audiences. After teaching himself HTML in 1994, Jason helped pioneer internet marketing strategies as an early adopter of e-commerce, SEO, and social media, inspiring tech giants like Yahoo.At Axia, Jason attracts, develops, retains, innovates, and leads top PR talent and clients. He oversees strategic communications for the firm's national clients and provides high-level consultations to client leadership teams at billion-dollar global brands, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer, including spokesperson training, crisis communications management, analytics, social media, online reputation management, and more. He also speaks frequently to corporations and industry groups and writes about public relations trends and best practices for American City Business Journals and other national businesses.Contact info and resources:Twitter: @jasonmudd9LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmudd/Website: https://www.axiapr.com/Have a question for Jason?  Email: podcast@ontopofpr.comAdditional Resources:PodcastValetThree steps when starting your podcast: Build, launch, and monetizeSponsored by:We are thrilled to have Burrelles sponsor our solocast episodes. Thanks to Burrelles for its support. Burrelles has a special offer exclusively for On Top of PR fans. Check it out at burrelles.com/ontopofprOn Top of PR is produced by Axia Public Relations, named by Forbes as one of America's Best PR Agencies for 2021. Axia is an expert PR firm for national brands.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/OnTopofPR)

Wes Evans is an actor, writer, director, and filmmaker for Icarus Burning Productions, a full-service video production company based in Austin. Wes has worked with several clients including, The University of Texas, Tastemade, eHow, and Livestrong. In this episode, we talk about how to reach a compromise with clients and find ways to collaborate with them to complete a project that fulfills both the client’s and filmmaker’s desires, how the benefits of developing his creativity and portfolio through passion projects allow him to create lasting connections and opportunities in his career, and why it's important to explore outside your environment and spread kindness to others.    Links: http://icarusburning.com/  https://courses.icarusfilmschool.com/p/3-day-challenge-plan-a-killer-video-ad  https://www.linkedin.com/company/icarus-burning-productions/about/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/wes-heidenreich-b858a39/   Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Charmaine Jones is a Registered Dietitian and owner of Food Jonezi. Her areas of expertise includes personalized nutrition counseling, development & implementation of corporate wellness programs. In addition to managing her own practice, she is an adjunct professor at the University of District of Columbia, where she teaches food science and introduction of nutrition. She is passionate about empowering her students to learn how to live healthier lifestyles during and after college. Charmaine works along with a team of registered dietitians, licensed nutritionists and professional chefs. The Food Jonezi team facilitates nutrition education workshops with healthy cooking classes. Our team strives to create healthy recipes that are cultural appropriate to all ethnic groups. Charmaine has been featured on world-known online magazines and blogs such as Active Times.com, Ehow.com, and Livestrong.com. She authored “Do I have to Eat Like White People?” that was featured in the Huffington Post and was recognized as the story of the week by Huffington Post's Editor in Chief. The Food Jonezi's philosophy is that “All individuals, regardless of your socioeconomic background, deserve a healthy life.” We are dedicated to serving all individuals and ensuring each of them has access to proper food and nutrition education to achieve optimal health. Become part of Team Food Jonezi by joining one of our memberships at www.foodjonezi.com. @FoodJonezi@CulinaryVoices on Instagram, twitter and now Tiktokhttps://culinaryvoices.buzzsprout.com/To donate to the podcast via Cashapp: $culinarvoicesShare this Podcast with a friend!!!Support the show (https://cash.app/$Culinaryvoices) Support the show (https://cash.app/$Culinaryvoices)

It's the LAST episode of the Modern Creative. We share how we came to this decision, our biggest lessons, what we've LOVED about creating this podcast for you, and what is next for each of us. Thank you for listening to us for the last 3 years and joining us through moves, babies (human, fur, and plant), business pivots, and life changes. We are truly grateful for you - Dianuh + Joyce PS Joyce drops some curse words… like 3… so it's marked with that big explicit E :) How you can work with us: Calligraphy Business School: http://calligraphybusinessschool.com/ The Watercolor Portrait Course: thewatercolorcourse.com Contact Joyce: https://joycechristine.com/ https://www.instagram.com/calligraphybusinesscoach/ Watch the FREE business training: https://joycechristine.com/masterclass-pod COMING APRIL 2021: http://calligraphybusinessshop.com/ YouTube business tips (COMING MAY 2021): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZi2uZmUj7ks5h2yT9rF4DQ Contact Dianuh: http://chasinglinen.com/ http://instagram.com/dianuhaerin https://www.instagram.com/chasinglinen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxB-SUgrYGxQUU-KVSsT9hA Watch the free watercolor class: thewatercolorcourse.com Contact us at: http://instagram.com/moderncreativepodcast Music by Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

Part three of our series, "ADVENT REDUX," looking at Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy in the Psalms. REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. A) Reflect on your thought-life. On a normal day, from when you wake up to when you go to sleep, do you do more preaching to yourself or listening to your thoughts preaching to you? B) What kind of things do you preach to yourself on a daily basis? What kinds of things does your mind, if left unchecked, preach to you throughout the day? C) How does this self-preaching affect our heart and how we live or fail to live a life of praise? 2. A) What are the personal benefits you experience in relationship with God? Bless theLord, O my soul, andforget not all his benefits,whoforgives all your iniquity, whoheals all your diseases, whoredeems your life from the pit, whocrowns you with steadfast love and mercy, whosatisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed likethe eagle's. -Ps.103:2-5 B) What are the practical benefits you experience in relationship with God? TheLordworksrighteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known hisways to Moses, hisacts to the people of Israel. -Ps.103:6-7 C) What are the pardoning benefits you experience in relationship with God? TheLordismerciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide nor will hekeep his anger forever. He does not deal with usaccording to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. Foras high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is hissteadfast love towardthose who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does heremove our transgressions from us. -Ps.103:8-12 D) What are the paternal benefits you experience in relationship with God? Asa father shows compassion to his children, so theLordshows compassionto those who fear him. -Ps.103:13 3. A) Think about your own story of salvation or where you are with belief right now. How did God move toward you in pursuit of your heart? B) How has God worked through the people and circumstances in your life to show you His love for you/your need for him? C) Are there areas of our lives where we love with sentiment and words where action is needed? What stops us from taking action and loving in deed? For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. -Luke 19:10 Little children, let us notlove in word or talk but in deed andin truth. -1 John 3:18 4. A) How does the world typically define and portray love? B) How might we understand and live-out a version of love that is transactional? C) In what way is Gods love different? D) What does it mean that God does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities (Ps.103:10)? E) How does Gods self-giving love free us to love others in a way that is costly and sacrificial? For one will scarcely die for a righteous personthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to diebutGod shows his love for us in thatwhile we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:7-8 TheLordismerciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will hekeep his anger forever. He does not deal with usaccording to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. -Psalm 103:8-10 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this,that someone lay down his life for his friends You did not choose me, butI chose you and appointed you that you should go andbear fruit and that your fruit should abide -John 15:12-13,16 5. A) How does Gods love through the finished work of Jesus satisfy the deepest longing in us for love? B) What does it mean that we have every spiritual blessing in Christ? There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. -1 John 4:18 Blessed bethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessingin the heavenly places In lovehe predestined us foradoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ,according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us inthe Beloved. -Ephesians 1:3-6 6. A) What is the response of your heart when you dwell on these realities put forth in this Psalm?: Bless the Lord...who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eaglesSo great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from usthe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him. -Psalm 103:2-5, 11-12 B) What does it mean for you to respond by living a life of praise? Bless theLord, O youhis angels, youmighty ones whodo his word, obeying the voice of his word! Bless theLord, all hishosts, hisministers, who do his will! Bless theLord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless theLord, O my soul! -Ps.103:20-22 For final reflection: Does my love for people reflect the type of love that God has graciously shown to me? When I look at my life, relationships, and how I use what I have, is it evident that there has been real transformation in my heart? Does my life show that I am truly born of God? In what ways do I walk like my heavenly Father? How does praise to the glory of the Lord for who He is and all He has done overflow from my heart into my life? What areas do I need to bring before Him in confession and repentance, and ask Him for help in loving others? Have I been looking to other things to satisfy the longing in my heart that only the love of God can satisfy? Who in my life needs to experience Gods love right now? How can I move toward them and tangibly love them with an active, self-giving love? Spend some time reflecting on the perfect love of God. Reflect on who he is, all of the ways he has poured out his love on you, even when you are not lovable. Reflect on his love for you displayed most clearly in the gospel and sending his Son who gave his life that you might live and know him. Let your heart be captivated and encouraged by the perfect love of our God. A Puritan prayer from the Valley of Vision: LORD JESUS, Give me to love thee, to embrace thee, though I once took lust and sin in my arms. Thou didst love me before I loved thee, an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm. Thou didst own me when I disclaimed myself; Thou dost love me as a son, and weep over me as over Jerusalem. Love brought thee from heaven to earth, from earth to the cross, from the cross to the grave. Love caused thee to be weary, hungry, tempted, scorned, scourged, buffeted, spat upon, crucified, and pierced. Love led thee to bow thy head in death. My salvation is the point where perfect created love and the most perfect uncreated love meet together; for thou dost welcome me, not like Joseph and his brothers, loving and sorrowing, but loving and rejoicing. This love is not intermittent, cold, changeable; it does not cease or abate for all my enmity. Holiness is a spark from thy love kindled to a flame in my heart by thy Spirit, and so it ever turns to the place from which it comes. Let me see thy love everywhere, not only in the cross, but in the fellowship of believers and in the world around me. When I feel the warmth of the sun may I praise thee who art the Sun of righteousness with healing power. When I feel the tender rain may I think of the gospel showers that water my soul. When I walk by the river side may I praise thee for that stream that makes the eternal city glad, and washes white my robes that I may have the right to the tree of life. Thy infinite love is a mystery of mysteries, and my eternal rest lies in the eternal enjoyment of it. Amen.

A growing number of financial institutions are moving their investments from fossil fuels into less polluting projects and resources. So what do oil and gas companies make of this shift? Some of them are waking up to the clean energy transition in response to investor pressure. But there are leaders and laggards when it comes to oil and gas companies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There are also valid concerns about greenwashing. And yet, some of these firms are fundamentally reshaping the way that they do business.In this episode, the latest in Political Climate’s special DITCHED series, we look at the pressures oil and gas companies are under to go low-carbon with Valentina Kretzschmar, vice president of corporate research at the research firm Wood Mackenzie.Recommended resources:FT: Why ExxonMobil is sticking with oil as rivals look to a greener futureWoodMac: Could clean energy be the winner in the oil price war?NYT: Shell and Total report big drop in profits, but made clean-energy investments.Earther: Maybe It's Time to Retire the Phrase 'Big Oil'E&E: How one fossil fuel company became a green giantPolitical Climate: Is There a Role for Oil and Gas in a Green Recovery?Episodes of DITCHED will air Mondays over the next several weeks. Listen and subscribe to Political Climate on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play or wherever you get podcasts! You can also find DITCHED episodes via Our Daily Planet.

In this episode you will learn: Gut health Bubble wrap and fat cells Micronutrients Dr. Linda Joy Rose (LJ) Author, therapist, educator, and international expert in subconscious dynamics.  Founder of the Natural Wellness Academy, training coaches in Holistic Health & Life Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Gut Health, Aromatherapy, and Spiritual Wellness in 17 countries.  Instructional designer teaches entrepreneurs, coaches, and speakers how to monetize their expertise in profitable online courses at http:///download-your-free-copy-of-a-year-of-positive-habits Recently, she has been selected as the Raw Food Expert on the dynamic internet search engine, eHow.com, and has appeared in over 100 videos. Check out her website to see episodes from eHow and NBC's Daytime Show. The former Director of International Development for the American Board of Hypnotherapy, with over 25 years of experience in the field of hypnotherapy, subconscious dynamics, power of suggestion, and childhood trauma. Dr. LJ holds a Ph.D. in Cross-Cultural Psychology with an emphasis on Hypnotherapy. She was responsible for the implementation of hypnotherapy training in certification in many countries including Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The author of eight books including Your Mind: The Owner's Manual (Kriya Yoga Publications, 1st edition 1999, 2nd edition 2005) and Raw Fusion Living: Recipes for Healthy Eating, Natural Weight Loss and Anti-Aging (Quantum Mind Press, 3rd edition). Check out the book page here. Dr. LJ has developed a new philosophy in wellness as eating - Raw Fusion Living -- taking a "food as medicine" approach like Dr. Oz and Dr. Joel Fuhrmann to help people learn how to incorporate more nutrition into their lifestyle; combining cutting edge information/ education with motivation, demonstration, and inspiration. The child of two Holocaust survivors, Dr. LJ is also a trained volunteer docent at the Florida Holocaust Museum and has spoken on the topic of latent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Second Generation issues at the museum and other venues.

Have you experienced the shift - that feeling that there must be more? If so you don't want to miss this episode learning how Melissa experienced this same shift from a comfort to calling. If you're at a career crossroad, this episode is for you! A former corporate marketing executive, Melissa is now a "go-to" Beauty & Skincare Expert and for both magazine, t.v production, celebrity, corporate and private clients alike. Melissa, is a licensed Esthetician who also has a Bachelor’s and Masters in Business. Her work has been seen on BRAVO TV, Oxygen Network, Lifetime Network, WEtv, OWN, TV ONE, VH1, BET, CBS, CENTRIC TV and a variety of syndicated networks. Over the years Melissa had a recurring appearance as a Beauty Expert for the "60 minutes to Glam Makeover" segment on The Real daytime talk show on Fox. In addition Melissa's work has been featured in leading Beauty Industry publications, including several digital platforms like Glamour Magazine, Instyle, Brides Magazine, Essence Magazine, Brides.com, BET.com, Black Enterprise, Essence.com, Ehow.com, YouTube and more. In addition to being a dynamic, professional Makeup Artist and Beauty professional, Melissa is the creator and Executive Producer of Behind The Glam docu-series, also the Founder of Beauty and the Business Empowerment Conference and Master Class. In Spring 2015, Melissa embarked on a defining new venture, The GLAM Agency, the premiere multicultural talent management firm representing leading Makeup Artists, Hair Stylists & Lifestyle Experts. Her agency has a growing roster of clients including OWN TV, WEtv, Lincoln Motors, Nike Inc., Creme of Nature and host of digital and media platforms.In 2019, Melissa released her first book “Face Your Beauty - a call to Live Worthy”. Melissa is the proud Mother of her daughter Milán and she is driven to be a great example of Womanhood - her aim and focus are clear - to leave a legacy of service, empowering the world through Beauty. Learn more about The GLAM Agency and Melissa here: https://www.theglamagency.com/

In the early  2000s, I lived in Sacramento, CA, and found a boxing gym called Prime Time Boxing that sit right in one of Sactown's gritty hoods.(Shout-out to the 5:30 am Prime Time crew there on Del Paso Boulevard!)Going there and learning how to box for the first time... | was one of the best experiences of my life, not only because of the training but the people I met there, including the club's owner, Cary Williams. ​​I became friends with Cary and over the years, always admired her knack for marketing, self-promotion, and never-ending hustle. Of course, I also respected her because she is a hell of a boxing coach and really knows her stuff!Since then, Cary has moved to Los Angeles, where she owns The Stables boxing club and does her thing to a bigger audience.In this podcast, I chat with Cary about boxing but also business, including the challenges of being a female small business owner in a predominantly mens' sport.Enjoy this fun chat with Cary Williams and to find out more, here is an excerpt from her bio at CaryWilliams.com.-Norm  :-)***Cary Williams is a former Olympic style boxer, Olympic level boxing coach, boxing club owner, cover model, speaker and entrepreneur. She has now created Boxing & Barbells which is a class format fusing boxing and weight training together in a fun and easy to learn format.Cary has contributed to SHEKNOW.COM, EHOW.COM, LIVESTRONG.COM and ADRENALIST.COM and has been a guest on many radio shows and television news shows. Cary has been recognized by The California Legislature along with Brandi Chastain and several other women in sports for her contribution and impact on girl's sports.In the boxing world, Cary boxed competitively in the amateurs and won the Pacific Northwest Women's Tournament before hanging up her gloves. She is a Level IV Boxing Coach and was also selected by USA Boxing to certify trainers as LEVEL I and Level II USA Boxing coaches. She also received a certificate of completing for the Elite Boxing Coach Clinic at the Olympic Training Center. Cary has trained many boxers, some of which have made it to Olympic Trial Qualifying Tournaments.To get in touch with Cary, follow her on Instagram @caryleewilliams or @thestablessm

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Doctor TK is a big advocate for time management and productivity. She has been implementing these strategies with all of her clients on therapy, thinking that they may not be able to follow through on their homework activities if they do not carve out time to take their mental health seriously. She has also applied them to her clients on the coaching side to help them progress in their business. However, she has observed some of them still struggling and reconsidering their goals. When we change our mind too much, we hinder ourselves in achieving our goal, whether it may be a short or a long term one. In today's minisode, we will learn about the acronym T.I.ME. Find out more as Doctor TK shares to us how we can get control of our mindset and result in getting things done. Podcast Goals:Learn to carve out time with the use of a timerMotivate yourself by setting intentional goals dailyKnow the difference between Intentional Goal and TO-DO listFind out ways to minimize distractionsDetermine the right mindset to execute your tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude Minisode Timeline: [00:45] Introduction to the acronym of T.I.M.E[01:45] “T” | How can a timer help us in carving out time?[02:48] “I” | How important is it to set intentional goals daily?[03:30] Why do we need to set goals daily?[03:55] Difference between “Intentional Goal” vs “TO-DO list”[4:21] “M” | How can we minimize distractions?[06:30] “E” | How can we execute our tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude?[06:40] The impact of a positive or a negative thought upon waking up[07:42] Minisode recap[8:13] Overview on the Branding 4 Abundance workbook[9:10] Interact with Doctor TK on social media Resources Mentioned:Episode 35 - F.O.C.U.SEpisode 37 - IntentionalBranding 4 Abundance workbookJoin The Dope Therapist Tribe Waitlist Connect:Find | Doctor TKOn Instagram: @DoctorTKPsychOn Facebook: @DoctorTKPsychOn Pinterest: @DoctorTKPsychOn Youtube: @Doctor TK SUBSCRIBE & RATEOn Apple Podcasts On Google Podcast Connect: Find | Doctor TK On Instagram: instagram.com/doctortkpsych On Facebook: facebook.com/DoctorTKPsych On Pinterest: pinterest.com/DoctorTKPsych On Youtube: youtube.com/c/DoctorTK SUBSCRIBE & RATE On Apple Podcast On Google Podcasts On Spotify

Doctor TK is a big advocate for time management and productivity. She has been implementing these strategies with all of her clients on therapy, thinking that they may not be able to follow through on their homework activities if they do not carve out time to take their mental health seriously. She has also applied them to her clients on the coaching side to help them progress in their business. However, she has observed some of them still struggling and reconsidering their goals. When we change our mind too much, we hinder ourselves in achieving our goal, whether it may be a short or a long term one. In today's minisode, we will learn about the acronym T.I.ME. Find out more as Doctor TK shares to us how we can get control of our mindset and result in getting things done. Podcast Goals: Learn to carve out time with the use of a timer Motivate yourself by setting intentional goals daily Know the difference between Intentional Goal and TO-DO list Find out ways to minimize distractions Determine the right mindset to execute your tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude Minisode Timeline: [00:45] Introduction to the acronym of T.I.M.E [01:45] “T” | How can a timer help us in carving out time? [02:48] “I” | How important is it to set intentional goals daily? [03:30] Why do we need to set goals daily? [03:55] Difference between “Intentional Goal” vs “TO-DO list” [4:21] “M” | How can we minimize distractions? [06:30] “E” | How can we execute our tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude? [06:40] The impact of a positive or a negative thought upon waking up [07:42] Minisode recap [8:13] Overview on the Branding 4 Abundance workbook [9:10] Interact with Doctor TK on social media Resources Mentioned: Episode 35 - F.O.C.U.S Episode 37 - Intentional Branding 4 Abundance workbook Join The Dope Therapist Tribe Waitlist Connect: Find | Doctor TK On Instagram: @DoctorTKPsych On Facebook: @DoctorTKPsych On Pinterest: @DoctorTKPsych On Youtube: @Doctor TK SUBSCRIBE & RATE On Apple Podcasts On Google Podcast

 Doctor TK is a big advocate for time management and productivity. She has been implementing these strategies with all of her clients on therapy, thinking that they may not be able to follow through on their homework activities if they do not carve out time to take their mental health seriously.  She has also applied them to her clients on the coaching side to help them progress in their business. However, she has observed some of them still struggling and reconsidering their goals. When we change our mind too much, we hinder ourselves in achieving our goal, whether it may be a short or a long term one. In today's minisode, we will learn about the acronym T.I.ME. Find out more as Doctor TK shares to us how we can get control of our mindset and result in getting things done. Podcast Goals:Learn to carve out time with the use of a timerMotivate yourself by setting intentional goals dailyKnow the difference between Intentional Goal and TO-DO listFind out ways to minimize distractionsDetermine the right mindset to execute your tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude Minisode Timeline: [00:45] Introduction to the acronym of T.I.M.E[01:45] “T” | How can a timer help us in carving out time?[02:48] “I” | How important is it to set intentional goals daily?[03:30] Why do we need to set goals daily?[03:55] Difference between “Intentional Goal” vs “TO-DO list”[4:21] “M” | How can we minimize distractions?[06:30] “E” | How can we execute our tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude?[06:40] The impact of a positive or a negative thought upon waking up[07:42] Minisode recap[8:13] Overview on the Branding 4 Abundance workbook[9:10] Interact with Doctor TK on social media   Resources Mentioned:Episode 35 - F.O.C.U.SEpisode 37 - IntentionalBranding 4 Abundance workbookJoin The Dope Therapist Tribe Waitlist  Connect:Find | Doctor TKOn Instagram: @DoctorTKPsychOn Facebook: @DoctorTKPsychOn Pinterest: @DoctorTKPsychOn Youtube: @Doctor TK SUBSCRIBE & RATEOn Apple Podcasts On Google Podcast 

 Doctor TK is a big advocate for time management and productivity. She has been implementing these strategies with all of her clients on therapy, thinking that they may not be able to follow through on their homework activities if they do not carve out time to take their mental health seriously.  She has also applied them to her clients on the coaching side to help them progress in their business. However, she has observed some of them still struggling and reconsidering their goals. When we change our mind too much, we hinder ourselves in achieving our goal, whether it may be a short or a long term one. In today’s minisode, we will learn about the acronym T.I.ME. Find out more as Doctor TK shares to us how we can get control of our mindset and result in getting things done. Podcast Goals:Learn to carve out time with the use of a timerMotivate yourself by setting intentional goals dailyKnow the difference between Intentional Goal and TO-DO listFind out ways to minimize distractionsDetermine the right mindset to execute your tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude Minisode Timeline: [00:45] Introduction to the acronym of T.I.M.E[01:45] “T” | How can a timer help us in carving out time?[02:48] “I” | How important is it to set intentional goals daily?[03:30] Why do we need to set goals daily?[03:55] Difference between “Intentional Goal” vs “TO-DO list”[4:21] “M” | How can we minimize distractions?[06:30] “E” | How can we execute our tasks daily and adapt a no-matter attitude?[06:40] The impact of a positive or a negative thought upon waking up[07:42] Minisode recap[8:13] Overview on the Branding 4 Abundance workbook[9:10] Interact with Doctor TK on social media   Resources Mentioned:Episode 35 - F.O.C.U.SEpisode 37 - IntentionalBranding 4 Abundance workbookJoin The Dope Therapist Tribe Waitlist  Connect:Find | Doctor TKOn Instagram: @DoctorTKPsychOn Facebook: @DoctorTKPsychOn Pinterest: @DoctorTKPsychOn Youtube: @Doctor TK SUBSCRIBE & RATEOn Apple Podcasts On Google Podcast 

David calls Elvira from another timeline. Elvira needs to talk David into helping her. David needs to convince Elvira to trust him. It’s basically a whole… wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing. This story in eight parts can be listened to in any order. To follow Elvira’s timeline, go E1-E8, and to follow David’s, D1-D8. This episode is not explicit. ELVIRA – Kirsty Woolven DAVID – Lee Shackleford Written and produced by Karin Heimdahl. To hear more from us, check out fiction podcasts Y2K, Relativity and upcoming show Arrivals. Karin is the creator of audio drama Y2K. In 2019, she won an Audioverse award for writing a spoken word monologue. She is also a voice actor, podcaster and drama teacher turned project manager. Voice acting credits include Mirrors, Vampires of White Chapel, Copperheart and Hit the Bricks. She produces and co-hosts Det nya svarta, a pop culture podcast in Swedish. Karin lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Y2K website https://y2kpod.com/ Listen https://y2kpod.com/episodes/ Arrivals https://arrivalspod.carrd.co/ Relativity https://relativitypodcast.com/ TRANSCRIPT E3 D7 (dial tone, click) E: Hello. D: Elvira? It’s David. E: It’s you. Hello again. Hang on. (door closing) D: I talked to Sophie today. E: Sophie? D: Yeah. Sophie. She says hi. E: (verge of tears) My… Sophie? Wait. Where is she? D: (gently) She is safe. But she misses you. E: How do I- I can’t believe- I didn’t remember her until just now. (distressed) What is happening to me? D: (gently) They took your memories. I am sorry. I’ll call again. (click) CREDITS This Listen, Rinse, Repeat story was written and produced by Karin Heimdahl - that’s me. Kirsty Woolven voiced Elvira, and Lee Shackleford voiced David. To hear more from us, check out Y2K, Relativity and upcoming show Arrivals. Sound effects either created by Karin, or from freesound.org under the Creative Commons 0 license. Credits music ""Somber Viola"" by BigManJoe, also from Freesound.

Creativity through the lens of a fashion designer "Creativity is anything that gets your blood rushing, your heart pumping, your stomach fluttering"After a successful career as a physical therapist, CEO and Creative Director, Zankhna Parekh decided to pursue her first love - fashion. Zankhna Designs was established in 2012 to cater to strong, powerful, trailblazing women who still wanted to be effortlessly stylish all while putting cracks in the glass ceiling. She felt there was a need in the luxury space for elegant, timeless clothing made of pure and rich fabrics, hand done embroideries that caters to such strong and elegant women. Zankhna is a role model and inspiration for young women entrepreneurs everywhere. Her new label, Zaftan™ is a modern twist on the traditional Kaftans, carefully cut and styled to suit the fashion needs of generation x, y and Z, hence the name Zaftan™. Zankhna's designs have international flair, influenced by her three geographical upbringing and backgrounds.Her designs have been featured and graced the covers of multiple magazines and print media. She has appeared on multiple TV and radio shows as well as on Celebrity Corner on the Dorothy on TV Show. She also serves as an on-camera talent for the website eHow.com, which has more than 100 million visitors every month. She served from 2008 to 2010 as a Glambassador and Style Council member for Glamour magazine and has had the opportunity to attend fashion shows and events around the country and all over the world. Zankhna has been able to dress many celebrities both locally and internationally including recent clients such as Hollywood actress Rhoda Griffis, TIME Magazine's Athlete of 2019 and US women’s national soccer team player Jessica McDonald, and Grammy nominee Falguni Shah. Zankhna Designs is a socially conscious and pro-green company. We believe in giving back to our community, recycling unused fabrics, producing elegant and timeless clothing that is not disposable fashion hence decreasing our footprint on this earth, we never use products tested on animals, we follow ethical trade practices and ensure all employees receive fair wages.Facebook: @DesignerZankhna https://www.facebook.com/DesignerZankhna/Twitter: @DesignerZankhna https://twitter.com/DesignerZankhnaInstagram: @DesignerZankhna https://www.instagram.com/designerzankhna/Pinterest: Zankhna Designs https://www.pinterest.com/zparekh/

059 [PM18] Coping While CoopedStep 4 & PrioritiesPlease review and rate your priorities of the following items:1) Abstinence from gambling2) To myself and my greater power3) Family4) Job/Vocation/Profession5) Goals, Dreams, and Aspirations 6) Friends, Neighbors, and Community - Tonight's episode7) To Special InterestsQuestions from tonights priorityA- Make a list of your closest friends and write a short description on your feelings     toward themB- Is your action or behavior toward them consistent with your feelings?C- Can you accept them for what they are, or do you find yourself critical of their shortcomings?D- Are you there when they need you?E- How would you describe your relationship with your neighbors?F- What do they think of you?G- What is your role in your community?H- Do you take part in any community activity, such as Little League, Chamber of Commerce, local school activities, etc.I- What do you do as an individual to make your community a better place to live?WHEW!!  Lots of typing there.  I hope you can do some good soul searching too!Self-care and staying positive are two of the pillars of Bobbie's beliefs surrounding successful recovery and that will be the underlying focus each day or share. Enjoy Beautiful People! If you would like to participate in our 30 Day Give Up Gambling Email Challenge, click below.https://www.321nokiddin.com/30-day-give-up-gambling-challengeIf you care to donate & support our mission to raise awareness on Gambling Addiction or just enjoy the show:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bobbieawesome/about-me-3-21-no-kiddin------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook          : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram         : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesome_321nokiddinPinterest           : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn            : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube           : www.youtube.com/channSupport the show9 of us wrote about the concept of Belonging and share our individual stories about how we found belonging.Please check it out in the link below!Link to our book- BELONGING- Secrets to Soothe the Soul https://amzn.to/45qS6pl Get in touch with me! Questions or feedback or just want to connect? Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddin Instagram : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesomest Pinterest : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatesta LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatesta YouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaA Website : www.321nokiddin.com **A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on: Facebook : www.facebook.com/blueoctober Instagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberband Twitter : www.twitter.com/blueoctober Youtube : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficial Support the show

059 [PM18] Coping While CoopedStep 4 & PrioritiesPlease review and rate your priorities of the following items:1) Abstinence from gambling2) To myself and my greater power3) Family4) Job/Vocation/Profession5) Goals, Dreams, and Aspirations 6) Friends, Neighbors, and Community - Tonight's episode7) To Special InterestsQuestions from tonights priorityA- Make a list of your closest friends and write a short description on your feelings     toward themB- Is your action or behavior toward them consistent with your feelings?C- Can you accept them for what they are, or do you find yourself critical of their shortcomings?D- Are you there when they need you?E- How would you describe your relationship with your neighbors?F- What do they think of you?G- What is your role in your community?H- Do you take part in any community activity, such as Little League, Chamber of Commerce, local school activities, etc.I- What do you do as an individual to make your community a better place to live?WHEW!!  Lots of typing there.  I hope you can do some good soul searching too!Self-care and staying positive are two of the pillars of Bobbie's beliefs surrounding successful recovery and that will be the underlying focus each day or share. Enjoy Beautiful People! If you would like to participate in our 30 Day Give Up Gambling Email Challenge, click below.https://www.321nokiddin.com/30-day-give-up-gambling-challengeIf you care to donate & support our mission to raise awareness on Gambling Addiction or just enjoy the show:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bobbieawesome/about-me-3-21-no-kiddin------------------------------------------------Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review!This helps us reach other gamblers who may need to hear recovery messages.-------------------------------------------------Get in touch with me!Email address : bobbie@321NoKiddin.comFacebook          : www.facebook.com/321NoKiddinInstagram         : www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesome_321nokiddinPinterest           : www.pinterest.ph/bobbiemalatestaLinkedIn            : www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiemalatestaYouTube           : www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUV58i4z2Se3jXuDldcXaAWebsite            : www.321nokiddin.com**A super special thanks to Justin Furstenfeld for granting us permission to use his music on the show!Please support and follow the Blue October band on:Facebook  : www.facebook.com/blueoctoberInstagram : www.instagram.com/blueoctoberbandTwitter       : www.twitter.com/blueoctoberYoutube    : www.youtube.com/user/blueoctoberofficialWebsite    : www.blueoctober.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bobbieawesome/about-me-3-21-no-kiddin)

Chef Plum is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America with over 18 years of culinary experience. He has worked in both small neighborhood restaurants and five-star hotels. He's been featured on Food Network, ABC's The Taste, Ehow.com, Jamie Oliver's Foodtube, Hallmark, The New York Times, and other media outlets. About the Mack Talks: The Mack Talks is a sit-down discussion with business owners, entrepreneurs, and impactful leaders hosted by Scott Johnson. Follow all of our Social Media Channels: »Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themacktalks/ »Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macktalks/ »LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mack-talks/ »Website: https://themacktalks.com

Today, John lives a life filled with unique experiences, sharing the stage with luminaries and traveling the world.  But, it wasn't always like that.  He started young. John's unique business success story started in a 400 sq. ft. studio apartment where he slept on the floor. He had just $2,000. What began as a personal training business has grown into a global multi-million dollar group of corporations providing a variety of educational, consulting and entrepreneurial products and services. John has helped create over 500,000 jobs. FITNESS AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS EXPERIENCE: Each week, over one million people enjoy a fitness, coaching and personal development program John developed. His systems are used in the top resorts, spas and fitness centers. John is the CEO of the National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association (NESTA), Personal Trainer Hall of Fame (PFHF), Fitness Hall of Fame (FHOF), Spencer Institute for Life Coaching (SI), International Triathlon Coaching Association (ITCA), and the Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Association (MMACA). John created Adventure Boot Camp. He also co-created Intense Mixed Performance Accelerated Cross Training (IMPACT), Kung-fu Fitness, TACTIX and co-developed Survival Combat Fitness (SCF). His programs are used by Cirque du Soleil, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, U.S. Secret Service, FBI and Coast Guard, and he's consulted the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships). SPEAKER/PRESENTER: John delivered the Commencement Speech for (IVC) Irvine Valley College and shared the stage/screen with the following luminaries: Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Leigh Steinberg, Daymond John (Shark from Shark Tank), Kevin Harrington (Shark from Shark Tank), Barbara De Angelis, Jon Biel, DC Cordova, Lewis Howes, Grant Cardone, Denis Waitley, Frank Maguire (founder of Fed-Ex), Michael Gerber, Les Brown, Joe Vitale, Simon T. Bailey, John Assaraf, JJ Virgin, Tai Lopez, Ali Brown, James Malinchak (ABC's Secret Millionaire), Forbes Riley, James Altucher, Brian Tracy, Larry Benet, Dr. John Demartini, Marie Diamond, Topher Morrison, Martin Rooney, Kevin Nations, Peter Thomson, Gary Goldstein, Dr. Robi Ludwig, Ryan Lee, T. Harv Eker, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and many others. He has also been an expert panelist for TEDmed and fitness expert for eHow. AUTHOR/CO-AUTHOR: New Rules of Success, The Compass, The Code, How Badly Do You Want It, Peak Vitality, Power of Champions, The Wellness Code, The Ultimate Life Coach Business Book, Collaboration Economy, Rapid Body Makeover and Health and Wellness Today. John has collaborated on books with other leading experts such as Dr. Oz, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. John Gray, Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Michael Beckwith, Kevin Harrington, Yanik Silver and Mariel Hemingway. PHILANTHROPIST: John is the CEO of the Get America Fit Foundation (GAFF) (501c3), which educates the public about living a healthy life and provides exercise equipment for schools and helps military veterans with physical challenges. He also supports multiple additional charities including Miracles for Kids. ENDURANCE ATHLETE: John has ridden his bicycle enough miles to circle Earth. He competed in over 100 sports competitions including the Ironman triathlon. He also finished 5th at the U.S. National Run/Bike Championships and won the Montebello Cycling Classic and Roadrunner Inline Skating Competition. MARTIAL ARTIST: John has earned a 2nd degree black belt in Kung-fu, black belt in Ninjutsu, purple belt in Tae Kwon Do, blue belt in Krav Maga, and blue belt in Kempo Karate and blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He's also trained in Muay Thai for many years. John is a certified instructor of self-defense, fitness kickboxing and fitness boxing. He's competed in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships FORMAL EDUCATION: John holds two bachelor's degrees (business & health science), an MBA with an emphasis in marketing, and a doctorate in education. He also completed doctoral level studies in naturopathic health education. He holds fifteen certifications including massage therapy, plyometrics, physical education, flexibility, nutrition coaching, water fitness, exercise rehabilitation, golf conditioning, Pilates, personal training, clinical hypnotherapy, sports hypnosis, PACE circuit training, and yoga. His medical training includes a license in radiological technology, a medical assisting certification, and training in McKenzie rehabilitation. He has specialized training in ropes course facilitation and corporate team-building. TV/RADIO/MOVIES: John has been featured on Oprah radio, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX, FOX Sports, FOX Reality, SPIKE, and ESPN. He was featured as the fitness and lifestyle expert on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Orange County and Daybreak OC. John has also appeared on Starting Over, Life Moments, Camp Reality and America's Premier Experts. He is the creator and executive producer of the awarding-winning documentary movie The Compass. He hosted the Ms. Fitness U.S.A. & World pageants on Fox Sports Net, The Fit Show, Health & Wellness Today, Core 360 Personal Gym infomercial, Personal Trainer TV, The OC Body, The Spencer Power Hour radio show, the now the Training & Coaching Lifestyle Podcast. John is also featured in the movie Riches. PRINT MEDIA: John is the former Fitness Editor for OC Flair magazine and has been featured or mentioned in the following publications: MMA Business, Muscle and Fitness, Businessweek, U.S. News and World Report, C magazine, IDEA Fitness Journal, Cosmopolitan, Fit, New York Times, Men's Health, Better Homes and Gardens, Women's World, Self, Bloomberg. He's appeared on the cover of Income, Fit Entrepreneur, and Personal Fitness Professional Magazines. John is the publisher of Personal Trainer Magazine. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: Amazon #1 Best Selling Author “Health & Wellness Today” Amazon #1 Best Selling Author “Rapid Body Makeover” Amazon #1 Best Selling Author “The Wellness Code”Collaboration Economy Book Amazon #1 Best Selling Author “New Rules of Success” Amazon #8 Best Selling Author “Collaboration Economy“ Personal Trainer Hall of Fame Inductee (2012) Nominated for induction into the National Fitness Hall of Fame (2011) Best Health Book: Nautilus Book Award “Peak Vitality” Best Self-Help / Motivational Book: US Book News “Peak Vitality” Top 10 New Release: Hudson News “The Compass” book Communicator Award “The Compass” movie Telly Award “The Compass” movie Quilly Award from the National Academy of Best Selling Authors Nominated for the California Community College Distinguished Alumni Award Named One of the Top 100 Most Influential Personal Trainers of All Time Named One of the Top 100 Fitness Entrepreneurs in the World Named Outstanding Member of IDEA Association of Fitness Professionals Named Top 40 Fitness Blog of 2013  

Melissa, originally from Orange County, began touring with the Los Angeles Classical Ballet while still in high school. After graduation she joined the Milwaukee Ballet and dance soloist roles for six years. Melissa's credits include roles on Glee, DWTS, AGT, Mobbed, Hart of Dixie, The Young and the Restless and LXD. She has performed motion capture work for Shrek, Puss in Boots, and Madagascar 3. Melissa can be seen on Youtube channel DS2DIO and webshows EHOW and HealthyPower TV. Melissa performs with Helios Dance Theater, Sacramento Ballet, Los Angeles Contemporary Ballet, Luminaria Ballet, Motion Tribe, Body Traffic, Strange and Elegant Dancers, String Theory and the Los Angeles Opera.    Live from Planet Hollywood at Velocity Dance Convention Nationals, this episode of The Gina Pero Show introduces you to Melissa Sandvig, teacher at Velocity Dance Convention. In this episode, Melissa shares her story in allowing her passion for dance to guide her throughout her life. Melissa's story will empower you to follow your dreams.

Max Tucci is an inspirational thinker and speaker and just like his famous culinary family, loves to cook and entertain. He regularly appears online for entertaining, cooking and food segments on eHow.com and About.com. Max is known as a featured Lifestyle Expert on America's Next Top Model. His radio show, Max & Friends on LA Talk Radio, has been on air for over eight years with many prominent guests. He is a correspondent for Eye on South Florida and writes inspirational blogs for Lea Black Inc. Max is also an avid philanthropist and has raised millions of dollars for charities throughout the United States. He is on the Board of Directors for the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, was awarded the Young Leadership in Philanthropy Award by the American Diabetes Association and has been honored by a number of organizations for his charitable work. He is the author of Oscar's Delmonico: An Historic Epicurean Journey.  Visit https://www.facebook.com/OscarMaxTucci Donate to the America Meditating Radio Show at www.paypal.me/AmericaMeditating Visit www.americameditating.org and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/americameditating  

On this episode of the Lubetkin on Communications podcast, we present this year's "Meet the Media" panel, sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The panel was held March 30, 2017 at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. The panelists were: Karin Price Mueller, writes the Bamboozled consumer affairs column and a money column for The Star-Ledger/NJ.com; and is Founder of consumer finance website NJMoneyHelp.com.    She lives in N.J. with her husband – Star-Ledger reporter Mark Mueller – their three kids and an English Mastiff, Mojo.    Whatever they don't eat goes into her retirement savings accounts. Nick Corasaniti, a reporter that covers politics for The New York Times, and is in his home state focusing on the governor's race and any other NJ story or interest, from infrastructure to crime to dining.  Before coming back to NJ, Nick covered the presidential campaign, spending his days on the road with Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and Donald Trump. Charell Star is a digital journalist who covers the latest styles, technology and trends as a contributor for Marie Claire, Fox5–Good Day New York, NBC New York Live, Second Look TV, and various broadcast and digital media outlets.  She also has her own lifestyle blog, Not Just A Girl In A Dress, plus blogs for Sister 2 Sister, eHow, VinePair, MommyNoire, and MadameNoire.  In 2015, she was awarded Black Enterprise Magazine's “Follow-Worthy Blogger of the Year.” Gwen Orel, Features Editor, The Montclair Local.  Gwen served as arts editor of The Montclair Times from 2013 to 2016 before joining The Montclair local.  She has won a variety of writing awards and has contributed to a range of publications including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.  She has a PhD in theatre, and when not doing her day job, is a playwrite, and runs the website New York Irish Arts.com.  The has three cats – one of which likes to unwind the toilet paper roll. Phil Alongi, Executive Producer, NJTV News and Director of Program Development.  He oversees all news operations for NJTV, including its flagship weeknight news program NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams, and is responsible for the network's program expansion in the areas of news, public affairs, arts and other genres.  He began his broadcast career at NBC News in 1997, and during his tenure, produced for the NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and more.  When he's not being a news junkie, he moonlights as a professional operatic tenor and has multiple televised performances and dozens of leading roles throughout the U.S. to his credit. Richard Cowen, a reporter for The Record.  He covers news, the courts, and Passaic County, covering N.J. for more than 25 years.  His focus is local reporting with deep knowledge and sourcing in Passaic County.  He's covered many big stories: from 9/11 to Bridgegate, fires floods, and various political corruption schemes.  He considers himself a citizen journalist whose advocacy is the public's Right to Know.  Richard lives in Montclair with with his firebrand wife, Gisela, who is teacher. Charlie Kratovil, is the Co-Founder & Editor, New Brunswick Today, a bilingual community newspaper that has been covering Middlesex County since 2011.  He graduated from Rutgers' School of Communication & Information in 2009 and subsequently launched Paterson Press, a successful hyperlocal news project in Paterson during his time working at The Citizens Campaign. Moderating the panel was Ken Hunter, APR, president of PowerStation Communications, Hillsborough, NJ, a member of the PRSA-NJ Board of Directors and Membership Co-Chair.  

Life Changing Insights with Dr Alan Simberg with his guest Scott Stevens & Robert Pomahac: Stevens is a journalist, posting regularly on health and alcohol issues for online news sites including google news, examiner and Low Carb Mag. Many popular alcohologists on air and on bookshelves have stellar credentials, but few have had to eat their own cooking. Stevens blends his stunning personal 86-proof-two-liters-a-day story with thorough research into alcoholism, sobriety, relapse and recovery. Readers describe his five-star work as "must read" materials "for anyone who is or knows someone struggling with alcohol." Named the Top Chiropractor in the country and the Top Chiropractor in Los Angeles, Dr. Robert Pomahac is the only chiropractor in Los Angeles, and one of only three in Southern California, certified in Chiropractic BioPhysics. Dr. Rob has an unparalleled knowledge of health and conditioning based on over two decades as an elite athlete and medical practitioner. Dr. Rob has appeared on KCal9 America's Best of Southern California and is currently being featured as medical and fitness expert for an ongoing web series on eHow.com. 

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Bravo TV's Dukes of Melrose Star Marcus Stewart. He will discuss his experience on the show, and his new service being the Fashion Doctor. For the last 3 years Marcus served as the East Coast buyer and Trunk Show coordinator of Decades the illustrious vintage and haute consignment retailer in Los Angeles, worshipped by fashionistas and collectors alike for an unparalleled collection of designer clothing and accessories dating from the 1920s to today, Marcus' fashion prowess can be seen on Bravo TV's Dukes of Melrose which chronicles the daily operations at Decades. Never one to rest on his laurels, Marcus Stewart, the fashion doctor is currently serving as an on camera STYLE EXPERT for EHOW.COM and WWLTV he also serves as the Contributing Fashion Editor for The Times Picayune and the US Fashion Ambassador for London based magazine FNO. Recently he has founded the Style Academy, an image consulting business catering to women and at risk youth. At the Style Academy Marcus teaches women and the youth how to choose the right ensembles for their physique and the art of creating life changing style moments which radiate glamour and class.

[Originally published on August 26, 2013] Jennifer Fugo is the founder of Gluten Free School, a website dedicated to teaching gluten-sensitive individuals commonsense, simple and powerful steps to get healthy. She's a certified Health Coach named a “Gluten Free Guru” by Philadelphia Magazine who created the popular “Gluten-Free Sugar Cleanse” to teach gluten-free folks how to experience positive physical changes through commonsense sugar reduction. Jennifer is sought after expert for news contributions about healthy, gluten-free living as well as a speaker and avid blogger who has been featured on Yahoo! News, eHow, CNN, and Philadelphia Magazine. Tell us about yourself and your work at Gluten Free School How did you end up gluten-free? “Standard American” Gluten-Free Diet Gluten-free off-ramps to healthier eating Gluten-Free diet turns people into sugar addicts How do the processed starches and sugars derail one's healing progress What are the emotional hangups that people have around sugar? What are some helpful guidelines for people about sugar? Any practical ideas on meals that support a healthier gluten-free diet? Where are some of the most common and unexpected places gluten is hidden? What are common mistakes of hidden gluten people don't think of when first going gluten free? What are some common names of hidden gluten in products? Connect with Dr. Myers: Website: https://www.amymyersmd.com/ Newsletter: https://www.amymyersmd.com/ec/guide-to-leaky-gut Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmyMyersMD Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amymyersmd/ Connect with Jennifer Fugo: Website: https://www.glutenfreeschool.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlutenFreeSchool/